As soon as he entered Weigang and inspected the manufacturing divisions, Chen Mu knew the reason why Guan Zunban proposed the improvement of ordnance.

It is indeed imperative to formulate a new charter.

It has little to do with innovation, it has to do with productivity.

When the Chihai ship arrived at the port, several Daifuku ships were unloading their cargo at the wharf, and the timber and metal transported from Nanyang and Guangzhou were loaded directly onto the carriage after being removed from the ship, and the carriages and horses galloped all the way along the four wooden tracks leading to the Wei Port.

The faint roar of the steam engine in Weigang could be heard from a distance, and Chen Mu felt that the warmakers and workers in Weigang should wear cotton earplugs to work.

Working on such an occasion for a long time is not good for the ears and brain.

"As the handsome man saw, lathes, hammer forging, each division made more and more machines, less and less manual, the year before the manufacture of ordnance armor, regardless of water and fire, of which all the parts made by the machine accounted for only one or three points; Half machine and half manual, it is only two into seven points. ”

Guan Zunban led Chen Mu to the end of his tour of various divisions, and when he entered the yamen, he reported to Chen Mu in detail.

"Last year, the steaming machine was slightly changed, which can bring greater momentum, which is better than water power, and all companies are equipped with more steamers, and now the fire machine has accounted for seventy percent, and the parts of the machine have been nearly thirty percent, counting half of the machine and half of the manual, it has been more than half."

The fire engine refers to the steam engine, and the craftsmen of Xiangshan started with water conservancy machinery, so it is called so.

As far as the existing steam engine is concerned, even if it is only in ordnance manufacturing, it is far from fully entering industrialization, but the machine manufacturing of three-percent parts is already very terrible to Chen Mu.

"In the past, hand-made ordnance, there were deviations in length, and there were differences in weight, all thanks to whether the craftsman was skilled or not, the good ones could be the same as the regulations, and the bad ones exhausted their efforts, and a deep light door could still hit the depth, which was difficult to use."

"Now the machine hammers and forges well."

"The standardization that the handsome man always says, now a few machines can achieve the same standardization."

Guan Zunban is not as good as the old Guan craftsman in terms of craftsmanship, but he is better than the old Guan Jiang in the idea of managing the Ordnance Bureau and innovation, he showed a confident and proud smile, but Chen Mu was more reserved in front of him, and said: "With the best craftsmanship of the military craftsman, make the machine with your hands, and then use the machine to cut out new lathe accessories or casting molds, and install new machines." ”

"This goes back and forth three times, and the components are so precise that they cannot be advanced by an inch, and the ordnance is also the same standard."

Guan Zunban said that the entourage officials took out two bird guns, lightly removed the two square iron tenons on the machine and the wooden gun bed and handed them to Chen Mu, and said, "Boss, please see, this is a hand-made iron piece in the past, made the year before last." ”

Then he handed out two other irons that looked identical, and said, "This is the current tenon." ”

Chen Mu compared the four tenons one by one in his hand, and said to Guan Zunban approvingly: "For more than a year, you have done a good job. ”

Creation, the whole world can only Chen Mu get close to creating new things out of thin air, and others can't be so foul.

With the progress of productive forces, the old mode of production and the existing advanced productive forces are in conflict, and only then can people have the subjective initiative to invent and create.

Although the four tenons are small, they are enough to prove to Chen Mu the reason for the improvement of the weapons of the Ordnance Bureau, if there is any difference between the two batches of tenons, it can only be said that the first two tenons look the same, and the last two tenons are exactly the same.

If the same is true for the gun, the old parts can no longer be used with the new gun, and no matter what, the specifications of the new batch of weapons must be formulated.

"I see, let's talk about all kinds of weapons, the three kinds of bird guns you sent over are all flintlocks, what's the difference between them?"

Things like armor, carrying utensils, and bowls and pots, Chen Mu didn't care about it, but he knew the reason for those things at a glance.

Iron bowls are easy to make, but the cost is high and the weight is large, so you must choose wooden bowls compared to them; Iron, wood, and bamboo kettles will naturally choose the lightest and simplest bamboo kettles.

