The craftsmen still did not make much progress in the machinery, so much so that Xiong Jing gradually defined the flintlock pistol as 'lifetime'. For this reason, he even came up with the idea of opening up the development of flintlock pistols.

The craftsmen who built the mansion are the remnants of the Chu State after it moved eastward fifty years ago, and their skills obviously cannot be compared with the Chu State fifty years ago. With this in mind, he had the idea of letting go of the development of flintlock pistols, especially the mechanical design of the bolt.

Chu had a variety of boiling steels with carbon content, which he thought could make the leaf springs needed for flintlock guns, but the painful thing was that it was difficult for the flintlock guns he described to be fired. Now the bolts of these two flintlock pistols are not made according to the previously described pattern, but use an extremely complex structure, which is why the bolt weighs more than five kilograms, and the weight of a real flintlock short (hand) gun should be about one kilogram or even less.

Such a heavy bolt makes it impossible for a flintlock gun to appear on the battlefield, especially since the bolt cannot fire continuously. The firing rate of the first shot was 80 percent, the second shot was only half, and the third and fourth shots were below 30 percent.

In fact, many people will ignore that when flintlock pistols were popular in Western countries, the Qing army did not have a structured, or even small-scale equipment with flintlock pistols, and the soldiers still used arquebuses, that is, bird guns. Kangxi's tap musket was not a flintlock bolt, but a reed wheel bolt. This is not just the cause of the leaf springs, but more of the gunpowder.

The saltpeter, the most important of gunpowder, is not pure, which is the first technical bottleneck; The second technical bottleneck is equivalent to the bottleneck of sulfur resources, that is, after mastering this technology, there is no need to add sulfur to the gunpowder, and when the sulfur does not need to be added to the gunpowder, the technical bottleneck of the flintlock pistol is completely solved.

It is precisely because of these two technical bottlenecks that even if the Qing army is equipped with flintlock pistols originating in the West, it will use back the previous shotgun because it is often muted, after all, it is impossible to import propellant at the same time. By the time the Manchus gradually realized this problem, the fire cap had been out for a long time, so although Ding Shoucun, the head of the household department who had studied Western firearms in depth and was known as the 'North and South Erding', had written "Western Tap Fire Gun Making Method", he no longer looked down on flintlock pistols, and he took a fancy to the "Copper Cap Gunpowder Method".

Xiong Jing is facing the same problem as the Manchu Qing after the Opium War, but unfortunately he did not introduce the 'Copper Cap Gunpowder Method' anywhere, and no one could write the "Western Tap Gun Making Law", so he could only spin on the arquebus. With an arquebus, it would be better to use a bow and arrow. The thirty divisions of the Chu army all have a sufficient number of archers, and the old Yingnanyang does not have a sufficient number of archers, but for these new Chu troops, how can they give them arquebuses?

On the field of Yunmengze, Mi, who was a first-time wife, was held in Xiongjing's arms, and she was addicted to shooting. It was not until the four flintlock short guns she brought could not fire at all, that she dropped these guns and turned back to hug the man to ask for credit: "The concubine is already familiar with her hands, but she can kill the enemy." ”

"Kill?" Xiong Jing shook his head, how could he let Mi kill the enemy. "Muskets give you self-defense, not killing."

Xiong Jing was stunned for a moment, and the joy since she got married suddenly faded, and she gradually recalled the reality she was in. Men teach themselves to use muskets, I am afraid that there is something else to do.

The woman frowned slightly, and Xiong Jing comforted her: "It won't be too long to be right, I'm wronged." ”

"No, I do." Mi Rush Road. "I am willing to die."

"You dare!" Xiong Jing's vicious expression, "You just go down to Huangquan, and I will snatch you back." This was too unlucky, and he stroked her back again, "Don't die in the future." Then wait for you to give birth to an offspring, and the queen mother will see the child......"

Xiong Jing didn't dare to say how the queen mother was, this was unfilial. Although he is crowned pro-government, the harem is still the queen mother. Ying Nan is the queen, and in the future, Ying Nan will be the master, and it is his decision after careful consideration not to let Mi catch this troubled water.

Of course, he can also surrender, surrender to the group of people behind the queen mother, once he surrenders to the Chu Palace, it will be stable, as long as the son of Yingnan is set up as the crown prince, he and Mi can love each other as much as they want. However, based on his responsibility to the Chu State and the Chu people, he will never surrender, not only will he not surrender, but he will fight them to the end.

Very mysterious, a few times, occasionally, he faintly felt his fate, the fate of the Chu State. It's a pity that the feeling is very hazy, it's like ...... It was as hazy as the morning mist. Very bad feeling, very bad result. And the group of people behind the queen mother is dragging him in a bad direction, he is not willing to drag, he resists and drags. He was fully convinced that according to this direction, he and the Chu State would one day face a desperate situation.

"If it's not good here, you can go somewhere else." Xiong Jing sighed in his heart, after the defeat in the battle, he felt more and more that he could not resist fate.

"It's very good here." The sun was about to set, and Mi looked at the sunset and snuggled up in his arms.

"Let Mi Tong come here." Xiong Jing Road. "This is a fiefdom of the Raising Birds, and the Raising Birds have nothing to do with them......

"They?" Xiong Jing finally showed a hint of his breath and looked at Sunset Mi looking up at him. "Who are they?"

"They ......" politics is always complicated, and Xiong Jing can't explain the problem clearly in a few words.

