Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 171 Linseed Cloth, Bright Style

"There are 50 drill bits in this box. You can take them over there and give them to the craftsmen of the Military Weapons Bureau to try. If there is no problem, I will continue to order." Hao Guangming said.

Auntie Zhu put down the drill and asked, "How much can this drill increase the speed of processing gun barrels?"

Hao Guangming said: "I don't know either, it's estimated to be about double. When the arsenal is completed, hydraulic forging hammers, drilling machines, boring machines, and assembly-line production will be used, and the manufacturing speed of gun barrels will really increase."

Auntie Zhu nodded, "Then I'll start shipping now."

"Sister, I'll help you!"

Aimee Zhu who was next to her became excited when she heard that the goods were about to be shipped, and she didn't even watch cartoons.

Then, Hao Guangming packed up the dishes and went to the kitchen to wash the dishes, while the two sisters began to carry them.

Although the drill bits are not big, each one is not light. With the carrying ability of the two sisters, it is estimated that they have to go back and forth seven or eight times.

Both of them have mastered the speed of crossing with goods, and the drill bit is not urgently needed, so the whole handling process is relatively easy...
August seventeenth.

morning.

Auntie Zhu came to the Weapons Bureau again with a box of drill bits shipped yesterday.

After a rough inspection of other workshops, Zhu Wei came to the fire gun office.

Aimee Zhu has visited the Weapons Bureau more often, and the bureaucrats and craftsmen in the bureau know her rules.

She doesn't like to be greeted by everyone every time she comes to inspect, as long as the officials come to greet and salute.

Therefore, upon hearing that Aimee Zhu was coming, only Suozheng and two staff members came to greet her, while the craftsmen continued to work as usual.

"See Prison State!"

"Flat body."

After seeing the ceremony, Suo Zheng led Zhu Yuxie and others into the fire gun station.

Now the management structure of the Armament Bureau has also been reformed.

There are three kinds of production organizations under the Military Weapons Bureau: factories, institutes, and workshops. Although these three titles existed before, they did not have any special meaning. However, after the reform, the different titles represent different meanings.

Among them, the Institute is mainly responsible for the development of weapons and equipment, while the factories and workshops are mainly responsible for mass production.

The institutes and factories are under the direct management of the Military Weapons Bureau, and are mainly responsible for the production of confidential weapons and equipment, and the inspection of craftsmen when they enter and leave is relatively strict.

The workshop is responsible for the production of some military items that do not require high confidentiality and can even be outsourced to the private sector.

Therefore, there are workshops directly under the Armament Bureau, as well as private workshops.

In the setting of management personnel, the management personnel of factories and institutes belong to the small government officials, that is, public servants.

Generally, they are the director of the factory (institute), the deputy and deacon of the factory (institute), and several small officials.

The supervisor of the workshop is called the owner of the workshop. If it is directly under the Military Weapons Bureau, it is also an official; if it is a private workshop, it is naturally not an official.

After carrying out reforms in this area in July, Aunt Zhu asked the Military Weapons Bureau to recruit talents who knew how to develop guns from the whole of Chengdu.

At this moment, Zhao Yan, the person who greeted Aimee Zhu, was recruited at that time.

His ancestors belonged to the kind of craftsmen who mixed well. There were two shops in Chengdu and a small fortune. So several generations ago, they began to support their children to study. Unfortunately, so far, they have only produced scholars.

Zhao Yan was already in his thirties, but he didn't even pass the exam as a scholar, he was just a child.

It is one thing that he has no talent for imperial examinations, and the other is that he is particularly interested in engineering, especially firecrackers, which distracts him from studying for imperial examinations.

He came here when he learned that the Bureau of Arms was recruiting talents who knew how to develop firearms.

After talking with him, Aimee Zhu promoted him to be the director of the fire gun, and took out the blueprint of the most mature smooth-bore flintlock in later generations (refer to the smooth-bore flintlock in the early [-]th century), and let the fire gun The Gun Institute developed a flintlock gun.

As early as 1547 AD, the French invented the flintlock gun, but due to various reasons, large-scale application had to wait until the late seventeenth century.

Daming was in 1635 (the eighth year of Chongzhen), the weapon expert Bi Maokang imitated the flintlock gun, and according to the naming habits of the Ming Dynasty, it was called the self-generated firecracker, and the production method was recorded in "Illustration of Military Weapons" a book.

