Chapter 955 Good at treating bone injuries

More than a month later, Zhu Gaoxu returned to the capital, which was the turn of spring and summer in the sixth year of Wude.

He had just settled down when he first returned to the palace, and he was even busier than when he was traveling outside.

In addition to reunion with his wives, concubines and children, there are many people waiting to see him in the court, and everything is complicated.

During Zhu Gaoxu's departure from Beijing, although the imperial court's government documents were often sent, some specific matters could not be so complicated.

For example, if the prince’s teacher Xiao Shizhong wants to complain, he can only wait until Zhu Gaoxu returns to Beijing.

Zhu Gaoxu had not been to court for several days, and the officials could not see him, so they simply wrote a memorial.And he was busy with Miao Jin and others, and he almost didn't care about the latest memorials.

However, among those memorials, Qian Xun's memorials still attracted Zhu Gaoxu's attention.The content of this mentions the progress of the flint gun.

The next day, Zhu Gaoxu put on his Shichao clothes, went to the East Warehouse of the Ganqing Palace, and summoned Qian Xun to ask what was going on.

Qian Xun walked past the partition, bowed and presented a roll of paper.Qian Xun reported: I dare not bring weapons into the harem, so I brought several pictures and asked the emperor to read it.

Zhu Gaoxu pulled open the drawings, looked through them for a while, and looked at the mechanism structure outlined with a brush.Soon, he asked directly: Can you ignite the induction medicine?

Qian Xundao: When I returned to the emperor, the Southern Bureau sent someone to inspect the inspection site. Ten guns were fired at the same time, but there were still two or three shots that could not be sounded.

Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself that if Qian Xun had not exaggerated, such anger rate would be considered good.Because the flintlock rifle does not require open fire, it can organize more dense queues, and some dull fire can also ensure firepower.

Who has improved the mechanism? Zhu Gaoxu asked again.

Qian Xun replied: Go back to the emperor, this person is Ma Xingguang, he is originally a villain.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said: I know that as long as there are many people and time pass, there will always be talents.Is Ma Xingguang a craftsman?

Qian Xun's expression was a little awkward, and he bowed: Go back to the emperor, Ma Xingguang used to be a barefoot doctor, and he was a doctor who used to treat bone injuries. He was said to be good at treating bone injuries.

This person's identity is indeed a bit strange, and Zhu Gaoxu was also stunned.

Qian Xun's voice said again: This person is not good-looking and has a eccentric temperament, and officials and craftsmen don't like it.At that time, the iron plant tried to produce a new gun fired by flint, but there was no progress for a long time. When Ma Xingguang had a distant relative who worked as a small official at the Nanchang Iron Factory, he recommended him to make a new gun.Mao Kaishan, who was in charge of the iron factory, agreed to let Ma Xingguang go to Beijing to receive a salary for his colleagues.Unexpectedly, this person lived in a small house in the iron factory for more than a year, and actually improved the organization.

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu said: I want to see him.

Qian Xundao: Ma Xingguang is vulgar and has a rude etiquette. The emperor can wait for the minister to teach for several days before he can come to the palace to meet the saint.

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and said: We value him because he is talented and has nothing to do with his appearance and etiquette.He thought for a while and said, I went to the iron factory to see him, and I happened to see the production process of the new gun himself.Wang Gui, go and prepare for the car.

The eunuch standing beside him, Wang Gui said, "I obey the order."

Soon, Zhu Gaoxu got on the carriage, accompanied by the civil minister Qian Xun, the Jinyiwei lieutenant, the Han general, the eunuchs in the palace and other followers, and left the palace to go to Zhengyang Gate.

The Nanshu Railway Factory was located in the outer city of the capital and arrived in a short while.

Zhu Gaoxu has not yet gone to the smoky and noise workshop.The iron plant has a yard on the riverside, so everyone went there first and asked the iron plant officials to bring Ma Xingguang to meet.

As Qian Xun said, Ma Xingguang was indeed in poor appearance.

The man kneeling in front of Zhu Gaoxu's hair was like dry grass, his face was pale and black, his eyes were small but not concentrated, his eyes were dull, and his face was expressionless, as if people would feel boring when they saw his complexion.

He should have been a little nervous, and he didn't say anything when he knelt down and just lay there without saying a word.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at him, which was similar to the villagers he saw in the village on his way to the north.

Accompanying Ma Xingguang were the officials of the Iron Factory and Mao Kaishan and others.Everyone couldn't help but look at Ma Xingguang, hoping that he could say something to compliment the emperor, but he didn't say a word from beginning to end.

The iron plant officials had to submit a new gun and speak actively to resolve the troubles at this time.

The official explained that the mechanism at the tail of the musket was roughly used to use reeds to make the flint on the hammer hit the chopping board below. The principle was the same as before, except that the structure and shape of the mechanism were different.

The emperor made a clear understanding and Ma Xingguang also improved the loading of lead pills.The official helped Ma Xingguang say good things.

There are no officials here who pay attention to etiquette, so naturally no one impeached Ma Xingguang; everyone knew that he was going to make a fortune, so they tried to keep some mercy.

The emperor came to see him in person, how could he not make a fortune?

