Win the Ding 1617

Unexpectedly, Chen Banda made a new discovery today, which must be the same strange method as the spectrum method, so Dorgon couldn't help but become interested.

"Tell me, I want to see what tricks your subordinates have. Does he know the formula of Nanman's gunpowder?"

"That's right! My lord!" Chen Banda would not take credit for it and take it for himself. "My lord doesn't know, the reason why fireworks look so colorful and beautiful when they bloom in the night sky is because of adding various ingredients to the gunpowder. Different colors and different heights have different formulas of gunpowder. However, it’s all the same.”

"That day, the slave sent someone to give a bucket of Nanman gunpowder to try to mix it. This old Li said that the reason why Nanman's firearms have a long range and lethality can penetrate armor must be because some kind of auxiliary materials were added to them."

"so what?!"

There was a strange brilliance in Dorgon's slender eyes.

"The slave immediately asked him the same question. He said that if he was asked to ignite a pinch of gunpowder and see the color of the gunpowder when it burned, he could roughly guess what kind of auxiliary materials were added based on his experience in making fireworks. You can gradually increase or decrease the weight and proportion of this auxiliary material, so that the firearms used by our Eight Banners army will be the same as those used by the Ming army and the Nanman army." Although the Southern Guangdong Army also fought under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, but in Huang In the eyes of Taiji, Dorgon, Fan Wencheng, Kong Youde, Chen Banda, Ma Guangyuan and other leaders of Liaodong rebels at all levels, the Ming army and the Nanyue army are two completely different armies.

The same weapon, in the hands of the Southern Guangdong Army and the Ming Army's combat effectiveness is not the same.

"Oh! Tell me! What happened next?" Duoduo also came over, and he was eager to know that if the gunpowder could not be purchased from Nanman, the second brother could save a lot of expenses.

"Painted. The Southern Barbarians added patina to gunpowder."

Behind Chen Banda, Lao Li's face was full of wrinkles like chrysanthemums, full of joy after the technicians solved a difficult problem.

Flame reaction.It is the reaction of certain metals or their compounds to show the characteristic color of the flame when burning in the flame.The principle is that each element has its own corresponding individual spectrum.Such a reaction principle is mentioned in junior high school chemistry textbooks. This principle is often used in chemistry to test whether a certain metal exists in a compound.

However, in the era when there was no concept of chemistry.People often use the principle of flame reaction to interestingly add various metal elements to fireworks.Make the fireworks appear more colorful and colorful. "Burning it with fire, purple smoke rises, and the cloud is real saltpeter." This is Tao Hongjing's record of the flame reaction in his "Compendium of Materia Medica".

But for a long time, this principle and understanding has only been passed on orally among fireworks craftsmen as an industry secret from father to son.

"Master Chen listened to what we said, so he tried to light some Nanban gunpowder for inspection. Sure enough, the flames of the gunpowder turned blue-green, which proved that it was mixed with copper green!"

Old Li was not without complacency in answering the question of Prince Yu Duoduo in front of him.

"So, you guys made the Nanban gunpowder?"

Dorgon didn't say much.Just ask Chen Banda straightforwardly.

"Prince Hui Rui's master said that the slave didn't dare to make more because it was a trial production, and only prepared fifty stones of gunpowder."

As a New Year's Day gift to be dedicated to Huang Taiji today, Chen Banda ordered someone to put the prepared imitation Nanman gunpowder in a big jar, and several slaves from the craftsman's workshop carried it to him.

"You send this old Li to take my king's Ba Yala back to the craftsman's workshop. This king wants to examine the difference between the gunpowder you concocted and the Nanban gunpowder!"...

Dorgon put on a stern face, nodded and called several Bayara soldiers and house slave leaders, and signaled them to follow Lao Li back to the craftsman's workshop, and take the imitation gunpowder they prepared to find a place to hand over to Liangbaiqi's coated gunpowder. The gunmen compared the gap between the two after a practice.

There is no doubt that.Lao Li had a troubled expression on his face.Everyone knows that in this scene, Chen Banda led everyone to present such a gift.It was inevitable that Huang Taiji wanted to give a big reward, but he left at this time. If Huang Taiji issued a reward, he would not get anything.

"You slave! You don't even listen to me?!" Dorgon was a little sullen.

"Prince Hui Rui's master, Lao Li is not considered a slave, he is not a subordinate." Chen Banda tried to comfort Dorgon's anger. Seeing Dorgon like this, many civil and military relatives who came over retreated one after another.

joke.This Prince Rui's prestige among the Eight Banners was no less than that of Dai Shan, and his strength was second only to Huang Taiji.If you want to kill a Han craftsman, what is it?I'm afraid Huang Taiji himself knows about it.He just laughed it off, and at most said something like, the fourteenth brother has such a hot temper.

