Chapter 1085: The Eve

Industrial Department, Council Hall.

This is a building located in the center of the Workshop District.

In fact, it is to facilitate the management of the Workshop District.

The office of the Industrial Department was built within the workshop area.

After receiving Zhao Xu's order, Chen Xu commanded the officials of the Industrial Department to call over the heads of all the workshops.

Before long, the entire Council Hall was packed with people.

Once the heads of the state-run workshops in the Workshop District had mostly arrived, Zhao Xu sat down in the chair at the front of the Council Hall.

After pondering for a moment, he said, "At present, all workshops have been connected to electricity, and the machinery powered by electric motors is also running normally. You have all reported to Me that production efficiency has increased by more than three times."

"However, although production efficiency has increased now, there is one thing that has improved, but the improvement is not significant, and that is machining precision."

Upon hearing this, the workshop heads nodded one after another.

In fact, they were also deeply troubled by this problem.

Because the Great Song workshops have all established an assembly line model of division of labor.

Therefore, many products are produced separately.

For example, the parts workshop is responsible for producing parts, and these parts are finally gathered at the assembly workshop for assembly.

At this point, the problem immediately emerged.

Due to precision issues, perhaps the error of each part is within range, but once assembled, the overall error becomes large.

And to solve this problem, it is necessary to reduce the error of the parts, which is to improve the precision of the overall parts.

Otherwise, it is impossible to manufacture more precise machinery.

"Therefore, next you must cooperate with each other to improve the precision of the machine tools," Zhao Xu continued, "This matter will be led by the Industrial Department, mobilizing all workshop resources to carry it out, and the Research Institute will also cooperate with you."

To say that the manufacturing of machine tools is easy, it is easy; to say it is difficult, it is also difficult.

The easy part is that there is not much technical content in imitating them.

But the difficulty lies in the fact that one can imitate their form, but cannot imitate their precision.

Even in modern times, many countries have machine tools, but high-precision machine tools are what hold many countries back.

At present, the industry of Great Song has indeed shown improvement.

But the machine tools are still of the most primitive generation, and the gap in precision with the Western Lands has not been completely widened.

Even with electricity, it is only an improvement in efficiency, and the slight improvement in precision only comes from the smooth operation of the electric motors.

If one wants to produce industrial products with higher technical difficulty, improving the machine tools is imperative.

And the improvement of machine tool precision involves many aspects.

For example, the quality of the machine tool castings themselves, the precision of bearings and lead screws, the scales on the guide rails, and even a fixed screw.

Of course, there is another problem, which is the power source; this problem has already been solved, and that is electricity.

It is precisely because it involves every aspect that he brought so many workshop heads here, letting them divide the work and cooperate to create a second-generation machine tool that surpasses the first-generation machine tools, so that the overall industrial level of Great Song can be raised to a higher level.

"Yes, Your Majesty." As Zhao Xu's words fell, the heads responded one after another.

After giving these instructions, Zhao Xu ordered the workshop heads to go back and prepare.

He then took Chen Xu to the Research Institute and had him meet with Wang Chong.

Regarding the matter of machine tools, although the Research Institute has mastered the parameters of the second-generation machine tools, a clever woman cannot cook without rice.

The workshops now controlled by the Industrial Department are the rice.

One provides guidance, the other does the work, and this machine tool improvement will no longer be a problem.

With better machine tools, there will be better machinery in the future, and with better machinery, existing machinery, including steam locomotives and steamships, will not only be improved in performance, but further research and development of non-existent machinery will also be possible.

The Grassland.

While Zhao Xu was busy with the industrial upgrade after electrification, the clouds of war here were becoming increasingly dense.

Under the protection of the gun cavalry, Chang Wei circled the Khan Court, carefully observing the defensive fortifications of the Northern Di.

At the same time, he confirmed one thing.

The reconnaissance of the gun cavalry was correct; at present, the Northern Di army has a considerable number of rifled muskets.

Fortunately, Chen Hu did not charge before he arrived, otherwise there would inevitably have been heavy casualties.

However, what is very difficult for the gun cavalry is not a big problem for the infantry of the Central Army.

After all, when the Azure Dragon Army and the Vermilion Bird Army faced the Western Lands Allied Forces in the south, they still beat them black and blue.

Compared to the well-trained Western Lands Allied Forces, the Northern Di are still lacking.

"Counting the days, I'm afraid Yancheng is already electrified. Let's join in the fun, finish off the Northern Di people, and add to the excitement." Returning to the front of the Central Army camp, Chang Wei looked toward Yancheng, feeling a bit restless.

He really wanted to see the grand occasion of Yancheng after electrification.

But compared to the matter of electrification, he still chose to lead the army to war.

Eliminating the Northern Di was his lifelong wish; after fighting this battle, the Northern Di would basically withdraw from the Grassland.

In the future, the Khan Court of the Northern Di will be the backyard of Great Song.

Hearing this, Chen Hu also felt restless, and he said, "Since the General has said so, this subordinate really wants to finish this battle early and go back to take a look."

"Rest assured, it won't take much time." Chang Wei was very confident in his words.

Then, he looked at Lv Chang, Bai Shang, and Huo An in front of him.

These three people were gathering together to discuss the coordination of the attack.

As Chang Wei's voice fell, the three came to Chang Wei's side.

Bai Shang said, "Great General, we believe it is better to fight a night battle, using illumination flares to catch them by surprise."

Although the Northern Di people were no longer strangers to illumination flares because of the Battle of Yongzhou.

This time, the North Territory's trench layout had new measures to guard against night raids, such as placing Caltrops in front of the trenches and tying on Bells, among other things.

But the darkness could still cover them as they approached to a closer position, avoiding being shot by their Rifled Muskets from a long distance.

"We still have to dig the opposing trenches, digging all the way to thirty meters opposite their trenches; their Gunpowder Cans can only be thrown that far," Huo An said.

While they were scouting, two North Territory soldiers made a mistake and fell while carrying a crate, causing quite a few round objects to roll out from inside.

After identifying them, they concluded that these were Gunpowder Cans made by the North Territory people in imitation of their Hand Grenades.

Of course, their Gunpowder Cans did not possess the convenience of Hand Grenades; instead, the fuse had to be lit before throwing them over.

At the same time, because the power of the Gunpowder Cans was small, they could only make them larger, which severely limited the throwing distance of their Gunpowder Cans.

"Before the charge, let them have a taste of our Cannonballs first," Bai Shang chuckled.

Since it was war, they naturally had to exert their own advantages to the fullest and strike at the opponent's weaknesses.

Chang Wei nodded; at this moment, the soldiers were each holding an Engineering Shovel, digging into the earth on the Grassland.

Once these trenches extended to the front of the North Territory trenches, they would be able to take action.

When that time came, he would bring a complete end to the North Territory, which had run rampant across the North Territory of Great Song for over three hundred years!

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