"What's your name?"

"My lord, villain Pan Qing, meet Master Li." Pan Qing secretly glanced at Li Kui's expression, and did not recognize his origin, and felt slightly disappointed in his heart, he was a craftsman from Shaofu, and Li Kui used to be an official of Shaofu. Although Li Kui was appointed as an official of the Shaofu at that time, it was mainly for the convenience of presiding over the supervision of the bell tower that he was given such an official position.

But in that case, you shouldn't forget the old man!

Pan Qing's luck that had finally been brewed was half extinguished, and he frowned and said, "Lord Li, the villain is a craftsman from Shaofu. ”

"Shaofu?"

Speaking of Shaofu, Li Kui was quite surprised, but he still didn't remember that there was such a person in Shaofu. There are more people in Shaofu, if in terms of jurisdiction, even the royal kiln factory of Jun Kiln can be regarded as a person from Shaofu. Shaofu is a yamen that creates fine jewelry, utensils, and even ritual utensils for the emperor and nobles. Even the tributes given by the emperor are also artifacts created under the supervision of the Shaofu. It can be said that the craftsmen of Shaofu are also the most skilled craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty, representing the highest level of the Great Song Dynasty.

Li Kui couldn't remember that it was normal to have such a person. There are too many people, and he doesn't go to the yamen to sit in the yamen, how many people from the Shaofu can he know?

It is likely that Li Kui has never even seen this guy named Pan Qing. But it was such a craftsman who looked unsightly, and even a little obscene, but he was ashamed to say that he could solve the problem of rear-loading flintlock pistols. And in one sentence, to the point.

The problem with the rear-loading flintlock pistol not being able to shoot far is - holding the breath.

Holding your breath is not ideal, resulting in the bullet not being able to shoot too far away.

However, Li Kui didn't ask in the school field, but just said to Zheng Qi: "I want this person." ”

"Renjie, this is a person from Shaofu. Brother, I can't be the master. Zheng Qi said this, obviously not wanting to give. He has already tasted the benefits of artisans, especially top craftsmen.

In particular, almost every innovation is a method that craftsmen have come up with.

But the iron supervisor also has difficulties, and it is impossible for him to give craftsmen a reward like Li Kui. It is obviously impossible to attract artisans with a reward. He can only find another way, give enough respect to the craftsman, or promote. But these are also not as attractive as the military command bureau.

Kaifeng Mansion belongs to the Liucao Ministry of Yamen, and there are countless workshops in each prison, but there is only one yamen that can give craftsmen official positions and houses, the Military Command Bureau.

Li Kui didn't care and said, "I'll tell you where Lord Qu is." ”

At this point, Zheng Qi can still say this. He could only threaten Pan Qing in a low voice, and said, "Pan Qing, do you know that you are leaving, but you have offended thousands of people in my iron prison, and you will ...... in the future."

"Bureau, he threatens me!"

Li Kui's threatening gaze fell on Zheng Qi's body, who seemed to be stepping on dog shit uncomfortably, but in the face of Li Kui's grievance that he had to force a smile, Li Kui immediately snorted: "He doesn't dare." ”

The bitterness in Zheng Qi's heart was blocked in his throat, and he couldn't say it.

What does it mean that he does not dare?

Everyone is a four-rank civil official, just because you are the emperor's brother-in-law, can you bully people?

Da Song's relatives didn't end well.

Zheng Qi could only scold in his heart, thinking that in the future, the iron prison would also have a small treasury, and he would have to be like the Military Command Bureau, and he would have to be busy building a treasury every day.

The next thing is the performance of the front-loading musket, there is already the idea of the rear-loading musket, and Li Kui has not been very interested in the front-loading musket. Of course, you have to use it.

The main thing is that if the transformation is not successful, wouldn't it make him happy in vain?

The bullets and gunpowder that had been stuffed into the barrel of the gun were pounded vigorously, and after compacting, the gunpowder of the bullet pack was broken. Everything is a familiar taste and action, Li Kui seems to have a certain estimate of the power of the flintlock pistol, it will not be too much of a surprise, but it will not be too disappointing. With a cloud of smoke and a crisp pop, the bullet was fired at the target fifty paces away.

"Carry the target."

Immediately, the soldier resisted the target he hit and placed it in front of Li Kui.

The foot armor wrapped around the target was shot through a small hole, but the damage of the wooden target that served as the torso was limited. This result is not bad. Many bows and arrows do not yet have this kind of lethality.

After all, the penetration of lead bullet is not strong, mainly after penetrating the armor, it is enough to stay in the human body.

Lead is a metal that is very evil when used on bullets.

One is that lead bullets are easily deformed at high temperatures and high speeds, and even if they are surgical, the lead left in the body cannot be cleaned up, which is toxic and will not heal the wound. In the end, because of the wound infection, he had to amputate or die. And amputation...... Even the doctors of the Great Song Dynasty are the result of intercepting one by one, which is definitely one of the most difficult surgeries.

Zheng Qi didn't know if such lethality could meet Li Kui's requirements.

Seeing Li Kui carefully comparing the wounds, his heart was also unstable. I'm afraid that Li Kui will say no. This is too big a blow for the iron supervisor.

