Chapter 45 Window Paper

"If you see any good methods in other places, you can also tell them together. As long as it works, I will give you a ingot of gold!" Zhu Bashiyi nodded slightly, and then continued to use gold to induce him. He remembered that before entering the workshop, Ivanov also asked a question about iron smelting. He only started it, just to talk about other things. It is not certain that this guy saw a better method elsewhere, but he was reluctant to take it out and share it with others. He was holding his hands in his hand and waiting to make a lot of money in the future!

Sure enough, traveling thousands of miles is like reading thousands of books. Veterans wandered everywhere in their lifetime, and their knowledge was far more than those of craftsmen who never left their homes. After hearing Zhu Bashiyi said that there was more gold to take, they immediately cracked their big mouths with yellow teeth, and said with a silly smile: "Of course there is, of course there is. That, that, that iron smelting, you can't use peat directly. You, the capital of the Great Yuan Dynasty, have long used coke. Just build a kiln like charcoal, pile the peat inside and burn it slowly. Then, after being stuffed for seven or eight days, pouring water and extinguishing it, you can dig out a lot of coke. Using this thing to smelify iron, the fire is hard, and the iron is solid. It is much stronger than using charcoal!"

"You old guy!" Zhu Bashiyi gently patted the back of Ivanov's head and smiled and scolded. "I just lost my money. I was holding a few large ingots of gold, so I was not afraid of not being able to sleep?! Okay, you can go to Mr. Su at any time, you can find Mr. Su, the place where you are holding your armor today. From today on, you will stay here to teach everyone to make water hammers and burn charcoal! When will you get these two things out, and when will you find me again!"

After saying that, he thought that the information in this era was not smooth and there were many useful techniques. The craftsmen in Xuzhou might not know or master it. So he turned his eyes to Xu Hongsan and ordered loudly, "You go to Mr. Su later and ask him to give the entire Zuo Army a command in my name. No matter who knows the new methods of making irons, cannons and weapons, you can come to the Jiangshang to report to Master Huang. As long as the things he reported, Master Huang can use it. I will reward him according to the size of the purpose. The greater the purpose, the higher the reward, and at least one hanging of copper coins will be left on it, and there will be no cap on it!"

"Yes!" Not only did Xu Hongsan answer very loudly. The other blacksmith masters also lit up their eyes in an instant. Those who work as craftsmen, fathers pass on their sons, and sons pass on their grandsons, passed down from generation to generation. Who doesn't have any special skills to keep the box? In the past, everyone was like Huang Laowai, who was afraid that the secrets passed on from ancestors would be secretly learned, so they always had to keep a hand when working. Now the governor has promised a heavy reward. Whether the skills in his family will be kept for their son or used for cash, it is worth reconsidering.

With similar ideas, many craftsmen began to give Huang Laowai a craft improvement idea. Some of them were not very good at ease, so they focused their entire energy on the manufacturing of bronze muskets, hoping that the pole they made could win in the final choice and be favored and rewarded by the governor.

Even so, half a month passed when the first batch of bronze muskets were rushed to be made. It took almost time for the first primitive water hammer to be placed by the river. After the upstream river tightening work was completed, the test drive could be started.

Zhu Bashiyi was overjoyed when he heard the news. He immediately ordered Mr. Su to take out a sum of money and reward all the craftsmen involved in the manufacturing of muskets and water hammers. Then, with the craftsmen, they walked to a secluded place in the wild with copper muskets, and began to fill gunpowder one by one, to experiment with the power and strength of the new muskets.

Because of the use of bronze of different formulas, the muskets of different multiples were magnified side by side and fixed on the pre-built earth wall. When sunlight shone, they were immediately colorful. However, Zhu Bashiyi had no intention of appreciating the beauty of this metal. After everyone retreated to a safe distance, he immediately ordered the ignition.

I heard "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" Several sounds, and the earth wall of the fixed musket was blown up by smoke and dust. At the same time, the wooden target set up fifty steps away was also flew away by the projectiles, and the debris were no longer visible.

"Hurry up and take a look, there are still a few left unexploded!" Before the smoke of guns was gone, Zhu Bashiyi rushed over first and picked up the muskets beside the earthen walls one by one. He saw that two of the seven muskets had exploded, and the two had cracked gaps, and they had completely announced that they had withdrawn from the competition. The other three, one of them, looked more bulky than the other, were intact, but one of them was so hot that a stream of blue smoke immediately appeared when his fingers touched it.

At this time, no one cares about the pain in his hands. He quickly used a wet cloth to cool the wall of the musket, and then increased the amount of gunpowder again. In the second and third rounds of volleys, the three muskets still persisted, making it difficult to tell the difference. When the fourth round, the amount of gunpowder increased to three and a half, the hottest musket was finally torn a hole from the inside and could no longer participate in the subsequent experiment.

The remaining two muskets were about seven feet long, with a diameter of about three and a half times, from one and a half inches to four and a half inches, and the wall thickness was as high as four inches. According to the standard of another time and space, it was about ten centimeters. It could no longer be considered a musket, it was equivalent to a small bronze cannon.

