Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 99 The Development of the Factory

night.

After Zhu Xuan returned, he first found Yan Guan and asked him to find Liu Chun and Zhang Sanfeng.

The latter might not be easy to find, and even if he found it, it would be difficult to convince him to come down the mountain to help him, but the former should be fine. Yan Guan got the order and quickly arranged for people to search for him.

"Little grandson!"

Hou Xian came in from the outside, holding a steel pipe, a simple spring, two bullet casings and bullet heads in his hand.

Since the establishment of the factory, he has been busy outside, instructing the workers to make weapons, or teaching the knowledge of studying things to achieve knowledge. He has just returned and brought back their current finished products.

Zhu Xuan's eyes lit up when he saw it, he picked up the steel pipe, looked at it carefully for a while, and found that even the rifling was done inside.

"Is it really a seamless steel pipe? Did you drill it out?" Zhu Xuan asked.

When making a gun barrel, it is best to use seamless ones, otherwise it will easily explode.

He also planned to make real bullets instead of simply using gunpowder and iron beads as ammunition.

The spring is also an important part of the firearm.

To make a suitable spring, it is still very particular. The carbon content must not be too much or too little, and it cannot be used in firearms if it is too soft or too hard. There are also bullets, which also have a certain technical content and must be standardized.

That is, all bullets produced must be adapted to the barrel of the corresponding caliber.

To make a gun, there are still many technologies that need to be overcome. Craftsmen in the early Ming Dynasty had a certain foundation in firearm manufacturing. As long as they had sufficient theoretical guidance, they could still make it.

"That's right!"

Hou Xian nodded and said: "We heat the made tube blank, put it on the machine tool, and use the tool steel to pierce it and drill it out."

Zhu Xuan put down the steel pipe and pressed the spring again. The problem didn't seem to be big.

Then he looked at it again and saw that the cartridge cases and warheads placed aside were the same size and met the standards.

As long as some more parts are produced, they can be put into manufacturing.

The first gun Zhu Xuan made was a future rifle, skipping those blunderbuss and muskets.

"You did a great job!"

Zhu Xuan put down the things with satisfaction and continued: "Produce the remaining parts according to my requirements and assemble them together. Is that okay?"

"no problem!"

Hou Xian patted his heart and promised.

Zhu Xuan thought for a moment, took charcoal and white paper, and drew another picture of a revolver. He wanted a compact self-defense weapon.

In the past half year, Zhu Xuan and Hou Xian learned a lot of boxing and kicking skills, but they still felt that it was not enough.

As the saying goes, a gun is fast from seven steps away, and a gun is accurate and fast within seven steps.

There is something better to use, so how can you let it go?

"After the gun is ready and it has been tested and it works, let me know again." Zhu Xuan ordered again.

"Yes!"

Hou Xian took the drawing and put it away solemnly.

I'll go to the factory tomorrow and put all these into practice.

As long as it can be done well, Hou Xian feels that it will be a great achievement in the future and can change the entire Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Xuan found another piece of paper and continued to write some popular science articles, including the two books Tianlong and Minghua. He advanced the plot and rhythm, and finished writing the ending. The book was already completed.

After finishing this book, I also published a complete set of books, such as Collector's Edition, Collector's Edition, etc., and made a lot of money again.

Zhu Xuan's main thoughts now are on science popularization and weapons.

After writing the popular science article, Zhu Xuan handed it to Hou Xian and sent it to Zhang Wu for printing when he leaves the palace tomorrow.

Now not only the officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee are taking a break, but even the main hall is also on winter vacation.

During this period, Zhu Xuan not only went out of the palace to play with his two young wives, but also stayed in the palace to accompany the emperor's grandfather. The vacation time passed very quickly. Not long after the officials finished their rest, it was the winter vacation. , the main hall also started normal classes. More than a month has passed since class began.

Hou Xian finally came back and said that the gun was made and they had tested it. It worked and would not explode.

After hearing this, Zhu Xuan asked for leave and left the palace. He first found Uncle Twenty and then went to the factory together.

The current factory has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to before the Chinese New Year.

The dam has been completed a long time ago, and the generators and the like are also operating normally. Hou Xian also led people to study the batteries. The current generators basically only operate when the machine tool needs to be started, and stop when they do not need to be started. , there is no means of storing electricity.

The electricity storage technology they can do now only converts electrical energy into chemical energy. Others need to continue to be researched and tackled, and they can't do it for the time being.

There are also plastics and insulating materials that technicians cannot yet make.

But Zhu Xuan asked people to find a lot of bamboos, open the bamboo joints inside, and stuff the copper wires inside. The connecting parts of each bamboo were glued with rosin to ensure tightness and no leakage of electricity, and finally they were buried under the soil.

This is the only way they can prevent leakage and ensure insulation.

Those wires are connected to several areas such as the arsenal.

Zhu Xuan divided this place into several areas, and the arsenal is one of them. Others include steel plants, power plants, and processing plants. These are the only ones for now, and they will be expanded later.

Steel plants make steel.

However, seamless steel is produced in processing plants and finally sent to arsenals for various assembly.

"Xiao Yunxuan, aren't the changes here too big?"

Zhu Song looked around for a while.

He hadn't been here for several months, and he was almost unrecognizable.

The dam in particular was beyond his knowledge, and there were some things on it that he couldn't understand at all.

When I walked inside, I didn’t understand even more.

Those machine tools that rotate extremely fast, the steel pipes being manufactured, and the bullets...

"Uncle Twenty, this is our stable factory!"

Zhu Xuan has not been here for a long time.

I have to admire Hou Xian's ability.

With his efforts, a factory that surpassed the significance of the times was built.

Hou Xian took them around the factory again and finally returned to the outside of the arsenal.

Several workers brought over guns that resembled the future 38-year-old Gai. There were three in total and placed them in front of them.

There are also five revolvers, customized by Zhu Xuan, for his own use or as a gift to Grandpa Huang and Uncle Twenty. Although they rarely need to use them for self-defense, it is still okay to take one for fun.

"Xiao Yunxuan, are these the weapons you were talking about?"

Zhu Song picked up a rifle and played with it for a while.

He has seen muskets and firecrackers in the army, but these things are very different from firecrackers and the like.

"Yes!"

Hou Xian responded first and then asked: "Little Emperor Sun, can you test the gun?"

"That's it!"

Zhu Xuan nodded slightly.

Hou Xian waved his hand.

Two craftsmen from the arsenal came forward and set up the shields. One of them took out five bullets and put them in the magazine under the barrel of the gun. Then he pulled the bolt and it was ready.

"start!"

Zhu Xuan ordered.

(End of this chapter)