In fact, Wang Yu's previous life, Wang Xinyu, was not a Han nationalist, his hometown was in Shenyang, and many of his classmates and friends were Manchus when he was a child, and Wang Xinyu did not hate ordinary Manchus. But he didn't like the Qing Dynasty because he hated the Japanese the most.

But every time I think about this question: why did Japan come to invade China? It's because China was too weak at that time!

Why was China too weak at that time? Someone told Wang Xinyu: In fact, Japan was not very good before the Meiji Restoration, and at the same time as Japan was in the Meiji Restoration, the Qing government was also engaged in the Westernization Movement. However, the corrupt Westernization movement of the Manchu Qing government was a palliative rather than a cure, and the people above were extravagant and corrupt, and the people below were greedy for money to buy cannonballs, so the First Sino-Japanese War failed. But it's not terrible to fail, it's terrible not to dare to insist on dragging it out, but to cut the land and pay compensation. The silver from the First Sino-Japanese War and the silver from the Gengzi indemnity to Japan were all used by the Japanese to develop national and military strength and fatten this hungry wolf. Subsequently, the Japanese took the silver compensated by the Qing government to develop an army, defeated Tsarist Russia, and truly entered the ranks of the great powers.

For the sake of the future interests of the country and the nation, Wang Yu was absolutely unwilling to let the Manchus occupy China, and he had to resist to the end, not to mention the ugly pig's tail dragging behind his head.

"Brother, are you up?" Just as Wang Yu was thinking wildly, his younger brother Wang Shui walked in. This is a sturdy teenager who has inherited his father's genes and is as strong as his brother. The rest of their brothers died early because they didn't inherit their father's excellent genes. And their little sister, although thin, is also in good health and basically does not get sick.

Wang Yu sat up from the bed, stretched, then put his feet on the ground and put on his shoes.

After standing up, Wang Yu said to his younger brother as if he had thought of something: "Ah Shui, your nickname is not good, let's think of a good name!" ”

Wang Yu has always attached great importance to this younger brother, believing that it is the best gift from God to him, and the most reliable and powerful assistant to assist him in the future. In the future, if he can achieve great things, his younger brother will also be a prince who has the power in the world. The name Aqua regia sounds so awkward, it's a strong acid.

Who knew that Wang Shui didn't want to take a nice name: "Brother, what's wrong with this name?" How can it not sound good? We Fujian people call for water a lot! ”

It is true that there are a lot of Fujian people who call water, and it is convenient to call it in Hokkien dialect, called "Ah Shui" and the like.

Since his younger brother didn't agree to take a big name, Wang Yu was not in a hurry. He still has to go to the barracks in the afternoon, so he won't talk to his brother for the time being.

This family is very poor, and it can be said that the family is surrounded by four walls. The house is the most common stone house of the people in the south of Fujian, because there are many typhoons along the coast of Fujian, the locals like to build houses with stones, and such houses are not easy to be blown down by typhoons. At that time, when Wang Yu's father was still there, he built a stone courtyard here. Now that my father is gone, the walls of the house have not even been painted, and the mud-pasted interior walls are pitted, because the windows are small, and the inside of the house is very dark.

In fact, after Wang Yu became a pro-soldier, he could still receive a full military salary, and he could completely repair the house, and the money from the pro-soldier salary was enough for the family to eat rice and meat. But her mother, Wang, resolutely refused to let Wang Yu take too much money to subsidize the family, saying that the military salary should be saved for her son to marry his daughter-in-law.

Wang Yu persuaded his mother several times, saying that the money could be earned again in the future, but his mother insisted, and Wang Yu was not good at disobeying his mother. But he kept an eye on it: he got back the money he had given to his mother, and it was now with him. During the Chinese New Year, Wang Yu used the money to buy a lot of New Year's goods for the family, so that his younger brothers and sisters could open their teeth and eat for a few days. In addition to the money to buy New Year's goods, Wang Yu also bought back several ducklings and handed them over to his sister to raise.

