86_86695 In the practical center of the Technological Research Bureau, more than 30 researchers are fiddling around with more than 20 cannons. In the vast factory, in addition to these complete cannons, there are also many disassembled cannon parts, which are placed next to them in piles.

Wang Shuhui's requirements for the current Process Research Bureau are not very high. He did not ask the current industrial department of the Revival Society to be able to carry out originality, as long as each factory could be able to copy according to the real thing.

He has established a good cooperative relationship with several "special" small machine processing factories in modern society. The reasons why these factories respond to Wang Shuhui's various unbelievable requirements are also very simple. Because these factories are the kind of enterprises that are common in the old industrial base in Northeast China, they are in danger of going out of business. And Wang Shuhui is particularly generous in terms of giving money.

Therefore, through these special mechanical processing factories, he has pulled a large number of "model" cannons from modern society.

From the M1857 12-pounder field gun (large Napoleon) (front-loading smoothbore), M1841 6-pounder field gun (small Napoleon) (front-loading smoothbore), 3-inch rifle (front-loading rifle), Parrot rifle (front-loading rifling), Wetworth breech-loading rifle (rear-loading rifle), to the 60-mm Krupp steel gun used in Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War.

and then to the German 3 produced by the Hanyang Arsenal in the late Qing Dynasty. 7 raw Krupp land artillery and 5. 7 raw mountain guns (probably the Grusen 37 mm rifled rear-loading remount gun and the Grusen 57 mm rifled rear-loading remount steel gun. Both are actually products of Krupp).

Finally, from the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China produced the most artillery, the Krupp 75mm mountain gun. (Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau successfully imitated in 1905)

When several small modern machinery processing factories customized the production of these artillery, Wang Shuhui was also very apprehensive. Anyway, the workers and bosses of those small factories looked at him strangely.

However, in fact, in Wang Shuhui's heart, except for the last Krupp 75mm mountain cannon, which is a serious 800 cannon, he thinks that the other front-loading smoothbore guns, rifled guns and those modern cannons that use cast iron clad lead shells are not serious artillery.

These cannons are backward antiques to Wang Shuhui, but to these semi-literate craftsmen of the Craft Research Bureau, they are as advanced as alien technology. If Wang Shuhui hadn't firmly controlled the entire Zhijiang region, with an army of more than 3,000 people and a well-organized modern political party revival society as his backing, he would not have casually taken out these black technologies that were ahead of his time.

Wang Shuhui has a good understanding of the actual level of the industrial sector of the Revival Society. He treated these people in the current Craft Research Bureau as if they were old workers who had not yet shed their illiteracy when they were just liberated. Skilled workers at this level have the ability to copycat at most. Therefore, Wang Shuhui gave the relevant numbers, drawings, models, and physical objects to the researchers, just as he did when he asked the industrial system of the Renaissance Society to produce other industrial products. Let them imitate the number jù, models and real objects.

However, it is not the same as the production of industrial goods such as rifles. Even with the level of the Hanyang Iron Works, the steel enterprises provide them with the corresponding production materials. The imitation of those front-loading smoothbore and rifled guns went very smoothly. The corresponding live ammunition, grenades and grape bullets, including various flowering bullets, although it takes a long time and the processing accuracy is not very good, but they can still make them. Judging from the live ammunition inspection, the quality of the product can even be said to be good.

However, it was time to produce the Krupp breech-loading rifled steel cannon. Although, according to Wang Shuhui's data from modern times, steel factories produced special steel, and mechanical processing factories also used professional lathes such as drilling machines and boring machines that they barely mastered to process steel into cannon barrels. However, after reluctantly copying a 60-mm Krupp steel cannon used in Prussia during the Franco-Prussian War, the problem of shells stumped the researchers.

The shells of modern artillery are generally made of steel. These shells use trigger fuses and are loaded with TNT or Black Sorkin explosives. Among them, the trigger fuse and the TNT Hesokin explosives are not currently available in the Revival industrial system. The fuse is better, and the carbon steel spring is currently barely able to be produced by the Jiangbei Iron and Steel Plant. However, the production of TNT and Hesorkin needs to be supported by modern chemical enterprises. This is not yet met by the industrial system of the Renaissance Society.

Moreover, from a practical point of view, it is not too difficult for the industrial system of the Renaissance Society, with an industrial base of the level and scale of a modern society of township enterprises, to produce such a cannon alone. However, if you want to manufacture in batches, let the steel mill stabilize the production process level of special steel and the operation level of special lathes in the machinery processing plant.

