Liu Le signaled Ming Fengxiu to bring the special item up. Ming Fengxiu immediately looked at Zhengliang and sought Zhengliang's consent.

Zhengliang nodded in agreement, and the latter immediately picked up a small wooden box at the door, then came to Zhengliang and handed it to Zhengliang respectfully.

Zhengliang slowly opened the small wooden box.

"The Fire Order?" Zhengliang said in surprise. It was not the first time he had seen the Fire Order, because Wang Hai had sent a Fire Order to Zhengliang a few miles ago. Zhengliang was surprised at the moment why the Fire Order appeared in a small bandit's village.

Take a closer look at the fire system in front of you. It is 43.5 cm long and 3 cm well. It is the fire system that is now a standard weapon in the Ming Dynasty. Looking back on its history, it is an early light firearm of the Ming Dynasty. It is a good casting and designing skillfully. Compared with the Mongols, the gunpowder is greatly reduced. The method used is to use two people in a group, one person is responsible for the support and aiming, and the other person is responsible for the fire strike, with a range of 180 meters. Since the Ming Dynasty had not yet come into contact with the fire system from the West, the bird guns, Lumi guns, etc. invented according to foreign technology have not yet appeared. Now these fire systems can be said to be the most commonly used firearms in the Ming Dynasty.

However, as far as Zhengliang knows, the Ming Dynasty's management of firearms was quite strict. The Ming Dynasty's firearms were also two systems. First, the military weapons bureaus and military warships were set up in the two capitals, which were the main manufacturing institutions of firearms in the Ming Dynasty. In order to prevent the magic guns and the production technology of magic cannons from being missed, the imperial court mainly controlled the manufacturing rights of the weapons in two specialized institutions set up in běijing. Previously, Hongzhi decided that the firearms that the military weapons bureau had to be built once every three years were: 3,000 copper guns, 3,000 copper guns, 90,000 arrows, and 3,000 firearms. The firearms manufactured by the military warship department in the inner government included various types of guns, cannons, and guns. Arrows, chariots, such as generals, second generals, magic guns, hand-held copper guns, hand-held iron guns, bowl-mouth guns, magic machine arrows, etc. After Hongzhi, especially during the Jiajing period, the Military Weapon Bureau and the Military War Bureau all built more new or modified large and large firearms. Second, local garrisons or important border towns were relocated to manufacture firearms of a certain specifications. For example, before Zhengde, Sichuan, Huguang, Guangxi, Qingzhou Zuowei, Xuzhou and Liangzhou, etc., the copper general magic guns and other firearms could be made by themselves. In addition, the Qianli Gun in Liaodong, the Poisonous Fire Flying Cannon in Shanxi's Bietootou Sanguan and the Lianzhu Folang machine cannon were all manufactured after approval during the Jiajing period.

Why did the firearms with such strict management suddenly appear in a bandit village? What's even more bizarre is that since there are firearms, why don't these bandits use them?

Liu Le saw Zhengliang's confusion expression and hurriedly said, "Your Highness, please report the origin of these firearms later. Now I will ask Your Highness to see another item."

"Also?" Zheng Lian was surprised by Liu Le's words because he suddenly saw that the surprise of Huo Tong had not passed.

Ming Fengxiu made a gesture to come in outside the door. Then two slaves from the original village walked in with a long object wrapped in cloth.

After the two of them put down the items, they saluted Zhengliang and then quickly walked out of the house. Ming Fengxiu was walking quickly to the items and lifted the cloth covered on it, revealing the true face of Lushan.

With a "knock" sound, Zhengliang suddenly stood up.

What is this? It is the Folang machine cannon. No, to be precise, it is the Folang machine cannon.

The Folang cannon was introduced from the Portuguese in the early 16th century. In the Ming Dynasty, "Folang" refers to Portugal and Spain at that time. At first, a Portuguese warship clashed with the Ming navy outside Macau and was later captured by the Ming army. During the battle, the Ming army suffered the loss of the Folang cannon, so they asked the court for an order to imitate it as soon as they got ashore. The Ming Dynasty called the imitated Folang cannon "mother and son cannons".

The Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the Folang cannons. However, few imported ones and more imitations were made. The imitation cannons were of complete specifications, ranging from the multi-purpose heavy cannons of more than a thousand kilograms to the large "Flang" of more than a hundred kilograms. Then to the "Little Folang" of dozens of kilograms, even the soldiers had a few kilograms of "Wansheng Folang" of their hands.

Now Zhengliang saw that it was the "Little Folang" with dozens of kilograms. Zhengliang walked to the Little Folang machine cannon and looked carefully. This was the first time Zhengliang had truly seen these ris and was listed as antiques. Generally speaking, the Folang machine cannon is an iron rear-mounted smooth-bore cannon. The entire cannon consists of three parts: the barrel, the belly of the cannon, and the baby cannon. In Zhengliang's impression, the method of using this cannon is to fill the gunpowder projectiles into the baby cannon when firing the cannon, then put the baby cannon into the belly of the cannon, and ignite the baby cannon fire the cannon for shè.

With such a powerful weapon, at least in the siege of Ri, the Luo family had a greater grasp of victory. When they thought of the role of these firearms on the battlefield of Ri, Masayoshi couldn't help but be happy and couldn't help but shout "Okay" several times in succession.

"So, Liu Le, can you tell me now, how did these things come from?" Zhengliang calmed down and turned to Liu Le and asked. Liu Le is the warehouse administrator of this copycat, so he must know the origin of these things.

"Your Highness, a month ago, the bandits here accidentally snatched back from the foot of the mountain," Liu Le replied, "There are 20 fire squads in total, a small Folang machine cannon, and several boxes of ammunition."

"Hiss" Zhengliang took a deep breath of air conditioning when he heard this. Such a large number of firearms were so easily snatched back by these bandits? It was incredible.

"Do your Highness find it strange?" Liu Le asked.

Zhengliang nodded.

"At the beginning, I also felt that it was very different. Later, the leader of the bandit found a letter from the people who escorted these firearms and handed them to the ministers for interpretation. The ministers only realized the whole story," Liu Le bowed and said, "It turned out that these firearms were secretly transported to an official named Zhang in Ningbo Prefecture. In order to cover up, the team of people put on makeup and became a small caravan with less than 10 people, and was preparing to go to Ningbo from this somewhat remote mountain road. But they didn't expect that the originally peaceful place was occupied by the bandits here during this period. So they were robbed."

"You mean, someone is secretly selling firearms?" Zhengliang asked.

Liu Le nodded solemnly, "From the letter, we can roughly guess that these firearms should be sold to some people on the coast. Unfortunately, it is impossible to determine from the letter that the official surnamed Zhang did it." (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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