"A flintlock without an arquebus?"

Xu Guangqi looked at the firearm in his hand, stroked it carefully, looked up and down, and when he saw the lighter setting, he was quite interested, and he tossed it back and forth, but he didn't find the right way, the young man reached over and took the flintlock gun, turned the wheel hard, and then handed it to Xu Guangqi.

"It's gunpowder-free, so don't worry about going off."

Xu Guangqi took the torch with a little caution, and then removed the muzzle of the gun, pulled the trigger with his finger, and snapped, and the flint hit the fire and hit a string of sparks, directly on the fire door, if there is gunpowder in the fire door at this time, then it must be ignited, so as to stimulate the musket and achieve the purpose of shooting.

"Wonderful! This thing is exquisite, no need for a fire rope, no need for open flames, then I don't know how much trouble has been alleviated, Xu has seen a bird gun in his hometown garrison, and the soldiers often complain that the fire rope burns too fast, or the body is carrying a fire rope It is inconvenient to use, the south of the Yangtze River is humid, the north wind is strong, it is not convenient to use the bird gun, if there is this gun, it is greatly beneficial to the country! ”

Xu Guangqi's eyes flashed with surprise: "Can Xiao Hou make this gun?" ”

The young man nodded: "When pacifying the Dongwu Kingdom, the Dongwu rebel once hired a musket team of Franc Jiyi to assist in the battle, and after those Franc Jiyi were killed, he got this flintlock from the hands of one of them, Xiao Hou felt very important, and used his family wealth to recruit craftsmen to imitate it, and finally the imitation was successful. ”

"Great! That's great! If there is such a gun, the burden on the garrisons of Jiubian and Liaodong will be greatly reduced! If this gun can be equipped with the Ming army, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army will be greatly improved! Xiao Hou's move is beneficial to the present generation, and the merit is in the future! Your Excellency, please accept the next bow for Xiao Hou! ”

Xu Guangqi stood up excitedly and bowed deeply to the young man, who quickly stood up to avoid it, and then helped Xu Guangqi up.

"Mr. Xu, don't get excited, there's one more thing you haven't seen yet."

Xu Guangqi raised his head and asked suspiciously, "What's more?" ”

The young man lifted the muzzle of the flintlock gun and brought it to Xu Guangqi's eyes, motioning him to look inside the barrel, and Xu Guangqi looked inside suspiciously.

"Huh? There seems to be something in this pipe...... It's ......"

Xu Guangqi stretched out his finger and stuffed it into the barrel, stuffing it back and forth, almost stuffing his finger in it and couldn't take it out.

The young man smiled and said, "This is called rifling, and it is also a magic weapon that Xiao Hou got from the flintlock gun in the hands of Franco Jiyi, and Mr. Xu also knows that the pipe of the bird gun and the flintlock gun is the same, the difference is that the runner used for excitation is the wheel, and this rifling is an important object comparable to the runner."

In the ordinary use of bird guns, it is necessary to load gunpowder and lead bullets into the muzzle, compact them with a whole strip, and then ignite them to successfully fire, and the lead bullets are certainly not as large as the mouth of this gun, nor are they wider than the width of the gun tube.

When the gunpowder ignited, the lead bullet rushed out of the barrel, and the direction of the shot was much worse than we expected, and we basically didn't know where to fly beyond 50 paces, and the accuracy was extremely poor. ”

Hearing the young man say this, Xu Guangqi also nodded.

"Yes, some veterans have said that if a recruit is a recruit, he may not be able to hit accurately at 30 steps, let alone 50 steps, the shooting accuracy is extremely low, and he often doesn't know where he flew when he hit it.

Although the lethality is greater than that of the bow and crossbow, the range is too short, and if it is a head-on battle with the Mongol Jurchen cavalry, the fire is not used, and the blade has been necked, so the soldiers of the nine sides are reluctant to use bird guns. ”

The young man spoke: "It is precisely in this way that Xiao Hou felt the weakness of the bird in the Korean battlefield, so after arriving in Burma, he began to study this rifling.

You see, the function of this rifling is to allow the lead bullet to shoot out in a fixed direction, both in terms of shooting accuracy and range, which has been greatly improved.

When we use this rifled flintlock gun, the lead bullet used is like this, you see, it is slightly larger than the barrel, and the use of this mallet requires this mallet to hit the lead bullet into it! ”

The young man took out a lead bullet from the box and a small wooden mallet, and showed Xu Guangqi how to knock the lead bullet into it, and Xu Guangqi saw that his eyes lit up.

