The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 540 Huang Taiji's Dog Licking
Shengjing Firearms Camp.

The Qing emperor Huang Taiji, surrounded by a group of civil and military ministers and craftsmen, is watching their new firecrackers.

In addition to the nobles of the Qing Dynasty, there are also important craftsmen of the Han people, civil and military, at the scene.

Yuan Tian was also at the scene today, chatting with several Han craftsmen with a flattering expression, while looking around.

His expression is always flattering, like a slave, trying to please others.

In the civil and military affairs of the Han people, many people looked down on Yuan Tian and were unwilling to talk to him.

After all, in their hearts, this person is just a craftsman, and in Daming, craftsman status is the lowest kind.

So after Yuan Tian has been here for so long, he has become good friends with the three giants of Han artisans.

Liu Han, Wang Tianxiang, and Jin Shichang, these three were the foundational trio of firearms in the Qing Dynasty.

They used to be craftsmen of the Ming army. After they were broken into towns by the Hou Jin at that time, they arrived in Shengjing.The three official positions are equivalent to the second rank and third rank of civil servants, and the chief soldier and deputy general of military commanders.

This made many Han Chinese civil and military very jealous.

At the end of last year, because of his contributions, Yuan Tian was promoted to be the head of a craftsman, which is equivalent to being a third rank, and he was also among the Han ministers, so he was eligible to attend the discussions in front of Huang Taiji.

Last year, the Manchu Qing made a spring wheel gun, but they did not have the assembly line manufacturing method of Ding Yi, and used one craftsman to build all the parts of a gun.

However, there are so many parts in the spring wheel gun. At that time, it took a master like Liu Han 48 days to build one.

Of course Huang Taiji was dissatisfied, no matter how fine or well-ignited it was, it was far inferior to the one Yuan Tian stole.

And it takes too long to build. It takes 48 days for a craftsman to concentrate on making. How many craftsmen are there in the Qing Dynasty?

On the Qing side, there are actually very few craftsmen, and more are workers, and their craftsmen basically don't pass on their private skills, and usually make the main components by themselves.

Historically, they only made guns and rarely used guns.

Don't look at the artisan workshops that stretch for more than ten miles here, with tens of thousands of hands, mainly making and sewing armor. fifty.

On Ding Yi's side, there are at least five hundred craftsmen who can make guns and cannons alone.

The Qing Dynasty spent half a year last year building twenty wheel-wheel guns, concentrating a large number of craftsmen and consuming a huge amount of steel and time.

The final ignition rate was less than 20.00%, and its power was far inferior to the one Yuan Tian stole.

Huang Taiji was furious at the time, and almost wanted to chop off a few craftsmen, but he didn't give up after all.

In a rage, Huang Taiji summoned Yuan Tian and asked him why the short blunderbuss of the Ming people were so good.Work so well?

Yuan Tian thought for a while and said, Ming people have something called a lathe, which is made of steel and clam wood, and many parts are made of a lathe.

Huang Taiji asked Yuan Tian to draw a general appearance, and then called the craftsmen to study it. The craftsmen were miserable. They had never seen this thing before. How could it be made with only Yuan Tian's rough drawings?
But there is no way, the military order here is like a mountain, they can only grit their teeth and start doing it.

For this reason, Huang Taiji wanted to buy clam wood from Guangdong and Guangxi.

But this thing is expensive, heavy, and not easy to buy, which stumps the eight major Shanxi merchants.

The eight Shanxi merchants could only grit their teeth and search for Guangdong and Guangxi.

Then Huang Taiji summoned Li Yongfang again and asked him to send a special agent to Dongjiang Town to steal the blueprint structure of the lathe. Li Yongfang greeted Yuan Tian's family again.

In short, after Yuan Tian came, Man Qing was flying around, and there was no peace for a moment.

But it was not these things that made Yuan Tian promoted.

Last year, Huang Taiji showed Yuan Tian a newly made wheel-wheel gun, which still contained ammunition.

At that time Yuan Tian was holding the blunderbuss, with a look of flattery on his face, and at the same time, he admired Huang Taiji's courage in his heart, wouldn't he be afraid that he would kill him with a bludgeon?

