As the end of the year approaches, Lin Zexu's actions are becoming more and more frequent. Fortunately, Lin Laohu still has the last reason and does not aim his finger at the officials and gentry in Yongchang, but only focuses on the attacks on the bandits and bandits.

Judging from Lin Zexu's attitude, he wanted to make a complete charter for Yongchang before the New Year and settle the accounts after the New Year.

The second brother was also filial and rushed back from Yongchang. When the old man told him the truth, the second brother Yang Yi was quite sympathetic to the old man's idea. In the name of attending the funeral, he went to the Governor's Office to meet Lin Zexu. Lin Zexu was now busy, so he left Yang Yi in Kunming.

Many things Yang Yi held in his hand became the backing for Lin Zexu to handle the Yongchang case. With Yang Yi being by his side, Lin Zexu's steps were slowly recovering.

Du Biao is still suffering from the bloody battle. According to Du Fuhu, Du Biao's men are still at their limit, and many people have already complained, which is normal.

While preparing for the arsenal, Yang Meng returned to Kunming. At the West School Field, he gave the order, and the Supervisor stopped the cruel training. Most people only felt grateful to Yang Meng, and complained only to the two tigers of the Du family. This is also the reason why Yang Meng was not staying in the West School Field.

Although the matter was the beginning of his own, Du Fuhu and Du Jianghu were executed. These two men suffered a lot. Not only did they die, they also gained a harsh reputation, and this was Yang Meng's method to weaken the majesty of the two in the supervision flag.

The Yang family's army, whether majestic or rewarded, came from the Yang family, not the generals who led the troops. Yang Meng had a very high understanding of people's hearts. A small method made the Du family's two tigers lose the opportunity to control the commando.

Howard also encountered trouble, and the formal gunmaking began, but in three days, only a dozen available guns were assembled, four hundred technicians! More than a dozen guns were used, and the efficiency was too low.

Howard has taught all the people he should teach, but most craftsmen cannot make qualified parts. This makes Howard doubt the method taught by Yang Meng. It seems that this revolver cannot be divided into work and cooperation, and only one technician can be responsible for one.

Howard also carefully looked at the method of creating the Xishan blacksmith. During the secondary charcoal burning and quenching, these blacksmiths seemed to have some problems, but Howard didn't know what the specific problem was.

The time of secondary charcoal burning, the quenching process, and the carburization process during the making process are always awkward when these blacksmiths in the Qing Dynasty. Many of the barrels and revolvers made of made have quality problems, but there are also several blacksmiths. The quality of the parts made by them is extraordinary. Howard, as a senior technician, still cannot analyze the specific reasons in these things.

Looking at the piles of scraps in front of him, Howard was in trouble. He watched the process of the Qing blacksmith making the barrel over and over again. It took two or three days to make a barrel, nearly a hundred heating, carburizing, and thousands of forgings. It was also an extremely difficult task to record the entire process.

In order to train qualified apprentices, Howard also took the initiative to go out and eat and live in the factory. The barrels fired under his guidance basically met the requirements, so that these can continue to build barrels, and the previous scene appeared again.

The quality problems of unknown reasons, looking at the barrels that were killed one by one, Howard fell into deep helplessness and could not find the reason!

Helpless Howard could only find Yang Meng, a general who was extremely familiar with industry. Thinking about the tempting reward and hundreds of scrapped gun barrels in the arsenal, Howard could only attribute the reason to the fact that the iron material of the Xishan Iron Factory was unqualified.

"General Yang, the iron materials provided by the Xishan Iron Factory are unqualified. The arsenal imported a batch of iron materials from Miligan and tried it!"

"Is the iron material not qualified? Didn't a revolver that meets the quality requirements be made?"

Upon hearing this news, Yang Meng frowned. Steel is the basis of everything. If the iron material is not qualified, then the trouble will be great.

"A dozens of gun barrels and revolvers are unqualified products. If they are assembled into guns, the chances of blowing the chamber are extremely high."

For the occasional qualified products, Howard can only be attributed to luck. He is not a scientist and can only judge the problem based on his own experience, but Howard feels that his analysis is still very correct.

"The quality of the gun must be guaranteed, so it is! You and the Militanese technicians in the arsenal will make the barrel and see how the quality is. If it is still the same as before, I will go to Xishan Iron Factory to see the situation."

After a qualified product was released, Yang Meng felt that it should not be the reason for iron. The quality of iron was inspected by many missionaries. They all claimed that the quality of the wrought iron produced by Xishan Iron Factory was higher than that of European countries. Is this good iron not suitable for making gun barrels?

Yang Meng originally planned to use steel, but Howard had no experience in using steel to make barrels. In order to get some blacksmith's skills, Yang Meng agreed to continue using wrought iron to make barrels.

But unexpectedly, quality problems will occur when using wrought iron, so Yang Meng could only slowly explore this.

Under Yang Meng's suggestion, a gun making technician from Miligan built a barrel, and all the products were shot out were qualified. In this way, the reason for the scrap was found, and the problem was still in the construction process.

"Howard, it seems that it is not the reason for wrought iron, but the reason for man. I want to ask questions by summoning the blacksmiths of the arsenal."

