prosperous age

Chapter 43 Chapter 43

"Soldiers are dishonest, and seeing the limelight is not right, it can't be said that they can run faster than daddy and uncle.

In other words, no matter how strong their combat power is, those soldiers are absolutely unacceptable.

Then there is training. I will summarize my experience in playing bird guns later. When the time comes to teach those gunners, their combat power will definitely increase by several times.

Hehe, when I was playing with the bird gun, I thought of an excellent way to make the bird gun shoot faster and safer."

Wei Guangde talked endlessly about his thoughts on training gunners, which stunned everyone in the room.

Well, even if it was Wei Wencai, he was interested in it at the beginning, but when it got cold later, he didn't bother to go up the mountain to hunt birds.

At this time, naturally, Wei Guangde's right to speak is not as great.

Wei Guangde has already emptied two pots of gunpowder, so he is considered an old shooter.

The most important thing is that in the process of playing with guns, Wei Guangde remembered several important innovations in the history of firearms development that he had seen in his previous life.

Wei Guangde is not capable of researching and developing the firearms of the original world.

But relying on existing things, it would be nice to modify some details.

The flintlock, he knew, was much stronger than the arquebus in his hand, but of course, he knew that the most important thing about that thing was not the design, not the idea, but the material, which required a spring made of high-strength steel to produce enough power. The force of the impact set the flint on fire.

Although the fire rate seems to be worse than that of the matchlock gun, it can be used in less windy and windy weather and has a larger range.

With the existing technology, what Wei Guangde can sell is the paper shell bullet with fixed gunpowder, which is to wrap the fixed amount of gunpowder into a cylinder with paper, and the lead is wrapped in the bullet.

When using it, you need to break the bottom of the bullet, pour a part of the gunpowder into the fire door as the propellant, and stuff the rest of the gunpowder together with the lead on it into the barrel, and use a cleaning rod to fire it.

This is also the method that Wei Guangde came up with when playing with guns during this time. According to his estimation, it can reduce the reloading time by half, which can be called efficient.

Now Wei Guangde intends to hand over this method so that his father and uncle can use this method to increase the rate of fire of the gunslinger, so that in the same period of time, the gunslinger can at least double the number of projectiles fired before. There is no problem at all.

Wei Guangde had no choice but to worry about his elders.

As far as children in their teens are concerned, only fathers are good in the world, especially in the Ming Dynasty, a society where men were superior to women.

The fact that his father is alive means that he is still the young master and can still enjoy the good life at home.

Although he never worried that his elder brother would treat him badly, after all, once his father was gone, the family would belong to his elder brother, and his life would definitely be worse than it is now if his elder brother became the family.

Before, Wei's father had already told Wei Guangde that unless he got a good name in the examination, he would not own much of the family property because he couldn't keep it.

Although there are very strict penalties for family separation in the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", this is far from the common practice in later generations.

Now Wei Guangde is studying, and he has also read the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" and other laws of the Ming Dynasty, but he has not devoted himself to it. After all, the stereotyped essay is his main goal at this stage.

However, some clauses in the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" are also very different from the society Wei Guangde lives in now, that is, they have not been strictly implemented, and the most typical one is the separation of families.

It is clearly written in the household laws of "Da Ming Law", "Where grandparents and parents are present, and the children and grandchildren have separate household registrations and divide property, the stick is one hundred." Those with eighty sticks."

The legal provisions are very clear and clearly written, which shows that the imperial court did not support the separation of families at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of the household registration system in the Ming Dynasty, military households had to have someone in the family serve as a soldier, while peasant households had to have someone in their households serve corvee service, and household separation was prohibited, which ensured that there were enough soldiers and civilians to serve the country.

After all, if a military household does not have a male, it will naturally not be able to perform military service, and the corvee service of the peasant household is not arranged casually, and the peasant household must meet the requirements before being assigned corvee service.

So it’s okay to separate the families regardless of the households. If you should serve corvee service, you should be a soldier if you should be a soldier?
In fact, it is not allowed, because there are elders in the family, and if your younger generation hides private property, that is also a disadvantage to virtue.

So for Wei Guangde now, as long as his parents, especially his father, are still there, his childhood will be easy.

After all, even if he signed a paperwork with his eldest brother to divide the family property, with his current petite frame, he would not be able to make money, and in the end he could only sit and wait for death.

Strengthening the combat power of the soldiers, no matter what, there is an extra layer of security, isn't it, as long as his father is still there, he can continue to live the current life and wait for himself to grow up comfortably.

"Is the fixed-load bomb you mentioned really useful? Have you ever used it before?"

After Wei Guangde finished speaking, before Wei Meng and Wu Zhankui could react, Wei Wencai asked while rubbing his smooth chin.

"I've tried it, of course it's easy to use, it feels like reloading is twice as fast as the one taught by Tang San before."

Wei Guangde said, "I have about a dozen bullets in my bag at home, which are very useful."

"I think it should work. After pulling out the bird gun later, let's find someone to try."

Wu Zhankui glanced at his little nephew, then turned around and said to Wei Meng.

"Then don't talk about it with Zhang Shishu for the time being. It won't be too late after we try to use it together."

Wei Meng also felt that the method Wei Guangde said seemed feasible. Wei Meng had also fired a firearm, so he naturally knew a lot about the cumbersome loading procedures of firearms. Wei Guangde's statement seemed to be a lot simplified. At least after the amount of gunpowder was fixed, the probability of bombing the chamber was also small. Some.

Wei Meng was also cautious in his heart. If his son's suggestion was really useful, then the bird guns might become a good thing. Once the news leaked out, those bird guns might be robbed of their heads. up.

Now those batches of bird guns are left unattended in the warehouse, because everyone still treats these weapons with the view of fire guns, but if they know the method of increasing the rate of fire of fixed-loaded ammunition, it will be different, and they will do it for this. A batch of bird guns scrambled to break the head.

"You guys, what you said tonight is not allowed to leak out, you know?"

Wu Zhankui nodded, agreeing with Wei Meng's statement. At the same time, he also thought about keeping things secret for the time being, so he immediately spoke to his son and two nephews.

At this time, he was also afraid that the children would be ignorant, so he went around talking nonsense and made the method public.

What Wei Meng thought of, he could naturally think of it too.

Although it is impossible to hide it for a lifetime, at least it will be leaked during training after the batch of bird guns are in hand, but as long as it can be concealed for a while, it is good.

At that time, it doesn't matter if it is leaked, and I am afraid that the news will be leaked if I get the bird gun.

(End of this chapter)