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Chapter 85 The Declining World of Martial Arts 【Subscription】

"Killing you will dirty my hands!"

Zhang Jingyun said to Zhao Jingzhong indifferently. As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of men in black appeared from the front and back of the house, holding muskets and opened fire.

Bang bang bang!
Suddenly, the calm streets were filled with smoke. As the new factory owner, Zhao Jingzhong was the most powerful master of martial arts in the East Factory.

"Hmph, you just want to kill me with a shotgun?"

Zhao Jingzhong was born in Dongchang, and he knew all kinds of firearms like the back of his hand. Today's firearms, including the legendary three-eyed blunderbuss, are not that powerful.

Even in the eyes of some experts, the three-eyed gun is just a useless thing. It has a short and weak barrel, is difficult to accurately shoot, has little real lethality, and has poor accuracy.

Therefore Zhao Jingzhong was not afraid when he saw a group of people holding muskets and was about to shoot him.

Zhao Jingzhong's thinking is actually not wrong.

He knows the Ming Dynasty so well, why on the battlefield, the Ming army with three-eyed guns and the firearms soldiers of the Eight Banners were bombarded to pieces?

Against the heavily armored Eight Banners cavalry, the three-eyed blunderbuss could not penetrate their armor at all, and even if the soldiers fired their guns like rain and snow, the opponent would attack without a single death.

In fact, this legendary "artifact" three-eyed blunderbuss, except for its loud sound and good signal, is not powerful in other aspects.

However, with the sound of gunfire.

Zhao Jingzhong straightened suddenly, even if he used his body skills, there were still dozens of bullet holes in his body in an instant, and he fell to the ground with a slap.

Bibala Zhao Jingzhong was completely out of breath amidst crackling sounds, Zhang Jingyun then came to Zhao Jingzhong's side.

"It seems that the effect of the new firearm is not bad."

For a modern person, Zhang Jingyun knows best what advantages and disadvantages Daming has, especially in terms of muskets.

It is said that the Ming Dynasty’s muskets are not as good as those of the Qing Dynasty.

Does Ming Dynasty really have no good equipment?
Of course not, the last half century of the last years of the Ming Dynasty happened to be the era of the great explosion of military technology in the Ming Dynasty. In the seventeenth century, the Ming Dynasty had already developed the self-generating blunderbuss flintlock.

The advanced European "Spanish Musket Musket", which the Ming Dynasty people called the Turtle Dove Foot Gun, was also introduced by the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, there are also a dazzling array of modified firearms such as "Lumi Gun" and "Thunder Gun", and any one you choose will be of the world's advanced level.

But why did Daming still lose?
After all, it is a matter of corruption.

During the Wanli period, Zhao Shizhen developed the Lumi gun, which is extremely lethal and has excellent performance. Zhao Shizhen Shangshu Emperor Wanli mass-produced it.

Emperor Wanli was also straightforward and approved 3 taels. As a result, officials at all levels began to argue. All lost accidentally.

Zhang Jingyun will not watch history repeat itself.

He asked Emperor Chongzhen to specially approve 50 taels of silver for making guns, and combined with the most advanced firearm manufacturing technology of Ming Dynasty, he also took out some of the firearms he seized from the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and finally presumed that the rifles were imitated by Hanyang. After a year of hard work , Tens of thousands of Ming craftsmen worked day and night to manufacture, plus many supplementary funds, now a total of more than [-] rifles have been produced.

The sum of Zhang Jingyun's investment in making guns is more than one million taels, and the total cost of each rifle is as high as one hundred taels of silver.

This was definitely a sky-high price weapon for the Ming Dynasty. The main reason why the three-eyed blunderbuss was so good was that it was simple to make and low in price.

Three to five thousand guns can be fooled casually, and a team of tens of thousands of people can be equipped. As for whether they can fight or not, it doesn't matter to the gun-making officials.

Zhang Jingyun didn't feel bad for spending so much money on making guns. If the Ming Dynasty didn't spend the money on this, would it still be left to the Qing Dynasty?

With a gun, you have a weapon that transcends the times. In front of imitation Hanyang, no matter how powerful the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty are, they should not drink their hatred on the spot?

