Chapter 264: Celebrities (II)

"So, Luo went in." Yangzhou prefect Robben arched his hand at Li Jin, got out of the way, and invited his teacher and the fat man surnamed Zhou to enter.

It's so simple, Shi Yanduan and Zhou Fu looked at each other, their faces were full of disbelief, with the experience of the two of them, in the past, they sent a generous salute to meet a county order, and the other party would take care of it if they had nothing to do, until they waited for the guests to be hairy, they would send someone to pass in from the back corner door, and now Zhu Chongjiugui is the general manager of Huaiyang, but the two of them can enter on their own without having to report, this courtesy is really flattering.

When Robben first entered the shogunate, he was not used to the casualness of his own lord, but after doing it for a long time, he gradually became free, and seeing that the teacher and the guests did not dare to move, he smiled and explained in a low voice: "Teacher, Brother Shen, the two of you just have to go inside, the chief manager has always been so easy-going, regardless of whether others are willing to do things with their hearts, and they don't care about some red tape." ”

"No wonder, no wonder the chief manager has become a prince in less than two years, and he is really an extraordinary person who does extraordinary things." Shen Fu immediately came back to his senses and moved his legs with emotion.

Shi Yanduan was a little more restrained than him, but he also traveled from south to north, and he had seen some people in the world, after thinking about it, he also followed him into the door, and then turned around and said to Robben in a very low voice, "Do you come here often, it seems that the chief manager seems to rely on you quite a lot, and you take two strangers to see him, and you don't even need to search your body." ”

"I dare not rely on it." Robben was praised a little blushing, waved his hand, and responded in a low voice, "Although the chief manager is from a humble background, he is full of poetry and books, Corporal Lixian, he trusts his disciples and other scholars who came to him, when he was in Huai'an, if everyone had something to do to find him, no matter how late it was, they could enter and leave the governor's mansion, and they had never seen him look at anyone's face, as for the body search, with his ability, he said that our master and apprentice are three, that is, seven or eight in the future, I am afraid that he will not be able to withstand the power of his sword." ”

"In this way, it is both civil and military." Shi Yanduan thought about it and praised in a low voice.

"Haven't you heard of the Qinyuan Spring that he made after drinking, who can write it if he is not a big hero and a hero." Robben immediately picked up the conversation, showing off with adoration on his face.

"Pity the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, slightly lose Wencai, Tang Zong and Song Zu, slightly inferior to coquettish" Shi Yanduan nodded, and chanted casually, "When the teacher was in Jiangnan, his ears were filled with this Qinyuan Spring, and many people tried to sing and harmonize, but the result was overwhelming. ”

While feeling it, while thinking about where he will go in the future, over the years, he has seen a lot of heroes and heroes, but these heroes and heroes either laid a palm-sized territory, and were busy choosing concubines for the emperor, or killed people and set fires just to be recruited in the future, except for Liu Futong and Zhao Junyong, there is no one who really has long-term vision.

And Liu Futong and Zhao Jun use two, the former is narrow-minded and has no room for people, and the latter is magnanimous on the outside and feminine on the inside, but they can share hardships and hardships but not wealth and prosperity, only this Zhu Chongjiu, who was born in killing pigs, is still quite a bit of a hero when I hear people talk about it, but I don't know if the rumors can be taken seriously, whether it is famous, in fact, it is difficult to deserve.

Shen Fu, who was walking in front of the two, paid attention to whether Zhu Chongjiu had read the book or not, whether he was the lord or not, as a wealthy businessman, he was concerned about what effect his 100,000 stone grain could have after it was smashed, how much time and effort it spent, and whether it could recover the cost from Huaiyang.

According to the current normal rice price in Jiangnan, one stone of rice can be sold for almost 300 wen, 100,000 stone rice, which is 30,000 yuan of copper coins, if you can exchange some privileges from Zhu Butcher, 30,000 yuan is the road fee, and in the future, it is said that the cost will be recovered, 300,000, 3 million can also be earned back.

And once the Zhu butcher is as insatiable as Xu Shouhui, even if the 30,000 guan is lost, in the future, the fleet shops under the name of the Shen family must try to avoid any formal involvement with the Huaiyang Governor's Mansion, so as not to make any profits, but get into trouble.

