, This son-in-law is very stable

The beautiful life on the island made Zhang Wei feel a little happy. These days, he inspected the island during the day, and at night, he was served by a maid with a thirty-six floor heating bed. He originally planned to go back to Fengcheng, but he had been there for nearly a month.

"Son-in-law!" Gou'er ran over panting and said, "So my son-in-law is here, and the boss has written a letter!"

Zhang Wei is guiding the development of muskets to learn about the latest progress. The latest muskets are still smoothbore guns, but the success rate of ignition has increased a lot.

Although it is still a fire scythe, it is better than the previous ten times and two or three times. Now it has reached two or three times, and it can basically succeed once at most three times.

He had considered rifled rifled rifles before, but since he didn't know how to make smokeless gunpowder and mercury, he had to give up and choose to guide the development of muskets like shotguns, that is, shotguns.

The main disadvantage of the shotgun is that the range is not long, but the advantage is that the shooting coverage is large, and there is no need for too high accuracy, and there is no rifling. The barrel is easier to produce. The most important thing is that black gunpowder can be used.

However, Zhang Wei's unthinkable shotgun bullet was still clueless. Now he only made paper-shell bullets, using a kind of oil paper. The bullets were divided into two parts, with iron beads in front and gunpowder behind.

It is about two inches long and is directly stuffed into the gun chamber when used. Then, the scythe at the fire door will pierce the paper as soon as it is fired, igniting the black gunpowder inside, and spraying out the iron beads.

The disadvantage of this kind of bullet, or this kind of gunpowder, is that the gun chamber needs to be cleaned after each launch, otherwise the bullet will not be inserted, resulting in a very low firing frequency.

Zhang did not think that using three-stage shooting would make up for the shortcomings of the fire rate to a certain extent, but it has not yet reached mass production and subsequent tests are needed. I don’t know whether the range can allow such operation.

The short gun I carried before was upgraded this time and replaced with the latest style. Zhang Wei tried to fire it a few times and was quite satisfied. He cleaned the chamber again. As soon as the short gun was put away, the dog came to him.

After receiving the letter, Zhang Wei did not rush to read it, but told the craftsmen: "You try the hydraulic earning hole I mentioned. If we can successfully drill out the barrel, then we can try mass production."

"Don't worry, young master! I will go to the carpenter chief to discuss this matter. Just wait for our good news!" The chief in charge of the musket nodded quickly.

Zhang Wei nodded and said to the chief gunpowder: "We need to continue working hard on bullet matters. Think about other directions more, and it is best to solve the problem of residues. Otherwise, cleaning up again and again is too troublesome. If we really go to the battlefield, these muskets will become disposable weapons."

"Don't worry, young master! We will do our best to find a solution as soon as possible. I will study the idea of ​​using metal to make bullets as soon as possible. I believe that it will soon enter the experimental stage!"

The chief of gunpowder was originally a master of making fireworks. The fireworks he made could fly high and form a special shape. Zhang Wei took their family to the island for research and launching medicines.

After all this was arranged, Zhang Wei took Gou'er back to the study room before opening the letter. He saw that it was Yang Zhiyuan's letter, which was very short, but Zhang Wei frowned slightly after reading it.

It turned out that the prefect Wang asked for assistance to the Yang family. The Hejian Prefecture had a severe drought and the imperial court raised food everywhere for disaster relief. But now it was about to be cold winter, and some areas in the northern end of the canal would be frozen.

This greatly increased the loss of grain transport in the south. The prefect Wang thought of the Yang family and prepared to transport the grain from the sea to Hejian Mansion. At the same time, the Yang family also needed to help purchase some grain and transport it together.

Dayan was prosperous in business, with sufficient taxes, and there was no shortage of money in the treasury, but what was lacking now was food. Whether it was military rations from the war in the northwest or food from the disaster relief of Hejian Prefecture, it was in a state of shortage.

Especially the more we go to the north, the more difficult it is to buy in large quantities. Therefore, all prefectures in Jiangnan have received orders to collect grain, based on the grain transported to Hejian Prefecture. This government order has put the prefects in various prefectures in a dilemma.

If transported from land, the consumption will be at least 30% to 40%. If the consumption of water transportation is about 20%, but the ice is about to arrive, manpower will still be needed later.

So the prefect Wang thought of the Yang family who was married, especially Zhao Zhongqing, who wrote a letter to thank the prefect Wang, which surprised him. The Yang family actually successfully won the order of the court with his help.

I thought I would just give some face and give some orders, but I didn't expect that I would receive an order from a 100,000 army of troops. It was even more natural for the Prefect Wang to ask the Yang family to help.

