Zhao Ji would never risk entering a firearms manufacturing workshop to inspect the work.

In the open space far outside the firearms manufacturing workshop, the firearms manufacturing envoy Chen Gui and his deputy Li Ji led some of the petty officials and craftsmen representatives in the firearms manufacturing workshop to queue up and wait there early, preparing to welcome the holy driver.

Chen Gui and Li Ji led the crowd. When they saw the royal chariot from Zhao Guan's family arriving, they immediately knelt down and worshiped.

"I respectfully welcome the Holy Emperor. Long live my emperor."

Zhao Ji walked out of the imperial chariot and said loudly:

"Thank you for your hard work in developing firearms here! You and I are all our heroes in the Song Dynasty!"

Chen Gui and Li Ji immediately took the lead and replied loudly:

"Thank you so much for your compliments! Long live my emperor."

Zhao Ji smiled slightly and said: "I love you so much, so I will go down without courtesy."

Everyone thanked him and stood up.

Zhao Ji saw that Chen Gui and Li Ji led a grand welcoming team composed of more than 200 people.

Zhao Ji frowned and said:

"I think among the more than 200 people, many of them should be craftsmen in firearms manufacturing workshops, right?

If they don't develop and produce firearms and come here to greet me, wouldn't they waste the time of producing firearms?

Next time, if I come to inspect again, don’t make such a big fuss.”

The manufacture of firearms made Chen Gui blush with shame, and he replied unreasonably:

"Wei Chen Gui knows that he is wrong. If His Majesty comes to visit you again, I will do everything simply to welcome him."

Zhao Ji nodded slightly and said to the prince Zhao Huan, King Yun Zhao Kai, and King Kang Zhao Gou beside him:

"Today, my father will open your eyes and let you see the great power of firearms!"

Zhao Huan, Zhao Kai, and Zhao Gou immediately leaned over and saluted with fists in their hands, saying:

"My son, I would like to thank my father..."

Although Zhao Huan, Zhao Kai, and Zhao Gou had heard that their father had established a new firearms manufacturing workshop,

However, they did not know what exactly the firearms manufacturing workshop was researching and producing.

After all, before this, Zhao Ji treated the firearms manufacturing workshop as a secret organization of the Song Dynasty.

Not only do these princes not know, but many ministers in the court also don't know what the firearms manufacturing workshop develops and produces.

Zhao Ji asked Chen Gui, the envoy to the firearms manufacturing workshop:

"Chen Aiqing, are all the newly developed firearms developed by the firearms manufacturing workshop ready?"

Chen Gui replied: "Everything is as per the official instructions, everything is ready!"

Zhao Ji nodded with satisfaction and said, "Then prepare for the live-fire drill!"

"I obey the decree." Chen Gui asked again:

"Your Majesty, please move to a safe place and ascend to the viewing platform."

Zhao Ji nodded, and the group of people waited, led by Chen Gui, and boarded the viewing platform.

Firearms manufacturing envoy Chen Gui ordered:

"In the first round, Wei Chen sent someone to perform a musket test for His Majesty."

"Thirty musketeers are invited to enter and prepare for a shooting performance."

The messenger from the firearms manufacturing workshop immediately went down to deliver the order...

Standing behind Zhao Ji were the prince Zhao Huan, the king of Yun Zhao Kai, the young man of the king of Kang Zhao Gou, and the eunuch Liang Shicheng, who had never seen what a musket was.

Now, their horizons have been opened.

They saw thirty musketeers, carrying muskets nearly as long as they were tall, marching into the shooting range.

Thirty wooden stakes were erected in the shooting range, and a fist-sized porcelain bowl was tied to each wooden stake.

Thirty musketeers lined up in a horizontal row, eighty steps away from the horizontal row of wooden stakes in front. They one after another set up their spears and aimed at the porcelain bowls on the wooden stakes, waiting for the firearms maker's clichéd sound.

The command to “shoot”…

Chen Gui, the firearms manufacturer, came to the viewing platform, knelt down to Zhao Guan who was sitting on the dragon throne and started to play:

"Weichen Chen Gui and deputy firearms manufacturing envoy Li Ji led the craftsmen to make the firearms according to the drawings given by your majesty.

The matchlock gun, which required lighting a fuse, has been improved, resulting in the development of a new musket that is more convenient to fire."

Zhao Ji nodded and said: "Chen Aiqing ordered someone to bring up a new musket. I want to see it."