The official continued: It was originally very laborious to use a strip to press the lead ball into the gun barrel. In order to save trouble, the soldiers often reduced the iron pliers for making lead balls, which would affect their power.At Ma Xingguang's suggestion, Chen and others soaked oil with small pieces of silk, wrapped lead balls and loaded them to make the projectiles smoother into the gun. After a slight change, the range of the gun improved.

Zhu Gaoxu thought about the musket in his hand for a while, but he didn't understand the cleverness.

He put down his things, glanced at Ma Xingguang below, and simply said: Find some craftsmen and soldiers and try it by the river.

The Fake Court of Law Mao Kaishan replied: I will receive the order.

Everyone worked hard for a while, hugging Zhu Gaoxu out.

When we went to the riverside outside the yard, someone brought chairs to set up seats.

However, Zhu Gaoxu did not sit down. He wanted a musket and tried to reload under Mao Kaishan's guidance.

Another dozen sergeants also started to load gunpowder lead balls.

Zhu Gaoxu tried it and felt that preparing the flintlock gun really saves time than the comb.

You don’t need to light the fuse with the fire, and you don’t have to worry about the gunpowder in the pot being run away by the wind or being ignited by mistake.

After loading the ammunition, Zhu Gaoxu handed it to a soldier next to him.

Without any open flames, a row of soldiers had raised their guns and pointed them at the target in the distance.Someone shouted, and suddenly there was a crackling sound. A row of white smoke rose, and only one musket didn't sound.

After the sound of the gun, Zhu Gaoxu immediately smiled with satisfaction.He turned to find Ma Xingguang, and his attitude was completely different from when he first met.

He took the initiative to speak: Ma Xingguang, you are now an official of a household, and you have entered the fake court as a bachelor's degree, and you can check all the classics and files in the fake court.After returning to the palace, Wang Gui went to the inner palace to receive a new money of 100,000 yuan and rewarded Ma Xingguang with a settlement fee.The more new guns are made in the future, the more rewards the South Bureau will give you.He paused and said again, the new gun was called "Xingguang Gun".

The surroundings immediately became lively, and everyone congratulated Ma Xingguang one after another. Even the civil servants cast envious eyes. The emperor personally gave a name to a weapon and left this man in history.

When Ma Xingguang knelt down, he finally said something: The people of the grass thank the emperor for his great kindness.

You deserve it.Zhu Gaoxu said.

When he looked at Ma Xingguang again, he still felt that this person had a bad appearance and expression.

If it weren't for Qian Xunmao Kaishan and others' witnesses, Zhu Gaoxu even had a little doubt about how could the person who made a breakthrough in technology look like this?

However, Zhu Gaoxu reminded himself that people should not behave like appearances, but only talent is to show off, so there is no need to care about other aspects.

He also said: When I inspect the army in the future, as long as it is appropriate, you and Maokaishan will come to accompany you as my military adviser... I will make suggestions from the side.

Ma Xingguang said: Yes.

Everyone returned to the iron plant, and Zhu Gaoxu went to various workshops to inspect.He was curious for a moment and wanted to see where Ma Xingguang was doing the experiment.

Of course, the emperor does whatever he wants.So a group of people surrounded him and came to the house in a workshop.

The trivial and complex scene in front of him made Zhu Gaoxu stunned.

He had never seen such complicated things in a big room. The atmosphere here was very bad, and there were many things but it made people feel lifeless.

Zhu Gaoxu took a look at it for a while and found that there were everything in the decorations, but most of them had nothing to do with iron tools.

There are many skeleton models made of small wood, toys like bamboo and wood, carriages, wooden boats, drills made of wood and ropes, and equipment that Zhu Gaoxu couldn't see.

Not far away there is a bellows, a fire-off stove, a cutting board, and iron blocks of various shapes.

These things seem to have one thing in common, there is no whole carved model at all, and they are all made of various small pieces.

In addition, the house is quite big, but there is no living thing inside and outside, not even a weed.

Zhu Gaoxu waited and asked casually: At the turn of early summer, the grass in the yard has just been hoeed?

Ma Xingguang bent down and said: The emperor has a sharp eye like a torch.The grass people pulled it out every day, and there were two plum trees, which were also asked to be dug away.The grass-climber was uncomfortable when he saw those things, so he loved the immovable thing.Perhaps because Zhu Gaoxu was very generous and kind to him just now, he said a little more at this time. As long as these small pieces made of wood iron are properly shaped, they will definitely be riveted and will not change.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded in a pretentious manner.He couldn't feel what Ma Xingguang said, but he vaguely understood that everyone's preferences were different.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu's reaction, Ma Xingguang seemed to be inspired.

His voice said again: Caomin doesn’t like being an official, doesn’t like dealing with people, and the business of using splints was not good. Now that Ansheng can play with these things, he is satisfied... He said while gesturing, as if he wanted to express something more subtle, but he finally lowered his head in frustration and had no way to start.

There are many people around him. Zhu Gaoxu is not convenient to comment on it at least, and he just said: There is no problem with what you need and how long you need to stay.

Ma Xingguang bent down again to thank him.

After saying a while, Zhu Gaoxu left here.He walked out of the workshop and saw the scene of birds singing and flowers singing outside and the vitality of everything, and suddenly felt that the inexplicable stuffiness in his heart suddenly unfolded.