The reason why I chose to buy ducks is because ducks do not need to waste food to feed, as long as they rush to the beach, they can go to the beach to eat fish and shrimp by themselves. It's just that now these ducks are still too small to lay eggs. When the ducks grow up, they can improve the life of the family.

Now in addition to the silver that was spent some time ago, Wang Yu still has three taels of silver left on his body.

"Ah Shui, I'm leaving!" Wang Yu took off the iron bow from the wall, turned to his younger brother and said, "Don't be greedy in the afternoon, help my sister put ducks!" When the ducks grow up, they will be able to eat duck eggs every day! ”

"Hmm," the younger brother replied.

Wang Yu picked up the iron bow and walked out of the door.

In the next room, the sound of my mother shaking the loom was heard.

Wang Yu carried an iron-tired bow on his back and did not go directly to the barracks, but went to the town market first. This iron tire bow is the most valuable thing in Wang Yu's house, although this kind of bow is still wooden, but in the bow spine inlaid with a good steel bar, this bow is extremely powerful, of course, it also requires a good hand to pull it open. A good bow can be said to be high-tech in those days, and its production is no less difficult than producing a firecracker, and the production time of a good bow is longer.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it had entered the era of semi-firearms and semi-cold weapons, and with the advent of firearms, long-range weapons such as bows and arrows were gradually eliminated by muskets. But in the Zheng family's army, the main individual ranged weapon is the bow and arrow. It's not that Zheng Jiajun doesn't know how to use firearms, but the quality of the birdguns made by the Ming army itself back then was really unreliable, and God knows when it suddenly exploded. The rate of fire is slow, the accuracy is poor, and once the chamber is blown up in an engagement, the musketeer will lose half his life even if he is not dead. In this era, the level of medical care was backward, and serious injuries were basically death.

In the Zheng family's army, of course, there are high-quality muskets, which are said to be arquebuses bought from the Taixi people, the price is high, and the power is not small, but it is too expensive, and it is reluctant to buy more. Most of the people who used Taixi's muskets were a group of dark-skinned Kunlun slaves, that is, the famous black musketeers in the Zheng family's army. Wang Yu had also heard that there were also a few white-skinned and red-haired Taixi people serving in the Zheng family's army. It's just that whether it is black or white, Wang Yu has not seen it since he came to this era.

Nonsense, the black musket team is the most elite guard of the Zheng family's army, and it is generally only available by the side of King Yanping, how can Wang Yu see it.

In addition to the black musket team, the Zheng family army also has elite ironclad soldiers, known as iron men, which are also elite troops around King Yanping. Iron man, in fact, is a heavy armored iron infantry wearing iron armor all over his body, not only wearing iron armor on his body, but also protecting his face, and even some iron man boots are iron. The Iron Man's iron armor can not only withstand knives, guns, bows and arrows, and arquebus, but even the legendary red-haired ghost Tessie's flintlock bullets!

Zheng Ming's army also has a few domestic birds, which are some domestic goods with relatively good quality, and because the scrap rate is too high, there are not many good guns that can be selected. Even in Chen Peng's army, there were more than twenty musketeers who used bird guns.

Wang Yu, who studied chemical engineering in his previous life, wanted to improve the musket and gunpowder so that the bird gun in the hands of the Ming army could become more powerful. These things are simply trivial matters for Wang Yu, a top student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, as long as he can come into contact with bird guns and gunpowder, he can easily do it. It's a pity that those shotgunners are reluctant to let Wang Yu use their shotguns and gunpowder, especially one of them named Gong Xiaoda, who simply treats the bird gun as his own father and the gunpowder as his wife.

After Gong Xiaoda waited for Wang Yu to leave, he said to the other soldiers in private: "This stupid big man, when he became Chen Qianzong's personal soldier, he thought that his hen had become a phoenix?" He's still a fool! ”

The soldier said, "This idiot has lost his mind! Don't let him touch our birds, he might blow them up in a few blows! ”

In fact, you can't blame those shotgunners, after all, their bird guns are carefully selected excellent products, the number is small, and the barrel has a lifespan, the more times it is fired, the greater the possibility of exploding the chamber in the future, and when the barrel is scrapped, it is still a trivial matter, and the exploding chamber is fatal.

