A cannon-throwing team consists of two people, and the carrier is a wheelbarrow. A wheelbarrow can easily carry the cannon and 50 rounds of artillery shells.
The technical difficulty here lies in the primer and fuse of the shell.
Therefore, compared with the 88 artillery, the misfire rate of the projectile cannon is much higher.
However, this lightweight and easy-to-carry projectile has been favored by officers at both the company and battalion levels since the day it was equipped.
No way, these two levels of military units need artillery support too much.
The most important thing is that this thing is easy to get started. Even if you don’t understand shooting calculations, you can quickly master the relevant shooting skills as long as you practice.
Therefore, this kind of grenade launcher has been widely equipped in the army, and each company is equipped with three to five grenade launchers.
In short, in a short period of time, the arsenal can be said to have taken a serious bite out of the use of steel production.
Fang Xiaoyue ignored the expansion of the army and the development of weapons and equipment. After completing the development of artillery, firearms, and ammunition, he transferred his energy to the people's livelihood industry as he said before.
No way, even though this livelihood industry is inconspicuous, it actually has a great impact on all aspects of a country.
His initial focus was on lumber, thanks to requests from shipyards.
Shipbuilding in this era requires the use of wood that has been naturally dried for more than several years. Otherwise, wooden ships will dry out and crack after being used at sea for a period of time. If there is a little bit of wind and rain, the ship may directly sink.
Wooden boats built directly from freshly cut wood are disposable products.
However, the Xinghai Kingdom does not have any timber reserves that have been drying for several years, and the navy is eager to urge the shipyard.
In desperation, Wang Xiaogang, the shipyard director who had just taken office, had to find Fang Xiaoyue and ask for help.
Ask him to help design a wood drying room to facilitate and speed up the storage of ship wood.
You must know that there are many trees on the South China Sea Island that are suitable for making ship lumber, including many precious redwoods such as huanghuali and so on.
What needs to be explained is that huanghuali is now abundant on the South China Sea Islands, but after Wang Xiaogang searched for it, he found that it is not the most suitable wood to be used as ship wood.
More suitable for boat wood are several rare trees that are almost extinct in later generations, such as sloping wood and red eucalyptus.
Fortunately, in this day and age, there are still many of these precious trees.
Among them, red eucalyptus wood, in particular, has a maturity period of up to 1,700 years. The wood is extremely hard and can be used as a bearing.
If only one piece of hundred-year-old red eucalyptus wood had not been left in later generations, otherwise, the bearings of many fuel ships might have used red eucalyptus wood instead of ironwood.
Of course, even trees such as Dipterocarpaceae, such as Periwinkle, require artificial drying in a wood drying room.
For Fang Xiaoyue, designing a wood drying room is not a difficult task.
The principle of this thing is very simple. It is to continuously pass hot air of a certain temperature to dry the wood in a short time. In order to eliminate the drying stress, it must be treated with high temperature and high humidity. After that, it needs to be finished before leaving the cellar. It is not low. 24-hour ventilation and cooling treatment, etc.
In fact, the wood drying room is very easy to make. Fang Xiaoyue came up with the design drawings in less than two hours and handed them over to the construction department for construction.
However, it is much more difficult to master the wood drying process, which requires factory director Wang Xiaogang to lead his own people to slowly conduct experiments and adjustments.
After all, precious trees like slopewood and red oak, which are almost extinct in later generations, have no relevant drying process at all.
After that, Fang Xiaoyue also set up a power research team to develop a set of generators, including coal power and hydropower.
Coal power is easy to say. Although the quality of coal resources in Nanhai Island is poor, most of them are composed of pebbles, lignite and shale oil, and compared with other places, the reserves are smaller.
But these coal resources are enough to operate coal-fired power plants.
After all, as long as it can be burned, even if the combustion value is smaller, the output of coal power will be lower at most, but the key is to solve the first problem!
If that doesn't work, transporting it from the Jiaozhi Hongji Coal Mine won't be a problem.
As for the distillation process of shale oil, Fang Xiaoyue will not consider it for the time being. There is still fuel inventory for now, so use it first.
Speaking of generators, this thing is actually very simple.
It usually consists of stator, rotor, end cover, machine base and bearings.
To put it simply, in future generations, any high school student can easily make a generator as long as he has the materials. Of course, as for the power, it is another matter.
But in this era, it is impossible to find the materials.
Fang Xiaoyue can only design and manufacture by herself.
The stator is made of silicon steel, but he has no choice. He would like to use barium iron oxide, rare earth permanent magnets, and nano-permanent magnet materials from later generations to make the stator, but the problem is that there are no raw materials.
Many raw materials are not produced in the Nanhai Island. Unless the Xinghai State immediately pushes forward the Nanming and Qing armies, other magnetic materials are unlikely to be realized.
The rotor is made of copper wire and the bearings are made of carbon steel.
Anyway, the early stage is just an experiment, just improve slowly.
As Fang Xiaoyue's energy is invested in the generator project, Xinghai Kingdom is recruiting a large number of new recruits.
Even the advertisements for recruiting new soldiers were distributed to the southernmost tip of Nanhai Island.
On the other hand, officials from various places in Nanming on Nanhai Island were in chaos.
The entire Nanhai Island was handed over to the trusteeship of the Kun thieves by the Zhaowu regime, which has been proved by the imperial edict.
But here’s the problem. The Zhaowu regime of Nanming didn’t even think about what local officials like Nanhai Island should do? Didn't even ask a question.
This left these local officials a bit confused.
Should I immediately join the Kun thief or should I resign and go back to Guangdong? Or maybe find someone to smooth things over and find a position in the Zhaowu regime?
Well, that last option was quickly extinguished by reality.
Because after a few days, the backers they found did not want them to leave Nanhai Island. They hoped that they would take root on Nanhai Island, and it would be best if they could infiltrate the Kun thief government and contribute to the revival of Nanming in the future.
This is very embarrassing.
The cattle are required to produce meat, but the cattle are not allowed to eat grass.
The most terrible thing is that when these local officials found that they had no way out and had no choice but to seek refuge with the Kun thieves, Xinghai Kingdom also felt a little headache for these local officials to seek refuge.
Logically speaking, for the support of these local officials of Nanming, Xinghai Kingdom should make a gesture of buying horse bones with thousands of gold. Only in this way can the rule of Nanhai Island be better stabilized in the future, and at the same time, the officials of Nanming can see hope. , when Xinghai Kingdom raises troops to land in the future, it will be able to regain the captured territory better and faster.
