Chapter 136: Iron Mold Cannon Casting
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The next day, the King of Wei and his grand fleet departed from Qingzhou’s docks.
Xiao Ming watched the fleet with envy, wondering when Qingzhou would have such a mighty fleet of its own.
In Qingzhou’s shipyard, his galleons were still under intense construction. He could only hope that, as Zhang Liang had promised, they would have three galleon warships by the end of the year.
Once the cannons were mounted on the galleons, he would take his first step into the era of sailing warships.
But the thought of cannons gave him another headache. The battlefield demanded a large number of them, which meant yet another heavy burden. It seemed that building a powerful navy truly required endless investment.
After seeing off the King of Wei, Xiao Ming headed straight to the Armaments Department.
Chen Qi and the craftsmen were busy casting iron molds. The knowledge repository in Xiao Ming’s mind was filled with cannon-casting methods.
Naturally, Xiao Ming wouldn’t repeat the mistakes of his predecessors. This time, he adopted the iron mold casting method—a technique that had existed since ancient times but wasn’t applied to cannon production until the Qing Dynasty.
The method itself wasn’t technically difficult. The real challenge lay in the fact that current craftsmen simply hadn’t thought of it.
Sometimes, the difficulty wasn’t the technology itself but discovering it.
Now, Xiao Ming had taught Chen Qi and the others the complete iron mold casting technique. For these skilled craftsmen, mastering it was only a matter of time through experimentation.