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

"Crack!"

Bi Maokang deactivated the locking mechanism and pushed the barrel forward, revealing the firing device inside.

"Look, Your Majesty!

I improved Zhao Shizhen's Thunder Gun and Lightning Gun and combined them to create this. "

The white-haired old man pulled the trigger repeatedly.

The hammer is equipped with a spring linkage device. Every time the trigger is pulled, the hammer will extend forward to make a firing shape.

When the trigger is released, under the action of the spring, the trigger will extend forward and at the same time, it will drive the hammer to rotate.

In other words, this is a mechanically powered automatic repeating gun.

This is an automatic repeating gun in the true sense, no longer the "repeating gun" like Zhao Shizhen's that requires manual rotation of the barrel.

Bi Maokang grinned, his face full of joy:

"Your Majesty, you no longer have to carry two Jimeng guns. One of these guns is worth four!"

"This is a good thing!"

"If your Majesty feels that there are too few projectiles, I have better ones here!"

Bi Maokang casually took out a bulging "strange gun" on the test bench.

"This is good. It has twelve barrels and can fire twelve rounds of bullets!~"

"Your Majesty, this one is equivalent to the Jimeng guns in your arms - twelve in total!"

Bi Maokang bared his teeth and smiled.

I Nima...

Zhu Youjian was dumbfounded.

God!

What the hell did I do...

It turned out to be really a "pepper shaker"...

Judging from the postures of the two old officials, this hammer-turning pistol...

They prepared more than two versions!

God!

Can you use some technology from the underworld...

This technology tree is wrong!

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This "hammer" pistol, because of its densely packed barrel, is like a pepper shaker used to sprinkle pepper on a barbecue.

Hence the nickname "pepper shaker".

"His Majesty!"

Bi Maoliang pulled his brother away again, reached out and picked up a short blunderbuss with an even more exaggerated shape:

"I have another treasure here. Within ten steps, this thing is invincible!"

Bi Laoguan, who is missing four front teeth, holds the exaggerated 18-barreled "pepper shaker" and has wrinkles all over his face.

However, while this gun is fatter, it has also become "shorter".

The body tube is only about half of the Jimeng Spear.

"Go! Go! Go!"

Bi Maokang couldn't squeeze in, so he had to attack his brother with words:

"I said boss, forget about your gun!

What is invincible within ten steps...

It wasn't because the barrel was too heavy and the barrel was too heavy that the barrel had to be shortened.

You can play this thing within ten steps...

Use it to hit ten steps away, and the bullet will fly to nowhere! "

"This one in my hand can hit a one-foot target thirty steps away!

Although the accuracy is still not good, it is enough for close combat! "

Bi Maokang hit his dear brother mercilessly.

No face was spared at all.

"What do you know!"

Bi Maoliang showed no signs of weakness:

"Can His Majesty be without bodyguards?

His Majesty carries the gun just to protect himself from emergencies when the guards fail to react!

Your Majesty doesn't need a gun that can shoot very far!

Ten steps is enough!

Ten steps away, even if the gods come, Yu Linwei can change them one by one.

Within ten steps, my eighteen tubes are invincible!

This thing of mine can kill a team of enemies.

This is the personal short gun that is most suitable for Your Majesty to use!

Second child, you are so far behind..."

Bi Maoliang also showed no sign of weakness.

Bi Maokang became angry when his brother questioned his professionalism.

He immediately pulled Bi Maoliang and kept talking.

The two of them were quarreling till their faces turned red, but neither could convince the other.

Somehow, the two of them started to load bullets and compete against each other on a moving target...

……

People are as old as children.

Zhu You inspected these technological masters as if they were treasures.

Not only were they provided with delicious food and drinks, but they were also rewarded with a top-notch mansion.

Wu Youxing was even specially asked to arrange for a personal medical officer to check everyone's health in the morning and evening.

Under the emperor's "connivance", these technology giants showed no "etiquette" between monarchs and ministers.

It's nothing to argue in front of the emperor. If you don't perform a full martial arts show, you just give the emperor respect...

Seeing the emperor's "head as big as a bucket", Song Yingxing burst into laughter.

Zhu Youjian allowed the two old officials to compete. He pulled Song Yingxing and sat aside:

"Song Qing, do you have something good to tell me?"

Song Yingxing nodded:

"I am in charge of logistics, and the two old officers Bi are responsible for researching new weapons...

From my side, I can only cooperate fully. "

He first humbled himself, and then said smugly:

"So that His Majesty will know!

In the mercury fulminate workshop, I have already worked out a complete process.

It has even been put into production!

My newly designed flash cap workshop can produce [-] flash caps per day!

In just one month, after they have become proficient, they can bring in newbies.

By then, the output will inevitably be higher! "

Song Yingxing's words were far more surprising to Zhu Youjian than when he got the "pepper bottle" pistol!

Omg!

As expected of Song Yingxing!

My breechloader era...

coming!

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In history, Song Yingxing developed a complete set of "industrialized" manufacturing processes for brass without the help of the court!

Anyone who understands metals knows that whether it is bronze or brass, they are all alloys.

Bronze craftsmanship has been streamlined since the Spring and Autumn Period.

And brass…

Before the Ming Dynasty, brass could only be produced in small quantities.

Before the Ming Dynasty, brass was just an occasional product!

Why?

Because brass is a copper-zinc alloy!

And zinc…

Because it is volatile and difficult to capture at high temperatures, it is very difficult to extract zinc.

Before the Ming Dynasty, brass could only be made using copper and "calamine" (zinc compound).

This is why before the Ming Dynasty, bronze craftsmanship was common and brass could not be mass-produced.

Even though there are occasional brass products, they have never become mainstream.

That’s because zinc cannot be extracted artificially!

It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the "sealed distillation method" for zinc extraction was developed by Ming craftsmen.

Since then, artificially purified zinc has been available.

It was not until the Jiajing period that copper coins made of brass began to appear on a large scale.

The zinc purification process in the Ming Dynasty was at least 400 years earlier than in Europe!

(The "cultural relics" newly "unearthed" in Italy's hot springs - everyone knows whether they are fake or not, right?)

Song Yingxing has a detailed introduction to the complete set of brass manufacturing processes in "Tiangong Kaiwu Hardware Chapter".

The "sealed distillation method" was used to extract zinc, and a complete set of drawings was drawn up.

After this book was sent to Europe by the Qing court, the all-powerful missionaries did not tinker with the brass craft until hundreds of years later...

(About the zinc extraction workshops of the Ming Dynasty: Chongqing alone has more than 20 smelting sites, the most famous of which is the Linjiang Second Team smelting site in Yangdu Town, Zhong County.

This is the earliest, clearest structure and best-preserved "three best" zinc smelting workshops in the world. )

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