"See Your Majesty!"

On the testing ground, in the more intense smell of gunpowder smoke, all the soldiers and craftsmen bowed down and shouted.

"Free gift!"

The emperor glanced at Xu Guangqi, who was wearing a cloth shirt and was standing on the side of the craftsman.

The emperor beckoned, and several soldiers armed with muskets immediately trotted over.

"A few Ai Qing, can you see the difference between these muskets?"

The emperor turned his head and looked at the cabinet ministers beside him.

This question made several cabinet ministers stunned. Immediately, Zongdao Liu Qiyuan also subconsciously looked at Chen Qiyu and Yang Sichang, two cabinet ministers who had experience in leading troops.

Yang Sichang hesitated for a while, then walked up to the soldiers, looked around, and then said slowly:

"This should be... a burst gun, which appeared in the Song Dynasty, and uses a bamboo tube as the barrel, this should be

The fire milling was improved in the Yuan Dynasty, and the bamboo pipe was changed to an iron pipe. This is a fire gun, which was improved after the Ming Taizu uprising. There are many kinds, and this should be one of them..."

"This one is a bird gun made by imitating the Xiyi fan gun in the Jiajing year of the former Ming Dynasty. It is fired with a match rope, which greatly improves the power and convenience of the fire gun. There are eight or nine out of ten shots, and it is the bird gun."

"This is the Lumi gun. It was introduced to the former Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period of the previous dynasty. It was copied by Zhao Shizhen, a member of the Zhongshu She at that time, and handed it to the officials of the former Ming Ministry of War, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Punishment, etc. After verification, it was finally determined that the Lumi gun surpassed the bird gun in terms of convenience and power range."

"The report of the tribunal suggested that the former Ming Wanli emperor should be played, and then the former Ming Wanli emperor issued an decree that the pattern of the chariots and guns made would be sent to the Beijing camp, and they should be made according to law. Officials were ordered to teach them and spread them to all sides, so as to prevent them from bordering prisoners. Of."

"At the same time, we also developed the latest firearms, "Electric Shotgun" and "Thunder Shotgun". The former has the advantages of the Western shotgun and the Folang machine, while the latter has the advantages of the bird shotgun and the three-eyed shotgun."

Seemingly speaking of his own specialty, Yang Sichang talked eloquently, his eyes lit up, and then he quickly walked to the next fire gun, looked at it for a moment, and then came to a decision in his heart: "This one, It was Your Majesty that in the first year of Chongzhen, you ordered the Ordnance Department to develop and change the musket's original arquebus firing to flint firing."

"This change greatly reduces the hidden dangers caused by the occurrence of fires caused by matchmaking, and also greatly simplifies the steps of operating the firearms. At the same time, after eliminating the existence of open fires, the array of firearms can be denser and the firepower is more turbulent. When shooting in multiple stages, It also allows the musket array to truly have the ability to confront the cavalry head-on."

"This one..."

Looking at this fire gun, which was quite similar to a flintlock gun, Yang Sichang couldn't understand it.

The previous several fire guns have already appeared, and each one has improved compared to the previous one. This one, after the flintlock gun, obviously cannot be compared with the generally equipped flintlock gun today. is exactly the same...

But the problem is, he has never seen it.

Yang Sichang was puzzled, but the Son of Heaven did not explain, but instead waved his hand, and the soldier with the fire gun turned around abruptly, squatted down, and started to operate the musket.

Seeing this, Yang Sichang also stared at the soldier's operation with wide eyes. He didn't have the usual gunpowder belt, and he didn't have the usual bullet bag. He saw that the soldier took out a small box from a small box collapsed by his side. A paper cylinder about the size of a finger, bite it in the mouth, the paper is broken, and the gunpowder in the paper is also clearly visible.

Immediately, the soldiers poured the gunpowder in the cardboard into the barrel of the gun, and immediately put the remaining cardboard into the barrel of the gun together. Then, the normal flintlock gun operation was performed, using a poke bar to stab the gun. True, pull the trigger to fire.

This scene caught the eye, and Yang Sichang's eyes also lit up, suddenly enlightened.

Wrapping the gunpowder and the projectile with paper is equivalent to combining the original operation of pouring the gunpowder first and then the projectile into one, and omitting one step directly from the operation of the gun.

He has been in war for a long time, and he naturally understands that on the battlefield, the flintlock gun, which is a sharp weapon, has been reduced again, what it means!

"Sir, I understand."

Yang Sichang bowed to the Son of Heaven.

"Understand what?"

The emperor asked casually.

"This gun combines the two steps of charging and loading into one, and once again simplifies the operation steps of the flintlock gun. In terms of the battlefield, it can be called a decisive opportunity!"

Yang Sichang replied quickly.

The emperor smiled and said, "That's all?"

As soon as this question came out, Yang Sichang was taken aback, is there anything else?

He subconsciously looked at the flintlock gun, and stopped for a moment. Just as he was puzzled, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the target standing in the distance.

"distance!"

