Cheng Hanbin did not hide anything, and told Zhou Shixiang in detail about the physical structure of the self-generated gun he saw at John Tang's place in Beijing last year.
In order to confirm that the self-generated gun was a flintlock pistol, Zhou Shixiang specially asked questions about the trigger and flint, and Cheng Hanbin answered them one by one, which was no different from the flintlock pistol in Zhou Shixiang's cognition.
"The self-generated gun clamps a flint on the jaws of the hammer, and a blow anvil is provided on the side of the fire hole, and the trigger is pulled when shooting, and under the action of the spring, the flint is hit heavily on the edge of the fire door so that sparks emerge, and the gunpowder is ignited, although the firearm is not fine, but it is also known that this gun firing method is much better than the current firearm, if the soldier holds the self-generated gun against the enemy, it is more efficient than holding the fire gun against the enemy, and the accuracy of the gun is much higher, in addition, according to the book of armor illustrations, the cost of making a self-generated gun is only seven or eight taels of silver, It's a lot cheaper. ” Cheng Hanbin has already told everything he knows, and there is no hiding at all, now it depends on how the "thief Xiucai" decides.
The cost of a flintlock pistol is only seven or eight taels of silver, and the year before last when Zhou Shixiang sent people to purchase muskets from the Portuguese in Macao, they sold an arquebus at a high price of 40 taels of silver, and the angry Zhou Shixiang sent troops to blockade the wall of Macao, and only under the threat of force did he buy more than 1,000 guns from the Portuguese at the price of 12 taels of silver, which were still old, and many of them had to be repaired by craftsmen after they were bought back before they could be used.
And the power of a flintlock pistol is equivalent to a three-shot or even four-shot arquebus, so Zhou Shixiang almost did not hesitate to decide to immediately start making a flintlock pistol.
Under the auspices of Song Xianggong, many military factories were already opened in Guangdong, some producing gunpowder, some producing new military uniforms, some making swords and iron armor, and many workshops responsible for the maintenance of weapons.
In terms of craftsmen, the Taiping Army has paid special attention to people with a skill since it became an army, as long as it is a craftsman, they will be treated favorably, even if it is only to repair the broken iron pot, hoe and other blacksmiths are all caught by the Taiping Army.
After the occupation of Guangzhou, Xu Yingyuan, one of the six officials, actually assumed the function of being responsible for the ordnance manufacturing of the Taiping Army, but because he temporarily went to Kunming as a good envoy, and now he was detained by the Annan people, so it was the political envoy who actually presided over the ordnance manufacturing in Guangdong.
Silver, Zhou Shixiang is short, but no matter how short it is, it will not be short of military production, as long as this self-generated gun can indeed be mass-produced, no matter how much silver is spent Zhou Shixiang will not frown, even if it makes the Guangdong silver treasury bottom, he will never stop.
Iron and steel, Zhou Shixiang is also not lacking, Guangdong itself has two copper mines and an iron mine, in addition to the previous wars, the Taiping army also paid special attention to the collection of iron tools, so that Guangdong political envoy Yamen has a lot of iron tools, can be turned into re-forging for the steel pipe required to make guns.
Even if the steel is not enough, it is feasible to use the guns in the army to transform them.
There are craftsmen, resources, and silver, but all that is lacking is a person who is in charge.
As long as there is a person in charge, even if those craftsmen don't know anything, they can always master the skills of making guns under his guidance and training.
Moreover, during the war in Guangxi, many craftsmen who accompanied the Qing army and the Han army were captured, and many of these people were old, and there were even craftsmen who were taken captive outside the customs in the early years of Chongzhen, and the purpose of the Qing army to keep them was to produce artillery and guns for them.
Among them, there are even hereditary craftsmen of the Beijing Ministry of Industry of the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties.
In addition, in the Chaohui War, more than 100 craftsmen belonging to the Han Army's Wuzhen Chaoha Artillery Battalion were captured, and now these people are in Guangzhou, and they are placed in the Yuexiu Battalion as treasures by Song Xianggong to specialize in weapon maintenance.
Therefore, in fact, the Taiping Army did not lack skilled craftsmen who were proficient in gun making, but only a leader and a new concept of gun making.
Cheng Hanbin, who claimed to be a native of Huguangju and was very familiar with Huogong, undoubtedly became the best leader in Zhou Shixiang's eyes.
He pondered for a moment, looked at the other party, and asked, "Sir, can you make this gun?"
Cheng Hanbin chuckled: "The drawings are complete, what can't be made."
As long as the craftsman is fine, the materials are sufficient, and there is full confidence in making this self-generated gun. ” "That's good" Zhou Shixiang suddenly got up with a solemn face, leaned down and bowed to him under Cheng Hanbin's suspicion, and then pleaded: "I don't know if Mr.
Cheng can serve as the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau of our Taiping Army" After speaking, I was afraid that Cheng Hanbin would not agree, so he added, "The ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau is the title of the fourth grade, if Mr.
Cheng successfully makes his own life for my Taiping Army, Mr.
Ben Shuai Bao is the governor of a province, and he will ask the court for Mr.
Gong in the future."
This is actually a high-sounding empty talk, the Taiping army is now only actually occupying the territory of Liangguang, the governor of Guangxi has been appointed by Shao Jiugong, and the governor of Guangdong must be Song Xianggong, where did Zhou Shixiang place Cheng Hanbin.
However, for both sides, this governor's guarantee is not important, what matters is whether Cheng Hanbin can create this self-generated weapon for the Taiping army.
