The rebellion in Yueyang has caused a lot of doubts about the New Party, and of course more attacks from the Conservative Party. Even Emperor Wanchang's support for the New Party seems to have been somewhat suppressed in recent days. However, the financial report of the Ministry of Household Affairs in the first half of the year
As soon as it came up, the new party immediately started to tremble. The revenue of the state treasury in the first half of the year was 70% higher than the same period last year!
Not only was the New Party rejoicing for a while, but even Emperor Wanchang was relieved, thinking that the reform had finally achieved initial results. As for the Yueyang Rebellion, it was an accident that occurred during the implementation of the new law. There was no change in the reform.
Does anyone have any opinions? In order to improve the fiscal revenue of the state treasury, if a few untouchables cause trouble and suppress it, it is no big deal. When the reform is completed in the future, the court has more wealth and the army is powerful, let alone just a few untouchables causing trouble, that is
The four major border towns can only be obedient.
As for the Yueyang War, Wanchang felt that the previous battle was pretty good. Not only did he quickly capture Xiangyin, but also surrounded Changsha. It can be seen that Xiao Liuer still has a way of training and leading troops. He can be regarded as a Confucian general. However, Zhang Jianyuan later became the main force of the army.
Reinforcements were withdrawn from Hengyang to Changsha, and the battle of Changsha began. The two sides were fighting back and forth, but there was no progress. Lin Xi only had 10,000 people at hand, and Zhang Bandit actually claimed to have the entire army.
Half a million troops, of which 300,000 are in Changsha. After being shocked for a while, Wanchang felt that the Hengyang battle on the southern front was disadvantageous. If they had pestered Zhang Bandit for a few more days, Xiao Liuer might have captured Changsha...
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The court is in chaos and the world is in chaos. Yunzheng is naturally paying attention to it, but his main focus is on strengthening his own strength. No matter how chaotic the world is, someone has to clean it up in the end. To clean up these messy forces, he must have strong enough fists.
You have to be in good enough shape
In a small village near the sea in Tianjin, at the secret campus of the new Yingyang Guard Army, Yun Zheng was taking Yun Yi and Li Mo to review the newly recruited Ying Yang Guard Musketeers.
After three months, Yunzheng, Li Mo, Dongfang Wuqing and others, with rare high efficiency, finally completed the shaping of the musket. However, the shaped musket needs to be drilled. It is really inappropriate to complete this work in Yanjing.
Because Yanjing is so eye-catching, spies and informants from unknown forces are operating here. If the incident gets spread, it will be unclear.
It is also a headache to test this kind of secret weapon outside the eyes of the court and other forces. Who can guarantee that this weapon will not be leaked? Yunzheng thought about it, it is not good to be far away, it is inconvenient to review and train by himself, but only
The six newly-recruited Yingyang Guard stations are relatively concealed and suitable for secret operations, so there is no need to worry about confidentiality issues; besides, Tianjin has the Navy as a cover, and since I have been to Tianjin more often, others just think that I care about the Navy.
But the most important thing is: the current sulfur of the Wei Dynasty is almost all imported from Japan, and Yunzheng has also sent people to develop the Ryukyu Islands, which has the largest saltpeter reserves in Asia, in the past few months, and imported extremely pure sulfur to the Wei Dynasty in the name of the Japanese.
, the high-quality sulfur and saltpeter Tianjin happens to be the trading port between the Yun family and Japan. Training in Tianjin, there is no need to worry about the supply and transportation of gunpowder...
Putting all the circumstances together, Yunzheng finally decided that the new Yingyangwei musketry team would be secretly formed for training in Wanghai Village, Tianjin. The actual combat effectiveness of the muskets would be tested first, and then Yunzheng would decide on the next move.
Unfortunately, the inertia of history is so huge. Yun Zheng tried his best to design his musket according to the optimal plan. What was handed over to a group of technical craftsmen was something he had repeatedly verified, but the craftsmen finally identified the musket sample.
But it still uses a bamboo pole as the barrel - exactly the same as the original gun from a hundred years ago.
This kind of sudden fire gun had a nickname in its original history, that is, among the soldiers of the Song Dynasty, it was called "Rainstorm Pear Blossom Gun". It was said that the flames it sprayed were like pear blossoms in bloom, and the flames rushed towards the enemy like a heavy rain... Later,
Modern people have "represented" the people of the Song Dynasty again. In the legend, they added a name in front of it, called "Yang Family (Heavy Rain Pear Blossom) Gun", which means: This thing is the unique and unique weapon of the Yang family generals.
technology
But Operations, who came from a liberal arts background, knew that "General of the Yang Family" was just a novel. Although Yang Ye was indeed a real person, there was no such thing as the Tianbo Yang Family in the Song Dynasty. He was thinking about giving this peerless marksmanship a better name -
We can't still call it "Yang's Gun"
Should it be called "Yun Family Gun"?
