Jia Daishan has his own contacts in the army, so it is not surprising that he can know some of the dynamics in the army.Facing today's question, he nodded solemnly: "The coast of the South China Sea is not peaceful. The Japanese invaded our people from time to time, but they relied on their own maneuverability. They plundered if they won the battle, and went to sea if they could not win. Our army can only be exhausted. The coastline of the South China Sea is quite long, and there is no fixed place for the Japanese to go ashore, and the officers and soldiers are also hard to guard against."

Regardless of whether the prince and the prince nod today, Jia Daishan has already said in a high voice: "That's why I am anxious to ask the Ministry of Industry to improve weapons, because this fire//gun is so lethal that it can make the Japanese never come back. In this way, they will all be left on the shore , use their bones to warn those wolf-minded people, I can't be bullied!"

The bloodyness in this statement, if those civil officials who bite the text listen to it, Jia Daishan will definitely be charged with killing and tyranny.Fortunately, those people have gone to the fields to harvest crops now, and no one has heard.

Nowadays, it is different from the thinking of civil officials. No emperor is willing to let his borders be coveted by outsiders all the time.He patted the back of the chair heavily: "Okay, let them come and go!"

Dai Shan raised his head: "So I would like to ask the sage to order that the Ministry of Industry should speed up the production of guns//guns and ammunition//ammunition, and quickly equip them to the south, especially the coastal garrison."

There is a wry smile on his face today, why doesn't he want to issue such an order, but the national treasury is not abundant now, if it is used to produce guns//ammunitions, taxes will have to be increased.Later generations will also put a militaristic hat on his head.I am getting old, and now I value my reputation in the future history books more and more.So he couldn't click on this head.

The crown prince has made Jia Daishan's words a little hot: "Father!"

Jia Daishan also remembered the current difficulties, and knelt down facing the present: "The sage, the minister's family and the Ningguo Mansion owed a total of 140 million taels of silver to the treasury when the country was founded. Please pay back the owed silver. I only hope that the sage can pay this Silver, all used in gun//ammunition production."

The courtier kneeling in front of him in front of him has gray hair, and his body is also plagued by injuries from the previous year's rescue.But no matter the two crops he just offered or the words he said now, none of them are not thinking about the empire he is in charge of, and none of them are not thinking about making the people of this country live in peace and work happily.

Such a courtier moved today's face.It has been a long time since I stopped being turbulent about foreign things, and now I am very excited: "Daishan, I know why your family owes the treasury silver taels very well. It is also to appease Taizu's injuries during the war. Such a Silver, how can I let you pay it back!"

The prince said beside him: "Father, the son was born with rich clothes and fine food, and it was the father who worried about the son everywhere, but the son didn't worry about the father at all. Now please donate to the inner warehouse of the East Palace to make guns//bombs In this way, there is no need for Duke Rong and Ningguo Mansion to pay back the money owed."

Looking at the prince now, I feel a little unfamiliar.Is this the gap between young and old?If he was also at the age of the prince, wouldn't he also be passionately thinking about having a fight with the Japanese.Hearing about the sharp weapon that can seriously injure the Japanese, you can't wait to produce it and equip the frontier army? !

That's right.Today I sighed in my heart, when I realized for the first time that I was no longer full of vigor, I had already lost that fighting spirit.But this time, he didn't feel jealous towards the prince as before, instead, he felt proud of being a son and father because of the prince's words.

"Okay, as you've asked. It's just acting on behalf of the good. You should also know that the new ammunition//ammunition consumes too much copper. I'm afraid it will bring you a bad name." The currency in circulation at this time is still coins.And copper has always been a strategic material controlled by the state, and folks are not allowed to melt copper coins to cast utensils.Jia Daishan's request now will use a large amount of copper for the production of ammunition, which will lead to an increase in the price of copper and silver among the people, which will naturally attract criticism.

