Cutting 1719
Chapter 19 Artillery
Chapter 19 Artillery
Since rebirth, this is the first time for Ning Yu to visit Hanyang Chengning Mansion.
Seeing those timid women pulling two children to say hello to him, Ning Yu was a little at a loss.
These women are his nominal aunts, and these two children are his concubine younger brothers, named Ning Ze and Ning Jie respectively, one is ten years old and the other is only eight years old.
In fact, Ning Yu also has an elder sister who is a direct relative, but this elder sister has already married the prince of the magistrate of the Huangzhou Mansion next door, so she rarely comes back.
After all, this season is not as good as that of later generations. Whether it is transportation or communication, it is not so smooth.
Ning Zhongyuan looked at this handsome son, and felt very satisfied, what is the situation now?Don't say that the children of officials, big and small, in this city are just ordinary businessmen's children, all of them are extremely tired and arrogant.And his Ning family has a son like this, it can be called the blessing of the ancestors.
I had dinner.Ning Zhongyuan pulled Ning Yu into the study, and asked the servants in the mansion to make two cups of tea. This tea was also the camellia that Ning Yu collected in Yunmeng. After tasting it, Ning Zhongyuan thought it was good, so he always kept it in the study.
Ning Yu briefly talked about the apprenticeship. Although a lot of the middle links were hidden, Ning Zhongyuan was still amazed: "This master's temper is still the same, and it is no different from that of the past, but Yu'er, you want Study hard, this master is a really capable person!"
However, Ning Yu thought of a section and said about Chen Shien, especially the last sentence of threats. In Ning Yu's eyes, this sentence seemed unusual.
Ning Zhongyuan snorted softly after hearing this, and said: "A few days ago, news came from the Governor's Mansion that they wanted to check and record the weapons prepared by the soldiers in the barracks. Holding the bid, I wrote a letter to the governor, to focus on inspecting the military equipment of our city defense battalion, and to watch our city defense battalion rehearse!"
"What do you mean that Hanyang City is related to the safety of the whole government, and it is even more related to the safety of the entire Huguang Province. You must not slack off. But why is the old boy not clear about the details? Relying on the relationship of Governor Zhang, he has tossed a good bid The so-called military equipment has long since been sold out.”
Speaking of this, Ning Zhongyuan sighed again: "I don't talk about the combat power of my city guard camp, but it is also one of the best in the Huguang area. It doesn't matter, but the cannons are all from the Ming Dynasty. The goods are already unusable, and they were blackmailed by Qian Ying from Yunmeng last month."
Hearing this, Ning Yu couldn't help but feel a little guilty. After all, he caused the trouble himself, and said, "Father, this time I caused the trouble. I will find a way to solve this problem."
Ning Zhongyuan smiled and said: "You unscrupulous brat, killing someone is nothing, my Ning family, who is really afraid of anyone? Don't worry, these days I am looking for someone from the next door. Those who participate in the guerrilla trade and plan to buy a few guns at a high price are fine."
Ning Yu thought for a while, and said: "I'm afraid it will be difficult. This time, it is definitely not my Hanyang prefecture to inspect the military equipment. I am afraid that the neighboring state capital will also face this problem. I also want to get the gang of soldiers who will be able to do so." What do you do, let alone buy cannons, I am afraid they will also want to buy cannons everywhere, and there is Chen Li secretly watching your every move, I am afraid that you will be caught if you do so."
Ning Zhongyuan poured the tea down his throat together, then put the cup on the table viciously, and said: "This time I was the one who fell, and it was nothing more than a fine and demotion. Go find the bad luck of that old boy!"
Ning Yu was a little curious, and said: "Father, my Ning family is also a military family, and this cannon-making is no stranger to my Ning family. After all, my great-grandfather started his business by making cannons, and now our workshop does not have any iron materials. lack, why not let the family help to cast it?"
Ning Zhongyuan smiled wryly and said: "How can you understand the mystery of making cannons, you old man and I have also been exposed to cannons since childhood. There is too little time for this. Now it is only one month before the inspection period. Even if it is forcibly cast, once it is tested and fired It will explode, how can it be used?"
Ning Yu knew what Ning Zhongyuan said. These days, cannons are mainly cast by the mud mold casting method. Before casting a cannon, it is necessary to use the caliber of the cannon mold as the base, and use mud to make the outer mold and the inner mold first. Then use a lifting device to hang the outer mold outside the inner mold with the same axis, pour bronze or steel solution into it, and then cast it into the gun body.
The most important thing is that even if the clay fan needs to be dried naturally in the shade, if it is forcibly baked with charcoal fire, it will often be dry on the outside and wet on the inside. When casting, the water will evaporate into moisture, causing the cast artillery to often have honeycomb holes, which are easy to burst when fired. , This is why Ning Zhongyuan said that it is easy to blow up in a month by force.
