In the Equipment Department, the craftsmen surrounded Xiao Ming in the middle.

Production orders were issued from Xiao Ming's mouth. This craftsman was responsible for forging the main spring and was in charge of five hundred craftsmen for forging, and that craftsman was responsible for hitting the iron and was in charge of four hundred production.

There are five hundred craftsmen responsible for assembly and seven hundred craftsmen responsible for butt stock production.

"You now keep in mind the size of your own spare parts and forge them according to the unified size standards. All parts with large errors will be discarded and not handed over to assembly craftsmen. If the size deviation of the spare parts production exceeds 5%, you can only punish them according to the rules of the workshop."

Xiao Ming's voice contained a warning. He had always been extremely strict with production. In later generations, there were too many counterfeit and shoddy goods, which was a cancer for industry.

Therefore, from the perspective of industry, he strictly created a rigorous spirit in craftsmanship.

For production, there is no sloppy, only striving for excellence.

When the bolt machine and stock are put into production, the rest is the problem with the barrel.

Zhang Liu has not been idle for the past month and has been preparing knives. Compared with the bolt, this technology is also very difficult, so Xiao Ming had to participate in this work personally.

In this month, the Equipment Department has already reserved some tungsten powder. Because it adopted the original carbon reduction method, the tungsten powder that is reduced always contains too many impurities. In the end, it has to be screened to obtain relatively fine tungsten powder, which is very rare.

In modern times, Xiao Ming's method is a huge waste, but for him, this waste is worth it, because he doesn't need too many knives now, he only needs to meet the use of Qingzhou. Each knives can be at most about 500.

After all, the number of lathes in the water conservancy lathe workshop is only this. If there are too many lathes, it is a waste. It is enough to prepare accordingly after the lathe increases.

Song Changping and others left, and Xiao Ming went to the backyard of the Equipment Department, where the craftsmen were polishing knives.

After more than a dozen failures, Xiao Ming gradually realized that the process of using tungsten powder compression and calcining tungsten steel cannot be achieved in Qingzhou for the time being.

The most important thing is that the amount of tungsten mining cannot keep up, and the amount of tungsten powder extracted is also very rare. The current reserve of tungsten powder is only about two kilograms.

However, he could not produce many tungsten steel knives in this way, so he decided to substitute for the next few seconds.

A few days ago, Zhang Liu added a small amount of tungsten powder and chromium powder when smelting steel, and refined a alloy that was harder than the current Qingzhou steel.

This cemented carbide was also called iron tungsten in later generations and was also one of the alternative materials for tools.

This cemented carbide adds tungsten as an additive to steel, and generally does not contain much quantity. In steel, it is dissolved in a trace amount in iron. Because its solubility is low, it can only be added in a small amount.

In this way, the production of knives suddenly became regular.

Zhang Liu and the craftsmen also successfully produced the "tungsten steel" of this era.

"Your Highness, the tools of the boring machine and the tools of the milling machine are very smooth, but this drill bit is not easy to polish. However, after so much trouble, two pieces are always polished. Please see, Your Highness."

Zhang Liu came over with two drilling machine knives at this time.

The successful refining of tungsten steel was followed by the production of tools, which was coherent.

Xiao Ming took the knife and glanced at the hand-cranked grinder. This is the most suitable grinder he read through the information these days.

This grinder is purely handmade, generally with two parallel wooden sticks, with a grinding wheel in the middle, which is passed through the middle of the grinding wheel with an iron stick and fixed.

The iron rod stretches out from the wooden stick, and there is something like a bicycle pedal outside.

This kind of mountain turbine can be either hand-cranked or pedaled by a person using the method of pedaling a bicycle.

In this way, the grinding wheel will rotate.

Touching the twisted drill bit that had just been ground, Xiao Ming said: "How long did it take to grind this drill bit?"

"All day," Zhang Liu sighed: "It's easy to boring machine tools and milling machine tools, but this one is always easy to break."

Xiao Ming nodded. This is normal, because the tool emphasizes hardness, as it is said that it is hard and brittle, so it is easy to break.

He said: "Put some people, at least one hundred drill bits are provided to the water conservancy lathe workshop by the end of this month, and this flintlock rifle is just the barrel."

Zhang Liu nodded, "Yes, Your Highness, I will now call on some skilled craftsmen to grind knives."

After a month of day and night, Xiao Ming finally saw the hope of the flintlock rifle.

But there is not much time left for him. The barbarians in the north are eyeing him, and the Japanese, which are separated from the east, are also ill-behaved.

He must race against time to consolidate his fiefdom.

After handing the drill bit to Zhang Liu, Xiao Ming said, "If you grind it out, you will send a few of them."

Then he went to find Chen Wenlong and asked Chen Wenlong to go to the steel workshop for a while to watch the production of steel bars.

He also told him the size of the steel produced.

Now the flintlock rifle is produced one piece, and he has been waiting for the tungsten mine for so long, but he doesn't want to wait any longer.

After leaving the Equipment Department, Xiao Ming was in a particularly good mood, and it seemed that the air became fresh at this moment.

The technology of the Great Yu Kingdom has lagged too much behind this era. From the beginning of artillery, he has begun to catch up step by step.

Now that the second hot weapon has appeared, he finally felt a little calmer in his heart, because he was always worried that one day someone would suddenly point a flintlock gun at his head.

Going to the palace, Xiao Ming, who was in a good mood, was about to find Luluo to discuss customizing a military uniform for himself. When he first arrived at the door, he saw Wang Xuan.

At this time, Wang Xuan looked pale and had bandages on his arms, which were very fragile.

"What's going on!" Xiao Ming's brow frowned in an instant.

Wang Xuan looked a little tired, and he said, "Your Highness, please tell me in the main hall." Wang Xuan looked around while speaking.

Xiao Ming nodded. Wang Xuan has always been extremely careful in his work, and he is probably worried that the news will be leaked at this time.

When the two arrived at the main hall, Xiao Ming asked, "What the hell is going on?"

"We were betrayed and our identities were exposed on the grassland. If we had not met Captain Lei Ming, the subordinate might not have come back." Wang Xuan said.

Then he recalled: "Since the last time we discovered that the barbarians were forging artillery, our secret guards sent many groups of people to pretend to be merchants and sneak into Shengdu. This time, the secret guards came to report that they found the test site of the barbarian artillery, so the officials decided to go to find out in person. We did see the barbarian artillery outside Shengdu, but the barbarian artillery looked a little different from our Qingzhou. Their artillery was yellow and green, and the barrel was thick and long, four or five meters long." Wang Xuan said.

When Xiao Ming heard this, he immediately narrowed his eyes. The artillery described by Wang Xuan was a bit like the Urban artillery in history.
Chapter completed!