Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

At this time, in a Portuguese colonial castle called "Goa" on the South Asian subcontinent, Boym sneezed several times loudly.

"Father, you are really lucky this time." An officer said, "It is very likely that what you 'Queen' encountered this time was not a real pirate, but an English privateer."

"Damn it, I knew it, I knew it was them."

Boym said bitterly, "These damned Anglo savages."

"Father, don't worry, the governor has already led the fleet to wipe them out." The officer said, "I believe these robbers will be captured and hanged in Goa soon."

"But what's the use of that." Boym sighed, "My companion can't come back."

Speaking of this, Boym turned his attention to the rough sea outside the city. In the ocean ahead, several scholars he hired from Lisbon, who spent a lot of money, sank to the bottom of the sea with the "Queen".

Now that the scholar has sunk to the bottom of the sea, and the money has been spent, Boym is really at a loss.

He can't even afford a ferry ticket to Macau on a Portuguese merchant ship now.

Thinking of this, Boym said to the officer: "Marcus, let me draw a portrait for you."

"Really?" the officer said happily when he heard the words, "Did God send down the oracle to the priest today?"

Boym said again: "But I won't draw for you for nothing, you have to help me buy a ferry ticket to Macau, and then help me find a box of books on various subjects, such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, theology, etc. Books on all disciplines are needed, and it is best to find some publications related to physical chemistry."

"No problem, these are small problems."

Marcus said: "It's all on me."

After speaking, Marcus went to search for books and publications.

Boym, on the other hand, sighed, it's been a long time coming.

……

Good things take a long time, and Chongzhen also sighed in the same way.

Since the imperial court officially issued an official document to abolish the craftsman's registration, craftsmen from all over the country can move freely, and the craftsman's problem that once plagued the Daming Arsenal was easily solved.

Due to the huge number of arms orders from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Zhan Yangzhi also greatly expanded the production capacity of the arsenal, as well as the supporting upstream and downstream factories.

Zhang Dagou, who is good at cooking knives, also opened a branch factory in Nanjing.

This Zhang Dagou does not use kitchen knives, but specializes in bayonets for Lumi blunderbusses.

So far, the Daming Armory has hundreds of production workshops and more than [-] craftsmen.

There are also more than a hundred upstream and downstream factories supporting it. Some provide iron materials, some provide copper materials, some provide beeswax, some provide gunpowder, and some provide wood, and so on.

A huge military industrial park is taking shape.

The production of Lumi Gun, Tiger Crouching Cannon and Hongyi Cannon is working overtime.

In addition to the production of firearms, the Daming Arsenal has also been improving weapons and equipment.

The performance of the Lumi gun is better than that of the bird gun, but it is also a matchlock gun. Compared with the flintlock gun, the matchlock gun has a fatal flaw, that is, it cannot be arranged in a dense formation, and its firepower output density is far inferior to that of the flintlock gun.

In view of this, it is the general trend to replace the matchlock gun with the flintlock. …

Therefore, Chongzhen has been asking Daming Arsenal to develop flintlock guns as soon as possible.

After more than half a year of research and development, the first flintlock gun was finally built.

Zhan Yangzhi, who got the news, hurried to the Imperial College and reported the good news to Chongzhen.

After Chongzhen got the news, he didn't even take care of the preparations for the entrance examination of the Imperial College, and directly handed it over to Prince Zhu Cihong, Fang Yizhi, and Song Yingxing.

Then came to the foot of Guanyin Mountain with a team of followers.

The military industrial park is located at the foot of Guanyin Mountain in the northeast corner of Nanjing.

After all, Chongzhen is a traveler, and he still understands the most basic concept of city scale, so he did not set the heavy industry zone in Nanjing or the upwind area, but in the downwind area.

Chongzhen rushed to the arsenal at the foot of Guanyin Mountain excitedly, and then saw the first flintlock gun of Ming Dynasty.

But after seeing this flintlock, Chongzhen was dumbfounded. This is a revolver, not a real flintlock at all, okay?

"My lord, this flintlock..."

Zhan Yangzhi originally wanted to show his merits, but when he turned his head, he saw that Chongzhen's face had collapsed, and he swallowed the second half of the words abruptly, and dared not say any more.

But the "chief engineer" Bugarao who was in charge of the research and development work was unaware, and said proudly: "This is called a steel wheel gun, and it is also the most advanced in Europa. The heavenly soldiers, the Ming army equipped with this kind of musket, will be able to defeat the rebels and the invading barbarian army with ease."

