Thanks to the information explosion of later generations, and Lin Ziran is a person with a strong desire for knowledge, he likes to query one or two things when he encounters them, so the things he understands are miscellaneous and messy.

Although it is said that what you know is only scratching the surface, and you are far from being proficient, it is enough to use it for daily communication and pretend to be knowledgeable in front of people who don't understand it even more.

Lin Ziran didn't dare to say that he knew a lot about the steam engine and even the broader industrial revolution, but he still knew what the early steam engine was like, knew that there was a difference between a low-pressure steam engine and a high-pressure steam engine, and knew that there was a difference between multiple swelling and multiple cylinders.

After careful observation, Lin Ziran could tell whether this was a huge low-pressure steam engine, a single-expansion steam engine, and it was also the grandfather steam engine in the first year of Yongchang.

This thing is on the earth, at most the level of the eighteenth century.

Such a primitive steam engine obviously could not meet Lin Ziran's expectations for the industrial level of this world.

He knew that the steam engine in this world could be used to power ships and trains, and to do this, it had to be a high-pressure steam engine, and it had to be a steam engine with multiple swelling cylinders.

It is obvious that this steam engine in front of you cannot do it.

After seeing the steam engine, Lin Ziran asked Wang Jinqian to take him to the ironware workshop, because it was the only place in the town that could make steel products such as farm tools, swords, and muskets.

On the way, Lin Ziran learned from Wang Jinqian that this iron workshop could not only make agricultural tools, swords and other products, but also be responsible for making muskets and even cannons for the officers and soldiers in the town.

So Lin Ziran has a lot of expectations!

It didn't take long for them to arrive at the town's ironsmith workshop.

The owner of the ironsmith workshop was a half-old man in his fifties, surnamed Wang.

There are neighbors next door!

Obviously at a loss for the arrival of a group of officials, Boss Wang seemed extremely panicked and seemed to be a little unstable.

If you let him know that these 'officials and gentlemen' standing in front of him are actually a group of bandits, it is estimated that he can be scared.

Lin Ziran was not interested in the farm tools and a few swords placed in the ironwork workshop, and he directly skimmed over these things, and set his eyes on the furnace with bellows and a number of machine tools that looked very primitive.

Looking at these simple machine tools, Lin Ziran asked directly: "Can you make a gun?" ”

Boss Wang showed a trace of confidence when he heard this, but he still said cautiously: "Back to my lord, small workshops can make guns, and many of the muskets used in the town are made in small workshops!" ”

Hearing this, Lin Ziran nodded slightly, although this workshop is a little simple, it still has simple machinery and equipment, and there is no problem in building a gun or something, but don't expect much output.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Lin Ziran nodded slightly to Luo Mazi.

Luo Mazi, a dog-legged man, always paid attention to Lin Ziran's movements and expressions.

As soon as Lin Ziran nodded, Luo Mazi immediately strode forward and shouted: "The army is about to enter the mountains to suppress bandits, and there are 100 muskets missing, so hurry up and make muskets!" ”

After that, he also grinned back at Lin Ziran.

But when Lin Ziran heard this, he had already wrinkled his brows into a Sichuan shape.

In fact, Lin Ziran nodded just now and it wasn't over, he would stretch out his hand and say again: "Give me the gun!" ”

But who would have thought that this Luo Mazi was smart, and directly spoke first, and asked the blacksmith workshop to make a hundred guns when he opened his mouth.

Talking doesn't go through the brain, and there are 100 muskets, this is just a handicraft workshop, and it is not one of those professional arsenals.

Let this handicraft workshop make hundreds of muskets, and I don't know when it will be made.

