As the molten steel flowed into the mold, the craftsmen and Luo Qing watched expectantly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The molten steel flows into the molds through the deflector groove, and then slowly solidifies.

Half an hour later, when the molten steel finally solidified completely, the craftsman disassembled the mold, clamped the first part with tongs, and placed it in the water.

After the smoke passed, the first part cooled down completely.

The craftsman touched it with his hand, and the surface of the part was slightly rough and needed further polishing before it could be used.

So he told Luo Qing, and after Luo Qing listened, he arranged for several craftsmen to polish all the parts with him.

Grinding is the same as water grinding, which takes a long time, and it takes three days for all the parts to be polished to meet the requirements.

Then all the parts were placed in front of Luo Qing and assembled by her.

Luo Qing had been studying the drawings for a long time before, and she knew the structure of the pistol very well, and at this moment she looked at the parts and began to assemble them.

At the beginning of the assembly, she realized that there was still a hurdle to cross from theory to practice, but it was not too difficult for her, and she quickly found a way to assemble the pistol smoothly.

The pistol has been assembled, but one important component is missing, and that is the bullet.

Bullets can also be produced through molds, Luo Qing had already asked the craftsmen to make the molds of bullets together, and at this moment, under the order, the first batch of steel bullets was quickly produced.

Then there was the preparation of gunpowder, which again ran into difficulties this time, because no matter how it was prepared, the gunpowder could not reach such a low critical temperature.

In desperation, Luo Qing had no choice but to enter the palace again to ask Tang Mo about gunpowder.

This time, after Tang Mo recalled carefully, he directly took out the formula of smokeless gunpowder, which was the gunpowder used by all kinds of guns and cannons in later generations, Tang Mo had seen the formula of smokeless gunpowder when he was reading books in the library, and he just glanced at it at the time, but now she can recall it.

Smokeless gunpowder has the advantages of being flammable, burning three times more powerful, and no residue after combustion, and has been widely used in later generations.

Luo Qing got the formula for smokeless gunpowder, and she also saw the huge advantages of this gunpowder, and she was very excited.

Luo Qing said, "Your Majesty, compared to the existing gunpowder, the formula of this gunpowder is completely superior in power and performance in all aspects, if it can be mass-produced, then my Ming territory, I'm afraid it can be doubled." ”

Tang Mo waved his hand, how can it be so simple to conquer the world, now is not the time to talk about that.

Luo Qing left the palace, and with the smokeless gunpowder formula, she immediately set about the first trial production.

Although there are few saltpeter on the market, it can finally be bought, and after buying saltpeter, the rest of the raw materials are not difficult.

Seven or eight days later, the first batch of smokeless gunpowder was trial-produced.

Luo Qing asked the craftsman to test it, and found that luckily, this batch of smokeless gunpowder barely qualified.

They made several mistakes in the process, and finally got a qualified product, which can only be attributed to luck.

The first rounds of ammunition were assembled, a total of fifty rounds, all in small boxes, and then sent to the palace along with the pistol.

In the dormitory, Tang Mo met with Luo Qing, and when he saw the pistol Luo Qing took out, Tang Mo couldn't help but be a little excited.

Although the pistol is small, it represents the era of firearms. This type of pistol has an effective range of about 200 meters and an initial velocity of 120% of the speed of sound, which is considered a mid-range model of a pistol.

Tang Mo held the pistol in his hand and played with it, pointing the muzzle of the gun at Luo Qing, Luo Qing didn't have any nervousness on her face, because she knew that there were no bullets in the gun.

Luo Qing didn't know how powerful this gun was, but she knew that the power of this gun would not be weaker than ordinary arquebuses, because every part was carefully processed, and the effort spent alone was many times greater than that of an arquebus.

Tang Mo hooked the trigger of the gun with his fingers, circled around his hand, and carefully observed it in his hand, this gun looks very good, there should be a part, a lot, Tang Mo can't wait to try it.

Withdraw the magazine, then Tang Mo stuffed the bullet into the magazine, and then loaded.

Then the bolt is pulled, and the bullet is loaded.

The dormitory was obviously not a place to test the gun, Tang Mo walked out of the dormitory, took the pistol, and shot it into the sky.

The bullet flew towards the sky, and others couldn't see the trajectory of the bullet, but Tang Mo could see it.

She saw the bullet spin in a straight line and fly straight into the sky, then lose speed at a height of several hundred meters, and then fall vertically into an uninhabited courtyard.

Tang Mo clearly saw the place where the warhead fell with his senses, and at the same time, at her feet, a bullet case exuded a scorching aura.

The pistol shot made a huge explosion, and many palace maids and guards were alarmed, and when they came to Tang Mo in a panic, they saw that the empress was looking at a strange thing that they didn't know.

"It's a pistol. Tang Mo explained.

"The sound of me firing just now, this thing is very powerful, and our soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will use this weapon in the future. ”

Then Tang Mo didn't care whether anyone else understood, handed the pistol back to Luo Qing, and said, "This is our first pistol in the Ming Dynasty, it has an unusual significance, you asked the craftsman to engrave the words "Emperor Daming personally used, Daming's No. 1 pistol" on it, and then sent it to the palace, do you know?"

"Okay, Your Majesty" Luo Qing nodded.

Before the empress ascended the throne, she liked strange things, and once let the workshop that produced mirrors send three mirrors to the palace, Luo Qing also knew about it, Mo Qing was the owner of the mirror workshop, Luo Qing rarely cared about things over there now, but the memory of the past was still vivid.

Luo Qing left the palace with a pistol, while Tang Mo calmed the guards and eunuchs a little and rewarded them with some inconsequential things.

After returning to the workshop, Luo Qing found a blacksmith who could engrave lettering, and asked him to engrave the words "Emperor Daming personally used, Daming No. 1 pistol" on this pistol, and told the craftsman that the pistols produced in the future must be numbered, starting from the second number and making it backwards.

Not only pistols, but also other weapons in the future must be numbered.

The meaning of the empress is already obvious, Luo Qing is a smart person, and naturally knows how to please the empress.

With the first set of molds, it was much easier to make a second set of molds, but it still took three days to make the second set of molds, and then more and more molds were made, and the pistol began to enter the stage of mass production.

The first pistols were temporarily stored in the workshop, and each pistol had a unique number to prevent anyone from secretly sending the pistols out.

At the same time as the mass production of pistols, Luo Qing also began to study the structure of automatic rifles, which are much more complex than pistols and are not so easy to manufacture.