With cold bones, with hydraulic hammers, with wrought iron plates......

Everything comes naturally.

However, the elimination of machinery to manpower requires a process, and manpower also needs a process of adaptation to machinery.

Because of the use of these equipment, the production of the factory was not as smooth as imagined, and the first batch of tube blanks was almost three days of busy work before it was manufactured.

"How does it compare to hand-made?"

Picking up the heavy barrel blank and looking at the hammer marks covered on it, Shi Yiwen asked.

"I don't dare to say that it's better than hand-beaten, it's definitely not worse than it, the most important thing is that the iron is good, son, our iron is all good wrought iron, and it doesn't take off the slag for half a day.

"It's the barrel."

Shi Yiwen corrected.

"Turn guns into guns, the flintlock pistols we make are different from bird guns."

If you want something to sell at a good price, changing the name is a good way, and the favorite thing to do is the pharmaceutical factory, the old drug can be changed by name, packaging, and the price can rise several times.

"Yes, turn guns into guns, Zhiyuan, I've been looking forward to your guns for the past few months."

Suddenly, the voice behind him surprised Shi Yiwen for a while, it was Zhang Pengju, why did he come.

"It was the marshal who asked me to come, and after the year and the year, the marshal was thinking about how to train the soldiers after the army was all used with guns, no, the soldiers had already started training, but you didn't move......"

As he spoke, Zhang Pengju walked quickly to the pile of tube blanks, picked up one and said.

"This is the barrel? Already made? Why is the mouth so big? ”

12mm round steel punched out, can it not be big? The caliber of the bird's bore is so big. This drill and boring again, the caliber will be larger again.

"The caliber is big, the power is great, and the power is great, and the three-money bird is still making up for beating people, but if you beat the horse, the power is worse, and most of the Tartars are cavalry, so I will enlarge the seven coins when I think about it."

In terms of the caliber of the flintlock pistol, Edwin directly borrowed from the European flintlock pistol, and even the gun model was a copy of the Charville 1777.

"And the caliber is large, the range is longer, and the accuracy is higher."

Regarding Shi Yiwen's explanation, Zhang Pengju just nodded and said.

"Okay, what you make, you say."

But he muttered in a low voice, I'm afraid this thing is not cheap.

The tube blank came out, and the next thing was naturally simple, first put the boring hole on the boring table, and saw the craftsman put the tube blank on the wooden platform, Zhang Pengju wondered.

"Zhiyuan, what is this? How do you put a gun tube in oil? ”

"Boring, the oil in the sink is used to cool down."

Walking to the boring table, Shi Yiwen introduced.

"Yangwu, you see, this iron rod is a drill pipe, the square drill bit is 8 inches long, welded on a four-and-a-half-foot drill pipe, driven by a water-driven gear to rotate, so that it saves manpower, this platform holding the barrel here can be sliding, the barrel is fixed on it, and then press the drill bit, if you look carefully, you can see that the drill bit has 22 gradually increasing drill bits, which are used to expand the inner diameter of the barrel, so that with the help of water power, almost a day and a night, the barrel can be drilled out of the barrel ......"

"One day and one night, you can drill out of the pipe?"

Zhang Pengju's surprise made Shi Yiwen proud.

"In the past, half of the time to make bird guns was in the bore, sometimes it could be as long as a month, and a month to drill the light bore like a mirror, but it was different with a hydraulic platform boring, its speed is fast, and it can be non-stop day and night, but this requires oil and water to cool the gun, drill bit ......"

Actually, if you take the boring machine in the space...... Drill faster. Of course, there is no need for that at all, even if the current hydraulic boring machine is enough to meet the production requirements.

After the gun tube was formed, it was necessary to load twice the gunpowder for trial release, and it could only be used after releasing several shots to confirm that there were no cracks, and after another four days, when the first batch of 200 flintlock pistols was manufactured, looking at the twenty flintlock pistols in a box of crates, Zhang Pengju couldn't help but sigh.

"Zhiyuan, if you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it anyway, but in just a few days, you actually made a hundred flintlock pistols."

"When the craftsmen become proficient, fifty barrels a day, it must be no problem, the main thing is that the boring table for making barrels can only process fifty barrels at the same time, and only fifty barrels can be made in a day, if it is ......"

Suddenly, Shi Yiwen's eyes lit up, and there was still potential for improvement, but he didn't continue, but just diverted the topic.

"By the way, didn't Qi Shuai ask me last time, how to granulate gunpowder? Our factory also makes gunpowder, but the production is not large, but according to the previous tests, by controlling and standardizing the size of the gunpowder particles, we can reduce the amount of gunpowder fired while maintaining the same power......

In fact, there was no experiment at all, and there were books on the processing and manufacturing of gunpowder particles in the library, but they were used to make fireworks, and Shi Yiwen directly used the doctrine of taking it, although due to the technical limitations of the times, the purity of the raw materials was relatively backward compared with that made by modern technology. But the granulated gunpowder was still more than doubled, which allowed the new flintlock pistol to drastically reduce the amount of gunpowder used.

"Oh, then this is a good feeling, how much gunpowder has been made now, I will go with it."

Zhang Pengju was not polite, although he didn't pay a penny, he still opened his mouth to ask for gunpowder, and Shi Yiwen naturally made preparations for this. Pointing to the six boxes on the side, he said.

"It's all ready for you."

"Boxes?"

Zhang Peng was puzzled, and Shi Yiwen continued to explain.

"In the past, when the bird gun was used, the ratio of the gun to the gunpowder was one to one, and the lead weighing three coins was gunpowder, but because the gunpowder was made into particles, the power was greatly increased, and the weight of the charge and the bullet was naturally reduced, and the six boxes of gunpowder were divided into two types, one charge and the bullet weight ratio was one-half, and the other ratio was one-third, as for which one was used......"

Looking at Zhang Pengju, Shi Yiwen smiled.

"It's still up to Qi Shuai to decide for himself according to the needs of the army, and Shiji will also go over when he returns, how to test this power, and he will guide you to ...... when the time comes."

The reason why it is necessary to go to the army for testing is also a last resort, after all, it is close to the capital, and in order to avoid some trouble, it is convenient to go to the army for testing. Moreover, Shi Yiwen also hoped to be able to track the use of flintlock pistols in the army, and if he had time, he even wanted to go to Qi Jiguang's military camp in person to see how he trained the all-musket unit.

"A third? Half? ”

Zhang Pengju looked at the boxes suspiciously, puzzled.

"Zhiyuan, what do you mean, why can't I understand?"