At this time, Zhao Pu walked between the workshops, watching the craftsmen in full swing to build weapons, and his heart was unconsciously excited, this was the earliest firearms workshop. Everything is very primitive and backward, all relying on the exquisite skills of craftsmen to polish and manufacture little by little.

They didn't know that the man in front of them was the current saint, and they only knew that they were entrusted by this "general" to build weapons wholeheartedly.

This is a completely new weapon, which is said to be brand new, but in fact it is not new at all, it is just that the gunpowder is placed in an iron pipe so that it can be fired, the principle is simple, but it is extremely difficult to operate. Although there are drawings provided by General Zhao and some information, some detours have been reduced, but the difficulty is still not small.

However, after more than a month of tackling key problems, key problems were overcome, and firearms were finally manufactured.

There are two main categories, one is flintlock pistol and the other is arquebus.

The flintlock pistol, compared to the arquebus, is obviously much better, the rate of fire is fast, and it can be used in rainy days; However, the disadvantages are also extremely obvious, that is, the manufacturing is more complicated, the industry is more complex, and the cost is higher. In desperation, Zhao Pu could only manufacture arquebuses in large quantities, and only a small number of flintlock pistols were flintlock pistols.

"How much does a flintlock gun cost?"

"More than two thousand!"

"And how much does the arquebus cost?"

"Five hundred!"

"So expensive!" Zhao Pu couldn't help frowning, it was too much money. In the past, he didn't know that firewood and rice were expensive, but now that he is the emperor, Zhao Pu has an economic concept. Today, the Song Dynasty's financial revenue is only 20 million guan, and the military expenditure is about 13 million guan, and the key items are in building city walls and training new soldiers, which accounts for more than 10 million guan.

In terms of weapons manufacturing, there are less than two million.

That is, all the money spent on the manufacture of weapons was spent on the manufacture of firearms, and only 2,000 flintlock pistols or 8,000 arquebuses could be made.

The cost of a flintlock pistol is equivalent to ten bed crossbows, fifty divine arm crossbows, and 200 steel knives, but in actual combat, it is only equivalent to the attack power of a bow and arrow.

"Sure enough, it's a cheat!" Zhao Pu took a deep breath. Early firearms were not as miraculous as they were in the legends, but had great drawbacks.

Zhao Pu suppressed the irritability in his heart, and still needed to ask, "How is the shooting speed?" “

"When a musket is fired, it has to go through a series of complicated actions such as loading the propellant, ramming the medicine with a cane, loading lead, tamping the lead, opening the fire door, lighting the gunpowder, and closing the fire door, and the firing speed is extremely slow. With one shot, the cavalry can shoot three rounds of arrows. ”

The rate of fire was so slow that it was almost completely blown out by the bow and arrow.

In the end, still suppressing the irritability in his heart, Zhao Pu continued to ask, "How about the shooting distance?" ”

"The maximum range is 150 meters, and the actual effective range is more than 60 meters, which is about the same as the range of a bow and arrow." The artisan leader said again.

Zhao Pu was sad again, compared with bows and arrows, the range of firearms at this time was about the same, and the rate of fire was much slower, so it really didn't have any advantages, but there were many disadvantages.

The leader of the craftsmen continued: "It's just that it's more powerful than a bow and arrow, it can penetrate three layers of armor, and it can kill and wound heavy armored cavalry!" ”

Zhao Pu breathed a sigh of relief, and finally heard a gratifying news.

In this era, as long as the heavy cavalry is properly commanded, does not fall into some Jedi, does not go deep alone, is almost invincible, ordinary bows and arrows are difficult to hurt, even if it is a spear and the like, the threat is limited.

Only heavy weapons such as bed crossbows can threaten the heavy cavalry, but the mobility is too poor, and once the heavy cavalry runs away, there is nothing to be done.

And the musket finally had a slight advantage in this regard.

"Bring me a musket, I'll take a look!"

After a while, a swarthy weapon appeared, thick as an arm, about one and a half meters long.

"This is an arquebus?" Zhao Pu had the urge to faint.

This was not the small and nimble arquebus he had envisioned, but a large version of the arquebus. It is said that it is a large version of the arquebus, and it is better to say that it is a lifting gun.

