Zhang Zi'an accepted Wang Pu's huge bribe and worked hard. He greeted the eunuch in charge of the three weapons workshops that afternoon. Wang Pu couldn't help but prepare a generous gift for the eunuch in charge of the weapons workshops. There was no way, the money that should be spent would still be spent.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Pu led his men to one of the weapons workshops.

Wang Pu asked the eunuch in charge to call the master in the weapon workshop, take out the flintlock short-handled musket given to him by the foreigner, and said, "Master, look at this musket first."

The master took the musket from Wang Pu and watched it repeatedly for half an hour, and then returned the musket to Wang Pu.

Wang Pu asked: "Master, can you make the barrel of this musket be made by changing the short gun into a long gun?"

"Of course," the master nodded without hesitation, "But such a thin and three-foot-long gun barrel, it is definitely not possible to use fine iron without blowing the chamber. He has to use steel with higher strength, so the processing will be much more difficult, the working hours will be longer, and a lot of steel will be required."

“How long does it take to process a spear like this?”

"At least one month!" replied the master, "but fifty firearms can be built at the same time."

There are fifty muskets per month, and three workshops can only be built at the same time. At this speed, only 1,800 muskets will be built in a year. This speed obviously cannot satisfy Wang Pu.

Wang Pu asked unwillingly: "Can you speed up?"

The master said: "Even if we can speed up the construction speed, Datong does not have enough steel? The iron smelting yard in Datong cannot produce steel. Only the iron smelting yard in Nanzhili and Guangdong produce steel. And there is a fixed quantity every year. The steel in Datong Prefecture is supplied by Taicang, the capital, and the annual fixed quantity is only enough to build two hundred such firearms."

"That's how it is." Wang Pu frowned, "What if the material was replaced with fine iron and then the gun barrel was thickened?"

"That's much easier," said the master. "If the gun barrel material is replaced with fine iron, the processing speed can be at least twice as fast."

"Okay, then use fine iron." Wang Pu nodded, took out a paper with patterns from his arms and handed it to the master, and said, "Master, take a look at this again."

The master took the pattern, looked at it for a while before whispering: "This seems to be a Dragon King Cannon with a handle?"

"Yes, this is the Dragon King Cannon with a wooden handle." Wang Pu said, "But the wooden handle is empty, with a medicine thread in the middle."

The master said: "This is easy to do. As long as there are enough pig iron and fire, you can make at least thousands of them every month."

Wang Pu turned around and said to the eunuch in charge of the weapons workshop: "Dadfather-in-law, I will need as much as I make these two things."

The eunuch in charge said to the master, "Have you heard it? The prince-consort is for the master of the throne. You are for the prince-consort to be the court. From now on, let go of other things and make all your efforts to build these two firearms! If you can't hand over the bad things at that time, don't blame our family for being polite."

The master responded respectfully: "Yes."

"And," said the eunuch in charge, "You must dare to reveal this matter with half a word today and beat him to death with sticks!"

The master shivered and bent down and replied, "Yes."

"Go." The eunuch in charge waved his hand and said, "Go ahead and go."

The master quickly left as if he ran away. The eunuch in charge turned around and smiled at Wang Pumei: "Mr. Prince Concubine, the dust in the workshop is too heavy. Please ask your body to be rich. As for what you want, you will send someone to pick up the things you want.

Wang Pu clasped his fists and smiled, "Then I'll be a blessing in my father-in-law."

While talking, Xiaoqi suddenly rushed in and gasped, "General, fight."

Wang Pu frowned and asked, "What's the fight? It's a mess."

Xiao Qi said: "Scarface fought with General Zhao in Yihongyuan."

"Scarface?" Wang Puhuo said, "Why?"

"It's not just about grabbing fans."

"Who is this General Zhao?"

"Who else can you do, Zhao Santai, deputy general of Datong."

"Dog God, what I need to clean up." Wang Pu groaned, turned around and bowed to the eunuch in charge and said, "Dadfather-in-law, my subordinates don't know what to do and cause trouble for me. I have to wipe their butts again."

