After leaving the potato field, Yun Zheng took Ye Zi to the workshop to find Zhang Xu.
Because the land here is precious, Zhang Xu's workshops are basically built on the mountainside with barren land.
I haven't been back to Dingbei for a while, and many of the workshops here are already taking shape.
Yun Zheng and Ye Zi waited for a while before Zhang Xu came running over, looking dusty and dusty.
Zhang Xu was covered in dirt, with black and white spots on his face.
It's like running out of a coal mine.
"How did you get into this situation?"
Yun Zheng looked at Zhang Xu with a smile on his face.
“It’s hard to put it into words.”
Zhang Xu said bitterly: "Your Highness, that thing is too difficult to make..."
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Is it difficult?
Yun Zheng smiled to himself.
It should be really difficult.
Yun Zheng asked Ye Zi to talk to Ming Yue first, and he took Zhang Xu to the side, "Tell me what the difficulties are, and I'll see if I can solve them."
“It’s all difficult.”
Zhang Xu had a sad face and said depressedly: "It's not difficult to make these fire guns and bird guns, but they can't be used after they are made..."
For Zhang Xu, a master at tinkering, it is indeed not difficult to make the shapes of fire guns and bird guns.
But, it’s only in appearance!
That thing is just a showpiece, good looking but useless.
It’s not as good as a fire stick!
The musket was not very big, so it was easy to get a rough shape using the clay mold casting method.
But Zhang Xu couldn't guarantee things like accuracy and strength.
Moreover, it is not easy to polish the inner bore of a musket.
Fire guns are actually okay, but the bird gun that Yun Zheng mentioned is a bit difficult.
Just rolling out a tube is not easy. As for the precision of rolling it, it is not within Zhang Xu's consideration now. He is only responsible for making it look good.
As for whether it can be used, you know the result even without trying it.
In Zhang Xu's opinion, this thing is not as good as crossbows and bows and arrows.
"It's all right."
Yun Zheng smiled and said, "This is not something that can be accomplished in a day or two. We have to take it slow. Now we are just accumulating experience! This thing is very useful!"
"You let those craftsmen do the work slowly. If there are any problems, find out the problems and find ways to solve them. It will be fine once they have experience!"
"If we can't figure it out in one or two years, then we'll have to wait ten or twenty years. Anyway, no matter how much money we spend, we have to keep going..."
Yun Zheng certainly knew that this was difficult.
There wasn’t even gunpowder before the Great Gan Dynasty!
It is not easy to make muskets and bird guns directly.
Moreover, to some extent, muskets are indeed inferior to bows and arrows.
Instead of making muskets, it would be better to make homemade grenades and land mines.
However, getting these two things is too risky, so he has to wait until he has time to do it.
Moreover, it can only be experimented.
If you want to produce on a large scale, you have to find saltpeter mines.
With that little bit of saltpeter, we can't even make much gunpowder, let alone anything else!
He even suspected that there was no saltpeter mine in Dagan at all, which was why gunpowder had never appeared.
Making muskets is actually a way to accumulate technical experience for casting cannons.
As for the bird gun, it is very useful, but it is not easy to make it truly usable.
It takes a long time for the ice to freeze three feet thick.
The technological gap cannot be resolved in a short period of time.
He is just an emperor of theory, not an emperor of practice.
He knows the theories of many things.
But whether it can be done, and whether it can be used well, is another matter.
He also knows that E=MC^2!
It makes no difference!
But even if you give him a hundred years, he still won't be able to make that thing.
In an era without machine tools and electricity, it was difficult to make qualified bird gun barrels, let alone production efficiency!
Now, whether or not we can make those things is not so important.
The most important thing is to accumulate experience and technical foundation.
We can't stop researching something just because it's not working for the moment.
If they don't study it, someone will do it sooner or later.
By the time other countries have completed their research, they will still have to fight with cold weapons, which will be a pain.
