The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 369

When Ding Yi heard it, he would definitely not be able to do it. Now he has more and more soldiers and horses, and the production of flintlock guns is so slow that it is too late to replace them.

Lumi guns can now produce three thousand a month, but flintlock guns are only one-tenth, which is too slow.

He carefully asked if there was a way to increase the speed.

According to Zhou Dahu and the others, the first is to find a quick way to make springs. Ding Yi took them to see it just now. The next step is that they can try to make it. Moreover, springs are consumables. The storage knot, once the spring is broken, can be replaced at any time.

Ding Yi nodded and said yes, he hadn't thought of this, so the next research direction is to make standard and uniform springs like a carpenter, but Ding Yi and everyone feel that this is no problem, this is a small problem, one or two at most month can solve it.

The second is the lathe mentioned by Ding Yi. If the lathe can be manufactured, the barrels of flintlock guns can be manufactured in large quantities.

Otherwise, you can only use the barrel of the Lumi blunderbuss, but it is not entirely made of fine steel, and the number of shots is small. Although the monthly output can increase, it is still not good in the long run. Good barrel.

Ding Yi also agrees with this point, that is to change clothes, of course it is better to do it in one step.

The quality of the barrel of the flintlock must be better, because it fires faster than the Lumi gun, which means that in a 10-minute battle, you only need to fire ten guns with the Lumi gun to end the battle, but with the flintlock Shots fired, maybe fifteen or twenty shots.

If the quality of the barrel cannot be improved, the replacement of the barrel will be very intensive, and logistics and craftsmen will not be able to supply it in time, resulting in more losses.

The third is to increase the number of furnaces and workers for steelmaking, because more fine steel is used for flintlock guns, which requires a lot of steelmaking multiple times, and the production capacity, output, and workers must increase.

If these three points can be resolved, the time will come for Ding Yi to equip flintlock guns on a large scale.

Among them, the first point is not difficult, and it is estimated that it can be solved in a few months. The second point is not difficult. Ding Yi is confident that he can solve it within half a year. The third point is not easy. , smelting and many other aspects still need a lot of manpower and skilled workers, but Ding Yi has too few manpower, especially less skilled workers. If it is fully improved, it may not be completed in one or two years.

Ding Yi asked all the craftsmen accompanying him to keep these questions in mind, and at the same time asked the Craftsmanship Bureau to produce fifty flintlock guns a month, and the rest should be made of Lumi guns first.

Because Ding Yi is still selling cannons and guns, the output of Lumi guns he normally uses for himself has dropped to [-] rods per month.

The rest were making flintlocks and poor-quality guns sold to Japan.

In mid-December, the temperature dropped sharply and it snowed heavily. The temperature in southern Liaoning was much colder than in history. Many newly planted wheat in Lushun were damaged by winter. Some people in the logistics department responded that next year's summer grain production may be reduced, and it is expected to be reduced by at least four one-third.

Ding Yi felt more and more the necessity of storing grain.

During this period of time, besides Seinfeld in Japan, who had to transport mines and sell artillery, Ruan Siqing also ran around Dengzhou and Pidao Lushun, not far away.

Both Lushun and Phi Island are training and building.

At the end of December, Lushun Shipyard delivered the first medium-sized warship, a 12-material Haicang ship.

It took more than half a year to build this ship, and because the wood used for shipbuilding was not processed for enough time, Li Zhi said that this ship can only be used for a short time, and it will be phased out in at most three years.

Ding Yi now has no time to wait for the wood to be processed, so the boats that leave the factory are all fast-prototyped boats (it won’t take a few years.)
But three years is enough.

After three years, a new ship will come out, and it will be replaced after another three years.

Ten or twenty years later, the wood he hoarded in the early stage can be used, and a larger and durable boat can be built by then.

Among Xu Dabao's first three boats, one is the Haicang boat. The Haicang boat has good maneuverability in windy hours, while the Fuchuan has poor maneuverability, so it is generally used to cooperate with the Fuchuan.

But Ding Yi's newly built Haicang ship is different from Xu Dabao's.

Xu Dabao's ship was built in the Ming Dynasty, and it was basically designed for offshore operations. It was equipped with all kinds of messy weapons and equipment, which took up a lot of space.

According to the standard configuration of the Ming army, this kind of Haicang ship will have: "50 spray tubes, 80 smoke pots, 50 fire bricks, 200 rockets, 4 doors of Francophones, 3 bowl-mouth guns, 6 Lumi guns, There are 6 crossbows, 100 crossbow arrows, 105 nuclear loads, and a maximum of 130 people."

There are various interlayers for storing materials inside.

Ding Yi's requirement is that there are only cannons and blunderbuss on it, and the spear and shield are carried by the soldiers, so the internal structure is completely different.

The newly manufactured Haicang ship is named: Dongjiang No. 1, with a Francophone at the bow and stern, 12 4-pound bronze cannons on the left and right wings, a total of 8, and 24 3-pound cannons, a total of 6 .

There are a total of 16 guns. After all are equipped, there will be 50 gunners, 30 gunners, and 20 spear and shield soldiers. 10 sailors, 110 nuclear loads, maximum full 150 people.

This is Ding Yi Shipyard's first medium-sized warship. His successful construction means that Ding Yi's craftsmen and workers have matured and can build such warships in batches.

The first ship was built slowly. According to Li Zhi, when he became proficient in the future, according to the current manpower, one ship could be built in three months, and four ships could be produced in a year. Of course, the premise was that no other ships were built.

Of course, this output is too little for Ding Yi.

He asked Li Zhi what conditions were needed if he wanted to expand production.

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, and first said that the craftsmen are not bad, but there are too few workers, and more workers are needed.

He also said that the shipyard needs to be expanded, but the shipyard is not big enough.

Ding Yi quickly led people to choose a site, and finally decided to build another shipyard on Changsheng Island.

Changsheng Island has a shipyard in later generations, which is very suitable for shipbuilding.

In Ding Yi's territory, a lot of artisans and workers have been robbed and cheated in the past two years, and now there are nearly 5000 artisans and workers.

It was Ruan Siqing who ran the business all the way and kidnapped him all the way.

But as Ruan Siqing ran more and more, there were fewer and fewer craftsmen.

We haven't got a thousand craftsmen this year, so it can be seen that there will be fewer in the future.

Ding Yi immediately decided to select experienced and older craftsmen from all kinds of craftsmen and start taking classes to train worker apprentices.

Their wages are no longer calculated by how many parts and work they do, but by how many qualified apprentices they train.

These people will be sent to schools to become teachers.

When the news spread, many craftsmen were a little surprised. How can we craftsmen become Mr.?
Many people were moved when they heard that the salary was very high, and they didn't have to work every day, and they had six classes every seven days.

Even Zhou Dahu's mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhao also came to sign up.

Zhao can read and write, and her theoretical level is quite high. Ding Yi is of course happy, and asked her to teach how to make firecrackers.

Mrs. Zhao became Teacher Zhao all of a sudden, and she was so happy as hell.

But most craftsmen value their own skills very much, and it is not easy to gather the strengths of various masters.

Ding Yi needs to continue to advance and use material and ideas to change everyone's thinking.

(End of this chapter)