I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 211
Chapter 210

Since the Ming Dynasty began to ban the sea, generations of boatmen like the Shachuan Gang have no use for them. Some of them have changed their careers to carpentry and furniture, and some have taken advantage of their water skills to become sailors for sea transportation.

In fact, these excellent shipbuilders were the most valuable wealth of Ming Dynasty. However, Ming did not give these precious craftsmen the treatment they deserved, and neither did the Manchus.

However, Cheng Shijie gave them the most basic craftsman treatment. The income of ordinary workers in southern Liaoning is between seven renminbi and one or two five renminbi. Depending on the industry, such as coal mining, mining, steelmaking, and cement burning , High-intensity work such as coke making has relatively higher income.

The shipbuilding industry is actually the same, but craftsmen who can earn up to one tael or eight silver coins have broken away from the category of ordinary workers.

Although workers and craftsmen are different in word, the treatment is actually different. Craftsmen will be called so-and-so masters in factories, but workers will not.The craftsmen of the Shachuan Gang, each of them has more or less apprentices. Although they get an income of one tael or eight silver, they also have an income when they lead apprentices.

Cheng Shijie came here according to the tradition of Hansteel Group. In Hansteel Group, any employee who enters Hansteel Group, even if it is a clerk position, must learn from a teacher. There are masters who are familiar with the work. The three months are overlapping.

The master can decide whether the new employee is qualified. If the master signs and confirms that the new student has reached the apprenticeship standard and can become a regular employee, then the master can get [-]% of the apprentice’s salary during the probationary period. If the apprentice’s monthly salary is [-], even if the master brings the apprentice The cost is two thousand seven.

Of course, this master fee is not paid for nothing. After the apprentice becomes a full-time employee, the master will also be responsible for co-insurance and mutual insurance with the apprentice within one year during the new employee period.Of course, this joint guarantee and mutual guarantee only involves safety operations. If the apprentice is safe and accident-free that month, there are no "three violations".Both illegal operation, illegal command, and violation of labor discipline.

Then the master can get a reward ranging from 2 yuan to [-] yuan. This period is one year. Generally, veteran employees lead apprentices.

In order to encourage craftsmen in various factories not to hide, Cheng Shijie borrowed this reward system. If a shipbuilder with a monthly salary of [-] yuan, if he takes five apprentices, he can get the same [-]% more apprentice salary a month , Calculated in this way, the income of these shipbuilders is more than three taels of silver per month.

In addition to salary income, these shipbuilders also have uniform work clothes, which are sewn from old coarse cloth, which are not only strong, but also durable. There are four sets of clothes a year, and basically there is no need to buy clothes by themselves.

The treatment of craftsmen and workers is similar except for their income. In particular, adhering to the principles of the state-owned enterprise management system, Cheng Shijie has designated a new village for employees in each factory, just like a military area, and built a unified house for them. This house is unified. Adopt a courtyard structure.

They are [-] square meters, [-] square meters, and one acre in three sizes. However, in order to deal with sanitation in a unified way, the courtyards built adopt a uniform system, and it looks like a fire from a distance.

Liaodong did not use blue bricks and gray tiles for buildings, but red bricks and red tiles, because the firing temperature of red bricks is lower than that of blue bricks, the firing time is shorter, and the cost is also low.Of course, red bricks cannot be kept for 200 years without weathering like blue bricks. If the environment permits, they can also be kept for 2000 years.

The blue bricks in the tombs of the Han Dynasty are still the same. This is the quality of the blue bricks. It is a pity that there is no such condition now. We should first solve the problem of food and clothing, and then consider improving it.

Even so, these craftsmen of the Shachuan Gang feel as if they have entered heaven. They are full of energy and do not need supervisors at all. Little bit of time.

For everyone in the Shachuan Gang, it is no secret that Zheng Zhilong wants to deal with Cheng Shijie. Whether Cheng Shijie can defeat Zheng Zhilong is related to their own interests. The high-paying jobs that could not be found in the whole Ming Dynasty all disappeared.

In the shipyard in Xigang, Jinzhou, technology and tradition coexist. For example, now, the parts that are turned out by woodworking lathes need to be combined. If the traditional craft is followed, skilled craftsmen are needed to strike with a hammer. go in.

