Chapter 462 The Dilemma of Firearms

After leaving Dishu Field, Yunzheng took Ye Zi to find Zhang Xu in the workshop.

Because the land here is precious, Zhang Xu's workshops are basically built on the mountainside with barren land.

I haven't been back to Dingbei for a while, and many of the workshops here are already impressive.

Yunzheng and Ye Zi waited for a while before Zhang Xu came running over with a disheartened look.

Zhang Xu was dirty all over, with patches of black and white on his face.

It's like he just ran out of the coal mine.

"How did you end up like this?"

Yun Zheng looked at Zhang Xu with a smile on his face.

"It's hard to describe in words."

Zhang Xu said bitterly: "Your Highness, that thing is too difficult to get..."

Is it difficult?

Yun Zheng smiled to himself.

It should be really difficult.

Yun Zheng asked Ye Zi to talk to Mingyue first, and he walked aside with Zhang Xu, "If you have any difficulties, tell me, and I'll see if I can solve them."

"It's difficult."

Zhang Xu looked sad and said depressedly: "It's not difficult to get these fire and bird blunderbuss, but they can't be used..."

For Zhang Xu, a hands-on expert, it is indeed not difficult to create the appearance of fire guns and bird guns.

But, it’s limited to appearance!

That damn thing is just a look-a-like, but not useful.

It's better to burn a fire stick!

The fire blunderbuss is not big, and it is cast in a clay mold. It is easy to get a rough shape.

But Zhang Xu cannot guarantee the accuracy, strength, etc.

Moreover, it is not easy to polish the inner bore of the firecracker.

Fire blunderbuss are actually okay, but the bird blunderbuss Yun Zheng mentioned is a bit difficult.

It is not easy just to roll a tube out. As for the accuracy of rolling it out, Zhang Xu is not within the scope of consideration now. He is only responsible for making a look.

As for whether it can be used, you will know the result even if you don’t try it.

In Zhang Xu's opinion, this thing is not as good as crossbows and bows.

"It's okay."

Yunzheng smiled and said: "This is not something that happens in a day or two. You have to take your time. Think of it as accumulating experience now! This thing is very useful!"

"You let those craftsmen work slowly. If there is a problem, find out the problem and find a way to solve it. Once they have experience, it will be fine!"

"If we can't get it done in one or two years, then it will take ten or twenty years. Anyway, no matter how much money is spent on this matter, we must continue..."

Of course Yunzheng knew this was difficult.

Before the Great Qian Dynasty, there was no gunpowder!

It is not that easy to directly produce fire blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss.

Moreover, to a certain extent, firecrackers are indeed inferior to bows and arrows.

If you really want to use firecrackers, you might as well make hand grenades and land mines.

However, the risk factor for getting these two things is too high, so he has to wait until he is free to get them.

Moreover, it can only be experimented.

If you want to produce it on a large scale, you have to find a saltpeter mine.

Just relying on that little wall salt, you can't even get much gunpowder, let alone other things!

He even wondered whether there were no saltpeter mines in Daqian at all, which was why gunpowder never appeared.

Making firecrackers is actually about accumulating technical experience for cannon casting.

As for the blunderbuss, it is quite useful, but it is really not easy to make it truly usable.

Three feet frozen, not a cold day.

The technological era cannot be solved in a short time.

He is only a theoretical emperor, not a practical emperor.

He knows the theories of many things.

But whether it can be made and whether it can be used is another matter.

He also knows that E=MC^2!

Of course they do!

But give him a hundred years, and he won't be able to figure it out.

In an era without machine tools and electricity, it was difficult to make a qualified gun barrel, let alone production efficiency!

Now, whether you can get those things or not is not too important.

Accumulating experience and technical foundation is the most important thing.

Just because this thing is temporarily unavailable, you can’t stop researching it.

If they don’t study it, sooner or later someone will.

It would be a pain in the ass for them to wait until other countries have finished their research and still use cold weapons to fight.

