Vol 6 Chapter 45: steampunk era

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As expected, Lu Yushi was a tough guy who didn't want five buckets of rice. The donkey didn't care about his wife and children. He said that he would rather die than eat the grain transformed by evildoers. He also said that the rice in the grain store might be gravel and rubble. It has become, and it will be fine for the time being if you eat it. After a long time, you will die.
The face of the officials at the scene was a bit unbearable. It was purely sullen and entangled. Taishi Liu did produce hundreds of thousands of catties of clear water during the Battle of Yashan, but the food was not actually made by him, but the court sent ships to Champa. The Champa rice that was bought with real money and silver was pretended to be changed into food by the Taishi to give 300,000 soldiers and civilians a peace of mind. After all, there is nothing more reassuring than the gods.
With Chen Yizhong's political wisdom, of course he understood that this round had failed. He was planning to stop the battle, but Wen Tianxiang had nothing to do with him. He continued to show everyone around, and it was impossible to withdraw halfway. After all, the emperor and the queen mother were still there.
This time I visited the Military Armament Institute of the Ministry of Industry. This was originally a workshop under the Ministry of Industry that made armor, bows, crossbows, knives and guns, but now it has become the largest organization in the dynasty, with tens of thousands of craftsmen, unlimited power to allocate money and food, and The emperor, the queen mother, the prime ministers and the generals gave full support.
Originally, Chen Yizhong intended to take down Liu Yanzhi and then attack the military. The Ministry of Industry had the power to dominate, occupying 80% of the manpower and material resources of the court, which is not bad! The big craftsmen of the Armed Forces Institute have 500 catties of rice per month, which is higher than the income of the fourth-grade officials. A bunch of idle and redundant staff have long been uncomfortable, but there is no suitable opportunity to attack. Guarded by the Forbidden Army, no idlers can enter, and they haven't found a handle for a while. Now Wen Tianxiang takes the initiative to show them, but it is a godsend.
The weapon was set in an open area by the sea. From a long distance, you could see a tall slender hollow brick tower. Black smoke came out every day. Song people didn’t recognize that it was a brick chimney. Rumors were immortal. Man-made giant alchemy furnace. In fact, the building under the chimney is similar to the alchemy furnace, which is a steel plant designed and built by the Party.
Shengjia came to the Armament Research Institute, where he was personally greeted by Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry and the Patriotic Party of the Prince's Youth Division, and led everyone to visit the achievements of the past few months. First inspected Jianufang, which is a workshop of the Armament Research Institute. , To produce the latest chain mail and muskets.
The armor of the Song army was not inferior to the gold and yuan, and the quality of the bow and crossbow was not inferior to the Mongolian compound bow. Therefore, the generals of the imperial court believed that there was no improvement in the weapon, but they saw that the collar used fine iron. The chain mail formed by the ring was still taken aback.
Only Chen Yizhong dismissed it. Chain mail is not a new thing. It can be produced by all countries in the Western Regions. This type of armor is better than flexible and light, and can move with the body, but it has basically no defense against blunt weapons such as axes and hammers. Moreover, the production is cumbersome, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the gain is not worth the loss.
The party’s patriotism is so wit. He has already seen that today’s inspectors are not good. He smiled and said: "The Western Region chain mail is usually four chains, and the six chains are rare things, but the chain mails produced by Jianufang are all The eight chains are worn by only generals like Zhang Hongfan in the Mongolian army."
People who know the goods nod frequently, and the chain mail is divided into three or six or nine grades. The four-linked chain is relatively sparse, and the six-linked chain is much stronger. The eight-linked chain is dense and compact. It is the top grade in the chain armor, but it is made It is also more cumbersome. There are not many craftsmen who master this technique. Even a skilled craftsman can make an eight-link chain mail. It takes a year. This is not a cost. The raw materials of the chain mail are each piece. Small flat iron rings, these iron rings need to be heated, forged, twisted, and welded one by one by a craftsman. The workload can be imagined.
As if guessing what everyone thought, Dang Paiguo said: "Jia Nu Fang can produce 100 collars of chain mail every day."
Everyone looked at each other and couldn't believe it. If this is true, then at least tens of thousands of craftsmen are needed, but the entire military weaponry is only these people, and it is impossible to use all of them to produce armor.
Chen Yizhong was a former prime minister, and he considered the problem more comprehensively. He concluded that the party is patriotic and exaggerated. The first thing to make so many armors is iron, but Liu Qiu has no iron ore at all!
"Dang Shang Shu, can you visit the workshop and see how the craftsmen make it." Chen Yizhong asked with a sneer. He expected that the Party Patriotic Association would be deflated, and Wen Tianxiang would cover it, but to his surprise, the party patriot was happy. agree.
The workshop that made the chain mail was in a huge house built of red bricks. I heard loud rumbling noises from far away. The Party Patriotic didn’t explain it, and led everyone in and stood at the door to admire his masterpiece. .
In the workshop, several iron and steel machines are working under the drive of a steam engine. The steel billets smelted from the steelmaking furnace in the steelmaking plant next door enter the water-tank drawing machine to draw long steel wires, which are then cut into uniform sections by the lathe The section is stamped into a flat steel ring and linked into a three-foot-wide steel cloth while it is hot. The last step is hand-made. The craftsmen make the steel cloth into a chain mail jacket step by step. The collar and cuffs are wrapped in cotton. Lined with a layer of silk.
In the machine on the other side, an iron helmet is being produced on the assembly line. This is a stamped iron helmet. There is no red tasseled spire and phoenix wings to wipe the forehead, but it is lined with cowhide and leather straps are used to tie the jaw. , There is also a stamped Song character on the helmet, and the craftsman is holding a brush dipped in red lacquer, and coloring these Song characters one by one.
