I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 45 The key to restricting the development of firearms

Chapter 044 The key to restricting the development of firearms
Cheng Shijie faced the most intuitive problem. He was just a fourth-rank defender who had just been promoted by Sun Yuanhua.Moreover, this garrison has not yet been reviewed by the court official department. In fact, his job is still an ordinary fifth-rank official with a thousand households.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, this wonderful dynasty with nobles and lowly military, even a general of the third rank had no right to speak in front of a gentry without official position, let alone a thousand households of the fifth rank.

Cheng Shijie smiled wryly and said: "I'm just a small thousand households, and I speak lightly... If I were the commander of the Dengzhou Guard and commanded an army of tens of thousands, there is still a slight possibility."

"My lord is so wrong!"

Song Kangnian said earnestly: "The lord has a high opinion of Jin Yousheng, but he also underestimates yourself!"

Song Kangnian is a quack warlock with rich experience in the quack. The swords brought by Cheng Shijie are all magic weapons. This shows that Cheng Shijie has a channel that he doesn't know. This channel can continuously send magic weapons. .

what is this?
This is Cheng Shijie's resource.

Secondly, Cheng Shijie also owns those valuable crystal ornaments, as well as an exquisite mechanism (music box) that can emit music, which also explains the problem.

Cheng Shijie has a group of skilled craftsmen who can provide him with continuous financial support.Although it is said that things are rare and expensive, the problem is that although Dengzhou is not small, compared with the 180 prefectures in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty, Dengzhou prefecture is only one of them.

It also means that once the operation is done properly, these crystals can be used as a large sum of money and food. In this era, money and food are soldiers and power.

Seeing Cheng Shijie hesitate, Song Kangnian continued: "Jin Yousheng is not Han Gaozu, not Tang Taizong, nor Liu Jinu. Although he understands the general situation, takes the overall situation into consideration, knows how to advance and retreat, and understands gains and losses, however, he can't be in a corner of his heart." Overall, his long-cherished wish in life is nothing more than to continue the wealth and power of the Jin family. In his heart, he does not have the ambition to make the country rich and the army strong, and he does not have the suffering of the common people in his heart. I don’t have the guts to do it. But the protagonist is different.”

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly: "What's the difference?"

"My lord, as a thousand households of Zuowei in Dengzhou, is concerned about the hardships of the military households of the thousand households. For this reason, the lord did not hesitate to use work in lieu of relief, and in a very short period of time, he won the hearts of more than ten thousand households of the Zuoqian household."

Song Kangnian went on to say: "The lord recruited young and strong men, and robbed and killed the former Qianhu Gaowang. This shows that the lord has the ability to make decisions. With the method of accepting names from young and strong men, he can advance and retreat with all the soldiers. This has the ability to control people. , Promote Shen Mingyu and Zhang Yu to the bottom, and both of them are generals, this is a man of knowledge. Now to promote military merits and land grants...My lord, you have a simple and honest nature, and you regard the people as human beings, not as dogs! You have a kind heart, not to mention martial arts, even among the scholar-bureaucrats, there are few who can match it. Now that you are training in Ninghai, I have high hopes for you. I really hope that one day, you will be able to hold up a crown for the people of Shandong and the people of the world. An umbrella to shelter from the wind and rain..."

Cheng Shijie knew that Song Xiance in history, that is, the little man in front of him, was said to be a liar. When he voted for Li Zicheng in Henan, he presented the "Eighteen Master Artifacts" to publicize Li's popularity and won Li Zicheng's favor. Trust, was appointed as a military adviser.Apart from taking advantage of Li Zicheng's servants before the war, he never had any meaningful military concerns.

