Timur barracks.

Despite the lessons of the defeat of the two khanates of the Northern Yuan and Chagatai khanates, Timur's army remained high.

During dinner, the officers and soldiers in the barracks talked and laughed, full of longing for the coming war.

Because according to the tradition of the Timurid Empire, as long as they win this war, whether they are low-level soldiers or middle-level officers, they will receive very rich rewards.

Coupled with Li Ben's "honesty", they are even more confident in the future battle.

Li Ben didn't care about the war at all, whether it was the Ming army's defeat of Timur, or Timur's defeat of the Ming army, it was not enough to shake his dry heart.

Compared to Broken Leaf City, he preferred the military camp on Timur's side.

At least here he enjoyed the treatment of a guest, living in a single tent, and there were two soldiers standing guard for him outside. Eat freshly roasted lamb, and light wine.

Just as he was feasting, a drunken Timurid officer came up and asked in a broken Da Ming dialect.

"Warriors, are you Ming soldiers as strong as us?"

Li Ben shook his head without thinking.

"Nope!"

"How can we be as strong as you, one of you can stand up to the two of us!"

The officer laughed and asked again.

"Warrior, you said that if we meet your Ming army, what are our chances of winning?"

"At least 10 percent!"

"Our Ming army is vulnerable, how can it be such an elite opponent as your country?"

Seeing that Li Ben was so honest, the officer generously handed him a pot of wine, and then translated what Li Ben had just said under the admiring gaze of the soldiers in his headquarters.

When the other soldiers heard Li Ben's answer, they became even happier, and some even began to plan how to spend the reward.

Only a trace of contempt flashed in Li Ben's eyes, although he didn't care about the war, but the black and swarthy cannons in the Ming army still knew it.

The cannon weighed thousands of catties, or even tens of thousands of catties, and a cannonball alone weighed dozens of catties, and it was difficult for thin people to move.

As soon as the cannon rang out, the mountain shook.

If you really fight, these barbarians in front of you may not even be able to touch the headquarters of the Ming army!

But he won't tell this kind of truth, it's okay to talk about it at the top of the barbarian, even if the top doesn't believe it, he won't do anything to him. But the soldiers at the bottom are not easy to say, if they make them unhappy, they will be killed if they don't sleep at night!

Li Ben didn't have any other skills, but he knew too much about the thoughts of the soldiers at the bottom.

Because he's the bottom!

Just when Li thought that he had sent this officer away and could finally stop for a while, a gray-bearded old man wearing Meng Yuan's robe walked over.

He had an impression of this person, and when he met the emperor of what kind of post, it seemed that this person was standing next to him as a dog's leg.

But he pretended not to recognize it, and still ate meat and drank wine by himself, until Hao Haida wanted to take the initiative to greet him, and he pretended to look at it.

"You are?"

"We just met at His Majesty Su Dan's side, and I'm translating for you......"

"Oh, you're that smart old man, I have an impression of you!"

Li Ben enthusiastically grabbed the mutton on the table and handed it over.

"Come on, come on, I'll invite you to meat!"

Hao Haida wanted to look at Li Ben's dirty hands, hesitated slightly, took it and ate it in a big bite.

To be honest, when he was having dinner with His Majesty Su Dan just now, he really didn't eat enough.

Li Ben was just polite, but he never expected that the barbarian nobleman in front of him would not dislike himself at all, which made him feel a little painful in his heart.

However, Li Ben was kind after all, and at the same time, he squeezed out a kind smile and handed over the wine he had just deceived from the officer.

Hao Haida was not polite, unscrewed the lid and poured it up.

This made Li Ben feel a little distressed, his little eyes blinked, and he whispered to remind the other party to slow down.

Hao Haida wanted to laugh when he heard this, he had already seen Li Ben's careful thoughts, and he was just deliberately playing tricks on him.

"Don't worry, I won't drink it all in one go, I'll definitely leave you a little more."

Li Ben was poked in his heart, and immediately waved his hand in embarrassment.

"Look at what you say, like I'm a stingy person!"

"You drink hard, it's good to drink it all!"

Hao Haida wanted to drink it all in one go, and then look at the face of this stingy Da Ming. But he is old after all, and he no longer has the mass of his youth.

In addition, he has more important things to do, and he has no time to drink with Li Ben all the time.

"Warrior, just now in front of His Majesty Su Dan, there are some things that I can't ask for me."

Li Ben said arrogantly when he heard this.

"Then you can ask now!"

"The old man's question may be a little difficult, I'm afraid you won't dare to answer it."

Li Ben snorted coldly when he heard this.

"Isn't it underestimating?"

