Daming One Piece

Chapter 119 (Second update, please recommend, please collect)
"It's just a little smaller."

When reloading, Shi Yiwen said casually.

"The caliber can be increased in the future."

Large caliber means great power. In front of powerful muskets, armor is just a decoration.It seems that in history, the Qing Dynasty relied on armored heavy infantry to run rampant.

After loading the lead bullets, Shi Yiwen looked at the flintlock gun in his hand again. This is an out-and-out flintlock musket with a basic style of flintlock musket, although the stock is still the original Swedish one. Type butt, but it is definitely more reliable than iron guns, bird guns and other butts.

According to the gun, aiming...

The moment the trigger was pulled, the hammer with the flint slammed into the gunpowder pool, and there was a "bang", accompanied by a burst of flames from the muzzle of the rear seat. When the gunpowder smoke cleared, the wooden board 20 meters away A bullet hole.

The beating was pretty accurate, Shi Yiwen said heartily.

"It's not bad, but the stock of the gun can be improved. It's inconvenient to use a bayonet with this kind of stock. The style of the stock is just..."

Afterwards, Shi Yiwen explained the style of the gun stock. Although the stock is inconspicuous, it is the accumulated experience of dozens of Europeans. Even this seemingly primitive dog-lock bolt has been used for decades. A product of continuous improvement over time.

Then Shi Yiwen drew the shape of the sleeve bayonet.

With flintlock guns and bayonets, with these two things, you can almost run rampant in this era.

And of course cannon.

After 100 years, don't the British rely on these three things to run rampant in the world?Do you want to dominate everywhere?

"Just make this pattern, let's make [-] pieces first!"

In fact, the current escort team is only a thousand people, but the ship also needs muskets.

"Two thousand sticks!"

Taro exclaimed.

"My lord, we can't make it!"

"Why is there not enough iron? No, isn't this just bringing hundreds of tons of iron from Liaodong?"

The difference from before is that Shi Yiwen no longer needs to consider the problem of insufficient iron materials. Mao Wenlong has ready-made iron mines, and Iron Mountain opposite Pidao is still the most important iron mine in North Korea after several centuries. one.While bringing back refugees from Liaodong, they also brought a large amount of pig iron.

Sufficient iron materials not only allow the arsenal to cast a large number of cannons, but also manufacture a large number of farm tools. In fact, this is the most important product of the arsenal.

"It's not that the iron is not enough, it's that the craftsmen are not enough."

Taro shook his head again and again.

"There are only more than 100 craftsmen in our factory, and all of them are brought in to make muskets. Not to mention anything else, it will take the first half of the year for two thousand gun barrels. It’s just drilling, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.”

"Break the barrel?"

Looking at the flintlock gun in his hand, Shi Yiwen remembered that the barrels of guns in this era were made of rolled iron plates.From coiled tube to bare tube, every step is labor-intensive and time-consuming.

Shi Yiwen once watched the process of making gun barrels. He first took a piece of wrought iron and heated it on a forge, then put the red hot iron plate on a U-shaped mold and beat it continuously. After many times of beating, the iron plate slowed down. It slowly turned into a U shape, and it repeated like this.The whole process is all human.

manpower...

After thinking about it, Shi Yiwen said.

"Manpower is not enough, why can't we use water power?"

"Water power?"

Taro was surprised.

"My lord is talking about a hydraulic hammer? Isn't that for armor?"

"That's right, it's a hydraulic hammer. Since it can make armor, it must also be able to make barrels."

"But, my lord, that hammer is too heavy."

"Then change to a light hammer and try more. There is a ready-made hydraulic hammer, so why use manpower? There are ready-made tools, and we must find a way to expand its application range, and this barrel is polished and drilled, I think You can also drill with hydraulic power. We are facing the Beixi River here, and the water power is sufficient. If water power replaces manpower, I estimate that the output should be increased by at least several times..."

For the whole day, Shi Yiwen stayed in the armory, and worked with the craftsmen on how to expand the application range of the hydraulic hammer. By the way, he made a wooden horizontal drilling machine for processing gun barrels. Actually, the drilling machine was at the shipyard. It has long been put into practical application, specially drilling holes for keels and ribs.

Sometimes the application of new technologies is not as fast as expected, at least in the scope of application, some improvements are always needed before they can be applied.

After a busy day, it was already dark when he finished the wooden drilling machine and left the arsenal. When Shi Yiwen was about to leave the arsenal, he looked towards the shipyard on the other side of the river.

"It's almost time to move the shipyard here..."

Staring at the shipyard on the other side, he said to himself.

Now this side is basically on the right track, and even the population has already exceeded 600 people—ten days ago, when he returned from Phi Island again, five ships brought in a total of [-] people, although The degree of congestion is far worse than the famous "slave ship", but it is only a few days.The arrival of these people made the population here break through the [-] mark.

In terms of population alone, this place is not inferior to Beigang.

Moreover, in the following days, the fleet will send thousands of Liaodong refugees every month. As long as there is a boat, people can be sent here continuously. After all, there are millions of people in Phi Island and northern North Korea. Refugees live there, and there are even hundreds of thousands of Liaodong refugees living on the islands in Bohai Bay.There are also North Zhili and the coast of Shandong. .

As long as there is a boat, people can be brought here continuously, and there is a large area of ​​land waiting for them to reclaim.

The key is the boat!

This ship needs to be built one by one.

"Those craftsmen should be able to build ships by themselves!"

Shi Yiwen said to himself,
If you want to build a ship, you cannot do without craftsmen. The craftsmen from Liaodong have been learning how to build new-style sea boats. In the area around the river mouth, there are still hundreds of people learning how to sail. The sailing of a vertical sail is not complicated, but there are also some Different from traditional hard sails.

With boats and people, more people can be brought here.

Thinking in this way in his heart, Shi Yiwen kept his eyes on the shipyard, and in the twilight, he could clearly see three seagoing ships lined up on the other side of the river, and those three seagoing ships were about to launch into the water.

This is the case in the age of sails. As long as there are sufficient raw materials and craftsmen, a large number of ships can be quickly exploded. In just a short time, I have almost ten sea ships.

If a new shipyard is built here, it is estimated that within a few months, the Beixi River will be full of sailboats.

"Let's say hello to Ruyu first!"

After all, in name Ruyu is still the head of Beigang, and if she wants to move the shipyard here, she has to say hello to him, isn't it...

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