Chen Gui was stunned. He never expected that Zhao Guan's family would want to personally see the new musket designed by the emperor himself.

Chen Gui hurriedly ran down from the viewing platform and borrowed a new loaded musket from the thirty musketeers below.

He hurriedly ran up to the viewing platform again.

"Wei Chen Gui has brought a new type of musket."

Chen Gui knelt in front of Zhao Guan's family, holding a long new musket in his hands and holding it on his head. He did not forget to remind:

"This gun has been loaded with live ammunition. Your Majesty, please be more careful when watching it to prevent it from misfiring!"

Zhao Ji smiled slightly and said, "I already knew it!"

Zhao Ji took the new musket handed over by Chen Gui.

I saw this gun, which was a little over 1.5 meters long.

Zhao Ji weighed the new musket with his hands and felt that it should be as he designed it. This unprecedented 'impact flintlock musket' should weigh about ten kilograms.

In fact, this kind of flintlock gun was manufactured under the leadership of Chen Gui in less than half a year according to Zhao Ji's design drawings.

According to the measurement units of later generations, the length of this gun is 1.56 meters, the caliber is 19.8 mm, the gun weighs 5.69 kilograms, and the projectile loaded in the gun weighs 32.1 grams.

Of course, Zhao Ji spent a lot of effort to convert the above data that only modern people can understand into the size and weight units of the Song Dynasty that Chen Gui, the inventor of the indigenous bamboo musket in the Northern Song Dynasty, could understand.

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Since firearms manufacturers have not yet achieved a greater breakthrough in gun-making technology, this percussion-type flintlock smoothbore gun still uses front-loading from the muzzle.

Because the gun's 'safety' was closed at this time and could not be fired yet, Zhao Ji looked at the impact-type flintlock musket with great confidence.

This also aroused the curiosity of the three princes behind Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, Zhao Kai and Xiao Zhao Gou.

The three of them leaned over and stared with great curiosity at the spear they had never seen before that their father was playing with...

Zhao Ji inspected this flintlock musket and saw that it was designed and manufactured according to the drawings I drew.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In addition to the 'safety', this gun also has a rear sight and a front sight.

The biggest feature of this flintlock musket is that a flint is clamped on the jaw of the hammer, and there is an anvil next to the fire hole.

When shooting with it, pull the trigger, and under the action of the spring, hit the flint heavily next to the fire door. Sparks will appear, which will ignite the gunpowder in the gun and fire...

This greatly simplifies the shooting process, improves the firing rate and shooting accuracy, and is more convenient to use than a matchlock gun that requires a torch or a fire sickle to ignite.

Moreover, the price-performance ratio of the flintlock musket is pretty good. Its cost is low and it is easy to mass-produce.

Traveler Zhao Ji knows that historically, it was not until the mid-17th century that many countries in Europe generally equipped the army with flintlocks, and they were used until 1848.

The flintlock muskets in the armies of later European countries were equipped for more than 200 years.

Zhao Ji naturally also hopes that the Song Dynasty he traveled to can develop later generations of AK47, M16A1, M16A2, and M4, or 95 rifles...

However, according to the current technology and productivity of the Song Dynasty, as well as his own knowledge of modern firearms, he only knows some of the most basic structural principles. How is it possible to develop a modern rifle now?

Now, I have asked the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty to develop a flintlock musket. If I draw them a simple principle design drawing of a modern rifle for later generations, it will probably take several generations of unremitting efforts to develop such a musket for later generations.

A powerful advanced rifle, right?!

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At this time, in the shock of everyone, Zhao Ji, a time traveler as the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, stood on the viewing platform. He raised the flintlock musket in his hand...

He turned on the gun's 'safety',

He aimed at a certain porcelain bowl on the row of wooden piles a hundred steps ahead...

Zhao Ji's right eye passed through the rear sight, followed the crosshair, and saw the porcelain bowl, connecting the three points into a straight line.

He pulled the trigger decisively.

The flintlock musket in Zhao Ji's hand, the moment the trigger was pulled, the spring bounced rapidly, hitting the flint heavily on the side of the fire door, causing sparks to ignite the gun that had already been filled.

gunpowder.

A "bang" sound,

Thick smoke came out of the muzzle...

The three princes behind Zhao Ji were so frightened that they trembled violently;

Shocked, Liang Shicheng, the eunuch beside Zhao Ji, immediately stepped forward and wanted to use his fat body to protect Zhao Guan's family;
To be continued...