Zhao Shizhen just wanted to say:

"Bang"

Suddenly saw that the person who came was actually Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he trembled all over his body, and hurriedly got up to salute:

"Weichen saw Your Majesty, I didn't know that Your Majesty was coming, please forgive Your Majesty!"

Just kidding, in front of the emperor, he can't bring weapons, he actually pointed a gun at the emperor, although he didn't know that it was the emperor, if the emperor investigated it, it would still be unforgivable.

Of course, for his beloved general, Zhu Youzhen knew that he was unintentional and didn't care at all.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the panicked Zhao Shizhen and smiled:

"Is there a bullet in the gun?"

"I didn't ...... No, it was completely empty, and the bullets hadn't had time to be loaded yet. ”

Zhu Youzhen laughed and reached out to help Zhao Shizhen:

"I know you didn't mean to, so get flat!"

"Your Majesty, oh yes, Wechen is about to report to you, the ironclad battleship has been launched for sea trials, and this bullet has also been developed by Wechen."

Zhao Shizhen said, showing a bullet in his hand to Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youzhen's eyes lit up, and he reached out to take the conical bullet and looked up and down.

"Damn, isn't this a Mini bullet? It was really developed by you, and if you can actually fight, I will reward two foreign beauties, plus a thousand taels of silver. ”

Mini bullets, the diameter of the conical warhead is slightly smaller than the diameter of the breech, so it is very convenient to reload.

There is a conical cavity at the bottom of the warhead, a wooden plug blocks the bottom of the hole, and when firing, the gas presses the wooden plug to squeeze into the cavity, forcing the bottom of the bullet to expand, close to the rifling, and close the gap between the warhead and the rifle, so that the gas cannot leak out, and can make the warhead rotate at high speed under rifling pressure.

The Mini bullet solves the problem that the rifled gun is difficult to reload and the range accuracy of the smoothbore gun is too low, making the rifle a decisive weapon on the battlefield.

But there are some problems that cannot be solved with the Mini bullet, which can only be made of a very soft alloy such as lead, so that the warhead can expand easily.

The warhead is soft, it deforms immediately after hitting the target, the stopping effect is good, but the penetration is too weak.

Similarly, in order to rapidly expand the warhead to lock the chamber, the propellant can only use fast-burning gunpowder, and the trend of propellant is to burn slowly so that the warhead can be evenly accelerated in the chamber for a long time to increase the muzzle velocity.

rifled guns, the barrel of which has rifling inside; When a bullet is fired, it is forced to rotate and fly by a thread engraved in the chamber.

As a result, it has the precise directivity and long-term stability in high-speed movement that smoothbore bullets do not have, making long-range sniping possible.

However, rifled guns had the weakness of difficulty in loading ammunition and low firing efficiency, which was made up to a certain extent by the invention of the "mini bullet".

The caliber of the mini bullet is one circle smaller than the diameter of the body of the front-loading rifled gun, which solves the problem of difficulty in reloading; Small holes were dug in the bottom of the warhead.

When fired, the bullet expands and fits snugly against the chamber of the gun, and under the pressure of rifling, the warhead can rotate out at high speed, and the accuracy of hitting is greatly improved.

The Mini bullet is a revolutionary invention in the history of bullets, with a range of 500 meters and an effective range of 300 meters, and the accuracy has been improved.

How did Zhao Shizhen know that this thing has been leading the world for nearly a hundred years, and when he heard the emperor's reward, he scratched his head a little embarrassed:

"Your Majesty, ministers don't want beautiful women, ministers need silver, this arsenal and shipyard are gold-swallowing monsters!"

"Smack......

Zhu Youzhen slapped Zhao Shizhen on the shoulder happily, and Zhao Shizhen was a thriller at that time.

"Gold-Swallowing Behemoth? Then you tell me, how much silver do you need? ”

Zhao Shizhen said without the slightest hesitation:

"If you want this rifled gun to equip the Ming army, you need at least three million taels of silver a year, not counting battleships."

