Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 96

Since He Jinzhao affirmed these craftsmen who specialized in making firearms and gave them certain treatment, these people devoted themselves to their work wholeheartedly.

The arms race was started unilaterally by He Jinchao.

As for He Huchen outside the city, he was also trying to build siege equipment.

Money should be earned, but superficial efforts cannot stop.

At least after Hong Chengchou came back, he had something to say.

In addition to strengthening the team training every day, He Jinzhao is also taking time to draw lathe drawings.

He originally wanted to find Song Yingxing's Tiangong Kaiwu for reference, but there is no such book in the world.

He Jinzhao recalled that Song Yingxing must have failed many times, and now he is in his hometown of Jiangxi.

Now I don't know if he started writing or not writing Tiangong Kaiwu!

He Jinzhao's brother-in-law looked at the drawing of the lathe given by his brother-in-law, and listened carefully to He Jinzhao's train of thought.

It is a frame to fix the gun barrel, and then use the hand to drive the wheel to drive the drilling instead of the hand drill.

Both sides of the drill bit are mixed with water and fine sand to increase the ability of grinding holes.

In his opinion, there is nothing too novel, because everyone used to use pedals as power, and He Jinzhao just cranked it by hand.

But the problem is that my brother-in-law is not good at this, and he would have a whimsical idea, so I let my brother-in-law take a look at it.

"Brother-in-law, can you do it?"

"Well, you can give it a try." The brother-in-law pointed to the drawing and said, "You can add a roulette here and turn it vigorously, so that the drilling will be smoother."

"Then trouble brother-in-law."

"Don't delay your important event."

He Jinzhao chuckled twice: "Brother-in-law, if you have any questions, communicate more with Old Wangtou, it's for them anyway."

The brother-in-law smiled and nodded: "Do you really want to vigorously develop firearms in the army?"

"That's right, even if these hungry people and soldiers will be raised for a few months, and their training will be strengthened, they will still not be able to keep up with their military literacy when they go into field battles in the future.

The servants and pacesetters of those Ming military generals have spent their entire lives fighting on the battlefield. They are professional soldiers, and they are all the elite of the elite. They are not what we can fight at all.

So I want to use firearms to bombard them first, especially firecrackers are easy to use, and it takes almost three months of training.

This will narrow the gap between us and the official army! "

The reason why rogue bandits can't become sitting bandits is that they can't beat the official army.

Regardless of the corruption of the military system of the officers and soldiers, an elite army fighting a bunch of peasant troops is cutting melons and vegetables.

Now He Jinchao is only facing Hong Chengchou, a civilized and military governor, in the future he will have to face more professional generals, as well as the group of elite soldiers under him.

Making full use of strengths and avoiding weaknesses, without emphasizing martial ethics, is the way to win on the battlefield.

After listening to what He Jinzhao said, the brother-in-law expressed his understanding.

Now that He Jinzhao's stall is bigger, there is no need to make cheap and simple spearheads on a large scale, but to develop in a better direction.

As a brother-in-law, the lives of the whole family have long been tied to He Jinzhao.

"Right now, don't worry, I will let my apprentices learn how to make guns, and you don't have to worry about the division of labor."

The imperial court was very strict with the craftsmen, and generally they were solely responsible.

In the later stage, you will also be found in a brick-and-mortar investigation.

"Well, then I'm relieved."

He Jinzhao breathed a sigh of relief, and waited for the lathe to come out so that the drilling speed of the pipe could be accelerated.

Gansu Town, Zhangye.

Ningyang Hou Mansion.

But the owner inside is not Ning Yanghou, who doesn't know that the orthodox nobles are in Beijing!
People don't come to the northwest to eat sand.

At the beginning, the first generation of Ningyang Marquis township in Ningxia, later township in Gansu, with great reputation.

But being extravagant and full of singers, even when he was old, he did not change his original intention.

Where does the money come from?
Still have to realize through rights.

Therefore, the youngest son was left behind in Gansu Town, and has been in control of the family business.

Gansu Town is the westernmost point among the nine borders. With a single line of road, it is isolated two thousand miles away, controlling the Western Regions in the west, separating the Qiang and Rong in the south, and covering the Hulu in the north.

Although it does not directly affect the stability and safety of Beijing like Datong and Xuanfu, it is related to the movement of the whole Shaanxi and the safety of the three Jin Dynasties.

In order to resist foreign enemies, large and small forts were densely built around Gansu Town, especially after the change of civil forts, the construction of city walls was put on the daily routine.

The side wall of Gansu Town is a line of defense composed of walls and fortifications such as border forts, piers, villages, and passes.

The construction of the side wall of Gansu Town made a line from Jiayuguan in the west to Zhuanglangwei in the east, which to a large extent made the Mongolian nobles "strangled by the wall and unable to get out".

However, the Mongolian nobles often broke through the side wall and went south, and the Ming army was helpless, and a large number of piers became the second line of defense.

Why are there all Hulu around Gansu Town, and why can the descendants of Marquis Ningyang expand their business?

That is the "tea horse market"!
At the border, do some "serious business", and the business is very good.

One of the main functions of Gansu Town is to try to avoid the serious threat to the national defense security of the Ming Dynasty caused by the alliance of Mongolian nobles and Tibetan nobles.

It is difficult and impossible to achieve this goal simply by force.

Because these people avoid reality and pretend to be false, relying on their horses to come and go freely, and don't fight you head-on, they just play the game of plundering and flying kites.

It was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to hold five large-scale northern expeditions like Zhu Di did.

Especially after the appearance of Emperor Jiaomen, the honorable military generals were buried, and the civil officials would never allow this to happen again.

For this reason, the Ming government vigorously promoted the tea-horse trade in response to the characteristic of "Fan people eat meat and die without tea", which made the tea-horse trade in ancient China reach its heyday.

"History of the Ming Dynasty": Fan people are addicted to cheese, and if they don't get tea, they will be sleepy and sick.

Therefore, since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the method of exchanging tea with horses has been used to make Qiang and Rong, while Ming made Youmi.

Tea was exchanged for horses for the frontier army to fight.

In this way, the middleman of Ningyang Hou's family is left handed and right handed, and it is difficult not to make a fortune!

Before Chen Chong entered, he heard vocal music.

He walked in quickly and saw a few high-browed women from the Western Regions, dressed in light gauze, dancing slowly with musical instruments.

I have to say that those long white legs are really easy to make people's eyes hard to move away.

It is Chen Yao from the Chen family who has passed on this thread to the present.

Holding a luminous glass in his hand, he filled it with wine and added ice cubes. He watched the singing and dancing comfortably, thinking about which singer he would favor for a while.

The family tradition passed down by the first generation of Ningyang Hou "luxury is common and loves divas" has been carried forward and inherited by the descendants.

"Uncle, come, come, sit down."

Chen Yao yelled for someone to serve his uncle a glass and pour fine wine: "It's been a hard journey."

Chen Chong waved his hand. In such a hot weather, he drank a sip of ice-cold wine, exuding refreshment from the inside out.

Especially when entering the lobby, I feel a burst of coolness.

Without him, someone manually used it as an air conditioner, fanning the owner of the mansion with huge ice cubes.

Chen Chong put down the luminous cup in his hand: "It's hard work, it's just He Jinzhao, the target of this transaction, which makes me more interested."

(End of this chapter)