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"Bang!"

A crisp gunshot rang out in the woods of Nanshan. Then Chen Ming's happy voice echoed in the woods: "Hit, hit." Ben Dashao is finally open. Liu Wu'er, Liu Wu'er, pick it up for me. ”

Chen Ming, who had already put on a thin jacket, looked at the mountain wind, waiting for Liu Wu to pick up the prey he had worked so hard to pick up. Well, after three or four months, he was already very accustomed to instructing people to work for him like this.

Chen Ming held a musket in his hand, a rifle that was rare in China in this era - Chen Ming did not know if any foreigners had given rifles as gifts to the Manchus, and the Manchu magnates and royalty were not ignorant fools, and they should have flintlock pistols, handcuffs and other things in their family. It's just that such things were not used by the Manchu elites in the armed forces, even their banner soldiers, but only for fun, just like Chen Ming's current work.

The rifle in Chen Ming's hand is the first rifle produced by the Chen family's firearms workshop, Chen Ming only got it yesterday, and he set up a target in the Xiaonangou school yard that afternoon to practice. The accuracy of the rifle is not comparable to the flintlock pistol at all, Chen Ming, a pure rookie on the shooting range, has stretched the distance again and again, and the distance is more than 70 meters, and the gun can still hit the target, and the penetration is extremely strong. This is a kind of strength beyond the imagination of the Chen family. Chen Erbao, who was very unimpressed with the rifle before, probed the crater on the wooden target with his finger, and his yellow teeth were bared.

Super accuracy, super long range, even if it is difficult to reload the rifle, this gun also has a strong existence value. Almost all the people in charge of the Chen family thought of one word - assassination.

This kind of gun is completely different from the shotgun that the Chen family is familiar with, and the Chinese folk in the 30th year of Qianlong had a large number of shotguns and other firearms. It may also be that the performance of the shotgun is too bad, and the Manchu emperor often disagrees with the request of his subordinates to ban the gun. Although there is a prohibition, it is not really investigated and punished, and in fact, it acquiesces in the possession of guns by the people. In the 47th year of Kangxi, the 2nd year of Yongzheng and the first year of Qianlong, there were edicts on gun control, but they were mainly aimed at the illegal sale of guns and gunpowder by military personnel, rather than at the people.

In the 14th year of Qianlong, Pan Siyu, the governor of Fujian, asked for a ban on guns on the grounds that "the people of Fujian Province are not quiet, and half of them are privately hiding weapons", but Qianlong did not allow it. In the original history, it was not until the 39th year of Qianlong that Wang Lun in Shandong rebelled, which lasted for a month and captured several counties, so that Qianlong deeply realized the threat of large-scale firearms to his own rule, so he ordered a ban on guns.

In the 30th year of Qianlong, it was not uncommon for people to make guns. Especially in the mountains.

The range of a shotgun may not be 70 meters, the distance is more than 10 zhang, and it depends on whether God bless you if you want to hit the exact target. And this rifle in the hands of a seasoned gunner, a distance of more than a hundred meters can still easily hit the target. It is completely a big killer that surpasses the imagination and cognition of the Chen family's brains!

Although Qigong, Chen Erbao and Chen Ming's cheap father have not yet received a definite answer, no one has said anything about the investment in the manufacture of rifles in the firearms workshop.

As soon as it was dawn today, Chen Ming took the rifle and took Liu Wu and went to Nanshan. It was already winter in October, and the mountain wind was strong, but Chen Ming didn't care at all. A full 13 shots were fired, and only one shot hit the target at this number point that was considered inauspicious in the eyes of Westerners. It was something like a little goat, and Chen Ming didn't know exactly what it was. Anyway, he just wanted to hit it.

"Young master, young master, it's a fragrant deer, it's a fragrant deer."

Liu Wu actually likes to follow Chen Ming out to hunt. For him, this is much happier than staying in engineering and workshops all day and night. Although Chen Ming released the empty gun twice, he thought he had hit the target, so he ran twice in vain.

Chen Ming looked forward to it, did not reload ammunition, and waited for Liu Wu to bring back the prey. "Fragrant roe deer?" Chen Ming, who accepted all the memories of his predecessor, knew that the so-called fragrant roe deer was Lin musk, that is, the source of musk. This will be an absolute national protected animal in the future, but in the current time and space, it is a local dish.

There are a lot of forest musk deer living in Funiu Mountain, there are as many as two or three hundred catties of musk flowing on the surface of Ruzhou City every year, Ruzhou and Nanyang Mansion, Henan Mansion, Shaanzhou and other places, are the origin of the famous musk in the whole country. Think about it, how many forest musk deer do you have to kill a thousand catties of musk a year? This year, I don't talk about any live musk incense!