The leader of the craftsmen said proudly: "The musket weighs fifty catties and has a range of one hundred meters, as long as it is shot within a hundred meters, the average cavalryman is almost killed; In a fifty-meter shot*, the heavily armored cavalry would die. It only needs two people to lift, and the range is not as good as the bed crossbow, but it is more powerful than the bed crossbow, and it is lighter than the bed crossbow, but the range is a little shorter! ”

"It turned out that he was negligent and turned the arquebus into a carrying gun!" At this time, Zhao Pu realized that he had missed something.

He was not a firearms expert, just an amateur, and he knew some theoretical things, but when it came to the specific dimensions, he didn't know them, so he didn't write them at all. So, an extremely rough arquebus drawing was handed over, but the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty relied on their excellent skills to make the musket.

It's just that it's too different from his assumption, which is that a musket team with a proper weight and a hand in each hand will form a musket team; But in reality, it became a gun between artillery and muskets.

Lifting the gun, the Ming Dynasty "Tiangong Kaiwu" was the first to record its picture, with a triangular bracket and a rotating device, 3 meters long, weighing 12 kilograms, effective range of 200 meters, nicknamed "Nine-headed Bird", powerful, even the chariots at that time could not resist.

And this version of the lifting gun, which is 1.5 meters and fifty pounds, is composed of two sets of barrels, with copper on the inside and steel on the outside.

"Can you make it lighter and lighter?" Zhao Pudao.

"This takes time, the weight is smaller, and the power will decrease!" The craftsman persuaded.

Zhao Pu: ............

In the end, Zhao Pu left the firearms workshop, and when he parted, he took with him fifty flintlock guns and one hundred and fifty arquebus. And these completely spent his 200,000 yuan. In short, the price comparison is not reasonable at all, and there is a feeling that the gains outweigh the losses.

Along the way, Zhao Pu was sullen.

Sure enough, some of the views in the previous life were very tricky.

It is always said that firearms are king, it seems that with firearms, you can be the king and hegemon in the era of cold weapons, it seems that you are invincible, it seems that you can destroy the Jin country with a snap of your fingers, and you can clean up Genghis Khan with your feet, and if you spit on it, you can drown the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

But is that really the case?

Zhao Pu only thought of four words: on paper.

A country should prioritize the most advanced and expensive weapons for itself. The weapons used should match their own economic strength, the level of industrialization, and even the quality of the army, rather than blindly pursuing advancement. Otherwise, there will be a situation where the gains outweigh the losses.

During World War II, Western countries have used a large number of automatic and semi-automatic rifles, but the United States is still the old 38 big cover. Later generations always said that Japan's military thinking was backward and that it had not kept pace with the times, but is this really the case? There are also capable people in Japan, and they will not fail to see this shortcoming. The reason why this is so is because of the lack of resources and the limited industrial level, which can only be covered with 38 big covers; If you use automatic and semi-automatic weapons, it will be unbearable for industry. Moreover, relying on the 38 big cover, it was already possible to completely destroy the Chinese army at that time, and there was no need to equip it with more advanced weapons.

Gunpowder was invented during the Tang Dynasty, when it was used as a rocket tied to an arrow shaft or a trebuchet to throw explosive packets.

In the Song Dynasty, only crude firearms were made, and cold weapons were still the mainstay.

It was not until the late Ming Dynasty, especially in the fight against the Japanese and the Eight Banners of Manchuria, that firearms flourished, at that time there were three-eyed guns, cluster rockets, divine fire flying crows, ten thousand enemies, fire dragon out of the water, fire guns, Hongyi cannons, ten-eyed guns, abduction guns, thunderbolts, five thunder god machines, guns, etc., all kinds of guns.

The prosperity of firearms in the Ming Dynasty was manufactured after hundreds of years of exploration, and then borrowed from Western firearms technology and Japanese firearms technology.

At this time, there was no talent in firearms, and the experience of craftsmen was also poor and white, and there was a lack of reference, just trying to rely on his crude ideas and craftsmen's groping to make powerful firearms, which was very difficult, and even a little daydreaming.

Premature babies are often malnourished and have many hidden dangers.

It is necessary to manufacture the flintlock pistol, arquebus and other weapons that were born two or three hundred years later in advance, and the price paid is heavy, and some of them even have no gains.

"There is not much time left for me, the Jin Army is too strong, if you want to defeat the Jin Army, you must win by surprise, I don't believe that a lot of money will not be able to be made!" Zhao Pu said ruthlessly in his heart.

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