Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 371 Chongzhen's 20 Years of Daming Industrial Status (No.12)
Zhu Youjian did not stay long at the Bureau of Iron and Steel Smelting.

Iron and steel smelting is a basic industry, and it is difficult to make major breakthroughs in the basic industry in a short period of time.

This requires the emergence of new elements and substances, as well as the emergence of new alloy materials.

And all of this requires Song Yingxing and other developers to improve their theoretical knowledge.

At present, the natural science theoretical system of Ming Dynasty has not been fully popularized.

Anyone who has studied science knows that the most basic of natural science is mathematics, then physics, chemistry, and finally biology.

This is the broad classification of natural sciences in the modern world.

After hundreds of years of development, mathematics, physics and chemistry have almost built a complete basic theoretical system in the 21st century. Needless to say, there are many contributions from masters of mathematics, physics and chemistry.

You must be familiar with Newton, Galileo, Einstein, Bohr, and Mendeleev.

The mainstream of basic science in the 21st century is biology, because biology has a lot of room for development, especially in molecular biology and genetic inheritance, and secondly, there is still a lot of room for breakthroughs in some fields of physics, such as electromagnetism.

But as far as the foundation is concerned, the basic theories in the field of mathematics, physics and chemistry have been quite proficient in the 21st century after hundreds of years of development.

An undergraduate student can basically master these laws. Of course, this refers to those who have studied hard or who are interested in science already know these basic laws in high school.

Such as classical mechanics and classical electromagnetism and classical physics of statistical mechanics.

There are the well-known Newton's three laws, as well as the chemical periodic law of elements, which summarizes the laws of chemical elements from the physical structure of microscopic substances and mathematical calculus.

Zhu Youjian is not a genius in mathematics, physics and chemistry, nor is he a great mathematician, physicist, or chemist.

He is just an ordinary college student of later generations, and his science knowledge is only these.

However, in the Ming Dynasty and even the entire seventeenth century, his knowledge in the field of natural science was undoubtedly the most cutting-edge and most erudite.

But mastering it yourself and passing it on to others are two different things. A wrong use of a word in the laws of natural science may cause the theoretical laws to be thousands of miles away from the actual natural laws.

Zhu Youjian wants to pass on this knowledge to the people of this era very quickly.

But even though his intelligence and memory were not bad, he couldn't pass on all the knowledge he had learned to Song Yingxing and others.

Except for Zhu Youjian in the Ming Dynasty, only Song Yingxing, Bi Maokang, Tang Ruowang and others really have a foundation in physics and chemistry.

But their level at best is the middle school level of later generations. Song Yingxing is slightly better. After being forcibly indoctrinated by Zhu Youjian, at least he knows that the matter in this world is composed of elements, knows the difference between iron and carbon, and knows how to burn Ores with different color phenomena are refined to obtain new elements, and they also know the basic laws of mechanics.

Fortunately, although these people do not have enough theoretical knowledge, they have rich experience.

Experimental science experience is not inferior to Zhu Youjian, even better than Zhu Youjian, a half-baked guy who only knew how to write novels and read books and didn't like to do experiments in college.

People can design experiments according to their own ideas, but Zhu Youjian cannot do this. He has to rely on the guidance of university professors to design experiments.

Therefore, regardless of the fact that Song Yingxing and others' theoretical knowledge is not rich enough, there is still a big bottleneck for new technological breakthroughs, and there is no way to produce rifled guns and smokeless gunpowder in a short time.

However, the firearms manufacturing workshops, artillery manufacturing workshops, and even gunpowder manufacturing workshops that people are building now are quite large-scale and streamlined.

The purpose of Zhu Youjian's coming here is to have a basic understanding of Daming's current military industry.

As the emperor, he couldn't construct the industrial blueprint of the entire Ming Dynasty in detail.

But in the past few years, he has never underestimated the development in this area, and a large part of the royal income has been invested in it.

Although it did not enter the era of steam all at once, it is almost approaching the stage of the era of steam industry.

Moling is close to the Yangtze River, and the water system is well developed. The firearms forging workshops driven by water power are arranged on both sides of the stream.

Because it is under Fangshan Mountain, the potential energy generated by water can be easily used as power.

And there is a canal between the firearms forging workshop of the Firearms Bureau and the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau. The iron blocks brought in from the canal are burned red and beaten with a hydraulic hammer, and they are stretched out to become iron sheets, and then a special metal mold is used to create Gun barrel mold, the iron sheet is wrapped on the mold and the craftsman forges it into a gun barrel. After the barrel is pulled out and cooled, it is put into storage.

On the other side, the butt, firing device and steel knife manufacturing line also have their own assembly line for production, and then assembled by a unified assembly workshop.

Throughout the whole process, the craftsmen are only responsible for the technology of their own process, and each process generally has a group of masters and their own apprentices who are responsible for a certain process in shifts.

Most of the time, it is an apprentice who enters the training operation, and the master supervises and gives instructions.

Because of the appearance of His Majesty Zhu Youjian, these craftsmen will do it in person, and the process will naturally become more proficient, which can be seen by Zhu Youjian. At this speed, the production speed of flintlock guns can be increased several times. And it is not easy to produce low-quality weapons and it is not easy to leak technical information.

"The current Chongzhen [-]th-style flintlock gun uses this hexagonal barrel. Thanks to the new iron fan, we found that the barrel made of this iron fan can make the bullet shoot farther. And the accuracy is higher, and we are also experimenting with making more complex iron molds, as must be suggested, to create threaded rifling before the barrel is formed, but it is a bit difficult for this iron mold at the moment, because the iron mold is too hard , it is too difficult to carve a standard thread.”

Tie Fan in Song Yingxing's mouth means mold.

In ancient times, there were molds but they would be called "Fan". Although Zhu Youjian mentioned molds many times, because Song Yingxing and others still said "Fan", he could only follow the Romans and follow them to call the molds "Fan". .

Zhu Youjian only nodded when he heard what Song Yingxing said:
"The earthen grinding machine I taught you can make cylinders, so can't you make such iron molds, or you can directly use the grinding machine to cut out such thread rifling without using iron molds."

"This method proposed by Your Majesty is not impossible. Although the grinder can cut jade and even cut out large gears, the power is still not enough to bore this kind of threaded barrel. Basically, it is difficult to quickly bore a solid barrel without threads. Because there is no tool that can be bored or milled or turned into alloy steel as you said, Your Majesty, the knives we make now can be mass-produced, but the Chongzhen series of firearms and field artillery The barrels are all new alloy steel guns, with higher hardness, without good boring cutters, milling cutters or even turning tools, it is impossible to make them, and the rifling is naturally difficult to draw, unless alloy steel is not used as the material of the gun barrel.”

After listening to Song Yingxing's words, Zhu Youjian somewhat understood what Song Yingxing meant.

The biggest obstacle to Ganqing Ming's current manufacturing of rifled guns and more efficient production of guns is not only the lack of power but also the lack of hard and sharp knives.

　In terms of industrial farming, I would like to thank the book friends in the book friend group for their help. I will use it directly here

　　
　
(End of this chapter)