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Zhang Shun saw that it was an instrument but didn't know what it was used for, so he asked strangely: "What is this?"

"The master is from the plains and has never seen anything like this before!" Wukong answered after hearing the words, "This is a water tiller, which is used by the mountain residents to grind rice and squeeze oil."

Yanbi Wukong took Zhang Shun and walked over, and opened the old wooden door of the wooden house with a creak. There was no one inside, except for a dozen rice-pounding hammers, like hoes, working in the stone mortars in front of them.

Zhang Shun took a closer look and saw that there were still some rice husks and wheat husks in the stone mortar that would not be removed in the future. Further inside, there is a small oil mill, where the oil hammer falls into the oil bag for oil extraction. Zhang Shun stretched his head and saw a large bag of oil residue wrapped in a linen oil bag on the stone floor. There was still a lot of oil stains spilling out of the oil bag, and it still exuded a burst of fragrance.

This object should be a local civilian object. Because the rebel army came to attack, the nearby people were afraid of being affected, so they hurriedly withdrew. It is even very possible that this water bucket was used by Kangjiazhuang, but it is also unknown.

Zhang Shun looked around and felt that this neat row of hammers seemed to be able to swing up and down. He couldn't help but feel moved in his heart, and asked quickly: "Wukong, do you know how to use this thing?"

"Master is joking, Sa's family is a monk, how can he do such menial work?" Upon hearing this, Wukong only said that Zhang Shun wanted him to pound rice for him to eat, and he quickly waved his hands to express his ignorance.

"Stop talking nonsense, come and let me see it quickly, I can't say it, but it is a good thing!" Zhang Shun could see the untruth in his words at a glance, and couldn't help laughing and scolding.

Wukong had no choice but to curse and look for the gate. It turned out that the water wheel was pinned to a wooden stick. Wukong moved it, and the water wheel began to rotate squeakingly under the influence of the water flow.

As the water wheel rotates, it drives the wooden shaft connected to the water wheel to rotate. The hammer is equipped with gear-shaped wooden teeth on the wooden shaft. The wooden shaft rotates with the wooden teeth, and the other end of the hammer is moved downwards. Under the action of the lever principle, the hammer struck the stone mortar in front of him like a chicken pecking at rice.

Seeing this, Zhang Shun couldn't help but raise his palms and smile: "So, I have a plan. The so-called 'hydraulic forging hammer' probably looks like this!"

Wukong and Wang Jinyi looked at each other in shock when they heard this. They didn't know what happened to Zhang Shun, so they had no choice but to remain silent.

Zhang Shun quickly called Liu Gang, Governor Zhang and others and described his idea to them. Both Liu Gang and Governor Zhang were familiar with forging and felt that this matter was feasible.

So, Zhang incidentally asked someone to transform the water basin according to his own ideas. Then he asked the blacksmith to set up the furnace, light the charcoal and burn a piece of iron red, and try to forge it with a "hydraulic forging hammer" to see the effect. As a result, the forging hammer amplitude was too large and the frequency was too slow, so the effect was not ideal.

Zhang Shun had no choice but to order people to adjust the lever connected to the forging hammer again to change the density and height of the wooden teeth on the wooden shaft. After struggling for a long time, I finally achieved the desired effect that night. Although it is too rigid and less effective than swinging a hammer manually, it can already meet the needs of ordinary forging.

Zhang Shun was overjoyed when he saw this, and quickly called in Governor Zhang to ask what kind of artillery was suitable for forging in order to capture Kangjiazhuang.

Governor Zhang thought for a while and said: "If you want to forge the Hongyi cannon, if you want it to be so powerful that it can break through this fort, I am afraid it will only need to be no less than four or five thousand kilograms. If you want to forge an attack gun such as the Feibiao gun, just because of this The gun has less charge and a shorter barrel, so it seems quite feasible!”

It turned out that when the governor of this piece was forging artillery for the Jiliao border army, he had also forged forged cannons such as the Weiyuan cannon, the Second General cannon, and the Tiger Crouching cannon, so he had some experience.

