Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 461 Rifle Gun

In addition to the labor surplus problem brought about by the improvement of production technology.

As the ruler of the empire, Zhu Youjian had to be prepared to deal with the economic problems caused by overcapacity.

Once the production of cloth exceeds the supply due to technological improvement, it can only expand the trade market and dump the excess production capacity of Ming Dynasty to other countries, so as to achieve the purpose of occupying foreign markets and earning profits from abroad.

This made Zhu Youjian and his Ming Empire have to embark on the road of external expansion because of economic interests, and even forced some overseas closed trade countries to trade with Ming Dynasty.

In addition, it is not just that the textile industry will have excess capacity in the future. Once the steam engine is used in production, the technological revolution brought about will lead to technological revolutions in other industries.

The same is naturally true of the military industry. When the surplus guns need to be dumped, more wars will be needed to consume these production capacities.

In addition, there will definitely be a lot of labor transferred to the army, and the number of the army will definitely expand further. If these soldiers want to gain more benefits as a violent group, they will naturally have to expand abroad.

Zhu Youjian can imagine that the technological revolution brought about by the steam engine will completely transform Ming Dynasty into an imperialist country.

The state monopolizes the most advanced national economic production technology and the most national economic wealth.

But it’s still too early to say these things. In the early days of the application of steam engines, in addition to increasing employment pressure, the quality of life of the domestic people will definitely improve, at least the cost of clothing will be reduced.

Moreover, the manufacturing industry will definitely rise on a large scale, and the level of military equipment will definitely be further improved.

"The Northern Expedition is becoming more and more necessary. Without the Northern Expedition, how can we continue to use these surplus labor forces and let them participate in the higher production demand brought about by the war."

Zhu Youjian thought so.

After a lapse of three months, it is the season of Yanchun.

Zhu Youjian came to the steam engine manufacturing company newly built by the Daming Ordnance Institute again under an umbrella.

Here, he will watch the handover ceremony of [-] Daming standard steam looms and Jiangning Weaving.

The emperor himself cut the ribbon, which can be regarded as his strong support for the improvement of production technology.

Jiangning Weaving Mansion is the official name of Han's Textile Company, which is the largest textile enterprise in Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youjian's Royal Capital also holds a stake.

The Jiangning Weaving Mansion has [-] looms and more than [-] textile workers. It cooperates with more than [-] silk weaving households, and its annual business scale reaches hundreds of millions of silver dollars.

Therefore, the Jiangning Weaving House can be said to be rich and powerful.

Naturally, it is not a matter of money to buy three hundred of the latest steam looms.

And because of this, two months later, relying on the production efficiency and quality brought by these [-] steam engines, Suzhou Weaving, represented by Yang, overwhelmed Suzhou Weaving, and seized the purchase of Folang Robotics who came to Songjiang Mansion in April. A batch of orders.

Not to be outdone, Suzhou Weaving immediately pre-ordered [-] steam looms.

"Now this steam loom has been used by several large textile companies, and the price of cloth on the market has dropped a lot. Maybe in three or four years, there will be no tattered and patched people in the entire Ming Dynasty, or Only professional beggars need rags;

On the basis of the standardization of steam textile machines, we first manufactured a steam-powered forging machine. Some high-hardness high-carbon steels can finally be tempered in batches to forge high-carbon steel knives. Today, ten steam boring machines have been manufactured. Steam-powered boring guns, and installing high-carbon steel knives on the boring machine can quickly bore rifled guns and rifled guns. "

Song Yingxing introduced in detail the development of the military industry he was responsible for at the meeting of the Ministry of Industry of the Cabinet.

At this time, Bi Maokang, who was the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, also stood up and took out a breech-loading gun:

"Your Majesty, this is the finished Chongzhen Type 22 breech-loading rifle now manufactured!"

"The improvement of this gun is mainly in several aspects:
The first is to use the gun cotton made by Tang Shilang as the percussion powder, and eliminate the use of flint impact to detonate the propellant; because Sun Shilang's nitrated gun cotton has been realized as a propellant and successfully granulated, and now it is also used as the Chongzhen 22 type breech-loading rifle. Special caliber bullet propellant. "

"This kind of propellant is the nitrated gun cotton after the ordinary cotton is further processed by Weichen using the acid-base treatment method, and then nitrated to achieve the purpose of solidification and granulation. Now it can be loaded in bullets with high density. Once it is detonated , can be directly turned into gas, instead of leaving residue like black powder and clogging the barrel, but there is still smoke!

Maybe it’s because the nitrification process still needs a breakthrough, or maybe it’s because gunpowder can’t be smokeless at all. Most of the combustion in the world will produce smoke, and Weichen has never seen a combustion reaction that doesn’t produce smoke. "

As soon as Sun Heding, who had been added the official title of the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, finished speaking, Zhu Youjian interrupted him:
"Don't be lazy, gunpowder can indeed achieve smokeless, you have produced all the nitrified gunpowder, and the smokeless nitrified gunpowder is just a finishing touch, think more about how to achieve better nitrification treatment.

If it doesn’t work, use purification and separation to analyze the components of the selected nitrocellulose to see what kind of substance is causing the smoke, and what is the substance that produces a lot of smoke when it burns, whether it is because of sulfur, chlorine or something of. "

"In addition, see if this material plays an important role in the entire explosion process. If not, find a way to decompose this material. If there is, find a way to replace it with a better material, such as acidification, alkalization or even metal salification. Try them all, the Ministry of Accounting and Zhen give you hundreds of thousands of silver dollars almost every month. You can’t spend it in vain, but you can think about it if you don’t have enough money. There must be a brave man, and within three to five years, I don't believe that there is no way to make smokeless gunpowder!"

Although Zhu Youjian didn't know how nitroexplosives are smoke-free, he knew that there are indeed substances in the world that burn without producing a lot of smoke and dust. For example, polyvinyl chloride in organic polymer materials will produce smoke when burning, and polyethylene Combustion will not occur.

But Zhu Youjian could not use this example to convince Sun Heding, because people in the Ming Dynasty such as Sun Heding did not know what organic chemistry was.

Even Sun Heding himself often plays with glycerin with nitroglycerin, but he doesn't know that glycerin is actually an organic substance.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian could only use imperial power to force Sun Heding to continue to develop smokeless gunpowder.

Zhu Youjian said and criticized: "Smoke is a phenomenon formed by solid particles, but fog is a liquid. You are also academicians of the Daming Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering. You still have smoke in your mouth. Be rigorous!"

"Weichen understands," Sun Heding couldn't help muttering inwardly: "You yourself have long smoke and short smoke."

(End of this chapter)