And Wang Yu once approached his immediate boss Chen Peng, and proposed that he had a way to extend the life of the bird gun and improve the gunpowder. But after he said these words, Chen Peng didn't believe it at all: How could it be? How can a fool with an open mind improve firearms? So he said angrily: "Don't be crazy, be your archer!" ”

In his heart, Chen Peng still regarded Wang Yu as a stupid big man who only knew how to kill people on the battlefield, except for being obedient and easy to use, Wang Yu was useless.

found other petty officers, and no one believed Wang Yu who was once a fool.

Wang Yu touched his nose with ash.

Since he didn't have the opportunity to touch firearms, he could only work on the bow and arrow he was familiar with.

Except for ten precious iron-bone arrows in Wang Yu's quiver, the others were ordinary bamboo arrows. The iron bone arrow and the shaft are made of fine iron, and the arrow feathers are made of rare eagle feathers, because the eagle's feathers are hard and the shape is well maintained, it is not easy to flutter when flying in the air, and the precision is high. As for the arrowhead, it is a barb-shaped wolf-tooth-shaped arrow made of fine iron, and if you want to pull it out once it is shot into the human body, the barbed arrow will be pulled out with the muscles, and it will also cut off the blood vessels! It can be said that this is a very powerful weapon. It's just that the price of iron arrows is too expensive, and it is said that the cost of an arrow is eight to one tael of silver.

This time, Wang Yu went to the market to find Blacksmith Chen, to get the iron bone arrow that Blacksmith Chen helped build a few days ago.

The kind of iron and eagle feathers made of fine iron and eagle feathers left by his father were too expensive, and Wang Yu didn't have that much silver, so he asked Blacksmith Chen to build a shrunken version of the iron arrows: the shafts were made of ordinary pig iron, the feathers were made of iron sheets, and the arrows were made of wrought iron.

Walking into the market town, Wang Yu's eyes were greeted by a long bluestone road, the street is not wide, but there are many shops on both sides, the most of which are blacksmith shops.

At that time, there were very few residents on Xiamen Island, and most of the people living on Xiamen Island, except for Zheng Jiajun, were the families of officers and soldiers. However, after the Qing army entered Fujian, in order to avoid shaving their hair and making it easy to wear, many Han people avoided the eyes and ears of the Qing army and smuggled to Xiamen Island over the years. As the population grew, Zheng Chenggong turned Xiamen Island into a huge fortress, and the originally depressed bazaar became lively.

The market town is not large, and there were originally dozens of households. In addition to selling vegetables, meat products, and poultry eggs to pirates, some merchants were even able to provide large quantities of important materials such as grain, salt, iron, and gunpowder to the pirates. As the number of people on the island increased, the number of residents in the market town also increased to several hundred.

Wang Yu arrived at the market town and quickly walked to the blacksmith Chen's stall.

Although there were many blacksmith shops in the bazaar, as a large number of officers and soldiers settled on Xiamen Island, more and more people needed to build weapons and repair weapons. Because the Qing army entered the customs, many craftsmen who originally belonged to the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty fled from the north, and many people followed the Zheng army to this small island that had not yet been occupied by the Qing army. Although the king of Yanping also gathered the craftsmen and let them build and repair weapons for their army, the craftsmen were still relatively free here. Originally, during the pirate period of Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong, the craftsmen of the pirate's den were far more free than the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to completing the amount of work required by the pirate boss, they can take on some private jobs to earn some money.

"Master Wang, are you here?" Seeing Wang Yu, Blacksmith Chen, who was making a big knife, raised his head.

Blacksmith Chen's name is Chen Shuijie, and although he is not tall, he has a stout build. Just look at his name, you know that he is a native of Xiamen. His father had made weapons for both Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong's pirates, and was a highly skilled blacksmith here.

"Craftsman Chen, have all the iron arrows I want ready?" Wang Yu asked.

