Gu Heng's "Daotian" trading company received the welcome and gratitude of the whole city after delivering food through tunnels to the officers, soldiers and people in Songshan City. However, while Gu Heng had previously sent people to dig tunnels, he mainly transported it by sea.

Food and various weapons.

Therefore, after solving the food problem in Songshan City, Gu Heng personally led people to deliver various weapons through the tunnel!

Although Hong Chengchou was a little shocked when he saw Gu Heng for the first time: the head of the "Daotian" trading company that Gu Yanwu admired and admired turned out to be a woman! And she was a bright and charming woman, but she dressed like a Confucian scholar.

, a woman who is bold and generous in every move she makes!

But Hong Chengchou was shocked for a moment and then realized that it didn't matter whether the head of "Daotian" Trading Company was a man or a woman, beautiful or ugly. What was important was that the head of "Daotian" Trading Company was sending food and firearms to Songshan City at this moment.

, and even brought his own team to help him defend Songshan City. This was his savior! Otherwise, he would either die or surrender to Jianlu with no integrity!

Therefore, Hong Chengchou was very polite when facing Gu Heng, and even had a flattering tone. He praised Gu Heng one sentence after another, from his beauty to his temperament, from his talent to his character. He almost praised Gu Heng all over, and Gu Heng was so praised.

Heng almost felt like he could fly!

Gu Heng was flattered by Hong Chengchou, but when Gu Heng thought about it carefully, he realized that Hong Chengchou had thought clearly about Gu Heng's importance to him, that's why he acted like this. He responded calmly and respectfully.

"Lord Hong, you are so commendable! What a common girl has done cannot compare to one ten thousandth of what Lord Hong has done for the court! Lord Hong has devoted himself to the court and worked hard for His Majesty, and has won His Majesty's respect."

Seeing that Hong Chengchou was smiling and very pleased with what he heard, Gu Heng continued: "Master Hong has made great contributions to our Ming Dynasty and is an important minister of our Ming Dynasty. However, he has never forgotten his original intention. It is said that he even drew up his own couplet "Jun En En" at home.

"As deep as the sea, as heavy as a mountain", and posted it at home to remind adults to remember it. Such noble sentiments are admired by women!"

Hearing this, the smile on Hong Chengchou's face dissipated slightly, because he thought that if there was no "Daotian" trading company this time, he didn't know whether he could still achieve "the loyalty of ministers is as heavy as a mountain". But fortunately, he should be able to do it now

"The loyalty of ministers is as heavy as a mountain"!

Then Hong Chengchou's face once again smiled like a bright flower in the spring breeze. Gu Heng once suspected that this was Hong Chengchou, an important minister of the Ming Dynasty who was almost fifty years old as recorded in history books. Why was he smiling so unreservedly?

Hong Chengchou didn't care what Gu Heng was thinking, and said quickly: "Miss Gu, thank you for your help today. Can you introduce the firearms you brought to me, so that I can make further arrangements."

"That's natural. Please come here, Mr. Hong, and I'll introduce it to you." After Gu Heng said this, he asked Hong Chengchou to follow him to the warehouse where the firearms are kept.

Gu Hengxian showed Hong Chengchou the copper-iron composite Red Yi cannon manufactured by Simen Industrial Villa and told him that the range of this Red Yi cannon could basically be stabilized at about ten miles.

Hong Chengchou was very satisfied and felt that he was more confident in defending the city. He said: "Yes, if it is true as Miss Gu said, it is better than the Hongyi cannon we used before. Our previous range was generally only five or six miles, and some

The firing range is only two or three miles, and it is easy to explode."

"Master Hong, please rest assured. In order to make better use of these cannons, I have specially brought special gunners to ensure the range!" Gu Heng replied.

"That's very good!" Hong Chengchou nodded.

When he saw the two newly shipped No. 1 Krupp steel cannon and No. 2 Armstrong steel cannon from the Industrial Villa, before Gu Heng had time to speak, Hong Chengchou hurriedly asked: "What kind of cannon are these?

Why have I never seen it?”

"Sir Hui Hong, these are the steel cannons I asked someone to make. Their range is farther than the Hongyi cannon, usually about forty miles! And they are also lighter than the Hongyi cannon!"

As soon as Gu Heng finished the introduction, Hong Chengchou immediately asked: "Why don't you bring more cannons with such good guns?"

"Master Hong, it's like this. Although these steel cannons are very good, the materials required are expensive, the manufacturing process is complicated, and the gunners need to be specially trained, so they cannot be manufactured in large quantities for the time being." Gu Heng explained.

