Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 58

Just as Sister Gu Sanniang and the others were entering Dengzhou City, Wang Zheng's carriage was also ushered in at the Sun Family Village.

After Sun Xin inoculated the Chen family with vaccinia, no one in the Chen family was infected during the smallpox epidemic. The family was very happy because of this, and even Wang Zheng, who was the first to propose that the whole family be vaccinated, was praised a few words .

Wang Zheng knew that the Chen family had a very good attitude towards Sun Xin, so he often came to sit in Sun Xin's Zhuangzi in the next few days.

Wang Zheng entered the room and saw Sun Xin playing with a medicine box, and asked with a smile what it was. Sun Xin opened the medicine box, and Wang Zheng saw a big red ginseng, and his eyes lit up:
"Such a big ginseng has complete roots and beautiful processing. It must be hundreds of years old?"

Sun Xin thought that the farther away from the origin of the medicinal materials, the more illusory people's understanding of medicinal materials would be. Seeing ginseng with the thickness of two fingers can be counted as [-] years old.

However, Wang Zheng would be foolish if he didn’t accept the big injustice. Sun Xin smiled and said, “This is ginseng from the Kingdom of Jin. When it was sold, it was said to be 500 years old!”

Wang Zheng also guessed wildly, but after hearing Sun Xin's confirmation, he nodded solemnly, and said with a clear expression on his face: "There must be!"

"It may not be more than 500 years old. I saw that the 500-year-old ginseng in Dengzhou City is not so big. Your ginseng may be 700 years old!"

"Is this ginseng new brother used to combine medicine?"

Sun Xin said: "There is no suitable medicinal material for this ginseng plant, and I am thinking of selling it, but I don't know if there is a buyer."

Wang Zheng's eyes lit up, he thought for a while and said to Sun Xin: "Brother, can you keep this ginseng plant for a while, and I'll help you find a buyer."

Sun Xin naturally nodded.

In the evening, Sanniang Hu, Sister Gu, and Ya'er returned to the village by car. When Sun Xin went to pick up his wife, she saw that she was unhappy.

Looking at Sister Gu with a questioning look, Sister Gu gouged him out with her eyes, as if to say that she saw what you did.

Sun Xin was at a loss, and he didn't want to call people around. He helped his daughter-in-law carry things into the back room.

As soon as Sun Xin put the things down, he turned his head and saw his daughter-in-law's big watery eyes. It turned out that Hu Sanniang had been walking behind his butt all the way just now.

Sun Xin couldn't help laughing and asked her what's the matter, Hu Sanniang just looked at him and didn't speak, and suddenly ran over to hug him after a while.

Sun Xin didn't know what was going on with her, and he didn't know what happened during the day until he called Ya'er to inquire about her at night.

Co-authoring the little girl felt inferior, Sun Xin couldn't laugh or cry, he had no way to solve this problem, he had to let it hang, maybe Hu Sanniang would forget about it in two days.

Sun Xin got up the next day and came to the small courtyard specially opened for Tang Long in Zhuangzi.

"I made the weapon you mentioned for you."

Tang Long put eight pepper shaker pistols on the table.

During this time, Sun Xin and Tang Long have been researching how to make gun barrels. After the actual experiment, they discovered that the technical difficulty of this thing is very high.

It is not difficult to make a rifled barrel under the condition of a boring machine, and under the combined efforts of Sun Xin and Tang Long, they even came up with several kinds of gun barrels that can be made under the conditions of this time and space. Carbide.

So if the barrel iron used is a little softer, Tang Long can already use the metal in this time and space as a boring tool to make a rifled gun.

But the difficulty in making a rifled gun is how to make the barrel resistant to corrosion for a long time.

Gunpowder is a highly corrosive thing, especially black powder these days. No matter how it is configured, the burning effect will not be too complete. Every time it is fired, it will leave a lot of residue in the barrel. The two found that as long as they used There is a little problem with the iron quality of the barrel. After firing a dozen shots, the gunpowder accumulated in the barrel can corrode the rifling.

It doesn’t matter if the rifling is worn out, the more important thing is that the uneven thickness of the barrel is very easy to explode after being damaged. After suffering two losses, Sun Xin and Tang Long can only stand ten meters away from the test gun now. Fire launched.

This is why Tang Long consumed so much good iron to make a total of five rifled guns.

Seeing that the birthday outline is about to be sent to Dengzhou, Sun Xin has some technical reserves here. Since ten days ago, Sun Xin told Tang Long not to worry about the rifle research for the time being, and first made eight short rifles for him. Take a short gun with six rounds.

After the barrel was shortened, the difficulty of making plummeted. In less than eight days, Tang Long put eight pepper bottle guns on the table.

Sun Xin picked up a pepper shaker and checked it: "Has it been tested? Can it work?"

Tang Long smiled and said, "It's definitely possible."

Ever since Tang Long returned to Sun's Village a few months ago, Sun Xin discovered that this old man probably won't leave in a short time.

This man has the temperament of a scientific madman. He usually likes to play and gamble, but as long as he concentrates on the research of weapons, he can get countless fun from weapons. Think about whether he has the spirit of enjoying it However, in the original book, it is impossible for him to manage the entire Liangshan weapon manufacturing by himself.

Obviously, the design drawings of the pepper bottle pistol that Sun Xinxin took out this time made him very interested. Just seeing his eyes were bloodshot at this time, Sun Xin suspected that he must have been working without sleep for several days.

Sun Xin raised a six-mouth pepper bottle pistol that had been filled with propellant, and was ready to fire with a fire pocket in one hand.

The source of the pistol design that Sun Xin gave Tang Long now is actually the honeycomb-shaped firecrackers used in some rural areas when they went to the graves to release the guns. Because there is no cap that can be fired at any time, Sun Xin simply did not design any complicated triggers at all. device, when the trigger is fired, just take the torch and send it directly to the ignition hole.

The technical difficulty in making these guns is mainly in the barrel production. The honeycomb firecrackers in the rural areas of later generations are just ceremonial items, and they don’t need to be loaded with lead bullets or kill people, so they can be cast directly with cast iron. But if the real gun barrels are made so thin I'm afraid that if you shoot a gun, it will explode.

The six thick gun barrels are gathered together and cannot be lifted. How to use good materials to make thin enough materials? In this time and space, only Sun Xin and Tang Long have such technology.

Granular black powder has been compacted in the six barrels, and six lead bullets have been filled.

Tang Long covered his ears with his hands, while Sun Xin directly put the fire pocket in his hand close to the ignition hole at the rear end of the barrel.

With a light touch, the lead bullet in the gun barrel was shot out with a bang.

This pistol didn't have any ergonomic design at all, and the recoil of the barrel was amazing. Fortunately, Sun Xin's body was strong enough, so he let go without firing a single shot.

But after one shot, he also felt like he had been kicked in the shoulder.

Walk through the gunpowder to see the impact point.Sun Xin found out that Tang Long's craftsmanship was really good. His shot shook like this and he didn't miss the target, leaving a big bullet hole on the pedestrian bar 20 meters away.Although he aimed at the head and the bullet hole missed his leg, it has exceeded his expectations.

(End of this chapter)