At this time, in a Portuguese colonial castle called "Goa" far away on the South Asian subcontinent, Bomig sneezed several loudly in succession.
"Priest, you are really lucky this time." An officer said, "This time the Queen may not have encountered real pirates, but English privateers."
"Damn it, I knew it, I knew it was them."
Boomig said bitterly: "These damn Anglo barbarians."
"Father, don't worry, the Governor has already led the fleet to eliminate them." The officer said, "I believe these robbers will be captured and hanged in Goa soon."
"But what's the use?" Bu Mig sighed, "My companion can't come back."
Having said this, Bomig turned his attention to the rough sea outside the city. In the ocean in front, several scholars he hired from Lisbon at a huge cost followed the "Queen" and sank to the bottom of the sea.
Now that the scholar has sunk to the bottom of the sea and all his money has been spent, Bomig is really at a loss.
He now doesn't even have money to buy a ticket to Macau on a Portuguese merchant ship.
Thinking of this, Bomig said to the officer: "Marcus, let me draw a portrait for you."
"Really?" the officer said with great joy after hearing this, "Did God send a divine message to you, Father, today?"
Bu Mige added: "But I won't give you the painting for free. You have to buy me a ferry ticket to Macau, and then help me find a box of books on various subjects, such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, theology, etc."
I need all the books on various subjects, and it’s best to find some publications related to physics and chemistry.”
"No problem, these are minor problems."
Marcus said: "It's all covered by me."
After saying that, Marcus went to search for books and periodicals.
Bu Mige sighed, good things are hard to come by.
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All good things come hard, and Chongzhen also lamented the same thing.
Since the imperial court officially issued an official document to abolish the craftsmanship certificate, craftsmen from all over the country can move freely, and the craftsman problems that once plagued the Ming arsenal have been solved.
Due to the huge number of arms orders given by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Zhan Yangzhi also greatly expanded the production capacity of the arsenal, as well as the supporting upstream and downstream factories.
Zhang Daquan, who is good at making kitchen knives, also opened a branch factory in Nanjing.
This Zhang Da Quan does not use kitchen knives, but specializes in equipping Lumi guns with bayonets.
Up to now, the Daming Arsenal has hundreds of production workshops and more than 3,000 craftsmen.
There are more than a hundred supporting upstream and downstream factories. Some provide iron materials, some provide copper materials, some provide beeswax, some provide gunpowder, some provide wood, and so on.
A huge military industrial park is taking shape.
Lumi gun, tiger squat cannon and Hongyi cannon are being produced overtime.
In addition to the production of firearms, the Daming Arsenal has also been improving weapons and equipment.
The performance of the Rumi gun is better than that of the bird gun, but it is also a matchlock gun. Compared with the flintlock gun, the matchlock gun has a fatal flaw, that is, it cannot be arranged in a dense formation, and its firepower output density is far inferior to that of the flintlock gun.
In view of this, it is the general trend for flintlock guns to replace matchlock guns.
Therefore, Chongzhen has been asking the Ming Dynasty Arsenal to develop flintlock guns.
After more than half a year of research and development, the first flintlock gun was finally built.
After receiving the news, Zhan Yangzhi quickly came to the Imperial College and reported the good news to Chongzhen.
After Chongzhen got the news, he didn't even take care of the preparations for the Imperial Academy's admissions examination, and directly handed them over to Prince Zhu Cihong, Fang Yizhi, and Song Yingxing.
Then he came to the foot of Guanyin Mountain with a group of followers.
The Military Industrial Park is located at the foot of Guanyin Mountain in the northeast corner of Nanjing.
After all, Chongzhen was a time traveler and he still understood the most basic concept of urban scale, so he did not locate the heavy industrial zone in Nanjing City or in the upwind area, but in the downwind area.
Chongzhen rushed to the arsenal at the foot of Guanyin Mountain and saw the first flintlock gun of the Ming Dynasty.
But after seeing this flintlock gun, Chongzhen was dumbfounded. This is a revolving musket, not a real flintlock gun at all, right?
"Your Majesty, this flintlock gun..."
Zhan Yangzhi originally wanted to express his gratitude, but when he turned his head, he saw that Chongzhen's face had fallen. He swallowed the second half of his words and did not dare to say any more.
However, Bugarao, the "chief engineer" in charge of the research and development work, was completely unaware and said proudly: "This is called a steel wheel musket. It is also the most advanced in Europe. For you Ming Dynasty people, it is no less
The gods in the sky, the Ming army equipped with this kind of musket, will be able to easily defeat the rebels and the invading barbarian army."
The interpreter in charge of the translation stammered the translation from Portuguese into Ming Dynasty Mandarin.
