The east coast at the end of January 1670 was surprisingly hot, making people wonder if the temperature turning point had just occurred during the Little Ice Age. However, in this scorching heat, Marco Tripp from Amsterdam was still wearing a tight formal outfit and sat on an Oriental Street Car Company track car, heading towards the United Provincial Embassy in the middle of August Avenue, the most prosperous capital of the East Coast.

Little Tripp had just returned from the famous Dayuhe Arsenal. He stayed there for three days. Accompanied by two clerks from the East Coast Trade Department, he and the sales department of the factory were grinding their mouths over and over again, hoping that they would complete the weapons and equipment needed by the United Provinces as soon as possible and transport them back to the country immediately.

Since the end of the large-scale war around the world, even the French who were starting the war would not buy the weapons on the east coast. They insisted on their own production. Now the Dayuhe Arsenal and the Northern Arsenal have entered the off-season of production. However, with the sudden recovery of orders in the Ottoman Empire and the changes in the situation from the Far East China, the two companies have started to produce various war weapons at full capacity, including carburized iron spearheads, arrows, armor, sabers, muskets, artillery and other military funds from here (of course, some of them have been transferred to the Shipu Reservoir in Guide County for production). It is indeed a coincidence that the Dutch came to the door. The orders were logically ranked behind others.

However, the Dutch were feeling a little guilty now. On the one hand, they did not know whether the French would reach an agreement with the negotiators of all parties in Aachen (although they believed they were confident enough). In addition, even if the French agreed this time, would they be angry with the United Province, which had offended them greatly, be the proud Louis XIV? Therefore, in order to protect themselves, the Dutch had to start strengthening their military strength, and not only strengthen their own, but also strengthen the equipment of some core allies, which generated an extremely large military purchase order.

The Dutch planned to purchase these military purchase orders in several places, one was naturally the coal and iron industrial zone in Birmingham and Wales, England, which was close to each other; the other was the traditional North German military production base, and those countries had many craftsmen, and the annual arms production was extremely large; the last place was of course the East Coast people from the New World in the South.

Not putting all eggs in the same basket has always been the only way for the Dutch to do business!

Considering that the Dutch had not developed an armament for many years, if it were not for the outbreak of the two British-Dutch wars, there would not be a large investment of 12 million rupiah in one winter. Their order was still of great value to be made up. Therefore, in the eyes of many people, their order was still very valuable. Even if it was divided into three parts and fell into the hands of the East Coast people, it would be enough to make a fortune from the two arsenals, provided that they asked the Dutch to join a team and produce their things first.

Marco Tripp, who was responsible for his mission, negotiated with the East Coast officials for a long time, and then he barely gained a certain degree of priority. At the instruction of his superiors, the director of the Dayuhe Arsenal intercepted a batch of 32-C flintlock rifles that should have been sent to the Far East to equip the Servant Army at the last moment, intending to transport them to Amsterdam through the ships of the South China Sea Transportation Company to equip the poor Dutch army. Of course, the hardcore friends that the Dutch attracted to, such as Switzerland, Brandenburg-Prussia, may also be able to gain some benefits and replace some equipment that they cannot use. This is the benefit of tyrannical thighs.

As a child of the arms family, Tripp, Little Tripp is very familiar with the quality of those guns, which is really good. Although it is generally produced by machines, the appearance is rough, and the assembly and connection of parts are also quite problematic, and it is not as smooth as that of handmade products, but thanks to the excellent materials, these guns are of very good quality, and their lifespan is generally about 30% higher than that of German production. Therefore, the Dutch loves to buy very much. If it were not limited to the unscathed relationship between the United Provinces and Germany, as well as some non-commercial factors, the Dutch might rather package all weapons from the East Coast to purchase, because that would obviously save money.

With this kind of musket, the cannon is even better. Long service life, light weight, long range and great power are the characteristics of East Coast artillery. Especially after the emergence of the "Iron Matchmaker" series of hydraulic presses, the cost of processing some small and medium caliber artillery plummeted. The direct consequence is that the sales volume of East Coast artillery in Europe has increased significantly, which is not as great as that of muskets. The cost advantage of East Coast artillery is crushing and some East Coast artillery concepts have been promoted.

Little Tripp was amazed at the achievements made by the East Coast people in military production. Their family is also an insider, with iron ore and copper mines operating in Sweden, and also set up iron smelting workshops and cannon casting workshops. But let alone the East Coast people, they are now unable to compete with the English and Germans, and they can only be forced to increase the shipment of arms on the East Coast and maintain profits. The tragedy is at its peak, so Little Tripp is sincerely admired the ability of arms on the East Coast.

During his previous trip to the Dayuhe Arsenal, as an important guest, Tripp once visited the production workshops of the East Coast people and witnessed some unheard machines. One of the precision instruments called "Search Engraving Machine" left a deep impression on him.

In fact, in the old continent at this time, craftsmen often encountered a problem in production, that is, to divide rulers and dials, which is very important for higher precision manufacturing. Little Tripp was not ignorant. After staying in the British factory for a while, he understood that local craftsmen rely on a horizontal line method invented by the Danish Tycho to obtain one tenth or one percent of a unit; at the same time, many unusual craftsmen mastered the geometric method of using compass for division (that is, to use seven concentric circles to read out the angle of 10 minutes).

