newbobooks Chapter 141 Successful trial production of artillery! (The first update asks for automatic subscript
Chapter 141 Successful trial production of artillery! (The first update asks for automatic subscript
Chapter 141 Successful trial production of artillery! (The first update asks for automatic subscription)
Although Zhang Xiu is not jealous, after all, he and Xiao Qi are living a honeymoon now.
Seeing this little girl like Yongjia acting like a nymphomaniac, she felt awkward.
Immediately he patted the table: "Don't get carried away, little girl. I'll have to wait three years to think about you again!"
Who knew that in the past when I teased this girl so much, the little girl would keep her head down and say nothing, but today she actually talked back.
The little girl wrinkled her nose and snorted coquettishly, "Hmph, I'll be a new daughter-in-law three years later!"
This sentence made Zhang Xiu choke!
Turning around and looking for a feather duster, Yongjia was so frightened that he ran away without a trace.
Seeing that Yongjia girl ran away and Xiao Qi was watching the show happily, Zhang Xiu complained: "Look at your little daughter-in-law, you are spoiling her so much and you are still laughing!"
Xiao Qi hurriedly put himself aside: "I mean Madam! You are the one who has the final say in this mansion, and if you want to get used to it, you are the one who is used to it!"
Xiao Qi was even busier in the following days.
He doesn't know what will happen after this system upgrade.
And before the system shut down, it said that because his current sign-in level was low, he couldn't use the large number of rewarded items, and he couldn't even see them.
This made Xiao Qi feel a little flustered. If the system is upgraded, all the things in it will be visible and usable only at the next sign-in level.
Then he lost the help of the system before the upgrade, and what worried him even more was that if the system issued another task, it would be a higher-level sign-in task.
Looking at my previous sign-in task, the three-masted sailboat and the bronze cannon have been built for more than a year.
If this is a high-level sign-in task, with my current ability, I may not be able to complete a task in my life, not to mention that no matter how good the reward is, I will not get it, and I will be punished if I fail to complete the task.
Xiao Qi is very troubled now, if he can't complete the missions a few times, the system will confiscate all the rewards he got before, then he will be finished, not to mention completing the long-cherished missions, I am afraid that even survival will be a problem in the future.
So Xiao Qi ordered again to speed up the construction of the three-masted sailboat and the development of the artillery, in order to complete the task as soon as possible, so that his registration level can be accelerated.
Of course, Xiao Qi would not just give orders to hurry up like the powerful people of this era, even if the task was completed.
However, if a warship that was shoddyly built in order to rush to work is suddenly leaked or sunk by the vibration of the artillery during the naval battle, then it will be unlucky for me.
Now there is a lot of wealth in Xiao Qi's storage space. Xiao Qi ordered people to bring a cart of silk and satin and a thousand taels of silver from every place, and attached a reward that he had written after studying for several days. terms.
It detailed the rewards for early completion with quality and quantity, and what kind of rewards would be given to whoever came up with a new good idea to speed up the progress of the project. Not only rewards, but also a permanent increase in the craftsman's level and salary.
On the artillery development side, whoever comes up with a good method to make a breakthrough in the progress of artillery development will be rewarded with a large amount of silk and satin. In addition to the reward, there will also be a permanent increase in salary and craftsman level.
Since ancient times, there have been brave men under heavy rewards, and Xiao Qi still used the incentive system of his previous life, which is more reasonable than this era.
Regardless of the shipbuilding or the artillery development base, the craftsmen in the two places were greatly stimulated to work enthusiastically.
In the past, craftsmen mostly hid their unique skills from others to learn. What they were afraid of was the old saying, which taught apprentices to starve to death from masters.
Now Xiao Qi has formulated a new system, as long as he can disclose his skills that can speed up the project and maintain the quality and quantity, he can permanently improve his salary and get huge rewards.
There is no need to worry about the future, and Xiao Qi is now the prince of the Song Dynasty. Those craftsmen who are at the bottom of society must think his words are reliable.
In a short period of time, the shipyard has received a lot of good ways to increase the speed of shipbuilding without affecting the quality of warships.
Those good methods that have been proven to be effective, once proven to be effective, rewards will be issued immediately and the level and treatment of the craftsman who gave the idea will be improved.
The rewards for the cart that was driven to the shipyard were quickly distributed. After all, the shipyard had a large number of craftsmen.
