After this period of time, the school has been running well, and the juniors who used to play crazy have become a lot more honest.
The Interim Administrative Committee originally planned to start popularizing primary education in the ruled area and cultivate indigenous talents bit by bit.
Now that Sun Xuebin has brought in a bunch of new recruits, it can barely be considered a pilot.
However, the Napoleon cannon had just been developed, and Fang Xiaoyue immediately focused on developing new artillery.
Unfortunately, half of the third batch of recruits recruited by Sun Xuebin were coastal sailors, ready to be used in the navy.
As a result, the research and development of naval guns is urgent!
Although this Napoleon cannon is the pinnacle of front-loaded cannons, it is an army cannon, and its maximum caliber is only 12 pounds. Even if it is enlarged and placed on a warship, its effect may not be as good.
According to Sun Xuebin, it is better to use naval guns or breech-loaded guns.
One is the fast rate of fire, the other is the high accuracy.
If the Napoleon cannon is enlarged and used as a naval gun, the accuracy of the smoothbore cannon is conceivable.
Because Sun Xuebin pressed too hard, Fang Xiaoyue simply spent a few days designing a naval gun that had never appeared in the history of this plane.
Its main features include a simple structure, a long barrel, a simple sight, and the use of black powder as propellant.
The simple structure means it is easy to cast, the production speed is fast, the long barrel means the gun has a long range, and it comes with a sight, making it easier for artillery training and more accurate shooting.
As for the use of black powder, it is a helpless thing. At least until chemical explosives are developed, it is barely enough.
After the design drawings came out, everyone in the industrial team spent five days, taking turns working 24 hours a day, and finally produced the first naval gun.
The test firing effect of the naval gun is also relatively good.
It belongs to the 24-pound naval gun range, with a barrel length of 3.5 meters. When fully loaded, the range is as high as 3160 meters, and the weight is reduced to 2000 kilograms!
After the 24-pound naval gun was successfully developed, the design drawings of the 48-pound naval gun were also released.
However, this time, Fang Xiaoyue only produced the design drawing of the 48-pound naval gun, but did not participate in the specific research and development process. Instead, he handed it over to others in the industrial group.
One is to train other technical personnel in the industrial group, and the other is that he has a new task.
Design a train for the Shilu Iron Mine that is about to be developed.
This is a necessary design.
After the Shilu Iron Mine is put into development, it will definitely be impossible to transport the seven or eight kilometers from the iron mine to Changjiang with human or animal power. In that case, people will be exhausted and they will not be able to transport much iron ore, let alone the dock area.
There are not many livestock at all, let alone animal power.
And the research and development of this small train is also to prepare for the future.
You must know that in later generations, trains will be one of the pullers of industry from R&D and production to series investment.
With a train, it is trivial to haul thousands of tons of cargo at one go.
Of course, the research and development of trains is not as easy as artillery and firearms.
Like artillery and firearms, if the requirements are not high, the design and development are actually relatively easy.
Think about it, a layman like Mikhail who is not a professional firearms designer can develop a famous gun like the AK47 through self-study efforts. It would not be too difficult for people like Fang Xiaoyue to copy some firearms.
But the train is different.
First of all, you have to develop the locomotive, then various transmission and braking systems. At the same time, you have to consider the appropriate width of the rails.
As for the issue of rail width, there was actually some debate in the industrial group.
You must know that in later generations, even if the International Railway Association established the international standard gauge of 1435 mm, in fact, until they crossed, there were still more than 30 different gauges in use around the world.
Some technicians feel that the international standard gauge before crossing is good, and there is no need to think too much about anything else.
Some technicians believe that there is a serious shortage of iron materials in the wharf area, so they can simply use narrow gauges below 1000 mm, which not only saves iron materials, saves trouble, and is not difficult to lay.
But Fang Xiaoyue directly rejected their remarks.
In his opinion, even the international standard gauge of 1,435 mm is still narrow.
The simple truth here is that the smaller the track gauge, the less cargo the train can carry.
And if the track gauge is too small, there will also be certain restrictions on the size of the cargo that can be carried.
The reason why some wind turbine blades and many containers in later generations can only be pulled by large trucks is that the track gauge of the train is too small, so if such goods are forcibly loaded, it will cause problems in the operation of the train.
2300 mm, this is the track gauge standard finally formulated by Fang Xiaoyue.
In his words, since we have traveled through time and space, we can’t even decide on the track gauge of the train ourselves and have to copy the standards of future generations. So what’s the point of us traveling through time?
After what he said, the previous objections in the industrial group were immediately wiped out.
Well, it's not that his opinions are really deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it's just that he has a very high reputation in the industrial group and others don't dare to object.
Not to mention that Fang Xiaoyue is busy developing locomotives, but the coal mine development team has already received three 12-pound Napoleon cannons, five 6-pounders, 120 recruits, 20,000 yuan in silver coins, etc.
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These eight artillery pieces were used to equip the coal mine development team with diamond forts.
This is also a helpless matter. Compared to the Zheng regime, it is impossible for the dock area to add many troops to the coal mine development team. These 120 recruits were all squeezed out through the cracks of teeth.
In order to prevent the Zheng regime from making a surprise attack, Lei Jianming divided some of his more and more laborers from the increasing number of workers and started building castles after the battle to capture the county magistrate.
When building a castle, you must build a diamond fort. Anyone who has read a few military books about traveling through history will know that a diamond fort is a good thing.
Build a diamond fort five or six hundred meters away from the dock, and with artillery, you can almost control the dock and coal mine area.
Initially, due to time constraints, Lei Jianming did not know when the Zheng regime would come over, so he hurriedly built a small fort in a short period of time.
It was the kind of diamond fort that could only accommodate fifty or sixty musketeers.
However, after the small fort was repaired and Lei Jianming's sentries on the periphery did not send back any news of the enemy's invasion, he immediately asked people to expand the small fort.
As time goes by, the Diamond Fort has been expanded to the fourth floor, and it is no longer a problem to station all the existing soldiers in the completed part.