"Well, there is no problem, the 10 million taels of the battleship have already been given to the Governor of the Navy, and Zheng Chenggong will give it to your Ministry of Industry."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Zhao Shizhen was immediately overjoyed, if there was enough financial support, the battleship guns were not too much of a problem, but it was just a little longer.

"Zhao Aiqing, how many guns of this kind come out now?"

"Back to the emperor, come out twelve now, if necessary, make it with all your might, and there is no problem with fifty a day."

The production speed is okay, and a thousand-person team can be equipped in a month, but the key is to see the range of the gun and the quality of the bullets.

If it is reliable, Zhu Youzhen is ready to equip a thousand-man team first.

"Okay, after the test gun, hurry up the production and be prepared, and go to the shooting range to try the Mini bullet."

"Obey"

In fact, after the first gun and the first bullet came out, Zhao Shizhen immediately began to test fire, which was really great, otherwise he would not have produced more than a dozen expenditures.

Of course, the arsenal has a test range, and not far from the factory headquarters, the three of them soon came to the shooting range.

Zhao Shizhen shot at 150 meters, 200 meters, 300 meters, and 400 meters respectively.

"Bang Bang ......"

After four shots, Mini's bullet spun rapidly, hitting the 150-meter and 200-meter targets.

For the 300-meter and 400-meter targets, Zhao Shizhen could only look at the targets and sigh, not because the gun was not good, but because his shooting skills were limited and he couldn't hit them at all.

Zhao Shizhen had no choice but to spread his hands:

"Your Majesty should bring an escort here, they are all masters, and they should be more able to appreciate the power of this gun and Minnie bullets."

Ah Qing stretched out his hand to take the rifle and said:

"I'll try!"

Zhu Youzhen looked at Ah Qing in surprise:

"Have you ever used a spear?"

Ah Qing smiled:

"Your Majesty, do you think the captain of the royal guard is so good? Of course, the concubine body can't be underestimated by those team members. ”

As he spoke, Ah Qing had already loaded the Mini bullet, raised the gun to aim at the target, and pulled the trigger:

"Bang"

In reloading

"Bang"

"Bang Bang"

In one minute, Ah Qing fired four targets in a row.

As soon as the gunfire ended, the three of them walked quickly to the gun target, and found that 100 meters, 200 meters, and 300 meters, the three gun targets were all hit by Ah Qing.

At 400 meters, he did not miss the target, but he was about five centimeters off the bull's-eye.

"That's right, worthy of my personal bodyguard, I didn't expect A-Qing's marksmanship to be so good!"

Zhu Youzhen was full of praise for A Qing's marksmanship, and Zhao Shizhen also gave a thumbs up.

"Zhao Aiqing, I have decided, you should hurry up the production, the guns are equipped with melee three-edged bayonets, and in addition, I am producing some short guns, one foot long, I want to set up a special force."

"Obey"

After all, Zhu Youzhen is the emperor, and he doesn't need to do anything himself, just exchange the drawings and hand them over to the Ministry of Industry, so that they can study and digest them slowly.

After the test gun was over, Zhu Youzhen walked around the arsenal again and prepared to return to the palace.

Before leaving, he thought of Song Yingxing and Bi Maokang, so he decided to let the three of them live in the same mansion, so that it would be convenient to discuss things.

"Zhao Aiqing, you won't be alone soon, I have already contacted Bi Maokang and Song Yingxing, they are both firearms experts, and they will all live in your house at that time.

If you feel that the mansion is too crowded, I will change you to live in the Guogong Mansion, I don't know what Aiqing wants? ”

"Your Majesty, the mansion where Wei Chen lives is big enough, and the arsenal is really too busy, I hope they will arrive soon."

Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly:

"Don't worry, Bi Maokang has arrived, and Song Yingxing should also come soon, you are not only responsible for the research and development of my Daming firearms, but also the battleships of the Ming Dynasty must be built as much as possible, and in two years, I will ask you for an invincible ironclad fleet."