Although it has been 17 years since Chongzhen, the book "Illustration of Military Weapons" is not very popular, so neither the craftsmen of the Chengdu Military Weapons Bureau nor Zhao Yan have seen flintlock guns before.

At most, I have heard some unclear rumors.

If Auntie Zhu only said her name and asked Huozhu Institute to develop a flintlock gun, it would definitely not be successful in a short time.

But she gave all the blueprints, and it would be useless if the Fire Gun Institute couldn't develop it.

In fact, after Zhao Yan got the blueprint, it took only a few days for him to lead the craftsmen in the institute to make a flintlock gun.

The past few days have been perfecting this flintlock and making it easy to mass-produce.

The Fire Gun Factory is not big, and Zhao Yan only has a dozen or so craftsmen, and Auntie Zhu finished inspecting it very quickly.

Then she stood in the yard and asked, "How about the latest flintlock gun? Can it be handed over to the firearms factory for production?"

Zhao Yan said: "The latest finished product can no longer be improved in a short time, and it is about to be inspected by the superior. If the superior agrees, it can be handed over to the firearms factory for production immediately."

"Show me a handful of the finished product."

"Yes."

Soon, the petty official brought a flintlock gun, and Fei Zhen'e inspected it before handing it to Aimee Zhu.

Hao Guangming also saw the flintlock gun through the camera of his mobile phone.

His first feeling was that it was very long.

Speaking of which, in order to make the first batch of flintlock guns installed by Zhu Yuxi's army good enough, he bought the detailed drawings of this flintlock gun from the Internet, and it belongs to a model with quite good performance in all aspects. He naturally knew all kinds of data about the gun.

Not counting the bayonet, the length of the gun has reached 1.7 meters [-], which is taller than many men in Ming Dynasty.

A single barrel is about 1.2 meters long.

If the musket is too long, it is inconvenient to carry or use, but at present, the flintlock must be made so long.

First, black powder is used nowadays, and its power is limited. If you want a musket to hit far and powerful, the barrel must be long enough.

Second, when shooting with black powder, a lot of white smoke will be produced, and the longer barrel can reduce the interference to the gunner's sight.

Finally, the gun can be better used as a cold weapon if it is equipped with a bayonet.

However, if you know what you know, Hao Guangming, who is used to looking at modern firearms, still feels that it is too long after seeing the real thing.

From the perspective of the guards behind Auntie Zhu, this flintlock gun is not long, but its shape is a bit strange.

First of all, this flintlock gun is equipped with a wooden buttstock that was not available in the previous Ming army guns, which makes it easier to shoot.

The second is that the trigger with flint replaced the matchlock, which is much simpler.

Finally, there are three raised slots under the barrel of the gun, arranged in a line, which looks like a cleaning rod, but it doesn't look like it.

Auntie Zhu had visited the Weapons Bureau a few times before, and had already seen the predecessor of this finished flintlock gun, but she didn't show anything special when she saw it now.

She fumbled around in her hand, then picked up the bayonet and put it in the slot.

This bayonet is triangular in shape, the blade and the handle are each one foot long, more like a short spear.

There are two movable iron buckles between the three card slots. When buckled, the bayonet will be clamped tightly, and when opened, it will be easier to remove the bayonet.

After trying it, Zhu Yuxi was quite satisfied with it, and asked again: "How far can this gun shoot?"

Zhao Yandao: "Reporting to the supervisor, the performance of this gun is better than the previous three models. The effective range can reach 130 steps, oh, that is, 200 meters. As for actual combat, 1.5 meters can have considerable lethality." (set Set: Ming step = [-] meters)
Words such as "performance" and "model" were all learned by Zhao Yan from the design drawings of the flintlock gun. Of course, they were also related to the influence of Aimee Zhu's "communication" in the past few times.

As for the meter, it is the international standard unit of later generations that is used by the Armament Bureau, but many people are not used to it, and they still like to mention Ming's unit in daily conversations.

Auntie Zhu nodded slightly after hearing this.

This is a smoothbore flintlock gun with an extremely mature design, and its effective range can reach 200 meters, which is exactly in line with the expected data on the blueprint given by Hao Guangming, which did not surprise her much.

Because she knew that the effective range of a smoothbore gun was not equal to the actual shooting distance—even if the design of this flintlock gun was good enough, it was estimated that in actual combat, the enemy would have to be placed about [-] meters away before shooting.

"After the gunner is proficient, how many rounds can he shoot per minute?" Aimee Zhu asked again.