Some people also said that he was a genius, with unparalleled talent and wisdom, but he failed to choose a good monarch to assist him.He is one of the few people in the Dashun army who can keep a clear head. After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he, like Li Yan, was very worried about Dashun's corruption. He repeatedly spoke out, but Li Zicheng did not respond.He was very clever, and he used his heretical theory to impress Li Zicheng. He used the astronomical phenomenon to warn Li Zicheng, saying: "The astronomical phenomenon is tragic, the sun is dark, and the sentence should be suspended." Finally, Li Zicheng adopted it, and many people were saved.After Li Yan was killed, Song Xiance believed that Li Zicheng was not the master he should assist, and gradually alienated Niu Jinxing and others, and returned to the rivers and lakes to take care of his old business and disappeared.

However, it wasn't until I got in touch with Song Xiance that I discovered that he was actually a scholar with the world in mind. Although he was not accepted by scholars because of his short stature and ugly appearance, he was indeed a scholar, and he regarded the world as his One's own ambition.If you can go straight to the sky, you will be a good prime minister in the center, and you will be the parents of Li Shu in the corner.He is a scholar, in the troubled times at the end of Ming Dynasty, in this troubled time where talents withered and thousands of horses were silent, he could be called a national scholar.

After an open and honest exchange with Cheng Shijie, Song Kangnian officially changed his name to Song Xiance, served as an aide in front of Cheng Shijie, and was personally responsible for money, food, teaching, and farming.

Now Cheng Shijie's family background is too weak, Zhang Ruyi is just a person who doesn't even have a reputation as a scholar, and the others are either illiterate or powerful warriors.

And Song Xiance is definitely the only talent that Cheng Shijie can show.

As the garrison of the Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie still needs to do a lot of things. First of all, the city of Zuoqianhusuo is too small. Bad habits.

Ninghai City, which is the original Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu House, can be said to have all kinds of strange things. Wang Jing, the official of Baihu, is a gambler. He carries two sets of dice with him and often pulls people to gamble.The last time Qin Wu led more than 600 people to attack Zuoqianhusuo, Wang Jing was in charge of guarding the west city, but the west city was not the main direction of attack. Many copper coins.

In Wang Jing's 60 households, among the ten people, nine people like to gamble like their lives.There is also Shen Changhe, this one is even more strange, he likes to peek at widows taking a bath, even those in their [-]s and [-]s.But he just watched, and never dared to use force, even if he was discovered and his head was covered with bruises, he would not dare to fight back.

But it's such a strange thing. In the last battle of defending the city, he was stabbed nine times and beheaded five times.

After much deliberation, Cheng Shijie decided to put the military training site on Zijin Mountain, more than [-] miles southeast of the Ninghai Navy, where there is a Donghua Palace ruins from the Jin Dynasty.

Bringing more than [-] people from the Ning Navy to Zijin Mountain, there is nothing here. The first thing is to build barracks, [-] soldiers, and more than [-] craftsmen.

It took about a month, stone and wood can be obtained locally in Zijin Mountain, which greatly increased the progress of the project.

However, just after the barracks were repaired, Shen Mingyu and Zhang Yu joined hands to find Cheng Shijie.During this period of time, Cheng Shijie drilled a total of sixty pressurized wells for the Zijin Shanning Navy Camp.

Cheng Shijie did not bring these hand-pressed wells from later generations, but he told these craftsmen the principle of water-pressing wells, and skilled craftsmen built these wells.

With the emergence of pressurized wells, this new way of water intake was quickly recognized by everyone, and craftsmen said that they should set up a water well factory to build this kind of pressurized wells.

"Meet the General!"

Cheng Shijie's official appointment was announced half a month ago. The imperial court agreed to Sun Yuanhua's suggestion, agreed to establish the Ning Navy, and awarded Cheng Shijie the fourth rank of Mingwei General.Now Cheng Shijie can be regarded as entering the ranks of generals.

Cheng Shijie was a little curious: "Why are you so weird today?"

Shen Mingyu said: "There are some things that should have been said a long time ago, but the general has been busy for a while, so we have to wait for a while. Now that everything is on the right track, it's time to talk about it."

Zhang Yudao: "To be honest, General, we are here to talk to you about the army."

