Zhang Han's status in the Ming Dynasty is actually not high, and even the craftsmen are actually ranked in front of the merchants. Merchants are not allowed to ride horses in the downtown area, they are not allowed to wear silk clothes and satin shoes, many restrictions are full of discrimination, even if the restrictions on industry and commerce are relaxed a lot now, but on the surface the status of merchants is still very low, it is because of the imperial court's contempt for industry and commerce, resulting in Longwan did not transform the development of industry and commerce into national strength after the opening of the sea, and the merchants are not of the same mind as the country, whether it is the Jin merchants in the northwest or the merchants in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Ming Dynasty is completely different from the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty only has a very small channel for donating officials, and there are many restrictions, unlike the Qing Dynasty as long as the state is insufficient, you can buy an official position, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, donating officials can even do local official seals, not in the Ming Dynasty, although Zhang Han's official position is very low, in fact, it is a peak that is difficult for many people to reach in a lifetime.

The official robe was unfolded little by little in Zhang Han's hands, the silk material was very smooth in his hands, the color of the blue official robe was very pleasing to the eye, the chest was embroidered with silk threads, and the pattern was a biao with his head raised to the sky, Zhang Han did not put on the official robe, and handed it to Jiang Kui beside him, and he picked up the official seal again, wrapped in yellow cloth, made of brass, and engraved with the seal of the inspection of Daliang Mountain...... Zhang Han breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Shenming: "With this thing, it is much easier to do things." ”

Li Shenming smiled and said nothing, and then handed the bronze medal of the hundred household officials to Zhang Han.

The bronze medal has Zhang Han's name and physiognomy characteristics, as well as the official position, from this time on, Zhang Han was subordinate to the Tianchengwei command envoy as a hundred household officials, and the position of the hundred households was on the edge of Lijiazhuang, this hundred households were actually almost empty, and the military households had already fled, Zhang Han served as a patrol as a hundred households, in fact, the important thing is the inspection, and the hundred households are only used as a reason for future promotion.

"Knock on the inspector!"

I don't know who made fun, but there were a lot of people who knelt down in hulala.

Someone took the lead, and even the people on the other side of the construction site knelt down, and only many children were ignorant, standing on the ground and looking at this side.

Of course Li Shenming will not kneel, he usually comes into contact with high-ranking officials such as high-grade generals and governors, and the guards in Ma Chengen's Mansion are probably all thousands of household officials, and hundreds of household officials can't get into his eyes, and he also has a reputation.

"Get up, what nonsense." Zhang Han scolded with a smile, kicked the person who took the lead and knelt down, and ordered everyone to continue to be busy with the work in hand.

"Wenlan has done a good job here."

Li Shenming followed Zhang Han and looked around, with a look of envy in his eyes.

It is easy to do things with money, and the entire Lijiazhuang area is full of construction sites. Armor yards, weapons yards, carriage yards, firearms yards, buildings are being built everywhere, and Li Shenming is very envious of the large warehouse area and workshop area, and waterwheels are still being built along the riverbank, and there are many people busy working in front of each waterwheel.

Zhang Han's eyes were also full of pride, the thousands of people in front of him were all transferred by his will, this pride satisfied his manly feelings, and it was indeed a hundred times stronger than being a small owner in the store.

"I am confident that if I live for 200 years, I will hit the water for 3,000 miles......" Zhang Han somehow read these two lines of poetry.

"Heroic! Admire. Li Shenming's eyes showed a look of admiration.

……

"The proprietor."

At the end of July, the weather was still very hot, and in the evening there were all kinds of grass and insects chirping around.

Jiang Kui carried a lantern, and five or six tall guards stood beside Zhang Han with knives, escorting him between the various workshops, and when they arrived at the gate of the firearms field, Wang Debang greeted him from afar and knelt down at the door.

There are already many people who call Zhang Han "adult", but the old man is still used to calling the proprietor, it is difficult to change his words, Zhang Han does not ask everyone to change his words, his hundred household officials and inspectors are all small officials with sesame seeds, and there is no need to put on music.

"No need to be polite." Zhang Han pulled up Wang Debang and said, "Don't kneel down when you see me in the future." ”

Wang Debang said: "The proprietor is now an adult, and the ceremony cannot be abolished. ”

Zhang Han said with a smile: "Then you will follow the previous rules, and you will live as you do in the military household, and the etiquette cannot be abolished." ”

Wang Debang was startled, his chubby body took two steps back, and said with a smile: "I listen to the proprietor." ”

"Hmm." Zhang Han continued to move forward, this is the firearms field, in addition to Wang Debang, Zhang Han also asked people to recruit skilled craftsmen in Beijing, and sent people to Macao, but Macao is too far away, even to bring back and find a suitable candidate, I am afraid it will take more than half a year to a year.

Now the firearms yard is still only making guns, but no longer making arquebuses, there are more than 100 old arquebuses, and the firearms yard only provides daily maintenance, no longer making new ones.

"Proprietor, this is a reed." Wang Debang took a V-shaped reed, this reed is the core part of the flintlock pistol, Wang Debang has been doing it for more than a month under the guidance of Zhang Han, and has been improving it many times, and the reed in front of him finally has a shape.

Zhang Han originally thought that the arquebus was strong enough in this era, in fact, the Lu Mi gun he asked Wang Debang to make was indeed very good, and it was very effective in fighting horse thieves and northern captives, but after Liaodong saw the war mode between the Jurchens and the Ming army, he found that Lu Mi Gong or shotgun did not work...... Even if it wasn't the kind of garbage of the Ming army that blew up once with three rings, it would be very difficult to hit the Jurchens with a pure arquebus.

