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None of them knew that the one designed by Pan Yaming was also designed by someone in the original history, but it was in the 19th century. It was invented by a famous British mechanic named Whitworth.

At the beginning, his idea was to use this hexagonal technology to cast cannons. What he proposed was actually the principle of polygon rotation, but due to technical reasons, it couldn't be done and could only be done with hexagons. However, his suggestion was rejected by the British military, and the gun was used instead.

As a result, during the Civil War, Confederate sharpshooters used this "Whitworth rifle" equipped with a polygonal barrel and achieved great success on the battlefield. He even killed General John Sedgwick, the top general of the Northern Army who was killed in the war, with one shot from a distance of 910 meters. What’s a little funny is that the general saw the sniper at that time, but he didn’t care. He also said this classic saying to his men: “They can’t even hit an elephant from such a long distance.”

This gun, in its original history, was defined by later generations as the earliest true sniper rifle.

The corresponding artillery piece is naturally a hexagonal artillery piece. The representative of this kind of artillery was originally the seventy-pound Whitworth naval gun, which adopted Whitworth's unique hexagonal barrel and front-loading design, with a caliber of 5.5 inches ( 140 mm), the ultimate range is more than 2,700 meters.

Of course, in this dimension, Pan Yaming can be said to have invented this musket and artillery by accident. The experimental results and data were immediately reported to the emperor in the capital through the Jin Yiwei in Hoi An and through the chat group.

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be very happy when he heard the news, and immediately issued an order to commend him. Coming from a later generation, he knew far better than the average person how effective such a high-precision artillery gun could be. You know, there is a game called CS in later generations. If there is a powerful sniper, the battlefield can be completely one-sided.

In naval battles, if there are such high-precision artillery, it will make the enemy even more desperate! With this hexagonal artillery, Emperor Chongzhen would be more confident in the future decisive battle in Nanyang.

But it is a pity that this hexagonal gun is not easy to make, just like the previous rifled gun. But it's good to have improvements, and he doesn't really care. Of course, this kind of firearms must be strictly controlled, especially hexagonal guns. It is not good to make too many of them. They can be used by special forces, snipers and other arms.

From this incident, Emperor Chongzhen also saw a fact. It’s just that I am not omnipotent.

For him, it was the breech-loading cannon that mattered. Therefore, what he told the Capital Military Affairs Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau were mainly studying breech-loaded artillery and muskets. For example, the Fran machine gun is an artillery that uses a mother-and-child blunderbuss method, and can be regarded as a breech-loaded artillery. In terms of rate of fire, it has an advantage that muzzleloader guns cannot match.

On the capital side, because of Emperor Chongzhen's personal guidance, no one thought about or solved the problem from other aspects. But far away in Hoi An, technology has been invented that goes further than what is currently available. Although this technology seems to be progressing, it has not changed much. This hexagonal gun is also a type of rifled gun. But, at least it's progress.

With this in mind, Emperor Chongzhen felt that it was necessary to increase research funding so that research institutes in various places could carry out research and development based on actual conditions.

After he gave instructions on the matter, he stopped worrying about it. After all, these are just details. Now he is preparing to leave Beijing.

However, this trip to the capital was not a private visit in disguise, but a serious tour under the emperor's guard of honor.

Hai Lanzhu and Tian Guifei are pregnant and cannot follow them out. The queen originally didn't want to come, saying that she needed to be in charge of the harem, but she was called out by Emperor Chongzhen anyway. Why should someone of Hua's age, who is only in his twenties, be so rigid? Do you want to die in the palace without going out for a walk?

Logically speaking, if the emperor and queen go out together, the scene will be big. But Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to disturb the people, so he kept everything simple. Even so, there were still a thousand people.

After leaving the capital, Emperor Chongzhen took the empress, who couldn't help but be happy, to inspect the railway being laid from Tongzhou to the capital. Minister of Transportation Liu Mao personally accompanied him to introduce the relevant situation. Although there are usually reports, this is an on-the-spot introduction, which is still different.

"Your Majesty, as your Majesty said, the first rail track laying is mainly to gain experience. In addition, winter has just passed, so only about half of it has been laid."

