Ming Zuo

Chapter 555 Despair

Chongzhen looked at the words on the agreement, but it seemed as if all the sharp daggers were piercing his heart.

He is a majestic ninety-five-year-old, son of heaven, and co-lord of the world, but now he sees the villain's rampant, rebellious and arrogant, and even wants to make peace.

Such humiliation really made him want to vomit blood.

"Is this how you do things? I believe in you, but you are betraying the country for glory and deceiving the king. The real crime deserves death!"

Gao Qiqian trembled, his face full of despair.

Lu Xiangsheng talked with Chongzhen for the first time, and he couldn't accept the emperor's temperament, so he stood up very calmly.

"Your Majesty, when I was negotiating with the rebels, I found out that the rebels presented peerless magic weapons. The reason why the rebels ran amok is because of these magic weapons. It is presented before the emperor today, and I implore Your Majesty to judge with insight."

At this moment, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but rejoice.

Fortunately, there was a musket presented by Zuo Fu, otherwise, the emperor would really give away such a huge country if he was so impulsive.

The musket was placed in front of Chongzhen, its stunning shape and flawless craftsmanship immediately attracted his attention, and his anger subsided unconsciously.

"This is Zuo Ni's firearm?"

Lu Xiangsheng personally explained and introduced the characteristics of the fire hat gun.

"Your Majesty, the power of this blunderbuss is infinite, far beyond my Ming Dynasty. It is difficult to beat the front in a duel on the battlefield."

High dives have more say.

"On the day of the Guangping War, Shandong Zuo Niyuan could use this blunderbuss to kill our army from [-] steps away, but our army's fire blunderbuss had to be within [-] steps to injure the enemy. If Zuo Ni can hit us, we will fight If it doesn't come to them, it will be defeated."

Hearing this remark, Chongzhen frowned, feeling unstoppable.

"Called Wang Chuan, um... let him bring some craftsmen over."

Wang Chuan is the head of the Inner Court Staff Bureau, and now the Daming Firearms Manufacturing Bureau far surpasses the Ministry of Industry.

Knowing that Shandong firearms are so powerful, Chongzhen couldn't help feeling worried, and went directly to the Imperial Garden, planning to see it for himself.

In the imperial garden, Wang Chuan arrived with two gray-haired craftsmen.

Chongzhen couldn't wait for a moment, and ordered: "Lu Qing, demonstrate this blunderbuss."

Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly performed again.

Watching the vase shatter fifty paces away, Wang Chuan and the craftsmen were dumbfounded.

"Dog slave, can you look carefully? Can this blunderbuss stick game be made?"

Wang Chuan was dripping with cold sweat, feeling that his life was not long.

"My lord, can this servant take a closer look?"

Seeing his panic-stricken appearance, Chongzhen had a premonition that the future was not good.

"This matter is important, and you must not neglect it."

Wang Chuan agreed, and brought two craftsmen to the front of the cap gun.

One of the craftsmen did not look at the gun, but picked up the cartridge case for the charge.Just glanced at it, and couldn't help being surprised.

Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with mere little things?"

The old craftsman threw himself down quickly, telling the truth.

"My lord, this thing is so ingenious, I really don't know who made it?"

Lu Xiangsheng was quite anxious, and asked: "Is it possible for you to make it?"

Wang Chuan and the others did not answer, but shook their heads like rattles.

Whether it was Chongzhen or Lu Xiangsheng, it never occurred to them that the musket hadn't done much good yet, but a shell case filled with powder stumped the best craftsman of the imperial court.

Chongzhen picked it up himself, looked inside and out for a long time, but couldn't see any tricks.

"Where is the difficulty of this thing?"

When the craftsman saw the emperor for the first time, he was very nervous and stuttered.

"I... I... Long live, this is the first time Caomin has seen wrought iron made so lightly. This kind of craftsmanship, Caomin has never said that he has seen it, even if he has never heard of it."

Chongzhen couldn't help shaking a few times, almost vomiting blood.