The technicians in Miligan were able to create qualified gun barrels, but the blacksmiths of the Qing Dynasty could not make it. Yang Meng could not guess this reason. Could it be that Howard kept his hands?

More than 400 blacksmiths gathered in the open arsenal. Yang Meng glanced down and said that the blacksmiths were in a bad mood. It seemed that the waste not only affected Howard's mood, but also these elite blacksmiths in Xishan were affected.

"The blacksmith who produces qualified products stands out, and the blacksmith who produces high-quality products stands next to me."

With a word from Yang Meng, dozens of blacksmiths came out and stood obediently in front of Yang Meng.

"Howard, who shot the barrel with the best quality?"

Howard moved his fingers and an old blacksmith with pale hair stood up. He looked as though he was still an Yi blacksmith.

"Did you come step by step in the process of making the barrel according to what Mr. Howard taught?"

Yang Meng asked casually, but unexpectedly the old blacksmith knelt down tremblingly.

"San Master, some things taught by this foreign master are wrong, so I came in my own way."

A word caused a thousand waves, and it turned out that the problem was that. After saying this, Yang Meng's thinking became clear. These blacksmiths were all 40-year-old masters. They had their own ways after years of making irons. Howard's teachings meant that they had chosen to learn, so this problem arose.

He couldn't learn step by step. Yang Meng had thought of this problem before, but he didn't expect that the reason was the old method. The people of the Qing Dynasty paid attention to rules, and it seemed that this old rule was hindering the development of the arsenal.

"Howard, come on."

If you want to change, Yang Meng's method is simple, just a whip will be done, but Howard and his group of people don't want Ge Shiyang to do that, because they are afraid that these foreign masters will cause trouble!

"General Yang, what are your instructions?"

"The problem has been found. I still have a way to improve the quality of the revolver. Are you willing to learn it?"

"Of course I'm willing!"

"Okay, the method to improve the quality of the revolver is on the old blacksmith. I will send someone to record his method later. These days, you and the technicians of the Colt Arsenal will summarize a simple and easy-to-learn process, when to do what, and what to do when the time comes.

The record is more detailed. I will send a team of soldiers here in the next few days. Don’t let these blacksmiths make anything first, let them remember the process first. If you can’t remember it well, let the soldiers whip them until they remember it.

After remembering the process, let them make firearms. If the scraps are released, let the soldiers punish them severely. Create blacksmiths with all the barrels qualified and give me the list and I will reward them.

Can you accept these?"

Punishment and reward, Yang Meng's method is very bad, but it is very useful. On one side is a whip and on the other side is gold and silver. With such a gap, the old rules followed by blacksmiths are nothing.

"Of course it is acceptable. Moderate corporal punishment can increase the enthusiasm of workers. I will do what General Yang said!"

It is best if Howard can accept it. Even if he can't, Yang Meng will force him to accept it.

"Where you are casting the cannon, you will also go to Xishan to choose a group of apprentices. In the past few months, you will have to come up with results for me."

The problem of revolver has been solved, and the production of artillery is not a big problem, so let’s do both together!

Taking Howard back to the blacksmiths, Yang Meng's face darkened and he began to speak angrily:

"Mr. Howard, I have given you everything I need to teach. What does Mr. Howard say you do! I didn't do it according to his method, so you can't produce qualified products. Such things are enough. Next time, I will make random changes to the process. Be careful of your flesh and blood suffering!

These blacksmiths who made qualified products would be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, and the blacksmith who made high-quality products would be rewarded with five hundred taels of silver. The more qualified products you made, the more rewards I would give here. If anyone gives me waste products, don’t eat this bowl of rice again!”

Sure enough, when Yang Meng said this, most of the blacksmiths lowered their heads. There is no need to guess. These those who bowed their heads must have been based on their own methods, just like the old Yi blacksmith. The difference here is very subtle, the heat, carburizing amount, and forging time are all key factors that affect the finished product.

Most blacksmiths in Xishan have no experience in making firearms. They do not know the dangers of blowing up the chamber, nor do they know the principles of carburizing and forging, so they have such a big problem.

Thinking about this, Yang Meng also found it a little funny. He almost destroyed the Xishan Iron Factory because of the habitual actions of these blacksmiths. If it weren't for him, this matter would have been a big trouble.

While the technicians were exchanging experiences with the old Yi blacksmith, Yang Meng was also familiar with the manufacturing process of the revolver.

In addition to ironwork, many processes can be done by women. This is undoubtedly a good way to increase the income of farmers and tenants. Yunnan's local cloth is gradually replaced by foreign cloth. Although the output in the land is quite large, the income from farming is still the lowest in Yunnan, and it can only barely maintain food and clothing.

The arsenal requires a large number of people. A revolver also requires a lot of things, including gunpowder, lead bullets, bottom fire, gunpowder bottles, gun holsters, copper accessories, and a gun is a huge industrial chain. One tenth or more farmers and tenants in Yiliang can live a better life, and a single arsenal can do it. It seems that I will build more factories in Yunnan.

The research process in one day, the experiment in four days, and after destructive experiments, the old Yi blacksmith's method was indeed feasible. Howard's harvest was pretty good. Colt m1847 is about to be mass-produced in Yunnan.
Chapter completed!