Cutting 1719

Chapter 52 Speed ​​up
On the fifth day of May in the 59th year of Kangxi, it was the folk Dragon Boat Festival, and the sun also rose, which made the farmers who were working hard scold the gods a few times.

In the artillery workshop that had been enlarged many times, Lei Tuozi's braids were almost standing up, and he looked at Ning Yu with an incredulous expression, as if he was looking at a lunatic.

"You asked me to take out [-] Thunderbolt guns before July?" Lei Tuozi still couldn't get used to calling the thunder-type flintlock gun that was in the way, and insisted on calling it Thunderbolt.

Ning Yu looked at the old man calmly, "That's right, it's best to have another forty six-pound Thunderbolt cannons and fifteen twelve-pound Thunderbolt cannons before July."

Lei Tuozi couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted loudly: "Do you think that guns and cannons are Chinese cabbage? If there is one, there is one?"

Ning Yu stretched out three fingers, bending one every time he said a word.

"First, I will give you 3 taels of silver. After a rough calculation, it is basically enough. As for the wrought iron and other raw materials, I will entrust the family to send them over."

"Secondly, there are now more than 700 people in the artillery workshop. I will give you another 100 people and divide it into a separate gun workshop to produce guns."

"Even if you have all the people and things ready, it's too late!" Lei Tuozi interrupted Ning Yu in a fiery temper.

Ning Yu sighed slightly, and looked at Lei Tuozi helplessly, "Master, wait for me to finish. In fact, I also know that making a gun is not that simple, let alone three thousand rods, but I have a way to make it You grow guns like cabbages."

Lei Tuozi has always known that this young master has a lot of tricks, so he immediately flattered him and said, "It's not that Tuozi is impatient. Please tell me in detail, Master."

This is the tacit understanding between Lei Tuozi and Ning Yu. Lei Tuozi never asks why Ning Yu needs so many guns, but how to do it.

Ning Yu said solemnly: "The difficulty in making guns is nothing more than the barrel, and everything else is fine, but I have a way for you to greatly increase the speed of making gun barrels while ensuring the quality."

This made Lei Tuozi's heart itch, but he pretended to be disdainful on his face: "Really? Tuozi, although I recognize your skills, young master, but this gun barrel is no better than a cannon barrel. The smaller the thing, the more beautiful it is." Really skillful."

In fact, what Lei Tuozi said is not bad, because in history, the development speed of cannons is much faster than that of guns, and the technical problems are much less.

Most of the gun-making methods of this era were passed down from the Ming Dynasty, and can be mainly divided into the method of rolling mentioned in "Ji Xiao Xin Shu" and the splicing method recorded in "Tian Gong Kai Wu".Lei Tuozi used an improvement on the basis of the splicing method. This method is actually not bad. It can make a long barrel, and the segmented barrel cools relatively evenly, so it is not easy to explode.However, the rolling method is directly rolled with double-layer wrought iron plates, the cooling rate is not uniform enough, and it is easy to explode the chamber.

From the point of view of quality, the current splicing method must be chosen, but this method has very high requirements for craftsmen, and it completely depends on the craftsman's own experience and craftsmanship. It was Lei Tuozi who worked so hard to make one hundred flintlock guns every month by getting several of his apprentices to make gun barrels.

Now that Ning Yu wants to increase from [-] to [-] at once, the barrel problem must be solved.And Ning Yu has only one solution, that is hydraulic forging hammer.

Around the current artillery workshop, there is such a water conservancy environment, so what Ning Yu needs to solve is the problem of the forging hammer itself.Ning Yu felt a little complacent in his heart. If it is black technology, it is definitely considered a thing in this era. It can be said that without a hydraulic forging hammer, many things would not appear out of thin air.

Ning Yu has an idea of ​​the general structure of the hydraulic forging hammer, and he has seen it before. Dang even drew a sketch, and then called in craftsmen to start overcoming this technical problem.

Speaking of forging hammers, Lei Tuozi is no stranger. After all, there is a set of forging hammers in today's workshops, but this thing can only be used by manpower, so it can be said to be brutal, violent, and inefficient.

Seeing the twisted and twisted sketch drawn by Ning Yu, Lei Tuozi seems to be able to consider it. After all, the hydraulic forging hammer is not much different from the current human forging hammer in principle. The biggest advantage is that it can liberate manpower. Thereby expanding the scale of production.

Lei Tuozi held Cao Tu in his arms and said with a smile: "I just think that you have brought out some treasure. How is this different from the water reel left by our ancestors. However, you can try it. I will pick a few days to transform it. Lower the current forging hammer."

Ning Yu went on to say: "It's not enough to have this alone. We also need to change the current barrel manufacturing process. Although the original method is good, it is still too slow. It is manufactured by rolling, and then replaced with a barrel with a groove in the middle. Forging platform, put the gun barrel in it and directly forge it into shape."

This point is also reflected in the sketches drawn by Ning Yu, but Ning Yu was afraid that Lei Tuozi would not understand, so he mentioned it.

Lei Tuozi snorted, "You little trick, Tuozi still knows it in his heart, you don't know where you learned these crooked ways, don't read this good sage book, come to meddle with our craftsman every day skill."

Although what he said was duplicity, Ning Yu didn't care about it, but continued: "This method can be combined with the assembly line technology mentioned earlier. For example, arrange a person to forge the steel frame in front. After forging, you can Leave it to the next process for cooling, and you can continue forging yourself, so that the whole process does not need to stop. After the cooling of the next process is over, it will be handed over to the next process for heating, and continue forging. Come alive."

This made Lei Tuozi's eyes brighten when he heard it, "This is a good idea. In this way, the furnace workers can also forge in different shifts, and with this hydraulic forging hammer, there is no need to swing the hammer by yourself. In this way, three thousand It's not impossible to make a gun barrel, hey, you boy is really a genius!"

Ning Yu in this life is used to hearing other people's flattery. No matter who it is, Ning Yu feels weird like today. It seems that Lei Tuozi in front of him is possessed by someone.

Without saying anything more, Lei Tuozi hurriedly arranged for his craftsmen to start trial production of this hydraulic forging hammer.As for the gun body and other processes, it has also gradually entered the assembly line state. Just waiting for the direct assembly at that time can greatly speed up the manufacturing speed of the gun.

Ning Yu didn't want to stay any longer, as soon as this matter was over, he was going back to be questioned.

(End of this chapter)