This rigorous attitude alone is worth the price of the gun, and this rigor has formed a complete set of standardized system, which not only greatly improves the firing rate of the artillery, but also allows the prince of Fuwang to achieve a top-secret cannon table.

The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty just looked at the mood in the process of casting artillery, and regarded these artillery technologies that lagged behind the West as secret methods and family secrets.

The innovation of technology lies in the two words of communication, not to mention the communication with others, even if it is their own family, they also uphold the attitude of passing on men and not women.

As long as there is no son or nephew, I would rather pass on this family secret method to my son-in-law if it is lost, and in the eyes of the craftsmen, the son-in-law is a foreign surname after all.

The thousand-pound Hongyi cannon in front of Zhu Shun was unfortunately a defective product, so it could only be pulled back to be smelted into iron and recast, in order to show him the next steps, an honest and non-talkative gunsmith pulled his qualified cannon.

Under the lifting of the crane, the Hongyi cannon wrapped in a thick iron chain landed on the concrete platform in front of Zhu Shun in the piercing 'squeak' sound.

At this moment, a bell faintly sounded outside.

Ordinary people can't even eat at home, let alone have money to buy corona and dripping, basically have no concept of time, and adhere to the habit of living at sunrise and daily income.

There is no concept of time when working in the fields, but when working in a steam factory, the concept of time is very important.

There is a big difference between the stressful life of the industrial age and the casualness of the agricultural era, where the steam factory is efficient, and it is necessary to develop new customs that must be fought for in the past, and change the past to get by in the field.

In order to help the workers develop a new custom of fighting for the rest of the day, each steam factory was equipped with a Western chiming bell, and a bell tower was built, and workers struck the bell according to the hour.

The prosperous city of the Ming Dynasty is very different from the countryside in terms of the concept of time, and the more prosperous cities generally have the rules of morning bells and dusk drums.

The morning bells and dusk drums of each bustling city also have their own characteristics.

The morning bell of Hangzhou is the first thirty-six times, the last thirty-six times, and the middle thirty-six times.

The Shaoxing morning bell is beaten eighteen times tightly and eighteen times slowly, a total of six times.

When I arrived in Taizhou, on the coast of Zhejiang, it was different, first seven, then eight, eighteen in the middle, and finally three, a total of three times.

Different morning bells in various places have created their own unique customs, which has also created a lot of celebrities who like to listen to different morning bells and dusk drums, and often travel to various prosperous cities in order to listen to the local very distinctive bells.

The steam plant is not so complicated and uses a 24-hour clock, so that you can use your time more efficiently.

From one o'clock to twenty-four o'clock, the clock was struck a few times, and the workers were a little unaccustomed at first, and after a few years, they gradually got used to it.

The efficiency of the workers is also significantly higher than that of the 12-hour system, and the 24-hour system not only gives them a sense of urgency, but also allows them to change their sense of place.

As long as I hear the bell of the steam factory, I think of myself in the steam factory, not in the idle field, and make more industrial products to earn an extra cent of silver.

After working for most of the day, this bell is the sound of noon meals, and with the continuous improvement of the treatment of the workers' association, a meal is provided at noon.

Zhu Shun was not a special case, queued up to receive four steamed buns, a pickle from Liubiju, and sat on a long wooden table and had lunch with Zhao Doumi's master and apprentice.

The other skilled workers in the gun workshop saw Zhu Shun in the dining room, and then they learned that the industrial Hou had come to the munitions company, and they were very surprised, and they went to the familiar workers of the gun casting workshop to inquire about the situation.

The news of the compensation soon spread among the skilled workers.

After lunch, Zhu Shun left the dining hall under the eyes of all the cooked workers, and the admiration in the eyes of the cooked workers was even greater than when he saw the emperor.

Back in the cannon casting workshop, the honest gunsmith was already waiting next to the Hongyi cannon, and when he saw Zhu Shun coming, he didn't say anything flattering, nor did he belittle the apprentice and elevate himself.

The gunsmith began to visually inspect the barrel of the Hongyi cannon to see if there were any obvious defects, and there were no dents or unevenness in the barrel of the Hongyi cannon.

The gunsmith took out a small hammer and kept striking it on the barrel of the Hongyi cannon, accompanied by the crisp sound of 'ding ding, ding', to check whether there were any cracks or other defects on the barrel.

Until all parts are surveyed and no cracks are found, the naked eye observation is over.

The gunsmith brought a wooden plug to block the fire door used to insert the arquebus, and the Hongyi cannon was erected under the pull of the thick iron chain.

Several apprentices carried buckets of water from the muzzle of the cannon to fill it with water, and after filling it up, no leaks were found.

The control crane put down the Hongyi cannon, and the water inside was discharged through the sewer on the ground, and a barrel was officially manufactured, and the next step was to conduct a live-fire test.

Zhu Shun saw from the beginning to the end, the soil casting cannon seemed simple, only needed to cast a body tube, and then install a wooden shelf.

But just a qualified and standardized body tube wants to leave the factory, it needs so many steps, and many things are easier said than done.

Zhu Shun and the others came to the empty shooting range together, and the Hongyi cannon was hoisted on a mule cart and pulled by the mule to the shooting range.

There is also a crane in the shooting range that is used to lift the heavy Hongyi cannon, and there are many gunsmiths who take the apprentices to conduct live-fire tests.

The roar of artillery kept coming out of the ears of Zhu Shun and the others, and the dazzling firelight sprayed out from a row of cement batteries, as if it was the Liaodong battlefield in the middle of a big battle.

The gunsmith used a crane to land the cannon on the concrete turret like a line of embankment, and found a pit and landed in the pit.

It was not until this time that the gunsmith and apprentice who were testing the artillery, as well as some infrastructure workers who were repairing the concrete fort, found that Zhu Shun had come to the shooting range, and they all stopped what they were doing and looked over.

The live-fire test cannot be rushed, it needs to be done step by step, and the gunsmith first loaded a small amount of gunpowder to detonate it.

Step by step, the amount of gunpowder was increased to the amount where the cannonballs could be placed, a wrought-iron cannonball was added, and the test continued until the maximum amount of gunpowder that the Hongyi cannon could withstand was tested.

The gunsmith stopped the test to see if there were cracks in the red-coated cannon, and there were no cracks, and the Hongyi cannon could be sold at the factory with a gun carriage.

After reading Daming's casting method, Zhu Shun really couldn't find a way to increase the service life of the cannon from a technical point of view, unless the seventh disciple Xu Jixin researched out special steel and used more durable special steel to cast the cannon.