Chapter 146 Never Simple
The demonstration of the musket in Zangbaogang ended. The audience rushed up to ask about the mystery of Jin Shiqi's musket. He ordered the sailors to carry a few boxes and take out the ammunition to watch it casually. It was a black "integrated bullet" with a shape and size equivalent to a small finger. Dozens of officials and military generals studied, played, and joked, and the scene was shrouded in the atmosphere of the festival.
At this moment, Jin Shiqi really had the joy of having all the hardships and sweetness.
Yesterday afternoon, Jin Shiqi's nine treasure guns were tragically killed by General He Shen's main parts, such as gun barrels, butt stocks, by a big axe. He could only summon craftsmen to work overtime overnight - don't try to repair them, he could only remove the small parts and install them on other muskets. After fighting for 16 hours, he only brought out these five muskets.
The reason why the "Seven-Type of Apocalypse" musket can be reborn from the phoenix and the rebirth of the Jedi is that its core technology does not lie in the musket itself, but in the surrounding parts and ammunition!
The most technical content is this "integrated bullet".
In this era, the ordinary loading process of muskets was very complicated. First, pour the "spray" contained in the small bamboo tube into the gun barrel, and then tamp it with iron strips. Then take a lead bullet and stuff it in, and then use the strips to tamp it once. Then organize the fuse rope that was blown away, put the "ignition powder" into the medicine pot, and then aim at the sheep. The musketman carries 30 small bamboo tubes containing the sheep medicine, lead bullet bags, tin pots of ignition powder, and spare fuse ropes... These things are hung on their bodies and used, making the soldiers look like small Christmas trees.
Jin Shiqi's weapon design philosophy is: try to simplify the soldiers' work, and all the tedious work is completed in the factory. Simply put, he merged the "spray" and lead bullets into a whole, stuffed it into the musket tube with a "gudong" sound, and loading it in one go.
This creativity comes from a tragic gunpowder accident - anyone who plays with firearms knows that if gunpowder is caught, it will condense into pieces and must be smashed and ground into powder before it can be used again. This process is very dangerous. The Ming army and army killed people every year. In May of that year, when the Wang Gongchang Ordnance Center handled the explosives, it triggered a big explosion. Thousands of buildings were blown up and burned down in the landslide and cracks, shaking most of the city. Even the only little prince of Emperor Tianqi was frightened and died, and the whole court was mourned.
After the news reached Guangxi, Jin Shiqi suddenly had a whim during his silence, and wanted to use this specialty of gunpowder to benefit his war technology. He knew that the so-called "hardening of the burden" was essentially the core component of gunpowder - the phenomenon of saltpeter re-crystallization after melting with water.
After many experiments, the "rocket group" of the Cantao Port Arsenal finally developed a treatment technology - they used a layer of glutinous paper as thin as a cicada's wing as a base material, then mixed and melted the gunpowder powder, sucrose, gum and other raw materials, slurry on the glutinous paper to form a long cylinder "gunpowder shell". Then pour the sheep medicine into it, which is similar to a capsule filled with small medicine particles. (For world peace, the raw material part cannot be said to be too fine)
Then wrap a lead bullet in a cotton cloth and stuff it into the gunpowder shell to hold your breath; finally apply a beeswax to prevent it from being chaotic and lubricate. Jin Shiqi suddenly discovered that this was a bullet, and even in the 21st century, it was very advanced. When the bullet was stuffed into the musket, use a strip to compact it, and the gunpowder shell would collapse at the bottom of the gun barrel and be mixed with the spray, so the entire loading process was completed, and it was done in one go!
After calculation, using the "integrated bullet" can save 20 seconds of filling time.
In addition, due to the application of the fuse barrel, there are also "one-way fixed" fuse faucet clips and "curve channel" fire doors that can prevent flame overflow. These three technologies also reduce the most annoying "fixing" process in the use of bird guns, and save another 10 seconds.
Here, Jin Shiqi would like to thank a small flag captain of the water camp named Zhang Xuan. He invented a simple and practical "fen rope tube" to solve the problem of fen rope storage and rain protection. Although he had already died in a secret battle, Jin Shiqi gave his wife a silver reward of 100 taels and announced that he would take care of his three sons for a long time.
Here, Jin Shiqi also thanks his little maid Bai He, the silly mountain girl. She acted as a "small stopwatch for human flesh" and used the "constant-speed throwing beans" to count the time period of each link of the loading of the musket. The final statistical result is that a standard loading of ordinary muskets requires 55 beans (i.e. 55 seconds). Jin Shiqi's new musket and ammunition system was shortened to 25 beans! If you are skilled in her hands, it may even be shortened to 20 beans.
If you hit it immediately after loading, it will be a high-pitched speed of 3 shots per minute!
