Dai Zi, courtesy name Kai and nickname Gengyan, was born in Zhejiang. In the 13th year of Kangxi's reign, Geng Jingzhong launched an army from Fujian and invaded Zhejiang. In response to Wu Sangui's rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi sent Prince Kang Jie as the ordered general to lead the Qing army to Fujian and Zhejiang to conquer Geng.
Jingzhong.【】Dai Zi was recruited by Jie to join the army when the Qing army passed by his hometown. When Kangxi received him for the first time, he asked him to write "Poems of Morning Morning in Spring". He was appreciated and awarded the position of lecturer in the Hanlin Academy.
Dai Zi was very smart and knowledgeable. He had certain attainments in painting and law. He was also proficient in music and participated in the compilation of "Lü Lu Zhengyi". In addition, he was also proficient in heaven's algorithm and wrote "Ten Strategies for River Regulation". And
He also had extremely high talents in research and manufacturing technology. Kangxi once asked him if he understood the principle of foreign-made Fa Lang, and Dai Zi quickly developed it. But these are secondary, so Zhao Qiang remembered this person and
What impressed me most was his amazing talent in making firearms.
According to historical records recorded by Zhao Qiangguo, Dai Zi once made a bird gun with pearls and presented it to the Qing government. This bird gun was a firearm capable of firing twenty-eight rounds in a row. According to Ji Yun and Ji Xiaolan's records, he learned about it from Dai Zi's nephew
As you can see, this kind of bird gun is shaped like a lute. The gunpowder and lead are stored in the part of the gun called the ridge. There are two wheels. The gunpowder and lead will automatically fall into the barrel when the trigger is turned, and the second machine will follow suit, and the flint will be fired.
Stimulate the blunderbuss to fire, and repeat this. After the twenty-eight rounds of shooting, it is necessary to reload the gunpowder and lead. This is the only automatic shooting weapon recorded in the history of the country. It is not an exaggeration to call this "twenty-eight blunderbuss" with a machine gun.
.However, even in the prosperous Qing Dynasty when Kangxi was the "wise" monarch, this kind of advanced weapon was not only not widely used, but also had no chance of practical use. The actual weapon could only be hidden at home, so that more than a hundred years later, the British
People opened the door to the Qing Dynasty with the help of less advanced muzzle-loading guns, which is really disappointing.
Dai Zi's talent is not just about making accurate machine guns like the "Twenty-Eight Guns". It can be said that any firearm he has access to, whether domestic or foreign, can be copied immediately with just one glance. This kind of "
I am afraid that the military industry of later generations will be ashamed of its "copycat" ability. A Westerner once boasted to Kangxi with a firearm called a panchang shotgun. After Kangxi passed away, he also thought this weapon was very good, so he asked Dai Zi to imitate it. As a result, Dai Zi could not
Within a month, several such guns had been produced. The so-called panchang shotgun should refer to a gun with a boring wire, that is, a rifle wire, in the barrel. Under the process conditions at that time, Dai Zi was able to produce it in less than a month.
The barrel with boring lines not only amazed the world, but also made Zhao Qiang stunned.
Dai Zi’s self-made firearms are not only convenient and practical in style, but also of good quality. According to historical records, each firearm he made can hit a hundred steps away. In the Qing Dynasty and previous dynasties, measurements were not the meters, centimeters, etc. used by later generations.
, but are measured in steps, feet, and feet. The so-called conversion of a hundred steps into meters is between eighty-five meters and ninety meters. The Qing military muskets and Russian muskets currently used by Guan Ning's army cannot reach eighty meters.
For a shooting distance of 50 meters, the Qing army's gunfire can generally only fire at 50 steps, otherwise it will not be able to hit the target. The Russian army is slightly better, but it can only reach 60 steps, which is half the distance of a hundred steps.
, you can imagine what it would be like if the firearms held by one of the warring parties can press the other for dozens of meters! If you have the firearms made by Dai Zi and the combination of three-stage shooting, as long as you are not fooling around,
Victory is only a matter of time.
In addition to firearms, Dai Zi's design and manufacturing capabilities in artillery are also impressive. His most important contribution is the manufacture of dual-arm cannons. Zhao Qiang was particularly interested in this Qing Dynasty firearms design expert, so he
He knew a lot about his life. He knew that probably in the 19th year of Kangxi's reign, Dai Zi was ordered to make a mother-and-son cannon. Its characteristic was that it did not fire ordinary iron or lead, but an explosive cannon, which was later called "
"Bloom". After the Zimu Cannon was completed, Kangxi went to watch its performance in person and named it "General Weiyuan". In the Battle of Zhaomodo during the subsequent expedition to Galdan, the Zimu Cannon showed its power. According to reports,
The record says, "He defeated his camp with three cannons and achieved a great victory."
When three cannons fall, the battle is won. I don’t know if it’s an exaggeration to say this, but it can be reasonably concluded that compared with iron or lead artillery that fires a single attack, the explosion of this kind of firearm has a larger attack coverage.
It will be miraculous when dealing with the cavalry of the nomadic people. The Jungar Khan tribe has a kind of camel formation, which is quite effective in fighting on the grassland, and it happens to be the target of effective attack by the double cannon. It is a pity that such a wizard was sent to Kangxi
The Northeast Tieling was a major injustice, and all his hard work was wasted. It became a trick played by the Manchu nobles, and the law has been brilliant in the long history of the times.
Zhao Qiang didn't know much about the specific reasons for Dai Zi's unjust case, but he knew that the cause was Nan Huairen's false accusation out of jealousy. There were two reasons for Nan Huairen's jealousy. One was that before Dai Zi made the cannon, Kangxi
First, he ordered Nan Huairen to build it, but "it took a year to build it," so he asked Dai Zi to build it, and Dai Zi built it in only eight days, which made Nan Huairen "ashamed and angry." The other is
When compiling "Lü Lu Zhengyi", Nan Huairen and Dai Zi had different opinions, and Nan Huairen could not argue with Dai Zi. So Nan Huairen colluded with some people who had blackmailed Dai Zi but failed, and falsely accused him of having an affair with the East.
As a result, Kangxi listened to one side and exiled Dai Zi outside the customs.
This was the 22nd year of Kangxi, and it was the 29th year of Kangxi that Dai Zi was sent to the outside world. There were still seven years to go. Dai Zi was still serving as his minister in the Hanlin Academy, but he was very worthy of being a minister.
Frustrated, having all the skills but not being able to put them to use, Zhao Qiang knows this dilemma firsthand, just like when he just left school and wanted to do something big, he was full of ambitions, but ended up running into obstacles everywhere.
With Dai Zi, there will be three-eyed muskets, and there will be powerful cavalry; with Dai Zi, there will be twenty-eight guns, and there will be powerful infantry; with Dai Zi, there will be mother and son cannons, and there will be powerful artillery. In short
, As long as he has Dai Zi, the military production that Zhao Qiang hoped for will no longer be a dream. From now on, he will not have to hold the lifeblood of weapons in the hands of foreigners, nor will he need to take a lot of money to take advantage of him, nor will he have to fight with fear in every battle.
This person must be recruited, and even if he cannot be persuaded, he must be kidnapped! Zhao Qiang slapped the table decisively, his eyes indescribably scary.
"Commander, a letter from Duolun Chan and Hu Wanhu has arrived!"
Just when Zhao Qiang was thinking about how to get Dai Ziji to get him, the guard outside the door reported softly.