Heaven's Change of Fate

Chapter 164 Yang Xin's Development Trilogy
Yang Xin's first big move after he got rich was to use the indigenous method of blast furnace steelmaking. Yang Xin had done this kind of thing in the world of Swordsman, so he was familiar with it, as long as he did it normally. After all, in the world of Swordsman, Yang Xin's indigenous method of blast furnace steelmaking is only to forge swords and other weapons, but here, Yang Xin not only forges swords and other weapons, but also makes guns in batches.

Yang Xin's second big move was to spend a lot of money to recruit skilled craftsmen from all over the world to make firearms.Don't underestimate the technical level and wisdom of ancient master craftsmen, there must be brave men under heavy rewards. Stimulated by Yang Xin's heavy money, the skilled craftsmen recruited by Yang Xin only rely on the two Winchester rifles provided by Yang Xin And the [-]-style Mauser rifle sample, these skilled craftsmen actually made it.

Yang Xin watched the manufacturing process and found that the barrel, the most important part of the firearm, was hammered out bit by bit by craftsmen using hammers and other tools. Although Yang Xin admired its technical level, what Yang Xin wanted was not this. , what Yang Xin wants is large-scale, mass-produced production, and the artisans are only allowed to forge bit by bit. If they are exhausted, they will not be able to make much.

There is also the rifling inside the barrel, which these craftsmen grind out bit by bit by hand.Moreover, there is another problem, which is bullets. In this era, there is no such advanced alloy technology, and only copper can be used to make bullets. But copper in this era represents money, copper coins, copper coins, and there are no copper mines in Wudang Mountain. No matter how rich Yang Xin was, he couldn't afford such a toss.

Yang Xin carefully thought about the development history of rifles, and could only settle for the next best thing. The metal bullets were replaced with fixed paper bullets. Subsequently, the design of the rifle had to be changed, so Yang Xin drew a Dresser rifle. That is, the structural diagram of the world's first pinfire rifle, let these craftsmen build it.

Of course, the barrel also had to be rebuilt. In order to prevent the barrel from exploding, Yang Xin asked these craftsmen to make the barrel thicker.

These skilled craftsmen finally created the first needle-fired rifle by hand in this era. In the process, Yang Xin prepared the gunpowder himself. Gunpowder is the soul of the entire firearm. Without gunpowder, the firearm is just a fire. When Yang Xin was also in the world of Huang Feihong, he deliberately learned the ratio of sticks and gunpowder in order to be prepared, but in the end, he actually put it to use.

Yang Xin asked these craftsmen to make paper-cased custom-loaded bullets according to strict standards, and then Yang Xin began to test the gun.

In Yang Xin's opinion, this gun is very primitive. It is the kind that fires a gun and reloads a bullet. After firing the gun, you have to manually remove the shell. In short, as primitive as possible, it is as primitive as possible, but in this era , this gun is like the dawn of civilization blooming in the boundless darkness.

After testing the gun, Yang Xin expressed his satisfaction. The effective range of this gun can reach 600 meters, and after training, soldiers can fire ten to twelve bullets per minute. Yuan cavalry.

Now, there is only one last question left, which is how to produce it on a large scale and in large quantities. It is simply unrealistic to rely solely on skilled craftsmen to forge it by hand bit by bit. Therefore, Yang Xin proposed the idea of ​​using hydraulic power to make stamping equipment. And simply draw the structure diagram.

At the foot of Wudang Back Mountain, a tributary of the Han River flows here, and Yang Xin can fully utilize the water power.After doing all this, Yang Xin left the remaining work to the skilled craftsmen. After all, there are specialties in the art industry.What Yang Xin has to do is to offer a high reward and provide some ideas to encourage these skilled craftsmen to use their wisdom to do things.

Even so, it took Yang Xin and these skilled craftsmen a year to manufacture the hydraulic stamping machine tool. This is a very, very primitive hydraulic stamping machine tool, which can only be half manual and half mechanical, but at least it has been made. Then start to forge the musket step by step.

However, even with the hydraulic stamping machine, the manufacturing speed is painfully slow.According to Yang Xin's estimation, ten qualified rifles can be produced in one month.

Yang Xin doesn't mind either, because Yang Xin has already tried his best. In this era, to be able to have such a speed can be done with a smile. Although it is slow, it can finally be produced in batches and on a large scale. With improvement, the speed will gradually increase.

Next, Yang Xin divided these skilled craftsmen into groups, and then built workshops again in different river sections, manufactured hydraulic stamping machines, and began to forge firearms.Moreover, Yang Xin introduced assembly line technology, optimized the division of labor, and increased output. A set of equipment and a team of personnel can produce twenty qualified rifles a month.

Next, Yang Xin found the most loyal dead soldiers among the orphans who were caged, and taught them how to make gunpowder. Of course, it was also an assembly line method, so that each of them was only responsible for one craft, avoiding gunpowder as much as possible. The gunpowder craftsmanship was rumored, and the gunpowder workshop was listed as a top-secret forbidden area. Yang Xin directly approached Zhang Sanfeng to discuss the matter secretly. Zhang Sanfeng personally ordered and carried out a series of preventive measures. Even Song Yuanqiao could not intervene in it.

Yang Xin's third big move was to train soldiers. After these two years, the three major bodyguard bureaus have become more and more closely connected with the Wudang faction, and more and more orphans have been taken in. There are a total of [-] orphans. After being taught by Mr. Yang Xin, it is a bit exaggerated to speak out, but literacy is no longer a problem.

Yang Xin began to train them, but instead of training them as soldiers, he trained them as non-commissioned officers.When Yang Xin was in Huang Feihong's world, he personally participated in the process of soldier training. Therefore, for training recruits, Yang Xin is also familiar with the process, as long as he uses it and makes some changes according to the actual situation.

Yang Xin's military training attracted the attention of Zhang Sanfeng and the Seven Heroes of Wudang, especially Song Yuanqiao.However, after watching it for nearly a month, Zhang Sanfeng and the Seven Heroes of Wudang gave up paying attention. In their opinion, standing and running every day can't train these people into martial arts masters at all, they have to train disciples like them.

Even Song Yuanqiao made it clear that he could teach Yang Xin how to train his disciples. Yang Xin smiled slightly, but did not explain. He still trained soldiers in his own way. Wudang Seven Heroes completely gave up paying attention.

The only one who did not give up attention was Wudang Four Heroes Zhang Songxi. The more Zhang Songxi got in touch with Yang Xin, the more he understood Yang Xin's unfathomable depth. The system of the Seven Heroes of Wudang has become Yang Xin's person, so Zhang Songxi insisted that Yang Xin did this because of reasons he didn't know.

Indeed, Yang Xin did not teach them the martial arts of the Wudang sect, but asked them to practice the national art system, supplemented by the Yi Jin Jing, not asking how strong their martial arts will be in the future, but only asking them to be strong and able to support high-intensity combat. Can.

"This is Shaolin's Yi Jin Jing, where did you get it?" When Zhang Songxi discovered the Yi Jin Jing that Yang Xin asked these young soldiers to practice, his expression changed drastically, and he went to find Yang Xin directly.

(End of this chapter)