Number of romantic figures

Chapter 678

"Sister, don't be angry, but the Jia family is no better than our Feng family, who have been bumping around in the borderlands all day long. They have lived in the middle of Beijing for decades, and those girls born in the family are indeed more disciplined than those in our house who have only been bought for a few years. Much more, no wonder Ziying likes it, doesn't my sister also like Jin Chuan'er and Xiangling?..." Xiao Duan tried to smooth things over.

Daduan's family likes Jin Chuan'er very much, and feels that Jin Chuan'er is well-informed, obedient and sensible, and will take the initiative to talk to herself about any situation. It is true that there are really no two girls in her own house, but Xiangling is honest. Temperament, although not as intelligent as Jin Chuan'er, but the honest temperament also makes Da Duan feel at ease.

"Well, let him go." Feng Tang waved his hand, "But is there a little less girls in Ziying's room?"

Since it's not easy to carry it into the mansion from the outside, the girls in my mansion are not so taboo.

Feng Tang also knew that his trip to Liaodong might be a rare return in a short period of time, and he might stay for ten or eight years. Seek stability, and will not switch easily. Just look at Li Chengliang's two tenures for decades to understand, so he also hopes that his son can continue the incense as soon as possible.

"My lord, I've said it too, but Ziying still refuses, saying that if she wants to enter his house, she has to pass his eyes to satisfy him." Daduan sighed, "This kind of thing is up to concubines." I shouldn't have come here to talk to the master, but Ziying has her own ideas now, and ordinary things are fine, and she refuses to listen to me and Wanqin for such things, and I have to ask the master to talk to him Just do it."

"This kid!" Feng Tang shook his head, his son couldn't help himself, his son is too independent, he has to make up his own mind about everything, but if it wasn't like this, how could he let the important officials in the court and even the emperor Are blue eyes added?

Feng Ziying ate dinner with Wang Yingxiong.

"There is no more news yet, but what is certain is that Bozhou, Shuixi, and Yongning are definitely connected, and they are still very close. As for the increase in the price of food and cloth, it is hard to say now, and there are still some. It’s just that the overall trend is still rising slowly. I also asked my clansmen to step up to inquire. In addition, Uncle Fang and I also talked to Uncle Fang. Go check it out and see if there are any other movements in Bozhou,..."

Wang Yingxiong picked up his glass and took a sip, "However, I feel that sooner or later there will be chaos in Bozhou..."

"So sure?" Feng Ziying raised her glass with a smile.

"The situation among chieftains and officials is like fire and water, and it is the people below who suffer. As long as someone with a heart stirs up the flames, it is very easy to cause trouble. Then Yang Yinglong is not an idler. I wonder if this fellow is waiting for the right time. "Wang Yingxiong picked up a piece of bad quail with chopsticks, put it into his mouth and chewed, "Ziying, this bad quail tastes delicious, no restaurant in Beijing can have this taste."

"Hehe, then if you have nothing to do, you can come and sit with me for a while." Jin Chuan'er's craftsmanship was passed down from Jia's mansion, and it has to be said that the food culture in Rongguo mansion is still of a certain standard.

"Well, also, your father is going to Liaodong soon to take up his post?" Wang Yingxiong was in the military department, so he was very aware of these changes.

"Master Zhang and Master Chai are urging my father to go to the post as soon as possible, so as to stabilize the morale of the army as soon as possible. My father is still discussing with the Ministry of War." Feng Ziying nodded.

"Is it still a matter of food and salary?" Wang Yingxiong put down his chopsticks, "Food and salary are a big deal, but the Arsenal has just accepted a batch of firecrackers, [-] pieces. Originally, it was intended to form a team of firecrackers in the Beijing camp, but the Shenji camp I have never been interested in firecrackers, so I put it aside, I know you have always been interested in firecrackers, this is just a good time to ask your father to experiment in Liaodong."

"Oh?" Feng Ziying was taken aback. He didn't expect that Da Zhou could produce firecrackers by himself, "Can the Ministry of War produce firecrackers?"

"Not really." Wang Yingxiong hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice and said: "It is said that Zhao Shizhen, the former arsenal secretary of the Ministry of War, organized craftsmen to imitate the Lumi blunderbuss. As usual, it was made four or five years ago, and it was not completed until this year, and it was sent to Beijing."

Zhao Shizhen?Feng Ziying seemed to have some impression of this person's name, but couldn't remember it for a while.

"Let the workshop in Foshan imitate it? Doesn't the Ministry of War have its own gunpowder bureau or military battle bureau in Wanggong Factory?" Feng Ziying paid more attention to the Ministry of War, and paid less attention to the other divisions.

