Chapter 142 The development of firearms is the last word

Wu Wei did not spend the New Year at home, and returned to Jiangcheng on the seventh day of the new year. No way, according to the date, the Ming Dynasty has now passed the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the time I told Li Xianling is almost up, and I have to rush to the Ming Dynasty in a few days, and the stalls over there are a hundred times bigger than modern times!

She and Cheng Feifei have to hurry up and date Wen Cun, she has a limited vacation this time, and she will return to Beijing to report on the tenth day of the new year, which is difficult to say goodbye when you meet!

Anyway, it's too late to develop something in such a short period of time.

Sometimes Wu can't figure it out for himself, he is just a layman, and God Mao wants to let himself take on the heavy responsibility of saving the common people! Don't you know it's so tiring?

However, this question is a bit pretentious, because if he had to choose to do it again, he would not hesitate to make the same choice.

Just kidding, it's enough to do Dick Silk once, who wants to be Dick Si for the rest of their lives?

There are many young people in modern society who pride themselves on dicks, who says that they are not because of self-deprecation and helplessness about the status quo?

The division of labor in modern society is highly refined, everyone bears limited responsibilities in their respective positions, and the terms of the system are becoming more and more detailed, leaving little room for each person to exert their initiative. Coupled with the fact that the social class is becoming more and more solidified, and fighting for dad and mom is popular, if Diaosi wants to counterattack, it has become an almost impossible task.

As for wanting to be a hero, who to save and whom, it's better to shake your head quickly, these days, helping others for pleasure contains a lot of risks, let alone saving the world, you can't even help an aunt!

And for Wu Wei, the matter of owning the light gate has changed a qiē. For him. The world on the other side of the Light Gate is not only a source of great wealth, but also a stage for oneself to wield at will.

The people there are flesh and blood, with the same emotions and desires as modern people, and their sufferings and happiness are so real and within reach.

For the first time in his life, Wu Wei found that he seemed to have become a hero admired by thousands of people, at least in the small county town of Ansai.

Because I don't know when, his every move has been related to the livelihood and safety of more than 100,000 people in Ansai.

This feeling of being trusted and loved by everyone is really not bad, Wu Wei sometimes thinks like this.

Modern society is not like the Ming Dynasty. Life is fast-paced. In the Ming Dynasty, the whole New Year was a big holiday, and even the most industrious farmers would not go out to collect work during the New Year, and in Jiangcheng in the 21st century, even the laziest shopkeepers only dared to hang out the sign that "the store is open normally on the seventh day of the new year".

No way. The shop is too expensive. To be idle is to be a crime.

Most of the shops in the market have resumed normal business. Wu Wei procured a large amount of materials very smoothly. Foods such as antibiotics, Yunnan Baiyao, and cool oil are naturally indispensable, while pearls, ginseng, mushrooms, fungus, and other things that are inexpensive in modern society due to artificial cultivation are even rarer in the Ming Dynasty, and their prices are more expensive than gold.

Antiques brought from the Ming Dynasty were donated to the museum. Bao Juzhai received a batch, and now Wu Wei still has a lot of unsold weapons in his hands, most of which are the trophies obtained from the "two kings".

This thing is rare and expensive, and all of a sudden outpouring into the market will inevitably cause the price to plummet, and it is also attention-grabbing. Sometimes Wu Wei can't help but slander the "two kings" who have been hung up, and they all say that the antiques of the prosperous era are golden, and the first-class girls are good at grabbing money, food, and girls, why are you robbing so many antiques?

Fortunately, because of the miscellaneous tastes of the Liukou, they still grabbed some good things, such as jadeite, although it was not valuable in the Ming Dynasty, but the Liukou did not dislike it at all, this thing was found in the loot, plus all kinds of jewelry and jade that could be named and unnamed were sent to Qinbi Pavilion by Wu Wei for sale.

Although it is only a preliminary estimate, it is expected that the income obtained from Qinbi Pavilion will also be extremely considerable, and it is not much better than the treasure gathering of Zhai.

