"I met you. I saw my father build a musket with my own eyes." Wang Dahui said with emotion.

Fang Nan did not ask Wang Dahui as he said what Wang Dahui wanted to say. Fang Nan could guess a rough process with a little guess. Wang Dahui's family was a craftsman, and he was once responsible for building firearms for the Ming army. Something happened and Wang Dahui's family escaped into the mountains.

Yes, ordinary people can learn the skills of carpenters by themselves, but iron smelting and iron smelting are not something ordinary people can understand. Only craftsmen who specialize in iron smelting can discover iron ore in the deep mountains, and then mine iron ore, smelting and iron smelting, which makes a village like Hutouzhai appear in the deep mountains.

After Wang Dachui sighed, he looked at the drawings drawn by Fang Nan carefully. This drawing was not a professional drawing in the modern world, but only a drawing drawn by Fang Nan, a non-professional person. However, the drawings drawn by Fang Nan were very careful, with an overall structure and separate parts structures. Ordinary people can understand the objects drawn on the drawings.

As long as standard-sized parts are manufactured according to the drawings, a musket is assembled.

After looking at the drawings for a while, Wang Dachui said in confusion again: "Is the musket drawn on this paper different from the musket I remember?"

The musket made by Wang Daichi's father was a musket, or to be precise, a "bird gun", which was widely used in the Ming Dynasty army.

The Ming Huidian records that 10,000 bird-billed guns were built in one year in the 37th year of Jiajing (1558). Qi Jiguang's "Strange Soldiers" (issued in 1571) recorded that there were 2,699 infantry camps of the Qi family army, equipped with 1,080 bird guns, accounting for about 40%.

Fang Nan wanted to build a firearm with better performance than the bird gun, and at the same time, he could not draw a firearm with too difficult construction according to actual conditions. For example, the rear-mounted rifle was installed. The Ming Dynasty could not create a rear-mounted rifle in a short period of time without concentrating all its forces, let alone the Hutou Village in the deep mountains.

Finally, Fang Nan designed a front-mounted rifle flintlock rifle with a specially made lead bullet. The reference object is the peak work of the front-mounted rifle flintlock rifle, the Minnier Rifle.

Before the emergence of the Miner rifle, smoothbore rifles were practical weapons, while rifled rifles were just experimental weapons. The main problem with rifles was that it was difficult to maintain the air-retaining nature of the gun chamber due to the rifle in front of the bullet, which greatly reduced its power.

In order to achieve good air stance, the caliber of the rifled gun bullet is often the same as the caliber of the gun, or even slightly larger. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to load. It often requires a hammer to beat the push rod to push the bullet into place. As a result, this often leads to a more dangerous crack in the barrel. When the bullet is pushed to the position of the medicine room, it is often deformed due to rough operations, and the killing effect cannot be achieved.

The Minnier rifle uses round-head cylindrical lead bullets. Since this bullet is slightly smaller than the rifle's caliber, it solves the embarrassing situation when the old rifle is loaded with the bullet in one fell swoop. The lead bullet can be easily pushed into the barrel with the push rod.

This greatly improves the rate of fire.

The lead bullet is surrounded by threads to match the rifle, and the threads are filled with animal oil in the middle.

The bottom of the bullet is made of cork material. When shooting, gunpowder gas hits the cork. After the cork is instantly impacted, it suddenly supports the bullet.

Since the bullet is stretched, the chamber sealing can be completed by relying on the bullet itself at the moment of launch without leaking gunpowder gas, resulting in the loss of kinetic energy of the bullet. This solves the problem of chamber sealing of the old front-loading gun, greatly enhancing the fire rate, range and safety of the gun.

Listening to Wang Dahui's confusing words, Fang Nan took out a ingot of silver from his portable space and put it in front of Wang Dahui and said, "It's indeed different. As long as the musket I drew was able to be built, it is definitely the best musket. The difficulty of building should also be increased. Can the master of Wang Village create this musket? I can pay the money."

"I just saw my father building a musket, and I haven't built a musket himself. I can try to build the musket painted on this paper, and I can't guarantee that the musket will be built intact."

Wang Dahui's eyes turned from the silver and the drawings, and in the end it was the silver that made Wang Dahui decide to try. The silver in the deep mountains was useless, but Hutouzhai also communicated with the outside world and could buy things from the outside world with silver. Moreover, the difficulty of building firearms was different from ordinary iron tools. As long as the firearms were built, Hutouzhai could earn more money and buy more food.

"The King of the Village King will do its best. Even if it fails, I will give Hutouzhai a silver compensation. If it can be successfully built, I will buy it at a high price to ensure that the people in Hutouzhai have no worries about food and clothing in the future."

Wang Dachui nodded and expressed his understanding. If Fang Nan's words had been absolutely a big deal in Wang Dachui's eyes, Qingshanzhai was able to have enough food and his living standards were similar to those of Hutou Village. The people in Qingshanzhai said that it was possible to let the people in Hutou Village have no worries about food and clothing.

Now Fang Nan showed his hands slightly in front of Wang Dahui. The musket drawings and silver were made of nothing. This "trick" is extraordinary. Anyway, Fang Nan can afford to pay for the silver, so Wang Dahui is willing to try it. If Fang Nan has no money, he will not build it. As for the people in Hutou Village, Wang Dahui doesn't care much about it.

In addition, firearms are not something that the people can build and hold at will, but people living in the mountains will not care about this matter. Hutou Village has many swords and guns. If it were placed outside, Hutou Village would have been suppressed by the imperial court.

After discussing with Wang Dahui, Fang Nan and his group decided to start building firearms tomorrow. Today, Fang Nan and his group were tired of walking, so they had a rest first.

After Wang Dachui separated from Fang Nan and his group, he kept thinking about the musket painted on paper. With the blacksmith's senses, Wang Dachui felt that the "gun barrel" of the musket was the most difficult to build. As long as the gun barrel was built, the musket would be half successful.

If Fang Nan knew Wang Dahui's idea, he would definitely think that building a firearm would have more than a chance of success. Before coming to Hutou Village, Fang Nan had always been worried that Hutou Village's iron-making skills were not good and that he could not build a firearm. Now that he knew that Wang Dahui was a craftsman, he would definitely pass on some iron-making skills from his father, which would definitely be many times better than exploring himself.

The barrel of a firearm is indeed the most difficult to build among all the firearms. Compared with smoothbore rifles like bird guns, the barrel of a Minie rifle, which is a rifle, is more difficult to build. Building a barrel is difficult, and rifle is also difficult. Even if the barrel is built, the rifle will be pulled well. It is very likely that the rifle created is defective because the material of the barrel is not good.
Chapter completed!