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Chapter 501 Standards
As soon as he entered Weigang and visited the manufacturing divisions, Chen Mu knew the reason why Guan Zunban proposed the improvement of ordnance.

It is indeed imperative to formulate a new charter.

It has little to do with innovation, but with productivity.

When the Chihai Ship arrived at the port, several Dafu ships were unloading at the wharf. The wood and metal brought in from Nanyang and Guangzhou were loaded directly into the carriage after being unloaded from the ship, and they ran on the four wooden rails leading to Weigang. constantly.

The faint roar of the steam engine in Weigang could be heard from a distance, and Chen Mu felt that military craftsmen and workers in Weigang should wear cotton earplugs to work.

Working in such a place for a long time is not good for the ears and brain.

"As the handsome man saw, there are more and more machines for lathes and hammer forging, and less and less manual work. The ordnance and armor made in the year before last, regardless of water and fire, only [-]% of them are made by machines. Three points; half machine and half manual, only [-]%."

Guan Zun's class led Chen Mu to finish his tour of various divisions, and after entering the yamen, he reported to Chen Mu in detail.

"Last year, the steamer system was slightly changed, and it was able to bring out more power, which is better than water power. All departments installed more steamers. Now the lighter accounts for [-]%, and the parts produced by the machine account for nearly [-]%, accounting for half. Machine half manual, more than half."

The lighter refers to the steam engine, and Xiangshan craftsmen started with water conservancy machinery, so there is such a name.

As far as the existing steam engine is concerned, even if it is only in the manufacture of ordnance, it is far from fully industrialized, but the machine manufacturing of [-]% of the parts is already very scary to Chen Mu.

"In the past, hand-crafted ordnance had deviations in length and weight. It all depended on the proficiency of the craftsman. Those who are good at it can match the regulations by a tiny bit, and those who are not good at it will use their efforts. Even the depth of the shot can still hit the depth, which is difficult to use. .”

"Now the machine hammers forging powerfully and cuts neatly."

"The standardization that the handsome man always talks about, now a few machines can achieve the standardization without any errors."

Guan Zun's class is not as good as the old Guan Jiang in terms of craftsmanship, but he is worse than the old Guan Jiang in terms of management of the military bureau and innovation ideas. He smiled confidently and proudly, but Chen Mu was more reserved in front of him, saying: "The best way is to use craftsmanship. A good military craftsman makes a machine by hand, and then cuts it with a machine to make new lathe parts or casting molds to assemble a new machine."

"Three times in this way, the components are so precise that they cannot be improved, and the ordnance produced is also of the same standard."

Guan Zunban said as the entourage brought out two bird guns, lightly dismantled the gun machine and the two square iron tenons on the wooden gun bed, and handed them to Chen Mu, saying: "Please look, commander, this is a hand-made iron gun in the past. , made the year before last."

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

Chen Mu compared the four tenons one by one in his hand, nodded approvingly and said to Guan Zun's class: "You have done a good job for more than a year."

Creation, in the whole world, only Chen Mu can come close to creating new things out of thin air, and others can't make such a foul.

With the advancement of productivity and the conflict between the old production mode and the existing advanced productivity, people have the subjective initiative to invent and create. With the direction, invention and creation will come naturally.

Although the four tenons are small, they are enough to prove to Chen Mu the reason for the improvement of the Weapons Bureau's weapons. If there is any difference between the two batches of tenons, it can only be said that the first two tenons look the same, while the two behind Tenons are exactly the same.

Yiye Zhiqiu, if the gun machine is the same, the old parts can no longer be used in common with the new gun machine, no matter what, the specifications of a new batch of weapons must be formulated.

"I see. Let's talk about the various weapons. The three kinds of bird guns you sent over are all flintlocks. What's the difference between them?"

It's not that Chen Mu doesn't care about things like armor, carrying equipment, bowls and pots, it's just that the reason for those things can be seen at a glance.

