Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 802 The Bargain of the Great Reading

The nobles in Beijing are not very interested in the big reading, because whether they read it or not, their official positions are basically fixed-they just go back and forth in the Five Army Commander's Mansion.

People, once they have no desire to move forward, will have no motivation to make progress. This has been the case since ancient times.

But the Ministry of War attaches great importance to the errand of the Grand Parade.In the current era, which can basically be regarded as peace, it is not easy for the Ministry of War to get some credit for it.

In Jizhen, Dong Huhu and others have already been taught enough by Qi Jiguang, and now they seldom come to Jizhen.

Although so far, it is difficult for Qi Jiguang to deal a devastating blow to the opponent because of the imperial court's general strategy of "West Huai Dong System", but there is one problem that cannot be ignored.

The Mongols have long lost their ambition to "take the Central Plains again", and the purpose of going south is very simple, which is to plunder.That being the case, if you can't get something, there will always be losses. Of course, this kind of loss-making battle is unpopular among the Mongols. The Mongol leaders are not stupid, so of course they are unwilling to do more.

But Qi Jiguang's honesty doesn't mean that Li Chengliang is also honest.

Qi Jiguang's style is, as long as you dare to come, I will resolutely fight back until you dare not come.

Li Chengliang's style is, you do whatever you want, and I'll beat you after I'm done. It's not the key to defending the soil, the key is that I want military merit.

So in this way, Qi Jiguang has almost nothing to do now - the other party doesn't come, and the court has no intention of letting him fight over. He is a well-behaved general, but he doesn't have the guts to "proficiently provoke" like Gao Yushi. .Don't say that if you lose, you will definitely lose a long list of heads. Even if you win as usual, you probably won't be able to keep your heads.

Qi Jiguang couldn't get a battle, and the Ministry of War could only look forward to Liaodong if it wanted to get some credit.

Corresponding to it is Li Chengliang from Liaodong. Li Chengliang is very good at dealing with things. When the Mongols went to Liaodong to rob, Li Chengliang could block the opponent on time for only one of five volleys, and then forced the opponent back.

However, for the remaining four times, he will definitely chase after him, go deep into the Mongolian territory, kill them, and at least get two or three hundred Mongolian heads before he is willing to give up.

The Ming Dynasty has always judged military exploits based on the leader, so what is the result of such a comparison?
Take a look at Qi Jiguang's record: more than 53 cavalry from a certain Mongolian army invaded. Qi Jiguang, the general officer of Ji Town, supervised the troops to meet the enemy and defeated the invading enemy. The enemy was defeated. 360 horses, [-] mules, [-] nine utensils.

Let's look at Li Chengliang's record again: Yi chieftains and others sent several zero cavalry to invade the border, and rehabilitated more than a thousand people to invade from Yongdian Fort. The commander-in-chief Li Chengliang chased him, and he was cut to 750. It is amazing that he was captured 160 people, and wiped out the first eight chieftains, destroyed several nests, and obtained a lot of horses and weapons.

On the one hand, Qi Jiguang defeated the enemy's 30 cavalry and did not allow anyone to enter the border. The people of Ming Dynasty did not lose a single person, and the people's wealth did not lose a penny. Reward money according to the rules, and the emperor rewarded Qi Jiguang with an additional [-] taels of silver.Then there is no more.

The Mongols on the other side had a total of more than a thousand riders. Li Chengliang hadn't responded long ago. When they had grabbed enough, they suddenly rushed out and chopped off more than 750 heads to go back to claim credit. The court saw it, wow, great victory, reward!Li Chengliang and Ning Yuanbo!

However, when more than 700 cavalry ravaged the country, how could the people of Ming Dynasty only die more than [-]?The people of Ming Dynasty have lost their heads, who can they complain about?

Soldiers, it is natural to kill the enemy, but isn't the first task to protect the people?
But Ming Dynasty’s military merit ancestral system tells you that’s not the case, because it’s impossible to accurately calculate how many people have been protected. If this is done, the military generals below will definitely blow their air, which is too bad for statistics, so it’s not counted at all. .

In other words, no matter how many enemies you defeat or repel, as long as you don't get the head of the enemy army, the military merits are insignificant.

Therefore, like Qi Jiguang's style of fighting against the enemy outside the country, and facing all cavalry, of course he can't get any military merits - even if he is killed, most of the corpses can be retrieved by his comrades-in-arms .

The reason why Li Chengliang seldom led the infantry into battle was because the infantry was a burden to him, which seriously slowed down his speed of beheading and earning military merits.

But now, the Ministry of War can only rely on a little military exploits in Liaodong to maintain its presence. Of course, this is not what the Ministry of War wants to see, so since there is a grand parade this year, we must do it well, and let the emperor see that our Ministry of War is not fighting Miscellaneous department of soy sauce.