Zhang Jingyun had Zhao Jingzhong's body disposed of, and then returned with the Imperial Guards. The first batch of Hanyang-made weapons had been equipped with [-] weapons by the Imperial Guards for practicing new combat methods.

With the remaining [-] guns, Zhang Jingyun divided them into two parts and distributed [-] guns to Sun Chuanting. Sun Chuanting made great contributions in eradicating the trespasser Gao Yingxiang in Shaanxi. With the new guns, the bandits may be completely quelled within a year or two.

Even Chongzhen didn't expect that the last two thousand would be given to Lu Xiangsheng, whom he promoted last year. Zhang Jingyun allocated 3 taels of silver to him on a whim, and Lu Xiangsheng actually formed a Tianxiong army.

The Tianxiong Army is unique. Due to lack of money and food, the Tianxiong Army formed by Lu Xiangsheng is composed of fellow villagers, friends, brothers, family members, etc.

Therefore, in this kind of army, if one person dies in battle, it can arouse the anger of most people. The fighting spirit is very strong, and when encountering the enemy, they will not let go and fight to the end.

However, although this kind of army model has advantages, it also has disadvantages. Zeng Guofan's troops in later generations are similar to Tianxiong's army. If one person escapes and is defeated, it may cause a chain reaction.

The folks in the village dispersed in a hurry.

But Lu Xiangsheng's army did not have this concern, because he took the lead in every battle and shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers.

Zhang Jingyun had heard Jin Yiwei's report on Tianxiong's military situation, saying that once the army was short of food, the soldiers didn't eat for three days, and Lu Xiangsheng also didn't eat for three days, and didn't even drink water.

Therefore, in the Tianxiong Army, as long as Lu Xiangsheng didn't run away, this powerful army would not disperse. From then on, Zhang Jingyun knew that the Tianxiong Army would be one of the most powerful troops in Ming Dynasty.

Lu Xiangsheng also lived up to expectations.

In the fight against the rogues last year, he made great contributions and wiped out 32 rogues one after another, and was even called King Lu Yan by the rogues.

December of the same year.

The remnants of Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang's troops fled to Hanshan, Hezhou, and Chuzhou. Lu Xiangsheng personally led the army to wipe out the bandits when he heard the news in Xisha River, and defeated Li Zicheng and other generals under Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang's command at Qiding Mountain.

Li Zicheng once wanted to surrender to the Ming army.

Yang Sichang, who was then Minister of the Ministry of War, advocated appeasement. Regardless of Lu Xiangsheng's refusal and proposition, Yang Sichang decided to Zhao'an Li Zicheng and other troops to reform.

However, Li Zicheng only pretended to surrender in order to get a chance to breathe. After more than a month of training, he rose up again. Yang Sichang was caught off guard and missed the opportunity to destroy Li Zicheng.

Zhang Jingyun was furious and ordered Chongzhen to depose Yang Sichang. In the territory of Ming Dynasty, bandits were in chaos, and leaders like Li Zicheng were proficient in false surrender methods, so there was absolutely no reason for Zhaoan.

In April of the second year of Chongzhen.

Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi Province, has gained the essence of exterminating the rogues. To defeat the rogues, he will never accept surrender. Killing the leader is the top priority!

With the application of the new firearm and the improvement of the manufacturing process, Zhang Jingyun invested more than one million taels of silver and achieved greater and greater results.

The manufacturing cost of imitation Hanyang-made rifles is getting lower and lower, and the technological process is becoming more mature. More and more Ming troops are equipped with new-style muskets.

Sun Chengzong's troops at the Liaodong border also began to equip themselves. As the equipment became more and more advanced, even Sun Chengzong couldn't help but ask for a proactive attack.

Zhang Jingyun agreed after hearing this.

In late April, Huang Taiji invaded again.

Sun Chuanting took the initiative to attack, and the muskets fired in volleys one after another. Huang Taiji's troops were caught off guard, and the muskets of the Ming army did not need to stop loading gunpowder.

Tens of thousands of muskets fired in turn, and the sound of gunfire was loud. In less than a day, more than [-] Qing soldiers were killed. Huang Taiji also fled in confusion and retreated to Shenyang.

During Huang Taiji's period, the old Manchurian soldiers were no more than [-], but now they lost tens of thousands in a battle, which is also a huge loss for Huang Taiji.

