The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 17
Huang Sheng knew that a scientist was a real person, and seeing that he seemed to like the telescope very much, and he didn't have anything extra to give to himself, so he had such an explanation.

Huang Sheng said to him: "My lord, can you give all the leftovers of the crystal to the lower official, the lower official wants to try it himself, and see if he is lucky enough to get a telescope."

Sun Yuanhua also thought that this young man was a novelty for a young man, and said: "Young friend is smart, and it is very possible to find a matching lens among the lenses that I have selected."

He asked Huang Sheng to get the crystal by himself, as long as the rest can be taken away, anyway, he made the telescope for research purposes.

Now that the experiment has been successful, if you return to the capital and want to make no matter how many crystals you need, you just need to send someone to inform the Huaian government, and they will rush to send them to the Manufacturing Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, which is in charge of your mentor Xu Guangqi.

Huang Sheng bought two sacks of transparent crystals from Sun Yuanhua, including those scrapped crystals.

Huang Sheng was overjoyed. He couldn't produce glass now, but he could melt crystals in the high-temperature down-flame furnace he modified!You can get crystal glass by yourself, and you can also use molds to make the shape you need.

Huang Sheng found the three craftsmen who polished crystals for Sun Yuanhua, recorded their work process, and bought all their tools back for money.

It is not difficult to polish the crystal, but the hardest part is cutting the material. It is too troublesome to cut an irregular solid into a thin sheet.

Huang Sheng skipped this most difficult work by melting and recasting.The telescope is a high-tech of this era, and this technology cannot be leaked out. If Jiannu obtains such a thing, the Ming army will be even more miserable.

Huang Sheng decided to make several monocular telescopes with eight times the focal length and several fixed Galileo telescopes with 32 times the focal length.

I can rely on the telescope to predict the enemy in advance, so I can preemptively strike, and I will be more confident in guerrilla warfare with Jiannu here in the future.

Jiannu's troops can be spotted from a distance, and the decision to attack or retreat can be arranged calmly.

The key is that the telescope must not be seized by Jiannu, which will make the already vulnerable Ming army worse.

Huang Shengan stayed in Ningyuan City with peace of mind, taking time every day to hide at home with Huang Dongshan, Gou'er, and Lu Chengzu to repair the parts of the flintlock rifle with a small file.

These parts are all made of steel smelted by Huang Sheng himself. It is a purely handmade product with exquisite workmanship. The quality is unquestionable, but the output is too low.

The servants Huang Mingli, Huang Mingdao, and Li Dagang are all practicing their military skills, especially the cooperation of the three of them.

The three of Huang Mingli have already tasted the sweetness in the last actual combat. They have summed up a lot of experience and strengthened a few simple and effective movements for everyone to practice hard together.

The requirements are fast, accurate, and ruthless. No matter how many enemies there are, one's own side will always fight three against one.

These servants are all fighters with actual combat experience, and their personal skills are not weak.After specialized cooperative combat training, they may not be able to defeat the Jiannu vest alone, but they can win in three-on-three.

What's more, the six steel guns that Huang Sheng made were not simple. They were not gun heads at all, but three-edged army thorns specially made of high hardness steel.

Huang Mingli has tested that with this kind of gun, it can achieve the effect of breaking through the three layers of Jiannu's armor with only half the effort of using the Jiannu Tiger Gun.

Because Huang Sheng might fight guerrilla warfare in dense forests, it would be inconvenient if the gun was too long, but it would be dangerous if the gun was too short when confronting Jiannu cavalry.

It doesn't matter. Huang Sheng has high-quality steel materials, and he made these six retractable long spears that are unique to the Ming Dynasty with meticulous workmanship.

Everyone gave it a very cool name 'Armor Piercing Gun'.

When fighting in the woods, the 'Armor-piercing Sharpshooter' should be kept as tall as a person. With this length, the assassination is the most powerful and the rotation is the most flexible.

When encountering the impact of Jiannu cavalry, it can turn into a long spear over a foot in a few seconds, which can ensure that it will not be hit by the horse while stabbing the enemy.

The Ming Dynasty's work efficiency is too low, the summer is almost over, and the last reward has not yet come down.

Over the past two months, Huang Sheng made helmets with visors for himself and ten of his servants. The visors are rather ugly, like blinds, but they are very protective.

Heihu's riding and archery is the best. Even at thirty steps, he could not penetrate the visor designed by Huang Sheng to do damage with Jiannu's step bow.

Ten flintlock rifles have been completed, and there is only time to make ten. Huang Sheng has carefully calibrated each one. These ten guns are definitely of a near-uniform standard.

I was like being exposed to wolves in Liaodong. These ten flintlock rifles, which were slowly honed with painstaking efforts, were the only guarantee for the body of a Ming scholar without any force value.

Huang Sheng only dared to make four telescopes and two fixed Galileo telescopes, and they hid them furtively so that no one could know.

It's just that the armor is still not enough for 11 people to equip three layers. In fact, Huang Sheng is not willing to wear three layers of armor, he will be crushed to death by their weight.

The three-layer armor weighs one hundred catties, how can a scholar carry it.

What's more, Huang Sheng positioned himself as a sniper, and of course he would not take the lead in combat. Every time he fought, he should pre-set a few safe and secure sniper positions, and shoot and kill the enemy secretly by himself.

The steel that I smelted is the treasure of this era, and it should be the only one in the Ming Dynasty.Huang Sheng took all the steel raw materials that were too late to process back home and hid them.

Huang Sheng, who was meticulous in his thoughts, of course left a material appraisal certificate on each piece, stamped it with a steel seal, and wrapped it in oiled paper.