"As long as I know, you can ask, there is nothing I dare not say!"

"But I have no official or position in Daming, and I am an old servant in the general's family, and I don't know much about it."

Hao Haida nodded when he heard this, affirming Li Ben's honesty.

"You're an honest man."

"Now what generation of your Daming's firecracker has been improved?"

Li Ben asked rhetorically with a puzzled face.

"What generation?"

Hao Haida frowned and asked another way.

"Is the fire you are using now, are you all using the arquebus, or are you using flint?"

When Li Ben heard this, he immediately looked at the old man in front of him and gave him a thumbs up.

"Connoisseur!"

"Ordinary people really don't understand what you say, but fortunately, I followed the general of my family to see it in the Ordnance Bureau, and there is really the kind of flint fire gun you said."

"However, the fire of that kind of fire gun is unstable, and the flint cannot be used after being damp or rained, and it is not much stronger than the fire rope, and the Ordnance Bureau will not produce a few batches."

"Oooh oh ......"

Hao Haida wanted to hear the words and secretly calculated, if the Ming army still used a large number of arquebuses, then the rate of fire would be much slower, with the level of bows and arrows and crossbow arrows of the Timurid Empire, even if it could not defeat the Ming Dynasty, it would not be too miserable.

However, Li Ben's next words completely shattered Haohai's dream.

"Now Da Ming has a more powerful firecracker, which can shoot ammunition out without the need for arquebuses and flints!"

"Huh?"

Hao Haida was stunned on the spot when he heard this, and looked at Li Ben with suspicious eyes.

"Are you fooling the old man?"

"Is there really a fire gun in the world that can be shot out without igniting a fire?"

"Yes!"

"This kind of firearm is to put gunpowder and flint together, and when the bottom is struck, the primer is ignited, and the primer ignites the gunpowder, and the gunpowder produces any force to shoot the projectile!"

"In short, it's amazing, our general has a firearm like this, and he cherishes it like that, it's better than his daughter-in-law, and he takes it out every day and wipes it with oiled paper......"

"This ......"

Haohai Dayu roughly understood Li Ben's theory, and silently recognized the feasibility of this theory in his heart.

After seeing the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, he has been collecting the Ming firearms in many ways, and looking for skilled craftsmen to imitate them.

The Timurid Empire's imitation of the fire gun was also facilitated by his constant lobbying.

Now when he heard that there was one of the most advanced firecrackers in the world, his heart was like a kitten scratching, and he couldn't wait to see it immediately.

"Warrior, can you get a spontaneous firebolt like you said?"

Li Ben shook his head and refused without even thinking about it.

"Can't!"

"We have more than 3,000 people, and only our general has one in his hands."

"This thing is rare and tight in our Ming Dynasty, how can I get this thing as a servant!"

"If you can get a torch like this, I'll give you a thousand taels of gold!"

"A thousand taels?"

Li Ben's eyes lit up when he heard this.

One thousand taels of gold, that's enough for him to buy a thousand acres of land!

Although Da Ming doesn't let individuals buy too much land now, he can go to Naturalization City to buy it.

Buying thousands of acres of pasture, and then hiring a few barbarians to herd cattle and raise sheep, isn't that a comfortable day than farming?

Moreover, it is said that now the imperial court encourages the people of the Ming Dynasty to go to the border for grazing, sell an acre of pasture and send an acre of land, not to mention, and exempt various taxes and fees for ten years.

But when he thought of his young master's love for that firearm, Li Ben shook his head dejectedly.

"No way!"

"I can't do it, I don't have the ability to do it......"

Hao Haida wanted to see that Li Ben was indeed incapable, so he could only retreat to the second.

"Otherwise, you draw the kind of fire gun blueprint you saw, and I'll give you ten taels of gold!"

Just returned a thousand taels, but in a blink of an eye, it became ten taels, which made Li Ben feel very disappointed.

"Only ten taels left?"

"Of course!"

"If you can get the real thing, I'll still give you a thousand taels!"

Li Ben was content and happy, and immediately went off on an errand.

"Ten taels is ten taels, it's better than nothing."

"But I can't draw, and I can't dislike it if I don't draw well!"

"No problem, as long as you draw a rough sketch!"

Li Ben saw that the other party was so easy to fool, so he immediately picked up a pen and drew on the paper.

Hao Haida wanted to be a little longing at first, but after Li Ben threw down the paintbrush, he asked with a puzzled face.

"Painting?"

"I'm done!"

"That's it?"

"yes, that's it!"

Hao Haida wanted to pick up the drawings with a disappointed face, but he couldn't see what this thing had to do with the firecracker.