Chongzhen was too lazy to pay attention to Bu JiaLao. This guy didn't even learn half of the skills of his grandfather Bu JiaLao. He asked him to make a flintlock gun according to the sketch, and he was able to create a revolving musket that was behind the times.
This thing relies on a spring, and given the elastic steel material of this era, it is easy to malfunction.
If the clockwork spring is made of yellow steel with precision, the price will be ridiculously high.
Chongzhen asked Zhan Yangzhi with a dark face: "Zhan Weng, didn't I give you a sketch?"
Zhan Yangzhi turned to Bu Jia Lao and asked: "Bu Jia Lao, where is the sketch the emperor gave you?"
After listening to the interpreter's translation, Bugarao waved his hands repeatedly and said: "No, no, no, the sketch given by the emperor is of no use at all, and such a flintlock gun cannot be made at all."
"Nonsense!" After hearing the translation, Chongzhen could no longer suppress the anger in his heart.
"France already made flintlock muskets fifty years ago, why can't they?"
"Rumors, these are rumors." Bugarao said with great disdain, "There is no such flintlock gun."
Chongzhen said: "Whether it can be made or not, can't you just process it according to the drawings?"
"No." Bu JiaLao said suddenly, "I am the chief engineer of the Ming Dynasty Arsenal. How to make guns and cannons is my specialty. Your Majesty, you only need to listen to me."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Chongzhen almost cursed, I'm sorry!
But Chongzhen still held back, and this silly criticism is still needed at this stage.
After all, this guy is still good at making cannons. After nearly half a year of hard work, the cannon-making process of Hongyi cannon has basically been standardized.
The standardization project of the Tiger Crouching Cannon is currently being promoted.
At the same time, some improvements were made to the structure of the Tiger Crouching Cannon, mainly changing the open mouth to a straight tube.
So I can't shoot this guy yet, but the research and development of the flintlock gun can no longer be left to him. I have to find someone else to take charge of this matter, but I don't know who to find at the moment.
Thinking of this, Chongzhen missed Tang Ruowang even more.
It would be great if Tang Ruowang was here. He could make a flintlock gun.
If he really can't find anyone else, I'm afraid he will have to make it himself.
At that time, Chongzhen said to Bu JiaLao: "Very good, the flintlock gun has been built. Now you can go back to the Tiger Crouching Cannon Factory to improve the manufacturing process of the Tiger Crouching Cannon."
"Silver." Bu JiaLao said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, we agreed to reward you with silver."
"Give it to him." Chongzhen said to Wang Chengen with a dark face, "Wang Daban, give him fifty taels first, and then tell him that the remaining fifty taels will not be given to him until mass production."
Bu JiaLao received the money and left in a hurry.
Chongzhen said to Zhan Yangzhi again: "Zhan Weng, please call me the craftsmen who used to make flintlock guns with Bo Jialao. Call them all. I have something to ask them."
"Yes." Zhan Yangzhi accepted the order and quickly found a dozen craftsmen.
I saw that these dozen craftsmen were all elderly, but in good health.
Seeing Chongzhen, more than a dozen craftsmen quickly knelt down and said, "The common people are waiting to kowtow before the Holy One."
"Get up." Chongzhen raised his hands and pointed at the musket and asked, "Did you make this?"
"Go back to the Holy Spirit. I will be responsible for rolling the gun tube."
"The little guy is responsible for drilling."
"The villain is responsible for straightening."
"The gun holder is made by villains."
"Steel bars are forged by villains."
"Small items such as the wheels and triggers were filed by villains."
More than a dozen craftsmen responded one after another, saying that each had its own division of labor, which was very good.
"Okay, very good." Chongzhen nodded happily and said, "From now on, you will follow me and create a kind of musket that I have never had in the Ming Dynasty."
"Ah?" More than a dozen craftsmen looked at each other.
Zhan Yangzhi, Wang Chengen, Hu Guozhu and others were also dumbfounded.
Only Zhu Cijiong was eager to give it a try. He also wanted to follow his father in making firearms.
Chongzhen then said to Hu Guozhu, Wang Chengen and others: "In the next month or even two months, you may have to live with me in the arsenal."
"Your Majesty, what about the Imperial Academy's Talent Recruitment Ceremony?" Wang Chengen asked in a low voice.
"It's okay." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "It will take at least half a month for the official documents of the imperial court to be sent to each chief envoy, and then it will take at least two or three months for the students from each province to arrive in Nanjing.
enough."
If everything goes well, a flintlock gun should be made in two months.
It has been a year and a half since March last year. During this time, Chongzhen was either running for his life, fighting, or scheming with the Donglin Party.