To solve this problem, it is actually very simple, that is to use iron mold casting.Another 100 years later, Gong Zhenlin, the Prime Minister of Jiaxing County, Zhejiang Province, felt the impracticality and cumbersomeness of the Chinese clay mold integral casting method, and determined to reform. Later, in 1841, he invented the iron mold casting method, which was 30 years earlier than that of Europe. Year.
After all, the clay mold can only be used once, and each time the cannon is cast, it needs to be redone, while the iron mold can be used many times without cleaning the barrel, which eliminates the defect that the clay mold cannon has many honeycombs and is easy to explode the chamber, shortens the casting cycle, and the time People call it: "Since the last winter, the cannons cast in Zhejiang have benefited from the workmanship and ingenuity. They are smooth and agile, and they will not go to the West."
Ning Yu also thought of this method, and said: "Father, a few days ago, I read from a miscellaneous book from the former dynasty that iron molds can be used to cast cannons, and they can be used many times, and they won't be messed up because of mud molds." If there are holes in the gun body caused by internal humidity, it will naturally not explode."
Ning Zhongyuan was a little dubious, and said: "The method you mentioned is really feasible?"
Ning Yu smiled and said: "Whether it works or not, we can try it. Father, you can contact the state capital next door first, and I can try this new casting method first. If one of the two is feasible, it will be successful." gone."
At this time, Ning Zhongyuan gained confidence and said: "Perhaps most of the artillery technology of the previous dynasty was lost, so that this method has not been handed down. The artillery technology mastered by the Qing Dynasty is not much better than that of the previous Ming Dynasty. The cannons that have been cast for more than 100 years are all improvements on the basis of the red cannon."
Ning Yu thinks this very well. The artillery-making technology of other eras and countries is constantly improving, but the Qing Dynasty is the only one that is getting worse year by year.
Another 80 years later, in the fourth year of Jiaqing, the Qing court planned to refurbish the 160 old antiques of the previous dynasty - "Shenshu Cannon" and bring them back to the battlefield. The name - "Victory Cannon", but after improvement, it was discovered that the range of the new Victory Cannon was not as good as the old antique Shenshu Cannon.
The poor casting skills of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties suffered a lot in the later wars. Before the First Crow War, Guan Tianpei built forty new cannons in order to improve the defense posture of the Humen Fort. After the test firing, the forty became thirty door, because the other ten were all blasted, and the hole in the barrel of one of the blasted cannons could "store four bowls of water".
Later, the failure of the Qing army can be imagined. Let’s not talk about any tricks in the middle. From the perspective of cannon-making technology, only the Manchu and Qing cannon-making technology is slowly declining.
(End of this chapter)
Since rebirth, this is the first time for Ning Yu to visit Hanyang Chengning Mansion.
Seeing those timid women pulling two children to say hello to him, Ning Yu was a little at a loss.
These women are his nominal aunts, and these two children are his concubine younger brothers, named Ning Ze and Ning Jie respectively, one is ten years old and the other is only eight years old.
In fact, Ning Yu also has an elder sister who is a direct relative, but this elder sister has already married the prince of the magistrate of the Huangzhou Mansion next door, so she rarely comes back.
After all, this season is not as good as that of later generations. Whether it is transportation or communication, it is not so smooth.
Ning Zhongyuan looked at this handsome son, and felt very satisfied, what is the situation now?Don't say that the children of officials, big and small, in this city are just ordinary businessmen's children, all of them are extremely tired and arrogant.And his Ning family has a son like this, it can be called the blessing of the ancestors.
I had dinner.Ning Zhongyuan pulled Ning Yu into the study, and asked the servants in the mansion to make two cups of tea. This tea was also the camellia that Ning Yu collected in Yunmeng. After tasting it, Ning Zhongyuan thought it was good, so he always kept it in the study.
Ning Yu briefly talked about the apprenticeship. Although a lot of the middle links were hidden, Ning Zhongyuan was still amazed: "This master's temper is still the same, and it is no different from that of the past, but Yu'er, you want Study hard, this master is a really capable person!"
However, Ning Yu thought of a section and said about Chen Shien, especially the last sentence of threats. In Ning Yu's eyes, this sentence seemed unusual.
Ning Zhongyuan snorted softly after hearing this, and said: "A few days ago, news came from the Governor's Mansion that they wanted to check and record the weapons prepared by the soldiers in the barracks. Holding the bid, I wrote a letter to the governor, to focus on inspecting the military equipment of our city defense battalion, and to watch our city defense battalion rehearse!"
"What do you mean that Hanyang City is related to the safety of the whole government, and it is even more related to the safety of the entire Huguang Province. You must not slack off. But why is the old boy not clear about the details? Relying on the relationship of Governor Zhang, he has tossed a good bid The so-called military equipment has long since been sold out.”
Speaking of this, Ning Zhongyuan sighed again: "I don't talk about the combat power of my city guard camp, but it is also one of the best in the Huguang area. It doesn't matter, but the cannons are all from the Ming Dynasty. The goods are already unusable, and they were blackmailed by Qian Ying from Yunmeng last month."
