Chapter 435 - 238 Test_3
Qian Yixiu smiled and greeted him, then she greeted Lin Qing before immediately ordering someone to get ready for bathing water and dinner.
The Little Monk curiously looked at the cannon barrel, and said in wonder, "The cannons made by my fellow monks are both short and thick, how come this one is so long and thin?"
Qian Yixiu vaguely remembered that in her previous life during the Ming Dynasty, cannons were imported from the Portuguese and later Daqian also bought Cannons from the English. The cannon had a longer barrel, and she wondered if this was the same type of Cannon as the one from her past life.
She knew about these things thanks to her previous life’s labor union work. One year, her unit celebrated the Army Day, and the labor union organized a writing event about the military. A young worker who had been demobilized from the army wrote an article on modern weapons, which introduced how cannons were introduced to China. She found it quite interesting and even specifically searched online for related content.
After Old Foreign Li and Lin Qing, fresh and full from their bath and meal, walked over, Old Foreign Li indeed called this type of cannon a Canna, so Qian Yixiu casually referred to it as a Cannon.
Qian Yixiu also gestured to Old Foreign Li that the pearls would be given to him after the cannon had been tested tomorrow, and the foreigner nodded, indicating he understood.
The next day at dawn, when there were still no people outside, Old Foreign Li, Lin Qing, and Huang Hua pushed the cannon carriage westward, with Qian Yixiu, Qian Yeejin, and the Little Monk following behind them. The foreigner had brought three iron balls, and Qian Yixiu cleverly chose one at random, instructing someone to carry it in a handcart pushed by Li Jinhu.
They arrived at the west side of Moonlit Lotus Pond, at Luanshi Ridge, a place seldom visited by people, which was the best choice for conducting tests.
A few craftsmen living here also came out to look and touch this strange object. Old Foreign Li said that the cannon had a maximum range of 1500 meters, and instructed people to check if anyone suddenly entered the range and to have Huang Tie stand on the other side, beyond the range.
Once everything was ready, Old Foreign Li and Weilin loaded the iron ball into the cannon and set off the first Cannon shot in the Great Qian Kingdom’s territory. With a loud bang and the smoke dissipating, besides Old Foreign Li, Qian Yixiu, Qian Yeejin, and the Little Monk, everyone else was holding their heads and crouching on the ground.
They ran over a thousand meters to see that a huge rock had been shattered and a large pit had formed, showing the cannon’s impressive power.
The Little Monk’s eyes widened, and he whispered in Qian Yixiu’s ear, "This is dozens of times better than the cannons made by my fellow monks."