Gonggong Wei, who has never only been a weapon, has a special preference for advanced weapons.

At this moment, the mood is really surging, just like the night of the candles in the cave room.

"Yes, yes!"

Holding the drawings, thinking that the flintlock pistol produced a large-scale armed imperial army, you can play "line up to shoot", and the father-in-law can't help himself, he laughed, and said left and right: "The name of the self-generated gun doesn't sound good, so it's better to call it a flintlock pistol." ”

The crowd praised themselves.

Don't say that it's called a flintlock pistol, it's called a burning stick, and everyone will clap their hands and applaud, who let this be named by the Jiangnan Town Guard Wei Gonggong.

Guo Jujing took advantage of the happiness of Father-in-law Wei and brought up the matter of the church very appropriately.

The father-in-law was happy, and casually instructed Zheng Duo to allocate a thousand taels of silver, and then choose a piece of land, and be sure to establish the glory of God's cross on the land of the Daming Special District.

But in my heart, I was calculating, this foreign monk is really cunning, and the flintlock pistol was obviously designed by my Daming Shandong Patrol Salt Imperial Shi Bi, so you might as well just make it yourself, which is a little inauthentic.

Turning to think about it, this is good, although I don't know if it is a party of Donglin, but from the perspective of his imperial history, he can't look down on him Wei Gonggong, so it is impossible to directly invite the owner to help design new firearms.

With the help of this foreign monk surnamed Guo, and the friendly sponsorship of the Jesuit forces in China that he represents, the great St. John Pommerson Pavilion will be crowned with honor and swear to defend the orthodox forces of Catholic China.

The Western Holy See is all heretical!

Behind the missionaries from the East, they will always hold high the swords from the Ming Imperial Army!

The more my father-in-law thought about it, the happier he became, thinking that he would have to get benefits from the foreign monks, so he wanted to ask them how they were in contact with Macau.

There is no big harvest, at least foreign workers and Western soldiers who work hard for money will have a batch.

However, Li Yanzhao hesitated a little on the side and said: "Father-in-law, my subordinates are stupid, is this flintlock pistol really that good?" ”

Li Yanzhao's "scientific" spirit is quite good, and he is still full of doubts about the feasibility of this flintlock pistol before he has verified the real thing.

If it is really so good, why doesn't the imperial court adopt it?

However, smart people will not directly veto what Grandpa Wei praises.

"Yan Zhao can know that this flintlock pistol is indeed a good thing, and if it can be made, it will be a militaristic weapon."

The father-in-law looked at Li Yanzhao seriously, "Yanzhao, you can't doubt because of doubt, anything, no matter what you think, you have to find someone to find it, and then use physical inspection to confirm that it can't be denied." That's it, but also to find out why it doesn't work, so that it can be improved, understand? ”

"My subordinates understand!"

Li Yanzhao nodded heavily, with a look of complete understanding.

No matter how good things are, it is obviously not enough to have drawings and principles, and my father-in-law decided to build a real thing right away. This is not what his old man is good at, Zheng Duo and they don't understand, and Li Yanzhao is also a layman.

Therefore, my father-in-law specially called two old craftsmen.

Both of them are hereditary craftsmen who are subordinate to the Ordnance Supervisor of the Staff Bureau, one is a craftsman household who became a craftsman during the Hongwu period, surnamed Hong; One is a household made up during the Jingtai period, surnamed Wang.

The father-in-law ordered the two to show the drawings, and then asked if they could build them.

Hong and Wang Erjianghu looked at the drawing, bowed their heads and discussed, and told Gonggong Wei that the principle of this flintlock pistol was not complicated, and the structure was simple, and the two of them could build it.

"Tell us how much silver it costs to build a flintlock pistol?" Cost is the main concern of Grandpa Wei.

"This..."

Hong and Wang glanced at each other, apologized to Duke Wei, walked aside and discussed for a while before coming over to reply, and replied that if the work was real, the cost of building a flintlock pistol would be at least seven taels to eight taels.

"So expensive?"

Li Yanzhao was stunned, isn't a flintlock pistol only two taels or six dollars, there is not much difference between this flintlock pistol and an arquebus, but it is changed to flint later, how can the cost increase several times?

Hong Lao'er immediately said: "My father-in-law doesn't know, what the villain said is real work, and the back-end process of this gun is slightly complicated, but it takes some man-hours." ”

Wang Lao'er followed.

