The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 502 Xie Youcheng's Excitement

Xie Youcheng didn't know anything about Jinzhou, he was still in the armory.

The general inspected the warehouses, and he inspected the workshops.

Bird blunderbuss is one of the most advanced firearms made from scratch. It is not produced by a workshop, but combines the wisdom and technology of the ancients.

When we arrived at the iron smelting plant and entered the furnace workshop, we were greeted with a gust of hot air.

It's cold outside and hot inside.

Xie Youcheng and the accompanying officials quickly took off their fur coats.

The officials of the iron smelting workshop pointed to the entire production line including the huge square pond, canal pipes, and short walls, and introduced it to everyone.

"Actually, iron ore from Guangdong and Fujian are of the best quality, but transportation is not easy, so we can only use iron ore from Liaodong and North Korea."

Before the general promoted the bird gun, the firearms used in the Nine Frontier Army Town were complicated, and many troops in the south used the bird gun very high, because of transportation problems.

Most of Dazhou's workshops for making bird guns are in Fujian and Guangdong, and it is not easy to transport them to the north.

With fewer people using it, the influence will be low, resulting in slow information dissemination, and people will maintain their original understanding.

The most important thing is that Jinzhou cannot purchase a large amount of iron ore from Fujian and Guangdong, and it is even more impossible to obtain a large amount of bird guns from Fujian and Guangdong.

"Will it affect the quality of the bird gun?"

Xie Youcheng asked with concern.

Hearing this, the official showed a smug expression.

"Although the iron ore in Liaodong and North Korea is not as good as that in Fujian and Guangdong, the problem is not big and we have already solved it."

Hearing what the official said, Xie Youcheng had no doubts.

Jinzhou can make bird guns, and Dazhou can make them a long time ago.

Businessmen all over the world are rushing to buy the luxury goods of Dazhou. They are the best long-distance transportation, high-profit and high-return commodities.

Spices from Southeast Asia are also popular, but they are raw materials without any technology.

But Big Week is different.

The porcelain and silk brocades of Dazhou cannot be produced by Westerners, so they can only buy with a lot of silver every year.

Xie Youcheng does not think that Jinzhou's technology can fully surpass Da Zhou.

The current new generation of Golden State is full of pride, thinking that Golden State's technology can surpass Da Zhou, but they don't know Da Zhou.

There are so many disadvantages in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but the civilization has not regressed. The disseminator of oriental civilization cannot be surpassed by the small Golden State.

But Xie Youcheng is not worried.

Because Jinzhou has brought countless skilled craftsmen from Dazhou, all kinds of valuable craftsmen with high technology.

The official will not miss the opportunity to show his merits to the official, and he is in high spirits, introducing and showing people around in an endless stream.

"In an ironmaking furnace, the iron slurry flows out of the mold from the material bed, and becomes pig iron after cooling."

When everyone walked to the canal, the official pointed to it and said to everyone, and then pointed to the square pond that was several feet connected to one side and several inches lower inward.

"Iron slurry has been turned into iron, which can already be used, but it is not strong enough. It is easy to explode when used to make bird guns, and the range is not far, so it is not accurate."

The official sighed, afraid to underestimate his difficulties.

In fact, there were indeed difficulties, but they were quickly solved by the craftsmen of Dazhou.

"The slurry in the square pond is made of loess and cut straw. The apprentices take out the red-hot iron, and the master craftsman decides whether it can be added to the square pond and stirred according to the change of the fire. It has been left for half a day. , take it out and burn it again, and repeat it five times.”

"The final shaped iron is made into a bird gun, which is durable and not easy to rust, and the lead can be shot far and accurately."

In fact, this is already low-carbon steel, which is the most advanced iron-smelting technology in today's era.

However, in the current Dazhou, there is no such word as low-carbon steel.

"Actually, it can be smelted nine times. The iron that is smelted is not only extremely hard, but also flexible, but it is not suitable for making bird guns."

The official regretted.

In order to explore the craftsmanship, the craftsmen have tried many old methods and also thought of many new methods.

