Chapter 85: The Sorrow of Genius
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"Lord Dai, this is your new musket?"
General Anton, Prince Jane Yabu looked at a brand-new musket in his hand with great interest, and said to Dai Zi, the squire of the Ministry of Works.
He is the grandson of Zilharang, hereditary ********, although he is not a famous general, but he has a noble identity, after the crown prince and the emperor's younger brother have repeatedly broken the halberd, Kang Mazi has no choice but to get a ******** to sit in the town, otherwise he will count on the gang that does not belong to each other, and the original design is to restrain each other, to prevent the generals, governors, and governors who want to exterminate the Yang demon and don't know the year of the monkey!
"Lord Wang, look inside the muzzle."
Dai Zi said with a sense of joy of success.
"Inside? Why are there two grooves in this? It's still oblique, isn't this thing as smooth as possible on the inside? ā
Yabu brought his eyes to the muzzle of the gun, looked at the two rudimentary rifling inside, and said with a puzzled face.
"The prince is wise, this is the secret of the demon musket's far and accurate shots, Xia Guan got a few intact projectiles on the battlefield, and from the shape of the projectile, it is inferred that its bottom will be bulged outward after the gunpowder is fired, so that it can be tightly stuck in the barrel and maximize the power of gunpowder. Later, I heard that there is a kind of musket in the hand of the red-haired ghost called the rifle, there is rifling in the barrel, which can make the gun fly out and rotate continuously, and the range of the same charge is almost the same as that used by the thief army, but it is difficult to load, and the gun needs to be smashed into the barrel with a hammer.
Therefore, it was deduced that the demon man used this principle, coupled with this kind of bullet that could expand outward at the bottom, and finally perfectly solved the problem of difficult reloading, so Xia Guan tried to build this gun, and there was also this kind of gun. ā
Dai Zi said excitedly and took out a few more bullets, although it looked rough, but it was roughly the same as the Minnie bullet used by the Ming army, and even the small wooden pad used to expand the bullet at the bottom was there, you must know that this kind of thing will not be left when it is discharged, which is enough to prove that this guy does live up to his reputation in history, and he is indeed a genius in firearms.
But it's a pity that playing with firearms relies on the entire industrial system, and without this system, even geniuses are useless.
"It's the thief's bullet."
Immediately afterwards, he took out a few treasured genuine plates and said.
This thing is not uncommon on the battlefield, although the lead tin alloy must be deformed after hitting the target, and even turn into a lead cake is normal, but those that are hit in the water or in the softer soil, the vast majority will remain intact, as long as you spend some energy looking slowly, it will definitely be able to find, although the disembowel is definitely different from before, but the general shape will not change.
"Is this the thing that caused the imperial army to defeat one after another?"
Zhou Peigong picked up a Mini bullet with a solemn face, looked at it and said.
The small buckshot is the size of a finger, very regular cylindrical, the top is conical, but the top is flat, there is nothing special, the only impressive thing is that these bullets seem to be exactly the same, no matter the size or shape, not even the slightest difference can be seen with the naked eye.
But compared to Dai Zi's creation, it is not so accurate.
"Lord Maker, this is exactly what it is!"
Dai Zi hurriedly said, and then looked at the two bullets in his hand with some fascination and said: "It's a shame to say that Xia Guan tried his best, but he couldn't make bullets like these, and there was almost no difference between them. ā
Well, that's what genius can't solve, because he doesn't know that there is also a mechanical concept called standardized production.
"Then let's give it a try!"
Jabu said impatiently that he was most annoyed by these tricks.
Dai Zi hurriedly agreed, took the flintlock pistol, this gun is a lot shorter than normal, and it is slightly longer than the short gun used by the Ming army, it looks very strange in his hand, he first loaded gunpowder and then loaded bullets, and then aimed at a target twenty zhang away and pulled the trigger, and then walked over with Yabu and others. The bullet hit the target, although the deviation is relatively large, but it still hit the target, and at such a distance, the old smoothbore gun is impossible to hit any target, in fact, the Qing army's shotgun more than 20 zhang is basically meaningless, not to mention that the length of the barrel is half of the shotgun.
"Good gun, don't hurry up and build it!"
Yabu said excitedly.
"Lord Wang, this gun is very time-consuming to make, and the others are easy to say, but the two lines here are too troublesome, this is carved by the craftsman purely by hand, and these two lines alone have been carved for more than a month, this has to be the best craftsman, and it took a bunch of barrels to make this finished product, otherwise the lower officials would not have made such a short barrel, and it was impossible to make it as long as the Ming army."
Dai Zi immediately said with a sad face.
"Bastard, what are you playing this king? At present, you actually said that you can't build it, what are your intentions, don't you think that the demon will come to this Suzhou City? ā
Jabu roared angrily.
