Fang Nan knew that it was difficult to build a Migne rifle, but he didn't expect that when the first qualified rifle was built, it had been eight months since Fang Nan and his party first came to Hutou Village.

In the past eight months, Fang Nan and his entourage worked together with Hutouzhai to overcome many difficulties such as gun barrels, manpower drilling machines, manpower boring machines, springs, and improving steelmaking processes, and finally created a qualified rifle.

As early as the third month, the first firearm had been created, although it was only a short gun, with an effective range of only a few tens of meters, but the power of the short gun surprised Hu Zhuang, He Yan, Zhou Yi and others.

Living in the deep mountains, the vast majority of people have never seen firearms, at most they have seen hunting bows or crossbows, Hu Zhuang and others have only heard Mr. Fang Nan say that firearms are very powerful, and now they have seen it with their own eyes, and it is also the worst firearm, the power is so unusual, if the firearms on the drawings are intact, how much power will be shown.

The Miné rifle weighs 4.8 kilograms, has a caliber of 17.8 millimeters, weighs 32.4 grams per bullet, has a killing distance of up to 918 meters, and can ensure accurate hits within 550 meters, and the Migne rifle can penetrate two aspen planks 20 inches apart and two-thirds of an inch thick within 15 yards.

The first qualified rifle in the hands of Fang Nan's team weighs about 5.6 kilograms, has a caliber of about 16 millimeters, weighs about 30.6 grams per bullet, and has a killing distance of more than 750 meters.

Because this rifle was created in Hutou Village, Fang Nan directly gave a name of "Tiger Head (Step) Gun", compared with the Tiger Head Rifle and the Minne Rifle, there is a big gap in range and power, this situation Fang Nan can understand, after all, the Tiger Head Gun is all handmade, and the Minne Rifle can be produced in large quantities after its birth, and the two are far from comparable.

However, the times are different, it is enough for the Fang Nan team to have this tiger head gun, at this time the Ming Dynasty army was widely used in the bird gun, the length of the two meters, the range of 100 meters to 150 meters, the rate of fire can only be fired once or twice a minute.

Compared with the Bird's Gun, the performance of the Tiger Head Gun is undoubtedly much higher, even in terms of rate of fire, it is much faster than the Bird's Gun, and it can be fired three or four times a minute.

An army equipped with a tiger head gun, as long as the tactics are correct, is completely able to fight against an enemy ten times larger than its own bird gun, the tiger head gun is successfully built, everyone in Fang Nan's team knows that they have successfully taken a big step forward on the road to overthrow the Ming Dynasty.

The success of the tiger head gun is worthy of the joy of the Fang Nan team, but after the joy, the production of the tiger head gun has become the most important problem to be solved in Fang Nan at present, there is no steam engine, the tiger head gun can only be built by hand, with the number of blacksmiths in the tiger head village, five pieces are more than five pieces a month.

In order to create more Tiger Head Guns, Tiger Head Village must change!

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Three years and three years, in the blink of an eye, six years have passed since Fang Nan awakened the memories of his previous life, and two months ago, with the blessings of the students and elders, eighteen-year-old Fang Nan and Hu Xiaoya have already married in the church.

With the memory of his previous life, Fang Nan wanted to get married later, but Hu Xiaoya's parents were urging, and Fang Nan also had to take into account Hu Xiaoya's thoughts, so he agreed to get married, but the matter of having a child would be later.

Hu Xiaoya also understands her husband's thoughts, the preparations for the rebellion are constantly ongoing, maybe it will not take two years to rush out of this deep mountain and give birth to a child, Hu Xiaoya has to put most of her energy on the child, Fang Nan's energy will also be divided by the child, it is best to wait until the rebellion is initially successful to have another child.

Unlike Fang Nan and Hu Xiaoya, some of Fang Nan's students already have offspring, Hu Zhuang and Su Ting gave birth to a boy, and the Hu family has a successor.

In the last three years, Fang Nan and Hu Xiaoya lived in Hutou Village for more time than Qingshan Village, now Hutou Village is very different from Hutou Village three years ago, the entire Hutou Village has expanded several times, there are more than 1,500 people living in the village at most, two-thirds of them are from Hutou Village, Qingshan Village is a good village, this is the biggest change in Hutou Village.

More than two years ago, in order to increase the production of tiger head guns, Fang Nan first came up with a plan to change the tiger head village, and then Fang Nan discussed with Wang Da Hammer, the owner of the tiger head village, and saw Fang Nan's obviously premeditated move, Wang Da Hammer actually agreed to Fang Nan's plan after careful consideration.

At that time, Fang Nan felt that Wang Da Hammer should see that he was going to rebel, but Wang Da Hammer agreed to the plan, obviously Wang Da Hammer also had anti-intentions against the Ming Dynasty.

Changing the Tiger Head Village plan is actually changing the process of building the Tiger Head Gun, for example, it is better for Wang Da Hammer to build the barrel, then Wang Da Hammer will specialize in building the barrel in the future, and there is no need to be distracted to do other things, and other blacksmiths are also responsible for a special part, and even mining, ironmaking, and steelmaking do not need blacksmiths to do.

Coupled with the earliest 20,000 taels of silver, Fang Nan successively exchanged "treasures" for more than 30,000 taels of silver and 50,000 taels of silver in the outside world, you must know that the annual financial income of the Ming Dynasty at this time was only four or five million taels of silver.

Of course, four or five million taels of silver are only the income from "silver," as well as income from grain and cloth, all of which are converted into silver, and it is expected that the annual treasury will exceed 20 million taels of silver.

50,000 taels of silver is equivalent to 1/400 of the Ming Dynasty's annual financial revenue, which is not too little, at least it is enough in this deep mountain.

Fang Nan took out the silver and hired adult laborers from other villages at a not high salary, the labor in the deep mountains is very cheap, and the biggest pursuit of the mountain people is to eat well, which is something that cannot be done in the outside world.

Accepting Fang Nan's employment, although the silver given is not much, he can use the grain bought from the outside world with the silver plus the grain harvested in his village to eat enough, and even some surplus grain or silver, which can be saved to buy cloth and make new clothes.

Not only the strength work of mining, ironmaking, and iron and steel can be handed over to them, but even some of the strength work of building tiger head guns can also be handed over to them, and the blacksmiths of Hutou Village concentrate on doing those jobs that can only be done by blacksmiths.

In this case, the production of tiger head guns increased rapidly, and in the year when the tiger head gun was just created, only five tiger head guns could be created every month; In the second year, at least 10 Tiger Head Guns can be created every month; By the third year, at least thirty Tiger Head Guns could be crafted each month.

Now Fang Nan has more than 500 tiger head guns in his hands, but it is not enough, Fang Nan must at least raise an army of 1,000 people in this deep mountain, each person must have a tiger head gun, and there must be hundreds of tiger head guns to replace the damaged ones.

In two years at most, Tiger Head Village will be able to produce enough Tiger Head Guns.