Chapter 438 Upgraded Tiger Cannon (Three Updates)

ps: Four more tonight, and one more

The sudden sound made Xiao Ming and Fei Yue'er separate, and Fei Yue'er instinctively walked to the inner room of the bedroom.

After a cough, Xiao Ming left the dormitory and was meeting Qian Dafu.

"Your Highness, the copper mine has been found." Qian Dafu said excitedly, and then Qian Dafu took out a handful of copper ore.

"Copper mine."

Xiao Ming was excited at this time, not to mention that copper is still the currency in circulation in the Great Yu Kingdom, but only to say that the wide application of copper in industry is also an extremely important resource for Qingzhou.

"His Royal Highness, this copper mine is really hard to find. After more than two years, the old slave has finally found it. Now the old slave has made arrangements for mining, and we can also mint coins in Qingzhou in the future." Qian Dafu said.

"Mint coins?" Xiao Ming shook his head.

Qian Dafu said: "Yes, Your Highness, as long as the current vassal kings can mine copper mines, they use the mined copper to cast copper coins. Don't your Highness want to cast copper coins?"

"Money is to be cast, but it cannot be cast randomly." Xiao Ming said.

Everyone in Dayu country doesn't understand what inflation is, so it is inevitable to make money indiscriminately. It is precisely because of this that the people do not trust copper coins.

Because sometimes one copper plate can buy one steamed bun, and sometimes three copper plates can't buy one steamed bun. This is all because of the confusion of copper coins in the market.

So for Xiao Ming, he is not prepared to make copper coins indiscriminately like other vassal kings, because it is irresponsible to the people, and in order to avoid the inflow of foreign low-quality copper coins, he is even more prepared to issue his own currency.

And the reason why he is so happy this time is not because copper coins can be minted, but because Qingzhou has another strategic resource.

Now Qingzhou is going to launch an attack on Ryukyu during the Chinese New Year. Now that there is a copper mine, he can let Chen Qi use the copper mine to forge some six-pound bronze field guns.

After all, field guns do not need to be mass-produced like defensive guns and naval guns. At this time, the use of bronze materials can improve the quality of field guns.

During the Napoleonic period, field guns were mostly made of bronze.

So, after a pause, he said to Qian Dafu: "First mine a batch and transport it to Qingzhou. This king is going to hand it over to the Equipment Division to make bronze field guns."

"Yes, Your Highness." Qian Dafu was stunned for a moment, and he finally understood what Xiao Ming meant, "This copper mine is not far away, just one hundred and eighty miles northwest of Qingzhou, the first batch of copper mines will take place in five days. Stone will get there."

Xiao Ming nodded when he heard the words, and said to Qian Dafu: "In addition to the copper mine, during this time I sent people to Laizhou to look for gold mines and Dengzhou to look for silver mines. This is what this king needs now. "

Qian Dafu understood, smiled and said, "Your Highness, you can rest easy."

After telling Xiao Ming the good news of the discovery of the copper mine, Qian Dafu turned around and left.

At this time, Xiao Ming let out a sigh of relief. Apart from casting field guns, copper mines have many uses, the most important of which is to manufacture copper wires.

Therefore, the current copper mine is equivalent to a reserve for future power applications.

After sending Qian Dafu away, Xiao Ming turned around and went back to the bedroom. Fei Yue'er was waiting for him in the inner room. The two were separated for half a month.

The next day, when the sun was up, he slowly got up, saying that he would be busy with his subordinates when he was a leader, and people who would not be a leader would be busy with himself.

Now he can finally appreciate the time when his subordinates are busy and he is relaxed. After all, Pang Yukun handles government affairs, and Niu Ben is in charge of the army.

These two generals belong to the desperate Saburo, and they work like they are desperate, so both the prefectures and the army are well managed by the two.

Lazily grooming and eating, the servant told him that Fei Yue’er went to the textile mill with Luluo in the morning.

He understood that Fei Yue'er was busy with the underwear she designed.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Xiao Ming went to the military workshop after eating. He was going to see how the Tiger Zun Cannon was, and at the same time talk about the field cannon.

"His Royal Highness, you just happened to be here. This is the Tiger Cannon we designed today." As soon as he arrived at the military workshop, Chen Qi carried out a brand new Tiger Cannon.

Xiao Ming immediately gave a thumbs up when he saw this Tiger Cannon. Chen Qi had upgraded the Tiger Cannon. The current Tiger Cannon has been separated from the original Tiger Cannon of the Ming Dynasty, but followed the direction of the mortar. develop.

Now the base of this mortar is a square metal plate, and the cylindrical barrel is fixed on the metal plates on both sides through the trunnion, so that the mortar can be freely adjusted up and down to fire.

The mortar as a whole can be moved by only two soldiers holding the handles on the metal plate on the ground, which is very convenient and fast.

"Yes, there is progress." Xiao Ming said, looking at the brand-new mortar.

Chen Qi smiled and said, "His Royal Highness, the lower official remodeled the mortar according to the textbook, and also remodeled the cannonball."

With that said, Chen Qi handed the blooming bullet with a hollow cork to Xiao Ming, and a lead was extended from the middle of the cork. He rotated the cork, and the cork turned outward or inward according to different directions.

He asked: "Can you know the specific explosion time of this shell now?"

"Although the accuracy rate is not high, it is still much stronger than the previous powder cans. At least it avoids the situation that the ammunition will explode in the barrel, and we can probably control the time when the shell explodes through the corkscrew."

"Really?" Xiao Ming had some expectations. If he could achieve effective results, it would be much easier to attack the Dutch this time.

Chen Qi nodded and said to the craftsman beside him, "Let your Highness see it by experimenting."

The two craftsmen received the order and immediately carried the mortar to Xiao Ming, then poured the gunpowder into the bottom of the mortar, and then stuffed the ammunition with the flat-bottomed wooden support into the mortar. "

"His Royal Highness, just hit the target three hundred meters away."

Chen Qi has already mastered the calculation method of the parabola, so now he can calculate the landing point of the shell according to the different elevation angles of the mortar. Although the error of this landing point is larger, it is still developing in a positive direction.

"Let it go!" With an order, the craftsman fired.

After a muffled sound, the ammunition flew out in a parabola and fell at a position of about 300 meters. With a "boom", the shell suddenly exploded at a position three meters from the ground.

Chen Qi said a little embarrassedly at this time: "Your Highness, this is the problem now, the time for the explosion of the bomb is not fixed."

Although Chen Qi said it lightly, Xiao Ming was so surprised that he could not close his mouth. It was amazing to make the blooming bullet within this error range.

He said: "It's already very good. Now let's produce mortars and deliver them to the Qingzhou Army. In addition, this king is talking to you about field guns."