Yun Xi didn't wait for the carriage to answer. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info After he finished talking about the matter in the Imperial Horse Prison, he turned around and went to the Inner Eunuch. Most of the craftsmen belonging to the inner palace are in the inner official prison, so he has to go to the inner official prison.

Yun Xi thought as he walked, "It seems that it's time to take control of the Ministry of Works." Do you want to directly promote the craftsman from Wu County, and now he is a member of the Ministry of Works, Kuai Fu is still a scholar? ”

Kuaifu is the craftsman of the Ming Dynasty, the craftsman of the generations. But he is not an ordinary craftsman, he once participated in the construction of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and was appreciated by Zhu Yuanzhang as an official official at that time. By the way, his son later participated in the construction of the Beiping Imperial Palace in history, and also became a waiter in the Ministry of Works.

Yun Xi adheres to the thinking that professional things are handed over to professional people to do, and wants to completely turn the Ministry of Industry into a place where craftsmen are officials, and craftsmen who are not skilled cannot be officials in the Ministry of Industry.

Of course, this is difficult, and even according to the seniority of officialdom, Kuaifu is not enough to be a scholar.

Therefore, Yun Xi thought about it and found a civil official who he could accept as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry first, with Kuai Fu as Langzhong, and then slowly promoted to the secretary.

After a while, Yun Xi walked to the inner official prison, and the location of these two yamen was not far away.

The eunuch of the inner official eunuch was named Tingshan, and it is said that he came from a place where there were mountains and rivers, so he was named Tingshan.

Tingshan knew that Yunxi would come back today, so he prepared early. Now when he saw Yun Xi coming, he immediately stepped forward to salute.

Yun Xi sat down, asked him to stand up, and then asked, "A few days ago, I asked you to calculate all the current craftsmen of the internal officials and prisons, how many people are in each category, can you calculate?" ”

Tingshan said: "Your Majesty, the slave has calculated. At present, there are a total of 3,575 craftsmen under the jurisdiction of the internal officials and supervisors, all of whom are based in the capital and can be recruited at any time. And among them, the carpenter ......, and the blacksmith ......,......"

Yun Xi thought for a moment. In addition to glass, there are also large-scale iron smelting and muskets that Yunxi is scheduled to do soon. Because the cost of blast furnace ironmaking is large and the time limit is long, it is better to solve the matter of muskets first.

Yun Xi said: "Call the head of the craftsmen who made the firecrackers from the internal officials, as well as Lu Chengfeng and Feng Mo, who are in charge of these craftsmen, and also call over. ”

Tingshan immediately went to call it himself. After a while, a dark-skinned craftsman walked over with Lu Chengfeng and Feng Mo.

Yun Xi waited for them to finish saluting and asked, "How many kinds of firearms are there in my Ming Dynasty now?" What does it all look like? ”

The craftsman said, "Your Highness, my Ming firearms are now divided into ......."

At this time, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were very developed, which can be divided into: incendiary weapons, that is, firearms that can burn and have different functions such as smoke, poisonous gas, obstacles, and killing, which can be divided into five categories: rockets, muskets, fireballs, flamethrowers, firebirds, and fire beasts.

Among them, the rocket is the same principle as all kinds of modern rockets, but Yun Xi, who knows the development process of firearms, knows that this weapon is basically useless in modern times. So I decided to give it up; Firefowl Yunxi also felt useless and decided to give up; Fireballs are still somewhat useful; The other three types of Yoon-hee think that they can actually be classified as something similar to modern flamethrowers, but they are divided into several categories because of different ways of use, and they are retained.

The second category is explosive weapons, which can be mainly divided into bombs, mines and mines.

No matter what kind of this category is, it has a future for development, and Yun Xi decided not to give up all of them and develop them all. Among them, the mine is more chicken with the current technical means, but Yunxi still decided to continue to develop, which can be regarded as a technical reserve.

The third category is artillery. What is not said in this category must be greatly developed. At this time, there were many types of artillery in the Ming Dynasty, and many Yunxi had never heard of it, such as a large bowl mouth cannon, a whirlwind cannon, a lamp mouth cannon, a tassel cannon, a large copper gun, and two ends

Copper guns, lead bullets, and thunderbolt cannons are all confused. Yun Xi also doesn't know the history of the development of the world's artillery, and he doesn't know which one is the most promising, so after watching the real thing, he merges similar ones into one, and the others don't care.

The fourth category is muskets. Yoon-hee is very passionate about muskets. He has always regretted that there was no 'queue to shoot' era in Chinese history, and now with the technical means of the Ming Dynasty, it is basically impossible to make a breech gun, but it should still be possible to make a broken musket. Well, Yun Hee isn't really sure.

