At the end of both sides of the courtyard of the military workshop are mountains, and the usual test firings are aimed at the mountains. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Chen Qi asked the craftsman to open the canvas on the artillery.

Xiao Ming looked at it, and sure enough, as Chen Qi said, not only the length of this batch of artillery has been reduced, but the caliber of the muzzle has also been reduced.

The theory of artillery design Xiao Ming once said to Chen Qi, it seems that this is the result of what he has learned and put into practice.

Therefore, this time it is not the artillery that is satisfied, but the fact that the military workshop has been able to independently develop other types of artillery, which is the real progress of the military workshop.

Turning around the export-type artillery, Xiao Ming nodded again, in general, without considering the shells, there are only two factors that determine the range and power of the artillery, one is the barrel length, and the other is the caliber.

For the caliber, naturally, the larger the caliber, the thicker the barrel, the more powerful.

The length of the barrel is relative to the caliber, and the longer the barrel, the more favorable the time for the high-pressure gas in the barrel to act on the shell.

The longer the time, the greater the muzzle velocity of the shell, and the longer the range.

Using this principle, different types of artillery can be designed, and now Qingzhou has artillery production capacity, and the next step is to improve the artillery system, so that Qingzhou's warships have naval guns, field armies have field guns, and soldiers defending the city have city guns.

After skillfully reloading, the cannonball flew straight into the distance with a roar, and after 700 meters, the cannonball began to fall and roll on the ground, and finally the cannonball encountered the mountain and was blocked.

"A direct range of seven hundred meters, well, it's okay, in that case, this king will let the forbidden army transport this artillery away." Xiao Ming said, it's not just King Wei who is urging.

Xiao Wenxuan has also been urging the artillery.

In order to let Xiao Ming deliver the goods as soon as possible, the ships of the forbidden army have arrived in Qingzhou, and after the envoy of the king of Wei left yesterday, the general of the forbidden army in charge of transporting artillery arrived.

The general, who claimed to be a lieutenant of the newly formed firearms battalion, was in charge of artillery.

Hearing the name of the firearms battalion, Xiao Ming was a little speechless at the time, I am afraid that his battle of Cangzhou will slowly introduce the Great Chongqing Kingdom into the era of firearms.

Xiao Wenxuan specially established a firearms battalion, you can imagine his thoughts.

After inspecting the export-oriented artillery, Xiao Ming followed Chen Qi into the military workshop.

In the circular valley, the workshops of the military industry are a total of twelve factories from south to north, and the craftsmen in each factory are responsible for different processes.

Steel refining, clay molding, iron mold casting, pouring, cleaning, grinding and so on.

These factories are not small, from south to north a factory is 100 meters long and 10 meters wide.

"Yesterday, the envoy of the King of Wei sent another three million taels of silver to the king, Chen Qi, your military workshop has now become the number one money-maker in Qingzhou." Xiao Ming and Chen Qi chatted while inspecting the military workshop.

Chen Qi grinned, "Your Highness, since our military workshop is so profitable, do you want to expand a few more factories, and this salary will also be raised for the craftsmen." ”

"Hahaha, you have just taken office and become the supervisor of the military workshop, and you are about to start protecting your shortcomings?" Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Chen Qi smiled wryly, "Your Highness, I was not an official before, and the lower officials didn't understand, but now when I become a supervisor, I understand that this official is not easy to be, there are tens of thousands of craftsmen in this military workshop, and every craftsman has to live, so he can work wholeheartedly, right?" And many of the craftsmen in it are still slaves, Your Highness, you said before, if they do a good job, they will be relieved of their slave status and give them a Qingzhou household registration, now a year has passed, these craftsmen are waiting for Your Highness, what do you mean? ”

"Well, as a workshop supervisor, it is appropriate to seek some benefits for the craftsmen under him, you are right, the cake painted by this king cannot be hung like this all the time, otherwise the slaves in Qingzhou will say that this king is untrustworthy, okay, you give the list of some outstanding craftsmen to this king, and today this king will do something special." Xiao Ming said.

Chen Qi was overjoyed and said, "Okay, Your Highness, wait a minute, I'll go get the list." ”

Hearing this, Xiao Ming smiled bitterly, it turned out that this Chen Qi had already premeditated.

But this is exactly what Xiao Ming plans to do recently, and it is about to come to the end of the year, so he has to make a summary of this year's government affairs, the reward of the reward, and the rebuke of the reprimand.

After waiting for a while, Chen Qi took a roster.

The roster is divided into two parts, one for slave craftsmen and one for craftsmen with Qingzhou household registration.

There are thirty names on each roster.

And it is also very clear why sixty people in these two books were able to receive such a reward.

For example, one of the squads led by a craftsman named Song Changping produced the largest number of artillery pieces per month, reaching six.

In the military workshop, the craftsmen are strictly organized, every hundred people are divided into squads, and the team has a captain, and in the military workshop, there are a hundred such squads.

The other squads can basically only cast about three guns a month.

And the reason why there is a huge difference is because Song Chang usually gathers a team of people to study the process flow of this artillery, and has developed a casting method called continuous casting method, which has changed the traditional method of casting only one cannon at a time.

This continuous casting method can pour molten steel into six gun molds at the same time through an interconnected molten steel tank, saving a lot of time to repeatedly melt molten steel, and the quality of the same batch of guns is basically the same.

Seeing this Song Changping's contribution, Xiao Ming smiled.

I was preparing to promote this continuous casting method, but I didn't expect that the craftsmen of the military workshop had already discovered it in advance.

It can be seen from this that the wisdom of the broad masses of the people is infinite, and what is lacking is only guidance.

And his task is to guide the people to tap into their own potential, so that the skills they master are more solid.

"This Song Changping is very smart, he can understand any skill at all, and he can almost surpass me." Chen Qi said with a smile, "And this Song Changping is still a slave, it is said that his parents are in the shipyard, if His Royal Highness can reunite their family at the end of the year, he will definitely be very happy." ”

Xiao Ming nodded slowly, what he lacks most now is outstanding talents, and only in production practice can he pick out the real capable people.

After all, Chen Qi's energy is limited, and the tasks of the military workshop will become heavier and heavier in the future, just this artillery is enough for Chen Qi to toss, with this Song Changping, he can train it, and prepare talents in advance for the production of muskets.

"The casting of the guns in the general's workshop is worth commendating, and now you can gather the craftsmen." Xiao Ming said.

Chen Qi nodded, and then ordered all the craftsmen to gather in the courtyard.

With the roster in hand, Xiao Ming went to the courtyard and looked at the craftsmen, feeling unusually down-to-earth.

(To be continued.) )