Shang Yi was very satisfied with everyone's response, and then said: "There is still an economic aspect.-Everyone knows that the battle is to rely on financial resources and material resources to support. After the Qing court entered the customs, the war continued to fight. In production, the treasury has long been hard to last, and the northern region has passed through the turmoil for more than ten years, and agricultural production and taxation are almost completely deserted. It is not too long for the whole time, and the people will be forced to uprising again for a long time. In the past few years, we have accumulated a lot of grain funds in Zhejiang. Even if there is no tax supply, it is enough to use it for two or three years. We are also better than the Qing court. In addition, we are fighting at the door of the house. The front is short and the logistics supply is convenient. However Say, this is even worse. "
"Based on these three reasons, I believe that with the current strength of the court, we should only persist for about half a year. Therefore, in the second half of the year, that is, when we launch a counterattack to the Qing army, it is certainly a plan to recover Nanjing. Can be achieved. "
After listening to Shang Yi, all officials basically understood the meaning of Shang Yi. The crisis in Zhejiang was not in front of it, but in the future, in the next three years, Compared to Zhejiang, there will be a lot of advantages. In fact, Shang Yi's plan is actually taking advantage of Zhejiang's current advantages to seize Nanjing, expand its own scope of power, and win greater development space. Of course, now, it is indeed very sure.
And this is also the only way to do it by Shangyi Group. If you continue to sleep in Zhejiang, it will only consume your advantages slowly. After the Qing court slows down, it will inevitably lose a defeat in the end. As a result, after thinking about this, everyone also agreed with Shang Yi's resolution. In fact, everyone had no other choice, and at the same time I believed that Shang Yi would be able to reverse the current situation.
Seeing everyone agreed with their own resolutions, Shang Yi immediately made a decision. From now on, in half a year, the regular army of the merchant army expanded to about 350,000, and the reserve army expanded to about 150,000. This is almost the same. It is currently the limit of the number of people owned by Shang Yi. The distribution is about 150,000 in the Jiangnan theater, and the reserve army is 50,000; the Jiangbei Theater includes two theater of Jianghuai and Hubei. There are 50,000 reserve forces; the total strength of the Shandong theater is about 100,000, and the reserve army will be 50,000. In the last three months of this year, the task of repeating Nanjing will be completed.
Subsequently, Shang Yi ordered it, and in the meantime, all human resources and resources in Zhejiang will obey the target of this major premise, and all departments must cooperate.
Several military -related factories must also formulate new production plans, and the top priority is the arsenal, because after the army is expanded, related weapons and equipment and ammunition must be followed. Shang Yi also immediately went to the arsenal to check the work.
Sun He Ding, the head of the arsenal, also introduced the current situation in detail to Shang Yi. At present, the arsenal has been fully completed and put into operation. There are more than 26,700 workers, and the number of technical workers has reached more than 18,400.
Then, then
At present, the output of the arsenal is: 6,000 to 8,000 muskets in the month, 200 to 300 artillery, more than 1,500 rounds of Perak Rockets, 2,000 rounds of various artillery bullets, 200,000 bullets, grenades three, three grenades, three grenades
Thousands of land, 600 landmines. Although the output of the arsenal is not small, due to the rapid expansion of the merchant army, there are still some supply.
The rating rate of the reserve army is less than 40 %.
In addition, the arsenal is also responsible for the research task of developing new weapons. Before the start of the war in Nanjing, in accordance with Shang Yi's requirements, the four key research projects were: internal model irrigation and cooling casting method; backfill muskets, artillery development;
The development of new types of continuous shots; the development of ultra -long -distance Perak Rockets. In addition, there are some small research projects, which are further improvement of the current weapons.
In the front, the inner model irrigation and cooling casting method was successfully tested, and in the production of production, most of the artillery used for the delivery of the army was cast by the internal mold irrigation and cooling casting artillery method.
And after being tested, the use of artillery used in the use of internal mold irrigation and cooling cannon does not reach five to ten times that of ordinary artillery, but it can also reach two to three times.
You can fill in relatively more gunpowder to make the range of the artillery farther. A cast iron cannon with a weight of 1,200 pounds to 1,500.