"I see, if these steel cannons you mentioned have achieved meritorious service, I will definitely report it to the Holy One and ask the Holy One to praise you, and ask the Holy One to allocate some military expenditures to you so that you can manufacture these steel cannons in large quantities!" Hong Chengchou finished listening to Gu Heng

After explaining, he said.

"The daughter of the people will thank Master Hong here first!" Gu Heng thanked with a smile. After all, if the Ming court can pay attention to it, then these inventions and creations will reach a higher level, and they will be closer to Gu Heng's dream.

Big step!

"Don't say that. I want to thank Miss Gu. Miss Gu simply saved me from a dire crisis. I can't thank you enough." Hong Chengchou said in a very sincere tone.

Seeing this, Gu Heng stopped being polite and continued his business, saying: "Master Hong, look at the firearms here again."

Hong Chengchou looked to the other side and couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Is this a firecracker? Why is it different from the firecrackers I usually see in the army?"

"This is the "self-generated fire gun" mentioned by Bi Maokang Bi Lao in "Illustrated Weaponry". Now its name is a flintlock gun. It overcomes the weakness of ordinary fire guns that are afraid of wind and rain when ignited by match ropes."

After hearing Gu Heng's introduction, Hong Chengchou asked again: "How does it operate?"

“When this kind of flintlock gun is fired with a flint on the ignition device, a skilled soldier pulls the trigger, and the faucet placed on the trigger strikes down to rub against the flint to create a fire. The sparks fall into the charging chamber to burn the gunpowder.

Push the projectile out. This kind of gun can be fired by continuously pulling the trigger and rubbing the flint, thus simplifying the firing steps and increasing the rate of fire."

After Gu Heng explained, Hong Chengchou sighed: "With this flintlock gun, even if we need to go out of the city to fight in the field, we won't be afraid of raising prisoners!"

"If you go out to fight in the city, I suggest you bring this pear blossom gun with you." Gu Heng said.

"This is also a firearm introduced in "Illustrated Weapons". It can spit fire. It has a pear-shaped barrel, and a fire barrel is installed on the handle of the long gun. Two of them are responsible for spraying "poisonous fire", and the other two are

It is a small fire tube that can produce lead bullets. It can be fired for several feet. The enemy will be stunned and fall to the ground after being hit. If the gunpowder runs out, the enemy will be stabbed with a gun." Gu Heng continued to introduce.

"This kind of firearm is obviously an extremely effective firearm. I seem to have seen something similar in a book called "History of the Jin Dynasty. Biography of Pu Chaguan Nu". The book records that "the sixteen layers of imperial yellow paper are used as the

The barrel is about two feet long, and is made of willow charcoal, iron, magnets, sulfur, and arsenic, and is tied to the end of the spear with a rope." Its power is "burning it in front of the battle, and the flames will be more than ten feet in front of the spear."

"So the earliest appearance of firearms with this shape should be in the Song Dynasty and the late Jin Dynasty, but Bi Maokang's type is more powerful and more practical after being loaded with a medicine barrel. I hope that the firearms and weapons in Bi Maokang's "Illustrated Weaponry"

Weapons can be manufactured, which can greatly reduce the casualties of our Ming army on the battlefield."

Hearing what Hong Chengchou said, Gu Heng couldn't help but sigh secretly: This shows how mature the development of gunpowder weapons was in the Ming Dynasty. It's a pity that when this book spread to the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong established a literary inquisition and compiled the Sikuquanshu.

It was burned. It was not until the Daoguang reign that the book ban was lifted and the book was reprinted.

However, after "Military Illustrations" was considered a banned book, it was illegal to possess, read, or apply the contents of the book. If you didn't do it right, you were likely to have your head chopped off. Therefore, "Military Illustrations"

No one dared to develop the things in the Qing Dynasty's Qing Dynasty's Firearms Research, and no one dared to develop them anymore. It was impossible to restore them without decades of technological accumulation.

If the Qing Dynasty could continue to research gunpowder and vigorously develop and create new types of weapons, it could actually lead the world with the weapons and technology at its hands. Unfortunately, the Qing Dynasty was afraid that the Manchus could not better rule the Han people because they were afraid of mass manufacturing of firearms.

However, he chose to abandon martial arts, which ultimately led to the humiliation of the late Qing Dynasty. It was really too narrow-minded and selfish.

However, if the Ming Dynasty can be saved, everything may change!

Thinking of this, Gu Heng replied: "Great advice, Lord Hong! The civilian girls will try to develop more powerful weapons in the future, so that our Ming army will be invincible!"

"Miss Gu is a woman as good as a woman, I admire her! Next we will look at other firearms." Hong Chengchou said.
Chapter completed!