Chapter 053
Ning Haijun is responsible for exterminating bandits in Shandong. However, there are too many bandits in Shandong. There are more than 20 groups in Ning Haijun alone. This has already formed a scale. For those who are usually good citizens and occasionally work part-time as bandits or robbers, Amateurs, that's more.
Cheng Shijie remembered that he had read an online novel before. The protagonist of the novel was a Jinyiwei, and he sold the Jinyiwei's flag, which was also a disguised form of protection money.
In fact, many people are doing this kind of thing, just like the current Five Tigers guerrilla general Zheng Zhilong. He relied on collecting protection fees at sea to support the Zheng family's 40,000-strong army and more than 3,000 large and small warships, and became the King of the South Seas. In the past, Business travelers must pay protection fees to him.
Ning Haijun can also adopt this method and sell the logo symbolizing Ning Haijun to businessmen. Which bandits don't open their eyes, then kill them first. Over time, Ning Haijun's reputation can be built up.
Cheng Shijie thought of this and pretended to mutter: "This matter... is not easy to handle!"
The subtext of what is difficult to do is that it can be done, but it requires a price, and it cannot be done with lip service and white teeth.
As a businessman, Gu Shizhang is also well versed in human affairs. Hearing what Cheng Shijie said, he smiled with a smile on his face and said, "Of course I won't let Cheng Shoubei's work go in vain!"
Cheng Shijie directly handed over the specific negotiation matters to Song Xiance, and he continued to return to the Gun Bureau. What he was most concerned about now was actually the imitation work of Thunder Gun.
Although the Thunder Cannon is relatively bulky and its shooting accuracy is not high, the problem is the firing density of eighteen rounds. This is indeed a big killer, especially when facing a cavalry charge.
In the future, when the Ning Navy faces the charge of Jiannu cavalry, if it has dozens or hundreds of thunderbolts and thousands of rounds of guns that can shoot two hundred steps, it will form a dense rain of bullets and make Jiannu kneel down and scream. dad.
When Cheng Shijie came to the Gun Bureau again, he watched more than a hundred craftsmen using drills to drill cylindrical solid steel pipes, while dozens of craftsmen were processing several drilled gun barrels and smoothing the inner walls. Ready to load onto the gun.
Looking at the laborious expressions of the craftsmen, Cheng Shijie suddenly felt that maybe his plan to equip a large number of Thunder Guns was a mistake. According to their drilling method, it would take many years to drill a barrel.
Cheng Shijie coughed.
When the surrounding craftsmen realized that Cheng Shijie had arrived, they quickly knelt down and saluted: "Greetings to the Lord Guard!"
Cheng Shijie looked at a craftsman who was wiping sweat from his forehead: "How long does it take to drill a gun barrel at your speed?"
"You can drill an inch in a day, but it takes more than a month to drill a good hole."
"More than a month!"
Cheng Shijie sighed: "Too slow!"
In later generations, any small metal processing factory could produce enough seamless steel pipes to fill the entire city of Ninghai, and the Hansteel Group's seamless steel pipe production line was even more incomparable.
"Master Guards, this is fast enough. If we want to produce more blunderbuss, we can only increase our manpower!"
Cheng Shijie began to think about how, according to some online novel authors, the barrel was made by first punching a piece of fine iron into a thin iron sheet, then carving rifling on it, and then rolling up the iron sheet. This troubled the two Europeans who invented the rifled rifle. A big problem that has lasted for more than a hundred years has been solved in this way. Isn’t it awesome?
If this trick really works, then instead of using a crossbow or a matchlock gun, he can just use a mini gun to torture the slaves!
In the absence of an impact machine, the steel block is beaten into iron sheet with a hammer, and it can be rolled up easily. How thin does it need to be? How many such craftsmen can be found in the entire Ming Dynasty while using a hammer to knock the iron sheet into a uniform thickness? This must be at the master level to ensure that the error meets the requirements. The problem is that hot melt welding is the most unstable welding technology. With such a barrel leaking air everywhere, what range can the rifle have?
In later generations, the steel pipe production of Hansteel Group is mainly divided into two types. The steel pipes with gaps are rolled into pipes from steel plates and then welded. The high points of the welds are removed, non-destructive testing is performed, and flying saws are cut to length.
Such steel pipes are completely fine for products that are not strictly required for civilian use, but for high-pressure-resistant pipes, they must be produced into seamless steel pipes.
Even in later generations, the production of seamless steel pipes still requires high technical difficulties. For seamless pipes, the square steel billet is first heated and placed in the female mold. The male mold is quickly rotated and squeezed in. The size of the produced steel pipe is not good. In order to obtain a large number of precision seamless steel pipes, the hot-rolled steel pipes need to be heat treated, pickled, saponified, cold drawn, and cold rolled.