The prefect Wang summoned Yang Zhiyuan urgently and made a request for assistance. Yang Zhiyuan agreed directly. There was no way, and he had to agree to this matter, otherwise he would have to gain the reputation of destroying bridges across the river and would never be able to do anything in the officialdom in the future.

After reading the letter, Zhang immediately organized a fleet. Some of the fleets on Crescent Island went to war with Qian Zhongyi, and some went to Nanyang to do business. Now he could barely move out about forty large ships, which should be enough.

So Zhang Wei led the more than 40 large ships back to Fengcheng City. Seven days later, he arrived at Fengcheng Port. When he returned to Yang Mansion, it was already evening. He entered the mansion in a dusty manner and told him not to disturb the master. He planned to go to Yang Zhiyuan for negotiation the next day.

After passing through the central hall, he came to the embroidery building behind. Seeing that the candle in the room was still on, Zhang Wei smiled and went upstairs and knocked on the door.

"Who?" A confused voice came from inside, and Zhang Wei heard it was Wen Qing's voice.

"It's me!" Zhang Wei replied with a smile.

"Ah! Husband is back?" The door opened, revealing Shiqing's surprise face. She quickly let Zhang Wei in, went out and shouted, asking Xiao E to fetch warm water.

He took off his shirt and wet the towel. Zhang Wei wiped his face randomly and said, "Why are you not sleeping yet?"

"It's just that my sister can't sleep. She kept talking to me, saying why my husband has been there for so long this time!" Wen Qing curled her lips and said with some resentment.

"Oh~!" Shi Qing made a gesture and said, "You said it first, and she said she usually went back in a month, but this time she caught up with the time to go to the capital!"

"When I went to the capital last time, there were too many things on the island, so I dealt with it. In addition, some other situations, so I stayed for a long time!" Zhang Wei explained with a smile. This other situation was naturally to attack the East and Yue Wanwan.

The sisters naturally would not ask questions. Shiqing had already spread the quilt and said, "My husband is tired all the way, so I'm afraid he's very tired. Let's take a rest!"

Wen Qing sighed and complained: "My husband, don't leave for so long next time. I'm bullied by my sister every day at home!"

Zhang Wei went over and grabbed one with one hand and said, "Okay, I will deal with it as soon as possible next time, and I will ensure that I will go and return quickly!"

"Why should I go with my husband next time?" Wen Qing hesitated for a moment and expressed her thoughts. Shi Qing was because of seasickness, but she was not seasick. If she was with her, she could still monopolize her husband.

Zhang Wei was shocked. If they let their sisters know Yue Wanwan's existence, it would be difficult to explain. They said without understanding the mood: "The island is busy, and I don't have time to accompany you after you go. It's better to wait for me at home."

Thinking this reason is a bit far-fetched, Zhang Wei added: "And there will be fighting occasionally. If there is another mistake, wouldn't it be too late to regret it?"

"There is still a fight?" Shi Qing was shocked and asked quickly: "Why are there still a fight?"

"The sea is a homeless land. Many sea merchants are normal merchants on land. They become pirates when they arrive at sea. Have you forgotten how Crescent Island came from?" Zhang Wei deliberately made the narrative at sea more dangerous, trying to scare Wen Qing away.

"Ah? Husband, don't go out to sea either!" Wen Qing was startled and looked worried. The first thing she thought of was Zhang Wei's safety, and hurriedly said, "Will those pirates go to Crescent Island?"

"I have been here once before. At that time, hundreds of large ships were all pirates transformed by Fujian merchants. They were really vicious. At that time, there were tens of thousands of people coming straight to our Crescent Island in order to break our maritime monopoly!"

Zhang Weiyuan wanted to make more alarmist words, but when he saw Wen Qing looking at him worriedly, he quickly looked for repairs and said, "However, as soon as they arrived at Crescent Island, they were ambushed by me and easily defeated!"

Seeing Wen Qing looking at him with shiny eyes, Zhang Wei continued: "In this way, the largest maritime force has been defeated by us! So we have dominated the East China Sea now, and ordinary pirates dare not mess with us!"

"Husband is so amazing!" Wen Qing showed admiration and praised: "I knew my husband was the most powerful. They said you are a famous expert in the world and a harsh man..."

Halfway through speaking, Wen Qing's voice became smaller and smaller, and she couldn't hear the following words clearly: "Son-in-law's Crazy Whip..."

"Okay! You actually know my nickname in the world!" Zhang Wei knew that she didn't want to mention her son-in-law's identity, and smiled and said, "Today I will let you sisters see my crazy whip method!"

"Huh? Husband, what are you going to do?"

"Ah! Husband has worked hard all the way, so let's take a rest!"

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A large ship is required to send letters to Fengcheng.

Disaster relief food canal,

Go home to chat and embrace sisters,

The Crazy Son-in-Law Crazy Whip.
Chapter completed!