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After talking to Wen Anzhi for an hour, Zhu Cixiang felt that he had benefited a lot.
Although Wen Anzhi's insight cannot be compared to that of Zhu Cixiang from a later generation, his analysis of the problem is very in-depth and can be described as hitting the nail on the head.
Although Zhu Cixiang was also engaged in academic research in his previous life, he pales in comparison to Wen Anzhi.
His advantage comes more from the explosive input of information and his understanding of the historical trend of the story.
Although Zhu Cixi wanted to continue chatting with Wen Anzhi, considering that Wen Anzhi was already sixty-two years old and should not be too tired, he asked Wen Anzhi to leave the palace to rest first.
Anyway, Wen Anzhi has resumed his post as Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, and there will be many opportunities to ask him for advice in the future.
After Wen Anzhi retired, Zhu Cixiang immediately ordered his servants to prepare a carriage for the Ministry of Works.
The last time he sketched out the structure of the fortress, he gave it to Gao Hongtu, the Minister of Civil Affairs.
Now that a few days have passed, Zhu Cixiang wants to see how it goes.
The emperor's trip is by no means a trivial matter.
Just the preparation of the ceremonial guards and escorts will take a lot of time.
Even though Zhu Cixiang emphasized keeping everything simple, by the time he arrived at the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry, less than half an hour had passed.
When the Holy Emperor arrived, all the officials from the Ministry of Works knelt down and saluted.
Zhu Cixiang raised his hand to signal them all to get up and handle business as usual, and asked Gao Hongtu to accompany him.
The monarch and his ministers came to the interior office one after another.
As soon as Zhu Cixiang sat down, he asked straight to the point: "How are you doing with the things I assigned you that day?
The fortress may be built on a large scale."
Gao Hongtu bowed deeply to Zhu Cixi and said respectfully: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I have summoned the most skilled masons and stonemasons from Nandu.
After seeing the drawings drawn by Your Majesty, they all said that this bastion is more difficult to build than ordinary forts. many."
Zhu Cixiang frowned when he heard this, and the good mood he had just discussed with Wen Anzhi was gone.
Things were more difficult than he thought.
If even the craftsmen in Nanjing found it difficult to build bastions, then it would probably take a long time to build a group of bastions throughout northeastern Shandong.
In fact, this is a matter of habit.
The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were used to building square cities, so they would definitely feel uncomfortable if they were suddenly asked to build a bastion.
This is not something Zhu Cixi can do by just throwing out a diagram of the structure of the bastion.
The same is true for flintlock guns.
Although the structure of this gun seems not very complicated, the craftsmen just can't break through the window paper.
Although Zhu Cixiang was very disappointed in this regard, he could not blame Gao Hongtu too much.
He comforted him with kind words: "Da Sikong does not need to be sorry.
I am just giving an idea.
However, I still feel that the advantages of the fortress are obvious, even if it is difficult to build. , and we must build more than a dozen of them outside Texas, at all costs.”
The benefits of the centralized rule of the feudal dynasty were reflected at this time.
The monarch could mobilize all the resources at hand and concentrate them on what he considered the most important.
Don't the craftsmen find it difficult to build bastions?
Well, the number of buildings can be reduced, from the originally planned dozens to a dozen.
I'm sorry if more than a dozen are too many.
This is an imperial edict.
Of course, Zhu Cihong will also send all the best masons and stonemasons to the front line of Texas.
Since these people are all novices when it comes to building bastions and their business capabilities are limited, it is better to pile up the number of people.
Regardless of whether Donglu would adjust his strategy and tilt his forces towards the eastern front, Zhu Cixiang had to prepare for the worst.
If Kong Youde and other Han troops really used several red cannons to attack Dezhou in turn, Zhu Cihong would really feel a little unsure.
The best way is to use bastions to block and delay the Qing offensive.
The bastion was built on the only way for the Qing army to go to Dezhou.
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If they wanted to attack Dezhou, they had to remove these nails.
However, if the Qing army wanted to remove these fortresses, it would not take more than a year and a half.
"Old minister, I obey."
Gao Hongtu naturally did not dare to say anything more.
Although the emperor did not explicitly rebuke him, there was a hint of dissatisfaction in his words.
No matter how difficult it was to build the bastion, Gao Hongtu still had to grit his teeth and take on the task at this moment.
"Your Majesty, the new batch of bird muskets and Lumi muskets produced by the Firearms Department have been tested and fired, and rarely exploded.
Can they be used in the Shence Army?"
Gao Hongtu was determined to restore his image in Zhu Cixiang's mind, so he changed the topic to a batch of newly manufactured firearms by the Firearms Department.
In his opinion, this errand was done beautifully.
Since the end of Wanli, the quality of firecrackers manufactured by the Ministry of Industry has not been guaranteed.
Due to the cutting of materials and the uneven thickness of the inner wall of the barrel, the barrel often explodes.
Soldiers often blow themselves up half-mutilated as soon as they fire their guns, so they fear guns as much as tigers.
In this regard, officials from the Ministry of Industry have no good solution.
Because the money allocated by the imperial court to the Ministry of Industry was limited, the number of firecrackers required to be built was fixed.
In order to complete the task, they could only cut corners on materials and create batches of crude firecrackers.
This kind of fire gun is almost enough to be used as a fire stick, but trying to kill an enemy from a hundred steps away is simply wishful thinking.
But now all this has changed.
Today, not only has the Firearms Department been established, but a large amount of money has been allocated from the internal funds to make high-quality fireguns.
The quality of the fireguns produced in this way is naturally very high.
Zhu Cixiang shook his head: "Just not exploding the barrel is not enough.
The power of the gun depends not only on the gun itself, but also on the gunpowder."
Since it was impossible to make a flintlock gun at the moment, Zhu Cixi could only resort to the next best thing and maximize the power of the matchlock gun.
In addition to exploding the chamber, matchlock guns in the late Ming Dynasty also had a common problem, that is, their lethality was limited.
It is difficult for a three-eyed gun to kill soldiers wearing cotton armor at a distance of thirty steps, and the effective killing range of a bird gun against armored soldiers is also within fifty steps.
As for the firearms equipped in the Qi family army, the effective range of the three-eyed gun can be more than fifty steps, and the effective range of the bird gun is as high as one hundred and fifty steps.
It's a world of difference Since Qi Jiajun's fire cannons can reach a range of 150 steps, why have they degraded so much in just a few decades?
In addition to some problems with the gunpowder itself, the most important thing is that in the late Ming Dynasty, the court no longer paid attention to the preparation and preservation of gunpowder.
The gunpowder at this time was not the chemical gunpowder of later generations, but black gunpowder.
Although Zhu Cixiang did not study engineering in his previous life, he also knew that black powder must be stored dry and that it should not get damp.
At this time, gunpowder is usually in powder form and is easily affected by moisture.
The most terrible thing is that the imperial court often dried the damp gunpowder and continued to use it.
At this time, the gunpowder will usually condense into lumps of different sizes, greatly reducing its power.
To maximize the power of black powder, the gunpowder needs to be granulated.
"From now on, I want Da Sikong to guarantee that every scoop of gunpowder from a barrel must be in the form of granules.
Only if this is achieved can the newly manufactured fire blunderbuss produced by the Firearms Department exert its maximum power
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