The common people of Fushun are very strange, as the person concerned, Shen Shoubei, in the midst of rumors, did not let out a fart, which is too incommensurate with his identity as a military attache of the Ming Dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info According to the previous script, even if you can't catch the rumor-mongers, at least you have to catch a few unlucky people and kill chickens to show the monkeys. The rumors continued to be in the limelight, and the people of Fushun also felt that the legendary secret recipe seemed to be effective, and a few days later, someone actually squatted in the slaughterhouse and bought bullwhips at a high price. The popularity of bullwhips has even had a slight impact on the livestock market.

Fushun has adapted to rumors, and even in the teahouse, rumors have become a bridge for people to communicate and say hello. Some people even opened a special tea party, and they said it so vividly that even Shen Jia himself almost believed it.

Of course, not everyone is fooled with just a few words like the common people. Cui Laishun Cui old man of the workshop is exactly such a person.

"Lord Shen, why did you make this grenade look like this, the workshop has already been finalized, and you want to change the design now, what should you do with the initial investment?"

"Uncle Cui, listen to me, in the future, we will call this kind of firearm grenades, okay?"

Old man Cui glared at Shen Jia, panting heavily, and didn't speak for a long time. You are the uncle, you are the gold master, you can call it whatever you want, after the old man Cui figured this out, his anger gradually subsided a little.

Shen Jia was amused by the persistence of the ancient people, and all explosives were named "xx thunder" and asked them to change their names, which was simply fatal, and the saliva of the fee caught up with the cost of the project. In order to be in a hurry, the earthen grenade designed before did not have an elastic delay fuse, which is more like a grenade, which is far from a real grenade.

The battles during the siege of Fushun showed that homemade grenades had many shortcomings. During the night raid on the last night, Shen Jia found that the spherical grenade was more likely to roll with the terrain, causing the Ming army's predicted explosion point to lose its crosshairs. Later, Shen Jia thought about it seriously and felt that the wooden-handled grenade could better avoid this problem. Another disadvantage of home-made grenades is that the fuse is exposed, which can easily cause misfire.

Making wooden handles is a labor-intensive task, and Shen Jia was the first to deny designing grenades. At that time, the Tartar was ready to move, as long as he made explosives, even if the specifications were a little different, he pinched his nose and recognized it. The consequence of catching up with the schedule is that the specifications of the existing home-made grenades are quite different. In particular, the sphere is mainly cast by molten iron, which makes it difficult to unify the thickness of the ball wall.

After the siege ended, Shen Jia even found some earthen grenades that had been blown in half on the battlefield. This explosion does not produce area killing, but wastes explosives. Fortunately, there are a few boxes of grenades brought from the previous life for temporary emergency, otherwise the result is really two words.

Now that there is plenty of time, Shen Jia began to think about standardized manufacturing, and at the same time find ways to improve the manufacturing details.

"Uncle Cui, you see this is a schematic diagram of a grenade, it has an iron shell on it, you can cast it according to the specifications, because the export is larger, we can observe the thickness of the iron wall more clearly, so that in the early stage of manufacturing, most of the defective products can be screened out. In addition, the sphere is easy to roll due to the terrain, and the installation of a wooden handle can effectively avoid this problem. ”

Cui Laishun nodded, he could understand this truth, but there was more wooden handle, which meant that he had to drill through the wooden handle and run the fuse through it, which was another process.

"Lord Shen, our workload will increase significantly in this way."

"It's okay, I'll send you twenty carpenters and let them bring a group of apprentices, and if there are not enough people, you can come to me again." From today onwards, after the production of the remaining spherical grenades, the work will be stopped one after another, and we will have to change to a new process. In addition, I transferred two craftsmen to be responsible for the test and research of the explosive explosion range of the grenade. ”

Hearing that Shen Jia had transferred the craftsman to be placed under his command, Old Man Cui nodded with satisfaction.

"Uncle Cui, don't be in a hurry to leave, I also built a relatively closed explosion room outside the city, this time we have time, you make some grenades in batches according to different processes, and go to the explosion room to test the lethality. The blast chamber is a concrete wall, and shrapnel hits the wall with small craters or marks, and you can assess the effect of the explosion by looking at the depth of the prints. ”

Old man Cui nodded, feeling that Shen Jia was prepared in all aspects, and he also had a bottom in his heart, so he chatted with Shen Jia for a while, and then turned around to arrange the progress.

The grenade manufacturing workshop is located in an unknown corner in the north of the city, and its security level is already very high, before leaving, Shen Jia transferred another hundred Ming troops to garrison it, patrolling here day and night.

"Brother Wei, you said that we sold those spherical grenades to General Hou in Tieling, would he ask for them?"

"Yes, don't be stupid. I heard General You say that when Liu Wu left Tieling, General Hou tried his best to keep him, and what was the use of keeping Liu Wu was not because he took a fancy to the sharp explosives in his hands. ”

"Well, Brother Wei, why don't you go to Tieling for me, I heard that General Li Bingcheng has also arrived in Tieling, why don't you go and say hello to them, bring a few samples, and sell these hundreds of homemade grenades to them?"

"Lord Shen, you are just for this, you said it earlier. There is no need to go to Tieling, a letter from the capital, Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi asked me to purchase a batch of explosives, I have been making it difficult to tell you, now it's okay, you have the heart to sell, I also want to buy, give it to me directly, everyone is happy. ”

Shen Jia was slightly startled, looked at Wei Liangyu and said, "This is a murderous weapon, why do you Jinyiwei want this thing?" No, you'll have to get an official voucher to buy it, I don't want to get in trouble. ”

Wei Liangyu patted his chest and said: "It's no problem, don't worry, I will personally supervise it, and I will never affect you." ”

After discussing the question of where to leave the spherical grenade, Shen Jia rushed to Wang Erhu's side again. Last time, Zou Tai brought hundreds of craftsmen, Shen Jia has not arranged specific work. In the past few days, Shen Jia thought about it from beginning to end, discussed it with Wen Qing again, and decided to put the manufacture of muskets on the agenda.