Yang Sichang raised his head sharply, staring at the target standing in the distance.

"The distance is not right!"

Yang Sichang blurted out, and after reacting immediately, he hurriedly bowed to the emperor: "I understand, the range is increased."

The Emperor nodded, but he was quite satisfied with Yang Sichang's reaction speed. He took a few steps forward and picked up the pinnacle of the flintlock gun in the hands of his soldiers.

He immediately handed it to Yang Sichang: "Aiqing, look at the barrel of the gun."

Yang Sichang took a look at the barrel and was stunned. In his understanding, shouldn't the smoother the barrel, the longer the range? Why is such a thread, the range does not decrease but increases?

Several other cabinet ministers were also puzzled after seeing it.

"Several Aiqings, do you know why the barrel is threaded, and the range is not reduced, but increased?"

God asked again.

Several cabinet ministers looked at each other, and then all bowed:

"I don't know if I wait."

"I don't know either."

"But they all know."

The emperor shook his head and smiled, then pointed to the respectful craftsmen standing in front of him.

"As the saying goes, there is a specialization in the art industry. It is impossible for me to ask you, the important ministers who are ruling the country for me, to develop these firearms, and it is impossible for these craftsmen to govern the country for me."

Speaking of this, the emperor looked around at several cabinet ministers, and his eyes immediately fixed on Chen Qiyu: "Chen Aiqing, you are quite knowledgeable about military affairs, I ask you, if you were to lead an army with an arquebus, facing an army equipped with an ordinary flintlock gun. What are the odds of winning the army?"

"Forty percent of the soldiers who dare to die!"

Chen Qiyu said.

The emperor asked again: "What if you were to equip this fixed flintlock gun?"

Chen Qiyu's face seemed a little difficult to look at, even if it didn't matter the power of the musket, the range and the operation steps were greatly simplified, and if the flintlock army had no open flames, there would be a threat to gunpowder, so it was possible to have a denser army formation and a more densely packed army. The firepower is to fight with arquebuses. If there is no battle, I am afraid that one of the troops will have to be damaged. If you fight again, with the advantages of range and firepower, you will definitely be suppressed and beaten!

"Thirty percent!"

In the end, Chen Qiyu gritted his teeth.

"it is good."

The emperor nodded, and then walked to a detailed blueprint in front of the last soldier.

"This is the next-generation musket that the Ordnance Department and the Ordnance Division of the Military Academy have focused on in recent years."

"Xu Guangqi, please explain to a few cabinet ministers."

"The minister obeys the order!"

Xu Guangqi bowed to the emperor, then bowed his hands to several cabinet ministers, and then pointed to this already detailed drawing: "This gun is called a bolt-action musket, and this gun has the biggest change compared to the fixed-mounted flintlock gun. It is the use of bolt-action firing instead of flint firing, and at the same time, paper-shell fixed-loading bullets are replaced by copper-shelled bullets…”

"This gun is perfect to avoid all the shortcomings of the flintlock gun. No matter it is sunny or rainy, it will not affect the slightest. The operation steps are even simpler. Even people who have never been exposed to firearms can understand about the same after watching it once. ...According to the calculations of the students of the martial arts college, its range and power far exceed the fixed-mounted flintlock gun, even if it is dressed in iron armor, it is difficult to block the power of this gun..."

Listening to Xu Guangqi's explanation, even if he is not familiar with the military, his eyes can't help but light up at this moment.

"Once this gun is developed, it is no exaggeration to say that, looking at the world, there will be no one who can stop Daheng's military might!"

"No matter how elite an army with fixed flintlock guns is, it is still vulnerable to an army equipped with this bolt-action musket!"

As soon as Xu Guangqi finished speaking, Yang Sichang couldn't wait to ask, "How long will it take to develop this gun?"

As soon as these words came out, Xu Guangqi couldn't help but look dark: "Other problems, under the existing conditions, can almost be solved, even if they can't be solved, they can be replaced by manual work. The problem is that the existing gunpowder, even if it is adjusted to the best ratio, can basically not bear the function of the bolt-action firing. Strong gunpowder."

"Now the Military Academy has focused on this matter, and has mobilized a large number of ordnance science research day after day..."

"The hard work pays off, there must be a time to break through this problem!"

Several cabinet ministers obviously had some ups and downs, and it was hard to hide their frustration. The emperor didn't care too much. The fixed guns were already beyond the times, and they were enough to support Daheng's invincible military might.

The bolt-action musket is far beyond the times, and Daheng's flower of science is only a prototype. He is not in a hurry. As long as the flower of science is still growing, the bolt-action rifle can completely form a generational difference. Weapons will inevitably appear in Daheng beyond the times.

"Chen Aiqing, if you were to lead an army with a fixed flintlock gun, what are the odds of winning against an army with this bolt-action gun?"

Tianzi asked with a smile.

Chen Qiyu's expression became even more difficult to look at. After thinking for a moment, Chen Qiyu shook his head with difficulty: "At most 10%!"

"Ha ha ha ha…"

The emperor shook his head, 10%, impossible!