Now that the length unit of later generations has been introduced in the Weapons Bureau, the time unit of later generations has also been introduced.

Therefore, Zhao Yan answered directly: "Because of the use of paper gunpowder, the gunner can shoot up to three rounds per minute after he is proficient."

When Hao Guangming on the other side heard this, he suddenly remembered a piece of material he had just read last night, so he told Aimi Zhu about it.

Aunt Zhu immediately said to Zhao Yan, "You can have someone wrap the projectile with a thin linen cloth soaked in oil, and then try loading and shooting."

Zhao Yan was slightly stunned when he heard that, then his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "The humble job will let people try it."

As a person who is interested in firecrackers, Zhao Yan thought about it for a while and understood the beauty of Zhu Yuxi's idea.

Grease is used for lubrication, and probably makes the buckshot reload faster.

The thin linen can effectively prevent deflation (increase air tightness), and it is likely to make the musket shoot farther and more accurately!
There is a shooting location in the Weapons Bureau, because it was Zhu Yuxi's request, and everything was ready soon.

Wang Tiezhu, the youngest craftsman of the Fire Gun Institute, volunteered to test fire.

This flintlock gun was often tested by him, and he was very proficient in loading it.

I saw Wang Tiezhu slanting his flintlock gun, skillfully took out the paper gunpowder bag and bit it open, poured it into the barrel of the gun, then wrapped the slightly smaller lead shot with a thin linen cloth soaked in grease, and poked it into it with a cleaning rod. inside the barrel.

This time, Wang Tiezhu felt different.

In the past, for the sake of airtightness, the lead shot was actually slightly larger than the barrel of the gun. Even for experienced hands, it was quite laborious and time-consuming to insert.

Now he felt as if he had stabbed it in all at once—not that he didn't hide it, he felt that he was rubbing against the inner wall of the barrel, but it was very slippery, so it was very fast.

This feeling made Wang Tiezhu even more excited. He immediately picked up the flintlock gun, pointed at the ten-foot-high target board with five people lined up 200 meters away, and pulled the trigger.

boom!
There was a crisp sound, and white smoke burst out from the front end of the flintlock gun.

At the same time, the lead shot also shot through the first target plate in front.

A small official ran over, and then shouted in surprise: "Two layers of target boards have been penetrated!"

Hearing this, Zhao Yan couldn't help saying: "In the past, 200 meters could only penetrate one layer of the target board, but now it penetrates two layers. This method of supervising the country is very useful!"

Auntie Zhu smiled lightly and continued to watch.

Because she knows very well that this is not her wisdom, but the experience of later generations.

On the shooting range, Wang Tiezhu didn't stop after firing one round, and immediately started to reload the ammunition, and retreated 50 meters to fire the second round.

"Through the first layer of target board, it is inlaid on the second layer of target board!"

Wang Tiezhu retreated another 50 meters, loaded the third round of ammunition and fired.

This time, it failed to penetrate the first target board.

Everyone present was very excited, because Liu Tiezhu only took 1 minute for three rounds!

Subtracting the time it took him to retreat 50 meters twice, and taking into account his inexperience in the step of adding oil-soaked linen, when he is really proficient in shooting, he should be able to reach four rounds per minute!

And judging from the distribution of the three bullet holes, the shooting accuracy has also improved!

Zhao Yan immediately bowed and cupped his hands, saying: "Congratulations to Jian Guo! With this sharp weapon, Jian Guo will definitely be able to wipe out bandits and captives!"

Auntie Zhu was very happy to see that the power of this flintlock gun could be improved a lot with just one small step.

But she also knew that a smoothbore flintlock was nothing compared to a rifled flintlock.

Therefore, facing Zhao Yan and others' admiring gazes, she just smiled and said, "You can report it according to the procedure later, and let the firearms factory produce it in batches as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

On the other side, Hao Guangming said: "Since this flintlock gun is going to be finalized and installed, you can give it a name."

After hearing this, Auntie Zhu wanted Hao Guangming to take it, but at this moment, many people were watching, and she couldn't talk to Hao Guangming.

So after thinking about it, he said to Zhao Yan: "Remember, when you report it, you must write that this gun has been named 'Bright Style'."

After hearing this, Zhao Yan thought it meant something like "Bright Ming Dynasty", so he immediately agreed.

On the other side, Hao Guangming was slightly taken aback when he heard this.

Immediately, I felt that the name was a bit embarrassing, but I was inexplicably happy in my heart.

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