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Chapter 385 Forging Hammer in Water
Zhang Shun saw that it was an instrument, but he didn't know what it was used for, so he asked strangely: "What is this thing?"

"Master is from the plains, and he has never seen this thing before!" Wukong replied, "This is a water mill, which is used by mountain residents to pound rice and squeeze oil."

After saying this, Wukong took Zhang Shun and walked over, creaking and pushing open the old wooden door of the wooden house.There was no one there, only more than a dozen rice pounding hammers were like hoes, hoed in the stone mortar in front of each of them.

Zhang Shun took a closer look and saw that there were some rice and wheat husks in the mortar that would not be cleared out in the future.Going further inside is a small oil mill, where the oil hammer falls into the oil bag for oil pressing.Zhang Shun stretched out his head to look, and saw a large bag of oil residue wrapped in the sackcloth oil bag on the slate.And there are many oil stains overflowing from the outside of the oil bag, still exuding bursts of fragrance.

This object should be a local civilian object, but because the rebel army came to attack, the nearby people were afraid of being harmed, so they hurriedly withdrew back.It is even very possible that this water pestle was used by Kangjiazhuang, and it is unknown.

Looking around, Zhang Shun always felt that this neat row of hammers seemed to be able to swing up and down.He couldn't help being moved in his heart, and asked quickly: "Wukong, do you know how to use this thing?"

"Master, you are joking, the Sa family is a monk, how can you do such rough work?" Hearing this, Wukong thought that it was Zhang Shun who wanted him to pound rice for him to eat, and quickly waved his hands to express his incomprehension.

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and let me see it, it's a good thing to say!" Zhang Shun could see the inaccuracy of his words at a glance, and couldn't help laughing and scolding.

Wukong had no choice but to scold and look for the gate.It turned out that the water wheel was fastened by a wooden stick. Wukong moved it a bit, and the water wheel started to spin creakingly driven by the water flow.

When the water wheel turns, it drives the wooden shaft connected to the water wheel to rotate.The hammer on the wooden shaft is equipped with gear-shaped wooden teeth, and the wooden shaft rotates with the wooden teeth, and the other end of the hammer is pushed down one by one.Under the action of the principle of leverage, the hammer hammered the stone mortar in front of it like a chicken pecking rice.

Seeing this, Zhang Shun couldn't help but smiled and said, "So, I have a plan. The so-called 'hydraulic forging hammer' probably looks like this!"

Wukong and Wang Jinyi looked at each other in dismay when they heard the words, not knowing why Zhang Shun was nervous, so they had to keep silent.

Zhang Shun hurriedly called Liu Gang, Zhang Dudu and others, and described his idea to them.Both Liu Gang and Dudu Zhang knew about forging, and they also felt that it seemed feasible.

So, by the way, Zhang asked someone to transform the water reed according to his own ideas.Then let the blacksmith start the stove, light the charcoal to burn a piece of iron, and try to forge it with a "hydraulic forging hammer" to see the effect.As a result, the forging hammer amplitude is too large and the frequency is too slow, so the effect is not ideal.

Zhang Shun had no choice but to order someone to adjust the lever connecting the forging hammer again to change the density and height of the wooden teeth on the wooden shaft.After tossing for a long time, the desired effect was finally achieved that night.Although it is too rigid and less effective than wielding a hammer manually, it can already meet the needs of ordinary forging.

Seeing this, Zhang Shun was overjoyed, and hurriedly called Dudu Zhang to ask what kind of artillery was suitable for forging, so as to capture Kangjiazhuang.

Zhang Dudu thought for a while and said: "If you want to forge Hongyi cannons, if you want to have great power to break through this fort, I'm afraid it can only be no less than four or five thousand catties. With less charge and a shorter barrel, it seems quite feasible!"

It turns out that when the governor forged cannons for the Jiliao frontier army, he had also forged cannons such as the Weiyuan Cannon, the Second General Cannon, and the Tiger Crouching Cannon, so he had some experience.

