"Kongshu won, how much stone can the factory's iron grind in an hour?" Chen Xu turned to ask Gongshu won.

"It's about forty hu!"

"Well, it looks like a millet that looks about 6,000 kilograms. The speed of this big water is more than twice as fast, and there is no need to rest in the middle. How can I calculate that 20,000 kilograms of grain should be ground in one hour..."

"Wouldn't that be nearly two hundred stones~"

There was a burst of exclamation around him, and many people could not close their mouths.

"It's just two hundred stones. Such a large pair of iron mills, one or two stones of grain can't be filled even if it's poured into the grinding teeth. Come and put the grinding grinding on it, and go to the factory grain to try the grinding..." Chen Xu waved his hand.

"Go quickly and go quickly~" The group of people couldn't wait to urge them. Gongshusheng quickly ran outside the mill to give instructions, and the manager took the group of people to the factory several miles away.

Under Hu Kuan's command, several craftsmen carried in a wooden grinder. After a busy schedule, a large round wooden bucket was installed on the top of the big iron grinder. With this feed hopper similar to a rice-beating machine, feeding and feeding is much more convenient than a small stone grinder, otherwise it would not be as fast as the abrasive speed of the iron grinder.

Half an hour later, seven or eight ox carts came, with bulging sacks on the car, which contained wheat.

"Marty, the grain has arrived, and a total of 50 stones of wheat!" The manager in charge of the team reported.

"Okay, the staff are in place and start feeding. Hu Kuan, instruct the dam to open the gate and release water!"

"Yes, Marquis!" Hu Kuan excitedly scolded the craftsmen on the top of the mill. As the sound of the bamboo flute and the order flag continued to wave, Shi Lu, who was standing on the top of the dam, received an order and directed the helpers to slowly open a sluice gate. As a stream of clear river water gushed out from a large hole in the dam, it hit the huge water truck. The stationary water truck began to rotate slowly. Almost at the same time, the large wooden wheel in the mill began to rotate, driving the large iron mill to rotate together.

"Wow~" As the iron mill rotates slowly, a few rounds later, brown flour with bran flows out from the iron mill like a waterfall.

"Send materials quickly~" a craftsman yelled.

Because as Chen Xu said, a few stones of grain were poured into the hopper, and as the iron mill rotated, it fell to the bottom instantly like a vortex. Several worker slaves could only carry bags of grain and pour it into the grinding.

"Be careful!" Seeing a worker slave almost fell into the hopper, Chen Xu couldn't help but remind him loudly.

Once this big water truck starts to rotate under the impact of the water flow, there is no way to stop immediately when an accident occurs. Even the big iron mill will rotate constantly. The iron mill's grinding eyes are one foot thick, and the legs can be twisted in and ground into meat sauce when they fall into it.

The water truck under the dam was turning faster and faster, and finally slowly stabilized. This first water truck in history driven by water also completely ignited the enthusiasm of the audience on the river bank. Tens of thousands of people cheered excitedly and witnessed this great miracle together.

There were hundreds of people gathered in the mill, which was different from the audience watching the fun outside. In addition to some of the kings, princes and ministers who were really watching the fun, there were officials from the Ministry of Works and the Academy of Sciences, as well as craftsmen and craftsmen from the factory, including Zhang Cangfangkuan and other scientists. They were more likely to witness the mechanical miracle of the gear transmission around the big iron mill. Seeing the big iron mill swallowing the grain crazy, the flour around the iron mill fell down like a waterfall, and then flowed down the tilted hopper, and then was loaded into the truck and pulled out along the slope.

"Hahaha, it's successful, Marquis! We've succeeded!" Fang Kuan was filled with tears of excitement, and jumped and roared inside the mill to make a sound of ghosts and howling.

Bags of wheat are poured into a mill, and the flour flows continuously. If you use an ordinary household stone mill, you can take care of three people without eating or drinking a day. It is estimated that 50 kilograms of flour can be ground into 50 kilograms of flour, which means that the family cannot grind two stones a day. However, using this large iron mill driven by hydraulic gears, it does not take half a minute to grind a stone of flour. This is the biggest difference between machines and human resources. Not only is it large throughput but it is fast and stable and tireless.

In less than twenty minutes, as the last bag of wheat was poured into the iron mill, the sound of an old cow drinking water was made in the grinding. After a while, the bag of wheat disappeared in an instant, and soon turned into brown flour and flowed down around the iron mill. After the large iron mill rotated several times again, the flour stopped appearing, indicating that the fifty stones of wheat had been ground into flour.

"Close the sluice gate passage and check the condition of the water truck!" Chen Xu waved his hand.

