"Humm, hum......"

The sound of the steam engine pulling the hook back and forth to cut the metal kept ringing. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Song Changping and the craftsmen in the musket workshop looked at the steam-spewing steel monster in front of them and were a little shocked, although the craftsmen of the steam engine workshop had used the steam engine to drive the craftsmen to cut rifling two days ago, but this unprecedented machinery still made them unable to accept it psychologically for a while.

"Song Fangjian, now that we have this steam engine, won't this rifling have nothing to do with us?"

Song Changping watched as the hook knife retracted back and forth in the barrel, and a craftsman was responsible for rotating the barrel to make the hook knife draw a perfect rifling in the barrel.

"How could there be nothing to do without us, even if this steam engine replaces us to pull the hook knife, but this rifling still has to be carefully watched by this machine." Song Changping said.

"I mean, this steam engine is so powerful, won't it leave many craftsmen with nothing to do in the future." The craftsman worried, it wasn't him talking nonsense.

In fact, because of the use of the steam engine in the lathe workshop, a large number of craftsmen in the former lathe workshop were idle, and these craftsmen were transferred to their workshops to be responsible for the production of flintlock pistols.

Now that the steam engine is here again, they can't help but worry.

"Your worries are superfluous, now Qingzhou's guns are lacking, so far we have only produced 45,000 flintlock guns, muskets and artillery are not popular in most of the armies of the feudal country, and now the situation in Dayu is like this, and more firearms will inevitably be needed in the future." Song Changping said that he understood why these craftsmen had such thoughts.

The salaries of the craftsmen in the military workshops are very high, and even though most of the craftsmen are still slaves, they do not want to lose their immediate work.

"Song Changping is right, even if the steam engine replaces some craftsmen, but now the output of the military workshop is insufficient, what you should worry about now is how to meet the army's equipment procurement problem."

Xiao Ming's voice suddenly came from outside.

Hearing this voice, Song Changping and the craftsman turned their heads, only to see Xiao Ming shaking a fan and walking towards them.

"Your Highness."

Song Changping led a group of craftsmen to salute Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming excused everyone, and he walked to the steam engine hook knife combination that was cutting rifling, and the steam engine was stretching and pulling the hook knife back and forth through the connecting rod to make a linear motion.

The hook knife will pull out a shallow mark every time it enters and exits the barrel, and the craftsman in charge of guarding it is to supervise the rifling and cutting, and there are now more than 30 barrels in the steam engine, and the cutting efficiency of the rifling is greatly improved by the six steam engine hooks.

"How? Now how many rifled barrels can be pulled out in a day. Xiao Ming asked.

Song Changping replied: "Compared with the previous one a month, the steam engine can pull out one a day, Lin Wentao now allows thirty hook knives in the military workshop to cut rifling through the steam engine, if there is no scrap, nine hundred a month is still no problem." ”

"Well, this amount is enough, and the current production of smoothbore flintlock pistols is still the main thing, understand?" Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction, whether it is a human or a machine, there is a scrap rate, he saw that some scrapped barrels were thrown to the side, Song Changping said that there is no scrap is nine hundred barrels, if the scrap is removed, it is estimated that there are seven or eight hundred rifled barrels a month.

Xiao Ming is already very satisfied with this number, and now he is still taking the equipment scheme based on smoothbore guns and supplemented by rifled guns, after all, there is not much time for him to wait for the upgrading of equipment, and now he needs more quantity to deal with the current crisis.

As for massively equipping rifled guns, they can only be replaced step by step in the war.

"Yes, Your Highness." Song Changping said.

After a pause, Xiao Ming said again: "By the way, this time this king has allocated another batch of craftsmen to you, and now your musket workshop can expand into one workshop, and two workshops will produce flintlock pistols at the same time." ”

"Another batch of craftsmen?" Song Changping was a little excited, and the other craftsmen were also relieved, which proved that there was really an urgent shortage of muskets in the country.

Liang Dahai has not returned yet, but the first batch of slaves has been delivered, and according to the words of Liang Dahai's subordinates, Liang Dahai will follow the last batch of slaves to arrive.

After tossing at sea for so long, Liang Dahai brought back 8,000 slaves this time, and before the merchants of Qingzhou divided up this batch of slaves, 5,000 of them were designated to this military workshop.

Although these people still don't know anything, it doesn't take long to bring the old with the new, after all, the assembly of flintlock pistols is not an advanced technology.

"Five thousand people, this time the king gave you the musket workshop first, you have to keep up with the production of this flintlock pistol, now the feudal country may face war at any time, if the king loses, everything in the feudal kingdom will disappear." Xiao Ming frowned and said.

Song Changping's expression became serious, he suddenly felt that the courage in his body was very heavy, patted his chest, and said: "Your Highness, even if you don't eat or drink, your lower officials will definitely complete this batch of equipment on time and in quantity." ”

"Well, this king believes you, by the way, part of the flintlock pistols produced from now on will be distributed to the armies of Cangzhou, Yizhou, and Laizhou."

Song Changping replied.

After explaining the matter of the production of this firearm, Xiao Ming suddenly asked, "How many rifled guns do you have here?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, there are still sixty rifled guns." Song Changping said.

"Sixty?" Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed, the range and accuracy of this rifled gun are not comparable to that of a smoothbore gun, and it can be used as a sharpshooter in the army.

After all, even in the cold weapons unit, a group of archers will be selected to be responsible for some special tasks, and he needs rifled guns to complete some special operations missions.

"Bring these rifled guns to the king, and the king will be of his own use." Xiao Ming showed a hint of a smile.

Hearing this, Song Changping asked the craftsman to take out three long wooden boxes, which contained rifled guns.

This time he came in person, and Xiao Mingmu took a look at the production of this rifled gun, talked about the slave, and asked Song Changping to increase production.

After some inspection, he no longer disturbed the production of the workshop, and let the guards who followed him carry flintlock pistols back.

Since King Zhao entered Chang'an, in addition to Zhao Long and Zhao Hu, Xiao Ming also had a team of 100 elite soldiers responsible for protecting him, and all the enemy's means may be used in troubled times.

Especially the assassination, this method has a small cost and a big gain, and he doesn't want to die before he gets out of the school, so he conformed to Pang Yukun's intention and added a hundred personal guards to protect his safety.