"The rails are sufficient, but there was an incident of rail theft, and Wei Chen has already dealt with it!"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen frowned slightly, turned to look at him and asked: "How to deal with it?"

Theft of rail tracks is a serious matter and must be dealt with seriously. Otherwise, if there are still people who follow my example, if there are too many railway guerrillas, the trains will not be able to run.

"Even sitting there, his family members were also imprisoned for public display." Liu Mao responded quickly.

The Baojia Law implemented in the early years of Chongzhen included consecutive punishments. In other words, in this era, many relatively serious crimes required consecutive sentences.

Emperor Chongzhen was not soft-hearted and nodded: "Let's send him to the new province, where many people are needed."

The Tianshan Mountains will be the bridgehead for the Ming Dynasty to advance westward. There are still too few Han people in the area and they must be enriched.

In fact, it’s not just New Province, but also several other places. Therefore, there are now very few prisoners in Daming Pass. Except for a few capital crimes, most of them have been exiled to these peripheral provinces. Many large prisons are empty, and even rats can hold conferences.

Through Liu Mao's introduction, I learned that the railway from Tongzhou to Beijing is not expected to be officially opened until the autumn. Now that it was not well, there was nothing to see, so Emperor Chongzhen took the queen to the next stop: Tongzhou Shipyard.

The construction of steamships is also one of the most important projects of the Ming Dynasty. It was reported before that an accident occurred here, so Emperor Chongzhen came over for inspection this time when he was out of Beijing.

There was a wooden steamship that accidentally caused a fire during testing. The person is fine, even if he jumped into the river, he will survive. But the boat was lost and burned on the Tongzhou River.

When Emperor Chongzhen came this time, he did not blame them, but encouraged them to find ways to solve the difficulties they encountered. There is no problem in crossing the river by feeling for stones, but the same mistake is not allowed to be made again.

Today, Tongzhou Shipyard is focusing on iron-clad wood steamships and minimizing the resonance of propellers, and has made great progress. The research and development direction is to build the ship in a large direction and in a full-rail direction.

When Emperor Chongzhen watched the steamship "chugging" on the Tongzhou River, it was nothing. However, it was the first time for Queen Zhou to leave the palace since she got married. Everything she saw was new, not to mention a steamer that she had never seen before, a windless self-propelled ship.

She knew that all of this was the application of scientific and technological knowledge and was made under the guidance of Emperor Chongzhen. From this, in her heart, she became even more determined to supervise her son, the prince, to learn scientific and technical knowledge, and strive to make his son an emperor like the emperor!

After inspecting the Tongzhou Shipyard, Emperor Chongzhen went directly to the destination of his trip to the capital, Yongping Mansion in the capital.

At the beginning of the third year of Chongzhen's reign, the Jianlu invaders invaded the capital. Before leaving, they robbed all the young men and women in Yongping Mansion, abandoned the old and the weak, and burned down Yongping Mansion. Five years have passed now, and Yongping Mansion has recovered well. Emperor Chongzhen and his queen came to inspect it in person, which also reflects the emperor's concern for his people.

This time, naturally there was news in advance. When the emperor and empress were approaching Yongping Mansion, almost all the Yongping people rushed out of Yongping Mansion and, led by local officials, went out of the city to greet them.

If it were in other places, people might complain about the emperor's influence on their lives. However, in Yongping Mansion, not only did everyone come out of the city, but no one complained. There is no other reason. Yongping Mansion is more favored by the emperor than any other place.

I remember back then, the ruthless Jianlu used a poisonous trick to burn down the Yongping Mansion, leaving only the old and the weak. At that time, the old and the weak in Yongping Mansion were all desperate, and no one thought they could survive.

However, what he didn't expect was that Emperor Chongzhen immediately issued an order to Guan Ning's army and came to rescue people with military rations. Not only that, he also ordered the capital to implement food control, using unprecedented means to forcefully requisition all food for unified management, issue food stamps, and limit the amount of food per person per day, thereby squeezing out food to rescue the elderly and weak in Yongping Prefecture. .

It’s not that no one has advised the emperor, and it’s not that no one has discussed it. Those people in Yongping Mansion are all old and weak. So what if they are saved? How much benefit can they bring to Ming Dynasty? It is not worthwhile for the emperor to go to such great lengths to rescue him!

