For the current ruling class of China, no one realizes that Shijie has reached a crossroads of an era.

The Chinese people who first invented gunpowder were left behind by the West on the road of military firearms, but the sad thing is that the Chinese people inherited the splendor of the previous dynasty on the road of civilian fireworks, and gradually drifted away from the progress of science and technology.

History is often full of the meaning of creation, we have first-class casting jishu and craftsmen, we have a splendid civilization, but we have not applied scientific knowledge to change the country. The Chinese people have stagnated in firearms and plummeted, but they have developed impressively in civilian pyrotechnics and have never lagged behind any country.

This kind of sadness only needs a change, it is enough for one person to lead a team to change, in order not to make himself tragic and not to let the warmth of this family disappear, Zhou Huchen has become the contact point that changes this history. For a person who has passed the age of steel, you only need to gently unveil the veil of mystery, and the liliang of knowledge and progress actually needs to touch that small touchpoint.

Among the craftsmen who came to Datong this time, the fire hammer craftsman was the most, and Zhou Huchen counted it, a total of one hundred and seven people.

These firecracker craftsmen are not a whole, they come from different places and workshops, as for the ability, Zhou Huchen has no way of knowing, and Chen Shouye, who is the right, also doesn't know much. In order to let these people do their best, under the instruction of Zhou Huchen, Chen Shouye began to conduct a preliminary assessment of these craftsmen.

The assessment is very simple, what kind of abilities and specialties do you have, Chen Shouye will provide you with everything you need, we are not short of money, there is no shortage of equipment or materials, although you have the ability to toss, I don't care about spoiling things, what I need is for you to show your skills.

Zuihou's result is satisfied, when he goes out, how can these craftsmen not work hard for that generous salary, and all of them are basically qualified. This also shows that Mr. Liu in Nanjing did not perfunctory Zhou Huchen, and these craftsmen were carefully selected.

has been watching, and Zhou Huchen has also completely understood that these firecracker craftsmen are all blacksmiths in the final analysis, just some blacksmiths with more exquisite skills.

In the past, these craftsmen started to identify a firecracker, and each process was completed by two or three people. Now, habits must be changed, assembly line operations must be carried out, and Zhou Huchen completely disagrees with that inefficient way of working.

The craft haode to make the pipe, make the trigger and all kinds of precision parts, the slightly worse to drill and boring and make the front sight, the door, the real craftsmanship is not good also have work to do, you can assemble the gun, you can not say that you can't do it.

The distribution of jobs is a complete change, and craftsmen may not be suitable for a while, but Zhou Huchen knows that as time goes by, each person will only do one job, and these craftsmen will become more and more proficient, and the craftsmanship will become better and better. This is the high efficiency of the flow operation, and it is also a necessary condition for excellence.

The prototype of the Lumi gun is the arquebus paid tribute by the Turkish Rumi State (Sultanate of Rûm), which is an arquebus invented by Zhao Shizhen, an outstanding firearms developer of the Ming Dynasty, in the 26th year of Wanli (1598). Lu Mi gun is a heavy smoothbore arquebus, the standard weight is seven and a half catties (the Ming Dynasty's catties are larger than the modern ones), five feet long, four coins for medicine, three coins for buckshot, and a range of about 120 steps (about 180 meters).

The shape and structure of the whole Lumi gun is composed of a gun tube, a gun bed, a curved buttstock, a dragon head and a trigger, a fire gate, a rail, a front mouth, a rear door, and an aiming device called Zhaomen and Zhaoxing.

The trigger and rail of the Lumi gun are made of steel and copper sheets, respectively, and are as thick as copper coins. The dragon head (arquebus) and the track are all attached to the gun handle, and a small steel plate more than one inch long is placed close to the starting point to increase the elasticity, so that the dragon head bolt can pinch and fall, and can bounce up on its own after the shot. There is also a bolt at the end of the pipe on the Zuihou side that turns left to enter and right to turn out.

