After a big circle, Qian Yuan asked about the matter, and the old craftsman pulled a few craftsmen with gray hair and pinched their fingers, and even their toes were calculating, and finally a young man took an abacus to figure it out.

"More than 500 spearheads, 260 long knives, more than 1,000 arrows of various types, 30 pairs of iron armor, and 350 despotic wolf's tooth whisks have been sent......

Now the wolf tooth whisk in the army is very different from the one originally used by Qian Yuan, Qi Jiguang has specially improved it, and the general shape is about the same, but the spear head is sharp, and there are several layers of multi-bladed appendages at the end of the weapon, even the sharpest Japanese knife can't cut a few, with a total length of five meters and a weight of seven catties.

The guards who followed him waved a wolf's tooth whisk and praised: "If Jiaxing Mansion has this kind of wolf's tooth whisk, even if it is a real wolf, it will be difficult to break the formation." ”

Qian Yuan nodded in agreement, the real widow could still break the formation after going through the bird gun and javelin that day, firstly, the real widow was fierce and not afraid of death, and secondly, the front section of the wolf tooth whisk used that day was all bamboo branches, and the real widow covered his face and rushed, and the bamboo branches were difficult to resist, if it was replaced with this kind of iron, it had to be strung together.

Thinking of the bird gun, Qian Yuan turned around and asked, "After the year, there were ten craftsmen who made the bird gun, but none of them came out?" ”

The old craftsman smiled bitterly and said: "To make bird guns, you need to use fine iron, and use steel drills to drill into smooth and straight pipes with smooth and straight inner walls, and one person may not be able to drill one in a month." ”

"Not enough iron?"

"Not enough." The old craftsman shook his head, "Ten catties of crude iron can make one catty of fine iron, and the war bureau is often made of rough iron, and it will explode after a few times." ”

Qian Yuan was a little frustrated, but there was no good way, this was determined by the national conditions and environment, Europe was so big, fighting all day long, firearms could flourish, the Ming Dynasty had been unified for more than 100 years, and there were occasional wars, but in general it was peaceful...... The key is that neither the Mongols nor the Southwest Tusi have firearms, so after the Ming Dynasty became the ancestor Zhu Di, there was no need to develop firearms.

That is, in these years, the southeast of the rebellion gradually rose, the Franco-Lang machine gun, bird gun was introduced to the mainland, and later there was the so-called Hongyi cannon, but from this aspect, it seems that Europeans do not care much about the loss of firearms production technology, for example, Japan now has a large number of craftsmen who make bird guns.

Although he also liked to play with guns in the criminal police team in his previous life, Qian Yuan was barely half a literary and artistic young man in general, and he didn't know anything about engineering.

Now it's the only way to do it, it's no fun to climb the science and technology tree, you can only learn the same...... Qian Yuan's mind was in a hurry, he remembered passing by Nanjing on his way south, and heard Xu Pengju say that Nanjing's imitation of the Franc cannon was recruited from Nanyang to cast the cannon.

A middle-aged craftsman with leather gloves on his hands came in, he was originally a craftsman from Tongzhou, and was later recruited by Dong Bangzheng to Songjiang to make bird guns, and only went south to Taizhou after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

"Lord Qian, if there is enough fine iron, you can make ten to fifteen bird guns in about a month."

"Can't it be faster?"

"The War Bureau can make a bird gun in ten days, but it often explodes, and it will be scrapped after seven or eight uses." The middle-aged craftsman pouted quietly, "The War Bureau now stores seven or eight thousand bird guns, but there is no army in the southeast who is willing to ask for them." ”

Qian Yuan's face was expressionless, this was what he wanted...... War Bureau.

The armament system of the Ming Dynasty was divided into two parts, one was the guard, which is now in name only, and the other was the Ministry of Industry and the Inner Government Supervision Bureau.

The Ordnance Bureau under the Ministry of Industry and so on, set up factories for making ordnance and armor in various places in Beizhili, among which there are a large number of craftsmen of all kinds.

The War Bureau of the Internal Government Supervision Bureau is mainly aimed at the iron weapons in the palace, the weapons of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the firearms.

That is to say, in the Ming Dynasty, except for special wartime circumstances such as Dong Bangzheng, the production of firearms generally required the eunuchs of the War Bureau.

The eunuch has passed his hand, and you still expect that bird gun to work?

Birds are useless!

In fact, the court did not pay attention to firearms, and Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, relied on firearms first and swept the grassland, so in the court, firearms were regarded as sharp weapons.

This kind of sharp weapon is naturally to be guarded by the emperor's domestic slave eunuchs, and the War Bureau itself is a member of the 12 eunuchs, the 4th Division, and the 8th Bureau in the palace, and there is even a gunpowder department under it.

It seems that it is still necessary to recruit mature craftsmen, Qian Yuan remembered that Yan Shifan's uncle Ouyang Bijin was the governor of Liangguang, and he didn't know if he could recruit craftsmen from Guangzhou or Macao.