Jia Daishan raised his head, looked into today's eyes, and said one word at a time: "Gou Li country lives and dies, how can we avoid it because of misfortune and good fortune." Well, he admitted that he pretended to be thirteen at this time, I also borrowed Lin Zexu's famous saying, but in this situation, only this sentence is the most touching!Then he will do a copy of the text.

The prince's eyes were wet, and now he knew why his father, even if Jia Daishan was sick and bedridden, would not let the power of the Beijing camp be in the hands of others.Now there is a surge of arrogance in my heart, isn't it just infamy?If a courtier dares to recite, why would he dare not be an emperor? !Besides, this move is to keep foreigners out of the country, who can scold, who dares to scold? !

The ministers have returned from the field one after another, but they found that the atmosphere between Jia Daishan and the present is very delicate.Both of them looked very excited, but the saint's excitement was full of desperation, while Jia Daishan's excitement was full of pride.

It doesn't take them to guess how long, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry has been called to the front today, and he told them to let the Ministry of Industry fully produce guns//ammunition.Minister of the Ministry of Industry felt bitter, and expressed his own difficulties: "The Holy Majesty wants to equip the army with guns//bombs. It is a good thing to show our prestige to the country. It is a pity that this gun is still unavoidable. If it is equipped with the army If you don’t, if you injure yourself when you are about to fight, you are afraid that it will cause chaos in the army.”

His concerns were not unreasonable, everything was produced by the Ministry of Industry, if that happened, the frontier soldiers would not dare to scold the present, but they could scold the Ministry of Industry.He is only an official of the second rank, and he is not from a noble family. If he is unable to withstand the criticisms of those arrogant soldiers and warriors and pushes him out to stand up to the thunder, he must be able to tell the difference.

Jia Daishan looked at Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry and said, "Shangshu Li, don't worry too much. My stand-in Taoist Zhang discovered a method during alchemy, which can make iron stronger than commonly used ones."

That is to say, Taoist Zhang is not in front of him now, or the Minister of the Ministry of Industry would like to ask, can you, a Taoist priest, be able to refine other things except medicine?But the sage couldn't tolerate his presumptuousness at present, so he had no choice but to say to Jia Daishan: "Even though Duke Rong said so, you can only know after seeing the finished product."

Daishan also felt that there was no harm in being more cautious, so he asked Jia Amnesty to go back to the yard where he lived, and took the recipe for blast furnace steelmaking to the Ministry of Industry Minister.He also knew that it was a bit eye-catching, but even if he was just a website, he had already made up his mind to strengthen the country, so he couldn't just watch others show off at his door.

Facts have proved that it is still very powerful to act now that it is hard to make up your mind.After receiving the money owed by the treasury from Ningrong and Rongfu, he suddenly remembered that these two families were not the only ones who owed money to the treasury.Now there is not even half of the cash in the treasury, which is borrowed by his good ministers.

My most loyal subject has gone bankrupt to serve the country, and my son donated all the private money he had left since he was a child. Can these people who are poor and extravagant every day keep it for the New Year?Pay back the money!

The Minister of the Household Department got the decree that the money owed to the treasury must be recovered within a time limit, not only the beard, but also the eyebrows were almost graying.How many of those who can lend money from the Ministry of Households are really unable to eat?Didn't you feel aggrieved when you saw the nobles who borrowed money during the founding of the country but never returned it, and felt that it was useless to borrow money?Want to take back now, easier said than done?

When Jia Daishan learned of this, he felt that this move was good news for the Xungui family.It is less than a hundred years since the founding of the country, and most of the honorable families are still supported by the third generation.Among the people of this generation, there are not many dandies like Jia Zhen in the original book, and the prodigal ability is not as good as his own descendants.If they are asked to pay back the money owed now, even if life is a little tighter for a while, it is not impossible.It's better than waiting for the next emperor to press for debts, and it's much better for the nobles who have already had enough money to be unable to pay back at all.

Besides, the family has no money, and the family has already been stuffed into the military camp and the children of various families, so there is no capital to spend a lot of money.In order to let their own family pass on, it may be said that the heads of each family have to put a burden on their children, so that the noble children will no longer be the target of everyone shouting and beating.

