Li Feibai stood outside, straightened his clothes, and then raised his legs and walked into the small courtyard.

The door of the main house was not closed, and Guo Xun was sitting on a Taishi chair, drinking tea and taking a nap. As Guo Shouxiang said, Guo Xun's face is very ugly, with a black face and no trace of kindness.

Li Feibai walked to the door of the house and sang loudly: "Li Feibai, the commander of Jiyuan County, Huaiqing Prefecture, Henan Province, asks to see Guo Taibao!" ”

Guo Xun opened his eyes slightly and said, "Come on, what do you pay attention to?" Come on in! ”

Li Feibai paced into the room, and Guo Xun continued: "Find a chair and sit down!" ”

Li Feibai found a chair and sat down, thinking that Guo Xun would settle accounts with him next, but who knew that Guo Xun had entered a state of closing his eyes and pretending to sleep again. If he hadn't picked up the teacup from time to time and took a sip, he really suspected that Guo Xun was not pretending to sleep, but asleep.

After about a meal, seeing that Guo Xun still didn't mean to open his mouth, Li Feibai said: "Uncle Guo, look at your bad complexion, are you having trouble encountering something!" ”

Guo Xun opened his eyes and said, "Oh, you can see it too." Guess what I'm upsetting about? ”

Li Feibai smiled and said, "Isn't it, I didn't discuss with you, and directly divided the business of special wine and special cigars into fifteen parts, leaving only one share in the capital for you, and leaving the rest to others, you are not happy." ”

Guo Xun bowed his head slightly and said, "Oh, it makes sense!" Suddenly, he sat up straight and said in a stormy voice: "Boy, I didn't expect that I was such a person in my mind?" For a little petty profit, the miser who will sit here alone and worry about it, the old hat! Am I, Guo Xun, a person who is short of money? Is money still a big deal with me? Don't say that you kid left me a copy, but you didn't leave me a copy, you see if I'll sit here and worry! ”

Li Feibai smacked his tongue secretly, blaming him for believing Guo Shouxiang's words by mistake, thinking about how could a child of a family like Guo Xun put money in his eyes. He said, "Then what is Uncle Guo worried about?" ”

Guo Xun said: "You don't have to worry about what I'm worried about!" I'll ask you, I asked you to come to the capital, but you didn't come until today. And made an excuse, what do you say to be obsessed with the study of new firearms, you are here now, can you bring new firearms? ”

Li Feibai said: "Brought it!" ”

Guo Xun said: "If you bring it, let me try it quickly, if it's not as good as you praised, see how I settle accounts with you!" ”

When Li Feibai was taken here by Lu Shili, he had already instructed Qin Meng to go to the small courtyard where he lived to get a firecracker, and when he saw that Qin Meng had arrived at the gate of the courtyard, he hurriedly beckoned: "Brother Qin, come quickly!" ”

Qin Meng walked in carrying a long wooden box.

Guo Xun looked at Qin Meng and said, "You're here too!" ”

Qin Meng replied: "Yes!" He put the long wooden box on the table, and said, "Please Guo Taibao!" ”

Guo Xun stepped forward and looked into the wooden box. There is a brand-new firearm lying inside, looking like a three-eyed firearm that was popular in the Hongwu period, and can be used to hurt people with gunpowder, and can be directly used to smash people, but because of its small power, it can only hurt people at close range and is gradually eliminated.

Unlike the Three-Eyed Firebolt, this new Firebolt is first longer than the Three-Eyed Firegun.

The second is the six-eyed one. Finally, the three eyes of the Three-Eyed Flame Gun are at the front of the Fire Gun and cannot be rotated, so they need to be ignited with a medicinal twist. The six eyes of the new firebolt were behind the firebolt, and they were able to rotate and ignite by striking the flint with a ram.

Guo Xun said: "This is what you said, a new type of firearm with great power and fast rate of fire!" ”

Li Feibai said: "That's right! ”

Guo Xun scoffed! Why the Three-Eyed Fire Gun was eliminated, in addition to its small power and short range, there is also a very important reason, that is, the weight is extremely heavy, and ordinary people can't hold it for a long time.

Li Feibai's so-called new type of firecracker is not only several times longer than the three-eyed firecracker, but also has three more eyes, how can the weight be light! I'm afraid that it can't be used if it's not a strange person with amazing arm strength. If you can't pick it up, how can you go into battle to kill the enemy!

