Daming Yinghua

Chapter 117
Zheng Haizhu's exposure to firearms in her previous life was limited to shooting targets in university military training.

That time, she shot the bullet in her gun to the target of the classmate next door very smoothly, and ended her only experience of a high-quality imitation sniper with a score of zero.

However, the crews she worked with later were all filming costume dramas.In the crew of local tyrants who burned funds, she learned more or less about guns and guns of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the contemporary era.

Coupled with the half-toned experience from Yan Siqi's wholesale ship, Zheng Haizhu does not appear to be too naive in front of the young and old Ming who love firearms.

It's just that she can accurately call "fusellock" from the perspective of future generations, but after all, she is only talking on paper, and she doesn't know how to improve the matchlock gun into a flintlock gun.

Lu Xiangsheng was very keen. Hearing this principle, his eyes lit up immediately: "If firing a flint is faster than igniting a hemp rope, wouldn't the pill be launched quickly?"

Zheng Haizhu nodded: "And at the same time, the number of times the guns are fired will be more, right? If the opponent is a cavalry, one gun can kill more enemies. However, changing the mechanism is not easy, and the compatibility of gunpowder is even more difficult. We Let's make the blunderbuss and the spindle cannon more colorful first, and the mechanism of the flintlock, what does Xu Hanlin think?"

"It should be so." Xu Guangqi said.

Just now, Zheng Haizhu has pushed Zheng Zhilong to tell Xu Guangqi the situation of the Frankie Cannon Factory in Macau.

Xu Guangqi's surprise was within Zheng Haizhu's expectation.After all, in the real history, in a few years, after the Ming army suffered two disastrous defeats in Sarhu and Hunhe, it was Xu Guangqi who resisted all opinions and got the Hongyi cannon to send to Yuan Chonghuan. Great victory in Ningyuan".

What Zheng Haizhu is doing now is just to advance the progress, and ask Xu Hanlin to enjoy his old man, and imagine a beautiful picture of "cannons are fired and his mother is bombarded".

"Master Ge, come, let's talk together."

Zheng Haizhu pulled Ge Hong and others out of the blacksmith shop, and sincerely praised the skills of these Zhenjiang craftsmen to Xu Guangqi.

Since Ge Hong came to the school, he has always felt the care of Zheng Haizhu, the hostess, and the respect of Lu Xiangsheng, a scholar.

At this moment, being led by Zheng Haizhu in front of a grand master like Xu Guangqi, after a moment of hesitation, he discussed technical difficulties such as whether the gun barrel needs inner iron and outer copper to prevent the chamber from exploding.

Xu Guangqi is so bright and wise. After listening for a while, he sighed softly, turned to Huang Zunsu and said, "Their structure is not bad. However, this kind of cannon is much more complicated than the tiger crouching cannon made by Qi Shaobao in the past. If you are not good at casting iron and copper, you will It can be taken down. If we can find the Ming craftsman who made the cannon for Frankie from Haojing, and refer to it for details, maybe we can save a lot of detours."

Huang Zunsu cupped his hands: "Mr. Xu has a good idea. But, in this way, the place has to be changed to a more open place, and the recruits, copper and iron materials and gunpowder will cost more than ten thousand taels. The officials thought that this was made for the Ming Dynasty. For firearms, the Songjiang Mansion can’t get the money, let alone Miss Zheng and the others themselves.”

Xu Guangqi pursed his lips and thought about it, and said to Zheng Haizhu: "In half a month, can you make a short section of the barrel with the outer copper and the inner iron together?"

Zheng Haizhu said: "Go back to Mr. Xu, yes."

"Well, the old man wrote a letter and asked Sun Yuanhua to come back and have a look. In addition, the old man is in Songjiang, and he will stay for a while, and then I will introduce you to a more important person."

……

The autumn is crisp and clear, and there are more tourists boating on the Moon River.

Xu Dahua, the Shaoqing of the Taipu Temple, and Xu Bao, the servant, were also on one of the small fairy boats.

"People are crowded, boats are crowded with boats, there is a greasy atmosphere, very vulgar."

Xu Dahua complained to Xu Bao in Shaoxing dialect, but the boat boss couldn't understand anyway.

Xu Bao is the son of the Xu family. He has served the young master Xu Dahua since he was a child. The young master studied hard for several years, and finally passed the Jinshi examination and became a master. Xu Bao accompanied him all the way, and even drank some ink. fellow.

Seeing Xu Dahua roll his eyes, he hurriedly bowed and said in agreement: "The master is right, the curved water flows through the ages, and the hills are full of osmanthus in the autumn of the year. How can a place like Shanghai, which is so dirty and rustic, be more elegant than our Lanting Pavilion."

Xu Dahua let out a "chi" in his nose, raised his chin, squinted at the beautiful figure on the boat ahead.

Xu Bao weighed his master's thoughts, and said cautiously: "This self-combed girl surnamed Zheng made the master angry with her actions yesterday, right?"

Xu Dahua pretended to be generous and waved his hands: "It's no use getting angry with such a worthless person. I just think that since she came out to do things in public, why is her temper so unfriendly, and she doesn't seem to be asking for help from her official."

Xu Bao nodded and said: "It's really ignorant. When I took the master to see their firearms workshop today, she went by boat. How could she take another boat by herself? She should serve the master on the boat and make up for yesterday's mistakes .”

Xu Dahua laughed and said, "Forget it, she's not the singer of the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion, and Xu Hanlin is not here today. She wants to come because she is afraid that lonely men and widows will be taboo in public."

Xu Bao hurriedly flattered her: "That's her stupidity. The master has just been promoted to the official of the Taifu Temple, and even an old man like Xu Hanlin with upturned nostrils wants to compete with you. As long as this woman surnamed Zheng is smarter, she should be eager to be exposed. Tell the world that she has friendship with Xu Siqing."

Half an hour later, the boat docked.

Zheng Haizhu jumped ashore first, and then tried to turn around to meet Xu Dahua's master and servant on the back boat.

This newly promoted Taipusi Shaoqing from the capital is the person Xu Guangqi wants her to get acquainted with.

Taipu Temple, in the early Ming Dynasty, was an institution specialized in horse administration.

Later, with the monetization of silver taking shape, horse households and local governments in various places began to pay silver instead of live horses.

For a time, silver piled up like a mountain, and Taipu Temple had to set up a "changying warehouse" to store silver.

Changyingku kept more and more silver, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it had become a financial appropriation institution at the central level, just like the Taikuang of the Ministry of Household Affairs.Buying horses, military pay, rewarding generals and foreign envoys, and even weddings and funerals of royal vassals will all draw money from Changying treasury.

Although Xu Guangqi was impeached for befriending foreigners and supporting the spread of Catholicism in the past few years, he was still well-informed when he was unemployed in the capital, and knew about the changes of hall officials in various temples.

After seeing the firearms testing workshop run by Zheng Haizhu and Lu Xiangsheng that day, Xu Guangqi thought of Xu Dahua, the new little God of Wealth.

"Miss Zheng, the official position of the Shaoqing of the Taipu Temple is now almost on the same level as the Minister of the Household Department. Xu Shaoqing and the old man are both from the south, and have some contacts in Beijing. He and the internal officials sent by the Holy One to the Taipu Temple are even better. harmony."

Zheng Haizhu was very happy about Xu Guangqi's matchmaking and "confession", and supervised Lu Xiangsheng and Ge's masters to forge iron and forge copper, and asked Zheng Zhilong to prepare 500 taels of silver notes as a gift for the meeting.

However, after Xu Guangqi came to visit Xu Dahua yesterday, Zheng Haizhu was as sick as eating a fly.

(End of this chapter)