However, there are not many people who can think as openly as he does. Most people regard the borrowed money as their own, and now they complain endlessly when they are asked to pay back the money.Even Feng Tang ran into the village, muttering to Jia Daishan that he didn't want to pay back the money.When he knew that Ningrong and Rongfu were the first to pay back the money owed, his eyes quickly popped out: "How could the Lord be the first to pay back the money?"

Jia Daishan looked at him and said, "Tell me, is it reasonable to pay back the debt?"

Feng Tang said unconvinced: "But the money owed by each of our families is clearly..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Jia Daishan had already stopped him: "The ancestors were able to share the worries of the country. How come we, as children and grandchildren, have to live on the merits of our ancestors, without all the credits of our ancestors?" Bloody?"

Feng Tang was puzzled and said: "Why is this? The surrounding fields are still relatively quiet now, and it is not the time when any country will be in danger."

Daishan sneered: "The wilds are still quiet? Don't you know about the disaster of the Japanese along the coast of the South China Sea, or that the Tatars go south every year to thresh grain and grass?" Feng Tang was speechless for a moment.However, he can see that Jia Daishan has made up his mind, and he has always watched him do things, so he nodded and said: "Then I will talk to Wei Song when I go back, and each family will pay back all the money owed."

This is still time.Dai Shan smiled and said: "Don't think that I don't know the family background of each family, it's not difficult for you." When the world was conquering the world, each family stole a lot of good things.The royal family also sealed meritorious fields for each family back then, and the income from these acres is enough to pay off the silver owed over the years.

Money is easy to do.In addition, Taoist Zhang, who "has a wide range of friends, is well-informed, and successful in cultivating Taoism", was born out of nowhere. He led a team of workers from the Ministry of Industry and began to roam the entire country. Iron ore and copper mines were successively destroyed. It was discovered that the mass production of the gun//ammunition has finally been realized.

Today, the father and son with the prince, because of the common cause, the gap is less and less, and the cooperation is getting smoother and smoother.Now Jia Daishan doesn't need to influence the prince any more, he just has some theories on paper, how can the old fox who has been in charge of the government for decades have rich experience in governance?Now the prince's imperial education has been fully taken over by the present.

Today, I have fully figured out that if I want to keep myself from going down the old path of death and government, the prince who participated from the beginning to the end is the best candidate to inherit the throne.So he began to delegate the power in his hands to the prince little by little, and the prince finally no longer had to be his seventh-rank official in the household department, but listened to the government with the current court every day.

The other princes all noticed the change in the attitude towards the prince today, and each of them started to behave honestly with their tails between their legs.If it is said that the third and fourth princes have retreated after knowing the difficulties, Jia Daishan still reluctantly believes it, the low-key of the second and fifth princes is deceiving people's hearts in his opinion.

Leaving aside the second prince, Jia Daishan is well aware of the forbearance of the fifth prince in the original work.Now he might want to impress the present with the forbearance and filial piety in the original novel.

However, today is different from the past. The current present is not the old man in the original book who only wants to hold power to the end. His old heart, which has only thought about being safe until death, has been successfully provoked by Jia Daishan.

At this moment and today, he was thinking about making Shino truly surrender, how could he satisfy his expectations with just a filial son!

What's more, since Jia Daishan found out that his daughter was not doing well in the palace last time, he veiled to talk about the present, allowing him to see clearly the inseparability between the imperial concubine and the prince.So outraged now.He took back the palace power that the noble concubine held alone, and divided it into three, and the three concubines noble, virtuous, and virtuous jointly controlled it.

Although it seems that the noble concubine and the virtuous concubine have a close relationship on weekdays, the separation of powers this time is nothing more than an extra concubine virtuous.But Jia Daishan knew that the original concubine Xian was just a shadow following the concubine, and she obeyed the concubine's words.Now that both of them have palace power in their hands, I don't believe that they can still be as close as before - it involves a conflict of interests, or a conflict of interests in the palace, no woman is willing to hand over the power in her hands to others , even if it is my original follower.Because this follower, because of the power in his hands, will be obedient to the original master.

