Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 210 The chain reaction caused by the leakage of the secret gunpowder recipe

Under the large-scale steel smelting, the weapons factory in Chenghai City was expanded again, and even the huge demand made Liu Dapao nod and allowed private merchant capital to enter the weapon production industry.

This will of course cause the Qing court to easily obtain their advanced technology for producing weapons, but to be honest, Liu Dapao is not particularly worried about this.

Now that the war has been fought, it would be hell if the Qing court didn't have a batch of Ming court firearms for research.

To be honest, even the production of gunpowder has been kept secret until now, which is beyond Liu Dapao's expectations. War is the first driving force for technological progress, and the essence of current gunpowder production is still secret. At most, it can only be regarded as the beginning of chemical industry.

The secret recipe is quite different from the real technical barriers. As long as you have the heart, you can’t fail to get it. He now has nearly 8000 slaves in charge of gunpowder production in Wanwan. The real core secret is nothing more than After piling up feces and plant ash, a method similar to composting was used to create a fermentation environment. As long as the faces of these 8000 people do not lack such things as eyes, this secret must be known to everyone.

And sure enough, it didn't take long before he received the information that the Wanwan mansion was disturbed and the secret recipe was leaked. Vice-president Zhu knelt in front of him and apologized for his death. Chen Jinnan, now he has lost the pretensions of his master, and is willing to die with Vice President Zhu to accept the crime.

It made Liu Dapao feel embarrassed.

In fact, even if it is a prison with 8000 people, it is difficult to guarantee that one or two talented people will be able to escape from the prison. Since the Qing government sent a sufficient number of martial arts masters this time, they are making a lot of noise and luring snakes out of their holes. prisoner, and finally succeeded in rescuing several slaves.

Very normal thing.

Liu Dapao even felt that these two people had kept the secret gunpowder recipe for more than two years, allowing Liu Dapao to make full use of the two-year window to accumulate enough advantages over the Qing court and win valuable development time. The credit is already indispensable, so if you lose the secret recipe, just lose it.

It is also good to leave the undeveloped bay and come to Chenghai, or enter the center of power, or simply retreat to enjoy the happiness.

Chen Jinnan was fine, but Vice Chief Zhu was determined to die, and Liu Dapao was forced to tell him that the research and development of new gunpowder had already begun, and the secret recipe of old-fashioned black gunpowder was estimated to wait for the Qing court to crack it, and his end should be upgraded. Only then did he dispel his worries, barely saving his life.

Compared with other people's worries, Liu Dapao is actually very optimistic.

He has developed so fast in the past two years that even if the Qing court took out a firearm exactly like his, he would not be afraid at all, and was even a little happy to see it.

Because the weapon itself is not difficult to produce, even between the Ming court and the Qing court, the main gap is still in the production efficiency, and the production efficiency is almost entirely dependent on the application of the steam engine, and the specific application of the steam engine. It depends on the number of qualified craftsmen in the country and the quality of craftsmen.

Of course, there is also the scale of ironmaking, these Ming courts are all victorious.

At this time, the Ming court has firmly stepped into the industrial age, at least the major cities have achieved initial industrialization, and there are more and more types of steam engines with practical value, even steam cars are not without , just because of energy problems, it is really impossible to walk a few steps, and it has no practical value.

This is the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

The Qing court is a purely agricultural country, what can be compared with him?
As for the reform of the Qing court, don’t worry about it, not to mention that system reform is not something that can be accomplished overnight. There are too many vested interest groups, and no one can change their own lives. The reform of the Qing court is destined to be a one-off event. A futile Westernization Movement.

Moreover, at least Liu Dapao really does not think that system building is the decisive factor for an agricultural country to enter an industrial country.

Sometimes, Chinese people worship the system a little too much.

The core factor for an agricultural country to enter an industrial country is actually the primitive accumulation of capital. To put it bluntly, the change in the system should be a change in the way this primitive accumulation is spent. It will not be spent, such as Spain and Portugal. Those who spend money become the country, the Netherlands.

Even primitive accumulation has not been completed, so talking about system building has a lot of meaning.

