Of course, this time it will definitely not be needed.

Min Yuanqi looked at Shen Yong and said with a smile: "Next, you just need to get the punch and mold, prepare more appropriate fine iron sheet rings, teach more apprentices to make the rings, and finally make chain mail." ”

Shen Yongdao: "The achievement of one ring is a ring, and the buckle is just five rings connected into a ring, and then connected to each other, not to mention familiar hands, even if a novice learns to do it, it is very easy." ”

"You don't have to clasp the chainmail loop too thickly." Min Yuanqi said: "It weighs about ten catties, no matter how thick it is, this armor still can't prevent spear stabbing or heavy weapons smashing, even heavy arrows can't be prevented from shooting at close range, as long as it can prevent light arrows and slashing and slashing, reduce damage, this is enough." ”

The defensive power of the chain mail is indeed unsatisfactory, which makes Min Yuanqi happy, but still regretful.

Anti-arrow and slashing is stronger than cotton armor, and anti-stabbing and swinging are far worse than plate armor and scale armor.

Even if the thick chain mail weighing nearly 30 catties, that is, it is better to prevent heavy arrows and slashing, sharp swords and spears cannot be prevented, and the protective effect of heavy weapons is still extremely poor.

In this case, there is no need to make that kind of barbed wire thick chain mail, which is too cost-effective.

The key point is that the form of chain mail is completely carried by the shoulder, if it is too heavy and too thick, it will affect the physical performance of the soldier.

This is different from plate armor, although a good plate armor is heavy, it is carried by all parts of the body, and it has little negative impact on the body's movements.

"Yes, sir." Shen Yong agreed, and then smiled: "My lord can listen to me now?" ”

"Oh, oh." Min Yuanqi was too excited, after all, it was a big problem to solve the armor making. With punches and molds, jingling in the morning, the iron rings made are probably enough to wear several collars of chain mail.

As long as a number of punches are equipped with a small number of craftsmen and some apprentices, at least a dozen collar chain mail a day, and a few hundred collar a month, it will not be difficult for the Qing army to go south next year, and it will not be difficult for the flag army of tens of thousands of people to be equipped with chain mail.

In addition, the manufacture of armor with dozens of collars a month, mainly armor and chain mail, supplemented by a small amount of scale armor and a large amount of cotton armor obtained from various channels, will have a qualitative improvement in the defense of the entire army.

Such a good thing is ahead, so Min Yuanqi is a little out of shape, and even Shen Yong has forgotten about it.

Zhu Wanchun on the side also shook his head and laughed, he had been dealing with Min Yuanqi for so long, and it was the first time he had seen the other party lose his temper like this.

"After I saw the boring machine, I had some thoughts about drilling the firecracker."

"What?"

Min Yuanqi's eyes lit up and frightened, he took a step forward, pressed his hands on Shen Yong's shoulders, and said urgently: "Okay, you Shen Yong, you are spitting on such a big thing, do you want to fight?" ”

"My lord, you said you want to speak before me." Shen Yong said helplessly: "As soon as I heard about the chain mail, I forgot about the firecracker. ”

"It's still muddy." Min Yuanqi scolded with a smile: "Don't hurry up and talk about it!" ”

"It's the boring machine in front of you." Shen Yong pointed to the boring machine in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Shicai talked to the craftsmen in Nanjing, and when I mentioned the matter of their cannon breech, I had some thoughts. ”

"How?"

"They fixed the barrel on the boring machine, there is a crank on this side, fixed on both sides, and a drill bit is shaken at one end, and the cannon boring is slowly scraped clean. This thing is the same as the gun pipe, it is very expensive, and the slightest mistake will destroy the gun barrel. Therefore, it should be fixed well, and the movement of the chamber should be fine and careful. Originally, they were the same as us drilling the pipe, they had to be supported by someone, they had to be careful, and their lives were crooked and the barrel of the cannon was ruined. Later, I entered this boring machine from the place called Macau, which was much lighter, as long as the position of the barrel was fixed, even an apprentice could make the barrel well. I thought at the time, I have seen this thing in Dengzhou, but I have never used it, why didn't I think of using this boring machine to drill the pipe? You know, this combination of guns is more complicated than birds, but it is a number of yin and yang machines, now we are siblings, fine iron feet, dozens of parts a day are enough, the difficulty is difficult to drill the pipe, as long as the pipe drills fast, we make hundreds of guns a month is not difficult! As soon as I saw the boring machine and thought of clamping the pipe to drill this layer, I pressed my leg and slapped ......"

Shen Yong is a top craftsman, his technical ability and leadership ability are first-class, even if he is placed in the group of craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry, he belongs to the top of the vote.

But good skills do not mean that they can speak, dexterity and ability to speak belong to two categories, and the two are completely different.

But even if Shen Yong said it upside down, Min Yuanqi completely understood.

He, like Shen Yong, was also caught in a rather self-blaming situation.

yes, why didn't you think of it earlier?

This thing is a layer of paper, and if it is exposed, the truth will be revealed.

But before it is exposed, it can blind the smartest people in the world!

Technological progress is rarely leapfrogging, take the steam engine as an example, due to the development of the cotton and wool textile industry in Britain, first sheep eat people, land squeezes a large number of peasants unemployed, and then is absorbed by textile factories, sheep need land, factories need people, as for the innocent bankruptcy of the peasants forced to change their profession to workers, how much unwillingness and hardship, even blood, tears, death, these are not within the scope of the capitalists' consideration.

