"Bang!"

Zhu Zi lit the fire rope and ignited the ignition powder, and the projectile shot out of the muzzle, and the muzzle was filled with smoke ignited by the friction of the gunpowder.

The projectile was straight and landed on the target, because Zhu Zi was using an arquebus for the first time, and he was not skilled enough, the projectile fell on the corner of the target, far from the center, too much worse.

This is only the first shot, the arquebus continues to burn, and a few more projectiles are fired, one by one, and they fall on the target, but there are still many projectiles that fall on the ground and miss the target.

"Yes, once the arquebus is put into battle, it will be a magic weapon."

"It's really nice to be at the forefront of the world."

Zhu Zi put down the arquebus in his hand and showed a smile.

He really understands the thrill of aggression against those who are at the forefront of the world, armed with advanced firearms.

But from now on, this will not be the case, and their development will be at the forefront of the world, surpassing any country and becoming the most advanced country.

The arquebus is a good start, now in this world, it should not have been invented arquebus, even if it is invented in the future, it is already over, at that time, they have also reached mass production, to fight together, they must be more dominant, and maybe, they can develop more advanced firearms through the arquebus, it is very likely.

The history of firearms in the Ming Dynasty is not bad at all, although that is a later thing, but it also shows that they have a lot of firearms talents in the Ming Dynasty, but they have not been excavated.

"That's right, the problem of crosshairs, after training, should be able to be solved."

The firearms expert nodded.

This kind of external factor can be trained over time to become proficient, and Zhu Zi chooses to face this problem, which will be used, but it is not accurate.

"Alright, take the arquebus back, I've got it counted."

"Again, you continue to train talents who can make arquebuses and ammunition, and I will take care of the materials."

Zhu Zi handed the arquebus in his hand to the firearms expert and explained two sentences.

The preliminary test is no problem, the arquebus can be used, which means that it can be officially put into battle, but the materials are not enough to meet the requirements.

He was looking forward to it, thousands of soldiers, holding arquebuses, facing those pirates and invaders, the appearance of dimensionality reduction and attack, thinking about it was very comfortable.

"Yes."

The firearms specialist took the arquebus and agreed.

After the two briefly said a few words, Zhu Zi left the firearms factory.

If the materials are not enough, then we can only find a way to obtain these materials, we can't rely on others, we can only rely on ourselves, we must fundamentally solve this problem, self-sufficiency, is the key to solving the material problem.

But self-sufficiency, not as simple as words, you can have it, which is still very complicated, first of all, they have to find a vein, preferably iron vein, and now the bullets that can be mass-produced can only be made of iron.

Not only that, but with the iron veins, they will get a lot of iron, which is to declare that they have entered the Iron Age and reached the point of iron freedom.

But looking for ore veins is not so simple, whether there are iron ore veins in Qiongzhou, he doesn't know, let alone where to start.

Zhu Zi kept feeling puzzled and returned to King Qiong's mansion.

"Your Highness, are you back?"

Wang Zhi was cleaning up the dining table when he bumped into Zhu Zi head-on, and hurriedly said hello.

"I'm back."

"By the way, over the years, have iron ore veins been discovered in Qiongzhou?"

Zhu Zi thought of something and hurriedly asked.

If you want to ask if there are iron ore veins in Qiongzhou, it is appropriate to ask Wang Zhi, after all, Wang Zhi has been the prefect of Qiongzhou for so many years, and he knows Qiongzhou well, at least he knows a lot more than them.

"Iron ore veins? Think about it. ”

"Come to think of it, I've heard someone say before that an iron mine was discovered in Qiongzhou, but there weren't many of them, so it didn't attract much attention, and Qiongzhou didn't have more spare energy and energy to pay attention to these."

Wang Zhi pondered for a while, and then suddenly spoke.

That iron mine was already a long time ago, and he also learned about it through the mouths of the people, and it was something that happened before he took office.

At that time, many people thought that the hard days were about to pass, but the iron mine was only on the surface, and it was a complete false alarm, so no one cared about it.

"Really? Take me to see it! ”

When Zhu Zi heard this, his face showed a look of surprise.

There used to be iron ore, which means that there may be a vein of iron ore buried underneath, but it has not been discovered, there is only a little bit on the surface, and it seems that there is nothing, but underneath, there may be a huge vein of iron ore, which is not accurate.

And listening to Wang Zhi's description, the person who found it at the beginning should not have dug deeply, thinking that it was just a small piece of iron ore, so he didn't care too much.

"Yes!"

Wang Zhi nodded and said.

Although he didn't know what Zhu Zi was doing when he suddenly asked this, since Zhu Zi opened his mouth to ask, there was a certain amount of truth.

Fortunately, after he heard about the iron mine, he asked curiously and took a look, otherwise he really didn't know how to take Zhu Zi now.

It's hard to find the people who talked about it before.

"Wait."

"Don't worry, wait for a few people to go."

Zhu Zi stopped Wang Zhi and said.

If you want to check the iron ore veins below, you must dig them up and dig them all the way to the depths to find out if there are iron ore veins below.

If you want to dig the soil, you just rely on the two of them, the efficiency is too slow, and he has a few generals on hand now.

Soon, several peasants walked in front of Zhu Zi.

These people, without exception, are all people with special attributes and mining madness, and with the addition of a few of them, the efficiency can be enhanced a lot.

"Let's go, here's the man."

Zhu Zi waved his hand.

Wang Zhi nodded, and took Zhu Zi and his party to walk towards the outside of Qiongzhou Mansion.

The group came to the wilderness, where few people came, it was so sparsely populated that there was not even a human figure to be seen.

They came here, and before they reached the place where the iron ore was found, they followed Wang Zhi and walked all the way to the front.

I don't know how long I walked before Wang Zhi stopped.

"Your Highness, here it is."

"I've come to see it before, and this is where they found the iron ore before, and there are a few pits."

Wang pointed to the pits in front of him and said.

These pits, and uneven ground, are clearly man-made.