The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 375 374 Flintlock Rifle
Zhuge Liang, Ma Jun, Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Wang Lun and others all knelt on the ground, not daring to look directly at Zhang Yan.

"His Royal Highness Yan Wang, please calm down. During the experiment, my subordinates did not experience any similar problems. Since King Yan is not satisfied with these weapons, I will improve them later." Zhuge Liang said loudly.

Zhang Yandao: "Get up, all of you. These three new weapons, the Liannu still need to be improved, and the firecrackers and cannons must be recast. I have already told you very clearly that what I want is not so simple. You guys Don't come to perfuse me either. If any of you still don't understand, I can explain to you the principles of firecrackers and artillery."

Afterwards, Zhang Yan and others returned to the hall, and Zhang Yan explained some knowledge about firecrackers and artillery again.It was the first time for Zhuge Liang and the others to come into contact with these new things, and it was inevitable that they would be a little confused. However, during Zhang Yan's detailed explanation, some basic concepts probably formed in their minds.

However, Zhang Yan was still a little worried, so he decided to live in Puyang permanently, and personally participated in the research and design, preparing to build the first real firecracker by himself.

With Zhang Yan's participation, the research and design of firearms has been much faster.Zhang Yan is very familiar with guns and ammunition. Although he doesn't know how to make them, he has never eaten pork, has seen pigs run, and crossed rivers by feeling the stones. He personally supervises and guides every process of making firearms.Some parts of firearms cannot be made under the existing conditions, but the clever Zhang Yan used other things as substitutes.

After seven days of unremitting efforts, the first firecracker in history was perfectly cast.

It is said to be a firearm, but it is actually an imitation rifle. It has everything from the stock, barrel, and trigger. Even the small parts inside the gun are very complete and can be well prepared for firing.

However, due to the lack of technology, the lack of items, and the urgency of time, Zhang Yan only forged a front-loading rifle.However, great achievements have been made in the re-launching device. It no longer relies on fire to ignite, but uses flint to launch.

Therefore, the rifle cast by Zhang Yan this time is a flintlock rifle.

The gun is about 110 cm long and has a caliber of about [-] mm. The gun barrel is filled with gunpowder and then a small iron marble. A huge spark was emitted, causing the gunpowder in the barrel to burn violently and expand, and finally formed a huge impact force, ejecting the iron marble in front of it.

After producing this flintlock rifle, Zhang Yan personally carried out several tests with this rifle, and finally gave a conclusion that the best range of this gun is 100 meters, but because there is no rifling in the barrel, the accuracy is relatively low. Poor, within the optimal shooting distance, Zhang Yan shot ten times in a row, but only six times hit the target, of which only two hit the bull's-eye, and the remaining four times all missed the target.

Although this is not Zhang Yan's favorite rifle, it must be said that it is a miracle that such a gun can be produced in a short period of time and with the existing scientific and technological conditions.

The successful production of the flintlock rifle has also injected fresh blood into Zhuge Liang and other Tiangong Bureau. How to improve the range, how to improve the accuracy, and how to improve the shooting speed have become the direction of their future research.

At the same time, the development of firearms and their equipment into the army have also become the focus of Zhang Yan in the future.

Therefore, Zhang Yan asked Zhuge Liang and others to make a hundred rifles first. As for the artillery, they still used ignition to fire, but the barrels were much thicker and deeper. In short, the artillery had to be powerful and have a long range.

Afterwards, Zhang Yan left the Tiangong Bureau and told Zhuge Liang and others that after the production of [-] rifles was completed, they would be sent to Pengcheng.

After returning to Pengcheng, Zhang Yan immediately selected a hundred people from Jinyiwei, and asked them to be on standby at all times, ready for the arrival of new weapons, and regarded Jinyiwei as the first batch of people to use new weapons.

However, the waiting time is relatively long, because the process of producing rifles is more complicated, and the time to produce a rifle is also relatively long.

In the next few months, everything in the Central Plains was peaceful, and the year [-] AD was soon ushered in.During the Spring Festival of this year, Zhang Yan announced to the world that because of the new emperor Liu Feng's ascension to the throne, and the pacification of Hebei and the stabilization of the northern border, he changed Yuan Wude and set [-] AD as the first year of Wude.

It was also at this time that all the civil and military ministers in the imperial court had a fifteen-day holiday. After the Lantern Festival, they started to go to work again, so that all the civil and military ministers who had worked hard for a year could reunite with their families and have a good year.

Three days after the Lantern Festival, the regent Yan Wang Zhang Yan who had just started work received a letter from Henan.