"It is said, um, it is said that Zhao Langzhong imitated the Lumi blunderbuss in Bingzhanju, but it took a year or two to make the Lumi blunderbuss. The fire guns produced were far less effective than the bird guns, and the equipment was given to the Shenji Battalion. As a result, the fire guns exploded frequently, killing and injuring many soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, and the burning speed of the matchlocks was different, so it almost caused a fire in the Shenji Camp. In the mutiny, Zhao Langzhong was almost imprisoned, and it was the former Chief Assistant Lord Shen and the former Shangshu Xiao Shangshu who protected Zhao Langzhong, so Zhao Langzhong stayed in office,..."

Feng Ziying didn't expect that Wang Yingxiong had the ability to inquire about information, and he actually found out all the secrets of the Ministry of War before.

"So the Secretary of Arms simply entrusted it to be made outside?" Feng Ziying laughed, "It's just that this is too far away. I went to Foshan. Isn't Mr. Zhao afraid that the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate will impeach him?"

"It is said that Langzhong Zhao suggested looking for outsiders. At that time, Master Xiao decided to go to Foshan to order, and Foshan is close to Guangzhou, so it is easy to recruit Xiyi craftsmen..." Wang Yingxiong said casually.

"This production takes four to five years?" Feng Ziying couldn't imagine that three thousand firecrackers could be produced in four to five years. What kind of high manufacturing efficiency is this?
"Except for the initial allocation of 1 taels of silver to others, no more money has been given to him. Xiao Shangshu has left, and Zhao Langzhong has also been dismissed long ago. Now he is here to ask for follow-up silver..." Wang Yingxiong said Only then did I tell the whole story.

"Yo, it turned out to be a bunch of junk that no one wants, Shenjiying still refuses to take it?" Feng Ziying laughed, and he said how could there be an extra pile of firecrackers for no reason, so it turned out to be such a tortuous story.

"Shenjiying is determined not to want it, but this family sent them all over, and they signed an agreement at the beginning, and each gun was made at eight taels of silver. With the gunpowder made by the Gunpowder Bureau, the price of a gunpowder has already reached nine It's about two or five dollars, which is too expensive." Wang Yingxiong shook his head.

Is it expensive for a firecracker to go with medicine, about ten taels of silver?Feng Ziying is not sure either.

In a sense, I am afraid that it is indeed more expensive. Compared with ordinary swords, it must be more expensive, but if it is a kind of hot weapon, if it can change the outcome of the war on the battlefield, then 3 firecrackers are no more. More than [-] taels of silver is really nothing.

Of course, I don't know the level of this kind of firecracker, maybe it's just a gun that explodes after a few shots, so let alone ten taels of silver, even one tael of silver is not worth it.

"The reason why the Shenji Battalion refused to take it was that the firecrackers were dangerous, unstable in quality, easy to injure soldiers, inconvenient to operate, and insufficient in power. What about this batch of firecrackers?" Feng Ziying asked.

"I tried one or two of them, and they are definitely much stronger than the previous ones, but compared with the firearms of the Xiyi people, such as the turtledove guns, there is still a big gap. It is said that the main reason is that the quality of the iron material is not good, and the gunpowder also needs to be used. It’s worse, and the barrel of the gun can’t be that long, so I can’t blame anyone.” Wang Yingxiong shook his head.

No iron material, no gun barrel, no gunpowder, these few things determine that this kind of firecracker cannot be very reliable, and the firecracker itself requires a lot of mechanical training to form an inertial memory model to be effective , and at present, Da Zhou seems to have basically no training in this area, so how can it be effective?

Three thousand firecrackers, whether it is more or less, depends on how you use it.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, the proportion of firearms used by the frontier army is not high, and most of them are even worse types of firearms, such as three-eyed guns and target guns.

But even if this kind of weapon is compared with the army that is purely cold weapon, the ratio is still much worse.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of War, it is estimated that the proportion of musketeers in Liaodong Town is about 1%. Door guns, real arquebuses are used very rarely.

If it were border towns such as Xuanda and Sanbian, the ratio would be even lower. At least Feng Ziying knew that the musketeers in Yulin town were only a thousand, purely for appearances, and the archers were still the absolute main force for long-range strikes.

Feng Ziying pondered for a while.

He knew what Wang Yingxiong meant when he mentioned this, and it was nothing more than letting his father take over the three thousand firecrackers, which was equivalent to solving a problem for the Ministry of War, and it was also a support for Liaodong Town. It needs to be deducted from the food and supplies that the father asks for from the Ministry of War.

He needs to think about this matter.

He knew that his father was not very interested in the use of this kind of firecrackers, and thought that these weapons were mostly gimmicks and had little practical value, but his father still valued all kinds of artillery.

Of course, this may be unconvincing compared to the performance of various Huomen guns in the army, including the three-eyed blunderbuss, but Feng Ziying also knows that this is not the reason for the firearms, but that the Huomen guns have indeed lagged behind this era. Inside the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty, especially the civil servants' conservative mentality, they were unwilling to take risks and innovate. In addition, this kind of musket did have many disadvantages, and the training in the army was seriously insufficient. bias.

(End of this chapter)