Zhu Hongsan looked at the drawings that Qian Wanli got back, the most powerful weapon drawings in the world mentioned by the Flang machine man Torres, and Qian Wanli bought them for 1,000 taels of silver.

No matter how Zhu Hongsan looks at it, it looks like the hand-cranked drill used in wood factories in later generations, which is larger and longer.

Zhu Hongsan asked: "Wanli, is this really the tool Torres gave you to make musket barrels?"

Qian Wanli nodded and said, "The boss is this thing. Torres also said that he had violated some laws in their country and kept asking a uncle's man to spare him."

It should be Jesus. Zhu Hongsan believed it when he heard Torres swearing with God. The foreign devils should not deceive Jesus.

Qian Wanli said: "Torres said the gun sold to Zhang Quanli is outdated. I gave me a short musket for the price of 1,000 taels of silver."

After saying that, Qian Wanli took out a brocade box from the side, opened it and sent it to Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan saw that it was a flintlock rifle. It was so good that he was worried about how to get this flintlock rifle.

After sending Qian Wanli out, Zhu Hongsan came to the factory to look for Tie Niu with drawings and flintlock rifles.

Zhu Hongsan said: "Tieniu, can you make this drawing?"

Tieniu looked at it and said, "Isn't this a drill for woodworkers? Use this to build a barrel?"

Zhu Hongsan asked, "Have you seen it? Come and have a look."

Tieniu went to the carpentry workshop and brought a hand-crank drill to Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan saw that the hand-cranked drills in the Ming Dynasty were different from those in the manufacture of muskets. The Ming Dynasty had bow-shaped force arms, which used different torques to generate torque.

The drawings use a large number of gears, and the gears can generate much greater torque. The hand-cranked drill of the Flanger is basically the same as in later generations.

Tie Niu said on the side: "Everything else is easy to work with. Just use high-carbon steel for drill bits, but this iron plate is not easy to work with. How do you get the teeth on it?"

Zhu Hongsan knew that gears were a difficult problem. There were no gears in ancient China at all. It seemed that they needed to take action by themselves. I didn’t know whether to forget the involute knowledge in high school.

Zhu Hongsan asked his wife to go home and notify her that she would not go home these days and would work in the factory.

Then let the Iron Niu organize people to start making gears.

Gears are so important that many things can be used after they are made, and they can be used in carriages and ships.

After a while, the craftsman came, and Zhu Hongsan picked out a few young ones, and the other older ones were not allowed.

I found a conference room to start teaching these young people. Zhu Hongsan didn't teach them any advanced mathematics, so there was no time. He just taught them how to make qualified gears.

Zhu Hongsan taught them five days of class, starting with the ruler. Zhu Hongsan made precision-to-millimeter rulers, and taught them this time. After all, large-scale production and strict standardization are the foundation of manufacturing.

Otherwise, it would be very feasible, just like in the Ming Dynasty, every musket made by craftsmen was one caliber, and the ammunition was not universal at all.

After the standardization lecture, the six young people started from the involute line to how to draw a qualified gear to make a qualified gear mold. After the lecture, the six young people began to call Zhu Hongsan Master.

Half a month later, Zhu Hongsan produced the first batch of gears with cast hair, and it was no longer a problem to produce the barrel here.

Zhu Hongsan used his knowledge to improve the drawings of the Folang Jiren, amplified the torque, and modified the unreasonable areas. Finally, he built a water truck and used gear transmission to free up a lot of labor.

On the first day of October, everything is ready. Zhu Hongsan began to build barrels in the new barrel workshop.

Turn on the water truck switch, put the fan blades of the water truck outside into the water, and power began to come. I saw the high-carbon steel rotor that was one and a half meters long slowly turning, and drilled into the steel column clamped with steel pliers bit by bit.

Seeing the head turning into the depth little by little, a large amount of iron filings came out, all the craftsmen began to cheer.

Zhu Hongsan estimated the time and it would take about two hours to drill out a qualified barrel, which was soon.

Zhu Hongsan took a one-meter-two-long barrel and measured it with a caliper. The diameter was one centimeter, which was already higher than that of the Ferlang ferryman. A smaller caliber allows soldiers to bring more ammunition and gunpowder.

After the most important barrel came out, the craftsmen's business was then asked to dismantle the flintlock rifle and study the transmission structure, which was not a problem for craftsmen who mastered gear production.

Zhu Hongsan asked the iron cow to make bullets according to the caliber of the barrel. This is simple. Just cast them directly with lead. Then, the experiment was to set up gunpowder.

