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- "Dang! Dang! Dang!"
In the steel workshop, the sound of knocking can be heard endlessly.
Liu Mingqi¡¯s steel workshop is very large, covering an area of ??one hundred acres.
There are dozens of courtyards here to conduct various experiments. Excellent blacksmiths lead the youth group, and everyone is working hard to follow Liu Mingqi's plan.
After more than a month of discussion and research, they have taken one step after another.
There is a forging workshop here now. After refining the molten steel, groups of blacksmiths use raw materials to make weapons here.
These blacksmiths selected by Liu Mingqi from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were previously selected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to make various iron tools for the royal family. Of course they had a brush.
¡°If Uncle Su was still in power in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Liu Mingqi wouldn¡¯t be able to borrow these people, and even if they borrowed them, they wouldn¡¯t give them the best.
How is it like now, when all the blacksmiths are given are the best blacksmiths. With their rich experience and the various knowledge and data given to them by Liu Mingqi, they can quickly understand.
In fact, they are already a generation of elites in iron smelting.
They are only separated by a wall from everyone.
Liu Mingqi now completely digitizes that knowledge and uses various experimental data to tell them how to improve, and they will be able to improve quickly.
¡°These blacksmiths have been promoted, and the members of the Three Hundred Youth League sent over by Liu Mingqi will naturally get the best education.
Of course, their education of the Youth League was not free. Liu Mingqi also gave them high rewards. For bringing an apprentice, the reward is hundreds of taels. If the apprentice performs well, the reward will be doubled.
In ancient times, such simple and straightforward rewards were the most inspiring.
The only task of the steel workshop is of course to make high-quality medium carbon steel, and then use the medium carbon steel to make cannon embryos.
Some people may think that the strength of medium carbon steel is not as good as that of high carbon steel. Not to mention making cannons, high carbon steel is better at making weapons - the famous Damascus steel is the famous high carbon steel.
That¡¯s right.
High carbon steel is certainly better than medium carbon steel in terms of hardness, but the problem is that it is ten times or a hundred times more difficult to make high carbon steel than medium carbon steel.
With the current smelting technology of Dakang, it is already good to be able to produce high-quality medium carbon steel.
It is not impossible to produce high-carbon steel, but it is very time-consuming and the quantity cannot meet the demand at all.
In 1800, a British factory with five crucible furnaces had an annual output of only 80 tons.
Many people may not know that it has been nearly thirty years since the invention of crucible steelmaking, and it is an era of rapid development.
So similarly, everyone doesn¡¯t know much about the weight of cannons installed on ships.
Taking a 32-pound long heavy cannon of about the same time period into account, a cannon weighed more than three tons!
Not to mention the 64-pound short heavy artillery as the main force, which weighs more than five tons!
What is the concept?
As long as a warship is equipped with 10 32-pound and 10 64-pound cannons, it can consume the output of the entire crucible furnace factory.
The fourth-tier battleship Grattan in 1975 carried 28 32-pound short-heavy guns and 28 64-pound short-heavy guns.
It is basically the annual output of three equivalent factories.
And this fourth-level battleship is only the fourth level among the six levels of sailing battleships. The standard is two decks and fifty cannons.
"Compared to the three decks of the first-class battleship, the maximum 42-pound cannon, and a total of 100 cannons, it can only be the younger brother among the younger brothers.
Liu Mingqi¡¯s four-masted sailboat has a displacement of 6,300 tons in terms of displacement, which is completely higher than the standard of a first-class sailing battleship.
However, due to various technical substandards, it is not as powerful as other people's first-level sailing battleships, but it is more than enough to serve as a fourth-level sailing battleship.
¡° Moreover, if we take today¡¯s manual rowing as an example, if you load too many cannons, it will be impossible to sail across the ocean. Only by reducing the load can you go further.
This is also the experience of the Dutch in the 16th century. They specialized in making three-level sailing battleships, and they only carried twenty or thirty cannons. This way they could maintain their center of gravity and reduce their own weight.
Not only can you fight flexibly while sailing, but you can also sail directly from Europe to Asia to fight.
What Liu Mingqi is doing now is also imitating what the Dutch did.
Of course, that isLove?
Therefore, the situation where dozens of Japanese pirates chased and killed thousands of Ming soldiers was certainly due to the deterioration of military discipline of the Ming army, but the modernization of weapons was also one of the reasons.
Grandpa Qi complained in "Miscellaneous Records of Military Training? Weapons Explained": "To make a waist knife, the iron needs to be tempered more, the blade is made of pure steel, and it is sharpened with a flat shovel from the back, until the blade is flat and has no shoulders, and even Sharpness, the most wonderful thing is the tip. Recently, the craftsman made the blade thicker and refused to use manual grinding. Instead, he used a side file and made the blade crosswise to reveal its awn. There are shoulders at both sides. The cut is not deep, and the awn of the blade is bald, that is, He is stubborn and needs to be identified."
Otherwise, why do you think he used long bamboo and Zhu Bajie¡¯s rake to make the Qi Jiguang Formation?
Without this kind of long-range weapon, you can't withstand the Japanese pirates' front!
In ancient times, the problem of excessive sulfur and phosphorus in molten iron could not be solved well because they did not know what trace elements were and the important characteristics of these elements.
" But Liu Mingqi has a doctorate in physics and chemistry, and can even build a cannon. It is easy to remove excess sulfur and phosphorus.
Now the craftsmen are using the method Liu Mingqi gave them before to forge the molten steel into weapons.
To be honest, they have made many iron tools, such as weapons, which are now uncommon. After all, royal supplies do not require swords, guns and sticks.
However, veteran drivers will always drive very steadily, and after just a little re-familiarization, excellent weapons were forged from their hands.
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