In this era when there is almost no shadow of technology, Gu Qing had two choices, the flintlock rifle and the flintlock rifle.

In contrast, flintlock guns are more advanced than collide guns, ignite quickly, and are not restricted by climate, but the construction process is very complicated.

Originally, Gu Qing didn't choose to use gunpowder guns, but he still dared not underestimate the wars of this era. On the premise that technology can be realized, using weapons that are more accurate than today's technology can give him more confidence.

There were a few small baskets in front of Gu Qing, which were collected by Han Jie as he ordered, including flint, sulfur, charcoal, saltpeter and eggs, as well as a few small trigger parts made by blacksmiths, etc.

Seeing Gu Qing constantly fiddling with the things in the small basket, Han Jie was confused and said, "What are the Marquis preparing these unobstructed objects for?"

Gu Qingtou didn't reply, "You'll know later."

After collecting all the things, what Gu Qing had to do was to synthesize them into one terrible thing.

After finding a small stone mill, Gu Qing personally pressed the charcoal and sulfur into powder, and asked while pressing it: "It's easy to talk about sulfur and charcoal, where did you get saltpeter?"

Han Jie said inexplicably: "There are several clinics in Kucha City, and I will buy them from the doctor in the clinic."

Gu Qing turned his head in surprise and looked at him: "Is saltpeter a medicinal material?"

Han Jie became more and more inexplicable: "Of course it can be used as medicinal materials. Saltpeter is also known as 'dilute cream'. It is warm in nature and bitter in taste. It has the effect of relieving heat and clearing away heat and detoxifying. Didn't Marquis have constipation? In fact, the laxatives you take contain the ingredients of saltpeter..."

Gu Qing suddenly realized and glared at him again: "My old man talks about my constipation. Haven't the military officers also taken laxatives? You can talk about his laxatives."

He lowered his head and continued to crush the charcoal and sulfur. Gu Qing asked again: "Will there be a second person know when you bought these things?"

Han Jie shook his head: "No, I know that the Marquis wants to do something ulterior motive, and he didn't say anything to anyone."

Gu Qing stopped moving and then sighed.

Sometimes it is difficult to understand what this guy's mouth is. I can't tell whether he is deliberately speaking or not ignorant. Can the four words "unspeakable" be used here?

Although it is indeed irrefutable in nature.

"Han Jie, the wife and concubine you married in Guanzhong should not be what you pursued?"

Han Jie scratched his head: "It was entrusted by the elders in the family."

"No wonder, relying on your words to pursue women, you will become enemies when you meet for the first time..." Gu Qing sighed sadly: "Why can't I solve the things you can spend money on, but why can't I solve the problems I spend money on?"

I remember that when I proposed to Zhang Huaiyu, I gave him a full twenty tael of silver cake, but Zhang Huaiyu still did not agree to him.

Maybe I think the money is too low, so I have to add money. I came from the prime minister and had a very high grade, which is considered a high consumption.

Later, before leaving Chang'an, she gave her a piece of gold heart protection mirror. I guess she should be very moved. Her marriage will be stable when she sees her next time.

Han Jie didn't understand Gu Qing's troubles and said in confusion: "Mr. Marquis, money is a good thing. From food, drink, defecation, to getting married and having children, you can solve it with money. What can't be solved by money?"

"Cut your neck, can you buy your life back with your money?" Gu Qing said coldly.

Han Jie said without hesitation: "The person who bribed the knife in advance, avoided the vital points on his neck when he was taken, and he bought his life back."

Gu Qing pursed his lips tightly.

Gu Qing was speechless with the impeccable logic.

The work in his hand did not stop. Soon Gu Qing crushed the charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter into powder, knocked the eggs open, took only the egg white, and filled it with a large skin.

Then Gu Qing stood up and greeted Han Jie, and brought more than a dozen personal guards out of the camp.

There was a vast desert outside the camp. Gu Qing pointed a random direction and the group rode their horses away.

He left the camp for about dozens of miles and came to the center of the desert to dismount. There was no one around. Gu Qing was still worried and ordered his guards to disperse the warning from afar and not allow anyone to approach.

He and Han Jie sat cross-legged on the yellow sand. Gu Qing took out some of the charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter respectively, first matched them in a standard proportion, one and a half of the charcoal, one and a half of the sulphur and seventy percent of the saltpeter. They put them in a bamboo basket, then sprinkled with some egg whites and kept shaking them to form granular shapes.

The desert climate is dry, and the black gunpowder made soon has dried.

As for the purity that this thing originally needed, Gu Qing had no choice but to wait until the technology matured before striving for excellence.

After shaking for a long time, the three things were evenly matched. Gu Qing combined the iron pipe and the buttstock, and installed a trigger and flint under the buttstock, and a flintlock gun of original shape was ready.

A small amount of gunpowder was stuffed into the iron pipe, and then an iron ball slightly smaller than the diameter of the iron pipe was installed. Gu Qing finally ordered Han Jie to set up a human-shaped target about a hundred steps, and the flintlock rifle was fixed to a simple rack, and a long thin rope was tied to the trigger. Gu Qing led the thin rope and walked away step by step until he stopped ten steps away.

Han Jie looked at Gu Qing's actions in confusion and said in confusion: "What exactly is the Marquis going to do, why are you so careful?"

