Chapter 506
After dismissing Lee Chun, Hyang reviewed the situation again.
“Not being able to make proper springs will be the biggest problem. That’s why the wheel lock was created before the flintlock, after all.”
The wheel lock emerged as an attempt to solve matchlock problems when they lacked the ability to make steel that could maintain proper elasticity even when made small and thin. And due to persistent material quality issues and structural flaws, wheel lock muskets and arquebuses couldn’t be reduced in size.
“Hmm… Even if price becomes an obstacle, looking at the current situation in Europe and elsewhere, musketeers are still a special force maintained in small numbers. And most of those musketeers are kept by core power holders to secure their safety – why else would ‘The Three Musketeers’ have emerged?”
Hyang remained unconcerned despite setting such high prices.
Having reached this conclusion and about to check other documents, Hyang suddenly stopped and looked at the map.
“Come to think of it… There was a theory that Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized that wheel lock… Is Leonardo da Vinci alive now?”
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After the Italian monks settled in at the research institute, Hyang had called them separately.