Chapter 459: Steam engine workshop

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The cold texture of the metal came from the body of the flintlock.
Raising the flintlock and aiming forward, Xiao Ming said, "Maybe you can try another type of bullet, which will be easier to fill with round bullets."
Flintlock guns have been produced and equipped for a period of time. Xiao Ming has been mentally prepared for the appearance of rifled guns. The first rifled gun in the contemporary era was born in the early 15th century. These rifled guns are collectively called rifles.
At the beginning of the 17th century, the Danish army in Europe was the first to equip rifles. However, the production of rifled guns was complicated at this time and the loading was very difficult. This caused the rifled guns to not exist on a large scale in the European army, but as a part of the rifled gun. There is a skirmish line for the firing forces to attack.
At the same time, the difficulty of loading is part of it. The low-intensity explosive of black powder also makes the range of the rifled gun not too outstanding, but compared to the shotgun, the range of the black powder-based rifled gun has increased from 90 meters to about 200 meters. This is already pretty good.
Now he can't change the black powder, but for Xiao Ming, he can change the bullet. After all, he is very aware of the drawbacks of the rifled gun, and knows how to restrain it. What he said to Song Changping was the Miner bomb of the later generation.
"Is your Royal Highness talking about the cylindrical-headed bullets in books?" Song Changping said: "It is precisely because of the difficulty in filling round lead bullets that the official is trying to produce this cylindrical-headed bullet."
"You're already making this bullet? Yes, your progress is getting bigger and bigger now." Xiao Ming laughed.
The Miner rifle is a front-loaded rifled rifle from the 19th century. This rifle is very powerful, with a range of up to 900 meters and accuracy within 500 meters.
It's just a pity that Song Changping's rifled rifle and the reproduced Miner had already met the requirements of this rifle, but it couldn't keep up with the gunpowder. After all, the gunpowder used in the Miner rifle of that period was all strong gunpowder.
Therefore, according to his estimation, Song Changping's rifled gun and Miner can at least reach a range of about 300 meters, and there is no problem in maintaining accuracy within 150 meters.
And because this kind of bullet is slightly smaller than the rifle caliber, it also solves the problem that the bullet cannot be inserted into the barrel or blocked when the bullet is too large.
Because the slightly smaller Miner bomb can be easily pushed into the barrel with a push rod, which greatly increases the rate of fire.
At the same time, the Minie bullet was threaded around the body to match the rifling, the middle of the thread was stuffed with animal oil, and the bottom of the bullet was made of cork.
When shooting, the gunpowder gas impacted the cork, and the cork slammed into a big bullet after being hit instantly.
The bullet is enlarged, so it can rely on the bullet itself to complete the chamber sealing at the moment of launching, and the gunpowder gas will not leak the kinetic energy of the bullet, which greatly increases the range of the bullet.
This is also the reason why Xiao Ming inferred that Song Changping's rifled gun could increase the range to 300 meters or even 400 meters after using the Miner bomb.
"It's a pity that the production of this kind of bullets is more troublesome, and soldiers can't make bullets anytime and anywhere on the battlefield." Song Changping said.
Xiao Ming said: "There are advantages and disadvantages. The long manufacturing cycle of rifled guns will temporarily produce small batches of equipment. And now that Lin Wentao has made out the steam engine, it may not be a problem in a while. You should focus on research when you go back. Let’s talk about how to draw rifling and produce cylindrical bullets."
Song Changping nodded. This rifled gun was manually pulled out with a hook knife. It was very time-consuming and laborious. Although he didn't know what the steam engine Xiao Ming was talking about, it seemed to be a very powerful thing.
After leaving the rifled gun, Song Changping talked to Xiao Ming about some rifled gun manufacturing skills before returning to the military workshop.
He came here mainly to seek Xiao Ming's opinion on the rifled gun. Now he has the power of Xiao Ming's support. After he returns, he will release his hands and feet to produce a new rifled gun.
Watching Song Changping leave, Xiao Ming smiled and looked at the first rifled gun of the Great Yu Kingdom. The progress of the fief day by day comforted him.
With these technological foundations, he feels that his fief is more and more secure, but the most important thing for him now is how to apply the steam engine to the production of various industries in Qingzhou today.
Thinking of this, he thought carefully all night, and the next day he went to the Department of Equipment and asked both Lin Wentao and Zhang Liuju to come.
"Your Highness."
Lin Wentao was still in a state of excitement because of the introduction of the steam engine, but Zhang Liu seemed much more calm, because the Department of Apparatus was the first to keep up with Xiao Ming and had seen too much wind and rain.
Last night, Xiao Ming thought about it for a long time, and decided to let Lin Wentao and Zhang Liu establish the Qingzhou Steam Engine Workshop, which is for mass production of steam engines. Therefore, he said: "The reason for calling you is very simple. Now you two are responsible for producing steam engines. For this reason, this king is going to set up a special workshop. This workshop will be in charge of the two of you. Lin Wentao will be the workshop supervisor and Zhang Liu will be the deputy workshop supervisor.
"Steam Engine Workshop?" Lin Wentao became excited when he heard this. He used to be just a student, and now he wants to become a workshop supervisor. This position is directly comparable to Chen Qi and Lu Tong, and he is naturally happy.
Zhang Liu is also smiling, which is a kind of promotion for both of them.
"Why? Not happy." Xiao Ming joked.
"Yes, yes, how can we not be willing?" Lin Wentao and Zhang Liu laughed at the same time.
Xiao Ming nodded, and then handed a book to Zhang Liu. This book recorded how the steam engine was combined with other machinery. In the future, Lin Wentao was responsible for production and technological improvement, and he was responsible for the use of the steam engine.
Zhang Liu took the book and flipped through it and felt deeply shocked~EbookFREE.me~ In his eyes, the current Xiao Ming is simply an omnipotent existence.
The personnel are fixed, and the rest is the question of location, funding and craftsmen in the workshop.
In order to enable the steam engine workshop to be put into production one day earlier, he ruthlessly transferred half of the craftsmen of the equipment department to Lin Wentao.
The craftsman of this equipment department has always been Xiao Ming's queen craftsman, and now he has reluctantly cut his love, which shows that he is determined to use the steam engine.
The three agreed on the matter, and Xiao Ming immediately asked Chen Wenlong to select a workshop in the workshop area. At the same time, he asked Lin Wentao to send the first steam engine to the lathe workshop and the boring machine to cut the cylinder.
The difficulty in the production of steam engines is the cutting of the cylinders. Now that the first steam engine is used as a primer, this efficiency will naturally increase.
The steam engine workshop was established, and Xiao Ming sent the structural drawing of the Jenny textile machine to Chen Wenlong to let the remaining craftsmen produce it.
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