Chapter 45: The Age of Steam

Lu Yushi is really a tough guy who doesn't bend his waist for five buckets of rice, and the donkey's temper doesn't care about the life or death of his wife and children, he said that he would rather die than eat the food made by the demons, and said that the rice in the granary may be made of gravel and rubble, and it will be okay to eat it for the time being, and after a long time, the intestines will rot and he will definitely die. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The face of the officials present was a little unbearable, this was pure nonsense, Liu Taishi did conjure up hundreds of thousands of catties of clear water in the battle of Yashan, but these grains were not actually conjured up by him, but the imperial court sent a ship to Zhancheng to buy back the Champa rice for real money, pretending that Taishi changed the food, in order to give 300,000 soldiers and civilians a reassurance, after all, there is nothing more reassuring than the gods in charge.

With Chen Yizhong's political wisdom, of course he understood that this round had failed, and he planned to stop fighting, but Wen Tianxiang was unforgiving, and continued to take everyone to visit, and it was not okay to quit halfway, after all, the emperor and the queen mother were still there.

This time I visited the Ordnance Institute of the Ministry of Industry, which was originally a workshop under the Ministry of Industry that made armor, bows, crossbows, knives and guns, but now it has become the largest institution in the dynasty, with tens of thousands of craftsmen, unlimited power to allocate money and food, and the full support of the emperor, the queen mother, the left and right prime ministers, and the generalissimo.

Originally, Chen Yizhong planned to overthrow Liu Yanzhi and then attack the ordnance, but the Ministry of Industry monopolized the power and occupied eighty percent of the manpower and material resources of the industry, which was worth it! The master craftsman of the ordnance institute has 500 catties of rice per month, which is higher than the income of the four-grade officials, and a group of idle redundant personnel have long been unaccustomed to it, but there is no suitable opportunity to make trouble, because the ordnance prison is guarded by the forbidden army, and the idlers are not allowed to enter, and they have not found the handle for a while, and now Wen Tianxiang took the initiative to take them to visit, but it is a godsend.

The armament is located in a clearing by the sea, and you can see a tall slender circular hollow brick tower from a distance, and black smoke comes out every day, and the Song people do not know that it is a brick chimney, and the legend is that it is a giant alchemy furnace made by immortals. In fact, the building under the chimney is similar to the alchemy furnace, which is a steelmaking plant designed and built by the party patriotic.

The Holy Driver came to the Ordnance Institute, where the Ministry of Works, Shangshu, the Prince and the Young Master Dang Aiguo personally greeted, led everyone to visit the achievements of the past few months, and first inspected the armor crossbow workshop, which is a workshop under the Ordnance Institute, producing the latest chain mail and assault guns.

The armor of the Song army was not inferior to that of Jin and Yuan, and the quality of the bow and crossbow was not inferior to that of the Mongol composite bow, so the generals of the imperial court thought that there was no improvement in the weapon, but they were still surprised when they saw the chain mail made of fine iron rings by the collar collar.

Only Chen Yizhong dismisses it, chain mail is not a new thing, all countries in the Western Regions can produce it, this kind of armor is flexible and lightweight, and can move with the body, but it has no defense against blunt weapon strikes such as axes and hammers, and it is cumbersome to make, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the gains outweigh the losses.

How witty the party is to love the country, he has already seen that today's inspection is not good, he smiled and said: "The chain mail in the Western Regions is usually four links, and six links are already a rare thing, but the chain mail produced by the crossbow workshop is all eight links, and only generals like Zhang Hongfan in the Mongolian army wear them." ”

There are people who know the goods nod frequently, the chain mail is also divided into three, six, nine, etc., the four links are relatively sparse, the six links are much stronger, the dense and compact eight rings are the top grade in the chain mail, but the production is also more cumbersome, the craftsmen who master this technology themselves are not many, even if the skilled craftsmen make a collar of eight chain mail It takes a year, which is not counting the cost of work, the raw material of the chain mail is a small flat iron ring, these iron rings need to be heated, forged, twisted and welded by craftsmen with iron wires one by one. The workload can be imagined.

As if guessing what everyone thought, Dang Aiguo said: "The crossbow workshop can produce 100 pieces of chain mail every day." ”

Everyone looked at each other, incredulous, if this was true, then at least tens of thousands of craftsmen would be needed, but the entire arsenal was only these people, and it was impossible for all of them to be used to produce armor.

Chen Yizhong is a person who has been a prime minister, and he considers the problem more comprehensively, he concludes that the party's patriotism is exaggerating, and the first thing needed to make so much armor is iron, but there is no iron ore in Liuqiu!

"Dang Shangshu, can you visit the workshop and see how the craftsmen make it." Chen Yizhong sneered and made a request, he expected that the party patriot would be deflated, and Wen Tianxiang would cover up, but to his surprise, the party patriot readily agreed.

The workshop that made chain mail was in a huge house made of red bricks, and a loud rumbling sound was heard from a long distance, and Dang Aiguo did not explain, leading everyone into the door and standing at the door to admire his masterpiece.

In the workshop, several steel machines are working under the drive of steam engines, and the billets made from the steelmaking furnace of the steelmaking mill next door enter the water tank wire drawing machine, draw long steel wires, and then be cut into uniform sections by the lathe, stamped into flat steel rings, and linked into three-foot-wide steel cloth while it is hot, and the final link is handmade, and the craftsmen make these steel cloths into chain mail tops step by step, the collar and cuffs are wrapped in cotton cloth and lined with a layer of silk.

In the machine on the other side, an iron helmet is being produced on the assembly line, this is a stamped iron helmet, there is no red tassel spire and phoenix wings to wipe the forehead, but it is lined with cowhide, and another leather strip is used to tie the chin, and there is a stamped Song character on the helmet, and the craftsman holds a brush dipped in red lacquer to color these Song characters one by one.