By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Britain's fiscal revenue has exceeded the territory and population of the Ming Dynasty, although its colonists are not many, far less than the first Spain and Portugal, and even less than the Netherlands, but because of the excellent textile industry, Britain's financial revenue is also rising, soon caught up with the old colonists, and defeated Spain in the naval battle, and then began to compete with the Dutch at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and broke out many large-scale naval battles with the strength of the country.

The Netherlands was the first maritime power at this time, although this country was a republic split from Portugal, and its foundation was very weak, but due to the heavy commerce and heavy sea, the number of merchant ships at sea exceeded 20,000, and it had the first shipyard in Europe, if the British could not support its naval war with the Netherlands with normal tactics, you must know that the British land division at this time was very weak, and the maritime strength was slightly inferior to the Netherlands, and the Netherlands was not only strong at sea, but also quite good at land.

The war broke out between the Netherlands and France, the Netherlands not only mobilized tens of thousands of troops, but also mobilized more than 10,000 carriages, in a very short time for the army to provide logistical supplies, and the speed of transporting the army is extremely efficient and fast, in such a purely commercial country, efficiency and the pursuit of profit on the basis of defeating Britain at sea and defeating France on land, which is really far from the Netherlands in the hearts of future generations.

Britain was supported by the large amount of gold that the Spaniards had obtained from the colonies during its privateering at sea, and the privateer system not only plundered a great deal of wealth, but also rapidly increased the strength of the British navy.

Then there is the great wealth brought by the wool textile trade.

A British wool textile company pays an annual tax of more than one million taels of silver, which is simply unimaginable in the Ming Dynasty.

Giant trading companies, large foreign colonization companies, all appeared around this time.

Greedy, pragmatic, shrewd, unlimited power driven by profit.

Jenny machines, water-powered looms, are all driven by this profit.

As for the steam engine, the original intention was to use it in the coal mine to pump water, from the idea to the various designs, and finally succeeded, during which it went through a hundred years, from the theoretical design to the final success, in fact, it was driven by profits, the technical improvement on the actual use to the innovation, and finally from the quantitative change to the qualitative change.

Nothing in the world is a leap, just like the boring machine in front of him, this thing is rough and simple, but in Min Yuanqi's eyes, there is a peculiar beauty of craftsmanship.

And after the layer of window paper in front of me was revealed, everything was so clear and clear, but before it was uncovered, it was simply unimaginable.

Min Yuan was inspired for a while, and then he burst out laughing.

Under his influence, everyone present burst out laughing.

Almost all the middle and senior military attaches in Yunti Pass knew about it, and even some enthusiastic people wanted to come over to help after being on duty, only to find out later that drilling the pipe was also a technical job, and if they accidentally drilled crookedly, the entire previous work was in vain.

Even if you are an apprentice who has been studying for a long time, it is common for you to accidentally drill crookedly, and at that time, the whole person will become bad, and you will be quite frustrated and sad.

And the boring machine in front of me has completely solved the problem of this layer!

As long as there are enough boring machines, the drill bits used for the boring are also sufficient, plus the crank chain, it is still impossible to drill ten or eight a day, but if you get it, it should not be difficult to drill two or three a day.

From one a month to two or three a day, what is this concept?

How many times has the yield increased?

Sixty times?

Ninety times?

While everyone present laughed, they also looked at Shen Yong and Shen Liang brothers.

The narrow-minded ones are afraid that they have already scolded in their hearts.

These two lucky dog hybrids.

The second brother is in charge of firecrackers, artillery, and his status in the army is increasing day by day, before the production of firecrackers was insufficient, Shen Liang could only receive a firecracker, because the firecrackers were only enough to assemble a hundred generals, and it would take a long time to equip a division.

Now that the matter of the firecracker management in front of him is solved, I am afraid that in a short period of time, Shen Liang will be in charge of one division, or even two divisions.

The current establishment is a battalion of 3,500 people, excluding the baggage troops, engineers, and pacification departments, and there are about 1,700 people in each of the two thousand headquarters, and each thousand headquarters is four divisions, each division is more than 400 people, and the four hundred headquarters are four hundred headquarters.

If Shen Liang is in charge of the two divisions, and then the various departments are expanded, and sooner or later the firecrackers will expand to the size of a thousand headquarters or even a battalion, and Shen Liang will definitely still be one of the supreme commanders at that time, and the status of this guy in the entire banner army system will be determined.

In addition to standing on the right side at a critical time, a deserter also has a firm foothold because of his courage, skills, experience, and expertise.

Many military attachés who originally had some contempt for Shen Liang or slightly excluded them, even at this moment, could only fully accept the fact of Shen Liang's rise.

As for Shen Yong, he can't afford to think anything else.

This master craftsman, I am afraid that his status will be higher and higher in the future.

Min Yuanqi has always been a heavy craftsman, even far above ordinary military attachés, if he wants to succeed, he must be good at it, this is Min Yuanqi's always advocated, although Shen Yong only solved an idea this time, the credit is no less than the beheading of a thousand levels in Min Yuanqi's opinion!

Sure enough, Min Yuanqi closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then said categorically: "No matter how we prepare for war and engage the enemy, the workshop should not be affected in any way, any production plan should not be stopped, and craftsmen and apprentices do not have to bear any labor. Make boring machines and punches first, prepare instrument molds, and don't worry about anything else. Shen Yong, you have a great credit, the deputy of the direct processing company, the reward will not be given to you, you will be given the patent right, and how much you will produce after that, you will be paid according to the piecework......"

In the future, with the expansion of the army, the demand for artillery and guns will only increase, that is to say, the more production, the greater the reward for Shen Yong!

What a big reward, it simply made everyone present blush.