Chapter 52 Gap
When Wang Chengen heard that the emperor was really going to drive the ducks on the shelves, he not only led Wang Fuzhi to the road of war, but also prepared to help him become a god. The scholar who raised troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty in Hengyang in history has now been instilled with the indoctrination of new military theories, and may really become a military strategist. Reminding of Wang Yangming of the Ming Dynasty, he breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"I wonder if this Wang Fuzhi can become a famous thinker, philosopher, writer, and military strategist like Wang Yangming after being pulled into the water. I said that the emperor cannot waste talents!"
Chongzhen looked at Wang Chengen and asked:
"What about you? Want to be an unprecedented scientist? Or an educator comparable to Confucius's saint?"
"Oh, I really haven't thought about this. Scientists, educators, economists, prophets. It seems that we have this condition. Well, we can also become an entrepreneur or philanthropist. I don't know what home I want to become. I wanted to complete the ball lightning before traveling through time. The ball lightning was made, and I wanted to do wireless transmission of electric energy. At that time, the goal was clear. After traveling through time, I was determined to change the dark history of the Ming Dynasty swept by the Qing Dynasty. Now it seems to be very promising. This battle in Laizhou made me see that it was only a matter of time before the Ming Dynasty resurrected. Your Majesty, what home I want to be? I always have a feeling of cheating in my heart. When it is not important, I just want to do something meaningful for this era in my lifetime. Some people say that what God gave you will take away some other things. God gave me the opportunity to cheat in the Ming Dynasty, but I just made me a eunuch, and I could understand it. The same goes for the princess, and he went with one left arm."
Chongzhen smiled bitterly and said:
"Yes, I am the only one who is unique. I was originally a dying person in the later generations. After escaping the disaster in the Ming Dynasty, I am now half the emperor. Not only is the body intact, but there is a tendency to get better and better. I am also puzzled! According to the accumulation of virtue in the previous life, you should be reversed. You should be in this position. It is almost the same for me to be Wang Chengen."
Wang Chengen shook his head and said, "The emperor is wrong. God has eyes. If I become an emperor, I would not have time to think about technology every day. In the future, I will only be able to use technology. Now I have given me an opportunity to give full play to it. As the saying goes, people can use their talents, and things can be used to get what they want! With the technology beyond this era, we can survive, develop, and expel the Tartars. I just think that based on the knowledge and knowledge of later generations, we can use one to ten like Laizhou, and we may still be able to use one to one to a hundred in the future. Isn't it a bit unfair to win!"
After hearing Wang Chengen's words, Chongzhen was a little unbelievable. Since Chongzhen took the position of emperor, his kindness has gone away most of his kindness, and finally realized that politics is a cruel game. In fact, competitive sports is also a cruel game. However, Gong Daming used to be more willing to enjoy competitive sports entertainment and games, and he did not have a deep understanding of the success and defeat of competitive sports. It was not until time traveled that he truly felt the jungle law of the weak and strong. But he never expected that Wang Chengen's original keen political awareness was degenerating when the Ming Dynasty was deteriorating. Chongzhen had no choice but to say seriously:
"Brother, you are more mature than me in politics than me. But why are you relaxing now? Be kind to the enemy is cruelty to yourself, so you can't relax a little. Let's put it this way, it's like the basketball team of Zhongzhi, that is, CBA. The Ming team has invited three of us powerful foreign players now - equivalent to the big-name NBA stars. If you don't abuse them while Dashun and Qing teams have not yet invited foreign players, it's hard to say who can laugh to the end! So, my string has been tightened! I really have to show my spirit of seizing the day and win the greatest advantage as much as possible. Just like CBA, you can't relax with 20 points in the first three quarters. You have to maintain a 30-point lead to ensure that you will not be overturned or reversed in the fourth quarter."
Chongzhen sighed and continued:
"The current talent training has just entered the track, and our values are far from being accepted by the elite class of the Ming Dynasty. It will take a long time for the Ming Dynasty to establish new ideas, new cultures, and new systems. Therefore, we were originally scheduled to formulate new standards for the Ming Dynasty, and there is still a big gap! Moreover, there are any possibilities in this world, and who knows what will happen next moment. So, buddy, our advantage is not big, but the advantage is not big enough, far from enough! It must be faster, stronger, and higher! You see, when I was anxious, I said the vocabulary of later sports. In short, now, I dare not even touch two great beauties in North Korea. On the one hand, of course, Du Jun, who visited North Korea, has not replied, and on the other hand, he is still internal and external troubles, so he dare not indulge in the voices and emotions!"