When Yun Xi looked at the cannons lined up, he asked, "Do these cannons have sighting equipment?" ”

The craftsman head said, "Your Highness, what is aiming equipment?" ”

Yun Xi then explained what kind of aiming equipment was. The head of the craftsman suddenly said: "So it can be like this! But immediately he said suspiciously: "But the gunpowder is slightly different each time, and the position where the same muzzle direction is fired will not be the same." ”

Yun Xi wondered: At this time, this point has not even been resolved? But he still said calmly: "Isn't it enough to fix the amount of gunpowder for each reload." Divide all the gunpowder into one point in advance, ensure that the same amount of ammunition is the same for each cannon, and pack it with oiled paper or bamboo tubes, so that when the time comes, you can ensure that the position is the same as that in the same direction when the cannon is tested? ”

"And it also speeds up the reloading of gunpowder."

What Yun Xi proposed was actually a fixed gunpowder. Even in the days of arquebuses, gunpowder was available for use in order to order.

This time, not only the head of the craftsman, but also everyone else present was shocked by Yun Hee's idea. Before this, there was no such thing in the East, and Yun Xi set a precedent, and it also greatly improved the use value of artillery.

In this way, the aiming and range of the gun can be improved, and it also avoids the gunner's need to reload more or less gunpowder due to tension when the gunner is in battle, which leads to explosions and other occurrences.

Yun Hee ignored the thoughts of others and continued to look at the musket. He discarded all the musket types that he was almost certain to have no future for, and told the master of the craftsman that muskets could also use the same methods he had just described for artillery, in order to increase the usefulness of muskets on the battlefield.

And Yun Xi determined that bullets and shells should be manufactured in a unified manner. At this time, bullets and shells were still made by hand. There is no problem with handmade Yunxi, but the specifications should be about the same.

Yunxi ordered the manufacture of standard specifications for bullets and shells for each type of artillery and musket, and made hemispherical molds for each type of artillery and musket, and all bullets and shells had to be put into the molds for acceptance, and only those of similar size could pass the acceptance.

In order to prevent the situation of careless acceptance, Yunxi stipulates that the bullets and shells accepted by each acceptance personnel are only for the use of one unit, and if there is a problem with the bullets and shells of this unit, it is the responsibility of your acceptance personnel, and they will lose their heads.

A long time ago, all artillery, the craftsman who made it had to engrave his name on it, and in case there was a problem with the artillery, the craftsman was responsible. Da Ming also continued this practice, but the so-called rewards and punishments are clear, and Yun Xi stipulates that as long as there is no problem with every ten cannons, he can be rewarded with an additional sixty yuan of treasure money, which is not a lot.

Then Yun Xi asked again: "What is the gunpowder used in these artillery and muskets of the Ming Dynasty made of?" ”

To Yun Xi's surprise, there were more than 20 kinds of components that the craftsman leader said, some of which Yun Xi had never heard of.

Of course, Yun Xi decided that, except for those formulas that were specially used to generate smoke, fog, and poisonous gas, the gunpowder formulas of the rest of the normal artillery and muskets were all changed to only one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal.

Then Yun Xi took the opportunity to say the most suitable ratio of these three things. But just before blurting out, Yun Xi thought of a question: as an emperor who had never touched firearms before, how could he explain that his ratio was the most suitable one? This ratio is the most suitable to be experimented with in an experiment.

This is different from the previous ones, those can also be interpreted as the emperor's interest, and it doesn't matter if the people under him slander the layman to guide the insider.

But this is different, this is a direct statement of a ratio, which should not be known to him at all.

After struggling with his thoughts, Yoon-hee finally decided: 'Just say it!' Anyway, they are emperors, they only need to give a reasonable reason, and even if they doubt it, they can't affect themselves. ’

Therefore, Yun Xi said: "In the future, gunpowder will be prepared according to 70% of saltpeter, 1/2% of charcoal, and 1/2% of sulfur." Then Yun Xi rushed to say something before the head of the craftsman said something, "This is the recipe that Gu looked at in a book, and the book said that it was the best formula, you can try it, and then tell Tingshan if it is the best formula." ”

Now that the best ratio has been stated, then the granular gunpowder has also been stated. Yun Xi thinks so and does so. He continued: "There is also a way to change gunpowder from powder to granule. ”

"After shaking the gunpowder evenly, spread it on the board, and then spray the glutinous rice juice on the top, taking care to make sure it is even."

"Then shake the board, and the gunpowder powder will stick together. Then just dry them in the shade. ”

"In this way, we can reduce the situation where the heavier sulfur in the gunpowder sinks and the charcoal floats on it." It can also reduce the moisture of gunpowder, and the power is much stronger than powdered gunpowder, which is the peak of the black powder era.

Although the leader of the craftsman was skeptical, he was naturally a craftsman who did not dare to fight with the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention him, even all the eunuchs in the internal officials and supervisors did not dare to disobey the emperor's orders. Although the head of the craftsman didn't know that it was the emperor who gave the order, he only thought that he was the king of the county, but he couldn't afford to offend the king of the county, so he said, "Yes, Your Highness." Tingshan on the side also said, "Yes, Your Highness." ”