Especially the Ming Dynasty's new muskets, which were powerful and did not need to stop to reload ammunition. Once revealed, the Qing army was frightened.

In this battle, the frontier is a great victory.

Sun Chengzong went up to ask for credit. After Zhang Jingyun saw it, he found that the Ming army had also lost more than [-] people. How could this be a Ming army equipped with imitation Hanyang?

Please have a hammer!
In fact, at this time, the Ming army's military discipline was lax and it was hard to recover, and its poor combat effectiveness was an indisputable fact. The ability to kill [-] Qing troops was all due to their super-god-level musket equipment.

In May of the second year of Chongzhen.

The nationwide rogue bandits were almost quelled. Zhang Jingyun ordered Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Chen Qiyu and other ministries to raise troops on the spot and promote high-yielding crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn.

Potatoes, in particular, had been introduced during the Wanli period. However, they were only grown in the palace and ordinary people had no chance to eat them.

Zhang Jingyun was speechless.

Potatoes are a veritable high-yield. Even in the northern regions, after one crop of potatoes is planted, another crop of vegetables can be planted.

Such awesome things are actually grown in the palace. The emperor is really not afraid that the people will not have enough to eat. If there is no food to eat, who the hell won't rebel?

Farmers in all dynasties have only one bottom line, let me have enough to eat, otherwise I will designate rebellion, as long as there is a mouthful of food for farmers, they will not rebel, and it will pass after a little patience.

The Qing army was defeated and the peasant army was quelled.

Daming finally won a rare respite, Zhang Jingyun can make drastic reforms and implement the first five-year plan of Ming Dynasty.

In June of the second year of Chongzhen.

The Daming Tax Department was established.

The Taxation Department of the Ming Dynasty was composed of eunuchs from Dongchang. They had only one goal, which was to keep the money bag for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Since then, Ming officials have understood a truth, you can be greedy for money, you can buy officials, you can bribe your boss...but you must never evade taxes.

When Daming made mistakes in other matters, it would take a long time, ruling, and finally punishing, but for tax evasion, Jin Yiwei would directly come to search the house.

Confiscate the family property first, and then go through the process of trial.

Only in the month of June of the second year of Chongzhen, hundreds of corrupt officials had died, and the Ministry of Officials was still going through the process of punishment.

In the end, he was fined, demoted, and even exiled... He clearly didn't need to die, but he died because of the tax department. What a pity?
In July of the second year of Chongzhen, the Little Ice Age continued, and famines continued in Shaanxi, Shandong and other places. However, due to the promotion of crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, the people of Ming Dynasty struggled to survive, but not so many people died of starvation.

The number of rebellious peasants suddenly decreased.

The tax reform, coupled with the adjustment of the land policy, although it is not enough to achieve the land to the tiller, it has greatly changed the original destiny of Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Jingyun knew that all that was left was to proceed step by step and promote the implementation of the reform step by step, and none of this could be accomplished overnight.

There is only one hidden danger left in Ming Dynasty now.

That is the Qing Dynasty outside the customs.

Huang Taiji was deeply ashamed of his defeat. He was plotting revenge day and night. Huang Taiji vowed not to give up until he avenged the humiliation at the border.

Chongzhen three years.

After a year of recuperation, Huang Taiji's troops felt that they were doing well and were ready to make a comeback. The year coincided with the plague of insects visiting the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty was too difficult. Either there was a severe drought in the whole country, or locusts crossed the border. In April, there was also a big hailstorm, which destroyed the crops. The right time and place were not on Daming's side. This year, you don't need to think about it, it is another large-scale rebellion year.

And this time Zhang Jingyun also understood.

The Ming Dynasty was so difficult, but the Qing Dynasty was quite prosperous. If you want to change the difficult and difficult situation of the Ming Dynasty, the only way is to destroy the Qing Dynasty!

Occupy the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty!
Sun Chengzong took the initiative to attack again, and Huang Taiji avoided his edge, intending to consume the power of the Ming Dynasty, and waited for the peasant army in the territory of the Ming Dynasty to stalemate with the Ming army.

August of the same year.

Sun Chengzong was recalled by Emperor Chongzhen.

Huang Taiji seized the right time and wanted to invade again. As everyone knows, after two years of planning, the coach of Liaodong Liaodong has secretly changed from Sun Chengzong to Sun Chuanting.