In the end, it was concluded that five-smelting iron is not as hard and tough as nine-smelting iron, but five-smelting iron is suitable for bending, stamping, and curling.

Nine iron smelting cuts iron like mud, but it is not suitable for welding, nor is it suitable for bending.

Other methods are not as good as these two methods.

Nine ironmaking is actually high carbon steel.

After listening to the official's introduction and inspecting the process, not only Xie Youcheng, but also the accompanying officials who followed him were amazed.

It's amazing that such a completely irrelevant method can be figured out.

In fact, there is one more thing they forgot.

The iron smelting furnace, regardless of the manufacturing method and layout, makes the metal yield of the iron frying process as high as [-]%, far exceeding that of the contemporary West.

But the melting pot is not a new thing, it has been like this for hundreds of years, so no one is surprised.

After leaving this place, everyone went to the next place.

The process of making bird guns is very complicated.

From iron ore to bird guns, there are hundreds of large and small processes, which is a complete industrial chain.

Da Zhou could imitate the Frang machine, imitate the bird blunderbuss by himself, and create his own mother bird blunderbuss equipped with a tea-inserted gun knife, which is the bayonet of later generations, imitate the Furang machine, imitate the Hongyi cannon, and imitate Galen Battleship, because of the background of the Great Zhou.

Xie Youcheng didn't have time to understand such a complicated process in detail, so he could only take a rough look.

Later, I saw the forging of the bird's gun barrel. The double-layer composite forging method uses eight pieces of refined iron of different shapes.

For the bird gun tube, the wall tube at the fire door increases the ratio of how thick it is, and the thickness of the side is thinner.

The fire door tube should have an eighth diameter, and the mouthpiece should have a quarter diameter. There are specific regulations on the thickness of the upper and lower sides, the seam, the heavy leather process, and the integrated process of muddying and melting.

For example, the diameter of the barrel of the Franc machine should be eight-tenths of the caliber.

The back barrel of the female blunderbuss deserves six tenths, the front barrel of the female blunderbuss deserves three tenths, and so on.

Not to mention the people of the current era, even an ordinary modern person of later generations can't figure out his mind and can't master hundreds of crafts.

There are too many technologies, as long as you understand them, you will lament the power of the ancestors and the power of civilization.

Material selection, iron smelting, smelting, forging, various process standards, forging, single barrel, double-layer composite, forging, drilling, smooth washing, frustrating, back door, fire door, rear sight, front sight, forging welding, Gun bed, trigger.

These are just large processes, and there are many small processes under the large process, which also involve several industries.

Regardless of Mongolia or barbarians, there are iron mines on the grasslands and Nuergansi, but they still lack iron.

Daming and Dazhou have blocked ironware for hundreds of years, even if there is smuggling, it cannot meet their needs.

"There is no armor in Mongolia, but today there are armor and armor."

Xie Youcheng smiled.

When the people around heard this, they all laughed.

This sentence comes from the impeachment memorials of the imperial censors who patrolled the borders of the Great Zhou Dynasty during the period of the Supreme Emperor, and does not refer to the current Mongolia.

It not only explained the smuggling behavior at that time, but also explained the lack of production technology in Mongolia. Because of the hundreds of years of blockade by Ming Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty, the army did not even have armor.

"Kalka Grassland, according to what Jia Gong said, many people are still waiting and watching, swinging between Jinjiang Town and Lin Danhan."

"In order to prevent military materials from flowing into the hands of Lin Dan Khan, the inflow of ironware is still prohibited to the ministries of Khalkha, but the people's livelihood materials have been released."

"The tribes of Horqin and Liaohetao all hope to obtain ironware from Jinjiang town. The left envoy Lin opposes this, and the general is still considering it."

After leaving the workshop and returning to the yamen office, Xie Youcheng sat and talked with everyone, discussing the future direction and requirements for the Ordnance Institute.

"Two new coalition armies have been established, and there are demands for military equipment from each army. Now we have a big gap, and even more bird guns. We still need to increase production to meet the requirements of each army."

