According to the prince's decree, the inner palace of the imperial city, including the Fengtian Hall in the front hall, is under martial law and no one is allowed to enter or exit.
As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar in Gyeonggi Province.
Zhu Jianji had already anticipated the reaction of the government and the public. He estimated that the emperor was about to die and the prince was about to ascend the throne, so the imperial city was under martial law to prevent Yu Qian from usurping the country.
Or maybe the Empress Dowager Sun is operating something.
But nothing happened.
It was just that he wanted Jin Dao to leave the palace one day late to buy time.
Take Dai Yi and go straight to the weapons supervisor.
The Ordnance Supervision was located in the corner of the outer city of the imperial city, adjacent to the Ministry of Industry. In the Song Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. Major affairs such as manufacturing weapons were in charge of the Ministry of Industry. The Ordnance Supervision gradually became a talent reserve.
To put it harshly, it is Qingshui Yamen.
The same will happen in the Ming Dynasty.
Ordnance Supervisor Zheng Shi Xin, who is over 40 years old, was originally the head of the department of the Ministry of Industry that researched and improved artillery. He was a serious craftsman, but he was a bit dull. In the early years, he offended his superiors and was transferred to
As an ordnance supervisor, Shi Xin's desireless mentality made him like a fish in water in the ordnance supervisor. After staying away from the strife of the officialdom, he relied on his rich experience and superb firearms skills to become the highly anticipated ordnance supervisor.
A blessing in disguise.
After all, the Ordnance Supervisor is on the fourth rank of Zhengzheng, but in the Ministry of Industry it is difficult to reach the fourth rank.
However, in recent years, the arms inspector, whom no one pays much attention to, has been somewhat busy.
Because there is a mission for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!
When they walked into the Ordnance Supervisory Office, few people saw the Crown Prince coming and hurriedly knelt down to salute.
Zhu Jianji excused himself and asked, "Where is Shi Xin?"
A clerk said hurriedly: "When I return to His Highness the Crown Prince, Inspector Shi is taking the Nufang Department Order to the school grounds outside the city. Check the time, and I guess he will be back soon."
Zhu Jianji hummed, "Then wait for him."
About half an hour.
Shi Xin hurried back, and he was accompanied by the Nufang Office Order and two craftsmen. One of them was tall, with thick hair, a high nose, blue eyes and beard. He looked like a foreigner at first glance.
His name is Giuseppe Gasol, and he is good at artillery and gunpowder skills.
European.
Well, at this time, Ming Dynasty called them Taixi people.
The four people saluted hurriedly.
Zhu Jianji did not show off his courtesy, he looked at Shi Xin with a stern face, grasping the prince's superior aura, and said: "Shi Jianzheng, from the fifth year of Jingtai, I have asked you to develop a new type of firecracker for three full years until now.
It’s been years, and I haven’t urged you once in the past three years, right?”
Shi Xin had goosebumps all over his body and had the illusion that he was being stared at by a snake.
This was the first time he saw His Highness the Crown Prince acting like this.
He hurriedly said: "Your Highness, that's it!"
Zhu Jianji's eyes lit up, "Is it ready to use?"
Because his father was seriously ill, Zhu Jianji almost never smiled. Hearing what Shi Xin said, he felt a little better.
Then he said: "Get up first, don't kneel down."
Everyone stood up.
Shi Xin said: "Weichen took them to the school today to test the bullets, and they were able to achieve basic effects. However, due to our technology and craftsmanship, we cannot perfectly meet His Highness's requirements, nor can we produce them exactly according to the drawings."
Zhu Jianji nodded, "If you can reach 70% of Gu's requirements, it will be considered a success."
After all, it’s too far ahead of the times.
Shi Xin nodded to the foreigner Gasol. Gasol went out for a while and came back to offer the treasure in his hands.
Dai Yi took it.
His hands felt heavy and he almost staggered.
He hurriedly picked it up in his arms and presented it to Zhu Jianji - this was a matter of great concern to His Royal Highness. If it was broken in his hands, Dai Yi felt that his future Chief Supervisor of Ceremonies would definitely run away.
Dai Yi is smart and knows that based on his experience, as long as he follows His Highness the Crown Prince and is loyal and does not make mistakes, sooner or later he will become the Chief Superintendent of Ceremonies, the head of the internal officials.
