Chapter 436: Upgraded Tiger Cannon

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The sudden sound made Xiao Ming and Fei Yue'er separate, and Fei Yue'er instinctively walked towards the inner room of the bedroom. August 1?? Chinese W? W? W?. ?8?1㈧Ｚ?W㈠. ?Ｃ㈧Ｏ㈧Ｍ?
With a cough, Xiao Ming walked out of the bedroom and was greeted by the rich.
"Your Highness, the copper mine has been found." Qian Dafu said excitedly, and then Qian Dafu took out a handful of copper ore.
"Copper mine."
Xiao Ming was excited at this time. Not to mention that copper is still the currency of Great Yu, but that the wide application of copper in industry is also an extremely important resource for Qingzhou.
"His Royal Highness, this copper mine is really hard to find. After more than two years, the old slave has finally found it. Now the old slave has already deployed the mining, we can also mint coins in Qingzhou in the future." Qian Dafu said.
"Coin?" Xiao Ming shook his head.
Qian Dafu said: "Yes, your lord, as long as the current princes can mine copper ore, they all use the mined copper to cast copper coins. Doesn't your Highness want to cast copper coins?"
"Money is to be cast, but it cannot be cast randomly." Xiao Ming said.
In Da Yu, everyone does not understand what inflation is, so it is inevitable to make money indiscriminately. It is precisely because of this that the people do not trust copper coins.
Because sometimes one copper plate can buy a steamed bun, and sometimes three copper plates can not buy a steamed bun. This is all because of the confusion of copper coins in the market.
Therefore, for Xiao Ming, he was not prepared to abuse copper coins like other vassals, because this was irresponsible to the people, and in order to avoid the inflow of foreign inferior copper coins, he was even more prepared to use his own currency.
And the reason why he was so happy this time was not because copper coins could be coined, but because Qingzhou had another strategic resource.
Now Qingzhou is about to attack Ryukyu during the New Year. Now that he has copper mines, he can let Chen Qi use copper mines to forge some six-pound bronze field guns.
After all, field guns do not need to be mass-produced like defensive guns and naval guns. At this time, using bronze materials can improve the quality of field guns.
During the Napoleonic period, field guns were mostly made of bronze.
So, after a pause, he said to Qian Dafu: "First, mine a batch and ship it to Qingzhou. The king is going to hand over to the Equipment Department to make bronze field guns."
"Yes, Your Highness." Qian Dafu was taken aback. He finally understood what Xiao Ming meant. "This copper mine is not far away, just 180 miles northwest of Qingzhou. The first batch of copper mines will be five days later. Stone can be reached."
Xiao Ming nodded when he heard the words. He said to Qian Dafu: "In addition to copper mines, during this time, I will send people to Laizhou to look for gold mines and Dengzhou to look for silver mines. This is what the king needs now. "
Qian Dafu understood, smiled and said, "Your Highness, please feel at ease."
After telling Xiao Ming the good news about the copper mine being discovered, Qian Dafu arched his hands and turned and left.
At this time, Xiao Ming let out a sigh of relief. In addition to casting field guns, copper mines have many uses, the most important of which is to make copper wires.
Therefore, the current copper mine is equivalent to reserves for future power applications.
Sending away Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming turned around and returned to the bedroom. Fei Yueer was waiting for him in the inner room. The two were separated for half a month, and the gathering was joyful, and there was no need to say a lot of gentleness.
The next day, he slowly got up after three poles in the sun, saying that he would be busy as a leader, and those who would not be a leader were busy with himself.
Now he can finally realize how busy the chief is, and he has a relaxing time, after all, now Pang Yukun is responsible for government affairs, and Niu Ben is responsible for the army.
These two generals belonged to the desperate Saburo, working like a desperate job, so both the state government and the army were well managed by the two.
Lazily grooming and eating, the servant told him Fei Yueer went to the textile workshop with Luluo in the morning.
He understood that Fei Yueer was busy designing her own underwear.
With a wry smile and shook his head, Xiao Ming went to the military workshop after eating. He was going to see how the Tiger Zun Cannon was and at the same time talked about the field gun.
"His Royal Highness, it happened that you came. This is the Tiger Cannon that we are designing now." As soon as he arrived at the military workshop, Chen Qi carried out a brand new Tiger Cannon.
Seeing this tiger gun, Xiao Ming immediately gave a thumbs up. Chen Qi has upgraded the tiger gun. The current tiger gun has been separated from the original tiger gun of the Ming Dynasty, but along the direction of the mortar gun. exhibition.
Now the base of this mortar is a square metal plate, and the cylindrical barrel is fixed to the metal plates on both sides through the lugs, so that the mortar can be freely adjusted up and down to shoot.
The whole mortar can be moved by only two soldiers carrying the handles on the ground metal plate, which is very convenient and quick.
"Yes, there is progress." Xiao Ming said, looking at the brand new mortar.
Chen Qi smiled and said: "His Royal Highness, the lower officials have modified the mortar cannon based on the textbook, and at the same time there are cannonballs."
With that said, Chen Qi handed the hollow cork to Xiao Ming. A lead was extended from the cork. He turned the cork and the cork went outwards or inwards according to different directions.
He asked: "Can you know the specific explosion time of this shell now?"
"Although the accuracy rate is not high, it is much better than the previous gunpowder cans. At least it avoids the situation that the ammunition will explode in the barrel, and through the rotating cork we can probably control the time of the bomb explosion."
"Really?" Xiao Ming had some expectations. If effective results can be achieved, this attack on the Dutch will be much easier.
Chen Qi nodded, and said to the craftsman on the side: "Experiment and show your Royal Highness."
The two craftsmen got the order and immediately carried the mortar to Xiao Ming~EbookFREE.me~ and then poured the gunpowder into the bottom of the mortar, and then stuffed the ammunition with the flat-bottomed wooden support into the mortar. "
"Your Highness, just hit the target three hundred meters away."
Chen Qi has already mastered the calculation method of the parabola, so now he can calculate the impact point of the shell based on the different elevation angles of the mortar. Although the error of the impact point is a bit larger, it is always in a good direction.
"Let it go!" With an order, the craftsman fired a cannon.
After a muffled sound, the ammunition flew out in a parabola and dropped at a position of about 300 meters. With a "boom", the shell suddenly exploded just three meters from the ground.
Chen Qi said embarrassedly at this time: "His Royal Highness, this is the problem now. The time of the explosion of the flower bomb is not fixed."
Although Chen Qi said it lightly, Xiao Ming was already surprised and couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. It was great to be able to make the flower bomb within this error range.
He said: "It's already very good. Now we will produce mortars and deliver them to the Qingzhou Army. In addition, this time this king will talk to you about field artillery." (To be continued.)