It was another sunny day, and as the grass and trees on both sides of the Xiaoqing River were dyed green with the slightest spring, more and more people went to the city to step on the spring. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Wang Xuan left yesterday, four foreign merchants and six out-of-town refugees were arrested in Qingzhou City that night.

In order to increase the labor force of the fiefdom, Xiao Ming's policy of exile seems to have become the target of various forces.

For these restless displaced people, according to the laws of Qingzhou, it is natural to make a decision, and at the same time, the Qingzhou newspaper reported this incident, so that the displaced people who continue to pour into Qingzhou from other places can be warned.

It's just that although Xiao Ming knows that absorbing displaced people can't avoid some ill-intentioned people, he can't hide his illness and avoid medical treatment for this matter, after all, this exile policy still has a demographic dividend for Qingzhou in general.

In the construction of roads in Qingzhou City, many merchants used cheap homeless people who had no place to live.

"Your Highness, it's here."

Today is the day when the tools department will hand over the knives to the hydraulic lathe workshop, and at the same time, the craftsmen of the lathe workshop will use the knives for the first time to produce hollow barrels to provide the final accessories for flintlock pistols.

Zhao Long led the horse, Xiao Ming jumped off the horse, and at this time Zhang Liu had already arrived in the workshop, and the craftsmen in the workshop had already installed the drill bit into the water conservancy drilling machine.

One end of this hydraulic drilling machine is the waterwheel, in the torrent of the Xiaoqing River, the waterwheel rotates rapidly and drives the circular stone disc fixed on the waterwheel to rotate, this stone disc is to act as an inertia wheel, and in the middle of the stone disc is the drill bit, the stone disc rotates to drive the drill bit to rotate, this is the hydraulic drilling machine produced by Xiao Ming let the craftsman.

In the Ming Dynasty, the people already had this kind of drilling machine, and Xiao Ming was just a doctrine.

"Your Highness, we're already trying to drill the barrel." Zhang Liu wiped his sweat and said to Xiao Ming.

At the other end of the drill bit, a wooden hoisting holds the steel rods sent from the mill, which are easy to produce in today's mills.

Zhang Liu also stopped by to get a few and went to the lathe workshop.

"It's not bad." At this time, the hydraulic lathe rotates rapidly under the impetus of the rapids, this natural force is much more powerful than manpower, and the drill bit is effortless when drilling steel rods, and it looks unstoppable.

Under the contact between the two, the drill bit has penetrated a little, but only a little.

According to the normal work efficiency of the hydraulic lathe, it takes at least six days to drill out a barrel, which is a record of the Ming Dynasty, but the high-quality knives provided by Xiao Ming can greatly reduce this time.

Because the cutters of the hydraulic lathes in the Ming Dynasty were damaged quickly, this is not as good as his.

According to his estimates, three or four days can be estimated, after all, the location of the workshop is the most turbulent section of the Xiaoqing River, and his knives still have an advantage.

According to Xiao Ming's order, as many as he grinded, Zhang Liu sent the two drill bits that the instrument department grinded out yesterday, plus the two that were ground out at night.

Four hydraulic drilling machines were started at the same time, and in three or four days he would have four barrels, which would have taken a month if the barrels had been made of coiled iron.

That is, knives and hydraulic drilling machines reduce the production time of the barrel by one-tenth.

"Your Highness, you are really far-sighted, this drilling machine has been prepared for a long time, and now it is a drill bit, so that the production of the barrel is simple and labor-saving, and the position of the hydraulic drilling machine is fixed, and there will be no crooked drilling, and a craftsman can also take care of four or five drilling machines at the same time, and also save manpower, it is really killing three birds with one stone." Zhang Liu looked at today's drilling machine and felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Another advantage of the hydraulic drilling machine is that Zhang Liu's accuracy is easy to produce errors by hand, and this will be relatively much better.

was praised by an honest craftsman like Zhang Liu, Xiao Ming smiled, which shows that the craftsmen are very satisfied with the drilling machine, which also shows that he has not wasted his efforts during this time.

Smiling, Xiao Ming said: "Although it is much more convenient, but the number must keep up, now there are only two hundred drilling machines in the workshop, but there are only four drill bits, you have to work harder." ”

Zhang Liu said: "Your Highness, Chen Bingcao has already transferred five hundred people from the steel workshop, and he will soon make up the remaining drill bits." ”

Xiao Ming nodded, and looked at the drilling machine that was constantly drilling steel rods, and his heart became more and more stable.

Two hundred drilling machines are now enough for him, one barrel in three days, he can get two thousand barrels in a month, and twenty thousand in ten months.

If he wants, he can make the Qingzhou Army switch from a cold-weapon army to a hot-weapon army by the end of the year.

And this is precisely his plan, just for this plan, he has to invest millions of silver taels, enough to consume his meager savings.

It's just that now he is in crisis on all sides and has to increase investment in the army, and even then he is trembling.

After all, he was a nomadic nation with a population of 600,000 households in a fief against a nomadic nation with a population of 2 million households.

The cavalry of this nation has lived on horses since childhood, and everyone is an extremely elite and experienced cavalry, and the barbarian cavalry is highly disciplined and not afraid of death.

A well-disciplined and sophisticated cavalry was terrible even between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and the enemy was outnumbered.

Every time he thinks of this, Xiao Ming is always cold.

The drilling machine was officially put into drilling, Xiao Ming went to the military workshop with a satisfied mood, and the last problem of the flintlock pistol was solved.

However, there are still a few problems to be solved, one is the problem of the bayonet on the flintlock pistol, and the other is the problem of the whole strip of the flintlock pistol.

Since he has the experience of his previous life, he naturally does not make the mistake of groping for progress after the birth of the flintlock pistol.

At the beginning of the appearance of the bayonet, the handle of the bayonet was stuffed in the barrel, so that the upper bayonet could not be fired, and the shot could not be loaded with the bayonet.

So in the face of the cavalry charge, the infantry became lambs to be slaughtered by the cavalry.

This situation was changed only with the advent of sleeve bayonets, which could be put directly over the flintlock pistol and did not affect shooting.

So since he has mature experience, he naturally wants to avoid this mistake.

As for the second problem, he decided to use iron bars instead of the wooden ones at the beginning.

Because the iron bar is not easy to break, which is conducive to increasing the speed of fire, the Prussian army fired five rounds in one minute because of the first use of the iron bar and the proficiency of the soldiers.

This last one is a matter of ammunition, but this one requires the cooperation of the military workshop and the gunpowder workshop of Lutong.

The ammunition for the flintlock pistol was prepared to be filled with oil-paper bullets, which were equipped with enough bullets and gunpowder to be fired at one time, and he only needed to bite open and pour them into the battle.

(To be continued.) )