Chapter 72 New Gun

The craftsmen were a little panicked when they heard it. When many of them were recruited, they rushed for high wages. Unexpectedly, after coming here, they could not go back in the future. Some people cried on the spot.

Yu Xiaotian ignored them and turned his head to continue to check those qualified parts, but Zhang blacksmith said to the craftsmen, "What are you crying about? Does the old man's family still look like a man? Isn't it just not going back to the land? At the beginning, I was also forcibly tied up by a big family!

Aren't I living well now? The big head is a reasonable person. Work for the big head here. As long as you work hard, you will work happily!

Now someone comes to carry the sedan chair and carry me back, and I don't want to go back. You don't want to see it. Just us, on land, who will look at us? The government often asks us to work, or for nothing, and even the iron materials have to be put in by themselves.

My mother used to be on land, and I could only drink porridge every day, and I didn't see meat once a year. When I get here, as long as you do a good job, you can eat meat every day. Even if you just came here, won't you still eat meat once every three days? What's good about going back? As before, do you eat porridge every day and even think about it for a long time before you dare to eat it?

Let's put it this way. You work hard. Our big master is a trustworthy person. You are indispensable for you. The more you work with the big master, the more happy you will be! From now on, you will know that this is the right way!"

After Zhang's blacksmith appeared and said, the blacksmiths' mood stabilized slightly, but there were seven or eight blacksmiths who thought they were not good at it and dared not do this job anymore. They would rather take less money and want to do some other rough work.

Yu Xiaotian was not difficult for them. He directly agreed and sent someone to take them away from here and send them directly to Chicken Cage Bay another day. Anyway, there will be no need to build a lot of civil engineering in the future. Blacksmiths have to do some rough work. Since these blacksmiths who are not very good skills can't do this kind of fine work, they can only do rough work. Two of them were willing to turn to the cannon, and were immediately sent by Zhang Blacksmith to the cannon.

Anyway, the main work of cannon is casting. There are ready-made iron casting cannons. The blacksmith's craftsmanship is a little worse, and there is no problem. There is no problem for them to polish the gun body to remove burrs.

On the whole, the large blacksmith shop managed by Zhang is now not small. There are as many as 50 blacksmiths and apprentices. If the blacksmith's craftsmanship is practiced, there is no problem for everyone to create at least five qualified pipes a month.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian promotes a specialized division of labor and cooperation method in the blacksmith's shop. There is no problem that the work efficiency is at least two times higher than the efficiency of a blacksmith to complete the construction of a musket alone. In this way, the scale of the existing blacksmith's shop can be guaranteed. Dozens of South-Japan tinu rifles were produced in a month.

In a year, about 1,000 triches can be produced. This output has been quite considerable so far. In just one or two years, he can form a musket corps. At that time, who was he afraid of?

Yu Xiaotian was shocked when he thought of this. He didn't expect that he could develop so fast! Even he himself felt a little scared.

However, his algorithm is a little too idealistic. In the first few months, he did not dare to demand that this iron work can produce dozens of muskets for him every month, because now it seems that many fixture tools have not been perfect, and craftsmen will have to spend a considerable time to familiarize themselves with their craftsmanship while creating and modifying various tools. It can gradually increase production.

I'm afraid it will take two or three months to really reach the production speed of dozens of muskets a month, but even so, Yu Xiaotian is already very satisfied. In two years, he only needs to form an army equipped with 1,000 to 2,000 muskets. No matter where he goes in the future, he can basically walk horizontally. .

In addition, after Yu Xiaotian took a look at Tie Zuo, he simply merged this place with the cannon and officially changed its name to the Sea Wolf Military Instrument Institute. In addition, it also included women's ready-made clothing shops specially made for the Sea Wolf Department, which were also merged together. In the future, it will be under the director's Hall and can become an independent department responsible for the sea. The wolf provided weapons and clothing, and basically established a militarized logistics support system within the sea wolf.

As for this military weapon institute, Yu Xiaotian thought about it and temporarily handed it over to a person in charge of Yuan Tieli in a council hall.

Yuan Tieli used to be a subordinate of Qian Song. His leg was injured, so he became a disabled person and has been very loyal to Qian Song.

After Qian Song's death, Yuan Tieli was helpless. Originally, he was secretly sad and didn't know what to do in the future, but Yu Xiaotian accidentally found that this person was very organized. Although he could no longer get on the boat to do things, he was very good at coordination, more or less able to read and know something about bookkeeping.

So even if Yu Xiaotian arranged him to work in the board of directors, and directly worked for Li Gouzi, his status was not low, which made Yuan Tieli very grateful to Xiaotian. Anyway, Qian Song was no longer there, and he turned his loyalty to Yu Xiaotian. He was very diligent and clean.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to hand over the general's weapon to Yuan Tieli to be responsible for management and give full play to this person's ability. Although he does not know much about technology, the manager does not have to know all about technology. As long as he can coordinate and supervise well, as for the technology, Zhang Blacksmith will take care of it. In this way, one is responsible for administration. One who is responsible for technology, the military bureau can basically operate normally.

