Daming Military Empire

Chapter 86 The Emperor is Busy
Zhu Cijiong is very busy now. Since the end of the new year, he has started to plan the great cause of Zhongxing in Ming Dynasty, from the appointment of court officials to the technological process of the production of new flintlock guns at Wang Gong Factory. Work hard.

There is no way, what he wants to build is a quasi-modern military power, and none of the ministers in the DPRK and China have any experience in this regard, not to mention the modern military industry system, they don't even know about simple business operations, or even factory management.In the words of modern people, they all graduated from college at home and are full of agricultural thoughts. Only Zhu Cijiong graduated from a regular university and has a certain understanding of modern military industry knowledge, so he has to participate in everything, otherwise they are very likely to It's beyond recognition.

Of course, to turn a country from weakness to prosperity, it is not enough to have thoughts alone, but also to take actions. Zhu Cijiong alone is not enough. Everyone in the court must mobilize and work together to realize this great dream.

To make all the ministers work together, he, the emperor, would naturally set an example. Therefore, the morning court every day was unavoidable, no matter whether it was cold or windy, he had to persist.

He is now used to getting up at four o'clock in the morning, and he no longer keeps silent when he goes to court. He is usually the one who answers the questions raised by the ministers, and Zhu Youjian has become a boring gourd instead.

Many people speculate that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian is a person with a strong desire for power. In fact, this guess has no basis at all. During the Tianqi Dynasty, he was honestly his king of faith and stayed in the Tenth Palace all day. What's the matter? It doesn't matter, if he had a strong desire for power, would he be so honest?He was also forced in the back, Emperor Apocalypse died, and he was the only one left in the orthodox blood of the royal family.As for his subsequent administration methods, it can only be said that he is a bit paranoid and has nothing to do with the desire for power. If he hadn't been forced to helplessness, who would want to be the king of subjugation!
Okay, enough gossip, let’s get down to business.Zhu Youjian is actually a very serious and responsible person. He has never delayed such cumbersome things as reviewing memorials. No matter how many memorials there are in a day, he will finish reviewing them on the same day without procrastination.This also relieved Zhu Cijiong a lot, at least he didn't have to worry about reviewing memorials, which was the heaviest task, and he could save a lot of time to do other things.

Like now, he is obsessed with fitness. Of course, this fitness should be called martial arts in the Ming Dynasty. Ever since he saw Qin Mingyue's peerless swordsmanship, he has become obsessed with martial arts.After returning to the palace, he even stalked Qin Mingyue to teach him martial arts. It happened that Zheng Sen was also a martial arts enthusiast. I had to agree.

Different from Wudang and Shaolin, Emei's basic exercises are not standing on horseback or meditating, but moving piles, which are the so-called "twelve piles of moving skills": heaven, earth, tree, heart, dragon, crane, wind, cloud, Big, small, secluded, dark, supplemented by Emei's inner strength mental method, walking back and forth on wooden or stone piles, can practice inner strength.Therefore, the martial arts of the Emei School are sensitive and delicate, combining hardness and softness, all of which are practiced on moving piles.

Qin Mingyue can be said to be a rare martial arts prodigy in a hundred years, so she is very strong in martial arts at a young age. Even Cao Huachun may not be her opponent. It is estimated that the two brothers Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming combined cannot beat her.It is also a rare encounter for martial arts practitioners to have this kind of expert teaching, but our little emperor is really not a material for martial arts training. A simple plum blossom pile has been practiced for nearly a month. Su, even the younger brother Zheng Sen is better than him, at least he won't fall down.

In Qin Mingyue's words, with Zheng Sen's aptitude, he could achieve a small success after ten years of hard work. As for the emperor, after two or thirty years of practice, he might be able to reach the current level of brothers Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming.

Fortunately, Zhu Cijiong does not want to become a master who can catch bullets like Dongfang Bubai. He just wants to strengthen his body and prolong his life. Ming Dynasty will not become an empire on which the sun never sets in 20 years. This decades is impossible to achieve, Zhu Cijiong doesn't want to hang up and sing again: I really want to live another 500 years!
After the morning training, Zhu Cijiong will be busy with business again. The most important thing right now is to increase the production of flintlock guns. After Zhu Cijiong taught a series of methods to improve production and quality, he personally took the lead in manufacturing each part of the flintlock gun. The craftsmanship has been improved a lot, and a lot of special machine tools have been added, and finally the output of flintlock guns has been increased to about [-] per month.

He promised Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting that he would send them [-] flintlock guns every month. The Tianxiong Army and the Qin Army would each be equipped with [-] flintlock guns before going to suppress the thieves.In the past, only [-] guns could be produced in a month, and when the Tianxiong Army and the Qin Army completed the equipment, this year would basically pass; now, [-] guns are produced per month, and the two armies can form combat power within half a year.

Zhu Cijiong did not fail in the construction of the military factory. In terms of land acquisition and demolition, he not only compensated the residents with double the silver, but also converted all the mansions of the eunuchs into residential houses, and bought them at a low price to the residents who were demolished. It is tantamount to giving them the money for a new house and another house for nothing, and they only need to move.

The residents near Wang Gong's factory were naturally overjoyed and actively cooperated with Jinyiwei's work. The demolition involving nearly one-eighth of the size of the inner city was completed in less than a month. The high efficiency of the work really exceeded Zhu Cijiong's expectations.

Now Zhu Cijiong is summoning Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang to discuss the planning of the new military factory, and the general plan has almost been finalized.

First of all, we need to build a large-scale foundry foundry. Gun barrels, bases, shells, grenades, and mines must be foundry first. The original foundry is not enough at all, and the space is not big enough. It is impossible to cast the barrel and base of hundreds of kilograms at all.

Then there is a large-scale machining workshop to be built. The gun barrel is a few meters long, and it cannot be processed by small machine tools at all. It must be processed by enlarged and reinforced large machine tools.

There are still things weighing hundreds of catties that need lifting equipment. It is unrealistic for people to lift them. Zhu Cijiong knows a lot of lifting equipment, such as forklifts, aerial cranes, electric hoists, cranes, etc. , but Ming Dynasty doesn’t have to buy it right now!

After much deliberation, I can only make chain hoists by myself. He knows the general principle, that is, two sprockets are put together, the big one is pulled by hand, and the small one is used for lifting, using the principle of leverage to lift heavy objects. A brake device prevents heavy objects from sliding down.This thing is complicated for people in the Ming Dynasty. Fortunately, the pulley was used by people in the Spring and Autumn Period. This hoist is actually a pulley block with long teeth. It is not very difficult to explain to them, but it is complicated to process. .

Such a small thing was disassembled, disassembled and reworked, and it took Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang more than a month to make it. This is a simplified version, which can only lift a few hundred catties. It can't be pulled after being hung thousands of times, and many parts inside are deformed.This is mainly a matter of material. There are no high-quality alloys in the Ming Dynasty. The hardest is high-carbon steel after quenching. High-quality alloys cannot be made in a short time. Even if you know the formula, it's useless. Ming Dynasty's industrial level can't make it at all.Now it can only be used to make do with it, a few hundred catties will be a few hundred catties, and at worst a few gourds will be used to lift it, which is more reliable than people lifting it.

In addition, it is necessary to increase the number of small blast furnaces for steelmaking, add some machine tools, and build new accommodation for workers, etc. All of these have come up with a rough plan.

Zhu Cijiong can only grasp the general direction now, and the specific details can only be perfected by Xu Guangqi and the others. He has to consider all the details, and 240 hours a day is not enough.

(End of this chapter)