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The days passed quickly, and ten days later, Juliano invited Zhao Lie to the shipyard to watch the maiden voyage of the clipper.

Zhao Lie came to the shipyard and saw a flying shear sailboat in his impression parked on the shore, Zhao Lie nodded with satisfaction,

"Mr. Iuliano, has this ship sailed?"

"My lord, this ship has been tried many times, and the speed can reach eleven or twelve knots, and the sailing is quite fast, but after several improvements, the speed of the ship has not increased." Iuliano replied with a sad face. You're asking for fifteen or sixteen verses.

The bow, uh, forgot, as if this bow was hollowed out.

"Well, this, like, this bow is hollowed out to facilitate its upward navigation, well, it seems to be, it seems to be." Zhao Lie touched his nose in embarrassment, this matter is troublesome, not to tire people to death. He was just a layman, and he had forgotten about it a long time ago, if it weren't for the lack of speed, I am afraid that he would still not be able to remember it, and the most important thing this time was the loss of time.

Well, Juliano thought about it, it was feasible, but why didn't you say it last time, my lord, it's not that we have spent a lot more effort, the key is that we are going the wrong way.

Zhao Lie retreated in the resentful eyes of Iuliano and others, and left the shipyard in a hurry, the first time he was so embarrassed, there was no way, he just knew that it would be good to be able to point out a way.

However, when Yuan Yi came to invite Zhao Lie to the craftsman camp, Zhao Lie heard a series of good news, which really made Zhao Lie feel so good.

First of all, the equipment for drilling the barrel has been improved, and the drill bit is spiral-shaped.

"My lord, it's still a good way for adults, I'm waiting, after several attempts, I made a number of drill bits with different bevels with fine iron, and finally settled on this drill bit, and now four days can produce a gun pipe, which is not the same as the original thirty days, and the drill bit is not easy to deviate, and there is almost no abandonment." Yuan Yi introduced the details, and Lao Yuan's eyebrows were dancing at this time.

"Well, Yuan Tou, that's good. As I said last time, I will reward ten taels of silver one day earlier. Today the reward is two hundred and sixty taels of silver. ”

"My lord, this, hehe, this is all your method, I deserve it." Yuan Yi rubbed his hands very twisted.

"Yuan Tou, I just have a good way, I can't improve it without you, you can keep it with peace of mind." Zhao Lie was afraid that the stimulation was not enough, how could he care about this little money.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you." Yuan Yi and several craftsmen bowed to Zhao Lie in unison to thank him, and they were all elated.

"Waiver, in addition, the reward will be doubled in the future, and thirty taels of silver will be awarded for each day missing." Zhao Lie understood that in the end, every day missing was extremely difficult, and the reward was too small for fear that everyone would lose interest.

"Yuan Tou, there are more than 2,000 new people in the craftsman camp, how are the skills practiced?"

"My lord, more than two thousand people, each of them divided labor, with the skilled hands to study and grind charcoal, sulfur, **, to make wrought iron, to make armor, knives and guns, to learn to make pipes, small pieces of firearms, now most of them are qualified apprentices, well, after the Portuguese came, I sent five hundred people to the cannon foundry, the ironworks." Yuan Yi introduced them in detail one by one.

"It's good, there's plenty of staff at the moment." Zhao Lie asked.

"My lord, you said last time to train first, control the output, and train the team. At the moment, there are enough manpower, but the villain did not dare to rush to work with all his might. Most of the staff is idle. Yuan Yi peeked at Zhao Lie.

"Well, wait for my orders." Zhao Lie is waiting for the smelter to be able to produce good iron, which is the key.

At this time, Chen Fu took out more than ten sets of plate armor, all of which were jet-black and unvarnished primary color armor.

"My lord, this is the plate armor made by the hammer, please watch it."

Zhao Lie checked them one by one, and the material of these plate armors was the same, and the difference was only the difference between the neck, helmet, waist skirt, and arm and leg guards.

"Bring bows, arrows, knives, and guns. Look at them one by one. Zhao Lie commanded.

The results showed that the plate armor performed much better than the fish scale armor for knife and gun damage, but the defense of this plate armor was slightly inferior to that of the fish scale armor for the defense of heavy arrows.

Zhao Lie understood that this was the benefit of wrought iron material and the superposition of fish scale armor pieces, and comforted Chen Fu, who was a little uneasy, this result was already acceptable, you must know how long it takes to make a fish scale armor It takes too much manpower, and the plate armor is just a lot of hammering, and then spliced together, which can be said to save time, effort and money.

Zhao Lie, accompanied by Yuan Yi, came to the ironworks, and Tiago, Feigo, Oliveira, Zheng Yue, Guo Huaien, Sun Sheng, and Dong Kui had been waiting for a long time.

"My lord, I waited to live up to my expectations, improved the bellows, preheated the gas, covered the furnace, and finally practiced good wrought iron." Sun Sheng said excitedly.

"Oh, how much better this wrought iron is than the previous wrought iron."