Especially the imperial concubine has no children!Such a fatal flaw, which was the basis of their original union, will now become a sharp sword that shakes their union.

I just don't know if this dispute between the noble concubine and the virtuous concubine is one of the reasons why the fifth prince dare not show his edge now.Jia Daishan thought badly for a while, then put the matter aside, and began to pay attention to the movements in the Beijing camp again.

After Dai Shancong finished donating the corn and potatoes, Feng Tang approached Zhuangzi to return the money, and made him realize that if he always stayed in Zhuangzi, he might not be a strong deterrent to some people.So he had no choice but to give up the hard-won benefits and return to Beijing camp again.

Even if more than a month has passed during this period, it is said that his old illness is healed and he can barely get by, but he still made Qiu Liang unhappy once.It’s just that Qiu Liang’s perception of Qiu Liang is getting worse and worse. Even if he has the right to submit a secret report, but the approval of that report is getting less and less. Willing to continue dormant.

But after all, Qiu Liang had been in the capital camp for some years, and there were only a few people behind him. He didn't dare to make big moves, but there were still some small ones.What caught Jia Daishan's attention the most was that he dared to bring his idea to the Firearms Camp!

Since the large-scale mass production of guns//ammunition, the status of the firearms battalion in the camp has been rising day by day.With bullets//bombs fed, those soldiers in the firearms battalion with some combat effectiveness, the accuracy of their shooting has also risen in a straight line.After Nanhai Yanzi started to equip fire//guns, the value of the soldiers in the Firearms Battalion increased even more, and they were transferred to teach by the garrison of Nanhai Yanzi as if they were treasures.

For such a situation, Jia Daishan is happy to hear it.No matter how much Nanfang requested to transfer, he would agree with it all.Anyway, now he is also thinking about replacing these old, weak and sick soldiers. The south invites these people to teach, which just gives them a decent way out.

Unexpectedly, in the process of personnel exchange, Zhao Meng, the former deputy leader of the firearms battalion and now promoted to leader, reported to Jia Daishan that there were a few newcomers who had good skills and worked hard in practice, but the old It is to inquire about the storage of this new fire//gun, the collection of ammunition, etc.

This is also what Jia Daishan has been worried about.Anyone who has seen it knows how powerful the new fire//gun is.So when the new guns were equipped to the Firearms Battalion, he had Zhao Meng establish a strict registration system.Regardless of whether it is taking out or keeping the gun, it must be registered by a special person.The same is true for ammunition//ammunition—the production of the gun and ammunition//ammunition is now separate, and it is only in the firearms battalion that it is easiest to obtain both things at the same time.

After listening to Zhao Meng's report, Jia Daishan's face darkened.Whoever thinks about strengthening the country and strengthening the army, but finds that others are still thinking about infighting, will not be in a good mood: "I'll let people watch those people to death, and find out who is behind them. There are also new people who come to your place, and I have to go through the sieve again, and they must be innocent people!"

Zhao Meng also knew that this matter was of great importance, so he solemnly promised: "Don't worry, my lord, I, Zhao Mengzi, will definitely take care of these people!"

It's a pity that Zhao Meng's promise was not fulfilled.Less than half a month after he reported to Jia Daishan, two soldiers did not return to the camp after training, and disappeared together with the fire//guns and ammunition they used for training.

Knowing the news, Jia Daishan asked people to search for the two soldiers, and at the same time went to the palace to report the matter to the present.

When I just listened to Jia Daishan's report today, I still felt that he was making a big fuss. After all, in order not to accidentally injure, the soldiers of the Firearms Battalion trained in a mountain, which was still some distance from the Beijing Camp. Did the two leave the team for a while? Or go hunting in the mountains by yourself, it is not a good thing to say.

