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Time flies, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has been a month since Deng Haonan came to this world.

In this month's time, Deng Haonan led the craftsmen of the gunpowder workshop to produce a total of nearly 200 catties of gunpowder. More than half of it is gunpowder after more than three run-ins, which can be used in actual combat. The remaining gunpowder was not long after it was manufactured, and the number of run-ins was too small, so it could only be used for ordinary training.

The so-called grinding is to grind or grind the prepared gunpowder. The longer and more times it was milled, the higher the quality of the gunpowder. Therefore, this is the difference between the propellant used in actual combat and the propellant used in exercises. The grinding time of the actual propellant is long and the number of times is large, generally more than three to five times. The propellant grinding time of the exercise is short, and the number of times is small, usually once or twice.

The rules and regulations of the Li family's gunpowder workshop were all plagiarized from the major forces, and there was no scientific planning at all. Deng Haonan's control of the gunpowder process and materials of this era was only a small part, and if you wanted to know a more systematic process, you had to go to the Ming army and war bureaus in the provinces to learn.

Therefore, for the final grinding of gunpowder, Deng Haonan is also in a state of exploration. He divided the prepared gunpowder into three troughs, each of which required 5,800 pounds to be milled, and then the trough was discharged. Then use a pound of fine wine, mix it into a puree, put it in the tank, and then grind it for a hundred times.

This last process is the most rigorous and the most dangerous. In the past, many workers in this process caused explosions or burns due to improper operation. Deng Haonan improved it and invented a stone mortar with a square outside and a round inside, which is one foot four inches deep, one foot three inches wide and five inches thick. The wooden pestle of the gunpowder was made of hard locust elm wood, six feet long, the mouth of the pestle was one foot six inches long, and a small pit was dug under the tail of the pestle, one foot deep. In this way, even if the pestle is high and powerful, there will be no strong friction out of Mars, and the safety is greatly improved.

In this aspect alone, Deng Haonan won the favor of the workers in the gunpowder workshop, after all, no matter how much money he earned, his life was not worth it.

Although Deng Haonan felt too ashamed to make 200 catties of gunpowder, compared with the factories that produced tens of thousands of catties of high-efficiency explosives per month in later generations, the small workshop in front of him was not worth mentioning at all.

However, the pirates of the Li family regarded these gunpowders as treasures and were reluctant to use this efficient gunpowder to contact and shoot. Now that the imperial court strictly controls gunpowder, the Twenty-Eight Brothers' Alliance is at odds with the Netherlands and Spain on the issue of Dongfan, and Xiangshanao, which is controlled by the Portuguese, does not dare to export gunpowder to them. Therefore, at this time, gunpowder was priceless for them - gold was expensive!

In addition to gunpowder, Li Ping also asked Deng Haonan to participate in the casting of artillery. Therefore, Deng Haonan personally led people to build an artillery, because there was no good steel in this era, and these "amateur" blacksmiths in Beizhu Town did not have the ability to cast on a large scale, Deng Haonan had to use the fine wrought iron from the "scraping" to make artificially made cannons.

As the saying goes, 100 is made into steel. Deng Haonan ordered people to smelt the wrought iron and gradually twist it into a circle. Every five catties of wrought iron can be smelted into one catty of steel, and the solid steel is incomparably bright.

The iron of the Ming Dynasty was dominated by Fujian iron, followed by Jin iron. The fuel is charcoal fire, followed by coal. Deng Haonan first built a small furnace, because the Li family's craftsman skills were too poor, Deng Haonan originally wanted to build a steel factory and had to die halfway. However, the big ones can't be made, but the small ones are very good.

The ancients did not have a sense of overall cooperation, so the number of craftsmen and iron-making technology in the Ming Dynasty were much higher than those in the West, but because they were all working alone, they could not be concentrated, so they did not form a scale, hindering the development of the Ming Dynasty's industry.

A small steel-making furnace, under the unified command of Deng Haonan, the craftsmen took less than three days to complete the furnace. The furnace is small, and it can only smelt ten catties of wrought iron at a time. Deng Haonan ordered people to cut the straw finely, mix it with loess, and disperse it frequently, so that the dregs in the iron were precipitated. In this way, five or six fires are refined, and then loess is used as pulp, straw is added, and soaked for a day or two. Then take out the wrought iron every half day for smelting, smelt ten fires, and after ten catties of wrought iron are smelted into one catty, it becomes refined steel

The steel is made into steel plates, divided into eight pieces, and then shaped into curved tiles. Each one is one foot four inches long, one foot one inch wide, and the middle thickness is thin on the side. Four pieces of steel tiles are rolled into a cylinder with a tire bar, and eight pieces are rolled into two cylinders. The cylinder is then cut together and riveted with steel nails. Then the belly, charge, and firing out of the cannon are surrounded on the outside with 30 catties of stainless steel to prevent explosions.

The rough billet of the artillery is hoisted and calibrated with ink lines, without the slightest deviation. Then wash the chamber with a steel drill, so that the inside of the gun chamber is smooth and round, and there can be no ash and unevenness.