"My lord, we used this wrought iron to build a six-pounder cannon and a nine-pounder cannon, and the result of the test cannon was that the number of hits was doubled when it became a cannon of expense. Congratulations, sir. Tiago replied admiringly.

"Haha......" The pressure in Zhao Lie's heart was empty, steel is the foundation of modern military strength, although this is only better wrought iron, not steel at all, but for the moment, it is enough.

"Sun Sheng, Dong Kui, Lord Ben will reward you with 1,300 taels of silver."

"My lord, this animal exhaust was made by Master Guo Fufu, and the preheating chamber was made by Oliveira smelter, and the small ones don't dare to be greedy." Sun Sheng replied.

"Your reward remains the same, Guo Fufu will reward one hundred taels of silver, and in addition, with the cooperation of Portuguese craftsmen in this research, five hundred taels of silver will be awarded." Zhao Lie was happy in his heart and did not hesitate to reward.

For a while, everyone rejoiced.

This method is good, everyone gains money, and I am the one who gains the most, these are the basis of the military industry. Zhao Lie was quite proud.

"In the future, we will do our best to produce wrought iron, and the cannon foundry and plate armor will do our best to produce it. No delays. Zhao Lie ordered.

"Yes." The crowd responded in unison.

"My lord, we have succeeded in building cannons with iron molds. Now the nine-pounder cannon and the twelve-pounder cannon are produced, and the scrap rate has been reduced to less than 20%, and the time has increased by five times. What the adults said was true. Thiago stepped forward and said.

Zhao Lie was overjoyed, and came to the cannon factory with five gunsmiths to watch the process of making cannons with iron molds in detail. It is to make the various sizes of the cannon into a mud film first,

The iron fan cast cannon greatly reduced the trachoma, the yield increased greatly, and the time was greatly shortened, which greatly increased the output of the artillery and reduced the cost of the artillery.

"Mr. Tiago, can you make a twenty-four-pounder cannon, a thirty-two-pounder cannon out of new wrought iron?" Zhao Lie asked solemnly.

"Don't hide it from your lordship, I and a few others have estimated that the twenty-four-pounder cannon is no problem, and the thirty-two-pounder cannon needs to be studied." Thiago bowed back. "My lord, the main thing is that the bigger the cannon, the farther it wants to hit, so it is necessary to lengthen the barrel length, so that the barrel is lengthened, and the cannon is fired many times, I am afraid that such wrought iron still can't withstand it."

"Gentlemen, let's see if you can make such a cannon." Zhao Lie took out a drawing.

The five craftsmen gathered around, and saw that there were two kinds of artillery on the picture, one with an obvious small mouth and a thick body, strangely equivalent to its thirty-two calibers, its length was not as long as a twelve-pounder cannon, and there was also a gun carriage below, and the other marked six-pounder gun, a nine-pounder cannon, but it was indicated that it must be two horses to be easily pulled away, and it was a long march.

"My lord, if the small cannon reaches such a light weight, the power will not be too great, the range will not be too far, and it will not be of great use to the fortified city. As for the former cannon, there should be no problem, but, my lord, its range may only be two miles, and its body is too short. Several people deliberated for a long time, and Tiago said.

"As long as it can be made, it's fine. This kind of marching cannon is equipped for field warfare, as for the short and thick cannon, as long as it can hit more than one mile, I need a kind of naval gun, when the two ships are less than a mile apart, a few artillery hits can destroy the enemy ship, and not like the current naval guns, a dozen shells may only break the ship's side, but the enemy ship is unhindered. ”

Thiago and the others suddenly realized, and this made sense.

"In addition, both guns need to be raised as high as possible, so that they can scatter the enemy." Zhao Lie commanded.

"My lord, I'll build it as soon as possible." A few people bowed and replied.

"Well, on the day of success, I will not hesitate to reward."

Come out of the cannon foundry and look at Yuan Yi, who has been waiting carefully,

"Yuan Tou, I still seem to have asked you to imitate a flintlock pistol." Zhao Lie understood that maybe he might be in trouble.

"My lord, this, ahem, the flint flint fire gun is imitated, but, this, cough cough, the firing rate is less than fifty percent," Yuan Yi is embarrassed, this flint flint flint fire gun is really killing people. "My lord, we waited for the day and night test, but the original wrought iron was not strong enough, and the flint was not strong enough, so we used the forging hammer to continuously hit a batch of wrought iron as the shrapnel you said, but the rate of dumb fire was too high." Yuan Yi peeked at Zhao Lie, and found that Zhao Lie was not angry, so he breathed a sigh of relief, "We have already beaten the new wrought iron that came out of the oven for the first time to make shrapnel, and there will be results in the next two days, and then we will report to the adults." ”

"As soon as possible, time is running out."

Yuan Yi was excited, this is the first time an adult has said this as soon as possible, which is not unimportant.

"Yes, my lord, I'd rather not eat or sleep, and I will make it as soon as possible."

Zhao Lie didn't comfort him much this time, he was eager to see through the flint.

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