Dominate the Country

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"Bang!"

A crisp gunshot sounded in the woods of Nanshan. Then Chen Ming's happy voice echoed in the woods: "It's hit, it's hit. I finally got rid of it. Liu Wu'er, Liu Wu'er, pick it up for me quickly."

Chen Ming, who had already put on his thin coat, was looking into the mountain breeze, with a look on his face waiting for Liu Wu to pick up the prey he had worked so hard to catch. Well, in three or four months, he has become very accustomed to instructing people to do work for him.

Chen Ming was holding a musket in his hand, a rifle that was rare in China at this time - Chen Ming didn't know if any foreigners had given rifles as gifts to the Manchus. The dignitaries and royal family of the Manchus were not ignorant. I'm a fool, they should have flintlock guns, muskets and the like at home. It's just that such things were not used by the Manchu dignitaries to arm their troops, even their flag soldiers, but were only used for fun, just like Chen Ming's current work.

The rifle in Chen Ming's hand was the first rifle produced by the Chen family's firearms workshop. Chen Ming just got it yesterday, and that afternoon he set up a target at Xiaonangou School Ground for practice. The accuracy of a rifle is not comparable to that of a flintlock gun. Chen Ming, a pure rookie at the shooting range, kept pushing the distance farther and farther, as if the distance was more than seventy meters, but the gun could still hit the target, and The penetrating power is extremely strong. This is a kind of strength beyond the imagination of the Chen family. Chen Erbao, who had previously been disdainful of rifles, probed the crater on the wooden target with his fingers, and his yellow teeth clenched.

Super accuracy, super long range, even if the rifle is difficult to load, this gun still has strong existence value. Almost everyone involved in the Chen family thought of one word - assassination.

This kind of gun is completely different from the shotguns that the Chen family is familiar with. During the 30th year of Qianlong's reign, there were a large number of shotguns and other firearms among the Chinese people. It may also be that the performance of shotguns was too bad. The Manchu emperors often disapproved of petitions from their ministers to ban guns. Although there is a ban, there is no real investigation and punishment. In fact, civilians are tacitly allowed to hold guns. In the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, the second year of Yongzheng, and the first year of Qianlong, there were edicts on gun control respectively, but they were mainly aimed at the private sale of guns and gunpowder by military personnel, not the civilian population.

In the fourteenth year of Qianlong's reign, Pan Siju, the governor of Fujian, petitioned for a ban on guns on the grounds that "the people in Fujian Province were restless and some were hiding weapons privately," but Qianlong refused. In the original history, it was not until the 39th year of Qianlong's reign that the Wang Lun Uprising in Shandong Province lasted for a month and captured several counties. Qianlong deeply realized the threat to his rule caused by the large-scale presence of firearms among the people, so he ordered a ban on guns.

In the 30th year of Qianlong's reign, it was not uncommon for civilians to make guns. Especially in mountainous areas.

The shooting range of a shotgun may not be seventy meters away. The distance is more than ten feet. If you want to hit the exact target, it all depends on whether God will bless you. And in the hands of an experienced gunman, this rifle can easily hit the target even at a distance of more than a hundred meters. It was a killer weapon that completely surpassed the imagination and cognition of the Chen family!

Although the communication between Qi Gong, Chen Erbao and Chen Ming's cheap dad has not yet received a definite answer, no one has said anything about the investment made by the firearms workshop in manufacturing rifles.

At dawn today, Chen Ming took his rifle and ran to Nanshan with Liu Wu. It was already winter in October, and the mountain wind was fierce, but Chen Ming didn't care at all. A total of 13 shots were fired, and only one shot hit the target at this number point, which is very unlucky in the eyes of Westerners. It was something like a little goat. Chen Ming didn't know exactly what it was. Anyway, he just wanted to get hit.

"Master, Master, it's the fragrant deer, it's the fragrant deer."

Liu Wu actually liked to go hunting with Chen Ming. For him, this was much happier than spending all day and night in the engineering school and the workshop. Although Chen Ming fired his empty gun twice, he thought he had hit the target, causing him to run twice in vain.

Chen Ming looked up eagerly without reloading his ammunition, waiting for Liu Wu to bring back the prey. "Fragrant deer?" Chen Ming, who had accepted all the memories of his predecessor, knew that the so-called fragrant deer was forest musk deer, which was the source of musk. In the future, this will be a nationally protected animal, but in the current time and space, it is a local dish.

There are many forest musk deer living in Funiu Mountain. Every year, as much as two to three hundred kilograms of musk are sold in the market in Ruzhou. Ruzhou, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan Prefecture, Shaanzhou Prefecture and other places are famous musk origins in the country. Think about it, how many forest musk deer must be killed to produce thousands of kilograms of musk deer in a year? There’s no talk of living musk deer to get scent these days!