"Not a member of the banner? Old Li, you are now the coat of my Prince Rui's mansion, you can be regarded as my slave of Zhengbaiqi. After completing this errand, you and the housekeeper will go to the mansion to receive your New Year's reward." After listening to Lao Li Not considered a slave, Dorgon immediately showed the demeanor of killing and cutting.

"Give three copies to Lao Li! He is a meritorious person!" Duoduo explained to the butler from the side, and the pretentiousness of the brothers immediately made Lao Li die hard.All of a sudden, he changed from a gunpowder craftsman in a craftsman's workshop to a servant of Prince Rui's mansion, and he could receive three New Year's rewards from Prince Rui's mansion all of a sudden!

The prosperity of the two white flags is well known among the eight banners, and countless people drool three thousand feet from the New Year's rewards issued by the two white flags.

Some people rumored in private that the Niulu population allocated from the two white flags also received a share because of the benevolence and nostalgia of the old master.

"The slave thanked the master for the reward!"

Lao Li immediately cheered up and gave a thousand gifts to Dorgon, Duoduo and Azige.

Chen Banda next to him was astonished by Dorgon's actions.In doing so, Dorgon easily poached one of his capable men. If Lao Li became a servant of Prince Rui's mansion today, would he continue to present this imitation Nanban gunpowder to Huang Taiji?If Huang Taiji, Longyan Dayue, let the craftsman workshop produce a large number of them for use by the former enemy after offering them, but this old Li who has mastered the gunpowder formula is also a coated slave in Prince Rui's mansion, wouldn't this be setting himself on fire?

"Chen Banda. Although Lao Li is a servant of my Prince Rui's mansion, he is still a member of your craftsman's workshop. Is there a sense of propriety in this? Do you know?"

"Please don't worry, my lord! When this slave returns, he will be promoted to the position of Master Li! He will be promoted to be the master of the gunpowder workshop, responsible for making and preparing Nanban gunpowder!"

Hearing that Dorgon would not take Lao Li away.Instead, he only used Lao Li as the coat of Prince Rui's mansion, which undoubtedly relieved Chen Banda, as if he had walked another round from heaven to hell.

But Doduo vaguely guessed the second brother's intentions, and putting Lao Li, a slave, in the craftsman's workshop to manage the production of gunpowder was tantamount to planting the best spy in the craftsman's workshop.It is possible to get Nanman's gunpowder from the craftsman's workshop, or even set up another gunpowder workshop in a place with two white flags in the dark!

In this way, the gunpowder-coated soldiers of the two white flags will have a safe source of gunpowder.And the other hand was quietly pinching the life gate of Huang Taiji's firearms troops who were regarded as his beloved.

Three clean whips were loud.People began to line up and enter according to their grades and banners.

As expected by Dorgon and Chen Ban, after all the princes and ministers presented their New Year gifts to Huang Taiji in turn, only the imitation Nanban gunpowder presented by Chen Banda made Huang Taiji smile from the heart.

Huang Taiji had a very comfortable life this year.Right now, the Ming Dynasty dispatched the governor Hong Chengchou to lead the eight generals and more than [-] people to confront the Eight Banners on the front lines of Ningyuan and Jinzhou.If all the reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty were wiped out under the city of Jinzhou, all the strategic initiative could be seized in one fell swoop, and the goal that the old slave Nurhachi had been coveting since the time of the old slave Nurhachi would be accomplished.

And, but if you want to achieve such a goal, you have to have a series of battles, fighting with Hong Chengchou, who is known as Hong Crazy, like a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.This is why the fires in the blacksmith shops outside the city were never extinguished during the Chinese New Year.

Spies and secret agents from all over the country sent information like snowflakes. Ningyuan, Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan and other places were full of Ming troops from all over the country.It can be said that Chongzhen gambled on the fate of the country for this war.

It's nothing more than the comparison of materials, troops and equipment. The Eight Banners soldiers fought against the Ming army.At that time, didn't the Ming army on the opposite side have much more food and supplies than their Eight Banners?

However, according to the news obtained from the investigation now, as well as the small-scale and small-scale contacts and outpost battles between soldiers and the Ming army, they discovered that the large Ming army in front of them not only has the same fighting will as any previous Ming army. It is much higher than before, and the firearms are much more proficient than before!