The arquebus has a slow rate of fire, the weather requirements are too high, wind, rain, and snow will affect the dispatch, and when shooting, because of the prevention of fire splashing and injuring themselves, they can't aim at all, unless it is a long-term training of elite shooters, otherwise the hit rate is low, and the wind is too strong, and the primer in the medicine pool will be blown away by the wind, and it can't be used at all in the rain, even if everything is normal, the steps of the arquebus are too many and complicated, the speed of sending is too low, and the effective range is not as good as the bow and heavy arrow, according to the situation observed on the battlefield in Liaodong, Pure arquebuses and post-Kim archer troops were engaged, and arquebuses were no match at all.

Zhang Han originally thought that the steps of the flintlock pistol were too big, until he saw a "Soldier's Record" written by a Ming Dynasty man in a bookstore in Zhangjiakou.

This book is still the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, an old book more than ten years ago, but the author recorded in detail the casting methods and use methods of various artillery guns in the form of pictures and texts, and the records of the muskets are also very detailed, among which Zhang Han was most surprised by the fact that this Zhoushan deputy general named He Rubin also recorded the flintlock pistol.

"Whoever uses a fire rope with a bird is clothed with water and plucks beads, and whoever uses a flint stone strikes each other with a steel machine......"

There are not only records, but also figures.

Zhang Han himself knew the structure of the flintlock pistol, his cousin often took him to hunt pheasants and rabbits in his childhood, and when he grew up, he often played it himself, the old firearm may be a hundred years old, it is a standard flintlock breech gun, loaded with gunpowder, stuffed with lead bullets, firing, used more, and knows every component well.

Wang Debang himself has never made a flintlock pistol, but he has been making a bird gun for 20 years, and as soon as Zhang Han said it, he understood the approximate structure, plus the graphic explanation on the military record, the prototype has been made by him.

"Proprietor, this is the kind of gun."

Wang Debang handed over a flintlock pistol that had just been made, the parts of the gun body were very well-made, Zhang Han felt a sinking when he got it, it weighed about six or seven pounds, and it also met his requirements for weight, the length was shorter than the Lumi gun, slightly longer than the bird gun, and the longer gun tube could increase the thrust and increase the effective killing distance.

Zhang Han pulled the trigger, his fingers slowly increased the force, after the critical point, the flint clamped on the bracket and the fire sickle connected to the medicine pool cover, at the same time, with the help of the lever to open the medicine pool cover, at the same time the hit fire sickle burst out of the spark, the spark fell into the open medicine pool cover, and then the gunpowder will be ignited, and the primer is then connected to the projectile, so as to complete the whole process of launching.

After hearing the crisp "click" sound, all the copper parts completed all the movements as Zhang Han saw.

"Very good...... Zhang Han smiled.

Wang Debang was overjoyed, but Zhang Han then said: "The board machine is still too loose, and it needs to be remade firmly, and the machine must be powerful when it is hit, otherwise it may not be able to fire successfully, and it will not be able to ignite the priming medicine...... Also, there are too many spare parts, and the effective range needs to be strengthened, so try it slowly, and this handle in your hand can be slightly improved to produce a batch for the archers to practice. ”

"Yes, proprietor, I'll try my best." Wang Debang took a deep breath, and the joy and pride just now were gone.

This flintlock pistol is actually very close to success, Zhang Han knows that the biggest flaw of the flintlock pistol is the problem of the success rate of firing, Wang Debang is now making this one, I am afraid that the firing success rate will not be too high, in addition, he vaguely remembers that the structure of the most successful front-loading smoothbore gun of the British army is not as in front of him, the appearance of the safety buckle lock is completely different, the old smoothbore used by Zhang Han was used by the British army back then, and it fell into his hands after staying in China for more than 100 years, and it was actually used normally, and the effective firing range was more than 100 meters. It's a pity that the state was later asked to confiscate and destroy it, and Zhang Han regretted it for a long time.

Yang Hegao and Li Changnian on the side were relieved, but Yang Hegao still had a lot of worries on his face, Li Changnian was already very skilled in the production of carriages, just slowly improve the details, there was not too much pressure, Wang Debang was not a threat for the time being, only he was in charge of the two fields of weapons and armor, and recently there was a good hand named Chen Yaozong, a master from the Beijing Division, Chen Yaozong was making chain mail recently, which was much stronger than Yang and Gaolai, who could only make cloth armor and cotton armor.

"If this steel machine is ordered after improvement, how much silver will it cost?"

"It's more expensive than a bird's gun, it's cheaper than a rummy gun...... About six taels a little more, and if you add the bayonet that the proprietor said, I'm afraid it will be even more. ”

The bayonet was also designed by Zhang Han, and it was mounted on the head of the gun with a sleeve, and Zhang Han told Wang Debang for a few minutes that the other party understood, in fact, the Ming army had some similar things, that is, the combination of firearms and cold weapons, although there was no bayonet on the bird, it was not difficult to understand.

The bayonet was punched out of the armory field, designed by Zhang Han himself, with a flat blade, blood grooves on both sides, and a sleeve at the bottom, which can be stuck and fixed when it is turned on the barrel.

Zhang Han thinks that the simpler the design, the better, and the stupid black is practical!