Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 227 The Meeting of High Relatives ([-])
Qi Jiguang was surprised at this moment. Since you can't help with artillery manufacturing, what do you mean by providing help?
His thoughts turned, and he thought to himself: Could it be that Gao Shiread means to persuade Mr. Gao Ge and even the emperor to give us Ji Town an extra part of the salary for the development of new types of artillery?Hmm... That's another way to help, but can he really help with this kind of thing?The imperial court's expenses are not plentiful, not to mention that Mr. Gao Ge is currently checking for leaks and filling vacancies from various aspects, in order to smooth out the deficit of the imperial court and plug some loopholes where some funds were misused in the past.Then it is even more impossible to raise the salary of a certain military town casually—to put it ten thousand steps back, even if it really needs to be raised, shouldn't it be raised first by Xuanda?On the other hand, I directly faced the most threatening Al Dahan, and secondly, I was also the direct descendant of Mr. Gao Ge. They didn't even have the turn to raise the salary. How could I, Ji Liao, have a chance?
But Gao Yushi's words made Qi Jiguang puzzled, because Gao Yushi said: "The main focus of this help is the cannon."

"Cannon carriage?" As expected of Qi Jiguang, Qi Jiguang immediately asked, "Gao Shidu is good at making vehicles? You mean, you can make a better artillery carriage as a mobile gun mount for the artillery, so that the artillery can move faster and improve Mobilization and deployment capabilities?"

"Qi Dudu is really good, but you are only half right." Gao Yushi smiled and said, "I do have a way to increase the speed of the cannon carriage, but it requires a very critical part, but that thing not only requires precision Steel, and requires very precise manufacturing. In addition, once that thing is manufactured, not only cannons can be used, but many engineering tools can be used, and the effect is far superior to any existing method.”

Qi Jiguang no longer thinks that Gao Yushi is a bragging little brat. Hearing this, he immediately became serious and asked solemnly, "I don't know what Gao Shidu said?"

"This thing should have never existed before, and I didn't mention it in the manuscript and picture album I sent to Dudu Qi last time." Gao Wushi took a deep breath, sat up straight, and said: "I named it 'bearing'. "

"Bearing?" Qi Jiguang frowned, thinking about it, but couldn't figure out what kind of object it was, so he couldn't help but feel a little bit hard to speak.

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "Let me show you a simple drawing...Gao Mo, bring me a charcoal pencil."

Although Gao Yushi is different from many time travelers, his brush calligraphy is passable because he has practiced it since he was a child, but being able to write brush calligraphy does not mean that he can use a brush to draw - he has never learned this, but he was forced to learn it a few times in middle school. It is a sketching class, so when I came here this time, I specially prepared a few charcoal pencils, which in his opinion are so crude that I want to cry, and I can use them temporarily.

Qi Jiguang didn't dare to underestimate Gao Yushi, and took Gao Yushi's "painting" seriously.He soon discovered that Gao Pragmatic's painting style was very different from the painting styles of previous dynasties, especially his mastery of the shadows of geometric figures was exceptionally pure. In front of the eyes, especially the layering is extremely strong.

If Gao Wushi knew that Qi Jiguang was distracted in this area, he would definitely tell him: This is all pediatrics, but it is just a side skill after practicing sketching eggs back then, let's not digress.

The last thing Gao Yushi drew was a ring with an inscribed edge, inside the ring there was a circle of small round beads, and the inner layer was another small ring inscribed with the opposite edge of the outer minister's ring.

"This kind can be called a ball bearing." Gao Wushi smiled and said: "Qi Dudu, you can imagine, if this thing is installed on the axle, the resistance encountered by the vehicle when it is moving is not stronger than the current one. Much smaller?"

Qi Jiguang didn't answer right away, but stared at Gao Pragmatic's sketch carefully for a while, and then said with emotion: "Gao Shidu, your intelligence, Qi Mou sincerely admires it, although the principle of this thing is difficult even for a martial artist like me." I can see it clearly, but with such a whimsical idea, how has there been a second one in thousands of years?"

Gao Yushi kept a reserved smile on his face, but said in his heart: That may not mean that the Romans had already used such things as bearings, but the metal smelting technology in their era was even worse, so they only produced some wooden products. Leonardo Da Vinci, a real genius, had a new idea for bearings. Finally, when the level of metal smelting came up, Westerners immediately took the lead in this respect.I haven't started sailing yet, and I can't get books like geometry, but the ancient Chinese were especially good at handwork, so although things like bearings are complicated, I can design them first, and then forcefully rely on the excellent manual skills of skilled craftsmen Slowly grind it out, it's just... the iron and steel smelting must wait for my steel factory to start, otherwise, with the current smelting level of Daming, even if the bearings are made, the durability will not meet my requirements at all.

Although Gao Yushi has a thick skin, he couldn't stand Qi Jiguang's constant praise, so he coughed dryly and changed the subject: "Qi Dudu, I have already drawn the appearance of this thing, but with the current steelmaking technology, even if it is manufactured, it will be as good as it is." It didn’t achieve the desired effect, so I bought land in Kaiping, intending to use the iron ore and coal mines near Kaiping to make steel, and then start to manufacture it myself.”

Qi Jiguang was surprised and said: "I know that there are some iron mines near Kaiping, but coal mines...Although there seem to be many, but as far as I know, coal mines are used to make steel, let alone good steel. Gao Shi reads you... there are others The solution?" He originally wanted to say, "I'm afraid Gao Shidu will be disappointed if you do this", but suddenly it occurred to him that with such a genius as Gao Yushi, how can he not know that coal can't make good steel?Knowing he's going to do it can only mean one thing: he can fix it.

Sure enough, Gao Wushi waved his hand: "I can solve this problem, but I don't have time to discuss it in detail right now...Let's talk about the second improvement of the cannon carriage—this time it may be more important than the improvement of the bearing to the cannon carriage." Directly, because this method can directly improve the combat capability of the artillery."

Qi Jiguang was both surprised and delighted. What surprised Gao Yushi was that he didn't know how to grow his brain. Improving the gun carriage can actually improve the combat capability of the artillery?The cannon carriage itself is just a carrier. What does changing the cannon carriage have to do with combat capability?
The good news is that if what Gao Yushi said is true, then this effect can be immediately enhanced to the existing artillery, wouldn't it be great?

Without further ado, Gao Wushi picked up the charcoal again and began to draw on the paper.

This time, he drew the other parts of the cannon carriage very briefly, but at the lower part of the front of the cannon carriage, he carefully drew a device that Qi Jiguang had never seen before. There are some words on it, which look like scales on a ruler, and the top of this cylinder is concave in a longitudinal semi-cylindrical shape.

Qi Jiguang looked at it seriously, and suddenly his heart moved, and he blurted out a sentence: "The function of this thing is to support the muzzle of the gun?"

　Special thanks: Thanks to the book friend "Xi Crazy" for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)