Why it took hundreds of years to complete several industrial revolutions, Liu Ximing had a clear understanding after doing some steelmaking himself.

Because any technological advancement is the result of the accumulation of countless small technologies that have preceded it.

As a modern person, Liu Ximing stood on the shoulders of modern technology and speculated on these steelmaking technologies hundreds of years ago, and it still took more than a month to draw a few similarities, and he barely smelted the crude steel.

If it is a Meng Dynasty person, in the absence of various material knowledge and tool knowledge, can he come up with these methods himself?

The answer is definitely no.

If you want to industrialize, there is a long way to go, and when conditions permit, you must open technical schools to train industrial workers.

"Zhou Jiang and the other five people have made meritorious contributions to assisting in steelmaking, and each person will be rewarded with two taels of silver."

Now that the steelmaking is successful, Liu Ximing is not stingy with rewards, although the steelmaking methods are all thought up by himself, but Zhou Jiang and others still played some role in the specific construction process, so they gave each person a reward of two taels of silver.

"Thank you, Second Young Master"

"Young Master Benevolence"

Zhou Jiang and the others were pleasantly surprised, and a string of rainbow farts followed and patted over.

Liu Ximing nodded with a smile and continued: "Now that the steel has been produced, we must include the casting of weapons in the agenda as soon as possible, and now that there are bamboo guns to deal with, we will not be busy making spears first, the top priority is to develop long-range weapons as soon as possible, and we will make muskets first." ”

Zhou Jiang swallowed his saliva and asked a little nervously: "Young master, this private firearm is a big crime, if it is known by the imperial court......

"You don't have to worry about this, the last time the thieves entered the country, the county issued a document allowing each township to prepare its own weapons to resist the thieves, as long as we don't make eye-catching things like armor, there should be no big problem."

"But, I can't make muskets if I wait for a few others."

Hehe, I don't expect you to be after the last steelmaking.

Liu Ximing scolded his mother in his heart, but he still said kindly: "It's okay, during this time, you wait to build some forging and woodworking tools first, and then talk about building the musket after Young Master Ben has studied it thoroughly." ”

Fortunately, in the "Wubei Zhi", there is a detailed introduction to Lu Mi Gong, including the production process, military arrangement, etc., which are clear, but Lu Mi Gong is still an arquebus, but it is more powerful.

Liu Ximing originally planned to make a flintlock pistol directly, but when it came to making it, he found that he didn't know how to build the parts of the firing device, and he understood the flint firing part, which was nothing more than a bird's beak with flint hitting the iron sheet above the ignition under the action of a spring, and the sparks generated would ignite the ignition powder and shoot.

However, a series of small process problems such as how to do the spring, how to buckle the trigger and spring, etc., stumped him, and his mentality at this time was: "Where can I find the eighth-level fitter, online, etc., it is very urgent." ”

So, let's make a few dozen Lumi guns first.

According to the records of the "Wubei Zhi", the shape and structure of the entire Lumi gun is composed of a gun tube, a gun bed, a curved buttstock, a dragon head and a trigger, a fire door, a rail, a front mouth, a rear door, and an aiming device.

One of the most difficult is the gun pipe, Zhao Shizhen specially explained in detail, the gun pipe should be rolled with steel sheets, first the steel sheet is burned red and soft, wrapped with an iron rod in the middle, and then hammered out by the blacksmith.

I'm hot, no wonder this thing is prone to exploding.

Liu Ximing remembered that he had seen the firearms records of the Meng Dynasty before and said that the firearms and equipment in the early Meng Dynasty were still relatively advanced at that time, but in the later period of the Meng Dynasty, the quality of the process declined significantly, and the explosion rate of these firearms was very high, so that the soldiers were reluctant to use them.

Damn, just this kind of process of rolling the barrel, there is a big problem with the strength of the barrel itself, and if the quality is not up to par, isn't it even more deadly.

There was no way, I had to try it first, Liu Ximing compared the drawings and asked Zhou Jiang and others to build all the parts according to the gourd, but I didn't expect to encounter problems again when polishing.

"Young master, this, this thing can't be drilled through, our steel is so good, how can an ordinary drill bit drill open."

After this kind of gun pipe is made, it will be drilled by two craftsmen on a special drill pipe shelf, which is extremely difficult to drill, Zhou Jiang and others tried for a long time without a response and had to come back to report Liu Xi's life.