Lin Ziran couldn't help it: "Shut up, give me the gun!" ”

This will Luo Mazi reacted that he seemed to have said the wrong thing: "Adults are angry!" ”

After taking the musket from Luo Mazi's hand, Lin Ziran turned his head and said, "Boss Wang, the subordinates are not sensible, I hope you don't blame you!" ”

Boss Wang naturally didn't dare to hold it up, so he immediately hunched his waist and said, "Don't dare, don't dare!" ”

Lin Ziran directly handed over the gun, took out a small notebook from his pocket, opened it and said, "Boss Wang, take a look, can you carve this rifling on this gun?" ”

Boss Wang cautiously took it and looked at it, and said with some uncertainty: "Do you want to engrave this rifling in the chamber of the gun?" Or the rifling of the spiral? ”

Lin Ziran said with a smile at this time: "Well, it's just a few spiral rifling wires carved into the chamber of the gun!" ”

The things drawn on Lin Ziran's small notebook are actually not detailed design drawings of guns, in fact, they are just a simple diagram of the barrel of a rifled.

And with rifling engraved in a front-loading smoothbore gun, then what does it become?

Naturally, a front-loading rifled gun!

Well, this thing is not new, in this world there have long been rifled muskets, but people have not been able to solve the problem of bullet loading and bullet and barrel rifling, loading is extremely difficult, so it is not very common, and it is not used.

But Lin Ziran is still preparing to ask Boss Wang's workshop to make a few molds for melting cavity cone buckshot to get Minnie bullets out.

What does a combination of the two become?

It will become the famous time-traveling artifact 'Mini Rifle'!

Speaking of which, this is thanks to the fact that the world he crossed was already the period of the Industrial Revolution, and its industrial base was already satisfied with the manufacture of Mini rifles.

What is missing now is just a design idea.

Unfortunately, Lin Ziran, who came from the earth, had such an idea!

Of course, even in a world that has entered the period of the Industrial Revolution, it is very difficult to mass-produce and install Mini rifles in a large scale, at least in this small town of Aoyama.

But Lin Ziran didn't expect to mass-produce weapons in this ironsmith workshop, and he didn't even expect to mass-produce smoothbore guns, which was unrealistic.

He just wanted this ironsmith workshop with a few simple machine tools to engrave rifling on the existing more than 100 smoothbore guns.

The muskets they were equipped with in the 'Fifth Patrol Battalion' were Fuyuan muskets.

This gun was a musket produced by the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory in Nanhai Prefecture, with a caliber of 18 millimeters, a total length of 1.4 meters, and a weight of only 4.3 kilograms.

Because the performance of the gun is not bad, the most important thing is that the price is cheap, so it is deeply loved by many feudal towns and bandits from all walks of life in Nanhai Prefecture and Linzhou.

And in Lin Ziran's opinion, this Fuyuan musket is basically no different from the Mini rifle on the earth, except for a few rifling wires.

Based on this gun, it was converted into a Mini rifle, although its performance was not as good as that of a small-caliber Mini rifle, but it should barely work.

After Boss Wang looked at the sketch on the small book for a long time, he said cautiously: "This rifling can be engraved, but it costs a lot to transform the equipment."

Hearing this, Lin Ziran had a smile on his face.

Isn't it just money, it's a big deal, he just got two thousand Hengyuan, if it's not enough, there should be still in Qingshan Town.

It's really not good, Lin Ziran doesn't mind putting the gun directly at Boss Wang's head, it is estimated that Boss Wang will take the initiative to reduce the price or even don't want money.

So Lin Ziran said directly: "Money is not a problem, for every one that is modified, the official will give ten yuan!" ”

When Boss Wang heard this, his originally cautious face immediately changed, and even Lin Ziran could see the greed on his face: "Don't worry, adults, even if the small ones let the craftsmen not eat or drink, and process them day and night, they will help the adults change these guns!" ”

When he said this, Boss Wang's breath was a little uneven, the monthly salary of a soldier in this year was only seven or eight yuan, and the price of a smoothbore gun was only about twenty yuan, Lin Ziran just asked him to change the rifling, and gave a price of ten yuan.

Such a good thing cannot be encountered at any time, and it is natural to grasp it if it can be grasped.