For the several muskets made in the current workshop, Gan Tang is still very entangled, due to the limitations of steelmaking technology, the comparison of several guns, so that Gan Tang feels some entanglement.

For example, in terms of rate of fire, for example, the best range, and even in terms of melee ability, Gan Tang, who has personally experienced smashing a double-barreled short gun, even thinks that the fire gun is stronger than the bird's gun.

It is true that from a historical point of view, the bird gun is the direction of the development of human firearms, but now looking at Shao Huan's firearms, Gan Tang thinks that the fire guns are not useless. The reason for this is not that the fire gun is too good, but that the bird gun is too bad.

Although the trajectory is unstable at 50 paces away, and the shot must be missed at 100 paces, as long as the muzzle is raised slightly, the bird gun can fall 200 steps away.

The gun is not good, it needs to be operated with one hand and there is no stability, the gun is too short to shoot at a target within 50 steps, the best range is only 30 steps, and if you want to break the armor, you have to put it closer to 10 steps...... Ten steps, put the gun and talk about the wooden pole to do it up.

At this point, the three-eyed gun makes up for this shortcoming very well, with short distance, short time, and intensive killing.

To be precise, the three-eyed gun and the fire gun are not a long-range weapon in the eyes of the later generations, but a 100% melee weapon.

Gan Tang didn't know this, he was sitting on the roots of a tree in the forest to the east of the courtyard with a charcoal pen and writing and drawing on a wooden board, pondering a big question in his mind that might be a matter of life and death.

The gunpowder weighed according to the optimal ratio is more or less suitable when used on the bird's gun, which can be used for three rows of lun shots, and can maintain the stability of the bird's system.

What Gan Tang is most afraid of is that in this era, the bird gun can't support the power of the gunpowder explosion, and the lead shot doesn't go out, and then it explodes!

So these days have been trial and error to come up with the best solution.

Today, this bird is made by the finest craftsmen by Gan Mao's carefully selected fine iron. It is not possible to produce it in large quantities.

Although Gan Tang arranged for craftsmen to focus on military industry, the necessary military equipment still had to be taken into account.

Gan Tang suddenly found that there were three outsiders standing next to the forest road, just as he looked at it with puzzled eyes, the old man headed by him arched his hand and said: "Lao Er was sent by Liuzhou Gongcao, came to listen to it, I heard that the master can make a sharp weapon for cutting rice?" ”

"It turned out to be a military craftsman, what do you call my husband? Come on this side please. Gan Tang said and walked forward quickly.

He needed a high-level craftsman too much, so he waved his hand and asked Shao Huan to carefully put a few more guns to test whether the barrel was durable, and took out two pieces of wooden boards outlined by charcoal.

stepped forward and smiled at the craftsman: "I didn't expect Liuzhou to send the master craftsman so soon, look at it, the structure on this board may be understood?" One is a long sickle and a cloth bag to hold the rice; The second is the rice bed, which can beat the ears of rice and peel off the rice - it may be made? ”

The sickle plus the bag was his idea, but the rice bed was not, this thing was there in the early days of Great Xia, and there were even more advanced pedal rice strippers than rice beds in Great Xia.

Advances in technology lead to greater efficiency.

The long-hooded sickle and the rice bed are not high-tech objects, and even the rice bed is just a few sticks on top of a square wooden box and a wooden cover with three sides high, but there is no doubt that it can bring great efficiency when harvesting rice in a place like Nanyang, where there are few people.

Harvesting rice with a long sickle, as long as the sickle is sharp enough, you can pocket all the rice in five steps in a few breaths, and you don't need to bend down to pick up the rice one by one, you just need to put it on a donkey cart and transport it back.

The rice beds allowed the women of the guard to quickly knock down the handfuls of rice and pile them into warehouses, which they could use to turn rice into rice throughout the long winter.

As the most outstanding master craftsman in the whole of Jiangxi, Guan Yuangu had higher efficiency, and it only took half a day to make more than a dozen long wooden poles for placing sickles on the basis of short sickles.

When making sickles and rice beds, Gan Tang saw that the three fathers and sons of the Guan family had good craftsmanship, and the old man had dealt with ironworkers and carpenters all his life, and even because he was a military craftsman, he had dabbled in the amount of tiles in the house, and the craftsmanship of the family was considered a master.

The two sons are now nearly forty years old, named one is Li Er, the ancestor of the ironworker, and the other is Lu Ban, the ancestor of the carpenter, with the high hopes of Guan Yuangu, although the name is not a young craftsman, the actual craftsmanship is enough to be called a qualified craftsman, at least in Gantang's opinion.

Guan Yuangu's eyes lit up when he listened to the young master casually say that he would reward them with five taels of silver for their father and son, and he had never seen such a wealthy person in his life in the imperial court workshop.

In fact, the most he had received before that was only two stones of brown rice—he was still very young at the time, and he made and drilled a bird gun on his own in a month.

Born as a military craftsman, unless he went to Beijing in shifts, he was not allowed to go out of the local workshop of the imperial court in his life, and he was subject to the workshop, and the silver money of the substitute worker was always collected by the workshop, and he has never reached out to touch the appearance of silver until today.

Gan Tang asked Guan Yuangu to make the sub-medicine cylinder without the slightest technical content, just simply cutting wood, the maximum technical content is only about how to make each wooden cylinder accurately can hold three coins of two molecular medicine and one coin of the standard size of the medicine.

But obviously, this kind of small trouble is difficult for the experienced military craftsmen, who only need to weigh and make a small wooden tube with an accurate charge, and cut out a wooden tube of the same volume as a reference, and the size is not too bad.

