"Sir, I have known most of the characters now, so I think I won't come to class for the time being. I want to do something else." The pressure of survival made Xiao Minggan not have so much time to spend on calligraphy practice. He wanted to talk about creating something first so that he could have some self-protection ability.

"That's fine! These little guys still have very little reading, and I need to devote more energy to them. What's more, you don't seem to be interested in the Four Books and Five Classics."

This month's contact made Tang Hongsheng realize what a child prodigy is, which can almost be regarded as "born knowing it". But at the same time, in daily communication, Tang Hongsheng also clearly realized that Xiao Minggan was not very interested in Confucian sacred scriptures. Sometimes, he would even question and refute him sharply.

If it was in mainland China, Tang Hongsheng would have swept such a student out. However, after the major changes, Tang Hongsheng himself also had some doubts about the Confucian concept he had adhered to before. Therefore, with Xiao Minggan's clear structure and full arguments, Tang Hongsheng often accepted his views.

For example, once Tang Hongsheng said, "The people can be used to it, but not to know it." When Xiao Minggan retorted this supreme truth recognized by scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty.

"If Confucius really thinks that, then he is a bastard who doesn't regard ordinary people as humans. But, is Confucius really that what he meant?

Mr., as you said just now, the wounds of this article are: "Teacher said: Promote poetry, establish etiquette, and achieve music." Let's connect it, "Teacher said: Promote poetry, establish etiquette, and achieve music. The Master said: The people can make it through it, but not know it." Therefore, students, from the perspective of respecting Confucius, felt that this sentence should be: "Teacher said: Promote poetry, establish etiquette, and achieve music. The Master said: The people can make it through it; but not know it."

Confucius' meaning should actually be: poetry, rituals and music are the basis for the people to know and understand rituals and the peace of the country. If the people understand and recognize poetry, rituals and music, they will live according to the principles of poetry, rituals and music. If the people do not know and do not understand poetry, rituals and music, then they should be educated so that they can understand and recognize poetry, rituals and music.

Only this understanding is worthy of Confucius' titles of the most sage and master of all ages."

Such defense has been several times in this month, and it is quite good. Once, he said directly: "Confucius is not a god, how could his words be suitable for today two thousand years later. Therefore, there is no need to regard Confucius as a saint, and all his words and deceptions are used as the norm of today. No one has ever done this."

If it was in the current Ming Dynasty, he would have been cut into pieces by just these words. But at this time, although Tang Hongsheng was a little unhappy at first, he was a little confused and opposed. But gradually he felt that most of what he said was still very reasonable. Although some of them still could not be approved by Tang Hongsheng.

Therefore, after more than a month of exchanges, Tang Hongsheng completely regarded Xiao Minggan as the object of equal communication and discussion. If Xiao Minggan was not a completely idiot in poetry, Tang Hongsheng even felt that he should have taken him as his teacher. Now Xiao Minggan is going to take a leave for a while, so of course Tang Hongsheng agreed.

After leaving the activity center, Xiao Minggan returned to his home and thought about how he should strengthen his self-protection.

Now, the idea of ​​training villagers into an army that can withstand pirates has gone bankrupt. Then another way must be found.

The village walls and hidden shelter are under construction, but these passive defense facilities will be lost after a long period of time. If there is no sharp attack power, they will be broken sooner or later.

Over the past month, I have made more than 30 copies of crossbows, and the effective range has reached about 300 meters. It is a good weapon in this era. And I will continue to do it until everyone has a hand. However, in Xiao Minggan's view, it can be used as a basis for his future development.

In this era when hot weapons began to surpass cold weapons, muskets and cannons were the powerful tools to reverse their destiny, family, country and nation. Therefore, Xiao Minggan decided to work hard to develop muskets and cannons from now on.

Regarding muskets, because Xiao Minggan was a soldier in his previous life, he had a deeper understanding of them. Therefore, he knew that in the era of pre-installation, the range and rate of firing of muskets were not as good as crossbow arrows. They were only about 100 meters, and the maximum was about 200 meters.

Two hundred meters, as long as the cavalry is activated, it can cross this distance in less than twenty seconds. In the past, the rate of firing was four or five rounds per minute. When facing cavalry, it was only possible to fire two bullets. In the battlefield where cavalry was used to maximize its use, it was difficult to defeat cavalry in front, especially the strongest cavalry in this era, the Qing cavalry. This is also the reason why the Gosak cavalry was able to survive until the first battle when muskets became more and more active.

Of course, there are no cavalry in Taiwan and Nanyang, and when dealing with infantry, flintlock muskets are still the most powerful weapon of this era. However, the structure of flintlock muskets is quite complex and cannot be fully manufactured in a short period of time.

Therefore, Xiao Minggan decided to build a few flintlock pistols first and practice. Large-scale flintlock muskets still have to wait for a while. As for the opponent's Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, they can only develop and install muskets. Although it takes a long time to succeed due to thunder and mercury, Xiao Minggan will not give up. After all, there will be at least ten years to confront the Qing Dynasty!

Now, Xiao Mingdang's main energy is of course in the development of artillery. This is Taiwan, and its main military force should be the navy, and the function of artillery is greater than that of muskets.

The eastern era had the farthest range and the most powerful one was the Red Cannon. Its range could reach more than 5 miles, and it was one of the powerful weapons of the Ming Dynasty in this era against the Qing Dynasty.

However, the Red Cannon has a very big flaw, which is that it is very heavy. Most of them are cast copper, which often reaches several tons. Such a weight makes it only fixed on the city wall for passive defense. Even if it is installed on a warship, lighter cannons have a very big advantage. Therefore, Xiao Minggan decided to abandon the copper cannon and use iron cannons.

The biggest reason why iron cannons in this era were not as good as copper cannons was that the quality of iron was not up to standard. As a result, the power of iron cannons required thicker barrels to reach copper cannons. In this way, the weight of iron cannons was heavier and easy to explode. Therefore, the quality of iron was the first difficulty that Xiao Minggan had to overcome to make more advanced cannons.

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Chapter completed!