The eunuch in charge laughed and said, "Mr. Prince Consort is busy with your trip."

"Goodbye."

Wang Pu hugged his fists and took Xiao Qi away from the weapons workshop and headed straight for Yihong Courtyard.

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Yihongyuan is the largest yard in Datong. The girls in Datong are famous for their spirits in the northern five provinces. Yihongyuan gathers the most spirits in Datong. Usually, there are bustling traffic and dealers. There are even Fengliu Yakes who come from the capital and Jiangnan.

However, the Yihong Courtyard is already in chaos and tense at this moment.

Zhao Santai, deputy general of Datong Town, stood in the hall with a blue face, and was looking up and staring fiercely at the private room facing the hall on the second floor. Behind Zhao Santai was the deputy general, general, guerrilla general, and other dozen generals, as well as personal soldiers brought by each person, a group of people holding swords in their hands, full of murderous intent.

In the second floor private room, Scarface was drinking and having fun indifferently. Opposite Scarface were the two most beautiful pink heads in Yihongyuan, the beautiful girl and the red apricot. Scarface was stepping on Zhao Santai's trusted general Zhao Liujin. Zhao Liujin had been beaten to the point of being blue and swollen by Scarface, and was lying on the ground and humming.

The door to the private room is open.

The two brothers brought by Scarface were holding waist knives and guarding outside the door like a fierce and evil spirit. Although there were many people on the other side, they looked like Scarface, looking indifferent. Both sides were tense and were about to break out.

This matter has to be said from the beginning.

Wang Pu was transferred to the position of the admiral of the Beijing camp, and the general of Datong was short of a shortage. In addition to one general, Datong Town also had two deputy generals. Zhao Wuzhu, the deputy general who followed Wang Pu to fight against Liaodong, had been dismissed and sentenced to prison and beheading. Now only Zhao Santai is the deputy general.

Zhao Santai is the brother-in-law of Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War. The generals below all think that Zhao Santai will be inferior to Wang Pu's fault, and Zhao Santai himself thinks so.

Although the court's slander has not yet been released, Zhao Santai has already brought his generals to Yihongyuan to celebrate with flowers and wine. Jiaoxing in Yihongyuan is Zhao Santai's old appearance, but when Zhao Santai arrives in Yihongyuan, he knows that Jiaoxing has been given a gift, and the one who has her is either someone else or a scarface.

Zhao Santai usually doesn't even take Wang Pu seriously. Scarface is just a small President Qian, of course he doesn't take it seriously. At that time, he asked his confidant family to force Zhao Liujin to ask for someone. Who knew that Scarface didn't buy Zhao Santai's account at all. He beat Zhao Liujin to a bruised and swollen face, but he also said that he wanted to redeem Jiaoxing.

Everyone knows that Jiaoxing is Zhao Santai's old lover. If Scarface wants to redeem her, isn't he intentionally trying to humiliate Zhao Santai?

Of course, Zhao Santai couldn't swallow this, but he was afraid of Wang Pu behind Scarface, and the people on both sides were exhausted.

Scarfaced bandit was born, and he didn't take the tension in front of him seriously. He suddenly put his glass on his wine glass and said loudly: "Xing'er, come on, sit on my lap."

Hongxing Yingying stood up, walked to Scarface and twisted her waist and sat on his lap. Scarface reached out to hug Hongxing Liu's waist, then turned around and laughed proudly at the hall, "Zhao Santai, you have seen it. It's Hongxing who is willing to follow me. She said that your job is not good, it's not my Scarface is unauthorized."

Zhao Santai suddenly twitched on his face, and a black air was also scattered between his eyebrows.

A general suddenly came to Zhao Santai and whispered softly: "General, General, the last general heard that Wang Pu let out a group of horse thieves in Futuyu. Wang Pu is the admiral of the Jing camp and a royal relative. Of course, this account cannot be calculated by him. But if you take Scarface and then deal with him as a private thief, Wang Pu is afraid that he has nothing to say."

Zhao Santai's eyes suddenly showed murderous intent and shouted sternly: "Come on, take down Scarface!"

"yes!"

"Who dares!?"
Chapter completed!