Hong Tao has not forgotten Huang Huai'an Huang Zhonggui, he is a genius in machinery, from the seventh year of Yuanfeng in the Liangzhou Machinery Workshop with Wang Datou to study machine tools, and participated in the research and development of rear-loading guns.

The loom repair workshop in Suzhou is just a front, and like Wang Datou, who moved his family to Hangzhou to operate gold and silver work, it is ostensibly a small and inconspicuous workshop, but in private it is completely funded and safeguarded by the Shanchuan Supervision Institute, and continues to conduct research on machine tools and firearms.

"The prince is serious, Huai'an is a wasted person, and he doesn't know life and death in the Eight Divisions. Since I followed the adults, I knew that there was such a subtle way of mechanical manufacturing in the world, and I was fortunate to live up to my mission. Look, Lord Wang, are the muskets and bullets you are talking about? ”

Huang Huaian didn't feel sorry for losing his official position at all, he was a eunuch, and when he became an internal official, he was a Pei Ying role, which was very boring.

But the mechanical design allowed him to discover a new world, in Ganliang Road, everyone called himself Huang Dajiang, no one cared about the identity of the internal official, and named the saw table with his surname. This sense of accomplishment and satisfaction he has never experienced in most of his life, and he has enjoyed it deeply.

"Good fellow, this thing can be used as a hammer when it's rounded!" Huang Huaian carefully took out a tarp bag from his arms, opened the left and right layers, and inside was a pistol.

It is a far cry from the appearance of modern pistols, with a hexagonal barrel as thick as a thumb, and is rigidly bound to the body of a mahogany gun by three strands of white copper, and the handle and body of the gun are integrated, naturally bending backwards to form a graceful arc.

Obviously, this gun should not have been involved in Wang Datou, and there was no various copper decorations on it, let alone exquisite and intricate carvings, but the metal parts and wooden body were polished to a shiny finish, and the handle was covered with sheepskin to prevent slipping.

This kind of manufacturing process is a semi-finished product in the eyes of Wang Datou, and it is not even worthy of simplicity, so it can't be taken out at all.

Another feature is that it is heavy, the feeling of starting is similar to holding a solid iron block, and the length is also very suitable, and it can really be used as a hammer, but the center of gravity is relatively close to the middle, and it cannot exert the full strength of the hammer.

"Weigh four pounds, seven taels and four dollars, four points in the inner diameter, three points and nine cents in the bullet diameter, adults try it......"

After more than two years of painstaking work, the finished product was finally made, and it ended up with a comment that was used as a hammer. Huang Huai'an was very unwilling, and took out a flat and slender copper box from his arms, pushed it with his thumb, and squeezed out a round stick about the same length and thickness as his fingers.

"Hey, there's also a custom paper shell Mini bullet! This is...... Magazine? Hahaha...... "The round stick is very familiar to Hong Tao, it is exactly the same as the picture he drew for Huang Huai'an, there is nothing new." But this small copper box is a bit interesting, its appearance is exactly the same as the magazine of later generations, but the size is much larger.

It is estimated that Huang Huaian couldn't understand how to make the bullets in the magazine fire one after another if he wanted to break his head, but it was obviously inappropriate to draw it on the map, so it was simply turned into a container carrying paper shells.

As everyone knows, the firearm drawings drawn by Hong Tao are not complete, some are smoothbore guns, some are flintlock pistols, and some are simply semi-automatic and automatic firearms in later generations, so they must not be looked at together.

"Lao Huang, I have to say that your craftsmanship is getting more and more refined, so it seems that the lathe and boring machine have also been successful?"

Seeing Huang Huai'an's embarrassed face, Hong Tao put away his smile and began to carefully observe the pistol in his hand. No, it should be called a short gun, it is more than a foot long, and the little finger can be poked into the barrel, which is far from the concept of a pistol.

Afterloading! The loading mechanism is quite ingenious, using the bolt sheath as a linkage device for the bolt, which is not parallel to the barrel, but vertical, much like a wedge-shaped bolt.

Move the sheath downward, the bolt will fall vertically to expose the chamber, and after stuffing the cartridge with a fixed paper shell, the sheath will be lifted up, and the bolt will also go up to close the chamber. What's even more ingenious is that when the bolt is raised, the back of the cartridge is cut open, revealing that the propellant inside is aligned with the ignition hole in the middle of the bolt.

The firing device is located on the side of the gun body, and the structure is basically similar to that drawn by Hong Tao, and the tightness can be adjusted with screws after adding the spring steel sheet to correspond to flint of different materials.

With only a few groping times, without Huang Huai'an's guidance, Hong Tao can independently complete the links of pulling the bolt, loading the bolt, pushing the bolt, locking, starting the triggering device, and pouring a little propellant into the medicine pool.

"Come to the yard every day to, and see that the official has overtaken you today...... Boom ......" and looked around, but couldn't find a suitable target.

As soon as I looked up...... Pregnant! There were several crows on the house, one of which was landing on the dovetail ridge. They on their dry clothes, and the enemies were very red when they met, their left eyes were closed and their right eyes were squinted, and they pulled the trigger cleanly.

"Whoa...... Sun thief! If you have the ability, don't run, Lao Tzu will kill your whole family! "No matter how strong the crow is, it won't be the sound when it falls on the roof. So, Hong Tao didn't hit the crow, but broke a piece of his own swallowtail ridge.

