Zhao Zheng said with a smile: "During this period of time, our armor research institute has developed some new firearms, and the sound that Your Majesty and your ministers heard just now is the sound of us testing the explosion. ￥℉，”

"Oh? A few? Li Guanqi accurately grasped the key point in Zhao Zheng's words, and asked happily, "So you have made great progress!" Let's hear what they are? No, just take us to see it. ”

"Your Majesty, please!" Zhao Zheng flashed to the side and gave way to the side.

Li Guanqi and the others stepped forward and soon came to the firearms test site. I found that a large number of people had gathered there, and there were many boxes neatly stacked around it, with different words written on them.

Zhao Zheng walked to a wooden box, took out a cylindrical iron tool with a diameter of about ten centimeters and a length of about fifteen centimeters, and said: "This is a thunderbolt grenade developed by us, the shell is made of wrought iron, and it is filled with thistle terrestris and butter gunpowder, weighing twelve taels, and a trained sergeant can throw fifty paces away, which is extremely powerful......

"It's not powerful, you don't count!" Li Guanqi interrupted Zhao Zheng's introduction and said, "It just so happens that everyone is here, you can show us one of the on-site experiments." ”

"Yes." Zhao Zheng agreed, called a sergeant, and gave an order. Then lead the crowd backwards to a safe distance.

The sergeant lit the grenade's fuse with a fire twist, then rounded his arm and threw the grenade at the throwing point fifty paces away, where several dummy targets had already been set up.

With a "boom", a cloud of smoke rose in the distance, enveloping a one-meter radius area. From a distance, one of the dummies could be seen to have been blown off by the waist, and the arm of another dummy had been blown off.

This effect has already made Li Guanqi very excited, and the power of this thunderbolt grenade is very close to the wooden-handled grenade used by the squadron in World War II.

"Your Majesty, please come forward and take a closer look." Zhao Zheng said proudly.

"Let's go, go up and see." Li Guanqi said to several central ministers.

When they came up to them, they were amazed. I saw that the dummies within a radius of three meters were more or less nailed with thistle, and the dummy close to the explosion point was even denser, and it was blown off by the waist.

"It's really a divine weapon!" The first to exclaim was the privy deputy envoy Xu Quan, who was also on the battlefield and had a more intuitive judgment of the power of this weapon. If this grenade is exploded on the battlefield. At least five or six enemies will be incapacitated, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a magic weapon.

Li Guanqi also nodded again and again, to be honest, he didn't expect the Armor Research Institute to make such great progress in such a short period of time. If this kind of thunderbolt grenade can be mass-produced and equipped with troops, the combat power of the troops will immediately be qualitatively improved.

Come to think of it. Li Guanqi asked, "How much does it cost?" ”

"Five taels one." Zhao Zheng replied, "If it is mass-produced, it can be reduced a little more." ”

"It's still too expensive." Li Guanqi frowned slightly and said, "The idea will drop again." By the way, butter gunpowder can easily explode. Wouldn't this thing be unsafe? ”

"Your Majesty rest assured." Zhao Zheng replied, "Gongsun Zihan has improved the butter gunpowder, although we still call it butter gunpowder, in fact, it is no longer buttery, and now it is like yellow sand, except for the explosion in case of fire, it will no longer explode during transportation." ”

"Oh? This Gongsun Zihan is really a capable person! "Li Guan chess is happy.

"That's it. Now Gongsun Zihan is the chief firearms master of the Armor Research Institute! Zhao Zheng said with a smile, "These grenades were all developed by him." ”

"What about people? Why don't you call it sooner. Li Guanqi said with a smile.

In fact, Gongsun Zihan was in the testing ground, with a group of craftsmen and craftsmen, but the emperor did not summon him. That's why I didn't come. Now that Li Guanqi wanted to see him, someone had already summoned him loudly, and when he heard the words, he immediately trotted over, knelt down and saluted: "The student Gongsun Zihan has seen the principal. ”

"Get up." Li Guanqi personally held Gongsun Zihan and said with a smile, "You are a national treasure now." Quick, introduce me to other firearms. ”

"Yes." Gongsun Zihan didn't squirm, walked to another wooden box, picked up an oval wooden grenade the size of a coconut and said, "This is an arson grenade, which is filled with a small amount of butter gunpowder." Plus sulfur and sawdust. It weighs six taels and can throw sixty steps, which is used for setting fire to the enemy camp. The cost is three taels. ”

After speaking, Gongsun Zihan summoned a sergeant to conduct an experiment. This arson grenade didn't explode as loudly as a thunderbolt grenade. There is little smoke and no great lethality, but after the explosion, countless sparks erupt like fireworks, but these sparks are not extinguished immediately, but can continue to burn, which is indeed a sharp weapon for killing people and setting fires.

After everyone saw the effect of the arson grenade. Gongsun Zihan picked up a round grenade the size of an orange again and introduced: "This is a ghost crying grenade, the shell is made of wrought iron, the shell is drilled, pasted with rice milk, and the secret black powder is inside, it will not explode after igniting the lead, but will only spew clouds and fog while making a harsh sound, which can be used to disturb the enemy's mind." It weighs five taels and can be thrown sixty steps. The cost is two or five dollars. ”

Li Guanqi nodded, this ghost crying grenade should have a good effect when used to steal the camp. After the test, Gongsun Zihan then took out something the size of a watermelon and said: "This is a smoky thunder shock, the shell is fired with clay, and it is filled with secret black powder, plus wolf venom, toad, croton, arsenic, dogwood, etc. This one is not used to blow people, it is specially used to smoke the eyes of war horses. Launching with a trebuchet can not only smoke the war horse, but even the cavalry on horseback can be smoked so that they can't open their eyes in a short time. ”

"I'll go. Isn't this tear gas? Li Guanqi was really eye-opening now, and he almost rushed out, "You kid won't also cross over, right?" ”

Of course, Gongsun Zihan did not come over, which can only be explained by the infinite wisdom of the working people.

"Zihan alone can be a million soldiers!" Li Guanqi was very happy, and laughed and said, "That, I will add you a third-grade title, and the monthly salary will be five hundred taels." ”

"Huh?" Everyone present, including Gongsun Zihan, was stunned, and the monthly salary of the first official of the imperial court was only one hundred and twenty taels. Gongsun Zihan, a small craftsman, actually gave a monthly salary of 500 taels, isn't it too amazing.

"Zhao Zheng." Li Guanqi continued, "Not only Gongsun Zihan, but you can count it, all those who have developed new achievements in the Ordnance Research Institute will be rewarded. The minimum seven-grade job title is 100 taels per month. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" (To be continued.) )