Luo Zhixue has actually been studying rifled artillery for a long time, but this thing is more difficult to develop than a steam engine!

It's not a design problem... Again, it's not difficult to design this thing, especially after Luo Zhixue was born. Even if Luo Zhixue in later generations has never seen a pig running, he has eaten pork, even if he doesn't know what a pig looks like.

, but he definitely knows what pork looks like.

He also has a basic understanding of guns. Most of the guns in later generations are rifled. Well, the exception is the advanced third-generation tank guns and above. The mainstream third-generation tank guns use smoothbore guns. This is

In order to better launch armor-piercing projectiles: tail-stabilized discarding sabots armor-piercing projectiles.

The exceptions are Britain and India and a few small countries... They seem to pay more attention to tradition rather than using smoothbore artillery!

Except for tank guns, the guns of later generations were almost all rifled guns. Even though Luo Zhixue didn't know much about this, he also knew that there were spiral riflings inside the barrel of rifled guns.

After repeated discussions with several engineers with big ideas, the rifling design of the rifled artillery was basically arrived at.

But just because it’s designed doesn’t mean it can be built, and just because it’s been built doesn’t mean it can be used.

This ghost thing has higher requirements for materials and processing than the early Watt steam engine... To carve rifling inside the barrel and make the rifling durable, the barrel material cannot be too soft. If it is too soft, it will be fired once.

Then the rifling will be worn away.

Secondly, while you can't be too soft, you can't be too hard... Otherwise, the Da Chu Empire's current miserable processing capabilities cannot be processed... Pig iron is a typical example. Apart from casting, the Da Chu Empire has almost no way to process pig iron.

Processing.

The carbon content of this thing is too high, the material is too hard and brittle, and the secondary processing after molding is very troublesome.

In addition to the barrel material, there are also requirements for the artillery shell itself... If you have adopted rifled artillery, then you cannot use spherical artillery shells. If you use cylindrical artillery shells, then you need to design the shape of the artillery shell. This is designed again.

Aerodynamics part.

Then the design came out. The processing accuracy of your cannonball must be very high, so that the cannonball and the cannon bore can fit together as much as possible, the gap can be reduced, and the cannonball can stick to the rifling and rotate out of the chamber...

This series of technical difficulties ultimately leads to one problem: materials!

This is also the most common and biggest problem that the Chu Empire has encountered since it developed its industry. Material problems have troubled the industrial community of the Chu Empire almost all the time. Because the materials cannot meet the requirements, many projects that seem to have bright prospects have

Industrial design cannot be realized.

The previous steam engine had been in use for more than ten years, but it had always been stuck with material issues.

The rifled artillery has also been predicted for several years, but it is also stuck by material problems.

Finally, the Dachu Empire has not solved a very important ammunition problem so far, and that is the collision fuze.

So far, the series of howitzer shells used by the Chu army still use wooden fuzes. This is a timed fuze, and the detonation time depends on the length of the fuze.

In the past two years, the Ammunition Research Institute under the Ministry of Industry has developed a metal disc fuze, but it is still a timing fuze, but its reliability and accuracy are stronger than that of a wooden fuze.

The Chu army, especially the navy, has always wanted to develop a collision fuse so that the artillery shell will explode after hitting the target.

This can not only effectively reduce the rate of dud bombs, but also provide the navy's naval guns with a bomb weight that can penetrate the armor of enemy warships and then explode, that is, armor-piercing explosive bombs!

It's a pity that this ghost thing is also very troublesome to develop.

Many research and designs will eventually be delayed or even stranded due to material problems... This is why the Chu Empire has continued to invest heavily in these years and a large number of talents to conduct various basic research.

Not only the official Royal Institute of Technology, major research institutes directly under the Ministry of Industry and other purely theoretical research institutions, but also major enterprises have invested heavily in this area. Hantian Machinery Company is a typical example. In order to develop better

Machine tools, in order to produce higher performance cutting tools for machine tools, have always invested a lot in the field of materials.

And this large investment also brought them huge returns!

Hantian Machinery Company's machine tools, especially cutting drills and other machine tool technologies that require the use of cutting tools, are far ahead of other domestic machinery companies.

The industrial cutting tools of Hantian Machinery Company are definitely No. 1 in the country, which has also brought them a huge market.

Not only is there a market, but there is also profit!

When you have a product that far exceeds that of your competitors, and customers are extremely hungry for it, then you can sell it very expensively...well, that is, giving more so-called added value...

They dare to sell a large, high-end boring machine that is the most advanced and can be used to process large parts such as steam engine cylinders and gun barrels with very high precision. They dare to sell it for more than 80,000 yuan without discount... which is almost the same as the price of a frigate.<

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What kind of concept is this? It’s probably similar to a machine tool sold for hundreds of millions in later generations!

But his customers, such as Daye Heavy Machinery Company, Zhenjiang Heavy Machinery Company and major weapons companies, are still queuing up to buy... The orders have been scheduled for several years.

The most important thing is that Hantian Machinery Company also engages in package sales...

Do you want to buy our high-end machine tools? Yes, although there is no stock in the warehouse now, we will have a machine returned by other customers next month. However, this machine is a matching order with other machine tools. Do you want to buy it?

If so, you can pack it up and take it away together.

What, a single purchase? This is a complete set of orders, not just a single purchase!

If you want to buy it individually, you can place a new order, but I want to tell you that our orders are now scheduled for three years later... It is conservatively estimated that your new order will not arrive until three years later.

That's right, Hantian Machinery Company uses various names to engage in bundled sales, leaving a lot of customers speechless and even making some of its competitors furious.

