Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 273 The Journey to Jiangnan
These firecrackers are too rotten, and they will be used as garbage by future generations, and no one will want them as scrap iron, not to mention that as a special soldier, he is tired of playing with all kinds of advanced weapons in future generations, and now looking at these rags , I really have to adjust my mentality, Lin Yi frowned, how to improve them?
It is absolutely impossible to change them into pistols of later generations, or AK47, and it is even more impossible to change them into submachine guns or machine guns.

Then it is not a major operation, and it has to be rebuilt.Now it is not socialized mass production, and it is impossible to manufacture such precise parts. Even if it can be converted into one or two, there is no matching bullet.

It seems that what Lao Ma said was too high, productivity determines production relations and superstructure.

Before time travel, he had read many time travel novels, but he didn't expect this kind of thing to happen to him.The protagonist in the kind of time-traveling novels can do anything with a casual epiphany, and the planes and cannons are flying all over the sky, which seems to be completely nonsense.

Ji Dong tore a few, wishing he could smash them all.Damn, this thing is too primitive. In addition to the fire blunderbuss, it is the bird blunderbuss. There are also three-eyed blunderbusses. Most of them are matchlock guns. Who can stand still and wait for you to take aim?
Not to mention that you can only fire one bullet at a time, and you can't fire at all when it is cloudy, rainy and windy.Even if it can be fired, if it is fired several times, it will easily explode. This thing is really not as sharp as a bow and arrow.

It’s no wonder that those with military strength don’t bother to use this kind of thing at all. Fire has been around since the Yuan Dynasty. If it was earlier, it can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. It has gone through the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It has been nearly a thousand years. The rest of the market is gunpowder and cannons for attacking fortifications. In the past thousand years, people have fought and killed mainly by relying on bows, arrows, knives and spears, and forming troops. These smoking guys have been neglected for several times after they were born. century.

Suddenly, Lin Yi remembered something. The disadvantage of the firecracker was not discovered by him after traveling. There were many capable people in the Ming Dynasty who had discovered this problem long ago and had already made improvements.This is the famous firearms expert in the Ming Dynasty, surnamed Bi, to Bi Maokang, who proposed improvements and invented a more advanced self-generating flintlock gun to replace the matchlock gun.

It's a pity that Emperor Chongzhen didn't know the goods, didn't mass-produce them at all, and beat Bi Maokang back to his hometown in Anhui. After Shunzhi became emperor in the Central Plains, he opened the situation of the Qing Dynasty's unification of the world, but this kind of gun was still not promoted. Know if this thing is true.

Ji Dong immediately asked two people to verify, they were He Renlong and Zu Keyong.Because these two people are high officials of the imperial court, although they are military generals at the border, they should know the inside story of this matter better than others.

When Lin Yi said this, He Renlong first thought of it: "Your Excellency is really a well-informed person, and there is indeed such a thing. I was lucky enough to meet Master Bi once. It was the 44th year of Wanli. My subordinate He passed the Wu Jinshi examination, and later became a garrison officer in Yansui, Shaanxi. At that time, Mr. Bi was a patrol officer in Shaanxi. Mr. Bi is a good man, he helped the victims, and he was a well-known upright official, but because he offended Wei Zhongxian, he was excluded and punished. Suppressed, after the new emperor (referring to Chongzhen) succeeded to the throne, Master Bi was reused. He did invent a firearm, and I heard that he compiled a book. Unfortunately, the emperor did not promote it. Instead, Master Bi was driven to his hometown in Anhui. .”

Lin Yi nodded. It seems that the history is not wrong. He has to go to Anhui to visit this person.

Bi Maokang, a native of Shanglu in Shexian County, Anhui Province, a Jinshi in the 26th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1598), was awarded the title of Zhongshu Sheren, and later moved to Guangxi Dao Supervisor, Youqiandu Yushi, Shaanxi Xunyan, and Shandong Xunyan Yushi.Drought in Shaanxi, porridge factories were set up widely, warehouses were opened up on a large scale, and the refugees gradually recovered their jobs, with about 1.5 people alive. He wrote "Illustration of Military Weapons" and so on.

As an elite of the special forces, Lin Yi loved weapons before he traveled, so while reading and flipping through books, he has such a vague memory in his mind.

Jingzhou, Hubei Province is one or two thousand miles away from Shexian County, Anhui Province. It was called Nanzhili at that time. Lin Yi planned to go there himself, and he had the right to travel in the mountains and rivers.When Zhuge Liang was invited back then, Liu Bei paid three visits to the thatched cottage.I made a trip to invite this ordnance expert.In addition, after time travelling, there have been wars in the past few years. This time, I took this opportunity to visit Jiangnan and relax.

The itinerary was finalized, and the defense and training of Jingzhou was handed over to the deputy generals Zu Keyong, Hao Yaoqi and others. Lin Yi took He Renlong with him, and Xiaoying also followed. Of course Tana had to follow, leaving Zhezhe to take care of the women's battalion, and Zhang Hua, the captain of the guard, was also indispensable, and picked 25 more good players from the guard.

In this way, there were a total of 30 men and women, all in turmoil. For the convenience of their actions, they were businessmen with make-up and no armor. Lin Yi was dressed as a wealthy son, while Xiaoying became a rich man. They didn't even wear military uniforms, so they became servants.

Just in case, all the guys they needed hid in the car, only carrying swords for self-defense.

In addition to riding a horse, they also got a few cars. Xiaoying took two maids to ride in the car, and the remaining few cars were loaded with the things they used along the way.

In addition, it is definitely inappropriate to go so far away to invite someone without knowing each other before, so you have to prepare a generous gift no matter what.

