The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 7 Leverage
The next day, Zhu Linmi put the gun back into the self-generating gun, took the gunpowder and all the craftsmen to the testing ground behind the Arms Bureau.

Pour the gunpowder into the medicine pot, set the fire sickle and pull the hammer to pull the trigger.Alas, the gunpowder did not ignite.Put the scythe on the hammer and try again...

It wasn't until the third time that the gunpowder burned reluctantly.

Just as Zhu Linming expected, after dozens of attempts in a row, the success rate of ignition was less than [-]%.

The craftsmen looked at each other in blank dismay, yesterday they all thought that the gun could be used, only Mr. Su said that there was something wrong with the gun mechanism.After this test, the problem was really not small, and the few people secretly gestured at Zhu Linming with their eyes, which meant——it seemed that he was really good at breaking through armor.

Zhu Linmi led people back to the workshop, re-determined the size of the bolt, and increased the impact angle of the hammer and scythe.

The craftsmen immediately began to remake the firecrackers according to the new size, thinking in their hearts that they should be made according to Mr. Su's teaching. If they were lucky, they might even get some skins of Qimen Dunjia.

In fact, Bi Maokang, the inventor of self-generating guns, had discovered the problem of low firing rate long ago, but he couldn't solve it until his death.

For Zhu Linmi, who has studied the principles of modern machinery, these problems are just a matter of adjusting a few parameters.

Knowing the answer is just a few words, but not knowing it is a mountain.

Due to the large changes and the clay model had to be made again, Zhu Linming knew that she would have to wait at least another day.

He was thinking about what he could do, when the guards of the palace came to him, saying that the steward of the palace came to report, and the officer named Yu Xin came to pay his respects, and now he was in the palace of Chen Wang.

When Zhu Linming returned to the palace, Yin Lisheren immediately reported that Yu Bazong was already waiting in the front hall.

So he turned to the front hall again, and heard someone shouting in surprise from a long distance: "My son!"

He looked up and saw a 24-year-old young man with broad shoulders, broad back, tall figure, straight nose and square mouth, kneeling on one knee and saluting himself, "See you!"

It was Yu Xin.

Zhu Linmei stepped forward to help him up, "Have you not seen each other for more than two years? Sit down quickly." He then beckoned him to sit down.My own servants brought hot tea.

Yu Xin looked at Zhu Linmi, and many memories rushed into his heart, and he was very emotional for a while, "I have been away from Nanyang for many years. This time, my troops were sent to Zhangpu, passing through Tianxing Mansion to stop for repairs. I came to visit the prince, and heard that you I was in danger on the way, and my heart was greatly shaken. This shows your spirit of dragon and horse, but is it okay?"

"It's okay, I just slept for a few days." Zhu Linmei smiled, "I heard that you have been promoted to general manager after just two years in the army, and you are doing well."

"Hey, the prince is laughing at you." Yu Xin said with a gloomy expression, "Actually, I was the chief executive a few days ago. On the way to Zhangpu, some soldiers escaped, so Zheng Zhilong seized this matter and demoted me to general chief."

"Is there such a thing?" Zhu Linmi asked suspiciously, "Also, Zhangpu is in the southeast of Fujian Province, what did you send you there for?"

"Alas," Yu Xin said with a sigh, "I was stationed in Chunhua, but after the fall of Nanjing, I went to Fujian from Zhejiang and went to Zhengshuo, Longwu.

"Who would have expected Zheng Zhilong in Fujing to overwhelm the sky now and use me as his private soldier. I refused to accept it, so he and several other dissatisfied teams formed a battalion and transferred them to Zhangpu. I was ignored along the way. The military pay, and even our troops deserted constantly, and now there are less than [-]% of the soldiers left."

"This Zheng Zhilong!" Although Zhu Linmei knew that Zheng Zhilong was in control of the government, she did not expect him to exclude dissidents so blatantly.In June next year, it was because of the surrender of this product to the Qing Dynasty that it directly led to the demise of the Longwu Dynasty.