First, the gun tube is too short, not much bigger than a slap. Second, where do you put the ammunition in the place where there is no medicine at all?

Only the arc of the handle is roughly drawn, and a hook in front of the handle should be the position of the trigger.

"What about the elixir you said was put with the bottom fire!"

Li Ben pointed to the black lump on the paper.

"Here!"

"What is this?"

"yes, that's the most similar thing I've ever painted!"

Hao Haida was going crazy when he heard this, if it wasn't for Li Ben saying that it was an elixir, he would have thought it was the ink that fell from this hand!

"Daming warrior, you can't fool the old man like this, you haven't even painted the inside of the ammunition!"

Li Ben stopped on the spot when he heard this.

"Old man, who should you be, if I have the ability to draw ammunition, I can still be sent by the young master of my family as a messenger!"

"Uh-uh......"

Although Li Ben's words are difficult to hear, they are very reasonable.

It is indeed impossible for the Ming to send a skilled craftsman to act as a messenger.

"Okay, it's the old man who is in a hurry!"

Hao Haida wanted to take out a piece of gold from his sleeve and throw it to Li Ben.

"There should be twenty taels of these, all of them will be rewarded to you!"

Li Ben happily took the gold and arched his hand at Haohaida.

"Hey!"

"The villain thanked the noble master!"

Hao Haida didn't bother to accept Li Ben's thanks, so he took the ugly drawings and went to the craftsmen in the barracks to study.

Abu the craftsman looked at the drawings that Haohaida wanted to take, and shook his head with all his strength.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"There will never be anyone in this world who can make such a small thing out of flint and gunpowder and projectiles!"

"Even if there were craftsmen who could do it, it wouldn't be used in the military!"

Hao Haida asked curiously.

"Why?"

"Prime Minister, think about it, have you ever seen a soldier go into battle with delicate jewelry to kill the enemy?"

"Nope!"

"This is the same as jewelry, if you don't care about the cost and time, the villain can combine gunpowder, flint, and projectiles into one to make such a small thing."

"But this thing is consumed at the same rate as bows and arrows, how many craftsmen like me can there be in our empire, and how many can we build every day?"

Hao Haida suddenly realized.

"Oh oh, the old man understands!"

"No wonder that Da Ming said that this thing is also rare in Da Ming, and idlers can't touch it at all."

When the craftsman heard this, he immediately agreed.

"That's right!"

"This thing can't be on the battlefield at all, if you really see it on the battlefield, adults should quickly surrender or run away."

"Why is that?"

"My lord, you are not a craftsman, and you don't know the doorway here."

"If the Great Ming really has the ability to manufacture a large number of such objects, then the Great Ming will be invincible in the world!"

"Uh-uh......"

Hao Haida wanted to hear this and fell into a long silence, he has always been very concerned about Daming, whenever he sees a businessman returning from Daming, he will enthusiastically come forward to chat, inquiring about the development of Daming.

He knew that Da Ming had already possessed the ability to use machinery to create arrowheads in batches, and he also used a lot of machinery to forge ordinary weapons.

But he really didn't know if he could make a large number of such ammunition and primer ammunition.

Just as Hao Haida was about to argue whether to inform His Majesty Su Dan about this, Zhu Yunxi was inspecting the Ordnance Bureau in Gyeonggi to inspect the latest batch of bolt guns.

"Your Highness, this is the latest production of the bolt gun, and its performance and accuracy have met the requirements of His Highness."

"How many new firecrackers are there?"

"10,000 strokes!"

"Tell me to go down, continue to work overtime, and be sure to produce 100,000 rods before the end of the month, and then ship them to Tianshanwei as soon as possible!"

"This ......"

"Double the overtime pay!"

"Medium!"

As soon as the old craftsman heard that the overtime pay had doubled at the speed of light, he still reminded him vaguely out of kindness.

"Your Highness, it's easy to say about the firecracker, as long as you have enough iron, you can have as much as you want. But the production rate of bullets is too slow, and it is not enough to have this new type of firecracker! ”

"Bullet ......"

The old craftsman also had a melancholy look on his face when he saw His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson, and couldn't help but babble to himself.

"The cost of bullets has never been reduced, and the iron is too hard to be finely processed, so we can only use copper with better ductility."

"But the cost of copper is too high, and the copper that shoots out a bullet is enough to make a big sum of ten cents, isn't this the same as playing money!"

Zhu Yunxi smiled bitterly when he heard this.

"Master, you're right, isn't fighting a war just about making money!"

"You don't have to worry about copper, Vietnam will support us with hundreds of thousands of catties of copper, which is enough for us to make millions of bullets!"

(End of chapter)