Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

The emperor asked again: "What if you equip this fixed-mounted flintlock gun?"

Chen Qiyu's face seemed a bit ugly, even if the muskets were powerful, the range alone, and the operation steps were greatly simplified, as well as the threat of gunpowder without open flames in the flintlock army formation, so that a denser army formation and a denser formation could be formed. Firepower, if you use matchlock guns to fight against each other, you may have to lose a part of your troops before fighting, and if you fight again, with the advantages of range and firepower, you will definitely be beaten!

"Thirty percent!"

In the end, Chen Qiyu gritted his teeth.

"it is good."

The emperor nodded, and then walked towards a detailed drawing 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 researching in recent years."

"Xu Guangqi, please explain to the 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 extremely detailed drawing: "This gun is called a bolt-action musket. It is to use bolt-action firing instead of flint firing, and at the same time replace the fixed-load paper shell with copper shell bullet..."

"This gun can be said to have perfectly avoided all the shortcomings of the flintlock gun. No matter whether it is sunny or rainy, it will not affect the slightest. The operation steps are even simpler. Even people who have never touched firearms can understand the same after watching it once. ...According to the calculations of the students of the martial arts academy, its range and power far exceed that of a fixed-mounted flintlock gun, even if you are wearing iron armor, it is difficult to block the power of this gun..."

Listening to Xu Guangqi's explanation, even Lai Zongdao, who has no military knowledge, can't help but shine at this moment.

"Once this gun is developed, it is no exaggeration to say that in the world, no one can stop Daheng's military power!"

"No matter how elite a flintlock army is, it is 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 for this gun to be developed?"

As soon as these words came out, Xu Guangqi couldn't help but look dark: "Other problems can almost be solved under the existing conditions. The problem is that the existing gunpowder, even if it is adjusted to the best ratio, can basically not bear the role of bolt-action firing. If this gun is to be completely developed successfully, it is necessary to find a gunpowder that is more reliable and more explosive than the existing gunpowder. Strong gunpowder."

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

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

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

Bolt-action muskets are far beyond the times, and Daheng's flower of science is still in its infancy, and he is not in a hurry. As long as the flower of science is still growing, the bolt-action rifle can completely form a generation gap. Weapons will inevitably appear in Daheng beyond the times.

"Chen Aiqing, if you command an army with fixed-mounted flintlocks, what are your chances of winning against an army with bolt-action muskets?"

Tianzi asked with a smile.

Chen Qiyu's complexion became even more difficult to look at. After a moment of thought, Chen Qiyu shook his head with difficulty: "At most [-]%!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The emperor shook his head, [-]% is impossible!

The emergence of the bolt-action rifle will completely change the way of warfare. It is the greatest stupidity to imagine the combat of the bolt-action rifle with the existing war thinking!

But the emperor didn't expose it. After smiling, he looked at the few cabinet ministers in front of him again:

"You dear friends, you can imagine, if there is no craftsman, can this firearm alone evolve from the initial burst musket to the current custom-built flintlock gun that can determine the destiny of the country?"

"If one day, there are foreign enemies who attack with firearms that Daheng can't make at all, what should Daheng do to resist it?"

Several cabinet ministers fell silent for a moment. If they hadn't seen the bolt-action rifle, they wouldn't have dared 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 of firearms, and the next generation, and 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 musket: "The first musket, even a farmer, can easily make it with a little training. The later musket needs a professional blacksmith to make it. As for the matchlock gun , you need more professional craftsmen to carve carefully, and it will take at least several years to train such craftsmen, and it will cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."

"To install flintlock guns here, you need highly skilled blacksmiths, and many highly skilled musket craftsmen. Each of them, without more than ten years of craftsmanship, is simply unaffordable."

"Even if these muskets are more advanced, they won't be too advanced. Based on the foundation left by our ancestors, even if the enemy develops them first, we can imitate them without too much effort."

