Zhang Yong carefully handed the musket to Wanli, and reminded him: "Be careful, the gun barrel is hot."

Wanli took the musket and looked at the self-generated musket carefully. He saw that the musket of the musket was thicker, a circle thicker than the bird gun currently used in the Ming Dynasty, and even thicker than the Lumi gun, but it was not as thick as the turtledove gun. After weighing it in his hand, he found that the weight of the musket was about fifteen kilograms.

When the gun barrel became colder, Wanli put his eyes closer to the gun barrel and observed the inner chamber, and found that the gun barrel was very smooth. He also reached in and touched it, and found that it was as smooth as a mirror.

"What a good gun! If there are ten thousand self-produced muskets, what is the Jiannu archer?" Wanli laughed and asked again, "What's the name of this musket?"

"That's called "Destroying the Lu" and "creating the muskets himself!" the little carpenter replied.

"Okay!" Wanli Longyan was very happy, "Just rely on the emperor's grandson, I asked the Milu to make a musket!"

Wei Zhongxian also knew some military affairs. He quickly said in a compliment: "The emperor is wise! This gun has a range of more than Jiannu's heavy arrows, and it can break through Jiannu's heavy armor within seventy steps. If there are tens of thousands of self-generated muskets, and then protected by spearmen and shields, Jiannu's tens of thousands of cavalry can't rush over! If Jiannu attacks with heavy infantry, tens of thousands of self-generated muskets will make Jiannu unable to get close at all!"

Sun Chengzong also laughed: "Eunuch Wei said less. The musketeers also need to be equipped with armor, without heavy armor, as long as they can block the light arrows shot by Jiannu. In addition, Jiannu also has artillery, and our army also needs to cast Taixi cannons, and the tiger squat cannons and Francs with a range of more than Jiannu, so that they can protect the musketeers."

"Your Majesty, the Thai-Western monk invited by Haojing (Macao) can help me cast new cannons in the Ming Dynasty. Once the new cannons are cast, our army is not afraid of the cannons coated by Jiannu." Xu Guangqi also continued. Unfortunately, Xu Guangqi didn't know at all. The cannons he cast later killed Mao Wenlong because Chongzhen reused Yuan Chonghuan, which indirectly led to the Wuqiao mutiny. Kong Youde and others cast the Later Jin, causing all these new cannons to fall into the hands of the Later Jin.

Who knew that Zhang Yong poured a basin of cold water on everyone: "Your Majesty, I dare to tell the truth. Don't say that ten thousand self-made muskets are, it may be difficult to build a thousand."

"Why is this?" Wanli asked.

Before Zhang Yong could reply, the little carpenter replied first: "Grandpa Huang, you don't know that the most important thing about this self-generated musket is the spring steel strips on the bolt machine. Only the best Su steel can be used to make this spring steel strip. Grandpa Huang, you also know that Su steel is very small, expensive, and not every piece of Su steel can be used, and you still need to choose the best one from it. This Su steel is made entirely by craftsmen and has a very low output. With the output of our Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to even make a thousand self-generated muskets."

Wanli said disappointedly: "Can't we gather all the craftsmen and make every effort to build spring steel strips?"

"I'm afraid it's also difficult. Few craftsmen know how to build it." Zhang Yong replied. Those who had some unique skills were unwilling to share his skills with everyone. They could only pass on their own homes, not their daughters. They were all afraid that others would learn it and rob their jobs.

Wanli asked anxiously: "Zhang Xiaoban, what can I do to speed up the creation of spring steel sheets? Jiannu is rampant, I am really restless! I hope that there will be such a magical tool to pacify Jiannu as soon as possible."

The little carpenter said: "Grandpa Emperor, grandson can make people build water wheels and hydraulic hammers, use water wheels to push hydraulic hammers, create high-quality spring steel plates, and create excellent armor! As long as these two magical artifacts can be made, not to mention ten thousand self-generated muskets, one hundred thousand is no problem."

"Smart and lewd skills!" A disharmonious voice came not far away.

Everyone turned their heads and saw two censors walking towards them. The two guys were snorting with disdain.

