My Ming Dynasty, I have the final say

Chapter 60 Firearms
"Clean the house before you treat us."

Sitting on the chair, looking at the people leaving, Zhu Youxiao knocked on the table repeatedly.

"Take the test."

Zhu Youxiao felt a little headache when he reached out and pulled out a copy of Zhang Juzheng's examination method from the table.

The test method is actually to determine performance.

But in the final analysis, it is up to people to decide whether the examination method can work.

Historically, during the reign of Tianqi, when the imperial examination was carried out again, the effect was very poor. Local officials simply ignored it and simply turned it into a formality.

There are three reasons for this.

One is party strife, with unclear rewards and punishments.

The second is that there is a shortage of officials and no one is available.

Three of them have confusing duties and unclear rights and responsibilities.

Chief among them is job confusion.

In this case, no matter how strict you are in enforcing the exam, you will still be punished for ten days and a half when you get to the bottom, and you will be fooled easily.

"Go and bring me the "Da Ming Hui Dian"."

Signing for the eunuch to bring him a large book, Zhu Youxiao rolled up his sleeves.

Niang Xipi, since the regulations set by Zhu Yuanzhang have been almost abolished by now, how can we set them again?

Those who hold military positions are thrown out, those who are state officials are thrown out, and those in the cabinet are also thrown out, starting from the six departments.

With chalk in one hand and "Daming Huidian" in the other, Zhu Youxiao began to write freely.

"Your Majesty, it's time to eat."

Seeing that the emperor had stopped, the young eunuch came forward to report.

After writing for a full hour, Zhu Youxiao came out of his inner world.

"I will go out and eat with the soldiers."

Throwing the chalk in the box, Zhu Youxiao turned around and took Zhu Xiaozhen and Jin Yiwei towards Sun Chuanting's Leopard Tao Guard.

When they arrived at the place, the soldiers were burying pots to make rice. They waved their hands to avoid everyone's courtesy. Zhu Youxiao and Sun Chuanting crowded in front of a pot and waited for the meal to be served.

The emperor's rule was that the generals and soldiers in the army should eat together, and the generals could add two eggs to their meal at most.

He cracked the eggs on the edge of the pot. Before Zhu Youxiao could eat them, he heard Sun Chuanting arrive.

"Your Majesty, Lord Huang Kezhan sent us a batch of gunpowder after he was transferred to the Ministry of War. Lord Xu, the Minister of Industry, sent us a batch of gunpowder."

"Ok?"

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised. Didn't Zhang Heming, the Minister of War, say that it was out of stock?

"Does it work?"

"Most of them are too old to be used anymore."

Sun Chuanting bared his teeth, obviously very dissatisfied with the things Huang Kezhan brought to him.

"I read the inscriptions on the gun guns and found that there were only more than 300 newly made guns. Most of the remaining ones were made in the [-]th year of Wanli, and some were made in the Jiajing period. I dare not use them at all."

"Haha, he sounds older than Huang Shangshu."

Hearing Sun Chuanting's words, Zhu Youxiao was not surprised and smiled.

"Where did he get it?"

"I estimate that Huang Shangshu confiscated part of the ordnance from other battalions in the capital and shipped it to me."

"is it?"

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao blinked. It seemed that his role in pardoning the previous corruption and letting the Account Department handle the accounts was reflected. Now everyone is digging out some old accounts from the past.

While there is an amnesty, investigate as soon as possible. If you don't investigate now, if you let people find out later, you will really die miserably.

"Wait a minute, let me see how my Ming Dynasty's blunderbuss is doing."

"Yes."

After hearing this, Sun Chuanting did not refuse.

After finishing the meal quickly, Sun Chuanting took Zhu Youxiao to the place where the ordnance was kept.

"Your Majesty, in the 27th year of the Jiajing reign, the Ming Dynasty recaptured Shuangyu, Zhejiang, and obtained bird guns and those who were good at making bird guns. Emperor Sejong ordered the Bingzhan Bureau to imitate them. At the same time, Lu Xi State paid tribute and presented Lu Xi guns."

