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

Chapter 54

Chapter 053

The Ning Navy is responsible for exterminating the bandits in Shandong. However, there are too many bandits in Shandong. There are more than 20 shares in the Ning Navy alone. Players, that's more.

Cheng Shijie remembered that he had read an online novel before. The protagonist of the novel was a Jinyiwei, and he sold the small flag of the Jinyiwei, which was also a protection fee in disguise.

In fact, many people are doing this kind of thing, just like Zheng Zhilong, the current guerrilla general of the Five Tigers. He relied on collecting protection fees at sea to support the 3000 army of the Zheng family army, more than [-] large and small warships, and became the king of the sea in Nanyang. , have to pay protection fees to him.

Ning Haijun can also adopt this method, selling the logo that symbolizes Ning Haijun to businessmen. If any bandits are not open, they will be eliminated first. Over time, Ning Haijun's reputation can also be made public.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie pretended to murmur, "This matter... is difficult!"

The subtext of the difficult thing to do is that it can be done, but it requires a price, and it is impossible to have a white mouth and white teeth.

As a businessman, Gu Shizhang is also proficient in human affairs. Hearing what Cheng Shijie said, he smiled all over his face and said, "Of course I won't let Cheng Shoubei work for nothing!"

Cheng Shijie handed over the specific negotiations directly to Song Xiance, and he continued to return to the Gun Bureau. Now he is most concerned about the imitation work of the Thunderbolt.

Although the Thunderbolt is relatively heavy and the shooting accuracy is not high, the problem is the shooting density of [-] rounds. This is indeed a big killer, especially when facing cavalry charges.

In the future, when Ning’s navy charges against the Jiannu cavalry, if they have tens or hundreds of thunderbolts, and thousands of rounds can shoot [-] paces of blunderbuss to hit them, forming a dense rain of bullets, they can make Jiannu kneel down and shout dad.

When Cheng Shijie came to the gun bureau again, he saw more than 100 craftsmen drilling solid cylindrical steel pipes with drill bits, and dozens of craftsmen were processing several drilled gun barrels, smoothing the inner walls, and preparing Put it on the gun body.

Seeing the laborious looks of the craftsmen, Cheng Shijie suddenly felt that maybe it was a mistake for him to plan to equip a large number of Thunderbolts. According to their drilling method, it would take a long time to drill a barrel.

Cheng Shijie coughed.

The craftsmen around found that it was Cheng Shijie who had arrived, and they quickly knelt down and saluted: "Greetings, Lord Guard!"

Cheng Shijie looked at a craftsman who was wiping sweat from his forehead: "How long does it take to drill a gun barrel at your speed?"

"It can drill an inch in a day, but it will take more than a month to drill one well."

"More than a month!"

Cheng Shijie sighed: "It's too slow!"

In the later generations, the seamless steel pipes made by any small metal processing factory are enough to fill the entire Ninghai City, and the seamless steel pipe production line of Hangang Group is even more incomparable.

"Master Garrison, this is already fast enough. If we want to produce more barrels, we can only increase the manpower!"

Cheng Shijie began to think. According to the authors of some online novels, the construction method of the gun barrel is first to punch a piece of fine iron into a thin iron sheet, then engrave the rifling on it, and then roll the iron sheet, which troubled the Europeans who invented the rifled rifle for 200 years. The big problem for many years has been solved in this way, isn't it a mess?

If this trick really works, then he can still play with a crossbow, a matchlock gun, and just play with a minigun to torture Jiannu!
In the absence of an impact machine, the steel block is hammered into an iron sheet, and it can be easily rolled up. How thin does it need to be?Hitting the iron sheet with a hammer, how many craftsmen like this can be found in the entire Ming Dynasty while ensuring that the thickness is even?This must be at the master level, so that the error can meet the requirements. The problem is that hot-melt welding is the most unstable welding technology. Such a barrel leaks everywhere. How can the rifle have any range?

In the later generations, the steel pipe production of Han Steel Group is mainly divided into two types. The steel pipes with gaps are rolled into pipes with steel plates and then welded. The high points of the welds are removed, non-destructive testing is performed, and flying saws are cut to length.

Such steel pipes are no problem at all for civil-grade products that are not strictly required, but for high-pressure pipes, they must be produced as seamless steel pipes.

Even in later generations, the production of seamless steel pipes requires high technical difficulty. For seamless steel pipes, the square steel billet is first heated, put into the female die, and the male die is rotated quickly to squeeze in, so the steel pipe produced is not good in size.In order to obtain a large number of precision seamless steel pipes, the hot-rolled steel pipes need to be subjected to heat treatment, pickling, saponification, cold drawing, and cold rolling.

The surface roughness of good cold-rolled pipes is only 0.8 microns. Of course, cast iron pipes are cast. Centrifugal casting is a relatively advanced production process at present, but the problem is that these equipment are too large and heavy, and steel production is a systematic project. The energy consumption is high, and the production of crude steel is relatively simple, but the problem is that even if the steel production efficiency of Hansteel Group has reached the world-class advanced level, the problem is that one ton of steel still needs more than 400 kilowatt-hours of electricity.