Finally, install the fire door, the light door and the guard door. None of these things were added later, but were filed directly on the gun body with a steel file.

In this way, the first artillery under the auspices of Deng Haonan was successfully built, and it took more than 20 days before and after.

Deng Haonan named this artillery the Huwei cannon, the gun weighs 200 catties, is 110 centimeters long, has a caliber of about 35 millimeters, and can fire about two catties of shells. The overall combat performance is equivalent to that of a medium-sized Franc gun, but because it is a front-loading gun, the firing speed is slower than that of the Franc aircraft.

Although Deng Haonan was very dissatisfied with the Huwei artillery he made, for Beizhu Town, Deng Haonan had become the leader of the artillery workshop and the gunpowder workshop, and the craftsmen respected Deng Haonan as if they were their own parents.

The reason for this situation is mainly because Deng Haonan's humanitarian ideas in later generations made these coolie craftsmen feel the minimum dignity of being human beings. In the past, the foremen not only deducted their wages, but also often asked for bribes, and they were often beaten and scolded at every turn. Deng Haonan is different, not only does not deduct a penny, but also does not ask for bribes from poor people. On the contrary, Deng Haonan was kind to them, and usually took advantage of Li Li's absence to secretly teach them some skills.

The ancients valued virtue the most, and the idea of being a teacher for one day and a father for life. Deng Haonan taught them techniques in private, which in the eyes of these craftsmen, this is preaching and solving doubts, so they began to call Deng Haonan Foreman Deng, Deng Gongzi, and later directly called him Mr., which was even more respectful.

For a time, Deng Haonan had a very high prestige in his one-acre and three-point land.

Unlike the names of the craftsmen, the pirates under Li Ping called Deng Haonan Deng Cannon. This made Deng Haonan's heart very unbalanced, and he said in his heart: If Lao Tzu is reborn into a person surnamed Sun, he must not call himself Sun Cannon at this time!

Of course, this nickname is not something that can be called casually. Pirates are also people in the rivers and lakes, ordinary pirates are not allowed to have nicknames, and the hierarchy stipulates that only pirates with a certain status can have nicknames. Therefore, don't look at Deng Haonan, the nickname of Deng Cannon, is very earthy, but it occupies a very important position among the pirates in Beiyu Town.

Strong ships and cannons are the typical symbol of sea power in this era, and it will continue for hundreds of years. The town of Beiyu can build advanced sea ships, but it lags far behind the other forces in terms of artillery and gunpowder. In the past, pirates relied on broadside battles, broadswords and spears to settle battles. Nowadays, the times have progressed, and everyone attacks each other with artillery, so artillery is life for them pirates.

However, Deng Haonan can make gunpowder and cast cannons, so Deng Haonan is in the hearts of the pirates of Beimao Town, and his status is in fact second only to Li Ping's son Li Ao, and he has faintly become the third leader of Beimao Town.

There are a total of five pirate ships in the town of Kitazu, one of which is a medium ship and four small boats. There are many kinds of lucky ships, and there is no systematic classification and naming in the Ming Dynasty, which seems a bit chaotic. According to the classification of the fortune ship in later generations, Deng Haonan believes that the fortune ship in Beizhu Town is between the No. 2 fortune ship and the No. 3 fortune ship. Looking at its size and tonnage, it carries 50 people, which is equivalent to the No. 2 Fu ship, but it is only equipped with four thousand pounds of Buddha Lang cannons and a few bowl-mouth guns.

The remaining four small boats belong to the smallest of the Haicang ships called Cangshan boat, also known as Cangshan Iron, the hull is smaller, higher than the water, the draft is 5 feet, equipped with oars, the wind is smooth, the sail is smooth, and the wind is swinging. The ship was light and dexterous, and was mainly used to chase the enemy and capture the head. It was supposed to be equipped with two thousand pound Buddha doors, but there was only one one, carrying 30 people, which was like a modern mosquito boat.

Bei Tan Town is very close to the Beacon Fire Gate Water Village, an important town of the Daming Water Division, but the Daming Water Division has no way to take the broken pirate ship in Bei Tan Town. It is said that this ship was bought for 10,000 taels of silver from Xu Zhiling, the chief soldier of the Fenghuomen Water Village of the Daming Naval Division, and the age of this ship has been 50 years, and it has not been repaired since it was wounded in the Battle of Luliang Bay. Xu Zhiling lied to the imperial court that the ship would be decommissioned, but in fact it was sold.

At the peak of the Ming Fenghuomen Water Village, there were 700 warships, and when it arrived in Xu Zhiling's hands, there were only three old-fashioned Fu ships. And these three lucky ships were put together from scratch after the old ships were dismantled. Xu Zhiling, the chief soldier, lied about building a new ship, and once again embezzled a large amount of silver. At the same time, Xu Zhiling also asked the imperial court for money to repair the warship every year, but in fact, it was never repaired, and even the shortage of naval officers and soldiers was as high as more than seventy percent. With a corrupt bureaucracy and lax armaments, it's no wonder that the Twenty-Eight Brotherhood Alliance can sit on the throne.

