Chapter VII Patent Money for Grenades

Fu Mingde was sweating profusely and was scared to death. Kneeling on the ground, he said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty is angry, Your Majesty is angry." ”

Yang Gai smiled and said, "I don't want to hold you responsible, I just want to tell you that I should be a little nicer to the workers, so that they are willing to make guns with their hearts, understand?" …… In this way, if you find a few skilled craftsmen, the kind of people who are very good at making firearms, I have something to do. Also, re-check the muskets in the armory, and if they don't fire, or if they will explode, find them out for me at once, and if one of the muskets you give me is exploding, I'll let you fire yourself with a bombing bird. Do you understand? ”

Yang Reform's smile was definitely terrifying in Fu Mingde's eyes. Fu Mingde's face is like ashes, and he takes the bombed bird gun and fires, what an exciting game it is!

"Haha~ old rich! I don't want to cut you, but I just want you to understand that the quality of a weapon will affect the life of a soldier, the life of a soldier will affect the battle of a platoon of soldiers, the battle of a platoon of soldiers will affect the victory or defeat of a battle, the victory or defeat of a battle will affect the victory or defeat of a war, and the victory or defeat of a war will affect the survival of a country. Yang Gengai smiled and patted Fu Mingde's shoulder.

Fu Mingde was already dumbfounded.

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The edict to recruit people from all over the world to enter Beijing is near. The cabinet and ministers have some opposition to this matter, but for the virtuous and holy monarch who moved to Wei Zhongxian in one fell swoop, they strongly demand this, and the cabinet and ministers will not say anything more, and the reason is that many people in the cabinet and ministers are involved in the Wei case, I heard that the emperor is ready to pay the atonement silver, and he does not want to kill more when he is newly enthroned, and he secretly wants to escape the catastrophe, so there is not much opposition in these matters, otherwise, the emperor is annoyed and reconcludes the Wei case, This cabinet and many ministers will not be able to eat and go around.

These old craftsmen of firearms introduced by Fu Mingde, Yang Gai has been discussing with them for a few days, from the beginning of very restrained, to now when talking about the improvement and invention of firearms, most of them are not restrained, and they can talk energetically.

"Zhang Gong, how are you discussing?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the grass people have already discussed it, and they have almost found a way to deal with the grenade proposed by Your Majesty." A very thin old man took over. This old man is old, and the years have carved enough traces on his body, and there is no excess meat on his body, which is Zhang Gong, an expert in firearms and explosives in Yang Reform's mouth. Although he is old, he is still in good spirits.

"Oh, is it? Show it to me. Yang Gai took the picture, which was indeed an exploded view of a grenade.

"How's it going? Any challenges? After looking at it for a while, Yang asked reform.

"Back to Your Majesty, the effect of the explosion is okay, that is, if it takes a long time, the powder will precipitate, nitrate will return to nitrate, and sulfur will return to sulfur, so that it can't even be exploded." Zhang Gong introduced.

"Well, that's a tricky question. Is there anything you can do? Yang reformed.

"Back to Your Majesty, I waited until I listened to the particle method that Your Majesty said, and I thought it was feasible, so I tried to make some and made a few grenades, and I wanted Your Majesty to take a look." Zhang Gong was very confident in the grenades he made.

"Well, okay then, go to school." The group went to the school in a big way.

The school field is neither big nor small, about the size of a football field. Zhang Gong lit the fuse from a distance, and the fuse burned for about half a minute before it ignited to the iron box, only to hear a boom and explode.

The smoke was filled, and the wooden planks that were the targets had been blown away. Many bullet marks were left.

Yang Reform was the first to applaud. Everyone else was deaf and didn't react for a long time, seeing the emperor clapping and applauding, the others also applauded.

Zhang Gong, Li Gong and their group of people who were responsible for the research and development of grenades were all elated, after all, they had completed the things assigned by the emperor, and they had become Hui Qincha, and they were addicted.

"Not bad, not bad. It's just that the fuse is a little longer. Yang Gai said.

"Back to Your Majesty, in fact, this fuse can be shortened, but today it has been specially lengthened for Your Majesty's safety."

"Well, yes, how much does this grenade weigh? How? Yang asked reform.

"Back to Your Majesty, this grenade weighs about two catties and four taels, the front section is made of iron, with granular gunpowder in it, the rear end is a wooden handle, and there is a fire rope drilled in the middle, and the fire rope is connected to the particle gunpowder, and there is a cover at the last end, unscrew the cover, light the fire rope, throw it out, and it will explode after about four or five breaths." Zhang Gong explained in detail.

In the Royal Arsenal, sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter were all purified and screened. Judging from the effect of the explosion alone, it seems to be okay. Yang Reform also saves the trouble of purifying saltpeter and sulfur, and also saves other traversers the pain of carefully getting saltpeter and sulfur, which is to buy as much as you want, use as much as you want, and use as much as you want, above board.