The caliber bronze field cannon cannon. Because it was made of cast iron, half of the bronze cannon was not as good as the bronze cannon.
However, after the bronze cannon also uses this internal mold irrigation and cooling casting method, the range can be improved to a certain extent. Of course, the amplitude of this improvement is not large.
It can be greatly improved.
However, this result also makes Shang Yi feel very full, because under the current chemical conditions, if you want to produce more powerful bitter gunpowder, yellow gunpowder is basically unrealistic. The current method of internal mold irrigation and cooling casting method, the current method of cooling and cooling the casting cannon, and the current method of cooling the casting cannon.
In fact, it is more for cost considerations. In the power of the range and shells, the merchant army is much stronger than the Qing army.
The development of the super long -distance Perak Rocket has also undergone new results. In theory, to make the rocket fly far, it is to increase the size of the rocket and enable the rocket to install more gunpowder, but
There is another contradiction, that is, after the rocket size is increased, the weight will be added, so the size and the important proportion will be reached by repeated tests. The other difficult point is that the size of the fixed tail wing is now.
When there is almost no air dynamics, it can only be tested by more.
In the end, the new Perak Rockets were launched with a single branch. Each rocket was about nine feet long, with a diameter of more than five inches. Generally, the range can exceed 700 steps.
This new type of rocket is named "Tomahawk Rockets".
Relative to these two technologies, they have basically achieved, but the development of the lame -type musket, the development of artillery and new types
After that, the bullet -type musket and artillery, but the biggest problem is that the air is closed and the range is not enough. As a result, although the research department of the arsenal created five or six test products, the actual effect is not satisfactory.
Although there are several drawings provided by Shang Yi, the new type of continuous hair gun must be used to use the tube piano gun, so you must use the backfilling technology.
It is difficult to get a big breakthrough.
However, Shang Yi also knows that the development of lame -type muskets, artillery and new types of shot -shot is a changeable invention of the history of gun development.
It cannot be rushed to find it. Therefore, there is no blame for blame them, and at the same time, the personnel of the research should be patient and don't be afraid of failure.
However, under the current circumstances, the primary task of the arsenal is to ensure the supply of weapon supply of the newly formed troops. Therefore, Shang Yi also decided to temporarily stop all research projects.
Mainly three types of artillery, muskets and grenades, and the production of ammunition. And also reduce the production of heavy artillery in artillery, try to produce more small and medium artillery as much as possible. Before the end of the year, to ensure that all regular army's weapons are equipped, at least it must be at least necessary.
Guarantee a rifle.
Of course, Sun He Ding also knew the current situation, and was able to reasonably ignore Shang Yi's distress. Therefore, he immediately stated that he would concentrate the power of the arsenal to produce the most routine weapons in accordance with Shang Yi's instructions to ensure that the battle needs at the end of the year.
After testing the arsenal, Shang Yi also knew, and so far, military technology can produce breakthrough weapons in the short term.
It can also be used by the production cycle and cost, which can only play a supplementary role. To completely replace the current weapons, it is estimated that it takes 20 years.
Therefore, the future goal of the arsenal is to improve the performance and service life of existing weapons as much as possible, as well as the production efficiency of the arsenal. From this sense, although the internal mold irrigation and cooling casting method looks inconspicuous, the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual role is that the actual effect is
The biggest. The lifespan of the use of the musket is mainly the improvement of iron smelting technology. With high -quality iron supply, the barrel manufactured barrel can be durable.
For this, Sun He Ding has a deep understanding, because after the new year, the quality of the raw iron block provided by the metallurgical factory has significantly improved compared with the past.
The effect of the internal mold irrigation and cooling casting method, but it can also be improved to about double,
After hearing it, Shang Yi also remembered that before the battle of Nanjing, he arranged two tasks for Song Yingxing. One was to build a metallurgical factory, using new iron smelting technology to refine high -quality steel; the other was to manufacture
The steam machine. But after returning to Hangzhou, I have been busy with military and political affairs. Although I received a report from Song Yingxing, both aspects have achieved good results, but I have no time to take a look.
A lot of relief, you should also go to see Song Yingxing's results. These two technologies are also a major event that is related to national economy and people's livelihood.