"Rather than the king running around like this, I would rather enter the palace as a concubine." Mi stroked Xiong Jing's brow, trying to smooth out the folds on it. Her efforts were in vain, Xiong Jing's brows were not only deeply wrinkled, but also wrinkled very hard, and she couldn't heal it.

"Don't!" Xiong Jing barely noticed what his wife's hands were doing, but reflexively said no.

"Why?" Mi smiled, saw that Xiong Jing was still wrinkling his eyebrows, and said: "I don't want to be famous, I just don't want the king to worry about running around." ”

"I'd rather worry about running around than be in a dangerous place." Xiong Jing smiled bitterly. "The Han Wei people are sinister, but the Han Wei people are not fierce; The Qin people are fierce, but if the Qin people do not have the three Jin strategists, they are not cunning; Qi people are cunning, but Qi people are clean and love their names, and they don't want to do things. Only Zhao Ren and Zhao Nu ......"

"How about Zhao Ren and Zhao Nu?" Mi asked, she never knew that people in the world had such characteristics.

"You marry into the Chu Palace, and Yingnan gives you wine in the name of the queen mother, do you drink it?" Xiong Jing changed his helpless expression.

"In the name of the Queen?" Mi was puzzled, but at this time she thought of Zhao Ji, the empress dowager of Qin. "I ......"

"If the queen mother gives you wine, will you drink it?" Xiong Jing asked again, this is the limit of words.

"The elder gave it, and he didn't dare to resign. This should be drunk too. Mi spoke earnestly, not noticing that Xiong Jing's gaze dimmed, and then there was a long silence.

Only then did Mi understand who her husband was taking care of, Ying Nan and Ji Yu, these people are not obstacles, the real obstacle is the Queen Mother Concubine Zhao. The son is hidden for the father, even if Concubine Zhao kills herself, the man must hide it for Concubine Zhao, otherwise it is unfilial.

Will Concubine Zhao kill herself? Mi didn't know. She didn't know much about the political struggle behind this, but the cruelty of the struggle in the Qin Palace made her feel palpitations, and in the second year after the Empress Dowager Xia, she accused Chang'an Jun of plotting rebellion, became a traitor, became a Zhao Dynasty, and was named Changxin Marquis for merit. On the day of the canonization, my aunt scolded Zhao Ji in Huayang Palace, and then I was unhappy for a whole year, until I also rebelled, and my aunt was happy again and scolded Zhao Ji for dying.

Concubine Zhao's current role is the aunt of Qin Palace, and her role should be Zhao Ji. Thinking of this, Mi suddenly felt a chill in her heart, but fortunately, Xiong Jing had already hugged her. The two rode horses and traveled to Linzeli, which was more than ten miles away.

Lin Zeli was close to the time of the lamp, Jiang groped out of the courtyard, she first looked at the house, and then hesitated to walk towards the Lu door. Because of the wedding banquet the day before yesterday, the prison door smiled at her enthusiastically, and she tried her best to smile back calmly. After she went out, the prison door quickly came out of the doorway, and she looked at her in the distance and was a little puzzled.

If it was before, he would have stopped her to ask what was going on, and he could even prevent her from going out, it would be dark, and Qin Lu would not be allowed to go out at this time. However, now that Nanjun is not under the rule of Qin, the people of Linei are extremely free to come and go, and he rarely does so.

Xu is the new husband told her to do something. The prison door said a silent sentence in his heart, and he quickly entered the doorway.

The prison door was so silent that Xiong Jing, who only returned home after dark, was a little crazy. Before going out, he ordered to boil hot water, and when he got home, he didn't talk about hot water, not even a lamp, not even a ghost, and the house was cold.

"The slave escaped!" After all, it was a newly bought slave, and he ran away as soon as he was not at home, and Xiong Jing, who lit the fire, was angry.

"Escaped?" Mi was also surprised by this. "Where can they flee to?"

"I don't know." Buying a female slave is used to do housework, and now that the female slave has run away, Xiong Jing doesn't know how to do housework, and Mi wants to do housework but is stopped by him. "But you can go to the house."

"Zhilidian's house?" Mi did not object. She already had some affection for Ridian's wife.

"When a domestic slave flees, he has to report to the official." Xiong Jing said so, in fact, he wanted to go to Lidian's house to eat, and then ask Lidian's house slaves to help him light the fire and warm the house. He couldn't have imagined that he reported to the official, and Jiang ran out to report to the official.

A woman knocked on the door outside the city after dark and shouted to report to the official, but the city guard scolded a few words and had to open the door. In the Yi Ling Mansion, Jiang who knelt on the ground took out the burden in his arms and said loudly: "The cheap slave sues the master for stealing, please check the government, please check the government!" ”

"What is this?" Jiang knelt on the ground, and the chairman was not sitting on the Yi Zaiyu, but Yi Shi.

"This master has stolen things." Jiang took out a string of jade ornaments from his baggage. Even if the hall is dim, the jade ornaments are dazzling. Seeing such a large string of peiyu, Yi Shi, who was originally thinking about coping, changed color in an instant, this is definitely not an ordinary person's thing, this is a noble family's thing.

"Did you see your master steal?" Yi Shi asked in surprise.

"This thing, this thing, and this thing......" There are not only group wears in the baggage, but also the jade flute of the Mi, and several versions of the gold." The master is a commoner, and he has run with a woman here, if it is not for theft, how can there be such a thing? ”