Chapter 333 Summer is scorching, let's be lazy

"What else is going on today?" Quickly dealt with the affairs of Shaanxi, Yang Reform went on to deal with other matters, one person manages an empire, to say that he is not busy, it is impossible.

"Back to Your Majesty, Your Majesty has appointed that Sun Yuanhua, who is responsible for making Hongyi cannons, has made progress in imitating Hongyi cannons, and has imitated a batch of Hongyi cannons, and I beg Your Majesty to take a look at ......" Shi Feng reported.

Originally, this matter could not be brought to the Wenhua Palace, and there was no need for the monarch and ministers to discuss it, and he directly handed it to the emperor, and the emperor saw it, had ideas, and dealt with it himself, and if he had no ideas, he ignored it, but Shi Fenglai still escalated this matter a little bit and regarded it as a major event, because he was the imperial party, and Sun Yuanhua was also the imperial party, so it was so simple, his own people had to promote his own people, and he had to let his own people show more in front of the emperor and courtiers.

Sun Yuanhua? Yang Reform has been reforming for some days, and there is no such person in his thinking, but now when he mentions it, he remembers that he really has a lot to do, and hurriedly asked: "Good thing, Sun Yuanhua is here today?" When you arrive, go to the temple. "Hongyi cannon was regarded as the first choice by the officials and generals in the late Ming Dynasty to deal with the Dongyu, so they were still concerned about making cannons, and they did not encounter any resistance to casting cannons, and even in history, even hiring mercenaries who cast cannons and firing cannons also happened in the late Ming Dynasty.

After a while, Sun Yuanhua was led to the Wenhua Palace, today fortunately, the emperor went down early, and changed the office location to the Wenhua Palace, otherwise, he had to tan off a layer of skin, although he was already very dark, but the sun in July was really poisonous, and he didn't want to stand under the sun and be exposed.

"Minister, Sun Yuanhua, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live." Sun Yuanhua can enter the Wenhua Hall as a person, and the opportunities required in it are not something that ordinary people can do.

"Sun Yuanhua, excuse me, get up." Yang Reform is already very accustomed to talking nonsense after others kowtow, this is the rule.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Sun Yuanhua stood up.

"Sun Yuanhua, the matter of casting cannons? Did I hear it? Yang Gengai asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, there has been progress in imitating the Hongyi cannon, and now, the minister has imitated a batch, which is very powerful, it can be described as an artifact, and it can already be equipped with the official army, and the minister implores His Majesty to inspect it." Sun Yuanhua followed Xu Guangqi to learn Western firearms in his early years, and was quite familiar with Western firearms, and he personally cast a lot of artillery, so he was very familiar with the matter of casting Western artillery, and it didn't take long to cast a batch of artillery. Now I have come to show my merit with the emperor, and by the way, I am also ready to ask for silver, and casting cannons is a matter of spending silver, because the material of casting cannons is copper, and copper is money.

Yang Reform wanted to promise Sun Yuanhua to visit and test the power of the artillery, and I really wanted to see what the Hongyi cannon was like, and by the way, I encouraged Sun Yuanhua and encouraged his imperial party, but when I looked up at the weather outside, my ......, the action force, it was gone, the sun outside was really vicious, if you went to visit the artillery, you had to try a few shells, and you had to bask in the sun, the sun outside, the spicy, the little power that Yang Reform came out, gone, Yang Reform is a person who is afraid of heat, Now it's a mind to drill into the "air-conditioned room".

"Very good, artillery is the key to winning the war in the future, there is a powerful artillery, war, can win, the imitation of artillery not only can not stop, moreover, we must also study more advanced artillery, to figure out, why Hongyi's artillery will be more powerful, why our traditional artillery will be inferior to Hongyi's artillery, these, Sun Aiqing, you have to work hard......" Yang Reform didn't want to visit any artillery, because he didn't want to bask in the sun, besides, Yang Reform also trusted Sun Yuanhua, if it was someone else, Yang Reform will not steal this laziness, Sun Yuanhua is also a famous historical celebrity, and he is still relatively reliable in doing things, Yang Reform is lazy and lazy, and he is starting to be lazy.

"Obey." Sun Yuanhua inexplicably heard the emperor say this, but he didn't hear whether the emperor went to the imperial tour or not.

"By the way, Sun Aiqing, the queen is recently doing a large-scale measurement of speed, have you heard of this?" Yang asked in a sloppy manner.

Sun Yuanhua shook his head and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the minister has not heard of it." ”

Yang Reform thinks about it again, Zhou Wan'er's matter, forget it, she is more active when she is jealous, and once the gust of wind passes, I am afraid I don't want to do it again. ,

"Uh...... forget it, I'll talk to you later,...... By the way, Sun Aiqing, what are you using for artillery casting? Yang Gengai couldn't bear to refuse the kindness of his imperial party, but he didn't want to bask in the sun, so he began to talk nonsense, ready to be lazy.

