Chapter 180: Artillery Group

At the beginning, at the foot of that lush hill, Tan Weixin saw Ye Tao for the first time. Now, the hill is still there, but the place occupied by the Yip's workshop is not just the hill. Several blocks around the hill have been bought by Ye's Workshop one after another, and the workshop has been built. Ye Tao naturally wouldn't let the workshop area be the kind of post-apocalyptic scene where thick smoke billowed out of the sky. Groups of plants are grouped together according to how closely they are connected. The front and back of the factory are set aside for apprentices at all levels to rest, and the trees are shady. On both sides of the building are the passages used to transport various materials and tools. Although the large-scale planting of trees and even the embellishment of some landscaping have greatly increased the construction cost of the factory, for Yip's Workshop, which is already specialized in architecture and gardening, these small units may not even be considered internship projects. And all the people who work in Yip's Workshop will take it as their duty to maintain their working environment and maintain these landscapes, and they will take care of it when they are resting.

The former hill is surrounded not only by lush trees, but also by barbed wire, watchtowers and a constant stream of guards. At the top of the hill, it is now the place where the core research projects of Yip's workshop are concentrated, especially the many ordnance projects. And these guards, even the former martial arts people who are quite good, are not paid for by the Ye Workshop, but are sponsored by cooperative units including the Dongping Forbidden Army, the Military Department, the Blood Qi Army, the Seven Seas Trading Company, the Yicheng Water Division, the Yicheng City Defense Army and so on.

The road leading from the foot of the hill to the top has been widened several times due to the need to transport large pieces of material and large ordnance up and down the hill. The current passage is dominated by a zigzag-shaped inclined road, which is divided into four sections leading to the top of the mountain. On both sides of the inclined passage, there are stairs for pedestrians. Because the passage is so long, most people take a much shorter stone staircase on the other side to get to the top of the hill. But, after all, this inclined passage leads directly to the gate of the main study area. And on both sides of the gate. There are two huge slogan banners with black lines on their heads. On the one hand: time is money. On the other hand, it is natural that efficiency is life.

These two banners are actually very suitable for the research project at the top of the hill. On the side where time is money, all the precision mechanical projects of the Yip workshop are concentrated, and the core of it is the products and subsequent research and development of Tissot watches. "Time is money" is a bit blunt, but it's quite appropriate. On the other hand, it is mainly those projects of ordnance projects and high-end civilian products, which pursue production efficiency per unit time. The pursuit of the best combat efficiency has always been the most ardent pursuit of the workshop employees who are qualified to participate in these projects.

The workshops that are divided into two sides are technically closely linked, and there is absolutely no communication gap. Today is a case in point. In the middle clearing, the employees of the workshop were testing a very peculiar ordnance, one that looked very modern.

It was a small ballista. The front of the ballista is slightly wider than the arm span of an adult man. The slide rail is only one person high. However, under the slide, there is an extremely complex and delicate set of devices. Through this set of devices. As long as one person, the pitch angle of the ballista can be adjusted from 10 degrees to 80 degrees, and the horizontal angle of fire can be rotated 360 degrees. The whole unit is made of metal, the suspension is supported by a thick column, and the hollow column is the longitudinal axis of the unit in the middle. The shooter of the ballista had a seat. Attached to the post, in front of the seat there is a full set of concise shooting solvers and an adjustable telescope. The shooter's pedal position is a set of crankshafts, by stepping on the crankshaft, it is possible to adjust the pitch angle of fire of the ballista. The shooter's right-hand position is a hand-cranked wheel. The horizontal angle of fire of the ballista can be adjusted by turning the turntable. What made Ye Tao roll his eyes even more was that the shooter's seat and horizontal turntable could be installed symmetrically to facilitate the operation of left-handed shooters...... This kind of thoughtfulness may be the result of Ye Tao's perennial instillation of ergonomics and service awareness.

Naturally, it is impossible for the ballista to be wound and reloaded by the shooter, and naturally there is no such thing as an autoloader in this plane. But in any case, equipping such a ballista with a wrestler, a loader, will be able to form combat effectiveness. In terms of weight, the ballista was not even lighter than the standard-sized ballistae made mainly of wood. And. This kind of ballista can basically only be fixed in one place, and can be used as a city defense gun or a naval gun. As a city defense artillery, this small ballista has a limited range and may not play much of a role. However, as a naval gun, this kind of ballista will become a nightmare for the enemy when the opponent is trying to get closer to itself, and when it is necessary to quickly shift the target and adjust the target according to the relative position at any time.

