There are not many bad religions in the world, but there are many people who do bad things in the name of religion.

"Bang!"

Smoke rose from the three-foot gun, and the lead shot struck the discarded cloth armor worn by the wooden man thirty paces away.

The two pieces of cast iron armor behind the cloth were shattered, but the lead pellets also lost their strength and did not directly hit the wooden man.

But that's enough.

"Okay, have you tried the maximum range?"

Chen Mu picked up the short gun painted with red and exquisite workmanship and turned back to Guan Yuangu and asked, Guan Yuangu arched his hand and said: "The villain has tried, the hole drilled out of the gun bed is straighter than the hand drill, sixty steps to raise the mouth of the gun half an inch, can hit a foot of square wood, and it is a little difficult to shoot far, the farthest can shoot one hundred and thirty steps, more than sixty steps can break an inch of flesh, and no one can be killed." ”

The short gun can break through the armor within 20 paces, 40 steps is the best range, and the power is limited if it is not hit 60 paces away.

It is basically in line with Chen Mu's expectations.

The short gun itself is the long-range weapon that Chen Mu expected, the long-range weapon of the cavalry, but now the cavalry can't use it, he put the short gun on his back and tried it, and said: "Use flint to make fire, have you tried it?" ”

"Go back to Qianhu, Xiao Lao'er has tried, it has been finalized, Qianhu, please come with me."

Already stereotyped?

Chen Mu was very curious, took the short gun in his hand, asked Fu Yuan to wait and stay outside, and walked with Guan Yuangu to the iron workshop.

The current iron workshop is much more decent than the Yamen of the Qingcheng General Banner in the past, the corner of the outer courtyard of the warehouse is piled with iron furnaces and anvils and other utensils, and the wall is hung with a made pipe, and the chimney has not yet been burned, revealing the mud color; Opposite the iron shop is the carpenter's room, scattered utensils are placed on the ground, and the young descendants of the craftsman's family are carrying wood to the yard, and they see Chen Mu saluting again and again.

Guan Yuangu obviously regarded the flint fire requested by Chen Mu as the most important treasure, opened the lock of a wing room in the iron workshop, and let Guan Zun keep watch outside, then led Chen Mu into the house, took down the large wooden box hidden under the bed, and took out a few pieces of delicate wood.

The wooden blocks were placed on the table, and a few candles were lit, and Chen Mu saw clearly that these wooden blocks were actually a guns, and he introduced to Chen Mu as if holding a treasure: "The 'flint hair' that Qianhu said, Lao Er has always taken it to heart, and it is made of iron springs in the birds, but the weak force of the spring is small, and it can't hit the fire, although the spring strength is large, and the trigger can't be pressed." ”

"Later, Lao Er heard that there were craftsmen in ancient times who made better springs from Burmese iron, so he bought some privately, and the striking force was sufficient, but the same trigger force was large, although it could be angry, the force was large and unstable, and it was deeply disturbed."

Guan Yuangu took out a few pieces of guns for Chen Mu to look at one by one, some of them were very similar to the bolts of the flintlock pistol he imagined, the difference was just a durable iron spring, but sometimes one step was one step away, and it was ten thousand steps away.

Chen Mu wants to go to the island to see if there is a watch shop in Fanyi in Haojing Ao, and those watchmakers must have a way to make iron springs.

Just about to comfort Guan Yuangu for a few words, he saw the old man leaning over the side of the bed and groping inward, and then he actually proposed a short gun similar to the shape of the nearly twenty bird guns outside, and said to Chen Mu with a heavy responsibility: "Qianhu saved Xiao'er's life, and Lao Er didn't dare not do his best to make the flint gun that Qianhu said!" ”

Done, made?

"Bring it to me!"

There is no difference in weight between the short guns and the ones outside, but looking at the place where the guns were originally plugged with the fire rope by candlelight, there is a big difference.

The piece of iron on the medicine pool that made the flint hit was ninety percent similar to the flintlock pistol in Chen Mu's impression, but the flint was very heretical.

