Iron Dynasty

There are mountains on both sides of the yard of the military workshop. Usually, the test shots are aimed at the mountains.

At this time, Chen Qi asked the craftsman to pull the canvas from the cannon.

Xiao Ming saw that, as Chen Qi said, not only the length of these artillery pieces was reduced, but the caliber of the muzzle was also reduced.

The theory of artillery design Xiao Ming once told Chen Qi that it seems that this is the result of what he has learned.

Therefore, the satisfaction this time is not the artillery, but that the military workshop has been able to independently develop other types of artillery. This is the real progress of the military workshop.

After turning around the export-type artillery, Xiao Ming nodded again. In general, without considering the shells, there are only two factors that determine the range and power of the artillery. One is the length of the barrel and the other is the caliber. .

As for the caliber, naturally the larger the caliber, the thicker the barrel and the greater the power.

The barrel length is relative to the caliber. The longer the barrel, the more favorable the action time of the high-pressure gas in the barrel to the shell.

The longer the time, the greater the initial velocity of the shell, and the longer the range will be.

Using this principle, different types of artillery can be designed. Now that Qingzhou has the production capacity of artillery, Xiao Ming will improve the artillery system in the next step, so that Qingzhou's warships have naval guns, the field army has field guns, and the defenders have Guard artillery.

Skillfully loaded, after the ignition, with a roar, the shell flew straight into the distance. After 700 meters, the shell began to fall and roll on the ground, and finally the shell was blocked by the mountain.

The range of direct fire is 700 meters, um, that's ok, since that's the case, this king will let the forbidden army transport the artillery away. Xiao Ming said, not only Wei Wang is urging.

Xiao Wenxuan has also been urging the artillery thing.

In order for Xiao Ming to deliver the goods as soon as possible, the ships of the Forbidden Army have arrived in Qingzhou. Yesterday, after the messenger of the King of Wei left, the general of the Forbidden Army in charge of transporting the artillery arrived.

The general claimed to be the captain of the new firearms battalion, specializing in artillery matters.

Hearing the name of the Firearms Camp, Xiao Ming was a little speechless at the time. I was afraid that this battle of Cangzhou would slowly introduce the Great Yu Kingdom into the age of firearms.

Xiao Wenxuan set up a firearms battalion specially, one can imagine his thoughts.

After inspecting the export-type artillery, Xiao Ming followed Chen Qi into the military workshop.

In the annular valley, there are twelve workshops in the military workshop from south to north, and the craftsmen in each workshop are responsible for different processes.

Steel making, clay moulding, iron moulding casting, pouring, cleaning, grinding and more.

The area of ​​these factories is not small. From south to north, one factory is 100 meters long and 10 meters wide.

Yesterday, the envoy of King Wei sent another three million taels of silver to this king. Chen Qi, your military workshop is now the number one earner in Qingzhou. Xiao Ming and Chen Qi chatted while inspecting the military workshop .

Chen Qi grinned, His Royal Highness, since our military workshop is making so much money, should we expand a few more workshops? This salary will also increase the salaries of the craftsmen.

Hahaha, you just took office and became the supervisor of the military workshop, so you are about to start protecting your shortcomings? Xiao Ming laughed.

Chen Qi smiled wryly, His Royal Highness, I was not an official before, and I didn't understand it. Now I am a workshop supervisor, and I understand that it is not easy to become an official. There are tens of thousands of craftsmen in this military workshop, and every craftsman has to live. If you are rich, you can work hard, right? And many of the craftsmen are still slaves. Your Highness, you said before that if they do well, they will be relieved of their slave status and given a Qingzhou household registration. Now a year has passed, Are these craftsmen waiting for Your Highness, what do you mean?

Well, as a workshop supervisor, I should seek some benefits for my craftsmen. You are right, the cakes painted by this king can't be hung like this all the time, otherwise the slaves in Qingzhou will say that this king You can’t believe what you say, well, you give me the list of some outstanding craftsmen, and I will handle special things when I come today.” Xiao Ming said.

Chen Qi was overjoyed and said, Okay, Your Highness, wait a moment, I'll go get the list now.

Hearing this, Xiao Ming smiled wryly, it turned out that Chen Qi had planned this long ago.

However, this is exactly what Xiao Ming intends to do recently. As the New Year is approaching, he has to make a summary of the year's government affairs, the reward that deserves the reward, and the scolding that deserves the scolding.

After waiting for a while, Chen Qi brought over a roster.

The roster is divided into two parts, one is for slave craftsmen, and the other is for craftsmen with Qingzhou household registration.

Thirty names are on each roster.

Moreover, it is also very clear why a total of 60 people in these two volumes can get this kind of reward.

For example, a team led by a craftsman named Song Changping produced the largest number of artillery pieces per month, reaching six.

In the military workshop, the craftsmen are strictly organized. Every hundred people are divided into small teams, and each team has a captain. In the military workshop, there are one hundred such teams.

Other teams can basically only cast about three artillery pieces a month.

The reason for the huge difference is that Song Changping often convened a team to study the technological process of this artillery, and developed a casting method called continuous casting, which changed the traditional method of casting only one artillery at a time. .

This continuous casting method can pour molten steel into six gun molds at the same time through an interconnected molten steel tank, saving a lot of time for repeated casting of molten steel, and the quality of guns in the same batch is basically the same.

Seeing Song Changping's contribution, Xiao Ming smiled.

I was preparing to promote this continuous casting method, but the craftsmen of the military workshop had already discovered it in advance.

It can be seen from this that the wisdom of the vast majority of the people is infinite, and what is lacking is only a guide.

And his task is to guide the people to tap their own potential, so that the mastery of the skills will be more reliable.

This Song Changping is very smart. He can almost surpass me in any skill. Chen Qi smiled, And this Song Changping is still a slave. It is said that his parents are in the shipbuilding workshop. He'll be happy to be reunited.

Xiao Ming nodded slowly. What he lacks most now is outstanding talents. Only in production practice can people who are truly capable can be picked out.

After all, Chen Qi's energy is limited, and the tasks of the military workshop will become heavier and heavier. Just this artillery is enough for Chen Qi to toss. With this Song Changping, he can train and prepare talents in advance for the production of muskets.

The casting of the artillery in the General's Workshop has doubled, which is worthy of praise. Now you can call on the craftsmen. Xiao Ming said.

Chen Qi nodded and ordered all the craftsmen to gather in the yard.

Holding the roster, Xiao Ming went to the yard and looked at the group of craftsmen with an unusual sense of calmness in his heart.