Wang Chengen couldn't help laughing and said:
"I said, "Your Majesty, that's not what happened! Since they have entered the palace, they can't leave them alone! Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about those pedantic masters, let alone consider my feelings. Ha! If you use martial arts, I am born to be a skilled person. Tesla will be single all his life, and it's nothing. Didn't we have a son in the previous life? I would like to see the emperor give birth to two more in the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, so at least leave a back for our time travelers."
Chongzhen looked at Wang Chengen and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Wang Chengen was full of excitement and said:
"Your Majesty, I dare say that some elite talents of this era have almost all arrived in Nanjing. For example, you know, there are Germans who mobilized by the princess, Li Tianjing and Li Zubai, who are proficient in Western learning, and participated in the "Mining and Metallurgical Quanpiao Astronomy". In addition, I have such a strong faculty and the students of the Ming Dynasty are smart and willing to learn, and it will take no time to train a group of engineering and technical personnel. At the moment, there are many students in the Royal Institute of Studies, while studying and starting to study in the Royal Institute of Studies. The two princes also listen to lectures and lead technical work. It is not easy! It is worth mentioning that the Jinyiwei found Sun Yunqiu, a great man who is proficient in making mirrors. This Sun Yunqiu can use crystals to make telescopes and low-magnitude microscopes before my guidance."
"It's good. The talents that can be recruited are basically here. As long as the students of the Ming Dynasty understand that learning engineering technology is to build a powerful Ming Dynasty, with their intelligence and hard-working spirit, I believe that a group of backbone of engineering technology will emerge soon. But I still feel slow. Although our time travel is magical, there are even more outrageous time travel. People can actually travel with aircraft carrier formations or flight bases! Thinking of this, I often feel guilty! If you compare with others, people will die, and goods will be thrown! It's hard to guarantee that one day someone will take an aircraft carrier formation to cross the East China Sea. If this aircraft carrier formation is still hostile, and they have aircraft missiles and nuclear bombs, then what should we do? We can't say that you are a foul, and winning doesn't count. They will commit fouls, and they will play with you hundreds of years later. What's the use of protesting!"
"Your Majesty, okay! If that's the case, it's better than the Qing Dynasty's victory in massacre and historical regression! Besides, this is just a worry-free thing. This is different from the fact that people in later generations are clamoring about aliens every day. People in later generations do whatever they want, how to live or how to live. I said, "Your Majesty, you are suffering from time travel phobia. Is this equivalent to depression or something? It's probably only a princess can diagnose it. However, the emperor, we can only face reality. Whether it's aliens or the overall aircraft carrier formation that travels through time, he will come. Before we come, we have to do it step by step! Since you have a sense of crisis and think that the speed is not enough now, let's try to put in a slogan "How fast, how to build the Ming Dynasty?"
When Chongzhen heard Wang Chengen's words, he couldn't help laughing and said:
"Damn it, I'm really asking for trouble! Just whatever he wants, come whenever he wants, be afraid of it! Not bad, I'm nervous and a little worried. What should we do? Haha! I'll be exempted from the slogan of the Great Leap Forward!"
Wang Chengen smiled and said:
"When it comes to the Great Leap Forward, I see that the artillery made by the Ming Dynasty is similar to the 'Great Steel Making' of the Great Leap Forward. It only cares about quantity and quality, but it seems that there are a lot of cannons, and there may actually be few easy to use. Since Zheng Sen said that the cannons were not accurate, I have to find some cannons to test the fire to see how bad the Ming cannons were."
Wang Chengen's "Truth Party" was wrong again, but Chongzhen also wanted to see what the Ming artillery was. So he did it as soon as possible, mobilized a bunch of Ming-made artillery and Ming artillery gunners through the Military Machinery Department, and also transferred a group of students from the Military Engineering Academy to formulate a test artillery plan together.
The first one to go into battle was the thousand-jin Fran machine cannon. The transferred thousand-jin Fran machine was cast by Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, Wu Sangui in Liaodong, Wuhu and Foshan, Guangdong, and then the thousand-jin Fran machine cannons cast by Nanjing Military Equipment Bureau. A total of five places were cast. Among the five Frangui machines, the Frangui cast by Wu Sangui actually used a core copper sleeve, which was a bimetal cannon. I didn’t expect that Wu Sangui’s casting cannon technology was so advanced, and he even knew the self-tight tube prestressing technology?