Of course Yuan Tian would not hit him, instead he said cautiously: "Your Majesty, in the future, you can't let people take guns at will like this."

"Oh? Why?" Huang Taiji asked with a smile.

Yuan Tian said, this blunderbuss can be loaded with ammunition in advance, and when a sudden attack occurs, it can kill people invisible, it is best used for assassination and sneak attack.

On the side of the Ming people, only sentinel cavalry are equipped, and they cannot be brought with them at ordinary times. They are only issued in wartime, because they are afraid that someone will take them and suddenly kill the officer.

Huang Taiji's face changed at that time, he really didn't think of this question.

"Damn Dingshuo, you are really greedy for life and afraid of death."

"Yuan Tian, ​​you are a loyal minister, a loyal minister of my Great Qing Dynasty." Huang Taiji immediately recognized Yuan Tian's loyalty, and reconsidered whether to make another short gun.

There are too many Han soldiers and generals on his side, and Huang Taiji is also afraid.

Yuan Tian took advantage of the situation to persuade him to stop making short guns and concentrate on making bird guns to enhance the power of bird guns.

He also said that the chief of Ding Yi's department used Lumi guns, and the Ming army in Liaodong also had them, so they could steal them and learn from them.

Huang Taiji quickly decided to stop researching the wheel-wheel gun and devote all his efforts to developing the Lumi blunderbuss.

He sent people to Liaodong, and sure enough, he got two Lumi guns from Shanhaiguan.

After a try, it is really better than their bird guns.

The emperor was overjoyed and promoted Yuan Tian to be the head of a craftsman. He also rewarded silver and beautiful women. Knowing that Yuan Tian liked farms, he rewarded another [-] mu of land.

Yuan Tian was so grateful that he seemed to become a famous person in front of Huang Taiji, and many Han people, civil and military, secretly scolded him for being a dog licker.

When Ding Yi started his business, he did use Lumi guns made in the Ming Dynasty, but after years of improvement, coupled with his standardization and assembly line operations, the Lumi guns in Dongjiang Town are definitely better than the Lumi guns in the Ming Dynasty.

The Lumi blunderbuss of the Ming Dynasty were longer and heavier, and it was a bit inconvenient to reload. The amount of steel used was not half that of Ding Yi’s Lumi blunderbuss, and the number of times of use was even less than one-third.

But the Lumi blunderbuss is better than the bird blunderbuss after all. After Huang Taiji got it, he ordered to build the Lumi blunderbuss with all his strength.

Huang Taiji was the first to set up a new battalion "heavy army" (ujenchooha, Wu Zhenchaoha) in the Eight Banners. Tong Yangxing was the commander-in-chief, Li Sutai was the deputy commander-in-chief, and Cao Zhenyan was the instructor, mainly using artillery.

Later, Kong Youde took refuge, and Huang Taiji was reorganized the year before last, with Kong Youde as the commander-in-chief and Geng Zhongming and Li Sutai as deputy officers.

As a result, they were defeated in the Battle of Beigou, and the Gunners were killed and injured countless times.

After the disastrous defeat, Huang Taiji was a little disappointed. Fortunately, Yuan Tian put forward a new opinion, and they got the Lumi blunderbuss. So from last year, Huang Taiji reorganized the Han Army Firearms Battalion.

The whole army consists of 1 soldiers, [-] artillerymen and [-] artillerymen.

It is even stricter that within two years, eight thousand Lumi guns must be manufactured.

The Bureau of Craftsmanship kept complaining, and everyone thought it was impossible.

There were very few Lumi guns in the Ming army, and most of them used bird guns, because Lumi guns were also difficult to manufacture.

It also takes nearly a month to create a Lumi gun.

Even if fifty craftsmen make fifty sticks a month, it will only be six hundred sticks a year, and only two hundred sticks will be produced in two years.

As a result, many workers were forced to learn how to make gunfire guns. Their skills were not good enough, and the craftsmen were unwilling to teach them their good skills. Moreover, many craftsmen in the Qing Dynasty were gunsmiths, not gunsmiths.

The effect was far from ideal, after half a year, two hundred Lumi guns were made here.

