Before, Huo Guang didn't remember anything that the person in front of him said.

But when the other party took out the swarthy iron pipe.

Huo Guang's memory is like a pedestrian walking on a winding path, and his eyes suddenly brightened.

It turned out to be him!

Three years ago, Huo Guang was the blacksmith he visited by chance when he went to Zhao Guo for the case of the crown prince Liu Dan.

At that time, on a whim, he fooled him into saying that there was an ancient secret book of Ou Yezi's wrought iron experience. Then, ask him if he can forge the barrel needed for the gun as a test of whether he has the qualifications of Ouyezi's inheritance!

Let's be honest.

Huo Guang had long forgotten about this.

It's just a whim.

Now it's been three years, where do you remember this.

If it weren't for Ouyang Zhi taking out the forged iron pipe today, he really couldn't think of who the other party was.

Huo Guang looked at the iron pipe in the other party's hand, quite interested, so he stretched out his hand to beg for it: "Oh, it turned out to be you, it took three years to complete the test, and you can barely be regarded as having the qualifications to inherit the inheritance of Master Ou Yezi!" ”

"Come!"

"Show Benhou what you forged."

However.

Ouyang Zhi immediately hid the iron pipe behind his back and said, "Heh, you still want to lie to me? You just said that Ou Yezi has nothing to do with you! ”

Hear the words.

Huo Guang immediately wanted to slap himself.

Nonsense.

It's hard to deceive now.

But what kind of person is Huo Guang, the dignified Bo Lu Hou, the Shangshu Ling personally appointed by His Majesty concurrently serves as the left and right of the imperial history, and at the same time he is also the general of the chariot and cavalry of the Southern Daying.

With such an identity, he wants to bluff a blacksmith.

Isn't it easy?

So.

Huo Guang's face remained unchanged, and he continued to say seriously: "Master Ou Yezi and Ben Hou really have nothing to do with it!" ”

"But Ben Hou accidentally obtained his wrought iron heart ancient books, can't you?"

"It's hard to do it"

"With your ingenuity, do you think that if I get the books left by Master Ou Yezi, it has something to do with Ou Yezi?"

As soon as these words were spoken.

That Ouyang Zhi immediately frowned.

After a little thought.

He also felt that Huo Guang was right, but he still said, "Okay, I can give you this black stick." However, you must first show me the ancient books of Master Ou Yezi. ”

Yo he!

Quite cautious?

Huo Guang immediately shook his head and said, "When I was young, I was ignorant, and my family was poor. In a cold winter, it was burned as firewood. Hey? Didn't I tell you last time? ”

Hear this!

Ouyang Zhi was immediately furious and said, "What, burned?" It's all burned, and you still lie to me about it, are you qualified to inherit the inheritance of Master Ou Yezi! ”

Hear the words.

Huo Guang couldn't help but be happy in his heart.

This blacksmith looks a little funny!

Huo Guang shrugged his shoulders and said, "What did Ben Hou do to lie to you?" Don't you know, there is a kind of ability called unforgettable? ”

"Although the ancient books are burned, it doesn't mean that there is no way for you to inherit them."

"The inheritance of Master Ou Yezi is all recorded in Ben Hou's head!"

Remember, there are indeed some people who have the ability to do this.

But here's the thing.

There is a big difference between the memory before the invention of book paper and the memory after the invention of book paper.

In the former, the book is bound into a book, and there are many words recorded.

That is unforgettable, it is indeed a real skill.

Latter.

Simple, only record important words, the number of words is small, the so-called memorable, in fact, a little memory can be done.

Like the slips used in Sima Qian's "Historical Records", a carriage may not fit it.

But in modern times.

A book a few centimeters thick will do the trick.

This is the disparity in the amount of writing.

So when Huo Guang said this, the blacksmith Ouyang Zhi's suspicions were dispelled a lot.

Seeing this, Huo Guang immediately said: "Didn't you come to Chang'an from a place as far away as Zhao Guo to find me today, just to let me see this iron pipe you built?" ”

"Why, it's still squirming today."

"If you don't show it, then please do it, Benhou has a lot of affairs, but I don't have so much spare time."

When Ouyang Zhi heard this, he was anxious.

Seeing Huo Guang turn around, he wanted to leave.

He hurriedly shouted: "Eh, Huo Yilang, I didn't say I wouldn't show you!" ”

"Na!"

"It's up to you, it's okay to send you."

When Huo Guang heard this, he was secretly proud in his heart, turned around and took the iron pipe, and didn't forget to say in his mouth: "Isn't there nothing to do if you are so transparent, you have to take off your pants and fart, it's too much." ”

Ouyang Zhi was scolded, and he could only smile.

At this time.

Huo Guang, who took over the iron pipe, found that the pipe was not light, but heavy.

