Zhu Hongsan looked at the drawings that Qian Wanli got back, the blueprints of the most powerful weapons in the world that Torres said by the Francophile, what Qian Wanli bought with a thousand taels of silver.

How does Zhu Hongsan look like the hand-cranked drill used in the woodworking factory in later generations, that is, it is larger and the drill bit is longer.

Zhu Hongsan asked, "Wan Li, is this really the tool Torres gave you to make the barrel of a musket?" ”

Qian Wanli nodded and said: "The owner is exactly this, and that Torres also said that he violated the laws of their country, and he tried his best to let an uncle's people spare him." ”

It should be Jesus. Zhu Hongsan heard Torres swear by God and believed it in his heart. These guys shouldn't lie to Jesus.

Qian Wanli said: "Torres said that the gun sold to Zhang Quanli is outdated. When he saw a thousand taels of silver, he gave me a short firecracker. ”

After speaking, Qian Wanli took out a brocade box from the side, opened it and sent it to Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan's first glance turned out to be a flintlock pistol. Great, I'm worried that I don't know how to get this flintlock pistol.

After sending Qian Wanli out, Zhu Hongsan came to the factory with drawings and flintlock pistols to look for iron bulls.

Zhu Hongsan said: "Tie Niu, can you make this drawing if you look at it?" ”

Tie Niu looked at it and said, "Isn't this a carpentry drill?" Make a barrel out of this? ”

Zhu Hongsan asked, "Have you seen it?" Find one and take a look. ”

Tie Niu went to the carpentry workshop and got a hand-cranked drill and gave it to Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan's hand-cranked drill in the Ming Dynasty was still different from the one that made the musket. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a bow-shaped force arm, which used different moments to generate torsional force.

A large number of gears are used on the drawings, and much greater torque can be generated using gears. The hand drill of the Franco-robot is basically the same as that of later generations.

Tie Niu said on the side: "Everything else is easy to do, just use high-carbon steel for the drill bit, but this iron plate is not easy to handle." How did the upper teeth get there. ”

Zhu Hongsan knew that gears were a problem. In ancient China, there were no gears at all, and it seems that they still need to take action on their own, and I don't know if I have forgotten the involute knowledge in high school.

Zhu Hongsan asked him to go home and inform his wife that he would not go home for the past few days and would work in the factory.

Then let the Iron Bull organize the people to start making gears.

Gears are so important that they can be used for many things, including carriages and ships.

After a while, the craftsmen came, and Zhu Hongsan picked out a few young ones, and the other older ones didn't.

I found a conference room and started teaching these young people, but Zhu Hongsan didn't teach them any advanced mathematics or anything, so it was too late. Just teach them how to make a good gear.

Zhu Hongsan gave them a five-day lesson, starting with a ruler. Zhu Hongsan made a ruler with a precision of millimeters, and taught them all this time. After all, mass production, strict standardization is the foundation of manufacturing.

Otherwise, it is very feasible, like the current Ming Dynasty, each craftsman made a musket of one caliber, and the ammunition cannot be used at all.

After the standardization is finished, we start from the involute, until how to draw a qualified gear, to make a qualified gear mold. After the lecture, the six young people had already begun to call Zhu Hongsan Master.

Half a month later, Zhu Hongsan produced the first batch of gears with casting hair, and it was no longer a problem to produce barrels.

Zhu Hongsan used his own knowledge to improve the drawings of the Franc machine, enlarge the torque, and modify the unreasonable places. In the end, a watermill was built, and a lot of labor could be freed up by using gear transmission.

On the first day of October, everything is ready. Zhu Hongsan began to manufacture barrels in the new barrel workshop.

Turn on the switch of the waterwheel, and the fan blades of the waterwheel outside are put into the water, and the power begins to come. I saw the one-and-a-half-meter-long high-carbon steel head slowly turning, and little by little it drilled into the steel column clamped with steel tongs.

Seeing that the head turned a little deeper, a large amount of iron filings came out, and all the craftsmen began to cheer.

Zhu Hongsan estimated the time, it would take about two hours to drill out a qualified barrel, which was very fast.

Zhu Hongsan took a one-meter-two long barrel and measured it with a caliper, and the caliber was one centimeter, which was already higher than that of the Franc machine. A smaller caliber allows soldiers to carry more ammunition and gunpowder.

After the most important barrel comes out, it is the matter of the craftsman. Let them dismantle that flintlock pistol and study the transmission structure, which is not a matter at all for the craftsmen who mastered the production of gears.

Zhu Hongsan asked Tie Niu to make bullets according to the caliber of the barrel, which is simple. Just cast it directly with lead. Then there was the experimental order gunpowder.

