After seeing off Emperor Chongzhen of the Great Street and participating in Li Zicheng's throne ceremony, Zhao Peng first sent Princess Kunxing and Fei Zhen'e, who were disguised as Jinyiwei's lieutenant, back to Gao's house, and then went to the Beijing Military Weapons Bureau to report.

Zhao Peng brought more than a dozen Jinyiwei to the Military Equipment Bureau and found that the current Military Equipment Bureau was much worse than expected. None of the officials from the Ministry of Works who were originally supervising the construction of firearms came, and only dozens of craftsmen were lazily building bird guns in the workshop of the Military Equipment Bureau.

Seeing an official from the Jinyiwei, a group of Jinyiwei walked in, the old craftsman led by the head quickly stopped his work and walked up to the ground to salute: "The grass-roots official did not know that the leader was coming, and he was in a farewell welcome. I hope the superior would forgive him for his crime!"

"I'm welcome to you quickly!" Zhao Peng helped the old craftsman up, "I'm asking if this old man has his first name? How many years have he been here?"

"If you go back to the superior, Caomin's surname is Wang, and his name is Xinzi. In the Caomin era, the craftsmen died of illness in the Wanli period. Caomin's son inherited his father's business and has built firearms for the court here," the old craftsman did not dare to stand up, but just knelt on the ground and replied respectfully.

Zhao Peng used his hand and forcibly helped the old craftsman Wang Xin up, pointing to the stone bench beside him: "Old man, please sit there. I have something to ask you."

Wang Xin saw the Jinyiwei official's face and smiled, but she still kept trembling. After all, the civil servants and gentry group controlled the propaganda power of that year. Under the slander of civil servants and gentry, the Jinyiwei became a villain who did everything he wanted, and the common people changed their feelings when they heard this. In fact, no ordinary people knew what the relationship between the Jinyiwei and them? The people who were afraid of the Jinyiwei were the officials of the imperial court, not the ordinary people.

The two walked to the stone bench at the corner of the yard together. After Zhao Peng sat down, Wang Xin dared to sit down.

Zhao Peng asked, "How old man is?"

Wang Xin quickly replied: "Caomin is forty-five this year."

Zhao Peng looked at Wang Xin carefully and saw that his hair and beard were gray and his face was full of wrinkles. He didn't look like a middle-aged man in his forties, but he looked like a sixty-year-old man. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: These craftsmen built firearms for the Ming Dynasty, worked hard all their lives, but their lives were so difficult.

After looking around, he found that there were only dozens of people in the Military Weapon Bureau doing things. Zhao Peng remembered that he had some impression of the Ming firearm manufacturing. After all, he was a military enthusiast in his previous life. He remembered that in the information in his previous life, there were two bureaus of the weapons manufacturing craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, one bureau of the Military Weapon Bureau and the other bureau of the Military Weapon Bureau, which had a total of more than 5,000 people. So he asked curiously, "Why are you the only ones? Didn't you hear that there were more than 5,000 people in the Longqing period?"

Wang Xin replied helplessly: "This is all the old age. During the Jiajing period, there were only more than 1,000 people left. During the Tianqi period, Wang Gongchang exploded and many more people died. During the Chongzhen period, many more people escaped, and less than two hundred people left. Now Wang entered the capital and ran away, leaving only dozens of people with old and young people who had no place to go. They still worked here to support their families."

"Uncle Wang, are you building a bird gun?" Zhao Peng asked.

Seeing that the young man from Jinyiwei was so approachable, Wang Xin became bolder. He said proudly: "Of course, Caomin will not only be attacked by bird guns, but also build tiger-wing guns, thunder guns, and lightning guns. If Caomin is asked to cast red cannons, it can also be made."

Zhao Peng, who was a military enthusiast in his previous life, had heard of Thunder guns and Lightning guns in his previous life, but he had never heard of any tiger-wing guns, so he asked, "Old man, what is a tiger-wing gun?"

