The arsenal shocked Sun Chuanting

Author: Taofu

The arsenal shocked Sun Chuanting

Dang Dang Dang!

"Two leaders, this is the sixth furnace of our steelmaking plant, a special steel furnace."

The factory director took Xiao Liu to accompany Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting to visit the core business of the First Steel Plant, the special steel furnace. This special steel furnace is directly supplied to the artillery bureau of the arsenal and is specially used to make new artillery.

The so-called special steel is to add some special types of alloys to some of the original elements of refined steel, so that the willfulness, solidity, heat resistance and extensibility of steel can be better deepened. Of course, it can also be added

Some special characteristics are related to the type of alloy added.

The First Steel Plant, as the oldest steel plant in Lantian First Steel Plant, shoulders the important military mission of producing special steel.

Dangdangdang...

Sun Chuanting looked at the huge forging machine in front of him. His eyes showed shock. This forging machine was too big. The huge forging hammer might weigh a thousand kilograms. When he saw the huge forging hammer in front of him being raised up, he followed.

With a bang, the hammer fell from a height of five to six meters, and the red-hot steel below was forged into shape. This hammer can be used by ordinary blacksmiths to hammer hundreds of hammers, and it is not even a matter of hundreds of hammers.

This beating method can obviously beat out the impurities in the iron, making the refined steel more in line with the requirements.

"One or two, hey."

At this time, the workers used huge pulleys to stick the huge steel together. Then several workers used huge iron hooks to hook up the steel, and then continued to calcine. When it was almost done, they continued to use the pulleys to lift the steel and put it on the

Forged under this huge forging hammer.

Dang Dang Dang!

Hammer after hammer, Sun Chuanting's head was buzzing as he watched. He was not shocked by the forging hammer, but by this technology. This kind of technology is not available in the Ming Dynasty. This kind of giant hammer can be forged for a day.

The steel produced is probably enough for the blacksmiths from the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty to hammer for a year.

Sun Chuanting really had the most intuitive understanding of Lantian's industry this time. At this time, he carefully asked about the structure of the forging machine in front of him. When he understood that it was not lifted by manpower, but by hydraulic power.

When the heavy forging machine was brought up, Sun Chuanting was stunned. What a fantastic idea!

Lantian is indeed a crouching tiger, hidden dragon. Just from the steel plant, you can get a glimpse of the leopard, which is evident.

Sun Chuanting was so shocked that he didn't know what to say. Compared with the steel factory of Lantian, Ming Dynasty's powerful Ministry of Works was just a small workshop.

When Lu Xiangsheng saw Sun Chuanting like this, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly. When he saw this back then, he was also so shocked. When outsiders didn't know about Lantian's military industry, they thought that Lantian was just a place where things were prosperous and people had a little money, and the people's lives were more stable.

Although they are lagging behind, as long as they work hard to catch up, they will surely catch up one day.

But when they really get to know Lantian's military industry again and understand the operating mechanism behind it, they will be shocked to find that the Lantian they discovered may only be a corner of the ice, but the Lantian in the water is...

An iceberg!

Horrible, this was Sun Chuanting's first reaction after visiting the Lantian Steel Plant. However, after visiting the steel plant, Sun Chuanting asked Lu Xiangsheng to take him to see the arsenal that produces muskets in Lantian.

Lu Xiangsheng did not dare to agree to this request directly. Instead, he sent someone to ask Li Chaosheng for instructions. Soon the person who came sent back a message from Li Chaosheng and a pass.

The message was just one sentence: "If Mr. Sun wants to see it, take him to see it."

This sentence is said with great courage. After all, the military factory can be regarded as the core secret of Lantian. Without a certain mind, how can it be easily shown to others.

Soon Lu Xiangsheng and his wife were escorted by special soldiers sent by Li Chaosheng into a sealed carriage. The carriage was sealed. They drove like this for about half an hour and finally arrived at their destination. There was no reference here, only

It is known that it is in a deep mountain, and there is a huge factory built half in the mountain and half outside.

The confidentiality measures here are very high. There is a whole regiment of troops stationed around it. This troop is directly under the direct command of Li Chaosheng. The number is kept secret, the leader in charge keeps it secret, and all actions are subject to Li Chaosheng's command.

If the steel plant is the foundation of Lantian's industry, then this arsenal is Lantian's secret trump card.

"We're here, please."

The soldier who was responsible for picking up and transporting the two people brought them here and dropped them off directly. The two didn't know how to get to the arsenal. They only knew that it shouldn't be very far from the county seat.

After getting off the car, the two people were sent to the arsenal after a simple search. There was already a person in charge of receiving them in the arsenal. When they saw the two people, they smiled and said: "Mr. Sun, I've been waiting for a long time. I am the Director of Foreign Affairs and Communications of the arsenal.

I will handle your entire trip this time."

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the unfamiliar person in front of him. He could confirm that he had never seen this person at various meetings in Lantian. It seemed that the county official had a lot of cards, and he didn't know Lantian as well as he thought.

