Wu Jin pressed back the excitement in his heart, walked up to the blacksmith Wang, and gave him a deep salute, "The artillery can be done, this is the master's great achievement, please accept my gift!" ”

The king blacksmith hurriedly returned the salute, "Xiaomin didn't dare to accept the gift of His Highness, and killed me!" ”

Wu Jin clasped his fists at the sergeants who participated in the test, "All the brothers have worked hard, each of them will be rewarded for their merits, and I hope everyone will keep it secret and not leak it!" ”

More than 20 sergeants suddenly agreed, and the blacksmith Wang smiled again: "General, the artillery still needs to be tested more, and it will take at least two months to become an army, and there will be more test manpower." ”

"This is fine, I'll pick another 200 soldiers to help."

At this time, the artillery has gradually cooled down, and everyone has to start a second test, and today it will take five rounds and 25 tests to be considered a complete success, and it is only a preliminary success.

"The master seems to be familiar with gunpowder?" Wu Jin asked Blacksmith Wang with a smile.

"General Hui, thirty years ago, I was a gunpowder maker, specializing in mines in the Qizhou Firearms Bureau."

"I see, I said that the master can also make hollow bullets, and he has a deep understanding of gunpowder."

Wu Jin pondered for a moment and asked: "Five days later, the first exercise at sea will be carried out, I want to test the cannon at sea, I don't know how many can be built?" ”

Blacksmith Wang thought for a while and said: "Five days is a little tighter, although now the technology of making cannons has been mastered, the key is to test, the cannons that have not been tested dare not be given to the general, and there is no success of more than 100 cannons, and they do not dare to cast on a large scale, and in five days, they can only be handed over to the general for ten cannons at most." ”

"Ten cannons are enough, and I'd like to make two more suggestions for improvement."

Blacksmith Wang said happily: "General, please speak." ”

Wu Jin patted the cannon body and said with a smile: "The first is its fixation, I suggest that you don't use an iron anchor, you can use a pair of iron wheels as a gun carriage, so that you can move freely, and you can fix the cannon body and prevent it from shocking, what does the master think?" ”

The blacksmith nodded and said, "The general is very right, I will ask the blacksmith to make a gun wheel from pig iron this afternoon." ”

Wu Jin said again: "The second is the cannon lug, I hope to install two iron rings on the cannon body, so that it is easy for the muzzle to adjust the direction, it should also be very simple!" ”

"There is no problem, it will be installed together when the gun carriage is built."

There is another question that Wu Jin wants to ask, "In addition, I want to ask the master, how to solve the aiming problem?" ”

"The method of aiming, Chen Jinjin made a suggestion, you can borrow the crossbow machine on the lookout mountain, I think it is good, I am ready to use this method, the key is to stabilize the firing range, which must go through a lot of tests."

Wu Jin thought about it, so it was okay to aim, so he didn't say more, and put forward his second suggestion with a smile, "I hope that the types of artillery will increase, not only to be conducive to carrying short cannons, but also to have large general cannons weighing thousands of catties, and to have mortars that shoot dense fine iron bullets, I hope that the master can further consider these." ”

Blacksmith Wang pondered for a moment and said, "Is the mortar cannon that the general said a short-bodied potbelly cannon?" ”

"Exactly!"

Seeing that he could understand his train of thought, Wu Jin was extremely happy in his heart, and added: "This kind of mortar cannon does not shoot hollow bullets, but shoots small iron pellets, and hundreds of small iron pellets are fired from one cannon, specifically against cavalry. ”

"I can understand what the general meant, in fact, this kind of cannon has been invented in the test, there is no need to use a sand mold, it can be directly fused and cast with two pieces of stainless steel, of course, it can also be made with a sand mold, which is more solid."

"I tend to use sand molds, and the steel required, you don't have to worry, I have bought a large amount of steel from the private sector, and there should be millions of catties."

"General, please stand back!"

