The Prosperous Era of Longwan

"Soldiers are dishonest, and when they see the limelight, they may not be able to run faster than dad and uncle.

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

Then comes the training. Looking back, I will sum up my experience of playing with muskets. When the time comes, I will teach those musketeers, which will definitely increase their combat power several times.

Hehe, when I was playing with the blunderbuss, I thought of a great way to make the blunderbuss shoot faster and be safer."

Wei Guangde kept talking about his thoughts on training gunmen, which made everyone in the room stunned.

Well, even if he wanted to hunt Wei Wencai, he was only interested in it at first, but then it got cold and he was too lazy to go up the mountain to hunt birds.

At this time, Wei Guangde naturally does not have as much say.

Wei Guangde had already emptied two medicine pots of gunpowder, so he was considered an old gunner.

The most important thing is that while 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 didn't have the ability to develop firearms from that world.

But just rely on existing things and make modifications in local details.

He knew that the flintlock gun was much stronger than the matchlock gun in his hand, but it was useless. He knew that the most important thing about that thing was not the design, not the idea, but the material. A spring made of high-strength steel was needed to generate enough force. The force of the impact caused the flint to catch fire.

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

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

When using it, you need to break the bottom of the bullet, pour part of the gunpowder into the fire door as ignition powder, and stuff the remaining gunpowder into the barrel together with the lead on it.

This is also the method Wei Guangde came up with while playing with guns. According to his estimation, it can probably reduce the reloading time by half, which is highly efficient.

Now Wei Guangde plans to hand over this method and let his father and uncle use this method to increase the gunner's rate of fire. In this way, there is no problem that the gunman can fire at least twice as many projectiles as before at the same time.

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

As far as a teenage boy is concerned, it is better to have only his father 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 a young master and can still enjoy the generous life at home.

Although he has never worried that his eldest brother will treat him badly, after all, once his father is gone, the house belongs to his elder brother. If the eldest brother becomes the head of the family, his life will definitely be worse than it is now.

Before, Mr. Wei had told Wei Guangde that unless he passed the examination and achieved meritorious status, not much of the family property would be his because he could not keep it.

Although there are very severe penalties for family separation in the "Da Ming Code", this is far from the common practice in later generations.

Now Wei Guangde is studying and has also read the "Da Ming Code" and other laws of the Ming Dynasty, but he has not devoted himself wholeheartedly. After all, the eight-part essay is his main target at this stage.

However, some clauses in the "Da Ming Code" are also very different from the current society where Wei Guangde lives, that is, they are not strictly implemented. The most typical one is the separation of families.

The Household Code of the Ming Dynasty clearly states, "If the grandparents and parents are still alive, but the descendants have separate household registrations, and the property is divided, a hundred rods will be imposed." "If the parents are deceased, and the brothers have separate household registrations, and the property is divided, "The staff is eighty".

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

In the Ming Dynasty, due to the household registration system, military households had to have someone in the family serve as soldiers, while farmers in the household had to have people serving as corvees. Household division was prohibited to ensure that there were enough soldiers and civilian husbands to serve the country.

After all, if there are no men in the military household, they will naturally not be able to serve in the military. And the peasants' corvee service is not arranged casually. The peasant family must meet the requirements before they can be assigned to the corvee service.

Then it’s okay to separate families without dividing households. If you should do corvee service, you should serve as a soldier.

In fact, it is not allowed, because there are elders in the family, and your juniors hide their private wealth, which is also a violation of morality.

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

After all, even if he and his eldest brother signed a document to divide the family property, with his current small body and bones, he would not be able to make money, and in the end he would have to sit back and wait to die.

To strengthen the combat power of the soldiers, it also provides an extra layer of security. As long as his father is still there, he can continue to live his current life and wait comfortably for himself to grow up.

"Is the fixed-loading ammunition you mentioned easy to use? Have I seen you use it before?"

After Wei Guangde finished speaking, before Wei Meng and Wu Zhankui could react, Wei Wencai on the side asked, stroking his bare chin.

"I've tried it. Of course it works. It feels like reloading is twice as fast as what Tang San taught me before."

Wei Guangde said, "The bag I have at home contains about ten bullets that I wrapped myself, which is very useful."

"I think it should work. After we bring out the blunderbuss later, we can find someone to try it."

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

"Then let's not talk to Uncle Zhang Shi about this for now. It won't be too late to talk about it after we try to use it together."

Wei Meng also felt that the method Wei Guangde said seemed feasible. Wei Meng had also fired blunderbuss, and naturally knew a lot about the complicated loading procedures of firearms. Wei Guangde's statement seemed to be indeed a lot simpler. At least after the gunpowder was quantified, the probability of the chamber exploding was small. Some.

Wei Meng was also careful in his mind. If his son's suggestion was really useful, the blunderbuss might become a good thing. Once the news leaked out, those blunderbuss would probably be snatched away. .

Now that batch of bird muskets is sitting in the warehouse without anyone taking care of it, that's because everyone still treats this batch of weapons with the same view of fire muskets, but if they knew the method of fixed loading of ammunition to increase the rate of fire, it would be different, and they would do it for this A group of birds competed with each other to break their heads.

"What you guys said tonight are not allowed to leak out, do you understand?"

Wu Zhankui nodded, agreeing with Wei Meng's statement. At the same time, he also thought of keeping the matter secret for the time being, and then he gave instructions to his son and two nephews.

At this time, he was also afraid that the children would be ignorant and talk nonsense everywhere and make the method public.

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

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

At that time, it doesn't matter if it's leaked. I'm still afraid of the news being leaked if I get the blunderbuss.