But now, the craftsmen of the shipyard only need to put various parts in the mold, and then step on the pedal, the mold driven by the water wheel will fall down with a strong impact force, so that a large piece of ship deck is completed Well, if it was like before, dozens of craftsmen would be required to work continuously for more than half a month to complete such a large deck.

Nowadays, it only takes one stick of incense time, and the speed has increased thousands of times.

The production work of the shipyard went very smoothly. When Cheng Shijie came to the gun bureau, Huang Lidong, the head of the gun bureau, came to welcome Cheng Shijie with a group of technicians and craftsmen.

"Meet the Master!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Huang Lidong and said, "Huang Lidong!"

"Under the door!"

"You can be regarded as an old man who follows me, right?"

"The little old man has been with the handsome man for two years and two months!"

Cheng Shijie said angrily: "Supposedly, you have been with me for a long time. I don't know if I don't like to play this trick? This time I will give you another chance. If next time, I will kill you fucked up!"

Hearing this, Huang Lidong's cold sweat broke out.

"Little old man will never dare again!"

Only now did Huang Lidong know what it was like to flatter a horse's hoof.

With the war just around the corner, Cheng Shijie naturally cared about the results of the Gunnery Bureau. If he had the results Cheng Shijie wanted, Cheng Shijie's chances of winning would be higher.

Huang Lidong and others let the other craftsmen and technicians go about their business. Cheng Shijie followed Huang Lidong to the inside of the factory. The Firearms Bureau was originally built in the old town of Jinzhou Weicheng. After the victory in Haizhou, Cheng Shijie was able to gain a firm foothold in southern Liaoning, so he moved the Gun Bureau out of Jinzhou Weicheng.

The current gun bureau is located in Dahei Mountain, fifty miles away from Jinzhou City. There used to be a temple called Shengshui Temple. This temple was built in the Hongwu period. The temple is empty, leaving only broken walls and ruins all over the ground, but the general main hall, meditation room, mountain gate, and lower courtyard are still there.

On the basis of Shengshui Temple, Cheng Shijie established Ning Haijun's gun bureau. The gun bureau occupies a very large area, even larger than Jinzhou City. There are not only the research and development department of the gun bureau, but also the There are a large number of factories.

In order to build the Gun Bureau, the Dahei Mountain was pitiful. This mountain had been blown up many hills. Along the straight corridor, Cheng Shijie first came to the R&D and manufacturing plant of the Gun Bureau.

In order to use water power, the Gunnery Bureau built a reservoir at the northern end of the Dahei Mountain by taking advantage of the mountain. Through the canal, most of the hydraulic machinery can be driven. Of course, when it is frozen every winter, the hydraulic machinery cannot be used. Use animal power machinery.

"How is the research and development of the Gun Bureau going?"

Huang Lidong smiled wryly: "The workers have been working continuously during the day and night, barely keeping up with the demand!"

To say that the production task of the artillery factory is definitely the heaviest. The Army Artillery Division of the Ning Navy needs at least 180 three-inch guns and 96 four-inch guns.But the problem is that the navy's demand is the biggest. A batch of eight Sea Sharks is 190 guns. Now there are Jusha class warships, and one ship has 76 guns.

If the consumption of the Ning Navy is satisfied, it may not be possible within two consecutive years. No one knows what the battle will be like in the future, and no one knows how many warships will be lost.

To Cheng Shijie's great surprise, the craftsmen here are now producing a new gun, but the caliber has reached an astonishing five inches, which is 150 [-] mm.

Cheng Shijie asked: "The four-inch gun has just been produced, and the five-inch gun has come out?"

Huang Lidong smiled bitterly and said: "Commander, don't you want rifling? But our knives are not good, and it is quite difficult to process...Manganese steel knives, you know, once overheated, they will soften immediately, so continue processing If it is useless, we have to stop every section of processing to cool down the tool, and then continue, which is very inefficient. In order to avoid this situation, we only make the tool bigger!"

"and then?"

"Then the knife is too big, and the barrel is too small to get in at all!"

Huang Lidong didn't dare to look into Cheng Shijie's eyes: "So we can only enlarge and cast a thicker barrel!"

