Liu Le motioned for Ming Feng Xiuzheng to scoop up the special item, and Ming Feng Xiuzheng immediately looked at Zhengliang and asked for Zhengliang's consent. ()

Masarashi nodded in agreement, and the latter immediately picked up a small wooden box at the door, then came up to Masarashi and respectfully handed it to Masara.

Masarashi slowly opened the small wooden box.

"Huotong?" Masarashi said in surprise. At this moment, he was not surprised to see the fire for the first time, because as early as a few years ago, Wang Hai had sent a fire to Zhengliang. Masara was surprised at the moment as to why there was a fire in the cottage of a small bandit.

Take a closer look at the fire in front of you. With a length of 43.5 centimeters and a well of 3 centimeters, it is the fire system that is now used as a standard weapon in the Ming Dynasty. Looking back at its history, it was an early light firearm of the Ming Dynasty standard, casting jīng liang, designing jīng skillfully, and compared with the Mengyuan firearms, the gunpowder required was greatly reduced. The method used is that two people send shè, one person is responsible for bracing and aiming, and one person is responsible for igniting shè, shè 180 meters. Since the Ming Dynasty had not yet come into contact with the firearms from the West on a large scale, the bird, and the Lumi firearms invented according to foreign techniques had not yet appeared, and now these firearms can be said to be the most commonly used firearms in the Ming Dynasty.

But as far as Zhengliang knew, the Ming Dynasty's management of firearms was quite strict. The manufacture of firearms in the Ming Dynasty was also two systems. First, the Ordnance Bureau and the War Bureau, which were set up in Liangjing, were the main manufacturing institutions of firearms in the Ming Dynasty. In order to prevent the production of divine guns and cannons from leaking out, the imperial court mainly controlled the manufacturing rights of the vessels in two special institutions set up in Běijīng. Before Hongzhi, it was stipulated that the Ordnance Bureau had to build firearms once every three years: 3,000 bowl-mouth copper guns, 3,000 hand-handled copper guns, 90,000 gun-gun arrows, and 3,000 letter guns. After the Hongzhi period, especially during the Jiajing period, the Ordnance Bureau and the Military War Bureau undertook to build more new or modified firearms. Second. Local health posts or border towns can manufacture firearms of a certain specification with the permission of the DPRK. Before Zhengde, Sichuan, Huguang, Guangxi, Qingzhou Zuowei, Xuzhou and Liangzhou were guarded. You can make your own firearms such as the Bronze General Divine Gun. In addition, for example, the Qianli Gun in Liaodong, the poisonous fire flying cannon in Shanxi Yatou Sanguan and the Lianzhu Buddha Lang machine gun were all manufactured after approval during the Jiajing period.

Why did such a tightly managed firearm suddenly appear in a bandit cottage? Even more bizarre. If there are firearms, why don't these bandits use them?

Liu Le saw Zhengliang's puzzled expression, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, please report the origin of these firearms to Your Highness later, and now I will ask Your Highness to take a look at another item." []”

"And?" Because the surprise of suddenly seeing the fire has not yet passed. The political conscience was surprised again because of Liu Le's words.

I saw that Ming Fengxiu was making a gesture to come in front of the door. Then two former cottage slaves walked in carrying a long object wrapped in cloth.

After the two of them put down their belongings, they saluted Masayo and walked out of the room quickly. Ming Fengxiu walked quickly to the item, and lifted the cloth covering it, revealing the true face of the item.

With a "pop", Masashi stood up suddenly.

What is this? It's a Franc cannon. No, to be precise, the Petit Franc cannon.

The Franco-cannon was introduced from the Portuguese in the early 16th century. In the Ming Dynasty. The term "franc" refers to Portugal and Spain at the time. Initially, one of the Portuguese warships clashed with the Ming Dynasty sailors off the coast of Macao, and was captured by the Ming army. The Ming Dynasty called the Franc cannon "sub-mother cannon". …,

The Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the Franc machine cannon. But there are few imports and more restrictions. And the artillery made of various specifications is complete, from more than 1,000 catties of multi-purpose heavy artillery "invincible general" to more than 100 catties of large "Franc machine". and then to the "little Franc machine" of dozens of catties, and even the soldiers have a few catties of "Wansheng Franc Machine" in their hands.

Now Masahiro sees that it is exactly the kind of "little Franc machine" that is dozens of catties. Masarashi walked up to the little Franc cannon and examined it carefully, this was the first time that Masarashi had actually seen these thermal weapons that had been put on display as an antique collection. Roughly speaking, the Franc cannon is an iron breech-loading smoothbore cannon, and the whole cannon is composed of three parts: the barrel, the belly, and the sub-cannon. In Masayo's impression, the method of using this kind of artillery is to first fill the gunpowder projectile into the sub-cannon when firing the cannon, and then load the sub-cannon into the belly of the cannon to ignite the fire door of the sub-cannon for shè strike.

With such a sharp weapon, at least in the siege battle after rì, the Luo family has a greater certainty of victory. Thinking of the role of these firearms on the battlefield after rì, Masashi couldn't help but be happy, and couldn't help but chant "good" several times in a row.

"So, Liu Le, can you tell me now, where did these things come from?" Zhengliang calmed down for a moment, turned his head to look at Liu Le and asked. Liu Le is the storekeeper of this cottage, and he must know the origin of these things.

"Your Highness, a month ago, the bandits here inadvertently snatched it back from the bottom of the mountain," Liu Le replied, "a total of 20 firearms, a small Franc cannon, and several boxes of ammunition. ”

"Hiss" politics

Liang Wenyan took a deep breath of cold air, such a large number of firearms were snatched back by these thieves so easily? It's incredible.

"Does Your Highness find it strange?" Liu Le asked.

Masarashi nodded.

"His Majesty also felt very different at the beginning, and then the leader of the bandits found a letter from the people who escorted these firearms, and handed it to his subordinates to interpret on his behalf, and His Majesty knew the reason", Liu Le bowed down and said, "It turned out that these firearms were prepared to be secretly transported to an official surnamed Zhang in Ningbo Prefecture, in order to hide people's eyes, this team of people made up a small caravan of less than 10 people, and prepared to go to Ningbo from this somewhat remote mountain road, I don't want them to know the road, originally peaceful here, During this time, it was occupied by the bandits here. So they were robbed. ”

"You're saying that someone is secretly selling firearms?" Masara asked.

Liu Le nodded solemnly, "From the letter, we can roughly guess that these firearms should still be ready to be sold to some people along the coast, but unfortunately, it is impossible to determine from the letter that it was an official surnamed Zhang who did it." (To be continued......)

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