Hearing this, Ning Yu couldn't help but feel a little guilty. After all, he caused the trouble himself, and said, "Father, this time I caused the trouble. I will find a way to solve this problem."
Ning Zhongyuan smiled and said: "You unscrupulous brat, killing someone is nothing, my Ning family, who is really afraid of anyone? Don't worry, these days I am looking for someone from the next door. Those who participate in the guerrilla trade and plan to buy a few guns at a high price are fine."
Ning Yu thought for a while, and said: "I'm afraid it will be difficult. This time, it is definitely not my Hanyang prefecture to inspect the military equipment. I am afraid that the neighboring state capital will also face this problem. I also want to get the gang of soldiers who will be able to do so." What do you do, let alone buy cannons, I am afraid they will also want to buy cannons everywhere, and there is Chen Li secretly watching your every move, I am afraid that you will be caught if you do so."
Ning Zhongyuan poured the tea down his throat together, then put the cup on the table viciously, and said: "This time I was the one who fell, and it was nothing more than a fine and demotion. Go find the bad luck of that old boy!"
Ning Yu was a little curious, and said: "Father, my Ning family is also a military family, and this cannon-making is no stranger to my Ning family. After all, my great-grandfather started his business by making cannons, and now our workshop does not have any iron materials. lack, why not let the family help to cast it?"
Ning Zhongyuan smiled wryly and said: "How can you understand the mystery of making cannons, you old man and I have also been exposed to cannons since childhood. There is too little time for this. Now it is only one month before the inspection period. Even if it is forcibly cast, once it is tested and fired It will explode, how can it be used?"
Ning Yu knew what Ning Zhongyuan said. These days, cannons are mainly cast by the mud mold casting method. Before casting a cannon, it is necessary to use the caliber of the cannon mold as the base, and use mud to make the outer mold and the inner mold first. Then use a lifting device to hang the outer mold outside the inner mold with the same axis, pour bronze or steel solution into it, and then cast it into the gun body.
The most important thing is that even if the clay fan needs to be dried naturally in the shade, if it is forcibly baked with charcoal fire, it will often be dry on the outside and wet on the inside. When casting, the water will evaporate into moisture, causing the cast artillery to often have honeycomb holes, which are easy to burst when fired. , This is why Ning Zhongyuan said that it is easy to blow up in a month by force.
To solve this problem, it is actually very simple, that is to use iron mold casting.Another 100 years later, Gong Zhenlin, the Prime Minister of Jiaxing County, Zhejiang Province, felt the impracticality and cumbersomeness of the Chinese clay mold integral casting method, and determined to reform. Later, in 1841, he invented the iron mold casting method, which was 30 years earlier than that of Europe. Year.
After all, the clay mold can only be used once, and each time the cannon is cast, it needs to be redone, while the iron mold can be used many times without cleaning the barrel, which eliminates the defect that the clay mold cannon has many honeycombs and is easy to explode the chamber, shortens the casting cycle, and the time People call it: "Since the last winter, the cannons cast in Zhejiang have benefited from the workmanship and ingenuity. They are smooth and agile, and they will not go to the West."
Ning Yu also thought of this method, and said: "Father, a few days ago, I read from a miscellaneous book from the former dynasty that iron molds can be used to cast cannons, and they can be used many times, and they won't be messed up because of mud molds." If there are holes in the gun body caused by internal humidity, it will naturally not explode."
Ning Zhongyuan was a little dubious, and said: "The method you mentioned is really feasible?"
Ning Yu smiled and said: "Whether it works or not, we can try it. Father, you can contact the state capital next door first, and I can try this new casting method first. If one of the two is feasible, it will be successful." gone."
At this time, Ning Zhongyuan gained confidence and said: "Perhaps most of the artillery technology of the previous dynasty was lost, so that this method has not been handed down. The artillery technology mastered by the Qing Dynasty is not much better than that of the previous Ming Dynasty. The cannons that have been cast for more than 100 years are all improvements on the basis of the red cannon."
Ning Yu thinks this very well. The artillery-making technology of other eras and countries is constantly improving, but the Qing Dynasty is the only one that is getting worse year by year.
Another 80 years later, in the fourth year of Jiaqing, the Qing court planned to refurbish the 160 old antiques of the previous dynasty - "Shenshu Cannon" and bring them back to the battlefield. The name - "Victory Cannon", but after improvement, it was discovered that the range of the new Victory Cannon was not as good as the old antique Shenshu Cannon.
The poor casting skills of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties suffered a lot in the later wars. Before the First Crow War, Guan Tianpei built forty new cannons in order to improve the defense posture of the Humen Fort. After the test firing, the forty became thirty door, because the other ten were all blasted, and the hole in the barrel of one of the blasted cannons could "store four bowls of water".
Later, the failure of the Qing army can be imagined. Let’s not talk about any tricks in the middle. From the perspective of cannon-making technology, only the Manchu and Qing cannon-making technology is slowly declining.
(End of this chapter)
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