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Chapter 331 The Summer Is Scorching, Be Lazy

"What else is there to do today?" After quickly dealing with the Shaanxi matter, Yang Reform went on to deal with other matters. It is impossible for one person to manage an empire if he is not busy.

"Return to Your Majesty, Your Majesty appointed Sun Yuanhua, who was in charge of making the Hongyi cannon, to report that the imitation of the Hongyi cannon has made progress. A batch of Hongyi cannons have been imitated. Please read it..." Shi Fenglai reported.

Originally, this matter could not be discussed in the Wenhua Palace, and there was no need for the monarch and ministers to discuss it. Just pass the memorial to the emperor. The emperor read it, and if he has an idea, he can handle it himself. However, Shi Fenglai still escalated this matter a little bit and regarded it as a major event, because he is an imperial party, and Sun Yuanhua is also an imperial party. Show up more.

Sun Yuanhua?Some days ago, Yang Reform didn't have this person in his mind. Now that he brought it up, he remembered that he had a lot of things to do, so he quickly asked, "Good thing, Sun Yuanhua is here today? Let's announce it to the palace when we arrive." Hongyi Dapao, Officials and generals at the end of the Ming Dynasty regarded it as the first choice to deal with the Eastern captives. Therefore, they were still concerned about making cannons, and there was no resistance to casting cannons. Even in history, even the mercenaries who hired cannons and fired This kind of thing also happened in the late Ming Dynasty.

After a while, Sun Yuanhua was led to the Wenhua Palace. Today, fortunately, the emperor came down early and changed his office to the Wenhua Palace. Otherwise, he would have to tan off a layer of skin, even though he was already very dark However, the sun in July is really poisonous, and he doesn't want to stand under the sun to expose himself to the sun.

"My minister, Sun Yuanhua, kowtows to my emperor, long live, long live, long live." Sun Yuanhua, a man, can enter the Wenhua Palace to become a saint, and the opportunities needed for it are beyond the reach of ordinary people.

"Sun Yuanhua, excuse me, get up." Yang Reform was very used to talking nonsense after kowtowing, this is the rule.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Sun Yuanhua stood up.

"Sun Yuanhua, the casting of cannons? I heard it's done?" Yang Reform asked.

"Returning to Your Majesty, progress has been made in imitating the Hongyi cannon. Now, I have made a batch of imitations. They are very powerful and can be called magical weapons. They can be equipped with officers and troops. I implore Your Majesty to inspect them." Sun Yuanhua followed in his early years Xu Guangqi studied Western firearms, was quite familiar with them, and even cast a lot of cannons himself. Therefore, he was very familiar with casting Western cannons. It didn't take long to cast cannons for the emperor, and he cast a batch of them. .Now I'm here to show my merits with the emperor, and by the way, I'm also going to ask for some silver. Casting cannons is a matter of spending money, because the material for casting cannons is copper, and copper is money.

Yang Reform originally wanted to promise Sun Yuanhua to visit and test the power of the artillery. He really wanted to see what the Hongyi cannon looked like. By the way, he would encourage Sun Yuanhua and his imperial party, but when he looked up at the weather outside, my God... ..., the mobility is gone, the sun outside is really vicious, if you go to visit the artillery, maybe you have to try a few shells, you must bask in the sun, the sun outside, that vicious, Yang The impetus that came out of the reform is gone. Yang Reform is a person who is afraid of heat, and now he is focused on drilling into the "air-conditioned room".

"Very well, artillery is the key to winning wars in the future. Only powerful artillery can win wars. Not only can the imitation of artillery not stop, but also more advanced artillery must be studied. To understand why Hongyi Why are our traditional cannons not as good as Hongyi's cannons? Sun Aiqing, you have to work hard..." Yang Reform didn't want to visit any artillery because he didn't want to bask in the sun. Besides, Yang Reform also trusted Sun Yuanhua If it was someone else, Yang Reform would not be lazy. Sun Yuanhua is also a historical celebrity with a name and surname, and he is more reliable in doing things.

"I obey the order." Sun Yuanhua heard what the emperor said inexplicably, but he didn't hear whether the emperor was going to Yulan or not.

"By the way, Sun Aiqing, the empress is doing a large-scale measurement of speed recently. Have you heard of this?" Yang Reform asked nonchalantly.

Sun Yuanhua shook his head and said, "Return to Your Majesty, I have never heard of it."

Yang Reform thinks about it again, let's forget about Zhou Wan'er's matter, he is more active when he is jealous, and once the gust of wind passes, he probably doesn't want to do it again.

"Uh... let's forget about this matter, and I will tell you in the future... By the way, Sun Aiqing, what did you use to cast this cannon?" Yang Reform couldn't bear to reject the kindness of his imperial party, but he didn't want to bask in the sun , I started talking nonsense, and I was going to be lazy.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the casting of artillery, if it is a large artillery, the powerful one is generally made of copper, such as the Hongyi cannon, and if it is a smaller artillery, such as the Flang machine, the three-eyed blunderbuss, etc., it is made of refined iron. Yes, it can save costs." Although Sun Yuanhua was surprised by the emperor's question, he still answered carefully.

