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"There is no one more annoying than you!" Tang Ling was indignant, always feeling that he had been calculated by Shangguan Xiu, so he couldn't help but pinch him in his weakness. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Shangguan Xiu grinned in pain, hurriedly held Tang Ling's restless little hand, and asked, "What is Xiang'er pinching me?"

"You know it!"

"I don't understand. ”

"You still dare to be cheeky and say you don't understand?"

"Haha-" Shangguan Xiu laughed on his back.

If Shangguan Xiu and Tang Ling were dressed as a man and a woman, now this kind of fight would be very harmonious, such as a couple flirting and scolding, and now Tang Ling is dressed in men's clothes, with two mustaches on his mouth, and then laughing and playing with Shangguan Xiu, the whole scene looks very weird, and the two have also attracted the side glances of many passers-by, and most of them are full of disgust.

For the fetish of broken sleeves, the opinions of the wind people and the Besa people are highly consistent, except for contempt is disgust.

Just as the two of them were walking forward in a fight, behind them, a sudden voice came from the summoning: "Lord Shangguan, please stay! Your Excellency, please stay!"

Hearing the call from behind, Shangguan Xiu and Tang Ling stopped in unison, looked back, and saw a Besa man in his early thirties hurriedly catching up.

Seeing this, Tang Ling couldn't help frowning, and subconsciously looked at Shangguan Xiu and asked him who this person was. Bai Du billion hey, Yan, brother free of charge without bullet window to watch the next chapter

Shangguan Xiu, like Tang Ling, was also full of inexplicability, he didn't know this Besa man at all. When the Besa man came close to the two of them, he stopped, exhausted and panting. Shangguan Xiu asked curiously, "Your Excellency is calling me?"

"Positive...... Exactly!" I don't know how far he ran, and he was so tired that he couldn't breathe. Shangguan Xiu didn't continue to speak, waiting for him to pant evenly.

After a while, the Bessa's breathing was finally not as rapid as it had just been, and he asked, "Lord Shangguan, can you take a step to speak?"

The Besa man spoke fluently, and although the tone was still a little weird, it didn't sound incomprehensible.

After he finished speaking, seeing Shangguan Xiu raise his eyebrows, he realized that he hadn't introduced himself yet, and he hurriedly said, "The villain's name is Matvey Akins, and he is an alchemist from Besa. ”

Yo, it turned out to be an alchemist! This Besa man who took the initiative to come to the door, his identity aroused Shangguan Xiu's curiosity.

For alchemists, he is no stranger, Besa's paper shell bullet was invented by the alchemist, it can be said that the appearance of paper shell bullet is a great promotion to the development of firearms, but also makes firearms have an overwhelming advantage, completely eliminate cold weapons.

"I don't know, what is Mr. Adkins looking for me?" Shangguan Xiu asked puzzled.

"This ......" Matvey subconsciously looked left and right, and stopped talking.

Shangguan Xiu could understand what he meant, he smiled, and said slowly, "You have to at least tell me first, what do you want to talk to me about." ”

"About muskets. ”

"Oh. When Shangguan Xiu heard this, his heart suddenly moved. He first heard the name alchemist through paper shell bullets, and it was precisely because of this that Shangguan Xiu never despised the research and manufacturing ability of alchemists, but attached great importance to it.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at Akins again, he was not good-looking, his clothes were dirty and shabby, and the whole person looked sloppy and unseemly. He pondered for a moment, then smiled and asked, "Would you like Mr. Akins to go back to the house with me to talk?"

That's what the villain means. Akins looked happy and nodded.

Shangguan Xiu didn't say anything more, turned around and beckoned. After a short time, Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei walked out quickly from the pedestrians not far away, and when they arrived in front of Shangguan Xiu, they bowed and said, "My lord!"

"You two take this Mr. Akins back to my lodgings, and I'll send ...... first Xiang'er go back!" "In front of Akins, Shangguan Xiu didn't show Tang Ling's identity.

"Yes, my lord!" Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei both agreed.

Tang Ling pursed his lips and asked, "Is there something you want to talk about that I can't listen to?"

Shangguan Xiu snorted and laughed, and said, "If Xiang'er is willing to listen, of course I don't mind if you are there." ”

Tang Ling looked at Akins with a smile and flattery on his face, and then looked at his sloppy dress, and suddenly lost the desire to listen to the two of them talk, waved his hand, and said, "Be careful yourself, don't let people deceive you." ”

Shangguan Xiu said with a smile: "There are not many people in this world who can deceive me. "He has always deceived people, and how many people can deceive him?

Of course, Tang Ling knew Shangguan Xiu's cunning, and if he wanted to take advantage of him, it would be more difficult than ascending to the sky. The saint's evaluation of him as a profiteer is not too much at all. She didn't say anything more, and asked Shangguan Xiu to send her back to the palace directly.

If you are replaced by someone else, you will inevitably be treated as a liar, and you will inevitably show embarrassment and anger, but Akins is full of smiles from beginning to end, and his expression has not changed in the slightest, as if the person Tang Ling said is not him at all.

It's not that Akins is too thick-skinned, but compared to the persecution of the Holy See, being regarded as a liar is really nothing, and the alchemist's status in the country of Besa is so low that he is almost disqualified as a citizen.

