NovelPantry Chapter 274 Reinstalling a New Rifle
Chapter 274 Reinstalling a New Rifle
Chapter 274 Reinstalling a New Rifle
Since several large arable plains were discovered, and the large ones can only be calculated in square kilometers.
Xiao Qi once again wrote a letter to Emperor Zhao Shen, hoping that the imperial court would step up efforts to encourage immigrants. He even added a tax exemption for ten years on top of the imperial court's incentive to encourage people who are willing to come here to reward each person with a hundred taels of silver!
In this era, the heaviest burden on the people is taxation.
Although the Song Dynasty has greatly reduced taxes by [-]% due to the improvement of national power, even those whose families have joined the army have been reduced by half.
But people's desires are endless. If you have better things, you want the best.
Now the tax has been reduced and exempted a lot, but it can only make them live a little more comfortably, and it is not enough to support the people's growing yearning for a life of big fish and big meat.
And Zhenbei Wang Xiaoqi's immigration policy undoubtedly opened a door for those young people who dared to take risks and opened a door for gold mining.
Young people from neighboring prefectures and counties in various places in the Song Dynasty gathered almost every day to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of immigration.
In the end, they came to the conclusion that we are young and have strength. Although it is far away from Song Dynasty, everyone can get a hundred acres of land there. The most important thing is that we don't have to pay any taxes within ten years.
In addition to every commoner in the Song Dynasty who is willing to immigrate there, the court will reward each person with 100 taels of silver!
With so many favorable conditions added together, as long as people are not lazy, if they can’t live a prosperous life during the ten years of tax exemption, then such a person is still a waste even if he stays in Song Dynasty!
Young people are always willing to try things that others dare not try.
After a period of tepid immigration, the number of people who wanted to emigrate suddenly began to explode. For a while, several seaports that had been built in the Song Dynasty began to appear in large numbers of people who wanted to immigrate.
Many of them are young people from several neighboring prefectures and counties. They are the young people of the Song Dynasty who immigrated together.
But now Xiao Qi has named this huge island, called 'Hainan Island' and drew a map and reported it to the Song court.
When he first named this place, Xiao Qi exhausted a lot of brain cells, and felt that it was not suitable for him to call it anything.
One last thought, at this time, Hainan Island in the previous life was still called Qiongzhou Island, so this one here is simply called Hainan Island Quqiu!
The main reason is that this is indeed the southernmost big island in the Song Dynasty. As for the other scattered small islands, they are nothing compared to this huge island that looks like a mainland.
No problem!
From now on, this will be the Hainan Island of Song Dynasty!
However, after he sent the new map of the Song Dynasty back to the Song Dynasty, Zhao Shen and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were stunned.
How the hell do you look at it? This newly acquired place is even bigger than the current Da Song. How dare you call this an island?
But look at the place marked by King Zhenbei as Hainan Island, where there are seas all around, they really can't say that King Zhenbei is wrong.
However, Yu Yunwen looked at the map and sighed with emotion: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, our territory of the Song Dynasty has now more than doubled.
It's a pity that King Zhenbei made it clear that there are a lot of places where the climate is harsh, more than half of the places are not suitable for human habitation, and there are many poisonous insects and wild animals.
Otherwise, a large number of people from the Great Song Dynasty can be migrated there. Presumably in a few decades, that place will truly become the granary, garden, and mining base of the Great Song Dynasty! "
At the beginning, many ministers were jealous of the vast territory there, and wanted to ask their nephews for an official position there. They felt that although going there would suffer some hardships, but the sky is high and the emperor is far away, the benefits will be huge. .
After hearing Yu Yunwen's words that there are many poisonous insects and beasts, these people all stopped thinking about it. After all, money can also be obtained in Song Dynasty. Although they can't get rich as quickly as they did in Hainan Island, the money is safe.
Originally, Zhao Shen planned to let Xiao Qi be the master and appoint the officials there, but Xiao Qi's memorandum had written very clearly that the place here is too big, it is better for the imperial court to appoint officials.
Zhao Shen also understands that Xiao Qi is trying to avoid suspicion, but Xiao Qi, the old man, knows better that there is a world where there are eight regular victorious battalions. small deterrent.
There, if the officials sent don't deal with Xiao Qi, let alone not deal with it, even if they show a little disrespect to Zhenbei Wang Xiao Qi, they will probably die ugly.
