The temptation of making money was too great, and the greedy Zheng Cong knew that he could not trap his children, so he borrowed a little here and there, and combined with the savings collected from people's wealth and wealth over the years, he barely scraped together one hundred thousand taels of silver.

Zheng Cong kept this matter very secret, and his good brothers Zheng Ming, Zheng Zhi, Zheng Rou and others were all kept in the dark. They must have turned against Zheng Cong after they knew about it.

Zheng Kezang is also happy to see this happen. These people are all the murderers who will murder him in the future. This will create conflicts among them, which will be more conducive to defeating them one by one.

However, once his youth camp is formed and his youth camp is formed, if these clowns make any moves, they will be directly lined up and shot, sent to see the late Emperor Yongli, and then slowly repent in the underworld.

With the one hundred thousand silver sent by Zheng Cong, Zheng Kezang was very happy. With the first pot of gold, many things could be solved easily.

"Li Banban, put the money into my internal funds. No one else is allowed to touch my money without my approval, even my grandmother." Zheng Kezang told the old eunuch Li Zhongjie seriously.

"My slave understands." To be honest, Eunuch Li was particularly surprised. He knew Zheng's seniority and it was not that he had never seen money before. He was just amazed that this young man in his teens could earn so much money.

Dragons and dragons give birth to phoenixes, and they are worthy of being the descendants of Mr. Guo. He is ready to do great things at a young age.

"As long as you understand, I'll give you a task, that's all." Zheng Kezang straightened up and whispered to Old Eunuch Li in a low voice.

A few days later, in a secret firearms workshop in Dongning Prefecture.

As an old craftsman from Foshan Town, Su Laocheng was somewhat confident in his skills. He himself had a blood feud with the Qing Dynasty. Wouldn't it be nice to use what he had learned throughout his life to serve the country?

In order to enhance the fragmentation killing ability of hand grenades, the French army will also drive iron nails into the wooden boards or directly tie the nails around the metal barrel with iron wires. After the fuse is ignited, the explosive will detonate within 5-7 seconds, so the method

The soldier took enough time to throw the grenade.

Under this circumstance, the French army began to make a wooden-handled grenade using small parts commonly found in trenches.

Since the iron smelting industry is developed, firecrackers and artillery naturally cannot escape.

Facts have proved that although they are not as iconic as the famous German wooden handle grenades, these simple wooden handle grenades still provided a simple and effective means of killing for French soldiers during World War I. After all, anyone with hands can do it and charge the powder.

The large amount of grenades is still very good.

This Foshan town was really famous during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

In the past few days, Old Eunuch Li was a little worried. Zheng Kezang was moving frequently these days, and even ordered him to gather a group of craftsmen. He didn't know what he was going to do.

In the end, the ship he was on was surrounded by the Qing navy, and he refused to surrender and fell into this small strait.

This wooden handle grenade is coincidental. Zheng Kezang had seen it in the war game "Battlefield 1". In the real world war, this was a simple weapon made by the French army themselves.

The basic structure of a grenade is a comb-shaped wooden board and a metal cylinder filled with explosives. The metal cylinder is tightly tied to the wooden board with a thick iron wire, and a fuse is connected to it.

"Guangzhou City Chronicles - Religious Chronicles" mentioned: "In the seventh year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army attacked Guangzhou and killed 700,000 people. In Wulonggang, the eastern suburbs, the Zhenxiu monks hired people to collect the corpses, gather them and bury them.

The remaining embers were buried together and a monument was erected."

It is worth mentioning that another reason why simple wooden handle grenades are widely used by the French army is its wooden handle structure.

The horse-leather shroud was a kind of salvation for Su Laocheng, because he didn't have to witness the Qing Dynasty's evil spirits polluting the last pure land.

Lao Su and other craftsmen next to him looked a little confused. They were not cooks, so why did you show them how to copy sugar colors? Could it be that you wanted them to become royal chefs?

