“Where is Master Ou from?How many people in his family?Although our Zhejiang army does not allow families to enter the camp, but smith Ou can place his family in the town near the front, for the smith, the camp will allocate thirty taels of silver for settling down fee, for the apprentice will allocate fifteen taels of silver for settling down fee.”
“This is a mountainous area, inside the camp tent you can add another fire pit, both to boil water for hot meals and to roast fire for warmth, just leave a wind gap for ventilation to avoid being poisoned by coal.”
Zhu Pingan was in Ou Zhiguo’s tent, nagging Ou Zhiguo with a gentle face and shushing him.
“I am from Yangzhou, my family has five members, I will send a letter to my family to come over in a few days, thank you for your concern, Your Excellency.”
Ou Zhiguo was touched, but obviously not good at talking, still a bit formal, just a dry reply.
“I heard madam say, Ou smith has been devoted to study firearms, quite a good achievement, my zhejiang army is the most important firearms, Ou smith in my zhejiang army can surely show the chest of the strengths, every day no matter how many hours, as long as Ou smith wants to study firearms, then despite the study of firearms is.”
Zhu Pingan said, to give Ou Zhiguo full autonomy in firearms research, this is the most basic treatment for scientists.
At the mention of firearms, Ou Zhiguo raised his head, his eyes began to shine, and his whole person also glowed instantly from the constraints of constraints, and he spoke at great length, and just like the appearance of a bad talker, he was a different person.
“Lord, I thought that firearms is the heavenly gift of the weapon, power than swords and bows more than ten times a hundred times greater than. For example, since the Song Dynasty passed down to the present firearm Zhentian Lei, gunpowder attack, sound shock as thunder, ten miles can be heard, half an acre square circle, people and cowhide are broken, armour and iron are penetrated.—– Now the firearms are not enough to be reused, just because the firearms are still unsatisfactory, there are many deficiencies, such as Zhentian Lei to achieve enough lethality need to be loaded with at least three pounds of gunpowder, but also to add the nails, ceramic, etc., coupled with the outside of the iron skin, aZhentianlei at least ten jin or so, too heavy, so you need to throw the stone throwing machine, or can only be used for defending the city, in addition to calculating the distance of the fire rope fuse burning ignition Zhentianlei, the use of a lot of restrictions. I is want to research to improve firearms, so that it can be as good as possible, easy to use, easy to use, and can play far more than the sword and crossbow loss of war power ……”
As soon as Ou Zhiguo talked about firearms, he spoke at great length, and his whole person seemed to be glowing.
Zhu Pingan patiently listened to the end, curious inquired, “more than ou smiths on firearms how to research to improve?Xin is like shocking thunder.”
It looks like this Ou Zhiguo is a person who researches firearms like an obsessive, according to such a crazy degree of research, he should be able to research in the field of firearms, how is his name not known.
Therefore, Zhu Pingan was curious about the direction of his research.
If the direction is wrong and goes south, then how serious he is and how obsessed he is will be useless.
“My lord, for the insufficiency of the Morning Sky Thunder which is bulky and inconvenient to use, I have improved the gunpowder ratio, improved the iron nails, ceramic tiles and other fillings, and have now successfully reduced the weight of the Morning Sky Thunder by half, and the power has not been lost in the slightest. If you use a machine sphincter or a stone thrower, its throwing distance can be doubled.”Ou Zhiguo said with a proud face.
“More than that, how did Smith Ou improve the gunpowder ratios?”Zhu Pingan asked again, this was the most crucial issue for firearms.
“The grasshopper studied the gunpowder formula recorded in the books such as “Fire Dragon Artifact Formation”, “Gunpowder Record” and so on, which recorded more than ninety kinds of gunpowder formulas, one by one, experimented with its power, and discovered five of the gunpowder formulas which had the greatest power, carefully studied the five gunpowder formulas, and experimented with them many times, and finally established the gunpowder formula as a ratio of nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal as eighty percent to one hundred percent to one hundred percent.In order to improve the burning speed of gunpowder, I also draw on the ancients to increase the fuel oil to help combustion, after hundreds of tests, to determine the increase in the best of the clear oil, in order to increase the lethality of Zhentian Lei, the grass also added the aconite poisonous smoke ……”
Ou smith detailed back.
Then, with a grateful and confident face, he said, “I am grateful to you, Madam, for giving the Fire Dragon Scripture to the grassroots, and I believe that given some more time, the grassroots will be able to improve and perfect the Zhentian Lei once again.”
Zhu Pingan listened to Ou Zhiguo’s words, his heart both admired and sighed, admired that his gunpowder ratios were already close to black gunpowder, sighed that the direction of his research was still biased, a tiny bit off by a thousand miles, so it was no wonder that he was unable to see the Jingyi in his name.
Ou smith research gunpowder formula for nitrate, sulfur, charcoal 8:1:1, in fact, has been quite close to the black gunpowder nitrate, sulfur, charcoal 7.5:1:1.5 ratio, for the Ming this does not pay attention to science, do not pay attention to the theoretical research of the feudal era, has been very good, but with the great power of the black gunpowder is still a little deviation, especially with the increase in the fuel of the clear oil and the lethalPoisonous smoke, gunpowder ratios are complex impure, far from the development of black powder, power naturally discounted.
In fact, as long as the gunpowder ratios are adjusted to the ratios of black gunpowder, the combustibility is already completely sufficient.
There is absolutely no need to add varnish, adding it will also add impurities to the gunpowder, affecting the performance of the gunpowder.
As for adding poisonous smoke in gunpowder, the direction is even more biased. To know the explosive properties of gunpowder is the most essential advantage of gunpowder, gunpowder is also the greatest lethality, poisonous smoke and how it can be compared with the explosive properties, in addition to the ancient poisonous smoke and how powerful it can be in the open field, air mobility and strong.
Gunpowder is gunpowder, if you want to use poisonous smoke to kill, then you should change the direction of the development of gas bombs.
If you want to use poisonous smoke to kill, then you should change the direction to develop poisonous gas bombs. If you want to have everything, then you can’t have everything.
“Ou master craftsman, I was in the capital after the bachelor’s degree, was blessed by the saint’s grace, was appointed to the Hanlin Academy Cultivator, management of the Hanlin Academy library, the Hanlin Academy library has three floors, inside the collection of books as vast as smoke, all kinds of books, rare books and books of all sorts, which has a large number of books on firearms. I am quite interested in military affairs, and thought that future warfare will definitely be the era of firearms, so I read a lot of books on military affairs and firearms while I was on duty in the Book Depository.”
Zhu Pingan found the most appropriate source for his insights on firearms ahead of this era.
The royal collection of books, surely authoritative, surely leading, surely unquestionable, and there was no way for them to go to the Hanlin Academy Book Pavilion to verify.
As soon as he heard that Zhu Pingan had read a large number of firearms texts in the Royal Collection of the Hanlin Academy, Ou Zhi Ge’s entire body breathed heavily and looked at Zhu Pingan as if he was looking at a supreme treasure.
The fact that he could sell himself to Li Shu for a copy of the Fire Dragon Scripture showed how fascinated he was with the study of firearms.
If we are talking about the richness of the collection and the value of the collection, the whole of Daming can’t compare to the royal collection ah. The Hanlin Academy Book Depository is the best of the Royal Book Depository, and the value of the firearms books inside exceeds the Fire Dragon Scripture a thousand times over.
You can imagine how excited Ou Zhiguo is now.
If all the ancestors and future grandchildren can be sold in exchange for a chance to enter the Hanlin Academy’s library to read firearms books, Ou Zhiguo will sell them all without blinking.
