The gun in Hong Fan's hand is the first qualified finished product made by Deng Pohai and Sun Pingbo according to the technical instructions of the owner.

Mo said that every part was polished to the extreme, and even the wooden butt and metal bolt were carved with Yunlong inscriptions.

Even if it is not of "historical" significance, it can be sold for dozens of taels of silver on the market.

But the problem lies in this delicacy.

Under the current process, the barrel, bolt, copper fasteners, and wooden butts were all made by hand, which required a lot of man-hours.

"Qian Hong, in a month's time, how many guns can be produced in the industry now?"

Hong Fan asked.

"If it's the arquebus in Zhanzhou, now the guys are familiar with it, and they can make about eight a month; But the flintlock machine you invented is much more complicated, and now you can only make three or four a month. ”

Qian Hong replied.

"Boss, this speed is much faster than the Horn Bow."

Deng Pohai added.

"If you change to the Zhanzhou side, it will be roughly this speed - as for those high-grade handcuffs that are worn by officers as ceremonial weapons, it is common for them to spend half a year."

After Hong Fan listened, he was silent.

Qian Hong could see that Hong Fan obviously felt that the production capacity was too low.

"There are only a dozen people in the industry, not counting the miscellaneous cooks, and then expand the scale."

He was relieved.

"Lao Deng and Lao Sun have come over thousands of miles away, knowing that we made muskets to fight snake people, they have already given up their views and are willing to teach each other!"

The two old craftsmen nodded.

"It takes time to just take apprentices."

Sun Pingbo added again.

Hong Fan sensed the emotions of the two.

"Naturally, things should be done step by step, and I have no intention of finding fault with the work of Deng Lao and Sun Lao."

He explained.

"Actually, I came here today and I just wanted to make some improvements and solve this problem."

Hong Fan said, motioning for the two faces behind him to stand in front.

"Zeng Hao, through the three veins; Rao Lixuan, through the two veins. ”

"It's all the tall feet of the Golden Magnetic Gate, practicing "the Iron Hand"."

He introduced.

The two warriors also formally greeted you.

The attitude is not very good.

After all, for a martial artist, it is never a glorious thing to enter the workshop to work with craftsmen and apprentices.

"Brother Zeng, you have also seen the whole process of making the barrel just now, if you are given a ready-made hundred forged black iron, can you be sure that the iron will be formed?"

Hong Fan asked directly.

"No problem!"

Zeng Hao heard a sentence of "Brother Zeng" coming out of Chisha's mouth, and even his breath was three points heavy.

"If you can't even do this little thing, wouldn't it be in vain to value it?!"

He didn't talk nonsense, took a forged steel plate from the guy's hand, and began to operate.

True qi is swallowed, and with finger pressing, the steel plate slowly deforms.

This scene is far from Hong Fan's impression of Cao Hanhai's freewheeling expressiveness.

"Hong Gongzi, the power of the iron hand in the Penetration Realm is mainly to pull metal in the air, such as retracting and releasing hidden weapons or something."

Rao Lixuan explained.

"As for controlling the deformation of metal, you can't use it until you are in a state of chaos."

"Such an iron pipe, if it is a senior brother who is in the middle of the door and comes over, even if you count the inside and outside trimming, it will only take two minutes at most."

He was afraid of being looked down upon by Tianjiao, so he added another sentence.

After five minutes, the first layer of barrel was rolled by a third.

It's faster than hammer forging, but not as fast as you think.

Zeng Hao breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to continue, but was stopped.

"I have seen Brother Zeng's ability, but the process of beating the barrel is not slow, and it is more troublesome to count the back."

Hong Fan said with relief and handed over two rough barrels that had been nested.

"Can you sense the internal injuries of these two barrels?"

He asked, his face visibly serious.

"It's easy."

Zeng Hao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

He gripped the barrel of the gun with each hand and closed his eyes for a moment.

"There are seven slits on the left, and thirteen on the right; The locations are in this ......"

Zeng Hao gestured with his fingers one by one, and saw that the faces of the two old craftsmen gradually turned black, and hurriedly went back to make up for it.

"It's already a good craft; When the things hammered out by ordinary blacksmiths come into the hands of our Golden Magnetic Gate people, they have always been full of holes and need to be repaired......"

But at this time, Hong Fan didn't care about any of this anymore.

"So you can heal these wounds?"

He interrupted eagerly, and asked.

"Of course, it's just hair-thick pores."

Zeng Hao was stunned for a moment, and directly started to operate the tube in his left hand.

The true qi of the iron was released, but after a few breaths, it was completely withdrawn.

"This one is good."

Zeng Hao put down the first barrel and was about to deal with the second when his hand was grabbed.

"No."

Hong Fan took the two barrels and handed them to Sun Pingbo.

"Take these two things to test, echelon charge until they are exceeded, and see the difference in anti-explosion performance."

"Go now!"

When he said this, he could barely suppress his joy.

Sun Pingbo hadn't recovered yet, but when he heard the owner's categorical tone, he immediately took his apprentice to do so.

"Brother Zeng, you take a break first."

In the workshop, Hong Fan patted Zeng Hao's shoulder, his eyes were so gentle that he looked at the expensive equipment worth millions of dollars in the laboratory in his previous life.

"Brother Rao, this time you have worked hard to try the fine diamond."

The apprentice took the third barrel embryo.

Rao Lixuan didn't talk nonsense, closed his eyes and exercised.

"Does Mr. Rao need to pull the string for assistance?"

Deng Pohai asked.

"No, you don't."

Rao Lixuan replied.

"As soon as the true qi of the iron is poured in, the gold and iron will be like my newly grown siblings; Whether the surface is horizontal and vertical or not, it is naturally felt. ”

On the other side, Hong Fan released the True Yuan of the Destiny Star and swept some sand and dust into the barrel of the gun as an "eyes and ears".

Soon, he felt the uneven bulge on the inner wall of the barrel gradually subside.

Explosions can be heard in the backyard.

A quarter of an hour later, Rao Lixuan completed the three-inch-deep fine drilling work.

And Sun Pingbo came in again with two blown up steel pipes, overjoyed.

"Owner, this barrel that has been repaired can carry two and a half times the charge!"

When Hong Fan heard this, he was completely overjoyed.

He had his own reasons for ecstasy.

The barrel, which completely healed the internal wounds, was in fact a seamless steel tube.

Whether used as a barrel or barrel, this is an amazing increase in the performance of the weapon.

Compared with the previous life, the production process of seamless steel pipes was only invented at the end of the 19th century; When the People's Republic of China was founded, there was still no factory in the country that could produce seamless steel pipes.

Although due to the gap between steel quality and heat treatment, the performance of the barrel produced by Kaiming Xing is still far from being comparable with that of modern cold-forged barrels, but compared with the previous manual hammering, I don't know how much better it is.

On the other hand, Rao Lixuan also proved that he has an overwhelming efficiency advantage in the most time-consuming interior wall fine drilling process.

The workload of an ordinary person in 30 days can be compressed to half a day (counting rest).

Hong Fan's mind was full of imagination for a while.

Now it's just a crude smoothbore gun.

When it comes to the rifled gun stage in the future, when more complex processes such as reaming, smoothing, straightening, and wire drawing are required, a high-level Jincimen warrior is simply a living CNC machine tool.

"Okay, the Golden Magnetic Gate is good! I regret that I didn't make friends with you early! ”

Hong Fan paced back and forth, exclaiming.

Zeng Rao and the two looked at him, and they were almost burned by the warm gaze.

The younger Rao Lixuan slipped away half a step, and Zeng Hao, who had experienced the world, was already thinking about the question of "never obeying".

(End of chapter)