king of war

Chapter 96 The Breech-Loading Rifle
After the Donglin Party came to power, the first administrative measure was to increase taxes on Liaodong. To be honest, this operation surprised Qin Rongshuai.

He thought about it for several days, but he couldn't figure out what the Donglin Party's operation was.

It is very good for you to increase the tax, so I will not pay it at all. The three-year tax exemption has already expired, so I just have an excuse not to pay it.

Then the second policy of the Donglin Party is to train the new army and strengthen the defense forces of Shanhaiguan.

But all of this requires money. When Liaodong attacked Jianlu, tens of millions of taels of silver were spent.

Now something happened in Liaodong again, and this money cannot be solved by 3000 to [-] million taels.

In particular, Qin Rongshuai is different from Jianlu. He is a fully weaponized army, and the threat is much greater than Jianlu.

The cold weapon troops go up to deliver food, which is not enough to watch.

The only thing to deal with firearms is firearms, so it is necessary to manufacture and purchase more firearms and equipment, and to train new troops, which costs more than cold weapon troops.

The Fujian iron that was mostly used in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the wrought iron produced in Fujian, was smelted into three catties for every ten catties.The price of materials is nine cents of silver; five craftsmen are used, and the price of food is two cents and five cents of silver; the price of charcoal is about six cents of one cent; the general calculation of silver is five cents.Then a catty of "more refined iron" will cost at least one cent six cents six cents six cents of silver.In steelmaking, if you count two qian of silver per catty, you can make a nail leaf; if you count three liang of silver, you can make a good knife.

Bird guns are smelted from forty catties to eight catties (the loss rate is astonishing), so the price of iron per catty must be more than one cent six cents six cents six cents, and the total price is calculated as three taels of silver by 1.5 times.The wages are just bored, thirty diaries, one or two or five dollars.Other craftsman's money, parts money, wood money, and charcoal fire money cost about one tael of silver, which means that the cost price is at least five taels of money.

This is still the actual cost price. When the court purchases it, the price of a bird gun will be at least eight to ten taels.

Therefore, the courtiers were overjoyed, and they expressed their support one after another. The new army must be trained, and it must be trained intensively. Otherwise, the Liaodong rebellion cannot be quelled.

So the question is, where does the money come from?
Therefore, the Donglin Party decided to levy additional Liao pay.

Qin Rongshuai has no time to care about what the Donglin Party is going to do. He is now researching the natural rubber shipped from Nanyang. Before that, the seals of the steam engine were welded by the welding rods he brought with him in the space.

This method is okay to build a few steam engines at first, but when the number of steam engines increases later, the welding rods will be used up.

Although he also brought some rubber raw materials, it was not enough, so Qin Rongshuai arranged for people to search in Nanyang for more than half a year, and finally found a stable supply of natural rubber.

With rubber, many things are easier to handle.

With the establishment of the three acid and two alkali combined chemical plants, Liaodong took the first step towards modern industry.

The first is the industrial production of nitric acid, so that Qin Rongshuai's firearms army no longer has to worry about gunpowder.

Moreover, with the availability of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, smokeless gunpowder could be produced on a large scale. Before the flintlock became popular, it was replaced by more advanced breech-loading rifles.

Qin Rongshuai imitated the British Martini-Henry rifle as the first standard rifle. This rifle uses single-shot loading, and its structure is simple and easy to operate and maintain.

It was widely equipped in the British army at that time, and it showed its talents in various colonies. It has withstood the test of various environments and can be regarded as very reliable and durable.

The artillery chose the Krupp 75mm field gun and 120mm howitzer as the main artillery to equip their new army.

This equipment upgrade directly consumed all the seamless steel pipes in Qin Rongshuai's personal space.It took three years for the new army in Liaodong to become a modern army equipped with 20 breech-loading rifles and hundreds of artillery pieces.

At this time, Qin Rongshuai felt quite dazed when he drew his sword and looked around. He carefully looked around his territory, and found that there were almost no threatening opponents.

The nomads in the western grasslands are very well-behaved in the face of Qin Rongshuai's firearms troops, not to mention that the business between the two sides is like honey.

This daughter is the famous Da Yu'er in history. Qin Rongshuai even commented on it once before, she is really beautiful.

It's a pity that Qin Rongshuai is not interested in her. He only wants to build socialism, and women will only affect his speed of drawing his sword.

To the north are the primitive tribes in the deep mountains and old forests, who have long surrendered to the sugar-coated shells of grain, iron, cloth, and Liao salt.

To the south is Daming, but it's a pity that Qin Rongshuai's foundation is not deep yet, and he can't eat it in one bite.

He needs to wait for an opportunity, an opportunity that will appear soon, and the Ming Dynasty will soon be in chaos, and then is his chance to make a move.

Then to the east of him is Goryeo, not only weak, but also very disobedient, no matter how you look at it, he deserves to be beaten.

So Qin Rongshuai mobilized [-] troops and drove all the way to the Yalu River to question the Li Dynasty of Korea.

When the first emperor passed away, what did your country do as a vassal of the Ming Dynasty?

Goryeo was completely dumbfounded, we...we are all in mourning.

Qin Rongshuai was surprised when he heard this answer, hey, this is smart.

So I continued to ask, how long have you been wearing mourning?

Li Dynasty replied, one month.

Qin Rongshuai thought for a while, and continued to question: "Why don't you keep your filial piety for three months? It's obviously perfunctory and disrespectful to the emperor."

The monarchs and ministers of the Li Dynasty just wanted to refute that it is enough to keep filial piety for the emperor for 27 days, how can there be three months.But the form is stronger than the person, Qin Rongshuai's new army is sharp, they can't afford it.

So the Li Dynasty proposed that they should observe filial piety for Emperor Taichang again for three months.

Qin Rongshuai thought for a long time, and finally asked angrily: "Then how long has your king died and kept his filial piety?"

The envoys of the Li Dynasty replied tremblingly, it was also a month.

Qin Rongshuai was overjoyed at once, uh, and said angrily: "Your king kept filial piety for a month after his death, and you also kept filial piety for a month when I died as the late emperor. Such disrespect and transgression of the etiquette system clearly have the intention of usurping, come here, Level up Goryeo with me."

The [-] army directly crossed the river and killed all the way to Yangping. The Li Dynasty could not resist at all, so they could only kneel down and beg for mercy.

In addition to contributing a large amount of gold, silver and grain, he also leased Jeju Island to Qin Rongshuai for 100 years at a price of 99 taels of silver.

Not only that, but every year the Li Dynasty also provides Liaodong with various mineral deposits, food and other items.

Only then was Qin Rongshuai satisfied, and he admonished the monarchs and ministers of Korea before withdrawing his troops.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty also spent a lot of money to train a firearms force of 5 people, and suddenly felt that their confidence was greatly increased, and they reappointed Xiong Tingbi as Liaodong Economic Strategy, Yuan Yingtai as Liaodong Governor, commanded [-] troops, and went out to fight against rebellion. .

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