The eldest son of the red mansion

732 Three Years
The fact that Jia Baoyu trespassed on the queen's temporary resting place spread quickly all over the world, and everyone talked about it.

But Jia Ke didn't seem to take this matter to heart anymore, and Jia Baoyu seemed to continue to resume her original life of singing and dancing.

But those in the royal family know that from that day on, Jia Baoyu could no longer set foot in the palace.

Even if the Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother were summoned, Jia Baoyu couldn't pass the gate of the city.

Because of this, the Queen Mother was furious, and even quarreled with the Supreme Emperor Jiazheng several times.

But Jia Zheng didn't care about this matter, because Jia Zheng knew that Jia Baoyu had done it before. If Jia Ke was not given a chance to vent, when Jia Ke became angry, he would really be angry. It's out of order.

Regarding this matter, Jia's mother did not intercede with Jia Baoyu, but often complained to his close servant Yuanyang that the kinship among the royal family was too cold.

In Jia Baoyu's Palace of Fu Wang, Princess Lin Daiyu was never pregnant because of her health failure last time, but Jia Baoyu's concubine Xiren was detected to be pregnant by the imperial physician soon after, and finally gave birth to Jia Baoyu. The son, named Jia Gui.

As a result, Lin Daiyu became seriously ill because of this incident, and her health became even worse.

And the time passed slowly in this trivial matter, three years passed in a flash, and it was Kangshun's five years.

In the past three years, the foundation of the Great Yan Dynasty has become more stable, especially among the people. Because Jia Ke changed the way of collecting taxes, the lives of ordinary people can finally take a breather.

Although those landlords and rich people paid more taxes than before, it didn't hurt their fundamentals, so although there were some complaints, because Jia Ke was really powerful, they swallowed their anger.

The other one is the commercial tax of the world. Over the past few years, due to the increasing number of merchants in the world, the commercial tax collected by the imperial court has also increased.

In the fifth year of Kangshun, the imperial court had already received 4000 million taels of business tax, plus other salt and iron taxes, and the world's agricultural tax. The annual income of the imperial court reached 500 million taels. unprecedented.

Due to the abundant taxation of the imperial court, various constructions in the world are also in full swing.

Jia Ke's first project to benefit the people was six straight roads with three horizontal lines and three vertical lines. In ancient times, it can be said that such a large project would be a waste of people and money if it was not well operated.

Qin Shihuang practiced straightness back then, recruited many civilians, and in the end there was a lot of grievances among the people. If Qin Shihuang hadn't been too majestic, the Qin court might have been in danger of overthrowing at that time.

But this time, Jia Ke also learned a lesson, and did not force the expropriation of civilian husbands, but gathered all the criminals in the world to build roads.

With insufficient candidates left, Jia Ke recruited poor peasants who lacked land from all over the world. During the working period, the imperial court provided all the food and paid them three hundred Wen as wages every month.

Therefore, there are many poor farmers who regard this matter as a great job, because they can still eat enough on the construction site, and there are three hundred yuan a month to subsidize their families. Naturally, they are followers. Gathered.

Therefore, over the past few years, although the roads have not been completely built, in the places where the roads have been built, the commercial circulation is much faster than before, and it is convenient for ordinary people to go out.

Another one is that Jia Ke began to tighten the rights of those chieftains in the southwest.

These chieftains are all local emperors. Although Jia Ke wanted to deprive these people of their power quickly, he was afraid of changes in the southwest, so he always adopted a policy of relaxation.

First, send people to redeem the slaves in the hands of these people, and then buy these people, the leaders of the troops under their command, and let these chieftains slowly disperse all their strength. We turn on wisely.

Under Jia Ke and his team, these chieftains' control over the local area has become weaker and weaker, while the county magistrate Jia Ke sent has more and more power.

In one, during these three years, Jia Ke did not give up on the research and development of firearms.

The imperial court's tax revenue has increased substantially in recent years, and Jia Ke's investment in firearms research has also increased.

This firearms research is not just about finding some iron, drilling a hole in the middle to make the barrel.

One of the most important items is the steel used for the barrel.

Jia Ke came from modern times, but she didn't know the formula of these special steel materials, and she also knew that the barrel could not be made of ordinary steel materials.

Therefore, apart from a part of these investments being in the development of machinery for various machining processes, a large part is in exploring the materials used in steel pipes.

We all know that there is no shortcut for material science, only one experiment and one refining.

After nearly a year of experiments, Jia Ke's firearms factory barely mastered the formula of an alloy.

This formula is much harder than the ancient wrought iron and the steel made by the imperial court, and it is also very self-willed. Jia Ke named this steel No. 1 steel.

The formula of this outline was classified as a secret by Jia Ke, and it was kept strictly confidential. Only one or two people in the entire firearms factory knew about it.