After being busy for such a long time, I can finally free my hands to click on the technology tree.
Chongzhen added the first technological point to the flintlock gun, which was also the right choice.
Because the flintlock gun must be considered an epoch-making weapon. Once a large number of flintlock guns are equipped in the army, and supplemented by powerful artillery units, it will be enough for the cavalry to change from a main combat arm to an auxiliary arm.
Since the emergence of the flintlock gun, it has become a wishful thinking for backward civilization to defeat advanced civilization.
The traditional crafts of nomadic peoples or barbarians changed from "threwing grass in the valley" to "singing and dancing".
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At the same time, Dorgon also returned to Beijing in "triumph".
Calling it a triumph, Dorgon is just trying to put gold on his own face.
This southern expedition brought little tactical losses to Jiannu.
The hardest hit this time were the Zhenglan Banner and the Xianglan Banner, but these two flags were not originally the main force of the Eight Banners. As the mainstay of the Eight Banners, the Xianghuang Banner and the Xiangbai Banner actually did not suffer any injuries.
But from a strategic perspective, Jiannu suffered a disastrous defeat this time.
The biggest strategic goal of this southern expedition was to destroy the Ming Dynasty in one battle.
Even if the Ming Dynasty cannot be destroyed at once, the Ming Dynasty's northern defense line must be destroyed.
But now this strategic goal is completely bankrupt. After fighting the Ming army along the Huanghuai line for more than half a year, the Ming army's Xuzhou defense line remained firm. And after this battle, the Ming army's Huanghuai defense line was completely formed.
If I want to launch the next war to destroy the country, I'm afraid it will be far away.
What made Dorgon even more angry was that,
Not only has the biggest strategic goal not been achieved, but the secondary strategic goals have also not been achieved.
After realizing that there was no hope of seizing Xuzhou, Dorgon decisively changed the combat goal, replacing the destruction of the Ming Dynasty in one battle with the destruction of the Ming Dynasty's military presence in Shandong, and eliminating the flank threat of Beizhili.
Of course, by the way, we will hit the grass valley and make up for the losses in the Xuzhou battlefield from Shandong.
This goal of clearing grass and valleys was accomplished. After Duduo's army entered Yanzhou, they burned, killed, and looted, and robbed nearly one million people, as well as a large amount of grain, livestock, and goods.
Especially the looting of the Yanshenggong Mansion in Qufu was really a bloodbath.
The treasures accumulated by Yan Shenggong's mansion for hundreds of years were all returned to the two white flags.
In fact, the gains from Duke Yansheng's Mansion alone were enough to make up for the losses in the Battle of Xuzhou.
Duduo knew about the allusion of being as rich as the country, but he had no idea about it. It was only after he robbed Yan Shenggong's Mansion that he finally understood what it meant. Yan Shenggong's Mansion was really as rich as the country.
But the gains from establishing slaves did not end there, and there were very few military gains.
Faced with the heavy troops pressing down on Jiannu, the Ming Dynasty Governor of Shandong Province Wang Jiayan and Admiral of Shandong Military Affairs Hu Xin split into two groups and retreated to Mengyin and Linqu respectively, unable to hold on.
Duduo's army spent a lot of effort to transport Hongyi cannons and finally blasted Mengyin City away. In the end, Wang Jiayan led the Ming army to retreat to Yishui before breaking the city. In short, they did not confront Jiannu.
Instead of being tough, they tried to use the terrain of the Yimeng Mountains and the fortified city to consume the slaves and fight a protracted war.
After a few battles, Jian Nu became a little unable to bear it.
Not only the two red flags, the two blue flags and the two yellow flags, but also the two white flags also gave rise to a feeling of war weariness. After all, the Eight Banners soldiers are also human beings. They have been fighting since the beginning of the year, and they have been fighting for more than half a year now.
The key point is that I haven't achieved a hearty victory yet, so it's impossible not to feel depressed.
Duduo realized the danger and quickly reported it to Dorgon.
Dorgon could only give up the second goal and directly fight.
However, before withdrawing his troops, Dorgon robbed all the remaining strong men, women and children in Yanzhou Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture, and executed all the old, weak, sick and disabled, and then took with him nearly one million people and a large amount of food, livestock and property.
When the cargo squad returned to Beijing, the entire team was more than a hundred miles long.
Because we had a lot of women and children with us, we walked very slowly.
From the end of July to the beginning of September, I finally returned to Beijing.
At this time, the young emperor Shunzhi had already brought the Manchu and Han ministers who were staying in Beijing to greet him outside Chaoyang Gate. When he saw Dorgon, Shunzhi also called him Emperor Ama without any violation.
