I am the king of the dead

Chapter 40 Jingtai Furnace

Seeing that it was Zhu Qiyu, Liu An quickly stood up, bowed his head respectfully, and said in a loud voice, "See Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Long Live, Long Live, Long Live."

"Flat body." Zhu Qiyu sat on the stool and motioned the jailer to open the cell door.

The jailer looked hesitant. Liu An was a serious offender. If he opened the cell door and what happened, how could he, a jailer, bear such a crime?

Xing'an took the jailer's key and signaled the jailer to go down.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the prison, there was very little light, only two high and small skylights.The whole room looked extremely gloomy.

The mice were very daring, scurrying around, and the air was filled with a foul smell.

The cell is a masonry structure, and only the cell door is made of logs.

"Chen... I had expected it." Liu An recalled Zhu Qiyu's question and bowed his head to answer.

Zhu Qiyu nodded seriously, looked at Liu An, and asked with a smile, "General Liu, how many bowls of rice do you eat a day now?"

Liu An blinked, why did he suddenly ask such a thing?He hesitated and said, "I can eat five bowls of rice a day."

"You can eat if you can. Among the nine gates, Dongzhimen lacks a guard. Yu Qian recommended you. Since you can still eat, you can rest in prison for a few days and then come out to work." Zhu Qiyu stood up and turned to leave.

"Ah?" Liu An immediately realized what was going on. He bowed his head to the ground and shouted loudly, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for not killing Long En, and I will not insult your ruler!"

Zhu Qiyu did not let Xing'an lock the door, Xing'an returned the key to the jailer, and the jailer also understood what was going on. The emperor personally visited the courtier, and the door was not closed, so naturally it meant that it would still be used.

After Zhu Qiyu returned to the tenth regiment battalion, he wrote two edicts, one was to reprimand Liu An for leaving without permission, and the words were quite fierce, and the other was to make Liu An commit crimes.

It's not Liu An who should be damned, it's Zhu Qizhen who should be damned!

Zhu Qizhen always used his own lower limit to test his loyal subjects, and finally drove his subjects to his Zhu Qiyu's command.

When the two armies were at war, Liu An could put down the hanging basket and go to the city to send money to Zhu Qizhen. Isn't this loyalty?

But Zhu Qizhen forced Liu An to go to the capital to plead guilty.

Zhu Qiyu continued to deal with the official documents. After getting up at [-]:[-] every morning, after processing some notes, he began to train with the sergeants, especially the use of fire guns.

Until after breakfast, I rest for an hour, and I am also dealing with the sparseness.

The training in the morning mainly focused on physical fitness, and after lunch, he was training on horseback, archery and various orders of the army. After a busy afternoon, when the sun went down, he began to deal with the memorials that Xing'an brought from Wenyuan Pavilion.

More than [-]% of them are all kinds of flattering greetings, and after a few times of three orders and five applications, these greetings finally disappeared.

What is it like to be a king?
A few words can decide the life and death of countless people;

If you don't send a few notes during your stay, you can make the most powerful people in Quan Daming sleepless;
All Daming is supporting him with food and clothing;

Even if he is a concubine emperor, he still feels what is called supreme power.

He noticed a few problems and asked Xing'an to write it on the memo, and he would deal with it after the Oara people were repelled.

"Your Majesty, Queen Wang sent someone to ask, is it time to go back to the manor to rest?" Xing An asked in a low voice, seeing Zhu Qiyu yawning.

"I live in the Tenth Regiment Camp today. Before the battle is over, I don't need to ask again." Zhu Qiyu stood up and walked towards the cubicle.

He came to the cubicle, which was his laboratory.

To be precise, in his previous life, he was in an era of information explosion, and there were countless useful and useless information in his mind. In those eras, the seemingly useless information was still very useful in 1449 in the Ming Dynasty.

For example, the paper-packed gunpowder before, such as the formula of sulfur, two nitrates and three charcoal in his memory, such as his current tool ruler and vernier caliper.

A measuring tool that can measure length, inner and outer diameter, and depth. When Zhu Qiyu talked about this with Yu Qian, Yu Qian immediately knew what Zhu Qiyu wanted.