After Yuan Tieli was summoned by Yu Xiaotian, he was very happy. He immediately took office and took up the affairs of the military bureau. Zhang blacksmith was also very willing to do the affairs of the deputy director of the military bureau, which can be said to be very happy.

After looking at the blacksmith's shop, Yu Xiaotian went to have a look. The production of cannon has now entered a stable period. The production technology of imitating six-pound guns is very mature and the output is steadily increasing. Under the alternating use of two sets of iron molds of six-pound guns, the craftsman's technology is becoming more and more mature, almost every month. Six or seven imitation six-pound guns can be produced, and in about three months, the sea wolf's ship can basically be equipped with this light six-pound gun.

And in addition to the use of the ship, this six-pound gun can also meet the use of shore as a shore defense gun, and arrange it on the turrets on both sides of the Dazhai and the bay mouth of Nanri Island to directly resist the enemy who invaded Nanri Island.

But Yu Xiaotian is not concerned about this kind of light six-pound gun now. He is well aware of the current development level of naval guns of Western maritime powers. Such light artillery is no longer their mainstream equipment. Heavy long-range fires of more than 30 pounds have begun to appear on the warships of Western maritime powers in this era. Gun, this kind of artillery has a strong ability to destroy ships. Even if it is a light artillery, their smallest cannon is already an eight-pound gun, and this six-pound gun is no longer the mainstream artillery of Western maritime powers.

Even if the Western maritime powers are still using this six-pound gun, it is basically only equipped with some light armed merchant ships or small patrol ships, and it is not used as a main gun, but as a secondary gun at best.

Moreover, the main force of ships in Western countries is already an advanced Galen ship, and the worst is the improved Clark sailboat. These Western ships use strong wood, dense ribs and thick shipboards, and have strong protection and carrying capacity. It is like to beat them with six-pound guns. They tickle and basically can't hurt their muscles and bones.

So at present, there is no big problem with this six-pound cannon produced by the sea wolf to deal with its peers, or to deal with the ships of Daming sailors in this era, and it even has a great advantage, but once it is used as the main gun to deal with the Spanish or Dutch warships, even if it is a light one to deal with them. Armed merchant ships can't take advantage of it.

Now Yu Xiaotian knows very well what kind of opponent he will face in the future, so he must prepare everything in advance. The six-pounder gun can no longer meet his current needs. He must have a more powerful artillery with a longer range.

After the successful trial production of this imitation six-pound gun, Yu Xiaotian has ordered Lei blacksmith to start trial production of the twelve-pound cannon while the six-pound gun is put into production. Now he is most concerned about the trial production of this twelve-pound gun.

So after the cannon, Yu Xiaotian immediately found the Lei blacksmith and asked about the trial production of the 12-pound cannon.

As soon as Lei blacksmith heard this, he quickly accompanied him with a smiling face and said, "If you go back to the big boss, you don't dare to be lazy during this period. The big boss wants the big man to try to make a bigger cannon. The small one has cast a pair of cannon models. During this period, the council hall urged him tightly, saying that all the shopkeepers of the fleet are urging for cannons. These days, the small one is only I'm busy making that kind of cannon!

So this new gun has been delayed, and I hope the head of the house can understand!"

As soon as Yu Xiaotian heard that the casting of the twelve-pound cannon paused temporarily, his face suddenly pulled down and turned his head to ask Li Gouzi, who followed him, "Did you arrange this?"

Li Gouzi nodded quickly and said, "What Lei Blacksmith said is that these days, the captains of each ship and the management team were staring at the cannon to death. When they had nothing to do, they ran to the council hall to urge him. We really couldn't do it. Let Lei Blacksmiths make this kind of cannon quickly, but the matter of the new cannon made Lei Blacksmith slow down. Down!"

"Nonsense! Why do you need so many light cannons? Just have some, as long as it's enough! Now this kind of new gun is the top priority. I thought that when I came back this time, this kind of new gun should at least be cast into one or two, but now it is not until now that the iron model has just been cast! You are going to delay the big thing!

Lei Blacksmith, from today on, you will stop half of the production of this kind of gun and gather the craftsmen who make the cannon as soon as possible to start casting new cannons! I will give you another ten days to cast a new cannon for me and pull it to the shooting range to start the test!

In addition to this new gun, you can add another item for me. On the basis of the new gun, increase the length of the barrel and increase the length of the barrel by 30%. In addition, thicken the gun wall to ensure that more gunpowder can be loaded. You should be able to shoot farther and more accurately!

You should write down these two things for me. Do it together and don't delay it. In the past, the quantity of six catties of guns should be reduced, and production should be maintained, no less than ten guns per month! If you want someone, I'll give you the material!

Both lines of new guns and old guns should be made to work together, focusing on the trial production of new guns. I want to do it as soon as possible! If it delays my big event, I want your head!"