The original accumulation of the Ming court came from overseas trade. In the final analysis, it was because of the cooperation with Lao Le and others that he earned the first pot of gold. Le and others were forced to come to their side, allowing him to directly receive more than half of the savings accumulated by the world overlord of the Netherlands for a century, and continue to continue this money through overseas trade.

In the original time and space, the ultimate beneficiary of the civil strife in the Netherlands was the United Kingdom, so they became the new world hegemony. In this time and space, the money was copied by Liu Dapao, it's as simple as that.

The essence of maritime trade, in fact, does not lie in the need for mutual exchange and convenient transportation. As early as the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Central Plains Dynasty and Europe had already been connected through the Silk Road. An astonishing amount of gold and silver.

No country has ever been able to skip primitive accumulation and enter an industrial society. In Liu Dapao's mind, the only way for the Qing government to realize capital accumulation is the scissors difference between industry and agriculture.

However, the primitive accumulation of industry cannot be completed by saving money. If we really count on the pure industrial and agricultural scissors to complete the accumulation, it will not be possible to starve the peasant brothers to death.

Although many people in the country may not want to admit it, even in the modern Rabbit Country, two great opportunities for real development, one is the large-scale assistance from Big Brother when the country was founded, and the other is a large number of low-income countries from the Western world during the honeymoon period of a certain country in the 80s. Suck even interest-free loans.

It is true that hard work is necessary for social upgrading, but it is by no means the only necessary.

Although Mr. Ma mentioned in his philosophical thoughts that with the development of productive forces, the surplus brought about by production will automatically accumulate to achieve social upgrading, but history has proved that no country has achieved prosperity by saving money. .

It's like the rich always advise the poor to save more money, work hard, reduce their living needs, and invest more of their spare money. Only investment can bring benefits.

But how many rich people saved their first pot of gold?
It is fundamentally a false proposition that the poor should invest their money.

If he had the money to invest, he might as well rent out the spare house.

Anyway, he has already started to work hard for the ideal of holding guns for all people. After this project is completed, the military strength of the Ming court will be crushed compared with that of the Qing court.

As for the standing troops, Liu Dapao's words to Zhu Zhu's chief helmsman were not all comforting.

It has been more than half a year, and the development of sulfuric acid and nitric acid in the Academy of Sciences has already begun. To put it bluntly, the cost, scale, and efficiency are not enough. Now he is personally leading more than a hundred scientists to stay up late and work overtime.

This has already involved the field of basic chemical industry. If the Qing court wants to pursue it, it will not be possible to steal a secret recipe.

Once the smokeless gunpowder is settled, the next step is to try to make modern bullets. Once the modern bullets are settled, you can try to make seamless steel pipes, and seamless steel pipes with more technical difficulties are not yet the decisive technology.

With seamless steel pipes, it is possible to manufacture Hanyang-made products, and then to manufacture Maxim, which must be enough to push the world in this era.

It doesn't seem to matter if you can't get seamless steel pipes. It's nothing more than a slightly inferior quality made in Hanyang, which is enough.

In fact, based on the industrial foundation of the late Qing Dynasty, it is hard to say whether Hanyang made it with seamless steel pipes or not.

In his ideal state, after a few years, at least most of the urban residents will have a gun, or have the ability to buy a gun at any time.

The vast rural areas at least ensure that each village has the ability to organize its own security team with guns.

Even ordinary firearms that are made of low-quality steel and are more likely to explode are fine. Anyway, most of these guns may not be fired once in 100 years.

For this purpose, the imperial court can even give a certain subsidy to these guns, and the people of the Ming court can buy only one gun per person through identity verification.

Of course, if you are rich and want to own the entire guard or something, you are also allowed to add money to buy the same rifles as the regular army, as long as you limit the number of bullets.

At that time, it will be enough for him to maintain three regular troops, one in Ningbo, one in Chenghai, one in Nanchang, equipped with the most advanced rifles, and if he wants to take the initiative to attack, he can send these three troops, and there is no need to consider staying behind. Fully transformed into the police, the Qing government can fight wherever they want, anyway, they can't fight anything.

In a city where everyone has a gun, street fighting is a nightmare for the attacker.