"Yes, Marquis!" Fang Kuan rushed out of the mill with tears in his eyes. The craftsman on the roof waved the flag again. Shi Lu on the dam commanded the helper to close the sluice. After turning the water truck for half a circle, it slowly stopped. The water volume of the water discharge channel next to the dam increased instantly. The river water roared along the layers of dam rocks like a water dragon, and violent foam and waves churned.

"Fifty stones of grain, more than a moment, the Marquis won't bully me!" Zhang Cang murmured at the helper transporting flour under the passage with a dull expression.

"It's so fast!" Several princes and princes in brocade robes also held their chins with their hands, feeling that they couldn't close their mouths without holding them.

"The Marquis's wonderful ideas and wonderful uses, this is impossible to succeed without the guidance of an immortal..."

"Mr. Marquis, please accept my bow!" Some craftsmen and officials knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Chen Xu.

"Okay, OK, hurry up and check the gears of the stone mill and the wooden wheel, hang up the stone mill to clean up the grain inside, probably you can still sweep a stone without completely grinding grain!" Chen Xu himself couldn't stop smiling.

Soon a craftsman directed several worker slaves to lift the iron teeth around them with ropes. A helper used a broom to clean out the wheat that was not completely ground inside the iron mill, which looked almost like a dozen or so dollars. These could only be taken back and processed with a small mill before steaming the buns.

As for the flour grinded by the large iron grinding, Chen Xu went down to the storage pool in the passage and looked carefully. He found that it was much more refined than the stone grinding. Basically, there was no difference between the flour in later generations. Even the bran was ground, and it was basically impossible to clean it up with a dough sieve. It became a real whole wheat flour. There was no problem in steaming buns and making buns.

The experiment was successful, and the next thing was to carry out the final construction of the mill, to build a huge house to include both the mill and the passage, and to speed up the improvement and end the surrounding material storage factory.

Chen Xu gathered Hu Kuan, Shi Lu, Gongshusheng and several managers in charge of the dam and the mill together to hold a simple meeting. The main topic was to pay attention to the daily use and maintenance of the mill, as well as safety issues. All rules and regulations were imitated by factories, and they were written into wooden signs to publicly besides the conspicuous position. Of course, they should also remind those who were in charge of the fun and never let them climb the dam and water truck. People can usually be allowed to enter the mill to watch, but they are absolutely not allowed to get close to gears and large iron mills, etc.

This big water wheel and mill will probably be known to Xianyang today, and will spread throughout the world with the newspapers.

As an example of an epoch-making automatic industrial machine, Chen Xu hopes that more people will come to see, observe, and figure out the principles, and then promote gears to a wider life, rather than hide them as a treasure.

"Director Zhang, how about it? I haven't deceived you. If you can summarize the more precise gear biting rules, the working efficiency of this pair of large iron grinding will be improved, and the transmission method of the gear will greatly solve many practical problems in life. It is the most important part of the future development of machines..." On the way back, Chen Xu invited Zhang Cang to take a car to communicate with him.

"Marty, what is a machine?" Zhang Cang became very interested in this new term.

"The so-called machine is a machine tool that is composed of various parts and is then driven by non-human animal power. The ultimate function of this tool is to replace human power to accumulate some hard work in life, thereby greatly reducing the labor intensity of human beings. For example, this hydraulic mill is the first real machine product I invented. It relies on hydraulic power to operate tirelessly for many years. As long as the dam does not damage the water flow and does not stop, it can continue to operate. It can grind more than 200,000 kilograms of grain a day and a night, which is enough to meet the food for 200,000 people in the entire Xianyang City. However, using stone mills on a daily basis requires tens of thousands of people to solve the same work. This is the function of the machine..."

"The threshing machine, billing machine, and polishing machine invented by Marquis are not counted?" Zhang Cang asked in confusion.

"Not count, those that can help people complete their work faster and more conveniently, but are not real machines. At most, they are semi-artificial mechanical devices. Just like horse carriages, people invented carriages, which can pull more goods, making people traveling far more convenient, fast and comfortable. But carriages are not machines, unless one day we invent a device to replace horses, and they can roll forward like water wheels without feeding them for food, so that the carriage is not the current carriage, but a robot carriage..."

"God, how is this possible?" Zhang Cang looked at Chen Xu in amazement.

"How is it impossible, if we install a huge windmill on the carriage, the wind blows the windmill to rotate, and then passes it to the wheel through the gears..."

"Mr. Marquis, are you serious?" Zhang Cang looked at Chen Xu straight away.

"Of course, you can go back and organize a hand-to-hand trial of this matter, but the wind is not stable in water, and it cannot be controlled by a dam like water. But this is an idea. There is definitely no problem when the wind is strong. Of course, the best application of wind is on the boat. You can also let someone hang sails on the boat, so that even if you are sailing against the current, you can travel thousands of miles a day..."
Chapter completed!