The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 717 Good Dog
Fan Wencheng is indeed a good dog. Seeing that his master regards artillery so important, he suggested:
"Your Majesty, I think it is still possible to raise iron materials for casting cannons in a short period of time to meet the quantity stipulated by Your Majesty."

Chongde was interested, and immediately asked: "What tricks does Fan Aiqing teach me?"

Fan Wencheng immediately talked eloquently: "Your Majesty, in order to increase the total amount of steel, I think that we should simultaneously increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

In the past few decades, my Qing Dynasty has seized a lot of artillery and firearms from the Ming army. Most of them have been rusted and can be returned to the furnace for recasting.

Every household in the folk always has a lot of ironware, and His Majesty can issue a decree to set a minimum limit and order each cattle to hand over scrap iron.

His Majesty can also issue tasks to order Niu Luerzhen to personally lead the army and civilians, and Aha to smelt steel. In the case of general mobilization of the whole people, it should not be too difficult to refine the amount of steel needed to cast the God Bless Cheering General Cannon . "

Ning finished and I added: "Your Majesty, steelmaking by the whole people will definitely consume a lot of food and miss food production, but if my Qing Dynasty can't use artillery to win the war in the attack of the 'Red Banner Army', all the cities of my Qing Dynasty will be destroyed." will fall.

Afterwards, our soldiers and civilians in the Qing Dynasty had no choice but to return to a nomadic state and live in the snow-capped extreme north. "

Hong Jie is also well-read in history books, so he doesn't know that the Han people may defeat the grassland clans, but they will never try to eliminate the grassland clans.

As long as the Jurchens, like the Mongols, gave up settling in the Wanli Prairie for nomadic herding, fishing and hunting, they would be able to save the lives of most of their tribe.

Realizing that there were not enough cannons, the Qing Dynasty had to abandon North Korea, Liaodong, Shengjing and the palaces here, and fled one or two thousand miles north to live in yurts on the grasslands to endure wind, frost, snow and rain.

There was no room for Chongde, so he ordered Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Dorgon, and Duoduo to do everything they could to ensure the iron used for casting guns.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, that is, at the end of the first month of the second year of Chongde, the Manchu Qing Dynasty launched a farce riot similar to the Guo Dynasty, and the whole people made steel.

Every Niulu has a small earth-made steel-making blast furnace. Too many Qiding and Aha’s iron pots can’t keep it. In the end, a lot of resources were wasted to train piles of scrap iron, and the yield rate even reached [-]%. reluctantly.

Several 10 people worked together to smelt steel, which directly led to a nearly doubling of food consumption, because smelting is a heavy physical work, and all the cattle records really have hard tasks, and the output was not completed by then, and they were whipped and fined by the superiors They are all mild, and there is a high possibility of beheading.

If Qi Ding and Aha in the Niulu work hard, at least let them eat more and dry food. Therefore, the already unsustainable food for Jiannu is even more stretched.

Manchu Qing could not obtain high-quality steel, so they had to bite the bullet and cast cannons. To prevent the cannons from exploding, the only way to increase the wall thickness is to increase the thickness of the walls. Therefore, the "God Bless the Great General" cannon is [-] to [-] percent heavier than the Hongyi cannon of the same caliber. more iron.

The cycle of clay casting cannons is too long, and there will be no newly cast cannons used in the Korean defense war in a short period of time. When they learned that the "Red Banner Army" was preparing to launch a spring offensive, the civil and military generals of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were in an uproar.

Hongxie is dragging his sick body to convene a meeting of hundreds of officials. First of all, he must confirm whether the "Red Banner Army" really chose to attack North Korea. If the attack on North Korea is certain, then it is necessary to calculate where the "Red Banner Army" will choose to land.

The current territory of the Qing Dynasty is large, and there are great difficulties. The coastline is too long, and there are still several large rivers that can be navigated.

Jiannu had no navy, and any place with a natural port could become a landing point for the "Red Banner Army".

Jierhalang thinks that if you can't figure it out, don't use your brains. Maybe Huang Han is playing to cover up again. We are all preparing to formulate a defense plan for North Korea. It is not known that they may directly send troops from southern Liaoning to capture Fuzhou.

This is not nonsense, the initiative has been lost, and it is inevitable to be beaten passively. It is really possible for the "Red Banner Army" to attack wherever they go.

Some of the traitors headed by Zu Dashou in the Manchu court were secretly regretting, but they did not expect that Jiannu, who seemed extremely powerful, would be beaten back to his original form by the "Red Banner Army".

Seeing those barbarians helpless, they all knew that the so-called Chongde Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty was doomed to be short-lived and a farce.

After Zu Dashou surrendered and became a slave, getting the title of King of Return was just superficial, but his life took a turn for the worse. He knew that the so-called Han prince was not as good as a dog in the eyes of the Eight Banners military aristocrats, and now he had to wag his tail and beg for mercy.

Da Mingzi summoned Zu Dashou three times, and he dared to ignore him in Jinzhou, but when Chongde summoned him to Shengjing to discuss matters, the old boy hurried over immediately.

In fact, the money and food that the ancestors got from Jiannu was less than one-tenth of what Daming gave at that time, which really echoed the old saying that "promoting kindness against michou".

During this period of time, Zu Dashou trembled like walking on thin ice, because the former generals Zu Kuan and Zu Keyong of the ancestral family army sentenced the Qing Dynasty to defect to the Ming Dynasty, and his brother-in-law Wu Xiang defected to the "Red Banner Army".

After he heard the news, he secretly released Wu Xiang's youngest son, Wu Sanfu, who stayed in Jinzhou. Among the three sons of the Wu family, only Wu Sanfu was born to Zu Dashou's younger sister and the nephew of Zu Dashou's direct relative.

In order to save a way out for himself, and for some family affection, Zu Dashou is willing to take the risk of letting Wu Sanfu live.

According to the report of Zu Dabi who sent Wu Sanfu away, Wu Sanfu raised his hands when he crossed the fortification area of ​​the Qing Dynasty, and the "Red Banner Army" appeared and took him away within half a moment.

Zu Dashou often sighed and sighed. Zu Zerun, Zu Zepu and other sons were also dissatisfied with the status quo and full of complaints.

Zu Dashou told his son and the generals of the ancestral family that now they are mainly dawdling in the Qing Dynasty, and they must not sincerely work for Jiannu.

Seeing that the eldest brother who took the lead became the prince of the Qing Dynasty and didn't bother to serve the Emperor Chongde, Zu Dabi, Zu Dacheng and other ancestral generals who had the opportunity to rebel and return to Ming Dynasty at the end of last year regretted their mistakes.

They began to leave a way out for themselves. After all, there were Wu Xiang and his son, Zu Keyong, and Zu Kuan on the Ming side. If the Qing Dynasty was really destroyed by the "Red Banner Army", they could at least survive.

As a result, the family members of Wu Xiang, Zu Kuan, Zu Keyong and other generals who surrendered and stayed in Jinzhou were not persecuted, and even dozens of young and middle-aged men successfully crossed the line of defense and ran to the "Red Banner Army".

It's a pity that the Ancestral Family Army and the "Red Banner Army" are old enemies. The Ancestral Family Army believes that the decline of the Ancestral Family is entirely thanks to the Huang Han. They never thought of surrendering to the "Red Banner Army".

However, it was all the "Red Banner Army" that launched the Ping-Liao War, and many traitors from the ancestral family really had no confidence in whether they would survive after raising their hands and surrendering.

(End of this chapter)