I heard that the old man is a blacksmith, and his son is also a blacksmith, and his ancestors have passed down the livelihood. Then I thought of the musket I had always dreamed of.

Pulling the old man and the two children, they came to the dynamite bag factory.

Xiao Jin knows that there is no need to think about smoothbore and afterloading, seamless steel pipes and custom bullets are not so easy to come out, with the current industrial level, it is a fool's dream. In the past two days, I have been studying the musket every day with my mobile phone, so that I can improve the historical arquebus and improve the ignition method. The origin of the name of the arquebus is because of the arquebus that excites the hammer, not to mention how difficult the production process of the arquebus is, the production of a slow-burning arquebus requires potassium nitrate and salt solution, which can still be made with soil methods.

But Xiao Jin learned that one is the slow burning process, and the second is the complexity of the reload, which greatly increases the firing time, and can only shoot one or two rounds per minute on average.

Xiao Jin thought of the idea of changing it to a hammer to charge up and ignite the gunpowder tablets, and he still remembered the gunpowder revolver he played with when he was a child, and the gunpowder tablets contained in it. Gunpowder tablets (火引) are simpler than making fire ropes, wrapped in thick pieces of paper up and down, glued and dried. During the re-impact, the kinetic energy ignites the gunpowder tablets, causing the gunpowder tablets to release a large amount of heat, igniting the black powder in the gun hall and firing lead bullets.

I recruited the craftsmen who made the explosives bag here, and told them my idea, and used a brush to roughly draw the structure of the arquebus, the barrel and the trigger hammer are the most difficult to do by yourself, it is a delicate job, and the other is because it was changed to a hammer force, which requires something that the original arquebus did not have, that is, a compression spring, which is not easy to do.

After hearing this, the old man said, "What the adults said earlier can be done, although it is big, but as long as it takes a little more time and energy, it can still be made, but the spring that the adult said can be stretched and restored, I am afraid that it is too difficult, I am afraid that it will not meet the requirements of the adult." ”

Xiao Jin didn't know that he had forgotten to think about this.

The gunpowder master who had been listening to them on the side said, "My lord, I understand what I mean, maybe we can replace it with another object." ”

Xiao Jin said, "Oh, what can replace it?" ”

"When it comes to toughness and durability, of course, the deer tendons used in bows and arrows are the most suitable."

"Good, that's a good idea." Xiao Jin was very happy, he didn't expect that he still had a capable person, and he would be able to draw inferences from others.

"I can't make the body of this musket, I still need a carpenter with good craftsmanship to make it." The old man looked at the musket and said.

"I know this, in this way, old man, and the gunpowder master, I will immediately find a carpenter for you, the three of you divide the labor, make a handful first, the salary is twice as much as the outside, in addition, as long as you can make a handful yourself, no one will reward an additional hundred taels of silver, this intermediate process must be recorded in detail, if you can make it yourself, I will gather a large number of people to make it later, and then it will rely on your first-hand information."

After Xiao Jin finished speaking, he said to Wang Er Mazi, "You go and call Mr. Zheng and ask him to bring pen and paper and ink." ”

When the old man heard that he could do things for the adults and pay such a high salary, he said happily, "My son's craftsmanship is better than that of the old man, can you call him too, the carpenter you said is my daughter-in-law's family, they have ancestral skills, and I will call for the adults." ”

"That's the best, the more the better, as long as there is craftsmanship, you can help me call them all, and the treatment will be according to what I just said."

After hearing this, both of them nodded in response, turned around and went out to call for help.

"Wang Er, when you go to Mr. Zheng, just ask Mr. Ji to prepare more tools, blacksmiths, carpenters, and gunpowder masters, just let people change this house into a dormitory, and then talk to him, and let Xiao Jian send a few brothers over to help take care of it."

What Xiao Jin thought was that once the musket was successfully developed, it must be kept strictly secret. This is not like an explosives bag, this is his housekeeping skill, and he can't go out, all he can think of is to manage the craftsmen in a unified manner, eat and live together, and send people outside to take care of them.