"Those veterans and masters all said that with this rifling, when the lead bullet is shot out, it is shot directly in a straight line, with an accurate head, unlike a bird gun without rifling, which is shot out in all directions, and the accuracy and range of this rifled gun are far superior to that of the bird gun.

Also, here is the door, here is the front sight, when shooting, the soldier with a single eye aim, with the front sight and the door of the straight line aiming, the shooting accuracy is greatly improved, we have done experiments, this rifled flintlock can hit more than 200 steps, but also farther and more accurate. ”

"Two hundred steps?!"

Xu Guangqi was amazed: "There is such an artifact in the world!" How powerful are firearms? This...... It's just ......."

Saying this, Xu Guangqi suddenly frowned.

"Taken from the hands of Franc Jiyi, doesn't that mean that Franc Machineyi already has this kind of artifact? And already listed? ”

The young man sighed in his heart, Ye Gong and Xiao Hou really knew people, both of them talked about Xu Guangqi's worries about the country and the people and long-term vision, others would only sigh how amazing this firearm was, but he could think of the threat that the use of this firearm by the Francophone man brought to the Ming Dynasty.

"Sir, please rest assured, Xiao Hou has sent an ocean-going fleet to visit the continent of Europa, the hometown of the Franco-Robot in the Land of Taixi, and the specific news we have learned is that the main weapon used by the Franco-Robot is still the Bird Gun, which is not more advanced than the Ming Dynasty, although this rifled flintlock is strong, it cannot be produced in large quantities."

"Xiao Hou has already been to the Europa continent? This...... How is it that this gun cannot be mass-produced? ”

"Not to mention that this process is extremely demanding, rifling is not something that ordinary craftsmen can do, it takes a lot of time for experienced old craftsmen to do it, Xiao Hou has only had five or six hundred such flintlock guns for three years, and the cost of a rifled flintlock pistol is about six taels of silver."

"Six taels of silver? So expensive? ”

Xu Guangqi estimated the price and swallowed.

"Yes, so even if the output can keep up, it can be produced in large quantities, and the cost is too high, so so far only the Xiao Hou Guards can be equipped with this kind of firearms, and most of the Ming troops in Myanmar still use bird guns, at this point, the Francos are the same as us, so there is no need to worry for the time being."

Xu Guangqi nodded, "oh".

"And this, sir, you see."

The young man took out another object and handed it to Xu Guangqi, who took it and was very surprised.

"It's ...... Knife? Dagger? Or a dagger? ”

Xu Guangqi has never seen such a knife, it is quite sharp, and it is open on both sides, but it is a little short, it is definitely shorter than the saber used by ordinary people, but it doesn't look so short, so it's very strange, it doesn't look like a weapon used by one person, it's long, it's not enough, it's short, it's not enough.

Xu Guangqi looked at the young man suspiciously.

"It's not a dagger, it's not a dagger, it's called a bayonet, it's used with this flintlock gun, you see here, there's a device for loading and unloading bayonets."

The young man pointed out a few small devices under the barrel of the flintlock gun to Xu Guangqi to see, Xu Guangqi was quite surprised at a glance, he didn't expect that there were so many exquisiteness on this flintlock gun, the man put the snow bright bayonet on the flintlock gun, Xu Guangqi immediately found that the gun had grown a lot, it looked like a short gun!

The kind that can assassinate enemies!

The young man stood up with a flintlock gun equipped with a bayonet, and held it flat for Xu Guangqi to see.

"The function of this bayonet is that when the enemy rushes to the front or when the flintlock gun cannot shoot in an emergency, the gun pawn uses it in order to protect himself, and the bayonet is installed, even if the gun cannot be used, it is not a burning stick, it can kill and defend, Xiao Hou also personally compiled a set of bayonet techniques and handed it over to the guards to learn to use."

Xu Guangqi stood up quite excitedly, took the flintlock in his hand, and couldn't help but look up and down.

"Today, Xu is considered to have a long experience, and he used to think that the bird gun was really a chicken rib thing, but today I saw this flint gun, Xu is really a frog at the bottom of the well, I don't know how big the world is, firearms have reached such a point! In this way, if it is a few decades later, won't the swords, guns, swords and halberds be discarded? ”

"Mr. said too much, the ancestors of thousands of years of things, can not be said not to use, the weakness of this firearm is also great, first of all, it can't rain, once it rains, nothing can be used, so even if our soldiers have firecrackers in their hands, Xiao Hou also gave each of them a machete, once the firearms can't be used, they will draw knives and fight."

