Chapter 62: A Firearm That Takes a Fork in the Road
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Li Zisheng is so "well-behaved" and sensible, Tie Wanshan, who loves him a lot, will naturally not continue to blame.
And since this god-grandson has brought him a gift, he, the elder, may not necessarily take it for nothing. So in the end, the boy also got a few bottles of good Yuanqi Pill as a return gift. It can be said that everyone is happy.
It can be seen that being scolded for a few words as a junior is nothing, and it is the king to have benefits.
The four of them gossiped again, and the Li family father and son were about to leave, but Li Zisheng was left behind.
This time, it was not the Great City Lord of Tie Wanshan who kept him, but the second son of Tie Qianche.
He is now in charge of the Changshan Military Workshop, and it can be said that he is the general manager of this military industrial enterprise, and he is about to discuss some arms manufacturing matters with the young man, so he opened his mouth to keep the young man.
Li Zhaochang left on his own without mentioning it.
The second prince of Tie took Li Zisheng into his carriage and headed towards the outside of Tieshan City.
Tie Wanshan took out a private site of his own, Hu Jiatie paved the technology and workers, and Xinyi Shuntang contributed funds and Li Zisheng's patents, and really established the Changshan Army Workshop that the teenager casually talked about.
So this military workshop was built on a piece of wasteland outside the city. As we all know, the pollution near Tieshan City is so strict that nothing can be planted, so the land around it is quite cheap.
Gunsmithing always requires ammunition or something, and there will be a lot of noise. In addition, it is necessary to use flammable and explosive lightning powder to make the primer and propellant of bullets, who dares to put it in the city, and it is not only reasonable to build it here, but also to be regarded as a waste use.
The two didn't say anything all the way, so they came to the workshop outside the north city.
Now it is really appropriate for this military industrial enterprise to call it a workshop, it does not have a wall made of masonry, it only has a yard fenced outside, and there are several iron frame rooms used as assembly workshops inside, and there is a lonely warehouse outside the fence, which is a special place to store thunder and fire powder.
Of course, the people here also know the danger of things like thunder fire powder, so they naturally have to be separated from ordinary workshops.
In fact, the parts of this workshop are all made in the Nancheng Iron Workshop. It is then shipped here for assembly and product inspection.
It is precisely because Tieshan City is the center of the iron industry in Jingnan that such a workshop can be established.
Li Zisheng is also the first time to come back here, how does the young man look like those workshops that make earthen guns with seamless steel pipes in his memory.
Now he doesn't have the heart to complain, because he welcomes the two people from inside, and he is very familiar with the first one, who is one of the major shareholders of this workshop, Hu Kaishan Hu refiner. And one step behind him was a strange middle-aged man.
"Second son. Oh, Sheng Er is here too. Hu Kaishan said heartily, "You came just in time, I will introduce you to a master." ”
He pointed to the middle-aged man behind him and introduced, "This is Luo Zhengyan, Master Luo, who has just joined our workshop." ”
This Master Luo Zhengyan looks to be over forty years old. The appearance of less than fifty should be the cultivation of the Heavenly Realm after the refining period. He has an honest and honest face, small eyes, thick lips, and a dark and bright face. The bones of the body are still strong, the bones are thick, and the shoulders are broad and broad. The head is a little yellowish. There are still a lot of scorch marks and holes on the clothes, and at first glance, they look like a refiner who has been by the fire all year round.
He should be in the golden age of the alchemists of Middle-earth, including the mortal blacksmiths, because at the age of forty to fifty, their muscles and bones have not decayed, and their bodies are still above the standard. At the same time, the experience accumulated over the years has allowed them to reach the peak of their forging skills.
But Luo Zhengyan's dress didn't seem to be very satisfactory. The essence, qi, and spirit are all different, and Hu Kaishan, who is also a refiner of this age, is a big cut. In addition, his temples were slightly white and messy. The whole person looks a little depressed.
Master Luo hurriedly stepped forward to greet the two nobles, and when it was Li Zisheng's turn, Hu Kaishan laughed and said, "Master Luo, don't you want to know the master who created the Thunder Fire Gun? This is the third son of Li Zisheng Li I told you!"