The design of such a ballista. Strictly speaking. It's just that the design of the following adjustment device has long been thrown to the workshop. This adjustment device is also suitable for the Divine Arm Bow. to form a three-person shooting team of the Divine Arm Bow. However, the workshop has not been able to make this set of devices into qualified products. A qualified product requires not only good performance, but also a high degree of reliability and an acceptable cost. After a small amount of tungsten steel was successfully made, the workshop once wanted to use tungsten steel to make a large number of gears and longitudinal shafts in this set, but in that case, although the performance and reliability were guaranteed, the cost calculation was really unbearable. But with ordinary steel, even the stainless steel produced by Ye's workshop and those workshops in Liyang, which belongs to the inner government, cannot meet the needs of this device. And now, when Uzi Steel appeared in front of the people in the workshop, it was like opening a door for them, allowing them to finally make this three-man light and fast ballista. When the construction of this device was officially started at the Ye Workshop, the people of the Seven Seas Trading Company's escort team came to see it, and they immediately showed great interest in this kind of thing, which they had been urging to produce for the equipment of the Tiger Tooth Ship. Although Old Man Qi has not yet witnessed this set of things with his own eyes, he has already said that as long as there are conditions to equip it, each Huya ship will be equipped with four to six of this thing.

"The first ship of the Huya ship is enough for four, and the first ship needs to be able to shake the majesty. The rest of the Uzi steel is all used for tool renewal. Ye Tao pursed his lips and commanded.

"That's good...... Old Man Qi, you can take it there. "Zhao Dazhu has no opinion on Ye Tao's decision." However, Uzi steel is really good for gears, shafts, and things like that. It is much stronger than the original so-called stainless steel, and the difference is limited compared to tungsten steel. …… That's right. Ye Tao, didn't Yunzhou say that there was good steel? When can I get it and try it? You can't really wait for those guys...... Well, it's called Damascus, and we can't wait for those Damascus blacksmiths to get the word out with us before we can get this little ballista on a large scale. Old Man Qi will be mad. ”

"It's fine. Old Man Qi is not willing to throw the Huya ship to fight in the South Seas for the time being. In half a year to a year, we will solve the problem just now. Even the steel in Liyang actually has a lot of room for improvement. Ye Tao said with a smile.

"Well, I know this without Damascus craftsmen...... They start with the mining and beneficiation side and work their way through to production. There are too many leaks. Every time you change the origin of coal, there is a change in the quality of steel, which is too obvious, and there are problems with coal...... After I was busy here, I was going to go to Liyang to squat, and I won't come back if I don't figure out the problem of steel. Zhao Dazhu was very angry, after all, Ye's workshop started from carpenter rather than blacksmith, even if they now recruit many senior blacksmiths, they can't meet their increasingly complex and demanding requirements for steel quality. A weapon made of Liyang stainless steel. In Chunnan and Northern Liao, there is no place to buy things, but in Ye's workshop, they have become second-class citizens, and they don't even have the right to vote.

"Senior brother, it's up to you. It can really improve the quality of steel. The merit is immeasurable. Ye Tao said.

Zhao Dazhu can master the technology so solidly and profoundly, naturally he is not a stupid person, but on the contrary, Zhao Dazhu is a technical maniac. In the environment of Yip's Workshop, it is like a fish in water. Any breakthrough in all technical projects is often concentrated in the hands of Zhao Dazhu to evaluate the value first. When the underground technicians and technicians arrived in front of Zhao Dazhu, there was no possibility of opportunism. Because Zhao Dazhu is comprehensive and exquisite in technology, he can know the difficulty of various technical projects. If you want to study every detail to find and improve the quality of steel produced in Liyang, then Zhao Dazhu, who is cautious, meticulous and extremely patient, should be the best candidate. Although he is not a blacksmith, mastering the methods and systems of technology research and development is more valuable than simply mastering the technology itself.