"If the general agrees to supply the tribes of Horqin and Liaohetao, plus the weapons sold to overseas Han people every year, I am afraid there will be a huge demand for iron ore."

"In order to avoid it, we have to take advantage of the current effort to produce more bird guns to alleviate future problems."

Originally, Jinjiang Town lacked master craftsmen, but later reformed the assembly line and the apprenticeship system. After years of development, master craftsmen are no longer a problem.

The officials understood what Xie Youcheng meant, and they were here to urge them.

Just as Xie Youcheng was speaking, a small official came in, bent down and whispered in his ear, Xie Youcheng's expression remained unchanged, and he nodded to show that he understood.

After talking briefly with everyone, he hurriedly ended the trip and returned to Jinzhou.

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The refugees have to eat their stomachs.

For thousands of years, the ancestors have gradually formulated various rules and written various principles from scratch, from the primitive to the state.

For example, benevolence, righteousness and morality, such as the development of science and technology.

The ancients changed from wood and stone tools to bronze tools, from bronze tools to iron tools, and to various refined iron tools.

Only nature is different. People can only obey and adapt to nature, but cannot violate it.

The refugees want to have a full stomach, they don't want to starve to death, this is their reasoning.

No one can stop their desire to survive.

With regard to the problem of refugees, from being neglected at the beginning, to now we must face this problem, through years of hard work.

Da Zhou found that this problem could not be solved, but the problem became more and more serious, only to realize that they could only solve the people who caused the problem.

For the refugee army, Da Zhou mainly focused on extermination.

But the refugee army has changed, and it is no longer weak to the Great Zhou court.

First broke Ningqiang, the throat from Shaanxi to Sichuan, then conquered Qipanguan and Chaotianguan in Sichuan, and occupied Guangyuan County.

After the refugee army entered Sichuan, it was like entering no one's land. Lianke Zhaohua, Jintang, Jianzhou, Shifang, Pengxian, Pixian, Xindu, Xichong, Suining, Zitong, Mianzhou, Xinfan, Wenjiang, Jiangyou, Changming , Luojiang, Deyang, Hanzhou and other counties.

The local officials of Dazhou fled in anticipation of the wind, and the Sichuan General Army of Dazhou fell into an ambush by the refugee army and was shot dead at Baiqingba in Zitong County.

In just one month, the refugee army conquered 38 prefectures and counties in Sichuan.

On the second day of the first month of November, the refugee army was divided into three armies and gathered in the provincial capital, marching out to the outskirts of Chengdu.

Guyuan soldiers, Lintao soldiers, Yansui soldiers, Ningxia soldiers, Liaoxi Army, 20 to [-] soldiers from all over Sichuan, a total of [-] million troops gathered in Sichuan.

There are hundreds of thousands of refugee troops.

Everywhere in Sichuan is either Zhou army or refugee army.

The Zhou army was defeated here, and the refugee army was defeated there. The chaos became a pot of porridge, and the order was completely lost.

People with conscience will restrain their subordinates.People who have no conscience, break the cans and smash them, looting wherever they go.

The big families in Sichuan couldn't meet the needs of nearly a million troops, and the butcher's knife fell on the people.

A man with both virtue and ability is a saint, a man with virtue but no talent is a gentleman, a man without virtue and talent is a mediocre man, and a man without virtue and talent is a villain.

An immoral person does not care about the common people.

The lobby of the Jiedu Mansion.

Tang Qing'an waited from morning to afternoon, but still couldn't calm down the anger in his heart.

From the [-]-character official document that Gui Yong brought, the records are full of blood and tears of the people in Shaanxi and Sichuan, which deeply hurt Tang Qing'an.

Xie Youcheng finally rushed back. On the way, he already knew what was going on. After thinking all the way, he didn't come up with a solution.

"Regardless of the Ming Dynasty or the Great Zhou Dynasty, there has never been a massacre in the civil unrest of the two dynasties. Now the large-scale massacre in Sichuan proves that the emperor is the king's faint, and it is the king's loss."

