Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 25 Worrying About Safety Tang Long Made Firearms

It sounds like a serious crime to build a military armor privately, but Sun Li was not surprised when Sun Xin found Sun Li and made a request. The ground is not calm these days, which village can not prepare some swords and guns?
This matter should not be publicized, and within two days after Sun Xin explained it, Sun Li led two blacksmiths to the ten-mile card.

The leading man was in his 30s, his face was covered with burns caused by long-term iron work, and his skin was red and peeled off due to long-term exposure to wrought iron. From a distance, his entire face looked mottled.

"This brother's name is Tang Long, nicknamed Money Leopard, and he was originally in charge of making firearms in the military."

When Sun Xin heard this name, he was slightly surprised.

Sun Li introduced: "Brother, don't underestimate him. Brother Tang Long has been in charge of manufacturing military weapons for generations. His ancestors once achieved the position of Zhizhai in Yan'an by building military weapons. It's just that he didn't agree with his boss in the early years and left the army. Among them, they make a living by forging iron in four miles and eight towns, and when it comes to making excellent equipment, Brother Tanglong is the second in Shandong and Hebei, and no one dares to call it the first."

Of course, Sun Xin has no doubts. In the original book, Tang Long was in charge of the military and horse equipment of the entire Liangshan. In terms of knowledge, he can also mention such a strange weapon as the hook gun. Naturally, he is a first-class blacksmith in the world.

Sun Li asked Sun Xin to tell Tang Long if he had any needs, and secretly made the swords and guns in Zhuangzi and let him leave after they were finished. Sun Xin naturally agreed.

As for how many knives and guns are needed to defend a Zhuangzi, Sun Xin didn't know, so Sun Li directly pulled out a list.Sun Xin called Zou Run, Zou Yuan, Xie Zhen, and Xie Bao to discuss. When they heard that Sun Xin was going to make knives and guns, they were all very interested and put forward their own suggestions.

Sun Xin wanted to train a few people to be his capable subordinates, so in addition to the swords and armor that the village usually needed to prepare, he also asked Tang Long and his disciples to make a handy steel fork for Xie Zhen and Jiebao. For Zou Run and Zou Yuan, they each made a plain knife made of good iron.

The price of a good weapon is very expensive. It only cost ten taels of silver to build more than 20 knives and guns for the people in the whole village. Tang Long directly asked for 20 taels of silver for these four custom-made weapons. If the price goes, he agrees.

A few days later, Xie Zhen, who received the steel fork, and Xie Baole couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. He just held it up and played a few tricks. Zou Yuan, who got the simple knife, was also full of gratitude. Only the one-horned dragon Zou Run took Pu Dao, although he clearly expressed his love for it, but he remained silent and did not speak.

After coming to Zhuangzi for so long, at first Zou Run talked and laughed with Sun Xin and others, but in the past few months, Sun Xin found that Zou Run has become more and more reticent.

Sun Xin was a little defensive at first, but after a long time, he gradually got used to it.

There is only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be any reason to guard against a thief for a thousand days?Sun Xin knows that some people are hot on the outside and cold on the inside, and they are very extroverted when they first meet, but they are actually very introverted. After a long time, their personality will gradually be revealed, which is not surprising.

All matters in the farm are progressing slowly, because the land has not been reclaimed this year, so Sun Xin signed employment contracts with these farmers. In the process of building the farm this year, each person will give them For the wages of two taels of silver, after the land is reclaimed and mature next year, they will each go to their own fields to plant.

After more than half a month, the corn and wheat were planted in the field, and the weapons at Tang Long's place were also finished.

A total of more than 30 taels of income from Sun Xin, Tang Long was naturally happy.

He has been homeless since he became a blacksmith. Although he is skilled in craftsmanship, because he is a hero, he can't stand the constraints of work. He often works for half a month and takes half a month.

Tang Long asked Sun Xin if he had any more weapons to make.

Sun Xin thought for a while, his elder brother Sun Li's iron whips were made under Zhou Tong's personal guidance, both the weight and the material were the best, even if Tang Long was asked to make another pair, he would not be able to. What is used now is more handy.

As for the pair of wrought iron whips in his hands, Sun Xin wanted to change them a long time ago, but since he could design them himself, what Sun Xin wanted to change was not ordinary cold weapons.

Hearing that Sun Xin wanted to make a pair of firecrackers, Tang Long shook his head in confusion.

"Fire gun? I've never heard of this kind of weapon. May I ask what it looks like?"

Sun Xin was quite surprised. What about the Water Margin, and Wei Dingguo, the god-fire general who is good at using firearms on Mount Liang?How come the ordnance geniuses of the Northern Song Dynasty have never even heard of firecrackers?
However, under his questioning, Tang Long and his disciples confirmed that they had never heard of firecrackers, even if they explained the principles, they would not recognize them.

Sun Xin went to the city the next day and asked Sun Li by the way, and when he heard Sun Xin mention a firearm that could be held in his hand to fire offspring, Sun Li also said that he had never heard of it.

He said that he had heard that there was a general named Wei Dingguo in Lingzhou who was good at using firearms, but these days the firearms are all explosives, ignition tubes, chimneys and the like, and the firearms thrown are just using trebuchets. It was nothing more than a thrown gunpowder bag, and he had never heard of such a thing as a firecracker.

After Sun Xin went back, he had to tell Tang Long about his requirements for firecrackers. When he heard that Sun Xin needed only two iron pipes, Tang Long patted his chest and said that his craftsmanship was good enough, so he directly gave him two iron pipes. Then solder it with flux.

Hearing this, Sun Xin shook his head in fright.

The firecrackers of the Ming Dynasty were stupid enough, but they were at least made of cast iron and formed in one piece. Even so, the danger of bombing the chamber was unavoidable. Now Tang Long thought about hammering out an iron pipe for him as a Gun barrel, isn't this a life-threatening thing?
Sun Xin, who was a soldier in his previous life, had a good shooting record in the team. After retiring from the army, he has not yet reached the era of collecting guns. He also has a lot of shotguns when he goes hunting in the mountains. He also has his own basic requirements for firearms.

Not to mention that cast-iron firecrackers were far from meeting Sun Xin's requirements for self-defense weapons, even if he was given an ordinary musket, Sun Xin would not like it.

Sun Xin knew that the most technically difficult part of the flintlock shotgun made by the later generations of earth workshops was the barrel, which was drilled directly on the iron bar with an alloy drill knife. If he wanted to make the barrel, he needed at least one Drilling machine with metal cutters.

After thinking for a long time, Sun Xin ran to the foot of the Dengyun Mountain that he had crossed at night, got into the steel frame of the burned wrecked truck, and fiddled with it. The next day he carried a piece of engine fragment that had been burned and deformed to find it. Tang Long.

The inner wall of this truck engine is made of tungsten steel coating. If the tungsten steel on the inner wall can be removed, maybe it can really be made into an alloy boring tool.

After listening to Sun Xin's description, Tang Long still didn't quite know what tungsten steel coating was, but he generally understood that the piece of metal that Sun Xin was holding was made of several layers of different steel materials bonded together. They were made together, and now Sun Xin wants them to take down the innermost layer of steel. Tang Long has never done it, but he still said that he can try it.

(End of this chapter)