If he can't build it, these four-grade ordnance ambassadors may not be able to sit still, and if they do, I'm afraid that the governor's seat can really sit down.
After all, this self-generated gun is too powerful, if the Taiping army can equip this gun, it is too much stronger than the Qing army in terms of equipment.
The Taiping army is strong, and this world will definitely not belong to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Of course, Cheng Hanbin's ambition is not to be an ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau who specializes in the production of weapons, but to be a good minister who helps the world and the people.
But although he took the initiative to vote, no matter how he said it, he was just a person, but Zhou Shixiang entrusted him with a four-grade job with just a few words, and he couldn't help but say that Cheng Hanbin himself was surprised.
Speaking of which, even if he participates in the Qing court meeting and wins, the best outcome is only to release a county, and in the future, he can be a top of the sky.
In the top five grades of the Qing Dynasty and the fourth grade of the Ming Dynasty, this gap is enough to destroy all the reserves in Cheng Hanbin's heart.
In addition, he was bent on participating in the process of Zhongxing Daming, rather than being a spectator, Zhou Shixiang entrusted him with a heavy task when he first saw him, and no matter how he weighed it, he couldn't say a word.
According to the etiquette of this era, Cheng Hanbin bowed to Zhou Shixiang and made a big salute, so that he Cheng Hanbin officially joined Zhou Shixiang and was willing to work for the other party.
Zhou Shixiang excitedly helped Cheng Hanbin to get up, and discussed the structure of the self-generated gun on the weapon diagram.
Then he talked about the Ordnance Bureau, Zhou Shixiang originally wanted to place the Ordnance Bureau in Yuanzhou, but considering that the war in Hunan was undecided and not safe enough, he finally settled in Guangzhou, so that he could also use manpower and material resources nearby.
Zhou Shixiang is anxious, Cheng Hanbin also has a heart, the two agreed that three days later, Cheng Hanbin will leave for Guangzhou, and strive to build the Ordnance Bureau before the end of May, and start developing self-generated guns in June, and create self-generated guns before September, and then start mass production.
Thinking that a large number of flintlock pistols would soon be equipped with the Taiping Army, Zhou Shixiang was extremely happy, and thought of the shortage of gunpowder, so he said to Cheng Hanbin: "At present, there are a lot of firearms in my Taiping Army, but now there is a shortage of medicines.
Cheng Hanbin said: "This strategy Hanbin has not been verified, but I think that Master Bi has said it in this book, it can be done."
According to Han Bin's knowledge, this nitrate soil is mostly stored in toilets, pig and cattle pen houses, houses, courtyards, old corners of the courtyard are not easy to be washed by water, if it contains nitrate, then there are bitter, spicy, salt three flavors, especially spicy is good nitrate. ” Zhou Shixiang couldn't help but nod his head when he heard it, Cheng Hanbin said that he seemed to have heard about it in his previous life, but it seemed to be about salt making.
"Han Bin is not good at making nitrate, but he has only heard some methods.
There is a nitrate clay on the red charcoal to see if it can burst fire, if it can burst the fire, it is a good nitrate, and vice versa.
In addition, the plant ash used in boiling nitrate must be made of tung in the shell and wheat straw, so that the nitrate quality is the best. ” After hearing this, Zhou Shixiang interjected: "Ben Shuai once read a book by Westerners in the past, which said that if you dissolve nitrate in water, the quality of nitrate will be better, but I don't know if there is such a thing." ” Cheng Hanbin hesitated and said: "This method said by the marshal, Hanbin will start to test this matter after he goes to Guangdong, otherwise how can he fight a war if he only has guns and no medicine." ” Zhou Shixiang nodded, how to extract nitrate with higher purity must be tested continuously, and it is not something that can be done with one mouth.
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Thinking of something, he told Cheng Hanbin: "After Mr. goes to Guangdong, if the manure is boiled to make nitrate, then the boiled manure can not be wasted, and people can be asked to take it to fertilize the field. ” "There's such a thing" Cheng Hanbin was dumbfounded, he had never heard that boiled manure would fertilize the field more than unboiled manure, but since Zhou Shixiang said so, he tried to see if it could really increase the harvest, it would undoubtedly be a great thing.
The people take food as the sky, and there is not much grain in this acre of land, only two or three percent more, but it can live countless people.
"The self-generated guns and boiling nitrate are entrusted to Mr.
Cheng" Zhou Shixiang got up again and saluted Cheng Hanbin, Cheng Hanbin saw that he was unyielding twice in a row, and his heart was also excited, and he hurriedly said: "Hanbin will not disgrace the trust of the marshal" If the flintlock pistol can be made, and the method of boiling dung to make nitrate is indeed feasible, the matter of this gun and gunpowder can be perfectly solved, and Zhou Shixiang is excited.
He has ordered the military department to start preparations for the installation of granular gunpowder, and hundreds of tests by the military department have proved that the use of this fixed granular gunpowder can increase the killing distance of the gunpowder by about ten steps.
The ten-step distance is a big leap in this era when cold weapons are still the mainstay, if it is combined with flintlock guns, then the Taiping army will have an absolutely overwhelming firepower advantage over the Qing army.
The more Zhou Shixiang and Cheng Hanbin talked, the more speculative they became, from self-generated guns to gunpowder, from gunpowder to artillery, and finally to the Qing court and the current anti-Qing situation.
Just as Zhou Shixiang wanted to take Cheng Hanbin to see the military appearance of the second town, Dong Changqing, an official of the Ministry of War, hurriedly rushed into the hall with an official document.
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