Because Daming also has a vernier caliper, called the copper fish caliper. According to rumors, it was invented by Wang Mang of the new dynasty. Later, it was widely used in the production of military weapons, which can measure the length, inner and outer diameter and depth.

Zhu Qiyu added a vernier to the copper fish caliper, made a vernier caliper, and determined the operation process.

He and Yu Qian have been busy with one thing during this period of time, which is to plan Daming's weapons and equipment, and make ordnance become standard equipment.

Standard equipment, there must be a standard, the size of the ordnance, specifications, the weight of the weapon, the line and so on.

The most important thing is to determine the caliber of the main firearms such as various large and small general guns, sub-munition guns, long guns, hand guns and so on.

Only when it is determined can we do quality control and unified adaptation before mass production.

On this point, Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian's views are very consistent.

In the process of weapon standardization, Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian finally had to face an important problem, that is, the material of the weapon was not enough.

To be more precise, it is the lack of steel.

There are a lot of iron materials, but the carbon content is too high and it is very brittle. It is not suitable for ordnance. The production of ordnance is difficult, and the ordnance cannot be standardized. These imminent ordnance dilemmas go around, in fact, the material is too bad.

Even the fluffing device invented by Zhu Qiyu could not be installed in large quantities, and there was a shortage of steel, especially high-quality steel.

Hand-made reeds are very useful, but time-consuming and labor-intensive. Before the war, even the Jinyiwei was stretched thin.

Steel, this is the biggest problem facing Zhu Qiyu.

What should I do to get a piece of steel?
Thousands of tempering, repeated annealing, and beating impurities can get a piece of steel.

Daming's method of frying steel is also very skilled, but there are still many impurities, which need to be annealed and beaten.

After some investigation, Yu Qian and Zhu Qiyu determined the reason, that is, the temperature in the furnace was too low. In order to solve this problem, Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian racked their brains.

After several improvements, Zhu Qiyu's blast furnace finally landed.

The furnace he designed was similar to that of Daming's iron-smelting furnace, but in addition to the main furnace, his furnace also had auxiliary furnaces.

"Xing'an, is today the day when the furnace is opened?" Zhu Qiyu suddenly asked loudly as he fiddled with the glass utensils in his hands.

Xing'an walked in from outside and asked loudly, "It's tomorrow, Your Majesty."

"Oh, my memory is mixed up." Zhu Qiyu realized that he had made a mistake. He stood up and said, "Go to the Jingtai furnace and see."

Cloisonne furnace is the name given by Yu Qian. It is simple and rude. The furnace invented during the Jingtai period and the furnace invented by Emperor Jingtai are about the same as cloisonne.

Zhu Qiyu walked out of the tenth regiment battalion in the dark and rode to the Wang Gong factory.

Wang Gong Factory is the largest arsenal in Daming. It is the main production area of ​​Daming gunpowder. It produces two tons of gunpowder per day.

The Jingtai furnace is located in the corner of the arsenal.

Zhu Qiyu stood under the stove nearly two feet high and looked at the huge brick stove.

This is where the bright blueprint he built in his heart begins!

A multi-person cooperating blower box, a piston-type wooden bellows, two air inlets and one air outlet, and the air inlet is provided with a valve, which is opened and closed to achieve the purpose of blowing.

But Zhu Qiyu's multi-person collaborative blower is different from the traditional bellows in that it has an air duct.

The direction of the air duct connection is the matching furnace of the Jingtai furnace. The air is divided into three sections for preheating, and then enters the blast box through the air duct, which is blown by the blast box and enters the furnace through the air eye of the furnace.

This is done to raise the temperature in the furnace as much as possible.

Zhu Qiyu stood under the Jingtai furnace and carefully checked the application of refractory bricks and refractory soil in the furnace, especially the pre-baked and dried front bag.

After he checked it again, he saw a figure not far away, took a closer look, and laughed.

He stepped forward: "Yu Shangshu."

"Your Majesty! Please see Your Majesty, Your Majesty is holy." Yu Qian was so excited that he didn't notice Zhu Qiyu, and hurriedly returned the salute when he heard the voice.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was haunted every day, and it was frightening.

(End of this chapter)