Before leaving, Lin Yi called together Zu Keyong, Hao Yaoqi, Wang Jian, Dong Sheng, Wang Qi, Gan Bao, Jiang Xingyuan, and other generals, and told them that his itinerary was about one month. They guarded Jingzhou City well, each led the troops of each battalion, and asked which battalion came back for them if there was any trouble.If officials from the imperial court come to urge the war, just prevaricate them, and don't reveal your whereabouts.

The generals nodded and remembered that Zhe Zhe led several soldiers from the women's battalion all the way out of the gate of Jingzhou city before saying goodbye to Lin Yi in tears.

Lin Yi patted his shoulder to comfort her, and asked her to take care of the women's battalion. We would meet again in about a month or so, and then flew on the horse. The group waited for the riverside, and they went down the river by boat.

The boat sails on the river, the green hills on both sides, the surging river, the scenery is picturesque.It was the first time for Lin Yi to take a boat on the Yangtze River, even before crossing. It felt really poetic.

No wonder those literati and poets in the past dynasties can write such good poems and prose.But now I am not in the mood to play with words, and I want to take the common people in the world as my own responsibility. Ten thousand years is too long to seize the day and night.

Lin Yi and Xiaoying stood at the bow of the boat, their hearts trembling.

From Jingzhou to Wuhan, and then to Jiujiang, entered Poyang Lake, and went south to Huangshan Mountain. Along the way, I saw the scenery of mountains and rivers, famous mountains and rivers, places of interest and historical sites. I don’t need to travel deliberately, but there are countless passing ones.

On this day, they arrived in She County, Anhui. After entering the city, they inquired about Shanglu Street, and soon found Bi's Mansion.

The gate of this mansion is relatively grand, with a tall gatehouse and a red-painted gate. There are two stone lions as tall as a man and a half beside the gate, and there are wind lanterns hanging on the gatehouse.

There is a pair of couplets on the door, which caught the eyes of Lin Yi and others.The font is strong and powerful, and the content is also thought-provoking, which immediately attracted Lin Yi.

The first couplet wrote: A volume of poems and books to ask the king of the world.The next couplet: Wanzhang's pride and courage to face the heroes of the sky.Hengbiao: materialistic desires.

At first glance, this is a learned family. From this couplet, we can also see the emotion of a person who is not ranked. In this materialistic world, the helplessness of the underappreciated is an implicit expression of dissatisfaction with the real society.Those who dare to write such couplets and hang them on the door are also extraordinary.

It seems that I have found the right place. This must be Bi Maokang's home.Lin Yi contacted Bi Maokang about the ups and downs of his career, and nodded while looking at the couplet.

After Lin Yi finished reading, he ordered someone to knock on the door. There was not much time, and the corner door was half-opened. A man with the appearance of a domestic servant leaned out half of his body from the inside, and looked outside to see Lin Yi and the others. He didn't recognize any of them.

"Is there something wrong, everyone?"

Lin Yi quickly cupped his fists and said, "This man has worked hard, may I ask if this is the Bi Mansion?"

The family member nodded, "My lord, this is..."

Lin Yi smiled all over his face, "My surname is Lin. We are from Jingzhou. We came here specially to pay a visit to Mr. Bi. Please let me know."

"I'm sorry, our master never sees guests." The old man closed the door with a bang after finishing speaking.

Zhang Hua's anger suddenly rose, and he really wanted to kick the door away, and He Renlong's eyes widened. Both of them were soldiers, and they often fought wars. They killed people by staring. Resist this kind of anger.

Ji Dong stopped them, stepped forward to knock the door lightly for the second time, waited for a while, the corner door opened again, it was the same guy from before, showing his head from inside, with an unhappy expression on his face.

"Young master, the villain has made it very clear just now, my master doesn't see any guests, so don't make things difficult for the villain."

As he said that he was about to close the door again, Zhang Hua had been prepared this time, and blocked the door with one foot, so he didn't close it.

But when the servant saw Zhang Hua like this, he became very angry, and his face fell down. Just about to say something ugly, Lin Yi smiled apologetically, "Brother, please be patient, listen to me and finish my sentence. This is my greeting card." , come all the way, there are thousands of rivers and mountains, no matter what, I must ask my brother to hand it over to Mr. Bi, this is just a small thing, not a respect..."

As Lin Yi said, he handed him a letter and 50 taels of silver.

Just let him run errands and give him 50 taels of silver back. Ji Dong is probably the only one who is so generous in the world.

Money can really make things go wrong. In many cases, as long as you get money, things will turn around. It’s really not good to be dissatisfied, regardless of any society.

The servant's expression softened, "Okay then, please wait a moment, my lord."

Ji Dong had expected that this Bi expert's official career would not go well, so he was afraid that he would be rejected by others without any relationship or reason, so Lin Yi had already prepared for it.

This letter, also known as the greeting post, is actually a copy of Ji Dong's official seal and identity.The reason why Lin Yi did this was not to show off how high his status and official position were, but to use his special status as a stepping stone. The rest is easy to handle.Otherwise, if you are turned away, you will not be able to break in.

Begging someone to come, and then breaking the etiquette, the bastard will do things like this.

This time, after waiting for about ten minutes, I heard footsteps inside, not alone, and then someone coughed, and hearing the coughing sound, I knew it was a dying old man.

Lin Yi and the others knew that it might be the master who came out. Xiaoying smiled at Lin Yi and gave her a thumbs up. Lin Yi made a face at her, and quickly put on a solemn face. At this moment, the door opened with a creak.

(End of this chapter)