The late Ming Dynasty in the living room

Chapter 116 Meeting () Military Shopping Fat Lady

Sun Chuanting had sent over several Japanese "iron cannons" and Ottoman Rumi guns. Compared with the bird guns that Fang Yu wanted to build, they were much simpler in structure.

what else can we do? What the Ming Dynasty army loved was the accuracy of muskets, and they always dreamed of killing their enemies from afar...

However, the durability and standardization of the "iron cannon" and the Lumi gun are definitely not as good as the "new city construction" in Fang Yu's hands.

Durability means that it will not explode easily. After all, it is a low-carbon iron nail picked up by Teacher Pan.

Standardization means that damaged parts can be quickly replaced, especially on the battlefield. This is definitely a life-saving skill... Well, not only are the parts of the blunderbuss supervised by the Ministry of Industry "unique", but even the projectiles are "unique" They all need to be processed by the soldiers themselves, otherwise there is a high probability that they will get stuck in the barrel of the gun.

In short, when they use this kind of matchlock gun in the future, it will be really safe to use it to kill people and set fires.

Of course, Lao Liu is an expert. He has full confidence in this matchlock gun, and now he looks excited.

He looked at Sun Chuanting behind him and continued: "Yesterday Mr. Sun proposed to purchase the first batch of four thousand matchlock guns. This morning Mr. Sun had already seen the batch of barrels by the river and decided to add another eight thousand. "

Sun Chuanting changed his mind after only one night. It was not that he was worried about the manufacturing level of Lao Liu and the others before, but that he was worried about things like matchlock guns.

In fact, the current Ming army has a phobia of matchlocks. In the Battle of Songjin in the first half of this year alone, there were two instances of firearms battalion officers and soldiers refusing to use matchlocks, leading to mutinies. .

This morning he saw with his own eyes the material strength tests performed by the craftsmen (chopping copper coins with a knife to measure the hardness, and the bending limit to measure the flexibility), and then saw the parts warehouse inspecting the parts sent by small businessmen in the city.

Not only did they strictly require that the dimensions match, they even used scales to randomly check the weight of the parts. (Mainly the gun stock parts, which require hard miscellaneous wood, such as ash and birch)

Sun Chuanting was surprised to find that the parts sent from different workshops in the county were surprisingly consistent in terms of size and weight.

Only then did he really realize that the firearms provided by Mr. Fang were probably better than the ones from the Franji people that were several times more expensive. (It’s shipped from Macau. Isn’t it expensive?)

So he was "hard-hearted" and decisively placed an additional order of 8,000 pieces.

Even the swords, shields and breastplates, which were all planned to be made by himself, were ordered for 3,000 sets. (left for his beloved Qin Jun)

Fang Yu thought in his mind, eight thousand plus four thousand, that would be twelve thousand. There will be more and more waterwheels lined up by the river, and it is estimated that the order can be completed in half a year.

Although Sun Da is stingy, this order is still far from Fang Yu's psychological level. What he wants to see is to start with an order of 50,000 and end up with two million people holding his matchlock gun and queuing up to be shot. .

But this matter cannot be rushed. Now Li Zicheng and Huang Taiji are also playing with cold weapons, and firearms are still in the auxiliary position.

Even in Spain, the current Empire of the Sun, the penetration rate of firearms among elite troops is just over 30%.

As for the future overlord England (which should have no future now), according to later generations' data, in 1637 (the tenth year of Chongzhen), their royal armory only had 2188 grenades and 5108 matchlocks.

So, take your time.

Before Lao Liu finished speaking, he said: "In addition, Mr. Sun also wants to order 800 heavy matchlock guns from us, which are turtle dove guns." Fang Yu looked at Sun Chuanting, and Sun Chuanting stood up and explained: "Turtle dove guns It is used to break through heavy armor. The Li thieves have heavy infantry and the Jian slaves have white tooth la. They all wear two or three layers of armor. They are not afraid of bows and arrows or matchlocks. They are so brave that no one can stop them in battle. It can only be broken with a turtle dove gun."

The matchlock gun eventually developed into an automatic rifle, while the turtle dove gun was eliminated in the long history, indicating that this thing was actually useless. (Firing is too slow and inaccurate, just like Baili keeping his promise)

Fang Yu actually didn't want Sun Chuanting to be like other Ming Dynasty armies and use those messy three-eyed guns, kidnapper guns, and five-thunder weapons... This would seriously affect the army's ability to focus fire, and would also cause a huge burden on logistics.

Wearing three layers of armor, right, and not afraid of muskets, right? How about throwing a grenade at your feet?

This thing is simple to make, easy to carry, and low in cost. It can throw seven or eight at you in one minute. Isn't it much better than the 17 or 18 kilogram turtle dove gun?

With this thought in his mind, Fang Yu still nodded.

After all, they have already placed an order, and the quantity of 800 is not much.

"Sun also wants to order some copper and iron artillery from Mr. Fang. Thirty Weiyuan cannons, Yongzhu cannons..." Sun Chuanting took out another shopping list and continued.

……

After the established topics are over, the heads of each department can make their own proposals.

Lao Cui from the canteen also came over. He suggested that Fat Lady should be the chef of the new second canteen by the river. The reasons are as follows:

First, the fat lady has followed Lao Cui for more than ten years, serving as his wife and apprentice. The fat lady has already learned the essence of Lao Cui's cooking skills.

2. The fat lady has the ability to be the head chef and lead the helpers in the second cafeteria. She is tall, has a loud voice, and has a friendly personality. She is also good at knocking rice. Even her boss has personally praised her.

3. The fat lady was the first to come to the camp. She knew all the work in the canteen and was familiar with everyone’s eating tastes and habits...

There was silence in the conference hall, and even Sun Chuanting opened his mouth slightly.

When Lao Cui kept talking and talked about the fifth point, Lao Liu finally couldn't help it: "Old Cui, please stop talking. I firmly disagree with your proposal!"

Meetings in the camp always have something to discuss... At least what Fang Yu saw was a quite harmonious scene. This was the first time that he directly interrupted other people's speeches and made categorical objections like this.

Of course Lao Cui felt that his dignity was hurt.

His face turned red, and he immediately stood up and asked Lao Liu: "My boss has already said that you can speak freely in the meeting, why don't you let me say it! Or is there something wrong with what I said? Why can't I be my mother-in-law?" Head chef?"

Don't you know whether your mother-in-law can be a head chef? Gou Lao Cui is pretending to be confused because he understands!

Lao Liu felt angry, but he also knew that he had made a mistake in a hurry, and his boss was sitting above him.

Alas, no wonder Lao Liu is impatient.

If the fat lady really came to take charge of the Second Canteen, not to mention that he himself could not accept it, his craftsmen and their families would also definitely not agree.

(End of this chapter)