Xiao Qi was overjoyed when he got the news. He directly pulled out ten more cars and declared that this reward system has always been effective, and as the difficulty of subsequent improvements increases, the rewards will also increase.
This made those shipbuilders cheer, and the enthusiasm for shipbuilding was once again stimulated.
What troubled Xiao Qi was the artillery research and development. Seeing that the three-masted sailing ship was about to be built, there were [-] artillery ports on the left and right, but there was still not much progress on the artillery.
This three-masted sail relies on its fast speed and flexible operation, but it has very little troop capacity. It is not the strong point of this warship to fight with others without artillery.
But there is no artillery now, and seeing that the warship is about to be built, it is impossible to temporarily use the cabin where the artillery was originally placed to transport troops.
Not to mention that the three-masted sailboat has a narrow and long hull, and it can't carry many soldiers. It's just that such a warship is used for boarding battles. It's good to build a few large ships. Large and stable troop transport is good for boarding battles. battleship.
There was no other way, so Xiao Qi had no choice but to melt down the broken weapons that he had collected before in the palace, and used his casting skills to trial-produce artillery at home.
The method used is very simple, just use the technology of pouring sand and pouring cast iron, not to mention, soon cast iron cannons except for seven or eight sizes.
However, after several experiments outside the city, the most durable cast iron cannon cracked and was damaged after thirty rounds of projectiles.
Moreover, this cannon was very thick and heavy. Xiao Qi knew very well that such a cannon could not be boarded on a ship, because it was too heavy, and a ship could not carry many such heavy cannons, otherwise the personnel supply would not be able to board the ship.
He had no choice but to admit that the craftsmanship of this era was still unable to produce steel with hardness and toughness that could meet his gun-making requirements, so he had to take a step back and start researching alloy-type bronze guns.
It is to smelt high-quality molten iron with reference to one's own foundry technique, and at the same time, mix some copper water into it according to a certain proportion to improve the toughness and prevent the cannon from cracking.
It was too difficult to cast a cannon. We had to pour the molten metal liquid into a mold made with sand in advance, clean the sand after cooling, and then polish the cannon bore.
Because this is once-formed cast iron, unlike iron ingots that can be forged to remove impurities before being made into weapons, the material of these artillery steels is much worse than the material used by Xiao Qi to make weapons.
Xiao Qi can only experiment and record step by step, how to add more copper to the molten iron, and further optimize and improve it.
For this reason, Xiao Qi also built another furnace to refine pure copper so that it could be used for experiments according to certain proportions.
After more than two months of trial production, Xiao Qi made five bronze cannons according to several proportions. He recorded the casting process of each type of bronze cannon in detail for future improvement.
These five bronze cannons, after Xiao Qi pulled them out of the city to test the cannons, Xiao Qi was overjoyed by the result!
He knew that the trial production of his artillery was successful this time!
Because each artillery piece has fired more than a hundred projectiles and is still intact!
Next, Xiao Qi began to increase the dose of these cannons to see where the limits of the cannons are.
After several days of experiments, Xiao Qi selected the artillery with the largest amount of medicine and the longest range, and began to optimize it to reduce the weight as much as possible without affecting the range and service life of the artillery.
After another experiment, the weight of these cannons was finally reduced to [-] jin, and a projectile with a diameter of half a foot, or about [-] centimeters, could be fired [-] feet away and still be able to crush a two-finger-thick wooden board.
Xiao Qi knew that his mission would definitely be completed when the system upgrade was completed.
Such a result also rekindled Xiao Qi's hope to complete the sign-in upgrade as soon as possible and enter a new sign-in level.
In order to strictly protect the technology of this cast artillery, to avoid being leaked.
Xiao Qi ordered that veterans from the Changsheng Battalion who had made military exploits and were very loyal to the Changsheng Battalion and themselves were sent.
For this reason, Xiao Qi also asked Zhao Shen for an order to set up the most secret foundry bureau of the Song Dynasty, and explained to Zhao Shen that this new department is absolutely related to the national fortune of the Song Dynasty.
Everyone must be soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion who have fought for the Great Song Dynasty and who are absolutely loyal to the Great Song Dynasty. The reason is very simple, and Xiao Qi who was transferred from other places cannot be trusted.
Zhao Shen and Zhao Gou were very speechless, thinking that this son-in-law Zhenbei King is too exaggerated, what kind of thing can make you bluntly say that those royal family members and ministers are not allowed to inquire privately, and those who violate the order will be punished as treason .
Chapter 1 is here.
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