Several people in the Taoist sect were a little surprised, not only by the ruthlessness of this woman, but also by her ability.
It is easy to kill someone alone in the vast sea, but it is not easy at all to return to Fenglinzhou with gold and silver and make a deal with the local lord.
Pirates on the sea are all first-class villains, and the vast sea is a lawless place. If you want to come back from the sea alive while being surrounded by thieves, ability and luck are both indispensable. Even if you return to Fenglin Island,
Not everything is going well. Not everyone can make a deal with the feudal lord. These feudal lords are not sects who cherish feathers. A good-looking woman bringing so much gold and silver to see them is like a three-year-old child holding gold.
In the busy city, if you are not careful, even people and money will become the possessions of those famous people. Taking a step back, it is more cost-effective to take this woman as a concubine and take advantage of her gold than to seal a banner, but the feudal lord of Songjiang Domain does not
In doing so, she not only sealed the banner, but also put her in charge of such a large iron-making workshop, which speaks volumes.
This is not a simple woman, and she cannot be simply regarded as an ordinary banner.
Fan Ji put down the Zhongqi in her hand and made tea for several guests herself.
The layout of this house abandons the traditional wooden floors and ceiling stoves in Fenglinzhou, and is quite a combination of Chinese and Western. The Chinese tables and Western sofas are not too out of the ordinary. In the eyes of many people in Fenglinzhou,
It may be strange, but people in the Taoist sect will find it familiar. After all, the Taoist sect also pays attention to Western learning.
While Huan Ji was making tea, she asked, "I wonder what Qi Gaogong's purpose is here?"
Qi Xuansu did not answer directly: "If this 'here' is coming to Fenglin Continent, then I can answer that our Taoist sect came to Fenglin Continent to quell the rebellion at the invitation of Prime Minister Toyotomi."
"For my small banner, this proposition is a bit too ambitious." Fan Ji smiled, "Of course I asked Qi Gaogong why he came to my small array house."
"It's not small." Qi Xuansu said, "It's more like a workshop than a formation house. This kind of workshop is almost as good as the third-class workshop in our Tianji Hall."
Fan Ji said: "It turns out that Qi Gaogong came for my iron-making workshop."
"You can say that, but there is no need to worry about Fan Ji Qiben. We are not here to seize other people's property." Qi Xuansu raised his hand and said, "I'm just curious."
Tang Yongshui immediately sent the long gun. As the director of Tianji Hall, he was the only one who had Xumiwu, mainly because he carried a large number of firearms. If these things were not stored with Xumiwu, but carried with him, it would be easy
Cause certain accidents.
Qi Xuansu took the long blunderbuss and placed it in front of Fan Ji.
Fan Ji just glanced at it: "We don't make firecrackers."
Qi Xuansu said: "Making fire guns requires raw materials, which is steel. I am not from Tianji Hall. Mr. Tang, please explain it to Fan Ji Qiben."
"Yes." Tang Yongshui responded, and then looked at Fan Ji, "Fan Ji has traveled around the world, and is no stranger to fire guns. When the projectile is fired, the power generated by the explosion of gunpowder will push the projectile through the gun
tube, and finally shoots out. If the projectile cannot slide out of the barrel smoothly when fired, it will cause a so-called explosion. There are many reasons for this, such as the design of the gun is inherently poor, the tube is crudely made, and there is enough material in the tube to block the projectile from being ejected.
Obstacles, etc. The last of these can be avoided through daily maintenance, so cleaning the gun tube is one of the key tasks in fire gun maintenance."
"I will focus on the second point, the production and manufacturing process of gun tubes, that is, the gun blanks are cast and forged into bars in the steel workshop, and then sent to the weapons workshop for subsequent processing. After receiving the bars, the weapon workshop cuts them into sections and removes them.
If the outer skin has many defects, then use a deep hole drill to drill a through hole in the center of the steel rod."
"In short, a blunderbuss tube requires the cooperation of a steel workshop and a weapons workshop. Fanji Hatamoto said that you don't make fire blunderbuss. Of course there is no problem, because that is the matter of the weapon workshop. Let's not talk about the weapon workshop first.
Just talking about steel workshops."
"The gun tube is often in an environment of high temperature and high pressure. Under such conditions, the structural strength of the gun tube is very strict. The iron rod used in the gun tube is not an ordinary iron rod, it is called a gun tube blank. The materials required to make high-quality gun blanks are
It’s very difficult to obtain. The first batch of ‘fire guns’ produced by Prime Minister Toyotomi at that time used gun blanks purchased from our Tenjido.”
"Although our Tenji Hall later taught the corresponding smelting technology at the request of Prime Minister Toyotomi, we never leaked the relevant technology to the local feudal lord, so we are very curious when Fenglinzhou had this technology."
As the owner of an iron-making workshop, it was impossible for Fan Ji not to understand what Tang Yongshui said. The smile on her face gradually faded: "I didn't expect that this mage is also an expert in this way."
After saying that, she pushed a cup of tea in front of Tang Yongshui.
Tang Yongshui glanced at Lu Yuting. After Lu Yuting confirmed that the tea was not poisonous, he picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea.
Moistening his throat, he continued: "The structure of this fire blunderbuss is very simple, it is still in the stage of a matchlock blunderbuss, but the forging technology is very amazing. Using such materials to make a matchlock blunderbuss is somewhat of a waste of natural resources. It can be seen that the weapons workshop
The level is very low.”
