There is nothing good to see about the artillery, if you want to shoot a hundred rounds of a simple cast iron two-catty cannon without exploding the chamber, the gun body must be heavy to 200 catties away, and the wall of the small cannon with a caliber of one inch is two inches thick.

The copper cannon is light, one inch caliber, two inches in the muzzle, three and a half inches in the tail, three feet four in length, only ninety-seven and a half pounds, strong and durable, and the copper cannon also has an advantage, when it is about to explode, it will first bulge, and then blow up before exploding, which can avoid danger.

It's expensive, a two-pound cannon is counted as scrap, and the material money is enough for thirteen taels of silver.

It's okay to use this for infantry artillery, there is no need to use such an expensive thing for ship artillery, more than 200 catties of iron cannon material is only more than four taels, and it is also more suitable, the biggest problem is that the iron cannon is not big, and the mule can't be carried by a big mule.

Lao Guan also has another cannon for Chen Mu to accept, it is an iron-core copper-shell cannon, thicker and heavier than the copper cannon, more durable than the iron cannon, the same shape costs one hundred and forty-seven catties, the material cost is six taels, and the man-hours are more than both, because the clay mold has to be made twice, once the iron core, and the other time the copper shell.

The new cannon is lighter, and the same cannonballs are less powerful and can hit 270 paces, and the shells spread badly at 270 paces, and completely inaccurate at 500 paces. But its lightness also made it a great way to shine in the war that followed.

The new gun carriage was also made, the gun carriage dragged by a horse had two wheels, the extended anti-crank iron gun carriage could fall to the ground when placed, which could help the gun to remove the recoil, and it was equipped with a handle for the light gun to adjust the gun position in a spiral, which was extremely simple to use.

Including a complete set of gun body and cleaning equipment and 12 encapsulated shells and gunpowder, the copper cannon weighs 252 catties, the iron-core copper shell cannon weighs 301 and a half catties, and the shells are 10 solid iron bullets and two new shotgun canisters.

At the same time, because of Chen Mu's requirements, in order to cope with the worst road conditions or the dilemma of a mule and horse being tired to death, there are several detachable parts on the gun carriage that only have a slight impact on stability.

After all, there are too many mountains and rivers in the south, and Chen Mu doesn't know if there are any road conditions that allow him to calmly transport troops when the war is approaching.

Artillery is power, and his army must have artillery support in wartime.

If each general bannerman had one two-catty cannon in his hand, and one thousand households had five five-catty cannons in his hand, the enemy would have broken up on his own after a round from three hundred paces away.

To Chen Mu's surprise, Guan Yuangu had already learned how to cast the cannon, thinking that for every inch larger in caliber, the cannon body would be three feet and three inches long, which could make the cannonballs go out as straight as possible, which made him very pleased.

The new cannon is still a 33-caliber artillery, and this measurement method is still relatively simple, because Lao Guan calculates the length of the whole cannon, both the medicine room and the tail of the cannon.

In general, it is a pioneering initiative, which can be customized for future artillery, and the length of the cannon body of the ten-pound cannon can be calculated in turn, which will reach one zhang - Chen Mu feels that when his ship cannon is built, there will be nothing to do with Hongyi cannon in this land.

"Wei Balang's baby soldiers, they will be stationed in the artillery factory in the future, and no one is allowed to enter or leave when they have nothing to do, and the violators will be killed on the spot." When leaving the gun factory, Chen Mu issued such an order, "Use the clay mold to make a test gun, try to push it to be customized, you can use an iron mold, separate the iron mold with mortise and tenon joints, brush the material that can separate the liquid copper and molten iron, pour molten iron, and then hang it into another iron mold to pour copper water, and the clay mold of the province can be broken and then done, which can be much faster." ”

"As for what is suitable for brushing and how to do it, I don't know much, and I have to rely on the shut-off craftsman to try, and the furnace temperature." Chen Mu knocked his head and said, "I'll go back and think of something that blows the wind, it seems that it's better for the temperature of this thing to be slower when it cools down, so pay more attention to it." ”

Guan Yuangu took a few craftsmen to send Chen Mu all the way outside, watched Chen Qianhu turn over and get off the horse, and asked: "Guan Yuangu went back to find a pen clerk and compiled the process of making cannons into a book, which can be passed on to the future generations." ”

On the way back to Yamen, Chen Mu has always sighed that in this era, in fact, there is nothing magical about military training, and there is nothing special about a brand-new Qianhu Institute that can fight and have elite soldiers, and what really makes him feel is the Xiangshan Ordnance Bureau and Xiangshan Shipyard.

