A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 176 Firearms research results

In July of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Wang Dou suddenly received news from Shun Xiangbao that Lai Yuanlong and others had developed a fire door device that could be opened and closed automatically on the gunpowder pool, and Li Maosen had also successfully developed a hydraulic device that could be used To drive the steel drill to grind and drill the blunderbuss hole.

Hearing this news, Wang Dou was quite happy, and immediately prepared to go to Shunxiang Fort to have a look.

He went out of the city under the guard of his own general Xie Yike and others, and just after he left the south gate, he heard a woman's coquettish voice behind him: "Wang Dou, Wang Dou..."

No one dared to call Wang Dou's name directly in Bao'an City, especially women, Wang Dou knew who it was when he heard that charming voice.Sure enough, when he turned his head, he saw Mrs. Ji coming here on horseback under the protection of several family members.

Wang Dou was a little surprised, he had been watching that little lady Ji riding in a carriage, but he didn't expect that she was born in the military constitutional government, and she was a woman with small feet, and she could ride a horse?

Miss Ji rode her horse and came to Wang Dou, seeing his surprised expression, she couldn't help but smile triumphantly: "Your Majesty didn't expect the little girl to ride a horse, did you? Hmph, I'm not that kind of cowardly girl!"

Wang Dou looked at her side, and there were a few family maids by her side, and it could be seen that their expressions were quite helpless.

Wang Doudao: "So it's Miss Ji, why are you looking for me?"

Miss Ji was wearing a light green shirt today, she said cheerfully: "Wang Dou, I want you to teach me how to shoot again."

Her smile is like a flower, and her clothes are thin, and her skin is white and greasy under the sun. That kind of coquettish demeanor makes Xie Yike and others' eyes straighten.

But for a man with Wang Dou's experience, it's hard for a woman to impress him just by her appearance, and he pays more attention to the connotation of a woman.Last year in the twelfth lunar month, he dropped by to escort Miss Ji back to Lucheng, and he forgot about it afterwards. A few days ago, he heard that the little lady came to Zhoucheng again, and he didn't care. He didn't expect to find him today, and he wanted to teach her by himself. Shoot?
He frowned: "I have important matters to attend to, so how can I play with you? Young lady, do what you want."

Miss Ji smiled slightly. She looked at Wang Dou with flowing eyes: "Wang Dou, where are you going? I want to go too!"

Wang Dou said: "I'm doing business, so it's inconvenient to take you with me!"

He said solemnly: "Miss Ji, you are the daughter of the Bingxian Mansion, you are by my side, if anything happens, how can I explain to Bingxian?"

Miss Ji gave Wang Dou a flirtatious look: "With our lord of integrity by his side, what are you afraid of? Mr. Wang, you don't have confidence in yourself."

Wang Dou said: "A man and a woman can't kiss each other. I'm a married man. The little lady runs in and out with me like this. I'm afraid that outsiders will gossip!"

Miss Ji giggled, trembling like a flower branch, she said loudly: "I didn't expect our hero Wang to be such an ordinary person, the little girl is not afraid, but you, a manly man, are afraid, the little girl is disappointed .”

Unexpectedly, the traditional official family in the Bingxian Mansion would produce such a rebellious woman as Miss Ji. Wang Dou glanced at her: "Don't be afraid of being tired, just keep up."

Miss Ji cheered, and hurriedly rode her horse to follow beside Wang Dou, she shouted: "I'm so tired of being bored in the mansion all day, I can finally come out to get some air."

Wang Dou saw that she was cheerful and good at equestrian skills, secretly wondering how she learned it.You must know that the Ming Dynasty is not as good as the Tang Dynasty, and its atmosphere is relatively conservative. It is understandable for a girl's family to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. It is rare even for a warrior family to learn horseback riding and archery.

Miss Ji looked at Wang Dou and said with a smile, "Master Morality, do you mind asking you a question?"

Wang Dou said: "Young lady, if you have something to ask, can you ask?"

Miss Ji said: "I heard that a few days ago that Mao Shen will come to Bao'anzhou City and ask you to ask for some beauties, but you refused?"

Wang Dou said: "That's right, I refused. How can my Wang Dou's woman be sent back and forth like goods?"

Miss Ji squinted at him, and said with a smile, "Aren't you worried that General Mao will be unhappy?"

Wang Dou snorted, and said proudly: "I, Wang Dou, was born in a small army. I have struggled until now. I have never lived by looking at other people's faces. So what if he is happy, how happy is he?"

Mrs. Ji gave Wang Dou a thumbs up: "Okay, you are affectionate and courageous. I, Ji Junjiao, admire you!"

The family members beside Mrs. Ji also looked at Wang Dou in surprise for a while, and exchanged glances.

Then Miss Ji looked at Wang Dou again, and said, "It's a pity, Wang Dou, it would be great if you were more handsome."

Wang Dou said indifferently: "Isn't it good to be as tall and mighty as I am? Those little husbands are all very handsome."

Wang Dou's words were quite vulgar, and Miss Ji's cheeks flushed immediately, she was so charming, Xie Yike and others couldn't help but swallow their mouths at her seductive appearance, and they admired Wang Dou very much, Bing Xian The little lady in the house dared to make fun of her.

Only the family members beside Mrs. Ji glared at Wang Dou, and they wanted to go up and scold Mrs. Ji, so they stopped talking again after seeing Mrs. Ji's face.