How did he know that although the bullet casings cast by the New Army could not be compared with the metal bullet casings of later generations, the differences were: one was in the material, and the other was that they could not be rounder.

As for the lightness and lightness of the material, it is almost the same as that of later generations.

This is forged by large machinery, which is far beyond what manpower can do.

But craftsmen still have a way.

"Long Live God, although we can't make it as delicate as this, if it's used to fill medicine, it's fine if it's rough."

This remark made Lu Xiangsheng overjoyed.

"That's right, it's just a charge of medicine, as long as it can be used. Take a look at this blunderbuss, can it also be cast?"

However, the craftsmen were all dumbfounded after seeing it.

"My lord, I can still deal with this small medicine pot. But this firecracker is really powerless!"

Wang Chuan knew where the difficulties were.

"My lord, I don't know how to carve the rifling in the gun barrel? I have been in charge of the staff for several years, and I have never seen such a natural skill. And this bullet, if it is made in such a shape, it will be wasted and corrupted. ..."

"This medicine is wrong!"

Before Chongzhen could think about it, the craftsman who was still holding on to the cartridge case yelled loudly, attracting everyone's attention.

It turned out that he had poured out the gunpowder in the shell and put it on the palm of his hand.And his expression was like seeing a ghost.

Wang Chuan and another craftsman leaned over, just looked at it and were equally dumbfounded.

Lu Xiangsheng was going crazy.

He thought that he had obtained the musket of the new army, and he could study it more after he got it back.Not to mention imitation, at least you can know yourself and your enemy.

Who would have thought that with just such a musket, there would be problems everywhere that the imperial court could not solve.

"What's wrong with this medicine?"

Without saying a word, the craftsman twisted up a little medicine foam and threw it into his mouth.

Seeing this scene, Chongzhen and others were terrified.

"Long live, my lord, this medicine has different ingredients from the medicine noodles we use, and its appearance is also very different."

It was only when Chongzhen and Lu Xiangsheng got closer that they could see the difference.

Although the gunpowder in the hands of the craftsman is also dark, it is not in the shape of a face.It is a very small, but uniform particle.

As for the different ingredients mentioned by the craftsmen, they couldn't see it.

The craftsman was very excited, and asked for instructions: "Long live, Caomin wants to demonstrate."

Chongzhen also became curious and nodded in agreement.

The craftsman poured out another pinch of gunpowder from his pocket, the same amount.

He placed two piles of gunpowder on the stone platform respectively, and then lit the fire fold.

First came the gunpowder that he brought with him.

Gunpowder meets open flame and burns quickly.Amidst the non-stop sound of piercing, thick yellowish smoke evaporated.

This intense burning lasted about ten breaths before the gunpowder gradually extinguished.

Just when Chongzhen and Lu Xiangsheng were puzzled, the craftsman put the fire pockets into the granulated gunpowder again.

bang...

A huge white smoke suddenly exploded from the obviously different combustion, which quickly dissipated in the air.The flashing flames were also dazzling silvery white.

Almost in the blink of an eye, all the granulated gunpowder was burned up.The stone platform is very clean, and there are not many remnants.

Chongzhen and Lu Xiangsheng also knew this very obvious difference, and there must be a lot of knowledge in it.

As expected of his rich experience, the craftsman immediately revealed the gap.

He pointed to the granulated gunpowder and came up one by one.

"The projectiles in the firecrackers rely on gunpowder to injure people. The stronger the charge, the farther the projectiles can travel, and the more they can penetrate armor. The power of this kind of gunpowder is far better than that made by our War Staff Bureau. If all of them were replaced with this kind of gunpowder, it would be no problem to injure the enemy fifty paces away."

Chongzhen completely understood

"According to what you said, you are powerless with such firearms?"

Wang Chuan immediately fell to his knees in fright.

"Slaves are incompetent, let Your Majesty Long En down."

Chongzhen was already disheartened, so he waved his hand and let Wang Chuan go down with the two craftsmen.

Although I don't know why Chongzhen didn't bring down the wrath of thunder, but he was lucky enough to escape.

　Thank you Wei Ai Qinger for the reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)