Sighing, Qian Yuan said softly: "Bring a few more apprentices, on the premise of ensuring quality, each person will make an extra bird gun every month, and reward five taels of silver." ”

"Bring out an apprentice and reward fifteen taels of silver."

Qian Yuan can only use money as a driving force, and try to see if the exchange between Eastern and Western craftsmen can touch the spark in the future.

As for the originally planned revolver musket that was not afraid of rain, Qian Yuan didn't bother to mention it, he didn't care about it in his previous life, and he also knew that the arquebus was followed by a revolver flintlock pistol, and the initial flintlock musket had a very low ignition rate, and it was not as good as an arquebus.

The middle-aged craftsman raised another headache, the iron material is insufficient, and the fine iron used to make the bird gun is used, and most of the iron materials in the current workshop are left last year and allocated by the governor's palace.

Qian Yuan waved his hand, "You don't have to worry about it, there will be iron materials in the future." ”

With a disappointed mood, Qian Yuan didn't bother to go back to Pengxi Town, and directly took the boat that delivered the ordnance today to go down Yong'an Creek from the river not far away, and then went back to Linhai County along Yong'an Creek east.

Although he knew before he came that nine times out of ten he would be disappointed, this emotion still greatly affected Qian Yuan's mood!

The Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty knew that firearms were big weapons, and they killed the enemy very quickly, and Western firearms were obviously stronger than those of the Ming Dynasty, and even civilian officials had to admit this...... Otherwise, the war bureau is full of food and supports the imitation of tens of thousands of bird guns?

But Qian Yuan couldn't figure it out, when was this?!

The boat under the ass is about to enter the water, and this group of people is still fighting for each other, trying to divide the top......

It is no exaggeration to say that in Qian Yuan's view, today's Ming Dynasty is at the end of the road.

In the last six or seven years, Emperor Jiajing first destroyed the Great Wall and killed Zeng Mill, the most powerful commander of the imperial border, and I answered the army to besiege the Beijing division, and the Gengxu Rebellion made Emperor Jiajing lose face.

After the southeast was in turmoil, the officers and soldiers could not be controlled, even if Xu Haiwang went straight to the war, Hu Zongxian strongly supported the formation and training of the new army, but last year's war made Hu Zongxian lose face.

Further back...... Qian Yuan remembered very well that there was a guy named Wei Yinbao in Guangxi who set off a rebellion, which lasted for a long time, until the Longqing period, when Gao Gong was in power, Hu Zongxian was a fellow countryman, and Yin Zhengmao, a Jinshi in the 26th year of Jiajing, led his troops to exterminate it.

Not to mention the rest, it's just the southeast rebellion, if Xu Hai and Wang Zhi are replaced, Qian Yuan believes that Xu Hai has already waved his army to conquer the city, not to mention Zhejiang and Susong, maybe Tongzhou and Nanjing have fallen!

In this case, the big bosses in the DPRK and China were killed in the dark, and the officials of all sizes were only concerned about making money, and the high-ranking Emperor Jiajing watched the drama while cultivating the Tao and refining the pill, and occasionally turned his eyes to the southeast...... He still expects silver from the southeast?

Qian Yuan began to doubt how much the messenger he sent before could play a role, Jingzhong Suiyuan is now headed by Xu Wei, and Xu Wei must come forward if he wants to do this, but this guy is a high-minded person, and even Huang Jin, the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant and the eunuch, refuses to stammer.

You must know that there are more than 10,000 craftsmen in the North Zhili alone, the War Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau.

While thinking about his thoughts, Qian Yuan snapped his horsewhip and went straight to the clinic, and just a few steps before he bumped into Xiao Qi head-on.

"How's it going?"

"Not good, no clue."

"You are still a criminal policeman, you used to dance with knives and guns, but now you don't talk about modern firearms, at least you have to surpass this era, right?"

"You're still the deputy chief doctor, you used to watch movies, but now you can only train nurses, is it possible that you can still cultivate penicillin?"

"You're raising the bar!"

"I eat braised pork, I still have to know that this pig is so long? What feed to feed? What breed? ”

Xiao Qi pursed his lips, stretched out his hand to try to smooth the wrinkles on Qian Yuan's brows, and chuckled: "Okay, take me to see it next time." ”

"Do you have a way?" Qian Yuan's brows leveled, "Come to think of it, you said it...... Grandpa practiced iron when he was ***, and he caught up with the Premier League, you know? ”

Xiao Qi rolled his eyes playfully, "Why don't I give you your mobile phone number, and you can call and ask?" ”

Qian Yuan's expression fell, "That ......"

"Kuo Cangshan, I used to have a colleague who was from Xianju, and I said that I would go to play several times, but unfortunately the hospital was too busy and I didn't have time to go."