At the junction of the mountains and the wilderness, there were gun sounds from time to time in a large village. In the small school grounds of the village, many men were practicing using muskets, and some teenagers were mixed in it.

Most of the teenagers were twelve or thirteen years old and were from a tenant farmer in Liujiazhuang. If they were to help with farm work in the field, they would now become a guard.

A boy with thin arms and thin legs can't practice any leg skills, and he doesn't have to think about how skilled the archer is. However, because he has a musket, he can easily shoot a strong man, so he can be competent for the guard.

The premise is to learn to use a musket.

Liu Badao watched these people learn to operate muskets, without feeling sorry for the consumed gunpowder and lead. He is short of manpower now, so even underage boys have to use it.

He brought the heroes to settle down here, both for hunting and for clearing the land. In order to avoid the fact that the village was taken advantage of when the large group of people who were hunting in the mountains were absent, he had to arm the women and children.

A healthy maid and boy do not need to know how to fight. He only needs to learn to use muskets and cannons to defend the village. This means that he does not need to hire young and strong people to use his existing personnel to keep the village safe.

In this way, we can let go of our hands and do a big fight.

Turning to the courtyard next to it, there was an iron smelting furnace here. Several blacksmiths were busy. Zhang Shan, with short hair, stood beside him and several others, talking with a few muskets.

Liu Badao walked into the yard, took a musket, and asked, "How, have you figured it out?"

Zhang Shan shook his head: "Uncle, this thing looks simple and is difficult to make. I'm afraid it takes special iron and craftsmanship to forge such tough leaf springs."

"Is that right..." Liu Badao looked at the musket in his hand, focusing on the naked "human"-shaped leaf spring beside the gunpowder pool.

As the name suggests, the flintlock musket is a fire-igniting musket that relies on flint to ignite gunpowder. The key component of this musket is a fire device composed of a hammer, a fire curtain sheet with an anvil, a gunpowder pool, and a trigger.

The fire curtain sheet is the movable top cover of the gunpowder pool, which is erected upwards to one end of the hammer. It is an anvil. When the finger pulls the trigger, the hammer clamps the flint to hit the anvil of the fire curtain sheet, so that it "opens the cover", the flint on the hammer collides with the anvil to produce sparks, and just falls into the gunpowder pool.

The gunpowder pool is connected to the gunpowder pool. After the gunpowder pool is ignited by falling sparks, the gunpowder in the gunpowder tube is ignited. The gunpowder in the gunpowder burns, spraying out the lead blocking in front and hitting the target.

This is the principle of flintlock musket introduced by Zhang Shan. Liu Badao thought about it for a long time before he figured it out. He couldn't help but be amazed by such a subtle mechanism. Zhang Shan said that the key to the fire device is the leaf spring.

The leaf spring is a "human"-shaped spring with a simple structure and has "elastic force" that can give the hammer enough "power" to enable the entire fire device to operate smoothly.

If the "elastic force" of the leaf spring is too small, the hammer cannot knock out sparks, and even the fire curtain piece that serves as the cover of the gunpowder pool cannot be opened.

If the "elastic force" of the leaf spring is too strong, the flint held on the hammer can easily break, and it will make the trigger "hard", which will take a lot of effort to pull it.

The most important point is that the elasticity of the leaf spring must last long, that is, it cannot become soft or lose its elasticity after using it a few times.

If the leaf spring does not work, the "fire rate" of the flintlock gun will not work, and it is easy to "blind" it.

Then, if you want to make a flintlock musket in private, it would not work if you can't make a durable leaf spring.

Liu Badao's surname is Liu, of course he had an idea. He wanted to hoard firearms and gather private soldiers so that when the situation changed, he would raise the banner and respond to the prophecy of the golden sword.

In history, weapons are indispensable. Firearms are so expensive. If you can make them yourself, you will save money, and you will not attract the attention of the government.

As a result, I couldn't even make a leaf spring.

According to the blacksmiths, the leaf spring may be made of special iron materials, so it can maintain elasticity, and the elasticity is just right, neither strong nor weak, but the blacksmiths have been exploring for a long time but cannot make a suitable leaf spring.

Such a simple leaf spring cannot be made, and even more so, the gun barrel cannot be imagined.

The gun barrel is a key component of the musket. It looks simple in structure and is just a hollow iron pipe, but it is not easy to make it.

The blacksmiths found by Liu Badao were all skilled. After looking at the gun barrel, they tried to make them and tried many methods. In the end, they adopted the "rolling" process.

To make a gun barrel in this way, you must first forge the fine iron into a paddle, then roll it into two iron pipes, one large and one small, with a large bag and a small one, so that the two are tightly attached, and then drill it into a smooth and straight gun barrel with a steel drill.

This method of production requires very high technology and requires steel drilling. Each person can only drill more than an inch of the depth of the iron pipe every day. It takes about a month to complete the entire iron pipe.

It is not only time-consuming, but also cost money. The most important thing is that the gun barrels made are still not durable.

The gun barrel is not easy to make, at least it can be made, but no one knows how gunpowder is made.

If the musket has no gunpowder, it is like a bow that has not been skeletoned, and it cannot be used at all, so it can only be bought.

A musket is expensive. After buying it, you have to buy gunpowder and lead from time to time, as well as a spare part. Without these things, the musket will sooner or later become a fire stick.

After trying for a long time, Liu Badao found that it was impossible to make a private firearm.

At first, he traveled to Liaodong with his men, but was attracted by the fact that he could buy muskets and cannons. He planned to stock up on firearms in private, and then gathered people in the name of clearing up land, and then waited for the opportunity.

Now, there are muskets, and cannons are only used to defend the camp. If you want to cause trouble, it will not be useful at all, because the official army's cannons are more powerful and there are more muskets.

According to Zhang Shan, the cannons of the government army often weigh hundreds or thousands of kilograms and can hit one to two miles away. The tall city walls are vulnerable in front of the cannons, and the government army also has flowering bullets, and the flesh and blood bodies are like paper-paste in front of the cannons and flowering bullets.

So, if you really want to get up, the fate will be very miserable.

The most important thing is that gunpowder is controlled in the hands of the government. Once the incident is infringed, the source of gunpowder will be useless if the gunpowder is gone.

The prophecy of the Golden Sword that the emperor of Liu surname will reign as the emperor of the world is far away from the realization, so Liu Badao's thoughts gradually faded.

So, he asked the blacksmith to think about the leaf spring just to save money and save money on buying spare leaf springs.

It seems that money cannot be saved now, and the prophecy of the Golden Sword cannot be realized, but he brought hundreds of people to Liaodong and lived here temporarily, but found that this place is good.

At least it's much better than beans.

Instead of spending money and food on beans every day? Raising hundreds of idle people, it is better to bring this gratifying person to open up land and hunt in Liaodong. However, as the ambitions dissipated, Liu Badao was a little confused about the future.

You can't...I'm just building some people here?
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