After a long walk, Qian Yuan asked about the serious matter. The old craftsman pulled a few craftsmen with gray hair and pinched their fingers, and even calculated the toes. In the end, a young man took a calculation and took a calculation.

"More than 500 gun tips, 260 long swords, more than 1,000 arrows of various types, 30 pairs of iron armor, and 350 autocratic wolf teeth..."

Nowadays, the wolf teeth squids in the army are very different from those used by Qian Yuan at the beginning. Qi Jiguang has specially improved them. They are roughly the same in shape, but the spear tip is sharp and there are several layers of multi-blade-shaped branches at the end. Even the sharpest Japanese swords cannot be cut off. The total length is five meters and weighs seven kilograms.

The guard who followed him picked up a wolf-toothed silhouette and waved it, praising: "If there were such wolf-toothed silhouettes in Jiaxing Mansion, even if it was a real Japanese, it would be difficult for him to break the formation."

Qian Yuan nodded in agreement. The real Japanese had experienced bird guns that day, and the javelin could still break the formation. First, the real Japanese was fierce and fearless. Second, the wolf teeth sluts used on that day were all bamboo branches in front of them. The real Japanese covered their faces and rushed hard, and the bamboo branches were difficult to resist. If it were replaced by this kind of iron, it would have to be strung together.

Thinking of the bird gun, Qian Yuan turned around and asked, "After the New Year, ten craftsmen who made bird guns were sent, but none of them came out?"

The old craftsman smiled bitterly and said, "It is necessary to use fine iron to make a bird gun. Use a steel drill to drill it into a smooth and straight gun barrel with a smooth inner wall. One person may not be able to drill it into one in a month."

“There is not enough iron?”

"Not enough." The old craftsman shook his head, "Only ten pounds of thick iron can produce one pound of fine iron. The military battle situation is often made of thick iron, and the gun barrel will explode in a few times."

Qian Yuan was a little depressed, but there was no good idea. This was determined by the national conditions and environment. Europe was so big that it could only flourish when fighting all day long. The Ming Dynasty had been unified for more than a hundred years, and there were occasional wars, but in general it was still peaceful... The key is that no matter the Mongols or the southwestern chieftain, there were no firearms. Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty had no need to develop firearms.

It was not in recent years that the Japanese turmoil in the southeast gradually began, and the Bolang machine cannons and bird guns were introduced to the mainland, and later there were so-called red cannons. However, from this perspective, it seems that Europeans do not care much about the loss of firearm production technology. For example, there are now a large number of craftsmen making bird guns in Japan.

Although he also liked to play with guns in the criminal police team in his previous life, Qian Yuan, in general, was barely considered half a literary youth and knew nothing about engineering.

Now this is the only way. There is no chance to climb the technology tree, so I can only follow the same thing... Qian Yuan changed his mind. He remembered passing through Nanjing. He heard Xu Pengju say that Nanjing imitated the Folang machine cannon and recruited Chinese people from Nanyang to cast cannons.

A middle-aged craftsman with leather gloves in his hand came in. He was originally a craftsman from Tongzhou, but was later recruited by Dong Bangzheng to Songjiang to make bird guns. He went south to Taizhou after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

"Mr. Qian, if the iron is sufficient, you can make ten to fifteen bird guns in a month."

"Can't you be faster?"

"The military battle can be used to make a bird gun in ten days, but it often explodes, and it will be abandoned after seven or eight times." The middle-aged craftsman quietly curled his lips, "The military battle can now store seven or eight thousand bird guns, but there is no army in the southeast who is willing to ask for it."

Qian Yuan had no expression on his face. This was what he wanted... a military battle situation.

The Ming Dynasty's ordnance system was divided into two large pieces, one was the garrison, which is now in name only, and the other is the Ministry of Works of the Central Committee and the Inner Government Supervision Bureau.

The Military Arts Bureau, etc., set up factories for making armour and armor in various places in Northern Zhili, including a large number of craftsmen.

The military affairs bureau of the Inner Government Supervision Bureau mainly targets the iron tools in the palace, the weapons of the imperial horses, and the firearms.

In other words, in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to special wartime situations like Dong Bangzheng, the eunuchs in the military battle usually needed to fight with each other.

The eunuch passed the hand, do you still expect that bird gun to be useful?

No birds use it!

In fact, the court did not ignore firearms. Zhu Di, the Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, relied on firearms first and swept across the grasslands, so in the court, firearms were regarded as powerful tools.

This kind of weapon is naturally subject to the emperor's slaves and eunuchs. The Military Bureau itself is a member of the 12th Supervisor, Fourth Division and Eighth Bureau in the palace, and there is even a gunpowder Division under it. The firearms of the border army are usually unusable. Before the war, only gunpowder can be taken out of the warehouse with the permission of the eunuchs in the supervisor.

