Chapter 34: It's not straightforward and not easy to use
As soon as Jun Lintian's words came out, Hao Youcai, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and others forcibly held back the rolling eyes that were about to roll out, and arched their hands and said.
"Returning to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, if you want to make weapons with quality and quantity, it will take three hours for a sword to be made at the earliest. If it is an ordinary blade, it will take about an hour, and if you count arrows and other things, although it is small, it is quite laborious to forge, and the efficiency is also extremely slow. ”
After all, today's smelting technology is not good enough to ensure the purity of iron, so it needs to be continuously carburized and repeatedly forged to achieve the technology of carburized steel, thereby increasing the hardness.
Therefore, although there are many craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry, if you really want to perceive the armament of tens of thousands of troops, the time required is a proposition that is difficult to overcome.
It is precisely because of this that in order to ensure the normal supply of border materials this year, it is absolutely impossible to separate most of the craftsmen to build a new type of furnace.
If not, once the supply of materials is replenished, let alone guarding the border, as long as it is discovered by those brainless Di people in the north, I am afraid that they will have to invade on a large scale, and the border defense will be weak at that time, and it will be impossible to say that the country will be lost.
This move is really an impossible solution.
However, as a descendant of King's Landing, he has too many things in his brain.
This is the most difficult problem to solve, but it is the best problem for him to solve at this moment.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I wonder if you have ever heard of the power of molds!" King Lintian threw out a sentence with a smile, which made the courtiers present scratch their heads.
Those with nimble minds already know that King's Landing has a solution to this matter.
"Lu Aiqing, what are you waiting for? How did the first two days of the palace let you prepare? ”
As King's Landing words fell, the eyes of all the ministers turned to Lu Tiangong again. From these successive shouts, it is obvious that Lu Tiangong is quite close in the eyes of the prince at this time.
"Back to the prince's words, I guess it's almost here!"
Lu Tiangong was also happy and quite emotional.
A few days ago, the prince threw a few drawings called molds to him, and at the same time told him the concept of molds, and asked him to order someone to build it quickly.
When he heard that this thing could be mass-produced ordnance, he was immediately shocked.
How had he ever heard that ordnance could be manufactured in batches, and what weapon was not hammered out by a master craftsman? Besides, if it can really be manufactured in batches, can this quality be guaranteed?
But it was only when he took the lead in ordering someone to create the easiest arrow mold to build, and then quickly produced the arrow, that he realized how he was sitting in the well and watching the sky.
"Bang bang!"
Immediately afterwards, large boxes were transported by soldiers in the palace, led by the old man Niu Youdan, who was now promoted to the director of the Artifacts Bureau.
"Your Highness, please see, this is the arrowheads, sword molds, and finished products produced through your molds!"
Niu Youdan opened his mouth quite excitedly, and an old face smiled and wrinkled together, like a miserable chrysanthemum in autumn, which was really wrinkled. Although at this time, he also felt in a trance, why did this production of blade arrows become such a simple thing.
When the military department Shangshu Wu Gonggao saw this box of arrows and blades, he took three steps and two steps excitedly, and couldn't help but gasp.
Cold light edge, I have been doing the book of the military department for so many years, these blades are sharp, he knew it immediately, this glance, it is all countless times better than before.
"What is this?"
Wu Gonggao couldn't believe it, and cast his puzzled eyes on King's Landing, and King's Landing's sky shook his head to let Niu Youdan's explanation.
"Back to my lord's words, these utensils are freshly made today, and yesterday we only built a complete batch of molds according to the drawings given by the prince, and started trial production on a large scale early this morning. After testing, the quality is completely up to standard, and even better than the previous production, and then large-scale production begins, which is less than one-tenth of today's production! ”
The cow has an egg that is happy to close its mouth, and happily talks endlessly.
And Wu Gonggao, who listened to this information, was really numb!
"Smack!"
A loud slap suddenly resounded through the hall.
"Oh, this isn't a fucking dream!"
It's hard to imagine that so many high-quality blades were created in one day today.
Even Lu Tiangong's eyes lit up at this time, he just looked at it at a while, and he didn't supervise it all the time, look at these assembly lines at this time, yes, what the prince said should be called the assembly line, and the things produced are very good.
After all, if you haven't read the book of the Ministry of War, you've already smoked your big mouth!
King's Landing watched this farcical scene, but did not stop it, but walked towards the box with great interest.
The blade or something is not in a hurry to see, and the arrow is worth a look.
I have to say that the science and technology tree of the Great Qianchao is a little brighter, but not much.
In addition to the Artifacts Bureau, the Ministry of Industry also has a Firearms Bureau specializing in the manufacture of firearms, which manufactures firearms for the Shenji Battalion.
It's just that although it is a musket, it is extremely inferior in quality, inferior in range, and easy to hurt the gunman, and the artillery is also very easy to explode, although the strategic significance is small but small.
As a result, bows and arrows remain the most effective ranged weapons on the battlefield today.
It is extremely difficult to produce bows and arrows.
Before putting it in the mold, it was more than ten times the efficiency slowdown, and it was simply wishful thinking and extremely difficult to produce bows and arrows in large quantities. In previous wars, it was extremely important to clean up the battlefield and recover weapons, especially the reuse of arrows.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really talented, and the increase in the production speed of this arrow is really too fast. There are also weapons such as swords, and after the mold produces an embryo, it can be used with a little polishing, so it doesn't go too well! ”
Hearing this, King's Landing shook his head slightly.
In this way, it has indeed improved a lot of efficiency, but this alone is not enough to free up the hands of ordinary craftsmen to produce new furnaces for the people of the world.
On the other side, Shangshu Wu Gonggao of the military department suddenly spoke: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the speed of producing blades has indeed been greatly improved, but there are so many arrows that are not very useful." For a long time, it has been the shaft of the arrow that restricts the manufacture of my big dry arrows! ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone who was originally happy was stunned for a moment, and they all frowned in unison.
"Yes, what the military department Shangshu said is reasonable, the arrow shaft is a big problem in the production of arrows!"
"A soldier is not a martial arts master, even if there are many arrows, they can't be used as hidden weapons, and the arrow shaft is the core!"
There was a lot of talk about it, and this matter was too difficult to solve.
The shaft is too fastidious to be made, and it must be straight to ensure effective lethality.
There are not many large dry iron products, so the wooden arrow shaft is still used today, although there are bamboo poles to make up, but it is still not the ideal type.
After all, bamboo looks straight, but when you make an arrow shaft, you will find that it is too difficult to find a completely straight bamboo.
But this arrow shaft is not straight and not easy to use!