On the eighth day of the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, the Beijing Camp held a grand parade.

The weather was still a little hot, but the capital was already very lively, and countless people flocked out of Fucheng Gate to watch this rare grand event in ten years from afar.

The emperor's royal driver passed through the crowd under the protection of the Han generals, causing bursts of shouts of long live, and the roadside was full of dark crowds kneeling.

However, Gao Wushi in military uniform followed the emperor, but he curled his lips a little—the "rules" of the people in the capital are not as good as Guangxi chieftains, and he stretched his neck to look at the emperor while shouting long live.Thinking back when Huang Zhiting was traveling in Siming Mansion, the local people were so respectful that they didn't dare to lift their heads, as if they were eating mud.

Some experts in later generations explained that the rule of the dynasty was harsh, and I don’t know who it was compared with. The rule of the Ming Dynasty was harsh, and it was obviously not comparable to the Mongol Yuan before, and it was not comparable to the Qing Dynasty later. How could it be harsh?Is it compared with the cooking era?

Zhu Yijun didn't look very "dignified", but looked around with a smile on his face, and then excitedly said to Gao Wushi: "Be pragmatic, don't you think that the people of the capital are happy to hear about a grand parade."

That is, the Chinese have this tradition, and whenever there is excitement to watch, no matter what, even if it is beheading, they are happy to see it.

Of course, you can think like this, but you can’t say that.Gao Wushi said with a smile: "What the emperor said is very true. The Beijing camp is an important force to protect the imperial court and the capital. The people of the capital are naturally very happy to see the Jingying excited. They can see such a grand military parade today because of the The emperor's holy judge."

Zhu Yijun smiled so much that his eyes narrowed, and he looked very comfortable, but he still waved his hands and said, "It's not enough for me alone, there must be a reason why Shengcaichen broke up, and this matter is ultimately due to you. If it weren't for Annan's great victory, how could I avenge my ancestors for nine generations, and even do this grand deed?"

Gao Wushi had been humble about this matter countless times, but Zhu Yijun always had to mention it. He had to be humble again, and then changed the subject, saying: "Your Majesty, there is an array of Beijing camps ahead. I don’t think there is anything missing? Especially the area of ​​Shenji Camp.”

Zhu Yijun was startled when he heard the words, and subconsciously squinted his eyes to look at the camp of Shenji Camp. After looking for a long time, he didn't see anything wrong, and suddenly asked a little unconfidently: "Is there anything wrong? I... I don't seem to have noticed it." come out."

Gao Wushi said: "The Shenji Battalion has guns and cannons, but they don't have blades and swords, which seems to be a bit less chilling."

"Oh!" Zhu Yijun suddenly realized, looked around for comparison, nodded and said: "That's true, but the Shenji camp has always been a firearms camp, and it's reasonable to have no blades and swords, so we can't add a waist knife to them, right? That’s probably going to get in the way.”

Gao Wushi said: "It is not necessary to have a waist knife, but based on the experience gained in the Annan Battle, I designed an improved version for the Longqing Type [-] musket, which can easily add a bayonet to the tip of the gun. When approaching the enemy, once the enemy has rushed to the front and has no time to reload, or our army has won a big victory and is chasing the enemy at full speed and cannot stop to reload, then the bayonet can be put on, and the long-range musketeer becomes a weapon. Melee bayonet soldiers make up for the lack of melee capabilities of our army's firearms soldiers."

"Oh, that's it. I remembered that you mentioned this idea a few years ago, but you said that the iron was not hard enough. If you add a bayonet, the strength of the gun body and the bayonet cannot be guaranteed. ...Why, this problem is solved now?" Zhu Yijun asked with some joy.

Of course this problem has been solved, otherwise Gao Pragmatic would not have said it.In his previous life, when he was a child, he had read a pamphlet of indigenous steelmaking left by his grandfather in the Communist era—this thing was everywhere in that era, and later it was either used to light fire for cooking, or it was simply placed in the toilet used up.

But Gao Yushi's grandfather was a rural teacher, and he didn't have the habit of burning books, so he stayed there all the time. Gao Yushi didn't have much fun when he was a child. Some books and brochures at home, as long as they were interesting, were smashed by him.He also read that pamphlet, but at that time there was no opportunity to practice it, so he read it wholeheartedly, remembering a general idea.

Since Jinghua started to enter the iron and steel industry, this booklet has always been useful, and so far, there are still some technologies that cannot be handled-this is really embarrassing, because it is not difficult for Gao Yushi to understand the theory, but it is difficult for hand cancer and certain Can't remember some details.

It wasn't until Zhu Zaiyu was invited out of the mountain by him, and the carburization problem was solved with the cooperation of the two letters.

