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Published at 4th of January 2023 11:22:43 AM


Chapter 363

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Mufeng currently has two kinds of gun barrel materials, one is tendon wood and the other is oak wood.

The characteristics of the two materials are also different.

The tendon wood itself is straight enough, all that needs to be done is peeling and polishing, smoothing the bumps on the skin, and then dehydrating.

Although the arbor wood itself is relatively round, the straight rod is not straight enough. Whether it is suitable for making a gun shaft needs to be straightened after peeling.

Even if the wood inside is dense and uneven after peeling, it is not suitable for gun barrels.

Therefore, the first thing to do when making arbor wood gun barrels is to peel the bark and look at the material first. This discussion alone screened out four, leaving only twenty-one.

Of the ten or so tendon trees we got, one with a hole in it was rooted out, and the rest were all in line.

In general, the dehydration and straightening of the gun barrel is more labor-intensive.

Some are steamed, some are baked.

As for the wood wind, the two methods are divided into parts for trial use, one part is steamed and the other part is roasted with fire.

Then start to dry and straighten naturally.

Straightening is a more technical and delicate job for gun barrels.

It needs to be steamed and boiled again and again, and it needs to be straightened a little each time, instead of being forced to straighten it all at once, otherwise the gun barrel will be scrapped in one go.

It took Mu Feng nearly ten days for this process alone!

During these ten days, Han Shu and the others had returned from the old place of Yishui, bringing back the ears of wheat they had hidden before.

After Han Shu and the others came back, they told Mu Feng pleasantly that they found another piece of wheat under the leadership of Bai Yue, and took it back.

These ears of wheat were thrashed together with the wheat of the tribe, and a total of nearly five thousand catties of wheat was harvested.

This is definitely a "windfall" for Jiang.

Compared with the wheat grains Mufeng saw in his previous life, these wheat grains are definitely incomparable - the wheat grains are smaller and longer.

But the flaws do not hide the virtues, and no flaws can hide the fact that it is wheat!

With wheat, the Jiang family can smoothly transition to a tribe that lives on planting, and can develop and grow based on this long-term base without completely relying on nature!

In addition to harvesting wheat, Mu Feng naturally asked Ming Guang to take people to Dalong Mountain and cut back a lot of coriander and mountain pepper. He also brought back the yam, Polygonum multiflorum, and tung tree that he had discovered before and planted them around the tribe.

So much so that Jiang's now looks like a plant kingdom from inside to outside, including too many plants that can be used and eaten!

He also took advantage of his spare time to hand in the task of discovering the tung tree, which evened out the 200 achievement points for gun making, and the achievement points in the system were still 2825 points.

He calculated the time, and the market trading time agreed with the Black Bear Department had arrived, so he sent Lihu as a representative, leading a group of fifty people including Shuofeng and Baiyue, and brought five jars of salt, twenty The cow, three hundred bone knives, and three hundred drum sticks went to the Black Bear Department for trading and exchange.

Salt and bone knives are just for show, and it is true that twenty oxen are transporting ore.

Of course, before leaving, Mu Feng also told Li Hu that he could let out a message in the market: young and strong laborers in the tribe can also stay in the market, and Jiang is willing to exchange six sheep.

The price is also the same for people who are captured after winning battles with other tribes!

Li Hu understood what Mu Feng meant, and immediately went excitedly.

Mu Feng didn't go there this time, he wanted to finish the first batch of gun barrels in the tribe to try the effect!

Because the first batch of thirty or so gun shafts had been dehydrated and straightened, the next thing to do was to polish them.

The whetstones used for grinding are easy to find. There is a kind of sandstone stone in the canyon where their tribe is located, which is a good material for making whetstones.

Now it was used by Mu Feng to sharpen the barrel of the gun directly.
Of course, he didn't need to do it alone, a group of people under Mu Feng's command quickly finished polishing.

After polishing, the barrel of the gun can actually be reinforced and toughened in many ways, such as soaking oil, painting, wrapping cloth, etc., which can make the barrel of the long gun stronger and more durable.

At least oil immersion and painting can be done with tung oil, but unfortunately he just got back the tung tree, so he has to wait at least a month or two!

But that kind of effort may not be ten days or eight days, three months or two months, it may take a year, two years or even longer at every turn.

At that time, it is estimated that the day lily will be cold.

After polishing the gun barrel, he directly tied the long tassel on the gun head.

The bronze gun head he made was not long.

There is an old saying that "the head of the gun is no more than two", which means that the lightness of the gun head is the most important thing.

Generally speaking, the tip of the gun is between about four villages and six inches. Counting the inner head of the gun barrel, it is no more than eight inches from front to back.

The barrel is slightly longer.

The small flower guns introduced to him by the system were more than two strokes long, and the actual combat ones were three to seven meters long.

The barrels of the guns he made were not that long either, they were more than two meters five and between three meters.

Because his first consideration is that the gun body is straight and hard, so that it can ensure the penetration when facing the enemy.





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