Just as Lu Zhou and the prisoners returned.

Ula came back from somewhere.

Lao Wu is extremely passionate about such things.

"Master, look, there are two swords, four pairs of boots, two daggers, four pairs of pants... and this iron stick, I don't know what it is."

"This is a musket!"

Lu Zhou could see it at a glance.

I took it over and looked at it carefully. This musket is well-prepared and its workmanship is quite reasonable.

In the late Ming Dynasty, firearms made a lot of contributions to the border defense.

So since Jianzhou produces iron, Jiannu also wants to develop firearms.

Of course, at the beginning, I just thought about it. If they made it themselves, they would definitely not be able to make it...

They can have this enlightenment purely because they are afraid of being beaten.

If you don't get beaten, you won't make it.

Now that the two Jiannu can have a musket in their hands, this is not good news.

Lu Zhou recalled.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Kong Youde shaved his hair and threw gold, defected to the Ming Dynasty, and brought a large number of firearms, artillery, and craftsmen to the Later Jin Dynasty.

After this, the Later Jin gradually had the ability to make firearms, which completely changed the balance of power between the two armies...

Therefore, "There were three traitors during Chongzhen, and their main evil was Confucius' virtue."

This sentence is not unreasonable.

Next year, Huang Taiji ascended the throne and Han Chen was valued. Jiannu's firearm construction and cultural construction finally began to be on the right track...

Lu Zhou took the musket and thoughtfully took it back to the tent to sleep.

But the cleaning of the "battlefield" has not been completed.

There are many miscellaneous things, and Ula is extremely enthusiastic about it and has been busy all night...

......

When Lu Zhou lifted the tent the next day.

Then I saw Ula standing at the door wearing shoes pulled out of the Tartars, holding four horses and two sheep in his hand.

"Master, Li Tian really has no good intentions. Look, they have only prepared four horses."

"So I killed him."

......

Lu Zhou did not expect that there were four horses in Lizhuang, and there were two more sheep hidden, but the sheep might have been bought from Cook City and eaten on the way.

Needless to say, horses are used to run away.

But no matter how many animals are, it is an inspiring thing to increase.

"Lao Wu, there should be horse pens and sheep pens in this farm, right?"

"Well, right behind the farm? It's just a little broken. You don't know what Master said?"

Ula asked while feeding the sheep.

"I'll just ask!"

Lu Zhou said casually and was secretly happy that with sheep, you can make more warm clothes!

It's of great significance!

He ordered Ula to send all the animals to the circle and quickly build the horse and sheep pen.

He was refreshed and then went to the blacksmith shop again.

Signed on the iron smelting furnace:

[Ding, sign in successfully, congratulations to the host for obtaining 32 pieces of 20 steel!]

Looking at the iron smelting furnace, I took out 32 pieces of iron today! Old Zhang couldn't help but wiped his sweat secretly!

However, Lu Zhou took out the musket from his arms again and asked Lao Zhang:

"Can you control this thing?"

Old Zhang glanced at it and nodded without hesitation: "I can!"

Lu Zhou was not very surprised either.

Because this short-barrel musket is outdated.

The wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated.

Don’t look at it’s the end of the Ming Dynasty.

It is no exaggeration to say that this short gun has been crafted hundreds of years ago.

In the late Ming Dynasty, in addition to making it itself, the imperial court also imported a large number of them to the West. This kind of musket has retreated and even installed bird guns (melting rope guns)

What's more, the combs were beginning to fall behind in Europe. Now in 1635, when the flintlock was replaced on a large scale, the masters of the Ming Dynasty also drew the composition of the flintlock gun, but because the national strength was broken, the military preparations were slackened, and they were powerless...

"Does the young master need to build a musket?"

“It’s necessary, not necessary.”

Lu Zhou shook.

This thing has long been out of date and it is meaningless to make it.

Now he just wants to use the excellent iron rewarded by sign-in to create a batch of excellent flintlock guns, so that he can gain a foothold in the future major crises.

But Rome was not built in one day.

If he wants to build a flintlock rifle, he has to train a group of craftsmen who can at least shoot out the barrel. And now it seems that even if he shoots a barrel, it will be a bit difficult...

"Old Zhang, during this period, I have picked a few quick-witted people and I will use this musket to specifically use it. The main purpose is to practice it. After I have developed the skills, I will start to build a flintlock rifle!"

Lu Zhou said with instructions.

Flintlock rifle.

It is difficult to say it is difficult, it is easy to say it is easy to say it is easy.

The easy thing is that its principle is simple and its construction is simple.

The materials are sufficient, and it is enough to polish and assemble a handful of one person in seven days.

The difficulty is that the precision of parts is high and the parts are difficult to make!

Otherwise, Europe would not have been nearly a century since its birth and popularity!

Bi Maokang of the Ming Dynasty also made drawings of flintlock rifles, but they did not produce them on a large scale.

In fact, everyone understands the truth...

But according to the industrial capacity at that time, it was very difficult to do!

The main reason is that the parts cannot keep up!

The quality of iron cannot keep up!

"What is a flintlock rifle?"

Lao Zhang didn't understand why.

"The flintlock rifle... I have to say later. After all, you will definitely not be able to build it, but now, you can practice creating this musket first."

Immediately afterwards, Lu Zhou was afraid that he would miss some talented talents like Lu Er, so he continued: "There is also the scope of this practice that can be expanded to everyone in the village. As long as he wants to shoot the barrel, he can send a piece of iron to try it!"

Old Zhang was dumbfounded and had never seen such a luxurious one.

Lu Zhou didn't feel sorry for him at all.

After all, I have no advantages, just I have a lot of strength.

With unlimited resources, aren’t you afraid of not being able to make a group of craftsmen?

......

Walking out of the blacksmith shop, Lu Zhou turned around and came to the middle of the Zhuangzi.

The servants Li Zhuang captured yesterday were all gathered here.

Two "strong men" of the Lu family were watching from the side, but these people looked worse than the other.

It seems that the Li family is about to leave these days and has no intention of giving this servant a way out.

I have been hungry these days, and my eyes were distracted. If Lu Zhou hadn't been merciful last night and gave him some soup, I'm afraid some people would not have been able to survive last night.

Lu Zhou stood in front of a group of people, took off the mink fur, and shouted in the wind: "No more talk! My Lu family is not the kind of robber who robs people. If anyone wants to leave, you can leave as you like!"

As he said that, one hand pointed to the cold wind outside.
To be continued...