After the test of the artillery was over, Emperor Hongzhi wanted to go back and see the situation in the court.

But Chihu'er asked him to take him around and learn about the situation in this casting department.

If others had done this, Emperor Hongzhi might not have agreed, but this was the request of the crazy tiger. Emperor Hongzhi agreed without thinking.

"The foundry now uses casting methods, almost all of which are based on water power."

There were jingling and pounding sounds everywhere in the entire casting department.

In order to avoid interfering with the work of these craftsmen, Emperor Hongzhi was asked to change into a coarse cloth shirt.

There were only Dai Yi, Chen Tong and Chenzhou who accompanied him. Zhu Houzhao, the number one naughty child, would join in the fun without hello.

"One thousand young and strong people of the more than 200,000 disaster victims became the new army, and more than 40,000 young and strong people who arrived later built a dam here."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the huge steel gears and rotated "kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

When the joints are intertwined, the steel hammers below are either fast or slow to hit the castings.

Mr. Zhang now sighed, but fortunately, he did not refuse Tang Bohu to accept Xu Jing as his apprentice.

The thousands of ancient books in his house really worked so much that they searched for a long time before they discovered the techniques hidden in the pile of old papers.

For example, the drum cart and compass cart after the Eastern Han Dynasty did not draw the figures of an ancient book written by someone.

Mr. Zhang had no idea that there was a reduction gear system inside the drum cart!

What was even more shocking to Mr. Zhang was that the guide car built by Ma Jun of the Three Kingdoms was not only driven by gears, but also had an automatic clutch device!

This device is technically superior to the drums!

The most outrageous thing is that the old paper pile shows that there were gears and gear trains of different shapes and uses during the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Just based on simple graphics and written records, Mr. Zhang can intuitively see a large number of ratchets and herringbone gears.

Seeing these, Mr. Zhang was so angry that he wanted to travel through time again and run to the earlier era to kill all the evil pens who proposed heavy weapons!

Fortunately ~ Fortunately ~! There are finally some useful things in those ancient books, such as the "water discharge" of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which used hydraulic blasting to smelify iron.

This uses gears and connecting rod mechanisms, which at least gives the craftsmen an intuitive concept after restoring them.

The "continuous grinding" during the Jin Dynasty was also a good thing. Its function was to drive eight millstones with a cow.

Among them, a gear train was used, and a cow drove a huge turntable gear to drive eight mills.

It is precisely because of the graphics and written records of these ancient books that Mr. Zhang was able to let these craftsmen understand the gears and connecting rods.

These craftsmen who were valued by the Ministry of Works and the Royal Family did not disappoint him, or the power of silver was very strong...

In short, a bunch of them actually took out the techniques they passed down from home and made some trouble inside and outside, and barely created several sets of hydraulic systems.

This includes the most needed hydraulic blowing system.

Mr. Zhang, who has experience in later generations, naturally could not use a blower stupidly. What he asked was to make a device similar to a turbine suction.

The air suction hole is huge, but the hole leading to smelting shrinks. The driving is driven by hydraulic force to push the water wheel and then use gears and connecting rods to drive the wind to rotate.

The coal excavated was not transported directly. With enough manpower, all the coals were washed five times before they were dried and delivered.

At least the furnace temperature can now make the crucible melt and then melt into pig iron for casting.

"Rumbling...this~~~"

Emperor Hongzhi watched from a distance as the huge crucible poured a whole pot of red steel water down, slowly forming steel ingots in the mold.

He was stunned and these steel ingots will be sent to the next place for quenching and tempering.

Mr. Zhang took Emperor Hongzhi slowly to the workshop where the cannon casting was held. The huge cannon mold had already been put up by the craftsmen.

"Look at your Majesty! This is the mold that casts the giant cannon. It is the three hundred masters of the foundry department, one thousand four hundred craftsmen, and four thousand two hundred auxiliary craftsmen with all their strength!"

Emperor Hongzhi stared at the huge mold blankly and trembled over and touched it.

After walking around for a few times, I even looked at the structure inside the belly of the mold and the patterns of the inner and outer shell molds.

But he still didn't say a word, but under the guidance of Mr. Zhang, he silently read the entire foundry office.

This even includes the Armor Casting Branch, the Weapon Casting Branch, the Musket Casting Branch, etc. The more he looks, the more shocked he becomes.

But all this was not over yet. Mr. Zhang immediately took Emperor Hongzhi to visit the Guns and Cannons and Medicines Department.

This is the most mysterious department of the entire Ordnance Construction Bureau. It even needs to be transferred to several passes and inspected before entering.

However, Emperor Hongzhi could not visit nearby this time, but just watched the craftsmen commanding the apprentices to make guns and medicines from a distance.

Turning here to another schoolyard, there were soldiers accompanying the craftsmen to experiment with their new gunpowder.

"Bang~!" Emperor Hongzhi looked at the newly made gunpowder, which was ignited and then recorded.

These great craftsmen, craftsmen and even apprentices seemed to be literate in numbers.

"The boy ordered people to open night schools, teach writing during work breaks, and make ancient books as references, and make them record what they have learned."

It took a whole morning, and even at noon, Emperor Hongzhi ended his visit to the entire construction department without any satisfaction.

It was only after visiting all of them that he understood why Mr. Zhang must have asked him to send an internal official to supervise the place.

"The Ordnance Construction Bureau will become the cornerstone of the imperial royal family. I can only build it, plan it, and give it the ability to operate it."

Mr. Zhang’s pair of elixirs and peach blossoms were full of solemnity: “And the one who takes charge of this situation must be the royal family!!”

...

My fool, I will never forget what you did for the royal family!

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the crazy tiger-like chatting with his son, and thought of the bastards in the court and suddenly turned gloomy.

"Crazy Hu'er! You have asked me a big problem!"

Emperor Hongzhi smiled bitterly at Mr. Zhang and sighed: "The court minister has lost two-thirds of the number..."

"The rest of Zhaomo, the procuratorate, the Qing official department... almost half of the inspector's office, the six departments, the Hanlin Academy... are almost wiped out..."

Speaking of these Emperor Hongzhi, he was full of bitterness, and he didn't realize it before.

It was probably from the time when Chihu'er started to participate in various matters that Emperor Hongzhi discovered that the empire was actually more than half of the decay.
Chapter completed!