Zhang Jingyun used the capital as a bait to lure the Qing army to go deep. The Qing army successively occupied Zunhua, Yongping, Qian'an, and Luanzhou, and the capital was in danger.

Huang Taiji's troops came to the city, and the people of the Ming Dynasty were panicked. Facing an army of [-], they seemed like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. However, the Ming Dynasty was no longer the Ming Dynasty of the past.

The Forbidden Army and Tianxiong Army, all armed with new-style muskets and equipped with explosive bombs (grenades), suffered countless casualties from Huang Taiji's troops, and they were unable to attack the capital at all.

Not only that, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou joined forces to block Huang Taiji's retreat, and planted more than [-] new landmines on Huang Taiji's retreat.

Huang Taiji knew very well the truth that soldiers are expensive and fast. The capital could not be attacked for a long time and had to retreat, but he did not expect that he would escape into Zunhua in embarrassment after being destroyed by landmines and explosive bombs, leaving tens of thousands of corpses behind.

On this day, Zhang Jingyun arrived in Zunhua in person.

"Zunhua...what a place!"

Zhang Jingyun had endless emotions, it was so familiar, Zunhua, could this be destiny?Zunhua is the location of the tombs of later Qing emperors!

Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong, the Empress Dowager, etc., are all buried here. I didn't expect that in this world, it would be the place where Huang Taiji was defeated and buried!
"This place is very good, it's time for a decisive battle!"

Zhang Jingyun gave the order!
The various armies of the Ming Dynasty finally confronted Huang Taiji's troops head-on. Huang Taiji's advance into Zunhua was already full of hunger and poverty, but now the main force of the Ming army is ushered in, and he knows that his destiny has arrived.

Huang Taiji then decided to surrender in Kaicheng.

In September of the third year of Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong refused to surrender and attacked the city, slaughtering all the remaining 4 people in Huang Taiji's tribe. All officials in the court rushed to impeach him.

What has been killed since ancient times is unknown...

Zhang Jingyun also felt the same way, when Taizu raised an army back then, with Xu Da and Chang Yuchun as his assistants, Chang Yuchun caused disaster because of killing and surrendering.

Zhang Jingyun made a decision immediately.

Sun Chuanting was fined one year's salary as a warning.

All officials are silent...

Zhang Jingyun used Sun Chuanting's one-year salary to build a tomb, and buried Huang Taiji's body at the Dragon Gate of Zunhua, which won praise from the government and the public.

Because of the death of Huang Taiji, the Qing Dynasty took a sudden turn for the worse, and there was no possibility of being overthrown again. The voice of the system sounded in Zhang Jingyun's mind again.

"Ding! Hidden mission completed!"

Zhang Jingyun's heart trembled for a while. Finally, the hidden task became more and more difficult to complete. Before secretly taming Emperor Chongzhen, he hadn't achieved it. Now he killed Huang Taiji and destroyed the Qing Dynasty.

"It's really perverted..."

Zhang Jingyun suddenly realized that maybe it wasn't that he didn't agree with Daqing, but that the system had some inexplicable hostility towards Daqing.

All three hidden tasks fell on Da Qing.

After defeating the Qing Dynasty, the whole country of the Ming Dynasty cheered, the government and the public were boiling, and the people were proud, which also made the emperor's prestige reach its peak.

Now if Zhang Jingyun implements any policies, the resistance he will encounter will not be so great, because the strong army of the Ming Dynasty will teach them how to behave.

Inside the Qianqing Palace.

Zhang Jingyun teased his son Zhu Cixiu, the little guy couldn't stop laughing, and then he picked up Miaotong's daughter, Princess Daming.

In the past few years, while Zhang Jingyun was busy with state affairs, he did neglect martial arts practice, mainly because there was really no room for improvement.

You know, Zhang Jingyun pays attention to health preservation and practice, and has practiced various health preservation exercises to the extreme, with a life expectancy of more than 250 years.

On the other hand, dual cultivation never stops.

Zhou Miaotong and Bei Zhai are also pregnant again.

Zhang Jingyun thinks that he has won the Great Ming Dynasty, and he has worked hard for several years and can't enjoy it?So I got acquainted with a few confidante friends.

One of them must be mentioned.