Gu Qing sighed: "Because experimenting is very dangerous, I don't know if I have matched it. If I am a little cruel, I should let your personal guards carry it to experiment. You are accumulating virtue in your previous life. When I meet my unparalleled and righteous boss, I can't bear to see you pay the price of casualties, so I have to settle for the second best..."

Han Jie was still confused. He didn't understand that it was just a strange weapon. Why was the Marquis so cautious? Could it be alive and biting?

Only Gu Qing knew that if the experiment was successful, it would be a hundred times better than a biting dog.

After confirming that he had maintained a sufficient safe distance from the gun, Gu Qing held his breath and stared at the flintlock rifle in the distance nervously, holding the rope in his hand, pulling it bit by bit.

Han Jie didn't agree at first, but when he saw Gu Qing's nervous look as if he was facing a great enemy, he couldn't help but become nervous. He carefully looked at the strange-shaped thing in the distance, and then stood beside Gu Qing intently, as if he was willing to sacrifice his life to protect him at any time.

Gu Qing pulled the rope violently and pulled it back hard. The trigger tied to the rope was immediately pulled. The trigger connection could trigger the flint of Mars, and then...

Hum? Nothing happens?

Gu Qing waited patiently for a while, feeling that this broken gun would be unlikely to surprise him, so he stood up in disappointment.

Han Jie looked at the gun inexplicably, his expression more disappointed than Gu Qing.

I took off my pants, that's it?

Gu Qing stepped forward to check the gun, poured the black gunpowder out of the barrel and studied it carefully for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out.

This is helpless, and I can't even find the reason for the failure.

Gu Qing stood there for a while and didn't move, his expression was very dull, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Seeing that he was in a state of dismay, Han Jie felt unbearable, so he comforted him: "The Marquis's new weapons are not effective, it doesn't matter. Our Anxi Army has a sharpshooting camp, a Modao camp, a long halberd and a spear, and whatever you want, and whether there are new weapons or not is invincible in the world."

Gu Qing sighed and said, "It's not that I can't accept failure. What I can't accept is that my image in the eyes of others is shattered..."

Turning his head to look at Han Jie, Gu Qing said with a slight : "I believe that after witnessing the failure with my own eyes, my perfect image in your eyes is no longer so perfect, right?"

Han Jie was dumbfounded and couldn't speak for a long time.

I owe the female shopkeeper so many times, and the guards had known the thickness of the Marquis's face, but in the end they still underestimated the thickness.

You are the marquis, you are the head coach, and you are the boss, but you really have never been perfect. At least one marquis who is owed debt and has constipated cannot be called "perfect" no matter what.

Han Jie was silent for a long time and clasped his fists and said, "Marquisition, it's nothing to miss a moment. You will always be the perfect Marquis in the eyes of the last general."

Gu Qing finally got happy and showed a relieved smile.

In fact, many problems of men and women are the same, such as others need to coax them.

After raising his steps forward to observe the failed flintlock rifle, Gu Qing studied it for a long time and finally found the problem.

First, after the trigger is pulled, the force of the machine to strike the flint is not strong enough to produce Mars. Secondly, there is a problem with the gunpowder, which is not due to the ratio, but the purity is insufficient. The impurities in sulfur and saltpeter need to be screened out before making it into black gunpowder.

If you find the problem, you won’t be in a hurry. Go back and draw a drawing, ask Juan to create a striking flint-striking machine, and then think about how to improve the purity of black gunpowder.

"Let's go back to the city. Tell the guards that today's matter is top secret and no one is allowed to spread it."

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The lyrics are well sung, "No one can succeed casually."

Gu Qing went into the coach's tent day and night to study the problem of impacting parts and black gunpowder removing impurities, and Kucha City was still as calm as usual.

It is said to be "calm", but in fact it is not that calm. A city is inevitably of mixed quality, especially in a city where Han and Hu people live together. As Kucha City becomes more and more prosperous, the Anxi Army has suppressed bandits several times in succession, the Western Regions' commercial roads have become much safer, but the public security issues in Kucha City have become prominent.

There are more people in the city, more merchants, and naturally more thieves. Recently, many merchants have come to the Jiefu to report to officials, crying and saying that they have been stolen. Not only that, there are also a few gangs of criminal forces hiding in the dark and wandering on the edge of the law in the city, and extorting merchants and people.

As more and more people reported to the officials, Gu Qing finally heard the voices from the people and businessmen. With Gu Qing's temper, he naturally would not be abusive to these thieves and evil forces. So he first ordered the defeat of the bad commander of the Jiefu, severely punished him for his poor governance, and then transferred a thousand Anxi Army into the city, carrying out a Tang Dynasty version of the major anti-gang campaign.

Anyone who catches a suspect will be severely punished. Some evil leaders who commit major cases will be directly taken to the market entrance to beheaded. Some small gang leaders and members with bad records were given heavy sticks and beaten to half-disabled. As for those thieves who were taken down and threw them into the engineering team to work as hard labor, the city expansion project has never stopped. The thieves eat and drink inside and should feel like they are home.

After this, the security of Kucha City improved overnight, and everyone was happy with the people and the merchants, and they praised Gu Qing very much. Even the business of Fuzhi Inn was full every day.

I don’t know who spread the rumors that Gu Qing had a close relationship with the female shopkeeper of Fu Zhi Inn. The people and businessmen were unable to express their gratitude to Gu Qing, so they took care of Huangfu Sisi’s business in a turn, which was also a sign of expressing gratitude to Mr. Gu.
Chapter completed!