So, the glory on the field of this small school is exchanged for blood and sweat from the military and civilians of Baogang in the past few months! Jin Shiqi briefly talked about the concept of "integrated bullets", and the soldiers all over the field suddenly realized. "Ah, this concept is like a little Franchise!" "What Franchise is clearly a method of artillery, it really has his." "But what is the shell made of... it's a bit sweet!" "You're desperate, spit it out soon!"
Next, Jin Shiqi announced that this new type of bullet will also be supplied to the Guangdong-Guangdong army in large quantities. Each small box of 25 bullets, just over 1 kilogram, can be simply hung around the waist of soldiers. Each wooden box contains 8 boxes, a total of 200 rounds, and is priced at 1 tael of silver.
Governor Zhou Zuo, Shang and Zhou Zuo, smiled and said, "I understand, Shopkeeper Jin, you are not here to sell muskets, but bullets!"
Jin Shiqi hurriedly replied: "I will give you a box of 200 bullets for each gun that I bid for.
The generals in the field applauded in unison, and 200 bullets could almost support a war. The muskets in Zangbaogang have suppressed their competitors in terms of technology and marketing, and it can be said that they will win. Only Huang Kuan, who was hiding on the sidelines, couldn't help but sigh: Mr. Jin, what bullets are you in a hurry to send? You don't even have a trump card...
But suddenly, someone behind him shouted, "Governor General, can't do it!" Everyone hurriedly looked over and called out to the minor official in the Guilin Military Affairs Bureau.
"Where can't I do it?" Shang and Zhou Zuo said angrily.
"Damn it, little..." The little official knelt down with a thud and said hesitantly: "I mean that the musket has a big problem."
Everyone present hurriedly calmed down and stared at him.
Before we knew it, this bid had entered the final "defense" stage!
The little official raised a bullet in public and twisted it hard. The gunpowder cartridge and the sheep medicine broke into a pool in his palm. He immediately jumped up excitedly and shouted: "Look at it everyone! This thing is not strong, it's fake!"
Before Jin Shiqi could speak out, someone answered for him—someone beside him shouted: "Who asked you to pinch it!" "If it is not broken, how can you cause fire to make her go!" Then two people rushed up and said angrily: "Beat him!"
Jin Shiqi blocked the two officers and nodded, "This is indeed a disadvantage. The value I have mastered is that 3 rounds will break for every 100 bullets, which is caused by bumps during transportation. We will add shock absorbers to the wooden box to try to make up for this defect." Jin Shiqi smiled, "Even if there are a few broken ones, it will not affect my three times the she strike speed!"
Seeing that the little official failed, he shouted again: "The other disadvantage is that there is a lot of residue. Look, this is the garbage that has not been burned out!" Unexpectedly, he was very careful and poured out an unburned piece of paper the size of a nail from the tube of Jin Shiqi's musket.
"It's true that there's more residue, but it will be pressed on the end of the gun barrel next time it is loaded, and it will accumulate less than half an inch thick even if it's 100 times." Jin Shiqi raised his voice again, "After all, I'm so quick, I'll piss you off!"
The little official finally couldn't find any problem and could only roar: "But his bullets are expensive, twice as expensive as bulk ones!"
Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, all the soldiers present shouted—
"Do you understand the principle of 'fire suppression'? You still made weapons!" "Victory is made with silver, I don't want to save this silver!" "Even if you use ten thousand muskets to fight a battle, it will only cost thousands of taels of silver. That's a big deal!" "You know how to save money, is our brother's life worthless?"
Amid the noise, the minor officials in the Guilin military battle came to an end in a dusty manner.
Then the old shopkeeper of Guangdong Yuhengxing was the one who came on the stage to argue fiercely. He seemed gentle and shy, but wanted to kill people invisibly. The old guy picked up a Jin Shiqi's musket and knelt down in front of the governor with a thump. "Sir, he cheated on Baogang, and this musket was made by Guangdaxing!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone present opened their big mouths with dozens of black holes and could not close them for a long time.
The Musketball of Guangdaxing was in full swing in the first day of the competition, hitting 71 shots a hundred times and overwhelmed the heroes. But later, he was disqualified from participating because of bribery.
Then someone called Yu Hengxing's shopkeeper nonsense. Jin Dusi had strong industrial strength, so why did he use Quanda's gun tube? Today it is not as accurate as jing.
But the shopkeeper of Yuhengxing only shouted loudly: "Sir! I, Yuhengxing, compete with them, for decades, and I can touch their muskets with my eyes closed. This Zangbaogang musket covers the mark of Guangda with a heat dissipation layer, but there is a layer of fish scale forging marks. Only Guangdaxing uses this "multi-point mixed heating and pounding forging method" and even we don't know... Moreover, other muskets are forged in sections, and only Guangdaxing uses this "integrated gun barrel". If the adults don't believe it, please ask Guangdaxing to compare their goods."
He said it was so convincing. The group of people who were speaking for Jin Shiqi just now gradually calmed down, and only a few encouraged Jin Shiqi to refute him quickly!