In particular, several pieces of steel that could be processed into milling cutters and springs made Huang Dongshan dig a hole in the kitchen and bury them.

On this day, Huang Sheng was just about to go out to practice marksmanship when he heard someone crying at the door.Huang Sheng was a little puzzled, who is it?Come to my door early in the morning to cry.

At this time, Huang Dongshan led a person into the yard, and comforted the person as he walked: "Gu Shanhai, don't cry, talk to my lord after a while, my lord has a kind heart, and he will definitely not ignore your family. matter."

The young man named Gu Shanhai, about 15 or 13 years old, is the eldest son of Gu San, the little craftsman boss at Sun Yuanhua's place. He also has a [-]-year-old younger brother and a [-]-year-old younger sister.

When Gu Shanhai came to the living room and saw Huang Sheng, he knelt down immediately, and couldn't help but started crying again, unable to speak.Huang Dongshan had no choice but to tell what he learned at the door just now.

Huang Sheng didn't go there after finishing what he needed in Sun Yuanhua's workshop. He was too busy and time was too precious. He had to practice shooting by himself, and he had to use modern scientific concepts to guide family training and literacy.

I had to hide at home with Huang Dongshan and the others making telescopes, flintlock guns, and experimenting with some small inventions.

The hands of Huang Sheng, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, are not white and clean, they are almost as good as Lu Chengzu's.

Huang Mingli and the others rushed to do it every time they saw Huang Sheng making something with his own hands. They all thought that scholars should not lose their dignity, but unfortunately their hands were too clumsy, so they could only do rough work with brute force.

Huang Sheng did not dare to process the more precise parts for them. The scrap rate was too high, which was too time-consuming and labor-intensive. The materials were too precious to be wasted.

Just ten days ago, something happened in the workshop.

When several craftsmen led the migrant workers to lift the bulky red cannon to the city wall of Ningyuan, one of the migrant workers stepped on the ground and fell down, causing the migrant workers who were marching in step and shouting chant to lose their balance.

The result was too tragic. The 5000-jin Hongyi cannon rolled down along the horse path of the inner city wall. Five migrant workers and one Ming soldier died on the spot. More than [-] people were injured, and three of them died of serious injuries.

Gu Shanhai's father, Gu San, was also unfortunately grazed by the artillery, and half of his foot was crushed flat by this heavy guy.

He passed out from the pain on the spot. He should not have been seriously injured.The workshop gave him two taels of silver and sent him home to heal his wounds, and then come back to work again.

Gu San thought that after the doctor's treatment, after cutting off the crushed part, he should be able to walk with a limp on most of the sole of his foot, but for some reason, his wound couldn't heal, and he was bleeding all day long.The family members don't know how much thought has been put into it, but it doesn't help.

Their family was originally an impoverished craftsman household. In order to treat Gu San's injury, the family's meager savings had already been exhausted.

Now the whole family relies entirely on those poor buddies to scrape together a little money to maintain their food. Gu San's injury is getting worse day by day, and a strong man is getting thinner and thinner, and he is almost dying.

In desperation, those workers remembered Mr. Huang who was approachable and came here to make firecrackers, so Gu Shanhai came here to ask Mr. Huang for some money, to see if he could save his father's life. .

Huang Sheng was shocked when he heard the situation clearly. That Gu San is a rare high-level technical talent. Although he can't write, he has mastered the most practical steel identification method in this era, and he is also the top of the Ming Dynasty. Casting master.

Huang Sheng quickly called Huang Mingli, Huang Dongshan followed Gu Shanhai and hurried to Gu's house. It's June and the weather is very hot.The place where these craftsmen live is full of garbage and sewage, and the smell of flies and mosquitoes is unbearable. Huang Sheng can't help but frown.

The craftsmen here should be the treasures of the Ming Dynasty. Only with their inventions and creations can this era progress. But now that their living environment is so miserable, it is no wonder that they have no enthusiasm for their work.

Who is to blame for the fact that the Ming bureaucrats treated these craftsmen in such a way that the quality of the firearms was not up to standard?

Huang Sheng came to a courtyard, where there was blackness left after being burned everywhere, and the houses here were just huts built carelessly with reed mats and hay on the ruined walls.There are four craftsmen living here, and they all know Huang Sheng.

As soon as Huang Sheng entered the courtyard, the craftsmen and their family members all knelt down when they saw it.Huang Sheng just couldn't adapt to this kind of scene, so he hurriedly got everyone up.

When they came to Gu San's family of five's snail's house, they saw Gu San who was very weak.

He was still in his mind, and seeing that his son had actually invited Mr. Huang, he was so excited that he couldn't make a sound.

He wanted to struggle to kowtow to Huang Sheng, but was held down by Huang Mingli.Gu San was tortured by the injury for nearly 20 days. He was in unbearable pain every day and couldn't sleep. A strong man was already too thin.

Now he has lost all hope and just wants to die early. He saw Huang Sheng began to check his wounds, and said to Huang Sheng: "My lord, you can come and see the villain. The villain is already grateful. Now even the doctor can't heal the villain. My lord." You are a scholar, don't get your hands dirty."

Huang Sheng ignored him, forcibly endured the disgusting smell, and carefully checked Gu San's injuries.

Gu San said again: "My lord, you are a good person, and a villain is worthless. If you die, you will die! I just want my lord to adopt a pair of children from this villain. They are all used to work, and they will definitely serve you well."

At this time, his mother-in-law, Gu Wangshi, was already crying bitterly. A skinny child who was as skinny as a skeleton, who couldn't tell whether he was a boy or a girl, knelt in front of Gu San's bed and howled, "Daddy, mother!" , don’t sell Ling’er, Ling’er won’t complain about being hungry anymore.”

(End of this chapter)