"This yard was just built half a month ago, using old bricks pulled out of the ruins, and the glue is cement fired by the official kiln itself." There were guests there, of course Robben couldn't patronize and chat with his teacher, he walked a few steps quickly, and proudly introduced while gesturing to Shen Fu to guide the way.

"The grass people in the south of the Yangtze River have seen this thing, it is indeed very magical, with it, it is effortless to build a hundred zhang embankment overnight." Shen Fu is very good at being a person, and immediately followed Robben's tone and complimented loudly, "What's even more rare is that even in rainy weather, this thing can slowly condense, and after it dries, it will no longer be afraid of water. ”

"It's not just the people of Jiangnan who will benefit." Luo Ben's heart was patted in his heart, which was called a comfort, nodded, and continued to add triumphantly, "The reason why the head of my family made this thing was to allow Yangzhou people to rebuild their homes as soon as possible, and the profits from the sale of cement were all exchanged for rice and grain, and entered the mouth of Yangzhou soldiers and civilians." ”

"The chief manager has such a benevolent heart, why worry about the uncertain world." Shen Fu pretended to arch his hand in the direction of the cross-courtyard and prayed loudly.

"Brother Shen, please go this way, turn right, just pass the moon gate in front, pay attention to your feet, the stone bricks under your feet are also made of cement and sand, they are somewhat slippery, be careful not to fall on your heels." Robben nodded without question, then gestured to point the guest in the right direction.

In order to push the cement to the people as much as possible, the yamen of the Yangzhou government and the residences of officials at all levels rebuilt on the ruins have used cement as much as possible, so along the way, the application examples of new materials can be seen everywhere, the wealthy businessman Shen Fu still praised casually at first, and slapped the owner's ass with the wrong mouth, but later, but now the use of cement is more and more, more and more widely, and even the bridge deck on the pond can be directly pressed with cement when what muscles and bones are added, but he can't help but think to himself, "Although this thing is sold very cheaply, It is also quite laborious to transport, but once it spreads, the dosage is very large, if you can buy a recipe to open a workshop in the local area, save transportation costs, it is not a good deal to make money every day, but I don't know if Mr. Zhu is good to speak, willing to transfer the recipe. ”

He can make millions of family assets at the end of a court with the body of Bai Ding, and his mind must be first-class active, and immediately, he saw the huge business opportunities contained in the cement, and secretly started the idea of the formula.

Collusion with the local government to steal is definitely not possible, that Zhu butcher himself is the big proprietor of the Huaiyang firm, and he will definitely not cut his own flesh to cheapen outsiders, and send the dead soldiers raised in the family to steal the teacher, I am afraid it may not be realistic, in recent times, the Huai'an army has been catching spies everywhere, making chickens and dogs jump inside and outside the city, and rashly send a person with a foreign accent to come over, it is estimated that he will be arrested and beaten to death before he hears the secret of cement, and the backer standing behind him at this moment is estimated to have no courage to put it right with Zhu Butcher, In case he learned that he had provoked the Huai'an army, he didn't need Zhu Butcher to come to the door to ask for the crime, so he directly tied up all the hundreds of members of the Shen family and sent them over

As he was thinking sullenly, a loud noise suddenly sounded in his ears, "Bah." Immediately after, there was a landslide and tsunami cheers, "hit, hit, one hundred and fifty steps." ”

"One hundred and fifty steps, you can break the armor, even the old black, from now on your big gun can rest the food."

"One hundred and fifty steps, you can really hit one hundred and fifty steps, Master Jiao, you are really powerful."

"Move the target farther away, move farther away, and see where you can hit it accurately."

Zhu Butcher came up with some magic weapon, and coincidentally, Shen Fu and Shi Yanduan both stopped, turned their heads and asked Robben for instructions with their eyes, peeking at the secrets of the army without permission, but the crime of killing the head, the two of them had no basis and no roots in Yangzhou, and they didn't want to find death by themselves.

