My Wife Is Great Fief Lord

Chapter 88 The idea of the musket

After leaving the space, Gervais returned to the inner fort without stopping, holding the cauldron. In the kitchen, Gervais instructed the servant to find a large wooden basin and a smaller copper basin.

Bronze ware is also popular in this world. Some nobles can’t afford enough silver ware, so they will use bronze ware instead, but Gervais knows that long-term use of bronze ware to hold food is not good for health, so Gervais Castle The copper utensils in it are all used to hold water for him to wash. There are a lot of reserves in the castle, and this time they are just used to make ice.

Gervais first had the servant put the copper basin into the wooden basin, then filled the wooden basin and the copper basin with water, and when everything was done, Gervais poured out the sticky brine in the cauldron, leaving only The white nitrate was poured, and Gervais poured all the nitrate cautiously into the tub.

When everything was done, Gervais got up and clapped his hands, but looking at the fierce sunlight outside the castle, Gervais was worried and took a large pot lid and placed it directly on the wooden basin.

“It should be ok now.”

Gervais has not personally operated the ice making with nitrile, but the process seen in the novel is similar, that is, let the niter and the The water is fused to produce a reaction, and then the nitrate water in the wooden basin will absorb a lot of heat, and the temperature can be lowered to make ice cubes. The nitrate cannot be eaten directly, so it is necessary to add a copper basin with good cold and heat conductivity in the wooden basin. , Add clean water to the basin, and after the water turns into ice cubes, the ice cubes in the copper basin can be eaten directly without worrying about safety issues.

“Okay, successfully accomplished!”

Nathan and Anna have been with Gervais all the time, they have seen everything Gervais does, and in the cave, Gervais can use water The white crystals were boiled, which opened their eyes. Although they didn’t know what the thing was for, they knew it was extraordinary at a glance.

It was only after arriving in the inner castle that Anna and Nathan couldn’t understand the operation of Gervais. Why did the freshly boiled things re-merge into the water? Isn’t this useless?

Although Anna didn’t understand, she had a mysterious confidence in her own adults, so she didn’t ask questions, but Nathan couldn’t help but ask: “Master Gervais Young, you just boiled these white things. Come out, why did you put it in the water again?”

“Ice! I want to make ice.”

“Soldiers? Ice?”

Nathan is somewhat I didn’t understand what the word “ice” Gervais was talking about.

“It’s the ice cubes that only the great nobles can eat this season!”

Gervais happily didn’t hide it and said it directly.

“Really? Master Gervais Young, can I get ice cubes like this?”

Nathan suddenly became excited, his voice was quite high, his eyes widened, some incredible.

“Of course it’s true, Lord Nathan can try it later! Haha!”

Gervais was so excited when he saw Nathan, and the little maid Anna also had eyes Staring round, looking at himself with bright and intelligent eyes, his eyes are full of admiration, which makes Gervais even more proud.

“Sorry, Master Gervais Young, I just made a blunder, but this is the first time I’ve seen such a miraculous thing!” I doubted what Gervais meant, it was very rude for nobles, and it was easy to arouse people’s disgust, so I immediately explained to Gervais.

“Well, I can understand, Lord Nathan doesn’t have to apologize!”

The ability to artificially make ice in summer is as incredible as making a rocket to fly to the sky. Not surprisingly, they were surprised, if someone told him on Earth that he could cultivate Battle Qi, Gervais would definitely give him a brain bang and tell him to walk away mellowly.

“If ice can really be made, Master Gervais Young should send more people to guard the yard, and the people who enter the mining space must be loyal and reliable!”

See Gervais didn’t mind, Nathan just relaxed and started advising Gervais.

“Well, I will arrange this matter, Lord Nathan, please rest assured!”

Gervais is very important to Gervais, of course, he will be closely guarded, he is currently in this world but It’s the only one, and it’s about the future of Storm Collar.

The reason why Gervais didn’t hide his eyes and eyes, boiled the nitrate, and then made the ice, was to let people subconsciously combine the nitrate and the ice, and after he made the gunpowder, no one would associate the gunpowder with the nitrate. Together, Ice and Nitro are just shields to hide the secret of gunpowder.

For this purpose, even if Nathan, Anna, and the servants would not necessarily disclose the news, Gervais would take the initiative to tell others about the ice-making process in the future.

Looking at the tub, Gervais knew that it would take a while to get the ice, so he branched off Nathan and Anna, and went back to the study on the third floor alone. Now that he has nitrate, he can conceive Gunpowder and muskets.

The main ingredients of gunpowder are nitrate, sulphur and charcoal. Gervais also has a lot of memories in his mind of the production process, but he still needs to write it out and organize and experiment slowly. The ratio of black gunpowder, Gervais remembers, is one sulfur and two Nitrile charcoal, but this will definitely require later deployment experiments, he is not in a hurry.

What he needs most now is to think about how to make a musket. He doesn’t need to worry about the hardness of the musket barrel, because he has mithril and has the material of advanced armor hardness on Earth, so he only needs to think about how Create a musket.

He first thought of the structure of the most representative matchlock gun in the past life. There is a metal hook on the gun. One end of the hook is fixed on the gun and can be rotated around the axis. A slow-burning match rope. When the soldier fires, he pushes the metal hook into the fire door with his hand, so that the burning match rope ignites the black powder, thereby launching the projectile loaded in the gun chamber.

The match rope of the matchlock gun is a hemp rope or a tightly twisted cloth strip, which is soaked in nitrate or other salt solution and then dried. It can achieve slow burning but not extinguished, and the burning speed is about At around 80mm to 120mm per hour, the soldier can hold the gun in one or both hands after pressing the metal hook into the fire door, keeping his eyes on the target.

Gervais is going to draw a blueprint for the parts of the arquebus, and ask Bernard to make him a shot to try it out. The long-range weapons in this world are only longbows, not even crossbows, but I want to It takes a long time to train a good longbowman.

Gervais was going to try to make a bow and crossbow in his spare time, but now that he has nitrate, he skipped the bow and crossbow, ready to see if a musket can replace the longbow. After all, he has an advantage in making a musket, that It is the hard barrel material, which means that Gervais does not have to worry about the problem of blasting, and can fill more gunpowder, and the formidable power will be much larger.

“I just don’t know if the formidable power of the musket is a threat to those who are called Knight.”

As long as the musket is built, the lethality of ordinary soldiers, Gervais, is not questioned, but for With the title Knight of inhuman martial power, especially the high-level Bronze Knight and Silver Knight, Gervais felt a little unreliable.

But Gervais didn’t plan to use muskets to deal with high-level Knights, he just wanted to quickly equip ordinary guards to face small-scale battles, such as the night of the interception, if each person had a musket that day , a round of salvo, can at least eliminate half of the enemy soldiers, can be described as a necessary weapon for killing people and ambush sap.

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