Wanli 1592

Chapter 435 Make a big news

When Chen Longzheng's rescue operation was not known to Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun was worrying about making mini bombs in the military base in the mountainous area of ​​northern Myanmar.

Xiao Ruxun clearly knows that in the current situation of this era, musket infantry equipped with rifled flintlock guns and miniature bullets is all he can do. In terms of the production capacity of the current handicraft workshop-style industrial system , This is the limit that he can achieve, and what can be done even higher is what can only be achieved in the era of mechanical industry assisted by modern chemistry.

No matter how confident Xiao Ruxun is, he will never be so confident that he can carry out an industrial revolution in Daming in the 25th year of Wanli. The base is already the existence of the top scale and technical level of this era.

Xiao Ruxun collected a large number of craftsmen from Europe and the production line composed of senior blacksmiths trained by himself can be said to be the top handmade firearms production line of this era. They are making the top musket infantry equipment of this era. They can produce rifled flint. Although the production of guns is not high, it is definitely enough for the SS to use.

Now large troops are still using cheap and convenient mass-produced matchlock guns. The quality of Zhennan Army’s matchlock guns is also much higher than that of the Ming Army’s original bird guns. This is not difficult. It can be done with a mature manual production line. It is not difficult to make a flintlock gun with rifling, and skilled old craftsmen can do it, but if you want to make Mini bullets, then it is more difficult.

Xiao Ruxun absolutely does not think that Miniature bullets can be made by making a mold and melting a piece of lead in three or two strokes, nor does he think that the inspiration brought by ancient weapons such as mouth blowing arrows can facilitate craftsmen to make Miniature bullets .

If this is the case, European soldiers will not have to carry hammers to the battlefield to knock bullets for more than 100 years, and Europeans will not toss out the Minie bullet almost 300 years after the appearance of rifled rifles, so that the Minie bullet has only been used for 20 years. The breech loader was eliminated.

Behind the production of a miniature bullet is the close cooperation of the entire production line. Among other things, the absolute precise size is an insurmountable level for old craftsmen. The characteristic of the miniature bullet is to dig a groove at the end of the bullet. , so that when the gunpowder burns, it impacts the tail of the bullet and causes the bullet to expand to fit the internal rifling, so as to achieve shooting.

This involves the inner diameter of the barrel and the diameter of the bullet. They must be manufactured within a limited size, so as to ensure that when the gunpowder burns, the lead bullet can expand to the point where it can be embedded in the rifling, so as to achieve smooth shooting. If the diameter of the bullet is too small, it is no different from a smoothbore gun. If the diameter is too large, is it not afraid of exploding the chamber?

Then the manufacture of bullets must not be polished by hand, but with molds, and the manufacture of gun barrels cannot be done by hand, but must be made with molds.

The production cost of a rifled flintlock gun is more than three times that of a smoothbore matchlock gun. Xiao Ruxun calculated an economic account, and the cost of making a matchlock gun is about four taels of silver, while making a rifled flintlock gun The cost is more than 12 taels of silver.

What does 12 taels of silver mean at this time?
"Ximen Qingxuan used 16 taels of silver to buy a black lacquered Huanmen bed with gilt painting, gold curtains with big red rings, precious elephant flowers for makeup, tables and chairs brocade, all neatly furnished"

Jin Ping Mei was written in the Jialongwan period of the Ming Dynasty. When Xiao Ruxun led his troops to the south three years ago, he heard rumors that an unscrupulous book was secretly popular among some high-ranking households in Zhejiang. Jin Ping Mei is here, the prices here are the prices of this period, and it is easy to understand for comparison.

Ximenqing spent 16 taels of silver to buy a three-piece bed set and a complete set of bedroom furniture. I don’t know which one of the three Jin Ping Mei was used to accommodate, but Ximen’s officials were extravagant. Sets and bedroom furniture are expected to be high-end goods.

A whole set of high-end goods that fills a woman's room costs 16 taels of silver. This is still a southeast coastal area with a developed economy and a high level of consumption.

Xiao Ruxun has 12 taels of silver for a rifled flintlock.

It is equal to the more than 300 rifled flintlocks in Xiao Ruxun's hands now, which is enough for Ximen officials to collect a hundred sets of Jin Ping Mei San Dian and slowly play in the golden house. Throw it into a large melting furnace with a temperature of more than 800 degrees, and it will disappear without a trace.