"Okay! With His Highness's words, I feel relieved."

Zhang Xu nodded heavily and said with a smile, "I'm afraid His Highness will blame us for not doing things well!"

"There's nothing wrong with this."

Yun Zheng smiled nonchalantly, "Nothing can be achieved in one step. If we take it step by step, we will slowly distance ourselves from others! You just need to focus on this matter, and you don't have to do it all yourself. You still have to do it yourself." Focusing on our business, I’m also asking you to help me earn military expenses!”

Da Gan finally started doing these things.

He didn't know if there were people in other countries doing these things, but there certainly weren't any in Beihuan.

Get rid of Beihuan first, and then think about other things!

"Uh-huh!"

Zhang Xu nodded heavily again and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now."

Yun Zheng smiled and said, "Father is coming to Shuobei. Let me go and pick him up. You can go too!"

"what?"

Zhang Xu suddenly trembled and said with a pale face: "I'm not going, right? I'm afraid that the Holy One will kill me..."

"Why did I chop you?"

Yun Zheng pursed his lips and smiled, "If my father wants to kill me, he will kill Qin Qihu and me..."

Is that so?

Zhang Xu touched his chin and thought for a while, then suddenly showed a gloating smile, "Yes, you two are the masterminds, and I am just a handyman. It would be too shameless for the Holy One to kill me..."

realm?

Yun Zheng was speechless for a while.

My father's current state is probably just looking for excuses to slap himself!

After chatting with Zhang Xu for a while, Yun Zheng stopped by the firearms workshop to check.

This firearms workshop can be said to be a key protected unit.

The workshop happened to be built in the mountains, and the surrounding area was closely guarded by soldiers.

The wages of these craftsmen in the firearms workshops are the highest.

Of course, management is also the most stringent.

Even if these people can't make the firearms Yunzheng wants in this life, as long as they are willing to study hard and accumulate experience, Yunzheng is willing to spend money to support them.

Yunzheng is not a craftsman, and he doesn't have a good solution to the current predicament of the firearms workshop. He only provides some improvement methods based on the knowledge he has mastered.

As for practice, it is up to these craftsmen to try it.

It wasn't until it was almost dark that Yun Zheng and the others left the workshop and returned to the palace in Dingbeicheng.

In the evening, everyone naturally couldn't help but have a good celebration.

After dinner, Yun Zheng was about to have a long chat with Ye Zi, when Ye Zi pushed the door open, closed the door behind his back, and bolted the door bolt.

Seeing Ye Zi's actions, Yun Zheng not only smiled.

The sheep enters the tiger's mouth!

He must be eaten tonight.

Looking at Yunzheng's expression, Ye Zi couldn't help but look at him angrily.

"Quick, let me hug you."

Yunzheng opened his arms and looked at Ye Zi with a smile.

"Okay!"

Ye Ziluo walked over generously and sat on Yun Zheng's lap. She smiled sweetly and said, "Before you do something bad, read this first. After reading it, I'll see if you still have the intention to do something bad."

With that said, Ye Zi took out the account book from his sleeve and handed it to Yunzheng.

"We won't be short of money so soon, right?"

Yunzheng hugged Ye Zi's waist, feeling an unknown premonition in his heart.

"Just take a look and talk about it!"

Ye Zi lowered her head and kissed Yun Zheng's lips gently, then stood up and came behind Yun Zheng, stretched out her green-white palms, and kneaded Yun Zheng's shoulders.

Yunzheng opened the account book while enjoying Ye Zi's massage.

As he watched, the smile on Yunzheng's face solidified.

"Five...more than five million taels?"

Yun Zheng turned around and looked at Ye Zi dumbfounded, "Is the pension just that much?"

"if not?"

Ye Zi smiled bitterly and said: "From the time when Jia Yao led his army to the Beiyuan Shoal, to the subsequent pensions for all the fallen soldiers, they have not been paid..."