Although Sun Chengzong was a civil servant, he was also angry by the censor: "Strange tricks? This musket is the one who killed Jiannu! Liaodong invested millions of taels of military pay every year, but he was defeated year after year! If there were no magical tools, would you go to Liaodong to scold Jiannu with your mouth?"

Speaking of which, although Sun Chengzong was a civil servant, he was not pedantic at all, and Sun Chengzong was also the best civil servant to military generals in the late Ming Dynasty. In real history, Ma Shilong made a mistake, which led to the defeat of Liu He. At that time, there were shouts of killing in the court. Sun Chengzong took all the responsibility for the defeat on himself and saved Ma Shilong's life with his black hat. How many civil servants in the court could do this? I'm afraid even Xiong Tingbi couldn't do it?

Although Sun Chengzong made great mistakes in Liaodong, he must be a national hero.

Among the civil officials in the late Ming Dynasty, there were actually quite a few truly useful talents. Sun Chengzong, Xiong Tingbi, Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua, Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, etc., including Yang Sichang, were actually strategic talents, but they lacked some tactics. What was really disgusting was that those censors who only knew how to talk were not only afraid of them, but also civil officials and generals were afraid of censors.

Seeing that Sun Chengzong was angry, the two censors had to turn their heads and leave without any worries.

Sun Chengzong also said to the carpenter earnestly: "The emperor's grandson must put state affairs first, and such matters of investigating things should be handed over to others. I hope the emperor's grandson must read more books of sages."

"Sir, the education is very good!" The little carpenter did not dare to refute Sun Chengzong.

Wanli nodded, and based on the proposal of Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi, he prepared the draft and ordered the Ministry of Works to study the water wheel and hydraulic forging bed models created by the small carpenters. It is necessary to build practical water wheel and hydraulic forging beds as soon as possible.

But Zhang Yong knew it as if he were a mirror: if he gave it to the Ministry of Works and the craftsmen to do those things, it would be impossible to succeed if he succeeded. Under the evil craftsmen system, would the craftsmen work hard? The answer is definitely impossible.

However, Xu Guangqi was very interested in the waterwheel and hydraulic forging bed model made by the little carpenter and Zhang Yong together, so he pestered Zhang Yong and asked Zhang Yong to draw a drawing for him.

Zhang Yong still respected Xu Guangqi very much, so he said, "Please follow me, go to my residence outside the palace and I will copy the drawings for you."

Zhang Yong immediately claimed a leave to the little carpenter and lent out the drawings of the water wheel and hydraulic machine tool he gave to the little carpenter. After leaving the imperial city, he took Xu Guangqi to Gao Shixin's home.

When he walked into Zhang Yong's house, Xu Guangqi saw at a glance that the bamboo bookshelf was full of books, including all kinds of books, from "The Book of Zuo in the Spring and Autumn Period", "Records of the Grand Historian", "Zizhi Tongjian" and other historical books to "Four Books and Five Classics". Looking at the words on the table, I saw that the words were written very well, in addition to copybooks, there were also eight-legged articles written.

Xu Guangqi picked up a eight-legged essay written by Zhang Yong and saw that it was "Three Strategies for Pairing Liao". The article was written in various rigorously and the content was very exciting. If such an article was taken to the imperial examination, it would be fine to pass the imperial examination!

"I didn't expect that Eunuch Zhang was so talented! It's just a pity that you are from the palace. If not, you will take the imperial examination and you will be fine at the Jinshi exam!" Xu Guangqi kept praising.

"Mr. Xu is too awarded!" Zhang Yong said modestly. In fact, in his previous life, he was not only a top science student, but also had some research in mechanics and chemistry, and also had a good ancient literature. If he participated in the imperial examination, there would be no problem. He was just shot by an arrow and was destined to be out of the imperial examination.

Zhang Yong spread out the drawings of the water wheel and hydraulic lathe he drew, took out the blank white paper, compared the drawings, and drew two new drawings.

"How wonderful! How wonderful!" Xu Guangqi praised, "It's twice the result with half the effort with the use of water wheels to drive the hammer to replace human power! But this water wheel does not control the strength like a human."
Chapter completed!