Iron Dynasty

The cold texture of metal came from the body of the flintlock gun.

Raising the flintlock gun and aiming forward, Xiao Ming said, Maybe you can try another kind of bullet, which will be easier to load with round projectiles.

The flintlock gun has been produced and equipped for a period of time. Xiao Ming has been psychologically prepared for the appearance of the rifled gun. The first rifled gun in the contemporary era was born in the early 15th century. This rifled gun is collectively called the rifle.

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Danish army in Europe was the first to use rifles. However, the production of rifled guns at this time was complicated and the loading of ammunition was very difficult, which caused the rifled guns to not exist on a large scale in the European army. Skirmish lines for the attack of the pistols existed.

At the same time, the difficulty of loading is part of it. Black powder, a low-intensity explosive, also makes the range of rifled guns not too outstanding. However, compared with muskets, the range of rifled guns based on black powder has increased from 90 meters to about 200 meters. This is already pretty good.

Now he can't change the black powder, but for Xiao Ming, he can change the bullet. After all, he is very aware of the drawbacks of rifled guns, and he knows how to restrain them. What he told Song Changping was the Miguel bullet.

Is Your Highness talking about the cylindrical-headed bullets in the books? Song Changping said: It is precisely because the round lead bullets are difficult to load that the lower official is trying to produce such cylindrical-headed bullets.

You are already making this kind of bullet? Yes, your progress is getting bigger and bigger. Xiao Ming laughed.

The Mignet rifle played by Miguel is a front-loading rifled rifle in the 19th century. This rifle is very powerful. The range can reach 900 meters, and the accuracy can be guaranteed within 500 meters.

It's a pity that Song Changping's rifled rifle and the reproduced Minet bullets have already met the requirements of this kind of rifle, but they can't keep up with the gunpowder. After all, the gunpowder used in the Minet rifle at that time was all strong gunpowder.

Therefore, according to his estimation, Song Changping's rifled gun and Minet bullets can at least reach a range of about 300 meters, and there is no problem in maintaining accuracy within 150 meters.

And because this kind of bullet is slightly smaller than the rifle caliber, it also solves the situation that the bullet cannot be inserted into the barrel or the barrel is blocked when the bullet is too large when the bullet is loaded before.

Because the slightly smaller Mignet can be easily pushed into the chamber with the push rod, which greatly increases the rate of fire.

At the same time, the Miner bullet is threaded around the projectile to match the rifling, the middle of the thread is filled with animal oil, and the bottom of the bullet is made of cork.

When shooting, the gunpowder gas hits the cork, and the cork suddenly swells the bullet after being instantly impacted.

The bullet is stretched, so it can rely on the bullet itself to complete the sealing of the chamber at the moment of firing, and will not leak the gunpowder gas and cause the loss of kinetic energy of the bullet, thereby greatly increasing the range of the bullet.

This is also the reason why Xiao Ming deduced that Song Changping's rifled gun could increase the range to 300 meters or even 400 meters after using the Mignet.

It's a pity that the production of this kind of bullet is more troublesome, and soldiers can't make spare bullets anytime and anywhere on the battlefield. Song Changping said.

Xiao Ming said: There are advantages and disadvantages. Rifled guns have a long manufacturing cycle and temporarily produce small batches of equipment for troops. Moreover, now that Lin Wentao has made a steam engine, it may not be a problem after a while. You should focus on research when you go back now. Let's talk about how to rifling and produce cylindrical bullets.

Song Changping nodded. This rifled gun was drawn manually by him using a hook knife. It was very time-consuming and laborious. Although he did not know what Xiao Ming was talking about, it seemed to be a very powerful thing.

Leaving the rifle behind, Song Changping told Xiao Ming some skills in manufacturing rifles before returning to the military workshop.

He came here mainly to seek Xiao Ming's opinion on rifled guns. Now that he has Xiao Ming's power support, he will let go of his hands and feet to produce new rifled guns after he returns.

Watching Song Changping leave, Xiao Ming smiled and looked at the first rifled gun in the Great Yu Kingdom. The fief's progress day by day made him very comforted.

With these technological foundations, he feels that his fief is more and more secure, but the most important thing for him now is how to apply steam engines to the production of various industries in Qingzhou today.

Thinking of this, he thought about it all night, and the next day he went to the equipment department and asked both Lin Wentao and Zhang Liu to come over.

Your Highness.

Lin Wentao was still in an excited mood because of the advent of the steam engine, but Zhang Liu seemed much calmer, because the Equipment Division was the first to follow Xiao Ming and had seen too much wind and rain.

Xiao Ming thought about it for a long time last night and decided to let Lin Wentao and Zhang Liu set up the Qingzhou Steam Engine Workshop, which is to mass-produce steam engines, so he said: The reason for calling you here is very simple, now you two are responsible for the production of steam engines. , To this end, this king is going to set up a special workshop, which will be in charge of the two of you, with Lin Wentao as the workshop supervisor and Zhang Liu as the deputy workshop supervisor.

Steam engine workshop? Lin Wentao was immediately excited when he heard the words. He used to be just a student, but now he wants to become a workshop supervisor. This position is directly comparable to Chen Qi and Lu Tong, and he is naturally happy.

Zhang Liu is also smiling, this is a kind of promotion for both of them.

What? Not happy. Xiao Ming joked.

Yes, yes, how can we not? Lin Wentao and Zhang Liu laughed at the same time.

Xiao Ming nodded, then handed a book to Zhang Liu. This book recorded how the steam engine was integrated with other machines. In the future, Lin Wentao was responsible for production and technical improvement, while he was responsible for the use of the steam engine.

Zhang Liu took the book and flipped through it, and he was deeply shocked. In his eyes, the current Xiao Ming was simply omniscient and omnipotent.

The personnel are set, and the rest is the question of site selection, funding and craftsmen in the workshop.

In order to allow the steam engine workshop to be put into production one day earlier, he relentlessly transferred half of the craftsmen of the equipment department to Lin Wentao.

The craftsman of this equipment department has always been Xiao Ming's royal craftsman, and now he is reluctant to give up his love, which shows that he is determined to use the steam engine.

The three agreed on this matter. Xiao Ming immediately asked Chen Wenlong to select a workshop in the workshop area. At the same time, he asked Lin Wentao to send the first steam engine to the lathe workshop and the boring machine to combine it to cut the cylinder.

The difficulty of steam engine production is the cutting of cylinders. Now that the first steam engine is used as a base, the efficiency will naturally increase.

After setting up a steam engine workshop, Xiao Ming sent the structural diagram of Jenny's textile machine to Chen Wenlong, and let the remaining craftsmen produce it.

This year, he wants to make Qingzhou's textile industry dominate the Great Yu country.