Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 116
"Based on this, how long will it take to drill a gun barrel?" Yang Menglong asked.

The craftsman who was drilling the gun barrel was covered with sweat on his forehead, and said: "It takes about an inch a day to drill one, and it takes more than a month to drill one well. Fortunately, the barrel of the electric gun is much shorter than the bird gun and the Lumi gun. The difficulty of drilling is not that high, and one can be drilled in more than ten days."

Yang Menglong had a toothache: "It will take more than ten days to drill one!"

The craftsman said: "This is already considered fast."

They thought it was fast, but in Yang Menglong's view, slow, too slow!For more than ten days, the seamless steel pipes produced by a small metal processing factory are enough to bury you alive, okay?He looked at the craftsmen who were struggling to drill the barrels with a tangled face. How long would it take to produce enough barrels to equip a musket force with this drilling method?Could it be that he was really required to completely eliminate muskets and equip only strong bows and crossbows?Please, firearms represent the direction of future military development, okay? If you go against the trend of the times, you will be punished!He said: "This is too slow, can you find a way to speed up a little bit?"

Li Lin said: "My lord, this is already the fastest! The only way is to recruit more people to help drill the gun tubes. If there are more gun tubes drilled out, there will naturally be more electric guns to be made."

Yang Menglong rolled his eyes: "My pockets are about to be emptied, so I'll recruit you again! Think of a way, there must be a way to improve efficiency!"

The craftsmen smiled wryly. Their ancestors did this all the time. Is there any faster and better way?

Yang Menglong paced back and forth, thinking hard, but no one could come up with any good ideas, so he had to use his own brain.It's just that it's too difficult for a high school student to engage in military industry. The most deceitful thing is that this is military industry hundreds of years ago!He scratched his head, scratched his head, racked his brains, and filtered the meager amount of mechanical knowledge in his mind, and found to his dismay that he couldn't think of any good solution.

"Why don't we punch the material of the gun barrel into a thin sheet of iron first, and then make it into a barrel? I want to use a piece of fine iron to punch a thin sheet of iron, so I can't help you?" The bridge section involuntarily appeared in his mind, making his eyes shine.Hey, this trick is very common in the production of Mini guns. First, a thin sheet of iron is punched, and then the rifling is engraved on it, and then the iron sheet is rolled up. It has troubled Europeans who invented rifled rifles for more than 200 years. The big problem is solved in this way, isn't it a mess?Well, if this trick really works, then what kind of crossbow and matchlock would he play with? Just play with the minigun and he'll be fine after being abused!

As soon as this remark came out, all the craftsmen stopped their work and looked at him stupidly. There was no sound in the workshop that was so noisy just now.Yang Menglong puffed out his chest, his nostrils turned up to the sky, it seems that he really came up with a great idea, which shocked everyone, praise me as much as you want, worship me, I won't be embarrassed!Hey, the protagonist's halo is so cool!

"My lord..." After a while, Li Lin said cautiously, "Are you sure this method will work?"

Yang Menglong said arrogantly: "It should be feasible."

Li Lin said: "However, my lord, if you want to beat the material of the gun barrel to the point where it can be rolled up, you must make it very thin. If you want to beat fine iron into such a thin iron sheet with a hammer, it is simply a impossible things!"

Yang Menglong was dumbfounded: "Uh..." Damn it, why did you forget that there is no stamping technology these days, let alone large machine tools, and everything can only be solved with a hammer?If you want to use a hammer to punch out an iron sheet that is only a little thicker than straw paper, the difficulty is really not ordinary!
"Then you can hit it thicker!" His mind was running at the speed of light, and he gave a countermeasure.

Li Lin didn't speak, and the craftsman who was gesturing there with a gun barrel said for him: "If you hit it thickly, the roll will not be tight enough, and the gas will leak out when you fire, and the power will be greatly reduced. Ten paces, with this kind of gun barrel, you can only hit thirty paces at most!"

Yang Menglong was dumbfounded again: "Uh..."

Probably because they thought it was a rare opportunity to hit General Xiao Yang, everyone thought about it, and another craftsman said: "Furthermore, the inner wall of the gun barrel made in this way is uneven, and the bullets are likely to get stuck inside. , and then the whole gun barrel exploded!"

Yang Menglong almost cried: "Is my idea so bad?"

The craftsmen nodded in unison, indicating that the old man's idea is really bad.