Wang Xin replied: "The so-called tiger-winged gun is an improved three-eyed gun, but the workmanship is much more sophisticated than the three-eyed gun. The gun barrel is a little longer than the three-eyed gun. The three gun barrels are tied together around an iron rod. The iron rod is longer and fixed in an iron pipe to fire with a groove and a fuse. Before use, the gunpowder bullets were loaded into the three gun barrels. Each time the bullet was fired, the gun barrel could be fired again."

"There are physical objects here to open my eyes." Zhao Peng asked excitedly.

Wang Xin took Zhao Peng to the warehouse inside. There were all kinds of firearms in the warehouse, including general cannons, Francs, tiger squat cannons, small ones including turtle dove guns, bird guns, Lumi guns, and many other muskets that Zhao Peng could not name. Wang Xin pointed to a three-barrel musket placed on the shelf: "This thing is the tiger-wing gun."

Zhao Peng picked up the tiger-winged gun and felt that this thing was heavier than the bird gun, but lighter than the turtle dove gun. It looked like a three-eyed gun fired with a trigger and a fuse rope. However, the gun barrels are different from the three-eyed gun. The three-eyed gun is cast, and the three-jet gun barrels are cast at one time, while the three-jet gun barrels of the tiger-winged gun are built separately and tied together.

The firing principle of the tiger-wing gun is the same as that of the bird gun. It uses a trigger to drive the fuse, press the fuse into the medicine pool, ignite the launching medicine, and fire the projectile shooting. It is equivalent to a three-barrel bird gun, which can be fired three times in a row, but the range and power are far greater than the three-eyed gun ignited with the fire gate, and it is more convenient to use.

The three-eyed gun belongs to the fire door gun, but the tiger-winged gun belongs to the combroach gun. The biggest disadvantage of the fire door gun is that it is difficult to aim. After all, you have to hold the musket in one hand and aim the target with the torch or fuse in the other hand to light the fire door. The combroach gun with the trigger is much more convenient to aim. You can hold the musket in both hands and pull the trigger with your fingers to complete the firing.

Zhao Peng asked strangely: "This thing can fire three shots in a row, why don't this gun be used in the army?"

Wang Xin said: "The chief has no idea that this item is expensive. How could the court be willing to spend more money to build this gun? The number of this gun is very small, which is even rarer than the Lumi gun, which means it is just placed in the warehouse on weekdays."

Next, Zhao Peng saw the legendary Thunder gun and Lightning gun. The so-called Thunder gun is actually a multi-barrel fire gun, including five gun barrels and seven gun barrels. It is equipped with a hollowed-out shield in the middle. The gun barrel passes through the shield. When used, it is ignited with a fuse in sequence and can be fired continuously. In fact, it is an enlarged three-eyed gun. This kind of thing is not very strange. After all, the fire gate gun is a manifestation of backwardness. Although the firing speed is fast, the loading is slower, and the range and accuracy are far less than that of the bird gun, which is not very meaningful.

But when he saw the lightning gun, Zhao Peng was shocked: Isn’t this a rear-loading gun?

The electric gun is indeed a rear-loaded gun, but it is actually a smaller Franchise machine fired with a trigger and a fuse. A gun barrel is fixed to the guardrail. There is a large abdomen at the end of the gun barrel, and there is a corresponding small hole between the cover plate and the abdomen. An iron bolt with an iron ring is inserted into the small hole to fix the cover plate. When using it, pull out the iron bolt, open the cover plate, put the sub-gun into the abdomen, and then cover the cover plate, insert the iron bolt into the small hole. There is also a small hole in the front of the gun. The iron bolt passes through the abdomen and the sub-gun, fix the cover plate, the abdomen and the sub-gun, and then pull the trigger, press the fuse into the medicine pool, and fire the musket.

Each snatch gun is equipped with five to seven sub-guns. After one shot, open the cover, pour out the sub-gun, and replace it with a new sub-gun to fire again. The rate of fire is extremely high. However, the snatch gun has the same disadvantage as the Franchise machine, which is that it has serious air leakage.
Chapter completed!