Shangguan Xiu's mansion in Xiuyue City was not far from Tang Ling's palace, and it was also rebuilt from a mansion. Like the palace, it is the same Bessa architectural style, but the scale is slightly smaller than the palace, and the decoration and luxury inside are not inferior to the palace.

Ziyin has no doubt about being a man, he knows very well who his real master is, even if he treats Tang Ling badly, he can't treat Shangguan Xiu badly.

Shangguanxiu returned to the mansion and walked into the hall, where he saw Akins sitting on a chair drinking tea. Seeing that Shangguan Xiu was back, Akins hurriedly put down the teacup, stood up, bowed respectfully, and said, "Lord Shangguan." ”

"Mr. Akins, please be seated. ”

"My lord, please!" Akins was still very familiar with the etiquette of the Wind Country, and after Shangguan Xiu sat down, he sat down cautiously, his waist was straight, and his buttocks were just on the side of the chair, and he looked like he was sitting upright.

"Mr. Akins!"

"The villain is here!" Akins hurriedly bowed. Shangguan Xiu waved his hand, signaling that he didn't need to be polite, and asked, "You said, you want to talk to me about the musket." I don't know, how do you talk about this?"

"The villain wants to know how much Lord Shangguan knows about the musket?" Speaking of the matter of the musket, Akins's eyes lit up, and the whole person seemed to be a lot more energetic, and he was no longer as restrained as he was just now.

Shangguan Xiu blinked and said with a smile: "I'm just a layman, it's better to let Mr. Akins explain a thing or two for me!"

For the mastery of muskets, if Shangguan Xiu is an amateur, then I'm afraid no one dares to call himself an expert. The reason why Shangguan Xiu said this was to test Akins and test his true talent.

I don't know if Akins understands Shangguan Xiu's thoughts, and when he heard him say this, he gushed out. "Muskets can now be divided into two main categories, one is smoothbore guns and the other is rifled guns. The so-called smoothbore gun is commonly known as the fire gun in the wind country, there is no rifling in the barrel, and the projectile is shot out of the barrel. The advantage of the smoothbore gun is that it is simple to manufacture and low cost, and it can be mass-produced at the current level of technology in Fengguo, Besa, Ningnan and other countries, but the disadvantages of the smoothbore gun are also obvious, the range is near, the hit rate is low, within 50 meters, the hit rate can reach more than 80 percent, within 100 meters, the hit rate barely reaches about 50 percent, if it is more than 15 meters, the probability of hitting the target is the same as the probability of hitting the moon, so on the battlefield, the smoothbore gun is to win by quantity. The rifled gun, there is rifling in the barrel, and the projectile is shot out in a rotating way along the rifling, the advantage is that the firing range is long and the hit rate is extremely high, but the disadvantage is that the manufacturing is cumbersome, the production time is long, and it is difficult to achieve mass production. ”

Shangguan Xiu listened to Akins's explanation quietly, during which An Rong brought over the tea, he took it with a smile, nodded to An Rong with satisfaction, and then drank the tea with a smile.

On the surface, Shangguan Xiu didn't seem to be listening carefully, but in fact, he didn't miss every word that Akins said. As soon as the connoisseur made a move, he knew if there was one, and only listened to Akins's eloquent talk, Shangguan Xiu could already judge that this was a serious insider.

"Now on the battlefield, because of the low cost and fast production, smoothbore guns have become the mainstream weapons of the armies of various countries. However, due to the inherent drawbacks of smoothbore in shooting, it is inevitable that the low hit rate is unavoidable, so all countries no longer pursue the hit rate of smoothbore guns, but begin to pursue the rate of fire. ”

Shangguan Xiu nodded secretly, Akins was right, the rate of fire of the firebolt has indeed become a goal that all countries are competing for, and the forge in Fengguo Zhenjun is no exception, Qingyuan and Jin Wan'er have done a lot of research in this area, and produced a series of three-eyed firecrackers, five-barrel firecrackers, etc., but in the end, due to the high cost and the complexity of the production process, they could not be promoted, and they were stillborn after only manufacturing samples.

And Besa's invention of the paper shell bomb is to completely raise the rate of fire of the gun to a new height, don't look at this is a simple principle can not be simpler invention, but it has cross-era significance.

"As long as the rifled gun can be mass-produced, then the advantage of the smoothbore gun will be gone, and the rifled gun has an overwhelming advantage over the smoothbore gun. Akins said excitedly.

Shangguan Xiu put down the teacup and said: "The biggest difficulty in manufacturing rifled guns is the rifling, the rifling is not fine, which will cause the musket to explode. ”

"That's why the villain finds the adult. ”

"Oh?" Shangguan Xiu raised his eyebrows, looked at Akins, and asked with a smile, "Could it be that Mr. Akins has a way to mass-produce rifled guns?"

Akins nodded and said, "With my method, I can't guarantee large-scale mass production, but the speed of production will definitely far exceed the current production speed." ”

The smile on Shangguan Xiu's face disappeared, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said, "Mr. Akins is from Besa. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

"The technology of mass production of rifled guns, as far as I know, no country has been able to do it!"

"Yes, sir!"

"In that case, you, a Besa person, why don't you give your skills to Besa Country, but make a special trip to me?" Shangguan Xiu gently stroked the silver hair on his chest and asked.

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