Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Which of the five mobile arms dealers in the later generations is not a good one? It doesn't matter if you have money or not. Mine, land, everything can bring a lot of profits?Not easy to transport?no problem!The five gangsters even repaired the road for you!

Of course, after the road is repaired, there will be taxes and tolls, so naturally the five hooligans should collect it for a few years, right?Or do you really think that the five hooligans are philanthropists?

Zhang Yingxuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, was very unhappy, and immediately bowed and said, "Your Majesty Qizuo, there are still some guards in our Ming Dynasty that have not been updated with the latest equipment. What if we supply the barbarians first?"

Emperor Chongzhen let out a hey and said, "Naturally, the barbarians will be supplied first. Except for the frontier troops in our Daming's guard, it doesn't matter if the replacement of weapons is slower.

It is a newly developed weapon, those with uncertain performance can be thrown to the barbarians to use first, and see how the effect is before deciding whether to equip a large number of them to my Daming's guards. "

Zhang Yingxuan was still unhappy.

Of course, Zhang Yingxuan knew the routine mentioned by Emperor Chongzhen—those guys in the Royal Academy would kill or bury all kinds of new weapons. The Beijing camp and the new army went to try it out.

After the Beijing Camp and the New Army tried it out for a period of time and reported back the advantages and disadvantages, they would improve accordingly, and then throw it to the Ministry of Industry for headaches, and then repeat the process.

The result of this tossing is that the weapons used by the frontier army are relatively stable, and the weapons used by the internal guards are relatively backward, while the Beijing camp and the new army are constantly trying out new weapons while maintaining their combat effectiveness.

The most troublesome part of the whole chain is the Ministry of Industry.

Taking firecrackers as an example, the appearance of the steam engine made it possible to drill and bore stably and quickly. It is no longer a problem to manufacture standard barrels in large quantities, and the quality is guaranteed.

But those scumbags of the Royal Academy think that the large barrel will bring more damage?

After brainstorming, design, production, trial, throw it to the Ministry of Industry to mass-produce some, then let Beijing Yingying try it out, and then look at the feedback from Beijing Yingying, the whole chain came out like this.

The Ministry of Industry had to continue to make new drilling and boring machines according to the design requirements of the Royal Academy, and then began to toss—under such circumstances, the production of the Chongzhen Thirteen-Type Fire Gun could not be delayed!

It's okay to do it once or twice, but if it's often done like this, the general supervisor will naturally complain about it, and then go to the Ministry of Industry to complain, and the Ministry of Industry is also in pain, and Zhang Yingxuan is also a big headache.

Now Emperor Chongzhen simply throws the trial pot on the barbarians, the Beijing camp and the new army are the ones who are relaxed, and the workload of the Ministry of Industry has not been reduced at all, but is constantly increasing. In this case, Zhang Yingxuan can only be happy Strange.

Emperor Chongzhen simply turned his attention to Jin Xuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War: "Why don't we set up another department under the Ministry of War to be responsible for the production of these firearms, and set up another guard for trial use?"

Jin Xuan didn't have any extra nonsense, and responded with a straight face: "Yes, I will set up another arsenal to be responsible for the manufacture of firearms, and specially dispatch people to establish an ordnance department to be in charge of testing matters."

Jin Xuan has long wanted to take over the production of firearms from the Ministry of Industry into his own hands, but there has never been a suitable opportunity. Now that Zhang Yingxuan intends to throw the blame, and Emperor Chongzhen also intends to let the Ministry of War be responsible, Jin Xuan's heart has long been filled with joy. .

It's just that although this kind of thing is easy to say, if you want to really realize it, it can't be done in a while, you can only do it slowly.

Especially the problem of manpower is enough for the arsenal to be a headache - the Ordnance Department is easy to handle, as long as it just pulls a guard over, this matter can be solved by Zhang Zhiji.

But what the arsenal needs are experienced masters. If they want to train themselves from scratch, it will take more than a day or two, or even a year or two.

After thinking for a while, Jin Xuan simply put his idea on the general supervisor: "Your Majesty, the arsenal is responsible for making trial firearms and mass-producing them. It can't be done without experienced masters. The general supervisor, Can some people be transferred here?"

Without waiting for Emperor Chongzhen to answer, Zhang Yingxuan hastily said: "Your Majesty, the task of being a general prisoner is already heavy, how can we spare manpower for the Ministry of War?

However, because they are all serving His Majesty and serving His Majesty, I am willing to transfer five experienced masters from the general supervisor to the Ministry of War. "

Jin Xuan sneered and said, "Why don't you say that you don't transfer any of them? Why don't you let the Ministry of War get it from scratch?"

Zhang Yingxuan said: "I didn't think about it at first! Take a look at how many things the general prisoner needs to deal with?"

Emperor Chongzhen also had a big headache: "Let's do this. The Military Weapons Bureau, Bingzhan Bureau, and Gunpowder Bureau are all split in half and then expanded. Part of it is still included in the Inner Supervisor and Shaofu, and the other part is included in the Ministry of War. As for the Prisoner, don’t move for now.”

