Chapter seven hundred and ninety-three the production division, artillery
In the Western Region, there are many workshops in the Manufacturing Department. Lin Ze, accompanied by the head of the Manufacturing Department and a group of officials, walked all the way to the warehouse where the research and development products are placed.
When he stepped into the warehouse, the first thing that caught Lin Ze's eyes was a strange car with no wheels and a skateboard instead of wheels.
The head of the Production Department followed Lin Ze's gaze and quickly explained: "Your Majesty, this thing is called a pulley. It is the latest development of the Production Department and is a sharp tool specially used to transport goods in the desert."
"Although this car has no wheels, thanks to the skateboard, it can drift in the desert many times faster than a normal carriage."
Lin Ze nodded slightly when he heard this and praised: "Yes, it is adapted to local conditions and is somewhat creative."
Lin Ze's compliment immediately made the director of the Preparation Department burst into laughter.
Continuing to move forward, Lin Ze stopped in front of a piece of shiny armor, looked around and asked, "Who will tell me what's going on with this armor?"
The head of the Production Department said from the side: "The king has good eyesight. This is the iron fish scale armor recently developed by the weapon refiners. It is almost difficult to break the attacks of ordinary third-level warriors. If the army can equip this armor, the defense will be better."
Your strength will be greatly increased."
Lin Ze said calmly: "I'm not so dim that I can't tell whether this armor is good or not. What I want to ask is, what is the output? How much does it cost? Can I replace it for the army in a short time?"
The head of the production department suddenly panicked, knelt down on his knees, slapped himself and said: "I am stupid and failed to understand the profound meaning of the king. I deserve to die."
Lin Ze frowned slightly when he saw this and said coldly: "Stop talking nonsense and get up first to answer Gu's question."
As if he had received an amnesty, the head of the Production Department hurriedly got up from the ground and bowed: "Reporting to the king, only the iron fish scale armor can be made by a master refiner. A pair of iron fish scale armor requires a master refiner to spend five days.
, it was made using one hundred kilograms of pig iron.”
"To be honest with the Lord, there are currently 327 masters in the entire Zaozuo Department. With the power of the Zaozuo Department, they can make at least two thousand pairs of iron fish scale armor in a month."
Lin Ze frowned slightly when he heard this: Two thousand pieces a month, if you want the 400,000 troops to be fully equipped, wouldn't it take 16 or 17 years? : :
Lin Ze thought for a while and said, "Just make a note of the mass production of iron fish scale armor. Think about it later. There is nothing else to see. Take me to see the artillery you have made."
The head of the Zaozuo Department responded quickly: "The king invites his entourage to come."
Lin Ze always keeps in mind that science is the primary productive force in social development.
When Lin Ze was planning for the independence of the Western Regions in order to watch the chaos in the world, he arranged for people to spend a huge amount of money to transform the sixteen small oases near Loulan into the Daqin version of "scientific research bases".
In order to facilitate management and improve efficiency, Lin Ze also established a new official agency called the Zaozao Department.
The production department can be divided into two parts, one is the R&D personnel who specialize in developing certain things, and the other is the logistics personnel who support the R&D personnel.
In addition to being responsible for the food and daily life of the R&D personnel, the logistics staff are also responsible for providing assistance to the R&D personnel.
The rank of the head of the Zaozuo Department is only lower than that of the Three Dukes and Nine Qings of the Western Qin Dynasty, which is enough to prove that Lin Ze attaches great importance to the Zaozuo Department.
Half of the R&D personnel in the Production Department are descendants of the Mohist family who have surrendered to the Qin State. They are generals who Lin Ze took advantage of his position to "collude" with Chen Ping and poached from the Qin Shaofu.
The other half were the retainers that Hu Hai recruited before he ascended the throne.
In the beginning, in order to support Hu Hai's rise to power, Lin Ze issued a recruitment order and recruited talents from all over the world with extremely generous remuneration.
