The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 272 The first effect
After receiving the gun base, the supervisor took out calipers, small scales and other tools from the bag and carefully measured it. Then he wrote down the date and process step number on the booklet next to Li Jing's work desk, and then pressed his fingerprints, which was regarded as acceptance.

Only then did Li Jing put the blunderbuss machine base on the drilling platform again, and fixed it with wooden clamps, then gently pressed down the upper part of the drilling platform, and turned the "Zhi" on the side with his other hand with unskilled movements. Glyph handle.

Driven by a series of belts and several gears, the drill bit rotated rapidly, and then landed firmly on the iron piece, splashing iron filings.

Although Li Jing has many opinions on the current process standardization, he is extremely impressed by this drill rig.Compared with the drill press he used to pull and rotate with a bowstring, this thing is not only extremely fast but also very stable, with round holes and no skew.

You must know that although the twist drill he is using now seems simple, it was only invented in the early [-]th century. After function calculation, the drilling efficiency is extremely high.

Li Jing recalled that Mr. Xiang said in the technical school today that pure manual processing should be reduced as much as possible in the future, and that the entire Ordnance Bureau would sooner or later be replaced with convenient machines like this drill floor.

It is said that those craftsmen from Jiangxi also brought something called a "boring machine", which is even more amazing. It used to take seven or eight days to bore a gun barrel, but it took less than half a day with that tool.Moreover, the boring is smooth, and there is almost no boring damage.

If so, the standardization of this process is not bad.He thought to himself, as long as he followed the rules of the "Procedure Manual" and got used to those meticulous new tools, his work would be much easier in the future.

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In the evening, the craftsmen of the Armament Bureau had all finished their work.However, Zhu Linmi took Song Yingxing, Xiang Feng and others to inspect the various workshops.

Recently, he has been rushing to the Weapons Bureau as soon as he left the Wenhua Palace to promote the standardization of craftsmanship.

Although there was no one in the workshop, the artisans had tidied up all the workbenches when they finished work yesterday, and it looked like a modern workshop at first glance.

Zhu Linming walked to the finished product storage area, picked out two pairs of gun machines, and took out tools to measure them carefully. Although there were still some deviations between the two, they could be regarded as common parts on the whole.

He turned around and took a pair of flintlock guns without a gun machine from Xu Erlu's hand, and put the gun machine in his hand on it.The blunderbuss and the blunderbuss bed fit very well, and the largest gap is only the width of two hairs. Basically, the blunderbuss can be loaded and fired after fixing the blunderbuss.

He looked at the craftsman's name "Li Jing" engraved on the gun machine again, and nodded in satisfaction.This seemingly insignificant thing in later generations was no small miracle in the seventeenth century.

You must know that the firecrackers of this era are all handcrafted, and the craftsmen are independent. Even if the same model is used, the parts cannot be used for each other.If a part of a gun is damaged, the whole gun can only be taken to the gunsmith for repair.

The gun bed and gun machine in his hands are made by two different workshops, how well they can fit together shows that the standardization of craftsmanship has begun to show results.

After the process standardization is mature, the assembly line production mode can be further implemented.

This thing is one of the big industrial killers, which can increase the efficiency of mass production several times or even ten times!
Moreover, there is another advantage of assembly line production that cannot be ignored, such as making guns. In the future, there will be no gunsmiths as a profession, and they will be replaced by boring pipemakers, machine toolmakers, and gunsmiths.In this way, the difficulty of training craftsmen has been reduced several times.

With high-efficiency large-scale industries and a large number of available craftsmen, it is not far away to realize the industrialization of Ming Dynasty.

Afterwards, Zhu Linmei and others walked into a workshop for making gun barrels.Currently there are only two boring machines, which were brought by Lu Ning from Suji Iron Works, and there are only three sets of rifling equipment, so there are only six or seven gun barrels in the finished product area.

Zhu Linmi measured all the gun barrels one by one, but only four of them met the tolerance requirement of 0.1mm, and the tolerances of the rest were close to 0.15mm.

He turned to Xiang Feng and said, "The acceptance must be stricter. No matter how low the output is, non-standard finished products cannot be allowed to pass."

Xiang Feng wiped off his sweat, quickly lowered his eyes and raised his hands, "Your official, please remember."

Zhu Linmei said to Song Yingxing again: "It seems that we still have to set up a 'nuclear collection department', and set up a special department to be responsible for the inspection and collection. Only when the final checkers are meticulous, can the craftsmen strictly implement the standardized process."

"Yes, students will do it tomorrow."

In fact, the pass rate of [-]/[-] has made Zhu Linming quite satisfied, after all, it has not been long since the implementation of process standardization.

Even if the rate of finished products remains unchanged in the future, the cost of producing 200 rifled guns can barely be accepted with the efforts of gunsmiths in Jiangxi and Fujing.This is more than ten times better than the situation where only [-] of the [-] gun barrels can be used as rifled guns.

And it is foreseeable that as the craftsmen become more and more proficient, the rate of finished products will definitely continue to increase. Sooner or later, the cost of rifled guns will drop to a level close to that of flintlock guns.

He then told Xiang Feng, "From now on, the Ordnance Bureau will go all out to produce Type II Jaeger guns, and Mr. Song will report the required expenses to me directly."

"The subordinate obeys the order."

Zhu Linmi turned to Xu Erlu and said, "Weiyuan is the best at casting cannons, and you will be responsible for the standardization of craftsmanship. Oh, by the way, copper will be used in the future, so don't worry."

"Yes."

When these tens of thousands of rifled guns are deployed to the Dragon Guard Army and Polu Battalion, coupled with a large number of field artillery of uniform specifications, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army will achieve absolute crushing of Jianlu.

Zhu Linming sighed in her heart, even if Dorgon fights with hundreds of thousands of troops, it is absolutely impossible to stop him from leading the army to the Northern Expedition and recovering the two capitals!

"When the workmanship standardization of the Fujing Arms Bureau comes to an end, Mr. Song and Weiyuan will go to Jiangxi again to promote standardization at the Ganzhou Arms Bureau and Suji Iron Works.

"In the end, all the factories under the Ministry of Industry will complete the standardization of craftsmanship, and the actions of the court will affect the folk craftsmen. At that time, in Fujian alone, the output of military weapons and civilian utensils will far exceed that of Jianlu."

The few people present did not expect that what they did would have such a huge effect, and they all bowed in awe: "Students (lower officials) will definitely do their best!"

Just as he was talking, he saw Shi Lin coming quickly, and said to Zhu Lin: "My lord, the Zhu Ge department is asking to see you."

"Zhu Jizuo?" Zhu Linmei frowned slightly, "What's the urgent matter that made him chase here? Let him go to the main hall of the Weapons Bureau."

"Yes."

After a while, Zhu Linmi came to the main hall, and Zhu Jizuo hurriedly stepped forward to salute. Before Zhu Linmi could ask, he hurriedly said, "Your Highness, it should be about noon today. The Helan people bombarded the people in the west near Nan'ao Mountain. One of the ships transported by the Nians to southern Fujian was destroyed, and two were injured. The head of the Ministry of Rites accompanying the ship was also injured by the gunfire."

Nan'ao Mountain is an island south of Zhao'an, less than a hundred miles away from Zhao'an, and the Helan people swaggered here to attack the merchant ships doing business with Daming.

(End of this chapter)