A new day has arrived.

After breakfast, there was a circle of people in front of Wang Dazhui's workbench, mainly Wang Dazhui and his two apprentices, as well as Fang Nan, Hu Xiaoya, Hu Zhuang and his party, both sides had a common goal, to build the firearms on the drawings, because of the importance of the matter, Wang Dazhui did it himself.

Before the start of construction, Fang Nan and Wang Da Hammer had already discussed and decided to build the most difficult part of the firearm first-the barrel.

Wang Dazhui once watched his father build a bird gun, recalled the original scene, and set a simple process for building the barrel himself.

It is to smash a strip of iron with a hammer after being slightly heated to make it concave in the middle, and then heat it until it turns red and soft, and then wrap a thin iron rod in it, forge the middle, and the thick iron sheet is gradually curled, and then the middle part is also bonded at high temperature to form a small section of hollow tube.

Pull out the iron rod, then put it into the fiery charcoal pile again to heat, sprinkle a small amount of quartz powder at the joint, cool the middle section, start to heat it in the same way, and then forge the front and back sections, and melt and cast them in sections until the whole iron bar is fully bonded together to form a hollow tube.

Jingle Bell! Jingle Bell!

The sound of striking iron sounded rhythmically, and Fang Nan and his party all stared at the movements of Wang Da Hammer in front of the workbench, but after watching for a while, Hu Zhuang, Zhou Yi, Wang Shengrong and others felt very boring, and they didn't think about learning to strike iron.

Fang Nan was not very interested in striking iron, but in order to make firearms, Fang Nan had to participate in it, even if Fang Nan did not know the art of striking iron, he could use the knowledge from memory to point out a few major points of attention.

Wang Da Hammer is the first time to build the barrel, there is no experience, although there is a family iron skills, but Wang Da Hammer to build more ordinary iron, Wang Da Hammer himself did not have the confidence to build the barrel, for the silver, Wang Da Hammer decided to give it a try, even if it can not succeed, you can also get some silver compensation, but Wang Da Hammer hopes to succeed.

The first time he tried to build a barrel, Wang Dazhui didn't think about it in one step, and directly built the standard size barrel on the drawing, but first made a shorter barrel, and if it was successful, and then built a longer barrel, if the short barrel was not qualified, or could not be forged, then don't think about making a firearm.

The short barrel is relatively easy to build, the first time Wang Sledgehammer made a small mistake, so that the short barrel was scrapped, there was the first failure experience, the second time Wang Sledgehammer successfully created the short barrel, of course, the short barrel created by this is far from the qualified product, not to mention the material of the barrel, the treatment of the inner wall of the barrel is very troublesome.

There are two major processes for the inner wall of the barrel, the first process is to polish and straighten the inner wall of the barrel, and the second process is rifling.

If you want to carry out such two processes on the inner wall of the barrel, you must use a machine tool, the former uses a drilling machine, the latter uses a boring machine, and the difficulty of these two machine tools is not small, there is no steam engine and no motor, you can only build a manpower drilling machine and a manpower boring machine.

Fang Nan estimated that it would take at least half a year to make the first qualified rifle, it would take time to build a long barrel, a manpower drilling machine, and a manpower boring machine, and it would take time to process the inner wall of the barrel.

With the busyness of the first day, Hutou Village officially accepted Fang Nan's employment, and without delaying the two things of farming and making iron tools for other villages, the adults of Hutou Village could accept Fang Nan's employment, for which Fang Nan had already taken out one hundred taels of silver as a deposit.

One hundred taels of silver is a lot for ordinary people, a few dollars of silver can buy one stone of rice, one hundred taels of silver can buy hundreds of stone of rice, and if you exchange it for other grains, you can buy more.

Fang Nan can be said to be the main force in building rifles, building manpower drilling machine and manpower boring machine are designed by Fang Nan, although some students of Fang Nan are learning "elementary physics", but not to the point of designing machine tools, can only be personally designed by Fang Nan.

With textbook knowledge from elementary school to university, as well as knowledge learned outside the school, it took several months to build a manpower drilling machine and a manpower boring machine successively.

Fang Nan thinks about the design of the machine tool structure of the time is less, the time used more is to build machine tool parts, there is no blacksmith in the tiger head village can create qualified parts at one time, you need to repeatedly build a few or even a dozen to get qualified parts, and finally the machine tool is assembled.

Fang Nan and his party did not stay in Hutou Village all the time, basically every two months will go back to Qingshan Village, Fang Nan's students will also come back from various villages, using a few days of meeting Qingshan Village, Fang Nan to answer students' doubts about learning.

In the third month of coming to Hutou Village, the Fang Nan team successfully created the first firearm, which was a short gun, smoothbore, relying on the fire rope to ignite the gunpowder and launch, with an effective range of only a few tens of meters.

Before the end of the third month, Fang Nan's team successfully created a long gun, which was a relatively ordinary arquebus or bird gun to the outside world.

Just having an arquebus is not enough for the Fang Nan team, the Ming Dynasty in the Wanli period is very strong, the standing army is about one million, and there are tens of thousands or even more of the firearms equipped with birds, and Zhang Juzheng is presiding over all military and political affairs, and now the Ming Dynasty is in its heyday, and the national strength can support several large-scale wars.

When the Ming Dynasty was so powerful, it was not ordinarily difficult to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and Guangdong could be said to be one of the regions with the largest number of Ming Dynasty troops, with an estimated 100,000 Ming troops.

If he wants to defeat so many enemies, even if he can use one as ten, Fang Nan must prepare an army of 10,000 people.

But just by relying on these villages in the mountains, it would be good to be able to form an army of 1,000 people, and then unite the poor people outside the mountains, and may gather an army of 10,000 people, but the vast majority of the army with cold weapons, some soldiers with firearms like the Ming army, how is it the opponent of the 100,000 army of the Ming Dynasty.

The difficulty of building the Mine rifle is much greater than that of the bird gun, but the performance of the Mine rifle is much higher than that of all the guns equipped in the Ming Dynasty, as long as the Minne rifle is equipped with a thousand people, it can become the trump card of Fangnan against the 100,000 Ming army in Guangdong.

If you can't build a Migne rifle in half a year, then you can use it for a year or two years, and now Fang Nan is only sixteen years old, and ten years later he will only be twenty-six years old, just in the prime of life.