"Is this making a shotgun?"

Hong Dashou's curiosity overflowed again. After all, although he was a registered military official in the martial arts class, the court of the Li Dynasty only required him to practice bow and horse and learn about golden drums.

What is needed is the ability to cross the Yangtze with a hundred steps, the skill of galloping on horseback, and the knowledge and strategy of arranging troops and wearing strong armor, rather than using shotguns that can be used in three months like the captured poor infantry against Manchus and Japanese pirates.

Masturbating.

Of course, in theory, Hong Dashou could also use shotguns. After the destruction of Dameng, King Xiaozong was determined to revive the army, and he imitated the Manchu army a bit shamelessly.

Obviously, the Qing army during the Kangxi period had begun to equip shotguns on a large scale. By the second year of Yongzheng's reign, for example, all the Eight Banners soldiers in the Tianjin Naval Battalion had abandoned their swords and guns and stopped being cavalry. All 2,000 of them were made shotguns.

soldiers.

During the Qianlong period, it was even more exaggerated. Xishan Jianrui Camp, one of the most capable and daring troops among the Eight Banners, all used shotguns and practiced climbing and climbing.

Although this old man Shiquan talks nonsense and only emphasizes bows and horses, by his time, even the Eight Banners garrisoned in Henan and other places had switched to shotguns. There were about 300 soldiers in one battalion.

There are one hundred and twenty-two bird gunners.

More than half of the Eight Banners began to use shotguns, not to mention the Green Camp. Of course, the Green Camp was relatively humble. The Sichuan-Shaanxi White Lotus Sect uprising had just been suppressed not long ago. At the beginning of the uprising, the soldiers and horses of a town in the Green Camp of Shaanxi were annihilated by the rebels in Chongqing and Hanzhong areas of Sichuan.

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A large part of the reason is that the Green Camp soldiers have not practiced swords and guns for a long time, and they have even less training on shotguns. The Yanjing Eight Banners Musket Battalion holds training exercises fifteen times a month, and so far they can only cope with the situation, let alone the local begging soldiers, the Green Camp.

Most of the muskets have served as the standard equipment of the Qing army. The number of firearms accounts for 60% of the national army, which is a very considerable number.

At the same time, folk shotguns have become completely rampant. In "Notes on Yuewei Thatched Cottage" written by Ji Yun of the Qing Dynasty, the use of shotguns is mentioned as many as twenty-three times. Many farmers, sailors, hunters, and even large households

Their servants are equipped with and use shotguns.

In Shantong Province opposite Li Dynasty (this poor university is blocking me), more than 6,000 shotguns were confiscated in the fifty-third year of Qianlong's reign. By the fifty-eighth year of Qianlong's reign, as many as four shotguns were confiscated nationwide.

Thirteen thousand rods.

The private manufacture and use of shotguns has become a common practice. Even when the natives of Fujian, Guangxi and Hunan were fighting with weapons, thousands of shotguns took turns to fire volleys one after another. In the end, light artillery such as split mountain guns were carried out to attack.

The county magistrate of Dayi, Sichuan, was even bombarded from a distance with a gun, and his sedan chair was blown to pieces. In the end, the culprit was not caught, and the gun was privately made and no trace could be found.

It was also the Jiaqing year. Guangdong pirate Zhang Baozai not only had tens of millions of muskets, which were completely unable to meet his military needs. He even purchased six thousand kilograms of powerful invincible general cannons in Guangdong, and other cannons.

There are hundreds more.

This was the trend of the times. Even if the Li Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty issued strict orders that privately made or owned shotguns would cost a hundred people, and those with more than one shotgun would be exiled for three thousand miles, it would not be able to stop the popular use of muskets.

However, the Li Dynasty's Liangban in the countryside was still very powerful. As the country's ruling class, they were still very afraid of civilians possessing weapons such as muskets. Therefore, they were far less loosely managed than the Qing Dynasty next door, and they could possess them at will.

"Are you using this shotgun for your own use?" Hong Dashou ignored the blacksmith and asked again.

The blacksmith finally raised his head and glanced at Hong Dashou, who he considered to be a tender-skinned man.

"Why did this gentleman come to this dirty place like ours? You'd better get out of the way so as not to dirty your boots."

If you can't hear the tone in these words, Hong Dashou's life will be in vain. It's not that this person didn't hear it just now, but he simply didn't want to talk to Hong Dashou. In fact, Hong Dashou kept asking questions, so he answered angrily.

"Didn't you see the mark on his right arm?" Jin Douji looked at Hong Dashou standing there awkwardly and pointed quietly.

Sure enough, there is a square brand on the right arm, which is the ten characters of "Pingjing Yingguan". It means the official slaves of the official handicraft workshop of Pingjingyingying.

This blacksmith is a runaway slave, so it’s no wonder that he doesn’t have a good opinion of Hong Dashou from the second class. It seems that Hong Dashou should wear less of that big-brimmed gauze hat in non-formal occasions in the future. Wherever he goes, he will be recognized as a second class member at a glance.

Can't mingle with the crowd.

"The muskets we have here are not government-made. We only shoot short muskets, and we don't shoot too many. We keep some for ourselves, and the Gulf business group will buy some. The Qing country on the other side of the river will buy the rest as much as they want." That one will be used as an introduction for the time being.

The young man suddenly spoke.

"Isn't it easy to get rid of gunshots in the Qing Dynasty?"

"One can be sold for seven taels of silver, which is more profitable than selling iron."

"Seven taels of silver? It's really not expensive." The brown bass equipped by Hong Da Shouji in Britain now costs about three pounds. In this era, one pound is about 8 grams of gold, less than a little bit, and three pounds is about 24 grams.

Converting it to China's official price, it's about eleven taels, so I won't worry about the exact amount, cents, or cents.

"Ours is a short gun, not as long as the official one." As he said that, the young man asked someone to take out a short gun.

At this time, the standard shotgun of the Qing Dynasty was about 1.6 meters long, but the one in front of me was only 1.1 meters long. It could only be called a short gun. It was not too rough in making and had all the necessary parts.

Taking it from the man's hand and inspecting it carefully, Hong Dashou asked out of nowhere.

"Can a brass cap gun shoot?"

Bronze-cap guns were the common name for flintlock guns and percussion guns during the Daoguang period of Jiaqing. Don’t think that the Qing army was not equipped with them. They were equipped with them during the Zhanggeer Rebellion, and there were quite a few of them.

"After all, it's the master who can't tell the difference between good and bad. The copper-cap gun is just for beating animals. It fails to fire five to five times out of ten times. It's not a thing."

The blacksmith who was busy at work heard Hong Dashou's question and finally spoke again. Although the words were sarcastic about the extremely high misfire rate of flintlock guns, he was actually despising Hong Dashou for his lack of knowledge.

I think the flintlock gun is better than the matchlock gun.

If it were .asxs., Hong Dashou would have already sprayed it. I guarantee that there will be hundreds of words without a single curse word, and the blacksmith will not stop until he is scolded to death.

But now that he was in a den of thieves, Hong Dashou still restrained himself. He repeatedly said in his heart that those who don't know are not guilty, so there is no medicine for people with brain (shield) disabilities.

This kind of person is just a stinky blacksmith, and has no idea of ​​the advanced nature of flintlock guns and percussion guns. Matchlock guns have long been a thing of the past in Europe, but they are still a treasure in the eyes of this blacksmith of the Li Dynasty.
Chapter completed!