Seeing that he didn't care, Jia Daishan said anxiously: "Sage, this fire//gun seems to be complicated to manufacture, but if there is a real thing, it is very easy to imitate after disassembly. If these two fire//guns fall into the hands of criminals or It is in the hands of foreigners, once the imitation is successful, it may cause quite a commotion."

Only then did the expression on his face change a bit: "What do you think?"

Jia Daishan said: "It is easy to imitate the musket, but it is difficult to imitate the ammunition. Now we can only step up precautions in the army that produces ammunition and is equipped with fire//guns, so as not to let the ammo// ammunition leak out. That way the traitor is considered It can be imitated with a fire//gun, but without ammunition//ammunition, it cannot become a big climate.”

It's a matter of my own safety, so I take it seriously now. According to Jia Daishan's request, he summoned the Minister of the Ministry of Industry who is responsible for the production of ammunition//drugs, and asked him to strictly control the entry and exit of ammunition//drugs.Although Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry did not know about the loss of fire//guns in the Jingying Firearms Battalion, he still carried out the current order very well.He seconded soldiers from the Beijing camp to surround a ammunition//powder production facility, not to mention, and locked up the craftsmen who produced it together to prevent others from kidnapping the craftsmen and causing the ammunition//powder production to leak.

It's just that their actions seem to be useless.Except that the two soldiers and the muskets they carried disappeared without a trace, there was no other bad news.Jia Daishan not only did not breathe a sigh of relief, but felt that this was the calm before the storm.

As if to prove that Jia Daishan was indeed suspicious, news of the victory in the suppression of the Japanese came from along the coast of the South China Sea.Although they were all small victories, this was the first time in many years of fighting against the Japanese. The news of victory continued, which greatly boosted the morale of Nanhai Yanzi, and also made it a common practice for the soldiers there to practice using fire//guns.

A real sharpshooter doesn't just know how to operate, it has to be made with ammunition//powders!For a while, the garrison in the south, please add ammunition//drugs, add fire//guns, and the snowflakes flew to the Ministry of War.The defenders in northern Xinjiang and northwest also gradually got the news, and strongly demanded that they also receive the same treatment as the troops stationed in the South China Sea.

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry has almost been driven crazy by the Minister of the Ministry of War.He also wanted to equip the garrisons in those two places with new muskets as soon as possible, even for the sake of keeping his ears quiet.But it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.The new type of steel has just been successfully smelted, and it will take some time for the newly discovered copper ore and iron ore to be produced in large quantities, and he can't make so much equipment.

Jia Daishan felt that it would be better not to equip the defenders in the north and northwest with muskets.After all, the existing muskets were produced before the new steel was smelted, and the problem of easy bombing was not solved.He can't say much about the king of Xining County who guards the border in the north.But he can still write a letter to the current frontier guards in the Northwest, explaining his interests to others.

However, he didn't have the awareness to do good deeds without leaving his name. He gave the letter he wrote to the Northwest Guard to the Minister of the Ministry of Industry to read. , give priority to equipment for the Northwest Defenders: "Otherwise I can't give this kid a job."

It would be good for Minister of the Ministry of Industry to have one less person to force him. He repeatedly assured Jia Daishan that he would give priority to equipping the garrison in the northwest.Unsurprisingly, he also received a prescription from Daoist Zhang who was looking for new mines. It was about how to purify gunpowder.

This kind of thing has happened more than once. Whenever Jia Daishan asked the Ministry of Industry, he would exchange it with the prescription sent back to him by "Daoist Zhang".It's just that this time "Taoist Zhang" thought about it for a long time, and still took out the method of making black powder.

The reason why he had to consider it was because Jia Daishan knew that once this thing was produced, the lethality would be too great.But if it is not taken out, then the empire will surely embark on the old path of lagging behind Europe again.

In the end, Jia Daishan made up his mind to take this thing out because he heard that the Raksha country in the north was not very quiet.This reminded him of how the once begonia-like land had turned into a rooster bit by bit.So what?The world is about to enter the era of hot weapons, so let him set the precedent!

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