Chapter Ninety-Four: Muskets and Paper Bullets
The entire New Year's Art Troupe spent their time in a busy relocation, although the weather in Chang'an City was very cold, it couldn't stop their determination to run on the water.
Furong Garden is the fief of Yanglin and Li Lizhen, the scorpion led five hundred guards have carried out a preliminary construction here, a row of unique brick houses in Wangjia Village is their temporary camp, Furong Garden is on the side of Qujiang Pond, there are ten large ships docked in the pond with water wheels, these ten boats are the temporary barracks of the art troupe, Yanglin requires the members of the art troupe to eat and live on the boat, and even the exercises and performances are also on the boat, so as to adapt to life on the water.
The sides of the ten big ships are very high, the flat deck is very wide, as long as they are together, it is a big stage, except that there will be some masts and huge water ships in the tail, and the living areas of the crew are in the cabins below deck.
Sanitation and epidemic prevention work is a daily work that must be checked on the ship, relative to the guards who were kicked off the cold lake water from the deck by the head of the regiment every day, the members of the art troupe feel that they are happy, these days there are often people from the Wangjia Village workshop to send things to the boat, the members of the regiment regardless of men and women, have received the new toothbrush, toothpaste, the head of the regiment's secret alabaster, talcum powder, bath soap and standard clothing, so that the whole art troupe has a new spiritual outlook.
The Drunken Immortal Building has been completely demolished, Yang Lin took some edicts given by Li Er and released many women who wanted to get out of the sea of suffering, and the rest of the people were led by Gu Qingqing to a rented mansion to live temporarily. After receiving some training in musical instruments and singing and dancing, the art troupe will not participate in the management of 'heaven and earth' in the future. So the show or something, they have to perform it themselves. Yanglin provides some design plans and music, etc., and some of them who can take a boat to Jiangnan are also going to go, and the sound of the beautiful sound is not attached to Jiangnan to make a lot of money, how can it support the expenses of so many people.
All the work in the south of the Yangtze River was carried out in an orderly manner, until the beginning of February, after Li Jing and Hou Jun returned to Chang'an one after another, Li Eryi sent an edict to Yanglin, asking him to prepare a decent celebration performance, the venue was the palace, and the participants were some generals under Li Jing and Hou Junji. A few accompanying Wenchen, and there is also a condition that needless to say Yang Lin also knows, Captain Xiliang must be present.
Yanglin, who has not entered Chang'an City for a month, feels that there have been many changes in this city in just one month, and the Yonglefang construction site that gathers thousands of migrant workers is naturally needless to say, there are many people wandering around on other streets, rent and land prices are constantly rising, and hundreds of thousands of laborers who have entered the top ten factories have basically been in place, and the construction site outside the city is more lively than when the Yangjiang Canal was excavated, after all, people's motivation will be doubled when there are 30 yuan a day. These people who came to Chang'an City to hang out or look for work are the families of migrant workers.
It was noon when Yanglin's motorcade entered the palace, and Li Lizhi, who was waiting at the gate of the palace early, happily gave him a bear hug when he saw him, although Yanglin had an old heart, but he cherished the most sincere feelings expressed by the child. took Li Lizhen's hand all the way to the harem, and told her some interesting stories along the way. After seeing his eldest grandson who looked at him with a warning face, he went to look at Master Li Bin again. In the end, Yang Lin came to the small courtyard of Guyue Daowen alone, and heard that this guy had recently fallen out of love. Seeing that he is almost forty years old, he is still playing emotional games. I asked the doorman Xiao Mo carefully, only to know that it was this guy's personal room that suddenly exploded, and even a few staff members in the entire venue were blown up, but fortunately he was not present at the time, otherwise now Yang Lin could only burn incense on his grave.
"I said, dear Master, you have lived a normal life in addition to your studies, you got married and had a tall person, and if you had an accident, everyone outside has rumored that you have fallen out of love, what a shame!" Yang Lin looked at Gu Yue Daowen with a haggard face and quipped.
"It's a broken love, and there's nothing in this world that I love more than those things in the real yàn room, and it's all gone with a bang, how long will it take me to plan those things!" Gu Yue Daowen said helplessly.
"Well, I guess none of the stuff I got for you will cause an explosion! Or is it such a powerful explosion, did you get something else? Yang Lin asked in surprise, the things that caused the explosion, in addition to gunpowder is chemicals, Yang Lin has always taught Gu Yue Daowen some physical and mechanical things, bearings, gears, levers, pulleys, etc., these are impossible to cause explosions.
"Well, the gods and men came back and sent me something special, saying that they were going to exchange it for the power system of the hydroship, and I told them to bring it to me first, and who knew that something would go wrong when I saw it." Gu Yue Daowen, who continued to be a little annoyed, replied, the outside world thought that the water steamer was his originality, and no one had seen the internal structure of the bearing, and of course he was not moved by the gold and silver Gu Yue Dao Wen sent by the Goryeo Wa Kingdom, but Gu Yue Dao Wen was still quite curious about the chemicals sent by the God and Human Race, so he wanted to take a look at it, but as a result, Gu Yue Dao Wen, who knew nothing about chemistry, was deflated.
It is not surprising that Gu Yue Daowen said this, there are too many things that can cause explosions with chemicals, and it is confirmed from this aspect that the habitat of the gods and men must be on the sea, so they desperately need water steamers, so that they go around themselves and reach out to Gu Yue Daowen.