As for the armor, it is simply different in shape, and the addition of liner pads is a standardized improvement, and there is not much room for choice.

Guan Zunban nodded, ordered someone to take the bird and the spur, and said to Chen Mu: "The wooden spur bed is no different from the past, but it adds the shuai man's stump, and it is easier to hold the shoulder, although it increases half of the labor cost of the stool bed, but it makes the bird spur grow eight inches, and it is more beneficial to use the spur and sword to fight against the grid." ”

"If Shuai Ye thinks that such a gun bed is feasible, he will use this as an example to make a new gun bed in the future."

Mr. Chang Ji sent a drawing from Beijing the month before last to add a shape similar to a Fran machine to reload the bullet in order to fire quickly, but the gun has a slight air leakage and weak firing force.

"The Ordnance Bureau has been made into a sample, and the rotating handcuffs that are also suffering from this problem will be sent to the Arsenal Martial Arts Weapons Department, and they will be checked from there."

"And even if the existing manual work is used to avoid air leakage, the man-hours required are far greater than those of birds." Guan Zunban was obviously not optimistic about Zhao Shizhen's new gadgets, and immediately said: "The new gun is changed to be in the gun tube, which is also with the help of the officials of the Wutang Weapons Department. ”

Chen Mu raised his eyebrows, as soon as he said that it was similar to the shape of the Franc machine, he already had a rough appearance in his mind.

He also understands that being able to design and building are two different things, and being able to build and mass-produce and equip troops are also two different things.

However, Chen Mu was still pleased with this, he nodded and said: "Rear loading and rapid fire are the trend of the times, but the power must be guaranteed, this road is right, design first." ”

"Gun pipe restructuring?" Chen Muhu asked suspiciously, then raised his hand and opened his five fingers, and then raised it after pressing the table lightly and said: "Five thousand taels, who can solve the air leakage of the rear loading step, reward five thousand taels of silver, you continue to say the gun." ”

Guan Zunban nodded and wrote it down, then took two guns and handed them to Chen Muhou and explained: "The lecture martial arts hall and the Ordnance Bureau pay attention to experiments, in the past, birds and guns issued three money bullets and loaded three money medicine, and the power of gun tube Seiko and gunpowder fine three money bullets and three money medicine is too much time, so the students are asked to test the effect of the charge and the length of the gun tube on the power. ”

"In order to ensure the killing, the lecture martial arts experiment is that the animal body is armored, thirty steps to pierce the armor and pierce the flesh, forty steps to break the armor and turn the meat, and seventy steps to pierce the meat or turn the meat, and record them in turn, so as to achieve such power, and then change the amount of medicine applied."

The flesh he refers to is actually a cavity, and it is the kind of lead bullet that remains in the body, because sometimes even if the lead bullet forms a cavity, there is still power coming out of the body from the other side.

Chen Mu smiled lightly, seventy steps to kill and injure an unarmored enemy, Guan Zunban is quite good at thinking.

This distance is not too easy for the power of the bird, but the key is not to hit accurately.

He is an expert in playing bird guns, not to say the best, but he can definitely be called a skilled marksman, seventy steps away let him hit someone with a gun, to be honest, the odds are the same as Mang Yinglong's current run to Nanyang Weigang to surrender.

The accuracy of the weapon is relatively reliable, but the gunpowder energy is not enough, and it is a parabola to hit out more than 40 steps.

Even if there is no wind, he is good at calculation, and he is aiming with a nine-pound gun, at such a long distance, the deviation in his hand is slight, and the lead shot does not know where to fly.

Seventy steps, more than 100 meters.

With a few more shots, he can still try, and he just trys.

"In the end, it was determined that the gun pipe was two points wide, put four coins and three points of bullets, the original length of the gun pipe was three feet seven, now it is two inches shorter, the original handle is four inches long, now it is four inches long, and it is four feet four inches, which of the six kinds of guns is loaded, and the length of the gun is six feet."

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