There were two things in the experiment, a steel cannon and a flintlock pistol. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

That's right, this is the result of three years of research of more than 10 million taels of silver, and compared with many of his predecessors, Xiao Tian felt blushing.

Xiao Tian originally thought that these two things were very easy, in his previous life, when he read the time travel novel, the pig's feet were able to drum up these two things in the Tang Dynasty, and thinking about the present, he finally had the industrial base of the sixteenth century.

In any case, the 16th century also had such a foundation as guns and cannons, and in addition, he was not short of money, although he was not from a science class, but if you want to come to the 21st century, the knowledge of physics in the 16th century may not be of great use.

So when he started this project, he was actually full of confidence, and he turned out to be very tragic.

Who put a gun in the Tang Dynasty? Who made rifling in the Three Kingdoms? You stand up for me, and I promise not to kill you. In the sixteenth century, the master invested more than 10 million taels of silver, and specially invited several weapons experts from Hua Luoshi, and experimented more than 80 times, but they did not solve the sealing problem.

Helpless, it seems that in the sixteenth century, it was really a special black technology to invent modern firearms, and Xiaotian could only settle for the second best thing and made a flintlock pistol.

Flintlock pistols and arquebuses are likewise smoothbore guns. The common characteristics of smoothbore guns are: shooting with eyes open and shooting with eyes closed, the result is almost the same, whether you can hit someone from a hundred steps away depends on one word: Meng.

However, when this thing is used in a centralized manner, it is still quite impressive, hundreds of people are lined up, and they can also make a fan shape when they hit with their eyes closed, so the musket is now mostly used in large-scale battles, and it is not very useful in small-scale battles.

The difference between a flintlock pistol and an arquebus is evident from the name. An arquebus is a fire that ignites a fuse and then shoots. The flintlock pistol is not much different from modern firearms, so the speed of shooting is significantly faster, of course, he can't fire continuously, and it's front-loaded, and if you want to hit the speed, you still have to rely on the three-stage type.

In addition, compared to the arquebus, the flintlock pistol is much less restricted by the weather, at least a little light rain does not affect its use.

At the same time, Xiaotian's batch of flintlock pistols is not ordinary iron, but steel. Although it is not comparable to modern seamless steel pipes, it is many times harder than ordinary iron, which greatly reduces the risk of the musket exploding, and it is not necessary to cool it down without firing two shots as before, so in general, its improvement is still very useful.

Don't underestimate this slight increase in speed, which is just the difference between a snail and a tortoise in the face of modern firearms, but in the sixteenth century, such a small difference in speed was enough to change the form of warfare.

In addition to guns, there were also cannons. Cannons of the XVI century, copper for cannons, stone for cannons. One of their common characteristics is that they are bulky, and copper conducts heat faster than steel, so the cooling time of the copper cannon after firing is very long.

What's more, Xiaotian now uses steel instead of copper, so that the steel can be made thinner and the barrel can be made longer. A longer barrel in this period meant a longer range, and in doing so, it was lighter and easier to carry.

To put it simply, from now on, Xiaotian's army, whether with guns or cannons, can fight farther and faster than before. Xiao Tian believed that when he had all changed his outfits, his troops would be able to fight against Napoleon in the 19th century, and they would not necessarily lose.

In fact, whether it is a copper cannon to a steel cannon, or an arquebus to a flintlock gun, their technical problems are not big, but the problem is that if this thing is done purely manually, this speed is too slow! As the hardness of steel increases, the difficulty of processing also increases exponentially. If you still make guns and cannons according to the old methods, you will not be able to produce a cannon or a gun in ten days and half a month.

This is embarrassing, I spent so much money to build a base, but not to build two fun, what I need is tens of thousands of guns and a few guns! In order to solve this problem, Xiaotian must first study the machine tool before these two things.

It's this damn machine tool, Xiao Tian and Wang Zhi's more than 10 million taels of silver, and more than two years, almost all of them were thrown here to him.

The world's first machine tools were tree lathes in the 2,000 AD. When working, use the ferrule at the lower end of the rope to use the elasticity of the branch to drive the workpiece to rotate through the rope, and use the stone chip or other things as a tool to cut the workpiece. This was the earliest prototype of the machine tool.

In the fifteenth century, there were machine tools for processing threaded gears, as well as boring machines for processing gun barrels, but Xiaotian was not interested in threaded gear machine tools for processing clocks and watches, so he introduced a large number of boring machines.

But the sixteenth century boring machine still can't meet the needs of Xiaotian, and it is impossible to make a steam machine tool, so you have to invent another steam engine.

After countless craftsmen worked day and night, the machine tool that could meet the work efficiency required by Xiaotian was finally produced. However, at this time, Xiaotian faced another problem: the steel was too hard, and even if Xiaotian had a suitable machine tool here, there was no suitable tool.

What's more, the marathon has run down more than 10,000 meters, and it is impossible to give up in this last trembling, the local tyrant Xiaotian and the local tyrant Wang Zhi discussed, yes, we also have a luxury, it is impossible to get a metal knife in the 16th century, but there is something inherently hard in this world: diamond.

That's right, the cuts on Xiaotian's last machine tool are all made of diamonds. Half of the more than 10 million taels of silver was spent here.

Fortunately, the hard work paid off, and this thing was developed in the end.

Xiao Tian's flintlock pistol and small steel cannon can finally be mass-produced, and Xiao Tian is very excited about this! The flamethrower, who had made great contributions to his fleet, could finally be honorably laid off. Why? Because now Xiaotian's steel cannon is almost more than twice the range of ordinary Furlong machine guns, with such an advantageous range, a fool will play broadside battle with you.

From then on, Xiaotian's fleet can be regarded as invincible.

In addition, Xiao Tian and Wang Zhi conspired, and also disposed of the replaced bronze cannons and arquebuses to the Spaniards at a low price, and the stupid Spaniards thought they had taken advantage of it.

As a result, when their bull-coaxed Invincible Armada sailed to the South Seas, met Yu Dayou, and found that all the special products they had bought back at a great cost were scrapped, they were collectively stunned on the spot.

If there are books, it is long, and if there are no books, it is short, and half a year has passed quietly, and the people of the Ming Dynasty are still flocking to the sea like crazy, and Xiaotian's power in the South China Sea is still expanding rapidly. The treasury of the imperial court became more and more abundant, and the people's lives were getting better and better, and in a blink of an eye, it was the end of the 34th year of Jiajing.

In the past six months, Xiaotian has done another big thing. That's his bank, finally open. (To be continued.) )