"In the 25th year of Wanli, Zhao Shizhen presented the article "Eight Harms in the Use of Soldiers" to the late emperor, and made thunder blunderbuss (multi-barreled bird blunderbuss), lightning blunderbuss (bird blunderbuss with fixed ammunition in the breech) and other items." On the side, Qian Shizhen gave Zhu Youxiao introduced.

The Northern and Southern armies of the Ming Dynasty, the Southern Army liked to use cannons, and the Northern Army liked to use cannons.

In terms of organization, Qian Shizhen belonged to Qi Jiguang's side of the Southern Army, and he was very familiar with muskets.

I'm not interested in Thunderbolt Guns. It's just a few guns connected in parallel, and its practicality is too low.

What aroused his interest were bird guns and electric guns.

One is that there are ready-made craftsmen with enough raw materials, and they can now produce in large quantities.

The other is a breech-loading gun.

As a time traveler, it’s really embarrassing to play with a muzzleloader.

The bird gun is about 1.5 meters long, with a mountain, match rope and other objects, which is a typical matchlock gun.

The electric gun is 1.8 meters long and weighs 5 kilograms. There is a gap at the rear of the barrel where the gun can be inserted and the breech can be loaded by inserting powder and twisting.

After a soldier loaded up the gunpowder, Sun Chuanting and Qian Shizhen protected Zhu Youxiao who was standing far away.

Mainly because they were afraid of blowing up the barrel and hitting the emperor.

After all, these firearms are indeed a bit old.

"Oh!"

With a puff of smoke ejected from the end of the gun's muzzle, the target shattered into pieces.

"This blunderbuss is very good. If there are too many people firing blunderbuss, nothing can be killed."

Looking at the target two hundred steps away, Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction.

"What your Majesty said is true, but this gun has a shortcoming, that is, it is troublesome to load. Soldiers need constant training to be able to fire two or three rounds within a hundred steps of the enemy."

"If the training is insufficient, the enemy troops will rush to the front of the formation and engage in hand-to-hand combat after one shot."

"Furthermore, the armor penetration of the blunderbuss is slightly insufficient. If the enemy is wearing heavy armor, the blunderbuss cannot penetrate at a long distance. If the distance is close, even if it can penetrate, the soldiers in the rear will not dare to let go easily for fear of hurting their comrades. pistol."

"I have several thoughts on the issues raised by General Qian."

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao smiled and was not disappointed by the gun's shortcomings.

"However, I want to let people test it. After a few days, I will give you a surprise."

"???"

After hearing the emperor's words, Qian Shizhen and Sun Chuanting had a bunch of small question marks on their foreheads.

Without answering their questions, Zhu Youxiao asked Jin Yiwei to carry two usable guns and returned to the old Yamen.

"Go, find twenty craftsmen from my military bureau, including blacksmiths, gunpowder makers, and carpenters, and even food guys. Anyway, we just need to be able to make muskets."

Then he threw away the wooden pole that had been whittled for half a month.

Originally, he planned to get S343.

What is S343?The single-barreled shotgun is called S686 because the double-barreled shotgun is called S343, and the number is reduced by half.

It's a pity that his inherent thinking has always been obsessed with finding ways to get a primer.

But the electric cannon left by Zhao Shizhen today gave him new inspiration.

Where can I get a primer for a hammer?

Zhao Shizhen's electric musket was equipped with a flintlock device, and the matchlock gun was replaced by a flintlock breech gun.

As for the lack of armor-piercing ability.

Ha ha.

Take a look and find out.

By increasing the charge and projectile size, and adjusting the tube length and tube wall, it is easy to create a field gun similar to that of the Napoleonic era.

What Ming Dynasty needs now is field artillery that can be used both in field battles and in city defense.

Instead of heavy siege guns like red cannons.

After the army is reorganized, the cannons are fired to fight.

"Let us enter the era of queuing to shoot early."

ps: Luzhi is not Rome, but Ottoman. The demise of Eastern Rome happened during the Tianshun period of orthodoxy. During Yongle period, Zheng He also brought back Eastern Roman envoys.During the Jiajing period, when Osman came to pay tribute, the name he reported was Rome, but it was found that it was not the Roman Empire in the history books, so the ministers of the Ming Dynasty changed it to Lu Xi.

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