Every year from August to around the New Year's Day is the month for hunting musk deer. The Chen family doesn't know how much musk deer meat they can harvest in Tumenji. This stuff activates blood circulation and removes blood stasis, replenishes deficiency and removes accumulation, treats abdominal masses, and malnutrition in children. It has the effects of tonifying deficiency, appetizing, and moisturizing the lungs. Even if it is meat, it is also medicine.

After hunting, Chen Ming became more interested. He wandered around Nanshan all day that day, and then went there all day again the next day. It wasn't until the weather turned cold and gloomy on the third day that Chen Ming stayed in Xiaonangou. That afternoon, the first snow fell in Xiaonangou since the beginning of winter this year.

In two days, the rifle in Chen Ming's hand fired not only a hundred but also sixty or seventy shots. The front sight remains unchanged, the rifling remains the same, and the entire rifle is dismantled into pieces. After carefully looking at every component, even the elasticity of the spring, which is most prone to problems, remains intact. Just replace the flint, and this is a brand new rifle.

At this point, Chen Ming felt relieved about the craftsmanship of the four masters in his workshop.

At the same time, the four masters of the Chen family firearms workshop all broke out in cold sweat. They didn't expect that there was such a place waiting for them. The eldest son of the Chen family carried a gun and wandered around in the mountains for two days, fired dozens of shots, and then disassembled the gun to look at the parts. This move was cruel and decisive!

During the two days when Chen Ming was wandering around the mountains with a gun, the Qigongcheng workshop took away another two finished rifles. The entire firearms workshop was busy for ten days and made a total of three rifles - in fact, three qualified barrels were pulled out, and all were removed.

As time goes by, the speed of making rifles in the workshop will definitely increase slowly, and Chen Ming is not worried about this. Anyway, he is not going to rebel immediately, so he is not in a hurry. In his view, the current firearms workshop is equivalent to technology accumulation.

Qigong took away the other two rifles, and Chen Ming did not ask where they went. He knew his weight and position very well. It was true that he was very important to the Chen family, but no matter how important he was, he was only the heir of the next generation, not the controller of the entire Chen family. You should be sensible in doing things, and don't think that you can control all the activities and everything of the entire Chen family now.

Qigong took away two rifles, why do you care about him? Can he point the gun at his own family?

Chen Ming didn't even ask Qigong to inquire. After walking around the workshop, Liu Wen came from Tumen Market. He is now officially serving the Chen family, and he is responsible for the logistics and food of the engineering school. Yesterday, I went to Tumen Market to transport eggs-Xiaonangou's food, drink and clothing are all supplied by Tumen Market. Xiaonangou already has a plate of more than a hundred households. How much land is now occupied by workshops, water wheels, etc.? Xiaonangou no longer produces grain. The food, meat, poultry and eggs for more than a thousand people are all prepared from Tumen Market. Engineering is no exception. Chen Ming attaches great importance to engineering, and students there are given an extra egg every day.

And all the expenses of engineering are directly paid by Chen Hui, the private account of the main branch of the Chen family, and Chen Cong is responsible for the allocation. It is not the many workshops in Xiaonangou and the members of the Chen family. Many expenses are paid by the public account of the Chen family.

"Master, I heard in Tumenji that Master Bao led his men to fight fiercely with the people of Qingtiaoling at Zhangbaqiao. Five bandits were killed." Liu Wen ran to inform Chen Ming as soon as he returned to Xiaonangou.

"When did it happen?"

"The day before yesterday."

The day before yesterday? That is, the second day after the rifle was used, and the first day Chen Ming went up the mountain to hunt.

"Just killed five?" Chen Ming didn't believe it. With the current five times of the Chen family, it is not impossible to kill fifty.

The Chen family can't catch the tail of the mastermind behind the scenes now, but they have to catch it. So they have to knock on Qingtiaoling and shake the tiger to see what Qingtiaoling will do next.

Qingtiaoling was the retaliation for the kidnapping of Chen Ming. Regardless of whether Zhao Chuanjing could deal a heavy blow to the Chen family, he would definitely vent his anger on the mastermind. The Chen family would wait and see what would happen, which was a good way to find the mastermind.

Moreover, the rifle head was made the next day, and the Chen family went to fight Qingtiaoling. Regardless of whether the rifle played a role in this battle, Chen Ming, who had thought it through, suddenly felt that his cheap father was so brutal.

For a moment, he felt a surge of blood!