In order to create a flintlock pistol, the Iron Supervisor has gone all out and achieved the extreme. If this still doesn't satisfy Li Kui, it will be difficult to do.

Zheng Qi asked, "Lord Li, how is the situation?" ”

Fifty steps, that is, a distance of about sixty meters. Li Kui calculated in his heart that if this killing distance, coupled with the attack of the artillery loaded with scattered bullets, he could easily face the cavalry charge. But there is one problem that cannot be solved, if you are facing light cavalry, when facing the front of the cavalry formation, fifty paces is not a safe distance.

A hundred steps is a safer distance.

Li Kui nodded and asked Zheng Qi, "Master Zheng, what is the effect of a hundred steps?" ”

Zheng Qi smiled slightly awkwardly, and said with a bitter face: "The power is about the same, after all, the lead bullet is very heavy, and the penetration is not worse than that of an arrow at all." But at a distance of 100 paces, there is not much chance of hitting a fixed target. ”

Do you say that if you miss, it's over?

But the musketeers in Li Kui's mind are not snipers, and they require a high hit rate from more than 100 meters away, which is obviously unrealistic. After all, front-loading flintlock pistols have one feature, the barrel is a smoothbore gun without rifling. The bullet cannot rotate in the barrel, which affects the accuracy.

Fortunately, the musketeers are a line-to-line class. The bullets fired hit the enemy in the front, and so on, like peeling an onion, peeling inward little by little.

Although the musketeer could not do the same as a crossbowman, covering an area with kill. These are two very different means of attack. Of course, due to the problem of density, crossbowmen cannot solve all the enemy forces in the equal area with projectiles. But the musketeers could compensate for this deficiency with a sustained fire.

Li Kui nodded and said to Zheng Qi: "Let your people try to play a few more rounds, take out all the flintlock pistols, and shoot with a salvo to see the effect." In addition, the targets are also increased and placed in a row. ”

"Did you hear that? Do as Lord Lee orders. ”

Bang bang bang

Bang bang bang

Although the gunshots were under the order of the colonel, they were quite neat, and with the smoke, they were quite imposing. Li Kui waited until the soldiers carried the targets back, and then checked them one by one.

In order to increase the probability of being on target, Zheng Qi played a few more rounds of guns. The effect is not bad, most of the targets have been shot, and the penetration ability also makes Li Kui very satisfied. Then he said to Zheng Qi: "I want two thousand flintlock pistols like this." ”

"A year?"

Zheng Qi frowned slightly at Li Kui's request, and he also knew that Li Kui was not easy to deal with. It was very difficult for him to open 2,000 flintlock pistols.

"A month."

"Renjie, why are you still like this, didn't I tell you before? It simply can't be done. My iron prison has limited manpower, and it is impossible to build 2,000 in a month. ”

"How much?"

"Two hundred."

"No, it's too little, you can recruit people."

Zheng Qi was frightened by Li Kui before, saying that if the iron prison had a large number of people and were all young and strong men, it would be easy to be framed as a rebellion. Now, when he heard the word recruitment, he went up, his head shook like a rattle, and he refused: "It is absolutely impossible to recruit people, I still want to return to my hometown safely, but I don't dare to let people grab the handle." ”

"Brother Zheng, do you know where all the weapons you built by the Iron Supervisor have gone?" Li Kui saw that Zheng Qi repeatedly refused, so he simply used the old method to scare him.

Although Zheng Qi has been an official for many years, the strange thing is that he does not have the boldness of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, especially the civil officials, but he is like a eunuch, afraid of this and that.

Of course, Zheng Qi knows the whereabouts of the materials, and now the armor and weapons built by the iron supervisor have all gone to one place, the Western Army.

If Zheng Qi still realized that the Great Song Dynasty was not going to use troops against Western Xia, he would not have to be an iron supervisor. However, he has always been full of words, and under the dictate of his personality, he pretended to be unclear and said: "Renjie means that the Western Army has a big move?" ”

Is there a big move, still need you to ask me?

Li Kui rolled his eyelids and said, "Lord Zheng is also an old man in the officialdom, why is he so cautious in his words?" I don't believe you didn't see Zhang Xiang's intentions. ”

Zheng Qixin said that it was one thing for him to see it, but it was another thing to say it. Zhang Dian did not say anything to Zheng Qi about going to war, and he speculated wildly, that is, he was not.

Zheng Qi laughed: "Renjie, you are laughing. Brother, I'm just an iron supervisor, and I know how to build weapons, and I don't know anything else. ”

"Okay, but I told you. You should know, right? Li Kui smiled evilly.

The corners of Zheng Qi's mouth froze, and he said embarrassedly: "Brother Xian, I really can't help it." The Iron Warden is now going to forge swords, arrowheads, and flintlock pistols, and I've done my best to build them. And you should know that flintlock pistols are different from ordinary swords, and can only be made by skilled craftsmen. ”

"Why not use the division of labor?"

"Yes, it is precisely because of it that my brother can guarantee to give you two hundred a month." Zheng Qi smiled bitterly.