That was Queen Zhang. Zhang Jingyun had been in the palace for a long time, but one day he got lost for some unknown reason and broke into Queen Yi'an's palace.

Empress Yi'an is Empress Zhang. She has a natural appearance, tall and plump, her face is like Guanyin, her eyes are like autumn waves, her mouth is like vermilion cherry blossoms, her nose is like hanging gallbladder, and her teeth are fine and clean. A beauty.

After the death of Emperor Tianqi, Empress Zhang was alone. Seeing that she was pitiful, Zhang Jingyun got in touch with her and helped take care of the former emperor's wife.

But she was so beautiful. Although her husband died, she was only in her early twenties. The combination of innocence and maturity made people unforgettable at a glance.

In September of the same year, Queen Zhang became pregnant.

.........

"The world of embroidered spring knives is not over yet. The peak mission of martial arts, since three years ago, no one has been my opponent, and I have already achieved it without regrets..."

Zhang Jingyun was suddenly puzzled.

Logically speaking, he should have been able to return a long time ago, but he hasn't heard the system prompt until today. Could it be that something went wrong?
Zhang Jingyun shook his head.

If there is no problem with the system, it is his problem. After thinking about it, there is only one possibility, and that is that Zhang Jingyun's martial arts has not yet reached the pinnacle of this world.

"Could it be that I still have room for improvement?"

After thinking about it, the only special things in this world that interest him are those mental techniques, which are similar to inner strength, but not inner strength.

Originally, Zhang Jingyun wanted to find some more spiritual studies, but they were delayed by state affairs and double cultivation. Now that he has a rare leisure, Zhang Jingyun started thinking again.

soon.

Dongchang and even Jinyiwei sent a large number of mental techniques. Zhang Jingyun looked carefully and found that among them was the Xinyou Mental Technique that he had practiced, created by Qi Jiguang.

In addition, there are: Shaolin mental method, Wudang mental method, Songshan mental method, Huashan mental method, Chaoyang mental method, Jindaomen mental method, Tiejianmen mental method...etc.

Zhang Jingyun suddenly froze.

"Where did the Golden Knife Gate and Iron Sword Gate come from? Who created Shaolin, Huashan, Songshan and other mental methods?"

Zhang Jingyun is familiar with these sects. He knows Jindaomen and Tiejianmen. Yan Peiwei's father-in-law is the head of Jindaomen. The appearance of these sects.

Soon Zhang Jingyun got a reply.

The origins of some sects' mental methods are surprisingly similar. They are all created by the first master based on ancient methods and combined with what he has learned.

In addition, there are some martial arts sects that have been passed down for a long time. How the ancestors created the mental method is unknown, there is no certificate to test, and there is no way to investigate.

The so-called ancient methods and even the ancestral methods of the great sect are vague. Even the Chaoyang Heart Method practiced by the eunuchs of Dongchang can greatly increase the speed, but the practice of ordinary people has no effect...

Zhang Jingyun was silent for a while.

Afterwards, he selected several well-known mental methods, such as Huashan mental method, Songshan mental method, Shaolin mental method and Wudang, and practiced accordingly.

In the end, Zhang Jingyun spent a lot of attribute points.Integrate 19 mental methods with their own characteristics into one to form an unknown mental method!

This practice is incredible.

Zhang Jingyun slapped the stone with his palm, and the stone exploded. Even though it was the size of a watermelon, Zhang Jingyun could smash it normally, but it was a horizontal exercise.

Today, Zhang Jingyun is just a meat palm!
Even the external power was not working, and strange force was generated in the body, which directly smashed the stone. Zhang Jingyun instantly realized that something might be wrong.

"This thing can't be internal force?"

Zhang Jingyun is also very confused that the nameless mental method that integrates many mental methods into one, after adding points to Dacheng, actually develops something similar to internal strength.

Zhang Jingyun thought about it over and over again.

This may be a declining world of martial arts!

However, at this moment, Zhang Jingyun suddenly felt that an invisible force was acting on him, as if to pull him into an unknown space.

Time seemed to be frozen. Zhang Jingyun turned his head and saw Beizhai's unbelievable gaze. Zhou Miaotong just stretched out his hand and then completely froze there.

next second.

Zhang Jingyun disappeared before their eyes.

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