And if the modern bullets and rifled guns are settled, his three armies have more than [-] people, each of whom is made in Hanyang. Even if he is a commander who will never fight again, it will be difficult for him to send troops to Mang with his eyes closed.

As for the old-fashioned black powder and muskets, the Qing court let them learn if they wanted to.

In order to complete this plan, he needs a lot of iron to make guns. The company's large and small shareholders also need land to grow sugar cane and oil crops. The water network in the southern region is also more developed. After Nanchang is taken, there is no need to build railways, and it is enough to rely on water transportation Support trade nodes between cities and regions.

So the most urgent task right now is to surrender Wu Sangui, this old dog.

However, the positions are different, and the horizons are different. The fact that the Qing court stole the core secrets of the Ming court's gunpowder is one thing in the eyes of Liu Dapao, but another thing in the eyes of civil and military officials. From the perspective of the masses, it is another matter.

This time, it was Shaolin Temple who served as a pawn for the Qing court.

Ordinary people don't know what saltpeter purification is, what an industrial system is, let alone what nitrocellulose is, and what is smokeless gunpowder.

They only know that the bald donkeys in Shaolin stole gunpowder for the Manchu Tartars. Since then, the Ming court’s advantage in firearms over the Qing court has disappeared, and the Qing court’s cavalry advantage over the Ming court, at least on the surface, is still there. Well, maybe, the Ming army will suffer defeat on the battlefield just because of this incident.

It's only been a few days since such a good day.

The people are simple. They hate Manqing. This hatred has lasted for decades, and they can’t change anything.

But ordinary people can hate Shaolin Temple!

Then, you can further hate the entire bald donkey group.

Liu Dapao himself hadn't had time to react to this matter, but the Jianghu was the first to explode.

A sect that helped the Manchu Qing steal the core secrets of the Ming court, what kind of righteous leader is there to call itself?
Who cares whether you are a person who has to bow your head under the roof, who cares whether you are voluntary or forced.

Therefore, the Shaolin Temple, which was originally the leader of the righteous way of martial arts, has now completely become a street rat that everyone shouts and beats, and has become a demon religion. once.

What's more, the Jianghu sect headed by the Huashan School chanted the scary slogan that everyone can kill Shaolin donkeys. Donkey killing conferences have been held everywhere in Jianghu, discussing how to kill those bald donkeys in Shaolin Temple.

And it was much more lively than when they held the turtle killing conference back then.

Shaolin monks, no matter civil or military, dare not leave the gate of Shaolin Temple at all now. If they go out, they will really be beaten to death. All these people in the Jianghu are lawless existences, and the Qing court can't control them at all.

The whole world is in a hurry to draw a clear line with Shaolin Temple.

Even some martial arts masters have already entered the mountain gate in the name of Wuhuiyou, and went to the group of bald donkeys to learn from each other.

And although the Qing government promoted Shaolin as the state religion, the most important thing is to give them the opportunity to be officially recognized as envoys to Mongolia and Tibet, but now neither Mongolia nor Tibet is in the hands of the Qing court.

Although it is a quasi-ally with the Junggar Khanate, Galdan himself has the status of a living Buddha, and he would only agree to Shaolin Bald Donkey to come to his site to preach when he was crazy.

As for the common people, the Qing court still has no prestige in the hearts of the common people. The common people are not living well. This war, the finances have been sucked in, and the people's fat and anointing have been searched much more fiercely than before. up.

In fact, the population of Ningbo City has reached 200 million, and most of them escaped from Jiangbei. The people in Jiangbei also know that the people in Jiangnan are living a fairy life.

They can't even afford to eat, but the people in Jiangnan can still eat sugar and oil!
Sugar and oil, many ordinary people may not know what these two things taste like in this life.

Every household has already welcomed Master Wang.

As a result, you bald donkeys stole the secret recipe of gunpowder. If you fail, this master may never come.

When the fire started, it didn't just burn on Shaolin Temple.

The entire Buddhist sect has become extremely passive in this matter.

Most of the people in the north can only bury this dissatisfaction and anger in their hearts.

The people in the south have already become irritable.

(End of this chapter)