Outside the Jubao Gate, there is the second branch of the Craftsman Academy.
Hu Yuancheng wrapped up his clothes and felt a little cold. He couldn't help complaining: "It's true that the old dean of Gongshu asked us to come and participate in the debugging of the train, but when we arrived, the others were not there."
Tao Zengguang shook his hands and rubbed them: "At such an old age, he still forgets to sleep and eat. He was seriously ill some time ago, and even the imperial doctor went to inform the emperor. But who would have thought that he only rested for two days before he devoted himself to the development of the train. Among them. For an old man who has been thinking so hard, let alone half an hour, even if he waits for twelve hours, we cannot complain."
Hu Yuancheng did not mean to disrespect Gong Shuqiao. This man completely gave his life to the craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty. Even when the oil was exhausted, he was still burning his bones, as if he wanted to remove the contents of the bones. Phosphorus is also ignited to light the way forward!
Who doesn’t admire such a great man?
It's just that the Second Artillery Bureau has the mission of the Second Artillery Bureau. With the completion of rifling processing, the firecrackers are equipped with new bullets with lethality and accuracy greatly improved. The emperor hopes to achieve mass production as soon as possible to supply the scouts.
This work is no longer difficult, but it is very tedious and the production speed is very slow. Even if the technology is improved and a hundred craftsmen are arranged, it will be difficult to achieve the goal of forty rifled muskets and eight hundred bullets a day.
With the great success of the rifled gun, the Second Artillery Bureau received a new task, which was to build a rifled divine machine cannon. The emperor hoped to use the rifled divine machine cannon to increase the firing range to more than ten miles to achieve the goal of defeating the current tiger crouching gun, old crouching gun, etc. The comprehensive transcendence of the divine machine gun.
Adding rifling to a gun is inherently difficult. Although the cannon has a larger barrel space and seems to be easier to operate, it is still extremely difficult to achieve effective rifling. The more rifling that needs to be outlined, the easier it will be. If something goes wrong, any mistake will probably affect the firing range of the gunpowder ammunition.
At present, the Second Artillery Bureau mobilized as many as 400 craftsmen to focus on the problem. It took two months and only two rifled divine machine guns were completed. One of them was destroyed due to a problem with the gunpowder bomb.
The only remaining rifled divine machine gun has verified the feasibility of a range of more than ten miles. How to stably manufacture a rifled divine machine cannon and how to complete the precise and error-free rifling has become the biggest obstacle for the Second Artillery Bureau. .
Now the progress of the Second Artillery Bureau cannot be delayed. The emperor has issued an order requiring the preparation of at least eight rifled divine machine guns before December 15th.
Hu Yuancheng didn't know how this date came about, but he knew that the army Zhu Di took away would probably return to Jinling at the end of December or the beginning of January.
Zhao Yuan and Zheng Gui from the War Bureau, Wu Yuan from the Science and Technology Bureau and others also arrived. Seeing that Gong Shuqiao and others were not there, they started chatting with Hu Yuancheng and Tao Zengguang.
The current war bureaucracy has declined. If it weren't for the lack of swords in the court and the lack of spears, armor, etc. for the guards, it is estimated that the war bureau could be disbanded.
However, Zhao Yuan did not lose heart. Instead, he led the war effort and made breakthroughs in lightweight high-defense armor and folding armor. This group of people was even studying a new type of armor that could protect against gunpowder bombs and fire blunderbuss. , consolidating the indispensable position of the war situation.
The second artillery bureau is the spear, and the military bureau is the shield. ….
The Science and Technology Bureau is based on basics and studies material issues, such as which cast iron is most suitable for gunpowder bombs, and how many other metals can be mixed to produce higher-strength steel.
Various minerals, various metals, and even various materials are included in the Science and Technology Bureau's research to analyze the properties of different materials, and continuously combine materials to analyze the properties of composite materials, providing information for the Second Artillery Bureau and Bingzhan. Bureaus, craftsmen colleges, shipyards, smelters, etc. provide new ideas. The clearer the division of labor, the stronger the foundation of Ming’s scientific research.
Zheng Gui looked at the large factory building not far away, his eyes fell on the track outside the factory building, and said to Tao Zengguang, Wu Yuan and others: "It is really difficult to build this railway. It is hard to imagine that we can really build it." This railway is laid to the frontier."
Tao Zengguang smiled and said: "As long as the iron smelting can keep up, it is not too difficult to build the railway. Now that the war in all directions is coming to an end, the imperial court must have obtained a lot of prisoners as a result. A large part of these prisoners will be divided To dig coal and iron ore, with the support of this group of labor, the output of iron ore will increase greatly. It is impossible to pave 200 miles of road in a year.
The unattainable. "
Wu Yuan smiled bitterly.
The railway is 200 miles a year, and the distance from Nanjing to Peking is more than 2,000 miles. It still takes ten years to build it? If you want to connect a large city, if you want to connect border areas, will it take hundreds of years?
Railways also have a lifespan. It is estimated that they will be used for sixty or seventy years, or at most a hundred years. It can't be that after it's built over there, it won't be usable here anymore.
"a bunch of idiots."
A scholar with thin cheeks and medium build came over, looked at Tao Zengguang, Zhao Yuan and others with disdain, raised his head arrogantly, and left with a book under his arm.
"stop!!"
Tao Zengguang's face darkened, he stopped the scholar and stepped forward: "Are you from the Craftsman Academy? You have to apologize for your rudeness!"
Zhao Yuan pulled Tao Zengguang and whispered: "Don't be familiar with this guy, he is just a lunatic."
The scholar's eyes were bright and he said arrogantly: "Why do you want me to apologize? How do you say this about two hundred miles of railway construction in one year? Yes, it only takes one year to build railways now." It can’t reach twenty miles, but have you ever thought about what this railway is used for? Can’t the railway be used to promote railway paving? As long as the train is used, the manpower and slow transportation on the way are omitted, and only on-site paving is done. If you say two hundred miles a year, so what if it means four hundred miles a year?"
"We are experienced in how to construct concrete roads. We work on multiple fronts at the same time. In the future, we will only need to set up train manufacturing warehouses everywhere, plan the routes, and proceed separately for paving. Will the speed be too slow? Besides, out of town. All gone, the court will focus on infrastructure construction, and a large amount of money and manpower will be transferred to railway construction. Believe it or not, in ten years, it will be common to lay five or even eight hundred miles of railway a year!"
"You are Tao Zengguang, right? Just staying in the Second Artillery Bureau has made your thinking more conservative. If you have time, you can take more classes in the Imperial College. If you really find it troublesome, you can also ask me to do your homework for you. I will always pay for each class. . Besides, I’m not a madman, I’m a genius, it’s just that some people are blind.”
Zhao Yuan was trembling with anger.
Tao Zengguang looked at the scholar's hand. His right hand was missing his little finger, and he couldn't help but stare: "I remembered, you are the most troublesome disciple of old dean Ling Gongshuqiao, Guo Jiale, a rookie in the Craftsman Academy, known as the madman."
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