"You have worked hard these days, now we can finally give your majesty an errand, and we can't live up to your majesty's pressure to resist the pressure of the imperial historian to give us official bodies."

Song Yingxing said happily.

Tang Ruowang was also very happy: "With this artifact, the Ming Dynasty will not worry about not dominating the world!" Gong Song, look, should we immediately bring this gun to the palace to see Your Majesty, this is better than that Governor Gao sending a beauty to Your Majesty. ”

"As Tang Gong said, let's go together!"

Song Yingxing said that he ordered someone to hurriedly wrap this flintlock pistol in red silk cloth.

But at this time, Sun Heding walked over: "Wait, why should the two uncles be in a hurry at this time." ”

"What, does the virtuous nephew still have objections to this?"

Song Yingxing was older than Sun Heding, and he was an official in the same dynasty as his father Sun Yuanhua, so he called Sun Heding a virtuous nephew.

"Fellow Sun is from the Gunpowder Bureau, you don't need to take credit for the manufacture of flintlock pistols this time", Tang Ruowang was more straightforward, and directly thought that Sun Heding was also going to participate.

Sun Heding couldn't help laughing: "Why did Uncle Tang say that, what the junior meant, and try it with my newly made ammunition, and it is not too late to present it to His Majesty after determining the range of this musket." ”

As he spoke, Sun Heding took out a pack of paper reloads: "This flintlock pistol can be given a try by juniors?" ”

"It's okay", after Song Yingxing returned, he couldn't help asking: "What do you do with this ammunition, and what are the benefits for flintlock gun firing?" ”

"Granular gunpowder wrapped in deerskin, packed into a paper bag every five, whether the performance is better, try it to find out!"

As he spoke, Sun Heding personally took off a paper shell bullet, then bit off one end, poured the ammunition from the front boring, and began to prepare for aiming.

Syllable!

As soon as Sun Heding's trigger was pulled, the hammer hit the door of the fire curtain, and the sparks instantly ignited the gunpowder in the medicine nest, and a cloud of white smoke appeared on the muzzle of the gun in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, Sun Heding tried firing a few more times.

"Report, the accurate range is one hundred steps, and the maximum range is two hundred steps!"

The craftsman in charge of investigating the shooting results ran back and told Song Yingxing and Tang Ruowang.

Song Yingxing and Tang Ruowang were dumbfounded, and looked at the ammunition and paper shells of the deerskin bag in front of them dumbfounded.

"So you can increase the range?"

Song Yingxing was busy and asked Sun Heding to try a few more shots.

It's still the case.

"Sure enough, as Your Majesty said, the ammunition wrapped in deerskin is obviously much more lubricated, and the shooting speed is faster!" Sun Heding said with a smile.

Song Yingxing simply laughed directly: "I am expected to revitalize the Ming Dynasty!" Hopefully! ”

"This, it's not just the long range, the key is that the operation is faster, and the speed is not inferior to that of a skilled archer from drawing a bow to aiming and shooting."

Tang Ruowang said in astonishment.

……

Syllable!

An ordinary piece of porcelain in the outer hall of the Qianqing Palace fell to the ground.

Zhu Youzhen blew out the white smoke from the muzzle of the gun, touched the slender body of the gun, pulled out the bayonet, and decisively slashed down at a chair.

The chair, which was ten centimeters thick, was six centimeters embedded with a bayonet.

"Yes, strong and sharp, and the range is also very good, this gun is named 'Chongzhen 14 Musket', and it will be put into production immediately, and the ammunition equipped with its caliber will also be produced immediately! The General Armament Department of the Generalissimo's Office was responsible for the purchase of the first batch of muskets, and the Daming Ordnance Institute of the Ministry of Industry undertook the payment, and the money was found by Yang Mingshen of the Daming Central Bank. ”

Zhu Youzhen renamed this first standard flintlock pistol of the Ming Dynasty into a musket, in order to keep it secret, not to reveal the characteristics of this musket, and at the same time did not indicate his use of the military branch by name, and replaced it with the year name, which undoubtedly at least distinguished the flintlock pistol that was improved in the future.

