open sea

Chapter 76
Studying and enlightenment, this matter is almost something that Wu Xiaoqi has never thought about.

In particular, Chen Mu paid for their mentors.

Regardless of how grateful Zhu Xiaoqi is, he even worked harder to bring Yu Ding to tidy up the farmland.

Everyone will inevitably experience a change in mentality and status during a certain period of time, and the five small banners under Mr. Chen's subordinates all accept it faster than him, an outsider.

The next day after returning to Qingcheng, Bai Yuanjie set up a banquet in the most famous Goose Tower in Qingyuan City, and invited Chen Mu, Zhang Yongshou and a few hundred households who survived the battlefield. Although Chen Mu had the lowest official position, many hundred households Everyone respected him so much, and Chen Junye ate very happily.

After drinking till night, the three of them parted ways. Bai Yuanjie told Chen Mu to take care of the Qianhu Office in Qingcheng during this period. He would go to Guangcheng with Zhang Yongshou to get busy.

Chen Mu responded with all his mouth, but he didn't know that the next morning, the Thousand Households Office... To be precise, it was under the jurisdiction of his headquarters, and something happened.

Guan Zunban, the second son of Guan Yuangu, drew a gourd according to the letter sent back by Chen Mu during the battle, and pulled out the rifling with an old gun before Chen Mu returned to ask. The tube exploded.

Chen Mu has been thinking about this matter all the time, but before he came back to rest, something happened to the craftsmen under his banner.

"How, where did you hurt?"

In a hurry, he led people to the craftsman's shop by the stream. The child in the woman's arms was frightened and cried like a wolf. Chen Mu choked on the strong smell of medicine when he opened the door and said, "Fu Yuan went to Guangzhou. Old man Cheng is invited, how about Zunban?"

"General flag!"

Guan Yuan, an old craftsman with gray temples, was standing inside the door. When he saw Chen Mu coming, he hurriedly saluted. His eyes were red, but his mouth was full of gratitude. He glanced at the bed and said, "It's a good thing my son was only hurt by the iron sheet. , I didn’t hurt my hand, please worry about it.”

Hurt your stomach?

It’s just that the softest part of an animal is its belly, not to mention people. Chen Mu thinks this is much more serious than hurting his hand. He wanted to push Guan Yuangu who was in the way and go in to visit Guan Zun’s class, but he was pulled by the old craftsman. Chen Mu said: "Don't worry, Zongqi, the child will not delay making guns, at most one month off, no, half a month will do!"

Chen Mu's footsteps stopped, and seeing the old craftsman's fearful and eager expression, a sense of separation flooded his heart again.The eagerness on his face faded a little, he looked at the old craftsman's stooped back, raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice, "Who do you think Chen is?"

"Xiao Ba, boil water outside, wash the linen and boil it twice, Zheng Yan will help!"

The two ran out to help, one big and one small, and Chen Mu sat on the side of the bed and saw Guan Zunban's appearance. The herbal medicine was applied to his stomach and it was blurry. At a glance, he could see that the wound was not small. His clothes were stained with blood from his abdomen to his thighs. His eyelids twitched.

Is this a month and a half off?
If you are not careful, you will lose your life.

"President, Chief Banner, villain..."

Guan Zunban's lips were pale, his head was full of sweat, but his face was full of grievances when he was in pain. Chen Mu stopped him before he finished speaking.

"Heal your wounds well, you won't die, don't talk less, and don't worry about other things."

Chen Mu gritted his teeth and cursed inwardly, but he didn't know who to scold, was it because the broken pieces of the bird bludgeon scratched his stomach?Or should I blame Guan Yuangu's son for his life, but thank God for not being hurt?

The swear words stuck in his throat, but when he got up, he scolded the woman: "You scared the child, take it out!"

"Zun Er stays in the room with your brother. The others open the doors and windows to ventilate and go out. Don't crowd in the room." Chen Mu is not a doctor, and he doesn't know how to treat this kind of trauma on the stomach. Do your best to drive everyone out of the house.

