As soon as he entered Weigang and visited the manufacturing department, Chen Mu knew the reason why Guan Zunban proposed to improve the military ordnance.

It is indeed imperative to formulate a new charter.

It has little to do with innovation and is related to productivity.

When the Chihai ship arrived at the port, several Dafu ships were unloading the goods at the dock. The wood and metal transported from Nanyang and Guangzhou were moved off the ship and loaded it directly onto the carriage. They ran on four wooden tracks leading to the port, and galloped all the way.

From a distance, you can hear the faint roar of steam engines in Weigang. Chen Mu felt that the military craftsmen and workers in Weigang should wear cotton earplugs to work.

Working on such occasions for a long time is not good for the ears and brains.

"As Shuai Ye saw, lathes and hammers have made more and more machines, and fewer and fewer manuals. The ordnances and armors made last year were not divided into water and fire. Among them, the parts made of all machines accounted for only 100% and 30% of them; half machine and half manual are only 27%."

Guan Zun's squad led Chen Mu to go through the various departments and waited to enter the yamen before reporting to Chen Mu in detail.

"Last year, the steaming mechanism was slightly changed, which brought greater momentum, which was better than hydraulic power. All departments installed steamers. Now the lighters accounted for 70% of the parts produced by the machine have nearly 30%. Including half of the machine and half manual, it has exceeded half."

A lighter refers to a steam engine. Xiangshan craftsmen started with water conservancy machinery, so they have this name.

As for the existing steam engines, even in the manufacturing of ordnance, it is far from reaching full industrialization. However, 30% of the components and machine manufacturing sounds very terrible to Chen Mu.

"In the past, the length of the armour was different, and the severity was different. It all depends on whether the craftsman was proficient. Those who were good could be no different from the regulations. Those who were not good could use their strengths. A little deeper look at the door could still produce the depth and it was difficult to use it."

"Now the machine has a strong hammer forging and a good cutting."

"What Mr. Shuai said about standardization is that a few machines can now achieve the standardization that is quite good."

Guan Zunban is not as good as Lao Guan Jiang in terms of craftsmanship, but he is worse than Lao Guan Jiang in the management of the Military Equipment Bureau and the idea of ​​innovation. He showed a confident and proud smile, but Chen Mu was very reserved in front of him and said: "Use the military craftsman with the best craftsmanship to make machines with his hands, and then uses machine cutting to make new lathe accessories or casting molds to install new machines."

"This trip three times, the components are so sophisticated that they cannot make any progress. It is also the same standard for creating weapons."

Guan Zunban said that the entourage officer proposed two bird guns, lightly removed the gun machine and two square iron mortises on the wooden gun bed and handed them to Chen Mu, and said, "Master, please see, this is the hand-made iron piece of guns in the past, made the two years ago."

Then he handed out two other iron pieces that looked the same and said, "This is the current snail."

Chen Mu compared four clamps one by one in his hand, nodded and praised to Guan Zunban: "You have done a good job over the past year."

Creation, only Chen Mu can get close to creating new things out of thin air in the whole world, and others cannot foul this way.

Only when productivity progresses and the old production methods conflict with the existing advanced productivity can people have the subjective initiative to invention and creation. With a direction, invention and creation are natural.

Although the four clamp tenons are small, they are enough to prove to Chen Mu the reason for the improvement of the military weapons. If there is any difference between the two batches of clamp tenons, it can only be said that the two clamp tenons in the first look the same, while the two clamp tenons in the second look exactly the same.

Yiye Zhiqiu. If the same is true for the gun machine, the old parts can no longer be used with the new gun machine. No matter what, the specifications of a new batch of weapons must be formulated.

"I understand. Let's talk about all kinds of weapons. The three types of bird guns you sent were all flintlocks. What's the difference?"

Chen Mu was not unwilling to care about armor, carrying tools, bowls and pots, but he could tell the reason at a glance.

Iron bowls are easy to make, but they are expensive and have a large weight. Compared to this, you must choose wooden bowls; iron, wood, and bamboo kettles will naturally choose the lightest and simplest bamboo kettle to make.