Zhao Dazhu didn't think much about whether it was a credit or not. He had little interest in those. Although he knew that Zhao Dazhu was Ye Taodi's senior brother. However, the Ministry of Industry and those other families in Dongping who started with technology, craftsmen, etc., or were interested in this, also tried to poach or encourage Zhao Dazhu to stand on his own, and the difference between them was that the Ministry of Industry asked Ye Tao's opinion in advance, and Ye Tao asked them to ask Zhao Dazhu very indifferently, while other families or something, whether it was agitation, sarcasm or ridicule, it was very much a taste of doing everything. But Zhao Dazhu couldn't mix sand in his eyes, and there were not a few people who were thrown out of the door directly by him.

Those who came to poach only seemed to see Zhao Dazhu going back and forth between Yicheng and Danyang all the year round, and he stayed in the workshop almost all the time. In Danyang, he lives in Zhengyuan, and in Yicheng, he lives in a small courtyard in Qingquan Village. The clothes are simple, the carriages and horses are not exquisite, and the wives and children at home are not very particular about eating, drinking and having fun. In the past few years, Zhao Dazhu's two sons have been following Old Man Qi's ship all day long, running all over the world...... This kind of life is not as famous as Guan Haishan, as the director of several extremely important projects; Compared to Suo Yong presiding over the Yizhan Building and other businesses in the capital, those children of the family want to enter the Blood Qi Army, even if they know that Suo Yong will not say good things for them, they are also polite to him, lest he say anything bad, and Suo Yong's younger brother Suo Zheng is now a general; Even Qian Shun, who is now going to Yunzhou, is also holding a large amount of construction funds in his hand to roll out the construction of the plant.

Everyone thinks that Zhao Dazhu seems to be the one who has been wronged. But Zhao Dazhu himself knows that his wife is that simple character, eating and dressing are affordable and not seeking pomp, although the two children in the family follow the boat, but it is the same as his own specialization in various crafts, it is also a matter of interest, the two children moved home last year just a variety of gifts and souvenirs are worth a lot. Under the circumstance that the technicians and mechanics who have made outstanding contributions to the Yip's Workshop can share a certain percentage of the benefits in their respective projects, how could he, a person who is deeply connected with the establishment and development of the Yip's Workshop, one of the directors of the Yip's Workshop, Ye Tao's senior brother, be ignored? In the last year alone, Zhao Dazhu received dividends from the Ye family's workshop, which was so large that he could almost build a fleet for his son.

And in the past few years, even Zhao Dazhu, who doesn't like to deal with people very much, has had the experience of having to deal with all kinds of people. A large part of them has some origins, which he cannot afford to offend. But Ye Tao and Ye's Workshop have always been his strongest backing, and Ye Tao has clearly told him that he will never let the layman guide the insider, and he can make the decision he thinks is right. Times have changed, and what was once a matter of reason has now become something that is said by a few of their brothers and sisters in terms of manufacturing technology, architecture, etc., and everyone else has to think about the tone of their opinions or suggestions, even if sometimes they make mistakes. Zhao Dazhu understood that no matter where he was, he could not have received greater and more reliable support than here.

"Liyang's side...... The ironworks don't seem to be ours. Would you like to say hello to your siblings? When I get there and no one pays attention to me, it's very boring. Zhao Dazhu suddenly remembered that although Liyang's iron factory had Ye's shares, indirectly, he was also a shareholder, but the majority was still from the inner government. Tan Weixin is now Ye Tao's wife, and several of their brothers and sisters know that Ye Laogeng has been happy for a long time because he can finally throw all the accounting work of Ye's Workshop and related enterprises, which is more and more complicated and complicated to everyone has a headache when they see it, to the financial team that is undoubtedly the number one in the world: Princess Zhaohua's Mansion Finance Office. But they didn't really think too far away from the industry of the inner house because they could enjoy the same treatment as the inner government and had a closer relationship.

"Don't worry, Xin'er will talk about it. In the past few years, how many people have been sent to our workshop, and they have not all fully cooperated? What's more, you, the director, personally stepped in. Senior brother, you should go and show your skills as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the materials from Yunzhou come, test the properties and determine the suitable products, as well as various tests and trial production of Uzi steel and Damascus steel, then a lot of things will be too late to arrange. Ye Tao responded with a smile.