It is almost impossible to replicate the steel production lines of later generations. Photovoltaic power plants are the biggest problem. With electricity, you also need voltage transformation technology, power transmission technology, and a highly integrated operating system. Don’t look at the Hansteel Group. It has nearly 40 employees, but the workers on the front line of the production line only account for [-]%, most of them are management and logistics personnel.

Not to mention replicating a steel factory in the late Ming Dynasty, even if an advanced steel factory was opened in relatively backward Africa, it would still need to transport hundreds of thousands of tons of equipment there.

As a professional in metallurgical technology, Cheng Shijie had no choice but to adopt the relatively primitive shaft cold casting process. This method can produce relatively rough steel pipes. The principle is also very simple. After the molten steel is released from the furnace, it passes through the cooling tank and flows into the vertical shaft. In the mould, as the molten steel descends, the steel pipe will be slowly produced in the shaft by utilizing the effect of gravity.

Once a well of steel pipes is produced, the produced steel pipes will be taken out of the shaft, but there is a very serious problem, that is, once the mold is not fully preheated, there will be moisture in it, and the molten steel will explode when it meets the mold. It is more powerful than black powder and even TNT.

However, no matter how difficult it is, this project needs to be done, and the steel pipe produced by shaft technology is the most efficient way.

For this reason, Cheng Shijie began to get busy. He went back to the later generations and used the internal channels of Hansteel Group to obtain the technical data of the shaft production process. These technologies are all obsolete technologies, and they are not leaked information.

While Cheng Shijie was busy manufacturing shafts and producing steel pipes, Governor Sun Yuanhua of Denglai brought Geng Zhongming, the general of Fubiao, and a transport team into the area of ​​Ninghai City.

It was about [-] to [-] miles away from Ninghai City, and there was a sign on the side of the official road, with the words "Military restricted area, business travel detoured" written on it.

Sun Yuanhua looked at the eight big characters and frowned slightly.

"Stop here!"

Suddenly, a head protruded from a protruding snow bag. This snow bag was actually a checkpoint. It was a nest about five meters long and two meters wide. They also used dead branches to hang snow as a camouflage. If they didn't come to the front, there was no way to find the problem.

On the originally smooth road, a row of spear-style refusal horses appeared. It was a wooden frame with more than a dozen spears stuck on it. When the spears fell to the ground, there was no abnormality at all. A long spear was angled towards the convoy.

"Who are you, please reveal your identity!"

Geng Zhongming drank a stomach full of cold wind along the way, because he was full of evil fire and had no place to vent it. He said angrily to the soldiers of Ning Haijun: "This is the supplies for you Ning Haijun, don't let it go!"

"Come tell me your name!"

"go away"

When the two soldiers saw Geng Zhongming's arrogant attitude, one of the soldiers immediately took out a firework and quickly lit the fuze. With the sound of "Peng", the firework exploded in the air.

Not long after, a firework also exploded in the distance.It seems endless, and every time a signal flare is fired, there will always be the sound of gongs and drums. People with sharp eyes can already see that there are large groups of military households rushing towards this side in groups.

These military households have more or less received a little training. Although they are in a hurry, they still line up consciously. It really looks like an army when they all enter the room.

In just a quarter of an hour, three to four thousand military households appeared densely along the entire official road, and these military households poured in like a mountain.

After Cheng Shijie formed the Ninghai garrison, he did not organize the Zuoqian households according to the ten hundred households. Instead, he organized the Zuoqian households according to ten hundred households. All personnel other than the factory, clothing factory, gun bureau, armor and crossbow bureau, and mill were organized into military households, including refugees.

Now there are only three types of people in Ning Haijun, either craftsmen and workers, or military households in the fields, or Ning Haijun soldiers. As long as they are adult men, they are all incorporated into the Hundred Household Office. Now Ning Haijun has 57 Hundred Household Offices.

Cheng Shijie seized a pile of broken copper and rotten iron from Qin Wuhe Zhen Sanshan. Many swords are just a piece of iron. Cheng Shijie originally planned to recast these iron materials, but later found that after the iron mine was put into production, he was not short of iron. Therefore, these scraps of copper and iron were distributed to military households.

What military households want most is military exploits, because military exploits can be distributed to land, while ordinary military households are only responsible for farming land, except for soldiers who have made meritorious service or died in battle in Ning Haijun, the land will be allocated.

These military households are crazy about the land. They wish that some unscrupulous bandits would come over and risk their lives in exchange for their future. It was originally the responsibility of the military households, but now, their opportunity has come.

Geng Zhongming was dumbfounded for a moment, what's going on?

Sun Yuanhua was also dumbfounded.

PS: As far as I write it, it is published first, and I will revise it after dawn, so let’s make do with it.

(End of this chapter)