My life skills in Daming Liver

Chapter 84 Shooting Skills

The next day, Changningwei acted urgently.

In addition to the [-] soldiers of the guards, the [-] men who were trained by Su Ze last time were also gathered in the name of regiment training.

The old man selected more than 100 stronger youths, and all of them gathered on the school grounds.

Standing on the school field, Su Ze was wearing the cotton armor of the previous Baihu. He held a bird gun and said to everyone: "Everyone watch my movements. After I finish the demonstration, 20 people will form a group and each shoot the target." Three shots."

[Find the shooting range at the location, you can learn the skill "shooting", do you want to learn it? 】

"study!"

Su Ze was overjoyed, although he had already studied how to shoot the blunderbuss, but with the skills, the movements would be more standard!

And shooting is a practical skill!Another skill that can be brushed!
Sure enough, the knowledge of using the bird gun to shoot entered Su Ze's mind, which was more correct than the set of rules he had pondered.

Su Ze first cleaned the ignition hole and the gunpowder pool. This step is actually very important. Many bird guns will have gunpowder residue after firing, or ashes will block the ignition hole. This is also the main reason for the misfire of the bird gun. Effective cleaning can greatly to reduce the chance of duds.

Then Su Ze poured the ground powder into the gunpowder pool, and closed the lid of the gunpowder pool.Primer is a flammable gunpowder that ignites the propellant.

The next step is to pour the propellant from the barrel, then stuff the lead beads contained in the mouth into the barrel, and then remove the cleaning rod on the barrel to compact the lead beads and propellant.

At this step, it is considered to complete the standard action of loading.

Su Ze wiped the sweat from his forehead. This bird gun is 1.3 meters long and not light in weight. Su Ze is also sweating after operating it like this.

Finally, when it came to the firing part, Su Ze lit the fire rope of the blunderbuss with a torch. This fire rope has been specially treated to burn slowly.

Put the matchlock on the matchlock clip, pull the trigger, and at the same time as the matchlock falls, quickly open the gunpowder pool cover, a puff of thick smoke comes out from the gun body, and then there is the sound of fire and thunder, and the lead balls fly out of the gun chamber , hitting the arm of a scarecrow target eighty paces away.

[Training bird gun hits, "shooting" skill experience +1, Lv1, 1/100]

The accuracy was really not good. Su Ze aimed at the chest of the straw man, and finally missed his arm.

Su Ze held the blunderbuss in his hand and looked back. Everyone in Changning Guard had different expressions.

The soldiers had also seen the bird gun before, and they were not afraid of the fire and smoke of the bird gun, but they saw that Su Ze was able to hit a straw man eighty paces away with one shot, so they had an intuitive understanding of the power of the bird gun.

Eighty steps, that is, less than 50 meters, this is the shooting range that archers require accuracy.

Qi Jiguang's standard for training soldiers is that archers can hit two of three shots within [-] steps. The minimum requirement is one of three shots. If they miss all three shots, they will be punished.

You must know that the Qi family army is already one of the most elite troops in the Ming Dynasty. Don’t read some novels, it’s like piercing Yang with a hundred steps at every turn. The accuracy of the bow and arrow is like this. Pretty good.

And the power of the bird gun is actually not small. The straw man who was shot was taken away with a large piece of straw. If it was shot at a human body, a large piece of flesh would be gone.

Lin Mojun fell into deep thought. No wonder Su Ze insisted on buying the bird gun. This bird gun is indeed a magic weapon!
Moreover, Lin Mojun knew that Su Ze had never practiced shooting with a blunderbuss, and he hit a target eighty steps away. As Su Ze said, the training period for a blunderbuss player is shorter than that of an archer, as long as there are enough birds Guns and ammunition, you can quickly train a team of bird gunners.

Yu, an ordinary Changning guard, was taken aback by the sound of the explosion and the smoke and flames of the blunderbuss. After seeing the big hole in the straw man's body, he looked at Su Ze with fearful eyes.

"I'll demonstrate it again. Later, 20 people will form a group, and each person will shoot three shots. Those who hit the target will get a prize!"

Hearing that those who hit the shots would be rewarded, the atmosphere in the school ground became more lively, and those young and strong soldiers who were afraid also opened their eyes wide and watched Su Ze shoot carefully.

[School field training, "Art of War" skill experience +10, Lv3, 9/300]

He has finally upgraded. These days, he discusses the art of war with Lin Mojun every day, and he is also training soldiers. The art of war has been upgraded to the third level, and Su Ze has some more detailed knowledge of military training.

