Chapter 782: No More, No Less (Sixth Update, 3/20 for the Silver Alliance)
"Not perfect? Where did Liu Qing say this? ”
Zhu Cihong is the same as his father, and he will never pretend to understand anything he doesn't understand, especially in front of Liu Hongji, the tone of the two is almost the same.
Liu Hongjian was speechless, he had always thought that he was a successful shopkeeper, but now he suddenly realized that he was wrong.
He is not, Uncle Chongzhen is, and Zhu Cihong is.
In the past few years, where has Liu Hong not been running around, fighting, and fighting fires? And look at the father and son of the Zhu family, they are honestly hanging around the palace, and what's more, Xiao Zhu is still living a dragon life, who to reason with?
"Your Majesty, what the prince means is that he wants to add a scope to this gun and make bullets into magazines." Song Yingxing, who had been waiting on the side to listen to the two muttering and not listening, took over the conversation.
The magazine is not a magazine, in fact, with the current industrial level of the Ming Dynasty, there is no way to achieve the magazine pressure technology in a short period of time.
Mercury thunderate is too sensitive as an initiating agent, and when the magazine magazine is pressed into the bullet, a section of the pointed end can easily touch the primer end of the bullet, resulting in an accident.
But the magazine is different, to put it bluntly, it is similar to 98k in a chicken game in later generations, where the bullets are fixed together with a metal clip and made in a row of five, or six in two rows.
The structure of the magazine is simple and easy to make, it is only a reloading aid, while the magazine is a bomb feeding device, and its structure is much more complex.
It's just that the gun body will inevitably have to be changed accordingly, and the Ordnance Institute is still under development.
As for the scope, it is also very necessary, and the effective range of the rear-loading primer has reached a terrifying 450 paces after testing, which is a full 150 steps farther than the second-generation front-loading rifled gun.
This is due to the tightness of the barrel, as well as the shape and material of the bullet, and the copper cartridge case of the primer bullet is integrated with the warhead, and the air tightness is naturally much better than that of the front-loading lead bullet.
But even though the effective range of the musket has reached 450 paces, it is still necessary to hit a target more than 400 paces away by feeling.
Unless it is a sharpshooter who has been tempered for thousands of years, such as Yang Tianbao and a few other good players in Liu Hongji's personal guard camp, but the gun in their hands is not this kind of Mauser rifle that has just been developed.
Oh no, it should be called Hengyi and Zhongliang rifles, but they have the famous AK in their hands, or the final version of AK AKM automatic rifle, which is much more stable and accurate.
And with the addition of the scope, it is different, at least if you want to hit a target at a distance of one or two hundred paces, there is still a lot to do.
After the successful development of glass in the first two years, Liu Hongji's first thought was to develop telescopes and sights, and the original sights have now been assembled in the AKM team.
It's just that Liu Hongjian is not very satisfied with the accuracy of this scope, and the person in charge of the new generation of sight developed by the Ordnance Institute is the younger Sun Yunqiu, this young man from the first phase of the College of Engineering really impressed Song Yingxing and Liu Hong.
He not only has an amazing talent in mechanics, but also shows great potential in optical instruments, and he already has the title of baron on his head before he is weak, and this is still Song Yingxing's fear that the reward will be too much to make this kid infected with a bad disease, so he specially greeted Liu Hongji.
"Chen wants to do it in one step, and after the scope and magazine research are mature and the assembly is completed, then we will consider the issue of mass production." Liu Hong gradually sighed and said.
Blindly mass-producing an immature weapon is a great waste of manpower and material resources, and it is also irresponsible to the soldiers of the army.
Which kind of firearm in later generations wants to be assembled into the whole army, it is not after years of countless trials and trials to be realized, although the power of the musket of the Ming Dynasty today cannot be said to be the first in the world, but it is not at all inferior to the Europa, there is no need to rush for a while.
"It's me who is too impatient, everything will be arranged according to Liu Qing and Song Qing." Zhu Cihong honestly admitted his mistake, which made Song Yingxing deeply surprised.
The heart said that it was no wonder that the prince dared to do things so fearlessly, it turned out that he had already figured out the emperor.
"Alas! Song Lao, the development of howitzers must also be stepped up, whether Daming can win the war with the Dutch depends on you. Liu Hong gradually sighed and said meaningfully.
The successful development of grenades, i.e., flowering shells, and the initiating charge mercury thunderate, not only accelerated the evolution of muskets, but also had the same milestone significance for artillery.
