Glancing at the bullet holes made by the flintlock pistol on the wall, Li Yuan still felt a little dissatisfied, but the big war was imminent, and the musket was indispensable to deal with the elephant soldiers of Lin Yi Kingdom, and he would definitely be able to take it by surprise.

"How many flintlock pistols like this can be produced in a day now by the Ordnance Supervisor?" Li Yuan asked.

Li Laosi didn't know why, and estimated: "Weichen is skilled, but the fine iron and time spent to make the barrel are too long, and if you don't sleep, it will take a day and a half." ”

"So long?" Li Yuan felt a little dissatisfied, it would take at least three hundred flintlock muskets to form a musket team, and according to Li Laosi's approach, it would take at least half a year to make it.

Of course, the ordnance supervisor is not only Li Laosi alone, but there are other craftsmen, but the time consumed is also amazing.

"In addition to you Li Gongzheng, there are a few more people in this armory supervisor who can make flintlock pistols, I need three hundred flintlock pistols, how long will it take to finish?" Li Yuan asked.

Li Laosi frowned slightly, and said: "Your Majesty, in addition to Wei Chen, there are three apprentices who are skilled in flintlock pistols in the ordnance supervisor, and it will take at least two months to manufacture three hundred flintlock pistols. ”

After thinking about it, Li Laosi added, "Your Majesty asked Weichen to develop a flintlock pistol that day and listed it as a secret, so few people in the ordnance prison have learned it, and my three apprentices only know a little bit about it." ”

"I see." Li Yuan patted his forehead, feeling frustrated, in order to prevent the flintlock pistol from leaking out, he only let a few people develop it, and he never thought that he would be restricted now.

"In this way, I will transfer fifty students from the medical school and then use the assembly line to produce them, and it is not necessary that every flintlock pistol is made as a high-quality product, it only needs to meet the standards."

"Wechen understands." Li Laosi smiled, the assembly line production mode had long been popularized in the ordnance prison, and in the mouth of the Emperor Taishang, he learned that this production mode had been used as early as the Qin army when producing weapons, and he was surprised why it had been a thousand years, but this set of craftsmanship was lost.

"How many flintlock pistols are there in the Ordnance Superintendent now? Draw it out to me. Li Yuan said.

Now that Zhenla and Linyi are preparing for war, it is estimated that this war will last a long time, and he wants to train a musket team before the war.

Let this musket team make a contribution to the war, thereby increasing his prestige in the army.

In fact, although Li Yuan has the ability to send 120,000 troops to crusade against the two countries, the power in the army is not his word, and he has many constraints in the army, among which Li Xiaogong, the king of Chu, who represents the largest mountain, and the ruling faction in the south, more or less interspersed in the army.

Many people think that the emperor is everything, and he can do whatever he wants.

Not really.

There is nothing to say about this crusade against Zhenla and Linyi, and to open up territory, and the army is willing to go, after all, only fighting is a shortcut to promotion and wealth.

But to get them to agree to spend a lot of money to conquer the Wa kingdom is something that can't be thought of, and it's hard to get them to agree.

Zhenla and Linyi can still be touched, but the people of the Wa Kingdom and the Central Plains have seen their appearances, but no one has ever been to the Wa Kingdom.

Moreover, human beings have been afraid of the sea since ancient times, and few ships built can not sink in the ocean, and the shipbuilding technology of the Tang Dynasty is still very backward.

Therefore, the Emperor Taishang is gradually trying to make Nantang his hall.

It turns out that an iron-fisted dictatorship will always develop faster than a republican government, because it can tilt resources to a certain direction precisely and accurately.

In the twentieth century, the Soviets overthrew Tsarist Russia, which was still a slave country and backward in industrial development compared to the rest of Europe. But Lenin, after formulating the first five-year plan, soon overtook the rest of Europe, and was able to match Germany in European industry.

As the leaders of the Soviets, Lenin and Stalin were both dictators, and the latter's Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a monster, with heavy industry in vain and of course light industry in decline.

"There are a total of twelve flintlock pistols in the Ordnance Prison, but this one is the best and most advanced." Li Laosi hesitated a little.

"It doesn't matter." Li Yuan raised his eyebrows, if the flintlock pistol is not enough, just replace it with a burning stick first, and still crush those scum when you go to the battlefield.

After taking the twelve flintlock pistols from Li Laosi, Li Yuan went to see the research and development process of the grenade.

In fact, when the grenade was at war with the White Lotus Sect, Li Yuan secretly sent people to load gunpowder in clay pots to make improvised bombs.

But then, with a series of events, the development of this aspect of grenades was also shelved.

Unlike other modern weapons, grenades are easy to make and amazingly effective.

At the Ordnance Inspectorate were produced grenades with wooden handles.

Wooden-handled grenades, which are most seen in the Anti-Japanese War TV series, are duck-egg grenades used by little devils, while the Chinese army uses wooden-handled grenades, causing many people to think that this kind of grenade is backward and domestic.

In fact, the wooden-handled grenade is a German-style weapon, and it is a production line imported from Germany by the German army established by the Kuomintang army.

And this grenade is still not outdated, it is still used in the modern army, the wooden handle grenade is safer, when the porcelain ball falls out of the wooden handle, it will not pull out the brushed copper wire and cause fire, and the grenade can usually be hung on a tree or other place with a pull wire, and it is used as a hanging mine. In addition to being used as an anti-personnel grenade, several grenade bodies can also be tied together on the battlefield and fired with a pull fire piece for use as an anti-tank mine.

During the Second World War, some soldiers sometimes tied up to six grenade bodies together to blow up the tank, mainly relying on the detonation wave generated when the explosives exploded to blow up the tank.

After the duck egg grenade is thrown, it may roll down and accidentally injure itself when it encounters a slope, but China is a mountainous country, and the wooden-handled grenade does not have this problem. The wooden-handled grenade is more conducive to throwing, and the wooden-handled grenade can be thrown to a greater distance under the same power, which has a great advantage for the duck egg grenade.

The most important thing is that the wooden handle grenade is inexpensive!

Able to equip a large area.

Later, China produced and developed the Type 67 wooden-handled grenade, which is still used today.

Of course, the Chinese expeditionary force entered Burma to fight, but on the way because of disease died a lot of people, not to mention that most of those people were Gui people, the harsh climate and environment has always been the reason why it is difficult for the Central Plains Dynasty to occupy the Indochina Peninsula.

"Now everything is ready, only the east wind is missing, it depends on which of the two countries, Zhenla and Linyi, will be the first to mess up." Li Yuan smiled slightly in the camp.

"This is a flintlock pistol?" Mu Baiyi curiously touched the delicate body of the gun.