The interpreter in charge of translation stammered and translated Portuguese into Ming Mandarin.

Chongzhen was too lazy to pay attention to Bugarao. This guy didn't even learn half of his grandfather Bugarao's skills. He asked him to build a flintlock gun according to the sketch, and he could actually make a revolver that was outdated by the times. This thing relies on clockwork, and with the material of spring steel in this era, it is easy to break down.

If Seiko made the spring spring steel, the price would be ridiculously high.

Chongzhen asked Zhan Yangzhi with a dark face: "Zhan Weng, didn't I give you a sketch?"

Zhan Yangzhi turned his head and asked Bu Jialao, "Bu Jialao, where is the sketch given to you by the emperor?"

After listening to the interpreter's translation, Bu Jialao waved his hands again and again and said, "No, no, no, the sketch given by the emperor is useless at all, and such a flintlock gun cannot be made at all."

"Nonsense!" After hearing the translation, Chongzhen couldn't hold back the anger in his heart.

"France already made flintlock guns fifty years ago, why couldn't they make them?"

"Rumors, these are rumors." Bugarao said with great disdain, "There is no such flintlock."

Chongzhen said: "Whether you can make it or not, can't you process it according to the blueprint?"

"No." Bugarao said, "I am the chief engineer of the Daming Arsenal. How to make guns is my specialty. Your Majesty, you only need to listen to me."

Chongzhen almost swears, I listen to you!

But Chongzhen still held back, and this silly criticism is still needed at this stage.

After all, this guy is still good at making cannons. After nearly half a year of hard work, the cannon-making process of Hongyi Cannon has basically achieved standardization. …

At present, the standardization project of the tiger crouching gun is being promoted.

At the same time, some improvements were made to the structure of the tiger squatting gun, mainly by changing the opening to a straight barrel.

So I can't fire this guy for the time being, but the research and development of the flintlock gun can no longer be handed over to him. I have to find someone else to take charge of this matter, but I don't know who to turn to for a while.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen missed Tang Ruowang even more.

It would be great if Tang Ruowang was here, and he could make flintlock guns.

If you really can't find anyone else, I'm afraid he can only make it himself.

Immediately Chongzhen said to Bugarao: "Very well, the flintlock gun has been made, now you can go back to the Tiger Crouching Cannon Factory to improve the manufacturing process of the Tiger Crouching Cannon."

"Silver." Bugarao said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, the reward for silver is as agreed."

"Give it to him." Chongzhen said to Wang Chengen with a dark face, "Wang Daban, give him fifty taels first, and then tell him that the remaining fifty taels can only be given to him after mass production."

Bugarao took the money and left in a hurry.

Chongzhen said to Zhan Yangzhi again: "Zhan Weng, you call me the craftsmen who made flintlock guns with Bu Jialuo before, and call all of them. I want to ask them something."

"Yes." Zhan Yangzhi received the order, and quickly found a dozen craftsmen.

I saw that the dozen or so craftsmen were all elderly, but they were in good health.

Seeing Chongzhen, more than a dozen craftsmen hurriedly knelt down on the ground: "Caomin wait to kowtow to the Holy One."

"Get up." Chongzhen raised his hand and asked, pointing at the revolving musket, "You made this?"

"My lord, the villain is in charge of rolling the gun barrel."

"The villain is in charge of drilling."

"The villain is in charge of straightening."

"The gun mounts are made by villains."

"Steel bars are forged by villains."

"Small objects such as wheels and triggers were filed by villains."

More than a dozen craftsmen answered one after another, that they each have their own division of labor, which is very good.

"Okay, very good." Chongzhen nodded happily, and said, "From now on, you will follow me and build a musket that I have never had in the Ming Dynasty."

"Ah?" More than a dozen craftsmen looked at each other in blank dismay.

Zhan Yangzhi, Wang Chengen, Hu Guozhu and others were also dumbfounded.

Only Zhu Cijiong is eager to try, and he also wants to follow his father to forge firearms.

Chongzhen then said to Hu Guozhu, Wang Chengen and others: "In the next month, or even two months, you might be living with me in the arsenal."

"Your Majesty, what about the Imperial Academy's Talent Ceremony?" Wang Chengen asked in a low voice.

"It's okay." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "It will take at least half a month for the official documents of the imperial court to be sent to the chief envoys, and then it will take at least two or three months for the students from all provinces to go to Nanjing. enough."

If all goes well, the flintlock should be ready in two months.

