Wei Liangqing, Young Master Wei, knew that he was becoming one of the top dandy young men in the capital, and many civil servants were scolding him behind his back.
But I am a dandy with high taste. Despite my poor background, we, Mr. Wei, will never do such low-level and uninteresting things.
Bullying civil servants is fun.
While other dandy boys squander their money and youth, we, Young Master Wei, play games with life on various occasions. Other young men only know how to spend money, but we, Young Master Wei, also make a lot of money.
If you have connections, you don’t have to be a fool; if you don’t make money, you are incompetent.
People ask themselves, he only has three hobbies, one is money, the second is beautiful women, and the third is to make civil servants miserable.
Especially if you rise like a nouveau riche, you can have a lot of fun here.
Therefore, we cannot go along with the attitude of those civil servants who usually say "the people are upright and the government is in full swing".
Wei Liangqing discovered that too many civil servants wanted to be superiors, and hundreds of people came to bribe them secretly.
It's easy to cheat their money, they will even take the initiative to send the money over. They are not afraid of themselves, but afraid of his uncle Wei Zhongxian
His uncle told him privately that he must not offend Wang Hongyu because he had offended others. Although Wang Hongyu's status was not high now, he had become a very important person to Emperor Tianqi and was the key to everyone's rise.
Wei Liangqing also saw Wang Hongyu's extraordinary qualities, so there was never any displeasure in the cooperation.
This is also the reason why Wang Hongyu continues to cooperate with their uncle and nephew.
Regarding court affairs, Wang Hongyu asked Wei Zhongxian to keep a low profile, remember not to rush for success, and not to make enemies; do not let Wei Liangqing compete with those people for power, let alone show his preference for whom, he only likes money and no one will deal with him specifically.
Especially when your foreign aid is not strong yet, you should focus on stability and slowness.
Gao Panlong must be severely punished, but until the hostile forces of the Donglin Party in the outer court come forward, the ministers who were framed by the Donglin Party will definitely take advantage of Gao Panlong to take revenge before he takes office. The Zhejiang Party and the Chu Party will definitely unite with other parties to take action.
As for Zhu Chunchen, first conduct a secret investigation on him, and be sure not to alert the enemy. If you act rashly, something unexpected may happen to the emperor. Don't forget that half of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty died in accidents.
If you continue to vigorously clean up the inner court's eyeliner, you are playing with fire~
Wang Hongyu didn't want a young emperor who supported him to die unexpectedly, so he made it clear to Wei Zhongxian in no uncertain terms.
Old Wei and Young Master Wei have made arrangements, and there is also the new brother-in-law who has gone to manage the War Bureau.
My brother-in-law has been changed from Liu Shimin to Liu Ruoyu. In fact, this name is the name that my uncle later changed in his previous life.
However, Wang Hongyu considered letting outsiders think that Wei Zhongxian was always causing trouble for him. In order to confuse his enemies, Wang Hongyu deliberately changed his uncle's name to Liu Ruoyu.
This will make the Donglin Party feel that Liu Ruoyu and Wei Zhongxian have deep conflicts and will not know that they are an iron triangle.
At this time, Liu Ruoyu had already assumed the post of eunuch in charge of the Inner Court Military and War Bureau.
The importance of this position is obvious. Both Wang Hongyu and Emperor Tianqi have to firmly control weapons and ammunition, so this position belongs to Liu Ruoyu.
After the meeting, Liu Ruoyu first gave a detailed introduction to his nephew Wang Hongyu about the structure, responsibilities, personnel composition, technical level, product types and production capabilities of the Inner Arms Bureau.
The War Bureau has a chief eunuch named General Manager: he is in charge of manufacturing weapons, armor, bows and arrows, muskets, and artillery. There is also a Gunpowder Department (Bureau), which makes gunpowder and is also managed here.
There is also a eunuch to supervise the armory: responsible for management, writing, writing, supervising work, etc.
The number of craftsmen in the Military War Bureau is basically about 1,700, and the maximum number is more than 3,000. It is a very important military handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty. It is closely related to the weapons production of the Military Arms Bureau, the Nanjing Military War Bureau, and various local defense stations.
Together they supported the military industry of the Ming Dynasty and played a certain leading role in it. The weapons produced by the War and War Bureau sometimes became the standard for weapons produced by various guards.
Walking to the blunderbuss production site, I saw craftsmen making blunderbuss.
After observing the manufactured firearms, I found that the Bingzhan Bureau was able to produce large quantities of high-quality firearms.
However, the situation of eunuchs and officials taking the lead in corruption was also very serious. Funds and materials were embezzled, and the original output was required, which naturally led to the production of inferior firearms.
Many of the guns obtained by the Ming army were of inferior quality. Some were so powerful that their range was reduced by half, and some could accidentally injure the shooter.
At this time, Liu Ruoyu strictly rectified the corruption and strengthened the production of bird cannons, squatting tiger cannons and Fo Lang machine guns.
Wang Hongyu had used a blunderbuss before, but that time he did not kill the traitor Fan Wencheng.
That gun is of high quality, but the operation process is very long, and it cannot be used in rain, snow and windy weather.
He wrote to Meng Biao, Jin Nige and Xu Guangqi at that time, hoping to achieve four improvement goals: first, slightly enlarging the caliber, second, improving portability, third, increasing the loading speed, and fourth, improving production quality.
These four goals are not simple.
In fact, it is to make flintlock guns.
But no one, including Xu Guangqi, could produce a flintlock gun.
Even Europe now only has yellow-wheel guns that cannot be widely popularized, and it is difficult to have reliable flintlock guns.
Wang Hongyu didn't want to make a transitional product like the yellow wheel gun, it had to be a flintlock gun.
In the end, Xu Guangqi had a solution.
He is a scientist, especially good at astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and then firearms. In other words, he is very familiar with firearms, but he is not an expert in firearms manufacturing, and he cannot improve it himself.
But he has a wide network and can find people.
Those from the War and War Bureau and the Ministry of Industry are not good, and there are also those from Fujian that go to sea.
Not all missionaries are good at firearms, but there are other scholar-officials who are keen on firearms.
Bi Maokang, the prime minister of Shuntian Prefecture, was invited by Xu Guangqi to come over to make flintlock guns.
If Xu Guangqi is a scientist who is proficient in everything, then Bi Maokang is a true firearms master.
In the early years of Chongzhen, Bi Maokang almost brought firearms technology and manufacturing to a new level.
Now I was led to this aspect by Xu Guangqi in advance.
In the past six months, Wang Hongyu gave Xu Guangqi some inspiration.
Xu Guangqi discussed it in depth with Bi Maokang.
The principle is that on the basis of the revolving gun, the spring steel wheel is removed, and a flint is clamped on the jaw of the hammer. There is an anvil next to the fire hole. When shooting, the trigger is pulled and the bullet is attached.
Under the influence, the flint was hit hard on the edge of the fire door, sparks appeared, and the gunpowder was ignited...
Finally, Bi Maokang made his first flintlock gun.
Although it is only developed now and is completely handmade, the cost is very high, dozens of times that of a matchlock, but this is a historic event.
But Bi Maokang was the first person in China to develop a flintlock gun.
In the future, if the production level and the strength of parts are improved, flintlock guns will eventually be manufactured on a large scale.
But without Wang Hongyu, this day would have to wait another 240 years.