He suppressed the anger in his heart and looked at Yu Xin, "Chuang Zhi, what are your plans now?" Chuang Zhi is Yu Xin's nickname, and Zhu Linming naturally knew it from her inherited memory.

Yu Xin said dejectedly: "There is no more military pay, and sooner or later all my people will run away. I can only take one step at a time."

Zheng Zhilong wanted to bring together the troops who refused to submit to him, and let them collapse due to lack of pay.Thinking of this episode, Zhu Linmi's eyes suddenly brightened, and she thought that Zheng Zhilong had helped out, and I didn't need to look for it, as all the people who didn't deal with him were here.This battalion may be where he can borrow strength.

He asked Yu Xindao, "How many people were sent to Zhangpu?"

"It is said that there is a battalion, but it is far from full. In addition, there have been a lot of deserters recently, and there are only about [-] people left."

Zhu Linmei thought for a while, and said to Yu Xin: "Chuangzhi, can you find a way to delay in Tianxing Mansion for a few days?"

"It's easy." Yu Xin said immediately, "The soldiers are too hungry to walk, at most Zheng Zhilong will accuse me of not being dispatched. I don't know what your son's plan is?"

"We can't let these experienced troops be destroyed." Zhu Linmi twitched her lips slightly, "Perhaps Zheng Zhilong will soon regret letting you out."

Yu Xin was stunned for a moment, a little surprised by the sly expression on this boy who had been dull since he was a child, and hurriedly said: "Everything is at the disposal of the prince."

After a while, Dian Shan came to announce that dinner was ready.

At the dining table, Zhu Linmei listened to Yu Xin talk about the latest battle situation.The city of Jiangyin was destroyed, and the Jiankui massacred the city.Zhang Tianlu's army of the Qing army approached Huizhou, and Huizhou was in a hurry.Ji'an fell, and Ganzhou was in a hurry.Civil unrest broke out in Huizhou, Chaozhou, Fujian, and Tingzhou, Fujian, and local corruption...

Yu Xin didn't say goodbye until Xu Shi had passed. Zhu Linmi asked him to withdraw 800 taels of silver from the account of the palace and asked him to distribute it to the soldiers first to stabilize the morale of the army.

Zhu Linmei recalled what she had just heard about the battle situation, she was in a hurry everywhere, the Longwu Dynasty is now leaking everywhere like a broken ship.He knew that there was not much time left for himself, and he had to speed up.

At noon the next day, the self-generating gun made according to Zhu Linmei's newly designed plan was completed.

Zhu Linming looked at the firecracker in his hand. Except for some roughness, the action was very similar to the British 1730-style flintlock gun of later generations. He had a premonition that this time it should be reliable.

On the gun trial field, his feeling was fulfilled, and the firing rate had reached nearly [-]%.This is still under the condition that the spring does not satisfy him.If the steel sheet with stronger elasticity is replaced, the fire rate should be improved, but there is no suitable spring steel right now.

Don’t think that the [-]% fire rate is not high. Firstly, the matchlock guns of the same era often misfired. Secondly, even if the flintlock gun misfired, just pull the hammer and fire again. It takes less than two seconds.Therefore, the fire rate of [-]% is enough for actual combat, and there is still room for improvement.

The craftsmen on the side seemed calm, as if they had expected that the problem with the new guns would be resolved this time.They had no doubts about Mr. Su's level of making guns.

The workshop only took four days, and there were still days before the agreed ten days.Zhu Linmi made some detailed improvements to the bolt mechanism and handed it over to the craftsmen for implementation.

He himself made standard industrial drawings of all the shaped autogenous gun parts.After finishing the painting, I felt that the charcoal lines would not last long, so I asked the carpenter to cut some bamboo pens for me.

The difference is that he made a narrow slit at the tip of the pen and made the first simple "pen" in the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing the thin and steady lines in his pen, the craftsmen repeated in their hearts "Qi Men Dun Jia is powerful".

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