Steel Dynasty - Chapter 438

[Chapter 438 Upgraded Tiger Cannon (Third update)]

ps: Tonight’s fourth update, there is another update. A

sudden voice separated Xiao Ming and Fei Yue’er, and Fei Yue’er instinctively walked towards the inner room of the dormitory.

After coughing, Xiao Ming left the dormitory and met Qian Dafu.

“Your Highness, the copper mine has been found.” Qian Dafu said excitedly, and then Qian Dafu took out a handful of copper ore.

“Copper mine.”

Xiao Ming was excited at this time. Not only that copper is still the currency in circulation in Great Chongqing, but that copper’s wide application in industry is also an extremely important resource for Qingzhou.

“Your Highness, this copper mine is really hard to find. After more than two years, I finally found it. Now I have made arrangements for mining. In the future, we in Qingzhou can also mint our own coins.” Qian Dafu said.

“Coin?” Xiao Ming shook his head.

Qian Dafu said: “Yes, Your Highness, as long as the current princes can mine copper, they use the mined copper to cast copper coins. Don’t you want to cast copper coins?”

“Money must be cast, but You can’t cast it randomly,” Xiao Ming said.

No one in the Chongqing Kingdom understands what inflation is, so it is inevitable to create money indiscriminately. Because of this, the people do not trust copper coins.

Because sometimes one copper plate can buy one steamed bun, and sometimes three copper plates cannot buy one steamed bun. This is all due to the confusion of copper coins in the market.

Therefore, for Xiao Ming, he was not prepared to mint copper coins indiscriminately like other vassal kings, because this would be irresponsible to the people. In order to avoid the inflow of low-quality foreign copper coins, he was even more prepared to issue his own currency.

And the reason why he was so happy this time was not because copper coins could be minted, but because Qingzhou had another strategic resource.

Now Qingzhou is about to launch an attack on Ryukyu during the Chinese New Year. Now that he has copper mines, he can let Chen Qi use the copper mines to forge some six-pound bronze field cannons.

After all, field guns do not need to be mass-produced like city defense guns and naval guns. At this time, using bronze materials can improve the quality of field guns.

During the Napoleonic period, field artillery was mostly made of bronze.

So, after a pause, he said to Qian Dafu: “First mine a batch and transport it to Qingzhou. I will hand it over to the Equipment Department to make bronze field cannons.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Qian Dafu was startled for a moment, and he finally Understanding what Xiao Ming meant, “This copper mine is not far away, one hundred and eighty miles northwest of Qingzhou. The first batch of copper ore will arrive in five days.”

Xiao Ming nodded after hearing this. Qian Dafu said: “In addition to copper mines, during this period, we will send people to Laizhou to look for gold mines and Dengzhou to look for silver mines. This is what I need now.” Qian

Dafu understood and smiled. Said: “Your Highness, you can rest assured.”

After telling Xiao Ming the good news that the copper mine was discovered, Qian Dafu cupped his hands and turned to leave.

At this time, Xiao Ming let out a breath. In addition to casting field cannons, copper mines have many uses, the most important of which is making copper wires.

Therefore, the current copper mines are equivalent to reserves for future power applications.

After seeing off Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming turned around and returned to the dormitory. Fei Yue’er was waiting for him in the inner room. The two had been separated for half a month, so the reunion was a joy, and there was no need to say anything about their tenderness.

The next day, after three days of work, he slowly started to calm down. He said that he would be busy as a leader’s subordinate, but not as a leader, busy himself.

Now he can finally experience the time when his subordinates are busy while he relaxes. After all, Pang Yukun is now in charge of government affairs and Niu Ben is in charge of the army.

These two generals are both desperate and work hard, so both the state offices and the army are managed well by them.

After lazily washing up and eating, the servant told him that Fei Yueer went to the textile workshop with Luluo in the morning.

He understood that Fei Yue’er was working on her own designed underwear.

Xiao Ming shook his head with a wry smile. After dinner, Xiao Ming went to the military workshop. He was going to see how the Tiger Zun Cannon was doing, and at the same time talk about the field cannon.

“Your Highness, you came just in time. This is the Tiger Cannon we are designing now.” As soon as he arrived at the military workshop, Chen Qi brought out a brand new Tiger Cannon.

Seeing this Tiger Cannon, Xiao Ming immediately gave a thumbs up. Chen Qi had upgraded the Tiger Cannon. The current Tiger Cannon was separated from the original Tiger Cannon of the Ming Dynasty, but followed the direction of the mortar cannon. develop.

The base of this mortar is now a square metal plate, and the cylindrical barrel is fixed to the metal plates on both sides through the lugs, so that the mortar can freely adjust the angle up and down to fire.

The mortar as a whole only requires two soldiers to hold the handle on the metal plate on the ground to move it, which is very convenient and fast.

“Not bad, there is progress.” Xiao Ming looked at the brand new mortar and said.

Chen Qi smiled and said: “Your Highness, I modified the mortar based on the textbook, and also modified the cannonballs.”

After saying that, Chen Qi handed Xiao Ming the blooming bullet with a hollow cork, and placed the cork in it. A lead stretched out from the middle, and he rotated the cork. The cork would move outward or inward according to different directions.

He asked: “Can you now grasp the specific explosion time of this artillery shell?”

“Although the accuracy is not high, it is still much better than the previous gunpowder cans. At least it avoids the situation where the ammunition will explode in the barrel. And by rotating the cork, we can probably control the time when the shell explodes.”

“Really?” Xiao Ming is somewhat hopeful that if we can achieve effective results, it will be much easier to attack the Dutch this time.

Chen Qi nodded and said to the craftsman on the side: “Let’s test it and show it to His Highness.”

After receiving the order, the two craftsmen immediately carried the mortar to Xiao Ming, poured the gunpowder into the bottom of the mortar, and stuffed the ammunition tied with a flat-bottomed wooden support into the mortar.

“Your Highness, just hit the target three hundred meters away.

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Chen Qi has already mastered the calculation method of parabola, so now he can calculate the impact point of the cannonball based on the different elevation angles of the mortar. Although the error of this impact point is a bit larger, it is always developing in a good direction.

“put! “With an order, the craftsman fired the cannon.

After a muffled sound, the ammunition flew out in a parabola and dropped about three hundred meters away. With a “boom” sound, the artillery shell suddenly exploded three meters above the ground.

Chen Qi said with some embarrassment at this time: “Your Highness, this is the problem now. The time when the bomb explodes is not fixed. “

Although Chen Qi said it lightly, Xiao Ming was already so surprised that it was amazing to be able to make the shells explode within this error range.

He said: “It’s already very good. Let’s produce the mortars and deliver them now. Qingzhou Army, besides, I want to talk to you about field artillery this time. ”

(End of chapter)