One of the test gun sergeants shouted that the second round of tests was about to start again.

．．．．．．．． The success of the artillery made Wu Jin feel very good, and the busy fatigue of the past few days was washed away, and today he went home early, thinking about spending time with his family.

"The prince is back!"

As soon as he entered the mansion, a housekeeper ran into the inner mansion to report, this attitude made Wu Jin feel a little strange in his heart, he had never been like this before, did something happen in the mansion today?

Just thinking about it, Su Han came out of the inner mansion, "Husband, we are waiting for you!" ”

"Is something wrong?"

"It's nothing, we're just waiting for you to eat."

Su Han smiled and took Wu Jin's hand and walked towards the inner house, "Eat first, and then I'll tell you good news." ”

Wu Jin was puzzled in his heart, and he also had something to tell Su Han, so he followed her into the dining hall of the inner house.

Feng Wu was already seated in the dining hall, she was also very busy during this time, planning all kinds of big business, from tea, grain, salt, coal, fine iron, etc., she was handling it, in order to assist her, the Qi family specially dispatched three hundred shrewd deacons of the business house to listen to her arrangement, because it was for Wujin to do things, Su Han did not interfere with her, and sometimes went to give advice for her.

Feng Wujin came in, hurriedly put down the pen in his hand, and got up with a smile to greet him, "San Lang, the fine iron you want has been bought, but the price sold to you is a bit expensive, you have to be mentally prepared!" ”

Wujin put his arm around her with one hand and Su Han's waist with the other, enjoying the blessings of this Qi person, he sat down, let the two wives sit beside him, and said with a smile: "There is no problem with the price, whatever price you offer, I will buy whatever price, the key is the quantity, how much?" ”

Feng Wu knew that Su Han was thin-skinned, so he took Wu Jin's hand off his shoulder, "It is estimated that there are a total of five million catties, bought from Chuzhou, Shuzhou, Yuzhou and Youzhou, the first batch of goods is about two million catties, and it will be shipped to Jiangning Mansion the day after tomorrow, San Lang, don't you really want to ask the price?" ”

Wu Jin knew when he was in Quarry Town that the high-grade refined iron was one tael of silver and ten catties of iron, but he didn't know how much she was asking for, "Tell me, what is your price?" ”

"This batch of fine iron was bought from Beiping County, and the local government checked very strictly, and we gave 5,000 taels of silver alone, plus freight, so I will pay 500,000 taels of silver for these two million catties of fine iron."

This is equivalent to one tael of silver and four catties of refined iron, which is a little more than double the price of Quarry Town, looking at Feng Wu's sly smile, Wu Jin laughed, "It's not too expensive, I thought it was one or two catties of silver and a catty of iron, which is much cheaper than I thought." ”

In fact, Wu Jin understands that one tael of silver and ten catties of iron is the selling price of the merchants, in fact, their purchase price is one tael of silver and twenty catties of refined iron, and the price in the north is even lower, this Feng Wu earned at least 400,000 taels of silver, five million catties of pig iron combined, she just made a million taels of silver, no wonder the Baifu firm made a fortune by relying on a war, and sure enough, it was a cannon sound, and the gold was ten thousand taels, which is really true.

"Husband, let's eat! The dishes are cold. ”

Su Han interrupted Wu Jin's thoughts and urged him to eat, she had more important things to say.

"Eat! Dine! I'm hungry. ”

Wu Jin was in a good mood today, and his stomach was extremely hungry, Ah Luo poured him a glass of wine, Wu Jin drank the wine and said to the two: "I have one more important thing to tell you." ”

"What's the matter?"

Su Han and Feng Wu glanced at each other and asked in unison.

"I may have to go out for two months and lead the navy army to sea exercises."

"Two months!"

The two girls were stunned, and Feng Wu hurriedly said: "Didn't the husband say that he would go to sea after the beginning of spring?" ”

Wu Jin said apologetically: "The opening of the spring to the sea is the official start of the war, but before the war needs to be rehearsed, the new navy and the navy need to cooperate tacitly, so ....."

