Zhu Cixuan returned from the palace and entered the study room. After a long time, he asked Tian Cunshan to say, "Send someone to She County, Anhui Province to invite Mr. Bi Maokang to see me. I want to ask him about the flintlock rifle." Tian Cunshan heard the gun and didn't know which nerve it touched. He was excited and ran out quickly.

Since the time of Chengzu, the Ming Dynasty has been organized to use firearms and develop firearm tactics, which is why the Shenji Camp was set up. However, when the firearms were first born, they were like steam locomotives that could not run wild, and they lag behind traditional bows, crossbows, and thunderbolts in various performances. Although there are great men like Chengzu who can see future trends, for most people, firearms are really unattractive.

Later, Huang Ming was intimidating Asia. Zheng He made seven voyages to the West and made a good move. Who would dare to come and find bad luck to the Ming Dynasty? Even the Mongols just robbed the border and went south to herd horses to swallow the country, and they would never dare to think about it even if they dreamed.

As the saying goes, even if the world is safe, forgetting to fight will lead to danger. When the Ming Dynasty was in peace for a hundred years, when it opened the arsenal again, it was found that the firearms were already behind many small countries.

First in the 16th year of Zhengde, Wang Wei, then deputy envoy of Guangdong's sea route, led his troops to recapture Tuen Mun Island, Dongguan County occupied by the Portuguese (Note 1), and defeated the Portuguese fleet, known in history as the "Tuen Mun Naval Battle". Although the Ming Dynasty won the first war between China and the West, the Ming Dynasty was already weaker in combat than the Portuguese who came from afar.

Especially reflected in weapons.

Wang Wei obviously felt that the speed of the Fran machine cannon was extremely fast, far less than the front-mounted run used by the Ming army, so he sent the captured naval cannon to Beijing and asked the court to imitate it.

Objectively speaking, the measure of the advanced level of a country should never be based on "what is there" as the standard. Although the Ming Dynasty did not invent the post-loading cannon, its productivity was still the strongest in the world. As long as it was inspired and motivated, the artillery made by the Ming Dynasty exceeded the Fran machine cannon in terms of quantity and quality. In the battle of Wanli to combat the Japanese Japanese, Li Rusong in Liaozhen used a large number of cannons and three-eyed guns, and in North Korea, he blew up one by one famous Japanese Warring States generals who were amazing.

Although Li Rusong discovered that the Japanese iron cannon had surpassed the Ming Dynasty's clamping gun, it did not attract special attention in the face of huge victory. Moreover, at that time, the Ming Dynasty created the bird gun based on the Franchise, and later introduced the Lumi gun from the Lumi (now Turkey) and was equipped with the Shenji Camp. Therefore, there was no big investment in the flintlock rifle project.

One more thing is that when Bi Maokang proposed to install a flintlock rifle under the title of Secretary of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, it was eight years after Chongzhen. At that time, the Ming Dynasty's family was almost squandered, and "added" was the main theme in the court. How could there be extra money to change the Jingying? What's more, the Jingying was so corrupt that it was even if it had to change the clothes. At least 60% of the investment would have to fall into the private pocket.

Even if Zhu Cixuan doesn't understand military affairs, he knows that lighters are more advanced than fuses, and there are no guns in the future that are dragging ropes. With such a general trend, it is a foregone conclusion to use a flintlock rifle.

There must be order in which to do things. Although the manufacturing of flintlock rifles is the top priority in building a new army, if you come up and fire a gun, the purpose of leaving the palace to prevent the epidemic has become known to everyone. It was not a big problem to ask Chen Tingyang to go to the south to attract sponsorship earlier, but the guns and cannons are set up to start construction. You must wait until the time is ripe before you can start.

Now that he has led the Beijing Camp with just a legitimate reputation, he may go to Luoyang Fujun to supervise the war. The time can be considered part of the ripeness. If he really wants to be completely mature, he can only wait until he finds a base for the most suitable development. No matter what, now he can set up the arsenal team first.

Tian Cunshan ran to the door, and the second sentence of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had already followed: "Prepare, I'm going to Anmin Factory tomorrow."

Anminchang was a place where Emperor Chongzhen took care of the prince and "never go" and seemed to explode at any time.

In fact, the Emperor Ming established a gunpowder bureau since the reign of Chengzu. There has never been such frequent accidents as in the late Wanli period and even today.