The father-in-law hummed slightly, and he could hear the meaning of what the two of them said about "real work". The reason why the Ming army does not like firecrackers at present is that most of the firecrackers produced by the Ministry of War, the Staff Bureau, or the Nanzhen side cut corners, so that the phenomenon of exploding is common, and the firing power and range are insufficient.

The cost of this kind of gun is about two or three taels. However, in order to forge it in a real way, the procedure of the gun tube alone must go through many forgings to ensure the sealing, so that, together with other equipment procedures, the cost of a flintlock pistol will indeed be several times higher.

Even if it wasn't a flintlock pistol, the cost of the arquebus would have increased. At present, the treasury of the imperial court is tight, and the military budget of the border towns is tight, so they cannot afford to purchase high-quality firearms.

And the "producers" are also willing to produce substandard products, because compared with the qualified products, the substandard products can ensure their profits.

In the past, Eunuch Lu in the Staff Bureau told his father-in-law about this matter, and the price of a fire gun to the border town was about two or three taels, but the actual cost of one or two was not used, and the time was short. But if you want to build it in a real way, the time will have to be doubled several times, and the materials will be sufficient, and the profit will be reduced.

The father-in-law knew that there was a big problem with the military production system of the Ming Dynasty, and only the fact that the Marquis of Wuqing contracted the cotton clothes and military uniforms of Xuanda Border Town shows the degree of corruption in the military industry.

And this point is that the emperor Wanli is powerless to change, and the reason is that it is deep-rooted and involves too many interests.

If it continues to develop, it will basically rot to the point of home.

For example, this self-generated gun conceived by Lord Shi Bi of Shandong Salt Patrol Emperor is obviously feasible and powerful, so why didn't the imperial court adopt it.

One is that there is no money, and the other is that there is no profit.

The court has no money, the producers have no profits, who wants to get it?

Just as Gonggong Wei thought, in the original history, Bi Maokang continued to develop various new firearms throughout his life, from the Wanli period to the Chongzhen period, forty years without interruption. And the self-generated gun has also been forged in kind to ensure success, but after all, it has not been promoted, and the root lies in money.

The cost of a flintlock pistol is seven or eight taels of silver, and the father-in-law is acceptable.

At the beginning, he gave Tian Ergeng 5,000 taels, and got 408 firearms from Tian Ergeng, and calculated that one pole was drawn to ten taels.

And the power of a flintlock pistol is equivalent to that of three or even four arquebuses, so even if the cost sounds high, my father-in-law still decided to make a flintlock pistol without any hesitation.

"The matter of making guns and pharmaceuticals is equally important, the pharmaceutical is in the hands of Yan Zhao, and the gun-making is in the hands of Zheng Duo, let's allocate another eight thousand taels of silver, before May, concentrate on manpower to build this flintlock pistol......"

Considering the tight time and lack of manpower, his father-in-law set Zheng Duo the task of building 600 flintlock pistols before May.

Zheng Duo must raise difficulties, and the first thing he said was the lack of manpower.

The father-in-law waved his hand and said, "If you are short of manpower, you can go out and recruit, don't keep your eyes on here." If you send someone to bring money out, even if it is a blacksmith who can only repair the iron pot and make a hoe, as long as he is willing to come to us, we will give him double the salary. If you have money, are you afraid that no one will be there? ”

The father-in-law's determination and attitude are here, if Zheng Duo can't do it, he will be punished. After finishing speaking, Yu Hong and Wang Erjianghu were encouraged, and rewarded him with a silver ingot of ten taels each on the spot, and asked him to work tirelessly, not afraid of difficulties, to build the flintlock pistol as soon as possible, and then arrange for mass production.

Zheng Duo looked puzzled: "Other things, the last general can find a way to solve it, but to make a large amount of wrought iron, this last general really has no way." ”

Whether it is an arquebus or a flintlock pistol, the barrel is made of wrought iron, and forging tools can also be made, but there is no iron ore in the Special Zone.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and there are no raw materials, how to make this gun?

The father-in-law said "hmm", waved his hand to Zheng Duo and said: "You don't have to worry about iron matters, our family has its own way." ”

What's the solution?

Go out and grab it.

You must know that although the father-in-law has now been promoted to the eunuch of Jiangnan Town, he has a lot of official titles at the bottom of the old man's box.

In it, there is the title of "Admiral of the Great River and North and South Commercial Taxation and Industrial and Mining Eunuch".

Mine supervisor, how can there be no mine.

It's time to get out of the mountains.

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