After No. 1 was refined, another big problem faced the firearms workshop, which was large-scale refining.

In ancient times, there were no steelmaking furnaces, and it was simply a fantasy to refine on a large scale.

After Jia Ke learned about the difficulty of the factory, he came to the firearms factory in Xishan in person, and studied carefully with the old craftsmen. Finally, Jia Ke drew a sketch according to the style of the modern earthen blast furnace, and then handed it to these old craftsmen, so that They continued their research according to this sketch.

These old craftsmen are also skilled craftsmen for several lifetimes. After getting Jia Ke's sketches and sufficient funds, they experimented with three types of soil blast furnaces at once, and then slowly improved them. After another seven or eight months It was only then that a kind of blast furnace was experimentally developed, which could meet the requirements of refining gun barrels.

After all these obstacles are solved, the steel pipe is drilled, which is the most important step in the manufacture of muskets.

Don't look at just drilling a hole in the steel pipe, the difficulty is beyond what ordinary people can imagine.

In ancient times, you can imagine that if the front and rear widths of the gun barrel were to be the same, the holes in it could not be slightly inclined.

Most of the gun barrels made in the Ming Dynasty were rolled with iron sheets, and then beat with wooden sticks and stacked. Although this solved the problem of making gun barrels, the quality of the barrels produced was really poor. Sometimes as long as one shot is fired, the barrel will explode immediately.

This is why in the Ming Dynasty, the firearms troops were defeated by the cavalry who used cold weapons in the Qing Dynasty.

Jia Ke naturally didn't want such a situation to happen, so Jia Ke didn't take any shortcuts, but used the most difficult method, which was to make large-scale machine tools.

This machine tool is said to be simple, it is a drilling machine, but there are piles of troubles in making it.

Jia Ke imitated the wooden machine tools used to make woodware in ancient times, and then changed all the wooden components into ironware.

Although the simple machine tool produced in this way barely seemed to be usable, as a result, when the cutter head on the machine tool was tested, it could barely drill a white mark on the steel pipe of No. 1 steel.

Jia Ke is really a bit numb now. Could it be that all these years of effort have been wasted?
In the future, we can only refine tool steel again, and now Jia Ke's little knowledge is completely useless.

Next, Jia Ke offered a huge bounty in the firearms factory, as long as the craftsman who can develop tool steel, he would immediately reward a thousand taels of silver and be promoted to three ranks.

There is a saying that there must be a brave man under a great reward. Jia Ke offered this great reward, which immediately inspired countless old craftsmen in the factory who thought they were capable.

So after nearly half a year of research and development, a tool steel was finally developed that can process No. 1 steel.

Jia Ke was overjoyed when she found out, and finally gnawed off the last bone.

Next, with the help of the human machine tool made by Jia Ke and the new tool steel, the barrels were completed one by one with quality and quantity guaranteed.

After that, the trial-produced flintlock was installed according to the blueprint of the flintlock that had been designed three years ago.

As a result, the flintlock gun produced had another problem, that is, the ignition device was unreliable.

The flintlock gun basically uses the impact of flint on the hammer to generate sparks and ignite the gunpowder.

But this hammer cannot guarantee that every impact can produce sparks at any time, and the sparks produced cannot guarantee that the gunpowder can be ignited.

If such a large-scale gun failure occurred during the war, then the battle would not be able to continue.

Finally, after improvement, the hitting area of ​​the hammer was increased, and a fire curtain was added above the spinal cord and gunpowder to reduce the impact of natural wind on gunpowder and sparks.

After improvement, this flintlock gun can be used. The improved flintlock gun only fails to fire once every 20 shots.

Such an error rate is already available on the battlefield.

After Jia Ke got the flintlock gun and finished making it, he went to the factory to experiment in person.

After testing, this flintlock gun has a lifespan of a thousand rounds, which in Jia Ke's opinion is very remarkable.

Jia Ke opened her mouth lightly, and named the newly completed flintlock gun - Type 04 flintlock gun.

The next step is to start mass production to equip the troops.

Although Jia Ke has equipment, the number of machine tools is not many, and each machine tool can only process 2 to 3 barrels per day.

And Jia Ke only has a dozen machine tools. If this goes on, it will be a year of the monkey to equip the troops.

So in the following days, Jia Ke ordered people to make more than 100 machine tools, all of which were lined up and used to make gun barrels.

Three to four hundred barrels can be processed a day, and about 04 Type [-] flintlock guns can be produced every month.

Only now can Jia Ke feel at ease. The efforts of the past three years have not been in vain. If he persists for another year or so, it won't take much. As long as there are [-] troops armed with flintlock guns, Jia Ke will be sure to sweep the mainland.

(End of this chapter)