Hantian Machinery Company's main competitor in the field of machine tools, Wuhu Machine Tool Company, has complained to the top executives of the Ministry of Industry several times, saying that Hantian Machinery Company is too unscrupulous. After eating high-end meat, it actually wants to take the Chinese company with it.

Low-end meat is also served in one pot.

If this continues, the empire's machine tool R&D and production industry will become the dominant force of Hantian Machinery, and other companies will be completely dead.

In this regard, the top management of the Ministry of Industry is actually very helpless... Although the Ministry of Industry is directly under the management of Hantian Machinery Company, their Ministry of Industry has always ignored this kind of normal corporate competition.

Hantian Machinery Company has invested so much money in the past many years. In order to raise research and development funds, a machine tool company suddenly turned into a cookware and kitchenware company that is famous among the people and even the world...

They have worked so hard to come up with some new materials and new technologies, and then come up with a new generation of high-end machine tools. If the Ministry of Industry does not let people eat meat, thousands of people at Hantian Machinery will go crazy.<

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In addition, other machine tool companies are really not up to par... Wuhu Machine Tool Company is also the second largest machine tool company in China. It was established not long after Hantian Machinery. The early personnel were even transferred from Hantian Machinery Company.<

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These two families are actually one family.

After the separation, the eldest son Hantian Machinery worked hard and raised funds for research and development through the development of civilian industries, while Wuhu Machine Tool Company rested on its laurels. In the past ten years, Wuhu Machine Tool Company has become quite large, and its employees

The benefits are pretty good, but the R&D investment is very limited...

Several general managers have little interest in technology research and development. They only focus on promoting sales through mature routes and simply expanding the scale of production. They are still in the same line. Each one is more willing to use the company's money as welfare to win people's hearts...

However, the investment in technology research and development is very limited... No, now we have tasted the consequences, and were defeated by Hantian Machinery Company in one fell swoop.

What should the second son do when he fails to live up to expectations?

Can you still do this, cold salad... You said it is the second largest machine tool company in the country, related to the country's people's livelihood... I'm sorry, the Ministry of Industry has three sons, four sons, and five sons in the machine tool industry... And then there are at least ten more

Several godsons and some large machinery companies are more or less involved in the machine tool industry.

Without a second son, the other sons can take over.

It doesn’t mean that it won’t work without it.

You said that this enterprise is large and its closure would have a bad impact... Are you kidding the country? There are many enterprises under the Ministry of Industry, and most of them are large or even extra-large enterprises.

If a machine tool company goes bankrupt, it will go bankrupt... Even if it is to avoid negative impacts, other related companies can be organized to split and reorganize, so that the equipment and technical personnel will not be lost too much.

This attitude of the Ministry of Industry is not specifically aimed at Wuhu Machine Tool Company, but towards most of its companies. Except for a very few companies that are truly irreplaceable and cannot go bankrupt, most of their subordinate companies are actually

can be replaced.

Because the Ministry of Industry never puts eggs in one basket!

There are five biological sons and a dozen godsons in the machine tool industry... The same is true in other industries. Even in the new steam engine industry, the Ministry of Industry has created three sons. After seeing the rapid development of the steam engine industry, the Ministry of Industry

Plans have been made to further liberalize the patent authorization of steam engines and select a number of powerful companies for the production and research and development of steam engines.

Wuhu Machine Tool Company, which was unwilling to make progress and lacked investment in technology research and development for many years, was wiped out by Hantian Machinery Company in one fell swoop. Its market share shrank significantly, and the top executives of the Ministry of Industry did nothing to save it.

After struggling for two years, Wuhu Machine Tool Company became increasingly difficult to operate and soon became insolvent.

In August of the 18th year of Chengshun, Wuhu Machine Tool Company, which had reached its end, officially announced bankruptcy and reorganization!

By the way, except for the last general office who came to clean up the mess and came from the Inspectorate, more than half of the previous general offices and co-organizers and other senior executives have been imprisoned... These people have been in prison in the past few years.

There is no shortage of corruption.

The penultimate general manager had only been in office for two years, but he had made more than 100,000 yuan!

This is not more than 100,000 U.S. dollars from later generations, but more than 100,000 Chu Yuan in the seventeenth century. How much more can this money sell for a thousand-ton first-class cruiser!

After he was arrested for being so courageous, Luo Zhixue personally gave instructions and rewarded him with the royal favor of having his entire family executed!

Not to mention the unlucky fate of these prostitutes, Wuhu Machine Tool Company, which has fallen into bankruptcy and reorganization, is already insolvent, its technology is backward, and its products have almost no market competitiveness.

In this case, the Ministry of Industry doesn't even bother to spend money to save it... It would be excellent to invest the same funds in the Third Son Tongzhou Machine Tool Company or the Fourth Son Liaoyang Machine Tool Company. There is no need to throw it into the quagmire of Wuhu Machine Tool Company.

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As a result, the strategy was finally decided: break it up and sell it, and use the proceeds to cover the financial bank's own debt... Wuhu Machine Tool Company still has a loan of more than 800,000 yuan to repay.

And it is seriously insolvent. According to conventional statistics, the company's assets are not more than 800,000 yuan!

The general office of Renren Finance Bank's Anlu Branch has already said that this lousy company should not have issued loans three years ago, but in the past you were the ones who cried out and gave us various guarantees to make us lend money... Now the company is finished

Okay, if you can't exchange for the money, then don't blame us for being rude and go directly to the guarantee companies.

The finance bank and your company from the Ministry of Industry are not the same system. The finance bank directly belongs to the Finance Department, which directly manages the bank, while many industrial enterprises belong to the Ministry of Industry.
To be continued...