The departure of the military craftsman surnamed Zheng did not cause any fluctuations.??

The remaining fifteen craftsmen are willing to stay and become contract workers. After signing the contract, their rating will be completed within ten days, with the Zhang Chugong brothers being examined and supervised by Minister Yang and Chen Qiuao.

There is no strict division between the various craftsmen at the moment, so they can go wherever they need it. After all, there are not many people available at present.

Their various welfare housing and other types were handed over to the Civil Affairs Office for arrangements, and what Yang He had to prepare was all the matters before the craftsmen started construction.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.

Yang He plans to implement the Xin'anzhuang standard.

Speaking of the first-class strong country sets standards, the second-class national system is mixed, and the third-class national system cannot even squeeze into the system.

Everything is ready to be established, and if it is not, it is abolished. Standards are very important, and everything must be planned in advance.

Therefore, Yang He plans to set a unified weight and measure in advance, and the standard specifications of weapons can be exchanged in the future.

One of the reasons for modern success is standardization and scale. The craftsmen in this era have done their own things and there is no standard at all. This phenomenon must be eliminated in Xin'anzhuang, and standards must be paid attention to in everything.

Such necessary equipment must be prepared first, such as pencils, drawings, creating rulers, triangles, compass, protractors, etc.

These were left to Zhang Chugong's public creations. In the future, the craftsmen in the village would use these tools uniformly, and they would not be able to make a big and small ruler, which would be chaotic.

These devices have no technical content, so it is easy to make, but only pencils are slightly more difficult.

There were also pencils in ancient China. During the reign of Emperor Ming of Han, there were records that Cao Bao would have pencils when he was sleeping, and recite books when he was walking. However, the "pencil" at this time was really a pencil, with a core, and no wooden shell outside.

What Yang He wants is a pencil pole similar to later generations.

It is not difficult to process a large number of wooden pen rods. The Zhang Chugong brothers have an instrument for making arrow stalks. The inside is a rotating knife and the outside is a handle. Put a wooden strip in it, shake the handle, and an arrow stalk is born.

Under the transformation of equipment similar to this kind of equipment, a large number of standardized fine wooden strips can be processed, and a groove just suitable for the pencil core can be dug out in the middle of the fine wooden strips.

Then there is the pencil core. In fact, it should be a graphite pencil stick. It is called black lead at this time. Regardless of East and West, you use graphite to write and draw early. However, the graphite strips can easily stain your hands and easily break them. This is the dilemma of pencils at this time.

Yang He directly applied the pencil core formula from later generations, used a certain amount of clay, clay, and mixed graphite to heat it. The pencil core produced is solid and wear-resistant.

Finally, the pencil core is placed in the pen holder slot, the two wooden strips are tightly connected and bonded, and the pencil rod will come out.

In the future, such pencils will become a weapon in the hands of craftsmen and make great contributions to the standardization of Xin'anzhuang.

Just keep the pencil pole instrument and the pencil core formula well, and there will definitely be a large number of counterfeit goods in the future. However, if you want to buy an authentic Xin'an pen, you still have to go to Xin'anzhuang.

Brother Zhang Chugong believed in Yang Xianggong's ability and immediately acted decisively.

...

Three days later.

Military supplies.

Yang He was drawing something on a large wooden board that was standing. He held a triangle board in one hand and a pencil in the other hand, but it was a hand-processed pencil sample. Yang He had seen it well, so he used it directly and produced it according to this standard in the future.

"I have all the components in my new gun. This is the standard for each piece in the future. If there is any error, I should record it in a slight way."

Pointing to the standards, sizes, shapes and drawings of each firearm component, Yang He said loudly.

The Zhang Chugong brothers stood beneath him, and there were also Blacksmith Yu, Blacksmith Li and Tiannan. They all signed a contract, and they were still the one with the highest level of confidentiality, and they could not even go out of the village gate.

Although the rank has not been assessed yet, in Yang He's mind, they are all senior technicians. In order to show trust and motivation, they can all participate in such a confidant matter at this time.

Several craftsmen looked at it. The three Zhang Chugong brothers were fine. They knew Yang He's ability, Li Tiannan, Yu Blacksmith and others all looked surprised. They all knew that Yang Xianggong was both literary and martial, but they didn't expect to be a craftsman. They were really a rare genius in the world.

After hearing this kind of painting ability and this kind of understanding of firearms, they felt ashamed of themselves.

Although Blacksmith Yu and Blacksmith Li were excited to see it, they were always steadfast and cautious, while Li Tiannan was a newborn calf and was not afraid of tigers.

He felt itchy and said in his Guangguan with a strong Cantonese accent: "The painting of my husband seems to be a rear-loading gun like a thunder-pull gun. Could it be that the ones that the village will make in the future are all such rear-loading guns?"

Yang He thought to himself that Li Tiannan really knew a lot and had contacted him like a thunder gun.

He smiled and said, "Yes, if you fight fifty steps, you will fight harder than to fight quickly."

Yang He decided to make a large-scale Xin'an gun, a breeched convex gun in the village.

According to his estimate, after refining gunpowder, the Xin'an gun can break armor in about 70 steps, but to increase the hit rate, it still needs to be put to a fifty steps away from the attack. The closer you get, the higher the accuracy.

So, it is enough to have this breeched grenade. After all, if you can't hit it, it doesn't make sense to have a range of one thousand meters.

This is also because Yang He is a time traveler. He keenly judged what kind of firearm is the best and suitable, which is the breeched rope gun and the breeched flint rifle!

But looking at the East and West, there is a fallacy at this time, which is that the muskets are desperately pursuing long range and high firepower.

