This was probably the location of the Summer Palace in the Qing Dynasty. When Zhu Houzhao built the Leopard House, he also built a "Good Mountain Garden" outside the city.
There was so much trouble in the court about the salt method and the cotton method, but Zhu Houzhao didn't even live in the leopard room anymore, and moved directly to Haoshanyuan in the northwest suburbs to relax. There are mountains and water there, and the environment is comfortable and pleasant, but there are sandstorms.
, is also much smaller than the city - historically, Emperor Wanli also liked to hide here, while Jiajing preferred to live in the Leopard Room.
"Your Majesty, can you test the cannon?" Wang Yuan's brother-in-law Huang Feng asked.
Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "Let's try the cannon."
Huang Feng said happily: "Your Majesty ordered the cannon to be tested!"
Lin Jun, who was supposed to die of illness this year, is still alive and well and living in the emperor's Haoshan Garden.
Life extension is a normal thing. In history, Lin Jun was so happy to be reinstated that he was inexplicably involved in the court dispute over the ceremony. Originally, he did not want to help each other and just wanted to do things seriously, but who could care about doing things when they were fighting? He got involved in a row.
None of the eight memorials he wrote were accepted by Emperor Jiajing, so he resigned in frustration. Moreover, he could not go back by sea ship, so he had to travel by boat all the way back to his hometown in Fujian. He caught cold and fell ill on the way, and died not long after returning.
Nowadays, Lin Junke is very worry-free. He no longer cares about government affairs and squats in the royal garden every day to renovate artillery.
The artillery in front of you is no longer a Franco machine gun. Its inner barrel is made of steel, and the outside is covered with a layer of wrought iron sheath, taking into account both the strength and toughness of the gun body. And under the condition of bearing the same chamber pressure,
It also effectively reduces the weight of the gun body and can be easily lifted by two soldiers.
"boom!"
When a cannon is fired, the projectile flies far away.
The guards pulled the rope to measure, and then ran back to report: "Your Majesty, the place where the projectile landed is a mile and a half (about 840 meters)."
Zhu Houzhao was very happy: "Okay, very good. The barrel of the cannon has not been enlarged and the gunpowder has not been added more, but the range of this cannon has been increased by nearly half a mile! Mr. Lin, you deserve the greatest credit."
Lin Jun was also very excited. He raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty's praise is the result of the collaboration of many physics disciples."
Zhu Houzhao ran over to observe the artillery at close range. He asked curiously: "How did you do it?"
Lin Jun explained: "There are two types of artillery today. One is the front-loading cannon of the Ming Dynasty, and the other is the breech-loading cannon of the Folangji. Although the front-loading cannon is powerful, its rate of fire is too slow, so I am determined to
Improve the Folan cannon. The biggest drawback of the Folan cannon is the lack of air tightness, and it is very difficult to improve. Chen and his physics disciples worked hard for more than a year and completely redesigned the breech of the gun. It adopts a vertical air-locking tailbolt.
? Then use the screw thread iron bolt to tighten it. ”
It is really just an improvement on the Franco cannon, but the air-tight technology used is the "Armstrong swivel gun" tailbolt. Should this design have appeared in 1855? Now it has come out more than three hundred years ahead of schedule.
Have the Europeans taken many detours? They first learned the Eastern front-loading cannon, then invented their own breech-loading cannon, and then went to develop the front-loading cannon. During this period, the front-loading cannon has been developed for three hundred years, and it is difficult to reproduce it.
Improved? So I came back to study the breech-loading cannon.
The Folang machine gun originally had a vertical breech block, but due to design flaws, it always leaked. Lin Jun modified the entire breech and added a bolt design on the basis of the vertical breech block, which belongs to the modern breech
The transitional nature of the gun.
Rifling?
sorry, we do not have that.
Wang Yuan mentioned rifling to Lin Jun, but Lin Jun only focused on solving the air tightness problem? He has not yet studied the role of rifling.
Zhu Houzhao patted the cannon body and said: "With this magical weapon, if we make it bigger, one cannon can destroy it for ten miles!"
Lin Jun said: "The Ming Dynasty's enemies are in the north, and the Mongolian cavalry comes and goes like the wind. It is more cost-effective to build more small cannons like this. This cannon is light and convenient. It has no wheels and can be lifted by two soldiers and four soldiers.
You can carry it around easily.”
"That's right, it's most convenient to use this kind of small cannon to deal with cavalry," Zhu Houzhao said with a happy smile, "This cannon can no longer be called Folangji, but...well, hussar general cannon!"
"What a name!" Lin Jun is also a flatterer. He also hopes that the emperor will allocate research funds and continue to build cannons in the royal garden.
Zhu Houzhao said: "Take those physics disciples and continue to improve this artillery. Try to shoot farther and aim more accurately! Although I don't have enough food now, I have a lot of gold and silver in my inner treasury. I will give you five thousand taels of silver every year to develop it."
Artillery. This is a beautiful garden. You and the physics disciples can come and go as you please. No artillery-related technology is allowed to be leaked. I will call in the palace guards to guard it."
