In the Great Song of the Water Margins world.
Zhao Kai's goal was to find the valiant general in Water Margins.
His other trump card was the knowledge from his previous life.
In ancient times, if one were to transmigrate to a backward village and suddenly talk about freedom, there was a high chance that they would be taken as a demon and tied to a fire rack.
Even small inventions would attract the attention of powerful people.
Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancient people. If you don't have a background, the more outstanding your performance is, the easier it is for you to be targeted and devoured.
Fortunately, Zhao Kai had a good start.
The most powerful King Yun of the Great Song, and the fatuous Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty who was obedient to him.
Under such conditions, he could display his skills and gather the best resources in the country for his use.
The Military Equipment Supervisor was of great significance.
As long as he made good use of gunpowder, even Genghis Khan would have to kneel down, let alone the Jin soldiers.
The Military Equipment Supervisor hired more than 40,000 workers and divided them into ten workshops.
He was in charge of the manufacturing of military equipment in the country.
There was a workshop for the production of gunpowder and gunpowder weapons, and they occupied a very important position.
Unfortunately, the ratio of black gunpowder was wrong, and the development was in the wrong direction.
A large firecracker could not deal with Jin Bing.
Haste makes waste.
Zhao Kai needed to take things one step at a time. The industry of the Northern Song Dynasty was already quite good, but it was still far from meeting Zhao Kai's requirements.
All ten workshops of the Military Equipment Supervisor had to be rectified.
First, the firearms workshops were all shut down.
Nowadays, the firearms produced by the firearms workshop were 'rockets',' fireballs','fire caltrops',' thunder cannons', and other flashy toys.
That's right, these things were just big toys to Zhao Kai.
According to Zhao Kai's thoughts, he definitely wanted to make guns.
If he could create a rifle with black gunpowder and metal bullets, Zhao Kai could expand the territory of Great Song by ten times.
It was a pity that the current industrial level could not produce a 'mercury fulminate' rear-loading rifle, so it was temporarily impossible.
However, he could study the rifle.
The rifle could be rubbed by hand.
In the future, the greatest benefit was that they could easily obtain all kinds of secret techniques that were fought over in ancient times.
For example, Little Break Station.
Zhao Kai had once watched a documentary about hand-made gunpowder guns at the Little Break Station.
The name of the documentary was still fresh in his mind.
The Armament Worker of Williams.
This documentary completely showed the entire process of manufacturing rifled guns during the Revolutionary War.
What was even more surprising was that this documentary also had a detailed method of pulling the rifling.
If this kind of technology could be made public, would he dare to think about it in the past?
It was estimated that during the war of independence, this was an important weapon of the country.
They needed to be strictly guarded.
Fortunately, Zhao Kai remembered it after seeing the video.
He did not know if it was because he had transmigrated.
Now, Zhao Kai could recall all the knowledge he had read before, so detailed that every detail was very clear.
In the documentary, the most difficult part was actually the gun barrel.
It was not easy to hammer a metal plate into a qualified gun barrel.
A mature worker could only produce 1 to 1.5 gun barrels a month.
Zhao Kai was quite confident about this.
The firearms workshop now had 3,000 workers, and the craftsmen had to practice for the first few months.
After practicing, he could produce at least 3,000 barrels in a month.
30,000 a year.
In this era, 3,000 black gunpowder guns were enough to change the course of a war.
Of course, there were many rifles equipped with flintlocks.
The most reliable is the 'kentucky rifle' from a certain country's war of independence.
At one point, the 'Kentucky-style rifle' was considered the most reliable black powder rifle.
Simple structure, stable performance, long range (effective range 200 meters, maximum range 284 meters)
Because of its stable performance, the Kentuckian rifle had a reputation as a black powder sniper rifle.
Although they were not from the same era, they could not be compared.
But Zhao Kai still wanted to say it.
In the past, the effective range of Genghis Khan's cavalry archers was 50 meters, and the maximum range was 120 meters. The author has read a lot of information, the data is basically accurate)
If Zhao Kai had not been the first to invent and manufacture the 'Kentucky',
Not to mention the Jin soldiers, even the Genghis Khan cavalry who had beaten the Jin soldiers to a pulp were trembling in fear.
This was a cross-generation suppression.
Zhao Kai's idea was simple. Now that the economy of Great Song was good and the people were stable, they would continue to be governed by Huizong and the husbands.
He did not interfere.
He focused on managing the army.
In short, they were in charge of money, people, and technology.
Under normal circumstances, it was a big deal to abolish the firearms workshop and stop production of the 'rockets',' fireballs', and 'caltrops' without complicated procedures and debates.
But who was Zhao Kai? His Highness Yun Wang, the Grand Marshal of the army, the head of the Imperial City Division, the Head of the Marshal's Office, and the Minister of Works.
It was a matter of one sentence.
Even if there were objections in the court, they would quickly disappear.
The Military Equipment Bureau had five workshops that produced weapons, armor, and other equipment for the entire country.
Zhao Kai suggested an assembly line, which was supplemented and improved by experienced craftsmen.
The efficiency of the workshop had doubled.
Zhao Kai only left behind three standard equipment workshops, and the craftsmen of the other two workshops were used for other purposes.
This involved another important tool, the file.
There were files in the Great Song Dynasty, and most of them were flat files used to file wood or bamboo.
They did not realize that the highest level of a file was to file steel.
There was a saying in the later generations that a file could conquer the world.
An experienced fitter could produce all kinds of parts as long as he had a file in hand.
Level 8 fitter was also known as the existence of hand-rubbing aircraft carriers.
Zhao Kai wanted to make a gun, so of course, he couldn't just make a gun barrel. He also needed a few other parts.
This required a file.
Moreover, other inventions could not be separated from parts.
It was necessary to build two file workshops.
The file required a high hardness.
Thanks to the advanced manufacturing industry of the Great Song, the craftsmen finally produced a qualified file in three days.
When a craftsman filed a fist-sized iron ball into a pyramid with the same length, width, and height, the iron ball was crushed into a pile of metal.
Everyone cheered.
Zhao Kai smiled in relief and said,""Reward: Craftsman level increased by one level, monthly salary consistent.”
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
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