The manager took a look at his Hanhan and saw that Hanhan nodded slightly and felt relieved, "Okay!" There is indeed no problem in my village, yes.
He took the things home and came back to drink with Zhou Zong and others.
After Zhu Wentian finished eating, he asked his friends to continue making music boxes and frogs. He had already made two music boxes with different music.
I made a bunch of frogs, and as a result of the friends' practice, as soon as they wind up and let go, the frogs will jump.
At two o'clock in the morning, the banquet was over. Zhou Zong and his ten men went to rest. The head of the village asked Hanhan to come home.
"Hanhan, do you know how to use a fire gun?" the chief wanted to make sure.
"Make it, Jane, no... eh! Alas! It's too easy to make this kind of thing. It's not difficult at all. It's cast. One of the three is made of copper, and the two are made of iron. It's just sand.
We made it to hit people, so we have to fire it intensively. A group of people fire at the same time, otherwise they won't be able to hit accurately.
Use a big projectile to fly somewhere, use a pile of iron sand to hit it very close, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would not have used firearms like 10% of the army.
Looking at the gunpowder recipe again, the ratio is not good enough. Why is the key written so simply? Does this mean you don’t want us to learn? Buy it from the palace? "
Zhu Wentian, wow, wow, criticized this very powerful firearm from the Ming Dynasty as useless. It has been certified. Why make such a bulky firearm?
The chief had previously thought that his Ming Dynasty's firearms were very powerful, but how could he have thought that Hanhan said they were useless?
"That's silly! Should we do it or not?" The village chief couldn't decide now.
"Make the tools first. Many tools must be made first, and then use the tools to make the barrel. If the casting is not good, let's forge it. Let's take our time!"
Zhu Wentian gets a headache when he thinks about making a gun. There are too many processes and it takes too long. There are only four unqualified blacksmiths in the village.
You have to first get a U-shaped groove, a ball hammer, a concave hammer, a flat hammer, and then a drilling machine. The vertical one is easier, plus drill rods and drill bits...
It is best to have a two-layer barrel for better sealing. Make a tube in the first layer, and wrap the first layer in the second layer.
There is no such technology to directly drill a steel rod, which belongs to the later barrel processing technology.
"I'll go back to the mountain temple to calculate and draw pictures." Zhu Wentian shook his head and walked out.
The director looked at Hanhan's back and opened his mouth, but in the end, the joke didn't come out, and he was also worried.
Zhou Zong slept soundly. He wanted to continue living in the village until the prince was getting married, and he would take the village chief and others to watch the ceremony.
His mission is actually to protect the master, even if he doesn't know who the master is yet, let's see if he can meet him then.
After sleeping until dinner, Zhou Zong yawned and went to eat under the lamp. The lamp was hung far away from the dining table, and there were small insects flying around.
"Watching the crops growing in the village, and planting rice after harvesting, I happened to go to Nanjing to watch the ceremony. Who in the village is going?"
Zhou Zong estimated the days and felt that everything was arranged by God.
The director thought about it and shook his head: "I haven't thought about it yet. I'll see about it later."
He knows he can't escape. The prince invites you. How can you refuse?
The mayor of the new village probably wished he could fly over immediately and see the emperor and the prince. Even if he saw them from a distance, he would be proud of them for a lifetime.
Zhu Yichang doesn't want to, what's there to see in the emperor? The most important thing is to protect Hanhan, the emperor is too far away.
He knew that the other party wanted to see an expert, but how could he? The master won't go, but Hanhan will take him with him.
"Don't worry, there's still some time left! Just in time to tell the chief about some etiquette matters."
Zhou Zong smiled, he actually didn't know the specifics, but he brought a few pieces of paper with etiquette written on it, and he would also have to hold his position when the time comes.
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After a few days, Zhu Wentian and his friends made two more music boxes, a total of four, ready to be sent out, plus a lot of frogs.
Zhu Yuanzhang had many children, some of whom could not even walk! The village must arrange a meeting and give out gifts.
Can the royal family be short of money or something? Uh...yes.
A group of women like Zhu Yuanzhang have a high status if they give birth to a son. Except for the concubine Sun Guifei who gives birth to a daughter, the status of others is low.
Those recorded in historical materials are relatively famous, and there are more that are not recorded. Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to have more children.
It's hard to give money directly, and other things are not rare, except for the wind-up frog Daming doesn't have.
This thing is still precious to the whole world.
Such a gift was enough, and Zhu Wentian continued to design the basic tools for making firearms.
The novice blacksmiths in the four villages are busy! The first batch of drawings were U-shaped piers. After calculations, how to make the U more round, it turned out to be a semicircle.
The key is not just one, but the arrangement from large to small. The method adopted by Zhu Wentian is to use an iron block and use paper to compensate for the upper part.
Then draw a line on the upper edge of the pier, find a center point, draw a circle with the center point, take away the upper semicircle, dig out and grind the lower pier according to the traces.
There is no problem with the semicircle made in this way, but if you want to cast a semicircle directly, it will be deformed quickly when you hit the gun barrel.
All the piers used by blacksmiths are forged. Even so, they are still bruised during the blacksmithing process.
The more years of blacksmithing, the stronger the pillars are. The pillars in the village are bought from outside. If the money is enough, the blacksmith is willing to sell them.
Zhu Wentian was thinking about what steel to use to make the anvil. Good steel can be cast, but if additional things need to be added, alloy steel is the best.
The current design is being worked on first, and a barrel must be produced no matter what, followed by flintlock guns, short guns and long guns.
Next year Xu Da will fight against the remaining forces of Beiyuan again. Good firearms can ensure the probability of winning.
As for the army that won the battle but ended up getting lost and a lot of soldiers died of starvation and thirst, Zhu Wentian was thinking of a way.
Historically, Zhu Yuanzhang temporarily stopped his campaign to conquer the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty because he suffered too many losses in this battle.
He found that it was too difficult to fight there, and the desert was indeed difficult to conquer.
Zhu Wentian's idea is that he will either not go to war next year or win the battle. So what about the desert? There are also large areas of grassland and lakes there.
If we fight to the north, we can reach Europe. The Yuan Dynasty in front of us did it, and the territory is huge!
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When the harvest time came, all the villages in Xuancheng sent people to Xiaqiu Village to help harvest wheat, rapeseed, and ramie.
The heads of each village arrived and told Zhu Yichang that he didn't need any money and that he would do it for nothing.
The headman understands their plan. Working for nothing now, how can you be so embarrassed to ask for more stuff when you rent a big animal?
As a result, he directly told everyone to harvest crops for Wheat, and then borrow the livestock for free. All the villages needed to do was provide fodder for the livestock.
He considered going to the prince's wedding. If the prince asked how they were doing now, he could say that all twenty-two villages in Xuancheng County were very good.
Because the other twenty-one villages and I, Xiaqiu Village, provide large livestock for free, everyone can harvest an extra crop. Apart from anything else, there is enough oil to eat.