Everyone was shocked by this scene, no need for labor, it all depends on the machine, is this an immortal law or a demon law!

Lu Yushi seems to have become mute, Chen Yizhong can't find the words to find fault with his intestines and stomach, although he is good at internal fighting, but he can see the problems on the big picture clearly, the Great Song Dynasty has sharp weapons, and in the future, it is better to recover the homeland, and everyone has official work, which is better than fighting for power on this small island.

Now, people who want to pick bones in eggs have changed their positions, and one by one is like a primary school student who has walked into the Science Children's Palace, impatient to see fresher and more bizarre things.

The party patriotically met their needs and demonstrated the treasure of the town shop of the ordnance institute, the general cannon of the town and the country, on the shooting range.

This is a cannon cast in bronze, using cavity wax injection technology, no bubble sand hole is formed during the casting process, the cannon has been polished and polished, the appearance is shiny and smooth, exquisite, it is simply a work of art.

The artillery of the on-site drill is a man with a big waist and a round waist selected in the forbidden army, four gunners operate a big general cannon, the cannon body has two ears, just stuck in the grooves on both sides of the gun carriage, the gun carriage is equipped with iron hoop wooden wheels, can be pushed by people to pull horses, can also be loaded on the war ship for use, the soldiers pushed the gun cart to the sea, built an artillery position, buried the hoe at the tail of the gun carriage in the soil, took out a wooden ruler and measured it decently, adjusted the height of the gun muzzle, and then used a red-hot steel drill to ignite the propellant in the medicine room.

With a loud bang, the muzzle of the cannon burst into flames, and one of the cannons was ejected, and in the blink of an eye, it fell into the sea in the distance, splashing a high column of water.

The little emperor Zhao Yu was scared and cried on the spot, it is said that the emperor has also been accustomed to seeing big scenes since he was a child, and he has seen a lot of swords and swords, but such a deafening cannon sound came too suddenly, not to mention that he was a seven-year-old child, and even Chen Yizhong almost urinated on the spot.

The gunner measured the distance and reported hitting a distance of 100 zhang.

Now Chen Yizhong understands why Zhang Shijie will vigorously support the Ministry of Industry to occupy money and food, the artillery produced by the military is really sharp, this kind of artillery is far superior to all the weapons of the Mongols whether it is used in land warfare or naval warfare, what return artillery, bed crossbows, light cavalry team, all of them are not a problem, naval warfare is even more advantageous, a distance of 100 zhang can sink the enemy ship, so sharp weapons, the Great Song Dynasty will dominate the sea.

Chen Yizhong was still imagining, the second cannon sounded again, it turned out that this cannon was still a child-mother structure, the rear of the gun was movable, there were disassembled magazines, each magazine was of uniform specifications, equipped with an eight-pound spherical cast iron shell, and a propellant with an optimized formula wrapped in cloth, as long as the magazine was supplied, the combat rate of fire could be as high as twenty rounds per minute.

A cadre of officials was dumbfounded and speechless, and the party patriot still felt that they were not frightened enough, and introduced: "This eight-pound Zhenguo general cannon is a small cannon used in land warfare, and a larger Zhenguo Gong-type cannon is used in naval warfare, which can hit 500 zhang away. ”

Everyone nodded like pounding garlic, and they all showed a look of worship and admiration, and even Lu Yushi restrained his arrogance and listened to the lecture with an open mind.

"The Ministry of Engineering is building new warships, one battleship, which can hold 300 such guns." "Such a battleship is called a battleship, and the smaller one with 200 guns is called a cruiser, and there is also a kind of ship that can sneak in the sea, called a submarine, which can enter the inland river from Haikou and drive all the way to the nose of the Mongols." ”

Someone asked, the submarine did not have exposed sails, how to move forward.

"Electricity, batteries, you don't understand." The party loves the country.

The ability of the professor of history at Jiangdong University is not actually to write a thesis, but to study the crossing and farming techniques of various dynasties, and the party patriot spent ten years studying how the traversers quickly established a steam civilization in ancient times, which is a systematic and complicated process, and it took the Europeans hundreds of years to complete, and the party patriot took a few months to preliminarily complete the construction of the steam engine, steel mill and arsenal, and the right time and place are indispensable.

First of all, he has the full support of the Song Dynasty, the blacksmiths of the people, the craftsmen who manufacture armor and weapons in the army, and a large number of people are all allocated for free, only need to manage two meals a day to make dry rice made of Zhancheng rice, he first built a wheel kiln for firing red bricks, with rapid production of red bricks and red tiles, priority is given to the construction of steelmaking furnaces.

The Song Dynasty has a mature iron-making technology, but also can refine relatively good steel, but the efficiency is not high, the energy consumption is very great, the party patriotic construction is the nineteenth century only invented the converter, smelting a furnace of steel only takes half an hour, and it is dephosphorization and deoxidation of high-quality high-carbon steel.

The coal used for steelmaking comes from the coal mines in the north of Liuqiu, the iron ore comes from the iron ore in the mountains, and the coal and iron resources in Taiwan are not rich enough, but it is enough for the Great Song Dynasty.

With coal, you can train coke and gas, with coke you can make steel, with steel, you can pull out steel wire, with steel wire you can weave chain mail, of course, chain mail is just a by-product, the greater use of wire drawing machine is to draw copper wire, used to wind the coil of the generator, used to make communication cables; The role of steel is not only to produce armor weapons, but more plates are continuously sent to the shipyards in the port to build ironclad warships.

Maybe it's not bad to stay in this era, and it is not a problem to unify the whole world, this is the ambition of the party's patriotism that occasionally floats in the heart.

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