"Are you Master Bi Maokang?" Liu Yi blurted out. Bi Maokang looked at Liu Yi in confusion, thinking, "Does this young general know me?" He has been in trouble for many years. He was taken away by Wei Zhongxian as the Shaanxi Inspectorate Office because he was unwilling to bow down for five dou of rice and refused to join the eunuch party, and sent him back to his hometown to farm. Maybe Cheng Chongdou mentioned me to him.

"It's Bi!"

"Mr. Bi, I have long admired Daqi. Today I am lucky to see you for three lives." Liu Yi said sincerely.

"Yi'er, do you know Lord Bi?" Cheng Chongdou asked.

"Master, although Lord Bi and I have never met, I heard that Lord Bi usually likes to study firearms. It just so happened that the disciple New Army set up a firearm team and wanted to ask Lord Bi for advice." Liu Yi replied.

Bi Maokang was even more surprised. He had never told anyone else when he was studying firearms, and even Cheng Chongdou didn't know how this young general knew. He wanted to ask again. Liu Yi quickly took out the robe and handed it over and said, "Sir Bi, please look at this, this is the gift from the emperor." When he heard it was the gift from the emperor, Bi Maokang didn't bother to ask Liu Yi about his doubts just now. He lifted his robe and knelt down and kowtowed, "Long live my emperor." Cheng Chongdou was stunned, and then he could only kneel down with him and shout three times.

After doing his etiquette, Bi Maokang stood up and took the reed pistol with respect with his hands. He only glanced at it and asked, "Is this a self-generated musket?"

"Yes, Lord Bi has good eyesight. This is the spring wheel hand gun that the Folang Jiman paid to the emperor. The fuse rope was removed and the spring wheel replaced it. The spring wheel rubbed iron and stone to make fire, so that it could be fired on rainy or windy days. It seems that Lord Bi has a deep study of this." Liu Yi said.

In history, Bi Maokang had to wait until the seventh year of Chongzhen for the invention of the flintlock rifle, which was nearly ten years away. However, his military weapon pictures have begun to be written, which records in detail the various firearms of the Ming Dynasty. The degree of detail should be said to be even greater than that of Zhao Shizhen's magical artifact score.

Bi Maokang said politely: "I don't dare to take it after research. I've heard a little bit that Zhao Shizhen made the electric gun to still be able to fire in bad weather. However, it inserted the medicine twist on the gun and lit the gun when firing. However, this also has great disadvantages. First, it did complicated work and consumed a lot of silver. Second, bringing the gun with the gun limits the amount of ammunition. Ordinary convex rope guns only require four cents of medicine and three cents of lead bullets. Sergeants can carry at least fifty firing times, and the gun is large in size and inconvenient to carry it. Generally, it's good to carry ten. If you encounter a storm, it will not last long."

Liu Yi heard Bi Maokang's explanation and kept nodding. It was true that it was okay to carry five sub-guns himself. If he carried ten, it would affect the carrying of other sub-weapons. Moreover, ten bullets were not enough to fire. If he wanted to use the firearm well, then the sustainability of firepower was a very important indicator.

Cheng Chongdou saw the two of them chatting in the yard and said to them: "Mr. Bi, Yi'er, don't stand in the yard. I'll ask Aunt Wang next door to heat up the wine and food you brought. Let's go into the house and have a chat while eating? Mr. Bi, Yi'er brought Jiang crabs from Taiping Mansion today. Look, you see, big crabs are roe feet, and a bottle of good Yijiang Daqu. Today we will stop drunk."

Bi Maokang is also a person who loves wine, and he is happy to see the wine. "Okay, today Bi will have a drink with Mr. Cheng and General Liu."

The two went into the house. Cheng Chongdou went to the next door and handed the ingredients to a woman in her fifties and told her to cook them. The women repeatedly said that Cheng Chongdou was respected in his hometown and spoke more effectively than the county magistrate. Local officials would come to visit him during festivals, so the villagers would look for Cheng Chongdou to judge anything in the village. Naturally, everyone respected Cheng Chongdou very much.

Cheng Chongdou returned home and made a pot of freshly brewed Huangshan Maofeng for the two of them, and the three of them sat back. Liu Yi and Bi Maokang opened the conversation again. "Sir Bi, you just mentioned the pros and cons of the electric gun, so I want to know what you are saying about the spring-wheeled pistol of this Folang machine." Liu Yi asked.

"The firearms of the Folang Ji people have always been popular in my Ming Dynasty. Both the fuselage guns of the Folang Ji people and the cannons of the Folang Ji people play an important role in my big open firearms. I have seen the spring wheel gun a few years ago. Although it is not as exquisite as the ones rewarded by the emperor, the principle is the same. I have to admit that the Folang Ji people are ahead of the Ming Dynasty in firearms. This kind of self-produced firearms has unparalleled practicality. It is indeed a weapon on the battlefield, but..." Bi Maokang said, pausing here.

"Just what?" Liu Yi asked.

