Zhu Youxiao read Mr. Wang Zhaochun's "History of Chinese Firearms" in his previous life and also has a certain understanding of flintlock rifles. This front-mounted gun with improved firing device is indeed much better than the traditional mesh rope gun, namely the Ming Dynasty bird gun. However, due to its more complex mechanical structure, Zhu Youxiao is worried that even if it can be manufactured with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, it cannot be standardized.

But what Zhu Youxiao did not expect was that Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang and others also completed the thing that Zhu Youxiao didn't expect, and even had a better range and rate of fire than he expected.

"Very good. In this way, if everyone in the Ming Dynasty infantry uses this firearm, the combat formation distance can be shortened and the firepower density will be improved. If you really want to fight the Tartars again in the future, you should also improve your combat power."

As Zhu Youxiao said that, he personally snatched the flintlock rifle from the soldier and prepared to operate it himself.

With a bang!

Seeing a stream of white smoke rising in front of him, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but choke and said, "The gunpowder needs to be improved. You can't just focus on making guns, my dear friends."

Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang looked at each other and nodded helplessly. Thanks to Zhu Youxiao, they now know whether there is smoke and firewood in this world.

However, since childhood, they have been focusing on the Four Books and Five Classics, and they can only become monks halfway through natural sciences, and they cannot reach the level of hundreds of years in a short period of time.

For Xu Guangqi and others now, smokeless gunpowder and metal shell bullets are as far away as our discussion now when it can surpass the speed of light.

However, you cannot dream of being out of reach and not chasing. Zhu Youxiao did not think that it would undermine their self-confidence. Being able to build a flintlock rifle and achieve standard configuration is already a huge contribution to the current Ming Dynasty.

Although the shot just now did not hit the target, but broke a branch of the pine tree eight meters away, Zhu Youxiao was even happier and immediately asked Bi Maokang and the craftsmen in the Military Weapon Bureau whom he was directly under the jurisdiction of him to call him.

The craftsmen who have been staying in the Military Weapon Bureau of the Ministry of Works for generations did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor would summon them. They were all so excited that they even wondered if His Majesty the legendary Emperor had a big belly and had a hand that was growing to the knees.

When they saw Zhu Youzhai, the yellow robe surrounded by Jinyiwei in the middle of flying fish uniforms, a bold old craftsman exclaimed directly:

"That's the emperor, he's younger than my son, haha!"

"Old Li, are you tired of living? How dare you compare the emperor with your son?"

A craftsman hurriedly reminded the old man Li, and then looked up at Zhu Youxiao and said, "Tsk tsk, this emperor is the emperor. I'm afraid he eats white flour buns every day, otherwise why would his skin be so white."

"That's right, if the emperor eats the same food as you and I, can it be the emperor? But don't say that this emperor looks quite like the Jade Emperor in the painting, no wonder he is the emperor?"

As soon as Old Man Li finished speaking, the head of the Military Weapons Bureau hurriedly took them to salute Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao asked them to walk down from behind and patted Old Man Li on the shoulder. Old Man Li rolled to the ground like he was hit hard by someone else.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao was hurriedly helping him up and asked with a smile: "Old man, stand firmly. If he falls to the place, he will not be able to do things for the court."

Old Man Li smiled awkwardly, but he was happy in his heart. He thought to himself that this was a new thing that had not been encountered in decades. Not only did he face the emperor, but he was also patted on the shoulder by him. Now he was whispering to the old wives at home.

In Zhu Youxiao's eyes, these ordinary craftsmen with dark skin and only wearing short-dressed clothes even in the middle of winter are the most valuable treasures of the Ming Dynasty.

It is also one of the guarantees of the long-term stability of this ancient empire.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not look down on them because he was the emperor. In the eyes of other officials and craftsmen, the emperor was considering the people, but in the eyes of Zhu Youxiao, he was expressing his gratitude to the engineers of the Ming Dynasty.

"Di Shilang, who among these people was involved in the flintlock rifle you designed?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

Although Bi Maokang is a minister of the ministry, in order to create a flintlock spear that satisfies His Majesty these days, he has also discussed it with these craftsmen who he usually doesn't even look at, and even lived in the same shop together.

Now that he saw His Majesty ask, he guessed that His Majesty was going to give him a reward, he hurriedly bowed and said, "There are Old Man Li, Blacksmith Zhang, and Lai Tou Chen."

Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked those who were pronounced as the name stood up.

Old Man Li was the first to stand up, and he was over 60 years old when he successfully completed the firing device. He grinned and showed his teeth.

Zhang Blacksmith stood up like a wood, drooping his head and didn't speak. However, when Bi Maokang and Zhu Youxiao told Zhu Youxiao that the iron pipe that was only this person was the most likely to deform and crack, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel respectful.

Chen Laitou is a short man, but Bi Maokang said that the flint made by this man is the cheapest and best one.

Zhu Youxiao was very pleased that the Ming Dynasty had such a talented craftsman with excellent creativity and understanding. Zhu Youxiao, who was never stingy in awarding official positions and awarding titles, immediately issued an order to be the leader of the title of Old Man Li, who was the sixth-rank Chengzhilang, and rewarded 500 taels of silver.

Zhang Blacksmith and Chen Laitou were awarded 500 taels of silver for the sixth-rank inheritor.

At the same time, Bi Maokang was also awarded the title of Prince's Grand Tutor.

Zhu Youxiao's move surprised all the officials and the craftsmen present. The generous reward of silver was just a matter of fact, but it was the first time in the Ming Dynasty to directly grant the civil servants a scattered official ranks to these craftsmen from craftsmen.

However, Zhu Youxiao's imperial power is now at its peak, and no one dares to object.

What's more, although he is a craftsman, he does indeed make achievements, and His Majesty the Emperor did not reward him at will.

Old Man Li and others did not expect that he would become an official. He pinched himself secretly and felt the pain before he believed that everything in front of him was true.

And afterwards, when he learned that he was the first-year high school magistrate, this guy was so happy that he couldn't spend money. After returning home, he became much harder.

The other craftsmen couldn't help but feel a little jealous when Zhu Youxiao proposed that anyone who made contributions to the Ming Dynasty in the future would be rewarded. No matter what his background was, the enthusiasm of these craftsmen was suddenly aroused.

Bi Maokang did not expect that he was appointed as the crown prince's tutor because he built a flintlock rifle. You should know that the Minister of Works, Huo Weihua, is the crown prince's guarantor.

The King of Chu is so thin that he starved to death in the city.

Because of Zhu Youxiao's actions, gradually some officials, gentry and craftsmen began to focus on the strange tricks they did not notice.
Chapter completed!