Edo Traveler

  Chapter 210 37. Takashima Akiho Courageous

  The main purpose of the so-called reverberatory furnace is to help decarburize domestic iron. As traditionally used to make knives and gunpowder guns, the carbon content of iron is basically higher than 1.7, so it is relatively fragile and cannot bear the powerful impact of a cannon when used as a weapon. Therefore, a reverberatory furnace is needed to decarburize and process it into suitable steel. The carbon content of steel is below 1.7, which is strong and impact resistant. It is an ideal material for making cannons.

The Western-style reverberatory furnace of the Saga Domain was built two years ago, and it has been repaired and remodeled 17 times before and after, including important parts such as heat-resistant tiles, all of which are made in China or made in the Saga Domain. The finished product developed. It took two years to finally have the current scale.

  One furnace can make 12,000 pieces of steel!

  So not to mention using it to make Gobes flares, it is more than enough to make a 24-pound cannon. Now the Saga Clan is making progress, and is already building three other reverberatory furnaces one after another. If there is no accident in history, after the black ship arrives, the shogunate will order fifty shore defense heavy artillery from Saga to build the Shinagawa Fort.

   By the way, the arms business is very profitable. With this deal, the Saga Clan bought fifty thousand taels of gold from the shogunate. It was a cannon fire, and the gold was tens of thousands of taels.

   "I never thought that Saga Ranxue was prosperous, and it was so prosperous!" Tademon looked at the huge reverberatory furnace in front of him, and exclaimed from the bottom of his heart.

  As soon as the words exited, not only Fujitaro Honjima was very proud, but Naomasa Naomasa also showed me a great expression. Because this thing was built by Nabeshima Zhizheng, who resisted all opinions. At that time, many people in the Saga Domain thought that education and economy should be developed first, and military industry and other industries could lean back. Today, the success of Reverberatory Furnace is not easy to come by.

"That's why I dare to invite Dr. Shiro to come, cast cannons, and deploy Nagasaki!" Nagasaki Nagasaki is in charge of guarding Nagasaki, and Nagasaki is also the gateway to Saga. If Nagasaki is attacked, Saga will also It is difficult to preserve, this is a matter of benefiting the country and self.

   "Previously, 30 pairs of Dutch-style mortars (for duim, a unique unit of length in the Netherlands at the time. 1 pair of hams are approximately 2.5 cm) mortars and three-pound cannons have been cast." Fujitaro Motoshima led everyone to move forward.

  He didn't know much about Muchuemon, but Akho Takashima and Fujitaro Honjima both learned Western science and culture through Dutch, and it is normal for them to master the Dutch unit of measurement. As an example, the older generation of workers in our country also used the term "Mili" when talking about the unit of length. Young people would not understand it at first glance.

  However, when the real thing appeared in front of him, Chuemon understood it. Isn’t this the kind of large-caliber heavy mortar on the Dutch battleship? With its curved trajectory, it killed and wounded the people on the deck of the enemy ship. In addition, this mortar can continue to glow until the First World War. In the history of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese mortar also played a significant role in the attack.

   just can’t be used to defend the turret. After all, the range of the mortar cannon is not as good as that of the long-barreled cannon, the use limit is relatively large, and the application occasions are relatively small.

  But that three-pound bronze gun, Chuemon admires it!

  Because Chungemon remembers clearly that in the European and American armies, this type can allow two or three infantrymen to operate quickly, and can be quickly dragged and moved by two horses on the battlefield. The small artillery that can instantly increase the firepower intensity of a certain key node and destroy the enemy's infantry formation and formation is the best fire support weapon for infantry.

The decent European and American armies are equipped with many such small artillery. Regardless of its power and the devastating explosion of a 24-pound heavy artillery, the iron ball fired from it can also kill people.

  Compared with the heavy artillery used for coastal defense, this three-pound five-pound rapid-fire gun is also a very necessary weaponry. It's just that it's not the shogunate who owns it, but the Saga clan soldiers.

   "Try it, and let Dr. Shiro and Chuemon go to see him." Naoshima Nabeshima faced Chuemon without any concealment.

  In other words, the Nabeshima family’s perception of the shogunate has not been so bad that it was about to fall. When the Saga Domain was first established, the nominal head of the country was the Ryuzouji family, but the real power was in the hands of the Nabeshima family. Later, the two generations of Patriarchs of the Longzaosi clan committed suicide or died of illness. For a time, there was no owner of the Longzaosi temple.

  At this time, Saga was faced with a choice, to pick someone from the nephew or grand-nephew of Ryuzo-ji Ryuzo-ji to be the heir, inherit the family name of Ryuzo-ji, and the name of the Lord of Saga. Or directly let the Nabeshima clan, who had already mastered the real power of the Saga domain, be the head of the country.

  At that time, the shogunate supported Nabeshima directly in power!

  With such a great favor, Nabeshima’s perception of the shogunate is at least not too bad. These two hundred years have been considered courteous, because the shogunate seldom enlisted the Saga clan for labor because of the task of guarding Nagasaki. Hello and me, until the second Changshu expedition, the Saga clan was actually the Samu faction.

  But, loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal!

  Looking at the shogunate's deteriorating situation, and the power of the Fallen Shogunate is so strong, the Saga Clan finally turned to the Fallen Shogunate. Followed to fight the shogunate, and also participated in the march of Edo. It even provided fire support to the new government forces in the battle to suppress the Aizu clan.

Not to mention later, the relationship between Saga and the shogunate is acceptable now~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Maybe Naomasa Naomasa also had the intention of letting Tademon Tademon see it, and then return to the arena to sell to the shogunate leaders. . The problem of coastal defense is getting more and more serious, and the shogunate will always need cannons. As for the whole of Japan, Saga can manufacture the latest cannons.

   With a "boom", the mortar cannon fired. The effect is indeed ok. After all, it is an imitation of a Dutch-style artillery, and it can be regarded as something that can keep up with the trend of the times. As long as we continue to study and develop, the weapon manufacturing technology of the Saga clan will not lag far behind the world.

   "How about?" Naomasa Nabeshima was also satisfied.

   "Excellent!" Chuemon praised him sincerely.

"Since the domain has such experience, in the opinion of the old minister, perhaps the 36-pound steel cannon can also be tried for casting." Takashima Qiuho confirmed that his apprentice has fully mastered the essentials of cannon casting, and there is no problem with the finished product. , The heroic is stronger.

  Compared with battleships, land-based fortresses have an advantage. If 36-pound heavy artillery can be used to bombard foreign ships on the sea, then why should we worry about Nagasaki being attacked?

  "Have you done 36 pounds too quickly?" Tademon advised the little old man to relax.

   "I'll be successful in prison, and I will definitely be successful this time!"

  (End of this chapter)