Chapter 210

Since the Ming Dynasty began to ban the sea, generations of shipwrights like the Sand Boat Gang have no place to use, some of them have changed their careers to carpenter and make furniture, and some have taken advantage of their ability to be water-based and become sailors to run sea transportation.

In fact, these excellent shipbuilders were the most valuable asset of the Ming Dynasty, however, the Ming did not give these valuable craftsmen the treatment they deserved, and neither did the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

However, Cheng Shijie gave them the most basic treatment as craftsmen, and the income of ordinary workers in southern Liaoning was between seven yuan of silver and one or two or five yuan of silver, and according to different industries, high-intensity jobs such as coal mining, mining, steelmaking, cement burning, and coke making were relatively high.

In fact, the shipbuilding industry is the same, but the craftsmen who can earn up to one or two pieces of silver have left the category of ordinary workers.

Although there is a difference between workers and craftsmen, the treatment is actually different, craftsmen will be called so-and-so masters in the factory, but workers will not. These craftsmen of the Sand Boat Gang, each of them has more or less apprentices, although they get an income of one or two or eight dollars of silver, but when they bring apprentices, they also have an income.

This is Cheng Shijie according to the tradition of Hangang Group, in Hangang Group, any employee who enters Hangang Group, even if it is a clerical position, must also apprentice, there is a master with familiar work, generally speaking, the time of serving as an apprentice and the probation period of three months coincides.

The master can decide whether the new employee is qualified, if the master signs to confirm that the new student meets the standard of apprenticeship and can become a regular employee, then the master can get 30% of the salary ratio of the apprentice probationary period, if the apprentice's monthly salary is 3,000, even if the cost of the master with the apprentice is 2,007.

Of course, this master's fee is not in vain, after the apprentice becomes a regular employee, the master is also responsible for mutual insurance with the apprentice within one year during the new employee period. Of course, this joint insurance and mutual insurance only involves safe operation, if the apprentice has no accidents in the month, there is no "three violations". It is not only illegal operation, illegal command, and violation of labor discipline.

Then the master can get a reward ranging from 500 yuan to 1,500 yuan, this period is one year, the general old worker with the apprentice, if the apprentice is strong, each master can basically get an extra reward of 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan.

In order to encourage the craftsmen in various factories not to hide, Cheng Shijie borrowed this set of reward system, and shipbuilders with a monthly salary of one or two or eight yuan, if they take five apprentices, they can get the same thirty percent more apprentice wages a month, so that the income of these shipbuilders is more than three taels of silver per month.

In addition to their wages, these shipbuilders also had uniform overalls, which were made of old coarse cloth and were not only sturdy, but also durable, with four sets of clothes a year, and they basically did not have to buy their own clothes.

In particular, adhering to the principle of the state-owned enterprise management system, Cheng Shijie demarcated new villages for workers in each factory, just like military districts, and built unified housing for them, which adopted a three-courtyard structure.

They are 200 square meters, 400 square meters, and one acre of three scales, but in order to deal with sanitation in a unified way, the courtyard built adopts a unified system, and it looks like a fiery red from a distance.

Liaodong did not adopt the building of blue bricks and gray tiles, but adopted red bricks and red tiles, because red bricks have a lower firing temperature than green bricks, the firing time is shorter, and the cost is also low. Of course, red bricks cannot be kept unweathered for one or two hundred years like green bricks, and two thousand years if the environment permits.

Now the green bricks in the tombs of the Han Dynasty are still kept as they are, this is the quality of the green bricks, it is a pity, there is no such condition now, first solve the problem of food and clothing, and then consider improving.

Despite this, these craftsmen of the Sand Boat Gang felt like they had entered heaven, they were so energetic that they did not need to be overseen at all, and these craftsmen did their work not only seriously, but even trotted past the toilet for fear of wasting this little time.

For the people of the Sand Boat Gang, it is not a secret that Zheng Zhilong wants to deal with Cheng Shijie, whether Cheng Shijie can defeat Zheng Zhilong or not is related to their own interests, if Cheng Shijie is defeated, it is conceivable that the big house they own, the oily and watery meals they have, and the high-paying jobs that Quan Daming can't find, are all in vain.

In the shipyard of Jinzhou West Port, it is now considered that technology and tradition coexist, for example, like now, the parts that are turned out by woodworking lathes need to be combined together, and if they follow the traditional process, they need skilled craftsmen to hammer in with a hammer.

