Fang Nan knew it was difficult to build a Miner rifle, but he didn't expect that when the first qualified rifle was built, it had been eight months since Fang Nan and his group first came to Hutou Village.

During these eight months, Fang Nan and his group worked together with Hutouzhai to overcome many difficulties such as gun barrels, man-powered drilling machines, man-powered boring machines, springs, and improving steelmaking technology, and finally created a qualified rifle.

Fang Nan and his group were extremely happy when the first qualified rifle was built. As early as the third month, the first firearm had been built. Although it was just a short gun with an effective range of only a few dozen meters, the power of the short gun surprised Hu Zhuang, He Yan, Zhou Yi and others.

Living in the deep mountains, most people have never seen firearms. At most, they only see bows or crossbows when hunting. Hu Zhuang and others have only heard from Teacher Fang Nan that firearms are very powerful, but now they have seen them with their own eyes. They are the worst firearms, and their power is so extraordinary. If the firearms on the drawings are well built, how powerful will they show.

The entire Minnie rifle weighs 4.8 kilograms, a diameter of 17.8 mm, and a bullet weighs 32.4 grams. The killing distance can reach 918 meters. It can ensure accurate hit within 550 meters. The Minnie rifle can penetrate two poplar wood boards with a space of 20 inches and two-thirds of the thick space within 15 yards.

The first qualified rifle in Fang Nan's team weighs about 5.6 kilograms, a diameter of about 16 mm, and a bullet weighs about 30.6 grams. The killing distance exceeds 750 meters. The accurate hit can be guaranteed within 350 meters, and the power is smaller than that of the Minie rifle.

Because this rifle was built in Hutou Village, Fang Nan directly named the "Tiger Head (String) Gun". Compared with the Minie rifle, there is a big gap in range and power. Fang Nan can understand this situation. After all, the Tier Head Gun is fully handmade. After the Minie rifle is born, it can be produced in large quantities in industrial production, and the two are far from comparable.

However, the times are different, and it is enough for Fang Nan's team to have this tiger-headed gun. At this time, the bird gun widely used in the Ming army was two meters long, with a range of 100 meters to 150 meters, and a rate of fire can only be fired once or twice in one minute.

Compared with bird guns, the performance of tiger head guns is undoubtedly much higher, and even in terms of firing rate, it is much faster than that of bird guns. It can fire three or four times in a minute.

An army equipped with tiger head guns, as long as the tactics are correct, can fully fight against enemies equipped with bird guns ten times more than those equipped with bird guns. The tiger head guns are successfully built. Everyone in Fang Nan's team knows that on the road to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, they have successfully taken another big step forward.

The successful creation of the tiger head gun is worthy of the joy of Fang Nan's team, but after the joy, the production of the tiger head gun has become the most important problem Fang Nan needs to solve at present. Without a steam engine, the tiger head gun can only be built by hand. With the number of blacksmiths in Hutou Village, five of them can be created in a month.

In order to create more tiger head spears, Hutouzhai must change!

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Three years and three years, it has been six years since Fang Nan awakened his memories of his previous life. Two months ago, under the blessing of students and elders, the 18-year-old Fang Nan and Hu Xiaoya have already married.

With memories of his previous life, Fang Nan wanted to get married later, but Hu Xiaoya's parents were urging him. Fang Nan also had to take into account Hu Xiaoya's ideas and agreed to get married, but the matter of having a child would be later.

Hu Xiaoya also understands her husband's idea. The rebellion is underway. Perhaps it will take less than two years to rush out of the deep mountains and give birth to a child. Hu Xiaoya will devote most of her energy to the child, and Fang Nan's energy will be divided by the child. It is best to wait until the rebellion is initially successful before giving birth to a child.

Unlike Fang Nan and Hu Xiaoya, some of Fang Nan's students already had descendants, and Hu Zhuang and Su Ting gave birth to a boy, and the Hu family has successors.

In the past three years, Fang Nan and Hu Xiaoya have lived in Hutou Village more than Qingshan Village. The current Hutou Village is much different from the Hutou Village three years ago. The entire Hutou Village has expanded several times. At most, more than 1,500 people live in the villages, and two-thirds of them are from Hutou Village. Qingshan Village has a good village. This is the biggest change in Hutou Village.

More than two years ago, in order to increase the production of Hutou Gun, Fang Nan first came up with a plan to change Hutou Village. Then Fang Nan discussed with Wang Dachui, the leader of Hutou Village. Seeing Fang Nan's obvious premeditated actions, Wang Dachui agreed to Fang Nan's plan after careful consideration.

At that time, Fang Nan felt that Wang Dahui should have seen what he was going to rebel, but Wang Dahui agreed to the plan. Obviously, Wang Dahui had an objection to the Ming Dynasty.

Changing the Hutouzhai plan is actually changing the process of building a tiger head gun. For example, Wang Dahui is better to build a barrel, so Wang Dahui will specially build a barrel afterwards, without having to be distracted from doing other things. Other blacksmiths are also responsible for a special part, and they don’t even need to do the mining, iron smelting, and steelmaking.

Adding the earliest 20,000 taels of silver, Fang Nan exchanged "treasures" for more than 30,000 taels of silver and 50,000 taels of silver in the outside world. You should know that the annual fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty was only four or five million taels of silver.

Of course, four or five million taels of silver are just income from "silver", as well as income from grain and cloth, all converted into silver, and the annual finance is expected to exceed 20 million taels of silver.

Fifty thousand taels of silver are equivalent to one-four percent of the annual fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty, which is not small, at least enough in the deep mountains.

Fang Nan took out the money and hired adult labor from other villages with a not-so-high salary. The labor force in the mountains was very cheap. The biggest pursuit of the mountain people was to have enough food, which was something that the outside world could not do.

Although I received Fang Nan's employment, I didn't give much money, at least I used the grain I bought from the outside world and the grain I harvested from my village to be able to eat enough. I even had some excess grain or silver. After saving it, I could buy cloth to make a new set of clothes.

Not only mining, iron smelting, and iron steel work, but also some of the strength work that can be used to build a tiger head spear can be used to them. The blacksmiths in Hutou Village are focused on doing the work that can only be done by blacksmiths.

In this case, the production of tiger-headed guns has increased rapidly. In the year when the tiger-headed gun was just created, only five tiger-headed guns were built per month; in the second year, at least 10 tiger-headed guns could be built per month; in the third year, at least thirty tiger-headed guns could be built per month.

Fang Nan now has more than 500 tiger-headed guns in his hand, but it is not enough. Fang Nan must at least form an army of thousands of people in this deep mountain. Each of them must have a tiger-headed gun, and there must be hundreds of extra tiger-headed guns to replace the damaged ones.
Chapter completed!