Iron bowls are easy to make, but they are expensive and heavy, so you must choose wooden bowls; iron, wood, and bamboo kettles are naturally the lightest and easiest to manufacture bamboo kettles.

As for the armor, it is simply a difference in shape, adding lining and pads is a common standard improvement, and there is not much room for choice.

Guan Zunban nodded, and ordered people to fetch the bird gun and the gun thorn, and said to Chen Mu: "The wooden gun bed is no different from the past, but the gun support that the handsome man said has been added, and the shoulder is more sharp. Although the gun bed has been increased by half It costs a lot of labor, but let the bird gun grow eight inches, and it will be more beneficial when using the gun stab and the sword."

"If the handsome man thinks that such a gun bed is feasible, he will use it as an example in the future to make a new gun bed."

"There is no difference in the strikes of the new guns. They are still flint. Mr. Chang Ji sent a pair of blueprints from Beijing the month before last to add sub-guns with a shape similar to that of a Francophone and load them in the rear, so as to fire in bursts quickly. But that is not the case. The bludgeon has a slight air leak, and the shooting power is weak."

"The Ordnance Bureau has been made into a prototype. It will be sent to the Weapons Division of the Navy Lecture Hall along with the rotating pistols that suffer from the same problem, and we will check things there."

"And even if the air leakage is avoided by the existing manual method, the labor time is far more than that of the bird gun." Guan Zunban was obviously not very optimistic about Zhao Shizhen's new gadget, and said immediately: "The new gun is changed to the gun barrel, which is also useful. Assisted by officials from the Armament Division of the Jiangwu Hall."

Chen Mu raised his eyebrows, as soon as he said that it was similar in shape to Franji, he already had a rough image in his mind.

He also understands that it is two different things to be able to design it and manufacture it, and it is also two different things to be able to manufacture it and mass-produce it into troops.

However, Chen Mu was delighted with this. He nodded and said, "Backloading and quick-fire are the general trend, but the power must be guaranteed. This is the right way. Design first."

"Reformation of the gun barrel?" Chen Mu asked suspiciously, then raised his hand and spread his five fingers, lightly pressed the table, and then lifted it up and said: "5000 taels, who can solve the air leakage of the rear-mounted rifle will be rewarded with 5000 silver Two, you continue to talk about the gun barrel."

Guan Zunban nodded and took notes, then handed two gun barrels to Chen Mu and explained: "The Jiangwu Hall and the Military Weapons Bureau pay attention to experiments. The power of the three-coin ammunition and the three-coin medicine is too powerful, so the students were asked to test the impact of the amount of charge and the length of the gun barrel on the power."

"In order to ensure the kill, the experiment in the martial arts hall is that the body of the animal is covered with armor, [-] steps of piercing the armor and piercing the flesh, [-] steps of piercing the armor and turning the flesh, and [-] steps of piercing the flesh or turning the flesh. The amount of medicine."

The turned meat he mentioned 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 power to come out from the other side of the body.

Chen Mu smiled softly, killing an unarmored enemy in seventy steps, Guan Zun's class was quite thinking about it.

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

He is an expert at playing bird guns, not to mention the best, but he can definitely be called a proficient shooter, let him hit someone with a single gun from seventy steps away, to be honest, chances and Mang Yinglong are now in Weigang, Nanyang Surrender is the same.

The accuracy of the weapon is relatively reliable, but the gunpowder energy is not enough, and it will be a parabola if it is fired more than forty steps. Even if the advance is calculated, it cannot stop the wind from blowing away the eleven-gram three-coin bullet.

Even if there is no wind, good at calculation, aiming with a nine-pound blunderbuss, at such a long distance, the lead ball will fly to nowhere with a slight deviation in the hand.

Seventy steps, more than a hundred meters.

He can still try if he hits a few more guns, but it's just a try.

"In the end, the barrel of the gun was determined to be two inches wide, and four cents and three cents of bullets were used. The barrel was originally three feet seven inches long, but now it is two inches shorter. Whichever type of stab is used, the length of the gun is six feet."

(End of this chapter)