Warlord: King of All Clans
Chapter 649 Gun Barrel Boring Machine
The iron plows, shovels, pickaxes, rakes and other agricultural tools made by the Hewan Iron Workshop for the large-scale development plan were all made according to military orders.
Like the flintlock, it is engraved with the production number of the craftsman and workshop manager.
No matter whether it is weapons or farm tools, as long as the products come out of the workshop, any problems can be traced back to the specific craftsmen and persons in charge.
If there was any problem with any of the standard flintlock rifles of the River Bend Legion, either the musketeer who used it would be punished or the gunsmith who made it would be punished.
The official farm tools and weapons ordered by the Lord’s Mansion follow the same rules.
Moreover, iron farm tools are sturdy and durable. Even the low-quality plow and hoe made by ordinary rural blacksmiths can be used for three to five years without any problem.
The farm tools that came out of the iron workshop were of even more sophisticated craftsmanship, and the quality of the iron was so high that foreign lords took them and recast them into swords.
The development zone of your United Knights loses 20% every year. Did you use it for war?
There are tens of thousands of farm tools, and no one would complain if one or two were damaged. Even if 10% or 50% were damaged, it would be acceptable, but 20% is too much.
No matter how cheap the iron farm tools in Hewan are, they are still iron tools. They cannot be exchanged for a few bags of grain. They are equivalent to two months' salary of a low-level hired farmer.
If it breaks down within a year, the cost will be huge.
The person in charge immediately knelt down, unwilling to take the blame, "The animal power and farm tools of the public fields are managed by Deputy Mayor Kaili of Swamp Town. I only have his accounts here."
Leo ordered, "Kelly? Nairn's assistant? Okay, investigate immediately. If it's true, confiscate all the property and hang him in public. All the livestock and farm tools must be accounted for and a new register must be compiled."
The person in charge answered repeatedly: “Yes!”
After Leo finished processing, he asked, "What's your name?"
The person in charge got up from the mud and said, "My name is Charles, Charles Pollitzer."
"Good job. Now that spring planting is over, you will be the mayor of Swamp Town."
"Thank you, Lord Earl!"
It is impossible that the Earl is inspecting with only the three of them, as there is a large group of officials around him.
Seeing Charles getting promoted and given a raise, everyone was envious and frightened at the same time.
Leo promised to let Charles leave.
He has now been trained and is not as simple-minded as before.
It can be seen that Charles is very shrewd. If he did not want to expose Carey's corruption, he could have simply not mentioned the issue of lending animal power. After all, his direct superior is Olivia.
When facing Lord Leo, you only need to report the progress of spring sowing as normal.
But Charles insisted on saying more, only mentioning animal power instead of farm tools, just to make Leo discover the trick.
If Leo knew nothing, then since it was okay for others to be corrupt, even if he didn't join in the corruption, there was no need for him to offend his colleagues or expose them proactively.
It is indeed difficult to stay in a high position. Any manager below can be so cunning.
If he, as a count, is not careful, he will miss the hidden meaning of his subordinates and will be looked down upon by them behind their backs.
Embezzling one or two thousand cheap farm tools is nothing considering the current basic situation of Hewan.
But spring sowing is an important agricultural event that Leo personally presides over. Kaili's defiance of the law at this time can only mean that he wants to die.
If these unhealthy trends are not curbed in time, they will be imitated by others and form a solid corrupt group.
This is also the reason why Leo follows the tradition of the North and personally presides over the spring sowing.
A year's plan begins in spring. Take advantage of the beginning of spring to hang a few people and promote a few sensible ones, so that the people below will put away their bad intentions and work hard.
Half a month later, the spring sowing was basically completed, and Leo still had to take a walk around the workshop area in the river bend.
The current Hewan Workshop area has completely moved away from the Hewan Peninsula. The forging workshop on the peninsula has become a research institute, and the equipment here is used by the craftsmen of the research team for inventions and creations.
The new workshop area was moved to the dense forest in the west between Hewan Town and Hekou Town.
The huge workshop area is divided into a military-industrial area and an industrial area. The industrial area mainly manufactures civilian products, while the military-industrial area is specifically responsible for guns, ammunition, and weapons and equipment.
In the gun workshop, Leo saw the latest gun barrel boring machine.
Valery was accompanying him, looking particularly proud. He pointed at the boring machine operated by the gunsmith and said, "This is the latest barrel boring machine. With it, blacksmiths no longer need to forge gun barrels by hand. They only need to produce a batch of solid iron bars in the rotary refining furnace and move them to the boring machine to drill out the gun barrels."
"As long as there are enough iron rods, the craftsmen can bore a qualified gun barrel in one day."
"The senior craftsmen in Hewan can even bore the rifling directly on it to make rifled gun barrels."
Leo looked at the single-operated boring machine and found that it was steam-driven. Once started, the drill bit rotated rapidly and with excellent stability.
This is a technology that was not available before. The focus of precision machine tools is not on the word "machine tool" but on the word "precision".
Ordinary hand-cranked machine tools and foot-operated machine tools have appeared thousands of years ago, but once the speed is too fast, the force is too great, or the energy supply is unstable, it will affect the precision.
Previously, the most primitive gun barrel boring machine in Hewan was hydraulically driven and could only bore and mill bronze gun barrels. It was unable to cope with cast iron gun barrels.
The drill has to bear enormous forces, and even the slightest shake can result in the risk of damage and loss of life.
Now Hewan's craftsmanship has finally come up to standard. The accuracy of this gun barrel boring machine has reached the standard, and it can finally make precise holes in iron bars as thick as a thumb.
The so-called precision boring machine should actually be called a drilling, milling, boring and grinding machine. Gunsmiths use it to directly process a solid iron rod into a gun barrel.
But on the other hand, this precision machine tool would be useless without the ironworks' rotary refining furnace producing high-quality solid iron bars.
For a skilled blacksmith, the time it takes to hand-forge a solid iron rod of qualified quality is not much different from that of hand-forging a gun barrel, and it is more difficult to ensure the uniformity of the iron rod's texture in the former.
In this case, why bother adding another process on the barrel boring machine?
Leo took a quick look and saw that there were as many as forty such single-machine tools in the spacious gun barrel workshop.
There are two such gun barrel workshops in the Hewan Military Factory.
Before this, even Old John, the chief blacksmith of the Adonis family and the head gunsmith of River Bay, who was the strongest in hand-forging gun barrels in River Bay, needed three days to forge a long gun barrel.
For other mid- and low-level gunsmiths, it would take a week at the fastest and half a month at the slowest to forge a qualified long gun barrel.
With the barrel boring machine workshop, the production speed of Hewan flintlock rifles at least doubled, and the quality of the barrels was improved again.
Such a gun barrel requires a lot of pre-processing, which is equivalent to the expensive alloy gun barrel of the Demonic Alchemy Workshop in the Imperial Capital, but the cost has not increased.
In addition to the barrel boring machine workshop, there are also grinding workshops, quenching workshops, anti-rust workshops, etc. A long gun barrel alone has been subdivided into five or six workshops.
The entire flintlock workshop has more than a dozen parts workshops, which are finally assembled into a standard flintlock rifle.
The new standard flintlock rifle had a thinner and lighter barrel than the previous one, and the barrel was about ten centimeters shorter.
But it has a longer range, greater power and better performance.
Leo read all the way through and was very satisfied. "The musket reserves in Hewan are sufficient. All the first-generation muskets have been retired and sent to the reserve forces, and the regular army is equipped with new muskets."
"The same goes for artillery. All the old artillery pieces were retired and replaced with new ones."
"We're going to war again."
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