It's just that the artillery he supervised were all small-caliber light artillery. He had never been exposed to various types of heavy artillery, and he only heard about the characteristics of such artillery such as their size and usage.

Originally, he wanted to use Zhang Shun's power to try to cast a heavy Hongyi cannon, but now Zhang Shun forced him to come forward, so he had to bite the bullet and put forward the most reasonable suggestion.

When Zhang Shun asked about the size and weight of the cannon that had been replaced with forged wrought iron, Governor Zhang looked at him and didn't know how to respond.

Only then did Zhang Shun realize that this guy was also a second-hand swordsman, and he wanted to kick him. But now that the situation was urgent, Zhang Shun had no choice but to comfort him and let him continue to work for him.

Fortunately, in order to cast the "golden cannon", Zhang Shun used gunpowder to blast out a batch of data. When Zhang Shunwen found out that the mortar's propellant weight was about three kilograms, he conducted a tensile test on the wrought iron that Liu Gang had just forged. It was calculated that the tensile strength of the wrought iron was about one-third to two-half that of brass. Between.

As a person of later generations, Zhang Shun knew better than people of this generation that the part of the artillery that withstood the gunpowder explosion was the medicine chamber, and the other parts did not bear great pressure. He made conversions based on the above known data, leaving enough margin, and finally calculated the thickness of wrought iron required for each part of the so-called "Fei Biao Gun".

Therefore, while the rebels continued to bombard the Kangjiazhuang watchtower with other artillery, they lit a furnace fire here to forge the "Flying Biaogun".

Let’s not mention the rebels for the moment. After Kang Jinshan was defeated and retreated into Kangjiazhuang, he was frightened and frightened. He quickly ordered his confidants and dead soldiers to guard the key points to prevent anyone from colluding with the enemy from within, and to cooperate inside and outside.

Although Kang Jinshan came from a rough background, he was not incompetent. This Kangjiazhuang is in an excellent location, right on top of a gold mine. Since he took over, this place has produced more than a thousand taels of gold every year, which is really a treasure worth thousands of gold. In the Ming Dynasty, the exchange ratio of gold to silver was about one to five. This place alone had an annual income of five thousand taels of silver, making it a place of wealth.

If the history of the Ming Dynasty develops according to its original development, Chen Yuanyuan, who is famous for her beauty, will only be "purchased for a thousand pieces of gold" by her nephew Tian Hongyu; and Dong Xiaowan, one of the eight beauties of Qinhuai, will be redeemed for only three thousand taels of silver; and a wealthy family like Lu The annual taxes paid by the county are less than two thousand taels of silver.

Based on this calculation, it can be seen that the annual net income of such a small Kangjiazhuang is about one Chen Yuanyuan, one and two-thirds of Dong Xiaowan, or two and one half of Lushi County. As for Liu Rushi and his like, one Kangjiazhuang could be exchanged for five. Such money is like a treasure blown by the wind. If it is not coveted by others, then the surrounding bandits and officials will be blind.

Therefore, Kang Jinshan also fought many times with surrounding bandits and government officials Ding Zhuang. The two sides often had victories and defeats. Kang Jinshan relied on the dangers of Kangjiazhuang fortress and watchtowers to survive the disaster many times.

But he never expected that he would stoke a "hornet's nest" this time. He had just plundered a cart of food, and the other party actually pulled out thousands of people to attack him.

Originally, he relied on the danger of Kangjiazhuang and wanted to withdraw when the opponent's food was exhausted. Who would have thought that the other party could pull out a cannon and blow down the watchtower in the village.

To say that Kang Jinshan has no regrets would be to underestimate this person. But he also knew that since the other party had tried so hard this time, how could he let him go so easily? Even if he could save his life, losing the "treasure bowl" of Kangjiazhuang would be the same as taking his life.

Thinking of this, Kang Jinshan had no choice but to do his best to obey fate and fight to the end.

The author's condition is a little better today. I'll try my best to see if I can update the second time in time.