Xu Guangqi nodded, admiring: "Xiao Hou's thoughts are really far-reaching, he can actually think of such a point, if the imperial court can popularize this thing, why should I worry about the injustice of the north?" If Taizu had such a sharp weapon during the Northern Expedition, there would have been no Mongolian Jurchens now! Alas! ”

As he spoke, Xu Guangqi looked worried again.

"The situation is like this, if you are not a gentleman, you can change it if you are not a flint, no matter how many guns, no matter how sharp the instrument is, if people are dull, tired, sluggish, greedy, the instrument is useless, in the end, the instrument still needs to be used by people, everything still depends on people."

The young man memorized the words that Xiao Ruxun taught him and repeated them to Xu Guangqi.

When Xu Guangqi heard this, his face showed a look of worry, and he leaned back into a depressed color.

"Even if Xu Guangqi has the heart to save the country, he is just a person, he is soft-spoken, even if he is a Jinshi, if he is not in the three tripod armor, not in the Jishi, not into the Hanlin, not for twenty or thirty years, he will not be able to realize the ambition in his chest, even if he has learned in one body, there is nowhere to use, your Excellency's words, every sentence is true, Guangqi is very ashamed!"

Then Xu Guangqi looked at the young man.

"Did Xiao Hou say that?"

The young man nodded, smiling wryly.

"It is exactly what Xiao Hou said, I only know three or five hundred words, all of which Xiao Hou forced us martial artists to learn, Xiao Hou forced every officer with a military position in Myanmar to know at least 300 words, and soldiers must know at least 100 words, otherwise they will have to play the board, everyone is forced to have no choice but to learn, the more you recognize, the more rewards.

Xiao Hou also recruited some old talents and old scholars from all over the country to come to Myanmar to teach us martial artists, teach those children to read and write, and say that whether we read or not is not too important to us, but at least we must be able to read, be able to read and write, and understand the imperial edicts, so that we will not be easily deceived by people with hearts. ”

Xu Guangqi was stunned for a moment, leaned less, and smiled bitterly.

"Since ancient times, the rebels, mostly to bewitch the people, the world of 300,000 scholars, white food of the emperor's grain, even a martial artist is not as good as a martial artist, a martial artist can still open the people's wisdom for the people's literacy, not so that the people are easily blinded, but my generation of scholars are still fighting for power and profit in the court day by day! makes rumors spread, and gossip confuses everyone's hearts! ”

Xu Guangqi held the gun in his hand and stood up.

"Reading is not for the purpose of edifying the people, what kind of book are you reading? If an official does not make decisions for the people, what kind of official is he doing? What Ye Gong said is true, what Ye Gong said is true! ”

When the young man saw that the fire was coming, he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Xu Guangqi.

"Mr. Xu, Xiao Hou said that if Mr. Xu can think of the threat of Francois to the Ming Dynasty, the help of sharp weapons to the Ming Dynasty, and the disadvantages of the party struggle of the court officials, it proves that Mr. Xu has the heart of worrying about the country and the people and the talent of benefiting the country and the people.

He asked him to hand over Xiao Hou's handwritten letter to Mr. Xu, and Xiao Hou said that he really admired Mr. Xu for being a scholar who can read books and does not read dead books, and can think of people who can benefit the people and are willing to do things for the people.

He didn't dare to delay Mr. Xu's future, and he didn't dare to delay Mr. Xu's participation in the examination, but he just hoped that if Mr. Xu had free time in the future, he would come to Myanmar to have a look and take a walk, maybe Mr. Xu would gain something. ”

The young man held the letter in both hands, and Xu Guangqi's lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it in the end.

After being silent for a while, Xu Guangqi put down his firearm and took the handwritten letter with both hands.

"Guangqi knows, please thank Xiao Hou on behalf of Guangqi."

"I bring it under all means! Mr. Xu, this flint gun Xiao Hou will be given to you, Xiao Hou said, with the current financial situation of the imperial court and the minds of officials, it is impossible to install this gun in the Ming army within ten years, too early to take out not only useless, but will cause trouble, but also ask Mr. Xu to be cautious and cautious. ”

Xu Guangqi silently looked at the letter and the gun, took a deep breath, and nodded.

"Xiao Hou is very loving, Guangqi can't repay it, and I am deeply ashamed."

"Mr. Xu doesn't need to be ashamed, as long as Mr. Xu still has the Great Tomorrow and the people of Daming in his heart, this is enough, Xiao Hou is very happy."

Xu Guangqi's heart was full of guilt, so he had to sigh deeply.