After hundreds of shots, the musket was finally finalized. What Zhu Hongsan is holding in his hand is the stereotyped product. The gun is one and a half meters long, and the barrel is one meter two.

There are no various patterns and decorations on the gun body, and Zhu Hongsan doesn't get those flashy things, so it's better to make a few more barrels if you have that kind of effort.

This finished musket shone with the black light of steel, and had the beauty of the industrialization of weapons in later generations. There is a bayonet in front of the barrel, on which a military* bayonet can be mounted. The bayonet imitated the stab of the later five or six armies, 60 centimeters long, plus the gun was two meters long, which could be used as a self-defense weapon for musketeers.

Zhu Hongsan took a fixed gunpowder bag and looked at it, which was wrapped in oiled paper coated with lard. There is gunpowder and bullets in it, so you don't have to separate the time when reloading. Just bite open the oiled paper packet, pour the gunpowder and bullets inside into the barrel, and then compact it with a strip, and you can fire.

The musket had a range of four hundred meters, but that was the maximum range. At the beginning of 200 meters, two layers of heavy armor can be broken, and it should be no problem against the cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Hongsan has done experiments that a soldier can reach three rounds in less than a minute, and can reach four rounds after being proficient. This is already very awesome, based on a row of 100 people, you can shoot 400 bullets in a minute, and 3 rows are 1,200. There are also a thousand of them, counting the dead fires.

Zhu Hongsan called all the officers to the shooting range today and asked them to try their muskets. Everyone was satisfied, and they asked their troops to equip them first.

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said: "The output is not much now, only two hundred muskets can be produced in a month, but after the production is expanded next year, they will all be equipped in a month." ”

Zhu Hongsan looked around and said, "I ordered the first battalion to be equipped with muskets first, and then the battalions came one by one. Qian Yong, after the new musket arrives, you have to lead the soldiers to familiarize themselves with the new weapons and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. ”

Qian Yongle couldn't find Bei, and said loudly: "Yes, sir!" ”

The current production is too slow, and after Zhu Hongsan finished testing the gun, he found Tie Niu and taught him the assembly line Dafa of his later generations. Zhu Hongsan is very aware of the power and defects of the assembly line, needless to say, the power can produce products in large quantities in a short time.

But the defects are also very large, that is, the requirements for raw materials are very large. Because it can speed up production, a large amount of raw materials is required. This was fatal in the Ming Dynasty, where transportation was incomplete. The barrel production line will use up the annual production capacity of the steel mill in one month. The rest of the time is idle.

Another disadvantage is that it is very demanding on people. When Ford invented the assembly line, many people said how Ford was. The fact is that the intensity of labor has increased dramatically, and no one will do it without high wages.

But these are not problems for Zhu Hongsan, now first guarantee his own life, and the rest will be talked about later, what is the use of other things when his life is gone?

Zhu Hongsan offered a high salary for this, so high that Tong Yangjia came to protest. Five taels of silver were given to ordinary workers per month, and production line workers reached twelve taels per month. You must know that the official salary of a county magistrate is only seven taels.

High wages brought a large number of workers, and many tenants fled to work for Zhu Hongsan. After all, the silver is real, and now five taels of silver can provide a family of five for a month to live very well, not to mention that they can eat meat every ten days.

As a direct result of the explosion of production capacity, the steel plant could not produce enough to supply, and the production line was shut down ten days after it started. Because a month's worth of steel in the steel mill was consumed.

Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to help Liu vigorously expand production, build two new blast furnaces, and increase the capacity of the previous blast furnaces. This has slightly alleviated the shortage of steel.

The consequence was that the iron ore and pig iron in Guangdong were all collected by Zhu Hongsan, which made the pig iron in Guangzhou rise by three times. The prefect of Guangzhou has written three times to ask what situation Feng Ziyong is using in Dongguan County. But they were all blocked back by Feng himself with a Franc machine.

In the busyness, Zhu Hongsan ushered in the most important seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the last year of the Ming Dynasty. During the Chinese New Year, Zhu Hongsan gave a big red envelope to all the workers, ten taels of silver per person, so that someone went home to offer Zhu Hongsan's immortal tablet.

The army was finally redressed by the end of the year, and the entire army was transferred to the South China Sea Acropolis Walled City. It was a secluded place, and no one suspected that there were guns fired every day.

The army has now formed a fighting force. Each person can fire three rounds per minute. Zhu Hongsan didn't need them to aim, and the smoothbore gun couldn't be aimed either, and he began to flutter thirty meters after being discharged.

Zhu Hongsan taught them to aim ahead, not to aim, just shoot bullets. It doesn't seem to work like this, but you must know that three rows of 300 people shot together, so that a barrage was formed in front, and if you didn't dodge, there would be basically no living people in front of you after three salvos.