If these Ming troops used cavalry, artillery, and long spears and halberds, the Eight Banners soldiers would not be afraid, but now these Ming troops use firecrackers to a greater extent than before.Obviously, it was carried out on the basis of the Nanyue Army who served twice as king.The Nanzhong firecrackers equipped by the Southern Guangdong Army have at least [-] to [-] guns in the Ningyuan Jinzhou Ming Army led by Hong Chengchou.Hear this horrible number.The owners of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners couldn't help but tremble with fear. They learned the lesson of entering the customs twice and fighting the Southern Guangdong Army.It has already been spread to the entire Eight Banners group by the two red flags of Eight Banners Mongolia and Eight Banners Manchuria.A small projectile, counting the cost of gunpowder, is only a penny or two, but such a projectile can take away the most elite warriors in one's own banner, such a way of death is too worthless.The elite fighters of each banner have practiced their skills hard since they were young, just to survive this bomb?Three arrows are like one knife, three knives are like one gun, if you get hit by an arrow, you can still heal your wounds, if you get hit by a lead bullet, you will be crippled even if you don't die!

Especially when it was heard that countless sub-drug lead bullets were transferred by sea ships from Jiangnümiao Wharf and Huludao Wharf to the location of the Ming Army Daliangtai in Bijia Mountain, it aroused strong opposition from many people.Some Manchu and Mongolian ministers said: "Those places in the west of Liaoning are all heavy cities and military fortresses. Apart from poor military households, there are wastelands on the edge. I have a lot of wastelands in the Qing Dynasty! The gains outweigh the losses. Why don't we take advantage of the main forces of the Ming Dynasty to be defeated?" Attracting in the direction of Jinzhou, my army of the Eight Banners will enter the customs in large numbers, so as to plunder more grain and wealth."

Among these people, there are almost all the Mongolian banner owners of the Eight Banners. They are the least interested in attacking strong cities. Looting more people and wealth is what everyone likes. Even the banner owners of the Two Yellow Banners, Bai Yintu and Ashan, have objections.In the war the year before last, the Qing soldiers took away more than [-] people from the pass, and countless amounts of silver and silk.It even broke through the governors and governors such as Jinan and Baoding who were stationed in Jiecheng, and made up for the loss of Dingkou and the remaining population of the Eight Banners.It also greatly enriched the urgently needed Dingkou manpower in the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, the Chongzheng Palace congratulated and talked about this year's war.Some Manchu and Mongolian banner owners repeated the old saying, but many Han officials believed that Huang Tai was very far-sighted and supported the siege strategy of Jinzhou.

Now that Chen Banda suddenly offered homemade gunpowder that was no different from Nanban gunpowder, this undoubtedly gave Huang Taiji an excellent chance to fight back.

"Come here. Carry down the gunpowder presented by Chen Banda, and hand it over to the Ba Yala soldiers and the Nanman gunpowder to launch together. Check it out!"

Huang Taiji was going to use Chen Banda's pot of gunpowder to completely shut the mouths of those Manchu and Mongolian ministers who still had some doubts about the Battle of Jinzhou!

"How do you think we should deal with the soldiers of the Jinzhou Ming Dynasty? And Zu Dashou, a guy who has repeatedly defected?"

on his throne.Huang Taiji's black and fat face remained calm.

"Your Majesty, this servant thinks that since the Ming army relies on firearms to show off its power in front of my Eight Banners army, our army should use firearms against firearms to smash the dreams of the Ming army! Seeing my Eight Banners from now on, immediately flee!"

Shuo Tuo, who recently took over as the head of the Eight Banners Manchuria Zhenghong Banner, came out of the class and started to play.

Shuo Tuo's words are very appetizing to Huang Taiji!

"Anyone who relies on the enemy must be the strongest of the enemy. It is the backbone of the enemy. The Mongolian cavalry is like this, and the firearms of the Ming Dynasty are also like this! And my Qing Dynasty. When I used the cavalry to fight against the Mongolian Lindan Khan, he was defeated. Caotan was killed and the country was destroyed. Now we have to fight against the Ming army with firearms and break the backbone they depend on! Then our Eight Banners army will charge forward with spears, halberds and cavalry. We will definitely defeat the enemy in one battle!"

Huang Taiji expressed his appreciation and praise for Shuo Tuo, a nephew, who can understand his thoughts and intentions so well.

"Shutobeile has become loyal and brave, and is eager to make contributions to my Qing Dynasty. My heart is very relieved. Add an East Pearl. Du Du."

"The slave is here!"

After returning from the Battle of Changqing, Du Du has been staying behind closed doors, swallowing his anger, and striving to be wise and protect himself.Who made his identity really embarrassing?His father was Chu Ying, the eldest son bestowed to death by Nurhachi, and Du Du himself "returned after being defeated" in the First World War in Jinan. Every time he saw the Dorgon brothers who held his deadly handle in their hands.He was always uneasy in his heart, lest one accidentally reveal his scandal.Let him die without a place to bury him.

"You manage errands in the Ministry of Rituals, and you gather people. Pass on my will, and I want to give the title of King Shuotobelega, and you must come up with a good name."

