Chapter 37: Weapons

Cao Muwen was mentally prepared on the road. He thought that if he met the brocade guards of our institute, he must be polite and not to dominate! Selling them face is a very profitable way. I just hope that they don't deliberately make things difficult for themselves. But the screening was beyond Cao Wei's expectation. When the two heard this, they were first slightly stunned, and then they seemed to have a good heart, and suddenly put on a smiling face.

"Oh, it's you! We've heard about it a long time ago!" The speaker is a small flag, and there is obviously an indescribable tone - joy!?

"Yes, the people in the Institute knew you were coming a few days ago." The other man spoke. The man looked like a monkey, and his shrewdness was attached to his face. Looking at Cao Muwen, Wei Bingwen leaned over and bowed and hurriedly got up to help him. Ouch! How are you here~~~ You can pick up hundreds of theirs~~~~ Er~~ class. Er~!" Suddenly, the little flag put his elbow against this one. He obviously fixed his words, looked elsewhere with an embarrassed face, and had to smile.

"This~~~, don't be rude. You are also from afar. Hurry up and sit down." This small flag also hurriedly tried to change the topic.

Cao Muwen and Wei Bingwen's "tacit understanding" is not inferior to that of the two opposites. It seems that it is difficult to tell us! Cao Muwen thought to himself. Since it's inconvenient to talk about it, I won't ask about it. Wei Bingwen also thought of this.

In this room, the four "guests" sat down, polite to each other and fought with each other. It's nothing more than asking some old-fashioned things about where the other party is from, where he is, what his origin is, and his previous qualifications in Jinyiwei. Cao Muwen and Wei Bingwen also asked about Taiyuan's human style, Jinyiwei's "daily" work, tasks and so on.

When the two people on the opposite side asked, they were shocked to know that Cao Muwen had just joined the Jinyiwei. The little flag was very thoughtful and said quickly, "Brother Cao is really young and powerful. He is valued by hundreds of households at such a young age, and even has been transferred from Beijing. It seems that you are a right-hand man!"

"Alas~~Where are you, big brother, you praised me? I'm a ' blind cat that meets a dead mouse' and half pushes me to become a brocade guard." Cao Muwen also answered with a joke.

"This! This person is really strange. They don't seem to know what they are doing here! It's really in the dark." Alas~~, I don't know when the disaster comes, and I can still laugh. Only when it's not true that the 'art is bold' can there be no fear? When the two saw Cao Muwen talking and laughing, they couldn't help muttering in their hearts.

Originally, due to Shanxi's special geographical location, it has a wide border with the northern nomads. There are three thousand households in one province, one in Taiyuan, the other in Datong, which is also an important town on the nine sides, and another in Jincheng in the south. Thousands of households in Jincheng are responsible for the internal affairs of the province, which is no different from that of thousands of households in other provinces. However, the responsibilities of Datong Qianhu's offices in Taiyuan are different. From the composition of the personnel of these two thousands of households, it can be seen that there are more people who originally belonged to the Nanzhen Fusi than other health stations. The main responsibility is not only to monitor whether there are any local changes, but also to monitor local officials, Sansi and other feudal officials, but also a task, which is to monitor this. There are many garrisons. This is the reason why the functions and powers of the Southern Town Department are slightly similar to that of modern gendarmes.

Each town on the nine sides has a general, deputy general, a general, a guerrilla general, a garrison, a thousand general, a general and other officers, with no grade and no fixed staff. The one side of the general town is the guard, the one who is the one who is alone is guarded, the one who guards one city and one fort is the guard, and the one who guards the same city with the general is the auxiliary guard. In addition, there are also admirals, procuring, inspections, imperial officials and other officials. In this province, there are also three major officials in the province, including the Department of Political History, the Department of Criminal Inspection, and the Department of the Admiral and Command. Coincidentally, Taiyuan is also the seat of the provincial government, and these important government offices are also located in it. The admiral commanded a military and government, and led the guardhouse under his jurisdiction. He belonged to the governor's office of the five armies and obeyed the order of the Ministry of War. He was in charge of the impeachment of a province's criminal name, and had both judicial and supervision functions, while his commander was in charge of the criminal cases in charge of the province, but his trial authority was limited to cases of imprisonment and below. Cases above imprisonment must be reported to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for trial.

This political envoy is from the second-grade official, and the inspector is also a third-grade official. In addition, this commander is also a third-grade "military" senior official. Now he is a local military region-level cadre, at least "two big stars"?!

This Taiyuan City can be said to be a hidden dragon and crouching tiger, "an ambush" such a "big man". If it is not stared at by our brocade guards, it would not be beautiful if a great contribution comes out, the generals are supported by the generals, and has his own ambitions to emerge.

