Valley Emperor

Emperor Zhengde in the Forbidden City was having a hard time, and Li Xuan in the Zhaoqing Palace was also having a hard time, but the reason was not because of the uncertain situation, but because of the weather.

After entering June, Zhaoqing in Guangdong has become extremely hot!

As a person who misses summer in winter and winter in summer, Li Xuan especially hates summer at this moment!

And every time at this time, he especially misses the air conditioner in his previous life!

It has become the norm for Li Xuan every year to miss the heating of his previous life in winter and the air conditioner of his previous life in summer.

But I miss it and I miss it, but this winter and summer are still going to pass!

In order to solve the scorching summer heat, at the same time, the south cannot store a large amount of ice in the ice cellar in advance as in the north, so Li Xuan can only find another way to spend the summer.

The solution is very traditional and simple. Make ice directly with saltpeter, and then use ice cubes to cool it down. Of course, the cost of this will be very high, which is much higher than the cost of directly storing ice cubes in ice cellars in the north. , For Li Xuan, who is the whole world, this small cost is naturally impossible to have any problems.

However, even though ice cubes were placed in the office to cool down, the indoor temperature still made Li Xuan feel a little uncomfortable.

He felt sleepy even reading the memorial. He stood up agitatedly, and then began to think, he didn't know when Datang's technological capabilities would be able to create an air conditioner, ten years? Unlikely, twenty years? Enough, thirty years?

Alas, it's been too long, and I still don't want to think about these problems. It is estimated that I have to rely on ice cubes to spend the summer for most of my life!

Compared with such a tall thing as an air conditioner, it is more practical and realistic from a cannon battleship.

And this memorial in his hand is the one presented by the Ministry of Industry on the production of large-caliber artillery.

Because the navy has a strong demand for large-caliber naval guns, it doesn't matter even if the number is smaller and the price is higher, even if the performance is poorer and the weight is heavier, it is acceptable.

Anyway, the navy only needs large-caliber naval guns. As long as they have them, they will recognize them because of high price, heavy weight, poor performance and small number.

The Navy itself has said so. Although the Ministry of Industry is still thinking about the mass production plan, the requirements of the Navy cannot be ignored. Therefore, a large number of skilled craftsmen are recruited and used to try to manufacture large-caliber ships by hand. gun.

Therefore, a large-caliber naval gun was created. This time, it was not a 14-pound cannon, but a 24-pound cannon (32 pounds), which is actually 9 pounds. A simple enlarged version of the cannon.

It is worth noting that the 14-jin artillery made by the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty was directly copied from the 14-jin naval gun of the Folang machine, and its barrel diameter was larger than the previous 9-jin artillery. It has reached 25 times, while the nine-jin artillery used by the army and navy in the past has only 22 times the barrel diameter.

After a simple enlargement of the 24-pound artillery, the barrel diameter is also 22 times, and this barrel diameter is actually not too small for a 24-pound artillery.

After enlarging it to a weight of 24 pounds, the length and caliber of the gun barrel have increased a lot, and it is impossible to directly use mechanical processing as in the past. It can only be built by hand.

The final prototype gun weighed an astonishing 2,200 kilograms. In the test a few days ago, with a certain elevation angle, its maximum range reached an astonishing 6,000 kilometers. However, the engineer of the Ministry of Industry stated clearly, Although this artillery can shoot so far, the maximum range basically does not need to expect any hit rate. Even on land, after detailed adjustment and aiming by the engineers, the effective range can only reach 1,800 meters.

However, this effective range is only limited to land. If it is mounted on a battleship and fired on a bumpy battleship, this effective range has no reference value.

At that time, this effective range should be the same as the 9- and 14-jin artillery previously equipped. The combat distance at sea can only be less than 500 meters, and the best combat distance should be less than 300 meters, um, The closer the better, if you can fire close to the enemy's battleship within 100 meters, the hit rate can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.

But this proposal was directly rejected by the Navy!

In this era when fireboat tactics and side-to-side warfare are still very popular, captains can't wait to distance themselves and take advantage of the range of artillery to attack the enemy.

Of course, with the continuous development of artillery technology, fireboat tactics and side-to-side warfare will gradually withdraw from the arena of war. At that time, in order to ensure the hit rate and power, the captains will give up long-distance battles and get closer to 300 meters. Battle within the distance.

To improve the mid-to-long-range hit rate of artillery, this is a more difficult task than building large-caliber naval guns, and it will not be urgent for a while.