Yang Menglong laughed dryly, wanting to cry from the bottom of his heart.Is it true that wearing novels kills people?Is it true that the brainless fans of the Minigun killed people?First, carve the rifling on the iron sheet and then roll the iron sheet into the barrel, which perfectly solves the problem of difficult processing of the rifling. People can’t even punch out the iron sheet. Carve your sister!Even if it can be shot, it will definitely not be smooth and flat. The uneven marks left by the hammer on the iron sheet are simply the best accomplices in the murder of a musketeer. Do you dare to use a musket made with this barrel?He finally realized that the protagonist's halo can't be opened just by saying it, and the problem that took Europeans 200 years to solve is not something that he can solve with a brain hole. It's really embarrassing.Seeing that the gang of unscrupulous craftsmen were all flushed, he gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it, just pretend you didn't hear about this bad idea, and use your brains to increase the output for me. Do you hear me!" On the surface, he was aggressive, but he wanted to cry in his heart, his musketeers, his armored vehicles stuffed with gun barrels like hedgehogs, it's over!

The craftsmen still looked like they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. His teeth were itchy with hatred, so he snorted and left despondently.After he walked dozens of steps away, there was a burst of wild laughter in the workshop... I am ashamed, this time I am really ashamed!The result of the layman commanding the experts indiscriminately is so embarrassing, he has tasted the pain, and he must think twice before giving advice to those guys in the future!
"Forget it, my biggest advantage is theoretical guidance, not practical operation. I don't have the same knowledge as you idiots." He thought resentfully.

If he lost face, he had to find a way to get it back, so Yang Menglong ran out of town to look at the crops.Now the crops in Wuyang Qianhusuo's military fields are the best growing in Wuyang County and even Nanyang Prefecture, and he will regain his face when he gets to the fields.

The sun has already hung in the air, pouring heat onto the earth, looking up at the sky without a trace of cloud, as if you can hear the crackling of the sun burning, it's hot, it's hot enough.By the river, the waterwheel is still turning continuously, bringing the river water out of the bank, and then sending it to the distant farmland along the bamboo canals.The caryopsis of wheat has turned slightly yellow, and it will be harvested after a while. In the corn field, rows of corn are lined up there like a military parade. They are green and shiny, and some buds have grown. I believe it will take another month or so , he can eat pure natural and pollution-free corn.Some of the land that is not easy to irrigate is planted with the alfalfa he found so hard. This kind of drought-resistant crop has the same vitality as Xiaoqiang, but it starts to grow wild after only a few waterings. Pick some young leaves here and fry them to eat. They are very tender and delicious.Alfalfa is a good thing. It is drought-resistant and has a high yield. It can be harvested more than ten times a year. It is not only a good livestock feed, but also can be eaten as a vegetable. There are a lot of benefits for hundreds of acres.Yang Menglong plans to plant two to three thousand acres so that they can be used to raise pigs, cattle and horses, especially pigs and cattle. The former is the main source of meat, and the latter is the main force of plowing. Without these two things, farmers I can't live anymore.As for the horses, there are only about [-] horses in the Qianhusuo, which is really pitifully small. He is racking his brains to get more horses to raise. Well, especially plowing, no worse than cattle.

In the distance, hundreds of military households and migrant workers are bare-chested and swinging hoes, reclaiming pieces of wasteland.According to a rough estimate, they have reclaimed more than 20 mu of wasteland during this period. With more and more people, the speed of reclamation is also getting faster and faster. It is not a problem to reclaim another [-] mu of land.Now the population of Nanyang Prefecture is far from being saturated. Due to the difficulty of irrigation, poor fertility and other reasons, there are too many abandoned lands to count. The wasteland around Wuquan Town has been reclaimed, and you can go to other towns Reclamation, the government has always strongly encouraged this kind of behavior. As long as you are willing to work hard, it will not be a problem to reclaim [-] mu of land.The work of repairing canals and digging wells is also in full swing. Canals are being built in places with good terrain, and deep wells are dug in places with unfavorable terrain to irrigate with well water. Now there are more than [-] suction wells in the military fields. It is still increasing, and the landlords are very jealous.Once the irrigation problem is solved, food can grow in the fields, and it's all money!No, no matter what you say, you must find a way to take these fields!It’s just that Yang Menglong is too fierce, if he dares to attack him, it is definitely the rhythm of the family crematorium. Landlords should touch their necks first to see if their heads can withstand a dog’s leg knife before stealing them!

Those sweet potatoes are also growing well.Yang Menglong asked the military households to change the method of planting sweet potatoes. They first raised a ridge, divided a piece of land into several ridges, and then opened a ditch in the middle of the ridge, filled it with plant ash, silt and other things as fertilizer, and finally filled it back. Plant two potato seedlings every half a foot.This method made the military households feel very novel. They used to grow sweet potatoes without raising ridges, let alone fertilizing, and just planted small potatoes in the field. They did not expect so much attention.Now the potato vines are growing crazily, but it won't last long. The military households have to pick potato leaves every day to fry and eat, and cut off the potato vines and feed them to pigs.This is what Yang Menglong wants. If the potato vines grow too crazy, the production of sweet potatoes will be affected. Well, it's just right!Looking at these gratifying crops, his tail that was originally shrugging slowly turned up. Who said that laymen can't command experts?When it comes to farming, don't I, a layman, direct the experts to do a good job?

(End of this chapter)