A new day is coming.

After breakfast, Wang Dahui surrounded the workbench, mainly Wang Dahui and his two apprentices, as well as Fang Nan, Hu Xiaoya, Hu Zhuang and his group. Both sides had a common goal to create the firearm on the drawings. Because of the importance of the matter, Wang Dahui took it himself.

Before the start of construction, Fang Nan and Wang Dachui had already discussed and decided to build the most difficult part of the firearm, the gun barrel.

Wang Dachui once saw his father build a bird gun, recalling the original scene, and set a simple process of building a gun barrel by himself.

It is to heat a strip of iron sheet slightly and smash it with a hammer to make it sunken in the middle, then heat it until it turns red and soft, then wrap a thin iron rod inside, forge the middle part, and the thick iron sheet gradually curls, and then the middle part is also bonded at high temperature to form a small hollow tube.

?????Pick out the iron rod, then put it in the fiery red charcoal pile again to heat it, sprinkle a small amount of quartz stone powder at the interface, and after the middle section cools, start heating in the same way, then forge the front section and the back section, melt and cast in sections until the whole of the iron strips are completely bonded to form a hollow tube.

Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!

The sound of iron-smashing sounded rhythmically, and Fang Nan and his group stared at Wang Dahui's movements in front of the workbench. However, after watching for a while, Hu Zhuang, Zhou Yi, Wang Shengrong and others felt very boring, and they did not think about learning iron-smashing. After talking to Teacher Fang Nan, several people left here, took the books, and found a relatively secluded corner in Hutou Village to study.

Fang Nan was not very interested in ironworking, but in order to make the firearm, Fang Nan had to participate. Even if Fang Nan did not know the ironworking skills, he could point out several main points of attention based on his memory knowledge.

It was the first time that Wang Dahui built a barrel and had no experience. Although he had family-born iron-making skills, Wang Dahui mostly made ordinary iron tools. Wang Dahui himself did not have the confidence to build the barrel. For the sake of silver, Wang Dahui decided to give it a try. Even if he couldn't succeed, he could get some silver compensation. However, Wang Dahui hoped to succeed.

The first time I tried to build a barrel, Wang Dahui didn't think of getting it in place in one step, and directly created a standard-sized barrel on the drawings. Instead, he first created a shorter barrel. If it succeeded, then created a longer barrel. If the short barrel is not qualified, or cannot be forged, then don't think about making a firearm.

It is relatively easy to build a short barrel. The first time Wang Dahui made a small mistake, which caused the short barrel to be scrapped. He had the experience of failure for the first time. The second time Wang Dahui successfully built the short barrel. Of course, the short barrel created by this created is still far from the qualified product. Not to mention the material problem of the barrel, it is very troublesome to deal with the inner wall of the barrel.

There are two major processes for treating the inner wall of the barrel. The first process is to polish and straighten the inner wall of the barrel. The second process is to rifle.

To perform these two processes on the inner wall of the barrel, a machine tool must be used. The former uses a drilling machine and the latter uses a boring machine. The two machine tools are not difficult to manufacture. There is no steam engine or electric motor. Only human drilling machines and human boring machines can be built.

Fang Nan estimated that it would take at least half a year to build the first qualified rifle. It would take time to build a long barrel, a man-powered drilling machine, and a man-powered boring machine. It would take time to process the inner wall of the barrel. Another important part of the rifle seems to be very difficult to manufacture in this era, but it is not as difficult as the previous processes.

With the first day of busyness, Hutouzhai officially accepted Fang Nan's employment. Without delaying farming and building iron tools for other villages, adults in Hutouzhai could accept Fang Nan's employment. For this reason, Fang Nan had already given out 100 taels of silver as a deposit.

One hundred taels of silver are a lot for ordinary people. You can buy one stone of rice with a few coins of silver, and one hundred taels of silver can buy hundreds of stone of rice. If you exchange it for other grains and grains, you can buy more.

Fang Nan can be said to be the main force in building rifles. Both the human drilling machine and the human boring machine were designed by Fang Nan. Although some of Fang Nan's students are studying "Junior Physics", they are not as good as designing machine tools, so they can only come by Fang Nan himself.

With textbook knowledge from elementary school to university, as well as learning knowledge outside of school, it took several months to build human drilling machines and human boring machines.

Fang Nan thought that it took less time to design machine tool structures, and the one who spent more time was to create machine tool parts. No blacksmith in Hutouzhai could create qualified parts at one time. It would take several or even dozens of them to obtain qualified parts and finally assemble the machine tool.

Fang Nan and his group did not stay in Hutou Village forever. They basically returned to Qingshan Village every two months. Fang Nan's students would come back from various villages and use the few days of Huiqingshan Village to answer students' learning questions.

In the third month after coming to Hutou Village, Fang Nan's team successfully built the first firearm, a short gun, smooth bore, and relied on a fuse to ignite gunpowder to fire, with an effective range of only a few dozen meters.

Before the third month ended, Fang Nan's team successfully built a spear, which was a relatively ordinary mesh rope gun or bird gun when placed outside.

The meshes alone were not enough for the Fangnan team. The Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period was very powerful, with about one million permanent troops, and there were tens of thousands or even more of the firearms equipped with only bird guns. Zhang Juzheng was also in charge of all military and political affairs. Now the Ming Dynasty is in its heyday, and its national strength can support several large-scale wars.

It was very difficult to overthrow the Ming Dynasty when the Ming Dynasty was so powerful. Guangdong can show that one of the areas with the largest number of troops in the North Korea, with an estimated Ming army of about 100,000.

If you want to defeat so many enemies, even if you can beat ten, Fang Nan must prepare an army of ten people.

However, it would be great to be able to form an army of 1,000 people just by relying on these villages in the deep mountains. If we unite the poor people outside the mountains, we might gather an army of 10,000 people. However, most of the troops with cold weapons, and some soldiers were holding firearms like Ming army, so how could they be the opponent of the 100,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty?

The difficulty of building a Minie rifle is much greater than that of bird guns, but the performance of the Minie rifle is much higher than that of all the muskets equipped by the Ming Dynasty. As long as one thousand people are equipped with the Minie rifle, it can become Fang Nan's ace against the 100,000 Ming troops in Guangdong.

If you can't build a Miner rifle for half a year, it will take one year or two years. Fang Nan is only sixteen years old now, and only twenty-six years old ten years later, and he is in his prime.
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