Chapter 197

Although stone bear has such and such bad taste, he is not a selfish person.

Although this rifle with epoch-making significance in the history of human thermal weapons was completed under his own guidance, stone bear does not want to deprive the original name of this gun.

You can play about history, or change some history with bad taste, but you must keep enough respect for history, otherwise the wheel of history will crush you into dust unconsciously.

Even if you want to be famous, you have to rely on your own ability. Stone bear doesn't want to do or disdain to do anything to deprive others of their fame. In particular, this should be with this rifle and famous for thousands of history of lieutenant Ferguson or his own die-hard younger brother, this kind of thing can not be done.

Ferguson, of course, didn't know what stone bear thought, so he was moved by his boss's generosity.

To be able to name an epoch-making rifle with one's own surname is the greatest praise to an inventor of firearms.

Because once this rifle is recognized by the public and becomes popular, then the family name will be known all over the world.

What happened to foreigners? Foreigners are as good as fame and fortune! As long as it's a person, there's no one who's not good at fame and profit except a fool and a madman.

Do you really think that the sentence "man does not do for himself, and heaven will destroy the earth" is just a casual remark?

So Lieutenant Ferguson was so drunk in the middle of the afternoon that he was so happy that he poured too much hard bone, rabbit mouth and Jack Williams.

Fortunately, major hank has just brought a large number of drinks of ordinary quality, the four pound best whisky. Major hank has only brought a few bottles, all for the stone bear.

For this kind of whisky with average quality and taste, stone bear is not in the mood to taste it. It happened that the Daqu in the qufang had already been made, so Shi Xiong decided to make his own wine.

For the stone bear, even the sweet potato stew made from sweet potato tastes much better than the whisky of this era.

Now that the Ferguson rifle has been verified by the stone bear, the next large-scale production of this new rifle has been put on the agenda.

In fact, it's not very difficult to make this kind of rifle. The most difficult point is the casting of the barrel. However, with the addition of Jack Williams, an alchemist proficient in mechanical manufacturing, casting the barrel is not a problem.

Shi Xiong originally wanted to continue to transform the processing technology of gun barrel, that is, to use the drilling technology to process the gun barrel, but it took time to make the drilling lathe. Jack has just come to the tribe. Although he is proficient in mechanical manufacturing, he may be fooled by machine tools.

And if you want to make a lathe, you have to make high hardness steel. It's not so easy to make, so Shi Xiong decided to slow down.

It's no problem to use the cast barrel in this era. Even if the filling speed of Ferguson's rifle can reach seven rounds per minute, the cast barrel can stand the use.

As long as the barrel casting is qualified, the most difficult thing left is the suifa mechanism. But it's hard for Lieutenant Ferguson and Jack Williams, who are sure they can do well.

In this kind of thing, stone bear just want to help also can't help, so can only let Ferguson to think of ways to expand the rifle production scale.

There is no shortage of raw materials in the tribe. Whether it's steel making or mold making, there are a group of people in the tribe who are quite proficient in this aspect. As long as the problem of cooperation is solved, the large-scale production of this kind of rifle is not a big problem.

Another problem is the production and manufacture of rifle pellets.

Although Lieutenant Ferguson is very proficient in making guns, he doesn't know how to make bullets, neither does stone bear.

But after Jack williams came here, the problem was solved immediately.

During his years as a contract slave in the new world, this guy helped the British army to do a lot of things, including some simple machines, including rifles and bullets. So it's enough to have Jack Williams in the production of rifle pellets.

Now the difficulty in mass production of projectiles lies in lead and tin. Because the rifle pellet is made of a lead tin alloy, the specific ratio is 12 parts of lead plus 1 part of tin.

But the problem is that now gaoshu tribe can make steel by itself, but how to extract lead and tin, stone bear really don't know.

But the problem was solved by the Frenchman David Addison.

The French alchemist captured by the British in Quebec is very proficient in metal smelting. After all, as an alchemist, his greatest pursuit is to make the legendary "sage's stone". To make the sage's stone, smelting metal is an indispensable step.

Mercury, lead, tin, iron, zinc, copper... It can be said that as long as there are metals in this era, David edian has "played".

So after learning about the difficulties encountered by the stone bear, David Dean took the initiative to say that he could solve the problem. As long as he can find the relevant minerals, he is sure to extract lead and tin.

The mineral rich in lead and tin is naturally lead-zinc. There is no shortage of lead-zinc mines in the Appalachian Mountains, so the stone bear soon arranged several soldiers to accompany David Dean out to inquire about and search for lead-zinc mines.

The Cherokee people have lived in the mountains for more than 200 years. They may not know what lead-zinc mines are, but they must have seen similar ores. If you only need to inquire, you may be able to find a lead-zinc mine.

Although Shi Xiong wants to manage these things, he knows he can't manage them at all. It's true that I'm proficient in Arts and science, but I'm not a versatile person who knows everything. Stone bears are pure laymen for metals like prospecting and refining lead and tin. So he can only leave the work to others.

It took so much effort, blackmail and exchange to get four alchemists. Now, don't these professional things have to be done by these alchemists? That's what they do.

Professional things to professional people to do, that's it!

Of course, stone bear also has to do professional things, that is wine making.

The starter fermentation in the starter room is very good. Except for a few pieces of fermented starter, other starter are very good.

The successful production of koji, and the quality is also very good, which has laid the most solid foundation for wine making.

Distiller's yeast is the key to making wine. As long as the distiller's yeast is made, making wine becomes a very simple thing.