Iron Dynasty

It was another day when the sun was shining brightly. As the greenery on both sides of the Xiaoqing River was stained with spring, more and more people went outside the city to walk in spring.

After Wang Xuan left yesterday, four foreign merchants and six foreign refugees were arrested in Qingzhou City that night.

In order to increase the labor force of the fief, Xiao Ming’s policy of refugees seems to have become the target of all forces.

For these restless refugees, it is natural to make a decisive decision in accordance with the Qingzhou law. At the same time, the Qingzhou newspaper reported the incident, which made the refugees who kept pouring into Qingzhou from other places a warning.

It's just that although Xiao Ming knows that absorbing the refugees cannot avoid some unruly people, he can never hide from doctors for the sake of this matter. After all, this refugee policy still has a demographic dividend for Qingzhou as a whole.

In the construction of Qingzhou City’s roads, many businessmen used cheap refugees who had no means of living.

"His Royal Highness, here it is."

Today is the day when the Equipment Division handed over the knives to the water conservancy lathe workshop. At the same time, the craftsmen of the lathe workshop will use knives to produce hollow barrels for the first time and provide the final accessories for flintlock guns.

Zhao Long led the horse, and Xiao Ming jumped down from the horse. At this time, Zhang Liu had already arrived in the workshop, and the craftsman in the workshop had already installed the drill bit into the hydraulic drilling machine.

One end of this hydraulic drilling machine is a waterwheel. In the rapids of the Xiaoqing River, the waterwheel rotates quickly and drives the round stone disk fixed on the waterwheel to rotate. This stone disk acts as an inertia wheel and is in the middle of the stone disk. It is the drill bit. The rotation of the stone disk drives the drill bit to rotate. This is the hydraulic drilling machine Xiao Ming asked the craftsman to produce.

In the Ming Dynasty, the folks had already had this kind of drilling machine, and Xiao Ming was just using it.

"His Royal Highness, we are already trying to drill the barrel." Zhang Liu wiped his sweat and said to Xiao Ming.

At the other end of the drill bit, a wooden lift holds a steel bar sent from the steel workshop. The production of this steel bar is already very simple for today's steel workshop and can be manufactured at any time.

Zhang Liu also stopped by to get a few and went to the lathe workshop.

"The effect is not bad." At this time, the hydraulic lathe is rapidly rotating under the push of the rapids. This natural force is much stronger than human power. The drill bit is effortless when drilling steel rods and looks unstoppable.

Under the contact between the two, the drill has gone deeper, but only a little.

According to the normal working efficiency of a hydraulic lathe, it takes at least six days to drill a barrel. This is a record of the Ming Dynasty, but the high-quality tools provided by Xiao Ming can greatly reduce this time.

Because the water conservancy lathe tool of the Ming Dynasty was damaged very quickly, this point is not comparable to him.

According to his estimation, three or four days can be estimated. After all, the location of the workshop is the most turbulent section of the Xiaoqing River, and his knives still have advantages.

According to Xiao Ming's order, Zhang Liu sent the two drills that were sharpened yesterday, plus the two that were sharpened at night.

Four hydraulic drilling machines are started at the same time. After three or four days, he can have four barrels. If the barrel is made of rolled iron, this time will take one month.

That is, the tool and hydraulic drilling machine shorten the production time of the barrel to one tenth of the original.

"Your Majesty, you are really looking forward. This drilling machine has been prepared for a long time, and now it is a drill bit. In this way, the production of the barrel is simple and labor-saving, and the position of the drill on this hydraulic drilling machine is fixed, and the drill will not be crooked. Moreover, a craftsman can take care of four or five drill presses at the same time, and it saves manpower, which is really killing three birds with one stone." Zhang Liu looked at today's drill press with a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Another advantage of hydraulic drilling machines is the accuracy problem Zhang Liu said. Manual errors are easy to produce, and this is relatively better.

Xiao Ming smiled when he was praised by an honest craftsman like Zhang Liu. This shows that the craftsmen are very satisfied with the drilling machine, and it also shows that he has not wasted effort during this period.

With a smile, Xiao Ming said, "Although it is much more convenient, the number must be kept up. There are only two hundred drill presses in the workshop and only four drill bits. You have to work harder."

Zhang Liu said: "His Royal Highness, Chen Bingcao has transferred five hundred people from the Iron and Steel Workshop, and will soon replace the remaining drill bits."

Xiao Ming nodded, and looked at the drill press that was constantly drilling steel rods, and his heart became more stable.

Two hundred drill presses are enough for him now. One barrel in three days, he can get two thousand barrels in one month, and 20,000 in ten months.

If he is willing, before the end of the year, the Qingzhou Army can turn from a cold weapon army to a hot weapon army.

And this is precisely his plan, just for this plan, the amount of silver he has to invest is in the millions, enough to drain his meager savings.

It's just that now he is in crisis on all sides, and he has to increase his investment in the army, even so he is trembling.

After all, he used a fief with a population of 600,000 households to deal with a population of 2 million homeless people.

The cavalry of this nation has lived on horseback since childhood. Everyone is an extremely elite and experienced cavalry, and the barbarian cavalry has strict discipline and is not afraid of death.

A group of well-disciplined and experienced cavalry was extremely terrifying even between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and the number of enemies was still the whole family.

Every time he thinks about this, Xiao Ming always feels chilly.

The drilling machine was officially put into drilling, and Xiao Ming went to the military workshop with satisfaction, and the last problem of the flintlock gun was solved.

However, there are still several problems to be solved below, one is the problem of the bayonet on the flintlock gun, and the other is the problem of the cleaning rod of the flintlock gun.

Now that he has the experience of the previous life, he naturally won't make the mistakes of the flintlock rifle after its birth.

At the beginning of the appearance of the bayonet, the handle of the bayonet was stuffed into the barrel, so that the bayonet could not be shot~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the bayonet could not be shot.

So when facing the cavalry charge, the infantry became a lamb to be slaughtered by the cavalry.

This situation was not changed until the appearance of the sleeve bayonet, which can be directly attached to the flintlock rifle without affecting the shooting.

So since he has mature experience, he naturally has to avoid this mistake.

For the second cleaning rod issue, he decided to use iron cleaning rods instead of the wooden cleaning rods at the beginning.

Because the iron rod is not easy to break, it is helpful to increase the launch speed. The former Prussian army first used the iron rod and the proficiency of the soldiers, and fired five bullets in one minute.

The last one is the ammunition problem, but this requires the cooperation of the military workshop and Lu Tong's gunpowder workshop.

The ammunition for the flintlock rifle was prepared to use oil-paper-coated bullets. The oil-paper bag was equipped with enough bullets and gunpowder to be fired at a time, and only needed to bite open and pour it in.

(To be continued.) Enable new URL