Then the Ministry of Industry reported that the output of this 24-pound artillery will be very low, and one cannot be produced in a month. At least the Ministry of Industry estimates that in the next year, seven or eight guns can be produced. Amazing thing.

Therefore, the Ministry of Industry made another suggestion to the Navy. The output of these 24-jin artillery pieces is too low, and the fighting distance is similar to that of 9-jin and 14-jin artillery pieces. Forget the pound of artillery.

Nine kilograms of artillery, as much as you want, our Ministry of Industry can produce as much for you. Well, the premise is to pay for the military!

Although the 14-jin artillery is also produced by hand, the output is much more than the 24-jin artillery, and it can barely supply more.

From the suggestion of the Ministry of Industry, it can be seen that in fact, they themselves are very repulsive to waste a lot of manpower and material resources, and then they can only build so many large-caliber naval guns, which are not used for war at all. Weapons, but crafts, have no meaning.

But the Navy doesn't want to!

They said that the 24-pound artillery is a little less. Although seven or eight a year are not many, it is fine. Anyway, our navy is preparing to install this kind of artillery on the battleship, and the first battleship was the earliest It will take three or four years to be able to serve. In these three or four years, I have hoarded twenty or thirty doors, and I can barely equip two battleships by then.

The Navy has said so, and the Ministry of Industry can only sigh!

Later, it was a ruthless attack, and I simply said directly, since your navy is willing to wait, you are not afraid of the high price, let alone the 24-pound cannon, we can make it even if it is 48-pound cannon, and the price is not expensive, just It's only a few times, and only two or three doors can be produced a year. Do you want it?

But after this kind of venting rhetoric from the Ministry of Industry reached the navy side, Bao Yifen came directly to the door!

Why not, our navy wants it!

As long as your Ministry of Industry can produce it, we will need one, even if there is only one!

Price doesn't matter!

The Lao Tzu Navy has built a battleship worth hundreds of thousands of taels, and I'm afraid that you can take the value of a mere artillery piece. Our navy would dare to ask for it!

As a result, the popularity of the Ministry of Industry is so bad!

Then he turned his face and said that there are only so many craftsmen who can draw out hand-made cannons. They can make 14 jin of artillery, 24 jin of artillery, and 48 jin of artillery, but there are only so many people. Don't expect them to make 48 jin. What kind of artillery you want, you navy should consider it yourself.

In fact, now Li Xuan also feels that those people in the navy are a little crazy. It is estimated that the truth he said a while ago stimulated them within the range of the cannon, and they were deeply immersed in cannonism. Think big caliber is justice!

In the end, Li Xuan intervened. Don't continue to work on these 48-pound artillery pieces. Just one or two guns won't help, and even 24-pound artillery pieces shouldn't be built too much. It's not worth it. About six or seven years.

On the contrary, a 14-pound artillery can increase the output. The production of this kind of artillery is relatively easy, and the cost is also easy to control. It is not only the main gun on the Lianzhou-class cruiser, but the navy is also preparing to use it on the Wuzhou-class frigate. There is a small amount of equipment, and even the army has plans to prepare a small amount of equipment.

And the army wants this artillery, naturally it is going to be used as a heavy siege artillery!

Although it is said that the current 14-jin artillery still cannot use mechanical equipment for large-scale industrial mass production, but after such a long period of exploration, even manual production can use certain mechanical equipment, so the output is also a month. So many doors.

At the same time, the nine-jin artillery and the five-jin artillery, whether it is the army or the navy, are large-scale equipment!

Because the five-jin artillery ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is the cast iron artillery that can be mass-produced in the Tang Dynasty, while the nine-jin artillery is the bronze artillery that is currently mass-produced in the Tang Dynasty.

The output of these two kinds of artillery is very large. As for the seven-jin artillery that was used more in the early days, it has gradually disappeared from the equipment sequence of the Tang Dynasty.

Because the Tang Dynasty no longer produces guns of this caliber, and most of the seven-jin guns produced in the early days have their barrel lifespans to the limit. In a large-scale battle, it is normal for a single artillery piece to fire hundreds of shells, and even two or three hundred shells are possible.

Therefore, after many fierce battles, many early artillery pieces have either been scrapped or are close to being scrapped!

Not only the seven-jin bronze gun, but also most of the early five-jin bronze guns have reached their service life. Although these bronze guns can no longer be used after their service life, they will not be thrown away directly, but will be recycled and then It became the raw material for casting nine-jin bronze guns.

Taking this opportunity, the navy also adjusted the artillery configuration on the current two-tier main ships, namely the Lianzhou-class cruisers and the Wuzhou-class frigates.