Everyone was shocked by this scene, without manual work, relying solely on machines, is this a fairy or a demon?
Lu Yushi seems to have become dumb. Chen Yizhong can't find words to find faults. Although he is good at infighting, he can see the big problems clearly. The weapons of the Song Dynasty are sharp and they will be restored in the future. Everyone has them. The officialdom is better than fighting for power on this small island.
By now, those who want to pick the bones in the egg have changed their positions. One by one, they are like elementary school students walking into the Children's Palace of Science, impatiently wanting to see newer and bizarre things.
Dang Paiguo met their needs and demonstrated the treasure of the town shop of the Armed Forces Institute, the General Cannon of the Town State on the shooting range.
This is a gun made of bronze, using cavity wax injection technology, no bubble blisters will be formed during the casting process. The gun has been polished and polished, and its appearance is bright and smooth, exquisitely exquisite, it is a work of art.
The artillery in the field exercise was a man of large waist and roundness selected from the Forbidden Army. Four gunners operated a general gun. The gun body had two ears, which happened to be stuck in the grooves on both sides of the gun carriage. The gun carriage was equipped with iron hoops and wooden wheels. It can be pushed by a horse or mounted on a battleship. Soldiers pushed the gun cart to the sea to build an artillery position, bury the at the rear of the gun cart in the soil, and took out a wooden ruler like I measured it decently, adjusted the height of the muzzle, and then ignited the propellant in the chamber with a red steel drill.
There was a loud noise, the muzzle of flames shot in all directions, a cannon popped out of the chamber, and in the blink of an eye it fell into the distant sea, splashing a high water column.
The little emperor Zhao Bing was scared and crying on the spot. It is said that the emperor was used to seeing big scenes since he was a child. He saw a lot of knives and swords, but the sound of such a deafening cannon came too suddenly, let alone a seven-year-old child, even Chen Yizhong almost urinated on the spot.
The gunner measured the distance and reported that he had hit one hundred feet.
Now Chen Yizhong understands why Zhang Shijie strongly supports the Ministry of Industry to take up money and food. The artillery produced by the military is really sharp. This type of artillery is far better than all the weapons of the Mongols, whether it is used in land or sea battles. Cannons, crossbows, and light riding teams are all without question. Naval battles are even more dominant. One shot can sink an enemy ship from a distance of one hundred meters. With this weapon, Da Song will surely dominate the sea.
Chen Yizhong was still thinking about it, and the second gun sounded again. It turned out that this gun is still a child-mother structure. The rear part of the gun body is movable. There are decomposable magazines. Each magazine is of uniform specifications and contains an eight-jin. The heavy round cast iron shells, and an optimized propellant packaged in cloth, the combat rate of fire can be as high as 20 rounds per minute as long as the magazine is supplied.
A group of officials were dumbfounded and speechless. The Patriotic Party thought that they were not scared enough. They introduced: "This kind of eight-jin town state general artillery is a small artillery for land warfare, and naval battles are used for a larger town state. The male cannon can hit five hundred feet away. If you use a bomb, one shot can wipe out a neatly lined up Mongolian thousand-man team."
Everyone nodded their heads as if smashing garlic, all showing a look of worship and admiration, even Lu Yushi had reduced his arrogance and listened humbly.
"The Ministry of Industry is building a new battleship, a battleship that can hold three hundred guns like this." The Party Paiguo is still uncanny and endless. "Such a battleship is called a battleship, and a smaller one is equipped with two hundred guns. Cruisers, there is also a kind of ship that can sneak in the sea. It is called a submarine. It can enter the inland river from the sea mouth and drive all the way under the eyes of the Mongols."
Someone asked how the submarine could move forward without exposed sails.
"Using electricity, batteries, you don't understand." Party Patriotic Road.
These findings were all built by him. The history professor of Jiangdong University is actually not writing papers, but studying the crossing and farming techniques of various dynasties. The party patriot spent ten years studying how the traversers quickly established a steam civilization in ancient times. This is a systematic and complicated process. It took Europeans hundreds of years to complete, and the party patriot took a few months to initially complete the construction of steam engines, steel plants, and arsenals. The time and place are indispensable.
First of all, he has the full support of the Song Dynasty court. Civilian blacksmiths ~ EbookFREE.me~ artisans who make armor and weapons in the army, as well as a large number of civilians, are all allocated and used free of charge. They only need to take care of two dry meals made from Champa rice a day. That is to say, he first built a wheel kiln for burning red bricks. With the rapid production of red bricks and red tiles, he gave priority to the construction of steelmaking furnaces.
In the Song Dynasty, there was already mature ironmaking technology, and relatively good steel could be made, but the efficiency was not high and the energy consumption was huge. The party’s patriotic construction was a converter that was invented in the 19th century. It only takes half a furnace to make one furnace of steel. It is a high-quality high-carbon steel that is dephosphorized and deoxidized.
The coal used for steelmaking comes from coal mines in the north of Liuqiu, and the iron ore comes from iron ore in the mountains. Taiwan’s coal and iron resources are not rich enough, but they are sufficient for the Song Dynasty. Ships come from the north every day. Ships of coal are brought in, and a large amount of copper and iron ore is carried out from the mountains by people on their shoulders and sent to the steelmaking furnace of the military weaponry every day.
With coal, you can produce coke and gas. With coke, you can make steel. With steel, you can pull out steel wires. With steel wires, you can weave chain mail. Of course, chain mail is just a by-product. The big use is to draw copper wire, which is used to wind the coil of the generator, and is used to make communication cables; and the role of steel is not only to produce armored weapons, but more plates are continuously sent to shipyards in ports for Build armored warships.
Perhaps it’s not bad to stay in this era. Unifying the world is not a problem. This is the occasional ambition of the party’s patriotism.