"But this gun can only be used as a toy for royal or noble and rich people, and cannot be a standard equipment. General Liu, look at how many parts there are on this gun. Let's put aside the gun itself, just look at its firing structure, that is, the gun machine, from above the trigger, there are auxiliary hook rods, left and right grinding wheel hook rods, springs, transmission chains, grinding wheel covers, rotating shafts, grinding wheel body, positioning springs, levers, medicine pot covers, pot cover springs, left and right flint clamps, flint clamps, brake shafts, and finally, panel covers. After a panel, there will be at least twenty fine parts. This is just a gun machine, not the gun itself. Even if there is no decoration on the gun, a craftsman must build such a gun in three months. General Liu will only make one. How can such a gun be equipped with millions of soldiers in the army? Once a failure occurs on the battlefield, it will not be possible to repair it." Bi Maokang explained.

Liu Yi tidied up his clothes and stood up from his seat to Bi Maokang, "Although Lord Bi was unwilling to serve the eunuch party, he had great talent in his heart. At present, the Ming Dynasty was worried about external troubles and internal troubles, and the situation was unbearable, and he was on the verge of collapse. If this situation continued, the Ming Dynasty was in danger and was not talented. After last year's victory over the White Lotus bandits in Taiping Prefecture, the emperor was able to take the position of the general defense leader. Now the Nanzhili Guard changed its troops and the military system will be greatly adjusted in the future. I have established a new army of 600 in Taiping Prefecture and trained the army with the new law. The pros and cons of the spring wheel gun mentioned by Master Bi just now, my Taiping Prefecture Military and Weapon Institute has already responded to the advantages and disadvantages of the spring wheel gun, but it still lacks. Please come out to help me and do something for the Ming Dynasty." After saying that, he bowed to the ground.

Bi Maokang looked at Cheng Chongdou, a little confused. Cheng Chongdou's apprentice asked me to come out to help him. What else can he play in the way he was excluded by Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party? After thinking about it, he still stood up and helped Liu Yi up. "The general said this, it's really a tragic person. Bi is just an idle person in the mountains now, but after a little research on firearms, how can he talk about helping the general?"

"Mr. Bi, don't belittle yourself. How dare you ask Master Bi, do you know what is a flint gun?" Liu Yi asked in Bi Maokang's eyes.

"Fishlock gun, Fishlock gun." Bi Maokang seemed to have a light flashed in his mind. He wanted to catch it but couldn't catch it. He was stroking his beard and pondering. Liu Yi asked Cheng Chongdou to pass the paper and write and draw on the paper. After a while, he handed it to Bi Maokang: "Please look, Master Bi, our military weapon station has been made, but there is still a small problem now."

Bi Maokang took the paper handed over by Liu Yi and stood up with a bang, "It's it, it's it. Bi thought hard and couldn't get it. It's this, flintlock flintlock, General Liu's gun has really been made?"

"Yes, there are nearly a hundred flint guns in Taiping Prefecture now." Liu Yi said.

Cheng Chongdou looked at Bi Maokang and Liu Yi. He didn't know what they were talking about. As a result, he looked at the drawings and only recognized that there was a musket on the picture, but he couldn't see the joints and doors.

At this time, I heard Bi Maokang say: "Using flint to strike the fire door to ignite, this is to apply the principle of flint to the fire gun, greatly simplifying and shortening the shooting steps and manufacturing time. Looking at this picture, it takes only six or seven parts to form a gun machine. This gun is great and good, and it will become another military weapon in our Ming Dynasty. I just don't know if the people above can recognize the importance of this gun."

"Yes, Lord Bi, especially my Taiping Mansion, has successfully tested the steam engine and used it to make guns. From now on, hundreds of flintlock guns can be produced every month. As long as there are sufficient craftsmen and sufficient sites and machinery, the monthly output will even be tens of thousands in the future. It is enough to equip all the troops of the Ming Dynasty. But I found a difficult problem when I tested the shooting the day before yesterday." Liu Yi said.

"What is a steam engine?"

"If you agree, please follow your kid to Taiping Mansion and you will know at a glance."

"What's the problem?"

"When the test shot the day before yesterday, I found that the flintlock gun could not be fired every time. If the trigger cannot be pulled, it will be fired immediately. The first on the battlefield will affect the shooting rhythm. The second sergeant will forget whether he fired it, so repeated loading will cause a blow-off. Therefore, the reliability of the firing is particularly important for the flintlock gun."

Bi Maokang nodded in agreement with Liu Yi's words, "Why does General Liu think that he can't fire?"

"This... I don't know. Maybe it's because I didn't pull the trigger enough force, and the flint failed to ignite the induced medicine. However, if the trigger is pulled vigorously and affects the aiming, the gun will have the problem of inaccurate shooting." Liu Yi said.

"Well, what the general said is right. When we produce muskets, we need to use the power of weapons and mechanical power to offset manpower, so we should also think about it from the direction of mechanical power. Bi has a suggestion for the general to consult." Bi Maokang held the drawings in one hand, picked up the teacup in the other hand and took a sip of the tea ceremony.
Chapter completed!