"Rumble..."
A grenade hammer exploded in the open space outside the Zhu family building!
This grenade hammer is much more "advanced" than the "flag-shaped" grenade hammer that Chen Jinnan and Qiu Hui saw last time. The main reason is that the hammer head is more like a hammer - no longer using a wine pot, but the money casting master of Dahao's Dongyin Coin Factory opened the mold and cast it according to the wooden model Zhu Hesheng gave them, and came up with a A hollow copper hammer that can be loaded with up to four taels of powder (you can load less sweet powder and add some copper sheets).
Therefore, this type of grenade hammer can not only explode and injure people, but can also be used to hit people on the head. It has two uses. It is definitely the best tool to kill Qing demons, punish traitors, and fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!
Moreover, once this type of grenade hammer reaches mass production scale, it will change the pattern of future wars.
Perhaps the scene of queuing to be shot will never appear on the battlefields of the 18th and 19th centuries again.
Maybe using a large Y-shaped slingshot to launch a grenade hammer will be the most common scene in future wars! From now on, the French emperor's army might go to the battlefield carrying slingshots and copper hammers.
Of course, the Y-shaped slingshot has not been developed yet - this thing requires opening the golden finger of vulcanized rubber. Vulcanized rubber is not difficult to make, but Zhu Hesheng cannot buy natural rubber now, so Zhu Hesheng can only use a counterweight trebuchet to make do.
At the same time, he also selected twenty or thirty "rebel" soldiers with thick arms to practice bombing outside Gucheng Village every day with training hammers filled with sand.
Zhu Hesheng himself is also training to drop bombs these days, spending an hour every day practicing...The rest of the time has to focus on production, promote learning, and deal with small tycoons like Ma Chenglong, Li Youcai, and Lin Ahu. It's so busy.
To be honest, it’s really hard to be a big warlord at this entrepreneurial stage!
"How are you three?" Zhu Hesheng was standing behind a parapet built with sandbags at this time, pointing at the dozens of scarecrows that had been blown over by grenade hammers, and said proudly to Lin Ahu and Ma Xiucai The three of them, Old Man Li, said, "This one explodes a large area, is it more powerful than the Turtle Dove Foot Musket? Lin Ahu, can your cannon open the shells? Can the shells shot have such power?"
"Artillery Zhu... Young Master, this grenade hammer is not filled with ordinary gunpowder, right? It looks like it is several times more powerful than ordinary gunpowder!" Lin Ahu's name for Zhu Hesheng has changed. , did not dare to call him by his nickname, but respectfully called him "Young Master".
Zhu Hesheng was convinced when he saw this "tiger". He quickly shook his body and looked at Li Youcai and Ma Chenglong with burning eyes.
The two men quickly bowed and saluted, calling them "Young Master".
Zhu Hesheng immediately showed a smile. His "ferociousness" has been sublimated now. He doesn't need to shout, yell or curse, and his face doesn't need to be serious. Others will know his "ferociousness". Because he mastered the most powerful weapon in the seventeenth century - sweet gunpowder!
"Ahu," Zhu Hesheng smiled and said to Lin Ahu, "you guessed it right, this grenade hammer contains a particularly powerful new type of gunpowder... I invented this gunpowder, and now I’m the only one in the world who can do it! The Tatars don’t have it, so they can only be bombed!”
Not on the Tatar side?
So, is there really a chance to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?
"Young Master," Li Youcai, a big salt lord, is very careful in his work, so he asked again, "Is this new type of gunpowder difficult to make? What raw materials are used?"
This is a military secret!
However, Zhu Hesheng was still willing to disclose the patent to the three small tycoons in front of him.
He laughed and said: "The main raw materials of the new gunpowder are saltpetre and sugar!"
"White sugar?" Ma Xiucai Ma Chenglong's eyes lit up, "This is easy to handle! We are rich in white sugar in Longjing!"
In addition to the ancient fishing village of Longjing, there are also large areas of sugar cane fields, which produce a large amount of white sugar for export every year. These days, white sugar is much more expensive than beef (the price in Dahao can reach 56 Ten coins per pound (a pound in Beijing and Nanjing can cost hundreds of coins), so growing sugar cane to produce white sugar is still very profitable... If white sugar can further become a "munition", the price will be even more expensive!
