Chapter 167: Technocrats? Let's talk about technology

The governor's face must be given, Chen Xie stood at the side door and greeted him, Sun Yuanhua was not formal, waved his hand and said: "Come out in micro-clothes, you don't need to talk about so many etiquette." Sun Yuanhua can see it, he didn't take Chen Xie, otherwise how could he be so polite.

"Lord Zhongcheng, please!" Chen Xie is still very polite, and there are a lot of etiquette, except for kneeling.

Sun Yuanhua put away the resentment in his heart, entered the main hall and sat down, and said without going around in circles: "Chen Sihua, Benxian wants to build a city, and you have taken all the craftsmen away, what is the matter?" ”

Chen Xie was not worried at all when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Why did Lord Zhongcheng say this? Before Chen came to Dengzhou, you don't know what kind of life these craftsmen lived. In Liaodong, you also cast cannons to build cities, and you can see what craftsmen eat and wear. Chen treats the craftsmen a little better, they came by themselves, what does it have to do with me? ”

Sun Yuanhua didn't dwell on this issue either, and sneered: "I don't care about these, I know that you solve the matter of craftsmen." Otherwise, this constitution will not spare pen and ink, and I will refer to you in front of you. Hmph, privately set up craftsmen, privately cast artillery, recruit craftsmen, and plot misdeeds, these crimes should be enough, right? ”

Chen Xie sat steadily, and when he heard this, he didn't get angry, but still smiled and said, "In that case, Lord Zhongcheng, please go back." ”

said that he was invited back, but Chen Xie sat still and did not move, and he did not get up to see off the guests. Sun Yuan angrily raised his hand and pointed at him and said, "You ......." The result is naturally that "you" can't go down, and now the Dengzhou officialdom has Sun Yuanhua as an outsider. The others are in cahoots with Chen Xie, not to mention the monolith, at least not something that Sun Yuanhua can pull.

Sun Yuanhua didn't move his buttocks, nor did he speak, he just stared at Chen Xie angrily, as if he could stare people to death.

Chen Xie didn't speak, he was dull for a while, and finally Chen Xie sighed and said: "Lord Zhongcheng, if you want to cast a cannon, you must first have iron." There is a matter of ignorance in the lowly position. Please give me advice. ”

Suddenly changed his face. Sun Yuanhua hummed for a moment, obviously stunned, and said casually: "You can feel free to ask about the cannon casting." "In the professional field. Sun Yuanhua is definitely the first person in the Ming Dynasty. Xueba doesn't have any moisture at all. Of course, this is against someone else. For Chen Xie, that's another concept. What's more, it was against a carefully prepared Chen Xie.

"In the case of iron, locally produced pig iron. The quality is not very good. Have you ever wondered why this iron is brittle? Especially in cold winters, the toughness of iron is particularly insufficient? If these problems are not solved, the cast cannon can only adopt the method of thickening the bore wall, and the guide gun body is heavy, that is, it can be somewhat useful to defend the city. Again, mud fan casting cannons, there are many trachoma, and the guide zhì waste products are constant, have you thought of a solution to these problems? ”

Aren't you a technocrat? Then let's talk about technology! This is definitely the right medicine. As soon as Sun Yuanhua heard this topic, he immediately crooked his mouth and said: "I know what you said, and I also think of ways to solve it." However, there is no way to solve the problem, knowing that it is not only the purchase of pig iron from Su Anhui, but also the production of iron in Guangdong. It's just that in this way, the cost is high, and it is better to make iron nearby, which can greatly save costs. As for the heavy barrel of the gun, it has always been like this, right? Even the Tessie countries may not be able to solve this problem. Besides, the method of casting cannons in the mud, is it possible that you have a better way? ”

You tell me about technology? Hmph, no one has ever solved these problems, who do you think you are? Sun Yuanhua was very unhappy and felt that he couldn't explain it clearly to this layman. Chen Xie smiled slightly, got up and said, "Come along, take a trip, see something, and we'll talk about it after we've finished reading." ”

Sun Yuanhua got up and said, "Okay, Benxian will see what tricks you can play." Speaking of which, Sun Yuanhua also knew that Chen Xie's troops were equipped with artillery, but he subjectively thought that they were equipped with some firearms such as the Franco machine. That kind of thing, playing forty or fifty meters is the limit, and it is not a good advantage against Jiannu's strong bow. To fight Jiannu, you have to bombard it with artillery.

As for Chen Xie's ability to win Jiannu, Sun Yuanhua's opinion is that the main force of Jiannu has retreated, and with the cooperation of a white pole soldier of Qin Liangyu, it is not impossible to defeat Jiannu. Besides, the defeat is only a small force, and the Guanning army can also do it. Of course, Sun Yuanhua would not be so stupid as to think that Chen Xie's troops were worse than Guan Ning's army, and if he really wanted to do that, he would not be able to defeat Jiannu.

Out of Zhuangzi, the horse quickly went east, but in a moment, it arrived at the shooting range near the military camp. The artillery team of the Jiading School is training here, and it is preparing to withdraw its troops after a training session. Chen Xie's appearance greeted Jiang An with a group of instructors.

"Report to the chief, the artillery cadet team has finished training today and is being closed, please inspect it."

