Zhang Zhang couldn't help but move his mind!

, what's the worst thing about this young master now?

Talent!

This Junkersh is a German, and as soon as Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, came, he looked for someone to fight the autumn breeze, obviously not mixing well in China!

Although Young Master Ben is also short of money, this kind of investment in technical talents is overwhelming, even more important than the medical hall!

I'll find a chance to talk to him later, it seems that I don't want to get some German craftsmen, even if the salary is high!

For the manufacture of machinery, I still have a lot of confidence in Germany, and these people can be used by me.

Thinking of this, the smile on Zhang Li's face became even bigger, and he chatted with Junkersh all over the world.

While chatting, tension is observing this church, too.

Zhang Li found that the cathedral was designed in the Western style and was long and narrow, with a ceiling on the top, no beams visible, and carved windows on both sides, and in the center was a shrine decorated with incense lamps and curtains, which housed an oil portrait of Jesus.

The Jesus, with a tall nose, big ears, a fluffy beard, a pale face, and a round of 'holy light' on the top of his head, holds the map of the heavens in his left hand, and his right hand is eloquently stretched out in front of him, and his mouth is slightly open, as if he is enthusiastically telling some great insight.

By this time, Junkersh was already zealously preaching on the sidelines - he started with how Adam and Eve stole the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden and gave birth to sinful human beings, and all the way to the birth of Jesus, the sermon to save people, how he was crucified, how he was resurrected and ascended to heaven three days after his death, and so on. It's very eloquent, and it's very pretentious.

Zhang Li's later generations had known these stories for a long time, and although he didn't interrupt him, he was unmoved in his heart.

Although Xu Jingping's adoptive father Xu Guangqi was a devout Catholic, Catholicism at this time in the Ming Dynasty was still a religion accepted by a small number of people, far inferior to Buddhism and Taoism, which lasted for thousands of years, so Xu Jingping only nodded slightly.

Although Junkersh was not particularly interested in seeing these two, since they had entered the Catholic Church. At least not that he was particularly disgusted, which made him feel good.

After Xu Jingping presented a silver ticket of 1,000 taels of silver, she said goodbye to Junkersh and came out of the church.

Zhang Li's mind has been thinking about how to get closer to Junkersh, a German. Let's see if I can get some benefits, so I keep my head down and thinking about my thoughts.

After leaving the church, Xu Jingping said goodbye to Zhang Zhang and walked in the direction of Yuhuatai by herself.

Zhang Li pondered that he might use silver to open the way first and smash the German.

Since Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, gave a thousand taels. If you shoot two thousand taels, you will definitely get miraculous results.

However, Young Master Ben is not wronged, you have to find out if this guy can get the talent he urgently needs?

Zhang Zhang kept thinking about it, but he walked indiscriminately, and before he knew it, he came to Wuyi Lane in Dongcheng.

The Catholic Church is located in the west of Nanjing, while the medical center of Zhang Li is in the southeast of Nanjing. Therefore, the shortest route was to go southeast, but Zhang Li thought about things in his heart, and turned out to be due east.

This Wuyi Lane is famous, on the south bank of the Zhuque Bridge on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, and is the oldest and most famous lane name in China. During the Three Kingdoms, it was the location of the barracks of the Wu State guarding Stone City.

Wuyi Lane is the residential area of the two wealthy families of Wang Xie in the Jin Dynasty, and the children of both clans like to wear black clothes to show their dignity, hence the name.

Wuyi Lane is directly south of the Confucius Temple, and Zhang Li and Ruochen also passed by in a hurry when they visited the Confucius Temple before.

In the past, Liu Yuxi's famous "Wuyi Lane" is really embarrassing.

Wild grass and flowers by the Vermilion Bird Bridge, and the sunset at the mouth of Wuyi Alley.

In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people.

As soon as Zhang Zhang looked up, he found that he had come to Wuyi Lane, and he couldn't help frowning.

Apparently he took a long detour. Now you can only go south.

The hour has reached dusk, there are few pedestrians on the street, and this Wuyi Alley has long been an alley where ordinary people live, far from its former glory.

Immediately, if the morning saw tension alone. couldn't help but feel a little strange, and asked, 'Didn't Yuanliang follow you?' Where have you been? ‘

Zhang Zhang was stunned for a moment, thinking that he couldn't say that he accompanied his sister to visit the Catholic church, Nima didn't know how much it would take to explain!

Zhang Zhang pretended to be calm and said: "If there is nothing to do, I will walk around the city at will." ‘

Ruochen didn't have any suspicions, so he walked into the courtyard with Zhang Li.

While walking. Ruochen said: "I received the news in the afternoon, the eldest brother will return to Nanjing from Suzhou and Hangzhou in seven or eight days, and we will return to Beijing together at that time." ‘

Zhang Zhang nodded, he finally had an accurate departure time, and he had to speed up the arrangement!

Zhang Zhang opened his mouth and asked, 'I wonder if there is any news about the boat that went to pick up my mother?' ‘

Ruo Chen said: "It shouldn't be a big problem, the eldest brother asked the boat to pick up the aunt and go directly to the Jingshi when the time comes, and you mother and son can meet in the Jingshi." ‘

Zhang Zhang relieved his heart at this time, and after Ruochen left, Zhang Zhang began to think about finding Junkersh to get something.