Yun Zheng was naturally dissatisfied that the bamboo pole musket was just a prototype. He asked the craftsmen to design it themselves, mainly to prevent them from developing the bad habit of relying on their own advanced thinking. He became stubborn and decided that the copper musket was worth several hundred
The technology of 2000 years ago was not high, so the technical threshold was not high. Under Yunzheng's conscious guidance, the Beijiang Ordnance Research Institute had no choice but to re-create a new musket. This time, it was the same as the original version designed by Yunzheng. The barrel was cast in bronze from beginning to end.
The reason why the craftsmen previously planned to use bamboo tubes to make gun barrels is because bamboo tubes are cheap and can reduce the cost. Furthermore, according to their understanding, the current gunpowder is not purified enough. Using bamboo tube guns can just reduce the requirements for gunpowder.
However, Yunzheng rejected this suggestion. First of all, Yunzheng was not worried about the gunpowder issue. The gunpowder in Northern Xinjiang has improved a lot after he gave a general formula. Now the Weapons Research Institute has a dedicated person responsible for researching gunpowder. I believe it will be more
Safe and more powerful gunpowder continues arc going forward
Regarding the cost issue, Yun Zheng also had an opinion. He said that he had recently reached a considerable trade agreement with Japan. The silk, tea, and ceramics "harvested" from northern Xinjiang were sold to Japan and directly exchanged for tens of thousands of kilograms of copper.
The barrel of the musket is directly made of copper, so the cost difference between the newly made copper musket and the craftsman's sample is not big, and it can be reused.
Yunzheng is the big boss, so naturally his word is the final decision. Besides, the craftsmen also feel that since the young marshal himself doesn't worry about the cost, why should he worry about it?
Today is the first large-scale live-fire drill after the new gun is ready. When Yun Zheng walked towards the front of the team, he had already made up his mind: That's all, this thing is still called the "Heavy Rain Pear Blossom Gun". As for whether it will be used in the future
He will be called the "Yun family gun" and let others take care of it. He can't control it.
After the three-way drum, the Chinese army lined up to prepare for the exercise. Yun Zheng cleared his throat and said loudly: "Now, what I teach you is the world's number one unique killing technique. Once a shot is fired, the one who hits it will be killed."
Martial arts is really a necessary means for traveling at home and killing people to silence them."
One sentence made the people below prick up their ears. The stunts taught by Marshal Yun himself were wrong. Who doesn't know how capable the Marshal is?
Yun Zheng said loudly: "This thing is not complicated. There are seven moves in total. Once you learn it, you will basically be the best in martial arts in the world... Okay, without further ado, listen, here comes the first move, it's called: Hold.
Now, with your arms stretched out straight, point the muzzle of the pipe at others and not yourself. Hold the barrel of the gun flat. This is the first move: hold the first move and then use the second killer move of the Heavy Rain Pear Blossom Spear.
It's called: Knocking - knocking something, knocking the flint and fire sickle, lighting the match... By the way, the next third move is to light the match, and the second move ends perfectly.
The fourth move is to stretch out the gun and point it at others. Remember, I repeat: Never point the gun at yourself. But if you insist on pointing the gun at yourself, I will not object. Please just do it in private.
You have to remember, before the test, please call Shang Dutou and ask him to pick up the gun after you die. It is family property and cannot be thrown away.
Okay, now, the match rope has finished burning, and it’s time to move on to the next move. The next move is called spraying, using the flames from the gun to spray the enemy...
The next two moves are continuous actions. I will talk about them in succession: after the gunpowder in the gun has been sprayed, the barrel of the gun is so hot that I can't hold it. What should I do? The first move is called throwing - well, since I can't hold the barrel of the gun
, naturally stop catching it, just throw it away. After throwing it, the enemies that were not hit also rush over, so the last move is called running - turn around and run towards your own military formation.
That’s it. The full set of special moves of the Heavy Rain Pear Blossom Gun has been demonstrated. Let us repeat its seven special moves. This is a secret skill passed down from family to son, not to son-in-law. Everyone must treasure it carefully, including
You will benefit from it for the rest of your life - come on, repeat it after me: hold it, knock it, light it, stretch it, spray it, throw it away, run..."
Demonstrating the seven sure moves in detail, Yun Zheng then explained why there were seven moves and not some other number - he swore that because there are the Big Dipper in the sky, the seven moves can absorb the power of the Big Dipper and use it as a Pegasus.
The meteor's running momentum bombards the enemy like seven stars falling to the ground; it can also absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, use the power of the stars in the sky to increase its momentum, and attack the enemy's momentum to the point that those who are shot will naturally be knocked into the eighteenth floor.
Hell, eternal life without reincarnation...
After the interpretation of this nonsense, the musketeers who had recently been selected into the new Yingyang Guard army suddenly became more energetic. They all found that their waists were no longer sore, their legs were no longer painful, as if they had just taken calcium supplements, and they felt as if they were golden.
