The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 500 Seven Times the Power of Black Powder
Zhu Linmi was almost amused by this memorial - Mu Zhiqing colluded with Qi Li'an?Also embezzling silver taels? !

One must know that Zhiqing is now his unmarried concubine.Even if she took a step back and said that if she really wanted to collude with the courtiers, she only needed to hook her fingers, and the cabinet and six ministers would definitely rush to her door to give money.This Li Congtai actually said that she colluded with a small official from the Ministry of Industry from the eighth rank...

Besides, this greedy Mo Gongyin.The Mu family has been a chieftain of Lijiang for hundreds of years, and the gold and silver piled up like mountains in the family. During the Shadingzhou rebellion, people just swiped and pulled, and the grain and grass worth 10,000+ taels were given to Mu Tianbo for nothing.This time Zhiqing came to Jiangnan to see him, even though she left in a hurry, she brought nearly ten thousand taels of "pocket money".Can such a "local tyrant" take a fancy to the little money from the Zhoushan Xiu Cannery?

Simply hilarious!
Zhu Linming then wrote an order at the back of the memorial: the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Punishments thoroughly investigated Li Congtai, the prefect of Ningbo.

He also thought that Li Congtai was in Ningbo, but he cared so much about Zhoushan Island across the sea, which meant that Zhoushan must still have his henchmen.So I added a pen and added: In addition, Li Dang in Zhoushan was also investigated.

In the end, he took out another piece of paper and wrote a secret letter to Zheng Guangying, Jinyiwei Nanzhen, asking him to send someone to find out the bottom of Ningbo Mansion first.

Putting the matter of Zhoushan aside, Zhu Linming picked up another memorial, but it was presented by King Yongning. After a big circle in front of her, she coyly said that she wanted to come to filial piety. Ling took a look.

In the Ming Dynasty, feudal lords were forbidden to leave their fiefs. Last year, because of the war in Jiangxi, Zhu Youmao had to make an exception and led the guards to go out.When Jiangxi was pacified, he still had to stay in Jianchang peacefully.

He then looked at the cabinet draft attached to the memorial, and it turned out that the suggestion was inaccurate.

In the ensuing memorial, nearly ten clans, including King Han of Eshan, King Hui of Jingzhou, King Changyang of Guangzhou, King Yi, King Huai, and King Changsha, made petitions to come to Nanzhili to "look far at the Xiaoling Mausoleum." .

Probably they got the news of Hong Chengchou's "begging to surrender" and believed that Nanzhili had been stabilized.However, in accordance with the ancestral system, the cabinet voted unanimously to "disagree" to these requests.

In fact, Zhu Linming can still understand these vassal kings very well.After all, people in the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to ancestral tombs, let alone the significant Dragon Veins of the Ming Dynasty.This Xiaoling Mausoleum has been in the hands of Jianlu for more than a year. As a descendant, it is understandable to want to take a look at it from a distance.

As for worrying about the vassal king leaving the fief and causing chaos, he was not worried at all.

Could it be said that apart from King Yongning, among these vassal kings, they didn't even have any decent soldiers.Even if they have an army, no one is willing to take the burden of making them emperors in the face of the covetous Jianlu.Everyone still remembers the fact that Lu Wang Zhu Changhao was captured by the Qing army after he had just been in charge of the country for three months.

Are the kings meeting?He suddenly had an interesting idea, maybe he could use this opportunity to do some practical things.Thinking of this, he couldn't help smiling, ignored the cabinet's opinions, and agreed to the feudal king's request to come to Nanjing, and ordered troops from all over the country to escort them along the way.

As soon as he put down the pen, he heard a loud noise not far away, which made his eardrums hurt, and the broken tiles on the top of his head were like rain.

Zhu Lin stood up abruptly. Recently, Yao Qisheng and others had been testing the nitrocellulose, and there were occasional noises, but this time it was obviously different, and the noise was several times louder than before.

He hurried to the test explosion site which was only one mile away from his "temporary office".

Behind the bunker next to the test explosion point, Yao Qisheng's face was dusty, and when he saw His Royal Highness coming down, he immediately shouted proudly: "Your Highness, it's done! It's done!"

