Chapter 81 The Same Way

After entering the iron work, Xiao Tianjian did not patrol around again, but went directly to the gong workshop to watch the situation here. The focus of his attention was the drilling process that consumed the most manpower and working hours.

And here are several drilled craftsmen who are carefully using four-edging iron drills to make several well-made tubes. Their process is very simple. Basically, they rely on manual drilling the drilled shaft all the time. In the whole process, three four-edging bits are needed to completely drill the drill, and during this period, they have to be polished. Clean the reamble.

After Xiao Tianjian saw it, he had an idea. What Yang Changshou said was that the most delayed thing was the problem of drilling. Judging from the current process, it is true that one person drills two tubes a month, which is already the limit. This is still the speed that craftsmen work overtime to achieve, and according to what Yang Changshou said before, It's true that it will take them a month to make a bird for the government and drill a pipe.

And there is also a quality problem with such a manual drill. Craftsmen can't guarantee that the drill bit will drill into the pipe in absolute straight line. Sometimes in this process, it will cause a large number of residues or even waste products.

"I know! It's really not easy to drill the thream in this way. I think it needs to be solved by a machine! I will do nothing tomorrow and design a machine specially used to drill the pipe. As long as you build a machine to drill the pipe first, I can promise you that a craftsman can drill a pipe in the future! And it can also ensure the quality of pipe drilling and reduce the current waste rate! In this way, the production of birds will definitely increase significantly in a month!" Xiao Tianjian said confidently to Yang Changshou.

Yang Changshou dared not believe Xiao Tianjian's words, because Xiao Tianjian has indeed shown his superhuman level. Since he said it was okay, then it should be okay! Xiao Tianjian is not the kind of person who brags casually. If, as Xiao Tianjian said, first build a machine for drilling a pipe, so that a craftsman can drill a qualified pipe every day, then it is equivalent to opening the bottleneck of building a bird pipe, so that the speed of building a bird pipe will advance by leaps and bounds, and then calculate the reduced waste rate. If so, it should not be a problem to build hundreds of qualified birds a month.

Yang Changshou quickly thanked Xiao Tianjian and said, "If the general really makes such a machine for the little ones, then it would be great. Thank you, the general!"

Xiao Tianjian laughed and smiled at Yang Changshou and several craftsmen: "Haha! Why do you want to thank me? I'm helping myself! Haha! Well, that's the matter here. I'm responsible for designing a drilling machine for drilling pipes for you. You can arrange it, transfer manpower to Gao Su, and build a shed for special casting cannons. In addition, arrange manpower quickly to melt those copper pots and other things for me, and let them become our cannons. ! Haha!"

Yang Changshou immediately laughed. Gao Su looked around curiously, then picked up a pipe and came to his eyes to look.

"General, the barrel of this kind of rifle is thicker than the barrel of your current rifle. It must be much more powerful! Basically, it's almost time to catch up with the heavy musket we use! However, it can't reach the weight of the heavy musket we use, but for you Orientals, especially the general's pistol, this musket is still a little too heavy! With the current weight of the musket, I'm afraid it's difficult to aim with arm strength alone. You need to install a bracket to aim!"

With a word from Gao Su, he was recognized by Yang Changshou. The layman watched the bustle, and the insider looked at the door. The foreign devil just took a look at the semi-finished pipe and immediately thought of so many things. It seems that this guy should not be in vain!

After thinking about it, Xiao Tianjian felt that Gao Su was still a little level, and for the development of him and the Western musket, he was pursuing stronger firepower. To some extent, it was the same way, so he nodded and said, "This kind of musket is newly built by us, and the caliber is larger than the original. A lot, the power will naturally be much greater. It may not be as big as the caliber and weight of the heavy musket you use, but here, this kind of powerful musket is enough. No matter how heavy it is, it will affect the travel ability of soldiers. After all, our Chinese are not as tall and strong as you Westerners. It's almost the limit that my soldiers can bear! As for the bracket, there must be one. If there is no bracket, it will be difficult to aim!

By the way, since you also know the manufacturing method of the fire rope gun, you might as well communicate with Master Yang, learn from each other's strengths and improve each other! Gao Su, don't tell me. You are stingy with the person who tells me the construction method you know!"

Gao Su quickly said, "I dare not! Since I work for the general, I dare not hide it, but I have not built a fire rope gun. I just know the shape of some of the fire rope gun we have used! As long as it is useful, I will tell it to Master Yang!"

Xiao Tianjian patted Gao Su on the shoulder and said with satisfaction, "Yes, you are a good guy. I like you very much!" Well, you will stay here in the future. Yang Dajiang will arrange the specific things for you. If you need anything, you can first tell Yang Dajiang that if he can't solve it, he will ask Zhang sentry General to say that they will fully support you to cast the cannon! From now on, you will be my gunsmith! Remember the promise you made to me!"

In the next few days, Xiao Tianjian stayed in Shuangfengzhai and was busy, but he did not forget anything else between the drilling machine for drilling. Orders were still being issued from Shuangfengzhai.

Fu Deming should speed up the division of the land, distribute the land to the local people as soon as possible, and send people to be specially responsible for accepting the exiles from the outside, prepare for the resettlement of the newly entered this area in advance, and leave some villages that have been vacated after the merger for the settlement of the migrant. Expand the local population as much as possible, so that the arable land will be basically distributed before the spring to maximize the development of arable land in this area.

Then he ordered Li Lingfeng to send more than a dozen scouts and began to climb the mountain to the territory of Yuanqu County, which is separated from a mountain from Yangcheng County. He took a step forward to explore the situation there, collect information about local villages, landlords, poles and so on, and then summarize them to prepare for the next action of Xing Tianjun within the year.

In addition, he sent Feng Xi to Yangcheng County, sit in Yangcheng County, get close to the local officials in the county government, pay attention to all the movements of the government office of Yangcheng County at any time, and asked Feng Xi to find a few people and send them to Zezhou City to monitor the movement of the government and the officials and the army in the direction of Zezhou, so as to do so that once the government changes, Then find out in advance that the defense should be arranged in advance.

He also ordered to recruit a batch of detailed works locally. With the help of the identity and accent of their locals, as well as their understanding of the local situation, he would extend his tentacles to the northern area of Yangcheng County and collect all kinds of information in the north of Yangcheng County. For the time being, these information will be summarized to Li Ling. Feng pulled Luo Yingjie out and cooperated with Li Lingfeng to sort out the information collected from these places.

On the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, Xiao Tianjian received a reply from Fu Deming, saying that several villages had been merged in the surrounding area, and Chief Jia had also been selected. Next, Xiao Tianjian was asked to send the personnel of Xing Tianjun to the newly merged villages to serve as the position of chief security.

So Xiao Tianjian ordered Zhang Chao, a group of soldiers who had been disabled because of the battle in Shuangfengzhai temporarily gathered in front of him.

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