But now, the craftsmen of the shipyard only need to put all kinds of parts in the mold, and then step on the pedal, the mold driven by the water wheel falls down with a strong impact, so that a large piece of the ship deck is completed, if in the past, to complete such a large deck, it takes dozens of craftsmen to work continuously for more than half a month.

Nowadays, it only takes a pillar of incense, and the speed has increased thousands of times.

The production work of the shipyard was very smooth, and when Cheng Shijie came to the Gun Bureau, Huang Lidong, the head of the Gun Bureau, came to greet Cheng Shijie with a group of technicians and craftsmen.

"Meet the Commander!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Huang Lidong and said, "Huang Lidong! ”

"The door is here!"

"You can be regarded as an old man who follows Ben Shuai, right?"

"Little Lao'er has been following Dashuai for two years and two months!"

Cheng Shijie said angrily: "It is said that you have been following Ben Shuai for a long time, I don't know if Ben Shuai doesn't like to play this set of fiction?" This time I'll give you another chance, if next time, Ben Shuai will you! ”

Hearing this, Huang Lidong's cold sweat fell.

"Little old man doesn't dare anymore!"

Huang Lidong now knows what it feels like to pat the horse's hooves.

The big war is coming, Cheng Shijie naturally cares about the results of the gun bureau, if there is the result that Cheng Shijie wants, Cheng Shijie's chances of winning will be higher.

Huang Lidong and others let other craftsmen and technicians busy themselves, Cheng Shijie followed Huang Lidong to the inside of the factory, the Gun Bureau was originally built in the old city of the Golden Acropolis, in order to protect the safety of the factories under the Gun Bureau, but with the victory in Haizhou, Cheng Shijie was able to stand firm in southern Liaoning, so he moved the Gun Bureau out of the Golden State Acropolis.

The current gun bureau is located in the big black mountain of fifty miles of Jinzhou City, there was originally a temple called Shengshui Temple here, this temple was built in the Hongwu period, however, due to the massacre of the people of Liaodong by Jiannu, Shengshui Temple has long been empty of people, leaving only the ruins of the broken wall all over the ground, but the main hall, the meditation room, the mountain gate, the lower courtyard are still there.

On the basis of Shengshui Temple, Cheng Shijie established the Gun Bureau of the Ning Navy, which covers a huge area, and can even be said to be larger than Jinzhou City, where there are not only the R & D departments of the Gun Bureau, but also a large number of factories.

In order to build the Gun Bureau, but pity the big black mountain, this mountain, I don't know how many mountains have been bombed, along the straight road, Cheng Shijie first came to the R & D and manufacturing plant of the Gun Bureau.

In order to use hydraulic power, the Gun Bureau at the northern end of the mountain in the Great Black Mountain, using the mountain, built a reservoir, through the canal, can drive most of the hydraulic machinery, of course, every winter when the ice, hydraulic machinery can not be used, can only use animal machinery.

"How's the Gun Bureau's R&D going?"

Huang Lidong smiled bitterly: "The workers have been rotating day and night, and they can barely keep up with the demand!" ”

If you want to talk about the production task of the artillery factory, it must be the heaviest, and the army artillery division of the Ning Navy needs at least 180 three-inch guns and 96 four-inch guns. But the problem is that the demand on the navy's side is the majority, a batch of eight Sea Shark-class ships is 190, and now there are Giant Shark-class warships, one is 76 guns.

If the attrition of the Ning Navy is satisfied, I am afraid that it will not be possible within two consecutive years, and no one knows what this battle will be like in the future, and no one knows how many warships will be lost.

To Cheng Shijie's great surprise, the craftsmen here are now producing a new cannon, and the caliber has reached an astonishing five inches, that is, one hundred and fifty-seven .5 millimeters.

Cheng Shijie asked: "The four-inch cannon has just come out, and the five-inch cannon has come out?" ”

Huang Lidong smiled bitterly: "Dashuai, don't you want rifling?" However, our tools are not good, and it is quite difficult to process...... Manganese steel tools, you know, once overheated, it will be soft immediately, and if you continue to process, it will be wasted, so we have to stop every processing section to cool down the tool, and then continue, which is very inefficient. To avoid this, we just make the knives bigger! ”

"And then?"

"Then the knives are big, and the barrels are small, so you can't get in at all!"

