Yang Guang asked the master of the firecracker factory to help, and he definitely wanted to take out his seamless steel pipe fire gun and lead bullet to show others, anyway, he changed his appearance, and he was not afraid that the other party would have any messy thoughts. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The old master looked kind when he saw the firecracker, and couldn't help but tell the story of hunting in the mountains with a shotgun when he was young, and then he cheered up and quickly calculated the charge in several cases.

After getting the results, Yang Guang pulled the master and found a place nearby where no one was interested to test the gun.

The use of arquebuses is very cumbersome, Yang Guang first poured a little black powder out of the container, just enough to fill a hollowed-out thin bamboo barrel, this is the normal charge.

Pour the black powder in the thin bamboo barrel into the barrel, and then put the lead bullet in it, and slowly tamp it with a strip. After doing this, Yang Guang took out another piece of fire rope and lit it and hung it on the fire rope clip.

If it is the kind of copper fire gun in history, because the pipe wall is very thick, it has to be loaded with primer, but the wall of the seamless steel pipe is very thin, and the fire rope can be ignited and launched directly when it hits the fire door, omitting this step.

After doing all this, Yang Guang picked up a somewhat fluttering firearm and began to aim at the target in the distance. When he pulled the trigger, the arquebus slammed into the fire door from back to front, igniting the black powder inside the barrel. The black powder burned and expanded rapidly, and there was only one channel in the seamless steel pipe in the direction of the muzzle, firing the lead projectile into the distance.

A sound like a firecracker rang out, a faint smoke erupted from the muzzle of the gun, and the round lead bullet disappeared into the distance with a sharp whistling sound. Yang Guang walked over to take a closer look, and found a hole with a thick bowl mouth from the trunk of a big tree, and his own fire gun actually pierced it directly.

Yang Guang calculated the distance, and it was almost 80 steps, that is, about 60 meters, which just met Yang Guang's requirements when he placed an order. Yang Guang remembered that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the range of the Franc machine fire gun seemed to be 50 steps, but it was difficult to ensure accuracy beyond 40 steps.

This result made Yang Guang a little dissatisfied, not that the fire gun was bad, but that it was too good. In Yang Guang's view, he only needs to come up with a little better goods than the best Franc machine firecracker, which is enough to dump in the Japanese market and beat all kinds of local handicraft workshops.

"Forget it, let's give these firecrackers to your own people to practice first." Yang Guang secretly made a decision and returned to the place where the gun was fired to continue the test. With his unskilled technique, he can almost guarantee that 3 shots are fired every 2 minutes, which is also a normal firing speed.

After coming back from the test gun, Yang Guang placed a somewhat strange order with the fireworks factory through this old master, ordering a batch of special firecrackers. These things, nominally called "wipes", had no leads, and each charge had to be precise and wrapped in waterproof oilpaper. In addition, Yang Guang also ordered a batch of fuzes, the kind that burns very slowly and slowly.

After the fireworks factory delivered the goods, Yang Guang smuggled them back to Binhai City and put them in a spare warehouse on the outskirts of the city.

After only two days of rest, the century-old timber shipped from South Africa arrived, Yang Guang was busy and completed the formalities, entrusted them to the transportation company, and asked the other party to transport them to Jiangzhou for himself after paying a lot of insurance premiums.

This kind of wood, which is dry in the shade, is really not very common on the market, but this kind of wood is specially used for shipbuilding, and it is not suitable for making furniture or wooden flooring, otherwise Yangzhou's Ding Ji Wood Store will not have to be pressed in his hands for decades.

Yang Guang took the high-speed train to Jiangzhou definitely faster than freight, taking advantage of this little time difference, he contacted the engineer surnamed Fan and saw the drawings of the new ship carefully designed by the other party.

Yang Guang used his super-level intelligence, with a large number of professional books, and quickly ate this design drawing. From the beginning when the other party said any technical word, he had to ask what it meant, and then he directly used the abbreviations of various words to talk fluently, and there was no communication barrier at all.

Yang Guang's learning speed surprised the engineer surnamed Fan, and he always felt that there should be a whole team behind the other party to serve him.

During this period, Yang Guang took the engineer surnamed Fan to see the batch of century-old timber that arrived, which made the latter even more speechless, he couldn't understand which rich man would have such idleness, and actually prepared the timber for drying at least 30 years in advance, just to make a few sail-powered retro ships.

Having mastered the basics of ship design, Yang Guang began to raise objections with his own vision. For the sake of safety, twice a year maintenance is the minimum, and there must be no problems with wooden sea ships during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, if they are replaced with iron ships, they can only watch it rust.

Based on this principle, anything that is unique to modern times, and which is completely impossible to deal with in ancient times, must be excluded from the drawings. If it weren't for this problem, wouldn't Yang Guang directly buy an iron ship, or install a diesel engine on a wooden ship, wouldn't it be a hundred times stronger than that sail? But once there is a small failure in those things that can't be repaired, it is basically floating on the sea and resigned to the rhythm of fate.

When the final plan of the ship was finalized, Yang Guang signed a contract with Jinxing Shipyard to entrust shipbuilding, he provided the wood for the construction of the ship, and ordered four retro ships with a load of 300 tons from the other party, but it was built in the order of the first and last three, that is, a prototype ship was built first for various tests, and if everything met the requirements, the construction of the remaining three new ships would be started.

Yang Guang did this from the suggestion of the engineer surnamed Fan, anything from scratch requires a process, no matter how perfect the design on the drawings is, there will be such and such problems when it is actually built, and having a sample ship to collect various data can save a lot of trouble in future construction, which is also a common practice when building ships in countries around the world.

The construction period given by the Venus Shipyard was three months, which was still within Yang Guang's acceptance, and he paid a deposit and entrusted the matter to Wu Wenjie. Yang Guang solemnly told the latter that it didn't matter if the timber business was lost, these wooden boats were definitely the top priority, and they must be 100% energetic.

Back in the spare warehouse on the outskirts of Binhai City, Yang Guang looked at the industrial silver ingots he had bought in advance and put them here, and when the new ships were launched, the experience of bringing the silver to the Ming Dynasty to buy goods was basically over.

The warehouse that was set on fire in Yangzhou in the Ming Dynasty has been repaired and reopened, Yang Guang threw rice, silver ingots and munitions samples in the warehouse, and came out to greet Zhao Wen and them to help, but he didn't expect to see a familiar face, it was Wang Ying.