Traveling to Ancient Times: My Space Contains Weapons

Chapter 343 Zheng Jing Forges New Firearms

Not long after, Eunuch Wei summoned an old man carrying a medicine box.

He brought over a bowl of water: "Your Majesty, please... drip some dragon's blood!"

Chu Chen almost vomited from hearing that, especially since it was dragon blood.

So he quickly said to Zhou Shixun, "Um, Uncle Zhou, the person is in your hands. It was a man with a scarred face who brought this little princess to Japan and raised her. If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."

"A person with a face full of scars?"

"Oh, I forgot to ask his name. He said he was Zhou Shiji's personal bodyguard."

"Ah, it's him..."

Chu Chen didn't dwell on these matters too much. Instead, he bowed to Zhou Shixun and swaggered out of the Imperial Study.

Let them handle the rest themselves; I don't want to see a sentimental drama of an old father recognizing his daughter.

After leaving the Imperial Study, Chu Chen headed straight for the arsenal in the suburbs.

Because there, Zheng Jing is researching gunpowder, and it's unknown how well it's going.

Chu Chen didn't drive, but walked towards the main street of the capital.

"How much are the candied hawthorns?" Chu Chen asked, pointing to the candied hawthorns next to a vendor.

"Young master, three coins!" Chu Chen took down a string of coins, handed it to him for three coins, and walked away while munching on it.

After this great disaster, the entire Great Xia seemed to have regained its vitality.

Indeed, Zhou Shixun's decision to invest a large amount of money and grain to help the people rebuild their homes was correct.

As we walked and looked around, we unknowingly arrived at the tall wall on the outskirts of the city.

Chu Chen took a bite of the last candied hawthorn and walked straight toward the gate.

"Who goes there? This is a royal forbidden area. Halt!"

A soldier holding a sword saw Chu Chen approaching and immediately stepped forward to stop him.

"Uh, new here? Well then, bring Zheng Jing out here for me."

Chu Chen looked at the soldier in front of him and said with a smile.

Upon hearing the visitor address Zheng Jing by his name, the soldiers immediately became more cautious.

So he immediately changed his attitude: "Please wait a moment, young master, I'll go report right away!"

After saying this, he whispered a few words in the ear of the soldier beside him and then rushed inside quickly.

A short while later, a scruffy-bearded man saw Chu Chen at the door and immediately rushed out.

"Uncle, what brings you here? Zheng Jing greets you, Uncle!"

Chu Chen stared at the unshaven Zheng Jing, his eyes wide, and said, "Zheng Jing, you really are quite astonishing."

"Haha, Uncle, don't worry about the details. I've just created a novel gadget, and I would appreciate your guidance."

After saying that, she stepped forward, grabbed Chu Chen, and ran inside.

Smelling the sour stench emanating from Zheng Jing, Chu Chen quickly asked, "Where's your father?"

"Oh, Uncle, what happened to my father?"

"No, I asked you where your father is, and he doesn't even come to check on you? You're the eldest son, how are you going to get married like this?"

Chu Chen broke free from Zheng Jing and said with a look of disgust.

Zheng Jing seemed to realize his problem, and said somewhat embarrassedly, "Hey, Uncle, look how busy I am, I can't take care of anything else."

In Zheng Jing's messy studio, they found a clean spot for Chu Chen to sit down.

Then he took out a "gun" from the box behind him.

Chu Chen immediately became interested upon seeing it.

This "gun" was made of an iron pipe and a piece of wood, with a tinderbox fixed to its side.

“Uncle, look, I followed your instructions and stuffed gunpowder and iron balls into this iron pipe. Then I inserted a fuse into the small hole at the back, turned on the tinderbox, blew on it, and lit the gunpowder. The iron balls were then pushed out.”

"I've tried it, it's very powerful, ordinary shields can't stop it at all."

Chu Chen observed the "gun" while listening to Zheng Jing's explanation.

"Uncle, do you think there's anything I can improve on this weapon?"

After Zheng Jing finished her introduction, she looked at Chu Chen with anticipation.

Chu Chen didn't speak, but instead asked, "How's your explosive bomb coming along?"

After listening, Zheng Jing turned around and ran out again. When he came back, he had a round pottery in his hand.

On the outside of the pottery, iron pieces were inserted in a regular pattern. Chu Chen took a look and guessed that the iron pieces had been inserted during the firing process.

“Uncle, we call this Heavenly Thunder. Please take a look.”

"Hmm, not bad. This thing should be quite powerful, but it's also unstable. This pottery is too easy to break."

“Uncle, I know, but iron is too expensive, so when we transport it, we can only transport it with straw and other materials to greatly reduce losses.”

Chu Chen nodded after listening. This world doesn't have plastic, and oil hasn't even been extracted yet, so there's no better alternative at the moment.

However, if I go out with them in the future, I'll have to stay away from this thing.

"Okay, anything else?"

“Uncle, there’s also the matter of enlarging and thickening these iron pipes to make them into siege weapons. They’re too heavy, so they’re just sitting outside.”

Chu Chen gestured for him to lead the way, and soon they saw many "cannons" placed in the courtyard that had been blown to pieces.

Actually, calling it a cannon is also correct; it looks similar to the cannons seen in tourist attractions in modern society.

"Uncle, this thing can launch large iron balls, but its impact area is too low."

Chu Chen nodded after listening: "Then why don't you launch this heavenly lightning?"

"Send out the heavenly lightning?" Zheng Jing fell into thought after hearing this.

But after only a short while, he asked again, "If the lightning is mixed with the gunpowder in this iron pipe, won't it explode too?"

Chu Chen nodded after listening: "Well, actually you could think of a way to seal your celestial thunderbolt well, then coil the fuse to lengthen the seal, ignite the fuse at the same time the gunpowder is fired, and then you control the burning speed of the fuse..."

"Haha, Uncle, I understand, I understand!" With a little guidance from Chu Chen, Zheng Jing instantly understood.

After listening, Chu Chen patted him on the shoulder, thinking to himself, "Isn't this just a firecracker?"

"Alright, regarding that thing of yours that fires iron balls, I call it a gun, but it's far from being a gun. Tomorrow, come to my residence, and I'll give you a blueprint that might inspire you to make a flintlock gun."

In Chu Chen's memory, there was an introduction to flintlock pistols among the books in the mall. Since he had an inexhaustible supply of weapons, he didn't care about this thing at all.

But if Zheng Jing were to create this, the Great Xia Dynasty would have no problem unifying this continent in the future.

At that time, it will be easier for me to obtain the jade essence.

As for the weapons inside the space, Chu Chen absolutely cannot provide them to Zhou Shixun, at least not at the moment.

People's hearts are hidden behind their skin; who can truly understand them?