Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Chapter 88 087 - The old apprentice is online
The right guards the cavalry camp.

Zhen Wu pondered for a long time, and finally made up his mind, planning to give Zhu Yuying a music box, a very cute thing like this that can broadcast sounds and can be designed in appearance, there is no reason not to please girls.

The production is not too difficult. The clockwork mechanism drives the rollers, and small pits are punched out on the rollers according to the music score, so that the outer surface protrudes with small dots at different intervals. When rotating, different small dots You can play music by touching different iron pieces.

The only problem was the clockwork device. Although he knew the principle, he didn't know if the craftsman could make it.

Thinking of this, Zhen Wu didn't want to delay any longer, thinking that there are also craftsmen in charge of firearms in the army, so he looked for them immediately after the exercise.

But I didn't expect to see Liu Sheng when I came here just now.

Liu Shengzheng was holding a three-eyed blunderbuss, looking at it obsessively. From time to time, he would lift it up to make a shooting motion, slapping his mouth, imagining that he had directly hit the enemy, and then he looked intoxicated.

Zhen Wu walked over and patted Liu Sheng on the shoulder: "What? How old are you, yet so naive?"

Liu Sheng was taken aback, turned around and saw that it was Zhen Wu, rolled his eyes and said, "What do you know?"

What can I not understand?
Zhen Wu took the three-eyed blunderbuss from Liu Sheng's hand, held it on his waist like a Gatling, raised his eyebrows and said, "You've already started to imagine, don't you dare to think more powerfully?"

Afterwards, Zhen Wu's mouth immediately began to twitch, and after a while, he retracted the three-eyed blunderbuss, blew a mouthful of the blunderbuss, looked sideways at Liu Sheng and said.

"See, what's the point of your slap just now? My firearm swept a large area."

Liu Sheng was stunned for a while, and then laughed out loud, so much that he couldn't straighten up, and his eyes were full of tears.

He leaned on the wall, smiled and pointed at Zhen Wu: "No, no, I never thought that when you were still so ridiculous, if this firearm could become what you said, what kind of martial arts would we practice? A firearm must not knock down the sky."

Zhen Wu looked at Liu Sheng's exaggerated smile, his face was a little dark.

This unknown thing.

However, Zhen Wu estimated that no matter what he said, it would definitely come true in the future, and Liu Sheng couldn't believe it, so he shook his head and hurriedly turned the topic over.

"Okay, okay, what's so funny, first tell me what you are here for?"

Liu Sheng laughed for a while, and when he finally stopped, when he looked at the three-eyed gun, his face became serious, and he asked gently: "Don't you think this thing is worth pondering?"

"Zuo Mo? Three-eyed gun?"

The three-eyed blunderbuss is a firearm widely used by the frontier army at this stage. The three blunderbuss tubes are arranged in characters. There is a small hole on the outside of each blunderbuss tube. After adding gunpowder and projectiles, a matchlock is added to the small hole for easy ignition. The tail is equipped with a handle. The seat is connected with a long pole, and the soldiers hold the long pole to shoot, which can also ensure safety.

After the projectile is shot, the three-eyed gun barrel made of cast iron and steel can also be used as a hammer to smash the enemy.

But the shortcomings are obvious, not to mention the trouble of loading, the range is too short, 50 meters can penetrate armor, and the effect will be greatly reduced if it is farther away.

Liu Sheng shook his head, his eyes flickered with thought and said: "Not only the three-eyed blunderbuss, we have all kinds of rockets in our army, there are also small-mouth cannons, bowl-mouth cannons, and it is said that the south is still researching an easy-to-carry gun." A single blunderbuss cannon is quite powerful, and you said that if you gather these things together and figure out how to use them, and bombard them for a while when fighting, isn't that very powerful?"

Fire coverage?

This guy Liu Sheng really has something.

Zhen Wu thought for a while and said, "What you said makes sense, but the three-eyed blunderbuss and the fire blunderbuss, which are used by individual soldiers, are still a bit bad in the final analysis, and they are too troublesome to use. It would be better if they were improved."

At this time, an old man happened to come over and just heard Zhen Wu's words, and immediately retorted with a beard and a stare: "What do you rough guys who only know how to fight and kill know? Standing up and talking without back pain? Disgusting!" This, those who dislike that, don’t use anything if you have the ability, really think that this thing can be improved if you say it’s improved? If you have the ability, you can improve it for me, and talk nonsense all day long.”

The spittle from this short speech made Zhen Wu and Liu Sheng back away again and again.

This old man, Zhen Wu, knew who it was. Zhu Di had always wanted to build a guard station around Beiping for the purpose of making firearms, but unfortunately, for some unknown reason, it never came true. Army firearms.

This old man is called Mu Zhong, and he seems to have some relationship with Mu Ying. He is considered a relatively top craftsman, and he still holds a position in the Military Weapons Bureau. It also coincides with Zhu Yuanzhang's decree that all military households in the guards across the country send people to learn craftsman In order to fill up the military supplies, Zhu Di, the chicken thief, immediately picked some exciting people and threw them to the old man to learn.

Mu Zhong had been enjoying a good stay at the Weapons Bureau, but Zhu Di got him here for no reason, and became a cheap master.

Liu Sheng knew the importance of Mu En, and also knew that Zhu Di valued him, even if he was sprayed all over his face, he just kept giving in with a smile on his face.

The purpose of Zhen Wu's trip was to find Mu Zhong, a top-notch craftsman, he would be a fool if he didn't think about using it, but looking at Mu Zhong now, he felt a little troubled.

This old man is not easy to talk to.

Zhen Wu raised his eyebrows and pondered briefly, then made up his mind, put on a look of disdain and said: "If you have no skills, you have no skills. Being told that you are in pain is like someone else stepping on your tail. If I give you Tell me a way to improve, what can you do?"

Mu Zhong didn't expect someone to refute, and when he heard the refute, he suddenly became angry, and he was in a hurry. A big soldier dared to challenge his authority in his professional field.

Liu Sheng took a deep breath, and looked at Zhen Wu with a bitter face: "My good brother, what are you doing, you made him anxious, beware of your Highness looking for trouble for us."

Zhen Wu said calmly, "Don't panic."

Liu Sheng almost wanted to speak directly to draw a line with Zhen Wu, is this something to be panicked?
But it's not over yet, Zhen Wu is still provoking Mu Zhong.

"How? What if I tell you a way to improve it?"

Mu Zhong thought without even thinking about it: "If you come up with a way, old man, I will recognize you as my master for the rest of my life. If you say go east, the old man will never go west."

Zhen Wu was immediately happy.

"That's a good deal, don't play a rogue just because you are old, there are people to testify to it." After finishing speaking, Zhen Wu also stabbed Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng was speechless, what's the matter, but now, Liu Sheng is inexplicably curious, does Zhen Wu really have a way to improve?
Liu Sheng knew about Zhen Wu, he was a monkey and a monkey, and he had never seen a time when he was at a disadvantage.

Mu Zhong said proudly with a confident face: "You say boldly, if the method is really effective, the old man is not a human if he regrets it."

Zhen Wu laughed outright, he didn't expect this old man to be quite good-natured, and these few words made him a cheap apprentice.

Isn't there a lot of future disciples and grandchildren?

Think about how firearms have developed in later generations. Although he can't make them, it's not like playing with some suggestions for improvement.

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(End of this chapter)