The front-loading smoothbore gun corresponds to the front-loading smoothbore gun, but the front-loading rifled gun cannot correspond to the front-loading rifled gun, because the shell is too big, and it is not possible to poke the shell along the rifling line with an iron rod.
But the afterloading is different, after the successful development of the primer, the afterloading artillery is almost ready to come out, if you can produce a breech gun with rifling in one step, it is simply like a tiger with wings.
Of course, the technical problems are all pressed on Song Yingxing, Liu Hongjian himself doesn't understand anything, and at this point, Liu Hongjian is similar to Uncle and Xiao Zhu, and he will never command blindly what he doesn't understand.
It's just that all the burdens are put on Song Yingxing's shoulders alone, which makes Liu Hongjian feel a little guilty, Song Yingxing has worked day and night for the research of the Ordnance Institute, and now he is already thin.
"Don't worry, Lord Wang, the old man is sure that the howitzer you mentioned will be built within half a year, cough cough-" It was cold outside, and Song Yingxing coughed and said.
"Old Song, you also have to pay attention to your body! Forget it, I've told you no less than eight times, and you never listened.
So then, from tomorrow onwards, the king will send men. Liu Hongjian is also okay with Uncle Song.
In general, scientific researchers are like this, even if they have superior material conditions, but these great scientists are always willing to stay in the laboratory, and careless about the material pleasures of the world of flowers.
If he remembers correctly, Uncle Song lived to be seventy-nine years old after he was idle at home, but now that he is only sixty-one years old, his hair has turned gray, and he is really worried that Uncle Song will have an accident.
"Send someone? Who to send? Song Yingxing was a little confused.
"This king is going to send two people to keep an eye on you, Old Song." Liu Hong said helplessly.
"Stare at me? What are you staring at me, is the prince worried about the secret spread of the old man's ordnance station? Song Yingxing said angrily.
"Hahaha, Song Qing is too worried, I think Liu Qing wants to force you to rest." Zhu Cihong still doesn't know Liu Hongji's thoughts.
In fact, this is also an important reason why Zhu Cihong gradually has special trust in Liu Hong, and he has always remembered what Chongzhen said to him before he died-bless his people, you should believe in them and kiss them, so that they can be used and safe.
"That's right! The two of them are specially staring at Song Lao, staring at you in the morning that you have to exercise, staring at you during the day that you have to eat on time, and staring at you at night when you have to get out of the laboratory at the time of the unitary.
Old Song, you know that this king has no other meaning, your body is not your own, it belongs to the people of the Ming Dynasty in the whole world, you should take care of your body. ”
Seeing that Uncle Song wanted to be furious, Liu Hong gradually raised his tone and said the second half of the sentence.
Song Yingxing suddenly lost his temper when he heard this, and at the same time he was a little moved, neither of his two sons cared about him so much.
"Old man, remember." Song Yingxing stroked his gray beard and said.
Zhu Cihong suddenly envied Liu Hongjian a little, within the high walls of the deep palace, except for his mother and sister, he didn't feel much warmth, even the concubines in the harem were more intrigue than harmony.
He also longs to have friends, and has a lot of good buddies who are honest and treat each other with all sincerity, but...... I'm too difficult, Zhu Cihong sighed slightly in his heart.
Even if he wanted to talk to the courtiers and the eunuchs in the palace as a friend, those people would always become submissive, and friends were a luxury for the emperor.
And he has one, no more, no less.
"Liu Qing, where are we going next?" On the way back, Zhu Cihong said to Liu Hong.
In the carriage, Akihito kept ignoring the two of them, and the white conch was also thrown into the corner of the carriage by her.
She felt that she had been deceived, and seeing the happy way they talked and laughed when they returned, they must have gone to play, or secretly eaten, but left her in the yard to play with ants.
"Then let's go to the minister's house for a light meal!" Liu Hong gradually cleared his heart, since this kid asked where to go, he must have not been able to go around enough.
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PS: The last day of September, I wish my brothers a happy National Day holiday and a happy 70th birthday of the great motherland in advance, and at the same time pay tribute to the hard-working scientific research workers, hoping that they can also take care of their bodies.
If time permits tomorrow, there will still be more more, and I'm really ashamed of the big guys lately, so it's compensation, and I don't ask for monthly tickets, recommended tickets, or anything (funny).