However, the effective range of these two primitive bronze cannons is several times stronger than that of the cuckoo I saw a few months ago. It can shoot three hundred steps away from the large lead projectiles made by Huang Laowai for these two fire guns, and can also smash a small deep pit on the ground. If it hits a person, even wearing large lotus leaf armor like Rakshasa, it will probably have to be pierced and die on the spot.

In addition to being happy, Zhu Bashiyi ordered everyone to replace the projectiles prepared for a few small fire guns and then test them. The two copper cannons can fire twenty-four or five projectiles at a time, and knock the door panels about one hundred steps into pockmarks. Fifty steps can break the leather armor. If it reaches less than twenty steps, the iron armor can be bombarded into a sieve, and the gods can no longer stop it.

When the Craftsmen saw the result, they were so excited that they cheered loudly. Mr. Su, Yu Changlin and others who came here to join in the fun were also surprised and happy. They bent down to congratulate the governor on creating two more magical artifacts for defeating the enemy. Zhu Bashiyi was very happy in his heart. He ordered Mr. Su to take out the money and rewarded the makers of the two "mus guns" that had lasted until the last two. Then he pointed to the slightly delicate door and said, "The material of this door should not be changed. It will be smaller, and the diameter will be less than two inches. The projectile and the diameter will be similar. The charge starts from five cents a little, and until the blow-off is done to see what can be made in the end!"

When Lian Laohei heard this, he quickly agreed, holding the treasure musket and bounty he made, he ran back to the workshop to work.

Zhu Bashiyi looked at his back and shook his head, squatted down, drew a rough look of a later rifle on the ground with a branch, and pointed out to the workshop manager Huang Laowai, "If his musket can be built according to my requirements, you will find wood and embed the musket on the wood in this way. As for your musket."

After looking at the thickness of the musket wall, he accepted the reality helplessly. While drawing on the ground, he ordered, "Just double the diameter, pipe length and wall thickness, magnify the same proportion. Then make a rack and wheel, and put it on it and push it away. If it succeeds, just call it a cannon! Remember not to make it too heavy. If it is too heavy, it can only be used to defend the city!"

"Oh, Governor, don't worry, this time I will definitely let you see the cannon sample within ten days!" Huang Laowai slapped his chest and said confidently.

"Do it slowly, don't hurt people. It won't hurt you if it takes a little longer!" The two souls have been fusing for half a year, and Zhu Bashiyi can basically accept the pace of life that is slower than a ox cart in this era. He nodded and smiled and reminded him again.

"Yes! Governor, please wait and hear the good news!" Huang Laowai slapped his chest again, carried his super-large musket and bounty with his disciples, and happily went back to continue to work on technological research.

"Although I have created two four-way characters, after all, I have seen the dawn, which proves that I can walk through this road." While comforting myself in my heart, Zhu Bashiyi also followed everyone back. When he walked to the river, he saw the water hammer trying to turn, and the last trace of regret in his heart flew without a trace...

This thing is actually not a new thing! The first half of the water wheels have been used since ancient times in the Central Plains, and it is particularly common south of the Yellow River. During the Yuan Dynasty, water conservancy was built and many water wheels were built for silting. Therefore, many old craftsmen in the workshop had seen the original objects with their own eyes. Everyone took out all the things they learned, and then pieced them together based on the water hammer sketches drawn by Ivanov, and then made them very easily.

This way, the waterwheel with the characteristics of the East and West is not only beautiful than any of the original ones, but also uses three bronze gears to occlude the transmission, and its effect is more than a little bit higher than any of the original ones. (Note 1)

As for the mechanism for pulling the hammer, it is a layer of window paper. It is nothing more than the coordination between the lever, counterweight and hammer head. For the craftsmen who have just helped Li Sicang make a revive cannon, it is not difficult at all. Change the sand bucket with the assembly weight into the water bucket, replace the shell launcher with a super large hammer, and then pour the water from the water truck from the river and repeatedly inject it into the bucket. Whenever the oversized bucket on one side of the lever is filled, the lever is pressed down and the hammer on the other side is pulled up. When the hammer reaches a certain height, it touches the mechanism and instantly emptys the water in the bucket. Under the action of the leverage effect, the hammer head of more than 500 kilograms quickly fell down and hits the red iron block. Red stars splash everywhere, and in a few seconds, it completely smashes into a board shape.

"Can this water truck cooperate with the gears to drive the drill bit?" Seeing that the craftsmen knew how to use gears to drive, Zhu Bashiyi's gun-making fire was ignited again, pointing at the water truck that was about to start running, he whispered to the craftsmen.

"Yes!" The craftsmen's eyes lit up and responded in a lingering manner, "Put a vertical wheel here, a lying wheel here, and then use a lying wheel to drive the leather string. Let the water wheel replace the bow of the diamond drill, pull the back end of the drill rod and turn it back and forth, which is definitely faster than turning with your hands. It also works evenly. Governor, you are indeed Maitreya Buddha, and you know everything. We have never thought of such a simple trick in our lives!"

Note 1: The Yuan Dynasty water truck was driven with wooden gears.
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