"Of all the iron-producing areas in the world, Guangdong is not the best, but the iron smelting industry is not better than Foshan." During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Foshan iron smelting was once famous all over the world, and Foshan ironware was also exported to the East and West, especially in the east and west.

Iron pot.

The Chongzhen Dynasty once bought Folan cannons from the Portuguese in Macau. It turned out that the cannons sold to the Ming Emperor by these thieves from Macau used Foshan's cannon-casting technology and were also used by Foshan craftsmen.

Not long after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, mobile warfare turned into rigid trench warfare. France and Germany hurt each other on the Western Front battlefield. Ammunition consumption was very huge, and logistics could not always meet the needs of the front line.

No, Zheng Kezang, who had just returned from the military camp and was still sweating, led the craftsmen headed by Mr. Su to work enthusiastically there.

Both his parents died at the hands of Qing soldiers in the Guangzhou siege led by Shang Kexi in 1650.

This is why he is so old at only 35 years old. His only hope in this life is that King Yanping's army can use the muskets and artillery made by him to end the fate of the Qing Dynasty.

After the death of his parents, he fled back to his hometown of Foshan Town and lived a muddleheaded life as a firearms craftsman.

Returning to reality, just a few days ago, there were rumors that the Yanping Palace wanted to recruit skilled firearms craftsmen, and that they would be directly under the supervision of the Supervisor State and receive generous remuneration.

Su Laocheng was not born mature, he was just a man in troubled times who had a miserable life.

"Lao Su, please watch out for me. I will only perform once." Zheng Kezang said as he poured the sugar he brought into the iron pot made in Foshan and began to heat and stir-fry.

While they were frying, Zheng Kezang poured in a pile of black gunpowder and repeatedly told them about the ratio of sugar and gunpowder. Old Su didn't react for a while and thought: Your Highness, Jianguo, is preparing to poison the Qing army.

Well, it doesn’t feel very useful.

Because its appearance is similar to a brush, the French army called it "hair brush".

Twenty years later, his wife and son died in the San Francisco Rebellion and once again became the victims of the Qing army.

At first he thought he was just going to build a firearms workshop to produce the weapons needed by the youth camp. Unexpectedly, Zheng Jianguo actually went to the workshop himself to tinker with it. The Yanping Palace wanted to produce a carpenter prince.

As his name suggests, Mr. Su is very mature. He is only thirty-five years old, but he looks like a fifty-year-old man. His native place is Foshan Town, the iron capital of the empire, and he has lived in Guangzhou city for many years.

After preparing the sweet gunpowder, Zheng Kezang recalled the method of making the simple wooden handle grenade given to him by the system, and then showed off his real skills.

After frying, Zheng Kezang took a whiff and found it was a bit sweet, authentic sugar-coated cannonball raw material, perfect!

The firearms made in Foshan were top-notch in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty once made a joke about Foshan.

In the timeline that Zheng Ding did not travel through, Xu Guoxin was still there, volunteering to join the Ming and Zheng armies and go to the front line to resist the Qing army.

Using the cannon casting technology of Foshan Town and the cannons produced by Foshan craftsmen as original imported goods, it should be considered export to domestic sales. Presumably the officials of the Ming Dynasty who facilitated this business probably received a lot of kickbacks.

In fact, the French army originally used wooden handles to make this type of grenade purely for the convenience of holding during use. Unexpectedly, after using it, they accidentally discovered that the throwing distance and throwing accuracy of this simple grenade are better than their oval grenades, and this is a wooden handle.

The advantages brought by the leverage principle.

This simple wooden handle grenade really only needs hands. After some operations, Zheng Kezang made a finished product under the eyes of everyone who was confused. The only thing missing was the lead. Due to the lack of basic industry, the lead here can only be used.

It is made from hay, but it is simple and practical.

In order to enhance the lethality, Zheng Kezang drove a lot of iron nails into the wooden board.

"Everyone, let's go outside and find a place to try to see if my Dongning Divine Thunder works." Zheng Kezang said as he ran out the door. When everyone saw this, they quickly followed.
Chapter completed!