This is his own business, so he naturally won't fool around!

Zhu Cijiong turned his head to Ding Daniu, who was coming upside down, and said, "What else is needed here in the musket workshop?" ”

"Naturally, the more craftsmen, the better!"

Ding Da Niu smiled: "Your Majesty, rest assured, your minister's firearms workshop can now make 300 flintlock pistols a day, and the arquebus has gradually begun to be discontinued, and as for the Mini gun that Your Majesty handed over to your minister last time, it has also begun trial production." ”

While he was talking, Zhu Cijiong had already taken several craftsmen's food plates and looked at them, and found that everyone's food was the same, so he was relieved.

He waved his hand to let Zhao Donkey, who had been trained just now, come over with him, and then went to the processing workshop under the leadership of Ding Daniu.

"Your Majesty, the pedal platform you mentioned is really easy to use."

Zhu Cijiong nodded, the book "Tiangong Kaiwu" in the Ming Dynasty has a physical drawing of a manpower lathe, and there are also such tools in Europe at the same time, and he has improved it into a two-person operation here, one person provides power and one person is responsible for operation.

In addition, a chuck for clamping the workpiece, a gear for changing the steering, and a hand crank head holder have been added.

The emergence of these three things, in addition to power, the prototype of artificial lathes has been fully equipped.

"The subordinate gathered skilled craftsmen to make three carts, and the barrels were made, and the outer skin was cut off on the first wagon, and the shape was made into a uniform specification.

It is then clamped into the second wagon, the muzzle is positioned, and a center point is cut out, and then it is placed in the third wagon and the barrel is turned. ”

Although it was meal time, there were still people busy in the workshop, and it was obvious that the workers were eating in batches.

From time to time, someone sends the forged barrel shape into the cutting area, and then a worker takes the hand-forged barrel, carefully inspects it, and after determining that it is straight, it will be put into the first car, tighten the screws, and fix the barrel on the clamp.

Then an apprentice sits on something like a bicycle, pedals his feet, and through the bite of a series of gears, the jaws begin to rotate rapidly.

However, the master next to him will slowly push the knife holder, and under the force of the barrel rotation, the sharpening knife will cut the barrel shape to a fixed size.

Zhu Cijiong picked up a sharpened barrel.

I saw that the outer wall of the barrel had long been as smooth as a mirror, although you could still see the traces of the cut, but the shape of the barrel processed by the lathe had been completely unified.

After there is almost no error in the shape, the process of drilling the barrel of the following two guns is not easy to make mistakes.

"Not bad!"

Zhu Cijiong praised sincerely and asked:

"These machines must have taken a lot of effort, right?"

Ding Daniu smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty is afraid that you don't know yet, for these three machines, more than 30 masters got together and studied for a full ten days before they came up with these three usable machines." ”

"And the iron we smelted has wasted more than 3,000 catties!"

Zhu Cijiong nodded, this is a set of human-driven lathes.

In this era, how could he not understand the hardships of being able to drum up such a set of tools for cutting metal!

Even in the Auman Bar, there is only the first grinding machine.

Compared with the simple tree lathes and rod machine tools for cutting wood, the one in front of Zhu Cijiong is high-tech!

He smiled: "You still have to do more of this kind of machine."

This kind of machine can manufacture screws, gears and other concentric parts, and its working parts must be concentric.

In fact, many parts are made by hand, and it is difficult to guarantee complete uniformity, but if you use a machine to create them, it is completely consistent. ”

Zhu Cijiong pointed to the gears and said, "For example, you can change the jaw and the cutter to make the cutter rotate while the workpiece does not move, so that you can create a different part!" ”

Ding Da Niu's eyes lit up.

The reason why he was transferred to Nanyang by Zhu Cijiong and served as the head of the artisan camp musket workshop was because his mind was active.

Ding Da Niu's gray braids have long been cut off.

At the beginning, he decided to follow Zhu Cijiong in order to get six taels of silver and give his son a daughter-in-law.

But he didn't expect that in just one year, he decided to work hard for six taels of silver, and now his annual salary has reached a full fifty taels!

And that's not even counting the rewards His Majesty gives from time to time!

"Your Majesty's method is good, as long as you set the card, everything you make is completely the same!"

Ding Daniu immediately understood - how easy it would be for Zhu Cijiong to teach him!

Originally, the manufacture of a barrel like this required a master to manufacture, and even a master could only drill one barrel a day!

If you are not careful, if you do something wrong, you will be scrapped!

And now?

It can be said that now to cut the barrel, as long as you find a literate young man and teach you the operation requirements, you can do it in three or two days!

In this way, these already scarce masters can completely focus on making wrought iron.

"How's the yield?" Zhang Siyuan asked.

Ding Daniu smiled: "If you don't stop working, you can make 50 in one day, one night, and twelve hours, which is equivalent to the treasure of fifty masters!" ”

He sighed: "The machine in the middle takes the least time, and the last machine to drill the barrel takes the longest, but even the last one, it takes less than two quarters of an hour to drill one!" ”

"What about rifling?" Zhu Cijiong asked.

"This is simple, after heating a little red, the master can get one in a few clicks." Ding Da Niu said.

……

Zhang Siyuan frowned, and he asked the brother-in-law on the side in a low voice: "Cedar, do you remember the water mill outside Nanyang City?" ”

Li Tingran raised his eyebrows: "What are you talking about, but the water drainage mill improved from Duji County (Weihui)?" ”

This Du Ji County refers to Du Shi Du Jungong, the minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty Guangwu Emperor, because he is a native of Ji County, so he is called Du Ji County.

Zhang Siyuan nodded: "It is the improved mill of Du Mu water drain, I remember that in the Song Dynasty, someone improved the water drain and changed the water drain originally used for iron smelting into a water mill, on both sides of the Tang and Bai rivers, there were a lot of them." ”

Du's mother is one of the two people who "call the father and Du's mother", and she is also the source of the parents' officials.

The people called the officials their parents, which originated in Nanyang.

In the early Yuan Dynasty of the Western Han Dynasty to the Jingning period, he was too punctual in Nanyang, built Nanyang water conservancy, loved the people like a son, and was called "Summoning Father!" ”

Du Shi in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, after the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, also did Taishou in Nanyang, he continued to build water conservancy, and because Nanyang iron smelting consumes manpower and animal power too much, it is to invent water drainage, which is used to smelt iron.