"Why don't you use steel?" Yang Reform said indiscriminately.

"Steel? Back to Your Majesty, steel itself is extremely difficult to temper and obtain. It is even more difficult to make gun barrels. Nowadays, there is no way to make steel into gun barrels. It is too difficult to refine." Sun Yuanhua explained .

"How difficult is it? Do you know how to make steel now? Or, do you have the technology to make large-scale steel?" Yang Reformed the Crooked Building quite happily. Steelmaking, Yang Reformed, knows that ancient China has been able to do it for a long time. However, large-scale steelmaking technology is an epoch-making thing. Many traversers repair blast furnaces and make steel on a large scale, and then they are invincible. Yang Reform has always dreamed of doing this.

"Returning to Your Majesty, as for the technology of steelmaking, it has existed since ancient times, but it is extremely difficult to refine. A piece of good steel needs to be hammered and tempered to become a good product. As for the method of large-scale steelmaking,...Return to Your Majesty, there are some , However, it is not very stable, what comes out is not necessarily steel, and this method consumes a lot..." Although Sun Yuanhua did not quite understand the emperor's intention, he still answered carefully.

"What method is that? What kind of steel can be smelted?" Yang Reform asked curiously.In fact, Yang Reform also wanted to produce a blast furnace at the end of the Ming Dynasty to smelt steel and learn from the "advanced experience" of his predecessors. However, in the Ming Dynasty, this motivation became less and less. The most important task of the emperor himself was not to smelt steel. As soon as he crossed over, he would smelt steel all he wanted was a rebellious master, and he himself was an emperor who defended his own ruling interests.

"Return to Your Majesty, the name of this method is 'Guanggang method'." Sun Yuanhua explained.

"Irrigate steel? How did you do it?" Yang Reform asked.

The people in the Wenhua Palace couldn't do anything about the emperor's "shameless questioning", so a group of people accompanied the emperor to listen to the lecture on metallurgy.Of course, all kinds of disdain are indispensable.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the steel pouring method is to dissolve pig iron and wrought iron to obtain better steel." Sun Yuanhua began a special lecture on metallurgy under the watchful eyes of the entire hall.

"Pig iron and wrought iron can be mixed together to get steel?" Yang Reformed thought for a while, and his mind was a little bit different. The benefits of reading time-traveling novels before time-traveling were reflected. He knew a little about this aspect of knowledge.In fact, pig iron, wrought iron, and steel are basically the same thing, that is, iron. It should be because of the different content of certain elements in it, so they have different properties. Pig iron should have higher carbon content. iron; wrought iron should be iron with low carbon content; steel is iron with a specific carbon content. The technology of mixing pig iron and wrought iron to obtain steel should be to mix two kinds of iron with different carbon content. Together, the "iron" with a specific carbon content is obtained, which is steel.

From this method of steelmaking, Yang Reform roughly estimated that the output and performance of the steel obtained by this method of steelmaking may not be very stable.
"Returning to Your Majesty, yes, but what kind of steel can be obtained by fusing how much pig iron and how much wrought iron? This needs to be estimated by experienced masters. The steel obtained may not necessarily be what is needed. Therefore, wrought iron It is easy to refine, but good steel is hard to find!"

The people in the Wenhua Palace really couldn't bear to see the emperor "not ashamed to ask" in front of everyone. Does this steelmaking have anything to do with them?

"My Majesty, I believe that this is a place for discussing major national affairs, and steelmaking is a trivial skill and a small way, not worthy of His Majesty's trouble." A minister couldn't stand the emperor's "not doing business properly", and began to ask the emperor. Opinion up.

Yang Reform immediately found the topic, and retorted: "Xiaodao? It has nothing to do with national affairs? This Qing family, this is not right. Let me ask you, is it important to cast cannons?" Yang Reform did not want to be in such a world at all. He was testing cannons in the field, but he didn't want to chill the heart of his imperial party, so he was so focused on the crooked building, now that someone came out to sing against him, he couldn't wait.

"Returning to Your Majesty, casting cannons is of course important, especially Hongyi cannons, which are the sharp weapons of the country. It is perfect to guard the city with cannons and giant cannons. If someone dares to invade my city, one cannon cannon will corrupt one side. The sharp weapon of the country..." The minister began to talk nonsense with the emperor.

"Hehe, since the casting of cannons is very important, let me ask you, giant cannons, what are the cannons made of?" Yang Reform asked with a little sarcasm.

"Uh..., back to Your Majesty, big cannons are made of copper, and small cannons are made of fine iron." The "lecture" on metallurgy just now was still somewhat effective, and this official remembered what Sun Yuanhua said just now.

"Hehe, that's great. Since the Qing family knows that cannons are made of copper, let me ask you, what are copper coins made of?" Yang Reform sneered. Anyone who dares to say that making cannons has nothing to do with national affairs should be slapped. The mouth, the "truth" of the future, is all within the range of the cannon.

(End of this chapter)