"The more the gun is used, the more technically difficult it is. How to solve the big problems that are prone to bubbles, bulges, and cracks?"

"We tried many methods. At first, we used bronze to cast the barrel of the artillery. Later, we found that although this kind of bronze is easy and easy to make rifling, a new problem appeared. the result of!"

"Bronze artillery has been eliminated by the times!"

"Who said no!"

Huang Lidong continued: "We have replaced the low-carbon steel cast barrel. This barrel is made of low-carbon steel, which is easier to cut, but even though it is low-carbon steel, it is much stronger than bronze. I want to deal with it. But it’s not that easy, and it’s not easy to process.”

Cheng Shijie understands now that the current gun bureau has fallen into a strange circle. In order to pull the rifling line, the steel composition of the knife can only be modified repeatedly. Increase the caliber of the barrel.

As a result, a freak came out naturally. This is like a joke on the Internet. When kneading noodles, if there is too much water, add noodles; if there are too many noodles, add water if there is too little water. Just changed the pot.

Cheng Shijie had to admire these great gods.

However, just when Cheng Shijie thought that these great gods would accomplish nothing in the end, there was a burst of cheers from afar.

"what happened?"

"It's done!"

"What became?"

"The new cannon is ready!"

Cheng Shijie hurried over and saw a cannon with a huge barrel. This is a five-inch gun, which is 150mm, but it has reached about [-] times the diameter, and the length of the barrel is more than [-] meters.

This is definitely the artillery with the longest barrel among all the cannons of the Ning Navy so far. What surprised Cheng Shijie the most is that this artillery has the shadow of the artillery of later generations.In addition to the gun hoe that appeared on the three-inch gun, a spring return device was also installed.

Like the Hongyi cannon, the cannon that retreated a few meters is so angry that it is easy to handle with the shovel. As long as the shovel is installed and the shovel is deeply nailed into the ground, the cannon will not shift. Of course, light artillery can use gun hoes to solve the recoil problem, but the recoil of large-caliber artillery is too large, and if there is no brake, the consequences are the same.

But with the cannon hoe and the brake, the effect will be much better. The key is that rubber is actually used on this cannon. Rubber is not widely used now. This is when Bishop Robben arrived in Liaodong two months ago. At that time, I carried half a boat of rubber, but now the main purpose of rubber is to make rubber sticks.

Hitting people with a rubber stick hurts but does not hurt, especially in the colony of Europa, where it works well for supervision. However, in Liaodong, these craftsmen immediately discovered another function of this rubber, and after some exploration, it was successfully used. Applied to breech block seals and gun wheels.

After testing, the performance is satisfactory. After using rubber on the breech block, the sealing performance is greatly improved, and the gas leakage phenomenon has almost completely disappeared, and the rubber wheels make it easy for the gun cart to drive on the road. The wheel can pull a small cannon by itself, and if you use rubber wheels, you can pull it to trot all the way.

This cannon was beyond Cheng Shijie's expectation: "Have you tried the cannon? How effective is it?"

"Report to the commander-in-chief, it's not too late yet!"

"Then try the gun!"

"Is it here?"

"Where is not here?"

This is the real reason why Cheng Shijie moved the gun bureau out of Jinzhou City. The gun bureau in Jinzhou City is in the downtown area. It is okay to test the guns. After all, the range and penetration are limited. Shooting against the wall is not a big problem. .

But the artillery is different. Theoretically, this kind of five-inch cannon can be fired outside the city of Jinzhou, but what if the test fails?

In this way, under the operation of more than a dozen craftsmen, the artillery began to aim at the south of the Gun Bureau. The south is a large virgin forest in Daheishan. Even if the shell hits something, there is no big problem.

Cheng Shijie was just a little worried. Looking at the springs of these muzzle brakes, they were as thick as a little finger, but the question is, can such springs have enough elasticity?

The point is, there is no way to calculate this either.

Huang Lidong introduced this artillery to Cheng Shijie: "This artillery is the result of the "C" group of the Firearms Bureau, with a total of twelve right-handed rifling..."

While speaking, there was a loud bang.

PS: This chapter is from yesterday, and there is more tonight.

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