Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 279
Huang Zhenshou's nephew, Liu Ping, seems to have a good business ability. He immediately explained the system of Daming firearms production and raw material control to Gao Yushi. But what he doesn't understand is, since the system is still rigorous, why is the quality still bad?

Gao Wushi looked skeptical and thought to himself: Could it be that the problem lies in the storage?But if there is a problem in the storage link, it is impossible for Huang Mengyu to be completely ignorant, so he is so stupid and took the initiative to take me to see it, wouldn't it be impossible to explain it?You don't want to bribe me, do you?He is a member of Meng Chong, he should know that I can make a lot of money with Jinghua soap alone, so what did he use to bribe me?

Seeing his hesitation over there, Liu Ping thought he hadn’t explained clearly enough, so he was a little nervous. When Gao Wushi saw him, he smiled and comforted him: “You speak very well, but you only talked about the production and raw material channels. Management, inspection, distribution and warehousing have not been said, please continue."

Only then did Liu Ping feel relieved, and continued talking.

It turns out that before the manufacture of firearms in Ming Dynasty, in addition to listing the required materials according to the quantity manufactured, the officials in charge of the Military Weapons Bureau and the Military Warfare Bureau had to supervise the officials when purchasing raw materials. In addition, in order to ensure that there are sufficient quantities of weapons when they are in use, officials from the Military Weapons Bureau and the Military Warfare Bureau also have to regularly check the number of military weapons in each treasury.

And if the guards or the Chief Secretary need to build more firearms, a collective meeting must be held by the governor and other officials, and the required number will be listed on the clear report. The emperor organizes ministers to discuss and then sends it to the Ministry of Industry. .If a new type of firearm is developed, the Bureau of Ordnance must first produce a sample, and the Ministry of War will test it before the government allocates funds for mass production.

For example, in July of the 23rd year of Jiajing, Weng Wanda, governor of Xuanda University, developed a variety of firearms and requested them to be manufactured in the same way.After the experiment, the Ministry of War thought that some firearms, such as three-shot lianju, hundred-shot vanguard iron rod, etc., were convenient and usable, and it was indeed appropriate to make more of them.As for some firearms, such as fire beasts, landmines, artillery guns, etc., it was considered "not necessary" and suggested not to make more, all of which were approved by the imperial court.

As for the military weapons manufactured by the guards, there are regulations on the variety and quantity. The military weapons manufactured must be reported to the imperial court every month, but Huguang, Tonggu and other guards, that is, the so-called "those with long distances", report once a year.

Every five years, the imperial court will also send patrol censors and inspectors to conduct inspections, and punish officials who do not manufacture firearms and infringing materials in accordance with regulations, such as demotion or demotion.

After the firearms were made, in order to ensure the quality, the imperial court would send the Neifu to Shizhong and Yushi and others to take a sample from the Bingzhan Bureau for comparison with the finished firearms, and then conduct tests, and only qualified products could be stored. The unqualified ones need to be rebuilt, and such inspections are carried out every three months.

Later, a test hall was set up in Xi'an Gate to inspect the military weapons conscripted into Beijing from various guards. The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War sent personnel to conduct tests.

On the whole, the Ministry of Industry is responsible for the management of important firearms manufacturing in the Ming Dynasty, and the two bureaus of the Inner Government manufacture them, while the division of branch leaders is in charge of the Ministry of War.

As for general firearms, all guards can produce them. If there is any shortage or urgent need, please go to the Ministry to ask for it. The Ministry of War will decide whether it is acceptable. For general firearms distribution, there is a certain number of years, which are once every three years and once every six years. , once every 12 years.

According to Liu Ping, Xuanda received it once every five years, and as a rule, he could receive [-] bronze bullets.In Ji Town, he only knows that firearms are received once every three years, and in Shuntian Mansion every five years, but he is not quite sure about the number.

There are also regulations on the firearms that are confiscated during the Spring and Autumn Exercises in the Beijing Camp. They must be collected from the Military Weapons Bureau at the beginning of the drills and returned after the drills stop.In order to ensure that the firearms are not lost, the firearms allocated to each side must be engraved with the names of the officials, and some even write the names of the guards. If they are lost, they must be compensated.

Even from a highly pragmatic point of view, such a system can already be called strict, but the question turns back—since the system is strict, why is the output still garbage?

Could it be that the poor quality of Daming firearms only happened in the years when Daming was about to die, and the current firearms are not bad?However, according to Liu Xian, Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang who had direct communication with Gao Wushi, Daming's firearms are obviously bad enough now!
Full of doubts, Gao Wushi simply put aside the system issue for the time being, and personally selected a batch of firearms from these warehouses for on-site live ammunition testing.

What made him laugh and cry was that this test almost failed to find anyone—even if the small officials on the side of the gun supervisor's side were afraid to go up to test the gun even in the face of the power of the imperial envoy.The reason is that since Gao Pragmatically wanted to check how many shots these firearms could fire in a row, he asked to keep firing until the firearm exploded.

At the end of the trouble, it was Wang Chonggu and Ma Fang who helped and brought in the captured Bailian remnants and Mongolian prisoners. There were about a hundred people together, and it was considered to meet the high-level practical needs.As for the suspicion of violating the rules, Wang Chonggu and Ma Fang, the governor and the general soldier, both agreed, and with the full support of Datong eunuch Huang Mengyu, the governor of Datong, Fang Fengshi, remained silent.

Gao Yushi was very satisfied with the results of the test, thinking that it met his needs—of course, the quality was not very good, but it was indeed rubbish.

According to the results of high-level spot checks and tests, the average number of bombing shots of various types of hand-held firecrackers sent by the Beijing Camp is just over five times. Among them, the average number of shots from the Military Weapons Bureau will cause bombing or other failures every 5.4 rounds. Every 4.9 rounds fired by Zhanju's products will cause a bomb or other failure.

And the weapons made by the guards can be even worse, with an average of 3.4 shots and the chamber will explode!
The most powerful thing is that during the testing process, the three-eyed gun produced by a certain guard actually had two excellent results of directly blowing up the chamber with the first shot, which made Wang Chonggu face as black as a dragon when he heard the news Ma Fang and Ma Zongrong on the side were full of anger, and the veins in his left hand holding the waist knife were bulging. He looked so pragmatic that he was afraid that he would order the commander of the guard to be chopped off directly.

The three-eyed blunderbuss are already thicker than the bird blunderbuss or Saigon blunderbuss. It stands to reason that the proportion of the blasting chamber should be lower, but the quality of this kind of gun that will explode after firing four or five rounds on average, where is the ratio low?All in all, if the three-eyed blunderbuss exploded in four or five shots, wouldn't it blow up in one or two shots instead of a bird blunderbuss?

How can this be considered a war? Isn't this suicide!
In such a situation, even Gao Yushi, who originally wanted to "collect unfavorable evidence", fell silent, and then turned ashamed like Wang Chonggu—Da Ming relied on these soldiers with fire sticks to guard the frontier?
At this moment, even he felt a chill run down his spine!
(End of this chapter)