What does it mean to be angry? What does it mean to steal chickens and rice? Hong Tao, who jumped and scolded the crow in the distance. I wanted to show the power of the artifact in front of the children that they didn't know yet, and then make my image taller, but I didn't want to play it.

"The prince is angry, it's all because the villain is not skilled, and he should be punished......"

Huang Huai'an was more looking forward to the crow's death than Hong Tao, and when he saw it fly away, all kinds of disappointments came to his heart, and he knelt on the ground as soon as his legs were weak. In order to get this gun, I spent a lot of money in the past two years, but the result was still not very successful.

"Lao Huang, being too modest is pride, do you have to kneel down and thank you? Hurry up, it's not for birds, it's enough to hit people. "Even if Hong Tao is given a modern pistol, it is very unreliable to hit a crow with one shot at a distance of forty or fifty meters.

In fact, this short spear is already very accurate, and if it is three inches higher, the crow will die in Huangquan. Three inches is a big distance for a crow, but for a person, it makes no difference if a large buckshot on one side of the pinball hits the left or right chest, and the difference of half a foot is considered a pass.

"I don't get tired of art, I also made a pistol, old man, and ask the adults to try again......" As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of no good things, you are afraid of no good people, Huang Huaian just got up from the ground, and an old man and a young man came from the direction of the dock.

The youngest was only sixteen or seventeen years old, born with a tiger's head and a tiger's brain, holding a rectangular box in both hands. The old man is in his sixties, brighter and bigger than Zhu Bajin's bald head.

He walks in a weird way, his right hand in his jacket pocket all the time. Wang Datou and his little grandson came, and before they arrived, they came first, and a sentence hooked Huang Huai'an's sadness again.

"You're going to fight in the ring!" You don't need to look at the gun in the box, just by looking at the box, you can know that it is the masterpiece of the Peng family, which is not at all the same as the small box of jewelry for the eldest princess, it seems that Wang Datou is very confident in this gun.

"Since the adults have passed down this craft, they have to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages, and the qualified products can be taken out and used, and the unqualified ones can only be returned to the furnace!" It is said that literati are inferior to each other, but in fact, craftsmen prefer to fight, and their peers are enemies.

Wang Datou and Huang Huai'an were partners when they were studying lathes, the former was proficient in metal processing, and the latter was good at mechanical structure design, and no one could do without the other.

But as long as you encounter the same product, you must distinguish between the superior and the inferior, even if you teach the other party how to improve it afterwards, you must have a clear statement before.

"It's too early to talk about long things at this time...... Huang Huai'an also seemed to have only encountered a male cricket of the same kind, swept away his previous depressed look, and stepped forward with his head held high, intending to see what kind of goods were in Wang Datou's box.

"Shhh...... It's still good-looking with a big-headed grandfather! Hong Tao and Huang Huai'an didn't see the first glance, Wang Da didn't know what a firearm was, Hong Tao's tone was very tight in this regard, and even Wang Shi, who was in charge of specific assistance, only knew the name and approximate purpose, and didn't know any details.

But this did not affect Wang Da's love for weapons, the crow did not hit, but it could break the dovetail ridge built of bricks and tiles at once, and the power must be more powerful than the pulley crossbow. I heard that there was another handful, so I immediately snatched the wooden box from Wang Xin, the youngest grandson of Wang Datou, and just opened it, there was a full house.

The box is not so much a gun as a craft. The body and handle of the gun are made of ivory, there are a lot of reliefs, and even the barrel is engraved with patterns.

"Flashy!" Huang Huai'an is really not as good as Wang Datou in this regard, he is not a goldsmith and silversmith, and if there is no mechanical help, it is estimated that he will not even be able to complete the work of hand-making the barrel. But he didn't intend to admit defeat, guns are used to kill, and it's useless to look good.

"It seems to be a smaller caliber?" To be honest, if you don't pursue output and cost, everyone likes exquisite products, including Hongtao. However, when he picked up the bullet that came with the box, his brow furrowed a little.

"It weighs three pounds and five taels, the inner diameter of the barrel is three cents, and the bullet diameter is three cents. Don't look at it to be finer, the villain has tried it, and the power is not reduced, please test it out! Wang Datou paid close attention to the pony's expression, and immediately explained when he noticed this slight change.

Removing the material and ornamentation, the two guns are actually very similar in appearance, and Wang Datou's slenderness reveals a coldness, like an assassin; Huang Huai'an is stout and violent, like a hunter.

But as soon as you reload, you will find that the chamber and bolt part of the two guns are completely different, and the loading method used by Wang Datou's gun is very special.

There is a steel tube about the length of a paper shell in the chamber that can be erected, and there is a blade at the bottom to cut through the bottom of the paper shell, and a slight rotation can allow the propellant to block the ignition hole.

The front part of this steel pipe is a conical design, with four sealing rings, after loading the steel pipe flat and rotated 40 degrees, the sealing ring is locked with the sealing ring in the groove at the back of the barrel, effectively preventing air leakage.

It is precisely for this reason that although Wang Datou's short gun has a small caliber and a slightly smaller charge, its range and accuracy are slightly higher than that of Huang Huai'an's short gun.