These wooden boxes contain the results of his efforts in the past seven or eight years, and it can even be said that they condense all the metallurgical knowledge reserves that Zhu Houwei knows in modern society.

Any thing in this is taken to the outside world, as long as it can be used, it is not ahead of one era but ahead of several eras!

The ridiculous thing is that in today's era when Confucianism controls all the right to speak, the so-called technology is a strange skill, and the high-ranking literati enjoy the convenience brought to them by the innovation of craftsmen, while treating all the non-professional classes with contempt.

The dominance of Confucianism and its strong exclusivity made it impossible for successive dynasties to escape the cycle of prosperity and decline, even if those in power knew that Confucianism was a spiritual poison.

Zhu Houwei is just a prince, and he is also the prince of the Ming Dynasty, there is no possibility for him to change all this, and even his unreliable brother wants to change, he may be forced to abdicate by the Confucian ministers in various ways, so Zhu Houwei can only wait, he wants to change, he wants to get the big position, he needs time, and he is the patience of boiling a frog in warm water.

He needed a lever, a lever that would be enough to pry the entire era, so that he could realize his ideals and ambitions, so that the last Han dynasty in feudal history would not be invaded by barbarians, and thus regress into a synonym for backwardness and ignorance.

One by one, the wooden boxes were opened, and the wooden boxes were all stacked with gears soaked in grease, the big ones were like basins, and the small ones were only fingernail covers, these gears were all handmade by Zhu Houwei and craftsmen according to the drawings day after day, and no one, including the craftsmen, knew the purpose.

There are also boxes filled with strands of copper coils, which are made by coppersmiths according to the method of drawing gold wires, and no one knows the use, seeing these copper coils, Zhu Houwei's face showed a smile, because only he knows that once these copper coils are used in practice, it will be an epoch-making revolution.

In addition to gears and coils, there are a lot of messes, and no one knows what to do, but what makes Zhu Houwei look solemn is a flat wooden box.

The wooden box was opened, and a pile of parts lay quietly on top of the blue silk cloth.

Zhu Houwei picked up the iron pipe in it, this is a gun barrel, and it is a gun barrel that has been tempered a thousand times!

Ordinary one barrel, but more than a dozen blacksmiths scrapped hundreds of thousands of waste pipes under Zhu Houwei's almost harsh requirements, so as to form such a qualified finished product.

The whole barrel is dark and cold, two feet and four inches long, with a front sight at the top of the barrel, a cover door and a trigger at the tail, and most importantly, a rifling inside!

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, although the development of firearms never stagnated, the disadvantages of shotguns made all the soldiers who used them hate.

There is no need to repeat how many problems there are with shotguns, but the fundamental reason why they have not replaced cold weapons as the mainstream on the battlefield is that the musket has too close range and poor accuracy.

If Zhu Houwei doesn't have enough time, then he can completely improve the shortcomings of today's shotguns, and at the worst, he can completely eliminate the arquebus and make the flintlock gun the mainstream of firearms.

But Zhu Houwei's time is too abundant, enough that he has enough patience to craft.

Since he has time, Zhu Houwei will naturally not be satisfied with letting the bird tong cross an era and become a flintlock pistol, his goal is a rifled gun and a primer!

Three and a half years, three and a half years, countless failures, and finally all relied on manpower polishing and continuous research, which created the rifled gun with primer fire in front of Zhu Houwei.

Whether it was conquest, colonization, or the implementation of the New Deal, Zhu Houwei knew very well that if he relied on civilian officials, he would eventually die an extremely ugly death.

Therefore, he can only rely on force, with strong force as a guarantee, to force the civil interest groups to compromise and change, which is also the consistent urine nature of Confucianism, just like the great eunuch who is favored by the emperor can force the civil official to bow his head, because not bowing his head means that ten years of hard work will finally be empty, and even means that the family will be wiped out!

In the feudal era, there was never a shortage of backbone civil servants who did not hesitate to die for the ideas in their hearts, but only a few, as long as the civil official group felt the ubiquitous high pressure, more than ninety out of five of them would choose to give in.

That's why Zhu Houwei will make guns, and he will let Zhou Ning temper the three thousand guards as the seeds of military generals, not now, but fifteen years later!

Fifteen years is a flick of a finger, but it's long enough.

The biggest problem that plagues the new musket now is that it cannot be mass-produced, and if you want to mass produce it, it is best to have electricity, forging machines, grinding machines, drilling machines, etc., and replace manpower with mechanical power, which is the key.

As long as this step can be completed, military manufacturing will complete the epochal leap, and the rising armed forces of the Ming Dynasty will not only allow Zhu Houwei to strongly suppress the rebuttal power of civilian interest groups, but also easily hang the whole world and complete colonization and resource plunder!

Closing the wooden box, Zhu Houwei withdrew from the warehouse, and more than a dozen of the leading craftsmen in various industries were still standing outside the door respectfully, and when they saw King Yong coming out, their heads hung deeper.

"Qi Jing."

With a vicissitudes of life, Qi Jing, who had two hands like dead trees and vines, hurriedly stepped forward and was about to kneel.

"Excuse me." Zhu Houwei shouted, and as he spoke, he threw a booklet to Qi Jingdao: "In the capital, the king asked you to draw copper wire coils, and you did a good job, but you must have thought that this king was doing it for fun in his spare time, and now this king tells you that it is not, and this king asks you to make these coils for only one purpose, to generate electricity!"

"Electricity?" Qi Jing's head was raised slightly, completely unclear.

Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "There is thunder and lightning on a rainy day, the electricity that this king said is that electricity, you don't need to be surprised, this booklet that this king gave you spent a lot of money to buy before you got it, you just need to study according to the method on the booklet, try it over and over again, at least it will not be too difficult to generate electricity by hand."

"The villain understands."

Zhu Houwei nodded and looked at the rest of the craftsmen: "This area is the research and manufacturing area that this king has divided for you, and it will also be a forbidden place in the future, and the parts you polish in the capital will also come in handy here, this king can provide you with all the things you need, can meet all your requirements, can make you rich and clothed, will make your family worry-free, can let your sons and grandsons go on a career after reading and reading, and what you need to do is to create everything that this king wants, This king does not care about the process, as long as the result. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Houwei, who was only thirteen years old, suddenly became extremely profound.