As suspected, the blacksmith called Dogan added a powdery thing to the steel bar, which was an unknown metal additive. The prototype of the weapon he created seemed to be wrapped in a transparent layer. Judging from the excellent tenacity of the weapon, it seems to be a chromium salt compound that later generations said. And this chromium salt compound is the memory metal that later generations of alchemy experts dreamed of.

I didn't expect that this kind of thing, which was called an ideal metal in later generations, would appear in this era.

The master is in the folk!

After Lu Heng put down the steel bar, he reached out and patted the dog's shoulder, and after laughing, he turned around and left. And Wu Ningyuan and the emperor also picked up the prototype and glanced at it, and the look of surprise in their eyes was undisguised.

"Good stuff!" Wu Ningyuan stroked his beard and nodded in praise. As a military general leading troops, his views on weapons are naturally higher than others. On the side, the emperor took the steel bar, stretched out his finger and flicked it, seeing that the steel surname was extremely tough, he was also very happy.

"Well, from now on, you are the head of this level, and besides, I give you ...... Eh, Shangfu Bing Cao, the official is from the eighth grade! After groping his chin and thinking about a suitable official position, the emperor looked at the excited dog, nodded and smiled with satisfaction, coughed, and then said earnestly: "You must serve the country well, and you must not be arrogant, you know?" ”

"Humble duty, humble duty thank you Lord Longen!" The dog was so excited that he immediately knelt down and kowtowed. The sound of the thump made the other people's eyelids jump. It's a stony floor, so hard, how painful!

On the side, Wu Ningyuan watched the emperor unconsciously demote the official by one level, and couldn't help but roll his eyes.

After Lu Heng and the three of them left, Zhanxiong smiled and said to the dog that your kid is lucky to walk shit, and the happy dog Dan smiled.

Then, the three of them sat on the lifting mechanism, from the lowest to the highest.

After getting off the mechanism, there was a busy scene in front of me. The soldiers lifted the assembled weapons down from the lifting mechanism. After careful verification, the qualified ones were carried away, and the unqualified ones were directly sent to the organ and lowered to the lowest layer for re-furnace.

In those mountains of wooden boxes, there were dozens of standard weapons, flashing with a cold light. As the soldiers carried it, there was a clanging sound.

Wu Ningyuan beckoned, stopping the soldier who was about to carry away a box of sabers. A shiny and sharp saber was taken out of it and presented to the emperor. Looking at the emperor who was full of interest in his eyes, he explained with a smile: "This is a saber that has been formed, and it is specially equipped for cavalry!" ”

The emperor nodded, and after taking the saber from Wu Ningyuan's hand, he snorted and unsheathed the sword. Looking at the blade that shimmered with cold light, I could see my own shadow. After plucking off one of his long crooked beards, the emperor nodded with satisfaction and praised: "Good knife!" ”

Then, the emperor waved it a few more times, and his excitement was even higher.

"Very good, this kind of knife is suitable for cavalry, it is light and sharp, and the slash is powerful!" The emperor laughed, put the saber into the box, nodded and said with a smile: "The shape of this knife seems to be different from my weapon of the Great Zhou." ”

"Well, this is what Yongzheng came up with!" Wu Ningyuan smiled and nodded, he was actually quite curious in his heart. He didn't know where Lu Heng saw this kind of knife, so he turned his head and asked Lu Heng on the side: "Yongzheng, where did you learn about the existence of this kind of weapon?" ”

Lu Heng was holding a serial hand crossbow and looked at it carefully. Listen to Wu Ningyuan ask. After smiling lightly, he put down the crossbow, coughed, and recalled, "Oh, you said this weapon." Well, such. Once upon a time, there was a mountain in my hometown, and there was a temple on the mountain......"

"Brother Huang, let's go, where are we going!" was shaking his head and talking, turning his head, only to find that Wu Ningyuan and the emperor had hooked their shoulders and walked far away.

Belch...... I'm not done yet!

Lu Heng stood there, wiping his nose and muttering stupidly.