Xiao Ruxun’s business tax is fierce here, and he doesn’t have to pay taxes to the court, and the court doesn’t collect his business tax. He also does food business and arms business with Southeast Asian countries, basically monopolizing the arms business and food business, and he also controls trade. The right to formulate the rules of the game earns a lot of money.

For the whole of last year, Xiao Ruxun's Burmese town had a total financial income of 200 million taels of silver, which was a pile of white money. Xiao Ruxun conservatively estimated that after the opening of European commercial routes, it would not be a problem to double it.

The total fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty is only tens of millions of taels of silver each year. This is on the premise that there is almost no commercial tax, and after the old Zhudan’s painful rule of "reserving enough space for your own use and the rest to escort the capital", it was handed over by the court. The above is only two or three million, which means that Xiao Ruxun's current financial income can already be called brothers and sisters with the treasury of the Ming Dynasty.

Even with such strong financial resources, Xiao Ruxun still struggled with the manufacture of rifled flintlock guns and the development of miniature bullets under the condition that the water division and the army were raised easily and without pressure. Looking for mines all over Myanmar, and constantly recruiting a large number of people to mine mines, even Xiao Ruxun thought of finding an excuse to destroy the aborigines of those tribes, so he barely maintained the status quo.

Lead bullets are not so distressing. If they are deformed, they will be picked up and returned to the furnace for remaking. The consumption is not very large, but it is still not easy to make steel with the most advanced Su steel method. The continuation and improvement of the steel filling method is much more efficient than the original steel filling method, but in order to meet the needs of the army, the output of the blacksmiths is also scrambling to catch up with the requirements.

All in all, Xiao Ruxun's military base is currently operating at an overloaded state. Every craftsman and soldier doing odd jobs is very tired. If it weren't for the face of the high salary, the craftsmen would really be unhappy. They made Xiao Ruxun more than once To recruit a little more manpower, Xiao Ruxun also recruited blacksmiths in many places along the coast, but too many blacksmiths were recruited by the court's eyes and ears, and Xiao Ruxun was unwilling to take such a risk.

He can only train blacksmiths at his own expense.

This is not the time of war yet, but Xiao Ruxun usually has high requirements for the training of soldiers. He has to shoot every day to maintain speed, and he has to fill up the inventory of firearms in various ways to prepare for emergencies. Anyway, in the past three years, he has raised an army by himself. Governing the soil and water, Xiao Ruxun really knew what it meant to be a cannon fired, and what it meant to fight was money.

Only then did he understand why Chinese soldiers had only a few rounds of ammunition per capita during the Anti-Japanese War. Only then did he understand why there were so many empty ammunition, low-quality ammunition and even waste ammunition filled with sand when the Beiyang Navy fought against the Japanese. It's money. Lafayette took all the money to repair the garden. Where did the money come from to make shells?

Watching the army shooting in the practice queue every day, Xiao Ruxun looked serious and serious on the surface when he inspected them, but his heart was bleeding continuously. These are all money, and they are all white money. The [-] army is an elite army that he fed with millions of taels of silver. If they can't treat one as ten, then they are really sorry for the millions of taels of silver!
Think about Lao Zhu’s proud declaration that he raised millions of soldiers without a single grain of rice from the common people. As a result, more than 100 years have passed, and his million soldiers have been beaten into sieves by bankrupt farmers in the southeast and Japanese ronin, and dozens of Japanese ronin can beat them Under the city of Nanjing, this is what he will end up boasting about in Haikou, and comparing Xiao Ruxun with him, it is simply a bitter haha.

The financial revenue seems to be a lot, but when it is calculated, this poor and barren land of Myanmar can get to where it is today, and there is really not a few taels of silver that he can use for his personal use.

Want to build a city?Do you want to build a house village?Do you want to build roads?Do you want to repair water conservancy?Want to widen the river?Want to buy farm tools and seeds?Want to buy cattle?Want to recruit artisans?Do artisans need money to support them?Those miners recruited to do coolies also have to pay the tribal chiefs?
The rest is to raise troops. The army needs cold weapons and guns. These are all silver. The navy needs to build ships to maintain the ships. The official caravan also needs to build larger and heavier merchant ships that can better meet the needs of long-distance voyages. The army’s ration needs Guaranteed?The officials under him need salaries, right?Doesn't the maintenance of the administrative system from the city to the village require investment?Does free literacy education require investment?