Huang Lidong didn't dare to look Cheng Shijie's eyes: "So we can only increase the barrel and cast a thicker barrel!" ”

"The more difficult the artillery is, the more difficult it is, how to solve the big problem of bubbles, bulging, and cracks?"

"We tried a lot of methods, at first we used bronze to cast the barrel of the gun, and then we found that although this bronze is easy and easy to make rifling, a new problem has arisen, the chamber pressure is too low, and the firing range cannot achieve the result that the marshal wants!"

"Bronze artillery has been obsolete by the times!"

"Who's to say it isn't!"

Huang Lidong continued: "We have replaced the low-carbon steel cast barrel, this barrel is made of low-carbon steel, which is relatively easy to cut, but although it is low-carbon steel, it is also much stronger than bronze, and it is not so easy to deal with it, and it is not easy to process." ”

Cheng Shijie now understands that the current gun bureau has fallen into a strange circle, in order to draw rifling, he can only repeatedly modify the steel composition of the knife, and the result is that the knife is too large, and the three-inch gun and four-inch gun cannot reach in, so the caliber of the barrel is increased.

As a result, I naturally made a freak, which is like a joke on the Internet, when making noodles, add noodles if there is too much water, add noodles if there is too much noodles, add water if there is too little water, and as a result, the basin can't fit, so I change the big basin.

Cheng Shijie had to admire these gods.

However, when Cheng Shijie thought that these gods had finally achieved nothing, there was a burst of cheers in the distance.

"What's going on?"

"It's done!"

"What has it become?"

"The new cannon is done!"

Cheng Shijie hurriedly walked over and saw a cannon with a huge barrel, which was a five-inch gun, that is, one hundred and fifty-seven .5 millimeters, but it reached about 30 times the diameter, and the barrel length was more than four meters and seven.

This is definitely the longest cannon in all the cannons of the Ning Navy so far, and the most surprising thing for Cheng Shijie is that this artillery actually has the shadow of the artillery of later generations. In addition to the hoe that appeared on the three-inch gun, a spring returner was added.

Like the Hongyi cannon down a cannon, the cannon that retreats several meters is angry, with a stationing hoe is easy to do, as long as the stationing hoe is loaded, the stationing hoe is nailed deep into the ground, the cannon will not be displaced, of course, this is a light artillery can use the cannon hoe to solve the recoil problem, but the recoil of large-caliber artillery is too large, if there is no brake, the consequences are the same.

But with the cannon hoe and the brake, the effect will be much better, the key is that on this artillery, actually used rubber, now the use of rubber is not widespread, this is two months ago, when Bishop Robben arrived in Liaodong, with half a boat of rubber, now the main rubber is to make rubber sticks.

Rubber sticks beat people, hurt but not hurt, especially in the colonies of Europa, used to supervise the work effect, but in Liaodong, these craftsmen immediately discovered the other function of this rubber, after some exploration, was successfully applied to the sealing of the gun latch and the gun wheel.

After testing, the performance is satisfactory, the sealing performance of the gun latch is greatly increased after the use of rubber, the gas leakage phenomenon has almost completely disappeared, and the rubber wheels make it easy for the gun truck to drive on the road, the same road conditions, with wooden wheels a person can pull a small cannon can be tired to lie down, with rubber wheels can pull it all the way to trot.

This artillery was simply too unexpected for Cheng Shijie: "Have you ever tried a cannon?" The result? ”

"It's too late to return to the big handsome!"

"Then let's try it!"

"Is it here?"

"Where is it not here?"

This is the real reason why Cheng Shijie moved the gun bureau out of Jinzhou City, the gun bureau in Jinzhou City is in the downtown area, and it is okay to test the musket, after all, the range is limited, the penetration is also limited, and shooting at the wall is not a big problem.

But the artillery is different, theoretically this five-inch cannon can shoot outside the city of Jinzhou, but what if the test fails?

In this way, under the operation of more than a dozen craftsmen, this artillery began to aim at the south of the Gun Bureau, which is a large primeval forest in the Great Black Mountain, even if the shells hit something, there is no big problem.

Cheng Shijie was just a little worried, looking at the springs of these brakes, which are as thick as a little finger, but the question is, can such springs have enough elasticity?

The point is, there is no way to calculate this either.

Huang Lidong introduced this artillery to Cheng Shijie: "This artillery is the result of the "C" group of the Gun and Artillery Bureau, with a total of 12 right-handed rifling ......"

As he spoke, there was a loud bang.

PS: This chapter is from yesterday, and there will be more in the evening.

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