Zhu Youzhen is very satisfied with the current flintlock pistol, the accurate firing range can reach 100 paces, the firing speed can be fired more than five times in a row, and the accuracy has been greatly improved, which is already the best flintlock pistol in the world today.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen did not think about it, so he wanted the Generalissimo's Office to purchase it immediately, and when the time came, it was directly sent to the troops, and the training was immediately launched, and new tactics were established.

As for Song Yingxing, Tang Ruowang, Sun Heding and other scholars and craftsmen who have made outstanding contributions to the manufacture of Chongzhen's fourteen-style musket, Zhu Youzhen naturally does not hesitate to reward. At the same time, Song Yingxing, Tang Ruowang, Sun Heding, etc. gave Tongjinshi background, awarded the review of the Hanlin Academy, joined the Daming Academy of Engineering, and became the first batch of academicians of the Daming Academy of Engineering.

Song Yingxing and Tang Ruowang also added an academician of the Ming Academy of Sciences.

At the same time, the first workshop was jointly established by the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau of the Ordnance Institute, the Gunpowder Bureau, and the Gunpowder Bureau, and the elite forces were organized to produce the first batch of Chongzhen 14-type muskets.

For every additional Chongzhen 14-style musket produced, each participating craftsman was rewarded with one more point, so the enthusiasm of the craftsmen in production was very high, and they almost completed the work with the greatest enthusiasm.

The General Armament Department has sent special personnel to supervise it to ensure that it is not shoddy.

The Artillery Bureau is still developing new artillery and adding rangefinders and doors, Sun Hedou saw that his brother had already won the Hanlin Officer, so he was naturally envious and jealous, and he couldn't wait to immediately make the artillery required by Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

For the rangefinder and the light door, because the Portuguese artillery is available, Zhu Youzhen also provided some suggestions, and they can be manufactured, but the cannon barrel has always been difficult for Sun Hedou.

The copper barrel is easy to deform and cause blockage, and the iron barrel is easy to explode, so Sun Hedou now has to pull Song Yingxing to find a way to test a kind of alloy steel that is more suitable for making barrels.

However, Zhu Youzhen made another will, it is okay to find alloy steel suitable for making gun barrels, but the cost should not be too high, for example, the alloy material composed of precious metals such as gold and silver is definitely not good.

However, Sun Hejing was still not in a hurry, and there was another explosion in Wang Gongchang, and no one knew what Sun Hejing was playing.

Song Yingxing took the initiative to raise the problem of lack of manpower in the Ming Ordnance Institute to Zhu Youzhen, from grassroots apprentices to professional researchers, there are still very few, any technical improvement requires many people to devote themselves wholeheartedly, he alone has to be responsible for the management of the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau and participate in the production of Chongzhen 14 flintlock pistols and the improvement of steel smelting and forging technology every day, and now he is busy in the dark.

Zhu Youzhen listened to Song Yingxing's suggestion and began to prepare for the establishment of the Daming Manufacturing School, in order to cultivate talents in equipment manufacturing, and recruit teenagers to enter the school for initial construction and then enter the Ordnance Institute to work, starting from the apprentice, and gradually participate in research and development.

At the same time, it is preparing to reorganize the first workshop into the first arsenal of the Ming Dynasty, and the arsenal will directly recruit workers.

This type of labor is involved in unskilled transportation and logistics services, as well as assembly and maintenance.

In this way, a distinction is made between research and production, with the academy responsible for the training of technical personnel and the arsenal directly responsible for the training of skilled grassroots workers.

At the same time, it also relies on this to increase the utilization rate of the Ming Dynasty to the displaced people and reduce the unstable impact of the unemployed displaced people on the society.

But in order to encourage the people to send their children not to go to the imperial examination to make the school, Zhu Youzhen said that the school is at the same level as the Guozijian.

Those who graduate from the academy participate in professional examinations, and those with excellent grades will also be awarded the talent and even the Jinshi background, and they can also enter the court as officials.

And studying in the school, you can enjoy free tuition, and even those who excel will have a subsidy, and they will also have two meals, but they must be boarding, and they will have two days off every ten days.