"Okay! I feel relieved with your words, Your Highness."
Zhang Xu nodded heavily and chuckled, "I was afraid that His Highness would blame us for not doing our job well enough!"
"What's wrong with that?"
Yun Zheng smiled indifferently, "Nothing can be accomplished overnight. If we take it step by step, we will slowly distance ourselves from others! You just need to focus on this matter, and you don't have to do it all by yourself. You should focus on our business. I am counting on you to help me earn military funds!"
At least we have started to do these things.
He didn't know whether there were people doing these things in other countries, but there were definitely no such people in Beihuan.
Let’s deal with Beihuan first, then think about other things!
"Uh-huh!"
Zhang Xu nodded heavily again and felt relieved.
"Okay, let's not talk about this for now."
Yun Zheng smiled and said, "My father is coming to Shuobei. He asked me to go and welcome him. You should come with me!"
"ah?"
Zhang Xu shuddered suddenly, and said with a pale face: "I won't go. I'm afraid the emperor will chop me to pieces..."
"Why do I cut you?"
Yun Zheng smiled and said, "If the emperor wants to kill someone, he will kill me and Qin Qihu..."
Is that so?
Zhang Xu stroked his chin and thought for a while, then suddenly revealed a gloating smile, "Yes, you two are the masterminds, I'm just a handyman, if His Majesty kills me, it would be too low-level..."
realm?
Yun Zheng was speechless for a moment.
At my father’s current state, he is probably just looking for an excuse to slap himself!
After chatting with Zhang Xu for a while, Yun Zheng went to the firearms workshop to check.
This firearms workshop can be regarded as a key protected unit.
The workshop was built in the mountains and was closely guarded by soldiers.
These craftsmen in the firearms workshop receive the highest pay.
Of course, the management is also the most strict.
Even if these people could never make the firearms that Yun Zheng wanted in their lifetime, as long as they were willing to study hard and accumulate experience, Yun Zheng was willing to spend money to support them.
Yun Zheng is not an expert in handicrafts, and he does not have a good solution to the current predicament of the firearms workshop. He only provides some improvement methods based on the knowledge he has mastered.
As for practice, it depends on these craftsmen to try.
It was almost dark when Yun Zheng and his companions left the workshop and returned to the palace in Dingbei City.
In the evening, of course, everyone had a good celebration.
After dinner, Yun Zheng was about to have a long talk with Ye Zi when Ye Zi pushed the door open, closed the door behind him, and bolted it.
Looking at Ye Zi's actions, Yun Zheng couldn't help but smile.
A sheep walking into a tiger's mouth!
She must be eaten tonight.
Looking at Yun Zheng's expression, Ye Zi couldn't help but look at him with a reproachful look.
"Hurry, let me hug you."
Yun Zheng opened his arms and looked at Ye Zi with a smile.
"OK!"
Ye Zi walked over generously, and sat on Yun Zheng's lap, and said with a sweet smile: "Before you do anything bad, take a look at this first. After you finish reading it, I'll see if you still have the mind to do bad things."
As he spoke, Ye Zi took out the account book from his sleeve and handed it to Yun Zheng.
"We won't be short of money so soon, will we?"
Yun Zheng put his arm around Ye Zi's waist, feeling a bad premonition in his heart.
"Take a look first!"
Ye Zi lowered her head and gently kissed Yun Zheng on the lips, then stood up and walked behind Yun Zheng, stretched out her white palms, and massaged Yun Zheng's shoulders.
Yun Zheng opened the account book while enjoying Ye Zi's massage.
As he watched, the smile on Yun Zheng's face froze.
"Five... more than five million taels?"
Yun Zheng turned around and looked at Ye Zi dumbfoundedly, "Is the pension alone so much?"
"What else?"
Ye Zi smiled bitterly and said, "From the time Jia Yao led his army to raid Beiyuan Shoal, all the pensions for the fallen soldiers have not been paid..."
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