Moreover, the domestic jade and jade market is much larger than the antique market, and hundreds of millions of goods thrown into it can not stir up any waves, and the long-term prospects are promising.

In the past, Wu Wei planned to take advantage of the east wind of the great victory over the Liukou to expand the Ansai camp. Although the establishment of 3,000 people was quickly completed, it was far from enough compared to Wu Wei's concept, and these 3,000 people were already in danger of dealing with tens of thousands of rogues this time.

What's more, as a modern traverser, it is too unreasonable for him to use muskets and cannons as a big killing weapon. The firearms technology of the Ming Dynasty was quite developed, and there were dozens of firearms recorded in the General Essentials of the Wujing, and the firearms troops of the Ming army in the three major expeditions of Wanli were even more powerful.

It's just that in the battle of Salhu, the Ming army of the four roads was wiped out by the three roads, and the elite firearms troops of the famous generals Liu Ling and Juniper were all lost, coupled with the financial collapse at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the government was extremely corrupt, and the firearms created were of low quality, and gradually there were fewer and fewer people who dared to use them and knew how to use them, so that now the status of the firearms troops in the Ming army has plummeted, and it is no longer the invincible majesty in the hands of Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong.

You must know that Qi Shuai once led thousands of cavalry, and with a three-eyed gun, he killed tens of thousands of Tartars to a great defeat!

When was the fear of exploding the chamber because of the poor manufacture of firearms, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty regarded the use of firearms as a daunting path?

In fact, Wu Wei carefully considered that the possibility of improving firearms and reviving the strength of the firearms unit in the late Ming Dynasty was still very high.

First of all, the Ming Dynasty had hundreds of years of technology accumulation, there were a large number of skilled craftsmen, and the glory of the firearms army in the past proved that as long as it was strictly managed, the quality of the products produced could still be guaranteed under the premise of ensuring funds and materials.

Secondly, the construction drawings of old-fashioned muskets on the modern Internet are everywhere, and the news of private earthen guns and earthen cannons hurting people is not uncommon, which proves that this thing is not very difficult, and several people's small workshops can do it, but the law cracks down very harshly, which creates the impression that this thing is very mysterious. The structural principles of these earthen guns and earthen cannons are undoubtedly much more advanced than those in the late Ming Dynasty, and once they are introduced, they will certainly have a great impact on the development of firearms in China at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In the final analysis, the Ming Dynasty did not lack the technology to make firearms, but because the bureaucracy was too corrupt and the labor fees were exhausted, no matter how skilled and clever the craftsmen were, they naturally could not make qualified firearms. In fact, modern archaeology has found that there were already flowering cannonballs in the Ming Dynasty, and firearms such as the Great Turtledove Gun were not inferior to the heavy smoothbore guns of the same period in Europe!

This made Wu Wei find that he didn't need to start over, he only needed to improve it on the basis of the military industry at the end of the Ming Dynasty, his funds, technology, and manpower were all sufficient, and no one on the side of the Ming Dynasty didn't care how you tossed.

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and he does not believe that a large number of qualified or even advanced firearms cannot be made by smashing a lot of silver!

Of course, there are some modern tools and materials that can help you get more out with less, such as seamless steel tubes with smooth and uniform inner walls, vernier calipers that can measure the size of parts finely, and traditional machine tools that can draw rifling

As soon as Qiē was ready, Wu Wei wore back to the Ming Dynasty with supplies.

The receiving point on the opposite side is still selected in the warehouse area far away from the factory area, heavily guarded by heavy soldiers, and idlers are forbidden to enter.

Maybe it's because he was carrying too many things, after all the materials were transported to the light gate, Wu Wei was about to close the light gate, but he inadvertently found that the edge of the light gate was a little discolored, and the sound of thunder and lightning inside seemed to be a little smaller, this surprise was not trivial, he repeatedly passed through the light gate no less than a hundred times, and this was the first time that he found that the light gate had changed! (To be continued......)