Every year from August to around the New Year's Festival is the month of musk deer hunting, and the Chen family doesn't know how much musk deer they can harvest in Tumenji. This thing invigorates blood circulation and dispels stasis, replenishes deficiency and dissipates accumulation, abdominal mass in the main abdomen, and children's chancre accumulation, which has the effects of replenishing deficiency, appetizing, and moistening the lungs. It is both meat and medicine.

After a hunt, Chen Ming's interest was even higher, and he spent the whole day wandering around Nanshan, and the next day he went all day. It wasn't until the third day that the weather became cold and gloomy, and Chen Ming stayed honestly in Xiaonangou. In the afternoon of the same day, the first snow fell in Xiaonangou since the beginning of winter this year.

In two days, the rifle in Chen Ming's hand was released, if not a hundred shots, but also sixty or seventy shots. The crosshair remains the same, the rifling is still the same, the whole rifle is dismantled and fragmented, and every part is carefully examined, even the elasticity of the spring that is most prone to problems is kept intact, as long as the flint is replaced, this is a brand new rifle.

At this point, Chen Ming is relieved of the craftsmanship of the four masters in his workshop.

At the same time, the four masters of the Chen family's firearms workshop all broke out in a layer of cold sweat on their heads. They didn't expect that there was such a place waiting for them. The eldest young master of the Chen family walked around the mountains with a gun for two days, fired dozens of shots, and then disassembled the gun to see the parts, this trick is ruthless enough!

In the two days that Chen Ming was carrying guns all over the mountain, the other two finished rifles were taken from the workshop in Qigong City. The whole firearms workshop was busy for ten days, and a total of three rifles were made - in fact, three qualified barrels were pulled, and all of them were removed.

As time passed, the speed at which rifles were made in the workshop would definitely increase slowly, and Chen Ming was not worried about this. Anyway, he wasn't prepared to rebel immediately, so he wasn't in a hurry. In his view, the current firearms workshop is equivalent to the accumulation of technology.

Qigong took the other two rifles, and Chen Ming didn't ask where to go. He knows very well his weight and position, and it is true that he is very important to the Chen family, but no matter how important he is, he is only the heir of the next generation, and he is not the master of the entire Chen family. Do things in a measured manner, don't think about controlling all the activities and everything of the entire Chen family now.

Qigong took two rifles, what do you care about him? Can he still aim his gun at his own family?

Chen Ming didn't ask Qigong to inquire at all, and after walking around the workshop, Liu Wen came from Tumenji. He is now officially serving the Chen family's job, and he takes care of the logistics of engineering, eating and drinking. Yesterday, I went to Tumen to collect and transport eggs - Xiaonangou's food, drink and clothing are all supplied by Tumenji, and the entire Xiaonangou has 100 plates, and now how much land has been occupied by workshops and waterwheels? Xiaonangou no longer produces grain. The grain, meat, poultry and eggs of more than 1,000 people up and down were all prepared from Tumenji. Engineering is no exception, Chen Ming attaches great importance to engineering, and the students in it add an extra egg every day.

And all the expenses of engineering are directly from the private accounts of Chen Hui, the main line of the Chen family, and Chen Cong is responsible for allocating them, not the many workshops in Xiaonangou and the Chen family, and many expenses are from the public accounts of the Chen family.

"Young master, I heard in Tumenji that Bao Ye led his men and horses to fight fiercely with the people of Qingtiaoling in Zhangbaqiao. Killed five thieves. As soon as Liu Wen returned to Xiaonangou, he came to report to Chen Ming.

"When?"

"Just the day before yesterday."

Day before yesterday? That is, the second day after the rifle was caused, the first day Chen Ming went to the mountain to hunt.

"Five killed?" Chen Ming didn't believe it. With the Chen family's current five times, it is not impossible to kill fifty.

The Chen family can't catch the tail of the mastermind behind the scenes now, and they can't help but catch it. Then I have to knock on Qingtiaoling, knock on the mountain and shake the tiger, and see what Qingtiaoling does next.

Qingtiaoling suffered retaliation because of 'kidnapping Chen Ming', no matter whether Zhao Chuanjing can give the Chen family a major blow, he will definitely be angry with the mastermind behind the scenes, and the Chen family will wait and see what happens, which is a good way to find the mastermind behind the scenes.

Moreover, the head of the rifle was only made, and the next day the Chen family went to Qingtiaoling to fight. Regardless of whether this battle played a role or not, Chen Ming, after figuring out the time, suddenly felt that his cheap father was so brutal.

For a while, he had a feeling of enthusiasm!