Little Tripp once naively thought that the East Coast people also used such mathematical methods to divide the scales, and once wondered why they divided each scale so accurately, even those who didn't know the matter understood that precise division of the scales was the key to precision production. People from the Old Continent didn't want to process higher precision things, but they were really unable to do so. This time, after visiting the East Coast people's workshop and learning about the existence of the liner, he was really shocked, and asked on the spot whether United Provinces could buy such precision instruments, no matter how much it cost!

Tripp's efforts naturally ended in vain. Because both the officials of the East Coast Trade Department, the sales department of the Dayuhe Arsenal and the technical department of the technical department all politely and firmly rejected him, saying that this was not a product, which made Marco himself feel very regretful and secretly remembered it in his heart. He planned to try to start research and development when he went back, although they had no idea at the moment.

In fact, the marking machine that Marco Tripp saw was from a group of people from the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Technology. It was specially developed for a few parts with high processing accuracy requirements in daily life. It was specially developed for many years. Two were manufactured in total. It was just released last month, and then it was immediately sent to the Dayuhe Arsenal and the First Heavy Machinery Factory for testing. By the way, some of the instruments they produced were graded, such as mechanized scales of sextant and geodesic rings, instead of manual scales as time-consuming and laborious as before. What's more, manual scales are almost impossible for some large instruments, and the importance of marking machines is unparalleled at this time.

To be honest, in today's East Coast Republic of China, is its industrial production really so urgent for the ticking machine? The answer is naturally no. In fact, in the current East Coast, most production processes actually have not so high requirements for accuracy. The two ticking machines that have just been created are actually not used a few times a year. But as the old saying goes, there is still a big difference between having and not having it. With this thing, it represents a certain possibility of progress in the East Coast machining industry, which is far more important than simply making progress in materials or other aspects.

This tying machine uses the principle of indexing plates, that is, the East Coast people established a corresponding relationship between the number of crank rotations and the rotation angle of the indexing plate, and then used the usual method to find the indexing, and created a copying mold, which was fixed on top of the engraving disc, and the engraving knife rotated below, which was used to engrave straight lines. The machine used to engrave straight lines is slightly simpler than this, that is, a typing template moved under a high-magnification lens, and at the same time a ruler to be scaled moves under the engraving knife, and its displacement is obtained by meshing the plate with spiral teeth with a worm rotating from the crank on one side, and at the same time, the other side of the plate meshing with the rack on the drag plate carrying the template and the ruler.

From this we can see that the so-called treading machine created by Dongdan Ren has a strong 17th-century characteristics and is very different from later generations. It can be found similarities in the inspiration of some European watchmakers this century. But in any case, the invention of these two machines used to engrave scales and straight lines greatly meets the needs of Eastbank people in the fields of measurement, navigation, astronomy, precision processing, etc., and the improvement of the national basic industrial level is no exaggeration. This can be seen from the degree of importance the Executive Committee attaches to this matter. They have instructed the State Council to come forward and establish a directly affiliated company called "Eastbank Precision Instrument Company", and allocate funds and personnel to enrich its skeleton, and play their due role in the development of Eastbank industry.

In addition to the marking machine, researchers from the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Technology Research Institute have also created some other "interesting" gadgets, such as expansion instruments that measure metal thermal expansion (watchmakers must have loved this instrument), such as comparators whose accuracy is many times higher than before, etc. They are all very practical precision measuring instruments and are indispensable in industry.

It is said that the first task of the newly established East Coast Precision Instrument Company in the future is to continue to improve the three precision instruments, two types of marking machines, metal expansion instruments, and comparator. At the same time, we must find a way to make a batch for use by major state-owned factories to improve their process production level. In addition, practical instruments such as Tian Instruments, geodetic instruments, and physics instruments must also be developed, produced, and improved. This is not only for teaching and research, but also for the demands of the army and navy are quite large and should not be underestimated.

Although Marco Tripp did not know the establishment of the East Coast Precision Instrument Company, he was really envious of the East Coast people who had the threading machine and some bad thoughts began to turn in their minds, which was not worth telling to outsiders.

The track car of the Oriental Street Vehicle Company he was riding was driven by a small steam engine. This is due to the great improvement of the East Coast technology level. It can make the steam engine smaller as much as possible without reducing the output power, and then it has brought many new applications, such as this experimental track street car that is slowly advancing under the traction of the steam locomotive.

Tripp Jr. has a good reputation for this steam track street bike, but he finds it even more exciting to him. A mechanical vehicle he once saw outside Dongfang County, called a "bike" by people on the east coast. It is a magical vehicle that allows people to sit on it and push themselves forward. The frame is made of wooden and there is a saddle-shaped thing for people to ride. The wooden main frame is equipped with two wheels of the same size with an iron frame, and the front wheel can be rotated relative to the frame by a handle fixed to the top of the fork, so the car moves forward.

Tripp saw this kind of vehicle at the home of Qiang Xiaoman, the son of former East Coast Chairman Qiang Quansheng. At that time, Qiang Xiaoman rode on this car without any braking system, and strode and push himself forward. As a result, he fell during a thrilling downhill process and the vehicle disintegrated, but there was no doubt that this process could also be rowing and was very exciting.
Chapter completed!