Chapter 12 Workshop

Sand boats are also a very old type of ship, there were in the Song Dynasty, when Kublai Khan conquered Japan, hundreds of ships were sand boats.

The sand boat first appeared near Chongming Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and is a kind of ship that is conducive to offshore and river transportation, but not conducive to ocean transportation. It can also be used in the Yangtze River, but it is not a qualified warship type.

In other words, there are very few special warship types in ancient China, it seems that building ships and car ships are counted, but these ship types are rarely used, and they all have their own defects. In today's water warfare, firearms come first, how can we give full play to the ship's superiority in firepower.

Zhang Xuan didn't know either.

He just walked around the sand boat under construction under the guidance of Zhou Fuchen and Zhang Pu, and watched some models of the sand boat being built.

Zhang Xuan said: "How many ships are built at the same time? How many days does it take to build? ”

"Seven." Zhou Fuchen said: "However, after cleaning up the Longjiang factory, after a period of time, dozens of ships can be built in one go, but there are not enough craftsmen." ”

Zhang Xuan suddenly sighed in his heart when he heard this, knowing that it was impossible to recruit some craftsmen from Nanjing to Ningbo.

Moreover, the largest shipyard in the Ming Dynasty, Qingjiangpu Shipyard is in Huai'an.

This shipyard is a supporting shipyard of Caoyun, because of the needs of tank ships, it has maintained a considerable scale and has become the largest official shipyard in the Ming Dynasty, as for how big the scale is, Zhang Xuan does not know, but he knows one thing, that is, the ships of Shen Tingyang's fleet are all from Qingjiangpu Shipyard. And it didn't take years.

It can be seen that the ability of Qingjiangpu Shipyard.

If Longjiang Shipyard is only this scale, I am afraid it will not be able to resist Shen Tingyang's fleet.

This kind of combat mode, Zhang Xuan couldn't be clearer. The naval battles between Japan and the United States in World War II clearly told him that many times water battles are not fought in terms of combat effectiveness, but in terms of production capacity.

It's just that Zhang Xuan was wrong about one thing.

Production capacity, what is not determined by how many shipyards and how much extreme shipbuilding capacity there is, but how much money there is.

Cao Yingken threw down hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to almost rebuild the Longjiang Shipyard, and he must build enough ships, but in Lu Zhenfei's hands, I am afraid that there is not so much silver, and Beijing has lost the support of Jiangnan, and it is already in a food shortage, and there is no silver.

Without silver, no matter how many shipyards there are, they can't build ships.

Zhang Xuan suddenly had no interest in the shipyard and said, "Where is the firearms workshop?" ”

"Here, please, not far from the shipyard." Zhou Fuchen said: "This is the place where the shipyard produces firearms, and now the place where firearms are needed the most in the army is the sailor, so they are all staring at it." ”

Firearms in

It is not very popular in the army, Zhang Xuan has known it for a long time.

Firearms are only used in many siege warfare, in addition, Cao Ying's soldiers believe in the long knives in their hands, of course, this is also related to the inconvenience of large firearms to move, and small firearms are easy to explode and injure their own people. But the sailor couldn't do it if he wanted to.

On the Yangtze River, the two sides fought at a great distance and could only attack with long-range firearms.

Therefore, firearms are the inevitable choice for both sides.

Zhang Xuan came to the firearms workshop, and suddenly had a familiar feeling, and said, "Isn't this the iron mold casting method?" ”

"Exactly." Zhou Fuchen said: "This is the method of making cannons from adults, the method of casting cannons with iron molds, which is slightly inferior in range, but in terms of cannon speed, it is incomparable, and it is precisely enough artillery to support the army to fight with Shen Tingyang's fleet, but I also have something to ask for?" ”

"What?" Zhang Xuan said.

"It's best to cast a cannon with Fujian iron." Zhou Fuchen said: "It's just that now that the communication with Fujian is cut off, I don't have a lot of Fujian iron collected in the whole city, I heard that the adults were ordered to attack Fujian, and I asked the adults to pay attention to one or two for me." ”

Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "Min Tie." ”

He secretly memorized the term.

In fact, he doesn't remember any big iron mines in Fujian, where did this Fujian iron come from? Zhang Xuan is not easy to ask at the moment, but after waiting, he will definitely find out.