Originally, Cao Muwen had a little understanding of the ancient local military and politics, but today's gossip has also increased a lot of knowledge. It happened that the sound of farewell came from the room at this time. The door was pushed open, and Wu Zheng stepped out. It seems that the matter has been handed over.

Cao Muwen and Wei Bingwen raised their hands to say goodbye and followed Wu Zheng out.

How's it going? Did you have a good chat?" Wu Zheng said this without looking back.

"Uh~~ Yes, I thought they would look at our faces, but I didn't expect them to be hospitable." Wei Bingwen sighed for a while.

"Well, that's true, but don't you think they are really so 'hospitality'?" Wu Zheng said with a sneer. Cao Wei and both of them were stunned.

"Let me tell you first, we won't stay here for a few days! Oh, damn it, I said why my superiors agreed to be transferred so soon. I was still prepared, but I didn't expect this Ren to be really desperate. Just got here~~~~" Wu Zheng complained repeatedly, which made Cao Muwen and Wei Bingwen even more confused.

"Hey, you two come to the 'Warrison' first." Wu Zheng said again without looking back.

Ah? Where?"

"Go get the guy." Wu Zheng turned around and said coldly. I'll tell you later."

"I~~~I XXX." Cao Muwen scolded in his heart, "How can this~~~ be possible?"

"Hmm, what's impossible? Hey hey, how can a man make contributions? How can he make contributions without this section? But I don't think it's a fucking achievement yet!" Wei Bingwen's reaction is also not much different.

"Oc's it, you don't have to complain. That's good. Anyway, if we don't do it, we have to have someone to do it. With the lessons learned from the past, we can be careful by ourselves. Don't think about Li Baihu and others!" Wu Zheng was silent for a moment and said calmly.

The three people in this industry entered the military preparation office and actually led six short-handed tongs, which surprised Cao Muwen for a moment.

This rifle is a well-known musket. The fire rope gun is a burning rope to ignite gunpowder, so it is called a fire rope gun. The fire rope gun is a milestone in the development history of firearms and is the direct prototype of modern rifles.

There is a metal hook on the gun. One end of the hook is fixed on the gun and can be rotated around the axis. The other end is holding a burning fire rope. When the soldier fires, he pushes the metal hook into the fire door with his hand to ignite the fire rope*, and then fire the projectile contained in the gun chamber. Because the fire rope is a hemp rope or twisted cloth, which is soaked in potassium nitrate or other salt solutions and dried, it can burn slowly, and the combustion speed is about 80 mm to 120 mm per hour. In this way, after the soldier presses the metal hook into the fire door, he can hold the gun with one or both hands and always stare at the target. According to historical records, well-trained shooters can fire about once or twice a minute. This is already a good level.

As we all know, the invention of gunpowder is an outstanding contribution made by Chinese people to the world. Since the birth of gunpowder from the alchemy furnace of the Tang Dynasty, it has formed an indissoluble bond with the God of War. The gunpowder was used in the war at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Later, it spread to Europe. After the development of Europeans, a new musket was developed until the early 16th century. Spain's Musket rifle represented the advanced level of European rifles at that time. The gun has a large caliber, with a full mass of 50 grams, a maximum range of more than 200 meters, and an effective range of more than 100 meters. It adopts a mechanical sight and can fire 2 rounds per minute. Although the gun is very heavy and can only be supported by a fork seat most of the time, theqian projectile fired is extremely powerful and can penetrate the heavy breastplate worn by the knight within 100 meters, even the shield. Later, on the American continent, the Spaniards conquered the huge and backward Inca Empire with this weapon.

It happened to catch up with the "Great Navigation Age", and the oceans of this era belonged to explorers, adventurers and those desperate pirates. Portugal and Spain were the world's largest maritime country at this time, with navigable merchant ships all over the eastern and western oceans.

The new musket accompanied the tide of this era and came to its birthplace - the East. Of course, this is the so-called new fire rope gun, which also has many disadvantages, such as extremely difficult operation; it cannot be used when it is rainy and wet, because the fire rope is difficult to ignite, and it is difficult to play a greater role in the extreme environment of the battlefield.

Cao Muwen took a pistol from Wu Zheng, that is, a short rifle. It's an honor, it's old-fashioned!

At this time, even if the Ming Dynasty came into contact with a new fire gun, it is unlikely to be quickly popularized. Which imitation, research, experiment and rehearsal do not require a lot of time and money? Fortunately, this kind of fire is short and easy to operate. Although the power is small, the launch interval may be small. It is good to catch the other party off guard when encountering danger.

After taking over the hand, Cao Muwen carefully put it away.

At this time, Wu Zheng said again, "What I said before is very clear. Our task is to replace Li Baihu's task. Originally, most of the brocade guards were equipped with knives, and fire knives and so on.