Now my son-in-law doesn't want to get involved in the matter of appointing officials, and he has no idea how to appoint officials, so he has to bring it up in the court for the ministers to discuss.
We argued for a long time, but did not say why.
In the end, Yu Yunwen, Prime Minister Zuo, gave an idea that the appointment of officials should be made by the imperial court, but the supervision and management of these officials should also be handed over to Zhenbei Wang Xiaoqi.
In this way, those officials will be under the dual leadership of the imperial court and King Zhenbei, and the trouble of some people daring to disobey Xiao Qi will be eliminated.
All the ministers in the court also agreed, although officials appointed by the court will be subject to double constraints there, and they will inevitably be timid and have many scruples when doing things.
But those who were sent were all low-level officials, at most, any unlucky ghost outside the hall was sent there, and it was impossible for the ministers in the court to be sent there to suffer.
Therefore, all these ministers agreed with Yu Yunwen's proposal.
Emperor Zhao Shen saw it, and he just didn't want the officials he sent to have any disputes with King Zhenbei, so he thought Yu Yunwen's idea was good.
So it was decreed to select low-level officials who were willing to serve in Hainan Island in the Song Dynasty, and go to Hainan Island to serve there.
As a result, there were very few officials in the entire Song Dynasty who were willing to go there. Those scholars were indoctrinated from an early age that once they passed the Jinshi examination, they would make a fortune and become a master.
No one wants to go to Hainan Island, which is thousands of miles away, to endure hardships.
At this time, Zhao Shen, who was slapped on the table by Yu Yunwen angrily, came up with an idea, saying that these scholars are not willing to go?
Over the years, the imperial court has rewarded many craftsmen. Although they are not full-time workers, they are all of high grade.
Besides, there is a need for craftsmen everywhere. These craftsmen with official positions are sent there, and they must have a better understanding of the construction there and make it easier to build there!
When Zhao Shen heard it, yes!
Over the years, almost a thousand artisans have been rewarded. Although these people do not hold real positions, their annual salaries are also quite a lot.
Select a group of such people to go there. They have real jobs and know what to do, and they can save the court a lot of expenses. Good idea!
So Zhao Shen made another decree to select personnel from those high-grade craftsmen to work in Hainan Island.
After the imperial decree was issued, the ministers in the court were all dumbfounded, and they kept working hard to prevent those craftsmen from getting real jobs.
If it was normal, they would definitely stop such an imperial decree from being sent out, even if they washed each other's faces with spittle with the emperor, they would desperately stop them.
But it can't work now, none of the boys from Confucian scholars on my side will go, if you don't want to do it, and you stop others from doing it, then it can't be justified.
This group of popular Qiqiaoshengyan, but there is nothing to do.
In the end, these people scolded those under their own faction who had passed the examination and had been running around to find out if they were lacking.
But even if the people who scolded were bloody, this group of guys who felt that they had suffered enough and should enjoy the blessings all listened to the scolding with their heads bowed, even if they kept silent, no one wanted to go.
Several ministers who were extremely disappointed later got together and shook their heads and sighed: This Confucianism will be replaced by other people's new schools sooner or later!It wasn't someone who snatched it, it was my side who gave it up!
Although Xiao Qi heard some rumors about these things in the court, he was not interested in them at all.
It will be a matter of time before the new school replaces the late Confucianism. I am not in a hurry at all. Human intervention is not good. It is best to let it develop naturally. I just need to take care of it from the sidelines and don't let others get involved. .
And now Xiao Qi has more important things to do.
That is, after a long period of trial production, according to his original requirements, copper-cased bullets have long been able to be mass-produced, and the more sophisticated supporting rifle steel has also been developed, and mass production has also begun.
Now he was busy with the replacement of the Changsheng Battalion with new rifles, which was a big deal.
Equipping the Changsheng Battalion with new rifles is not only as simple as changing weapons, but also changes the army's combat rules.
In the past, musketeers had to form dense formations to make up for the low accuracy of muskets.
Although the current new guns are smoothbore guns without rifling, the range accuracy is much higher than before.
The dense formation of offense and defense on the battlefield is no longer applicable, and the more effective skirmish line has become a new skill that needs to be mastered by the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion.