Chen Shuijie nodded and said, "Master Huijun, everything has been laid, and the small one will be brought to you." ”

After speaking, Chen Shuijie turned around and walked into the store, and after a while, he walked in front of Wang Yu with a bamboo basket full of iron arrows.

In the bamboo basket, there were a total of twenty brand-new iron-bone arrows, all of which were made at Wang Yu's request.

Wang Yu took out an iron bone arrow from the bamboo basket, weighed it in his hand, and twisted the arrow shaft with a little force, and found that the arrow shaft was still very hard, even better than his own requirements, and then looked at the arrows and arrow feathers, they were all very exquisite. Because he didn't have enough silver, Wang Yu had to owe blacksmith Chen silver first. Originally, he thought that the credit would make Blacksmith Chen unhappy, but who knew that the other party did not deal with it because he wanted to pay on credit, so he nodded with satisfaction: "This iron arrow is still very good, not much worse than what my father left." ”

Chen Shuijie replied: "Master Wang, it's not a small boast, in terms of skills, within a radius of 100 miles, the small ones can be said to be one of the best, even those craftsmen from the north, they don't dare to say that they are stronger than the small ones." ”

Wang Yu took out the only three taels of silver left on his body and handed it over: "Craftsman Chen, an arrow and three coins of silver, one tael of silver for the deposit that day, and I still owe you two taels of silver, I said okay that day, and I will make up for the two taels of silver I owe when I pay the military salary." ”

Chen Shuijie said: "Master Wang is out of sight!" Ling Zun was also my old customer back then! If Wang Junye is such a thick person, will he still owe me money? ”

"Thank you, Craftsman Chen!" Wang Yu first thanked him, and then asked tentatively: "Craftsman Chen, I don't know if you can build a bird gun here?" ”

Chen Shuijie was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "The manufacturing principle of this bird gun is also very simple, but it consumes too many materials, and it takes a long time to ensure that it does not explode." Let's put it this way, it takes about forty or fifty pounds of pig iron to make a pipe, and it needs to be tempered many times. If you want to save materials and time, you can't beat out fine iron, not to mention that the strength of the gun pipe is not enough, and the thickness of the pipe wall is uneven, and the inner wall is rough, so there is a good chance that the bird gun will be blown up. What's wrong? Wang Junye is going to use the bird gun instead? If you want, I can count you cheaper, ten taels of silver for a good bird's gun. ”

In fact, the cost of a good bird gun is only five or six taels of silver, Chen Shuijie deliberately bullied Wang Yu and didn't know the market and wanted to earn him.

Wang Yu replied: "I don't need that thing for the time being, and the silver is not enough." In a few months' time, if I have made a military deed and received a silver reward, I will consider getting a fine bird's gun. ”

Chen Shuijie laughed: "Master Wang, in the past few months, there have been more and more dogs on the other side, and I don't know when they will come." As long as they dare to come, are they afraid that they will not be able to make meritorious contributions with Wang Junye's skills? As long as the military master opens the bow, an iron-bone arrow can string two or three tartars! is also for the sake of Wang Junye's meritorious service, and these small iron-bone arrows are cheaper for Junye! ”

Although Blacksmith Chen was born in a pirate's den since he was a child and had never been in contact with the Qing army, his parents did not dare to destroy it, and Chen Shuijie knew very well the truth of filial piety. The Qing army on the other side of the river engaged in shaving their hair and making it easy to wear, which made many Han people hate it to the core. Therefore, Blacksmith Chen naturally hated the Qing army on the other side.

Looking at the back of Wang Yu leaving, Chen Shuijie once again felt the incomprehensible confusion in his heart: this person was originally a stupid big man, nicknamed an arrow idiot, in addition to being able to shoot arrows, it can be said that he does not understand human feelings. The last time he came to build an iron arrow, I originally took him five pieces of silver, but he returned them to three pieces of silver. Although I still make money, I make a lot less. It's strange, how did he become so shrewd? However, I heard that he was seriously ill last time and was in a coma for several days, and after waking up, it was like a different person.