"It turns out that the rumors are true!" Luo Zhengyan said in a lost voice, he stepped forward as a big salute and bowed ninety degrees. It is more respectful than seeing his big boss Tie Er Gongzi Tie Qianche, "Zhengyan to meet Li San Gongzi." ”
Li Zisheng couldn't stand the red tape of this world the most, and hurriedly wanted to help him up. But I didn't expect this Master Luo to insist on refusing to get up, and he must finish this great ceremony. He could only return a big gift.
By the time he stood up, he had tears in his eyes. This makes the teenager a little inexplicable, when did he have such an old "fan"?
Luo Zhengyan, who only listened, said in a trembling voice: "Fortunately, with the third son, the villain knows that half of his life of hard work has not been wasted!"
Li Zisheng said inexplicably: "The kid is scared, where did Master Luo come from?"
Hu Kaishan next to him said strangely: "Sheng'er, Lao Luo's words are indeed from the heart, you will know if you come with me." ”
"Oh......" The young man looked at Luo Zhengyan, who was excited, and he was looking at himself with "adoring" eyes. Being stared at by an old man of such an age, but who was his father, Li Zisheng was still a little hairy in his heart.
But he soon understood why.
"This is ......" The young man followed Hu Dazhen to an iron frame room, and when he saw a few things in front of him, he was really surprised in his heart, and couldn't help but be surprised.
Luo Zhengyan stepped forward, first lifted a few iron pipes that were hooped together and came to the stunned Li Zisheng, and said with some smugness and gloom: "This is the thunderbolt fire I designed and manufactured, but it's a pity that ......"
The thunderbolt in Luo Zhengyan's mouth is a ...... in Li Zisheng's eyes Bazooka! or multi-barreled...... No, it seems that it should be called MLRS.
In other words, the thunderbolt in Luo Zhengyan's hand is a rocket launcher that binds several bazookas together and can shoot several rockets at the same time.
He also saw the rockets fired by this "thunderbolt", and like the demon bombs of the young Ming, these rockets are also divided into several different functional bombs. According to Luo Zhengyan, there are incendiary bombs, armor-piercing shells and fragmentation shells. These days, because of the revelation brought to him by the demon bomb, other kinds of incapacitating bullets have also been opened.
In addition to this RPG "evil thing", Li Zisheng also saw an iron mortar cannon and the ammunition used in this cannon.
The so-called mortar cannon is a kind of artillery with a large caliber and a short barrel. In our world, it is one of the oldest curved guns, named for its resemblance to a stone mortar.
However, this mortar cannon is not big, and a person can hold it above his head with his hands together, of course, it can only be done in this world of high magic and high martial arts. But the ammunition of this cannon is a bit surprising, these ammunition are actually thunder powder packets!
Luo Zhengyan called this flying thunder.
At this time, the young man shouted in his heart, this is, this is, this is a conscienceless cannon!
Well, these two weapons are full of slots that make this warrior with otherworldly memories complain, but what makes the real Li Zisheng speechless is that these thunderbolts and mortars are actually individual weapons!
As long as there are enough human beings, there are definitely people among them who can find another way and find a path that no one has gone before, that is, the first person to eat crabs that Mr. Lu Xun said. Luo Zhengyan is such a figure.
He also discovered early on that in addition to mining, there is also a new use for thunder powder, that is, projectiles. In fact, as long as you see the explosion of the thunder powder, it is not difficult to imagine the scene of flying rocks.
So Luo Zhengyan began to embark on the road of researching thermal weapons, and at first it was similar to the earliest firearms in our world, a solid iron pipe was stuffed with gunpowder and projectiles, and a small explosion could be fired out by igniting the gunpowder.
Of course, as a refiner, how could this Master Luo stop at such a rudimentary tool. He followed this line of thought to design the first real front-loading musket in Central Continent, more than ten years earlier than the thunderbolt made by Hu Kaishan.
But then he had a lot of problems, such as troublesome reloading, too little power, not enough accuracy, and so on.
He didn't come from another world where gunpowder weapons were at their peak. So in order to solve these problems, Master Luo Zhengyan embarked on a "fork in the road".