Chapter 58: The Prototype of the Musket

Although I have never asked Fang Ling about his origins, I believe that Fang Ling will definitely not harm me. I smiled and said, "Well, exactly, the Dragon's Tooth is an organization that aims at the rise of the Great Song Dynasty, and one of its purposes is to destroy the Mongol world. ”

When Fang Ling heard this, he was shocked: "Brother, isn't the rise of this Great Song Dynasty a matter of the imperial court?" Isn't it, brother, you won't, you don't want to rebel? ”

Fang Ling's reaction was the same as Xiao Tian's at the beginning, as if establishing such an organization meant rebellion.

"Ling'er, why do you think that the rise of the Great Song Dynasty is just a matter of the imperial court?"

"Brother, isn't Da Song Jiangshan from the Zhao family?"

"Yes." I looked at Fang Lingdao, who was dazed: "The Great Song Jiangshan belongs to the Zhao family, and at the same time, it is yours, and mine is the entire Song people." ”

The more Fang Ling listened, the more confused he became: "Didn't the ancients say that under the whole world, it is not the king's land?" ”

This kind of consciousness is deeply ingrained in the hearts of people in feudal society, and according to the course of history, it will take eight or nine hundred years to change.

I didn't know how to explain it, so I had to say: "Ling'er, well, let me say this, comparing the Song Dynasty to a family, and the emperor is the head of this family, so the rise and fall of this family is not just related to this parent." As for the words of the ancients, they are all limited by the times. ”

Yuan Jian smiled: "The mind of the prince is not clear to ordinary people like us, we just need to believe it." However, Childe once said that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, and I think it is very correct. ”

"The rise and fall of the world, the husband is responsible?"

I nodded and said: "Exactly, if the people of the Great Song Dynasty can be like the Ouyang family, the government and the opposition are of the same heart, how can the Mongols be so rampant, even if we Song people can't beat one-on-one, but ten against one, one hundred against one, or even a thousand against one, we should always be able to fight." ”

Fang Ling realized, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Brother, I can't fully understand what you said for a while, I only know that my brother is always right, I believe in brother, not to mention that Ling'er also has a grudge against Tianya to kill his brother." ”

I looked at Fang Ling, and my heart was moved, being able to gain the trust of others is a kind of happiness in itself.

I briefly described the basic structure of the dragon's teeth, and of course, I have revised the matter of the Ministry of Supervision to supervise the hundred officials.

"Brother, can Ling'er also join the dragon's teeth?"

"Naturally, as long as we can live up to this purpose, we welcome it."

"Got it, wait for Ling'er to ask her father before telling my brother."

"Yes, no problem. Ling'er, you dart bureau traveled south and north, have you heard of the Heavenly Dao Alliance? ”

"I, I haven't heard of it." Fang Ling seemed to flicker a little.

"Oh, it seems that this Heavenly Dao Alliance is really mysterious." I didn't pay attention to Fang Ling's speech and demeanor, and continued, "Sir, Ling'er, do you yourself or do you have any acquaintances with the head of the Ouyang family in Sichuan? ”

Yuan Jian thought for a while and said, "Childe, I am not familiar with the current head of the Ouyang family, but the Dao Master of the Dragon and Tiger Sect has always had a very good relationship with the Ouyang family, and Childe can ask Dao Fa to tell me if there is anything." ”

"Well, it's so good, wait for me to repair a book, let Wenzhang send someone to send it to the Daofa, and ask it to be handed over to the Ouyang family, which roughly means that I hope that the Ouyang family can join hands with my dragon teeth, don't fight hard when there is a great disparity between the enemy and me, save your strength, and wait for the opportunity." Sir, I will choose one person from the dragon's tooth to accompany me in this matter to show my dragon's tooth sincerity. ”

"Yes, Childe, I'll arrange it in a moment."

Three days later, in the evening, Quan Jiu and I had dinner with the Queen Mother, and as soon as we returned to Ningqian Palace, we saw Xiao Qi reporting to me: "Shen Yiqiu and Quan Jue have arrived at the Gunpowder Division at the foot of Luoshi Mountain in the afternoon. ”

"Okay." I said happily, "Xiao Qi, inform them that I will go after the Ming Dynasty meeting." ”

I will make a long story short at the next court meeting, and rejected Ma Tingluan and others' request to cancel the Gongtian Law again, and asked Jia Rudao to cooperate with the Zhongshu Province to immediately formulate a supervision method, and the household department, the official department, and the criminal department will jointly implement it, and those who corrupt and bend the law among them will be severely cracked down, and the land transaction with the huizi will be suspended.

I know that the treasury was struggling to make ends meet last year, and the squeeze is now apparent. I said, in the middle of the great dynasty, the focus will be on the matter of the treasury constraints, and you will consider it in advance and put forward more good strategies.

According to the practice of the court meeting, every ten days a rest, for the tenth day of the day off, the big month can be an extra day off, and then the big dynasty three days, the small dynasty six days, the so-called big court is to discuss important things of the court meeting.

