The more Li Tianyang thought about it, the more excited he became, and hurriedly told Chengcai that he suddenly came out of nowhere, and asked him to quickly take people to research and development.

"There's no problem with R&D, brother-in-law, it's just that in terms of R&D expenses, it's not easy for us to get the budget now, you see?" Chengcai originally wanted to use the microscope to ask Li Tianyang for research and development fees, and thought that Li Tianyang already knew the origin of this microscope, so his calculation could be regarded as a failure, which Cheng thought that now it is another village, how can he not be overjoyed!

Since Li Tianyang stayed in the R&D Institute for two days because of the steel casting artillery, he found that the R&D Institute had too much waste and useless work under the leadership of Chengcai, so when he came back, he equipped the R&D Institute with an audit team, which was responsible for reviewing the progress and results of the R&D project, so that Chengcai and their research and development were no longer as free as before.

"There is no problem with this, including your microscope project, I will give you an additional budget, as long as you can get the research and development results, I will inform you of the rewards and subsidies that should be given!" Li Tianyang patted Chengcai's shoulder and solemnly made a promise.

"What about the other projects?" Chengcai didn't mean to drink, so he hurriedly asked.

"Don't worry, this time we Hongmen made a windfall, and after a while, your R&D institute will have a R&D fund, which is enough for you to build some time!" Li Tianyang laughed, and looked at Chengcai with a clear face: "But you have to give me a little leisure, you have to let our brother's hard-earned money see a little sound!" ”

"No problem, my brother-in-law, don't you know, the biggest problem of our flintlock pistol has been overcome, and it will soon be mass-produced like a steel-cast cannon!" Chengcai smiled and grimaced at Li Tianyang, who was still innocent in his twenties.

"............" Li Tianyang was completely defeated by the logic of Chengcai, compared to something like a microscope, Chengcai should know very well what the meaning of the flintlock pistol is to Li Tianyang and the Hongmen team, but he was stunned by Chengcai and put it behind the microscope.

But Li Tianyang thought about it, aren't all those who really like to do research and development like this?

In their eyes, there is no such thing as a vast use, but more important is the interest of the creation, and only this interest will continue to encourage them to stay in the laboratory day after day, doing experiments and research that others seem boring.

"Very good, when you hand over the mature flintlock pistol manufacturing process, and after the fact, your R&D funds will be in place!" Li Tianyang has already mastered the life of becoming a talent, and he said with a smile to the guy who was still ignorant at this time.

"This, this is what you said yourself, brother-in-law, you can't go back!" Chengcai suddenly looked at Li Tianyang excitedly, focusing on confirmation.

"As I said, I will be able to prepare the logistics office immediately, as long as you hand over the technology, you will immediately withdraw the funds!" Li Tianyang said affirmatively.

"Whew!!"

Chengcai didn't even say goodbye to Li Tianyang, turned his head and ran in the direction of the stable, shouting as he ran: "Brother-in-law, hurry up and ask the logistics office to prepare the silver, I'll go back!" ”

said that he would go and go back, but in fact, it took almost a month for Chengcai and his R&D team to pursue perfection before handing over a qualified flintlock pistol manufacturing process, so that Li Tianyang happily fulfilled his promise to Chengcai on the spot.

After Cheng Cai took the people to load all kinds of materials they needed, Li Tianyang hurriedly found Wan Liang, the person in charge of the craftsman workshop, and asked him to quickly send skilled craftsmen to develop flintlock pistols.

When Wan Liang first joined Hongmen, he was already in his forties, and now he has been in Hongmen for seven or eight years, and he has already entered the 50-year-old mark, and he has been running on the front line of construction all year round.

After receiving Li Tianyang's order, Wan Liang did not delay in transferring a few people from the craftsmen who originally assisted the R&D Institute in making guns, as well as the craftsmen who had helped the foundry to improve the craftsmanship, and went to Jilong Port to find Li Tianyang on an errand.

Because Li Tianyang needs a large number of artillery, and Hongmen has made a windfall these days, Li Tianyang, who is rich, has been transporting iron ore from Shilu, which has greatly increased the raw materials of the foundry, and the production burden is much heavier.

Fortunately, the process gradually matured, and the craftsmen gradually summed up some experience, so that the speed of the cannon casting factory has been greatly improved, and the scrap rate has decreased a lot, and now the cannon factory in the case of sufficient raw materials, January can produce large and small fifteen steel cannons, the scale of the caliber from 36 pounds to 12 pounds.

Moreover, now the foundry is still conducting research on the original process, and is ready to start casting 48-pound and 64-pound cannons, which can be regarded as robbing the work of the R&D Institute.

However, thinking about the arsenals in later generations, while manufacturing munitions, they were also conducting research and development at the same time, and then looking at the development of steel casting cannons, there was no team of personnel to continue to improve the research and development institute of artillery, Li Tianyang did not say much, and supported the research of the foundry itself.

The flintlock pistol process is much more difficult than the steel-cast cannon in the subtleties, especially the manufacturing process of its reeds, but the R&D Institute has explored countless times, and even developed the inspiration and controls derived from the self-striking clock that Li Tian raised from Father Felix.

However, the two have the same thing, although the structure may not be the same, but with the mature technology of the R&D Institute, and the masters who helped the R&D Institute to experiment and build flintlock pistols in the early stage, as well as several craftsmen and masters who have already experienced the implementation of the manufacturing process of steel-cast cannons, patted their chests and assured Li Tianyang that the process would be transformed into a fact within a month.

Hearing the firm answers of these masters, Li Tianyang immediately asked Wan Liang to take people to build a workshop for these craftsmen and masters near the Jilong Mountain station, so that they could immediately start working and developing under their noses and come up with qualified products.

From here, you can see Li Tianyang's strong expectations for the flintlock pistol, which is an epoch-making progress for muskets in the future, if the flintlock pistol can really achieve mass production, then it means that firearms will be on the stage of the main weapons on the battlefield one or two hundred years earlier.

Of course, Li Tianyang may not know about this, but he subconsciously feels that this will be a sharp weapon for him to deal with the powerful Jurchens in the future.

(End of chapter)