Chapter 173: The Story of Firearms

Scratched the first one, and the familiar words thank you for your patronage stabbed Liang Jia's eyes.

The second one was scratched open again, not to thank you for your patronage, but to win the lottery, a bottle of black tea, I don't know if there will be another bottle.

The third one was scratched open, and after reading the text, Liang Jia immediately became excited.

"Congratulations on winning the lottery and getting a flintlock pistol blueprint."

Ever since there was news that a foreigner had conquered the islands in the South Seas from the eastern part of Guangdong, he was worried that the era he lived in would be the same as the Ming and Qing dynasties he was familiar with, and with this, he would be able to change the military strength of the Great Liang State. Even if you can't get a piece of the pie in the coming big era, you must have the ability to protect yourself, and you must not be reduced to the end of the braid dynasty of the future generations.

In the army of the Great Liang Kingdom, he has not seen a musket. It can be said that the current firearms use technology in Daliang is completely blank.

Liang Jia immediately asked people to go to Wen Xiansen, and he wanted to ask carefully what was going on.

Before Wen Xiansen arrived, the master and servant of Ming Ming had already been brought into the palace and were waiting outside the Chongning Palace.

After the pair of masters and servants entered the palace, the whole person was still in ignorance. They never expected that the origin of Liang Jia, which they had been guessing, would be outrageously wrong. Liang Gongzi turned out to be the current emperor.

After the master and servant were told by Dongchang Fanzi at the gate of the palace, they felt that the heavens and the earth were spinning. Especially Ming Ming, recalling her previous rudeness to Liang Jia in some places, felt that this time she was lucky enough to enter the palace. But in her heart, there is also a trace of small expectations.

However, after standing at the gate of the palace and waiting for a while, the emperor did not let them in, and both the master and servant were a little nervous.

"Your Majesty, are you missing for a while?" Koharuko glanced at the emperor who was thinking about it and asked boldly.

Liang Jia came back to his senses and said: "I don't see you first, this Ming Ming girl is very arrogant, if I see her now, she still thinks I will treat her, you first find a place to settle down for them, I still have important things to deal with here." ”

Koharuko said yes and walked out of the hall.

Seeing Xiao Chunzi walk out, Mingming's master and servant's eager gaze instantly locked on his figure.

Xiao Chunzi coughed and said, "The emperor still has important things to deal with, and I won't be able to see you for a while, so let the slave maid settle you down first." ”

Mingming's master and servant had a disappointed look on their faces, but they still followed Koharuko towards the back. Once here, they won't be able to be the masters.

Wen Xiansen arrived half an hour later, and Liang Jia had already looked back and forth many times with the newly obtained flintlock pistol drawings. He doesn't know much about this, but he has watched a lot of film and television dramas, and he generally knows some simple knowledge, but he doesn't understand the principle.

"The minister knocks to see my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

"Get up. Come, give a seat. ”

"Your Majesty." Wen Xiansen was not polite and sat down.

"Wen Aiqing, tell me about the firearms situation in the Great Liang Kingdom."

"Firearms?" Wen Xiansen was stunned for a moment, and his face changed.

"How? Is there anything else hidden here? Liang Jia asked strangely.

"Your Majesty, don't you know?" Wen Xiansen asked curiously.

"I don't know, otherwise how would I ask you?"

"Then the minister will dare to say it."

"Do you still dare to say? Could it be that there is something earth-shattering involved? Liang Jia's heart became more and more strange.

Wen Xiansen then gave Liang Jia a detailed account of the development of firearms in Liang Guo, and talked about it for almost an hour, and then he explained the relevant things involved. After Liang Jia heard this, his mind was confused, such a strange thing happened in Nima, and he couldn't complain that Liang Guo couldn't even see a firearm.

It turned out that when Liang Jia's grandfather was in power, the firearms of the Great Liang Kingdom were always ahead of the neighboring countries. Moreover, the firearms battalion once set up by Emperor Taizu himself was invincible and quite famous.

In the former city defense battalion, there was also a firearms battalion.

But when Liang Jia's grandfather Liang Hao was in power, he didn't know why, and he didn't have his first child until he was forty-five years old.

Liang Hao naturally attaches great importance to this child, and gives almost everything he can give. But when the boy was six years old, he was playing in the palace when he touched the musket in the hands of the soldiers of the firearms battalion who were guarding the palace at the time, and killed himself.

Liang Hao was so angry that he directly ordered the soldiers and guards of the firearms battalion who were on duty in the palace at that time to be beheaded.

The only son in his forties is still dead, and Liang Hao has been indulging since then. The Great Liang State also changed from strong to weak from Liang Hao's hands. The emperor took the lead in indulging in pleasures, and the people below naturally followed suit, and in just a few years, the Great Liang Kingdom was crumbling by Liang Hao and his courtiers.

But just when Liang Hao would not have children in the future, a concubine was pregnant. Liang Hao was broken, and suddenly he stopped messing around, and wanted to leave a stable country for his son.

So, this guy began to rectify the situation he had created in previous years.

Not to mention, a few years later, the situation in Daliang has improved, and his son has grown up smoothly.

Liang Hao is over sixty years old, because of the indulgence of the past few years, he knows that he has little time, and he began to pave the way for his son non-stop.

But in a royal hunt, the musket in his hand exploded, and Liang Hao's face was completely destroyed on the spot.

Liang Hao, who was rescued back to the palace, didn't know if it was because of his disfigurement, and his body quickly collapsed. Before he died, he prepared an edict, one establishing the succession of his sons, and the other abolishing the firearms battalions and destroying all firearms in the country, and no one was allowed to make firearms.

All craftsmen who make firearms in the Great Liang Kingdom are all transferred to other professions, and they are not allowed to engage in any aspect of firearms production.

Since then, firearms have disappeared from the Great Liang Kingdom, and only occasionally there will be some among the people. Just like the musket in Mo Wugen's hand last time, it was all made secretly and could not be brought out.

Well, because the first prince was killed and he was injured, this ancestor directly cut off the path of military development of the Great Liang Kingdom. Liang Jia can't say that he is wrong, after all, if a normal person is so injured by a musket, it is inevitable to be angry.

The decision made in anger is reasonable and unreasonable, and the person concerned is probably unable to think about it.

Liang Jia naturally couldn't put his ancestors' rights and wrongs in front of his courtiers, so he could only sigh in his heart.

"However, the disappearance of firearms is not a good thing for a country." Liang Jia said with emotion.

"yes. In the past, my Great Liang army had always had the upper hand against those barbarians in the north. Moreover, there are already very well-established regulations for firearms warfare in the army. But now almost no one remembers. ”

"Wen Aiqing, what did the firearms used look like before? Is it the kind that needs to be ignited? ”

"The firearms battalion uses muskets that need to be ignited, and it is difficult to function on rainy days."

Liang Jia nodded, and then said, "I have given you a task. ”