This is fate.
Who told him to become the personal eunuch of His Highness the Crown Prince since he was a child?
Zhu Jianji took it and put it on his lap, glancing at it.
Yes, Not Bad.
Presentable.
This is a long fire blunderbuss, indeed, this is a sniper rifle!
Shi Xin said from the side: "Your Highness is wise, according to your requirements and guidance, we used the fried steel method to forge fine steel, but no matter what method we use, we can't melt the fine steel for processing and forging. It's still the method you proposed.
We were able to solve it.”
Zhu Jianji hummed, "Now that we have solved the problem, Shi Xin, please urge the craftsmen in the Ordnance Supervision to continue to study this industrial technology and form a complete set of theories and techniques."
When Shi Xin designed the drawings of the sniper rifle himself, after reading the drawings and design requirements, he immediately discovered the problem - the barrel of the sniper rifle could not be made like a traditional musket, otherwise it would be easy to explode.
However, the current level of steelmaking in the Ming Dynasty cannot make refined steel into molten steel. That is to say, even if medium-carbon steel and high-carbon steel are forged by stir-fried steel, it cannot be melted into molten steel for secondary processing.
Fortunately, Zhu Jianji has a half-full theory.
We know that the industrial level of Ming Dynasty cannot burn steel blocks into molten steel because it is limited by the process of polymerization and insulation. In other words, the thermal efficiency is not enough, so refractory bricks are needed.
Limited by the level of mining industry, Zhu Jianji could only propose using clay bricks.
Clay bricks are mainly composed of mullite, glass phase, cristobalite and quartz. They are usually made of hard clay as raw material. The clinker is pre-calcinated and then mixed with soft clay. It is formed by semi-dry method or plastic method at a temperature of 1300~
Clay brick products were fired in 1400 c.
It is a commonly used refractory brick in blast furnaces, hot blast furnaces, heating furnaces, power boilers, lime kilns, rotary kilns, ceramics and refractory brick firing kilns.
The steamed bun kiln in Jingdezhen can reach a temperature of 1,300 degrees!
For this reason, Zhu Jianji also tormented Zhu Qiyu a lot.
Zhu Qiyu was busy playing with prostitutes.
I was so tortured by my precious son that I had no choice but to give an oral order to the Minister of Works, asking the Ministry of Works to cooperate with the prince and the weapons supervisor.
After receiving the imperial edict, Shi Xin immediately felt like a fish in water.
First, he contacted the Ministry of Industry. Due to the imperial edict, the Ministry of Industry had to do its best to help. The required mineral raw material coefficients were provided. Shi Xin personally went to Jingdezhen and spent nearly a year to get the final product from tens of thousands of yuan.
Find out which refractory bricks are used that barely meet the requirements.
However, mass production is not possible and the technology is still immature.
However, with refractory bricks, the rest became easier. The Ordnance Inspector built a kiln with refractory bricks outside the city. After a year of continuous experiments and improvements, he was able to burn refined steel into molten steel.
But the efficiency and finished product quality are both unsatisfactory.
Barely usable.
However, after Zhu Jianji's efforts, the craftsmen in this industrial line have basically mastered the industrial technology of refractory bricks and refined steel refining. As long as given some time, it will evolve into a complete industrial chain sooner or later, thus driving related industries.
And this is what Zhu Jianji plans to do after he ascends the throne.
The Ming Dynasty traveled as far as the Han and Tang Dynasties.
Industry is key!
Zhu Jianji has long had the consciousness to become an industrial emperor.
With molten steel, seamless steel pipes can be obtained by casting.
Seamless steel tubes can be used to create the barrels of sniper rifles.
Basically, all parts of the gun body are cast and polished by hand, but there is still an insurmountable technical difficulty - the spring.
The process of spring steel is too complicated.
Zhu Jianji's knowledge was not involved in this area, so he could only let the steel mill outside the city conduct repeated experiments.
Therefore, under Gasol's suggestion, Zhu Jianji settled for the next best thing and adopted the smoothbore mode used in traditional burst guns.
Only then did he reluctantly build the sniper rifle in front of him.
It's a pity that every time you shoot, you need to load a bullet. It's a little troublesome, but it doesn't affect the use.
Of course, it's more of a rifle than a sniper rifle.
It’s already outrageous! This chapter has been completed!