Calculated in this way, how many taels of the 200 million taels of financial revenue can fall into his mouth?
He can't wait to break a tael of silver into ten parts and use it. These years, he has not dared to eat meat. Every meal, he has a small bowl of green leafy vegetables, a small bowl of meat, a small bowl of soup and a large bowl of rice, or steamed a tael. Eat pickles for a potato, or gnaw a few stalks of corn, it's so bitter that you don't look like a marquis.

All the delicious food is left to the wife, children and father, and they are provided with good food and drink, and Yuan Huang and the others are provided with enough ice cubes and hearty work meals. They eat together, and dare not eat breakfast and lunch in front of others, for fear of letting the officials under him know their embarrassment, so they keep all the good things for entertaining guests, and they don't even want to drink a bowl of iced mung bean soup in private.

I only know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive!

The military factory starts at 10 taels of money, and he can't help spending money lavishly, so Chen Long was appointed as the director of the Audit Office, thinking about increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.

So three small salted fishes with minor conditions were found out, which could have been taken away at one stroke, but unexpectedly, Chen Longzheng was stunned to solve a shocking case. The small salted fishes were packaged into big sharks, and they were chopped off with a knife to bleed Chenghe shocked the entire Burmese officialdom.

That's not to mention, this guy even went out to buy a box of rouge and gouache that the wife of the mayor didn't buy for a tael of silver to increase the couple's interest. , Is it normal or not, is it obtained from greedy ink, or are you planning to be greedy?

He thought that rouge and gouache were all made of gold.

So after working for three months, Xiao Ruxun couldn't stand the crying of the officials below, and let Chen Longzheng return to his old profession to do diplomacy, but this disturbance really wiped out the entire Burmese officialdom. The officialdom in Myanmar, which is as pure as a lotus, is now even more white and shiny, and it can be called spotless. It has helped Xiao Ruxun save a lot of expenses invisibly.

It’s a small amount of money to save a person’s head. Climbing the technology tree to get a little technology is really not something ordinary people can do. Without the backing of the government, if you want to do it alone, you can do it yourself, but it needs to be promoted nationwide to form productivity. That's just nonsense. Is it possible for any invention to be promoted across the country and form productive forces without the government behind it?

Xiao Ruxun has been encouraging those craftsmen to invent and innovate all these years, and find ways to increase productivity. It is stipulated that those who invent and innovate to improve productivity or reduce consumption can be rewarded with a large sum of money, so these craftsmen also put forward various proposals as if they were hanging out. With all the effective suggestions, the money flows out like running water.

Earning a lot, spending a lot, daily expenses are already astronomical, and now thinking about making miniature bombs beyond the times, Xiao Ruxun is really exhausted, thinking about making more no matter what. Income-generating points, so as to add a little vitality to climbing the technology tree.

When Chen Longzheng sent the action report delivered by the Clippers in advance to Xiao Ruxun's desk, Xiao Ruxun had just approved a sum of 30 taels of daily operating expenses to the military factory, and was bleeding from distress when he launched the action report , and was immediately frightened by Lei.

Chen Longzheng is really a weakened Huo Qubing of Ziyue Shiyun version, a real troublemaker, he must make some big news wherever he goes!

A trip to Europe has led the trend of the times, a trip to Siam has made friends of popular idol women, and a trip to the Philippines has caused hundreds of life lawsuits, good guy, "Leading troops to defeat Xiyi Two hundred, gather and annihilate them, and get their heads to build a Beijing temple to comfort the spirit of Mr.

What?Ricci is dead?
Xiao Ruxun hurriedly continued to read, only to see that this guy thought Matteo Ricci was killed, and the other party fired first. In grief and anger, he ordered the army to fight back and killed all 200 Spanish soldiers. It was cut down and built as a Jingguan, saying that it was to comfort Matteo Ricci's spirit in heaven, but Matteo Ricci fell and died. It turned out that he was fainted by the gun of the thief chief, so Chen Longzheng thought he was dead.

Matteo Ricci, who woke up from a coma on the ship, described that he tried his best to prevent the armed fight from happening, but the officer on the other side was so unruly that he shot him and frightened him into unconsciousness, which caused an irreversible incident. Guilty, he wants to plead guilty to Xiao Ruxun and the Pope...

After Xiao Ruxun read the entire description of the incident, she felt extremely proud and proud of the magic stroke of sending Chen Longzheng to engage in diplomacy.

This is really just trying to sleep and someone sent a pillow.

　PS: Remember September [-], don't forget the national humiliation

　　
　
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