The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 284 Young Artillery
The dispatched Ming warships and supply ships all needed major repairs, and the craftsmen who had been unemployed in the dock got jobs again, and their wages increased by [-]%.

They immediately devoted themselves to maintaining the warships for the "Red Banner Army".

At the same time, Huang Han personally directed the master blacksmith to forge the steel keel.

Many recruited shipbuilders lived in the "Tiger Cave" city. Huang Han also asked his master Xu Guangqi to recruit several big craftsmen from the Longjiang shipyard with the most exquisite shipbuilding technology in Ming Dynasty.

Scientist Xu Guangqi is the master of the Ming Dynasty's technology flow, and he is the elder of the court with more than [-] people. He spared no effort to write letters to instruct his disciples and old officials to find good craftsmen. It is reasonable to go through the transfer procedures to support the great development of the "Red Banner Army" And legal.

It is not illegal for the generals of the Ming Dynasty, such as the commander-in-chief, generals, and commanders of the guards, to make their own weapons and gunpowder, and it is not prohibited to make cannons. Back then, most of the weapons of the Qi’s army in Ji Town were self-made, and they continued to research new products. .

It was also because even the Holy Son of Heaven had high hopes for the "Red Banner Army" and tacitly allowed Xu Guangqi to provide Huang Han with supplies and manpower, so Huang Han recruited a lot of talents during this period.

To build a good ship in this era, the first thing to bear the brunt is to obtain high-quality wood to make the keel. Often such huge wood is hard to come by, and the processing cycle will take several years.

Because the big tree that has just been cut down cannot be processed immediately, it must be completely dead and air-dried before further processing. It cannot be used after processing and shaping, and it must be dried in the shade with tung oil over and over again, so the cycle lasts for several years.

The main keel of Huang Han Shipbuilding does not use wood, not only because it is time-consuming and laborious, but also because the quality of natural wood cannot be uniform, and getting good materials depends entirely on luck.

How can Huang Han, who is preparing for industrialized mass production, rely on luck to grasp the quality of the ship?Therefore, the main keel and ribs are made of forged steel and then tinned for corrosion protection.

In order to proceed step by step, Huang Han did not directly open Goldfinger to build the terminator "flying-scissor sailing ship" of sailing ships. What was put into production was the old lock ship with simple process and high cost performance, which was the "red single ship" in the Qing Dynasty.

This type of ship has a large loading capacity, is faster than traditional Chinese sailboats, and is easier to operate than Western-style sailboats. It is a mix of Chinese hard sails and Western soft sails, and is a typical product of the combination of Chinese and Western styles.

The most competitive thing is that the cost is cheap, and the number of sailors used in operation is reduced by half, which increases the capacity and saves a lot of costs.

However, this type of ship is a small and medium-sized ship, and the tonnage is generally between [-] and [-] tons. Huang Han knows that this type of ship is much easier to build than the No. [-] and No. [-] Fuchuan. Artisans are fully capable of this.

Therefore, he put into production fifteen ships at once, of which seven ships with a displacement of [-] tons and a loading capacity of more than [-] tons, and eight ships with a displacement of [-] to [-] tons.

The existing ships in the water camp were put into the dock for maintenance. The sailors did not have holidays. They were organized to study, read and learn military discipline. During the study period, the military salary was paid in full.

The sailors and gunners went ashore to train and learn to eat three meals a day and received full military pay. The more than [-] people who were originally sluggish were now full of energy.Most of the sailors and gunners are old and weak, and it doesn't matter at all.

Huang Han didn't expect them to fight to the death with the enemy, what he needed was the sailing experience of these people.

Through constant communication with sailors, Huang Han got to know many veteran sailors who have served in the navy for seven, eight or even ten years. Most of these people have been to Japan, and some have even been to Luzon.

This is not surprising, using imperial ships to conduct private business is the way for civil servants and military generals to make money, and of course the maritime trade of Ming Dynasty is mainly to travel to the East and Southeast Asia.

The importance of the navy is self-evident. Although the combat effectiveness of the water battalion possessed by Huang Han is basically not at this time, he cannot relax the management. He raised two levels and reported to the Ministry of War for the fourth-rank signing of Funing Weizheng.

Huang Han selected three general flags from the 13-year-old young soldiers to be sent to the water battalion. They will soon be the first batch of Marine Corps. They will recruit [-] young and middle-aged men from the coastal fishermen. Through one-on-one training, these fishermen will be able to acquire the skills of independent sailing within half a year.

In addition, there are ten young students from the General Banner who are about to learn to operate the Hongyi cannon. They are the first batch of educated youth artillery.

There are 20 veterans teaching the process of firing artillery, and they were selected by Huang Han himself from more than a hundred veterans of the water battalion who were able to fire artillery.

The juvenile apprentices will standardize the firing process during their studies and then form words. I believe that when the artillery produced by the "Red Banner Army" is handed over to them for a few months to fire with live ammunition, the artillery drills will come into being. In the future, they will continue to accumulate operational experience and continue to optimize Just improve.

With the "Tiger Cave" city as his base, Huang Han once again made a big investment.

Now he not only personally instructs the master blacksmiths to cast steel cannons by steel mold hollow casting method, but also adopts hot forging technology to forge fully forged steel keels up to 40 meters long, and also instructs Liulichang to upgrade and transform.

The raw materials for glass production are quartz sand, soda ash, limestone, feldspar, etc., which are easy to obtain. Thanks to the wind temperature technology, the high temperature of more than [-] degrees heated in the pool kiln or crucible kiln is no longer a problem in the "Red Banner Army" system.

The high temperature makes the proportioned raw materials form uniform, bubble-free liquid glass that meets the molding requirements, and then the liquid glass is processed into products of the required shape, and then heat treated through annealing, quenching and other processes.

After dozens of failures, the master master of Liulichang successfully mastered the correct method.

In a word, there is nothing that the Han people can’t learn, even if the cottage starts to accumulate to a certain extent, the original will be squeezed to bankruptcy.

Now the production of glass and glass products at Liulichang in the city of "Tiger Cave" has begun. Dozens of craftsmen who specialize in polishing and processing jewelry are already in production to select qualified assembled monoculars for polished lenses.

Not long after, the eight-times-distance monocular binoculars produced by Huang's came out. This is not a commodity, but a standard equipment for senior officers and scouts above the general banner.

With glass, the technology required to make such a simple monocular telescope is not worth mentioning. Huang Han just summoned jade craftsmen to explain the principle of the telescope, and they basically understood what was going on.

Among them is a craftsman named Peng Jiawang who actually saw the telescope of Franji Man in the capital. Peng Jiawang is 35 years old this year and is one of a hundred or so craftsmen brought by Huang Han from the capital.

He has a superb craftsmanship of processing jade, and processing glass is no problem. Now he knows that the principle of the telescope, which was regarded as a treasure by his colleagues when he was in the capital, is so simple. The processing technology is not as good as processing jewelry for the royal family. Mouth.

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