The memorandum was written by Zhang Hong, the governor of Henan Province, with thousands of words eloquently. However, the general content of the memorandum can be summed up in only two words, that is, "moving the capital".

With the gradual stabilization of the Han Dynasty and the restoration of the old capital Luoyang, Pengcheng no longer has the qualifications to be a capital city. Although Pengcheng has gradually become a large city after so many years of development, the population of immigrants is also increasing day by day. Pengcheng originally planned by Zhang Yan has also become more and more congested with the surge in population.

It is urgent to build a new capital to alleviate the differences between regions.

Therefore, Zhang Hong thought about what people think, and first presented it to Zhang Yan in the form of memorials, suggesting that the capital of the Han Dynasty should be moved back to Luoyang.

Why the capital was moved, Zhang Hong cited extensively in his memorials, expounding the importance of moving the capital and the inevitability of Luoyang as the land of Longxing.

This memorial was thousands of words long, but Zhang Yan actually read every single word, and after reading it, he also had the urge to move the capital immediately.

However, Zhang Yan did not take action immediately, and began to think calmly.

Now he is no longer a simple-minded mercenary with well-developed limbs. In the few years since he came to this world, with the development of many things, Zhang Yan has gradually armed his mind. Now he is a person in a high position, holding the power of the whole world, and his whole body can be affected by a single hair. Pengcheng is his old nest. If he really plans to move the capital of the big man to another place, how much manpower and material resources will it take? and financial resources.

However, the geographical location of Pengcheng is indeed a bit unfavorable. It is not as good as Luoyang, which has high mountains and obstacles, and the eight gates are tightly locked. It is a natural place for dragon prosperity.

Therefore, Zhang Yan discussed the matter of moving the capital in the early court, hoping that the officials could give more pertinent opinions.

In the court hall, there were always few voices, but as soon as the topic of moving the capital was brought up today, it immediately caused an uproar.

The ministers expressed their opinions and expressed their views one after another, but in the end they converged into two opinions. One was in favor of moving the capital, thinking that Luoyang was originally the capital of the Han Dynasty, and it was only when Dong Zhuo rebelled that it would be burned and returned to the old capital. It is inevitable.

Another opinion is against moving the capital, thinking that although Luoyang is the old capital, it has become a barren place. Go to a lot of troubles.

The opinions in favor of moving the capital and those against moving the capital are basically [-]-[-]. People on both sides are fighting with each other in the court hall, quarreling endlessly.

In the end, Zhang Yan was too lazy to listen, and directly announced that he would withdraw from the court and move the capital to discuss later.

After retiring from the imperial court, Zhang Yan kept Zhang Zhao, Chen Qun, Gu Yong and other confidants behind him, and asked them again about moving the capital.

Chen Qun said: "It's not impossible to move the capital, but the time has not yet come. Hebei has just been pacified, the border has just been stabilized, and the war has just been settled. Many places need to spend a lot of money. At this time, moving the capital is a bit too hasty."

Zhang Zhao and Gu Yong also had similar opinions, thinking that moving the capital could be done, but not now, maybe ten years later it would not be too late to move again.

However, Zhang Zhao suggested to Zhang Yan that relocation is a matter of time, so the construction of a new capital should be ordered as soon as possible, and a new capital can be built on the basis of the old capital of Luoyang.

Zhang Yan followed Zhang Zhao's suggestion and wrote a letter to Zhang Hong, agreeing to move the capital, but not now, because Luoyang does not have the conditions to move the capital now, and asked Zhang Hong to concentrate on building the capital in the next ten years. The matter of the new capital, preparing to build a new, huge capital.

At the same time, Zhang Yan specifically referred to the construction of the capital city in history and drew a magnificent sketch. He sent someone to send the sketch of the new capital to Zhang Hong, and asked Zhang Hong to be fully responsible for the construction of the new capital. The construction will be carried out according to the proportion above, and the construction will be carried out in batches and in stages, and it will take eight years to build this magnificent capital.

After the messenger was sent out, Zhang Yan then received another important news, which was sent by Li Cai, saying that Gongsun Du had died in Liaodong, but Gongsun Kang did not hold a funeral, and secretly assembled the army with evil intentions.

After Zhang Yan got this important information, he fell into deep thought. Hebei had just been pacified, and the nomads on the border were also hit hard by him. It stands to reason that Liaodong should be warned at this time and stay there honestly. That's right.

However, Li Cai's information said that Gongsun Kang was secretly gathering troops with evil intentions. Could it be that Gongsun Kang is a fool who dared to commit crimes against the wind?

A moment later, Jin Yiwei sent a letter from Gongsun Du. After Zhang Yan took it, he frowned after a quick look...

(End of this chapter)