God A is alive and possesses the power to destroy heaven and earth. Every pore in his body exudes the power of Hell...
Yun Zheng waved his hand, and the first row of musketeers came out, lay down in front of the bunker, crackled the fire sickle, and lit the match - after demonstrating the seven sure-kill moves of the Heavy Rain Pear Blossom Spear, there was a roar as big as a firecracker,
A cloud of white smoke covered the bunker, and Yunzheng's heavy coughing sound came from the smoke. He looked smoky, like a Kitchen God who left in the New Year, and jumped out of the smoke with a black head and a gray face.
He came out, coughing violently, looking at his soldiers majestically, and cursing: "...who can prepare this recipe, grandma! This young marshal has such a good recipe, but some bird man mixed mustard and arsenic into it.
?are you crazy!"
The early ground fire gun was actually a large fire-breathing firework. The iron sand mixed in it was not assembled separately, but was mixed into the gunpowder as a component of the gunpowder formula. The spraying power of such gunpowder was not high.
The small iron sand sprayed out is harmless to people five or six meters away. Because I forgot to remind the Weapons Research Institute of the problem of gunpowder granulation, the gunpowder formula originally sent by Yunzheng has been changed.
Perhaps, it was precisely because the craftsmanship could not meet the requirements that the craftsmen simply gave up on granulation. Perhaps it was also because of this that the gun barrel became a bamboo pole...
After Yunzheng finished cursing, he was about to grab the people from the Weapons Research Institute and yell, but when he looked back, Damn, no one was there anymore. When the smoke and smoke rose, the people from the Weapons Research Institute were afraid that the smoke would be poisonous, so they ran away early.
Gone
After that, Yun Zheng was very diligent and rushed here every day. He finally endured his anger and trained the musketeers for more than ten days. Several incidents of musket explosions occurred. Now Yun Zheng couldn't bear it anymore and simply made the whole set.
The formula was told to the people at the Weapons Research Institute, and the gunpowder formula was changed again and the musketeers of a thousand-man team were also adjusted. The 200 most skilled musketeers were trained as musketeers, and the 800 eliminated were
As a professional loader, he is responsible for taking care of the life and logistics of the musketeers in peacetime, and professional loading in wartime.
Finally, after several rounds of screening, the finalized musket returned to what Yun Zheng had in mind, which was the early matchlock: it had a thick stick to support the barrel, and each musketeer was equipped with five muskets, which were loaded by two people.
Hands take turns loading to ensure that the musketeers can continue to shoot and maintain the density of firepower.
Therefore, Yunzheng's secret weapon: the training of the musketeers was carried out in extreme secrecy. However, after three or five days of training the musketeers, Yunzheng lost interest in training the musketeers when he saw that the training was on track.
He came to the training camp every once in a while and handed over the task of training these new soldiers to the idle and bored Yun Yi, while he was busy with autumn harvest issues everywhere.
Although Yunzheng is not particularly wealthy now, he relied on the copper mines in the Philippines to transport a batch of them. Yunzheng quickly made them into copper coins and spent them through the Yun family's garrison in Yiju, Korea...
So Yunzheng's economy can support some expenses again.
Money, only wealth that circulates when it is used out, is real wealth
Yunzheng insisted on this point of view, so he not only mobilized the military households who had nothing to do after the autumn harvest, but also hired a large number of people from all over the country to busy organizing government offices and building official residences. However, the thing he was most willing to spend money on was building
Schools, building roads, and building city walls are not as good as these two. The entire northern Xinjiang is working in full swing to build schools. It is a good thing, but the schools in northern Xinjiang are not very popular because they are all for technical studies.
Yes, the so-called skills are blacksmithing, carpentry, building repairs, etc. These things are all the work of the poor, but the poor have no money to send their sons to school, so many schools are built but
no one goes to class
Yunzheng had no other solution for the time being, so he had no choice but to learn from the later dynasties and engage in administrative apportionment: first of all, the children of military households who were not old enough to do heavy work had to go to school to study. The school not only taught free of charge, but also provided a free lunch.
Eat until you are full, but you are not allowed to take them away. Anyone who refuses to send their son to school will be guilty of a crime and be severely punished...
Previously, only boys had to go to school. Later, Marshal Yun asked Nangong Wuyu to do some careful calculation and found that he could still make some money by squeezing in. So he gritted his teeth and built several more girls' schools to concentrate the girls from other families to study.
Weaving, embroidery, knitting, tailoring and even cooking and other non-heavy crafts, the conditions are the same, a free lunch...
--------------------An accident happened. The community was out of power for more than an hour for some unknown reason. It was impossible to make up for the debt today as promised yesterday.
Sorry, let’s see if I can spare the time tomorrow. Anyway, it’s an old saying, 150,000 a month – 300 words for free today.
