Now the entire Gaoshu tribe is based on high-yield food, steel and cement as the skeleton, and other refined salt, alcohol, cigarettes, and oil as the flesh and blood. It has formed the embryonic form of an industrial tribe.

　　 It is worth mentioning that the last time Major Hank left, he took some cigarettes and alcohol with him. As a result, when Major Adrian Fogg came this time, he specifically asked to bring a batch of alcohol and cigarettes back.

　　 Obviously, compared to salt, which is indispensable in daily life, cigarettes and alcohol are undoubtedly more attractive to the nobles.

　　 But Shixiong didn't let Major Fogg bring back many cigarettes and drinks, he still knew about hunger marketing.

　　Whether it is alcohol or cigarettes, even if it is placed in the UK, it is an absolute luxury in this era. This kind of high-quality liquor and cigarettes are rare in this era, especially cigarettes, which have never appeared at all.

　　 Therefore, Shi Xiong intends to use these two things as the mainstay in the last ten or twenty years, to enter the aristocratic class of the Old Continent, and then to exchange for a large amount of materials needed here.

　　 As for whether or not to "add material" to cigarettes in the future, it depends on the specific situation.

　　 For this extra "material", to be honest, Shi Xiong is also quite embarrassed. Gu Ke has long been passed on from the South American continent, and North American Indians also like this kind of plant that can greatly increase energy.

　　 However, Shixiong knows how to purify Guko. Once this thing is purified, even if the effect is not as good as the "white noodles" of later generations, it is also extremely addictive...

　　 To put it bluntly, this thing is Pandora's box. Once opened, no one knows what the consequences will be.

　　 What if this thing spreads among the Indians of the New World? Then these Indians can't be saved by anyone...

　　 It is for this reason that Shi Xiong has not made up his mind to "add ingredients" to cigarettes.

　　 The war horses that were traded with the British were eliminated, and the weapons and equipment prepared by the Gaoshu tribe for the expeditionary army were increasing.

　　 David Adion and Jack Williams are now cooperating more and more closely, and under the guidance of Shixiong from time to time, the two have also made many breakthroughs in various research and development.

　　 Aidean is a French alchemist who is good at metal smelting. Although he is a man of this age, he can't keep up with the level of metal smelting even if he rides a horse. Aidean is a professional talent in metal smelting.

　　 What he lacks now is some forward-looking things, such as how to improve the hardness or toughness of metals.

　　In this era, human beings still don’t know that the key factor affecting the hardness and toughness of steel is the amount of carbon. At least they have not clearly concluded that carbon can affect various performance indicators of steel.

　　 But under the guidance of Shixiong, Idian has now begun to master how to add carbon in the molten iron to control the hardness and toughness of the steel. For example, it can be used as carbon tool steel for drill bits.

　　The carbon tool steel used to make drill bits in later generations is T13 steel. This steel has poor toughness but high hardness, which is very suitable for cutting, cutting, and drilling.

　　 Ishikuma told Aidean that the carbon content of this T13 steel must be controlled between 1.25% and 1.35%. Too high or too low a carbon content cannot smelt this high-strength tool steel. In addition, the content of silicon, manganese, sulfur, and phosphorus must be strictly controlled.

　　 For this kind of high-hardness carbon steel, Adion is naturally very interested. After more than half a year of testing in his metallurgical laboratory, he finally came up with a high-hardness carbon steel close to the performance of T13 steel.

　　 Although this kind of steel can't be compared with real T13 steel, it is not a problem to process other steels in this era.

　　 Of course, Shixiong also told him that adding some other metal elements to the raw materials during steelmaking can also greatly change the performance indicators of steel.

　　 Anyway, as long as Shixiong knew something, he would tell Aidean. Although Shixiong does not know the specific performance values ​​of most metal materials, he only needs to tell Aidean what elements need to be added to smelt these alloy steels.

　　 As for whether Aidean can experiment, it depends on the skill of the French alchemist.

　　 And Jack Williams got a lot of high-performance steel because of Aidean’s help. With these steels, Williams can experiment with various processing equipment.

　　 With the joint efforts of the two people, when the long night full moon (December) entered, the first deep hole drilling machine of the Gaoshu tribe was finally successfully produced.

　　 This kind of simple machine tool that uses water power as the drive, gear transmission, and high-hardness carbon steel as the drill bit, can be said to be the most advanced machine tool in the world.

　　This kind of machine tool can drill holes up to 90 cm in depth. If you want to drill more than 90 cm of holes, you need to turn the work piece and process it twice.

　　 Now the barrel length of the Ferguson rifle is 1.4 meters, so if you want to process the barrel of a Ferguson rifle, you need to drill holes from both ends.

　　 The barrels of the Ferguson rifles produced before are all cast, but it is not a big problem when black powder is used as the propellant. However, in the future, the guns of the Gaoshu tribe will inevitably be fired with non-flooded gunpowder (homonymous), so casting barrels will no longer work.

Compared with black gunpowder, the power of unflooded gunpowder is much greater. If you use a cast barrel, it is easy to explode~lightnovelpub.net~ But for now, the rifle used by the expeditionary army is still black. Gunpowder is used as propellant.

　　 But the production of new barrels has already begun. With specific data, the second, third and Nth drilling machines can be continuously produced.

　　 As for the new broaching machine for rifling, Williams has developed it a long time ago. This kind of broaching machine, which also uses water as power, is more efficient than manual broaching. If the broach is replaced with newly developed carbon tool steel, the efficiency of the broaching machine will become higher.

　　 In any case, in these five months, the weapon building of the Gaoshu tribe has never stopped.

　　 is not only the building of the rifle, but also the building of the grenadier. However, compared to the processing difficulty of the rifle barrel, the processing difficulty of the grenadier barrel cast by the casting process is undoubtedly much lower.

　　 So the production speed of the grenades is very fast. If it weren't for the laborious casting of the grenade thrown by the grenades, Shixiong would have liked to throw the grenades by himself.

　　 The difficulty of casting a grenadier grenade is much higher than that of a grenadier barrel. From modeling to pouring, two workers can cast seven or eight grenades in just one day, even a highly efficient skilled worker. The main limitation of casting speed is modeling.

　　 Wrong, I can think of a better modeling method or get the punching machine out in the future, otherwise the number of grenades will always be the bottleneck of the large-scale promotion of the grenades.

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