If I remember correctly, the flintlock pistol, which the Ming Dynasty called the self-generated fire, was made in the eighth year of Chongzhen by Bi Maokang, the right attendant of the household department in Nanjing. It is a flint bolt instead of an arquebus, which is the earliest recorded flintlock pistol in China.

Of course, this is only the earliest in China, Europe has developed flintlock pistols at this time, but it has not yet equipped a large number of troops.

In terms of firearms, the Ming Dynasty did not lag behind Europe.

It's just that under internal and external troubles, Chongzhen has no money to promote new weapons.

From ancient times to the present, wars are fought with money, what war is there without money?

If you can get some flintlock pistols from Junkersh, it will definitely be a killer move, at least you can equip a small escort first.

The more Zhang Li thought about it, the more excited he became, maybe this German could really help him. Judging from his attitude towards Miss Jingping, this Catholic church is indeed short of money!

Early the next morning, Zhang Zhang took Gao Yuanliang to the Catholic Church.

The old German man Junkersch was a little surprised when he saw Zhang Li, after all, Zhang Li only came yesterday, and he came again today, is he interested in Catholicism?

Zhang Zhang and Gao Yuanliang followed Junkersh into the reception room, which was located on the west side of the church, a small room full of all kinds of Western things.

Zhang Li saw an arquebus hanging on the wall for the first time, and he was not interested in this thing, and frowned slightly.

Although the old man Junkesh has a stubborn character peculiar to Germans, he is not stupid, and seeing Zhang Li staring at the musket hanging on the wall, he knows that this young man may have a lot of interest in guns.

However, Junkersh's main business is preaching, so he couldn't help but say, 'Zhang Juren, we Catholics don't have many followers in Nanjing, if Zhang Juren can join Catholicism......

When Zhang Li heard this, he understood that the old man thought he was interested in Catholicism, and he couldn't help but smile slightly: "I do have some interest in Catholicism, but it is too early to talk about joining, and I will mention this matter later." ‘

Zhang Li played Tai Chi, and he couldn't offend this pious old man, the important thing was to get what he wanted from him!

Junkersh knew that it was not easy to preach, and since Zhang Li did not come to join the Catholic Church, why did he come to the future?

Seeing the old man's puzzled expression, Zhang Li smiled and said, "Mr. Junkersh, I see that there are very few believers in your church, I'm afraid that the funds for this event are a little stretched, right?" ‘

Junkersh's face turned red and he said with some embarrassment: "It is true that it is difficult to raise funds, and many people have joined our Catholic Church because of free medicine. Although the situation is more difficult now, I am still confident that I will persevere. ‘

Zhang Zhang nodded and said straight to the point: "Mr. Junkersh, I want to do a business with you!" ‘

Junkersh was taken aback and looked puzzled: 'Business? ‘

Zhang Li pointed to the arquebus hanging on the wall, and said lightly: "I want this, but I don't want an arquebus, I want to make my own fire." ‘

Junkersh's eyes narrowed when he heard the words 'self-generated fire' for the first time.

Zhang Li knew that this term was first seen in Bi Maokang's "Illustrated Description of Weapons" in the eighth year of Chongzhen, and just like the "Heavenly Creation", he proposed it a few years in advance......

Suddenly, Junkersh's eyes flashed, and he said, "Could it be that the self-generated fire gun that Zhang Juren said is a flintlock pistol?" ‘

Zhang Zhang nodded hurriedly and said excitedly: "Yes! It's a flintlock pistol! I wonder if Mr. Junkersh can get it? ‘

Junkersh didn't say anything, walked to a large locker, opened it with a key, and took out a musket from it!

Zhang Zhang was taken aback and hurriedly stepped forward!

Junkersh handed the flintlock pistol to Zhang Li, and said with a smug smile: "Zhang Juren, look, do you want this?" ‘

Zhang Zhang took this flintlock musket, and it was really a bit heavy to start, with the concept of tension to weight, this gun was about eleven or twelve pounds in later generations.

One pound in the Ming Dynasty was sixteen taels, which was roughly equivalent to nearly 600 grams in later generations, so if you measure it according to the Ming Dynasty, this gun is just about ten pounds!

The first gun was placed in the large locker lying flat, and the gun was placed directly on the ground vertically, and the height of the muzzle of the gun was about to touch his mouth, which was about one meter five.

It's a standard rifle!

Gao Yuanliang used to serve in the army, and as far as he knew, the equipment rate of arquebuses in the Ming army was quite high, accounting for about forty percent.

However, due to the shoddy craftsmanship of the craftsmen, most of the time the arquebus is used as a burning stick after the first shot is fired indiscriminately!

Gao Yuanliang didn't understand what Zhang Li said before, but Gao Yuanliang saw the difference in this gun at a glance!

There is no arquebus clamp with a fire rope?!

Tension's eyes naturally focused on the firing mechanism of this gun!

Zhang Li discovered that the firing mechanism of the gun was a small flint-clipped hammer, and directly in front of the hammer was a square groove-shaped powder pool.

The powder pool, adjacent to the hammer, was made of metal, and the entire pool was covered by a small lid that closed the powder pool.

Seeing that there was no ignition in the powder pool, Zhang Li pulled the trigger! (To be continued.) )