Chapter 304: Cannons for Cotton
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“Your Highness, the Chu King’s merchant ship has arrived. It’s said that they’ve brought cotton seeds, but…”
“Let me guess. They want the cannons in exchange for the cotton seeds, right?”
“It seems you’ve already figured it out, Your Highness.” Pang Yukun smiled.
Xiao Ming was currently writing a training manual for the musket troops.
The previous day, he had visited the lathe workshop, armaments workshop, machinery department, and gunpowder workshop, delivering all his instructions.
Whether it was the bayonet, cleaning rod, or oil-paper-wrapped ammunition, all of these were simple to produce.
A bayonet was merely a cylindrical base, a cleaning rod was just an iron rod, and oil-paper-wrapped ammunition was even simpler: wrapping the bullet and powder in oil paper.
It wasn’t a question of technical difficulty—it was more about the right idea, or rather, experience.
With the flintlock musket soon to be issued, Xiao Ming had to consider the establishment of a modern military academy. With the advent of firearms, war was entering a more structured phase, no longer relying on the traditional three moves of old.
Because of this, he was writing the manual, preparing to teach Qingzhou’s commanders about modern warfare.