…… Hand crossbows and sabers are some of the weapons produced in the arsenal, and they do not account for a large proportion. In the arsenal, the main research and production are all kinds of firearms on the weapon illustration that Lu Heng gave to Wu Ningyuan at the beginning.

After passing through the heavily guarded passages, the three of them finally came to the core of this arsenal.

The environment and atmosphere here are compared to the outside. It's very different. Outside, the clanging of iron and the sneering sound of molten iron became a village, mixed with the slogans of the laborers and the roar of the lifting mechanism, which made people's heads big.

However, in this other enclosed hall, there is a very quiet effect. The staff were all dressed in sleek, sleek shorts, and they wore a strange-looking filter in their mouths. Walk around the hall in an orderly manner.

On the workbench on the side, the assembly line composed of dozens of workers was neatly assembling various standard weapons, looking at the platform in front of the staff, which was moving like a conveyor belt in later generations, Lu Heng was very puzzled. After inquiring about the person in charge here, I learned that the conveyor belt was controlled by using water and pulleys with the help of a river outside the mountain.

Scold...... I was so shocked that I thought it was electrified here!

Look at the assembly line of electrification operations in the arsenal of later generations. Lu Heng shook his head with tears and laughter, muttering secretly in his heart.

Look at the mechanic in charge of the control agency, and see that he looks super professional. Lu Heng sighed in his heart, where is the master among the people.

Accompanied by Lu Heng and Wu Ningyuan, the emperor was like a big man who went to the countryside to comfort the people in later generations. At this time, the emperor was holding a seamless steel pipe, and asked with great interest how such an ingenious thing was made.

Yes, that's right, seamless steel pipes. This kind of seamless steel pipe, which appeared in the middle of the 19th century and was mass-produced at the end of the 19th century, really appeared in front of you.

Lu Heng walked over, picked up the steel pipe and took a look, and was surprised to find that there was still rifling in this steel pipe. The spiral rifling circles made Lu Hengda surprised.

Listening to the worker's patient and respectful explanation, Lu Heng suddenly realized.

Looking at the workers in front of the workbench, carefully driving the force of the water and stamping, Lu Heng was once again shocked by the infinite wisdom of the people.

The drill bit that rotates for stamping is inlaid with a diamond. Although, the color cannot be compared to those brilliant diamonds. But under the effect of the whole mechanism, drilling through the iron rod is still devastating.

It's just, it's a pity. Because of the constraints of the whole agency, this successful seamless steel pipe is still very rare. The others are either misdrilled, or they are drilled out because of the jitters.

That's enough, though!

To be able to manufacture seamless steel pipes is already unexpected. These other factors will not be able to be solved for a while and a half with the current weak handicraft industry foundation in Dazhou.

Since the seamless steel pipe appeared, moreover, the rifling was also pulled out, which indicates the next. The firearms that Lu Heng and the others were about to see were even more powerful than they had imagined before.

Thinking of this, Lu Heng's heart was also full of expectations.

Without further hesitation, urging the other two, they walked towards the room where the finished firearm had been visited.

With the samurai guarding the door, the room was opened. Under the light of the fire in that room, rows of swarthy standard weapons exuding a cold and murderous aura suddenly appeared in front of them.

The neatly arranged long-barreled firecrackers, the short mortars, and the thunderbolts like turtle patterns filled this huge room.

When everyone walked in, they were all amazed by such a novel weapon. The emperor's eyes were full of curiosity, like a child who had seen a playful toy, walking in this period, touching this and moving that.

Seeing that he was extremely curious, he picked up a thunderbolt bead and flipped it over. From time to time, his fingers whispered, and he listened to the sound inside. It's like picking a watermelon. The crowd was horrified, and their hair stood on end.

Wu Ningyuan's eyes were quick, and with a whoosh, he rushed over and snatched the thunderbolt bead from the emperor's hand. looked at the dazed emperor with a pale face, and stammered: "Emperor, brother emperor, danger...... Dangerous! ”

He had seen the power of the thunderbolt beads, that posture, dear mother. If it's the first time you see someone, you'll be scared of incontinence. At this time, seeing the emperor's indifferent look, and looking at the big thunderbolt bead, Wu Ningyuan was so frightened that his liver trembled.