Then he went out too, pulled Guan Yuangu to the side and said, "Fu Yuan rides a fast horse, Doctor Guangcheng can come here in at most three days, let the doctor see it?"

Three days, three days is enough to kill.

"I've seen it. The health doctor had no choice but to take some herbs that were taken internally and applied externally." The old craftsman, who was so proud of his craftsmanship, looked powerless like an old farmer who had lost his harvest. Gui, Zongqi...don't dare to hurt him!"

"Don't dare to hurt?"

There were too many things to talk about, Chen Mu couldn't talk about it, and finally he patted his head thinking that he hadn't paid the wages of the Guan family and his son. I’m worried, the remaining taels of silver will be brought to you later, my second child was injured when I was making guns, I will pay for the consultation fee, and I will rest until he recovers before working.”

Guan Yuangu was grateful for his kindness, but Chen Mu felt ashamed of it, and quickly stopped and said, "Don't say anything else, the most important thing is to save the second child's life—why did the blunderbuss blow up?"

These words have been held in Chen Mu's mind for a long time. What he wants to ask most is this, a good barrel, if you pull out the rifling, will it explode?

Could it be that the guns of this era are simply not enough to support the changes brought by the rifling to the barrel, so this way is simply not feasible?
"Hey, the second one is too smart to save time. He thinks it's too slow to drill a new gun and then drill the wire into the barrel. He is a carpenter. He made a drilling machine and took it from Wei Li. Others have used it for a long time. Old blunderbuss, it took half a day to drill out the thread."

"I won't listen to scolding him! As a craftsman, our ancestors' craftsmanship is clear, but he is lazy, what good things can be made by being lazy!"

"The tail of the new blunderbuss made by the old man is thicker according to the general flag. I slowly drilled it. One shot was drilled in seven or eight days. Now I have drilled two test blunderbuss and fired three rounds. Nothing happened." Guan Yuan When Gu talked about this matter, his face was full of complaints, but Chen Mu still felt distressed when he saw the old craftsman complaining.

Chen Mu understood that the problem did not lie in the rifling, nor was it the speed of drilling the barrel as mentioned by the old carpenter Guan, but because of the old blunderbuss that the second child received from Wei Li.Even if the old bird gun is not drilled, it is just enough to make do with it, not to mention that drilling the rifling will cause damage to the internal structure of the gun barrel.

"The rifled gun is much stronger than the previous one. If it is not very useful, then I won't drill it." Chen Mu waved his hands and stepped forward, saying: "What is the second child used to drill, and half a day can last seven or eight days. Working hours? Take me to see."

When something like this happened, not to mention that a craftsman like Guan Yuangu would inevitably be resistant to rifling, even Chen Mu felt uncomfortable, "Carpenter Guan has tried it, will two guns with rifling be more accurate? ?”

"Yes! It is indeed accurate. The old man drilled two shots, and both shots carved two lines according to the general flag. The gun that was originally able to hit thirty paces was accurate, but it could hit forty paces without deviation. It should be It is more accurate and farther away by eight or nine steps, but..."

Guan Yuangu talked as he walked, hesitant to speak, and he continued after Chen Mu's permission: "It's not easy to stuff the lead pellets into the gun barrel, and the old man is more than three times slower to load the lead pellets. After a few shots, the bullets will have crumbs." It hangs on the inner wire of the gun and is difficult to clean."

"I can't make the decision, I'd better decide after Zongqi has tried it."

Chen Mu waved his hands casually, and before he had gone far, he saw the official craftsman pushing and pulling the large wooden and iron tools on the ground and said: "General Banner, this is a drill machine made by a child, but it is exquisite, and it hurt him. , I will burn this useless thing later!"

"Wait! Don't burn it!" Chen Mu looked at the wooden bed, his eyes were almost shining, he pointed at the wooden bed and yelled, then turned his head and asked: "Hey, how did the second child do it? He, he It's a talent!"

(End of this chapter)