He reached out to take it, ready to take it in his hand and then reprimand Li Feibai, asking how to kill the enemy with such a heavy thing. What surprised him was that the guy who thought he weighed dozens of pounds only had more than ten pounds, not even twenty pounds!

Guo Xun let out a "huh", and then took a closer look at the guy in his hand. I saw that all the wood used in the gun and other places was made of wood, and there was very little iron for the gun pipe and the iron for the six eyes, which made the gun wall and the pipe wall look very thin, and the thickness was less than one-third of the fire gun equipped in the army, and it was even more than half thinner than the fire gun that Li Feibai gave him before.

He said: "You are not afraid of blowing up the chamber by doing this?" ”

Li Feibai said: "Don't be afraid! Then he explained that the pipe was made of the latest iron smelted by the iron smelting institute, and that iron, in fact, was about the same as steel. Originally, the gun pipe was made by welding and casting, but after trial, it was found that it would explode hundreds of times, sometimes dozens of times. So he improved the method and used the casting method to make the pipe.

The so-called welding and casting method is to first cast two semi-circular hollow guns, and then use the iron welding method to weld the two semi-circular guns into one.

The so-called casting method is to first cast a solid gunned pipe, and then use a harder drill knife to dig out the solid gunned pipe into a hollow gun.

Since the casting method was used, there is no gap in the post-welding, and there has been no explosion after thousands of uses.

Guo Xun didn't want to listen to him talk about how the firecracker was made, waved his hand and said: "It's useless to say so much, you have to use it to know!" With that, he went outside the house with a gun and put a gun at the sky.

A crisp "ding" sound! It was the sound of the ram striking the flint, but it sent out a string of sparks, but it did not ignite the gunpowder inside, let alone the earth-shattering sound of the firebolt being fired.

Guo Xun looked back dissatisfied: "What's going on?" ”

Li Feibai said with a smile: "Uncle Guo really encountered trouble today, why did he forget to fill the gunpowder into the gunpowder?" ”

Guo Xun sighed. The ancients said that it is really good, but caring is chaotic. He had been so concerned about that matter that he forgot about the gunpowder refill, and he habitually looked for gunpowder, projectiles, and pokes hanging on the gunpowder, but unexpectedly did not find it!

Li Feibai hurriedly explained: "The new firecracker is much improved on the basis of the old-fashioned firecracker, and even the method of filling gunpowder is different!" ”

As he spoke, Qin Meng had already taken out a cloth bag from the wooden box, with a round tubular thing inserted horizontally and vertically, and stepped forward.

Guo Xun pointed and asked, "What is this?" ”

Li Feibai said: "I will bond the gunpowder and projectiles into blocks, so that the loading speed of gunpowder can be accelerated!" ”

Guo Xun pulled out a round tube-shaped thing. The thing was tightly wrapped in oiled paper, and when I pinched it with my fingers, the inside was hard and brick-like, completely different from the gunpowder I had used before.

He is still self-aware, since it is the first time he has seen this thing, he naturally doesn't know how to fill it, so he doesn't have to pretend to understand and make some jokes.

Guo Xun stuffed all the tubular things in his hand and the fire gun to Li Feibai, and said, "Boy, since you made the new fire gun, it's up to you to demonstrate it." If the new firecracker isn't as good as you say, see how I'll clean you up! ”

Li Feibai stretched out his hand to catch the two things, first clamped the fire gun under his armpit, and freed up two hands. One hand holds the round tubular thing, and the other hand tore the layer of oiled paper wrapped around the round tubular thing. The layer of oiled paper was not completely torn off, only about a third of it.

Guo Xun kept staring at it with wide eyes, and the incision of tearing the oil paper was very smooth, it seemed that the oil paper had been wrapped in advance before, leaving a dark opening, otherwise it would not have been torn so smoothly.

As soon as the oiled paper fell, it revealed what was inside, and sure enough, it was black gunpowder. As for how to bond the gunpowder scattered like fine sand into lumps, there are too many methods available, Guo Xun didn't delve into it, but asked: "Why do you want to wrap another layer of oiled paper around the gunpowder?" Can't just use gunpowder that is bonded into lumps? Isn't this taking off your pants and farting, and that's an extra move? ”