Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Bi Maokang chuckled, his old face full of flattery:

"Your Majesty, this...

Why can His Majesty increase the rate of fire so much with just a slight change? "

Zhu Youjian smiled and said nothing, and fired a few more bullets according to the original loading method.

After making reference, he clapped his hands, put down his musket, and said to Li Laiheng:

"Leheng, go dig out the warhead!"

When Bi Maoliang saw this, he suppressed the shock in his heart and stayed close to the emperor, waiting for the emperor to clear his doubts.

Not long after, Li Laiheng came to the emperor with more than a dozen warheads in his hands.

Zhu Youjian pulled it a few times, divided the warhead into two waves, and put it in the palm of his hand for everyone to see:

"Look at the difference between these warheads!"

Everyone looked carefully and saw that on the emperor's left hand, the front end of the warhead was slightly deformed, and there was no hole in the tail.

Just by looking at it, you can tell that it is a bullet without a wooden wedge.

That is, the bullets brought by the Bi brothers.

The warhead on the emperor's right hand was the bullet with its tail hollowed out.

Everyone can tell the difference between the two with just one glance:

The front ends of these bullets have almost no deformation, but the tails actually have obvious outward expansion protrusions.

There are even obvious signs of friction.

Bi Maokang's eyes lit up and he said anxiously:

"Your Majesty, I understand!

His Majesty hollowed out the bottom of the bullet and inserted a wooden wedge into it.

In this way, when firing, the violently burning gunpowder will be squeezed tightly against the barrel of the gun! "

"Your Majesty did this to save the effort of tapping the bullet against the barrel of the gun!"

Zhu Youjian smiled.

"It's exactly what Bi Lao said.

The lead bullet is very soft. After being stuffed into the wooden wedge, it will instantly deform under the action of gunpowder, fit the gun bore, and perfectly lock the groove of the rifling.

In this way, it not only achieves a sealing effect, but also makes the bullet have a longer range.

It also saves the time for soldiers to hammer bullets and stick them close to the barrel of the gun.

Moreover, hammering the bullet will cause deformation of the bullet, which will make the ballistic trajectory unstable.

This is why after I slightly improved it, the range can be increased by thirty steps! "

Prosecutor Zhu You sighed.

It's a pity that we haven't found talents who can make lenses. Otherwise, as long as the scope is made...

The rifled gun in his hand can be used as a sniper rifle!

By then, the range will probably be at least doubled!

Zhu Youjian didn't know yet that this time Enke had directly attracted the Five Suzhou Monsters. It's a pity that Enke's test paper has not been marked yet...

These five monsters were all the top optical masters in the country at that time. Sun Yunqiu (also known as Wenyu) even had the "History of Mirrors" handed down to the world.

After Sun Yunqiu died young, Zhang Ruoxi, a poet in the late Ming Dynasty, wrote a preface to his mirror history.

Among them, in this section of Sun Yunqiu’s life, it is written like this:

His technique was spread among the martial arts world by his relatives, such as Zhusheng, Yusheng in Tongxi Tianshu, Yishang Gaosheng in Xiling, and Chenshu in Tianqu, Qiantang (together they became the Five Weirds of Suzhou).

He was also the one who made far-reaching attacks (dissemination, rumors) on Matteo Ricci, Tang Daowei and Qian Fuxu in Taixi.

All students are generous and righteous, outstanding and outstanding. They are skilled in bamboo, stone and landscape. They follow Xia Chang and are well-known in the provincial capital.

The mirror method was taught by Chen Sheng, and Wenyu (Sun Yunqiu) lived in the martial arts world. (Sun Yunqiu’s method of grinding mirrors was taught by Chen Tianqu, and he in turn taught Chen Tianqu)

Later he met Yu Sheng, who was poor but good at chivalry. He met Wenyu (Sun Yunqiu) by chance. As soon as they talked, they had a similar temperament and gave him what he knew as a gift (teaching the making method).

……

How awesome are the Suzhou Five Monsters?

During the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, several ancient books recorded such an incident——

The Five Suzhou Monsters, headed by Sun Yunqiu, forced the price of glasses to two cents of silver (about 18 copper coins) a pair!

It has completely transformed a high-end product into a bargain price that is affordable to everyone on the street.

This shows that the Five Freaks of Suzhou have opened up disciples to teach them the skills of making glasses and so on.

……

As for why this craft was later lost, we have to ask Kang Mazi what good things he did——

How many turmoils occurred in Jiangnan during the Kangxi period? This thing can be found out!

Especially "The Case of the History of the Ming Dynasty" and so on, it can be said that the number of people is rolling.

Later, books were burned and societies were destroyed, and countless places were banned.

In Jiangnan, where capital is developed, there are only a dozen or so workshops like the Jinling Weaving Yamen that serve the noble lords...

……

"wonderful!"

Li Laiheng clapped his hands and sighed:

"Your Majesty, General Yao of Yuzhou has built many military fortresses on the mountainside around the pass.

If this long-range musket is given to General Yao Cheng, then the Dongdamen Pass in Nanyang will be foolproof! "

Zhu Youjian nodded and looked at Brother Bi Maokang:

"Two old friends, I know your thoughts, and I would like to ask you two to work harder!"

"Your Majesty, don't worry, this is your duty!"

The eighty-year-old Bi Maoliang did not admit defeat at all, and immediately took over the emperor's task with patting his chest.

He winked and pointed at Bi Maokang several times.

Seeing his elder brother's signal, Bi Maokang's face was filled with a smile before the shock dissipated.

He said with a shy face:

"Your Majesty, it's time to bring out those treasures you have hidden. We two brothers are very greedy!"

"We don't want too many. Your Majesty, please give us thirty or fifty. We don't want too few. Your Majesty, please give us a hundred or so..."

We never have too many! "

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian's expression changed and he couldn't help but shudder.

Forehead motherfucker!

Isn’t a few dozen too few?

Isn't one hundred and ten too many?

Even if I split myself in half, I still can't get it out!

To put it bluntly, I am just a liberal arts student, and I have learned useless history...

These simple firearms can actually tell the whole story.

If you asked me to draw a design drawing of a submachine gun, I would be blind!

However, seeing the two of them looking like they would not give up until they got the drawings, Zhu Youjian had no choice but to rack his brains and think over and over again.

The most taboo thing about doing things is a hammer in the east and a hammer in the west.

Naturally, there are still some drawings, but it is difficult to come up with them.

After all, this rifled gun and Mini bullets represent the pinnacle of muzzle-loading guns.

Zhu Youjian thought for a long time...

I actually found one for him - a flash hat.

What do you mean by a flash hat?

No matter what time it is, whether it is a gun or an artillery, or even a two-kicking kick, they all have a common principle -

The initiating part and the work-producing part.

To put it simply, it is the part that ignites the gunpowder and the part that kills the enemy.

For example, during the matchlock era, a pool of gunpowder was needed to ignite the gunpowder. Only when this thing was ignited could the gunpowder used to power the bullet be ignited.