Chapter 45 Window Paper "If you see any good ideas in other places, you can tell them as well.
As long as they are useful, I will give you a piece of gold."
Zhu Bayi nodded lightly, and then continued to use gold to lure.
He remembered that before entering the general workshop, Ivanov asked a question about ironmaking.
It’s just the beginning, and the rest is as far as the left and right are concerned.
Guaranteed, this guy has seen a better method elsewhere, but he is reluctant to share it with others.
He is holding it in his hands and waiting to make a lot of money in the future.
Sure enough, traveling thousands of miles is like reading thousands of books.
The veteran ruffian has been wandering around all his life, and his knowledge far exceeds that of the craftsmen who stay at home.
Hearing Zhu Bayi say that there is more gold to be obtained, he immediately opened his big mouth full of yellow teeth and said with a silly smile: "Of course there is, of course there is.
Well, peat cannot be used directly to make iron.
You, You, the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, have long been using coke.
Just build a kiln like charcoal, pile the peat in it and slowly burn it.
Then pour water to extinguish it, and then you can use this to make iron.
The fire is very hard.
The smelted iron is much stronger than charcoal."
"You old thing" Zhu Ba11 patted Ivanov's back of the head gently and scolded him with a smile.
"I'm just obsessed with money.
I'm holding a few big ingots of gold, so I don't have to worry about not being able to sleep.
You can go to Mr.
Su at any time to get the gold.
It's the same place where you received the armor today.
From today on, you can give it to me.
Stay here and teach everyone how to make water hammers and burn coke.
When will you get these two things out?
When will you come back to me?"
Having said that, I thought about the lack of information in this era, and there are many useful technologies that the craftsmen here in Xuzhou may not necessarily know, nor may they be able to master.
Then he turned his attention to Xu Hongsan and ordered loudly, "You will go to Mr.
Su later and ask him to give an order to the entire Left Army in my name.
Anyone who knows about new methods of blacksmithing, cannon making and weapons can come to I will report to Master Huang in the workshop.
As long as what he reports can be used by Master Huang, I will give him a reward according to the purpose. " "Yes" Xu Hongsan answered very loudly.
The eyes of the other blacksmith masters also lit up in an instant.
Craftsmen are passed down from father to son, and from son to grandson.
It is passed down from generation to generation.
Who doesn’t have some unique skills in packing the bottom of boxes?
In the past, everyone was like Huang Laowai, fearing that others would steal the secrets handed down from their ancestors.
Always save something.
Now that the governor has promised a heavy reward, it is worth reconsidering whether to keep the unique skills in his family and pass them on to his son, or to exchange them for cash.
With similar ideas, many craftsmen began to give Huang Laowai ideas for process improvement.
There are also some who don't have any special skills, so they focus all their energy on making bronze fire guns, hoping that the one they make will win the final selection and win the favor and reward of the governor.
Even so, by the time the first batch of bronze fire guns were produced, a full half month had passed.
It took a similar amount of time for the first original water hammer to be set up by the small river.
Only after the upstream river channel tightening work was completed, the test run could begin.
Zhu Ba11 was overjoyed when he heard the news.
He immediately ordered Mr.
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Su to come up with a sum of money and reward all the craftsmen involved in making fire guns and water hammers.
Then he and the craftsmen walked to a secluded place in the wild holding the copper firecrackers, and began to fill the gunpowder one by one to test the power and sturdiness of the new firecrackers.
Because different formulas of bronze were used, firecrackers with different magnifications were fixed side by side on the pre-built earthen wall.
When the sunlight illuminated them, they immediately became colorful.
However, Zhu Bayi had no intention of appreciating the beauty of this metal.
After everyone retreated to a safe distance, he immediately ordered a fire.
There were only "boom", "boom", "boom" and "boom" in my ears.
The earthen wall where the gun was fixed was blown up into billows of smoke.
At the same time, the wooden target set up fifty steps away was also hit by projectiles.
Debris flew everywhere, and the original appearance was no longer visible.
"Hurry over and take a look, there are still a few guns that haven't exploded."
Before the smoke cleared, Zhu Bayi was the first to rush over and pick up the fire guns next to the earthen wall one by one to look at them.
He saw that among the seven fire guns, two of them exploded and two cracked, and he had completely announced that he had withdrawn from the competition.
The other three doors, each one looking heavier than the last, were all intact, but the wall of one of them was so hot that a puff of green smoke immediately erupted when you touched it with your finger.
At this time, no one could care about the pain in their hands, so they quickly wiped the wall of the gun with a wet cloth to cool it down, then increased the amount of gunpowder and tried again.
In the second and third rounds of volley fire, the three fire guns still persisted, and it was difficult to distinguish between them.
By the fourth round, when the amount of gunpowder was increased to three and a half liang, the hottest gun was finally torn open from the inside and could no longer participate in subsequent experiments.
The remaining two fire guns are almost seven feet in length.
The diameter is almost three and a half times the original, from one and a half inches to four and a half inches, and the wall thickness is also as high as four inches.
According to the standards of another time and space, it is about ten centimeters.
It can no longer be regarded as a firecracker, and is equivalent to a small bronze artillery piece.
However, the effective range of these two primitive bronze cannons is several times greater than the cannons everyone saw a few months ago.