As a business manager in later generations, Zhu Cilang knew very well where the lesions were.

Lack of responsibility.

The Ming people were never strangers to gunpowder. Since the Song and Yuan dynasties, gunpowder has moved from the secret room of Danke to the battlefield. By the time Taizu conquered the world, Mu Ying had maturely formulated the firearm tactics for the discharge of guns. By the time of Qi Jiguang, gunpowder had been granulated. The formula was also very close to the optimal ratio. The Qi family army's firearm assembly rate was nearly 50%, and there was no accident of gunpowder explosion.

It was precisely because of the late Wanli period that the officials of various yamen were only good at being officials and not doing things, so they even used iron shovels to dig up clogged gunpowder. What is this asking for death?

After Zhu Cilang let Liu Ruoyu's nephew take charge of Anmin Factory, there was no safety accident because the time was still short. However, Zhu Cilang had not consulted on how well the dull and timid Liu Wei did not even know his words. This time he was going to Anmin Factory to inspect the main purpose of checking the production capacity of the gunpowder factory. Each town often needs 30,000 to 50,000 kilograms of gunpowder to produce it. By the way, he also had to inspect Xiao Tugeng's musket soldiers' training.

As the only unit not stationed in the outer residence of the East Palace, the training of the musketeers is reported every five days. Because it is mainly technical training, the assessment methods are also lacking, which makes Zhu Cilang feel unsure.

The Prince's inspection of Anmin Factory soon spread.

It’s not that Tian Cunshan is so rude, it’s really not easy for the prince to go out. Although Zhu Cilang has removed the palace servants who serve sweets, snacks, drinking water and toilets, the ceremonial canopy, as needed by the ancestral system, the axes, halberds, swords, and halberds... must not be missed, so unless you go through a private visit, you will definitely not be able to hide it.

Not to mention that this was Liu Ruoyu's errand. The prince suddenly asked Tian Cunshan to do it, which made people feel that this was some kind of signal.

In fact, Zhu Cilang didn't think so much about it just because Tian Cunshan happened to be by his side.

The prince could not think much, but Liu Ruoyu would never dare not. He already knew that the Ministry of Military Law was sheltered by the prince on certain financial issues, and had secretly calculated their expenses. Sure enough, he discovered a black hole. The black hole was so big that Wu Changchun dared to embezzle, and the prince had no reason to shelter this military judge who was born in Baima.

The only explanation is that the prince secretly raised a group of people.

Mostly they are like the Jinyiwei Dong Factory.

Liu Ruoyu's heart tightened, but there was no strange thing on his face. He quickly finished what he had at hand, returned to the dormitory and changed into casual clothes, quietly mingled among the slaughter in the backyard and left the outer residence of the East Palace.

After leaving the outside residence, Liu Ruoyu rushed all the way to Anmin Factory.

Liu Wei used the 100 taels of silver given by Liu Ruoyu to buy a three-entry house near Anmin Factory. Because Beijingers know that Anmin Factory is a powder keg that explodes at any time, the nearby houses are very cheap, and they took them down for only thirty taels of silver in total.

Living here can save a lot of get off work time every day and take care of the factory more. Sometimes Liu Wei has to check the night stands, and anyone who catches gambling and drinking illegally will be severely punished.

When Liu Ruoyu arrived at his house, Liu Wei was about to eat supper when he saw his uncle visiting in casual clothes. He was shocked: "Uncle, are you here?" His lips opened and he did not say the second half of the sentence after all: "Are you losing your job again?"

Liu Ruoyu nodded: "Your Highness the Crown Prince will personally inspect Anmin Factory tomorrow, do you know?"

It turns out that's just this!

Hearing that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was going to come to Anmin Factory in person, Weili was naturally a little excited, but compared to his uncle's previous idea of ​​losing his job, this was nothing. Liu Wei finally calmed down and smiled and said, "I thought it was such a big deal. Hey, Your Royal Highness just came."

Liu Ruoyu sat in the main seat and rolled his eyes over: "How could Your Highness inspect Anmin Factory for no reason? He also asked Tian Cunshan to prepare without looking for me? Most of the time someone said bad things about you behind your back, and the prince asked me to avoid suspicion!"

People are smart and seek troubles. A dull person like Liu Wei never thought there would be such twists and turns. Liu Wei was slightly stunned and said weakly: "Uncle, my nephew did offend some people before." (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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