It has been a year and a half since he crossed over in March last year. During this time, Chongzhen was either running for his life, or fighting, or intriguing with the Donglin Party.

After being busy for such a long time, I can finally free up my hands to click on the technology tree.

Chongzhen added the first technology point to the flintlock gun, which is also the correct choice.

Because the flintlock is definitely an epoch-making weapon, once the flintlock is equipped with a large number of troops, supplemented by a powerful artillery force, it is enough to change the cavalry from the main combat arm to the auxiliary arm. …

Since the advent of the flintlock, it has become wishful thinking for backward civilizations to defeat advanced civilizations.

The traditional craftsmanship of nomads or barbarians has changed from "threshing grass valley" to "singing and dancing".

……

At the same time, Dorgon returned to Beijing "triumphantly".

Said it was a triumph, but Dorgon put gold on his face.

This southern expedition did not cause much tactical loss to Jiannu.

The Zhenglan Banner and Xianglan Banner were the hardest hit this time, but these two banners were not the main force of the Eight Banners in the first place.

But from a strategic point of view, Jiannu failed miserably this time.

The biggest strategic goal of this Southern Expedition was to destroy the Ming Dynasty in World War I.

Even if the Ming Dynasty cannot be destroyed at once, the northern defense line of the Ming Dynasty must be destroyed.

But now this strategic goal is completely bankrupt. After fighting with the Ming army along the Huanghuai line for more than half a year, the Ming army's Xuzhou defense line remained unchanged, and after this battle, the Ming army's Huanghuai defense line was completely formed. If I want to launch the next war of destroying the country, I am afraid that it will be far away.

What made Dorgon even more angry was that,

Not only the biggest strategic goal has not been achieved, but also the second best strategic goal has not been achieved.

After realizing that there was no hope of capturing Xuzhou, Dorgon decisively changed his combat goal, replacing the destruction of the Ming Dynasty in World War I with the destruction of the Ming Dynasty's military presence in Shandong, and the removal of the flank threat of Northern Zhili.

Of course, by the way, I went to Caogu to make up for the losses on the Xuzhou battlefield from Shandong.

The goal of raiding Grass Valley by the way was accomplished. After the Duoduo army entered the territory of Yanzhou, they burned, killed and looted wantonly, robbing nearly a million people as well as a large amount of food, grass, livestock and property.

Especially the looting of Yanshenggong Mansion in Qufu was really bloody.

All the wealth accumulated by Yanshenggong's mansion for hundreds of years belonged to the two white flags.

In fact, just the harvest of Yanshenggong Mansion is enough to make up for the loss of the Xuzhou battle.

Duoduo knew that there was an allusion to a country that was as rich as an enemy, but he had no idea about it. It was only after he finished robbing the Yanshenggong Mansion that he finally understood what it meant to be a country that was as rich as an enemy.

But the gains from building slaves only stop here, and there are very few military gains.

Facing Jiannu, the governor of Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Jiayan and the admiral of Shandong military affairs, Hu Xin, sailors, retreated to Mengyin and Linqu respectively, and could not hold out.

The Duoduo army exhausted their efforts to transport the Hongyi cannons, and finally blasted Mengyin City. As a result, Wang Jiayan led the Ming army back to Yishui before breaking the city. In short, he did not confront Jiannu Hard and strong, but try to use the terrain of Yimeng mountainous area and the strong city to consume Jiannu and fight a protracted war.

After several battles, Jiannu couldn't bear it.

Not only the two red flags, the two blue flags, and the two yellow flags, but even the two white flags have caused war weariness. After all, the Eight Banners soldiers are also human beings. They have been fighting since the beginning of the year, and now they have been fighting for more than half a year. The key is that he has not won a hearty victory, and it is impossible not to feel depressed.

Duo Duo realized the danger and hurriedly reported to Duo ErGun.

Dorgon could only give up the second goal and directly classify the teacher.

However, before withdrawing his troops, Dorgon snatched up all the remaining strong men, women and children in Yanzhou and Jinan prefectures, and executed all the old, weak, sick and disabled, and then took nearly one million people and a large amount of food, livestock and property. The cargo team returned to Beijing, and the whole team was more than a hundred miles long.

Because I brought a large number of women and children, I walked very slowly.

From the end of July to the beginning of September, I finally returned to Beijing.

At this time, the little emperor Shunzhi had already brought the Manchu and Han ministers who stayed in Beijing to greet him outside the Chaoyang Gate. When he saw Dorgon, Shunzhi also called him Huang Ama, and there was nothing wrong with him.