East Factory Governor

Chapter 733 Fanaticism
In order to realize the promise of the Northern Expedition the following year, Qin Shuhuai began intensive deployment.

He doesn't have to worry about money and food now. Now that the New Deal has been fully rolled out, by the middle of next year, the court should not be short of money and food.

The first and foremost issue, of course, is to rectify the army.

Qin Shuhuai has already thought about the main force of the Northern Expedition in the future, that is, Yuan Chonghuan's Guan Ning Army and the Wulin Allied Forces returned from the Western Expedition will be the main force, and Liu Guoneng, He Huchen, Cao Wenzhao, and He Renlong will also be brought along from the three sides. Department and Mangui Department in Datong, about 15 to 20, should be enough.

However, in terms of the combat quality of the troops, apart from the Wulin Allied Forces, other troops, including Yuan Chonghuan's Guan Ning Army, still have a clear gap with the Eight Banners soldiers and urgently need to be improved.

Who should be promoted?

Do you even need to think about it?Of course it's the Devil's Cult!

The Devil's Cult has already said that it will continue to help the court in the future, and the personal relationship between himself and Yan Huizhi is there. As long as he sends out an invitation, the Devil's Cult will definitely agree to help train the army.

It's just that the soldiers of the imperial court will definitely not be convinced if the Demon Sect comes to train them.In particular, Yuan Chonghuan's Guanning Army and Mangui's Datong Army are both known as the Gyeonggi Pro-Guard Army. They have their own pride. If you let a group of former rebels train them, maybe they will cause a mutiny.

Furthermore, there will definitely be voices of doubt in the court, such as these soldiers have been trained, will they be touched by the devil's sect?

After much deliberation, this incident had to make the Demon Cult feel wronged.

So, he immediately found Li Jingting and asked him to write a letter to Yan Huizhi.In the letter, he first stated the necessity of the Northern Expedition, then explained that the soldiers of the imperial court were in urgent need of training, and finally asked Yan Huizhi in an inquiring tone if he could send two hundred five-element banner elites to join the Jianghe Gang, and then he used the Jianghe Gang In the name of training the imperial army.

It didn't say why Wuxingqi was not allowed to go directly to the training, but Qin Shuhuai believed that Yan Huizhi must understand his difficulties.

With the style of the Demon Cult, they should not be obsessed with any name. As long as they think it is beneficial to help the court and revitalize the country, they will definitely do it without hesitation—just as they knew that Zhu Yuanzhang won the world. He will be friendly to the Sun Moon Cult, but just because he believes that he can become a good emperor, the Demon Cult still helps him conquer the world.

Qin Shuhuai didn't quite understand the ideals and beliefs of this group of people, but he sighed.

After writing the letter, Li Jingting immediately dispatched Jin Yiwei to rush it to Guangmingding.

Qin Shuhuai then proceeded to the second matter, which was armaments.

In addition to increasing the production of green water, kerosene, light shields, and light armor, the most important thing is to mass-produce red cannons.

At present, the main artillery type of the Ming Dynasty is still the Frang machine. The expensive red cannon has not been mass-produced. Only Ningyuan City and the Forbidden City have a small amount of equipment, and all of them are bought and modified from the Dutch and Portuguese.

Of course, there is only one reason why there is no mass production, and that is that the previous court had no money and couldn't afford it.

Now the Ministry of Industry is familiar with the red cannons, and Xu Guangqi and others have studied the red cannons in depth. As long as you have money, large-scale manufacturing is completely possible.

In order to build the cannon in red, besides inviting Xu Guangqi, an old guy, to preside over the overall situation, it also needs the cooperation of the Ministry of Industry.

Qin Shuhuai didn't dare to provoke Xu Guangqi now, the old guy was so excited when he saw him, he went up to Chongzhen, so he left the task of lobbying him to Chongzhen.

But the Ministry of Industry, he still has to talk in person.

The former minister of the Ministry of Industry has already been imprisoned because he was a member of the Donglin Party. The new minister of the Ministry of Industry is Zeng Qicheng. It is said that he came from a family of craftsmen.

Qin Shuhuai asked Li Jingting to bring his own message and invite Zeng Qicheng to come to the Duke's mansion for a statement.In less than an hour, Zeng Qicheng rushed over and brought two Ministers of the Ministry of Industry with him, so he brought the entire Ministry of Industry to the Duke's mansion to work on the spot.

After exchanging pleasantries with them, Qin Shuhuai got to the point and asked, "Shangshu Zeng, two servants, let's make a long story short. I want to build two hundred red cannons within half a year. I don't know where to start?"

Zeng Qicheng frowned and pondered for a while, then said, "My lord, the cannons in red can easily weigh three to four thousand catties. If there are two hundred pieces, the refined iron needs to be nearly a million catties. Refined iron is no more than ordinary iron. Judging from the current mineral production of Daming, it will take more than half a year just to gather all these fine irons, and if it is to be produced, it may not be enough for a year."