It's just that the artillery he supervised is all small-caliber light artillery, and he has never been in contact with various heavy artillery, and he has only heard about the size and use of such artillery.

Originally, he wanted to use Zhang Shun's power to try to forge a heavy-duty Hongyi cannon, but now that Zhang Shun forced him to come forward, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and put forward the most reasonable suggestion.

When Zhang Shun asked about the length, size and weight of the cannon replaced with forged iron, Dudu Zhang looked around and said to him, not knowing how to respond.

Only then did Zhang Shun realize that this guy was also a two-handed knife, and he wished he could kick him somersaults.But now that the situation was urgent, Zhang Shun had no choice but to comfort him and let him continue to work for him.

Fortunately, in order to cast the "golden cannon", Zhang Shun used gunpowder to blast out a batch of data.When Zhang Shunwen realized that the mortar used for firing was about three kilograms, he took the wrought iron that Liu Gang had just forged for a tensile test, and it was calculated that the tensile strength of the wrought iron was about one-third to one-half that of brass. between one.

Zhang Shun, as a person of later generations, knows better than people of this era that the part of the artillery that is subjected to the explosion of gunpowder is the medicine chamber, and the rest of the parts are not under great pressure.He then calculated based on the above known data, and left a sufficient margin, so as to calculate the thickness of wrought iron required for each part of the so-called "Flying Bullet".

Therefore, while the rebels continued to bombard the Kangjiazhuang watchtower with other artillery, they lit a fire here to forge the "Flying Biao Gun".

Let's not mention it for the time being, let's say that after Kang Jinshan was defeated and retreated into Kangjiazhuang, he was frightened and frightened, and quickly ordered his confidantes and dead soldiers to guard the key points to prevent people from colluding with the enemy from within and to cooperate with the outside.

Although this Kang Jinshan came from a reckless background, he is not incompetent.The location of this Kangjiazhuang is superior, it just sits on top of a gold mine.Since he took over, this place has produced more than a thousand taels of gold every year, which is really a treasure land worth thousands of gold.In the Ming Dynasty, the exchange rate between gold and silver was about [-]:[-], and this place alone earned [-] taels of silver a year, which is considered a place of wealth and honor.

If the history of the Ming Dynasty developed according to the original development, the famous Chen Yuanyuan would only be "bought by a thousand gold" by his relative Tian Hongyu; The county's annual tax payment is less than two thousand taels of silver.

Based on this calculation, it can be seen that the annual net income of such a small Kangjiazhuang is about one Chen Yuanyuan, one and two-thirds of Dong Xiaowan, or two and one-half of Lushi County.As for Liu Rushi and his like, I'm afraid one Kangjiazhuang can be exchanged for five.Such money is like a treasure land blown by a strong wind. If it is not coveted by others, then the surrounding bandits and officials will be blind.

Therefore, this Kang Jinshan also fought against the surrounding bandits and government servant Ding Zhuang many times.The two sides often win or lose each other, and Kang Jinshan has relied on the dangers of the Kangjiazhuang fortress and watchtower many times to survive the catastrophe.

It's just that he never imagined that he had stabbed the "hornet's nest" this time. He had just robbed a cart of food, and the other party would pull out thousands of people to attack him.

Originally, relying on the danger of Kangjiazhuang, he thought that he would withdraw when the other party ran out of food.Who would have thought that the opponent could pull out a cannon and blow down the watchtowers in the village.

To say that Kang Jinshan has no regrets is to underestimate this person.It's just that he also knows that since the other party has put in all his strength this time, how can he let him go easily?Even if he saved his life, losing the "cornucopia" of Kangjiazhuang was no different from taking his life.

Thinking of this, Kang Jinshan has no choice but to do his best to obey the destiny and carry it to the end.

　The author's condition is a little better today, try to see if I can make the second update in time
　　
　
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