The Director of Communications led the two of them to walk slowly in the arsenal. Standing in the wide arsenal, he pointed to several large buildings around him and said: "Look, this is the Lantian flintlock production base. The entire Lantian, all

Almost all of the flintlock muskets are produced here."

"This is the most famous weapon and grenade production base in Lantian. There are a thousand workers here and can produce about seven to eight thousand grenades every day!"

"Seven or eight thousand!"

Sun Chuanting's eyes almost popped out of his head. He stared at the Communications Director. The Communications Director said: "Well, this is a non-war situation. If the production here is saturated during a war, the output can be roughly doubled."

After hearing this, Sun Chuanting's eyes almost popped out of his head. He knew the value of grenades in war. At that time, he had a thousand grenades in his hand, and he was able to face hundreds of thousands of insurgents without defeat. At that time, he felt that he

But if you are rich, you will not be afraid of anyone.

But now compared with here, he is rich there, but he is terribly poor. Here he can produce seven to eight thousand hand grenades a day, and the output in one day is enough for him to fight a large battle, and it is also the kind of extremely rich large-scale grenades.

Battle.

Thinking about the time when he was so happy because Lantian sold him two thousand grenades that his back teeth were leaking out, Sun Chuanting only felt that he was the frog at the bottom of the well. He had only seen a sky as big as the mouth of the well, and Lantian, this hidden

In military factories deep in the mountains, seven to eight thousand grenades can be produced in a day.

This is a day's supply. Think about it, Lantian accumulates it day by day. How terrifying is the inventory of grenades!

Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting felt his scalp numb. If one day Lantian no longer hides himself, but climbs up and shouts, then Lantian's hundreds of thousands of militiamen will each send ten grenades to the battlefield. All they have to do is throw them forward. This

I am afraid that no army in the world can dare to say that it can stop them.

Rich, so damn rich.

But at this time, Lu Xiangsheng thought of a question. He looked at the Communications Director and said, "How much does this grenade cost? How much military expenditure does it cost you to make it like this every day?"

The communications director thought for a while and said: "It's not very expensive. The cost of a grenade is about 80 yuan."

"How many!"

This time, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting couldn't sit still. They stared at the Director of Communications. The Director of Communications said: "It's about 80 yuan. Sometimes the scrap rate is lower, so 70 yuan is about the same. But sometimes

If the scrap rate is high, it will cost 90 cents, so it mainly depends on the scrap rate, but generally speaking, the figure of 80 cents is almost normal."

"Eighty cents, a grenade."

Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting looked at each other. At this moment, they felt that the word "big brother" was written on their heads.

"Brother Lu, how much did you buy at that time?"

"It was a little more expensive at first, but then it was around two taels of silver. What about you?"

"For one or two eight dollars, I still licked my face and asked for help. I thought the price he gave me was really a friend's price. I even bought fifteen thousand taels in one go. To be honest, I saw the grenades sold to me at that time.

That person looked so distressed, I really thought I had earned something, and I was happy for a long time, but now it seems that I was simply taken advantage of!"

"Eighty cents! One thousand cents is one tael of silver, and one tael and eight cents is equivalent to fifteen hundred cents. After this conversion, for the price of one hand grenade, someone can make twenty of them."

At this moment, he felt that he was a pure and innocent person!

"Director."

Just when the two of them felt that they were the most wronged people in the world, they saw a group of workers driving a carriage out. The carriage was full of grenades, and there could be thousands of them.

"Why."

The director nodded and greeted the workers. At this time, Lu Xiangsheng said: "These grenades?"

"Oh, Henan Li Chuang has placed an order for 5,000 grenades for us."

"Li Chuang?"

After hearing this, Sun Chuanting frowned, looked at the Communications Director and said, "How can you sell weapons to them?"

"Why not?"

The director asked rhetorically?

Sun Chuanting frowned and said, "You are making enemies!"

The communications director smiled: "Master Sun, Li Chuang has never been our enemy in Lantian."

"Then it's Daming?"

The Communications Director smiled and said: "No."

"No, then who is your enemy of Ming Dynasty?"

Sun Chuanting laughed when he heard this and said: "There are no enemies. We in Lantian have never had enemies. They are not worthy of being our enemies in Lantian."

After saying this, Sun Chuanting had a dark face, and the Communications Director said: "Master Sun, I know what you think, but most of the enemies killed by these grenades are your Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers. I don't need to tell you what the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers are like.

Come on, let me tell you something. Just yesterday, He Renlong from Henan reported to the court that he led his troops to fight with Li Zicheng's forward army and beheaded more than a thousand people. The court awarded him a commendation and promoted him to the governor of Henan.

"

"With more than a thousand people, He Renlong dared to take the initiative, which is pretty good."

Sun Chuanting said, but unexpectedly the expression of the Director of Communications changed and he said: "But we verified with Li Zicheng that they did not engage in any battle with He Renlong, not even a small-scale friction."
To be continued...