"It's okay, when the time comes for the army to set out, I will tell Zhang Xiang that the Iron Prison has not built enough flintlock pistols, and the Praetorian Guard will not be able to participate in the battle."

After Li Kui finished speaking, he was about to leave, how dare Zheng Qi let Li Kui leave like this?

Immediately stopped Li Kui and begged bitterly: "Renjie, three hundred, how about three hundred branches a month?" ”

"Two thousand, not one less. If not, I'll sue. ”

Li Kui's appearance of not letting people do so made Zheng Qi hate itchy. But he has no way at all, he is most afraid of an official like Li Kui, who will sue the black at every turn, and he can't afford to provoke him, so he can only vomit blood: "At most, five hundred, more than this number, just kill me, let Your Majesty arrange the new chief of the iron prison." ”

Seeing Zheng Qi's appearance of death as home, Li Kui also knew that if he continued to squeeze, there would be basically no play.

I had to nod and agree: "Then there is Lord Lao Zheng." ”

"By the way, Master Lu, you can go back to the workshop later, and tell the people in the workshop that after completing five hundred flintlock guns, for every fifty more guns made, my Military Command Bureau will give the workshop a bonus of 1,000 yuan."

"Renjie, you can't ...... like this"

Zheng Qi shouted angrily behind Li Kui, but Li Kui's long legs, if he really stepped away, Zheng Qi would be able to catch up?

However, the Bureau of Military Control gave a bonus to the iron-smelting workshop, and a reward of 2,000 yuan for 100 flintlock pistols as soon as he shot.

It is foreseeable that from now on, in addition to the weapons required by the Military Command Bureau, other yamen, even if they are ordnance building tasks under the Privy Council, I am afraid that these craftsmen will not be able to raise their energy. Isn't this roasting Zheng Qi on the fire?

In the future, who will listen to him in the iron prison!

Returning to the Military Command Bureau, Li Kui asked Pan Qing to follow him into the official residence, he sat down, and Pan Qing stood.

The latter smiled cautiously, but hesitated a little: "My lord." ”

"Can you really do the breath-holding problem of a rear-loading flintlock pistol?"

Compared with the low-end way of building rifling, Li Kui doesn't care at all. The rifling is actually fixed with a mold and then pulled out with a knife. It does not require any machine tools. This is manual work.

However, the use of the rear-loading flintlock pistol will make the era of real firearms leapfrog another hundred years of progress at once. This is almost fatal, because the more complex the weaponry, the more difficult it is for the opponent to imitate. At the same time, the efficiency of shooting enemy troops on the battlefield will also be higher.

For Li Kui, this is no less than taking out artillery and using it on the battlefield, changing the war mode of the entire era.

"My lord, the little man came up with an idea. The reason why the flintlock pistol could not push the ammunition too far was mainly because the gunpowder was leaked out by the gap in the back. If there is a solution to this problem, any difficulties will be solved. ”

Pan Qing looked at Li Kui and said cautiously, to be honest, he didn't know the bottom of his heart.

Li Kui is an expert in playing with gunpowder, and he is a little carried away by playing with a big knife in front of Guan Gongmen. However, he was unwilling to continue working in the Iron Prison, and the Military Command Bureau was undoubtedly the yamen that any craftsman longed for.

Li Kui took out a paper and pen and asked Pan Qing, "Can you draw it?" ”

Pan Qing gritted his teeth and said, "Yes." ”

Pan Qing used to be a craftsman of the self-striking bell, and before that, he was a craftsman of the Taishi Bureau, and he also knew a lot about machinery. Although he doesn't draw often, it doesn't bother him.

Soon, Pan Qing drew the drawings and handed them to Li Kui.

Then Li Kui was dumbfounded, he wanted to scold himself for being a pig, why did he forget all the bullet shells?

The flintlock pistol, although it is an old-fashioned weapon in Li Kui's mind. But the problems with the flintlock pistol were not complicated for him. But because Li Kui was so obsessed with restoration, he abandoned the idea of bullet casings. After all, flintlock pistols lit gunpowder with flint and then finished shooting.

Bullet casings and other metal materials, flint obviously has nothing to do with it.

In addition, Li Kui didn't know how to make the primer of the bullet at all, so he simply gave up looking for an idea. But Pan Qing gave him another way of thinking. Since there is no way to make a bullet primer, why not make a hole and pierce the fuse?

Not only flintlock pistols can do this, but it seems that artillery can also play like this! ”

Reloading ammunition, fastened with a bolt, and immediately after firing, the ammunition was withdrawn from the chamber. Although the shells will definitely be bulky. But what the Great Song people have is strength.

Pan Qing said embarrassedly: "My lord, the villain is thinking about the appearance of artillery, so he has this idea." I don't know if it can be used? ”

"It's so useful, boy, you've made a meritorious service! Say, what's the benefit? As long as the official can do it, it will be done for you. ”

Li Kui rarely can be so generous in the face of his subordinates, and he satisfies all the requests made by the other party.

Pan Qing immediately blurted out: "My lord, I want a wife." ”

Li Kui frowned and said: "I can still give you something else if you kid wants, but woman, we don't have this business, what do you think of my Military Command Bureau?" Can't you go and buy one from the hands of the people? ”