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

the emperor asked.

Several cabinet ministers also shook their heads.

"A perfect system of artisans who are familiar with firearm replacement and knowledge of firearms is needed."

"It needs a complete smelting system that exceeds the current understanding of the world!"

"An entirely new type of gunpowder is needed, 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 the successful development!"

"These four things, each of them, are formed by small roads that people in the world disdain, but can a country without such a foundation, who doesn't even know where the road is, be able to make it?"

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

"You dear friends, you can imagine what kind of scene Daheng and this piece of Han land will be like at that time!"

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

After the Son of Heaven's voice fell, the audience was deadly silent. Under the glory of the Heavenly Kingdom, no one expected this possibility.

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

If nothing changes, maybe 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 affirmative.

What His Majesty regards as life and death, in fact, is indeed related to the life and death of the country and the country. In the traditional Confucian thought, it is just a path that is dismissed by people!

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

People in the world don't pay attention to it, and the imperial court naturally doesn't pay attention to it.

If you don't pay attention to it, it will inevitably be surpassed by countries that pay attention to it.

Once surpassed, this kind of powerful weapon that crosses the ages, without the basic background of the trail that they dismissed, how could it be possible to catch up overnight.

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

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

The emperor didn't seem to care about the expressions of the cabinet ministers at all, and he stabbed the knives in the hearts of the cabinet ministers again mercilessly: "This is just a musket, a cannon, and a warship. There are too many updates and iterations. , are completely beyond the imagination of the world!"

"I said long ago that this is an unprecedented era!"

"Today's Xiyi can sail for tens of thousands of miles. With a small country, they can traverse the world and rule thousands of miles of land. Such a big change can already explain everything!"

After finishing speaking, the emperor didn't say any more, and turned to look at Xu Guangqi: "You take a few cabinet ministers, in the Armament Division, and to the Martial Arts Academy, take a good look and explain clearly!"

"Sir, obey the order!"

Xu Guangqi bowed and bowed, and took orders aloud.

The emperor turned around suddenly, without further explanation, he walked away.

Let them experience the cruelty of the times by themselves.

He didn't exaggerate the cruelty at all. In fact, if there is no change, the future will only become more cruel.

With his arrival, he attached great importance to science and firearms, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to cultivate them. Many things that do not belong to this era have appeared, and they have quietly changed the era.

At this time when Eastern and Western cultures are colliding fiercely with the rise of great voyages, if the concept is not reversed, these achievements will definitely flow into the West in the end, changing the times again.

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

If you fall behind, you will be beaten. It has been an eternal truth since ancient times!

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Chapter 5 and Four

"Several elders, please!"

When the emperor left and the elders were in a trance, Xu Guangqi cupped his hands at the ministers, and then stretched out his hand as a signal.

Lai Zongdao and the others looked at each other, and at this moment they all saw the indescribably complex look in each other's eyes.

In the past, they believed that as long as the world is peaceful, even if the military equipment is loose, with the organizational strength of the imperial court, they can mobilize a considerable number of troops at any time, whether it is to deal with foreign enemies or internal troubles, it is enough.

But now, just the musket alone tells them clearly that the times have changed without them even noticing.

No matter how many troops there are, no matter how elite the army is, they are nothing more than chickens and dogs under the firearms that form a generation difference!

And all of this was made by them, or by a path that no one in the world cares about!

Today is different from the past, as the direction of the war has shifted to hypocrisy and to the sea, it is natural that for the vast majority of people in the world and the vast majority of officials in the court, it was a sea of ​​fog, but now it is clear.

Those small countries spanning thousands of miles, also occupied all the land along the way, burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil.

These Western Yi kingdoms, like wolves, surround the entire Jiangnan sea area, and they will pounce fiercely at the slightest opportunity.

In the previous Ming Dynasty, the Fujian navy fought many times with the Xiyi. Now that Jiangnan is in chaos, the Xiyi also took advantage of the fire to loot.