Seeing that Hainan Island has gradually entered the right track, the industrial cities established in the south have begun to take shape, and iron ore and coal mines have begun small-scale production, and large-scale production can only wait for roads to be repaired.
Xiao Qi recruited the generals and craftsmen of Changsheng Battalion here, and asked them to start looking for limestone, sandstone and other raw materials suitable for cement production while speeding up construction.
After finding it, we started to produce cement, build roads directly to the two mines, and build steel-making factories to make steel on a large scale.
As for the natives found on this piece of land, who migrated from the surrounding islands before, as long as they don't look for trouble, just ignore them. If they want to escape back to their original island by boat, they don't want to stop them.
After explaining the matter here, Xiao Qi returned to Annan by boat. After Long Yongsheng and his navy arrived with new rifles and ammunition, he led them to the place where Lin Zheng Qin Tu was digging the canal.
He will personally equip the soldiers of the Ever-Victorious Battalion with new-style guns, and conduct military training for them on the attack and defense of the new skirmish line.
Of course, in this era when various countries like to gather their troops together to charge, Xiao Qi has also developed a formation for intensive defense in response to this situation.
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is to line up to shoot opponents, but the line of shooting people has become huge and thick.
In this period when only the Changsheng camp in the Song Dynasty had such sharp firearms, and other countries only had cold weapons, Xiao Qi certainly didn't need to waste his energy teaching too many tactics to the Changsheng camp, because there was no need for them at all.
Due to the difficulty in making new guns, only 30 new rifles and [-] rounds of ammunition were shipped this time. Of course, ships will continue to deliver ammunition in the future.
Xiao Qi once tried the effects of new guns and found that although the range of this rifle was much longer than that of muskets, its accuracy was still unsatisfactory.
Perhaps because of the memory of his previous life, Xiao Qi was very dissatisfied with this new gun that was only accurate within 50 meters, and would hit his forehead and chin when it exceeded 50 meters.
Therefore, I urged those craftsmen to step up the research and development of boring knives that can bore rifles for gun barrels, although Xiao Qi has never seen what kind of boring knives can be used for rifling guns.
But relying on his own guess, Xiao Qi gave those craftsmen a simple drawing, which is a steel rod about one meter long, with a hard carbon steel tip fixed on the front.
The most difficult thing is how to reduce the speed of the primary industrial machine tool that is stuck on the gun barrel to an appropriate number of revolutions, and let the steel rod that is fixed to a one-meter-long boring tool be quickly released from one end of the gun barrel in a very short period of time. Bored to the other end.
This is the most difficult one. There is a slight deviation in timing, such as the barrel turning too fast, or the boring tool being pulled out slowly, which will cause the rifling, which could have been slightly curved, to turn a circle or two in the barrel.
That would be the end of it, the strong thrust after the bullet was fired originally allowed the bullet to spin in the normal rifling and fly out of the barrel to increase the range and accuracy.
If the bullet circles in the barrel because the rifling circles a few times, and cannot fly out quickly, the strong chamber pressure will cause the gun to explode!
That would not be a weapon for killing the enemy, but a weapon for suicide.
Although Xiao Qi had never touched a gun in his previous life, he also knew that the rifling must not rotate once in the barrel, it would be very dangerous.
Therefore, he set a standard for the senior craftsmen responsible for research to find a way to draw three rifling lines with the same spacing in the barrel of less than one meter, and control it to turn about half a turn from beginning to end.
Xiao Qi also knows that this thing is a big project, and it is not impossible for it to be researched and built by those craftsmen in three to two years.
Because the craftsmen not only want to transform the industrial machine tool with a suitable speed, but also transform a machine that matches the speed of the machine tool, and when the barrel is turned halfway, the boring tool can be pulled from one end of the strong tube to the other. .
Xiao Qi is not too worried about the production of boring knives, because now with the improvement of steelmaking technology, many very hard carbon steels have been refined.
Although these carbon steels are much less tough than other alloy steels, they are easy to break.
But this thing is very hard, and it is very suitable for making various cutter heads for machining.
Thinking that since the speed of the primary industrial machine tool needs to be adjusted, then directly modify the three gears of the city, low speed, normal speed, and high speed.
If the transformation is successful, it should be able to become an industrial lathe that is a little more upgraded than the basic industrial machine tool. At that time, some circular machine parts can be produced on this lathe.
(End of this chapter)