If the weapons are indeed excellent, there can be killing people by a clamp, a bird gun, a flintski, a distance of two or three hundred meters. This refers to people without armor.

However, because of the smoothbore gun, the accuracy is extremely poor and the hit rate is very low, but he can only fight in close combat and walk a few dozen meters away.

In the east, it is about fifty steps, seventy-five meters, and in the west it is generally fifty yards, less than fifty meters, and the British are even more obsessed with the 18-meter.

This makes it meaningless no matter how long the range of the smoothbore gun is or how high the firepower is, because it can kill people with 300 meters, and it still has to go to a distance of 50 meters to fight.

The range of the breech gun at this time is of course not as powerful as that of the breech gun, but the distance of fifty meters is the breech gun of this era. It can also penetrate all armor with very poor straw and ash gunpowder, whether it is plate armor or the triple armor of the Qing army, and the shooting is countless times higher.

The breech gun technology of this era is not more complicated than the breech gun. In fact, the wire rotor behind the bird gun has a higher technical content.

So what's the reason not to use a breech gun?

Even if the breech gun leaks, it will be fought at a distance of dozens of meters. What does it matter if the breech gun is?

Even if the breech gun is weaker, it will run to a distance of fifty meters. What is the difference in the power of the breech breech?

Especially the advantage of breech guns is too obvious when a few dozen meters away. Within the same time, the breech gun may only be able to fire three formations of guns, while the breech gun can be fired for fifteen formations.

Every five steps, ten steps, and there is no army in the east and west that can bear it.

It would be a massacre, killing more than half of the enemies within a distance of dozens of meters, and knocking them to pieces in one breath.

Yang He actually knows the reasons for the fallacy of the East and the West. He has the quality of soldiers and also wants to block the enemy the farther away, the better.

It’s just that I have a good idea, and it’s useless to miss the target, and I still have to see the truth within a few dozen meters.

Li Tiannan touched his head. In the other side of Foshan, each craftsman made large bird guns. The customers' request was to hit far and accurate, and even the red-haired ghost was no exception.

It’s just that it’s easy to say, but it’s hard to say that the accuracy is. The various craftsmen can certainly fight far and accurately.

But they are just doing this job, and they work hard all year round, and the guests ejaculate themselves, which is not necessarily the case.

However, in his young mind, isn’t the firearm the farther the better?

He has been in Foshan for a long time and also heard that the horses of the frontier Hulu are like storms and rains. He is afraid of seeing it from afar. The officers and soldiers fight desperately for one or two miles. If they really start the war at close range, can the soldiers bear it?

But thinking about Pizhou is located in Huai'an Prefecture, far away from the Tartars, Xianggong Yang said what to do, just do what.

They discussed carefully and finalized the specifications and sizes.

"The hole diameter of the three-qian lead bullet is enough. At present, all bird guns that can be used with three-qian bullets are available for hundreds of steps."

"The copper plug can be the same as the diameter of the chamber, and it must be inserted into the chamber, the joints must be tightly matched, and then carefully grind away five wires."

"The Yin-Yang Machine..."

Zhang Chuxun, Yu Blacksmith, Li Blacksmith, Li Tiannan and others will also participate in the gun barrel making, but in Yang He's plan, they will be more responsible for the production of key components such as copper bolts, Yin and Yang machines, as well as perforations and drilling of the chambers.

After all, it is a breech gun. The barrel does not need to be very long, so there is no need to use a highly technical splicing method. Instead, it is directly wrapped with a hard iron plate, and the technology required to make the barrel is reduced sharply.

As long as the standards are strictly standardized and the materials are sufficient, Zhang Chugong, Zhang Chuxun, Yu Blacksmith's son Yu Youtie, exiled blacksmith Niu Jinding and others have this ability to control.

The caliber of Yanghe Xin'an gun is set at twelve millimeters, and the lead bullet weighs three cents, about twelve grams.

The size of this caliber and the weight of the lead bullet is enough. Even if the Qing army was wearing triple armor, they would be opened at a distance of fifty steps.

Finally, everyone finalized the size and specifications of the Xin'an gun and what were the components.

Looking at the patterns on the wooden board, Yang He was a little fascinated. In the future, the breech gun will be produced continuously according to this standard.

The only regret is that this Xin'an gun is a medley gun.

Yang He also wanted to change it to a flintstone, but...

Compared with a flint rifle, the most difficult thing about the flint rifle is not the technology. To be honest, the technology of a flint rifle is also very simple, and various parts are not difficult to make.

The most difficult thing is in terms of materials. Without good steel as springs, there is no flint rifle with a high fire rate. It is better to use a comb rope gun.

At present, 200 kilograms of Sugang are in storage in Yanghe. He has plans to use each kilogram of Sugang every kilogram of Sugang.

After all, this steel is too expensive and too scarce.

Wang Qiong'e is considered related, so she sold part of it to Yang He, but she also costs six taels and six cents of silver per pound.

This price is in a peaceful and prosperous era. If calculated based on the rice price, it is compared with the RMB in later generations.

In other words, at this time, the price of Sugang is more than 3,000 yuan.

This is an amazing number, and it does not mean that you can buy in large quantities if you have money. Yang He received news from Wang Qiong'e. Suzhou colleagues have public discussions on production, in order to maintain high profits, which is the same as pouring milk into the river in later generations.

He bought 200 kilograms of Sugang. He was stocked next time. I don’t know when it will be, but he will really use a little less.

Only with this kind of steel can flints strike the fire.

However, there are too many places where Yang He wants to use Su Gang, but it is impossible to use it on flints.

...

The last problem is to be solved, which is to drill the barrel.
To be continued...