Yes......

Liu Ximing was about to go crazy, and yelled at Zhou Jiang: "Don't talk nonsense, then hurry up and make some hard steel to make drill bits." ”

Zhou Jiang was sprayed with a spit on his face, so he had to run back and make hard steel according to Liu Ximing's method.

After two days, the hard steel was made, but even if two craftsmen worked hard, they would drill about one or two inches a day, and it would take a month to make a pipe!

There are more than a dozen guns a year, and labor and management might as well go to the black market to buy crossbows, Liu Ximing laughed and cried.

"What can I do? The Jade Emperor, Guanyin Bodhisattva, which immortal gang will help me. ”

Well? Thinking of this, Liu Ximing's heart suddenly moved, the last time he made the bamboo helmet, he was still using the white mist to polish the bamboo pieces in the space, can this thing drill the barrel for the gun? Liu Ximing thought of it, and took a gun barrel into the space.

After the last spatial mutation, Liu Ximing's control over the white mist was much stronger, and at this moment, he controlled the white mist to turn into a conical drill, and stabbed it vigorously at the barrel of the gun.

"Wow"

It really works! Liu Ximing clearly saw that the drill bit turned into the white mist pierced the barrel of the gun a little, although it was not as sharp as clay as he imagined, but it was still much better than Zhou Jiang's handmade drill pipe.

"Hahaha, Didi, the new function of the space has been developed, and you have purchased the old Liu brand mental power lathe."

Hey, hey, hey, it's really a goddamn mountain and a heavy water, and there is no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village, Liu Ximing's mood in the past few days has been up and down like a roller coaster, and he finally has a reassurance at this time.

And after several tests, he found that there is an advantage to drilling pipes in space, because of the control of mental power, the barrel drilled out is more round, and the barrel strength is higher.

"Hahaha, make big, make big! mua，mua。 Liu Ximing hugged the barrel of the gun and kissed wildly.

At the same time, Liu Ximing also found that the drill pipe can also be etched rifling at the same time, but in the case of the bullet is not solved, the rifled gun loading speed is slow, and it is troublesome to clean up, he made a rifled gun to test several times, and found that his current technical team can not solve the bullet problem, so he can only throw the rifled gun into the space first, and the rest are all made into smoothbore guns.

Now that the drill pipe problem has been solved, Liu Ximing does not plan to use the coil pipe technology anymore, he plans to directly cast a solid barrel.

There are several reasons why the casting method is not directly used in the traditional process, one is that the casting process is easy to produce bubbles, which makes the barrel easier to explode, the second is that the casting process has higher requirements for steel, and the traditional wrought iron can not meet the requirements, and finally because of the reason for barrel drilling, before the invention of power machine tools, drilling is the biggest problem in casting.

However, these are not problems for Liu Ximing, he first asked Zhou Jiang and others to fully forge the cast steel rods, try to eliminate the bubbles in them, and wait until the steel rods are finalized, he spent a night to complete the drill pipe.

"This, this ......"

A group of blacksmiths looked at the sleek barrel inside and outside in front of them dumbfounded and speechless, Liu Ximing smiled mysteriously, didn't explain much, and pulled everyone to test the strength of the barrel.

"Well, the normal charge of Lu Mi Gong is four dollars, let's pretend to be one or two."

In order to test the pressure-bearing capacity of the gun body, Liu Ximing directly tested the charge of 2.5 times.

"Bang"

A loud bang accompanied by a large number of white eyes appeared, Zhou Jiang stepped forward and picked up the barrel fixed on the ground and looked at it carefully, and ran back with a treasure expression and replied: "Young master, there is no crack in the body of the gun, this gun is done." ”

Liu Ximing took the barrel of the gun and looked at it carefully, it was indeed intact, and he laughed and ordered: "Hurry up and start work, just do it according to this method, let's strive to make a gun every day." ”

"The young master has an immortal method, according to this method, a gun a day is absolutely no problem, in the future, I am afraid that we will be held back by doing other parts." A group of blacksmiths sighed again and again, after such a pass, even the craftsmen who were usually half-convinced all believed that Liu Ximing really had an immortal law, otherwise who could explain how these things came about.

Fortunately, Liu Ximing also built a carpenter workshop before, and wooden butts were also needed to make guns, which just came in handy, so that the musket production line in Liujia Village was barely formed.