Faced with the enthusiasm of Zheng Ying and the soldiers, the craftsman was not affected, but silently rolled his eyes.

"There are a total of fifty flintlock guns in this batch, the first forty are made in the past two years, and the last ten are driven out by Director Xu after three months of hard work, these lead bullets are all our efforts for more than two years, just like that, there are only fifty, do you want 10,000? Yes, wait a hundred years! ”

As soon as these words came out, the murderous soldiers choked half to death.

Zheng Ying was also depressed for a long time before he stabilized his mood, and resisted the urge not to punch this bastard to death.

"No, why not? So slow? Aren't you appetizing?! If you can make it, why can't you do more? Do you know how many fewer brothers we can die with this flintlock? Now it takes 70 paces to shoot at most, and the enemy rushes in front of it after a few rounds! ”

The craftsman shook his head helplessly.

"My General Zheng, do you know how much effort we have to put in just one rifling? That's all very old and skilled old craftsmen can make it, this rifling is different from what we use now, see for yourself! ”

The craftsman handed the gun in his hand to Zheng Ying, who stared at it with one eye.

"Hey! It's really different, round by round, we seem to use it much less now than this! How did you get it? ”

"How did you get it? It's hard! We need to work hard to make such a rifled gun, not to mention this lead bullet, you look at this lead bullet, it is also carefully made by us, not only to polish, but also not to guarantee that each one can be used, nor can we guarantee that each one can be worthy of that gun.

Because it is not made by the same person, the lead that can be used for each gun is different, you look very similar, but the specific values are different, each one has a small difference, this lead can only be matched with this gun and not with other guns, otherwise there is a danger of exploding.

This is a very delicate job, if it weren't for the handsome man who got us calipers for us to compare, we wouldn't be able to make these leads! Although we are also working on molds, hoping to produce standard lead, it is difficult for us to make molds that are durable enough! ”

Zheng Ying couldn't understand some professional terms, and the generals couldn't understand them, but it seemed that they were difficult to make.

"Is it really that hard? It took you two years to make fifty sticks? Can't it be faster? Is it a big deal to make some birdshots? ”

Zheng Ying plans to retreat to the next best thing, and get a flintlock team of elite sharpshooters similar to Xiao Ruxun's personal guards, and go to the battlefield at a critical moment to suppress the formation, which can have a good effect.

"This is not a problem that can be solved by a small number of people, if there are many people, we will not be able to get much in two or three years, many things and many technologies have to be done little by little, we now use hundreds of thousands of taels of silver materials to get these fifty sticks, 10,000 sticks, how much silver does it cost?"

As soon as the craftsman exported, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were paid, and the soldiers and generals retreated one after another.

"At our current rate, even if the entire Firearms Manufacturing Bureau stops what it is doing to make this flintlock gun and this lead bullet, we must let them familiarize themselves with what we are doing first, and then practice, and then they can get started, at most three or five a month, and there is no guarantee that all the products made are of the best quality that can be used, and the rejection rate is very high.

Not to mention anything else, there are very few steel that can be applied, our current steel is difficult to make can be used on this kind of flintlock gun, the steel used in the bird gun can't be used for this kind of flintlock gun at all, it will explode after a few hits, we have injured many craftsmen for this, it's not that we don't want to get it, we also hope that the brothers can survive! ”

Zheng Ying was silent, and the rest of the generals stopped talking.

"Dashuai has always supported us, asking for money and materials for materials, throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars of silver into it, we also want to use the best things to repay Dashuai's kindness, at this point, the craftsmen of the Firearms Manufacturing Bureau are no worse than you, so I desperately made these dozens of flintlock guns, but if you really want to equip the brothers, I really don't know when."

The craftsman sighed and took the gun in his hand to examine it.

Zheng Ying's main pawn leader, Xie Lin, walked up to the craftsman and patted the craftsman on the shoulder.

"Enough, you have done a good job, earlier we used the bird gun and had to worry about exploding, now the bird gun you make is very safe for us to use, basically it will not blow up the chamber, the artillery is also, other firearms are also, you have done enough, the brothers are all in the eyes."

The craftsman looked at the soldiers, saw the eyes and expressions of the soldiers, and for no reason his heart was relieved, his eyes were red, and his tears fell uncontrollably.

At dinner in the evening, Zheng Ying specially asked the old firehead to make a small stove for the craftsman, invited him to eat a meal of fried meat and white rice with chili, and then pulled him to sit with him, asking questions, and seemed to have a strong interest in the manufacture of firearms.

"You say, the marshal asked you to make this flintlock, how much time do you have to get, and what kind of preparations do you have to make?"

"There are a lot of preparations, from the beginning of the materials to prepare, what kind of iron is used, some iron is hard, some iron is soft, some iron is easy to marry, and some can't get it, and now there are still people thinking about how to pull rifling on the barrel of the gun to improve the range of the Furlong machine gun and the Hongyi cannon."

Zheng Ying was surprised.

"Rifling the barrels? Now the Hongyi cannon can hit two miles away, so if it is rifled, won't it be able to hit seven or eight miles? Is that worth it? ”

The craftsman nodded: "That's what I said, but there is no result in doing it, and even if it is done, not to mention anything else, the Hongyi cannon can only shoot solid bullets, and the power is not enough, so I think I have to think not only about rifling, but also about how to make more powerful flowering bullets." ”

Zheng Ying said it made sense.

"Yes, I've always felt it's a pity that the Hongyi cannon can't open the flower bomb, if it can be hit, it's definitely better than the Furlong machine gun, but the current flower bomb is not powerful enough, it can't kill a few people, and it doesn't feel stronger than a trebuchet."

The craftsman took a few bites of rice.

"Yes, so Xiao Dashuai said before that the current gunpowder is not strong enough, and we need to make the gunpowder explode more powerfully, and the explosion will be more powerful, so that we can make more powerful flowering bombs."

"Can gunpowder be changed to work better?"

Zheng Ying felt incredible again.

"Not only gunpowder, but also iron, lead, rifling, now the more you make it, the more you think about improving the power, the more you find that you have to do something, you have to think about everything, you have to think about better iron, better gunpowder, better rifling, better lead, more money and effort, no matter which one you have to spend effort to study, it's really difficult and difficult."

Listening to the craftsman's words, Zheng Ying had a more intuitive feeling of the weapon he used.

But he soon thought of something funny.

"Our current ten flintlock guns should be able to be used on the battlefield, right?"

The craftsman chewed the food in his mouth a few times.

"Yes."

"Okay, how about we scare the people in this city? Early tomorrow morning, I'll pick ten flintlock pickers who can fight accurately, and then, let's give the people in the city a little color to see, do you want to see it? ”

The craftsman thought about it and thought it was good.

"What good is the firearm if it can't be used in battle? It's just right, you try the speed and accuracy of the burst, and I'll go back and tell Director Xu. ”

Zheng Ying was overjoyed.

So the next morning, after breakfast and a little rest, Zheng Ying chose ten flintlock guns with the most accurate marksmanship, and each person had a new type of flintlock guns, so that they could surprise the landlords and old fortunes in the city.