And this is still in the case of Daheng, who has the ability to stop and deter, can act in this way, and can be around at the door of Daheng's house.

Once it is as the Son of Heaven said, they have no doubt that the Western Yi kingdoms will definitely attack fiercely.

Moreover, according to their understanding, in Xiyi, what they think of as a trail is not a trail!

Those who study trails are scholars, and even more like sages!

Even if there is peace in the world, even if this country is governed well, it seems that under the changing times, if there is no force enough to deter foreign enemies, it is just a big meal in the eyes of foreigners!

With complicated thoughts, everyone followed Xu Guangqi as they walked forward in the Ordnance Department.

Along the way, you can see the soldiers of the Imperial Battalion standing sharply in armor, and from time to time, you can even encounter teams of patrolling soldiers. The defense is strict, even worse than that of the imperial palace.

"stop!"

Just after taking only a hundred steps, before reaching a checkpoint, he was stopped by guards guarding the checkpoint.

Xu Guangqi was also used to it, took out two passes from his pocket, and handed them to the general.

"Who are they!"

The general checked the two pass orders, then stared at Lai Zongdao's cabinet ministers, and asked directly.

"These are the cabinet ministers of the current court. According to His Majesty's order, let me lead you to look around in the Ordnance Department."

The general frowned, and with a wave of his hand, dozens of soldiers surrounded them.

"General, what is this?"

Xu Guangqi's heart skipped a beat, and he asked quickly,

"According to the regulations of the Ordnance Department, outsiders who enter or hold a temporary pass must be accompanied by soldiers from the Imperial Front Battalion."

Hearing this, Xu Guangqi finally realized that he was running back and forth every day, all alone, but he really didn't pay attention so much.

"Is this Ordnance Division always so strict?"

After passing the checkpoint, Yang Sichang asked casually.

"According to His Majesty's will, the Ordnance Department integrates R&D, manufacturing, and testing. Therefore, the entire Ordnance Department contains many top secrets that can be called the country's fundamental."

"So, the guards are naturally extremely strict. If you go out later, according to the regulations, no matter what the rank of the official is or what the position is, you must cooperate with the body search. However, those who violate it will be regarded as stealing top secrets and will be punished on the spot!"

Speaking of this, Xu Guangqi glanced at several cabinet ministers, smiled and said: "This is still the Ordnance Department. If it is in the Martial Arts Academy, it will be more strict. There are checkpoints everywhere. Every place needs a pass with different authority. ..."

"The Ordnance Department integrates R&D, manufacturing, and testing. These are easy to understand, but what is the function of the Military Academy?"

Lai Zongdao asked suddenly, and the other cabinet ministers also looked over immediately.

Although the Martial Academy has been established for a long time, the general framework has long been known to the world, but the details and details, even for important officials like them, are like looking through the fog.

"The framework of the Martial Arts Academy is quite simple. There are five subjects of walking, cavalry, artillery, engineering, and water, as well as the temporary civilian subjects of walking, cavalry, artillery, engineering, and water. These five subjects are all military affairs. All the ministries have been training elite generals at all levels, these must be clear to several elders."

Speaking of this, Xu Guangqi paused for a while, his eyes flickering with excitement: "The most important thing in Wuyuan, the most important thing in Daheng, is only in engineering!"

"What do you mean by that?"

Lai Zongdao frowned, looking at Xu Guangqi, there was already a look of displeasure, but it only disappeared in an instant.

"Your Majesty once said that engineering should be the place to pursue the truth in the world!"

Xu Guangqi is very devout, he believes in Western religion, but he believes in the truth more.

If he had to choose between the two, he could only choose the truth!

Hearing this sentence, which was enough to cause an uproar, several cabinet ministers were speechless, and their expressions became even more complicated.

The world regards the words of sages and sages as the truth, but the Son of Heaven regards the small way as the truth.