The curved flint pole is briefly carved out of the shape of a snake, looking at the appearance, Guan Yuangu consciously wants to make the small thing of the formed flint pole into a dragon shape with a casting mold, and the end of the dragon-shaped pole is sandwiched with a piece of flintlock, which has not yet departed from the appearance of the flintlock pistol in his impression, but there is a small crossbow structure in front of the medicine pool, with strings on it, and there is also a crossbow machine behind the flint rod to bite the teeth.

"This is a string made of animal tendons and fish bladders, which used to be used on crossbows, and the cost was cheap, one or two silver can be several zhang long, and a gun is less than three inches." Guan Yuangu introduced on the side, took the short gun from Chen Mu's hand and demonstrated the string, "The dragon head is stuck in the iron tooth and connected to the trigger, and it can't go back halfway, but the string can still be dragged backwards, and the structure of the crossbow machine is used in this old man, and it is stuck." ”

Click.

As Guan Yuangu said, 'stuck', there was a soft sound in the machine, and the strings, which were less than two inches up after being stretched and stacked, stuck backwards in the circular gap on the small disc protruding below the side of Wangshan, and closed with the strings to the outside, and were firmly stuck inside.

Then the old craftsman Guan handed back the short gun with a satisfied joy on his face, and said: "Qianhu is really a person of heaven, so that the gun can be issued without the need for a fire rope,"

Chen Mu held the gun and did not speak, his face was extremely serious, and he pulled the trigger lightly.

Boom.

Click!

The sound of a slight collapse of the strings, the elastic force of the long-stored strings was released, and the impact of the faucet hit the iron piece of the medicine pool with the flint, and the huge force made the flint burst into shining light.

Sparks, in the medicine pool!

Chen Mu's serious face made Guan Yuangu worry that the subtlety he made was not to his liking, his eyes widened and stared at the medicine pool, and his loose and dry hand with colored spots carefully pointed at the medicine pool, as if he was worried that the master of the thousand households would not be able to see a fleeting spark, and reminded him quietly and briskly.

"Look, it's lit up, it's lit up!"

Chen Mu still didn't speak, he wound and fired five times in a row, the strength of the beast tendons was not small, and he hit a lot of sparks every time.

"It's lit." Chen Mu had mixed feelings in his heart, looked at Guan Yuangu's face that had been weathered for a long time because of his status as a military craftsman, and asked softly, "Is the string durable?" Then there is the faucet plate copper is easy to deform, this Guan craftsman considers? ”

"Thought, thought, thought! Thousands of households, please see, this has a twist lock, and you can change it by unscrewing the faucet. The string is the same as the bowstring, the same durability, and it will not break a hundred or ten times. ”

Guan Yuangu said as he took out a few dragon head boards and a few strings from the wooden box, and said, "Take the guns with you, and change them in the camp, it's too late!" ”

"Good!"

Chen Mu finally said yes, Guan Yuangu was overjoyed, the old man pursed his lips and smiled like a child, "Lao Er is afraid that he will not be happy with thousands of households!" ”

"Yes, very! Guan Jiang, the meaning of this gun to Chen is far from what you think, and the meaning to Daming is far from what you think! Chen Mu asked with a smile: "If you dedicate this pole to the imperial court, what official position can you get in exchange?" ”

The Ming Dynasty craftsmen did not have a wide range of channels, either the imperial examination into the office, or the technology into the office, last year for supervising the Lugou Bridge corruption and was imprisoned this year, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Xu Gao is a carpenter who has been appreciated for his technology.

Chen Mu wants Guan Yuangu to enter the office with this flint, and he doesn't expect an official position like Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, and a petty official of seven or eight grades can always be expected, right?

Guan Yuangu's face was gloomy, and he shook his head and said: "Lao Er doesn't want to enter the office, and the materials that are less than two taels of the fly camp dog will have to be four and a half when they arrive at the Ministry of Industry." Half of the body is in the ground, it is better to make a gun for thousands of households in the guard, there is a tile to cover the body, there is rice grain to enter the stomach, enough. ”

"This gun, called Guan's gun, turned around Chen and asked people to take it and dedicate it to the old governor of the military department, in the name of Dalang."

After Chen Mu finished speaking, he asked Guan Yuangu: "Guan Jiang, what do you want, as long as Chen has it, you can mention it." ”

"Craftsmen are the people of heaven!"

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The bird also relied on an iron spring to reset the snake rod.