It seems that it is necessary to recruit mature craftsmen. Qian Yuan remembers Yan Shifan's uncle Ouyang Bijin once served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. I wonder if he could recruit craftsmen from Guangzhou or Macau.

Sighing, Qian Yuan whispered: "Take a few more apprentices and ensure quality, each person will make an extra bird gun every month and receive five taels of silver."

"Take out an apprentice and give you 15 taels of silver."

Qian Yuan can only use money as a driving force. In the future, he will try to communicate with craftsmen in the East and the West to see if the sparks can be created.

As for the original plan of reel musket that was not afraid of the rain, Qian Yuan was too lazy to mention it. He didn't care about it in his previous life and knew that the reel flintlock rifle was behind the comb. The ignition rate of the flintlock rifle in the early stage was extremely low, and it was not as good as the comb rifle.

Middle-aged craftsmen raised a headache again, and the iron material was insufficient, so those who made bird guns should use fine iron. Currently, most of the iron materials in the workshop were left last year and were assigned by the Governor's Office.

Qian Yuan waved his hand, "You don't have to worry, there will be iron in the future."

With disappointment, Qian Yuan was too lazy to go back to Pengxi Town. He took the ship that was delivering weapons today to go down to Yong'an River from the river not far away, and then headed east along Yong'an River to Linhai County.

Although I knew before coming that I was most likely going back disappointed, this emotion greatly affected Qian Yuan's mood!

It was clear that the government and the people knew that firearms were great weapons and killed the enemy very quickly. Western firearms were obviously stronger than those of the Ming Dynasty. Even civil servants had to admit this... Otherwise, if the military was full and could imitate tens of thousands of bird guns?

But Qian Yuan couldn't figure it out no matter how hard it was?!

The boat under the butt was about to enter the water, and these people were still competing for each other, trying to distinguish between the top and bottom...

It is no exaggeration to say that in Qian Yuan’s view, the Ming Dynasty today has a final end.

In the past six or seven years, Emperor Jiajing first destroyed the Great Wall and killed Zeng Xian, the most capable commander in the border area. Altan's troops surrounded the capital. The Gengxu Rebellion caused Emperor Jiajing to lose face.

After that, the Japanese invasion in the southeast were unable to control the officers and soldiers. Even though Xu Haiwang started the war for about 10 years and Hu Zongxian strongly supported the training of the new army, the war last year left Hu Zongxian with no face.

Later... Qian Yuan remembered very clearly that a guy named Wei Yinbao in Guangxi started a rebellion, which lasted for a long time. Until the Longqing period, Gao Gong was in power, Hu Zongxian's fellow villager, and Yin Zhengmaocai, a Jinshi in the 26th year of Jiajing, led his troops to wipe out.

Not to mention the others, it is just the Japanese riots in the southeast. If Xu Hai and Wang Zhi were transferred to the position, Qian Yuan believed that Xu Hai would have long led his troops to conquer the city and territory. Not to mention Zhejiang and Su Song, maybe Tongzhou and Nanjing would have fallen!

In this case, the big boss in the court was killed in the dark, and officials of all sizes were all concerned about making money. Emperor Jiajing, who was high above, practiced Taoism and elixirs while watching opera, occasionally turned his attention to the southeast... He was also counting on the southeast silver.

Qian Yuan began to doubt how much the messenger he sent before played. Suiyuan in the middle of Beijing is now headed by Xu Wei. If you want to accomplish this, Xu Wei must come forward, but this guy is a noble person, and even Huang Jin, the eunuch in charge of the Sili Supervisor, refused to flatter him.

You should know that there are more than 10,000 craftsmen in the Northern Zhili Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau alone, and there are large state-owned enterprises and large factories. Unfortunately, central enterprises are also state-owned enterprises, and they cannot produce good things if they don’t give them any benefits.

While thinking about his thoughts, Qian Yuan swung his horse whip straight into the clinic. He ran into Xiaoqi head-on as soon as he took a few steps.

"I'm back, how about it?"

"Not really, I have no clue at all."

"You are still a criminal policeman. He used to be a sword and a gun, but now he doesn't mention modern firearms, at least he has to surpass this era, right?"

"You are also an associate chief doctor. I used to watch movies, but now I can only train nurses. Could it be that you can still cultivate penicillin?"

"You are raising a dispute!"

"I have to know that this pig is so long? What feed is it? What kind of variety?"

Xiaoqi pursed her lips and reached out to try to smooth the wrinkles on Qian Yuan's brows, and chuckled: "Okay, take me to see next time."

"You have a way?" Qian Yuan's brows calmed down, "I remembered it. You said... Grandpa practiced iron when he was ***, and he was catching up with the Premier League and the United States. Do you understand?"

Xiaoqi rolled his eyes playfully, "Why do I give you a cell phone number, call me and ask?"

Qian Yuan's expression collapsed, "Then..."
Chapter completed!