It can shoot the large lead bullets that Huang Laowai specially made for these two fire guns three hundred steps away, and it can also create a medium-sized deep pit on the ground.
If it hits a person, even if he is wearing a large lotus leaf armor like the Rakshasa people, the intestines and stomach will be broken, and he will die on the spot.
Overjoyed, Zhu Bayi ordered everyone to put in the prepared projectiles for several small guns and try again.
The two bronze cannons can fire twenty-four or five projectiles at a time, pockmarking the door panels about a hundred steps away.
Leather armor can be broken at a distance of fifty steps.
If it is within twenty steps, iron armor can be blasted into sieves with one shot, and even gods can't stop it.
When the craftsmen saw the result, they cheered loudly with excitement.
Mr.
Su, Yu Changlin and others who came specially to join in the fun were also surprised and happy.
They all bent down to congratulate the Governor for creating two more enemy-defeating artifacts.
Zhu Bayi was very happy.
He first ordered Mr.
Su to come up with money and reward the two makers of "fire guns" who persisted to the end, Huang Laowai and Lian Laohei.
Then he pointed at the one that looked a little more delicate and said, "There is no need to change the material for this door.
Just make it smaller and make the caliber less than two inches.
The projectile is about the same size as the caliber.
Start with a charge of five cents and try little by little.
Until the barrel is blown up, let’s see what we can make in the end.”
After hearing this, Lian Laohei quickly agreed and ran back to the workshop to work with the precious gun and bounty he had made.
Zhu Bayi looked at his back and shook his head.
He squatted down and used a branch to draw a rough outline of a later rifle on the ground.
He pointed it out to the workshop manager Huang Laowai, "If his fire gun can be made according to my requirements, When you come out, you find some wood and embed the firecracker in the wood like this.
"As for your firecracker."
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After looking at the thickness of the wall of the fire gun, he reluctantly accepted the reality.
While drawing on the ground, he ordered, "Just double the size again.
The caliber, tube length and wall thickness are all enlarged in equal proportions.
Then make a shelf and Put the wheel on it and push it around.
If it succeeds, just call the artillery.
Remember, don't make it too heavy.
If it is too heavy, it will only be used to defend the city."
"Well, don't worry, Commander.
This time, I will definitely let you see the artillery sample within ten days."
Huang Laowai patted his chest and said confidently.
"Do it slowly, don't hurt anyone.
It doesn't matter if it takes a little longer."
The two souls have been fused for less than half a year, and Zhu Bayi has basically been able to accept the pace of life in this era that is slower than an oxcart.
He nodded and smiled again.
"It's the governor, please wait and hear the good news."
Huang Laowai patted his chest again, and he and his disciples carried their own extra-large muskets and bounty, and happily went back to continue to work on scientific and technological problems.
"Although I made two Sisi Lai, I have seen the light after all, which proves that my path is feasible."
While comforting himself in his heart, Zhu Bayi also followed the others back.
When I walked to the river and saw the water hammer trying to turn, the last trace of regret in my heart disappeared instantly. .
This thing is actually not a new thing.
The first half of the water wheel has been used in the Central Plains since ancient times, especially south of the Yellow River.
Some time ago during the Yuan Dynasty, water conservancy was built, and many waterwheels were built to drain silt.
Therefore, many old craftsmen in the workshop have seen the original objects with their own eyes.
Everyone took out everything they knew and synthesized it, and then put it together based on the water hammer sketch drawn by Ivanov, and finally made it very easily.
This waterwheel that combines Eastern and Western characteristics is not only more beautiful than any of the original ones, but also uses three bronze gears for interlocking transmission, and its efficiency is more than a little bit higher than any of the original ones.
Note 1 As for the mechanism for lifting and lowering the forging hammer, it is even more like a layer of window paper.
It is nothing more than the coordination between the lever, counterweight and hammer head.
For the craftsmen who had just helped Li Sicang make the Huihui cannon, there was no difficulty at all.
Just replace the heavy sand bucket with a bucket, replace the cannonball launching bucket with an extra-large hammer, and then pour the water pulled up from the river by the water truck into the bucket repeatedly.
Whenever the oversized bucket on one side of the lever is filled, the lever is depressed and the hammer on the other side is pulled up.
When the hammer reaches a certain height, the mechanism is triggered to empty the water in the bucket instantly.
Under the influence of the leverage effect, the hammer head of more than 500 kilograms quickly fell down and hit the red-hot iron block.
Red stars flew everywhere.
After a few hits, it was completely smashed into a board shape.
"Can this waterwheel be used in conjunction with gears to drive drills?"
Seeing that the craftsmen knew how to use gears to drive, the gun-making fire in Zhu Bayi's heart was once again ignited, and he pointed at the waterwheel that was about to start running.
Ask the craftsmen in a low voice.
"Yes," the craftsmen's eyes lit up, and they responded in a flurry, "Put a vertical wheel here, a horizontal wheel here, and then use a horizontal wheel to drive the leather string.
Let the waterwheel replace the diamond bow and pull the string.
The back end of the drill pipe must be rotated faster than by hand, and the force is even.
Governor, you are indeed a Buddha, you know such a simple trick, we have never thought of it in several lifetimes."
Note 1: The waterwheel of the Yuan Dynasty was driven by wooden gears
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