It seems that the materials used are quite realistic.

I just don't know the quality, whether I can get by.

Although during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there were hundreds of steel-making technologies. But this is a secret of the imperial court, and a blacksmith like Ouyang Zhi, who was born in the wilderness, is naturally not qualified to contact such secrets.

So.

Regarding the quality of the iron pipe built by this guy, Huo Guang still has a little doubt.

"Your iron pipe, it looks okay, how is the quality, can it stand up?" Huo Guang frowned.

Hearing this,

Ouyang Zhi immediately patted his chest and said, "That's absolutely no problem, can I come to you if I have a problem?" Huo Yilang, let me tell you, I came from Zhao Kingdom, and I used it as a weapon all the way, and it was more effective than a sword! ”

Better than a sword?

This is really Wang Po selling melons!

If it is really more useful than a sword, then the soldiers of the Han Dynasty will not go to the battlefield with a ring-headed sword, but an iron rod.

Come to mind.

Huo Guang said directly: "Whether the quality is good or not, you don't know what you say, you have to go through the test." ”

"That's right."

"Let me tell you, Yilang, Ben Hou has long been inappropriate, you can call me Bo Lu Hou, or, Huo Shangshu!"

Ouyang Zhi immediately nodded and said, "Oh, okay Huo Yilang." ”

This guy is a bit of a shaft!

Huo Guang was helpless.

I could only sigh in my heart, and then asked the slave to fetch the gunpowder and the fuse used to make the earthen grenade.

Meantime.

He took out a wooden stopper, tightly plugged one end of the iron pipe, left the other end untouched, poured out the gunpowder, and put the long lead into the pipe from this end.

Do you know the kind of fireworks you held when you were a kid?

What Huo Guang did at this time was similar to this design.

But.

What he put into it was not fireworks particles that would explode in the air, but a few smooth pearls.

In the Han Dynasty, there was an industry of raising mussels and cultivating pearls.

So there are things like pearls, but they are also luxury.

Huo Guang originally wanted to get an iron bead into it, but unfortunately, he didn't prepare these, and he couldn't get it for a while, and he felt that it was not smooth and difficult to test when he put some stones.

Finally, I saw a handful of pearls in the house, and I grabbed it and used it.

Didn't think about it that much.

Subsequently.

The iron pipe containing the pearls was placed on the ground and fixed, and a clay pot was erected not far away.

Huo Guang was about to light the fuse.

Ouyang Zhi didn't understand Huo Guang's behavior, so he asked, "What is Huo Yilang going to do?" ”

Huo Guang glanced at him and said indifferently: "You step back a little further and cover your ears." ”

"Huh?"

Ouyang Zhi, a blacksmith with well-developed limbs, didn't understand what Huo Guang meant.

Huo Guang was helpless, so he had to say, "Do you still want to get the inheritance of Master Ou Yezi?" ”

Looked at.

Ouyang Zhi immediately covered his ears and took a few steps back.

Forthwith.

Huo Guang lit the fuse at this time.

And then.

He took a few quick steps back, covering his ears as well.

Soon, a "bang" was heard, and the clay pot shattered instantly.

Ouyang Zhi immediately said in surprise: "Can this iron pipe still be used like this?" ”

"Nonsense, this iron pipe is not used like this, how can it be used? Do you think you can use him as a stick? Huo Guang patted the other party on the shoulder and said.

Subsequently.

He stepped forward and touched the iron pipe with his hand.

Because it was only one shot, it wasn't hot.

Thereupon.

Huo Guang directly picked up the iron pipe, poured out the residue inside, and began to inspect it again.

There wasn't any rift or anything like that.

Of course, it may have something to do with only one shot. Is it possible to shoot a dozen shots, and it may be soft, or cracked?

All of this is up for debate!

"What method did you use to make this iron pipe?" Huo Guang asked tentatively while inspecting the iron pipe.

Actually, regardless of the quality.

He was already very surprised to be able to make iron pipes.

Originally.

In the development of firearms, Huo Guang's early idea was the sudden fire of the Song Dynasty.

What is a Flare?

The simplest firearms, made of something like bamboo, are useless and very easy to blow up.

Later, the Yuan Dynasty acquired this technology and changed it to an all-metal firecracker.

Then Meng Yuan used this weapon to fight in the north and south, and fought in Europe, resulting in the technology of gunpowder and firecrackers being learned by foreigners.

This made foreigners have a knowledge of gunpowder.

People who have no knowledge, or no knowledge, will criticize the ancestors for only making fireworks with gunpowder, and only being feng shui masters with a compass.

Making gunpowder into firearms, Huaxia is the ancestor of the world.

But why, was it surpassed by foreigners in the later period?

This has to talk about another thing, this thing is called closing the country.

Not to attack the Qing Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty also had it!

