Chapter 49 Trial-Manufacture of Firearms

Thinking of the occasional blasting of the current shotgun, Fang Xing specially used double-layer forging to manufacture the barrel.

"Design a platform, and then make a semicircular long groove on the platform..."

Fang Xing took out a blank piece of paper to write and draw.

"The iron plate should be long so that it can be repeatedly forged and finally formed a double-layer structure."

Of course, there is no comparison between a single-layer gun barrel and a double-layer gun barrel, but the amount of processing is a bit larger, but Fang Xing believes that as long as the enthusiasm of the craftsmen can be aroused, then these will not be a problem.

"It's up to you to get started. You need money and people, and people."

Fang Xing casually took out a steel rod, and Zhu Fang's eyes lit up when he saw it.

Fang Xing said with a smile: "The diameter of this steel rod is just used as the mandrel for rolling the barrel of the gun, and I will leave it to you now."

"Good steel!"

Zhu Fang only tapped it a few times before judging the quality of the steel rod from the sound.

Fang Xing got up and said to Zhu Zhanji: "I will solve the technical problems, but you can figure out the iron facts."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "No problem, as much as you want."

If Fang Xing can develop a powerful musket, then this credit is enough to raise the status of Donggong and his son in the army.

At present, the Donggong father and son have only received most of the support from the civil service system, but in the military, those nobles and the king of Han once fought side by side, and their friendship is not fake. Moreover, with the rebound of the civil service system in recent years, those nobles found that they were faintly suppressed.

This trend is unbearable to the nobles, so they also rebounded and succeeded. So after Zhu Zhanji died young, the civil fort change occurred, a large number of nobles died for the country, and the responsibility for the defeat was also pushed to the nobles and Wang Zhen.

So far, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty finally succeeded in counterattacking, pushing the nobles and military officials to the corner of the wall, and never turned back again.

Therefore, there is a saying in later generations that the Civil Fortress Change was actually an action carefully planned by Daming's civil service system.

After finishing the business, Fang Xing looked at Zhu Zhanji's blistered eyes, and said earnestly, "You are...Young people should know how to control themselves!"

"ah!"

Zhu Zhanji was thinking about how to tell his father about this matter. He was taken aback for a moment, and then said in embarrassment: "Brother Dehua, my little brother is thinking about the workshop day and night. Unlike you, I was looking for you at noon yesterday. No one..."

"Ahem!"

With Fang Xing's thick skin, he was still a little embarrassed by these words.

At noon yesterday, he was just a little tired, so he took a nap for a while.

As for the young man, everyone knows that when he wakes up, he is a little angry, so he closed the door with Zhang Shuhui and had an in-depth exchange. The result is good, the whole day is full of energy.

Zhu Zhanji laughed triumphantly, and then went to find his prince father.

If you want to know more about this matter, you really have to report it first, otherwise the villain...for example, Shang Dequan, the doctor of the Ministry of Industry, and Li Qi, will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble.

"What?"

In the workshop, when Shang Dequan heard Li Qi's report, his eyeballs almost fell off, and he said in astonishment: "The grandson of the emperor wants to try out muskets in Fangjiazhuang?"

Li Qi said proudly: "Master Shang, I was the only one who found out about this matter. I heard that the grandson of the emperor is going to build a new type of musket based on that Zhu Fang."

"this……"

People in the officialdom, when they hear something, their first reaction is not to evaluate the benefits to the country, but to evaluate what benefits they can get from this matter.

Shang Dequan stroked his beard, and asked with gloomy eyes: "Do you think this is reliable?"

"Not reliable!"

Li Qi gloated and said: "That Zhu Fang was just a craftsman with better skills in the workshop before.

We have many such craftsmen here, if Zhu Fang wants to build a sharp weapon based on him, hehe! That was a big joke! "

Shang Dequan squinted his eyes and wondered if he could take advantage of this to hurt the prince, and asked casually, "Are you sure?"

"certainly."

Although Li Qi only knew a little about musket manufacturing, it didn't prevent him from using his previous experience in managing workshops to judge the results.

I have been working in the workshop for many years. If the new firearms were so easy to develop, I would have been promoted a long time ago, okay?

"snort!"

Shang Dequan snorted coldly, then waved his hands and said: "If the prince writes down the paper, then give them, as long as it is not too much, give them any material, and if I can't produce something good by then, I will have a look, what a waste of time." Money, what kind of crime is it for one person's curiosity!"

Li Qi nodded and was about to go out, but Shang Dequan stopped him again, and after pondering for a while, he said: "Since His Highness Taisun is also interested, you should also move here, otherwise others will accuse us of being vegetarians!"

Li Qi was overjoyed when he heard that, he wanted me to develop new weapons too!

Others don't know about the tricks involved in developing new weapons, but Li Qi can't understand them all too well. He replied happily: "Yes, when the time comes, there will be gratitude from the humble job, and please don't refuse, my lord."

Shang Dequan waved his hand, and after Li Qi left, he couldn't wait to write a letter, in which he informed Hanwang Zhu Gaoxi about this matter, and then expressed his attitude of not being optimistic about this matter, hoping that Hanwang would take the opportunity to give the prince A lesson for father and son.

After handing the letter to his confidant, Shang Dequan went outside humming a ditty.

...

The weather is getting colder every day, and the Chinese cabbage is finally harvested.

Boss Li straightened up from the vegetable field, looking at the Chinese cabbage piled up beside the field, feeling a little dazed.

Fangjiazhuang used to grow Chinese cabbage, but there was no cellar, so the unfinished ones were piled up in the corner before winter, and they couldn't hold on for half a month.

But under the arrangement of the young master Fang Xing, every household dug a cellar this year, and according to the arrangement on the Zhuangzi, put all the Chinese cabbage in the cellar except for the kimchi.

The wife stopped the younger son from pulling the vegetable leaves, and seeing that the head of the house was a little dazed, she said, "Father, should we go get the jars?"

Boss Li nodded and said, "The butler told me yesterday that I will go to the main house to pick it up later."

"More than that!"

His wife said with a smile: "It was notified yesterday that each family has to send out one person, and then make pickles in the main house. After the pickles are finished, each family has three jars."

Boss Li snorted, and said, "Then you go to the main house after lunch, learn how to make kimchi first, and then I'll get the three jars."

In the afternoon, there was a commotion in the main house. Fang Xing sat on the steps with his face upright, watching Hua Niang shouting to teach people how to make kimchi.

"Wash your hands, and the jar, otherwise it will rot!"

"Attention, the dishes must be firm, and the mouth of the altar must be filled with water to keep it sealed."

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