"Husband doesn't need to say any more, we understand."

Su Han interrupted Wu Jin's words, "I wonder when Fulang is going to leave?" ”

"Five days later, the army officially departed!"

At this time, Wujin suddenly found that Jing Niang was not there, so he asked strangely: "Where is Jing Niang?" ”

Su Han sighed, "I wanted to tell my husband after eating, but since I asked, I will tell you." ”

Su Han whispered a few words to Wu Jin, Wu Jin was stunned, and a look of surprise suddenly shot out of his eyes, "Really? ”

Su Han nodded, "Of course I don't lie to you, we were all frightened and thought she was sick." ”

Wu Jin was already impatient, stood up and ran towards Jing Niang's yard, Feng Wu saw that he was as anxious as a monkey, and couldn't help but complain a little about Su Han, "Eldest sister, I see you tell him that he won't eat any food." ”

Su Han was also helpless, and said with a wry smile: "Since he has already asked, he can't hide it, let him be!" Eat again when you are hungry at night. ”

．．．．．．． Wujin rushed into the small courtyard like a gust of wind, "Jing Niang! He shouted.

Jing Niang ran to the door, looking at her husband with tears on her face, she suddenly opened her arms, hugged her husband's neck tightly, tears flowed down, and choked up: "Husband, I have a child!" ”

"I know! I know! ”

Wu Jin wiped away her tears distressedly, picked her up horizontally, and walked to the house, the two maids were so frightened that they hurriedly avoided it, Wu Jin sat down, hugged her on his lap, and kissed her on the lips gently, "Jing Niang, when did you plant the seeds?" He asked with a low smile on Jing Niang's forehead.

Jing Niang's face flushed, and she said a little shyly: "I deduced that it was the night before I went to send me to Bixian Palace, I calculated the time, and that night happened to be in the middle of my two monthly ceremonies." ”

"Oh! We've been here many times that night, which one will it be? ”

"I don't know, maybe it was in the morning, when I was very hot, Childe, are you happy?"

"Happy!"

Wu Jin hugged her, and his heart was extremely happy, "No wonder grandmother said that you can have a child, and she really said it well!" ”

"Don't say that, Childe, I'm a little worried that the eldest sister will be unhappy." Jing Niang said worriedly.

Wu Jin was stunned, and immediately understood, and hurriedly comforted her, "It's okay, she is very broad-minded, she will only be happy, besides, she will also conceive a child, it is only a matter of time." ”

After receiving her husband's comfort, Jingniang was also happy, she gently pulled up her clothes, revealing her snow-white lower abdomen, and whispered: "Childe, listen to it, the eldest sister said that she could hear the fetal heartbeat." ”

"Good! I'll listen. ”

Wu Jin lay on the bed with her in his arms, put his ear to her stomach, and listened carefully, as if he really heard a slight throbbing sound.

"Hmmm! There really is. ”

"Childe, do you say it's a boy or a girl?"

Wu Jin held her hand and smiled: "I like both boys and girls, they are all my treasures." ”

Wu Jin suddenly thought that he was going to sea again, and he was really sorry in his heart, so he had to say: "Jingniang, I may go to sea for two months and let your eldest sister take care of you." ”

Unexpectedly, Jing Niang was not sad and surprised, she nodded obediently, "Childe, don't worry!" The eldest sister will be very good to me. ”

When she said this, Wu Jin felt even more guilty, and hurriedly said, "When I come back, I will definitely accompany you well." ”

"Childe!" A Qiao's voice came from the door.

"What's the matter?" Wu Jin stood up.

"There are guests coming to visit outside, and the last time Zhou Changshi brought an old man with white hair."

"Full of gray hair?" Wu Jin groaned slightly, and he immediately understood who was coming.

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(To be continued)