Chapter 173: About the Universe

Genius remembers in a second [Aishang Novel Network biquge.info] to provide you with wonderful novels to read.

Speaking of which, this gun also took a lot of Mao Geng's thoughts.

Yes, this is a pouting gun, that's what the Eighth Route Army called it, and the disemboweling firearms are all called pouting guns, and the Eighth Route Army once made a lot of pouting guns.

Different from many pouting guns in later generations, the structure of Mao's pouting gun is slightly more complicated, which is to avoid hitting the bullet after reloading.

It is worth mentioning that the barrel of this gun was also engraved with rifling, which was pulled out with an improvised wooden broaching machine.

The whole gun adopts a pouting type disembowel design; The bullet loaded is a paper shell integral bullet, and the paper shell integral bullet stuffed into the steel sleeve is equivalent to the all-metal shell bullet of later generations; The ignition device adopts the ignition of the striking iron striking and smashing the cannon; After ignition, the transmission from the outside to the inside is to spray a high-temperature air stream through the guò nozzle, which in turn ignites the projectile of the paper shell bullet in the steel jacket.

Yes, in terms of ignition, this musket borrowed the mechanism of the percussive thundercap bolt. In the nineteenth century, after the advent of thundermercury, Forsyth designed a musket that was ignited with mercury powder, but the ignition of mercury powder had a problem, so there were a series of subsequent improvements. The most mature was the later Thunder Cap, and in 1825, the percussive Thunder Cap bolt was born.

The thunder cap is a small copper cap equipped with thunder mercury, the thunder cap is put on the anvil with a fire door, the trigger is pulled, the hammer hits the anvil, so the thunder mercury is hit and burns, so as to trigger a small explosion in the confined space between the copper cap and the covered anvil, the high-temperature gas generated by the explosion flows through the nozzle and sprays to the fire door connecting the gunpowder chamber of the gun chamber - to put it figuratively, the explosion is a small pipe that sprays high-temperature gas into the gunpowder chamber of the gun chamber, and finally ignites the gunpowder in the gun chamber.

Thundercaps are designed for out-of-bore impact ignition, and one cap is consumed for each shot. Every time you load your ammunition, you have to put a thundercap on the anvil before you can fire the next shot, which of course will affect the degree of fire. Therefore, the whole metal bullet was exhibited later, and the thundermercury ignition device was integrated into the bottom of the bullet, which was the primer. The primer is the primer, the thunder hat is the thunderhat, and the thunder hat took almost fifty years to exhibit the primer, so the primer and the thunder hat cannot be simply equated.

Mao's musket is on ignition, which is similar to the principle of impact ignition gun mechanism.

However, in the nineteenth century, Ming's thunder hat was ignited with thunder mercury, which is a cross-era chemical product, and now nitric acid has not been produced, and thundermercury is even more missing. Therefore, Mao's musket is simple because of its ugliness, and it uses materials that are available in this era, and the glass sand in it can be changed to ordinary sand, and even red phosphorus can be used to achieve impact ignition.

In his previous life, when he was young, he played with match guns and smashed guns, and that kind of memory is unforgettable, even if he has never heard of thunder hats and impact bolts, it does not prevent Mao Geng from thinking of similar institutions. In this era, Mao Geng felt that it was natural to promote the spirit of simplicity in the cause of self-made match guns, and to wave the principle of match guns and smashing guns to the extreme.

In the ignition of the musket, in the era when there was no thunder mercury for the time being, using the Song version of the smashing cannon to ignite the fire was almost the best plan that Mao Geng could think of.

Immodestly, this Mao's musket already had all the characteristics of a single rifle of later generations.

However, there are still some fly in the ointment, such as only single shooting, and the accuracy of shooting needs to be improved, etc., from the perspective of Mao Geng's determination to take the boutique route, this obviously cannot be called a mature rifle. Mao Geng calculated in his heart that maybe in another month, he would be able to make a new rifle with an all-round improvement in performance.

But after 6 Jiuyuan saw the power of the musket, he couldn't suppress his excitement, and after thinking about it, he felt that Mao Geng's attitude towards the musket was a little wrong, and 6 Jiuyuan decided to talk to Mao Geng well.

"Yi Sheng, I watched today's musket shooting, and I felt a lot of emotion. I thought, we'll have to have a good talk. ”

Oh, 6 Jiuyuan wants to have a private chat with himself, okay, it's time to have a good chat, I have to tell you the truth. So Mao Geng warmly invited:

"Mr. 6, why don't we have dinner together tonight?"

"Call me Brother 6." , 6 Jiuyuan immediately thought that today was a small year, so he smiled and said:

"Aren't you going to spend the New Year with the Su family?

"There will be opportunities in the future."

"Okay, I'll do the East." , 6 Jiuyuan is quite conscious of being the host.

"Brother 6, let me invite you! How about I show my hand today, cook two dishes, and invite my 6th brother to taste them? ”

Mao Geng's dishes are very chic, well, delicious, but unfortunately he rarely cooks, 6 Jiuyuan smiled and said:

"It's better to be respectful than to obey! How about one more person? ”

"Who?"

"Ye Shi."

6 Jiuyuan felt that he should find one more person to help, Ye Shi's opinion should be the same as his own, and he should be a good helper.

Of course Mao Geng would not refuse, Mao Geng felt that Ye Cheng should also understand his own thoughts.

On this night of the new year, Mao Geng, 6 Jiuyuan, and Ye Shi got together.

"Maote's food tastes really good!" , Ye Shi tasted Mao Geng's craftsmanship for the first time, and he was amazed from the bottom of his heart. Ye Shi, as a jinshi, is recognized as the smartest handful of elites in this era, but there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people.