Suppressing the knowledge that emerged in his mind, Su Ze started again without distraction, starting from cleaning the ignition hole and the gunpowder pool and preparing to shoot again.

This time, there is no need to re-ignite the match, just draw the match again to a suitable length, and press the trigger to ignite the shot.

There was a gunshot, and Su Ze was lucky this time. The lead bullet hit the center of the straw man, making a big hole.

There were cheers on the school field, and Su Ze emphasized the action rules again, and then he asked people to lift up all the bird guns and ordered everyone to start preparing to shoot.

Su Ze came to the school today to select a group of bird gunners.

In addition to the 200 bird guns that Zhang Haihu ordered, Su Ze hopes to select [-] bird gun players. Although it is still less than the [-] bird gun players of King Deer, Su Ze believes that relying on his own tactical training and Battle formation skills can make up for the gap in numbers.

Each of them test-fired three rounds in order to select qualified soldiers who meet the conditions of a gunslinger.

Lin Mojun simply took off her hood today, just covered her mouth and nose with her veil, and stood beside Su Ze to watch the soldiers shoot.

Although Su Ze has lowered his expectations, the performance of these soldiers still makes Su Ze feel outrageous.

These days, the guards who listened carefully to Su Ze's lectures on martial arts were fine, and they could barely complete three shots. Although there were often problems of forgetting to clean the ignition hole or the barrel of the gun, they could still remember the process anyway.

The soldiers who had trained the mandarin duck formation with Su Ze were slightly worse, mainly because they often made mistakes in the steps. One person actually stuffed the propellant into the gunpowder pool. Fortunately, Su Ze quickly snatched the bird gun in his hand. That's why I didn't blow up the bird gun.

The performance of the last one hundred young and strong Changning Wei who had not been trained was very speechless.

Su Ze demonstrated twice just now, and they basically didn't memorize the steps correctly. They even forgot to do the steps that Su Ze repeatedly emphasized to compact the lead ammunition and gunpowder with a cleaning rod.

Others were so clever that they forgot to ignite the match, and kept pulling the trigger.

If it weren't for Su Ze's quick reaction, these guys would have used up all twenty blunderbusses.

In the end, Su Ze set the standard that those who successfully fired twice out of three times would be considered for the shortlisted team of gunners. As a result, only 300 people were selected out of the 70 people on the school field.

Now Su Ze understood why the Gunners were assigned to the army of the industrial age.

Without the strict and disciplined training of industrialization, it is difficult for soldiers in the agricultural era to complete the operation of bird guns.

This is still shooting practice, with Su Ze guiding and watching, if it is on the battlefield, I am afraid that this group of people will be able to destroy themselves before shooting.

It took Su Ze 30 seconds to complete the loading and firing process of the bird blunderbuss, while Weisuo Zhengzu, who performed the best, took 2 minutes to shoot the lead bullet.

Without long-term discipline training and process thinking of industrial production, it is too difficult to train illiterate farmers to become gunners.

It is also thanks to the generations of Changning Guards who have trained soldiers seriously, and Changning Guards also has a tradition of militia training, that they can barely scrape together the source of these seventy gunners.

Among them, there are 40 soldiers, 20 of them are the mandarin duck soldiers trained by Su Ze, and the other ten are the Changning Wei Qingzhuang called by the old grandfather.

Those who were not selected into the bird gunners will be organized into a team of 11 to practice the mandarin duck formation. Lin Mojun has already promoted the mandarin duck formation in Zhengzhong and has practiced many times.

Lin Mojun also remembered how to practice the mandarin duck array. Su Ze gave these people to Lin Mojun to practice, and he brought the seventy selected gunners to the other end of the school field.

Su Ze first asked people to distribute the bamboo guns for training.

These guys can even make mistakes in the steps of shooting blunderbusses. If they were asked to practice with real blunderbusses, the twenty blunderbusses would blow up in less than a day.

This is a training prop made by Su Ze with woodworking and masonry skills.

Using bamboo as a gun barrel and stones as a counterweight, Su Ze also made a wooden butt and trigger, and used hemp rope as a matchlock.

Except that these training guns cannot be fired, their weight, length and shape are exactly the same as real bird guns.

Su Ze asked them to use training guns to train the firing steps. The first step in forming a bird gunner is naturally to be able to fire bullets.

As for things like accuracy, that's not something these novices need to consider.

After training in the school field in the morning, Su Ze ate a piece of wheat cake at noon, and hurriedly found Lin Xianzong, the master craftsman of Changningwei.

"Uncle Xianzong, can you make these parts?"

Su Ze held a drawing of textile machine parts and handed it to Lin Xianzong.

