Zhu Jianji came out of Dongnuan Pavilion, and Dai Yida, who was waiting outside, said, "Your Highness, someone from the Ordnance Supervisor came just now. Please go and have a look. I think there is good news."
The Arms Supervisor has swallowed up at least three hundred thousand taels from His Highness the Crown Prince in recent years.
But there has been no result.
As soon as Zhu Jianji heard about the weapons inspection, his heart began to hurt. Would he ask me for money again?
That's it, keep throwing money.
Go to the weapons inspection first, and then inspect the young army.
When we arrived at the Ordnance Supervisor, we heard a whoosh.
What's happening?
All the officials from the Ordnance Supervision were present, and they all knelt down and saluted him with smiles on their faces, and said in one voice: "Welcome to His Highness the Crown Prince, congratulations to His Highness the Crown Prince."
Something happy!
Asked: "Where does joy come from?"
Could it be because I know that there is finally a woman in the East Palace? Congratulations, I am about to become a man.
Not to the point of not to the point of not.
Then he said: "No courtesy."
Shi Xin stood up and said: "At the end of the fourth year of Jingtai and the beginning of the fifth year of Jingtai, His Highness took precautions and asked the Ordnance Supervisor to focus on the improvement and research and development of firecrackers. By the eighth year of Jingtai, it took four years. Although the Ordnance Supervisor tailored the Dongfeng Sniper for His Highness,
Gun, but it is an assault product at the level of handicrafts. It is almost entirely handmade, cannot be mass-produced, and has various disadvantages."
Zhu Jianji hummed.
I have some feelings, from the fifth year of Jingtai to the fifteenth year of Jingtai, a full ten years.
I spent more than 400,000 taels in the weapons inspection room.
Ten years after Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty began to sail to the Western Ocean. Among them, the East Palace had six treasure ships. Each time they were fully loaded with goods, they made hundreds of thousands of taels before they dared to let go.
Shi Xin continued: "All my colleagues in the Ordnance Supervision have worked tirelessly and tirelessly for several years, and today we finally achieved something. We dare not live up to His Highness's high expectations, and I would like to ask His Highness to review it."
Zhu Jianji said: "Let's talk about it first, to what extent it has reached."
Shi Xin took a deep breath and said, "The spring steel requested by His Highness was forged by the steel mill outside the city half a year ago, and according to His Highness's needs, springs can now be mass-produced!"
Zhu Jianji said: "This guy knows that you said it half a year ago, but one spring steel is not enough."
What about alloys?
In order to improve the shooting range and shooting accuracy, the inner wall of the barrel needs to be rifled and chemically etched. At present, Ming Dynasty does not have this chemical level, and alloy is the only way.
Shi Xin continued: "Three months ago, due to the improvement of refractory bricks, the temperature of the steel-making furnace has been raised to a higher temperature. We have finally refined the alloy that His Highness mentioned."
Zhu Jianji was happy, "What then?"
Shi Xin continued: "After thousands of days and nights of research and development by Gasol and many gunpowder craftsmen, the level of gunpowder has also been greatly improved, and it has been able to perfectly meet the requirements put forward by His Highness!"
Spring steel, alloy, gunpowder.
The three major crafts have all met His Highness’s requirements!
Zhu Jianji took a deep breath.
Laughed.
His face was almost broken from laughter.
I spent hundreds of thousands of taels on it, which is worth hundreds of millions of yuan based on purchasing power. Now it’s really time to bear fruit.
But it's not optimistic.
The mass-produced Minie rifle can use the watering method, but the demand for bullets is too high. If every bullet case needs to be polished by hand, it will still be useless.
Asked: "Regarding the lathe I designed, is there any progress in the lathe engineering department of the Ordnance Supervisor?"
Now that we have all the alloys, it shouldn't be difficult to use a lathe.
Shi Xin said: "The reason for inviting Your Highness to come here today is for this matter."
Zhu Jianji smiled and said, "How do you say that?"
Shi Xin said: "Your Highness, please move to the workshop outside the city."
Zhu Jianji hummed, turned around and said to Dai Yi: "Go and inform Zhu Ma'er's Gongzhao Office that Gu is leaving the imperial city. In addition, send someone to inform Youjun that after Gu's affairs with the weapons supervisor are over, we will
Go inspect the Cub Camp."
Dai Yi left immediately.
Half an hour later.
Zhu Jianji stood in the manufacturing workshop next to the steelmaking workshop where the Ordnance Supervisor was located in the southern suburbs of the city. He looked at the hydraulic lathes and fell into deep thought - can this thing really be made?
Then he looked at the barrel that was carved on a lathe and looked at the rifling carefully.
It's perfect.
In order to provide a stable rotational speed for the lathe, the rotational speed of the water wheel is strictly calculated, and then the water wheel provides stable power for the lathe.
Shi Xin held a pile of bullet casings and said, "Your Highness, please inspect them."
Zhu Jianji took it and squinted his eyes to look at it carefully from top to bottom and inside and outside. Although the manufacturing method was still pouring and then polished with a machine tool, it could basically reach the level of craftsmanship in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Shi Xing said: "Currently there are only three lathes. One lathe is dedicated to rifling gun barrels and can make about two hundred gun barrels a day. Two lathes polish bullet casings and can make more than a thousand bullets."
Once His Highness agrees to the production, it will take up to half a month for all members of the young army to change their clothes!
Zhu Jianji smiled.
Hand the barrel and bullet casing to Shi Xin.
Asked: "Is there enough steel?"
Shi Xin looked embarrassed, "It's enough for experiments and research, but it needs to be mass-produced. The quantity is too large and requires approval from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry. For this, I have to ask His Highness to find three ministers."
Zhu Jianji hummed, "I'll leave this matter to Gu."
The miniguns are out.
I also competed with civilian officials for the military power of Hammer.
Let them take it.
Now all I need is Lao Zhu to ask for some more money and expand the young army. When my new army comes out, I won't care about the regimental camp and the twenty-six guards of the personal army.
This is a cross-generational crush!
Of course, a heavy tool is also needed.
artillery!
The army with only Miné rifles is still a bit weak.
But if paired with heavy artillery...
Well, I don’t know much about the craftsmanship and principles of heavy artillery. It will probably take some time. The top priority is to get the mortar out - this is mainly a matter of the level of gunpowder craftsmanship.
The principle is rather simple.
Almost like bullets, the cannonball is thrown into the steel pipe, the firing pin hits the tail, ignites the gunpowder, and then flies out. After landing, it ignites the gunpowder in the body of the shell through impact, and explodes to kill the enemy.
The focus is on gunpowder craftsmanship.
Now that the chemical industry has not yet developed, the function of black powder must be brought into full play.
When I go back in the evening, I will draw the design drawing of the mortar and let the military supervise the research and development.
By then, the Minie rifles will be coupled with hundreds of mortars, and any prairie cavalry that is good at fighting will have to be good at singing and dancing.
Then I thought about it, I already have a second-rate mortar, why can’t I get some serious artillery?
He said to Shi Xin: "In this way, you will allocate manpower here. I have given you the design drawing of the rifle before. Let's make a surprise attack first to see if the rifle designed according to the design drawing can achieve the performance. If not, improve it quickly and work on it."
With the Ministry of War and the Ministry of War, I will have to deal with it for some time before I can capture it. When the materials are in place, you must start work quickly and create enough rifles to equip the young army in the shortest possible time."
Shi Xin immediately accepted the order.
Then he said: "Your Highness, give this new type of fire gun a name?"