Hehe, I'm in charge of two of the dishes. ”

When it comes to cooking, 6 Jiuyuan immediately remembered "Alice in Wonderland" written by Chen Liang.

6 Jiuyuan asked:

"Brother Yisheng, tell me about it, in the science fiction world written by Chen Liang, people can fly in the sky, swim under the sea, have clairvoyance, have ears to the wind, just press a button to cook and stir-fry, and even eat organically qì people feed, Brother Yisheng, will these become true?"

Mao Geng listened to 6 Jiuyuan talk about feeding the machine, and couldn't help laughing, and squirted out the food in his mouth with a poof, and then said sorry.

It is not technically difficult to feed people, but the point is, if that's the case, what is the meaning of living!

However, Mao Geng still answered honestly:

"Brother 6, I thought that these things that Chen Liang fantasized about should be able to be realized in the future. However, I think it's better to eat the rice yourself. ”

"Oh, so to speak, it's really possible to feed people, it's incredible, it's incredible! Ye is taught! Come, Brother 6, Brother Yisheng, come, cheers! Ye Shi was shocked.

6 Jiuyuan is also happy, and he will do it when he touches it.

"Brother 6, drink less and pay attention to your body!" , 6 Jiuyuan was weak, and Mao Geng was a little worried that he would drink too much.

"I watched the musket demonstration today, I'm happy, I'm happy today, it's okay to drink more!"

Ye Shi only heard 6 Jiuyuan talking about muskets and muskets, so he asked with a smile:

"What's so wonderful about the musket?"

"Muskets, let's put it this way, it's easy to kill an enemy from a hundred paces. I just wonder why Brother Yi Sheng has made such a powerful musket, but why he keeps hiding it. According to 6, as long as 10,000 muskets were built, plus more powerful cannons, it would be enough to sweep away the Jin soldiers and restore the Central Plains. ”

"Yes! Is it so powerful! In this case, Brother Yi Sheng should indeed take it out earlier, if necessary, Brother Yi Sheng can put down everything else and concentrate on making this musket. Ye Shi is really a qualified helper.

Mao Geng smiled, and said in his heart that if he didn't convince the two of them today, he was afraid that tomorrow Zhao Lu would really let himself concentrate on making muskets.

Mao Geng drank a glass of wine, pondered for a moment how to say, and then plucked up the courage to say:

"Brother 6, I admire your 6th brother's mind very much, Brother 6 said, 'My heart is the universe, and the universe is my heart', which has the momentum of encompassing the universe in the realm, which is enough to overlook all living beings. The 6th brother is extraordinary, but does the 6th brother know how big the universe is? ”

Mao Gengxin said, don't answer that how big the universe is, how big the heart is, or how big the heart is, how big the universe is, that's too mysterious! It is as mysterious as the advertising slogan of later generations, "how far the thought is, how far the road is".

Fortunately, 6 Jiuyuan just said:

"Drinking today, I have a lot of questions to ask Brother Yi Sheng, I want to hear what Brother Yi Sheng says, how big is the universe, Yi Sheng, do you know?"

Mao Geng then talked little by little about the astronomy of later generations, what universe is boundless, what galaxy, what stars, planets, and finally, under the stunned gaze of 6 Jiuyuan and Ye Shi, he simply took out a shoddy globe from the room.

Next, Mao Geng couldn't care so much, and while spinning the globe, he pointed and taught a lesson with the two Jinshi of this dynasty who were already extremely shocked.

Pointing out that the earth is round, the two were shocked! pointed out that there are five continents, and the Great Song Dynasty only occupies a small part of the earth and 6 lands, and the two were shocked again.

Ye Shi was young and reacted quickly, and after reminiscing, he couldn't help but ask:

"Yi Sheng, are you saying that we are in a boundless universe, we live on this earth, and the earth is a drop in the ocean compared to the universe, right?"

"Not bad!"

Mao Geng was thinking, the next question should come soon, and normally, Ye Xing should also ask: Since it is a ball, why don't people fall from the earth?

However, no, Ye Shi didn't ask, and 6 Jiuyuan didn't ask this question either.

Looking at the demeanor of 6 Jiuyuan, he must be thinking about an esoteric philosophical question at this moment.

Ye Shi hadn't organized the next question yet, but 6 Jiuyuan came back to his senses from his reverie, but asked a question that Mao Geng hadn't thought of at all:

"Brother Yisheng, let me ask you, the legend says that the bearded man crossed the ocean to build a country overseas, tell me, which continent he built the country in?"

Mao Geng had almost forgotten about it, but he didn't expect 6 Jiuyuan to mention it at this time!

"It should be in Australia, here." , Mao Geng pointed to a region in the lower hemisphere of the globe, and said unashamedly, this answer Mao Geng has already made a plan, and he doesn't need to think about it.

Just ashamed! In the previous life, the geography was not well learned, and the location and size ratio were all scribbled, but the meaning came to the scene.

6 Jiuyuan nodded and asked again:

"How far is it from Taiwan?"

"One or two thousand miles!" , Mao Geng only knows how far away, how far it is, I really don't count.

"Oh, I understand, I look at the attitude of Brother Yisheng, several times I don't advocate rushing to use troops against the Jin country, it turns out that the key target is not the Jin country, but here, right! No wonder Brother Yisheng is so attentive to shipbuilding! If you want to build a novel ship in the style of a 'tumbler', you must want to salvage the secrets of the seabed thousands of miles away! ”

Wow! It all comes together! I took it! 6What shall I say, sir?