Zhang Xuan found that this cannon casting workshop was almost the same as his previous method of casting guns in Kaifeng, and it could be said that there was nothing new, so Zhang Xuan naturally didn't want to see it. said: "Is the gunpowder workshop also nearby?" ”

"Yes." Zhou Fuchen said,

Zhou Fuchen and Zhang Pu introduced Zhang Xuan into another workshop, and as soon as he entered the workshop, Zhang Xuan smelled a pungent smell, which was very familiar, the smell of gunpowder and gunsmoke.

Zhang Xuan wanted to see what was new about this gunpowder workshop, but Zhang Xuan suddenly heard a sharp sound, as if it was something cut by an iron tool, he turned his head to look at it, and was immediately shocked, there was a craftsman without him, who was using iron tools to scrape the raw materials on the ground.

Zhang Xuan suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and the explosion in Jinhua City that day instantly sounded. In a trance, I remembered the explosion of Wang Gong's factory that was passed down to future generations.

It's all a powder magazine explosion.

And when the iron collides with the ground, it is easy to burst out of Mars. This is a gunpowder workshop, there are finished gunpowder, semi-finished products, raw materials, even raw materials are ignitions, there is a spark here, what will happen?

Zhang Xuan didn't want to die young. He didn't say a word, turned around and left.

"Your Excellency." Zhou Fuchen and Zhang Zhen don't know why? Hurriedly walked out and said, "Is there anything wrong with my lord?" ”

"It's too dangerous." Zhang Xuan said: "Once there is a spark, the entire gunpowder workshop will be blown up into the sky. ”

"Adults filtered, many of these people have been making gunpowder for generations, and they have long been experienced, and no sparks are allowed to be brought in in the workshop here. They wouldn't joke with their lives? Zhang Pu said.

"And iron?" Zhang Xuan said: "Iron collisions will also collapse out of Mars. ”

"This ----" Zhang Zhen hesitated for a moment and said, "I asked them to replace all the iron tools, how about using wooden tools?" ”

Zhang Xuan saw the four words nosy from Zhang Zhen's eyes. Zhang Xuan stopped speaking for a moment, and he once again felt the gap between the times.

In the gunpowder workshop, Zhang Xuan saw too many unqualified places, too many potential safety hazards, many things were cultivated from childhood, and Zhang Xuan felt that the things that were very dangerous were all taken for granted in the eyes of Zhang Zhen and these people.

Even if Zhang Xuan reprimanded them today, they were just disobedient.

And what position did Zhang Xuan use to reprimand them? Now Zhang Zhen and Zhou Fuchen are no longer Zhang Xuan's subordinates. Although it can be said that he is a protégé, it is in the past tense anyway, and it is annoying to say too much, not only does it have a positive effect, but it is annoying.

Zhang Xuan sighed in his heart and said: "You don't have to look at it, anyway, the third brother is presiding, I am relieved, but I don't think the amount of gunpowder is much, is it to supply Jiangnan by force?" ”

Zhang Pu said: "My lord Mingjian, this is indeed the case. ”

Zhang Zhen didn't relax much during the New Year, he was doing one thing, that is, to establish Cao Ying's logistics supply system. Food supply, weapon supply, gunpowder supply, armor supply, recruitment system, etc., these things are all done by Zhang Zhi's military department and engineering department.

However, Cao Ying's hundreds of thousands of troops, and in the rapid expansion, it is very difficult to establish this system, even if there are surplus materials in Nanjing now, his supply order is Yang Chengzu first, and then others. Zhang Xuan estimated that his subordinates would not be able to send them to the front.

"Forget it, I'll do it myself." Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart. At this moment, he had already hatched in his mind the establishment of a modern firearms bureau in Ningbo. He Zhang Qinchen was able to get more than 1,000 qualified bird guns, which shows that Jiangnan's production capacity is still there, but it depends on how he excavates it.

"However, no matter what happens in the future, I will never enter the gunpowder workshop for half a step." Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart.

Zhang Xuan felt that he couldn't improve the quality of craftsmen in this era for a while, so he could only stay away from the gunpowder workshop for his own life. In fact, in the eyes of many people, it is a very strange thing for a noble person like Zhang Xuan to often haunt places like the workshop.

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