Chen Xie turned over and dismounted: "I want to see your reaction to quickly entering the battle state, let's execute." ”

The trainees, who had already put on all the carriages and horses, immediately reacted quickly when they heard the sharp whistle. Sun Yuanhua heard it very clearly, it was a very rapid rhythm, three long notes. Then on the high platform on the side, a string of red flags was hung, the red flags fluttered in the wind, and an instructor shouted loudly: "Encounter the enemy army ahead, urgently enter the combat state!" ”

Chen Xie asked Sun Yuanhua to walk on a wooden artificial platform, raised his hand and handed a telescope to Sun Yuanhua. Chen Xie secretly sneered in his heart, and said in his heart that this was the beginning. Sun Yuanhua saw it clearly, a group of soldiers quickly separated the gun body from the ammunition car, and then grabbed the seats on both sides and pulled them apart, and in less than a quarter of an hour, there were red flags and green flags waving in front. A young man beside Chen Xie said loudly: "Flag language, all cannons are ready, may I ask the sir, what is the target?" ”

"Fifteen hundred meters, fixed target! Precision strike! Chen Xie lightly issued a military order, and at this time, Sun Yuanhua's eyes had been staring at the scene, and he didn't seem to hear anything. In fact, every word entered his ears, and when he heard the fixed target of fifteen hundred meters, it was obvious that his hands trembled. The corners of his mouth still showed a trace of disdain, such a distance of precision strike, you make fun of me. You know, Daming's artillery, it's no problem to hit out, it's no problem to hit a general direction, and it can be done if it is accurate within a few hundred meters, but if you want to hit a target 1,500 meters away, and strike accurately, you are dreaming.

In the distance, there was a target, shaped like a cannon, but a soldier pushed it away, and at first glance it was a model made of wood. This is a simulation of the opponent's artillery position, which is not difficult to understand. Seeing this, Sun Yuanhua also had a strong interest, wouldn't he really be able to hit? After putting the model away, the soldiers quickly dodged, the red and green flags waved in the distance, and the young officer was heard again: "The simulated enemy artillery position is complete, please instruct." ”

"Let's get started!" A soldier stood upright, and immediately waved two small flags in his hand when he heard the order.

After a while, he heard a dull "boom", and Sun Yuanhua clearly saw that the runway fell dozens of meters away from the simulated enemy position. Chen Xie saw the old gentleman's reaction by shaking his body slightly, and he explained proudly in his heart: "Lord Zhongcheng, this is a test firing, and the whole team will fire after adjustment." ”

All kinds of passwords were shouted one after another from ten meters away, and of course Sun Yuanhua could hear them clearly. What distance, how much, how much the ruler, a test shot or something. The more I listened, the more uncomfortable I felt. This one is so devastating. What kind of cannon is this? It's very light to look at, how can you make such a cannon?

"Adjusted, all of them, three shots in a row!" Again, the command came, "Fire!" ”

The young officer shook the saber in his hand fiercely, and the dull sound of cannon rang out again, this time in a continuous fire. One artillery team of six guns, the first to fire, the telescope can be seen clearly, six shells, overturned two model guns. You know, it's just the first round of shots to get this result, it's really unimaginable. Such a distance!

Six simulated guns, none of which were spared after three rounds of firing, were all overturned. Sun Yuanhua slowly put down the binoculars, turned his head to stare at Chen Xie, and said, "Say, how did you do it?" Chen Xie shrugged his shoulders and said lightly: "Lord Zhongcheng, in this world, if you want to say that you understand steelmaking and cannon casting, Chen is called second, and no one can call it first." Let's go, let's go see the artillery. ”

Chen Xie didn't talk nonsense, he got off the high platform directly, and walked three steps away from a steel-cast artillery, Sun Yuanhua followed, and after witnessing the shooting and style of this artillery, he was hit hard. He really wanted to go up and look more carefully, but he didn't have that face, so he could only stand beside Chen Xie and watch the soldiers assemble the artillery and ammunition trucks, and then pull the horse with two horses and leave. All together, it was beyond his knowledge.

"Lord Zhongcheng, don't look at it, Chen can't make this kind of artillery. Want to know why? Sun Yuanhua, who had entered the state of a technical house, nodded subconsciously, without the slightest hint of the governor's inquiry.

"Quite simply, the quality of the steel and the processing process. There are two reasons for the poor quality of local pig iron in Dengzhou, one is the high sulfur content in the iron, and the other is the high phosphorus content. ”

"Wait a minute, what is sulfur? What is Phosphorus? "And that's where the discussion begins, uh, it's not a discussion, it's a consultation.

"These are two chemical elements, and now I can't explain this to you, you just need to know what it's going on, and you just need to know how to do it." Chen Xie seemed to be a little impatient, cautiously testing Sun Yuanhua's reaction. The technocrats are just different, without the slightest hint of anger, nodding and saying, "Go on." ”

"There are two problems with sulfur, one is that there is a lot of sulfur in locally produced coal, and the result is doomed to use this coal directly to make iron. The way to solve this problem, which I call coking, is to burn the coal with fire first, and then to a distance, water to extinguish the fire, and the coke obtained is charcoal with very little sulfur, and the impact on pig iron is basically negligible. The second is the sulfur and phosphorus contained in iron ore, which is more troublesome to solve and requires chemical knowledge. Now it's obviously too late for you to learn chemistry, or again, you just need to know how to do it. ”

The tone of the teacher's education of the students came out, Sun Yuanhua still nodded very calmly, and Chen Xie was overjoyed. (To be continued......)