Chapter 336 Shenzhou No. 1
"Bang!Bang!..."
One round of shells was being fired. //Add to download the txt novel //The entire test process was quite boring. The artillery kept adjusting the angle to determine the best shooting angle. But a group of officers were still watching the side with great enthusiasm. There were too few entertainment activities in the military camp, so it would be better to watch the fun.
When Wu Shigong saw that it was troublesome to adjust the cannon and record the angle, he proposed the idea of making a protractor similar to that of a modern protractor. The production of this protractor is not complicated at all. According to Wu Shigong's ideas, the craftsmen in the Henan army quickly made it.
However, with the protractor, it did bring great convenience to the adjustment of the angle of the artillery. So for Wu Shigong's wonderful thoughts, the officers of the Runing Camp flattered. While enjoying the flattery, Wu Shigong thought happily: "I didn't expect it to be a genius in the Ming Dynasty?"
Another big problem is the level of artillery positions. With so much manpower, there is no problem for the Henan army to level an artillery position.
But there is a problem here, which cannot guarantee that this flat artillery position is parallel to the horizontal plane. You must know that this is a mountainous land. If the artillery is set up to an inclined artillery position, the artillery shooting will deviate due to the tilting launch angle. However, it is impossible to observe from the naked eye whether the artillery position is parallel to the horizontal plane.
In the end, a craftsman solved this problem. He used a large piece of flat wooden board to lay it on the cannon position and then dripped water in the middle of the wooden board. If the water droplets did not roll, it proved that the cannon position was basically parallel to the horizontal plane. In fact, this is the prototype of a modern level.
When Wu Shigong saw this problem, he was very happy and rewarded the craftsman with fifty taels of silver. This made everyone very motivated, so some small problems in the future were solved one by one after working together. Of course, Wu Shigong also gave rewards of different sizes to the meritorious personnel.
Finally, after two days of experiment, the test results were finally obtained. Because the mountain was too steep, the three-pound cannons in Runing Camp could not be transported up the mountain, and the one-pound cannon was too powerful, so this time, the four two-pound cannons were used to shoot the rebels' ships in a blink of an eye.
After determining the firing angle of the artillery, the craftsmen began to build a fixed artillery frame according to this firing angle. Other auxiliary soldiers began to open up the road and level the artillery positions on the mountain. All preparations should be made before the firing of the artillery.
In this experiment, a teenager named Hu Meng, who was only seventeen years old in Chi Ming's Boy Camp, witnessed and participated in recording the entire test process. After that, he had a strong interest in researching the firing curve of the artillery.
After that, Hu Meng took the initiative to sign up to join the artillery team and gradually became the ballistic expert of the artillery team. Later, he became the Qianzong General.
However, Hu Meng was not interested in fighting. Later, he voluntarily withdrew from the combat troops and came to the military academy opened by Runing Camp. He became a teacher who taught artillery ballistics.
Hu Meng's life in the military academy was like a fish in water. His own research and the eight most talented students he brought out almost laid a large part of modern physics and chemistry in this time and space. He eventually invented advanced mathematics. Hu Meng was also respected as the "father of science" in this time and space.
But Wu Shigong didn't know that he was still surrounded by him, Hu Meng. After the artillery test was over, Wu Shigong was very playful and shouted: "Hold up the cannon and see how high the cannon can be hit."
Since adults are interested, the young people will certainly support them. Soon, the artillery was added with the maximum amount of gunpowder and stood up straight. Of course, this erecting was slightly forward at a small angle. Otherwise, the shell would fall and hit his head. It was not fun, but suicide.
Liang Hui personally launched the launch. When the cannon was out of the bore, everyone opened their mouths wide and raised their necks to watch the shells fly higher and higher. It was not until the shells turned into a small black dot that was almost invisible. After waiting for a long time, the shells fell down. The shells hit the four or fifty steps in front of the cannon, and it was a huge piece of soil.
People who came back began to sigh, "Wow! It flew so high!"
Only Liang Hui, a master of flattery, reacted the fastest. He knelt in front of Wu Shigong with one leg and said sincerely: "Sir! This cannon is mighty, please give it a name."
Wu Shigong blurted out: "Shenzhou No. 1!"
Those who were taken over by Liang Hui immediately continued to flatter Wu Shigong without being outdone: "Sir! A good name!", "Sir, you have such a high knowledge!"...
Zhou Xun also came to Wu Shigong and smiled and complimented: "Sir, our Runing Camp will build larger artillery in the future, and maybe they can all hit the moon."
Wu Shigong didn't even think about it, and then said, "That cannon is called Chang'e-1!"
Of course, Wu Shigong and other big guys didn't know any taboos, so the homophone name - Shenzhou Cannon was called in Runing Camp, and it was recorded in the documents of Runing Camp.
It was only after returning to Runing that Deng Qifan discovered this very sensitive name in the document. In order to avoid taboos, Deng Qifan changed the name to Shenzhou Cannon. He never expected that his modification would be changed back to the original name.
And in this time and space, an interesting story happened. When this history was spread to the West, more than a hundred years later, a French science fiction writer named Jules Verne wrote a science fiction novel "From the Earth to the Moon" using this as an inspiration, which used artillery to launch people onto the moon.
This Shenzhou-1 shell also brought an accident. The movement of the shell landing also caused a frightened horse that was pulling an empty cart and quietly gnawing on the grass.
The shocked horse pulled an empty cart and ran on the empty cannon test field, which caused the people who were also eating grass to come crazy. It took advantage of the inattention of his personal soldiers, and rushed to chase me and chased me. It caused everyone to burst into laughter.