Originally, there was still a fire-pulling device on the grenade, but unfortunately, there is no formula for matches now, otherwise the match will be made, and the fire-pulling device of the grenade will be there. Since there is none, let's use this ignition method first. Yang Reform is not too extravagant, as long as it can be used, the formula of the match, let's talk about it later.

Thinking of this, Yang Reform felt that it was not bad, at least the prototype of the grenade came out, except that the ignition device was a little problematic, it could also be used.

"Very good, that's it, Zhang Gong, Li Gong, you have all worked hard, in this way, each of the five of you will receive a hundred taels of silver, and the craftsmen of the War Bureau will each receive two taels of silver. It's almost the New Year, and everyone is happy. "There are five craftsmen that Fu Mingde found for Yang Reform, and they are now in charge of weapon development in the War Bureau.

"Grass people, thank you, Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live. "Almost all of the people on the school field who have knelt on the ground are craftsmen.

Yang Gai felt that this was very good, and he could win the loyalty of many people with little money. It's much better than the unfed Wenchen outside.

"Fu Mingde." Yang Gengai shouted.

"The slave is here." Fu Mingde hurriedly stepped out of the queue and knelt on the ground.

"Get up, I've given you a mission, and I'm going to increase the production of this grenade, the more the better, understand? You have to be responsible for the production, for the quality of the grenade, you must not be harsh on the craftsmen, the salary should be a little higher, every time you make a qualified grenade, I will reward you with a penny, don't underestimate this money, gather a little to make a lot, when you can make hundreds of thousands of grenades, you will find that you have a lot of money, understand? In addition, Zhang Gong, Li Gong, the two of you, also enjoy this rule, the grenade was invented by you, and the two of you can profit a penny from each grenade, I call this a patent, understand? ”

When everyone heard the emperor's words, they all exclaimed, this is a rule that has never been seen before. If you want to build hundreds of thousands of grenades, you have to make a profit of hundreds of thousands of dollars. That's a lot of money. More people are surprised that they can make a profit from inventing something new. Patent? Seems like a good thing.

"Fu Mingde obeyed. It will definitely live up to His Majesty's high expectations. Fu Mingde knelt on the ground very diligently and kowtowed to thank him, and he was very happy. Zhang Gong and Li Gong opened their mouths wide and were speechless in surprise.

This matter soon spread outside, and the ministers were very worried about the emperor's behavior, and they all talked about educating the emperor, but Yang Reform was an NPC when they were NPCs, and what they said should be a fart.

Ignition devices, matches, Yang Reform has been thinking about these things in his heart.

The queen is a little Lori, this is Yang Reform's consciousness, judging from the dress, she is in her early twenties. Actually, he was less than fifteen or sixteen years old.

Yang Reform has a feeling that the Ming Dynasty is a group of lolitas, who got married at the age of fifteen or sixteen and had a lot of children. In the face of such a little Lori, Yang Gai felt a little unable to do it.

The person in his arms also obviously felt Chongzhen's strangeness, twisted his body coquettishly, and said, "Your Majesty, don't you like Wan'er anymore?" ”

"I don't like you anymore, I just think your body is too thin, too early to get pregnant, I'm afraid it won't be good for you." Yang also knows that getting pregnant too early is a great burden on a woman's body.

"Your Majesty, no, many of my hometowns have already given birth to children who are younger than me. It's not good yet. After saying that, he twisted.

Yang Gai felt terrible, and it was definitely impossible to say that a slippery ketone body crawled on his body and was not moved. But when I think it's Lori, I feel like there's a psychological barrier.

The obstacle kneeling obstacle, but there was a reaction.

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After a leak. Yang Gengai slept beautifully. In the middle of the night, I dreamed of my previous dream, I actually sat in front of the computer, and the browser was opened by Baidu, Yang Reform had been thinking about the formula of matches during the day, and when I thought of this, I immediately searched for it.

Soon, Yang Reform searched for the production method of matches, or safety matches, looking back, what manganese dioxide, hydrochloric acid, Yang Reform was dizzy when he saw these things, and now at the level of the Ming Dynasty, it is absolutely impossible to make these things. It seems that his grenades can only be ignited by the method of ignition rope. However, for being able to dream back to Baidu to check things in his dreams, Yang Gai only felt that he was too happy. It's a rebellious thing. It's a pity that the time to dream back to Baidu is too short, and you can only check things on Baidu. Beyond this range, it won't work, Yang Reform still wants to watch the pure film, but he didn't see anything.

There are still some side effects when I wake up, and my head is a little groggy. But for being able to use Baidu to search, it's nothing.;