Chapter 439

PS: in the fourth shift tonight, there is another one

suddenly, Xiao Ming and Fei yue'er are separated, and Fei yue'er instinctively walks to the inner room of the bedroom.

With a cough, Xiao Ming goes out of the bedroom and meets Qian Dafu.

"Your Highness, the copper mine has been found." Qian Dafu said vigorously, and then he took out a handful of copper ore.

"Copper."

At this time, Xiao Ming was excited. He did not say that copper was still the currency of Chongqing, but that the wide application of copper in industry was also a very important resource for Qingzhou.

"Your Highness, this copper mine is really hard to find. After more than two years, I have finally found it. Now I have arranged to mine it. In the future, we can make our own coins in Qingzhou." Qian Dafu said.

"Coins?" Xiao Ming shook his head.

Qian Dafu said: "yes, your highness, as long as the vassal kings can mine copper, they all cast copper coins with the copper mined. Don't you want to cast copper coins?"

"Money is to be made, but it can't be made carelessly." Xiao Ming said.

In Dayu, everyone doesn't know what inflation is, so it's inevitable to make money carelessly. Just because of this, people don't trust copper money.

Sometimes one coin can buy one steamed bread, and sometimes three coins can't buy one steamed bread. This is all because of the confusion of copper coins in the market.

Therefore, for Xiao Ming, he was not prepared to make copper money indiscriminately like other vassal kings, because he was not responsible for the common people. In order to avoid the inflow of foreign inferior copper money, he was even prepared to issue his own currency.

Moreover, the reason why he was so happy this time was not that copper coins could be minted, but that Qingzhou had another strategic resource.

Now Qingzhou is about to launch an attack on Ryukyu during the Chinese New Year. Now that there is a copper mine, he can let Chen Qi forge some six pound bronze field guns from the copper mine.

After all, field guns don't need to be mass-produced like city guns and naval guns. At this time, bronze materials can improve the quality of field guns.

In Napoleon's time, field guns were mostly made of bronze.

So, after a pause, he said to Qian Dafu, "first, we will produce a batch of bronze field cannons and transport them to Qingzhou. We are going to give them to the equipment department to make bronze field cannons."

"Yes, your highness." Qian Dafu was stunned for a moment. He finally understood what Xiao Ming meant. "This copper mine is not far away. It's 180 miles northwest of Qingzhou. The first batch of copper ore will arrive in five days."

Xiao Ming nodded to Qian Dafu and said, "in addition to the copper mine, we need to send people to Laizhou to look for gold and Dengzhou to look for silver. This is what we need now."

Qian Dafu understood and said with a smile, "Your Highness, you can rest assured."

After telling Xiao Ming the good news about the discovery of the copper mine, Qian Dafu arched his hand and left.

At this time, Xiao Ming let out a breath, copper has many uses besides casting field guns, the most important of which is to make copper wires.

Therefore, the present copper mine is equivalent to a reserve for the future power application.

Seeing off Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming turns and goes back to the bedroom. Fei yue'er is waiting for him in the inner room. They are separated for half a month, and the little gathering is very happy. There is no need to talk about their tenderness.

The next day, with the progress of the day, he slowly got up. They all said that he would be busy when he was a leader, but he would not be busy when he was a leader.

After all, Pang Yukun is in charge of government affairs, while Niu Zhen is in charge of the army.

These two generals belong to desperate sanro. They work like playing with their lives. Therefore, both the prefectures and the army are well managed by them.

Languidly grooming and eating, the servant told him that Fei yue'er and lvluo went to the textile workshop in the morning.

He understood that Fei yue'er was busy with his underwear design.

With a wry smile, Xiao Ming shakes his head. After dinner, he goes to the military workshop. He is ready to see what happened to huzun cannon and talk about the field cannon.

"Your Highness, it's a coincidence that you're here. This is the tiger gun that we design now." Once at the military workshop, Chen Qi brought out a brand new tiger gun.

Seeing this kind of tiger gun, Xiao Ming immediately gives a thumbs up. Chen Qi has upgraded the tiger gun. Now the tiger gun has gone away from the original tiger gun of Ming Dynasty, but has developed along the direction of mortar gun.

Now the base of the mortar is a square metal plate, and the cylindrical barrel is fixed on the metal plates on both sides through the ears, so that the mortar can be fired up and down freely.

The mortar can be moved by two soldiers holding the handle on the metal plate on the ground, which is very convenient and fast.

"Yes, there's progress." Xiao Ming looked at the new mortar and said.

Chen Qi said with a smile: "Your Highness, it is according to the textbook that the lower official has transformed the mortar, and also the shell."

With that, Chen Qi gives Xiao Ming the blossom bullet with a hollow cork. A lead is stretched out in the middle of the cork. He rotates the cork, and the cork turns outward or inward according to different directions."Can you tell the exact time of the explosion of this shell now?" he asked

"Although the accuracy rate is not high, it is much better than the previous powder can. At least it can avoid the situation that the ammunition will explode in the barrel, and we can probably control the time of the shell explosion by rotating the cork."

"Is it?" Xiao Ming has some expectations. If he can achieve effective results, it will be much easier to attack the Dutch this time.

Chen Qi nodded and said to the craftsman on one side: "experiment and show it to your highness."

The two craftsmen were ordered to immediately carry the mortar to Xiao Ming, then pour the powder into the bottom of the mortar, and then put the ammunition with a flat base wooden bracket into the mortar. "

"Your Highness, hit the target 300 meters away."

Chen Qi has already mastered the calculation method of parabola, so now he has been able to calculate the impact point of the shell according to the different elevation angles of the mortar. Although the error of this impact point is larger, it is developing in a better direction.

"Let it go With a command, the craftsman fired.

After a dull sound, the ammunition flew out in a parabola and dropped at about 300 meters. With a "boom", it suddenly exploded at a distance of three meters from the ground.

Chen Qi said with embarrassment: "Your Highness, this is the problem now. The time of the explosion of the flower bomb is not fixed."

Although Chen Qi said it was light, Xiao Ming was surprised that he couldn't close his mouth. It was amazing that he could make Huahua bullet within this error range.

He said: "it's already very good. Let's produce mortar and deliver it to Qingzhou army now. In addition, I'm talking about field artillery with you this time."

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