"Just this little thing?" The emperor's interest was undiminished, groping his chin, with a look of disbelief: "Is it so powerful?" ”。

"Yes, yes!" Wu Ningyuan swallowed his saliva, and after putting down the thunderbolt bead with palpitations, he said fearfully: "Don't look at this fist-sized thing, it seems to be very inconspicuous." But once it explodes, within five steps, there will be no chickens and dogs left! ”

Hearing this, the emperor's face suddenly changed. Stealthily taking a step back, turning his head, he saw that the others didn't seem to notice their movements. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, and after coughing, he pointed to the swarthy thunderbolt bead and said in a deep voice: "Since this is the case, then it must be kept alive!" ”

"Yes, my brother knows!" Wu Ningyuan was afraid that the emperor would be interested again, so after replying in a hurry, he pulled the emperor to continue to eat other things.

Seeing the emperor coming from the side of the thunderbolt bead, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, raised their hands to wipe the sweat oozing from their foreheads, and looked at each other, with a look in their eyes for the rest of their lives.

In order to prevent the emperor from making a mistake and causing everyone to take a dirt plane to see the king of Hades together, after discussing with Wu Ningyuan, Lu Heng and Wu Ningyuan decided decisively to send someone to follow the emperor, don't let this old boy leave everyone's surname here on a whim.

Lu Heng picked up a firearm, glanced at the simple bolt behind him, smiled slightly, and put it down. After all, steelmaking technology was limited in this era, and Lu Heng couldn't ask them to make high-strength springs and the like. Therefore, the musket is still the arquebus of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Rao is like this, with the power of rifling, and with a warhead of similar shape to the later generations, the power has also increased a lot compared to the arquebus.

"Have you tried it, what is the effective range of this firebolt?" After Lu Heng put down the firecracker, he asked the entourage.

"If you go back to your lordship, within two hundred steps, there will be no bullets!" The entourage said excitedly, that said, he had personally tested the shot, and the result made everyone present excited.

Two hundred steps!

Hearing this, Lu Heng nodded, reached out and patted the man's shoulder, and praised it well.

The unit of measurement of the Great Zhou Dynasty is still the Tang Dynasty. One step is the distance set by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, which is almost more than one meter in later generations. Two hundred steps, almost two hundred and fifty.

Under the current conditions, this is already a very impressive result.

Lu Heng asked here, but he heard a group of exclamations suddenly coming from the front. Turning his head to look at it, he couldn't help but be covered in a cold sweat.

It turned out that the emperor was itching, so he curiously grabbed a small cannon barrel, looked inside with his eyes on the end of the cannon barrel.

Originally, the barrel was not loaded with ammunition. It's nothing. However, the emperor got carried away and almost kicked down an entire box of mortar shells on the side.

Such a dangerous action frightened the accompanying personnel, and their souls were scattered. Wu Ningyuan's eyes were quick, and he once again showed his proud skills, picked up the emperor by the waist, and ran back to the same place.

The emperor, who was sandwiched by Wu Ningyuan's waist, was suddenly furious. Wow whoa, whoa. And by Wu Ningyuan's side, Zhanxiong and the others stretched out their hands and hurriedly followed, for fear that the prince would throw the emperor out under the difficulty.

After a succession of heartbeats of one hundred and eighteen, everyone no longer dared to let His Majesty the Emperor stay. Wu Ning judged the situation from afar and immediately proposed to pull it out. This proposal was approved by everyone but the Emperor.

Looking at the appearance of everyone's eyes, the two trembles with fright. Even if the emperor was reluctant in every way, he only had to agree for the time being. However, the emperor said that it is okay to agree, but after going out, you must see the power of these things with your own eyes.

If he is not satisfied, he will be punished by the Nine Clans!