Firearms really began to lag behind Westerners in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Start with the Franco cannon.

During this period, the production of firearms in the West was already more advanced than that of the Central Plains. Then the Central Plains introduced, imitated, and then reached or even surpassed the West.

A few years later, I was smug.

I suddenly found that domestic firearms are not as good as those abroad.

Then it was introduced, and then imitated.

In this cycle, the clever Chinese people suddenly found that they spent more money on imitation research than on direct purchase.

Simply.

I can buy it directly, and I still study a fart.

As a result, there was a precipitous gap between the level of firearms in the West and the level of firearms in the Central Plains.

This.

It's really resentful.

Of course.

If you dig deeper, you can also blame the emergence of basic disciplines such as chemistry and physics in the West.

With these, they were able to develop more powerful gunpowder.

Or make more sophisticated firearms.

Of course.

These aspects are not discussed.

When Ouyang Zhi heard Huo Guang's words, he immediately replied: "The production method of this black pipe, hehe, it took me three years to figure it out, why should I tell you!" ”

The blacksmith looked smug.

Tell the truth.

The other party does have proud capital!

Because the quality of this iron pipe is very good, it is better than Meng Yuan's fire pipe.

It's even better than the Ming Dynasty's firecrackers.

I just don't know if I can make a bird gun.

The bird gun is the arquebus.

It's not as good as a flintlock pistol, but it's much, much better than a three-eyed gun or a firecracker.

Arguably.

It has the rudiments of a modern rifle.

But if this kind of black pipe made by the blacksmith can't withstand more than a dozen rounds, it will blow up, then it's okay, Huo Guang is afraid that he will blow himself up.

Come to mind.

Huo Guang said with a serious face: "Don't worry, I don't want to get your forging technique, I just want to determine the final quality of the iron pipe you forged through your forging method!" ”

Ouyang Zhi was still a little unconvinced, and said suspiciously: "Really? ”

Huo Guang said helplessly: "Really, Ben Hou can touch my conscience and speak!" ”

Looked at.

Then Ouyang Zhi said: "In fact, the forging method is very simple, find some iron tools, first calcine, beat into square iron, and then thin it into a thin state. ”

"At this time."

"Then wrap it around a pre-prepared iron rod and temper it."

"This layer is tempered, and then the next layer of iron wrapping is tempered."

"So reciprocating, waiting for the iron pipe to form, pulling out the iron rod, polishing the inner wall smooth, and polishing the outside smooth, this black pipe is become."

Hearing the blacksmith's words, Huo Guang was surprised.

The joys and sorrows of human beings may not be the same.

But!

The development of human civilization is often surprisingly similar.

The production of Western bird pipes is the use of this kind of technology, although there are differences in techniques, but the difference is very different.

Didn't think it would happen?

A blacksmith that Huo Guang met three years ago could also come up with a similar solution!

This is the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago.

In fact, Huo Guang had only heard of this method in his previous life, and he didn't know the specific operation.

If you know.

It's already been done, so why wait until Ouyang Zhi delivers it to the door today.

Huo Guang at this moment.

Looking at Ouyang Zhi, it was completely like looking at a big baby.

The blacksmith on the other side saw his burning eyes, and immediately said, "Eh, don't covet my skill, this is something I spent three years pondering and meditating!" ”

"Look!"

"I think about this every day, and my head is bald."

Huo Guang immediately shrugged his shoulders and said, "Eh, don't worry, I won't covet it, and I'm not a blacksmith." Besides, you have made this black pipe, and no one but me knows any use for it. “

"You'll have to master the art."

"But there's no place to show it, what's the use of you keeping it?"

However.

Blacksmith Ouyang Zhi didn't care about this, and immediately said: "Then I don't care, you just don't covet my skills." But it's useless for you to covet it, I'll just tell you a rough idea, and the specific operation depends on me. ”

Huo Guang smiled slightly and said, "Craftsmen like you will keep a key hand and not let others know, I understand, I understand!" ”

"But!"

"Have you ever thought that now the salt and iron official camp is struck iron privately, but it has violated the Han law!"

There is a saying that the people do not fight with the officials.

It's not that you can't fight.

But I can't fight at all!

If Huo Guang is black-hearted, he has a hundred ways to make the blacksmith in front of him obedient and obedient, so that he can obediently hand over his skills!

Even.

Make it a prisoner, and then work for yourself.

Didn't some guy who is not even an official at the bottom say a word?

One day, the fuck finds a dark place to detain him for three days, and if it doesn't work, he will fuck his son, and his son is his weakness.

Of course.

Huo Guang, as a righteous and awe-inspiring person, would never do such a thing.

Thereupon.

He looked at the blacksmith who was silent by his own question, and said with a smile: "I can make you an ironsmith shop in the name of the imperial court, do you want to?" (End of chapter)