In the end, of course, the personal soldiers dispatched to subdue the two horses and brought them back. However, after the people came back from madness, they jumped mischievously beside Wu Shigong.
Wu Shigong ignored the fact that people came to be crazy, and he suddenly had a new idea. You should know that although people came to be crazy, their running speed was quite fast. However, the shocked horse was dragging a big cart just now, and its speed was no longer much slower than people came to be crazy.
Wu Shigong remembered a movie he had watched in his previous life - "Gladiator". There was a scene of chariot fighting in the arena. Wu Shigong remembered that the chariot was quite powerful. Will there be a few chariots in Runing Camp in the future?
Of course, Wu Shigong would not know that the kind of chariot was very popular during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but with the large-scale use of cavalry, this kind of chariot was long ago eliminated.
Because of the high cost of building a chariot, it is difficult to cultivate a chariot, but the requirements for terrain are very high when used. Therefore, it was cracked for the first time by Sun Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and then this chariot gradually became history. As a result, there was no trace of such chariot during the Ming Dynasty, and there were not even many people who knew that there were such chariots in history.
However, at this time, no one would object to Wu Shigong's idea. Under Wu Shigong's description, Chi Ming quickly recorded the idea of developing this kind of chariot with the sketch of Wu Shigong's chariot.
And just as we were waiting for the official launch, a blacksmith named Bian Chengwang found Wu Shigong.
In the battle summary after the Huangxian Battle, Wu Shigong proposed the idea of using large pieces of armor to protect the key points of beggar armor. We already know that during this period of the Ming Dynasty, there were very few blacksmiths who were able to make such large pieces of armor, and the manufacturing cycle was very long, and they could not reach the level of mass production.
But Bian Chengwang is one of them. Some of his ancestral craftsmanship can greatly shorten the manufacturing time of iron sheets. In terms of modern craftsmanship, the one they passed down from their family is the "quenching" process. It can quickly increase the strength of iron sheets and meet the strength requirements required for armored iron sheets.
You should know that in the past, the increase in the intensity of iron sheets was done by refining hundreds of times, which took a lot of labor and time. But Bian Chengwang's method could greatly shorten this time.
Of course, as a ancestral method, Bian Chengwang was not willing to offer it to Wu Shigong. However, because he was jealous of Wu Shigong's rewards, he boldly asked Wu Shigong for credit.
When Wu Shigong heard this, he was of course very excited because this method was very important to strengthening the production of the ordnance in Ru Ning Camp. However, Wu Shigong understood that Bian Chengwang was unwilling to offer this method, and he was only willing to take his son and apprentice to produce this kind of iron sheet for Wu Shigong.
There is another problem, and Wu Shigong is no longer willing to reward like this. Such an important method is not good to reward too little. But if you reward too much, Wu Shigong himself will feel pain because the landlord's family does not have any surplus food! Therefore, Wu Shigong has to find a good way to solve this problem.
What method? After thinking about it, Wu Shigong thought of the modern "Patent Law". Wu Shigong proposed to Bian Chengwang: Let Bian Chengwang offer this technology, but Wu Shigong's Runing Camp will pay the patent fee for each product using this technology.
Anyway, Wu Shigong is familiar with the provisions of the Patent Law, and now he can just copy them. In modern times, Wu Shigong has done a lot of pirated matters, so studying such legal provisions is also one of Wu Shigong's compulsory courses.
However, after seeing Bian Chengwang hesitating, Wu Shigong proposed another condition, naming the technology presented by Bian Chengwang as the "Bian Family Method", so that the Bian family can be remembered forever.
But what surprised Wu Shigong was that Bian Chengwang was not worried about this. He was only worried that if he obtained a lot of wealth from the patent law, the government would find a reason to seize the property of his Bian family.
This worry makes sense. In order to appease Bian Chengwang, Wu Shigong had to accept 30% of the dry shares offered by Bian Chengwang to abide Bian Chengwang's heart. It seems that there is still a long way to go in the construction of the legal system!
Wu Shigong changed from a violator in his previous life to a current legislator. This situation also makes people sigh: "The life experience is really unpredictable!"
In fact, the Patent Law is also a law that is often underestimated by the world. However, its importance can be seen from the fact that the first law formulated after the founding of the United States was the Patent Law.
The essence of the Patent Law is: any country actually needs a large number of talents from all walks of life, and the country's finances cannot afford to support so many talents. What should we do?
Through the Patent Law, the people can spend money and make these talents rich, so as to keep these talents at home and serve the country. This is the important reason why Britain, which first formulated the Patent Law, first carried out the industrial revolution and finally expanded into an empire that will never set. If you don’t believe it, you just need to look at the luxurious lineup of the academicians in the British Academy of Sciences at that time.
During the four or five months after Wu Shigong's Runing Camp besieged Dengzhou City, a genius like Hu Meng appeared, laying the scientific theoretical foundation; the Patent Law appeared, laying the foundation for wealth.
After that, a large number of scientific researchers and inventors appeared in the Runing Camp, which eventually caused the Eastern Industrial Revolution that occurred in this time and space. Therefore, in the later generations of this time and space, what happened during this period was called the cradle of science! (To be continued...ps: Thanks to Ri for sending fan book friends to share the idea about the "Patent Law". This is also the content set in this book. We really have the same views as heroes!
However, since I have written the book, I have found that many of the contents put forward by friends in the book reviews are what I want to write. I really feel: You are so awesome!
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