I haven't seen it for a few days, and the skinny craftsman door a few days ago is radiant today.

"Guys, how are you eating and staying here lately? Wang Erhu didn't treat you badly, did he? If you have any complaints, you can tell me, and I will help you find a way. ”

The leader was a thin old man, and when he heard Shen Jia's question, he hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "The villain thanked Lord Shen, the villain is very comfortable, I just want to repay the kindness of the adult, please arrange things for us, everyone is about to get sick these days." ”

"Uncle, what is your surname? Gui Geng this year? ”

"Old and talented, surnamed Yang Sanfu, just over fifty this year."

Looking at Yang Sanfu with a wrinkled face, Shen Jia really couldn't believe that he had just turned fifty. You must know that a fifty-year-old person in his previous life was just a middle-aged person, and the one in front of him, Shen Jia thought that he was at least seventy years old, and he really couldn't look good.

"Uncle Yang, I'm going to design a musket, but it's different from what you designed in the past, so I'm going to come over today to talk to you."

Yang Sanfu looked puzzled, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in the young man's gourd in front of him. The crowd began to whisper.

"Lord Shen, I wonder what is different from this musket in the past?"

Shen Jia smiled and said: "I also just thought of it, first of all, I plan to remove the fire rope of the musket and use flint to stimulate shooting instead, so I consider setting up a set of flint excitation device near the fire door at the rear end of the barrel for ignition and firing." ”

As soon as Shen Jia finished speaking, an impatient young man stood up and asked, "My lord, the use of flint to inspire is unheard of, and the sparks inspired by flint are unpredictable, which may cause the rate of musket to be dumb fired. ”

Yo, this young man is quite professional, even the terminology came out, Shen Jia was overjoyed, and hurriedly said, "What's your name?" What has been done in the past with muskets? ”

"The villain's name is Zhai Mingchong, I have been in Liaoyang for three years, mainly following the masters to design the ignition device of the arquebus."

"Zhai Mingchong is very thoughtful, I like people like you, if you have any questions to raise in person, I like your attitude. You're right, the rate of mute fire is a problem, but the flint gun prevents the arquebus from going out in the rain and exposing the target's defects at night. At the same time, the flint gun omits the ignition process, and the theoretical efficiency is higher, so we need to find a reasonable balance among these defects. Of course, the flint excitation probability needs to be figured out by you, for example, by changing the flint regularly to increase the ignition probability. ”

Zhai Mingchong lowered his head and fell into deep thought, and after thinking for a while, he seemed to think that it was feasible, so he grinned at Shen Jia.

"Zhai Mingchong, you find four more helpers, first design a flint excitation device, it doesn't matter if it's bigger, do a prototype experiment first, let's slowly shrink it again, and strive to use it as soon as possible."

Zhai Mingchong nodded and thanked him with a fist.

Everyone didn't expect Shen Jia to do things neatly and so quickly promote a little-known young man to the person in charge. The eyes of the people, who were originally just unfazed, began to burn.

Shen Jia moistened his throat and continued: "Next, I want to transform the barrel, this is a big project." First of all, we need to improve the quality of steel, and at the same time, we need to test the resistance of the barrel with new gunpowder, and I built a closed test body outside the city specifically for the barrel, and the barrel will have to be tested with the new gunpowder before it can be finalized. The new gunpowder is very powerful and requires a high quality of the barrel, so I hope you will not disappoint me. In the future, we will also draw rifling in the barrel, which will be talked about later, first of all, we must improve the quality of the barrel. ”

"The old man is willing to be responsible for iron smelting and barrel manufacturing, the old man has been doing these things for the past ten years, and the old man has also been doing the barrel of the gun for a while."

It was Yang Sanfu who spoke, Shen Jia nodded and said, "Then there is Uncle Lao Yang, you pick forty people to be responsible for iron smelting and gun barrel design." Make some samples, record the data, record the results after the test, and then find a way to improve the process flow and quality. ”

Subsequently, Shen Jia selected some people from among the craftsmen to study the principle of the Newcomen steam engine, which was extremely simple and suitable for forging some basic equipment. In addition, some simple manpower and animal-powered machinery require various intermediate parts, such as casting gears, which were put on the agenda by Shen Jia and began to study.

Shen Jia said to Wang Erhu in front of everyone: "If someone designs something that meets the requirements, we will reward you according to the size of the merit, and at the same time encourage everyone to put forward new ideas. ”

Seeing the young man in front of him talking eloquently, everyone began to plan in their hearts to strive for a rich reward in the future.

After the people left one after another, Shen Jia asked Wang Erhu: "Is gasoline purification still being done?" ”

"My lord, we have almost used up the oil reserves, and recently I have been reducing the scale of production, if you have a new plan, I can change the arrangement at any time."

"Well, you've got a good arrangement. The incendiary bomb made of gasoline should be called an incendiary pot, and the clay pot has to find some way to reduce the size, and at the same time increase the explosive combustion power of the clay pot. As for large-scale manufacturing, there is no hurry now, and we will strive to seize this time to be able to increase the power of the incendiary tank a little more. I heard that adding sugar, flour, and even vegetable oil to gasoline will have a good effect on increasing the viscosity of gasoline. You test it with different ratios to see if it works, and if it really doesn't work, then use the old way, just get a simple explosive that can burn. ”

Wang Erhu recorded it carefully, and then asked for some details, and then left in a hurry.