A century-old family that runs through the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 368 Type II Musket

In the areas ruled by the military government, the war has just been extinguished, and everything is waiting to be done, including new steam locomotives and educational improvements.

Good military governments are rich, very rich. Even though it supports a series of extremely expensive projects such as the development of education in various places and the laying of railway tracks, its treasury has not been able to bear the slightest bit.

Its background is terrifying, and the various gold and silver mines it occupies are, on the one hand, and on the other hand, thanks to its extremely developed commerce and industry.

The military government is so large that even by hand, it can produce a large number of handicrafts, not to mention the support of advanced spinning machines, looms and other machines, which can get twice the result with half the effort, even if a series of shipping costs are included. , which is cheaper than local products in the West. People there don’t have a strong awareness of domestic products, so they naturally use whichever is cheaper.

Later, after the invention of the practical steam engine, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang military governments invested a large amount of resources into the mother factory, so that the number of steam engines showed a spurt of growth. The output of handicrafts represented by cotton cloth was extremely high, and began to be continuously supplied to the factory. Europe, and other areas where the junta could reach were dumped.

Every day, a steady stream of various products sets sail from various ports in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Luzon, fully loaded with various products and heading to various places.

All kinds of cheap products crazily poured into the Western market, constantly grabbing their share, and completely destroying the other side's handicrafts and industry.

The wealth harvested by the Westerners could not be kept at all, and it flowed to the East at an extremely fast speed.

Although some kings do not care about these things, there are actually many kings who have seen the shortcomings of the Northern Territory, especially the British. It seems that the other country's products are cheap, but in fact, for their own country's Industry and handicrafts are extremely unfavorable.

But there was nothing they could do.

The problem is that the steam engine is such a big iron shell. If you can't see clearly the structure inside, even if you can see it clearly, you can't build it at all if you don't understand the corresponding principles.

The UK wanted to restrict the import of other countries' products or raise taxes on them, but it did not dare - now was the critical period of the Thirty Years' War in Europe. Countries were fighting fiercely and there were many domestic problems. At this time It would be unwise to offend a big Eastern country.

In the end, Britain was forced to admit it.

At that time, looms and so on were basically hydraulic, and they still relied on the weather. Production was very unstable, and even had to stop work during dry periods.

If you want to steal, it's troublesome enough to sneak in, let alone steal a huge object like this, not to mention these guys are very strict.

The Luzon Governor's Mansion mainly relies on the upgrading of machines and its huge size to gain advantages, but now that the steam engine has come out, it is no longer afraid of these.

The invention of the steam engine further improved efficiency.

Although the spinning machines and looms invented by Tiangongyuan were advanced, they could not be concealed because they needed to be popularized. Countries, led by the United Kingdom, went on and on, leaving behind hundreds of them within the Jiangsu and Zhejiang military governments. Even though I was able to make a corpse with fine details, I still got it - that thing was used so much that even a female worker could roughly tell its characteristics and then imitate it.

So the British were miserable. They worked hard to steal new spinning machines and looms. As a result, they invented the steam engine, which was once again ahead of the times. And the steam engine, like the loom, was the same as the loom. No sale allowed.

The Jiangsu and Zhejiang military governments benefited greatly from this, and in turn further promoted the development of their own territories and grew stronger.

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At the beginning of the 22nd year of Wuxing, which was the second year of the military government, just after the New Year, Yan Ling received another good news.

He hurried to the shooting range, where experts from the Tiangong Institute specializing in firearms research had been waiting for a long time, with excited looks on their faces. Even though technology has entered a blowout stage in recent times, with all kinds of new technologies and products emerging one after another, Yan Ling was still overjoyed by this invention.

He has already told the craftsmen of Tiangongyuan about rifling, ammunition and flash caps. Even if he is not a science student, he still knows about these things. After all, what man can refuse a gun?

But if you want him to make it, your eyes will be darkened, and you can only hand it over to his subordinates.

Rifled rifles and mini-pops came out relatively early, but at that time all technologies were at a bottleneck. Due to efficiency and other reasons, only a small part of them have been produced so far, mainly used to equip the guards and some elite troops.

As for mercury fulminate, it would be a little later. After many years and countless experiments, it finally appeared in front of Yan Ling.

He picked up the musket in the expert's hand and looked at it carefully.

This gun combines a mercury flash cap, Mini bullets and rifling. It has made progress across the ages. The emergence of the flash cap has made the musket a big step forward in the development of rifles.

Someone had already loaded the ammunition. He raised his musket, aimed at the distant target, and pulled the trigger.

Almost at the moment when the trigger was pulled, the muzzle of the gun made a bursting sound. Along with a burst of white smoke, the bullet quickly came out of the chamber and accurately hit the target in the distance. It was almost the same as where Yan Ling was aiming!

Satisfied, he put the musket down.

After using the mercury flash cap, the air tightness of the musket is better, and the delay in firing of the musket has almost disappeared, and there is no need to fill the propellant in the medicine pot. In this way, even the rate of fire, All have been improved to a certain extent.

"Let's call this musket the Type 2 musket, which means the second year of the military government."

Yan Ling decided on its name, and then told the officials around him:

"Ready for mass production."

With the explosion of science and technology in recent years, with the invention of the steam engine, smelting technology and other breakthroughs have been made, and the problem of rifling has also been solved, and mass production is already possible. In fact, even if mercury fulminate does not appear, it will not be long before After that, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang armies will also usher in a comprehensive weapons upgrade.

At this time, once mercury came out, these two types of muskets were naturally the main ones.

Yan Ling then described the appearance of the musket in his impression and told the craftsmen:

"The next direction in the development of this musket is the breech! My request is that the musket no longer needs to be loaded from the front, but the ammunition can be inserted from the rear."

"As ordered!"

The chief craftsman replied with high spirits.

He had just received his reward.

With these ten thousand taels of silver and the support of promotion, he felt that nothing could defeat him.

(End of this chapter)