The world is huge and there are many strange people and scholars. Lin Ze's eclectic way of recruiting talents has indeed gathered many talents, and they have been brought under Hu Hai's sect in the name of disciples.
These people are called Hu Hai's disciples, but Hu Hai would never bother to pay attention to them. In fact, Lin Ze is always in charge.
After Lin Ze's relationship with Hu Hai broke down, he successfully brought these people to the Western Regions and used them for his own purposes.
Lin Ze did not force the few who refused to give in to Lin Ze's "obscene power" and refused to do things for Lin Ze. He just had them killed and buried alive in a place with clear waters and lush mountains.
After thinking about it, it has been almost a year, and the grass on the grave is about a foot high.
Lin Ze came here today because he received a message from the head of the Production Department that the artillery he had been dreaming of had been successfully developed.
As a time traveler, if you don’t set off a few artillery pieces and set off fireworks, is it worth the hard work of traveling through time?
Although Lin Ze did not remember the formula of gunpowder, he knew that gunpowder first appeared in the alchemist's alchemy furnace.
A few years ago, Lin Ze figured out the formula for gunpowder and relied on black powder to win two wars.
Lin Ze, who was a science major in his previous life, said that he had never paid attention to the principle of artillery. After all, no one knew that he could travel through time, right?
But this is still not a problem. The Gongshu family can create flying mechanical birds. There is no reason why the Mohists, whose technology is superior to the Gongshu family, cannot build artillery.
Lin Ze just wrote down the idea and gave it to the Mohist master.
No, a few months later, the Mo family sent good news.
No matter where you are, whether you are powerful or powerful, whatever you want to do will always be convenient and quick.
Under the guidance of the head of the Production Department, Lin Ze passed through countless workshops and arrived at the desert land on the edge of the oasis, where he saw the three majestic cannons.
The master of the Mohist family who was in charge of testing and debugging saw Lin Ze and others approaching and quickly ran forward and saluted: "Greetings to the king and your lords."
Lin Ze replied calmly: "No need to be polite, let me see how effective the artillery you built is?"
"I obey the order of the king," the master of the Mohist family responded, and shouted to the apprentice next to the cannon: "Quickly, clean the barrel of the cannon, load the shells, and prepare to fire."
Several apprentices heard their master's order, one quickly cleaned the cannon chamber, another held a half-foot-diameter cannonball and put it in, and the other lit a torch and was ready to light it at any time.
Seeing Lin Ze nodding slightly, the Mohist master immediately shouted: "Light the fire and shoot off the cannon."
The apprentice puts the torch close to the fuse, waits for it to light, and immediately squats down and covers his ears.
I saw black cannonballs, quickly crossing a parabola in the air, and landed on the desert 1,500 meters away.
There was a loud "boom", and sand and dust flew all over the sky and fell.
Lin Ze moved, and almost as soon as the shell exploded, he came to the place where the shell fell. He saw with his own eyes that a large crater with a radius of seven to eight feet and a depth of more than two feet was formed under the impact of the shell.
Then Lin Ze returned to the area of the artillery and asked, "With all our efforts, how many artillery pieces can we produce in one month?"
The Mohist master bowed and replied: "Return to the Lord, thirty gates."
Lin Ze shook his head and said, "Too few. Producing three hundred units a month is almost enough."
The Mohist master smiled bitterly when he heard this and said: "The king knows it well, the artillery has just been developed not long ago, and the manufacturing speed is really limited. Once everyone becomes proficient, the manufacturing speed will naturally increase."
Lin Ze turned around and looked at the head of the Production Department, and replied calmly: "This thing is urgently needed. If you are short of people, I will mobilize the manpower for you. If you are short of materials, I will ask someone to send it over. In three months, I will see a thousand
Nice cannon on the door."
"For the iron fish scale armor I saw before, five thousand pairs will be made first, and the period is also three months."
"Is there any problem?"
The head of the Production Department glanced at the master of the Mo family with a bitter look on his face, gritted his teeth and said: "Please rest assured, Lord, the tasks assigned by the Lord will be completed within three months."