When Ning Yu came to the cannon shop again, the number of craftsmen in it had increased many times, and now there were about eighty people, and it was a hot scene.

When Lei Huozi saw Ning Yu, he took out a long shotgun from the house with an excited face, but this shotgun was very different from the usual, the long barrel was integrated, and the whole was full of black light.

"Young master, the flintlock pistol you mentioned, we have made it, come and see it." Lei Huozi said excitedly.

Ning Yu took the flintlock pistol, although his hands were very stable, but the excitement in his heart was difficult to suppress, at the beginning of the 18th century, with this flintlock pistol and Napoleonic cannon, no one was afraid.

This flintlock pistol is actually a replica proposed by Ning Yu based on the brown Bess flintlock musket in the previous life, although it is not as good as the original, but in today's China, it is already incredible.

The total length of the whole gun is four feet five, and a three-edged bayonet can be added to the front, and the total length can reach four feet eight, that is, about 1.6 meters in later generations.

Lei Huozi said excitedly: "Young master, this shot can hit far away, and it can hit two hundred steps. It's much better than the things in the hands of the shotgun handles. ”

Ning Yu put it in his hand and checked it, it was not very light but it was not very strenuous, especially since it canceled the fire rope and used flint friction as a ignition device.

Many people mistakenly think that flintlock is hot in the West and silent in the East, but in fact, flintlock pistols have appeared in the late Ming Dynasty, but they have not been promoted and popularized in time.

As early as the eighth year of Chongzhen, Bi Maokang, an expert in weapons at that time, wrote a book called "Illustrated Description of Weapons", which recorded a kind of "self-generated firebolt", which was also a relatively primitive impact flintlock pistol, pulling the trigger, pressing down the faucet, and the energy storage effect of the spring, prompting the flint to rub on the fire door to make a fire and complete the fire shooting.

It's just that the early flintlock device was not stable enough, so it was abandoned later, and it still relied on arquebuses to fire, but now Ning Yu naturally will not continue to take the arquebus, but directly replaced it with a flintlock pistol.

Ning Yu looked at the smoothbore gun in his hand happily and said, "How much does this flintlock pistol cost now?" How many days does it take to make? ”

Speaking of this, Lei Huozi sighed and said: "It's easy to say anything else, this bolt part is not complicated to do, but only the barrel makes people helpless." ”

Of course, Ning Yu knows that for a gun, whether it hits accurately or not is often determined by the manufacturing process of the barrel, and the barrel must be very straight and smooth in order to maintain the trajectory without deviation, so the barrel material of later generations has a unified name - seamless steel pipe. All in all, in this era, seamless steel pipes are simply artifacts.

"Originally, when making shotguns, the iron sheet was rolled on the pillar to turn into a long pipe, and then the two sides were welded together, and then the iron pipe was burned in the furnace until it turned white, and a steel core was also prepared, the thickness was the same, and the length was longer than the length of the gun. Then put the iron pipe that has been burned to red on the steel core, and vigorously smash the iron pipe interface into one. ”

"When welding later, you have to sprinkle white copper powder, wait until the steel core is cold, and then return the iron pipe to the furnace to heat, so that it can be used as a gun barrel."

Lei Huozi introduced his past experience little by little, and looked a little helpless: "But in this way, most of the cost of making a shotgun is in the barrel, and a shotgun can cost three taels or four dollars of silver, which is still our own wages. ”

Ning Yu gasped, this price is really expensive.

You must know that the shotgun of this year is not a durable product, and the ordinary shotgun can be used for two years is not bad.

If you want to reduce the cost, you need to solve the cost of the barrel.

It was not until the second half of the 19th century, when the new steelmaking method and the new special alloy steel knives came out, that the cost and time of the barrel production were greatly reduced.

Because if you want to make a barrel, you have to go the old way of forging before. Therefore, Ning Yu had no choice but to let the thunder camel accumulate little by little, and when the iron-making technology developed to a higher level, he could consider using a hydraulic forging hammer to make it, and the speed would be much faster.

Although the Ning family currently has a potential crisis, it is not very urgent, whether it is a flintlock gun or artillery, it can be slowly prepared and stored.

However, looking at the messy workshop, Ning Yu still had a headache, and said, "This method is really messy, and it is also very inefficient. ”

Lei Huozi was extremely surprised, and said: "My cannon workshop is not messy, this thing is neatly placed." My thunder camel is a little sloppy, but my cannon workshop is hearty, and it is cleaned every day, and it doesn't affect the cannon making. ”

Ning Yu said helplessly: "I'm not talking about things messing, it's people messing, you see, everyone is making a gun alone, can this speed be slow." You divide all the registered craftsmen into different groups, for example, those who make bolts will make bolts, and those who make barrels will specialize in barrels, and then assemble them specially, and then set up a quality inspector, if the parts are qualified, they will give money, and if they are unqualified, they will deduct money, and this income will be linked to their own craftsmanship, and they will get more if they do more. ”

Lei Huozi looked at Ning Yu dumbfounded: "Why do you have a long brain?" It's too fine, but it's a good idea, I've started to implement it in the past few days, and if it's really as easy to use as you say, then it's not a big problem to make a hundred flintlock pistols a month. ”

Although Ning Yu was not very satisfied with a hundred flintlock pistols, it was enough for now, and he could only slowly expand the scale of production to increase production in the future. After all, the productivity of this era is so large, and if you want to improve efficiency, there are too many technical thresholds that need to be crossed.

After the gun matter was over, Ning Yu told Lei Huozi about the concept of the Napoleonic cannon and some technical details. In fact, in this era, the technical content of Napoleonic guns was not so high, and the development of guns tended to be more rapid than that of guns.

However, the historical Napoleonic cannon was made of bronze rather than iron, making it extremely strong enough to withstand the blast of a heavy charge or a double charge without breaking. However, for Ning Yu, the cost of bronze is really unbearable, so it can only be made of fine iron, which is relatively poor in performance and has a much shorter life.

After listening to Ning Yu's introduction, Lei Huozi had a light in his eyes, but looking at Ning Yu's eyes, it seemed that he was looking at a monster, but he thought of something, and then said: "This gun is made, and please give a name to the son." ”

Ning Yu smiled: "Since it was made by your thunder camel, then this gun is called a thunder-type flintlock pistol." ”