In fact, it doesn't matter if there is a deviation, because the old craftsman made a wooden spoon for Gantang that just scooped three coins and one molecule of medicine after smoothing. In this way, no matter how much deviation there is from the cartridge, as long as you scoop it with this wooden spoon, it must be a sub-medicine that meets the specifications.

The Yellow Emperor calendar 4325, the tenth day of October in the second year of Xianheng in Great Xia.

After two months of preparations, Gan Tang led the generals to board a 400-stone fortune ship converted into a building ship.

The 400-stone lucky ship, not to mention in the sea, is not a large ship in the Yangtze River.

However, the shape of the pointed bottom and keel structure, the watertight compartment structure, the multiple bottom plates, and the winch used to control the tail rudder lifting and lowering all represent the most advanced seagoing ship technology in Bactria in this era.

Not only is this kind of boat safer, not easy to overturn, can withstand high winds and waves, even if it leaks, it will not affect navigation, and more importantly, the boat is faster.

Today's Great Xia Naval Army Yangtze River Naval Division accounts for the entire Great Xia six-layer military force, the Yangtze River Naval Division from Chongqing in the west, through Jingzhou, to Wuchang, to Jiujiang, and has been extended to the huge naval division of Chongming Island in later generations.

Due to the Chai and Rui incident, after Fan Sui, the commander of the Yangtze River Naval Division, participated in the rebellion and failed, he led part of the naval division to Yanguo in the East China Sea and Beitou. At its peak, the scale of the Yangtze River Naval Division accounted for more than eight floors of the entire Great Xia Naval Division.

Although this 400-stone battleship is not the largest, it is the fastest and has a small draft. Whether it is in Chaohu Lake, Poyang Lake, or Dongting Lake, it can be unimpeded, so this kind of boat has also become a boat commanded by the generals of various naval divisions in the inland river.

Gan Tang and the others will take this ship to the sailor camp on Chongming Island, where they will transfer to a large treasure ship with a displacement of more than 1,500 tons, and set up a flag to send troops.

At the same time that Gan Tang was swearing in Jiankang with great fanfare, there was a secret force that went south by land, and their goal was to investigate the Arab Pu Shou Geng raised by Bo Si in Quanzhou City, Daxia, whether he had selfishly set up soldiers, bullied the market, and colluded with pirates.

Fujian Road, Quanzhou City.

Quanzhou City Bo Si lifted the mansion, Pu Shougeng and his son Pu Lidong, his subordinates Guan Ze, Song Lian, Huang Jie, and the Portuguese Claudio. Ramos gathered in the chamber to discuss important matters.

Pu Shou Geng is a man in his fifties, with a thin figure and proper maintenance.

looks like a green sect Adian, and he can't tell that he will be the richest man in Great Xia.

His face was neither happy nor sad, but his eyes could not hide the solemnity, and he sat on the main seat without speaking.

Guan Ze, who looked wide and fat, was an impatient man, and he said loudly: "My lord, that person has not yet arrived, but the momentum is already fierce!" This person is all in Jiankang and publicly swears to go to sea, the momentum is majestic, the person who comes is not good, you must guard against it! ”

Guan Ze's Song Lian's figure is not prominent, he is moderately fat and thin, but his complexion is dark, and a black mole at the corner of his eyebrows makes him look not good. Growing up in Pu Shougeng's family since he was a child, he was Pu Shougeng's contact person with pirates.

Waiting for Guan Ze to speak, he took over the words, and said with a smile: "There has been news in the capital a long time ago, that one is here to deal with which stupid ronin, he is a teenage yellow-haired child, even if he becomes a fine, how many catties and taels can he have?" ”

Huang Jie, who was sitting opposite, sneered and said gloomily: "He naturally doesn't have a few catties and a few taels, but the official level crushes people, but he can suppress us." If you can use a thousand taels of yellow and white things to send it away, it will be fine, but who owns gold mines in Nanyang is a master who is not short of money. If you were to have half your wealth, what good things could you say? ”

The Portuguese Ramos snapped: "He just wants to see it, and if I give him a penny, he will be my father!" ”

Huang Jie snorted, and wanted to say something, but when he saw Pu Shougeng shaking his head, he stopped.

The last one didn't say anything until the eyes of the others fell on him, and he put down the teacup.

Pu Lidong sighed, shook his head and said, "It's careless!" Since Xin'er came to the north, I specially inquired about it, this king of Xiangyang is not very old, but he is very old and spicy, and his foundation is not shallow.

In addition to the power of the Gan family itself, it is also the core of the martial arts and nobles of the Xia Kingdom, and it is the grandson of the current queen mother, which is extremely troublesome!

These are all enough, the emperor is far away, and it will not affect Quanzhou for the time being.

The key is that the Gan family is already a top family in Great Xia!

The Gan family in Daxia has nine rooms, and the branches and vines are very wide. In addition, his ancestor Gan Mao is the god of the Great Xia army, and his protégés are all over the army, and there are four nobles and four princes, one is honored, and one is lost, hey!

Don't look at the fact that we have been operating here for 30 years, we may not be as good as others, troublesome! ”

When everyone heard this, the atmosphere in the hall became more and more solemn.

Although Pu Lidong is the youngest of the five, he has always been known as a wise star, and his father Pu Shougeng and others are trustworthy.

Hearing him say this, everyone's hearts were heavy.

But after Pu Lidong himself said this, he didn't seem to care, looked at Pu Shougeng in the main seat, and asked with concern: "Father, what happened to the case of Charlie Charlie in Macau?" ”