Another is that after the sample test is successful, it is divided into three groups by the method of assembly operation, so that the degree of confidentiality will be greatly increased, and the efficiency can also be improved.

Finally felt that he had done the most reliable thing, Xiao Jin was very happy, the gun had not yet come out of its own, and began to fantasize about the application of Frederick's slash tactics, there were few Europeans, and every time it was fought, it was a small local battle, Xiao Jin felt that it was not used in the Celestial Empire, so that he could learn the tactics of the modern German infantry, and in the field, he relied on trenches and bunkers, with grenades, and he thought that the effect was good, and the concentrated firepower was rotated to shoot. In the case of a field attack, the artillery increased the group charge, the muskets were equipped with bayonets, and the cavalry flanked the auxiliary. If the logistics can keep up, I'm afraid it will be able to sweep the whole country.

Xiao Jin fantasized about it, but Zheng Banqiao and Ji Xiaolan arrived, followed by Wang Er and some officials with knives.

"My lord, Liu Yong in the capital and Xue Mansion in Huizhou have sent letters respectively."

Xiao Jin didn't expect Xue Fu to write a letter, "What did the letter say?" ”

"Mr. Liu's letter and humble position have been read, but Xue Fu has not dared to read it privately."

"Then you give me the letter and casually tell me what Liu Yong said in the letter."

It turned out that after they went south, Mingzhu Mansion did suspect everyone in Yijiayuan, and also focused on suspecting Xiao Jin, the reason is very simple, that day the street threw big red flowers, but more than one or two people saw it, Liu Yong also said that as soon as they left the capital with their front feet, Yijiayuan was seized. And sent a large group of men out of the city to find it, and it was about them.

There is also a piece of information about the three feudatories, Wang Rongzhi was detained by Wu Sangui for denunciating Wu Sangui, and impeached Wang Rongzhi, the governor of Yunnan, for corrupting the law and deceiving the monarch.

The emperor was afraid that Wu Sangui would retaliate for the punishment of Wang Rongzhi without permission, and had ordered him to be sent to the capital to await trial, but Wu Sangui did not respond. There is a lot of discussion in the court now, Kangxi has proposed the decision to withdraw the feudal domain two or three times at the court meeting, but Lord Suo and Mingzhu disagreed, the court was divided into two factions, and the arguments were endless.

Kangxi's attitude was obviously very tough, and he listened to the advice of Lord Suo, and asked the three kings to go to Beijing at the end of the month to report on their work.

In the letter, Liu Yong also said that he was recommended by Soltu to serve as a counselor of the military department, and learned that all the soldiers and horses south of the Yangtze River were now ready to fight to prevent the situation from changing dramatically.

Xiao Jin knew most of what Liu Yong said in his letter, but he didn't expect it to be ahead of history, and the imperial court is starting to prepare now, if Xiao Jin remembers correctly, Kangxi didn't do much to mobilize troops in history.

Now judging from Liu Yong's words, I think Kangxi is already making military preparations.

blame yourself, what is not good to write, write about the removal of the three feudatories, think about it, it should be his own arrival, which changed Kangxi.

Originally, it was estimated that there was still half a year for himself. According to the historical process, in February next year, Wu Sangui raised troops to rebel, and now, I am afraid that he will not have so much time for himself.

And the most important thing is that history has changed, and it is no longer clear when Wu Sangui rebelled and the development of events, which is what Xiao Jin is most afraid of.

"Time is pressing, Mr. Ji hurried to prepare for the mass production of muskets, and posted notices in the city, recruiting a large number of craftsmen, the more the better, I went back to urge Chen Jinnan to recruit soldiers, and the renovation of the dormitory, the sooner the better."

"Mr. Zheng, you will be responsible for some matters such as copywriting and material statistics, thank you for your hard work."

After speaking, he pulled Wang Er to get up and go back to the house, he couldn't wait to see what the letter from the Xue Mansion said.