As we all know, the hardness of steel is mainly determined by the carbon content. Generally speaking, it can be expressed in the simplest sentence: the higher the carbon content, the greater the hardness, but the easier it is to break; the lower the carbon content , the smaller the hardness, the easier it is to stretch.

However, carburizing is a job that tests the level of technology and even the level of operation, because normally speaking, carburizing must be uniform-for example, a bayonet is not uniformly carburized when it is manufactured, so its strength is also the same. uneven.In case of chopping, the part with low carbon content has low hardness and will be easily chipped; and if a heavy blunt object is encountered during chopping, the part with too high carbon content may break.

Therefore, how to uniformly carburize has always been a key research project of Jinghua Iron and Steel for several years.

In fact, the ancients also knew the importance of carburizing, but they did not form a theory, but acted by experience.Judging from the carbon-containing iron-making artifacts excavated by archaeologists, the conscious carburization of iron artifacts in ancient China probably began in the Spring and Autumn Period, and its age was around the 7th to 6th centuries BC. The carbon in the artifacts unearthed during that period was very easily detected.

In China, the ancients had three ways to obtain low-carbon steel and iron. One is to smelt iron, the other is to anneal and decarburize steel, and the third is to fry steel. I won’t go into details here.

The advancement of science and technology does not mean that a good idea can be put into use immediately. The carburizing, nitriding, quenching and other technologies proposed by Gao Pragmatic are all outdated garbage technologies in later generations, belonging to the period of "indigenous steelmaking" s level.But at this moment, there are so many master craftsmen in Jinghua who have been busy for seven or eight years and haven't fully mastered it-it can be done, but the yield rate is less than [-]%.

In the end, it was Zhu Zaiyu, a true scientific giant, who came out and summed up a set of detailed and complicated processes through countless experiments, and set strict data for each procedure, which increased the yield rate to [-]% to [-]%. It's barely worth putting into production.

It was at this time that Gao Pragmatism launched the facelift of Longqing II.

In fact, this should not be regarded as a facelift, but a replacement.Because not only the bayonet material is a new type of high-carbon steel (the standard in this era), but even the gun body material has been changed.

Therefore, Jinghua has already referred to this replacement musket as "Wanli Type [-]".

The reason why Gao Shishi has not decided whether to adopt this name is because it has not made much progress in the technology of the "gun" itself-it is still a smoothbore gun without rifling.

However, considering the need to make money, Gao Yushi was ready to agree to the following request, and named it "Wanli One-style Bayonet"--replacement, technology has improved, materials have been updated, and the price will of course increase.

The reason why I took this opportunity to tell Zhu Yijun was also for this purpose.

After all, this thing can’t be just for Jinghua’s own use. No matter how powerful Jinghua is, it can equip [-] to [-] pieces. Even in the market of [-] pieces, no matter how high the profit of a single piece is, it is very limited.

Therefore, the market for the Ming military is the big market. If the reforms of the Ming Dynasty can continue to advance steadily, this market can reach at least hundreds of thousands. If you add subsequent war damage, replacements, etc., it is not surprising that it will break one million.

After carefully introducing it to the emperor, Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Since you said it so well, when the time comes, someone will send me one of the new and old products, and don't just give it to me, let the Ministry of War Participate with the Beijing Camp and the Frontier Army, as well as the Ordnance Bureau and the Military Battle Bureau, and they should also take a look, lest someone will jump out and talk too much."

Gao Wushi was secretly happy, but agreed quietly on his face.

Zhu Yijun said again: "Also, the price increase is a bit too much. A gun costs 24 taels of silver, and a bayonet costs 30 taels of silver. The front and back are [-] taels... I remember that the muskets of Fulang Robot are not so expensive. You Jinghua What's the name of that...? Oh, cost control, yes, isn't there a problem with cost control?"

He blinked, leaned closer to Gao Pragmatic, and whispered: "Pragmatically, tell me honestly, how much does this musket and bayonet cost?"

Gao Wushi smiled wryly and said: "The steelmaking technology has just been successfully implemented, and the yield rate is only 24%. If this is included in the cost, a gun and a bayonet will cost about 26 to [-] taels. If it is sold to the imperial court, due to Jinghua I have to pay part of the freight myself, and I can probably earn five taels of silver."

Zhu Yijun was not angry when he heard this, but laughed instead: "It's not too bad, I'm afraid you are like some people, crying and saying that you didn't make any money... A profit of five taels of silver, um, is not too small , but it is still acceptable.”

Gao Wushi smiled wryly and said nothing, Zhu Yijun thought for a while, and then asked: "When will the yield increase, and can the price be lowered, for example, can we win 28 taels?"
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