"Generally speaking, there will be progress only when there is demand, and weapons workshops are at the forefront. The weapons workshops came up with a new design that greatly increased the power of the fire blunderbuss. Then they found that the blunderbuss tube could not withstand it, so they asked the steel workshop to forge it.
A better gun blank. Even if there is a deviation, the difference between the two will not be too big, just like a pair of twins. But this fire gun is very interesting. The smelting technology far exceeds the weapon forging technology, so we
I would like to ask Fan Ji Hatamoto to give an explanation."
Fan Ji said: "Why do Qi Gaogong and Master Tang think that this fire gun came from my workshop?"
Qi Xuansu said: "We got this fire blunderbuss at the junction of Iishi County and Kuzu County. Not long after we arrived in Izumo Country, this group of people is most likely a local force in Izumo Country. Matsue Domain has always been famous for smelting iron and steel.
In Fenglinzhou, the fireguns must be produced by oneself. They will not buy fireguns from outside, let alone spend a lot of money to buy a batch of high-quality gun blanks from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and then cast them into this kind of matchlock gun with a rather ordinary design.
.”
Fan Ji was silent for a long time, and sighed: "Qi Gao's skills are as clear as a candle's light, and Fan Ji admires her. Yes, these gun embryos did come from our workshop, and the smelting technology was brought back from the West. If there was no such technology, the local feudal lord would also
I will not be allowed to take charge of this workshop. As for the forging technology of fire gun, it is strictly controlled by Fenglinzhou Daofu and Toyotomi Prime Minister's Office, and it is difficult to obtain. Except for a few powerful daimyo, ordinary daimyo still stay in the field of matchgun.
stage."
Qi Xuansu and Lu Yuting looked at each other.
Fan Ji's answer cleared up his doubts. Sure enough, it came from the West. But the good news is that it was not spread by the Holy Court on its own initiative. From this, it seems that the Holy Court's hand has not yet reached Fenglinzhou.
But be prepared for a rainy day. If you let it go, it will happen sooner or later.
It’s not that Taoist sects don’t like Fenglinzhou. Regarding farming and people’s livelihood technologies, there is no problem in spreading them to Fenglinzhou. But when it comes to military and national affairs, one must not be careful. Fenglinzhou has always been ambitious, so in this regard, it must be guarded against.
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Qi Xuansu thought for a while and said: "Fan Ji Hata has such technology, but just making a small flag in Izumo Country, doesn't it feel like it's an injustice?"
Fan Ji's eyes flashed: "Is Qi Gaogong trying to recruit me on behalf of the Taoist sect?"
together
Xuan Su did not answer directly, but changed the topic: "Fan Ji Qiben, who are those two void monks?"
Fan Ji seemed to have expected Qi Xuansu to ask such a question, and did not go around in circles: "One out of every ten Nihility Monks is a secret agent. These two Nihility Monks came to my workshop. Naturally, they are not as simple as ordinary Nihility Monks. They
He is from the imperial court."
Qi Xuansu said: "Our Emperor Ming Yong of the Wei Dynasty in the Central Plains once said that the imperial court is just a few palaces, and food should be eaten in separate pots."
Fan Ji understood and said, "Okay, they are loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and brought me the Emperor's imperial edict."
Qi Xuansu asked: "Can I read the imperial edict?"
Fan Ji got up and went to the inner room. When she came back, she had a piece of silk and a wooden shaft in her hand, which was similar to the imperial edict of the Central Plains.
Qi Xuansu accepted the imperial edict and actually understood it, because 90% of it was written in Chinese characters. The beginning was: God bless, preserve the lineage for eternity, emperor Zuo for thousands of years, the emperor of Fenglin Kingdom pardoned his life. The big seal was used in the middle, and the font was big seal script.
, written with the four words "Feng Lin National Seal".
Qi Xuansu closed the imperial edict: "The emperor wants to make Huan Ji Qiben a viscount?"
Fan Ji said: "I heard that His Majesty the Emperor intends to follow the example of the West and the Central Plains and establish a new title system, that is, Duke, Marquis, Uncle, Son, and Male. Guan Bai of the Duke family and general of the Wu family are both dukes. Guan Bai plus
There are six current regents, including the Sekiba Toyotomi family, known as the Six Regents Seki family. There are also the feudal lords of the Choshu, Satsuma and other major feudal lords, and the Kuqinghua clan, who are also all dukes. The other daimyo feudal lords and ministers are generally marquises.
Or there are so many close ministers under the earl and lord of the feudal lord, such as big bosses and elders. As for us bannermen, it would be good if we could become a baron."
Qi Xuansu said: "But the emperor made you a viscount, and your Majesty the emperor is quite generous."
Fan Ji smiled: "It's just a big pie. It's natural to use something that doesn't belong to you to buy people's hearts and use a false name in exchange for someone else's hard work. And under this title system, the one who benefits the most is the royal family, from the emperor to the prince.
, it’s all theirs.”
"It seems that Emperor Fenglinzhou has a big plan." Lu Yuting said softly, "Now it seems that the situation in Fenglinzhou will reach this point, and the royal family's power is also 'taking great credit'."
Qi Xuansu said: "This is natural. In the so-called 'respecting the king and fighting against the Tao', 'respecting the king' must come before 'fighting against the Tao'. Don't forget that our Emperor Daxuan cannot also serve as the Grand Master, but the Emperor of Fenglinzhou can concurrently serve as the Grand Master."