"Master and Brother Shen are here for a while, just now it is estimated that the chief manager is testing the new fire gun with Master Jiao, wait for Ben to go over and report to the head of my family in person, and then come back and invite the two of you in." Yangzhou prefect Robben was also startled by the sound of gunshots and cheers, and quickly led the guests to sit down on the stone bench next to the flower path, and beckoned a personal soldier from the governor's office to accompany him, and then tidied up his clothes and trotted to check what was going on.

When he entered the courtyard, he saw Zhu Eighty-one holding a brand-new firearm in his hand, comparing with the commander of the spear-carrying battalion, Lian Laohei, and the master craftsman Jiao Yu, while Xu Hong's third-class guards were watching around, as if the firearm was made of pure gold.

"How did you think of it, how did you think of using a boring machine to pull this kind of spiral in it, I originally thought that the round projectile could only be used with a smoothbore gun, but I didn't expect you to develop a rifled gun with a few words from me." Zhu Eighty-one was obviously extremely excited, and he didn't notice Robben approaching at all, and just kept asking Jiao Yu, (Note 1)

"Villain, villain originally compared two kinds of guns, now, now with iron plate rolled double-layer tube, although it is easier to explode than drilled out, but the bullet can hit farther, and the accuracy is much higher." The master craftsman Jiao Yu still looked like he couldn't get on the plate, kept rubbing the hem of his clothes with his hands, and stammered in response, "Later, I listened to the governor, and I heard the governor say that if you can engrave rifling on the inside of the barrel, it may increase the range of the projectile, so I first drilled a gun tube with stainless steel, and then imitated the internal texture of the coiled iron gun tube, made a stainless steel stick, and then burned the pipe red, put it on the stick, and repeatedly pressed out the rifling. ”

"Well, it's very valuable that you can touch the class." Zhu Eighty-one excitedly fiddled with the first rifled gun in the air at this time, and was also a little incoherent, "Also, there is a layer of soft lead wrapped in this projectile, which can also be called a stroke of genius, but I don't know if the same rifling can be engraved with a boring machine and engraved in the barrel, if it can, the four-pound cannon will no longer be like chicken ribs in the future." ”

"I guess it's enough." Master Jiao Yu thought about it and shook his head quickly, "The pipe of this fire gun in the governor's hand is made of stainless steel, not too afraid of bullet grinding, the barrel is made of bronze, the toughness is more than enough, the rigidity is insufficient, if the rifling is engraved, it is too shallow, and it may be smoothed by the projectile in a few times, and if it is carved deeply, the artillery will be easy to explode, but the gains outweigh the losses." ”

"Hey, too." Zhu Bayi gasped lightly, just thinking about increasing the firing range, but forgetting that the artillery he is building now still has one of the most fatal risks, blowing up the chamber, and at present, the artillery-making technology of the Huai'an Army is obviously stuck in a bottleneck, and if you want to greatly increase the firing range without increasing the weight of the gun, I am afraid that it will take more experience and the accumulation of technology to achieve.

"Then, can you use steel to cast cannons?" Robben listened attentively beside him, and couldn't help but open his mouth and interject, and after he finished speaking, he realized that he had lost his manners, and quickly hugged his fists and bowed, and apologized in a low voice, "The chief manager, the master craftsman, don't blame the two, I don't know anything about the way of making tools. ”

"It's not impossible to try." The master craftsman Jiao Yu was a natural science and technology maniac, waved his hand, frowned and responded, "At present, the steel refined in our workshop is several times stronger than the original quality, if it is used to make cannons, it is much more expensive than bronze, and the toughness may not be enough, but"

After thinking about it, he quickly squatted down and sketched on the ground with a branch, "In this way, like a gun barrel, it is used in two layers, first cast a steel cannon inside, use a boring machine to pull out the rifling, and then put a copper sleeve on the outside, which does not need to be too thick, use a stainless steel cannon core to make up for the lack of hardness of bronze, and use a bronze outer tube to make up for the toughness and heat dissipation of steel. ”

Note 1: In the early days, the front-loading rifled gun also used a round projectile, although the firing range was longer than that of the rifled gun, but it had several drawbacks such as difficult loading and easy to explode than the smoothbore gun.

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