Bi Maokang asked Zhu Cijiu to see more than just machine tools. With new machine tools, he naturally produced better weapons. He was a weapon expert and his enthusiasm for weapons even surpassed Zhu Cijiu.

After seeing the machine tool on the second floor, he took Zhu Cijiu to the third floor again. Seeing his excited look, he clearly had something good to offer treasures. Zhu Cijiu couldn't help but wonder. After seeing all the new machine tools, is there anything more advanced than machine tools?

There are no machine tools on the third floor, but they are divided into many single rooms, with bright windows and clean tables, which is very scented with offices in later generations. One by one, the staff members in the same formal attire are busy inside, a little checking parts, some are inspecting drawings, and some are gathering together, seemingly discussing something.

Zhu Cijing looked at their epaulettes and found that they all had military ranks, which means they were all core researchers in the military factory trained by Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua and others!

There are institutional regulations for wearing Chongzheng outfits in military factories, because the swings of ordinary robes are easily twisted into the machine tools. Therefore, since Chongzheng outfits were designed, they have become work outfits in military factories. However, most people do not have military ranks, and even officials from the Ministry of Works. Only core researchers can receive military ranks and equivalent military ranks.

There is another rule in the military factory, that is, no matter how big the officials are, they don’t have to kneel down and just salute. However, it seems that many of these people have seen Zhu Cijiu. The emperor is not an official, so it is probably going to be in chaos now.

Sure enough, when Zhu Cijing thought of this, someone recognized him. The people had just given a military salute after seeing Bi Maokang and were about to continue working, but when they saw the emperor next to Bi Maokang, they were immediately excited. It looked like that, they were obviously going to kneel down and shout long live.

Zhu Cijiong quickly raised his hand to stop him and said, "No need to be polite, everyone continue, continue."

As he walked along the way, many people recognized him, which made his arms almost sore. After almost a stick of incense, Bi Maokang finally led him into a large room, and the people inside were assembling parts with "KaKaKa" and his skillful appearance was even more like the special forces performing gun disassembly and assembly in later generations.

After coming here, Zhu Cijing finally understood what Bi Maokang was going to take him to see, it turned out to be a sniper rifle!

In fact, Zhu Cijing told Bi Maokang a few years ago that Bi Maokang had also tried it, but at that time, he could not make a qualified sniper rifle at all.

First of all, the processing accuracy does not meet the requirements. The shooting distance of the sniper rifle is only a few hundred meters or even thousands of meters at any time. As long as there is a small deviation between the inner wall and the rifle of the barrel, it will affect the accuracy. The barrel made of an ordinary steam machine tool is OK within one or two hundred steps and can basically hit a person. When it reaches more than two hundred steps, the deviation will be large. When it reaches a distance of one mile, the deviation will exceed one meter. How wide a talent is, if it is more than one meter, it will not hit a person at all!

The barrels processed with precision machine tools are different. Not to mention the inner wall and rifle, even the outer wall is as smooth as a mirror, which can be said to be no different. In this way, the shooting accuracy can be guaranteed.

Then, the materials at that time did not meet the requirements. Ordinary cast iron and cast steel were not strong enough at all. The loading amount of gunpowder for sniper rifles was much higher than that of ordinary rifles. In addition, the barrel was longer than that of ordinary rifles. The pressure near the medicine room was several times greater than that of ordinary rifles. Therefore, the probability of a chamber was very high. No matter what material was used, the number of shots would definitely explode!

Of course, after being forged with high-carbon steel, the barrel made will never explode. This kind of steel was not made at that time. Is the steel made of many times commonly known as the 100-strong steel? This was found in the Han Dynasty more than a thousand years ago.

However, after high-carbon steel was forged, it was the tool making material at that time. The barrel was as hard as the tool, so how could it be processed? Therefore, Bi Maokang did not try it at all. Under the conditions at that time, such hard materials could not be processed at all.

Now that new alloy materials are available, it is different. According to the requirements of the barrel, Song Yingxing added some manganese and chromium to the steel used to make the barrel. After many experiments, he finally made manganese and chromium alloy steel suitable for gun production. The problem of blowing the barrel can be said to be completely solved.

Zhu Cijiu held a assembled sniper rifle in his hand and looked carefully. How to describe this gun? It feels a bit like a simple enlarged version of Bartre, weighing about 30 kilograms. If he hadn't practiced it, he would have been a little unmoved. However, the processing was very fine. The blackened barrel and body of the gun exuded a dark metallic luster, which looked similar to the guns of later generations.

This gun is really textured. Zhu Cijiu couldn't put it down and looked at it. The more he looked, the more he liked it, he couldn't help but ask Bi Maokang: "Meng Hou, what is the current output of this gun? When can it be equipped with the army?"

When Bi Maokang heard this, he said awkwardly: "Reply to the emperor's words, this, this gun processing process is too complicated and has not been officially mass-produced yet."

Complex? I am a craftsman, and I am not afraid of your complicated processing process. When Zhu Cijiu heard this, he asked with great interest: "Oh, how complicated it is, tell me."

Bi Maokang immediately explained: "The barrel and the parts inside are made of new alloy steel, and the output of the alloy needs to be improved; then, the bristles of the barrel are not directly cast, but die-cast after forging, and all the materials of the parts must be forged, otherwise there will be a risk of blowing up the chamber..."

These are naturally not difficult for Zhu Cijing. After listening to Maokang's explanation, he immediately gave solutions based on his own experience. For example, forging. If you rely on pure hand forging, the efficiency will naturally be terrible. Making a special forging equipment will solve it. Steel is not like kneading dough in front of the machine!

After solving the mass production problem, Zhu Cijing couldn't help but ask Bi Maokang to arrange someone to go to the shooting range to demonstrate to him.

Good guy, this power can be penetrated with iron plates for armor within one mile, and can easily penetrate wooden stakes as thick as thighs within two mile, and the accuracy is also good. At least seven or eight shots can hit the target with ten shots.

Zhu Cijiu was very satisfied with the experimental results and personally named this gun Thor. Later, the barrel length was used to distinguish specific models. For example, the barrel length of this gun was two feet and eight inches, and the full name was Thor 280.

If each troupe is equipped with a Thunder God 280, it will be invincible. You can start working if you go two miles away. When the enemy arrives, there will probably be few left!

Of course, this is almost impossible to achieve. Even if the process is optimized, it can be officially mass-produced. With the current scale of Wanggong Factory, it can produce up to 3,000 units per month, and the output is basically difficult to increase, because many processes require skilled veteran technicians to do it themselves, otherwise the quality will not be guaranteed at all.

There are 3,000 trains a month, and only 36,000 trains a year. Now the regular legions of the Ming Dynasty's navy and army armies can be as large as 2.1 million. In other words, even if they are fully produced for one year, they can only ensure that each regiment has one.

However, it can also achieve good results. In the future, the enemy's front-line commander will be in trouble. As long as he is discovered, he will die!
Chapter completed!