Chapter 333: The summer is hot, just be lazy

"What else is there today?" After quickly dealing with the matter in Shaanxi, Yang Jing continued to deal with other matters. It would be impossible for one person to manage an empire.

"Return to Your Majesty, Your Majesty has appointed Sun Yuanhua, who is responsible for making red barbarian cannons, has made progress in imitating red barbarian cannons. A batch of red barbarian cannons have been copied. I beg your Majesty to read..." Shi Fenglai reported.

Originally, this matter could not be discussed by the Emperor and his ministers without taking it to the Wenhua Palace. He just handed the memorial to the emperor. After the emperor read it, he had an idea and dealt with it himself. If he had no idea, he would ignore it. However, Shi Fenglai still escalated the matter slightly and regarded it as a major event, because he was an imperial party and Sun Yuanhua was also an imperial party. It was so simple. His own people had to support their own people and let them show more in front of the emperor and courtiers.

Sun Yuanhua? Yang Jing has been without this person in his mind for some days. Now when he mentions it, he remembers that he has really had a lot of things to do. He asked quickly: "Good thing, Sun Yuanhua is here today? Let's go to the palace." The red cannons were regarded as the first choice for dealing with the Donglu by officials and generals in the late Ming Dynasty. Therefore, they were still concerned about the matter of making cannons, and they did not encounter any resistance to casting cannons. Even in history, even mercenaries who hired cannons and fired cannons had happened in the late Ming Dynasty.

After a while, Sun Yuanhua was taken to Wenhua Palace. Fortunately, the emperor went down early today and changed his office to Wenhua Palace. Otherwise, he would have to lose a layer of skin. Although he was already very dark, the July sun was really poisonous and he didn't want to stand in the sun and expose it to the sun.

"My minister Sun Yuanhua bowed to my emperor long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long. "Sun Yuanhua, a juren, was able to enter the Wenhua Hall, and the opportunities needed were not something that ordinary people could do.

"Sun Yuanhua, please be free from gifts, get up." Yang Jingwei is already very accustomed to others talking nonsense after kowtowing. This is the rule.

"I thank Your Majesty." Sun Yuanhua stood up.

"Sun Yuanhua, what happened to cast cannons? I heard it was done?" Yang Jingai asked.

"When you go back to Your Majesty, there has been progress in imitating the red cannons. Now, I have copied a batch of them, which are very powerful and can be called a magic weapon. I beg Your Majesty to inspect them." Sun Yuanhua learned Western firearms with Xu Guangqi in his early years. He was quite familiar with Western firearms and had personally cast a lot of artillery. Therefore, he was very familiar with the casting of Western artillery. He cast a batch of artillery for the emperor. It didn't take long for him to cast a batch of artillery. Now he has come to show his merits with the emperor. By the way, he is also preparing to ask for some silver. Cast cannons is a matter of money, because the material of casting cannons is copper, and copper is money.

Yang Jie wanted to promise Sun Yuanhua to visit and test the power of the cannons. He wanted to see what the Red Cannons looked like, and encouraged Sun Yuanhua and his imperial party, but when he looked up, he looked out of the weather outside, my god..., the action power was gone, and the sun outside was really a bit vicious. If you go to visit the cannons, you might have to try a few shells, and you have to bask in the sun. The sun outside, the vicious, the little motivation that Yang Jie came out of is gone. Yang Jie is a person who is afraid of heat, and now he is thinking about going into the "air-conditioned room".

"Very good. Artillery is the key to the victory of war in the future. Only with powerful artillery can one can win. Not only can the imitation of artillery cannot stop, but more advanced artillery must also be studied. We must understand why the cannons of the Red and Wilds are more powerful. Why are the traditional cannons in our dynasty inferior to the cannons of the Red and Wilds? Sun Aiqing, you have to put in your time..." Yang Jing did not want to visit any artillery because he didn't want to bask in the sun. Besides, Yang Jing could trust Sun Yuanhua. If it were someone else, Yang Jing would not be lazy. Sun Yuanhua was also a famous historical celebrity with a surname, and he was quite reliable in doing things. Yang Jing was lazy and started to be lazy.

"I obey the order." Sun Yuanhua inexplicably heard the emperor say this, but he didn't hear whether the emperor went to the imperial examination or not.

"By the way, Sun Aiqing, the queen is doing a large-scale speed measurement recently. Have you heard of this?" Yang Jingai asked in a mess.

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

Thinking about Yang Jing again, I would forget about Zhou Wan'er's incident. I'm more active when I'm jealous. Once the gust of wind passes, I'm afraid I won't want to do it anymore.

"Uh..., let's forget about this, I'll tell you in the future... By the way, Sun Aiqing, what are you using for casting your cannon?" Yang Jingai couldn't bear to refuse the kindness of his imperial party, but he didn't want to bask in the sun, so he started to mess around and was ready to be lazy.