Zhu Linmi was also overjoyed when she heard the words.During this period of time, he successively designed drying barrels to prevent "over-nitration", and transferred dozens of meat grinders from Suji Zhenpin Co., Ltd. to crush cotton, and finally produced qualified nitrocellulose.

But then I encountered the problem of the humidity of the nitrocellulose-it would explode if it was too dry, and it would not ignite if it was too wet.After seven or eight days of trial and error, two craftsmen were seriously injured.

And the simple word "become" just now finally declared that Daming possessed a suitable explosive.

Zhu Linmei looked around in relief, "Everyone has worked hard!" Then he asked Yao Qisheng, "How much nitrocellulose is produced now?"

"Returning to Your Highness, there are more than 80 catties in total." The latter added, "However, two hundred catties of fuming nitric acid have been prepared, and more than one hundred catties of rags have been prepared."

Zhu Linmei nodded and said: "Okay, step up the nitration immediately. The prepared ones are mixed with wine and water according to the ratio just tested. After making [-] catties of nitrocellulose, come and report to me. The capture of Nanjing City is in one fell swoop. Already!"

He remembered that the power of TNT was seven times that of black powder, and nitrocellulose was only stronger than TNT, and there was already a small hole at the foot of the Nanjing city wall on the east side, so three hundred catties of nitrocellulose should be more than enough to blow up the city wall.

Yao Qisheng solemnly cupped his hands and said, "Students promise that the work will be completed within three days!"

The most troublesome part of making nitrocellulose is the preparation of raw materials. As long as the cotton and nitric acid are done, the nitration process only takes ten to twenty minutes.

Zhu Linmi looked at the Shogunate Mountain camp in the distance again. He had spent thirteen days in this "explosives laboratory", and now he could finally go back with peace of mind.He then ordered Shi Lin: "Send someone to notify the generals to discuss matters in my tent."

"Yes!"

Three days later.

child time.

Nanjing City Head.

A Qing army patrol quickly walked across the city holding torches.The leading officer turned his head and saw more than a dozen dozing soldiers not far away, and immediately rushed up, kicked each of them hard, and shouted: "Get out of my mother's mouth! If you dare to be lazy Throw you all out of town!"

"Yes, yes, General, spare your life."

The guards stood up tremblingly, begging for mercy.When the officer walked away, several people whispered to each other.

"In half a month, the city will be surrendered, so what a fart!"

"That's right, didn't we all agree with the Ming army to avoid war this month? You can't even close your eyes..."

"Hey, tell me, is this news reliable?"

"Of course it's true. The rubbings of Master Hong's handwriting have spread to the city. I saw it a few days ago."

After a moment of silence, another humane voice said, "Brothers, what shall we do after the Ming army enters the city?"

"Haven't you heard? As long as our Han soldiers put down their weapons, they will all be sent back to their original places, and the past will not be blamed."

"Well, that's good... To be honest, if the official hadn't surrendered, who the hell would be willing to sacrifice his life for the Tartars?"

"That's not right! As soon as the city gate opens, I will go to greet the army..."

How did Hong Chengchou expect that the current assistant king of the Ming Dynasty is not a "gentleman".How could he hide the "good thing" of Jianlu begging for surrender, so he ordered people to expand Hong Chengchou's surrender watch and brought it into Nanjing on the same day, and began to "publicize it".

Hong Chengchou "had a ghost in his heart", so even if he heard the rumors were spreading, he could not refute them openly, for fear that the Ming army would find out that his strategy of slowing down the army would be ruined, and the morale of the Qing army would fall to the bottom later.

　Today is the 87th anniversary of the September [-]th Incident. When I heard the air defense sirens, my heart was filled with emotion.If you fall behind, you will be beaten.The martyrs' efforts to catch up and sacrifice their lives have made our current peaceful and prosperous life possible.Today is not only for us to recall the shame of the past, remembering the lost compatriots, but also for us to remember that only self-improvement can revitalize China, and only then can the historical September [-]th Incident never happen again!
　　
　
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