Miss Ji blushed and turned her head away, she said loudly: "It's a pity, the little girl is thinking, if you Wang Dou were more handsome, more elegant, and knew how to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and recite poems and poems, you would be perfect gone."

Wang Douchang laughed: "Perfect people don't exist in this world."

He cracked his whip in the air, shouted "Drive", and immediately the horse rushed forward like the wind, Miss Ji called out tenderly: "Wang Dou, wait for me."

Hastily patted the horse and followed.

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When Wang Dou came to Shunxiang Fort, Lin Daofu and others were waiting outside the city gate. When they saw Miss Ji and heard her identity, they couldn't help panicking. event.Reception, security, safety and other matters of all parties need to be carefully considered.

Lin Daofu was in a hurry, Wang Dou gave up: "You don't have to think about the little lady, take me to the gun factory."

Lin Daofu looked at Miss Ji, seeing that she didn't care about Wang Dou's words at all, he couldn't help but secretly marveled, his eyes turned around on Wang Dou, then on Miss Ji, and led Wang Dou Wait for someone to go.

Everyone went to the northwest of Shunxiang Fort. The area was full of various factories, such as gunpowder factory, coal factory, iron factory, quilt factory, gunsmith factory, woodware factory, etc. There was a bustling scene everywhere.Along the way, Miss Ji watched with great interest, she muttered: "This Shun Castle... is very different."

A group of family members behind her were also secretly amazed and whispered.

Soon everyone came to the gun factory, Wang Dou glanced at Miss Ji, and Miss Ji understood, she said to the family behind her: "You are waiting for me here, there is no need to follow."

Those family members were immediately anxious: "Little lady, how can this be done? I have the duty to wait for the guards. If I don't stay by my side, what happened to the little lady? How can I explain to the adults?"

Miss Ji snorted: "What will happen if I, Mr. Wang, the governor of Baoan Prefecture, is here? Wang Dou?"

She said the second half of the sentence to Wang Dou, and Wang Dou nodded.

Those family members stared wide-eyed, watching Miss Ji go by Wang Dou's side.

Entering the Gunsmith Factory, Li Maosen, the manager, and Lai Yuanlong, the ambassador of the Security Bureau who was newly transferred to Shun Township Fort, hurriedly greeted them. When they saw Miss Ji, Lai Yuanlong was still in a daze, but Li Maosen and others were there for her She is intimidated by the bright light, but who dares to ask who is the woman next to Mr. Cheng?

Seeing Lai Yuanlong, Wang Dou smiled and said, "Ambassador Lai, are you all right in Shun Township Castle?"

Lai Yuanlong still looked slovenly, the ninth-rank official uniform embroidered with practice magpie patches was still stained with oil, and both sides of the sleeves were rolled up, but he was full of energy and flushed.He said in one voice: "Okay, very good, Xiaguan is really good in Shunbao, I have everything I desire, even if I die now, I will have no regrets... Oh, of course, don't be like this dying……"

His incoherent appearance made Miss Ji burst out laughing.Lin Daofu and others behind Wang Dou also smiled.

Lai Yuanlong didn't notice it, he just sighed: "This is all thanks to the lord's favor, the lower officials can get what they want."

As he spoke, he bowed deeply to Wang Dou.

Wang Dou helped him up with a smile, and said, "I heard that your research has achieved results?"

Lai Yuanlong said: "Yes, yes, yes."

He hastily led Wang Dou and others to the shooting range next to the Gunsmith Factory, took out a firecracker as if offering a treasure, pointed to a part on it, and said: "My lord said that the fire door device on the gunpowder pool can be opened and closed automatically. After research and development, with this device, even if there is a strong wind in winter, there is no need to worry about the gunpowder in the fire door being blown away by the strong wind."

Wang Dou looked at the parts above, and honestly didn't understand it very well, so he said, "Let's try it out."

The little lady Ji next to him immediately showed a look of eagerness to try.

Lai Yuanlong responded, loaded the sub-drug fluently, then lit the matchlock, he fired a bang, and a puff of gunpowder smoke filled the air.

Miss Ji laughed happily, she said: "Okay, okay, I'll come."

Wang Dou smiled and said to her, "I'll teach you to fight again when I have free time."

Miss Ji hummed, and nodded lightly. In front of outsiders, she seemed to be quite obedient to Wang Dou's words, which made Lin Daofu and others stunned.

Just now Wang Dou didn't care whether Lai Yuanlong was hitting accurately or not, what he noticed was that when the firecracker fired, an iron box on the fire door flickered quickly, protecting the priming medicine inside.

He thought carefully, the fire door device should have the same principle as the flintlock.With this fire door device that can be opened and closed automatically, when fighting in winter, his matchlock gun will not become a fire stick, which makes Wang Dou happiest.

He laughed and said, "Sure enough, Ambassador Lai, you have done a great job."

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Old White Bull:
Thank you for your support. I just read the outline and only finished one-fifth of it. There is still a long time to go.Learning from Qianhu's lesson, Xiaobing, I will stick to it.I am still satisfied with the current results. The highest subscription is more than 5000, the 24-hour subscription is more than 2000, and the average subscription is more than 3000.It's just that sometimes there are fewer people posting in the book review area. I hope everyone can speak more, so that I can write more vigorously.

Another old fox book friend, the question you are wondering, in fact, I have made it very clear in Chapter 45 and Chapter 119 of this book.For relevant information, you can also look for the book "Mingshilu Leizui".

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