Jin Shiqi walked up and took a deep breath, "He was right."
The scene immediately became quiet, and after a while, someone sighed: "Kindosi..." I don't know who was worried about him.
Jin Shiqi carefully considered the words and said carefully: "The last general's musket was damaged for some reason yesterday, so he could only replace it with the gun barrel of Guangdaxing, but the stock, various parts, and bullets were indeed made by me, Zangbaogang..."
"It's so shameless!" A shrill voice shouted suddenly, and it turned out that Eunuch Ling, the eunuch of the Right Console of the Jingjiang Palace, jumped out.
After several battles, Ling Gong finally seized the most fatal problem and came to the stage to fight in person. "The gun barrel is the backbone of a musket, which is well known to everyone! If you replace the tube, you are changing the musket. This is a serious crime of deception. You should kill and kill!"
His white hair fluttered and roared for a while, but the Governor General ignored him. Governor Shang asked Jin Shiqi in a low voice: "If you need to replace the parts, you should also use the musket tubes of your Zangbaogang. Why use Guangdaxing?"
Jin Shiqi couldn't say what he had to do! Of course, he wanted to use his own muskets from the Water Camp, but the water camp was equipped with old muskets from the Liaodong era. They were worn and worn in the first few battles, and it was difficult to achieve the "50% hit rate". It would be even more embarrassing if the blast was blown up on the spot. In the final analysis, the metal technology of Zangbaogang is still passing the mark, and he cannot produce a gun barrel of his own.
Jin Shiqi suddenly raised his head and said, "My sir, if I use the gun barrel from Zangbaogang, it wouldn't be considered a deception?"
"That's right! This silly boy!" The Governor was so angry that he couldn't stand it.
"Sir!" Jin Shiqi stood up happily, "Actually, this Guangdaxing musket tube is my Zangbaogang!"
As he said that, he immediately summoned Huang Kuan from the sidelines and brought an agreement from his package to the Governor. The Governor hurriedly opened it and found that it was a commercial agreement between Zangbaogang Machinery Institute and Guangdaxing. Jin Shiqi said aloud from the side: "Sir, I have signed an agreement with Chen Xiyuan of Guangdaxing yesterday. He wants to make thousands of musket tubes for me, each worth 3 taels and 5 cents of silver. These musket tubes are samples of this agreement."
He even stepped up and pointed at the agreement, "Sir, please look at the black and black words, the red finger mark, and the commander of the Guangzhou Right Guard as the middleman as the guarantee, please check it!"
The governor let out a sigh of relief, "That is to say, although these gun tubes were made by Guangdaxing, they are actually used by your Zangbaogang!" He said happily: "Okay!"
Jin Shiqi immediately announced to everyone present: "The muskets produced in Zangbaogang in the next two years will be equipped with Guangdaxing's gun barrels, with 71 shots hitting a hundred shots, and quality assurance."
"Okay!" All the generals present cheered! "The pipes of Guangdaxing are good, so we can see them in the first few ris!" "But Jindusi's bounce is good, they are the two tigers joining forces!" "I didn't expect Jindusi to have this trick!"
"But...but but..." Eunuch Ling was immediately angry. He had been unable to say anything...
"Although there are some changes, I think it's okay!" The Governor smiled and returned the agreement to Jin Shiqi, then turned around and said to his personal soldiers: "Go and bring the official documents, I'm going to announce the bid result!" He asked Jin Shiqi again, "Jindusi, does your new musket have a name?"
"I will call it the 'Seven-Types of Apocalypse' musket, which means it is built for the battle to wipe out Hu Fulong next year."
"Inappropriate..." The governor was not very adaptable to using the emperor's reign. "How about I change your name to you, "How about the 'Chaoyun-style Musket'?"
The Governor actually had such a good mood to name a small firearm, which shows that Jin Shiqi's victory was already for sure. Of course, Jin Shiqi would not be confused about this name, and the name was quite reasonable. He hurriedly claimed that it was. Some officials next to him agreed that the name was loud and profound. Some people shook their heads and tails and said, "The Governor is well used for the word "chasing"!"
"Slow down!" It was Eunuch Ling again. He accumulated a while of physical strength and finally exploded with the last blow.
He walked tremblingly to the Governor Shang Zhouzuo, put his old face over and said something in a low voice. The Governor's body trembled, and his face immediately disappeared, and gradually a layer of green light... It seemed like he was poisoned.
Hundreds of people at the scene were staring at the two of them in horror, and the atmosphere immediately became solemn!
Shang and Zhou Zuo suddenly raised their heads and glared at Eunuch Ling, and a look of purging and biting him to death appeared on their faces. But Eunuch Ling just said something with a smile, as if releasing a spell.
Sure enough, the spell took effect! Shang and Zhou Zuo gradually lowered their heads again, as if they had been exhausted like crossing the desert. He suddenly pointed his fingers over—
Chapter completed!