Does this count as turning Haoshanyuan into the Ming Dynasty Royal Artillery Research Institute?
Lin Jun was overjoyed: "Your Majesty is wise."
Zhu Houzhao added: "Send a disciple to Hangzhou with the blueprints and build two hundred doors first!"
Why do you have to go to Hangzhou to build cannons?
The main reason was that the quality of the artillery produced in the capital was worrying, and the design of the main gun was not airtight enough, so it would be easy to explode the barrel after firing an average of twenty or thirty rounds. This made Zhu Houzhao have no confidence in the cannon casters in the capital.
Even the Folang machine gun made in Hangzhou, due to its own design flaws, fires an average of more than two to three hundred shots, and there is a high risk of explosion. This may be one of the reasons why Europeans abandoned early breech-loaded guns.
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Lin Jun said: "Your Majesty, Wang Shangshu once said that rifling is useful, and I plan to develop artillery rifling next."
"What is rifling?" Zhu Houzhao asked.
Lin Jun said: "I can't say it clearly, and Wang Shangshu's explanation is also vague. It's probably about adding yin and yang lines in the barrel."
Rifling has actually been invented, but Europe is still using front-loading muskets. Because early muskets were front-loaded, loading rifled guns was very troublesome, and the rate of fire was only one-third or even lower than that of smoothbore guns.
Zhu Houzhao was about to say something more, but suddenly a eunuch rushed over and presented the new salt law formulated by the cabinet.
Even though Zhu Houzhao went out to play with cannons outside the city, he was not left behind by the situation in the court. He just didn't bother to care about small things and didn't say anything about big things. He only warned Zhang Yong, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, that after the new salt law came out, he must send it to the royal family.
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Zhu Houzhao only glanced at it and handed it to Lin Jun: "Mr. Lin, please take a look."
Lin Jun cupped his hands and said: "I have already entered the official position, so I should not interfere with the court's secrets anymore."
"It's okay, just read it in detail." Zhu Houzhao said with a smile.
Lin Jun looked at it carefully, with a rather surprised expression on his face, and said, "This method must have come from Wang Ruoxu's hand."
Zhu Houzhao smiled and said: "Who else dares to increase the salary of officials in the world except him?"
Wang Yuan used the private sales of surplus salt to support retail investors and fight against hoarders, so as to ensure the smooth implementation of the new salt law. However, the new salt law also has another content, that is, "the salt administration version spreads the small shares into the acres", which is offensive.
How can all local officials' affairs be implemented without benefits?
It just so happened that Wang Yuan felt that the salary of officials was too low, so he killed two birds with one stone.
That is, the salt tax collected by the ding was changed to the salt tax collected by the kilogram. Forty percent of the salt tax collected in the county was handed over to the Ministry of Household Affairs, 20% was retained in the county, 20% was handed over to the state government, and 20% was handed over to the Chief Secretary.
Sixty percent of the salt class left in government offices at all levels is used specifically to raise wages for local officials. If there is any surplus, it goes to the local treasury. 40% of the salt class handed over to the Ministry of Household Affairs is used to raise wages for Beijing officials, and the rest
The following revenue is collected into the national treasury.
The well-oiled officials have long since become rich through corruption, and they really look down on their small salary. But there are always honest officials, and there are always Qingshui Yamen. Such officials must support the new salt law, and they will help Wang Yuan charge into battle.
In addition, all the remaining salt lessons due to the salary increase will belong to the local small treasury.
Hehe, county magistrates, prefects, prefects, and envoys can directly work with the local salt tax yamen. This is my money, and you salt tax officials can't take it away! What, give it to me like before?
Let’s be honest, all of this belongs to me. Even if I can only get 20%, it is still legal income. How can it be the same if I can be embezzled? What’s more, I didn’t get 20% before!
How many illicit officials can there be in a county? How much more can the salary increase? The reform of the salt class alone can generate thousands of taels of income for large counties, and hundreds of taels for small counties. It is said to be an improvement.
How the local treasury is used is not decided by the county magistrate?
Corrupt officials can be corrupt, but honest officials can use the money to do good things!
Lin Jun only took one look and felt that this move was too powerful. First, it would allow the new salt law to be implemented smoothly across the country, second, it would increase local and central fiscal revenue, and third, it would increase the salaries of officials across the country.
When Wang Yuan threw out the last trick, Yang Tinghe completely compromised. He was the chief minister, and he raised the wages of officials across the country. This will definitely leave a mark in history, and officials all over the world will remember him well. He is the Yang family
From now on, the descendants can go as far as they want, as long as they don’t confiscate their homes and exterminate their clans, no one will provoke them!
How much salary increase does Wang Yuan plan to give officials?
The overall improvement is three levels, that is to say, officials of the seventh rank can receive the salary they used to have from the fifth rank. Although it is definitely not enough to meet the expenses of welcoming and raising slaves, it can at least make the honest officials live a better life, and will not let the honest officials live a better life.
I can't even afford meat for my birthday.
While others bought the hearts of the people, Wang Yuan directly bought the hearts of the officials, just to see if the emperor dared to agree.