Qin Shuhuai smiled faintly, "This is not in my consideration. What I am asking is that two hundred doors will be built within half a year. What are you going to do?"

Zeng Qicheng smiled wryly, "If the Duke of the Kingdom insists on making it within half a year, then he can only order in the name of the emperor that the iron produced by all iron mines in the country must be given priority to the imperial court, and all the iron ore selected by the imperial court will be brought back to be smelted. Iron, the rest of the poor quality can be smelted in the market workshops, so the price of iron across the country is bound to rise, and the people may complain. In addition, the iron ore has to be urgently transported to the smelter, and the craftsmen have to be in the country Only within the scope of collection can it be sufficient, and the freight, food, drink and remuneration of the craftsmen will also increase accordingly. We originally calculated that the cost of a red cannon is about 500 taels, but if it is according to the conditions of the Duke of the country, I'm afraid it has to be raised by [-]%."

Qin Shuhuai nodded and said, "That is to say, the current cost is about 500 taels per door? Two hundred doors...90 taels?"

Zeng Qicheng nodded, "This is a conservative estimate."

Qin Shuhuai waved his hand, "Then it will be counted as 100 million taels! I would like to ask Mr. Zeng to prepare an excerpt and present it to the emperor as soon as possible, so that this matter can be settled as soon as possible."

Zeng Qicheng cupped his hands, "I will prepare the memorial tonight. By the way, I'm afraid there is still one person missing if I want to build the red cannon."

"You mean Xu Guangqi?"

"Hehe, my lord is wise." Zeng Qicheng paused, and said with some hesitation, "My lord, I dare to speak a few words from my heart for Master Xu's crying and remonstrance that day. In fact, Master Xu..."

"Master Zeng, don't need to talk," Qin Shuhuai interrupted, "It's Xu Ge's duty to scold me all the time, and I won't argue with him. Even the old man is probably still angry with me, so I have to ask you to go Haosheng persuaded him. If he asked me why I didn’t go there in person, you would say that I was afraid of him and hid at home and didn’t dare to go! If he has any orders, just ask someone to bring a message, and I will definitely do it.”

Zeng Qicheng and the three of them couldn't help laughing at what they said, thinking that this country's father-in-law is really kind-hearted and funny.

It was almost noon when the people from the Ministry of Industry were sent away, and Chen Qing'er came to the study to ask him to have lunch.

Just as he was about to go out, Housekeeper Qiao came to report that Zheng's residence was about to move into the house, so he sent an invitation card and invited him to have dinner at the house in the evening.

Only then did Qin Shuhuai remember that Zheng Zhilong's family will be moving into the mansion rewarded by the emperor today, so they have to drink this wine.

Because I still need to talk to them about the details of opening a naval academy and rebuilding a few large warships.

……

More than a month passed in a flash, and it was closed in recent years.

The four years of Chongzhen passed so quickly.

This year, the New Deal was implemented, the Demon Cult surrendered, and the world... finally showed a trend of peace.

But Daming's preparations for the battle have intensified instead.

At the beginning of December, Xu Guangqi once again accepted the appointment of Chongzhen, the governor of the whole country's military equipment.Under his organization, the work of manufacturing and improving red cannons proceeded in an orderly manner. In addition, the manufacture of green gun oil, thunderbolt thunder, gunpowder, kerosene, new light shields, light armor, etc. was also supervised by him, and the organization was well organized.

At the end of December, the Devil's Cult's two hundred and five element flag elite also set off from Guangmingding to the Jianghe Gang, and then planned to help Daming train the army in the name of the Jianghe Gang.

Also at the end of December, the "Zhilong Naval University Hall" was announced at a port in Qingdao.Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao became the chief instructors and deputy chief instructors. There were fifty teachers under him, half of whom were transferred from the imperial court's inland navy, and half were transferred from the former Zheng Zhilong's subordinates.Just wait for the spring of next year to enroll students.

In addition, the imperial court's official Suzhou Shipyard, Qingjiang Shipyard, and Longjiang Shipyard each received the task of building two large warships, and the task period was eight months.

Everything was proceeding as planned. In order to do these things, Chongzhen allocated 500 million taels of silver to Qin Shuhuai at one time, and said proudly that if it was not enough, he could add more.

Of course, the equivalent is that Chongzhen would call Qin Shuhuai into the palace almost every two or three days to inquire about the progress of various matters.

Qin Shuhuai saw that there was a kind of fanaticism in Chongzhen's eyes.

The Northern Expedition, the fanaticism of shame.

Expand the frontiers, conquer the barbarians, and become the fanatic of a generation of holy masters!

Chongzhen is really on fire!
　PS: This chapter is mainly to go overboard and make necessary preparations for the five-year rise of Chongzhen.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)