At this time, Yuan Tian also suggested that the craftsmen should not hide their secrets, and teach more workers their own skills, so that they can also become craftsmen, so that more firecrackers can be made. He also said that this is what Ding Yi did. .

Huang Taiji felt that it was reasonable, so he ordered the craftsmen to start teaching more apprentices and imparting skills.

Yuan Tian made many speeches, which was valued by Huang Taiji, and he has become the most favored Han official in the current Qing Dynasty.

Today they test-fired the new Lumi gun.

Li Shuitai, the deputy commander of the Firearms Battalion, led [-] musketeers, divided into four columns, and learned from the Ming army to attack in four stages.

Following Li Shuitai's order, bang bang bang, eighty blunderbuss soldiers made four rounds, twenty blunderbusses shot once, and they fought four times in a row.

After one or two years of training, the Qing soldiers and the Han army became more and more familiar, and the speed was a bit catching up with the Ming army.

Everyone saw that the iron armor on the target about eighty steps ahead was broken one after another.

The faces of many Manchu nobles changed drastically.

The Lumi blunderbuss this time reminded them of Ding Yi's blunderbuss of the Ming army on the battlefield.

"Okay, good fight." Huang Taiji looked overjoyed.

Although his blunderbuss hadn't fully reached Ding Yi's level, it had already reached his expectations.

"Li Sutai, you practice well, I want to reward you."

"Yuan Tian, ​​you have a good suggestion, and you should be rewarded."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The two quickly knelt down and looked at each other, both extremely excited.

Kong Youde looked at Yuan Tian calmly, not understanding why he asked Huang Taiji to make the Lumi gun.

At this time, Huang Taiji said to Kong Youde: "Let the craftsmen cooperate with you and make a large number of Lumi guns as soon as possible--"

Suddenly someone knelt down on the side and shouted to the emperor.

Huang Taiji turned his head, it turned out to be Tong Yangxing.

Tong Yangxing was originally Wu Zhenchaoha's general barracks, but he hadn't been there long before his son was captured by Ding Yi during the Gaizhou Battle.

Then Huang Taiji quickly replaced him with Kong Youde, which made Tong Yangxing no longer have his original status in history. He is now in charge of craftsmanship and has no military power.

Without military power, Tong Yangxing was of course not happy. He knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, this Lumi blunderbuss is extremely difficult to make. The craftsmen worked day and night, and it took half a year to build 20 blunderbusses. The Han Army's firearms battalion had [-] blunderbuss soldiers. It takes a lot of money." It will take [-] years to finish."

"I have great Qing artillery, so the production is slow, which is why Yizhou was defeated. Otherwise, Oboi can defeat Ding Yi in Yizhou."

"Bastard." Huang Tai was very angry, not to mention that Yizhou was fine, but when it came to Yizhou's defeat, he was really furious: "If he hadn't made his own claims, Yizhou would have been defeated."

He asked Oboi to stand firm in Yizhou, but Oboi made his own claim to attack the Ming army, which led to another fiasco.

What they gained from entering the customs is equivalent to favoring Ding Yi.

Azige also said at this time: "I worked hard to enter the customs, and finally robbed so much wealth and population from the Ming people, Oboi was defeated, and Ding Yi was all favored, this damn thing, fortunately he didn't come back, otherwise shall cut off his head."

Tong Yangxing still wants to persuade.

Yuan Tian said: "The emperor has ordered the craftsmen to teach their skills. Although it is slow for the time being, it will definitely improve greatly in the future."

Huang Taiji nodded.

Tong Yang said anxiously: "There are craftsmen who are rushing to catch up with the time, and the production is rough, and there are already explosions--"

"The name is engraved on the blunderbuss, and whoever made the bomb will be cut off." After Huang Taiji finished speaking, he thought for a while, and then said: "If there are too many Lumi blunderbusses of eight thousand, then within two years, there will be four thousand blunderbusses." ?” Of course Huang Taiji is a smart person, and he is also willing to listen to the opinions of the people below.

Tong Yangxing gritted his teeth: "Up to two thousand."

"Okay, it's only two thousand, and it's not enough after the time limit, how to deal with it?" Huang Taiji said sharply.

"But take the head of the minister." Tong Yangxing said helplessly.

(End of this chapter)