The emergence of bolt-action rifles will completely change the way of warfare. Using the existing war thinking to imagine the operation of bolt-action rifles is the greatest stupidity!

But the emperor did not expose it. After smiling, he looked at the cabinet ministers in front of him again:

"Aiqings can imagine, if there is no craftsman's existence, can this firearm alone evolve from the initial burst gun to the fixed flintlock gun that can determine the fate of the country today?"

"If there is a day when a foreign enemy comes with a firearm that Daheng can't make at all, what will Daheng do to resist?"

Several cabinet ministers were silent for a while. If they hadn't seen the bolt-action rifle, they wouldn't dare to say a few words, but after seeing the bolt-action rifle, everything was too pale.

"This bolt-action rifle is just the next-generation musket, and the next-generation, the next-generation, firearms will only become more advanced and more terrifying."

"The difficulty of manufacturing will only increase!"

The emperor pointed to the bamboo fire gun: "The first fire gun, even if it's just a farmer, can be easily made with a little training, and the fire gun at the back requires a professional blacksmith to make it, to this matchlock gun. , you need more professional craftsmen to carefully carve, and to cultivate such craftsmen, it will take at least a few years and cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.”

"To set up a flintlock gun, you need a skilled blacksmith, and you also need a lot of skilled musket craftsmen. Each of them, without more than ten years of craftsmanship, is simply unbearable."

"These muskets, even if they are advanced, will not be too advanced. With the foundation left by our ancestors, even if the enemy develops them first, we can imitate them without much effort."

"But this bolt-action rifle, dear gentlemen, do you know what it needs?"

the emperor asked.

Several cabinet ministers also shook their heads.

"There needs to be a perfect craftsman system who is very knowledgeable about the replacement of firearms and the knowledge of firearms."

"It needs a smelting system that is complete and beyond the current world cognition!"

"A whole new kind of gunpowder is needed that is completely beyond the current gunpowder!"

"It is also necessary to carry out extremely precise calculations for every part of this gun, every development step, and even the test after successful development!"

"These four things, each one of them, are made of small paths that people in the world don't care about. How can a country that doesn't have such a foundation and doesn't even know where the road is?"

"If firearms become more and more advanced in the future, the things they need will also become more and more advanced, and Daheng does not have any foundation in this regard..."

"Aiqings, you can imagine what the scene will be like in Daheng at that time and in this piece of Han soil at that time!"

"Chen Aiqing, you have a 10% chance of winning, or even no chance of winning, I'm afraid it will really be staged!"

As soon as the Son of Heaven's voice fell, the audience was dead silent. Under the glory of the Heavenly Kingdom, no one had ever imagined such a possibility.

But when Tianzi puts all this out, even the most optimistic person has to admit that the possibility of all this becoming a reality is very high.

If nothing changes, perhaps, their generation, or the generations after them, will not be affected, but one day, this possibility will become a reality.

Several cabinet ministers are even more certain.

What Your Majesty regards as life and death, in fact, is indeed related to the life and death of Jiangshan, society and Ji. In traditional Confucian thought, it is just a trail that is dismissed by others!

Few people will take the initiative to study, everyone, what they pursue is to read the book of sages and govern the country and bring peace to the world!

People in the world don't take it seriously, and the court naturally doesn't take it seriously either.

If you don’t pay attention, you will inevitably be overtaken by the countries that pay attention.

Once surpassed, such a powerful weapon that spanned the era, without the foundational foundation of the trail that they dismissed, how could it be able to catch up overnight.

Can't catch up, can't beat...

At this moment, the faces of several cabinet ministers were already extremely ugly.

However, the emperor didn't seem to care about the attitudes of the cabinet ministers at all, and he still stabbed the ministers in their hearts again mercilessly: "This is just a musket, artillery, and warships, too many updates and iterations. , is completely beyond the imagination of the world!"

"I said long ago that this is a great era that has never been seen in ages!"

"Nowadays, Xiyi can sail for tens of thousands of miles. With a small country, it can traverse the four seas and rule the land of ten thousand miles. This kind of big change can already explain everything!"

After speaking, the emperor did not say any more, turned to look at Xu Guangqi: "You bring a few cabinet ministers, in the Ordnance Department, and to the Wuyuan, take a good look and explain clearly!"

"Sir, obey the order!"

Xu Guangqi bowed and bowed before taking orders.

The emperor turned around abruptly, and walked away without further explanation.

The cruelty of the times~lightnovelpub.net~ let them experience it for themselves.

As cruel, he did not exaggerate at all. In fact, if he did not change, the future would only be more cruel.

His arrival, he attached great importance to science and firearms, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to cultivate, many things that did not belong to this era have already appeared, and have quietly changed the era.

In this eastern and western culture, with the rise of the great voyage and the fierce collision, if the concept is not reversed, these achievements will definitely flow into the West and change the times again.

That seemingly distant future is really, not far away at all!

If you fall behind, you will be beaten. Since ancient times, it is an eternal truth!

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