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The sudden sound separated Xiao Ming and Fei Yue'er, and Fei Yue'er instinctively walked towards the inner room of the dormitory. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

With a cough, Xiao Ming walked out of the dormitory and greeted Qian Dafu.

"Your Highness, the copper mine has been found." Qian Dafu said excitedly, and then Qian Dafu took out a handful of copper ore.

"Copper mines."

Xiao Ming was excited at this time, not to mention that copper is still the circulating currency of Dayu, but only that the wide application of copper in industry is also an extremely important resource for Qingzhou.

"Your Highness, this copper mine is really hard to find, it's been more than two years, the old slave has finally found it, and now the old slave has deployed the mining thing, and we will be able to mint coins in Qingzhou ourselves in the future." Qian Dafu said.

"Minting?" Xiao Ming shook his head.

Qian Dafu said: "Yes, Your Highness, as long as the current vassal kings can mine copper ore, they all use the mined copper to cast copper coins, doesn't Your Highness want to mint copper coins?" ”

"Money is to be minted, but it can't be minted indiscriminately." Xiao Ming said.

In Dayu, everyone does not understand what inflation is, so it is inevitable to make money indiscriminately, and it is precisely because of this that the people are very distrustful of copper coins.

Because sometimes one copper plate can buy one steamed bun, and sometimes three copper plates can't buy one steamed bun, all because of the chaos of copper coins in the market.

Therefore, for Xiao Ming, he is not ready to indiscriminately make copper coins like other vassal kings, because this is irresponsible to the people, and in order to avoid the inflow of foreign inferior copper coins, he is even more prepared to issue his own currency.

And the reason why he was so happy this time was not because copper coins could be minted, but because Qingzhou had another strategic resource.

Now Qingzhou is about to launch an attack on the Ryukyus during the Chinese New Year, and now that he has a copper mine, he can let Chen Qi use the copper mine to forge some six-pound bronze field cannons.

After all, field artillery does not need to be mass-produced like city defense guns and naval guns, and the use of bronze materials at this time can improve the quality of field artillery.

During the Napoleonic period, field artillery was made precisely of bronze.

Therefore, after a pause, he said to Qian Dafu: "First mine a batch and transport it to Qingzhou, and this king is going to hand it over to the Equipment Division to make bronze field cannons." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Qian Dafu was stunned for a moment, he finally understood what Xiao Ming meant, "The location of this copper mine is not far away, just one hundred and eighty miles northwest of Qingzhou, and the first batch of copper ore will arrive in five days." ”

Xiao Ming nodded when he heard this, and he said to Qian Dafu: "In addition to the copper mine, during this time, I will send people to Laizhou to find gold mines, and Dengzhou to find silver mines, this is what this king needs now."

Qian Dafu understood, smiled and said, "Your Highness, you can rest assured." ”

After telling Xiao Ming the good news of the discovery of the copper mine, Qian Dafu arched his hand and turned to leave.

At this time, Xiao Ming exhaled lightly, copper ore has many uses in addition to casting field guns, the most important of which is to make copper wires.

Therefore, today's copper mines are equivalent to reserves for future power applications.

Sending Qian Dafu away, Xiao Ming turned around and went back to the dormitory, Fei Yue'er was waiting for him in the inner room, the two were separated for half a month, and the small gathering was joyful, and there was no need to say anything.

The next day, he got up slowly, saying that he would be busy as a leader, and those who would not be leaders would be busy themselves.

Now he can finally understand that he is busy with his subordinates, and he has a relaxed time, after all, now Pang Yukun is in charge of government affairs, and Niu Ben is in charge of the army.

These two generals are all desperate Saburo, and they work like they are playing with their lives, so both the state governments and the army are well managed by the two.

Lazily freshening up and eating, the servant told him that Fei Yue'er had gone to the textile workshop with Pothos in the morning.

He understood that Fei Yue'er was busy with the underwear she designed.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Xiao Ming went to the military workshop after eating, he was going to see how the Huzun cannon was, and at the same time talk about the field artillery.

"Your Highness, you just happened to be here, this is the Tiger Venerable Cannon we are designing now." As soon as he arrived at the military workshop, Chen Qi brought out a brand-new Tiger Zun cannon.

Seeing this Tiger Cannon Xiao Ming suddenly gave a thumbs up, Chen Qi had already upgraded the Tiger Cannon to the Tiger Zun Cannon, and the current Tiger Zun Cannon had departed from the original Tiger Zun Cannon of the Ming Dynasty, but developed in the direction of the mortar cannon.

The base of the mortar is now a square metal plate, and the cylindrical barrel is fixed to the metal plates on both sides through the lugs, so that the mortar can be fired freely up and down.

The mortar cannon as a whole only needs two soldiers to carry the handle on the metal plate on the ground to move, which is very convenient and fast.

"Yes, there is progress." Xiao Ming looked at the brand-new mortar cannon and said.

Chen Qi said with a smile: "Your Highness, it is according to the textbook that the lower official has transformed the mortar cannon, and at the same time, there are also cannonballs. ”

As he spoke, Chen Qi handed over the flowering bullet with a hollow wooden stopper to Xiao Ming, stretched out a lead in the middle of the wooden stopper, and he rotated the wooden stopper, and the wooden stopper turned outward or inward according to different directions.

He asked, "Can you know exactly when this shell exploded?" ”

"Although the accuracy rate is not high, it is still much stronger than the previous powder canister, at least it avoids the situation where the ammunition will explode in the barrel, and we can probably control the time of the shell explosion by rotating the wooden stopper."

"Really?" Xiao Ming had some expectations, if effective results could be achieved, it would be much easier to attack the Dutch this time.

Chen Qi nodded and said to the craftsman on the side, "Experiment it and show it to His Highness." ”

The two craftsmen received the order and immediately carried the mortar cannon to Xiao Ming, then poured the gunpowder into the bottom of the mortar cannon, and stuffed the ammunition tied with a flat-bottomed wooden tray into the mortar cannon. ”

"Your Highness, let's hit the target three hundred meters away."

Chen Qi has already mastered the calculation method of parabola, so now he has been able to calculate the landing point of the shell according to the different elevation angles of the mortar gun.

"Put!" With an order, the craftsman lit the cannon.

After a muffled sound, the ammunition flew out in a parabolic trajectory and fell at a position of about 300 meters, and with a "boom", the shell suddenly exploded at a position three meters above the ground.

Chen Qi said with some embarrassment at this time: "Your Highness, this is the problem now, the time of the explosion of the flowering bomb is not fixed. ”

Although Chen Qi said it lightly, Xiao Ming was already surprised that he couldn't close his mouth, and it was already remarkable to be able to make the blossom bullet within this margin of error.

He said: "It's already very good, let's produce mortar cannons and deliver them to the Qingzhou Army now, and this king is talking to you about field artillery this time." (To be continued.) )