Daming Military Empire

Chapter 62
After inspecting the weaving factory, Zhu Cijiong did not return to the capital immediately. He promised to accompany the two empress dowagers for an outing. Going out with them to get some air, I'm afraid I'll have to eat sanitary balls for several days after returning to the palace.

In fact, Zhu Cijiong had already ordered Wang Chengen to lead a group of eunuchs to find a beautiful place between Wuqing and the capital, and arrange it well, waiting for them to go and play.

Speaking of the scenery, it is easy to find the north of the capital, where there is the remnant of Yanshan Mountain, with mountains and water, and the scenery is picturesque; the south of the capital is not easy to find, basically it is an endless plain with many rivers, but you can There is no landform called a mountain, and at most you can find a small mound tens of meters high.

Fortunately, the two empress dowagers just wanted to go for a walk, not to climb mountains, so Wang Chengen found a high-lying mound by the Yongding River, not far from the official road, and repaired the way up a bit. I found a flat place on the top of the mound, built a wooden gazebo, and then placed a table of exquisite pastries and cooked food in the pavilion. This place for outing and rest is ready.

The surrounding scenery is not bad, the river is clear, the grass is everywhere, and everywhere is blue, you can step on it however you want!
The two empress dowagers were really satisfied with the scenery here, they climbed up the mound to eat something to rest, and then led Qin Mingyue to wander around.

Several miles around were surrounded by the imperial guards, but Zhu Cijiong was not worried about their safety. In order to avoid being ravaged by the three women in turn, he hid in the gazebo on the grounds that he was too tired from the inspection in the morning and did not go out.

On the surface, he was sitting there admiring the scenery around him, but in his heart he was thinking about making money. He had no choice but to be poor. The money was spent like running water, and 2000 million taels was spent in the blink of an eye.He really wanted to expand the Beijing camp, update the equipment, and then personally lead the army to wipe out the peasant uprising army, regain Liaodong, and kill Huang Taiji, but he has no money!The annual military expenditure of a 300-strong army is [-] million taels. This is not counting the consumption of firearms. It can be used for a few years without any problem. Bullets and shells are gone after being fired. This military expenditure has to be doubled again.

Just when Zhu Cijiong was worrying about money, another matter of spending money came to his door, and the voice of the beautiful woman in the system suddenly sounded in his mind again

"Ding Dong, congratulations on completing the fifth survival mission, the rewards will be distributed below, the blueprint of the new flintlock gun."

Zhu Cijiong felt a little dizzy again, and a set of blueprints for a new type of flintlock appeared in his mind.

Before he could take a closer look, the beautiful voice of the system continued:
"Ding Dong, please pay attention, new task reminder.

Your sixth survival mission: Survive the world for a year.

Task reward: Improved Franc machine ** paper. "

When Zhu Cijiong heard this award, he lost his previous excitement. This gun cost dozens of taels of silver a piece. Wouldn’t it be more expensive? Now that he has no money, giving him more blueprints is useless. Build weapons.

The beauty of the system naturally doesn't care whether he has money, and continues to remind: "Friendly reminder: the survival mission is coming to an end, Sao Nian, go work hard to rewrite history, the rich glory mission rewards are beckoning to you."

Zhu Cijiong was speechless for a while, rewriting history is not so simple, no matter how generous the rewards of the Glory mission, it must be obtained.

The reward for his first glory mission can be said to be the result of half-selling and half-giving by the system. If the system hadn't let his soul travel to the dying Prince Zhu Cijiong, how could he change history so easily and ascend to the throne of God.

To change history now, it is nothing more than to clean up the peasant uprising army, defeat Houjin, or dominate the world. Nothing is easy, and it is impossible to do it in the short term.

He shook his head, getting all his troubles out of his mind, and carefully checked the blueprint of the new flintlock gun.

First of all, the rifling must be engraved inside the barrel, and the system also comes with a simple breech bed, which is specially used for engraving the rifling.

The broaching bed is also simple, mainly two pistons, one pulls the barrel back and forth, and the other makes the special drill slowly rotate, as long as the barrel is fixed on the piston that pulls back and forth, one press the switch, the breeching bed will automatically pull The drill moves back and forth along the barrel so that the rotating drill bit carves the rifling into the barrel.

Then the flintlock device was also changed. The medicine chamber is fixed on the back of the barrel through a buckle. As long as the buckle is opened, the medicine chamber can be removed. The gunpowder in it could be loaded before, and when the time comes, as long as the medicine chamber is replaced and the bullet is loaded, you can shoot again immediately.

Finally, the bullet was also changed. It was no longer spherical, but cylindrical, with a tapered tip.The bullets are not poked in from the muzzle, but loaded from the back. When the chamber is removed, just press the bullets into the barrel.

Sure enough, it is a good thing. Such a gun has a range of more than 500 meters and a killing distance of more than 300 meters. As long as it is aimed within 200 meters, it is almost impossible to shoot. The detachable chamber and breech loading also greatly increase the rate of fire. There are enough medicine chambers and bullets, and ten rounds per minute are not a problem.

This kind of flintlock surpasses the bow and crossbow in terms of range, rate of fire, killing distance, and accuracy. It can completely dominate the battlefield and decide the outcome!
Things are good things, but our little emperor Zhu Cijiong is not happy at all. The structure of the new flintlock gun is so complicated, and machine tools need to be added. If you add machine tools without adding people, the output will still not increase. There are about a thousand people in the factory, and it is not bad if they can make a thousand new-style flintlock guns a month.

One thousand guns a month, only 1 guns a year, and this is not counting the time for separate processing chambers. A gun must be equipped with ten separate chambers, so it takes one year to make one gun. ten thousand.It will take at least five years for the new gun to form combat power, and it will take at least 50 years to form an absolute advantage to sweep the peasant army and the post-golden army!

50 years, what a joke, at that time our little emperors have become old emperors, and we don’t know if Daming can last like this for five years. Wait another 50 years, and Daming will perish early.

Zhu Cijiong decided not to wait any longer. First, he recruited all the people. He could still last for a few months with only salary. In August, he decided how many flintlock guns to produce in a month after seeing how much tax was collected.

As he continued, Wang Gong Factory began to recruit workers frantically, recruiting from the victims of the disaster, only recruiting military households and artisan households, with a quota of [-], two months of study, three taels of silver per month, and assessment after two months. The monthly payment is five taels of silver.

At the same time, Bi Maokang and Song Yingxing also began to trial-produce a new type of flintlock gun. The specific performance will not be known until it is made, but the cost is calculated. Even if each flintlock gun is equipped with ten chambers and one hundred bullets, it will cost 100 yuan. For two taels of silver, ten thousand is one million taels, and one hundred thousand is ten million taels!
After being the emperor for so long, Zhu Cijiong has never felt so difficult. He must be careful in everything he does, otherwise there may be a financial crisis.It's unlucky enough for the emperor to be in this position. No wonder Zhu Youjian, the emperor of Chongzhen, would be nagging at that moment. , He is strong enough not to become crazy.

Our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong would naturally not be so poor. As long as the semicolon of Rixinglong spreads across the country, he can earn 2000 to [-] million taels a year at least.But right now is the most difficult time for him. The treasury is empty, and Rixinglong is still in its infancy. He spends money everywhere on disaster relief, suppressing peasant uprisings, and resisting the invasion of Houjin. If he is not careful, he may go bankrupt.

Well, Bi Maokang, please take it easy, first make a dozen or so flintlock guns and try them out, if you do too many, I will have no money to pay my salary!

(End of this chapter)