Lin Xianzong frowned. Su Ze's drawing was a drawing of the parts, and the drawing was very detailed, but it didn't look like the overall installation. It's just that some of these parts require high precision, and his apprentices may not be able to do it well.

The blueprints of these parts are a whole piece of paper. Lin Xianzong has built ships, and of course he has seen more complicated blueprints than this one.

But what are so many small parts combined together for?

Lin Xianzong is worthy of being a master craftsman, but he saw the purpose of this machine from the spinning wheel.

"This is? A loom?"

Women in Changningwei can also spin yarn, and looms are also common in Changningwei.

The Changning Wei used basically the hand looms modified by Huang Daopo.

Of course Lin Xianzong can make that kind of loom, but Lin Xianzong has never seen such a complicated loom in Su Ze's design.

Su Ze smiled and said, "Uncle Xianzong, I want ten sets of parts on the drawing, can you do it?"

The spinning jenny machine is also driven by hand. In fact, the principle of weaving is the same as the hand spinning wheel used in Songjiang Prefecture. The difference is that the spinning jenny can use multiple spindles to weave at one time. The hand spinning wheel of cloth is eight times faster!
The significance of this eight times is huge, that is to say, as long as Su Ze builds ten spinning jenny machines, it can equal the work efficiency of eighty ordinary spinning wheels, and the big cost of spinning is naturally labor costs. This machine will greatly improve the weaving efficiency of cotton yarn.

Another function of machine production is that as long as you master the machine, you can master the means of production.

This is completely different from the handicraft production model. For example, Su Ze refines salt and makes white sugar. Strictly speaking, it is just a workshop, not a "factory".

For others, Su Ze's refined salt and sugar rely on the so-called "secret recipe", and he can produce purer salt and whiter sugar, relying on several key "crafts".

In particular, the last step of refining salt to remove bitterness is not complicated, and anyone can follow suit.

That's why Su Ze has done the steps of crystallizing refined salt and rock sugar by himself. It's not that he doesn't trust people in Changningwei, but that once these "secret recipes" are revealed, other people can quickly catch up. The price of sugar and refined sugar will not be so high, and the profit will drop immediately.

In fact, the same is true. At the end of the Ming Dynasty when Song Yingxing lived, the price of white sugar was only double that of ordinary black sugar.

The reason why salt can still maintain a high price is because of the government's monopoly.

But the machines are different.

Machines are means of production. With textile machines, Su Ze can build a cotton yarn factory with confidence, and let people from Changningwei participate in the production of the factory.

The factory is a natural barrier. Without stealing a textile machine, others cannot imitate the textile machine, and the production materials are in the hands of Su Ze.

As long as the safety of the factory is guaranteed, the weaving factory can continuously bring in profits without worrying about technology leakage.

The blueprints that Su Ze handed over to Lin Xianzong were only drawings of some parts, not all the parts of the textile machine. The key shuttles and gears were made by Su Ze himself.

As for the women weaving in Changningwei, Su Ze is not worried that they can write down the structure of the loom. How can a woman who doesn't know these characters accurately describe the structure of the machine to outsiders?

Su Ze couldn't help feeling, this is why there was handicraft industry in Ming and Qing Dynasties, but no industrialization.

The production of the workshop relies on secret secret recipes, and the money earned is the labor force. Even for the workshop owner, the expansion of the workshop scale means that more manpower is needed, but more manpower can only bring double profits , but doubled the management cost.

For a carpenter like Lin Xianzong, his workshop relies on apprentices and family members, and adding more manpower will make it even more difficult to manage, and the money he earns may not be more than maintaining the current scale.

But the factory is different. The textile machine brings an eight-fold increase in efficiency, which means that one more worker is almost eight times the profit. With such crazy profits, there is a large-scale expansion of industrialization.

There is only one word difference between workshop and factory, but the changes in production relations brought about are earth-shaking.

But Su Ze didn't travel to Daming to become a capitalist.

In fact, Changningwei's society is more like a small autonomous society where newspaper groups are kept warm.

Su Ze plans to set up a textile cooperative in Changningwei, organize women from Changningwei to participate, and let them manage themselves.

In this way, he only needs to buy cloth at the normal purchase price of cotton cloth, and then he can develop a new industry in Changningwei.

Now Su Ze has also figured it out. He cannot complete his career by himself alone. He must first unite with the people around him, that is, the people of Changningwei.

Although the weaving factory has considerable profits, it is nothing compared to the cannon foundry and the gun factory.

The most important thing is the barrel of the gun. Otherwise, the better Changningwei develops, the more fat sheep it will be in the eyes of others.

(End of this chapter)