This arquebus is much larger than the bird gun, and there is a basis for the history book that "the farthest and most poisonous arquebus" is recorded. But the flaws are just as obvious, the reload and firing speed is slower than that of the Bird's Gun; Due to the weight, the reloading and firing rate are naturally slow, and the Lumi gun is more suitable for its practical bracket for shooting, while the production process is more difficult, and the most difficult to overcome is the production of the barrel; The Lumi gun has a double-layer barrel, and its advantage is that the tube body is integrated, not segmented, and the vertical seam of the inner and outer barrels is in the opposite direction, and the safety is very good.

In terms of the process of making firecrackers, due to the complexity of the process, the craftsmanship of the craftsmen who make the firecrackers is very demanding. There are two main ways to build a firebolt: three-stage joint and double-layer composite. The three-stage joint type is that the method is to make the gun pipe first, and the gun pipe is made of wrought iron section by section, generally two or three sections, and Zuihou is welded into one. The second is a double-layer composite type: this method was first seen in Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao Xinshu" "Hand and Foot Chapter": "The price of the bird is often smelted iron, and the two are mutually inclusive. "This process, contrary to the previous one, is to make a thin layer of the gun directly on a long steel core, and then cover another layer of the gun body to make it meet the required thickness. This is similar to the forging process of seamless pipes, which is nothing more than the difference between mechanical and manual, and this method is called the winding and stacking method in a certain era of mechanical development.

After more than ten days of adjustment, the whole workshop is basically on the right track, and Zhou Huchen arranged a craftsman for this fire hammer workshop, Chen Xing, the son of Chen Shouye.

Employing people naturally means using their own people, Chen Xing doesn't like to talk, but not talking doesn't mean that he is wooden, Chen Xing is just a dull person. In addition to experience, he is no worse than his old son Chen Shouye, the young man is young, energetic, flexible, and absolutely competent.

"Chen Xing, weishenme Lu Mi Gong all use prismatic guns?"

This is the first question raised by Zhou Huchen since the start of the workshop, Chen Xing didn't know how to answer for a while, he groaned slightly, and then said: "Young marshal, I really don't know the specifics. However, the beating system of the Lumi gun has always been like this, and the prismatic gun tube should be more difficult to blow up! In addition, this prismatic gun tube is easy to fix when drilling, and it is not easy to drill off. ”

There is some truth to this explanation, and it is true that prismatic barrels are more difficult to blow up.

Zhou Huchen has his own ideas, what he needs is progress, and he is seeking progress in change: "Lumi guns are all made of fine iron, we use steel, and the round guns should be lighter, and they can also be made a little thinner." Don't stop working in the workshop first, Chen Xing, you go and try it, after this kind of fire gun is made, give me a salute, let's do the firing shiyan, and see how the effect is? ”

"Yes, young marshal!" Chen Xing is indeed a man of few words, and his answers are concise.

The quality and production of firearms in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were extremely poor, which was the result of the corruption of various systems. Officials and craftsmen at all levels of the Ming Dynasty did not want to forge ahead, and the advanced jishu could not be developed and fully applied, and the firearms of the late Ming Dynasty Jishu were obviously unable to make great progress. In fact, it is not that there is no talent, it is not that there is no opportunity, but the system, corruption, and luck pushed the Ming Dynasty into the abyss.

Zhou Huchen believes that knowledge is liliang, as for how powerful and powerful the firearms of this era are, it is completely an exaggeration of literati and the common people. Zhou Huchen once came to the battle in person

Zhou Yuji's troops are the most elite troops in Beijing, and the firearms are still so unusable, and the use of firearms in those local troops can be imagined, which is actually a kind of overall backwardness.

The constraints of the times and jishu, complete firearms cannot cover the world, the corruption of the system is only one reason, and the backwardness of jishu is also the root cause.

Zhou Huchen wants to change and change all the original structure of the firearms workshop, which is now tantamount to completely militarized management, and the workshop will not have those erosive bureaucratic styles. And Zhou Huchen's proposal for the production of fire guns can be regarded as opening a window for Chen Xing, letting Chen Xing know that to be flexible, there is nothing that cannot be changed, and Jishu's progress is produced in flexibility.

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