Daming Military Empire

Chapter 27 Planning
How did the Ming Dynasty come to an end?Some say it was destroyed by Wanli and Tianqi, some say it was destroyed by Wei Zhongxian, some say it was destroyed by Chongzhen, and some say it was destroyed by the Donglin Party.Zhu Cijiong really doesn't know who destroyed it. It seems that Wanli and Tianqi have already died. Wei Zhongxian has also been cleaned up by him. Chongzhen has no Chongzhen anymore. He gave it to Chongzheng. It seems that Daming has not yet Signs of subjugation!

Now it seems that the Donglin Party is the root cause of Ming Dynasty's subjugation. How could this Donglin Party lead to the decline of Ming Dynasty?Zhu Cijiong really can't understand, Sun Chengzong is the leader of the Donglin Party, Han Kuang is the veteran of the Donglin Party, even Bi Maokang and Qiao Yunsheng are members of the Donglin Party, these people are models of incorruptibility, pure Role model!If all members of the Donglin Party are like this, let alone subjugation, it is impossible not to rejuvenate.

Are Donglin Party members really pure?Zhu Cijiong can understand this problem immediately.

The eunuch party was about to be exterminated, and the whole world celebrated together. The Ming Dynasty spent the Spring Festival in a joyful and peaceful atmosphere, and then entered the first year of Chongzheng (AD 1628), and the history belonging to Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong officially opened the first page.

Cao Chong was able to call an elephant at the age of six, and Gan Luo worshiped his prime minister at the age of twelve.Kong Rong was virtuous at the age of four, and Zhou Yu was dispatched at the age of seven.In the history of China, there are many child prodigies who had adult thinking in their childhood. Zhu Cijiong is now six years old. He decided not to pretend to be tender, time is not waiting for me. Better than a subjugated king.

Just after the New Year, he left Qin Mingyue's warm embrace and embarked on the road to revitalize Daming.

The first thing he did was to build a military factory. Of course, this military factory was not an ancient military factory that produced swords, but a quasi-modern military factory that produced guns, or a modern military factory.

It is no problem to do some small experiments in the palace and get a drill press model. It is impossible to produce a complete set of weapons. Therefore, the first step in establishing a military industrial system is to build a quasi-modern military factory.

To build a factory, first of all, of course, is to choose a location. Zhu Cijiong has actually already selected the location, which is Wang Gong's factory.

Chapter 1 of the first volume mentioned the apocalypse big bang: at the sixth day of the fifth month of the sixth year of the apocalypse, a bizarre big explosion occurred in the area near the gunpowder depot of Wanggong Factory in the southwestern corner of Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Why use bizarre to describe this big bang?Let's not talk about "the dead and wounded are naked", and don't talk about the "five-thousand-jin stone lion flying several miles away".The most bizarre thing is that from Shunchengmen Street in the east to Xingbu Street in the north in the capital city, the surrounding three or four miles are full of ashes, but the Wanggong factory in the center of the explosion "does not burn an inch of wood, and there is no trace of burning." .That is to say, there is nothing wrong with the Wang Gong factory in the center of the explosion, not even a trace of smoke.

The Wang Gong factory was originally the place where the Ministry of Industry produced gunpowder. The military factory was built here, and the money for producing and transporting gunpowder was saved.Besides, everything within three or four miles around was turned into ashes, and because the residents of the capital were afraid of another big explosion there, the surrounding area of ​​Wanggong Factory was always empty, and even the demolition was avoided.

It is almost impossible to find an open space of several square kilometers in the bustling capital city, and it is inconvenient for the arsenal to be built outside the city, so Zhu Cijiong decided to use Wang Gong's factory.

Zhu Cijiong, the person in charge of the military factory, has also been found, and that is Song Yingxing, the doctor of the Ministry of Industry's Ministry of Construction and Cleaning.

As mentioned earlier, this Song Yingxing is just a juren. In the Ming Dynasty, it was already the limit for a juren to be a high-ranking official of the fifth rank.There are still many Jinshi who are only at the sixth or seventh rank. If you want to raise a person to the fourth rank, then really don’t even mention this topic, because if you bring it up, you will be drowned in saliva.

This position can no longer be promoted, which means that Song Yingxing's position has been fixed, and it will be like this for the rest of his life.Such a stable person, probably only this one, happened to be in charge of the construction of the military factory, and he could be in charge from the beginning to the end. Zhu Cijiong was really worried about handing it over to someone else.

So Zhu Cijiong issued an imperial edict ordering Song Yingxing to move the office of the Ministry of Industry and Cleaning up officials to Wanggong Factory. The meter-high wall encloses a radius of three or four miles.Then, he summoned Xu Guangqi and other cronies together to start planning the layout of the factory.

Zhu Cijiong was a process engineer in a large military factory in his previous life, so he naturally knew what workshops a military factory should have.The problem is the previous life. The level of technology and production mode are completely different from those of the Ming Dynasty. If he really copied the layout of the military factory from the previous life, then he would be out of his mind.

So how should this layout be planned?In fact, it is not complicated. First of all, the roads in the factory area. The length and width of the Xinjun Factory are three or four miles. Zhu Cijiong simply drew it in the style of a nine-square grid. The block is Wang Gong Factory.

The accommodation and food of the craftsmen must not be less. There were no buses in the Ming Dynasty. If the craftsmen were allowed to stay at home, the time of the day would be basically consumed on the way to and from get off work. This living area must occupy a piece.

We should also pay attention to the issue of security, simply let Qin Gongming bring a thousand elite soldiers from the Shenji Battalion to guard, and this army garrison area occupies another area.

There should also be a special place for experiments. All the products produced here are guns, so they can't be interviewed in the factory building. This experiment area occupies another area.

The production of weapons first requires materials, such as small blast furnaces for steelmaking. Of course, a small blast furnace does not occupy much land, but after the scale is increased, a small blast furnace is definitely not enough, and this material area occupies another area.

The weapons produced cannot be delivered to the army immediately, there must be a storage place, and this warehouse occupies another piece.

When processing metal products, it is not said that it is a bed at the beginning. It must first have a rough shape before processing. Directly using molten iron and molten steel to make things is a job that can only be done by gods. Ordinary people usually first cast a rough shape when processing things. , and then go to process, this sand casting takes up another piece.

In the Ming Dynasty, guns were mainly manufactured by hand forging, and many parts with irregular shapes could not be processed on machine tools, so manual forging took up another part.

In the end, there was only one piece left. Don’t think about it, there is no room for the machine tool. This last piece is naturally a quasi-modern machine tool processing workshop.

After all, Zhu Cijiong is not a real reincarnation of the gods, and it is impossible to understand everything. If he really understands, it is small blast furnace steelmaking and quasi-modern machine tool processing workshops. He is not as good as Xu Guangqi and Song Yingxing in other sand casting, manual forging, and gunpowder production. They know a lot, and he doesn't know anything about other accommodation, food, and garrison.

Therefore, he can't plan everything in this military factory by himself, and all his cronies must also participate.A military factory covering an area of ​​several square kilometers cannot be planned in a day or two, and everyone is not in a hurry. After all, the wall that is more than ten miles long cannot be built in a day or two.

Everyone expressed their opinions on the sketches, and the planning plan gradually became perfect, and formal architectural drawings were gradually released.

With the gradual improvement of the plan, Zhu Cijiong became more and more excited. The military industry system of the Ming Dynasty is about to take the most critical step. If this step is taken, there is hope for the revival of the Ming Dynasty.

Is this step really that easy to take?

(End of this chapter)