The director of the Artillery Research Institute is still an old craftsman Han Fu, but the deputy director has been replaced by a scholar named Zhang Haogu.

After the ceremony, Zhu Mai walked in.

However, the institute is not a gun factory, and there is nothing to visit.

Zhu Mai looked at it and asked, "What about the front-mounted rifled gun that you asked you to study?"

Han Fu said: "I reported to the supervisor, and this matter was mainly presided over by Deputy Zhang. Why don't you let him talk about it for the supervisor?"

"Can."

Zhang Haogu is only in his twenties and has two beards. He looks a little dazed at first glance, but his eyes are quite lively and clear.

He heard this and said, "Report to the supervisor, although this rifled flintlock cannon has been developed, it has not achieved a real flintlock."

"What do you say?" asked Zhu Mei-seong.

Zhang Haogu said: "This cannon barrel is cast from fine steel. Although this reduces the weight of the cannon, it brings difficulties to the subsequent processing of the cannon.

The rifle can be made using a hydraulic boring machine, which is okay. However, the flintlock device must be closely combined with the cannon, which may increase the leakage.

Therefore, after researching with several cannon artists in the institute, Beizhi decided to install the flintlock device outside the cannon and connect the medicine pool inside the cannon with a fuse.

In this way, after the rope is ignited with a flintlock device, it will take about two or three seconds before the cannon will be fired."

The installation of flintlock devices for the cannon and the use of rope control is mainly for two points. One is to reduce the time required to fire the cannon by shortening the ignition fuse, and the other is to further ensure the safety of the gunner.

The two are actually related to each other - use a fuse to fire the cannon. For the safety of the gunner, the fuse must be long enough, or burning for a long enough time, which will naturally increase the time it takes to fire a shell.

Therefore, after listening to Zhang Haogu's words through Zhu Ni's mobile phone, Hao Guangming said: "Delaying launch for three or four seconds is not a problem. In fact, when I was looking for relevant information, I had already seen this kind of installation of the flintlock device outside the cannon.

The situation is just that I didn't choose.

If I had known that your processing technology was not enough, I would have given you that information directly."

Zhu Nishi also felt that even if there was a few seconds delay after pulling the rope, it was much better than the previous method of firing the fire rope directly from the gun mouth.

So he said to Zhang Haogu: "It's okay, it's a good thing that you can flexibly make changes according to actual conditions when you develop them."

Hearing this, Han Fu and Zhang Haogu breathed a sigh of relief.

When Zhang Haogu wanted to change the design, Han Fu refused to let him go because he was afraid that he would make mistakes and annoy Zhu Moe.

It was not until the deadline was approaching that the development was stuck in the installation of the flintlock device that Han Fu agreed to Zhang Haogu to change the design.

Although the cannon was successfully developed, it was a little different from what Zhu Mai asked for. Both of them were waiting to be punished this time. Unexpectedly, Zhu Mai not only did not blame him, but instead praised him.

This made the two more motivated to do things.

At this time, Zhu Niu asked again: "According to your design, how is the range of this cannon? How accurate is it?"

Zhang Haogu said: "At present, only one ten-pound cannon is built in the institute. The skilled gunner who tests can accurately hit the target gate three miles away with the assistance of the gun body and the ruler.

If you shoot a flat iron bullet with a ten-kilogram, you will have good lethality within four miles.

As for other data, we are still collecting it and are not sure."

Zhu Mei nodded slightly after hearing this, and asked again: "How many people will it take to build a ten-pound cannon?"

Zhang Haogu thought for a while and said, "With five skilled cannons, you can build one in ten days."

"Take me to see the ten-pound cannon you tried to build."

"yes"

Then, Zhu Mai followed Zhang Haogu and Han Fu to a big house and saw the cannon.

At this moment, not only did Zhu Mi's eyes emit a light of joy, but Hao Guangming on the other side looked at the video footage of his mobile phone intently.

I saw that the cannon was not too thick, with an inner diameter of about ten centimeters, an outer diameter of fifteen or sixteen centimeters, and a barrel length of one meter six or seven.

From the muzzle to the tail, it gradually becomes thicker, but it is not an exaggeration. A steel hoop and flintlock ignition device are added to the tail.

The cannon has a gate and a ruler for aiming, but they are both relatively simple.

The gun body is mounted on two steel wheels nearly two meters high, and there is a one or two meters traction bracket behind it.

This design is the same as the information given by Hao Guangming, and it adopts the most mature design of the gun-retardation rack.

When shooting, you can directly adjust the up and down angles. If you want to adjust the left and right angles, you need to move the cannon stand.

But because the cannons are made of steel, they are not too heavy, and it is actually convenient to adjust left and right, just two people are fine.

If it is a marching, a horse can run around on the flat ground.

The impact of poor road conditions will not be too great - the gun mount wheel design is so large that it is for the purpose of good off-roading.