Wang Chengen wanted to know whether he knew the reason for casting a cannon like this or only knew the reason. So he called the gunner of Wu's army and asked:
"Of the five cannons, the inner layer of this cannon is cast with iron, and a layer of copper is cast on the outside. What's the reason?"
"After my words, this cannon uses the iron of Zunhua. The iron of Zunhua is very crisp. If it is made of iron, it will probably be blown up the chamber. Later, the method of inner iron casting and outer copper casting is used, and the cannons are not blown up easily. Therefore, our Liaodong army all used this method to cast cannons."
Wang Chengen nodded. This iron core copper body casting method cleverly utilizes the physical properties of the melting point (1083c) of copper far lower than that of iron (1538c), and casts the outer copper sleeve after the iron tire is cooled. Compared with single-metal iron cannons or copper cannons, this type of cannon not only has a thinner pipe wall, lighter weight, less cost, but also is indeed not easy to explode.
He called Zheng Sen's gunner again and asked:
"Zunhua iron is not good. Our family heard that Fujian iron is the best. I wonder if your cannon is used as a Fujian iron. Is there any danger of explosion?"
The gunner was chosen by Zheng Sen personally, and he had some knowledge and replied:
"After my words, this cannon is indeed the best Min iron. The casting method is good. The Zi Gun and the cannon chamber are tightly intertwined and will not easily explode. I have always cast cannons, with Fujian iron as the best, Wuhu iron and Jin iron as the second, and Guang iron as the second, and the iron produced in other places is not as good as cast cannons."
Wang Chengen watched it and touched each cannon. Although Wu Sangui's cannon was very exquisite in copper casting, the inner chamber was not quite satisfactory. Even if Zheng Sen's iron cannon cast with good Min iron, that is, white-mouth cast iron, later generations were much stronger than this white-mouth cast iron. Ha, no one knew how to graphitize annealing in the late Ming Dynasty, annealing the white-mouth cast iron into forged cast iron. The mechanical properties of this white-mouth cast iron were too poor and it was actually a material of a non-cast cannon.
The students from the Military Engineering Academy used the newly released vernier caliper to measure various sizes, and the data produced were ridiculous. First, the diameters vary greatly, the largest and the smallest are two centimeters apart. Secondly, the gap between the shells and the cannon bores of each cannon, and the largest gap is more than one centimeter. Although the coordination between the sub-gun and the cannon bore is a taper, the size of the cannon is different. It is conceivable that the cannon in Foshan will be very different from the same air conditioning. What's even more ridiculous is that the cannon in Foshan can only see that the muzzle is an ellipse with the naked eye. Wang Chengen shook his head and had to order a test gun.
The result of the firing surprised Wang Chengen. The maximum range of the five cannons ranged from 700 meters to 1,500 meters. Wu Sangui's had the longest, with the highest range of the cannon, with the maximum range of 1,530 meters, Zheng Sen's cannon second, with the broad cannon at the bottom. The range of each cannon fired is very different. In terms of the dispersion of the range distribution, this time Zheng Sen's cannon won, and the difference between the shells fired by the five sub-guns was no more than 300 meters. Zheng Sen bragged that his cannon could hit 4 miles, but in fact he could hit more than two miles. The so-called 24 kilograms of shells were actually 15 kilograms. These cannons in the Ming Dynasty were blown away, but they were actually garbage.
He then tried to shoot Zheng Sen's red cannon and the red cannons out of Nanjing. As a result, Zheng Sen's red cannon fired 22 kilograms of shells, with a maximum range of 2,100 meters. The red cannon in Nanjing fired 21 kilograms of shells, with a maximum range of 1,900 meters. When firing the cannon, it was too complicated. He installed gunpowder, plugged wooden boards, filled soil, loaded ammunition, filled soil, and made a bunch of auxiliary tools. After firing the cannon, he brushed the chamber again and then used a wet brush to cool off the sparks, which made him play all the money. Wang Chengen hid far away, but fortunately, no explosion occurred.
After watching this cannon test firing, Wang Chengen finally understood why the Ming Dynasty struggled to attack Japan in North Korea, and why the Qing army was not afraid of the Ming Dynasty's tens of thousands of artillery artillery. These artillery is really not much better than the decoration. The best way, well, is to use it as scrap iron to return it.
What is the gap? This is the gap! The emperor’s goal is to shorten the gap with the aircraft carrier. After seeing this cannon, I don’t know what I think!
Chapter completed!