Chapter 48: 48 So will he buy it?
Chapter 48 48 So will he buy it?
The day after Tiger left, Tang Mo met the businessman who wanted to buy his cement formula in his office. The businessman finally chose to cooperate because the performance of the sample Tang Mo gave him was too tempting. People.
This kind of thing can effectively bond bricks together and is very strong. Now that we have seen the benefits, there is no reason to let it go.
Finally, after several days of consideration, the local building materials businessman finally decided to spend a sum of money to buy Tang Mo's formula and provide Tang Mo with a considerable amount of cement products at cost price.
In this way, Tang Mo finally saved a lot of money and obtained enough building materials from new channels to build his new factory.
On the other hand, good news comes one after another. In the afternoon of that day, before Tang Mo had time to look at the foundation of his fifth new factory building, two teachers who applied for the job came to him.
Yes, the news about Tang Mo hiring teachers finally paid off. Two old teachers, about fifty years old, took over most of Tang Mo and Luo Jie's work with some anxiety.
One of them teaches mathematics and the other teaches Chinese. In short, they saved Tang Mo, who was already very busy, from the most time-consuming teaching job.
The entire factory has begun to take shape, and Tang Mo’s nearly month-long efforts have finally yielded results. In the new factory workshop, 50 workers and a newly manufactured steam engine were responsible for the production of paper-cased fixed-loading ammunition.
This newly established workshop can roll out 700 rounds of ammunition every day. When another steam engine is installed, the daily bullet production here will increase significantly, reaching the terrifying daily production of 2,000 bullets.
Another factory building has also begun production. This is also the first factory building that Tang Mo built outside the original courtyard wall of the workshop!
This factory is used to produce gunpowder and various chemical preparations, so for safety reasons, it is located some distance away from the main building of the factory.
Supporting fire protection facilities are under construction, but Tang Mo can't wait to start production in this workshop.
Dozens of female workers, from Beiling, from Bunas, and from various places, carefully produce some weird things here, including various preparations and various weird powders.
In order to keep them healthy, Tang Mo forced each of them to wear a mask during delivery, and they were only allowed to give birth for 4 hours a day!
There are not many things produced here now, but it will become the basis for Tang Mo's future expansion. These female labor unions gradually became the backbone of production in the future expansion of the factory and became the technical talents trained by Tang Mo.
In the old factory, the production of K1 fast guns has reached a large scale. Parker supervises nearly 100 workers, producing new K1 fast guns every day.
One of the two steam engines has broken down, but the factory's production has not stopped. Matthews was repairing the steam engine. It needed to be replaced with new parts, and there was no way around it.
Because when steam engines were produced in the past, the levers and shafts were actually used directly after the casting was completed.
These parts have not been placed completely for enough time, and coupled with the existence of stress during work, damage is actually a matter of course.
Since Tang Mo was anxious to give Tiger confidence and perform miracles for all the workers, he would definitely pay a price - the damaged parts of the steam engine were actually part of the price.
Matthews is already working on building more components and replacing any power components that may fail in the future.
The new steam engine is launched directly without rushing work, so most of the parts can be polished and left for a while.
Those currently put into production include a broken steam engine, a steam engine drilling gun barrels, and a steam engine producing bullets. They were all put into production in a hurry, and they are bound to have some failures.
But these are all in Tang Mo's plan, and these steam engines are also forced to be launched to speed up production. And soon, the new steam engine carefully manufactured by Tang Mo will become the real main force of production.
As the saying goes, haste makes waste. Tang Mo wanted both speed and results, so he naturally had to pay a price for certain details.
"Replaced parts, smelt and recycle as much as possible..." When Tang Mo saw the old dwarf Matthews again, he clearly felt that the short old man had lost a lot of weight.
"I know that. I'm here to report to you. The fourth and fifth steam engines have been manufactured. According to your requirements, they can only be put into production after Tiger brings back new materials." After Matthews finished speaking angrily, he sat down on the chair in Tang Mo's office.
