In the 3rd year of the Apocalypse, on the seventh day of the fifth month.

"The fundamental core of the flintlock pistol is the firing pin, if the flint is not in place, or after a short period of dozens of shots, the flintlock flint will not be fired.

That is no different from a burning stick on the battlefield for this well-produced flintlock pistol! Zhao Zongwu held a fire gun in his hand and pointed to the tail and said.

After a busy spring ploughing, Donghai Town has returned to its original calm.

Although it is said that this season is a good season for war, but Nurhachi's condition has just stabilized, which makes Jiannu have no heart at all at this moment, and he will attack Donghai Town at all!

If the enemy does not move, I will not move.

At present, what Donghai Town needs most is stable development, not to mention that in just two months, Donghai Town has experienced a series of sharp changes.

Because the Penglai Chamber of Commerce has shipped bulk grain from the southeast region several times in a row, this has also made Donghai Town completely relax the policy of absorbing displaced people, which has made the number of registered people in Donghai Town successfully exceed one million.

The massive population resources have made the basic industry of Donghai Town begin to change by leaps and bounds, and also with the help of such a good opportunity, the outermost defense line of Donghai Town has been closed at the fastest speed.

Although it is said that the financial deficit of Donghai Town is becoming more and more serious, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the foundation that Donghai Town has at this moment cannot be given by ordinary forces!

Even the western Liaoning region, which has received the most support from the imperial court, cannot be compared with Donghai Town in terms of development momentum alone.

Of course, there has been a big leap in this short period of time, fundamentally speaking, Zhao Zongwu has relaxed his control over Yanyuan.

Completely let the Penglai Chamber of Commerce become the spokesperson of the salt industry in Liaodong, which also enables the Penglai Chamber of Commerce to be able to completely gather a group of like-minded allies in the southeast region, and it is precisely because of such a group of allies that the development of the Penglai Chamber of Commerce has truly laid a solid foundation!

And the parallel reason, as well as Shen Lian, Ding Xiu and others completely took down the underground forces of Shandong, with the increase of the imperial court's efforts to exterminate Shandong, this also made the originally prosperous Xu Hongru's rebellious forces finally planted in the torrent of history.

And the increase of almost a year made Zhao Zongwu completely absorb the underground forces in Shandong, which also made the resources he was able to mobilize even more.

In such a world of great contention, the more resources in this hand, the deeper the foundation for moving forward!

This foundation has been consolidated, then what will follow is the development of basic science with great fanfare, although Zhao Zongwu has a lot of avant-garde ideas in his mind, but science needs to be down-to-earth, step by step.

Although Zhao Zongwu really wanted to build aircraft cannons, without such a foundation, everything was just empty talk.

In order to solve such a problem, Zhao Zongwu also painstakingly collected relevant talents during this time, and finally after mobilizing resources from all parties, he successfully brought Xu Guangqi, who was idle at home, Song Yingxing, who was depressed, Sun Yuanhua, who was an official in western Liaoning, and Bi Maokang, who was a little famous, all to Donghai Town.

In order to be able to let the above four people come to Donghai Town, Zhao Zongwu also lost some benefits, but in his opinion, as long as they can come to Donghai Town, and carry out relevant firearms research, geographical research, astronomical research and other scientific research according to their own proposals, then after three or five years of precipitation, the gains they can bring to Donghai Town will be huge!

Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua, and Song Yingxing, who have unique insights in firearms, have been discussing and colliding for more than a month in order to completely solve the root of the mass production of flintlock pistols!

In the support of firearms research, Zhao Zongwu has achieved the support that no one can give in Daming, whether it is silver, or the supply of talents, he is trying his best to meet, as long as the actual defects of related firearms can be solved, then no matter how much it costs, it is worth it.

Bi Maokang frowned slightly, and his words were a little excited: "If you want to solve the firing pin problem that Uncle said, then for the development of existing steel in Donghai Town, we must increase our efforts to support. ”

In addition to Song Yingxing's relatively young age, Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang, and Sun Yuanhua are actually not young, and Zhao Zongwu still doesn't care about the existence of these national treasures.

Zhao Zongwu had a smile on his face, looked at Bi Maokang and said seriously: "This point that Bi Lao said is very clear in his heart, as early as half a month ago, the local government office of Donghai Town has begun to prepare for the construction of the first steelmaking plant.

There may be some problems in the process, but as long as there is time to precipitate, Benbo believes that Donghai Town will be able to meet the needs of all kinds of firearms for special steel in a short time! ”

Since they are madmen who study science, they must be deficient in human sophistication, otherwise how could they devote themselves to scientific research.

"In addition to the demand for steel, the development of machine tools must also be strengthened, if you want to do the kind of demand that Uncle said, real mass production of guns, which requires many hard conditions, and standardized production is the most important part!" With firmness in his eyebrows, Xu Guangqi looked at Zhao Zongwu and said.

The fundamental premise to ensure that the tube can be mass-produced is whether it can have a stable graduation standard, and the fundamental basis for maintaining this is the existence of standardized machine tools.

If you can't have these foundations, then if you want to make a big leap, everything is just a piece of paper.

"This can be done, the relevant development of machine tools has progressed to a critical stage, I believe that a breakthrough can be made in a short period of time, if this is solved, then the mass production of flintlock pistols has reached the most critical stage."

Zhao Zongwu knew very well in his heart what was the key to the development of flintlock pistols in Donghai Town, if it could not solve these, it would be impossible to solve the problem of mass production at all.

With Xu Guangqi's important scientific research talents, this enables Donghai Town to have a strong development background, if these problems cannot be solved, then there is no rapid change.

If you want to solve the problem of building slaves and completely complete the rise of Donghai Town, such a foundation is the key, once you don't do these things well, then all the planning is not working, and all things are nothing......