Moo Moo Along with the braying of cows, the villagers began to prepare to transplant rice seedlings.
The wheat harvest has just been completed today, and the fields for planting rapeseed and ramie have been raked by cattle.
In the past, horses and donkeys were used to plow the ground, but now they are not used.
Horses should try not to enter paddy fields. If their hooves are soaked in too much water, they will get sick, including donkeys. However, it is not a problem to plow occasionally.
Theoretically, buffaloes are the best for plowing paddy fields. They are strong and like water.
The village does not buy buffaloes because the buffaloes are used for other tasks, especially walking and pulling carts. The local weather is hot in summer, and the buffaloes cannot withstand the high temperature for a long time.
Another point is that buffaloes are particularly aggressive with their own kind, and their advantage is that they are stronger than oxen.
The oxen are raking the ground now, and the rice will be planted tomorrow. The people from other villages who have finished harvesting the wheat will stay for another day, help them go home after planting the rice, and deal with their own land.
Zhou Zong led his people to work together, while Zhu Wentian led his friends to hide behind the mountain temple to practice shooting. The flintlock gun was made, and there is currently only one.
Zhu Wentian made a lot of gunpowder and projectiles. The projectiles of lead bullets were almost the same size. The gunpowder was fixed and packaged once.
The flint is selected, cut into the same shape and specifications, and can be replaced at any time.
He loaded the powder in the front, shot it, then loaded lead bullets, loaded the powder in the back, closed the fire door, aimed, fired, and shot, hitting the bullseye of the paper target.
"Alright hehe" Zhu Wentian was satisfied.
"Okay, Brother Hanhan is awesome." The friends clapped their hands and cheered.
"You all come and try." Zhu Wentian changed the target paper one meter away in front of the gun and gave the gun to the next friend.
Everyone tried it one by one. After a dozen times, they simply cleaned the hole in the fire door and they were able to continue firing.
This is a long gun, with a longer range than a handgun. The barrel is not rifled, and the bullets do not use Mini bullets.
The main reason is that there is too little time. I have to leave immediately after planting the rice. The prince is getting married on April 12th, and today is the seventh day of April.
After the rice planting is finished tomorrow, I will take a boat to Nanjing early the day after tomorrow. I will go to the local etiquette officer to discuss the etiquette, and I will be arranged to stay in an inn.
On the night of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, many people in the village had insomnia. The friends were tossing and turning, thinking about going to the big city, and the village elder was also thinking about it while he was lying down.
Li Changzai recited the etiquette over and over again, fearing that he would forget it when he got nervous.
Only Zhu Wentian snores in the sacrificial hall. He has nothing to worry about. He can just read the etiquette once. Besides, with his status, others will not do anything to him.
On the morning of the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, everyone had a hasty meal, put on new clothes, new shoes, jewelry, and congratulatory gifts for the Crown Prince, Crown Princess, His Majesty, Queen Ma, Concubine Sun, and other women in the harem. , gifts from kings.
So three ships are needed, otherwise they cannot hold so many people and things.
Zhu Wentian took a bag and took care of a box. Inside the bag were clothes and shoes, and in the box were silver ingots.
ThisWhen we went out for the first time, everyone took a thousand taels of silver with them. If they could buy anything, they would buy it and bring it back to the villagers.
The leader had a long, cloth-wrapped object in his hand. He got on the boat and muttered some etiquette.
Zhou Zong was sitting in the same boat as Li Chang, and he looked at the long thing placed on Li Chang's leg, "Zhu Li Chang, what is this?"
"Stick, with a belt A stick for a hole." The chief replied naturally.
"Where is the box under my feet?" Zhou Zong was very doubtful.
"Small balls of lead were stuffed into the holes in the sticks, as well as powders of sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal."
The chief said that he could not bring the cloth with him at all times. Hold on, this is a firearm, are you trying to assassinate someone?
When he opened it, a simple flintlock gun appeared in front of Zhou Zong.
Zhou Zong ""
He wanted to curse, but you made a bludgeon with a stick.
When he saw the real thing, he frowned again. I've seen it before. This is what I brought you.
He knows what a hand gun looks like. It's a barrel, held in a hand, first put the fuse, then the powder, then put the projectiles or arrows, light the fuse, and end it. Get up and wait, the fuse burns inside and pops out.
What I see now is different. The masters in the village have not learned how to do it. It is quite simple.
He reached out and picked it up and played with it, "What is this gun?"
"The butt, this is the hammer, this is the trigger, it is the medicine tank, the lid, the plug rod, and the flint. , fixed-load medicine packs, medicine pool medicine packs, lead bullets"
The director did not need to ask the other party one by one, he explained every part and extra things.
After he finished speaking, he took the gun and started to operate it, loading the gunpowder and bullets one by one without pointing the muzzle at anyone.
"Put the butt of the gun on your shoulder and just pull the trigger. Don't point it at anyone." The chief carefully handed the loaded weapon to Zhou Zong.
Of course Zhou Zong understood the dangers of firearms, and he also took the "fire" carefully
"Didn't I tell you to hook it directly? The flint is fire. Find something to hit."
Li Chang kept his eyes on the muzzle of the gun, ready to dodge at any time.
Zhou Zong began to look around. Zhu Taiyi and others were on the boat. When they saw him, they looked over and waved their hands in front of him.
"Uh, the boat is approaching the shore, hurry up." Zhou Zong stood up with his mouth in his mouth. There was a tree on the shore in front of him.
The boat first approached the shore, about two or three meters away. Zhou Zong jumped from the boat to the shore with a gun in his hand, ran forward, got in front of the tree, raised his gun and pointed it at the tree and pulled the trigger.
A puff of smoke came out, and Zhou Zong was startled. He quickly looked at the tree trunk that was hit, turned around, and jumped from the shore to the boat that had just come over.
"Zhou Sheren is worthy of being a swordsman, with great skills." The chief praised, and the others who were not targeted nodded.
"This is the gun you made with those three hand guns." Zhou Zong was so excited that his whole body trembled.
He saw smoke just now, and also saw the tree trunk being beaten.hole and smell the burning smell of gunpowder.
He dared to swear that he never used fire to ignite the powder twister. He just hooked the hook with his finger and the lead bullet was shot out.
Li Chang smiled and nodded, "It is too difficult to imitate the handguns sent by Zhou Sheren. I have no choice but to learn from some of the knowledge I have learned about handguns.
This gun has too many flaws and is not as good as the court's hand gun. I think it can be used to protect the village from bad guys."
Zhou Zong, Zhu Taiyi, and the boatman in charge of the boat. I was speechless, it was so bad inside.
More than ten breaths later, Zhou Zong laughed angrily and said, "Handguns are indeed not easy to imitate, but I am embarrassing you. Can I ask, do you think that one is used to point the lead?" It’s hard to imitate fire, right?”
“Yeah, it’s not convenient to stick a torch. How are the fire pleats made? In the villages, they usually use a fire sickle to make fire, and there is flint inside.
Then. When we thought, yes, we don’t know how to make fire pleats, we put the flint on it and hit it, and the fire came out.”
The leader was thinking hard about how to make it, while rounding out the words. , there is sweat on the forehead.
"Yes, bang, boom, hey hey hey hey." Zhu Wentian estimated the time beside him and it was time for him to speak out. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website without anti-theft, free to find books and add books, you can join the qq group 952868558