This is really from scratch, from Guan Yuangu to play the first bird gun, from Guan Lao Er to make the first bore, originally said to let Guan Zun'er go to Nanjing Ministry of Industry to take a small position, but now in the blink of an eye, there is no need to go out to serve.

The development of the Ordnance Bureau is really fast, only technology and skilled craftsmen are needed, and everything else Guangdong can provide. Compared with the output of Foshan, the largest iron smelting distribution center in the south, the iron consumption of the Xiangshan Ordnance Bureau is just a drop in the bucket.

As soon as he returned to the Yamen, Shao Tingda, a thousand households in Shunde, sat on the threshold of the yamen with a depressed face, and a few banner soldiers of the thousand households in Shunde stood cowering on the side, really begging for water and drinking with the soldiers who took care of the yamen.

"Brother, you're back."

"Yo, isn't this Shao Qianhu!" Chen Muthief smiled and turned around the helpless Shao Tingda twice, and only then patted him on the shoulder and asked, "What does it feel like to be a thousand households?" ”

Throwing the reins of the armor and letting the soldiers lead the horses to the stables, Chen Mu took Shao Tingda and walked towards the yamen and said: "Go to the seat, even if you go to Shunde, it is also my brother, what are you doing sitting outside, and your soldiers, go into the yamen to rest, Zhengyan will ask someone to get some wine and food, and entertain well." ”

Sitting in the main hall, the smile on Chen Mu's face still couldn't go down, no one in the entire Xiangshan Thousand Households Institute thought that the first to become a thousand households would be Shao Tingda, in terms of their military exploits, it was reasonable for the first ten hundred households to be promoted to deputy thousand households, and the three hundred households in Haojing could at most be promoted to the official positions of the various offices.

"Brother Mu, are you doing well?"

Chen Mu's splint went, looked down, moved his arm and smiled: "It's not all yet, it's almost - let's talk about it, what does Shunde need." ”

"Alas, being a thousand households is not comfortable at all." Shao Tingda let out a long sigh, "The thousands of households in Shunde have no money, no food, only to know how difficult it was for you to come to Xiangshan Brother when I first came, and I don't have your ability, so I can only find Brother Mu to move the rescue." ”

Saying that, Shao Tingda pointed out with a bitter face, and said: "Look at my flag army, this is already the most capable soldier in it, there are more than 400 people in the office, some of the old flag army think that I killed their thousands of households, and they are not convinced, and those new flag troops can't fight, so it's not easy to do anything." ”

"I want to borrow money, food, and people, Brother Mu will help me."

Only Chen Mu can help with these things, and only Chen Mu is willing to help, he smiled: "Recruit soldiers first, these days you live in Xiangshan, learn how to weave cloth in the army, Lao Bai and several of them are also learning, and when the reward comes down, they must be released to be a thousand households and a thousand households, I don't know how the Ministry of War arranges for Chen, if there is no accident, the silk and wood are transported to Xiangshan, and it will be knotted once a year." ”

"The silver is divided into military households, the treasury and the future guard treasury, and all the guards in the institute can only take two cents, at least let the flag army be fed and clothed, and the rest will enter the warehouse.

Chen Mu's words sound nothing at first glance, but in fact, he wants to make the health institute form a complete industrial chain and self-contained system from raw material supply, material realization to output return in the future.

"Now the two institutes are different from each other, and the treasury can't be moved, I will support you with a thousand taels of silver from the private treasury, and then transfer a hundred households from Xiangshan to help you recruit and train troops, and other things will be rewarded by the imperial court."