When a sentence was spoken, Lu Heng and Wu Ning were far speechless.

With the help of the lifting mechanism, the three of them reached the top of the mountain directly. Under the guidance of the entourage, the three of them refused to stay for a moment, and came directly to the martial arts arena located on the mountainside.

Here, the area is open, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the air flow is smooth, like, uh...... It seems to be a resort for cultivating immortals, not much like a martial arts field!

Well, but to make a weapons testing ground, the conditions here, that is definitely more than enough.

Moreover, on the side of the test site, there was a huge trebuchet.

The wind blew, and the hemp rope on the trebuchet swayed gently, as if to welcome the group.

Then, the entourage selected a few of those weapons at random and took them to the martial arts arena.

For a time, there were loud gunshots and explosions on the martial arts arena. Lu Heng, who was in it, smelled the gunpowder smoke in the air, and smiled slightly, as if he had returned to the training ground in the later generations.

After testing all the weapons, Wu Ningyuan smiled and patted his palm. Then, in the astonished eyes of everyone, I saw several strong men walking up with a huge black slippery bucket-shaped thing.

"What is this?" The emperor looked at the strange thing and asked puzzled. As he spoke, he casually picked up a strand of silver hair from his ear and shook his head gently.

Wu Ningyuan smiled and didn't say a word, just let those people load that thing onto the trebuchet.

One two three...... As the trumpet in the mouths of the crowd stopped, the trebuchet fired violently.

I saw that the huge black object, after drawing an arc in the air, quickly fell into the opposite hillside.

There was a loud bang, and the opposite mountain shattered and shook. Flying sand and rocks. The blazing firelight, in the diffuse smoke of gunpowder, rose into the sky.

"This ......!" The emperor's mouth closed in surprise, and he pointed to the sky-high fire on the opposite hillside and muttered.

Wu Ningyuan smiled slightly, made a high-spirited appearance with his hands behind his back, then coughed, and said leisurely: "Everyone, the era of hot weapons ......"

Scratching his bag and dropping his hair, Wu Ningyuan looked at the shocked eyes of the group, smiled indifferently, and the vanity in his heart was so satisfying that he was hugely satisfied.

At that time, the scholar stood in the courtyard with a smile on his face, pointing to the sky-rushing fire, and said the words of the coming of the new era. Until now, thinking of the scene at that time, Wu Ningyuan's heart is itchy.

When will I have such an opportunity?

Now, the opportunity has finally arrived! Moreover, it was said in front of the imperial brother. Wu Ningyuan laughed in his heart, extremely proud. For a while, he was full of spirit, and he had the domineering spirit of dominating the rivers and lakes for thousands of years.

"Hey!" Lu Heng glanced at the raging sea of fire on the opposite mountain, couldn't help but pinch in his heart, coughed, stepped forward and pulled Wu Ningyuan and said.

"Wait!" Wu Ningyuan finally had such an opportunity, how could he easily let it go. After pushing Lu Heng away unreasonably, he coughed and re-enacted his excitement: "Everyone, from now on, the world will enter the era of gunpowder weapons!" ”

After saying that, there was no imaginary applause. Wu Ning couldn't help but be discouraged. Looking at the strange gazes of everyone, especially the emperor's black face, Wu Ningyuan wondered.

Is it because of their bad eloquence, or because they have not aroused their emotions?

Thinking about what he looked like just now, Wu Ningyuan shook his head, it shouldn't be, he was really excited just now!

Raising his head, he found that everyone was still looking at him so stunned, Wu Ningyuan comforted himself in his heart: Well, he should have been shocked by the momentum of this king, so he didn't react.

Seeing that Lu Heng was speechless, Wu Ningyuan coughed, walked to Lu Heng's side, and asked, "What were you going to say just now?" ”

Lu Heng glared at him angrily, then stretched out his hand and pointed at the flames on the opposite side, and after coughing, he said seriously: "Ahem, it seems to be on fire!" ”

"Huh?" Wu Ningyuan was stunned.

(To be continued)