"Do you remember what I told you about the three universities of mathematics, physics and chemistry? The children in Wangjia Village are learning mathematics, and your research belongs to physics, and the guys of the gods and people have touched the skin of chemistry, these three disciplines are all university questions that can change the world, but chemistry is the most dangerous, you should not touch it lightly, and when the time is ripe, I will compile a complete set of chemistry knowledge into a book and hand it over to you, as for those wild roads of the gods and people, you don't have to look at them in the future, believe me, their knowledge in front of me, even wild roads are not counted. As he spoke, Yang Lin took out a few drawings from his arms, which indicated the exact size, and the requirements were very detailed.
"You have a new design?" Gu Yue Daowen took the drawings and looked at them seriously, and now he understood. As long as you find the drawings that Yanglin wants, you can't make them by yourself now. For example, steelclad ships, aircraft carriers. The Berlin boat can only be stored in his obscenity, and only the drawings that Yang Lin took the initiative to give him are what he can build under the existing circumstances.
"This combination is a curved thing called a musket, the range of the long tube is 100 meters, the effective killing is 60 meters, and the armor can be broken within 30 meters, the range of the short tube is 60 meters, the effective killing is 30 meters, and the armor can be broken about 15 meters. This cylindrical thing is called a 'paper bullet', the back half of the section should be filled with gunpowder, the front of the sharp tip is filled with two or three small steel balls, the cartridge on the musket and the specifications of this bullet must be made in strict accordance with the size before it can be fired, my big shotgun that kills people a hundred meters away You should have seen it! This thing is a simplified version of that guy, if it weren't for the fact that I couldn't see the Tang Dynasty die again, I would have considered whether to make this thing out.
The production of muskets is now completely difficult to master the mold technology of Gu Yue Daowen, for a martial arts master like him, the musket is actually a very weak weapon. If it weren't for Yang Lin's design of the rotating chamber on it, the single-shot musket would be completely inferior to the bow and arrow or the repeating crossbow. The long-barreled musket was relatively large, and the all-iron zuò was heavier, and Yanglin designed to replace it with wood in many places where it could be made of wood. Such a gun with a 'paper bullet' is far more powerful than the bird gun used by the officials and soldiers in the Ming and Qing dynasties. At least the burst technology that does not require reloading is already a weakened version of the revolver.
"It doesn't seem difficult to make zuò. However, it is not worth wasting so much iron and gunpowder, and the Divine Arm Bow with pulleys and pulleys that I have newly made can already reach a terrifying range of 500 paces, which is much more powerful than this musket. Gu Yue Daowen said with some disdain.
Speaking of the divine arm bow, it is almost the most optimistic weapon for military leaders such as Li Jing and Hou Junji, three hundred steps is the limit range of the grassland condor hand, if everyone in the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty is a condor hand, then the Turks still have to fight? As for the Shenwei cannon, which is not easy to transport, Li Jing directly classified it as a special equipment for the navy after seeing it, or it can be used in attacking and defending the city, and it is used to resolve internal disputes in the Tang Dynasty.
The god arm bow with pulleys installed can naturally reach a terrifying range of five hundred steps under the play of top shooters, about three hundred meters, but the power required is still great, ordinary people can't open such a hard bow, the musket of Yanglin zuò is different, and it is launched by gently pulling the trigger with a finger, the short gun can be used even by the female soldiers of the art troupe, and the long spear is dedicated to the escort team, its advantage is that the paper bullet is light, and it is no problem for one person to bring one or two hundred rounds, if a person carries two hundred arrows with iron arrows, you see, It's nice to be able to walk.
"I've already brought you some raw materials, I'll ask Kezi to send you gunpowder, pay attention, the parts of the musket only need to be made out by the craftsman, I will complete the assembly myself, and the bullets need to be completed under your personal supervision, the more the better, if not, just make shells and steel balls, I will complete the loading myself, and the drawings will be burned after the first finished product is made, this kind of chicken rib weapon, let me use it exclusively!"
Yang Lin is very assured of Gu Yue's knife text's hands-on ability, with a workaholic like him, it won't take long to build hundreds of muskets, after all, the enlarged craftsman is the supervisor, but there are five or six thousand people!
"You kid didn't come here specifically to instruct me to work for you! I've been busy for a few months since I assembled more than 100 ships of water tankers, and this is all a two-day break that I stole out of my busy schedule. Gu Yue Dao Wen Yi still said, from this action it can be seen that he is still not optimistic about the musket, in fact, this is because the Tang Dynasty has always dealt with the cavalry outside the Guan, once the weapon is produced, people's inertia of the enemy is the Turkic Tubo Goryeo iron cavalry, this thing is indeed not as good as the bow and arrow with a longer range against the cavalry, but to the south of the mountain forest area! Yanglin's musket team is going to Lingnan Jiaozhi to show their might.
"Of course not, His Majesty set up a celebration banquet for Li Jing, Cheng Zhijie and Hou Junji today, and prepared a song and dance performance, and the apprentice came to pull the master to watch the performance and relax." Yang Lin smiled and dragged Gu Yue's hand, packed up the musket drawings, and the master and apprentice walked towards the direction of the Taiji Palace. (To be continued......)