Chapter 304

It's a sunny day again. With the green grass on both sides of Xiaoqing River, more and more people go outside the city for spring outing.

After Wang Xuan left yesterday, four foreign merchants and six foreign refugees were arrested that night in Qingzhou City.

in order to increase the labor force of the fief, Xiao Ming's policy of refugee movement seems to be the goal of all forces.

According to the law of Qingzhou, it is natural for these restless refugees to be executed. At the same time, Qingzhou newspapers reported this incident, which is a warning for the refugees who are constantly pouring into Qingzhou from other places.

It's just that although Xiao Ming clearly knows that he can't avoid some misguided people by absorbing refugees, he can't avoid medical treatment for this matter. After all, this refugee policy has a demographic dividend on Qingzhou.

During the road construction in Qingzhou City, many businessmen used cheap refugees who had no means of livelihood.

"Here you are, your highness."

Today is the day when the equipment department gives the cutting tools to the water conservancy lathe workshop. At the same time, the craftsmen of the lathe workshop will use the cutting tools to produce hollow barrel for the first time and provide the final accessories for the flint gun.

Zhao Long leads the horse, and Xiao Ming jumps down from the horse. At this time, Zhang Liu has arrived at the workshop, and the craftsmen in the workshop have installed the drill into the hydraulic drilling machine.

One end of this kind of hydraulic drilling machine is a water wheel. In the torrent of Xiaoqing River, the water wheel rotates rapidly and drives a circular stone plate fixed on the water wheel to rotate. This stone plate acts as an inertia wheel. In the middle of the stone plate is a drill bit. The rotation of the stone plate drives the drill bit to rotate. This is the hydraulic drilling machine Xiao Ming asked the craftsman to produce.

In the Ming Dynasty, people already had this kind of drilling machine, and Xiao Ming was just using it.

"Your Highness, we are already trying to drill the barrel." Zhang Liu wiped his sweat and said to Xiao Ming.

At the other end of the drill, a wooden lift holds the steel rod sent from the steel workshop. The production of this steel rod is very simple for today's steel workshop, and can be made at any time.

Zhang Liu also took a few by the way to the lathe workshop.

"The effect is not bad." At this time, the hydraulic lathe rotates rapidly under the push of the torrent. This natural force is much stronger than human power. The drill bit is effortless and unstoppable when drilling the steel rod.

Under the contact of the two, the drill bit has gone deeper, but only a little.

According to the normal working efficiency of the hydraulic lathe, it takes at least six days to drill a gun barrel, which is the record of the Ming Dynasty, but the high-quality tools provided by Xiao Ming can greatly reduce this time.

Because the Ming Dynasty water lathe tool damage is very fast, this is not as good as his.

According to his estimation, it will take three or four days. After all, the location of the workshop is the fastest section of the Xiaoqing River, and his cutting tools still have advantages.

According to Xiao Ming's order, Zhang Liu sent as many as he could. Zhang Liu sent the two drills that were ground by the equipment department yesterday and the two that were ground at night.

If four hydraulic drilling machines are started at the same time, he will have four gun barrels in three or four days. If the gun barrel is made of rolled iron, it will take one month.

In other words, cutting tools and hydraulic drilling machine shorten the production time of gun barrel to one tenth of the original.

"Your Highness, you are really far sighted. This drill has been prepared for a long time, and now it is a drill bit. In this way, the production of gun barrel is simple and labor-saving. Moreover, the position of the hydraulic drill is fixed, and the drill will not be crooked. Moreover, a craftsman can take care of four or five drill machines at the same time, and save manpower. It's really three birds with one stone." Zhang Liu looked at today's drilling machine and felt some sense of achievement.

Another advantage of hydraulic drilling machine is the accuracy of Zhang Liu's theory. Manual work is easy to produce errors, which is relatively better.

Being praised by Zhang Liu, an honest craftsman, Xiao Ming is smiling. This shows that the craftsmen are very satisfied with the drilling machine and that they have not wasted their efforts in this period of time.

With a smile, Xiao Ming said, "although it's much more convenient, the quantity has to keep up. Now there are only 200 drilling machines in the workshop, but there are only four drills. You have to work harder."

Zhang Liu said: "Your Highness, Chen bingcao has allocated 500 people from the iron and steel workshop. He will soon make up the rest of the drill bits."

Xiao Ming nodded and looked at the drilling machine again. He felt more and more stable.

Two hundred drill presses are enough for him now. One barrel in three days, two thousand barrels in a month, and twenty thousand barrels in ten months.

If he wants to, he can turn the Qingzhou army from a cold weapon army to a hot weapon army before the end of the year.

And this is exactly his plan. Just for this plan, he has to invest millions of silver, which is enough to consume his meager savings.

But now he is in crisis on all sides and has to increase his investment in the army. Even so, he is still cautious.

After all, he used a population of 600000 to deal with a nomadic people with a population of 2 million.

The cavalry of this nation has been living on horses since childhood. Everyone is very sophisticated cavalry, and the barbarian cavalry has strict discipline and is not afraid of death.A group of well disciplined and experienced cavalry was terrible even in the 17th and 19th centuries, and the number of enemies was still very large.

Every time I think of this, Xiao Ming is always chilly.

When the drilling machine was officially put into drilling, Xiao Ming went to the military workshop with satisfaction, and the last problem of flint gun was solved.

However, there are still several problems to be solved, one is the bayonet on the flint gun, the other is the general rule of the flint gun.

Now that I have the experience of previous life, I will not make the mistake of fumble forward period after the birth of suifa gun.

At the beginning of bayonet appearance, the handle of bayonet is plugged in the barrel of the gun, so that the bayonet can't shoot and the shooting can't shoot.

So in the face of the cavalry charge, the infantry became a lamb to be slaughtered by the cavalry.

It was not until the appearance of sleeve bayonet that this situation was changed. This bayonet can be directly put on the flint gun without affecting the shooting.

So since he has mature experience, he naturally wants to avoid this mistake.

As for the second issue, he decided to use iron tongtiao instead of wooden tongtiao at the beginning.

Because the iron bar is not easy to break, which is conducive to improving the firing speed. Because the Prussian army first used the iron bar and the soldiers' proficiency, it fired five bullets in one minute.

The last one is ammunition, but it needs the cooperation of military workshop and Lutong's powder workshop.

He is going to use the oil paper cartridge for the ammunition of the flint gun. The oil paper cartridge is equipped with enough bullets and gunpowder to be fired at one time. When fighting, he only needs to bite it open and pour it in.

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