As for the armor, the shape is simply different. Adding lining pads is a standard improvement, so there is little choice.

Guan Zun Ban nodded and ordered people to take the bird gun and the gun pierced, saying to Chen Mu: "The wooden gun bed is no different from the past. It only adds the gun support that the gun pierced as mentioned by Shuai Ye, which is more effective in holding the shoulder. Although the labor cost of the gun bed is increased by half, it is more beneficial to the bird gun to grow eight inches, and using the gun pierced and swords is more beneficial to the grid."

"If Shuai Ye thinks such a gun bed is feasible, he will use this as an example in the future to make a new gun bed."

"The gun strikes of the new gun are not different, they are still flintlocks. Mr. Changji sent a pair of drawings from Beijing the previous month to add a sub-gun similar to a Franc machine to load the bullets in the rear to speed up the launch of the wheels. However, the gun fired slightly leaked and the near-fire force was weak."

"The Military Weapon Bureau has been made into a sample, and sent to the Navy Military Academy Weapon Department with the rotary guns that have this disease, and the objects are investigated there."

"And even if you use existing manuals to avoid air leakage, the labor hours are far more than those of bird guns." Guan Zun's squad obviously did not have much optimism about Zhao Shizhen's new things, and immediately said: "The new gun station is changed to the gun barrel, which is also helped by the weapons department officers in the martial arts hall."

Chen Mu raised his eyebrows, and when he said it was similar to the shape of the Fran machine, he already had a rough look in his mind.

He also understood that being able to design and create is different, while being able to create is also different from being able to produce and put into the army in large quantities.

However, Chen Mu was still happy about this. He nodded and said, "The rear-mounted and rapid shooting are the general trend, but the power must be guaranteed. This path is right, let's design it first."

"Reform of the gun barrel?" Chen Mu asked suspiciously, then raised his hand and opened his five fingers, pressed the table lightly before lifting up and said, "Five thousand taels, who can solve the leak of the rear-mounted rifle gun? Reward 5 thousand taels of silver, please continue to talk about the gun barrel."

Guan Zun nodded and wrote down, handed two gun barrels to Chen Mu, and explained: "The Martial Arts and Military Weapons Bureau focused on experiments. In the past, bird guns fired three cents of bullets and loaded three cents of medicine. The gun barrel was sophisticated. The three cents of bullets and three cents of medicine after fine gun powder were too powerful, so the students tested the amount of charge and the impact of the length of the gun barrel on their power."

"To ensure the killing, the martial arts lecture hall experimented with animals wearing armor. Thirty steps to break armor and flesh, forty steps to break armor and flesh, seventy steps to break armor and flesh, and record it in turn to achieve such power, and then change the amount of medicine to be used."

What he said about turning the meat is actually a cavity, and it is the kind of lead bullet left in the body, because sometimes even if the lead bullet forms a cavity, it still has the strength to penetrate the body from the other side.

Chen Mu chuckled softly, killing the armorless enemy in seventy steps, Guan Zunban was quite good at thinking.

This distance should not be too easy for the power of the bird gun, but the key is that it is not accurate to hit.

He is an expert in playing bird guns. Not to mention the best, he can definitely be called a skilled shooter. He lets him hit the man with one shot outside seventy steps. To be honest, the chance is the same as that of Mang Yinglong's current journey to Nanyang Weigang to surrender.

The weapon's accuracy is relatively reliable, but the gunpowder energy is not enough. If you hit it for more than 40 steps, you will be parabola. Even if you calculate the amount in advance, you can't stop the wind from blowing away the 11 grams of three cents of bullets.

Even if you are not windy and are good at calculating, you can aim at the gun weighing nine pounds, and you will not know where the lead ball will fly to at such a long distance.

Seventy steps, more than a hundred meters.

He can try it if he shoots a few more guns, but he can just try it.

"In the end, the gun barrel was set to be two cents wide and four cents of bullets were released. The gun barrel was originally three feet and seven, and now two inches short. The original gun handle was four inches long. Now it was four inches longer. It was four inches longer. It was four feet and four inches. Which of the six types of guns was installed? The length of the gun was six feet."
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