Undoubtedly, after slapping Du Du's 24 mouths, Du Du would rub his wrists for the beater!He was Heshuo Baylor during Chu Ying's administration.As the eldest son and grandson, if he is in the Central Plains regime, he is a proper heir.

Unfortunately, bad luck made things happen. First, Ama was killed by Mafa, and he didn't get any benefits from being a man with his tail between his legs for so many years. After the defeat of Jinan, his status plummeted.Although he was not deprived of his title and seized the position of banner owner, the obvious authority to speak in the banner is not even as good as Abatai of the two white banners.

What is even more outrageous is that everyone else has the official positions of Minister of the Ministry of Officials and Minister of the Ministry of Households, but he only has the name of managing the errands of the Ministry of Rites.On the side, the old thief Dai Shan, who was in charge of the entire Eight Banners vaccination, planting corngrass and other affairs, was still eyeing him, fearing that he would not die.

Hearing Huang Taiji's words, Du Du's chest and abdomen surged with qi and blood, and he almost spit out a mouthful of blood, but the situation is so compelling, if he vomits blood at this time, he will inevitably give someone a handle, if that is the case, the consequences will be disastrous.

"The dog thieves with two white flags, the dog thieves with red flags, you wait for me!"

How dare you not bow your head under the eaves?Cursing in a low voice in his heart, Du Du had to come out of work to take orders.

Everyone on the side couldn't help but come out to congratulate Shuo Tuo.

"King Shun, I ordered you to practice firecrackers, how are you doing?"

"Your Majesty, what King Shuotuo said just now is the most reasonable saying about the use of firearms! He bombarded with artillery, and I greeted him with artillery. In the same way, I will return it to him. Let's see which family collapses first!"...

Kong Youde, the Sanshun King of the Han Army, was in charge of the Wuzhenchao Ha Camp, and Huang Taiji handed over all the firearms of the Eight Banners to him, and his position at this time was far from when he first came to vote.

Hearing these words, the banner owners of the Eight Banners burst into cold sweat, but they felt relieved in a blink of an eye.In the decisive battle with the Ming army in Ningyuan and Jinzhou, it was inevitable that the Han army's firearms battalion headed by Kong Youde took the lead and used the guns to confront the Ming army's guns. At that time, the Han army would be the first to die.

All I have to do is to blast the formation of the Ming army with artillery and blunderbuss in the Wuzhenchao Ha camp, and then wave the iron cavalry and charge directly at the formation of the Ming army.

While everyone was thinking wildly, Gabush Xianga La Angbang Wubai led ten firearms soldiers in boldly.

"Report to the emperor! The servants fired the gunpowder made by Mr. Chen and the Nanban gunpowder in stock in turn to see that the shooting range, armor penetration, and the hotness of the gun barrel after firing are all the same!"

This time, the ministers of the Manchu and Mongolian relatives are even more determined!

In the past, the Ming army could still rely on their superiority in firearms, especially the powerful gunpowder, to fight against the Eight Banners army. Now we can also make our own gunpowder that is no different from theirs. Let’s see what you have to say, Kong Youde!

"Big Chen!"

"The slave is here!"

"If you manufacture this gunpowder in large quantities, how much silver taels do you need? I want you to make ten thousand stones before March, how much silver do you want?"

The production of gunpowder at this time was very expensive because of the technical process.Just take the purification of saltpeter as an example. During the purification, a large amount of gray water, gelatin, egg white, radish and other substances need to be added to absorb and remove the impurities in it, which costs a lot. There are two kinds of nitration method and nitrification field.The obtained nitrate is not only of high purity but also extremely cheap.However, Jiannu here can only follow Daming's gunpowder production method at this time.

What's more, there are sulfur, charcoal, and the most critical additive, patina.

After such a calculation, everyone frowned.If you make it yourself, it is almost less than buying it from Shanxi merchants and Ming army!

"It's strange, why does Nanman's gunpowder only cost a few taels of silver per bucket?"

Some people were dissatisfied with Chen Banda's rapid rise to popularity from a slave craftsman to Huang Taiji's coating in just a few months, and quietly shot a sniper in the crowd.

Whether it is Huang Taiji or Dorgon, they are all happy to see the open and secret struggle for power and profit between the Hanchens.If the Han people are all monolithic, what should they do?

As a result, the court began to debate whether it is better to buy gunpowder than to make it, or to build it on its own.

In the end, it was Huang Taiji who made the final decision.

"The craftsman workshop made it by itself, and the former enemy also bought it from the Ming army! Fan Aiqing, you inform several Shanxi shopkeepers to ask them to buy a large amount of Nanban gunpowder and copper green!"