I was in a hurry to go to the Gunpowder Division, so I ordered, "Pass on the blue feather, Shen Mo led a hundred guards to escort the car, I want to move the Gunpowder Division, watch a new type of fireworks, everyone Aiqing, retire from the dynasty." ”

Although it was still early, there were obviously many more people along the road, and many of them were in a mood of admiration, hoping to meet me, the true dragon son of heaven who responded to the mandate of heaven. It seems that this incident of the first emperor's dream has added a lot to me, at least in the hearts of the people, most of them believe this statement. This is similar to Han Gaozu's tricks such as cutting the white snake, which is really effective in feudal society. In fact, this also represents the voice of the people, hoping that the heavens will descend on the emperor and let them have enough food and clothing.

Of course, the people could only see my car from afar.

The accompanying imperial guards obviously increased their protective heart, and they did not allow anyone to come close to the car within ten meters at all.

Yun Zhongfei, who was guarding the Gunpowder Division, was already waiting in front of the door, and when I entered the inner room, I said to Yun Zhongfei, who was guarding the door, "Zhongfei, hard work. ”

Firearms room in a firearms workshop.

Shen Yiqiu Quanjue was talking with Yun Bofei and the others, and he didn't even notice when I came in, until the weapons supervisor Wen Tianxiang coughed dryly, and a few people saw that I had entered the house.

"Subordinate, Chen Dongping, Yun Bofei, Peng Chong."

"Grass people Shen Yiqiu, Quanjue."

"Long live my emperor, long live long live long live."

"Get up, you don't have to be so polite in an informal setting, sit down and move on."

The five of them saluted Wen Tianxiang and Yuan Jian before sitting down.

Yun Bofei, the new manager of the firearms workshop, excitedly picked up a sample of a musket on the table and reported: "Your Majesty, this is a barrel made of pig iron, and the overall structure is designed by his subordinates according to the arquebus drawings in the emperor's drawings, and the pressure resistance of the barrel has been tested. ”

This sample musket is about 1.5 meters long without the butt, with a caliber of 30 millimeters, and is octagonal.

I encouraged: "This first proofing is already good. ”

Yun Bofei said: "Your Majesty, last night my subordinates talked with Mr. Shen and the whole brothers, and the original problems have been raised, and the subordinates are expected to build a second sample without thinking, this time I am so grateful to Mr. Shen and the whole brothers, and the subordinates asked the emperor to leave the two in the Gunpowder Division, and the subordinates are willing to do it for them." ”

Shen Yiqiu hurriedly said: "Yun Guan is polite, if you want to talk about the attainment of this musket alone, the old man is not as good as the emperor and Yun Guan Shi." ”

I smiled: "You don't need to be humble, you have your own strengths, as for Mr. Shen and Quanjue, it will take some time before they can live in Lin'an for a long time, this time I specially invited the two of you, just to hope to gather the strength of everyone to solve the current problem of this musket." ”

Master Yun Bofei of the Firearms Workshop, Master Peng Chong, Chen Dongping, the head of the Gunpowder Division, plus Shen Yiqiu, a top scientist of this era, and the genius Quanjue sat down with me, a time-traveler, and began to talk about the world's first real arquebus.

Although Chen Dongping does not know how to musket, he is a good hand in craft manufacturing, and he also has a master-level level.

At first, these people were a little restrained, mostly I was talking or I asked questions, and they answered.

Scholar-type talents like Yun Bofei are not like Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu who always have a subconscious awe of the emperor, they are more persistent in their own research fields. Gradually, everyone let go, you said, I said, began to argue with others for insisting on their own opinions, no wonder later generations when talking about madmen, most of them refer to scientific madmen.

Time passed in the midst of arguments, and one problem after another was resolved.

Eventually, based on my knowledge, it was determined that the barrel was made of wrought iron (iron with a low carbon content), with a crosshair at the front end of the barrel and a door at the rear to form an aiming device; The second is the design of a curved gun stock, the launcher can put the side of the face close to the gun stock to aim and shoot; And determined that the arquebus ignition device proposed by Quanjue was the first plan, and Yun Bofei's was the second plan, and after unifying the views on the issue of this important device, together with the projectile made by the improvement of the gunpowder formula in the early stage, the prototype of the musket was basically determined. I then proposed to reduce the weight of the musket to a little more than 10 pounds, which would require a reduction in the diameter and length of the barrel, which of course needed to be improved step by step.

Yun Bofei recorded the conclusions one by one, and after a brief discussion with Peng Chong and Chen Dongping, he decided to start creating new samples immediately.

What I saw on the faces of Yun Bofei and the others was no longer joy, but a look of fanaticism.

After all, this is the world's first musket, although no one has ready-made experience, everyone is groping while crossing the river, but they are full of expectations for this epoch-making hot weapon, of course, most of this expectation comes from my emphasis on firearms.