He twisted his neck twice, looked at Tang Mo, and reminded: "If it is just to complete the Earl's order, you actually don't need to expand the production scale."
As the chief technical advisor under Tang Mo, he is obviously more interested in technological innovation than expanding production - technical talents are all virtuous. Matthews's mind is now full of drawings of lever rifles, and he doesn't like the old anymore. On to the steam engine.
"Steam engines can't only be used to drive a few lathes and drills, Matthews! You may not be able to understand the power system in your life, so don't underestimate this thing." Tang Mo smiled and continued with the pen in his hand Draw a very beautiful line. "I don't underestimate it, it's just... I just want to get the actual lever rifle out first! I like to see other people's surprised expressions, just like... just like Tiger's expression when he saw the revolver! ” Matthews defended himself.
"You still don't understand..." Tang Mo shook his head, with a smile that only he knew: "The history of mankind is actually just boiling water and throwing stones."
As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at Matthews: "When you understand the true meaning of this sentence, you will know that what you are doing is the greatest cause in the world."
Tang Mo actually knew that Matthews would definitely not be able to respond to the joke in his mouth. However, he still looked at Matthews expectantly, hoping to see the answer he was expecting from him.
But he was doomed to be disappointed, because Matthews did not smile, nor did he realize how throwing stones and boiling water had anything to do with human history.
Matthews was not amused by Tang Mo's joke. He was actually more curious about what kind of new thing Tang Mo was drawing...
So, he stood up and walked to Tang Mo's table, getting close to the paper without bending down.
It was only at this time that Matthews discovered that what Tang Mo drew was not a drawing, but a rendering similar to a sketch.
He looked at the big and small eyes for a long time, and only saw a smoking steam engine and a bunch of identical cars, winding in two long straight lines.
So, he looked at Tang Mo and asked curiously: "What is this?"
"This is a steam engine for mining. It can help miners pull the coal and iron ore out of the mine... It saves their energy and allows them to dig out three times the amount of ore in the same time." Tang Mo replied with a smile while supplementing the lines above.
Matthews immediately asked in disbelief: "Are you kidding?"
"Of course I'm not kidding! Steam engines are also our products, Matthews! We will definitely sell them to those who need them in the future." Tang Mo looked at the renderings he drew with satisfaction and replied.
“But…how can a steam engine…pull coal out of the mine?” Matthews continued to ask puzzledly.
Tang Mo asked him: "Isn't it powerful enough?"
"Of course not... Of course it's enough! It can be said to be extremely powerful... But, Master! The road in the mine is rugged and it's not easy to get the coal out." Matthews thought for a moment and answered Tang Mo The problem.
“So, I designed a brand new mining system.” Tang Mo pointed at his renderings. He also hoped to sell his steam engine products with this thing.
“This…” Matthews still didn’t understand.
"These are mine carts. Their structure is very simple. This is a mine bucket. As long as it is turned over, the coal inside can be poured out..." Tang Mo pointed to the neatly arranged mine carts and explained to Matthews.
Of course he couldn't build a train directly, because that thing was too advanced and advanced for him.
He did not have enough talent to support something too advanced, nor did he have enough resources or land to lay a long enough track for his steam train.
But of course he can first provide his allies with more advanced mining technology and increase their mining speed, so as to obtain more mineral resources for himself!
So then, he continued to point to the bottom of the mine cart and continued to explain the key to the entire system: "Under it are four wheels, and under the wheels are sections of rails! Made of iron, very smooth and straight... This way the minecart on top can be dragged."
Matthews looked at the two flat rails on the table and suddenly realized: "...This, this is really a, a genius design."
Of course Tang Mo knew that this was a genius design, so he was more concerned with another thing: "So, do you think...the Earl will buy this steam engine, one kilometer of railway track, and thirty mine cars?"
“…” Matthews looked at his master speechlessly, feeling that Tang Mo seemed to have a new problem recently. He wanted to sell everything to exchange for money or supplies…
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After staying up all night, I finally wrote another chapter, so I’ll post it too, to save everyone the worry. Good night...or rather, good morning.
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