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"There are more than 20,000 of them. Read М"

Hearing this number, Zhao Xu was satisfied.

It seems that the Department of Military Affairs can deliver 30,000 flintlock muskets as scheduled.

"Where's the artillery?" Zhao Xu asked again.

While the flintlocks were being made, the creation of artillery did not stop.

"During this period, the main delivery of the Military Division was field artillery. Now the entire army has 180 field artillery." Chang Wei grinned.

He was very satisfied with this number.

Even for a big war, so many artillery pieces are enough.

Zhao Xu nodded.

According to his plan, the number of field artillery in the entire army would reach 360.

Although he can manufacture artillery in large quantities, the Army does not need to manufacture too many.

This thing is a big spender of money. It can be said that one shot of a cannon brings a thousand taels of gold.

Furthermore, artillery is about quality, not weight.

Ten thousand muskets are rubbish in front of a hundred artillery pieces.

During the Battle of Saerhu in the Ming Dynasty, it was said that there were more than a thousand artillery pieces, but in fact most of them were small cannons like muskets, which did not take advantage of the Qing army's red barbarian artillery at that time.

The Qing army's red barbarian guns were imitated from the Dutch naval guns at that time.

Therefore, unless the enemy has artillery of the same level as him, it is necessary to compete in terms of quantity.

Otherwise, just keep the number of artillery within an appropriate range.

If it is really needed, just let the Military Division increase its production capacity.

What's more, this is just a field artillery in the army.

If the city defense artillery is included, the artillery of the royal army is already very large and absolutely sufficient.

After all, the city defense artillery mounted on the artillery cart is a heavy artillery.

With a calculation in his mind, Zhao Xu said at this time: "In addition to these two firearms in this war, I also want to give you a sharp weapon."

Chang Wei was delighted, rubbed his hands and asked what it was.

Zhao Xu interrupted him directly, "As before, keep it secret for now. You will know in two days."

"Your Highness, you are going to make the general sleepless at night again." Chang Wei said with a bitter face.

Zhao Xu laughed twice, thinking that the war was approaching day by day, he said: "You should make arrangements for the war against Jinzhou first, time is running out."

When Chang Wei heard this, his expression suddenly became serious.

This is serious business, so don’t be joking around.

"Yes, Your Highness." He responded.

After leaving Beidaying directly, Zhao Xu did not visit the palace, but went to Beifang District.

Soon after the Bingzhan Division moved to Nanfang District, the Wangfu's workshop was moved to Beidaying.

In addition, the manufacturing of cement and glass was also separated from the Bingzhan Division and moved to Beifang District.

This time he was going to the glass shop.

"Your Highness."

When Zhao Xu came over, the director of the glass shop immediately came to greet him.

At present, all the workshops in Beifang District are owned by the royal family.

Therefore, each workshop has a responsible person.

These principals were in turn under the jurisdiction of the trading houses.

Although the principals are not officials, they are still equivalent to officials, and they receive money allocated by the palace.

"No courtesy." Zhao Xu raised his hand and went straight into the glass shop.

At this time, the craftsmen in the glass shop were still busy working.

Red molten glass tumbles in the furnace.

Craftsmen constantly use blowpipes to pick out the glass liquid from it and blow it directly, or put it into molds and blow it.

Arriving in front of the craftsman, the craftsman had just taken out a section of molten glass from the furnace.

The craftsman who worked with him immediately brought a mold with a round hole.

He could see some lines in the round hole.

After the red glass liquid is stuffed into the mold, the craftsman starts blowing.

After blowing is completed, a standard glass bottle is completed.

If there is any irregularity, the craftsman will take it to the furnace to burn it and then straighten it.

At present, wine bottles and perfume bottles used in commercial houses are all blown using molds.

And these things are all in the book he gave to the glass shop.

Picking up a cooling glass bottle, Zhao Xu nodded with satisfaction.

Then he said to the manager of the glass shop: "The goods of the glass shop cannot stop at these. It needs to be diversified. In addition to simple glasses and bottles, we must also make more exquisite glassware, such as porcelain-like exhibits."

The owner of the glass shop nodded and said yes.

Thinking of the serious business of this trip, he said: "The king has something important to entrust to you."

After saying that, he ordered a pen and paper to be drawn on it.

The manager of the glass shop looked carefully and saw that what King Yan drew was round.

But this round thing has two curved sides and is as thick as a little finger.

King Yan also marked the dimensions on this round thing.

"This thing is called a convex lens. I have marked the size for you. You ask the craftsmen to make it out of glass." Zhao Xu said.

Now both Nanfang District and Beifang District use the weights and measures he gave uniformly.

Therefore, the principal naturally understood the size of his bid.

At the same time, the glass shop also has precise rulers and even vernier calipers.

Making it according to the dimensions he gave is not a problem.

"Convex lens." The boss scratched his head.

King Yan had many fantastic ideas, which was known to all the officials in the four counties.

So although he doesn't understand this thing.

But he knew it must be something very powerful.

So he said: "Yes, Your Highness, this is what people do."

Zhao Xu nodded, briefly talked about some key points of production, and went back with Xu Lie.

This time the thing he wanted to give to Chang Wei was nothing else but a telescope.

With the ability to make glass, it became possible to make telescopes.

He had a ready-made template for making telescope convex lenses in his mind and just gave it to the craftsmen.

After all, with size, this is not a complicated issue.

In ancient times, there were jade craftsmen who could polish jade into jade beads.

Even if the craftsmen in the glass shop make it a little rough, they can still let the jade craftsman polish it to a higher standard.

After all, tools that can sharpen jade can also sharpen glass.

In modern times, sandpaper can be used to polish glass.

In ancient times, the tool used to grind jade was called a weight.

This is a disk-like tool made of natural abrasive materials, such as sandstone.

Two days later, the director of the glass shop sent two convex lenses, one large and one small, to the palace.

Zhao Xu took a closer look and found that it was indeed a bit irregular.

So he asked people to go to Nanfang District.

Among the craftsmen who polished the parts of the flintlock gun in Nanfang District was the old jade craftsman, and he bought two weight tools from the Yancheng jade craftsman.

After two more days of polishing, the two convex lenses were in Zhao Xu's hands, showing perfect curvature.

This is the convex lens he wants.

Then, he asked the carpenter to make a cylinder from mahogany and cut it in half in the middle.

Notches were made at the distance he required.

Finally, he clicked the two convex lenses into the grooves, and the wood pieces were joined together to form a cylinder again, which was then tightened with iron hoops.

A perfect telescope was born.

With this, they will be better able to predict the enemy's opportunities in the coming war.

Holding the telescope, Zhao Xu returned to the palace.

Feng'er and Luan'er discovered it immediately and rushed to play.

Zhao Xu smiled and gave it to them.

Following Zhao Xu's instructions, Feng'er picked up the telescope and looked into the distance, and was stunned in shock.