In the evening, the drunken Duke of Wei, Xu Hongji, his son, and Wu Jingxian, the eunuch of Nanjing, left the main courtyard of Hushan with satisfaction, and each returned to the city in a luxury carriage.

Xu Hongji and his son sat in the spacious and luxurious four-wheeled carriage, and immediately took out the two flintlock muskets presented by Zhu Daolin, and admired them carefully, and they all thought that the Suifa musket imitated by the Longtan Gun Factory was not beautiful enough except for the bayonet, and the workmanship and materials of the whole musket were not much worse than the muskets made by Tianshu Pavilion, which were far above the new Suifa musket made by the Franco Machine.

There is no bayonet for the musket, and the workmanship is far less good than that of the Longtan Gun Factory, but it is sold for 75 taels of silver, while the Longtan Gun Factory imitates the Suifa musket of Tianshu Pavilion, which only costs 55 taels of silver each, and also distributes an additional 100 guns and gunpowder.

After feeling emotional, the father and son decided to take a time to go to Longtan to see how the Longtan Gun Factory under the name of the Nanjing Firearms Bureau made flintlock muskets, and what kind of machines were used to achieve a monthly output of 1,200 pieces.

When the Xu family father and son were appreciating the musket, Zhu Daolin and his subordinate generals Li Kuanji and Fu Yinglong were also admiring the musket, but this musket was not a 1.5-meter-long army-type musket, but five revolvers that Zhu Daolin took out from the container inventory in the C-shaped warehouse.

"THIS REVOLVER IS ORDERED BY ME IN TIANSHU PAVILION, THERE ARE NOT MANY OF THEM, SO IT CANNOT BE DISTRIBUTED ON A LARGE SCALE FOR THE TIME BEING, THIS GUN IS 33MM IN LENGTH, 11MM IN CALIBER, WEIGHS 1.2 KG, FIRES 11×2.5MM COPPER-SHELLED BULLETS, I HAVE NOT SHOT THIS KIND OF BULLET, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE EFFECTIVE RANGE SHOULD BE BETWEEN 30-35 METERS, AND HITTING THE TARGET 50 METERS AWAY WILL ALSO HAVE A CERTAIN LETHALITY."

"However, the recoil of this gun is probably not small. The craftsmen under Kuanji used manual machinery to make thousands of rounds of revolver bullets, and when you go back to Kuanji to collect them, you can go to the shooting range to try them yourself, and wait for the ammunition branch of the Longtan Gun Factory to be officially put into production. Zhu Daolin held the teacup and talked eloquently.

Li Kuanji held his own revolver and smiled happily: "Soon, the two sets of gun and ammunition manufacturing machines of the ammunition branch have been debugged." Hundreds of craftsmen are learning the steam engine from the master craftsmen of the research institute, and in another month and a half they will be able to officially make rifle cartridges, and when rifle cartridges are made, revolver cartridges will be simple. ”

Fu Yinglong was excited, holding the metallic revolver and pondering it repeatedly, and sighed with affection: "It's so beautiful...... General, can you give us a few more? Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Yangzhou and Huai'an, the six newly established sub-stations, can be used! ”

Zhu Daolin thought for a moment and nodded in agreement: "In this way, I will squeeze out 35 more from the equipment of the guard battalion." Tomorrow night, Kuanji will come to collect it, and it can be distributed to the head of each sub-station, and Lao Yao's executive team will have 1 for each person, but it must be properly kept and not exposed. ”

"I have brought back the design drawings and related technical information of this revolver, and after the production of Longtan Gun Factory is stabilized and the 800 apprentices who are being trained take up their posts, a large number of copies of this revolver can be made. Strive to have one of the brothers in the Intelligence Division by the end of the year. ”

"General Xie!"

Fu Yinglong hurriedly thanked Zhu Daolin. He put the revolver in his hand into his arms along with the three on the table, and his eyes were still on the gun in Li Kuanji's hand.

Li Kuanji simply put the gun in his hand into Fu Yinglong's arms: "Take it all, I'll see how you use it if you don't have guns." ”

Zhu Daolin was amused: "Okay, okay, you all go back, don't forget to send one to my uncle." Old man, you have to teach him how to use it. ”

Fu Yinglong asked: "If Gonggong Wu and his old man keep asking, what should his subordinates say?" ”

Zhu Daolin said with a smile: "Just say that I will give it to you, as for whether I will give it to anyone else, you don't know." ”

"Got it! That...... The subordinate took his leave. ”

"Let's go. I knew that with a gun, you guys would definitely not be able to sit still, so pay attention to safety when testing guns. ”

Sending Fu Yinglong and Li Kuanji away, Zhu Daolin picked up the secret report submitted by Fu Yinglong on the desktop and read it repeatedly, then struck a match, burned the two-page secret report, clapped his hands and went to the small building opposite the garden, and negotiated with his confidant Ye Liangchen behind closed doors.

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Two days later, in the early morning, modern time and space.

Zhu Daolin, who changed into a casual sportswear, drove to the warehouse of the printing company in the northern suburbs of Qixia, and saw that the door of the warehouse had not yet been opened, and there were no pedestrians and vehicles everywhere, so he transferred out 4 huge golden silk nanmu and 3 red sandalwood trees that were more than 500 years old, and stacked them directly on the newly laid lawn on the north side of the avenue, took out his mobile phone to call Boss Yu, and then drove the car to the closed gate and honked the horn.

The sleepy-eyed attendant opened the small door, saw Zhu Daolin put down the window and nodded to himself, he couldn't help but feel excited, immediately opened the gate and watched the off-road vehicle drive into the yard, took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, and muttered to himself: "It's only seven o'clock and ten o'clock to work, and you can't let people live?" ”

Zhu Daolin drove the car under the platform in front of the big warehouse, turned off the engine and got out of the car, boarded the platform, leaving the pet dog Mulan who was already lying on the kennel steel net behind the duty room, and kept calling at Zhu Daolin.

Zhu Daolin couldn't help but smile, loudly told Mulan to wait for a while, waved his hand to the trotting attendant, signaled that he didn't need his help, took out the key and opened the warehouse door and went straight inside, and put all the 50 tons of brass strip and 620 tons of copper that had been in stock for two months into the gold steel ring.

A few minutes later, Zhu Daolin closed the door of the warehouse, and found that there were more and more gun trucks and gun mounts piled up under the west courtyard wall, all covered with thick waterproof tarpaulins, and the rough calculation had reached more than 300 vehicles.

Zhu Daolin thought for a moment, strode outside the duty room and asked, "Xiao Song, are you free?" ”

"Free, free! There are forty minutes left to hand over the shift, and you will be free all day. The attendant did not dare to show his unhappiness on his face at all, and had a flattering smile on his face.

Zhu Daolin entered the duty room, picked up a pen and paper and wrote a few paragraphs: "Don't delay your time all day, you send this note to Lu Jianmin's house, let him go to the company to have a look, if the books I need are printed, I will send them as soon as possible, I will stay here and wait for the delivery vehicle, and after handing the note to Director Lu, you can go home and rest." ”

The attendant took the note and immediately went out, riding an electric motorcycle back to the company.

Zhu Daolin entered the backyard of the duty room, opened the iron door, released the ecstatic dog Mulan, closed the door and picked up Mulan to comfort him for a while, and then left the duty room with the excited Mulan, and calmly put all the gun carriages, gun mounts and tarpaulins into the gold steel ring.

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PS: Thank you Lin Chung for the big monthly pass! (To be continued.) )