Tang Qing'an said coldly.

He doesn't care what the emperor does, as long as he doesn't massacre the people on a large scale, he can turn a blind eye to it, and because of the times, he can't change nature.

Although the massacre was the private act of some refugee troops and some generals of the Zhou army, since he is the emperor, he should bear the crime.

Why is he unwilling to become No.1 in the world of cholera?Because he didn't want to plunge the country into war for his own ambition.

but.

The emperor slaughtered the people, Tang Qing'an didn't care about the emperor anymore.

Xie Youcheng sat on the chair and looked up at the general.

Has the general decided to rule the Central Plains?

From the general's words, Xie Youcheng became suspicious.

With the size and strength of Jinjiang Town, Xie Youcheng couldn't guarantee whether anyone opposed the general becoming emperor, but definitely many people wanted the general to be emperor.

Founding of the country.

Who can resist this kind of temptation, ask yourself, Xie Youcheng himself can't help panting heavily.

"The will of the people is the will of heaven, which is the foundation of the imperial lineage. The massacre of the common people shows that the emperor lost his virtue and no longer has orthodoxy."

Xie Youcheng couldn't help but said.

He could see that the Great Zhou Dynasty was falling into a fierce war. If necessary, the Jinjiang army could gather all its forces and could summon 20 people to enter the pass.

The domestic elite soldiers are far away in Sichuan. Xie Youcheng doesn't think they can resist the Jinjiang army against the three major battalions of Denglai and Tianjin.

As long as you defeat the three major battalions in one go, you can take the capital directly.

The Jinjiang Army has artillery.

Take the capital, take advantage of the situation to occupy Shandong, Shanxi, attack Henan from east to west, in Shaanxi, then Sichuan, and take the northern land into your hands.

"General."

Xie Youcheng couldn't help standing up and walking towards the map.

The general let go for the first time, he felt that he could not miss this opportunity and he should convince the general.

Pointing to the map, Xie Youcheng told the general what he wanted.

Seeing the passionate Xie Youcheng, Tang Qing'an became deep in thought.

He didn't expect to enter the customs and gain the world at first, because the old concept has been waiting for Da Zhou to collapse.

And he has his concerns.

Lin Danhan has more than [-] people who control strings, and he has not moved because he is digesting a huge fruit.

He led the Jinjiang army to attack the capital, and the end result was that all the elites from the nine sides of the Great Zhou Dynasty would all go south, and the troops from all over the country would go north to serve the king.

The consequence was that he and the Dazhou army slaughtered, Lin Danhan took advantage of the situation to attack Dazhou, plus the refugee army.

There will be chaos throughout the North.

No order is better than no order.

If he doesn't consider the people, he can take risks, and the price is at least millions, or even nearly tens of millions of people perish in the wars caused by various armies.

Then there is Japan.

Give up the opportunity for next year, wait for Tokugawa Iemitsu to eliminate all opposition forces, and then completely control Japan, then there will never be a time when Japan can be wiped out with only tens of thousands of soldiers.

Even if he finally entered the Central Plains, gathered the power of the whole country, sent hundreds of thousands of troops to expedition to Japan, and defeated Tokugawa Iemitsu, he would not be able to control Japan.

The failure of the former Ming Dynasty in Annan is an example.

"I am going to report to the imperial court and send a Jinjiang army into Sichuan."

Tang Qing'an said.

Whoever slaughters the people, the Jinjiang Army will destroy which army, whether it is the Zhou army or the refugee army, only the virtuous army is left. It can also spread the reputation of the Jinjiang Army to Sichuan, gain the support of the people, and lay a solid foundation for Jinjiang Town to manage Sichuan in the future. Solid foundation.

There are even bigger concerns.

During the Little Ice Age, the 20 army could consume all the savings in Jinjiang Town, and all the food every year had to be invested in the army. What would he use to save the tens of millions of victims?
If the victims of the disaster cannot be relieved, the victims will resist. How can he suppress them?What is the difference with the Great Zhou Emperor?

(End of this chapter)