After walking around the cannon, Zhu Xi asked suddenly: "How many shells can a skilled gunner fire in a minute?"

As the deputy director, Zhang Haogu naturally knew the new concept of time.

Hearing the words, "Because the cannon body of this run is short and the up and down angle is very convenient, a skilled gunner can fire at least two shots in a minute. He can fire four or five shots in a row before cooling down is required."

Zhu Mei nodded after hearing this - as far as she knows, it takes several minutes to shoot the Red Cannon three or four miles away, because the barrel is too long and it is difficult to clean it. It is also easy to heat up, resulting in an average fire in actual combat.

The cannon speed is even lower.

Only then did she feel satisfied with this steel cannon - although it was far from the steel cannons of later generations, it was already an absolute weapon of war in the Ming Dynasty.

Immediately, Zhu Niu noticed that the iron bullets next to the cannon were all covered with four convex marks, and asked, "Did you make this iron bullet yourself?"

Zhang Haogu said: "Yes."

Zhu Niu nodded and said, "When the Ammunition Research Institute has developed a flowering bullet for rifled cannons, you can experiment together and report the experimental data to our palace.

In addition, after you have determined the specifications of artillery of various calibers, you should contact the arsenal as soon as possible and ask them to arrange production.

At the end of the first month of next year, I will see at least fifty such cannons and enough shells.”

Han Fu and Zhang Haogu immediately bowed together and replied, "As for the order of humble duty!"

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When Zhu Mei was in a beautiful mood when she returned to the city from the Artillery Research Institute.

When she went to Nanzhili next year, if she had fifty steel cannons, she would have great advantages whether she was facing the Qing army or some Ming army that dared to oppose her.

A stronger strength can allow her to do more things, pacify the world faster, and lead the Ming Dynasty to prosperity and strength.

As a result, as soon as they returned to Chengyun Hall, Li Yan, Hong Niangzi and Long Wenguang, who came together, lost all the good moods of Zhu Moe.

"It's outrageous! This palace repeatedly declares that those who dare to be corrupt in military food and pay will be severely punished and not borrowed. There are still people who dare to commit crimes. Do you think that this palace will not kill people?!"

Zhu Mei stood in front of the throne, shouting with her eyebrows angrily, and her pretty face looked cold.

Below, Long Wenguang, Li Yan, and Hong Niangzi didn't dare to speak for a while.

Not to mention Long Wenguang, even Li Yan, Hong Niang, had been with Zhu Mai for so long, and it was the first time she had seen her get so angry.

Speaking of which, Zhu Mai looked like a beautiful girl of sixteen or seventeen years old. It is logical that no matter how angry she was, it might not be scary.

But at this moment, even the Hongmao, who was the most nervous, was a little nervous.

In fact, Hong Niang was very angry too.

Then she glared at Li Yan - this matter is under the jurisdiction of Li Yan.

After hearing Zhu Mai's words, Li Yan knelt down and apologized, saying, "It was my negligence. I failed to find that someone used inferior food as good food for fast food. I would like to ask Your Highness to punish him!"

Isn’t Li Yan angry?

He was also angry.

At the same time, he also knew that this matter was under his control, and since something went wrong, he would have an unshirkable responsibility.

Especially this incident happened in the army that went on two groups of war.

The loss is that the scale is not large, and the soldiers who mainly surrendered to the Western Army have all lived a hard life and did not regard this military ration issue as a major event, otherwise it might cause a major event.

Long Wenguang wiped the sweat from his forehead, then knelt down, and said, "The contractors who made fast food military rations were introduced by the prefecture and county yamen. As a governor, I also have the crime of misunderstanding.

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Seeing the two of them like this, Zhu Ma was so angry that she wanted to laugh.

Hao Guangming on the other side could imagine how bad Zhu Mom was now. He was afraid that she would be affected by anger and made any decisions that should not be done, so he advised: "You calm down first, what you should do now is to solve the problem and then hold it accountable.

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Zhu Mai was calmer.

But she was not ready to listen to Hao Guangming completely. She felt that solving the problem and holding the accountability could be carried out at the same time.

So he took a deep breath and asked, "How many dry rice and bread are there in the question? Have you found out?"

At the end of September, Zeng Ying and Li Ding came to the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to fight, and it was estimated that it would take at least two months to return to Chengdu.

In this way, the military ration consumed by the army is a huge number.

This not only contains raw materials such as rice, noodles, vegetables, meat, etc., but also has the fast-food military rations of ancient times.

As a feudal dynasty with a relatively centralized and mature system, the Ming Dynasty was actually quite good at eating military rations compared to the times.

There are mainly two types: one is to make a dough cake with flour as the material, add a certain amount of salt and oil, and then roast it with carbon fire to make a sesame cake that can be preserved for a long time.
To be continued...