In order to enable the iron and steel mill to use those small converters to produce a furnace of usable cannon steel, Wang Shuhui first collected ore specimens from the Ming Dynasty to the modern era, and let experts in modern society help analyze them. After that, according to the production conditions of the Fuxinghui Iron and Steel Plant, let the experts come up with the corresponding number of standards. Then, according to these number jù standards, researchers and technicians are organized to implement the real yàn of one furnace after another. In the end, it took more than half a month, and the entire steel plant did nothing else, completely revolving around this work, working hard every day and night, to get a qualified furnace.

The mechanical processing plant worked even harder, scrapping 90 percent of the steel before it could produce two qualified gun barrels.

It can be seen that even if the problem of cannonballs is solved, the current industrial system of the Revival Society still does not have the ability to produce modern cannons in batches.

On the other hand, Wang Shuhui's affairs are very special. He had to worry about the party affairs of the Renaissance Society, the daily work of the Government Affairs Department, the training of the Renaissance Army, and the education work of the Renaissance School. He really didn't have much of the energy to put on the Bureau of Craft Research.

Therefore, on the one hand, Wang Shuhui transferred manpower to set up a special artillery research group in the Technology Research Bureau. On the other hand, possible alternatives are also being considered. Mortars are an idea that comes to his mind at the moment.

In addition to setting up an artillery research group in the Technology Research Bureau, Wang Shuhui also set up a special research group for another modern army mass killer, machine guns. Of course, with the current level of industry of the Revival Society, he mainly focused on the manufacture of early manual machine guns.

At present, the machine gun research group of the Bureau of Process Research is studying and copying the Nordenfeld machine gun used by the British Navy in the late 19th century, the Argill machine gun (i.e., the coffee mill machine gun) used by the American Civil War, the Reffye machine gun used in France in the Franco-Prussian War (introduced by the Manchu Dynasty), and the Gatling machine gun, which was widely used in China.

In terms of imitation of machine guns, the Process Research Bureau did not have as much of a problem as artillery. At the current level of industry of the Renaissance, there is little problem with the manufacture and production of Gatling guns. Although copper shell ammunition is still not available, the early models of the Gatling gun themselves used paper shell ammunition. At present, the Fuxing II rifle used by the Revival Society also uses paper shell ammunition.

According to Wang Shuhui's estimate, it will take about a year for the Revival Society's Gatling gun to barely enter the production stage. If you want to be mounted on a large scale to the troops, you can get it around mid-1623.

However, judging from the current level of weapons and the external environment facing the Renaissance Army, there is no hurry to install machine guns for a while. The basic equipment of the Fuxing II rifle, Hale rockets, and grenades can still cope with the problem within three to five years. Machine guns are weapons that are more aimed at cavalry. And the Baath Army has not yet encountered cavalry.

That is to say, at present, several key projects of the Bureau of Industrial Research, the chemical industry (fertilizer plants, aspirin and antibiotics), artillery manufacturing, and machine gun manufacturing, except for the machine gun manufacturing in terms of technology, there are no difficulties in the chemical industry and the manufacture of artillery.

In fact, speaking of which, this is also Wang Shuhui's trouble for industrialization in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, if you want to use a certain product on a large scale, it is most convenient to directly pull it from the modern era through the guò time and space gate. However, Wang Shuhui did not work so hard for some personal interests. If we can't establish an independent industrial system, we will always rely on the gate of time and space to complete China's industrialization, and we will have to wait for three or four hundred years later.

However, the Bureau of Technology Research is not without its achievements. The steam engine research group, composed of personnel from iron and steel mills, machinery processing plants, and various departments under the industrial department, has continuously achieved a lot of results in the past year or so.

Wang Shuhui has always believed that the essence of industrialization is to produce machines. Therefore, he is very concerned about the production and manufacturing of steam engines.

It is also based on the numbers, models and objects provided by Wang Shuhui. The steam engine research team has been copying various models of steam engines in various periods for more than a year.

From the Newcomen steam engine, to the Watt steam engine, from the Lancashire boiler to the water/fire tube boiler, all kinds of models and types of boilers in different periods, the steam engine group has carried out comprehensive imitations.

At present, the steam engine team of the Process Research Bureau has finalized the production process of four different types of boilers, and successfully copied the pot camel machine, and is comprehensively sorting out and improving the production process and process of the pot camel machine.

However, Wang Shuhui has already given a new order to the steam team. He ordered the Bureau of Process Research to start research work on steam locomotives. Steam train, this is the real purpose of Wang Shuhui's research on steam engines.

The models and objects needed this time were already prepared a few days ago. However, the appearance of the "Type 0 locomotive" gave Wang Shuhui a very lax feeling. He couldn't figure out how to put the toy-like steam locomotive in this children's playground into account.

It's really for modern people, the gap between high-speed rail and early steam locomotives, that's super huge.

However, Wang Shuhui was not discouraged. Although he felt that such a steam locomotive was like a backward toy, it looked like a joke. However, he also knows that it is this kind of toy that has brought the world into the era of industrial civilization