However, Emperor Chongzhen did it without hesitation. Not only did he send food to Yongping Mansion, he also issued an order to the people of the capital, ordering the princes and nobles of the capital to take the lead in donating warm clothing. Not only that, under the conditions of tight supplies at that time, the emperor also ordered the reconstruction of Yongping Mansion and built houses with cement. It was due to the emperor's efforts that most of the old and weak people in Yongping Mansion survived after experiencing the grief of family destruction and death.

People's hearts are made of flesh, and the emperor of a country treats the old and the weak like this, which shows the emperor's benevolence and kindness. Therefore, when it comes to the respect that people all over the world have for the emperor, Yongping Mansion is the most respectful!

After the people here recovered, in order to commemorate the kindness of those most difficult years, they collected food stamps from that year as a souvenir. So much so that later on, food stamps turned out to be more expensive than banknotes. By now, the market is already in a situation where prices are high but there is no market. In other words, it is hard to buy even if you have money.

By the way, as the credibility of banknotes has stabilized, more and more people have collected the defective first edition banknotes released that year. Just like food stamps, much higher than ordinary banknotes. It is rare to see anyone selling it on the market today.

When the people of Yongping Prefecture saw the imperial chariot coming from a distance, they all knelt down without any greeting from the local magistrate of Yongping Prefecture. They shouted in unison, waiting for the emperor's arrival: "Long live my emperor, long live my emperor!" Long live!"

There has never been a place where people treated their emperor with such piety. This can be seen from the speed of achievement value acquisition in the chat group system. Emperor Chongzhen just showed his presence, and before he said a word, he heard the system prompts ringing continuously.

"Your Majesty, the people of Yongping Mansion are so enthusiastic!" Even Queen Zhou felt this and said happily. The people of the Ming Dynasty loved the emperor so much. As a queen, she was naturally honored!

Emperor Chongzhen nodded after hearing this and said with some emotion: "The common people are actually the most simple. If you are good to them, they will be good to you. I am their emperor, and I care about them, so they are grateful to me. This is so deplorable." It’s not flattery!”

There were some words he didn't say, because in this plane, there was no need to say them. In the original history, if the court and government could care about the life and death of the people, basically no one would rise up in rebellion unless they were desperate.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen came from a later generation and had different values ​​from people of this era. Therefore, the capital area had just been destroyed by the invaders, and supplies were in short supply. But even so, Emperor Chongzhen overcame various difficulties and insisted on his own methods. He even referred to the practices of later generations in difficult times and even issued food stamps. In the end, he saved as many people as possible to the greatest extent possible.

At that time, according to reports from Guan Ningjun and the factory guards afterwards, there were already White Lotus cultists out to deceive people.

Jianlu's move before he left was not without its cruelty, but Ming Dynasty survived. Later, Emperor Chongzhen used the same method to retaliate. He took advantage of the urgent shortage of supplies in Liaodong and continued to launch attacks, making a fuss about food. In the end, Man Qingkong had a full combat power, but he was unable to fully defeat it. If played out, it can be regarded as a classic battle to destroy the country.

"Only a saint like Your Majesty can be so loved by the people!" Queen Zhou said with emotion after hearing this, "Only when you leave the palace can you truly feel this!"

She said this, and at the same time, she kept it in her heart that she would teach the prince well when she went back, and make sure that he learns from his father.

At this time, because her son finally got the crown prince, it can be said that most of her thoughts were spent on the prince. In any case, she never thought that this prince would most likely be just like the first prince of the Ming Dynasty, and he would only be a prince for the rest of his life.

The two of them talked and drove forward, finally arriving in front of the crowd.

Emperor Chongzhen glanced at the dense crowd of heads, stretched out his hand and said loudly: "I have been thinking about Yongping Mansion, and today I finally have time to come and take a look. I will only feel relieved if I see you all well with my own eyes!"

Not even one out of ten of the young men and women who were kidnapped by the rebels returned to their hometowns. But five years have passed, and most of the children back then have grown into young men. At this glance, he was finally no longer just old and weak.