"When you come back to your Majesty, if the cannon is cast, if it is a large cannon, it is usually made of copper, such as the Red Cannon. If it is a smaller cannon, such as the Folang machine, the three-eyed gun, etc., it can be made of fine iron, which can save costs." Although Sun Yuanhua was surprised by the emperor's question, he still answered carefully.

"Why don't you use steel?" Yang Jingwei said randomly.

"Steel? Go to Your Majesty, steel itself is extremely difficult to train and obtain. If it is to be made into a gun barrel, it will be even more difficult. Now, there is no way to make steel into a gun barrel, which is really 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 steelmaking?" Yang Jingweilou was quite happy. Steelmaking, Yang Jingyi knew that it had been known in ancient China for a long time. However, large-scale steelmaking technology is an epoch-making thing. Many time travelers often build blast furnaces and make large-scale steelmaking, and then they are invincible. Yang Jingyi has always dreamed of being like this.

"When you go back to your Majesty, as for the steelmaking technique, it has been used in ancient times, but it is difficult to refine it. A good piece of steel needs to be tempered for thousands of times before it can be made into a material. As for the method of large-scale steelmaking,...When you go back to your Majesty, there are some, but it is not very stable. The steel is not necessarily produced. There are also many ways to consume... " Although Sun Yuanhua did not understand the emperor's intention very well, he still answered carefully.

"What is that? What kind of steel can be refined?" Yang Jing asked curiously. Yang Jing actually wanted to produce blast furnaces in the late Ming Dynasty to make steel, learn from the "advanced experience" of his predecessors. However, in the Ming Dynasty, the motivation became lower and lower. The most important task of his emperor was not to make steel. Once he traveled over, he made steel, which was the master who was determined to rebel, and he was an emperor who safeguarded his own interests.

"When you come back to your Majesty, this method is called the 'steel filling method'." Sun Yuanhua explained.

"Water steel? How did it be poured?" Yang Jie asked.

The people in Wenhua Palace had no choice but to ask the emperor for such "not ashamed to ask", so a group of people accompanied the emperor to listen to the metallurgical lecture. Of course, all kinds of disdain were indispensable.

"When you come back to your Majesty, the method of filling steel is to use pig iron and hard iron to get better steel." Sun Yuanhua started a special lecture on metallurgy in full view of the entire hall.

"Can steel be obtained by melting pig iron? " Yang Jing thought about it and felt a little bit clear. The benefits of reading the novels of time travel have been reflected in it. I know more about this knowledge. In fact, pig iron and iron and steel are fundamentally the same thing, that is, iron should have different contents of certain elements in it, so it has different properties. Pig iron should be iron with a higher carbon content; hard iron should be iron with a lower carbon content; steel is iron with a specific carbon content. The technology of pig iron and hard iron to obtain steel should be mixed with two different carbon contents together to obtain "iron" with a specific carbon content, which is steel.

From this kind of steelmaking method, Yang Jing roughly estimated that the steel production and performance obtained by this kind of steelmaking method may not be very stable.

"Your Majesty, yes, but what kind of steel can be obtained by combining a lot of pig iron and a lot of cooked iron? This requires an experienced master to estimate that the steel obtained may not be what you need. Therefore, it is easy to make a cooked iron, but it is hard to find good steel!"

The people in Wenhua Palace really couldn't bear to see the emperor "don't be ashamed to ask" in front of everyone. Is this steelmaking related to them?

"I report to Your Majesty, I think this is a place to discuss national affairs, and steelmaking is a small skill, and it is not worthy of your Majesty's great efforts." A minister could not bear to see the emperor's "not doing his job properly" and began to give advice to the emperor.

Yang Jie immediately found the topic and retorted: "Xiaodao? It has nothing to do with national affairs? This Qing family, this is wrong. I ask you, is it important to cast cannons?" Yang Jie didn't want to go to the wild to test cannons in such a world, but he didn't want to feel the heart of his imperial party. So, he was eager to have someone come out to sing a stage show with him now.

"When you go back to your Majesty, casting cannons is of course important. Especially the red and barbarian cannons are the country's weapon. It is the most suitable to use cannons to protect the city. If someone dares to invade our city, he can destroy the other side with one shot. It is really the country's weapon..." The minister began to talk to the emperor.

"Haha, since casting cannons is very important, I really ask you, what are the giant cannons made of?" Yang Jing asked with a little sneer.

"Uh..., my majesty, the cannons are made of copper, and the small cannons are made of fine iron." The metallurgical "lecture" just now still had some effect, and this official remembered what Sun Yuanhua said just now.

"Haha, very good. Since the Qing family knows that cannons are made of copper, then I ask you, what is the copper coins made of?" Yang Jing laughed. Those who dare to say that building cannons is not related to national affairs should slap their mouths. The future "truth" will all be within the range of the cannons.
Chapter completed!