The surface roughness of a good cold-rolled pipe is only 0.8 microns. Cast iron pipes are of course cast. Centrifugal casting is currently a relatively advanced production process. However, the problem is that these equipment are too large and heavy, and steel production is a systematic project, and It consumes a lot of energy, so producing crude steel is relatively simple. But the problem is that even if the steel production efficiency of Hansteel Group has reached a world-class advanced level, the problem is that one ton of steel requires more than 400 kWh of electricity.
It is almost impossible to copy the steel production lines of later generations. Photovoltaic power plants are the biggest problem. With electricity, we also need transformer technology, power transmission technology, and a highly integrated operating system. Don’t look at Hansteel Group It has nearly 400,000 employees, but only 10% of the workers on the front line of the production line are management and logistics personnel.
Let alone replicating a steel plant in the late Ming Dynasty, even if an advanced steel plant was opened in relatively backward Africa, it would still require transporting hundreds of thousands of tons of equipment.
As a professional in metallurgical technology, Cheng Shijie had to adopt the relatively primitive shaft cold casting process. This method can produce relatively rough steel pipes. The principle is also very simple. After the molten steel comes out of the furnace, it flows into the shaft through the cooling tank. In the mold, as the molten steel drops, the steel pipe will be slowly produced in the shaft using the force of gravity.
Once a well of steel pipe is produced, the produced steel pipe will be lifted out of the shaft. However, there is a very serious problem, that is, once the mold is not fully preheated and contains moisture, the molten steel will explode when it encounters the mold. This explosion More powerful than black powder or even TNT.
However, no matter how difficult it is, this project still needs to be done, and steel pipes produced by shaft technology are the most efficient way.
For this reason, Cheng Shijie began to get busy. He returned to later generations and used the internal channels of Hansteel Group to obtain technical information on the shaft production process. These technologies were all obsolete and were not leaked information.
While Cheng Shijie was busy making shafts and steel pipes, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, led Geng Zhongming, the general of Fubiao, and a transportation team into Ninghai City.
There were still twenty or thirty miles away from Ninghai City, and there was a sign erected on the edge of the official road, which read "Military restricted area, business travelers must detour".
Sun Yuanhua looked at these eight characters and frowned slightly.
"Stop whoever comes!"
Suddenly, a head emerged from what was originally a raised snow bag. This snow bag was actually a sentry post. It was a pit about five meters long and more than two meters wide. On the surface, it was a snow bag. It was also camouflaged with dead branches and snow. If you didn't get closer, there was no way to find out the problem.
On the originally flat road, a row of spear-like horses appeared. It was a wooden frame with more than a dozen spears stuck on it. When the spears fell to the ground, nothing unusual was seen at all. As the rope was pulled, more than a dozen spears appeared. A spear was pointed at the convoy.
"Who are you? Please reveal your identity!"
Geng Zhongming drank a lot of cold wind along the way, and it was because he was full of evil fire that he had no place to vent. He said angrily to the soldiers Ning Haijun: "This is a supply sent to you Ning Haijun, don't get out of the way!"
"Tell the name of anyone who comes!"
"go away"
When the two soldiers saw Geng Zhongming's arrogant attitude, one of them immediately took out a firework and quickly lit the fuse. With a "pop" sound, the firework exploded in the air.
Not long after, a firework also exploded in the distance. It seems endless, and every time a signal bomb is fired, there will always be the sound of gongs and drums. People with sharp eyes can already see that there are large groups of military households rushing towards this direction in groups.
These military households have all received some training. Although they were in a hurry, they still formed a line consciously. When they drove in together, it really felt like an army.
In almost a quarter of an hour, three to four thousand military households appeared densely on the entire official road. These military households seemed to be overwhelming.
After Cheng Shijie established the Ning Haijun garrison, he no longer organized the Zuo Qianhu station according to the ten hundred households. Instead, he excepted the carriage factory, salt factory, iron ore and steelmaking factory, textile factory, and kiln. All personnel other than factories, quilt factories, gun bureaus, armor and crossbow bureaus, and mills were organized into military households, including refugees.
Now there are only three types of people in Ning Haijun, either craftsmen and workers, military households in the field, or officers and soldiers in Ning Haijun. As long as they are adult men, they are all enrolled in the Hundred Household Station. Now Ning Haijun has fifty-seven Hundred Household Stations.
Cheng Shijie seized a pile of scrap copper and iron from Sanshan in Qin Wuhe Town. Many of the swords were just pieces of iron. Cheng Shijie originally planned to recast the iron materials, but later found that after the iron mine was put into production, he had no shortage of iron. , so these scraps of scrap metal were distributed to military households.
What military households want most is war merit, because war merit can be allocated to land, while ordinary military households in the field are only responsible for farming. Except for Ning Haijun's soldiers who have performed meritorious service or soldiers who died in battle, they will be allocated fields.
These military households are crazy about land. They are eager for blind bandits to come over and exchange their lives for a future. This is originally the responsibility of military households, but now, their opportunity has come.
Geng Zhongming was stunned for a moment. What is going on?
Sun Yuanhua was also stunned.
PS: As of now, I’m going to post it first, and I’ll revise it after dawn, so I’ll just make do with it.