From Li Ao's mouth, it was learned that the alliance of the twenty-eight brothers was originally very weak, but later the imperial court imposed heavy taxes on maritime merchants and repeatedly imposed a sea ban, which finally led to the union of pirates in various provinces. In the beginning, the pirates bribed officials and sailors from all over the country, but nothing happened. Later, Yan Siqi led people to rebel in the Wa Kingdom, and after the failure of the uprising, he formed a pirate alliance. Now, the Twenty-Eight Brothers Alliance is feared by the Imperial Court, which ignores the Dutch and Spanish invasion of Dongfan, and instead unites them to attack the Twenty-Eight Brothers Alliance, making life difficult for today's pirates.

On a sunny day, Deng Haonan went out to sea with Li Ao's warship, and the fortune boat with a wide bottom was sailing smoothly in the sea.

The blue sea and blue sky, the three-masted ship breaks the waves.

Li Ao and Deng Haonan stood in the back battlement, looking at the sea.

Breathing the oncoming sea breeze, such fresh and unpolluted air, Deng Haonan was in a comfortable mood.

This time he went to sea to conduct sea trials of Deng Haonan's Tiger cannon. On the deck, the Tiger gun was packed into a stepped gun mount. It was designed by Tang Haonan and was mainly borrowed from the gun carriage of the British 18th-century sail battleship guns. The gun carriage is a three-story staircase-like hardwood shelf, and there is a pair of gun lugs on both sides of the Tiger gun, which can be used to adjust the elevation angle of the gun by using different gears of the gun carriage. When the gun lugs are hung on the fourth gear, the maximum elevation angle of the gun is forty-five degrees, and the farthest shot is at this time. Thirty-five degrees, twenty-five degrees, and flat fire.

Deng Haonan used the principle of ballistic parabola, and the craftsmen could only make the gun carriage according to Deng Haonan's requirements, but they didn't know why they designed it this way.

The gun mount was mounted on four wheels, which were tied to the deck wall with thick locking ropes and pulleys, so that the gun recoil would not hurt the ship when firing, and the gunner could easily push the gun back with ropes and guò pulleys.

Deng Haonan hoped that in this way, the charge and firing time of the gun would be greatly reduced. Although the Franc machine gun uses the after-loading method, although the firing speed is fast, the air tightness between the child gun and the mother gun is not good, the power of gunpowder is greatly reduced, and the lethality is naturally much smaller. On the other hand, the Huwei cannon, although it is a front-loading artillery, has good air tightness, the cannon wall is strong after manual polishing, and the gunpowder formula tends to be rationalized, and the gunpowder has a large force in the gun chamber, but it has reached the firepower of a thousand catties of Franc machine with a weight of 200 catties.

With this gun mount structure and pulley block, the firing speed of the Tiger cannon and the speed of the Franc cannon were much closer. After testing, basically the Franc cannon was fired nine times, while the Tiger cannon could also be fired four or five times.

Li Ao was very satisfied with the test results, and said to Deng Haonan: "Brother Deng is really talented!" Now we have Brother Deng to help us, build hundreds of fucking big ships, thousands of cannons, and the whole sea is not all ours! ”

Deng Haonan said in his heart: This girl's tone is not small! Seems to be an ambitious person too! However, Deng Haonan is thinking about having a huge fleet in his heart, so that he can bully people all over the world! The British navy of later generations was arrogant for hundreds of years, destroying countless civilizations and dragging China into the abyss. As an avid artillery expert, Deng Haonan's dream is to conquer the world with the cannons he makes, and also feel the arrogant fun of the British.

Thinking of this, Deng Haonan sighed: "Yes! There are hundreds of Daifuku ships and thousands of artillery pieces, and they can indeed control the sea! However, our current strength is too weak, and a boat is not a problem at all! ”

"Who says we only have one boat?" Li Ao snorted and said, "Didn't my father tell you?" ”

Deng Haonan said in his heart: He must have a secret, so he simply said: "I didn't understand!" ”

Li Ao suddenly realized and said with a smile: "You haven't been there, so naturally I don't know!" Then he pointed to the northeast and said, "Do you see a row of islands over there?" ”

Deng Haonan looked over there with a gesture, and had the impression that it should be the large and small Western Ocean Islands, only to hear Li Ao say: "Our shipyard is on the small Western Ocean Island, and more than 2,000 craftsmen are all recruited from the mainland. There are more than 20 ships like ours in it, and there are 10 ships bigger than ours, but they lack artillery. Now that you can cast artillery and make gunpowder, in less than a year, we won't have to be human with our tails between our legs! When the time comes, as soon as the leader of the alliance gives an order, let's take Zheng Yiguan to the pot and see how arrogant he is! ”

Deng Haonan's eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, and he suddenly heard this secret, and his face was full of shock. But in his heart, he was thinking: This group of dogs actually fortified Lao Tzu everywhere, such a big secret, Li Ping and Yan Siyu must have known, but they didn't tell him, obviously Deng Haonan is still outside their circle.

Deng Haonan suddenly felt very angry and lost, and felt a sense of humiliation that he had been slapped hard.