He didn't believe it, since Dai Zi could create this one, it must be able to create more, as for complaining, this is normal, now any official has to complain before doing things, this is all customary, but when is this now, then Yang Demon ......
"Report ......"
At this time, an officer hurriedly ran over and knelt down and said: "Lord Qiyu, the thief army fell into Hangzhou, Jiangning General Eluoshun was killed in battle, Zhejiang Governor Zhang Zhidong killed himself, and the defenders in the city were all wiped out. ā
Yabu's face changed suddenly, he knew very well what it meant for Yang Feng to seize Hangzhou, when Changning attacked a small Zhenhai with hundreds of thousands of Manchu elites, there were still tens of thousands of dead and wounded and could not move forward, and finally led to the defeat of the army, and he was tied to a horse and dragged into a bloody bone frame, not to mention that now Yang Feng has won the largest city in eastern Zhejiang, and the height of Hangzhou City is not comparable to Zhenhai at all, such a city falls into the hands of Yang Feng, what is the way for him to take it back?
If he can't recapture Hangzhou City, it is equivalent to giving Yang Feng a bridgehead on the north bank, and in the future, he can fight wherever he wants along the entire Taihu Lake, not to mention Jiaxing Huzhou and the like, that is, Songjiang, Jiangsu, and even Wuxi Changzhou are within his attack range.
"Within three months, you must make three thousand of these new guns for this king, otherwise military law will be engaged! The Holy Lord pardoned your family and transferred you back from Shengjing and promoted you to be a squire of the Ministry of Works, so that you can make meritorious service and atone for your sins, not for you to complain, if you miss the military plane, don't think that this king will not dare to behead you! ā
As soon as he thought of this, Yabu immediately turned his head and yelled at Dai Zi viciously.
After finishing speaking, he threw down Dai Zi and left in a hurry.
Poor Dai Zi stood there like a fool, it was like a bolt from the blue, he and the best craftsmen worked hard for more than a month to finally make such a musket, and now let him make a thousand a month, it would be a fantasy at all, if the task could not be completed......
It seems that he was also exhausted in order to make guns during this time, and when he thought of this, he finally couldn't help but spurt out a mouthful of blood, and his legs fainted to the ground.
"Quick, help Lord Dai go down to rest, hurry up and find a Lang Zhong!"
Zhou Peigong looked at him, said to the entourage beside him, and then left with a sigh on his back.
At this time, Yang Feng was sitting on the painting boat of the West Lake, reading the account book and watching his harvest of the Battle of Hangzhou with the refreshing cool breeze blowing after the rain.
This time compared to Ningbo, the harvest is a whole level higher, just in the warehouses of the yamen in various places copied more than 500,000 taels of silver, in addition to more than 1 million stone of grain, here is the general logistics center of the Qing army, most of the materials are transported here through the canal, and then transported to various battlefields, and now the mountains of materials here are all owned by him.
In addition, another big head is the raid and the interception of the batch of loot, the value of these things even exceeds that of the officials everywhere, just a Hangzhou weaving house plus the Hangzhou weaving with the preparation of running away, all kinds of gold, silver, jewelry and valuables add up to more than one million taels. This is not counting the real estate of the weaving house, all kinds of fields and the like, if these all add up, more than two million, in fact, these things are theoretically Kang Mazi, because Hangzhou weaving is the poor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, not to mention his property, even his people are Kang Mazi's private property.
Since this is the case, there is no need to be polite to Brother Ma, what you treat me is ours, especially the Hangzhou Weaving Mansion and Kang Mazi's Palace, which was specially prepared to serve him when Kang Mazi was on his southern tour, and this directly became the private property of Dashuai, and now Yang Dashuai is staying in Kang Mazi's palace.
As for the sum of those gentry officials and other banner men, the total value is more than three million taels, and it can be said that the wealth he got at this time is almost comparable to selling half a yinren. Of course, this does not include the field property, in fact, the land property he got is the big one, because the gentry here are helping the Tartars to resist the king's master, so the looting is more ruthless than in Ningbo, and until now it has not been counted how much land property has been copied.
"Oh yes, these guys are so rich? This is just a Hangzhou weaving, so if Li Xu and Cao Yin's family are also copied, wouldn't it be at least a year's worth of military spending to be fine? Uh, it's just like that, Dream of Red Mansions doesn't know who should write it, according to the rules, Cao Xueqin has to be thrown into the Keelung Coal Mine as a coolie, no, he hasn't been born at this time! Then don't think about it! and Sister Lin, it seems that Sister Lin's prototype is Li Xu's granddaughter, this, this is simply a sin! ā
Yang Dashuai looked at the ledger in his hand with infinite emotion.