Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

Chapter 590 Black Technology (1)

Emperor Chongzhen was obsessed with the improvement of productivity. Whether it was to solve Ming's internal troubles or get rid of Ming's foreign aggression, only by promoting the increase of productivity could he ensure the maximum effectiveness of the time he took.

It is precisely based on these premises that most of the Chongzhen Emperor's energy is concentrated on the deployment he planned. On the contrary, the control of the court is only to ensure that the various factions check and balance each other, so that the eyes and ears will not be blocked. In fact, after all, the current situation is hard-won.

West Hills.

"Since the first-generation flintlock gun was developed by the Armed Forces Institute, I have been waiting patiently for a rifled flintlock gun with a longer range and higher accuracy."

Emperor Chongzhen held a musket and couldn't put it down and said: "For this reason, no matter what kind of research and development quota the Armed Forces Institute is applying for from the internal funds, I have not hesitated at all.

Gentlemen, you really did not disappoint me. The food and salaries allocated in the past were all worthwhile. Now I have finally waited for this moment. "

Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing, Jiao Xu and other officials of the Armed Forces Academy all had smiles on their faces, clasped their hands down, and couldn't hide the excitement on their brows.

That's right.

From the special establishment of the Military Equipment Academy at the end of the second year of Chongzhen to this moment, the money that Emperor Chongzhen poured in was calculated in millions of taels.

As the gathering of scientific research talents in the Ming Dynasty, the most intensive existence, after a long period of precipitation, the Armed Forces Academy finally ushered in the initial blowout moment.

"The smooth development of rifled flintlock guns is inseparable from the firearms investigations reported from the Shanxi and Liaodong battlefields." Bi Maokang suppressed his excitement and bowed to him.

"Through a large number of data comparisons and experimental investigations, the Armed Forces Academy has concluded many useful values, which provide a favorable support for the improvement of the steel required for the barrel.

The military industry, headed by the Military Weapons Bureau and the Bingzheng Bureau, implements semi-mechanical and semi-manual flow operations to drive the smelting industry under Gyeonggi’s governance with strong production needs, and also provides favorable conditions for the mass production of special steel products. Assure. "

"Yes."

Emperor Chongzhen, holding a rifled flintlock gun, met Bi Maokang's gaze, and said with emotion: "The successful development of a certain type of firearms and artillery must represent the improvement of many fields behind it. Only when the corresponding development is carried out can the smooth appearance of the developed product be ensured.

If there is no development of the military industry, how can there be such changes in the emerging field of lathes? If the Armed Forces Institute fails to improve the field of lathes, and subdivides and develops rotary-knife lathes, and wants to use the smallest loss, many people cooperate. Under the circumstances, it is unrealistic to describe the rifling in the gun barrel. "

There are no shortcuts in the advancement of science and technology. We must move forward step by step, with a firm foothold, and every step must be solid to ensure that each stage can be gradually broken through.

If you want to overthrow the seedlings in the field of science and technology, the ultimate price will be the lack of stamina, which will induce corresponding hidden dangers and contradictions.

As a time traveler, Emperor Chongzhen possessed a vision beyond this era, so he knew better than anyone what the layers of barriers in the field of firearms were.

Like the matchlock gun and the flintlock gun, the technical barrier is whether the firearm itself can be flintlocked. It seems a very simple step, but if you want to achieve this breakthrough, you must spend a lot of manpower, money and material resources to test and calibrate again and again. Then find the most suitable material and structure to ensure the performance of the flintlock gun, far crushing the matchlock gun.

Being able to climb to this level, the army equipped with flintlock guns in batches can greatly increase the shooting frequency, form a shooting barrier in an organized manner, and then defeat powerful enemies on the battlefield.

Only with the ability to produce in batches, truly clarify the production process of flintlock guns, and achieve standardized production processes, can we have the basis for the development from flintlock guns to rifled flintlock guns.

After all, if you want to draw rifling on the gun barrel, you need more advanced special steel, skilled production technology, matching auxiliary tools for drawing rifling, etc.

The breakthrough of each step of the technical barrier will inevitably require a lot of money, a lot of labor, a lot of consumables, and precipitation again and again.

This is the sunk cost of technological advancement.

"It's all under His Majesty's wise guidance that the Armed Forces Institute has achieved today's breakthrough."

Song Yingxing endured the shaking of his body, cupped his hands and said: "If there is no accumulation of sunk costs that have been thrown down for a long time in the past, not to mention other fields, the field of firearms alone, I will definitely not be able to solve it. Flintlock, changed to breech-loading flintlock.

The high-cost development of the bottom concave bullet solves the problem of slow loading of the front-bore flintlock and solves the congenital problem of insufficient air tightness of the firearm itself.

This can be said to have pointed out a broad road for the Armed Forces Academy to develop a higher-quality and higher-level breech-loading flintlock. "

After hearing what Song Yingxing said, Bi Maokang, Jiao Xu and other officials of the Armed Forces Institute couldn't hide their excitement and looked at each other.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen drove to Xishan to inspect the Armed Forces Institute, and it was the research and development areas set by the Armed Forces Institute, all of which achieved corresponding results.

Wang Chengen, Fang Zhenghua, Liu Wenbing and other eunuchs and relatives who accompanied them showed such excitement and excitement when they saw Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing and Jiao Xu, and they all showed doubts.

"Bring a dimple, I want to try the power of a rifled flintlock."

"No, Your Majesty."

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen holding a musket in one hand and asking for the concave bullet, Song Yingxing and the others stepped forward to persuade him, and Wang Chengen, Fang Zhenghua and the others also stepped forward to persuade him.

What a hassle.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Emperor Chongzhen secretly sighed in his heart. Even if the field of firearms had been improved, his special status made people around him unwilling to take risks.

"Fang Zhenghua, come and test the power of this gun for me."

"The slaves obey the order."

Emperor Chongzhen raised the rifled flintlock gun, Fang Zhenghua said, this made Fang Zhenghua rush forward to answer, and respectfully took the musket handed by the emperor.

Bi Maokang stepped forward at this time, and Fang Zhenghua gave instructions. Jiao Xu took a few bottomed bullets and handed them to Fang Zhenghua. According to Bi Maokang's knowledge, Fang Zhenghua began to operate.

Compared with the cumbersome loading steps of the front-loading flintlock, the loading steps of the breech-loading flintlock have been simplified by more than a little bit.

Fang Zhenghua is proficient in firearms. Enduring the doubts in his heart, after loading the musket he was holding, he walked forward quickly under the gaze of everyone. At this time, Song Yingxing directed several people from the Armed Forces Academy to walk 50 meters away. , 100 meters, 150 meters, 200 meters, etc., erected wooden rakes for Fang Zhenghua's shooting needs.

With the addition of Tang Ruowang and his group of missionaries, new measurement units such as Arabic numerals, meters, and centimeters have been popularized by the Armed Forces Institute and implemented in the military industry planned by Xishan. And other fields, have provided a lot of help.

(End of this chapter)