After hundreds of shootings, the musket was finally finalized. What Zhu Hongsan was holding was the final product. The gun was 1.5 meters long and the barrel was 1.2 meters long.

The gun does not have various patterns and decorations of the Folang Jiren. Zhu Hongsan will not do those flashy things. It is better to build a few more barrels than to have the skill.

This finished musket shines with the black light of steel, and has a beauty of industrialized weapons in later generations. There is a jam in front of the barrel, which can be installed with military * bayonets. The bayonet imitated by the later generations of 50 and 60 centimeters long, and the gun is two meters long, which can be used as a self-defense weapon for musketeers.

Zhu Hongsan took a fixed-pack of gunpowder bag and looked at it. The medicine bag was wrapped in oil paper covered with lard. There was gunpowder and bullets inside, so that you would not have to waste time separately when loading. Just bite the oil paper bag, pour the gunpowder and bullets inside into the barrel, and then compact it with a strip to fire.

The range of the musket is 400 meters, but that is the maximum range. It can break through two layers of heavy armor at the beginning of 200 meters, and it should be no problem to face the Qing cavalry.

Zhu Hongsan did an experiment. A soldier can reach three rounds in less than a minute, and after being proficient, he can reach four rounds. This is already very awesome. Based on a row of 100 people, he can shoot out four hundred bullets in one minute. In the third row of 1,200, and there are also one thousand dead fires.

Zhu Hongsan called all the officers to the shooting range today and asked them to try the muskets. Everyone was very satisfied and asked their troops to be equipped first.

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "The production is not much now, and it will take only 200 muskets in a month. However, after the production is expanded next year, it will be fully equipped in one month."

Zhu Hongsan looked around and said, "I ordered the first battalion to equip muskets first, and then come one by one. Qian Yong, after you get the new musket, you must lead the soldiers to become familiar with the new weapons and form combat power as soon as possible."

Qian Yongle couldn't find Bei and said loudly: "Yes, sir!"

Production is too slow now. After finishing the gun test, Zhu Hongsan found Tien Niu and taught him the assembly line method of later generations. Zhu Hongsan was very clear about the power and defects of the assembly line. Needless to mention the power, it can produce products in large quantities in a short period of time.

However, the defect is also very large, which means that the raw materials are very demanding. Because it can speed up production, a large amount of raw materials are required. This is very fatal in the Ming Dynasty, where transportation is incomplete. The barrel production line will use the steel mill's production in one month in one year. Other times are idle.

Another disadvantage is that it has very strict requirements on people. When Ford invented the assembly line, it offered workers high wages, and many people said that Ford was like this. The fact is that the labor intensity has increased greatly, and no one can do it without paying a high wage.

But these are not a problem for Zhu Hongsan. Now, first of all, I will guarantee my life. Let’s talk about the rest in the future. What’s the use of other things if I lose my life?

Zhu Hongsan offered high wages for this, so high that Tong Yangjia came to protest. He gave ordinary workers five taels of silver a month, and production line workers reached twelve taels a month. You should know that the official salary of a county magistrate is only seven taels.

The high wages brought a large number of workers, and many tenants around fled to work for Zhu Hongsan. After all, the money is real. Now five taels of silver can support a family of five people in a month. Not only can they eat enough, they can eat meat every ten days.

The direct result of the outbreak of production capacity is that the steel plant's output is insufficient, and the production line was shut down ten days after the production line started. Because the steel plant's steel was consumed for a month.

Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to help Liu Dali expand production, build two new blast furnaces, and increase the capacity of the previous blast furnaces. This slightly alleviates the shortage of steel.

The consequence was that the iron ore and pig iron in Guangdong were collected by Zhu Hongsan, causing the pig iron in Guangzhou to triple. The Guangzhou prefecture's articles came three times to ask Feng Ziyeng in Dongguan County what was happening. However, they were all blocked by Feng Ziyeng and Folang Jimen.

In the busy life, Zhu Hongsan ushered in the most important seventeenth year of Chongzhen and the last year of the Ming Dynasty. During the Chinese New Year, Zhu Hongsan sent a big red envelope to all the workers, each with ten taels of silver, which made someone go home to offer Zhu Hongsan’s tablet of immortality.

The army finally completed the dressing before the end of the year, and all the troops moved to the Nanhai Weichengzhai. The place was secluded and no one suspected that it was shot every day.

The army has now formed combat power. Each person can fire three bullets per minute. Zhu Hongsan doesn't need them to aim, and the smoothbore gun cannot be aimed, and it starts to float after it is released thirty meters away.
Chapter completed!