"Back to Your Majesty, artillery casting, if it is a large artillery, the power is huge, generally use copper, such as Hongyi cannons, if it is a smaller artillery, such as a Franc machine, three-eyed gun or something, it can be made of fine iron, which can save costs." Although Sun Yuanhua was surprised by the emperor's question, he still answered carefully.

"Why don't you use steel?" Yang Reform said nonsense.

"Steel? Back to Your Majesty, the steel itself is extremely difficult to exercise, difficult to obtain, if it is to be made into a cannon barrel, it is even more difficult, and now, there is no way to make steel into a cannon barrel, it is really too difficult to refine. Sun Yuanhua explained.

"How hard is it? Do you know how to make steel now? Or do you have the technology to make steel on a large scale? "Yang Reform Crooked Building is quite happy, steelmaking, Yang Reform knows, ancient China will have long ago, however, large-scale steelmaking technology, this is an epoch-making thing, many traversers are building blast furnaces at every turn, steelmaking, and then invincible, Yang Reform has always dreamed that he can be like this.

"Back to Your Majesty, as for the skill of steelmaking, it has existed in ancient times, but refining is very difficult, a good piece of steel needs to be tempered before it can be made, as for the method of large-scale steelmaking,...... Back to Your Majesty, there is, but it is not very stable, it is not necessarily steel, and the consumption of this method is also ......" Although Sun Yuanhua did not understand the emperor's intentions, he still answered carefully.

"What's that way to go? What kind of steel can be made? Yang Gengai asked curiously. Yang Reform actually wanted to come out of the blast furnace at the end of the Ming Dynasty, make steel, and learn to pass through the "advanced experience" of his predecessors, but in the Ming Dynasty, this motivation is getting lower and lower, and the most important task of the emperor is not to make steel.

"Back to Your Majesty, this method is called 'Steel Filling Method'." Sun Yuanhua explained.

"Steel? How is it poured? Yang asked reform.

The people in the Wenhua Hall had no choice but to ask the emperor so "shamelessly", so a group of people accompanied the emperor to listen to the metallurgical lectures. Of course, all kinds of disdain are indispensable.

"Back to Your Majesty, the steel filling method is to use pig iron and wrought iron to dissolve to get better steel." Sun Yuanhua began to give a special lecture on metallurgy in front of the eyes of the entire hall.

"Pig iron and wrought iron can be dissolved to get steel?" Yang Gengai thought about it for a while, and he had a little bit of a spectrum in his heart, and the benefits of reading the crossing novel before crossing were reflected, and he knew a little bit about this knowledge. This pig iron, wrought iron, steel, in fact, fundamentally speaking, are all the same thing, that is, iron, should be different in the content of a certain element, therefore, there are different properties, pig iron, should be iron with higher carbon content; wrought iron, which should be iron with a lower carbon content; Steel, on the other hand, is iron with a specific carbon content, and the technology of blending pig iron and wrought iron to obtain steel should be to mix two kinds of iron with different carbon content together to obtain "iron" with a specific carbon content, which is steel.

From this steelmaking method, Yang Reform roughly estimated that the output and performance of the steel obtained by this steelmaking method may not be very stable.

"Back to Your Majesty, yes, however, how much pig iron and how much wrought iron are fused to get what kind of steel, this needs to be estimated by an experienced master, and the steel obtained is not necessarily what is needed, so wrought iron is easy to refine, and good steel is hard to find."

The people in the Wenhua Hall really couldn't stand the emperor "shamelessly asking" in front of everyone, does this steelmaking have anything to do with them?

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this is a place to discuss national affairs, and steelmaking is a small skill, a small way, and it is not worth Your Majesty's trouble." A minister couldn't stand the emperor's "undoing business" anymore, and began to give advice to the emperor.

Yang Gai immediately found the conversation and retorted: "Xiaodao? Nothing to do with national events? This Qing family, this is not right, I ask you, is it important to cast cannons? "Yang Reform didn't want to go to the field to test the cannon in such a world, but he didn't want to chill the heart of his imperial party, so he was desperate for someone to come out and sing against him now.

"Back to Your Majesty, casting cannons, of course, is important, especially the Hongyi cannon, which is a sharp weapon of the country, and it is very suitable to protect the city with cannons, if someone dares to violate my city, one cannon will go down, and it can be eroded by one side, and it is really a sharp weapon of the country......" The minister began to break blindly with the emperor.

"Hehe, since it is very important to cast cannons, then I really ask you, what are the cannons made of?" Yang asked with a little sneer.

"Uh......, back to Your Majesty, the cannons are made of copper, and the small cannons are made of fine iron." The metallurgical "lecture" just now still had some effect, and the official remembered what Sun Yuanhua had just said.

"Hehe, very good, since the Qing family knows that the cannon is made of copper, then I ask you, what is the copper coin made of?" Yang Gai sneered and said that anyone who dares to say that building cannons has nothing to do with national affairs should slap their mouths, and the "truth" in the future is all within the range of cannons.