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen had long intended to subdivide these messy institutions, but he hadn't figured out how to plan it, and it didn't take a while to do it.

Now, taking this opportunity, it can be regarded as the first step of splitting.

The staring Jin Xuan and Zhang Yingxuan were roughly appeased, and the headache-ridden Emperor Chongzhen ran directly to the Royal Academy.

The Royal Academy, tens of miles south of the capital, has a higher level of secrecy than the Cabinet and the Eighth Ministry, and its defense level is no less than that of the Imperial Palace.

If someone can prepare enough explosives and detonate them on the site of the Royal Academy, it can be said bluntly that the development of the entire Ming Dynasty will stagnate for decades, and even go backwards to a certain extent.

Of course, if such a situation really happened, it is not easy to say what the Chongzhen Emperor would do under the rage.

Because Emperor Chongzhen regarded the Royal Academy as much more important than the imperial palace—even if the imperial palace in the capital is gone, there will still be the imperial palace in Nanjing, and the Summer Palace in Yuerhai, at worst, it will just be rebuilt.

If the Royal Academy was bombed, it would not only mean that the Jinyiwei, the Expert Factory, and the Jingying who were in charge of guarding were negligent or even out of control, it would also slow down the industrialization process of the entire Ming Dynasty.

For example, right now, a miniature steam engine battleship is moving forward and turning on the huge artificial lake, which makes the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen a little obsessed.

In terms of combat effectiveness, one treasure ship is enough to send ten steam engine warships to the bottom of the sea to feed the Dragon King. Even if this thing is to be distributed to the fleet, the three major fleets that are used to the tall treasure ships will not like it.

A warship of about [-] materials, converted into a displacement of only about [-] tons, with a length of about ten meters and a width of about three meters, is roughly equivalent to a sixteen-wheeled truck.

Moreover, a large amount of space on this steam engine battleship was used to accommodate the steam engine and the coal to be used. Naturally, the space for installing artillery was much smaller, and the deck area was not considered large, and it could not even accommodate a hundred households.

Chapter 743 Didn't Learn to Walk, Run Two Steps First

In front of the treasure ship more than ten times larger than it, this freshly baked steam engine ship naturally became a small existence, and it could be sent to the bottom of the sea by the treasure ship in minutes.

However, the point is that the steam engine warship in front of him is miniature!And it's just an experimental model, and the warships built in the future will naturally be bigger.

Unlike treasure ships that use a lot of wood, the entire battleship in front of me is made of steel. Although it can't beat a treasure ship in a war, it still has the ability to resist strong winds in terms of collisions, but it can hang a treasure ship.

At the very least, the weight of this thing has already been determined, and it is more stable than a treasure ship in the face of strong winds and waves.

Of course, if it does sink, this thing will sink faster than the treasure ship.

Emperor Chongzhen has no interest in the improvement of treasure ships and blessing ships now - if there is no steam engine ship, treasure ships and blessing ships are naturally the foundation for the Ming Dynasty to conquer the whole world, and they must be continuously developed and improved.

Now that there is a steam engine ship, a large number of sailors can be idled in the future, more artillery can be installed and more soldiers can be loaded. Naturally, it is necessary to vigorously develop this thing.

Multi-riveted steamed steel is the kingly way. The internal combustion engine, electric power and nuclear power are too far away from now, so they will not be considered for the time being. For a long time, you may be able to see it before you hang up.

In other words, how long did it take from the steam engine to the appearance of the first internal combustion engine?

Xiaobai's Emperor Chongzhen felt that his school money was basically wasted, and the teacher didn't seem to have talked about this part at all?

But this does not prevent Emperor Chongzhen from making corresponding demands on the Royal Academy - it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand, as long as he can explain the general meaning clearly, it will cause headaches for the Mohists and Song Yingxing.

In fact, when Emperor Chongzhen expressed his thoughts to Song Yingxing, Song Yingxing became excited: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I was originally thinking about how to obtain kinetic energy from the combustion process of coal instead of steam. Pushing to achieve, just haven't been sure.

Now that His Majesty has also proposed this idea, I am willing to do my best to give it a try! "

Emperor Chongzhen smiled immediately: "Since Aiqing also has this idea, let's try it. Didn't the former Royal Academy extract many kinds of oil from Menghuo oil? Try them all and see which one is the best to use. .

As for the fire oil, Ai Qing doesn’t need to worry, Daming has some now, Mughals and Ottomans also have some, all of them are from Daming, we don’t lack this, just try it! "

Song Yingxing and the others didn't care about what Emperor Chongzhen said, and they even took it for granted—there is no king's land in the world. Since Emperor Ming is interested in the land of those barbarians, he is giving them face!

After talking about the internal combustion engine, Emperor Chongzhen asked again: "By the way, how did you think about the lightning thing before? Is there any progress?"

Song Yingxing said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I still don't have any clues. After many observations, I found that thunder and lightning only appear when it is cloudy and it is about to rain. Therefore, I made an extra-large Kongming lantern and sent some people Sent it up to see."

hot air balloon?The emergence of hot air balloons is to observe thunder and lightning?Wasn't he hacked to death?