Zhu Hesheng nodded and said with a smile: "Although the materials of this new gunpowder are not complicated, it is still troublesome to prepare... and this new gunpowder is too strong and cannot be used to fire bullets and cannonballs, so it is black Gunpowder is still needed.”
His eyes swept over Lin Ahu, Li Youcai, and Ma Chenglong, and then said: "Since you call me young master, then I can't make a fortune alone, and I am doing big things, but Isn’t he a businessman who only knows about money?”
What does it mean?
Do you have money to make together?
This young master can do it, he is more interesting than the boss Hui!
The three of them looked at Zhu Hesheng eagerly.
Zhu Hesheng clapped his fingers and said: "This pile of saltpeter, making saltpeter, preparing black gunpowder, and preparing sweet gunpowder are all handicrafts...I can teach them, but you all know the rules, right? You have to learn the skills from a master!"
The three of them nodded, but no one knelt down and called Master.
Zhu Hesheng smiled and said: "Of course, you three are too old, I can't accept you as my disciples, and you can also teach!
There are many smart boys among your three tribes, right? Select one hundred people each and send them over. They should not be too young, over twelve years old and under eighteen years old. I will personally be their master. "
Zhu Hesheng said that the rules of apprenticeship and learning are the "bad feudal customs of gangs", which are "three years of apprenticeship, two years of service", "taking the master's instructions as the most important thing", "betraying the master must clean up the family", etc. of.
Therefore, he cannot teach Lin Ahu, Li Youcai, and Ma Chenglong... These three are all powerful and powerful people, and they cannot really abide by the rules of master and apprentice. At most, the three of them could only give Zhu Hesheng a discipleship position, forming a nominal master-disciple relationship, and it was impossible to actually teach him skills.
But if you want to truly learn the art, you can only choose young people from the three tribes to worship Zhu Hesheng as your teacher.
In other words, three hundred boys will have to work for Zhu Hesheng for five years!
Not only do they work for nothing, they also have to learn the skills and knowledge that Zhu Hesheng wants them to learn - if they have to teach slowly for five years, they will have to teach hundreds of "second-level young people", right?
In addition to these three hundred boys, Zhu Hesheng also had sixty young soldiers from Tianwang Village, Da Boling also recruited forty or fifty boys from Jinghai Fort, and Qiu Hui also sent twenty or thirty people.
In addition, Zhu Hesheng also plans to recruit some businessmen's children from Haimen Port and Dahao Island to learn skills, and strive to recruit 500 young people in the second grade.
As a result, Zhu Hesheng's saltpeter market and gunpowder factory will not be short of labor!
Moreover, Zhu Hesheng could also arm them and turn them into "workers' armed forces"... If the workers' armed forces fight against the feudal army, wouldn't that be devastating?
As soon as Zhu Hesheng finished speaking, Lin Ahu, Li Youcai, and Ma Chenglong felt ecstatic in their hearts, and they all thanked Zhu Hesheng.
"This is great. The young master is willing to teach them. It is their blessing!"
"Thank you for preaching, young master. I will go back and recruit people for you right now. I will take care of recruiting a hundred people!"
"Young Master's kindness will be remembered by everyone in Narita!"
Because Guangdong has not been stable and peaceful for many years, and after the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty, the contradiction between man and land disappeared, and the food supply was relatively sufficient, so the fertility rate was relatively high, and each clan had more half-grown children.
These half-grown children cannot do the heavy work of adults, but they eat more than adults. It would be great if some of them could be sent out to learn trades.
Seeing that these three people were convinced, Zhu Hesheng also smiled from ear to ear. After these three families handed over a hundred teenagers each, Zhu Hesheng would have complete control over Chengtian Capital, Longtian Capital, and Longjing Capital.
He, the great warlord of five villages, has finally come to fruition.
Thinking of this, Zhu Hesheng's smiling face had already faded: "You three, I really regard you as my own...but do you really regard me as your young master?"
This is a condition!
How can I teach others my true skills in vain?
Lin Ahu, Ma Chenglong, and Li Youcai hurriedly patted their chests and promised.
"You are our young master!"
"Young Master, I have a destiny, but Ahu will do anything!"
"Young Master, please give the order!"
Zhu Hesheng nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Okay! Since you all recognize me as the young master, you also recognize my father, the King Zhu, as the lord... Then let's work together and join forces with my father-in-law, Da Lao Hui, Get my father out of the siege city of Guiyu City!"