Matters involving the army will only be a major event, so Cheng Shijie naturally dare not neglect. "What's the matter with the troops?"

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, and the [-] Ning navy soldiers are his biggest capital. If something goes wrong... it will be troublesome to ask.

Shen Mingyu said with a wry smile: "General, you seem to have thrown us soldiers aside. The soldiers were quite dissatisfied and said..."

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "There is no way to do this. You came at the right time. Let's gather all the officers and hold a meeting to discuss the development of Ning Haijun!"

The development and construction of the army is a very important issue.Cheng Shijie also wants to equip his army with an AKM, preferably with a bazooka at the team level, and then equip an artillery battalion, a tank battalion...

The problem is, that's not realistic.

Cheng Shijie doesn't have this ability, not to mention an automatic rifle in his hand, he can't even handle one. This stupid time travel has too many restrictions. The first is the weight. The materials that can be carried can only be carried by his physical strength. The limit, from the initial 50 kg, to the current 70 kg.

It's okay to return to the later generations from the end of Ming Dynasty, as long as there are no people, he can go back, but he can only go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty from later generations, but he can only stay in his dilapidated house on the second floor.

As the officers arrived at the meeting place, this is the newly built Ninghai Navy Headquarters. question.

Cheng Shijie took a chalk and wrote on the blackboard in the conference hall: "What kind of army do you want!"

All the officers looked at each other, not knowing what Cheng Shijie meant.

In the end, it was Cheng Shijie who got straight to the point and said, "What do you want Ning Haijun to develop into?"

Zhang Yu subconsciously raised his hand and said, "Report!"

"speak!"

"The better the equipment, the better!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the officers and said, "Is there any more?"

Shen Mingyu raised his hand and said, "Report!"

"speak!"

Shen Mingyu said with a wry smile: "A well-equipped army, but this is really too difficult, too difficult! The Qi family army once swept the coastal Japanese pirates and Mongolian Tartars, and they have never been defeated, but such a powerful army is all paid for. A battalion of soldiers At least tens of thousands of taels of silver, how can there be so much money now!"

"this is the key of the problem!"

Cheng Shijie said: "We don't have much money now. We can support more than 2 mouths. The money we seized from Qin Wu cost a lot. Let's discuss what kind of equipment we should equip the troops with!"

Shen Mingyu said: "But the Qi family army owns one-third of the firearms, and the Qi family army's firearms are so sophisticated that they are unrivaled in the world!"

Zhang Yu retorted: "Without firecrackers, a row of guns passed by, and a few dozen guns exploded. This is too damaging to morale. What's more, we don't have many firecrackers, only a few dozen. If we build firecrackers, one It takes more than a dozen taels of silver. We need to equip at least 8000 gunners in order to have a firepower advantage to a certain extent. We also need to keep [-] spares, and a thousand guns need at least [-] taels of silver. With this money, we might as well build a crossbow machine!"

"Calbow!"

"Yes!"

"A crossbow is cheaper than a firecracker! The silver used to make one firecracker can be used to make three crossbows. If a firecracker wants to shoot against three crossbows, you will be shot and cry!"

It wasn't until this time that Cheng Shijie understood why the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty did not quickly eliminate cold weapons like Western-style weapons. The real factor restricting the development of firearms was cost performance.

Take the frontier crossbow machine of the Ming Dynasty as an example. The Shansang crossbow can shoot 220 paces, and the formation-breaking crossbow can shoot [-] paces. The firecracker with the longest range in this era is the bird blunderbuss, which can only reach [-] yards, and there is no For rifling, if the lead hits the target, it depends on fate.

At that moment, Cheng Shijie's heart was moved.

Because it is equipped with immature firecrackers, it is really better to equip crossbows.

PS: I'm very sorry, Lao Cheng's body turned back and forth today, he felt terribly uncomfortable, and had a splitting headache. This chapter has been written intermittently for at least a day.Please comment, even a single word is to support Lao Cheng.

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