The dark scholar's name is Sun Yuanhua, a disciple of Xu Guangqi, and this time he entered Beijing to receive a letter from his teacher and entered the Tiangong workshop to cast cannons. Sun Yuanhua is a lifting person, because he is obsessed with Western learning, he has not been admitted to the Jinshi in many examinations, and later he simply gave up the scientific examination and concentrated on Western learning.

He entered Beijing this time with the help of his teacher to make meritorious contributions and seek a career, and second, he planned to be baptized into the Church and become a Catholic believer.

His teacher Xu Guangqi is a Catholic, he studied under Xu Guangqi, naturally came into contact with this aspect of things very early, after a period of understanding, he confirmed that Catholicism can "benefit the king, influence Confucianism, and save Buddhism", so he also planned to join the church and learn close contact.

Just as Sun Yuanhua was fluctuating, a handyman from the guild hall ran over, "Master Sun, Lord Xu sent a car to pick you up." ”

"Oh, okay." As soon as the newspaper was clipped, Sun Yuanhua followed out. When he came out, he saw a four-wheeled carriage at the entrance of the hall.

"You are Master Sun, Lord Xu asked the little one to pick you up." The coachman took a horse and put it on the ground and let him step on it to board the carriage.

Da-da-da-da!

The crisp sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the four-wheeled carriage left quickly, came to Fuchengmen, walked out through the door, and went all the way to the west, gurgling to the Tiangong workshop.

This road connecting the Tiangong workshop and the Jingshi is very wide, just walking on the side of the four carriages side by side, there are some partitions in the middle of the road, the whole road is divided into two halves.

It has been a few days since he came to Jingshi, and Sun Yuanhua also inquired about the news of the workshop in the lower heavenly palace, and knew that this road was called a one-way road, and one side could only go in one direction, and he could only turn around when he encountered a gap.

There are also rows of potholes on both sides of the road, and it is said that trees are transplanted here at the beginning of spring. From the ears of the common people in Jingshi, he heard a lot of news about the Tiangong workshop.

In addition to those absurd, the most impression of the people in Beijing is that it is a good place to work, and I don't know how many people have found an errand there in winter, earned some money, and spent a fat year.

Some of them plan to continue to work there after the Chinese New Year, and even some girls from poor families plan to go there to work as sewing workers. He had just read from the newspaper that the textile factory on the other side of the Tiangong workshop recruited female workers all year round, and except for the eunuchs who were degraded at the beginning, there were only female workers in that factory, and there were no men.

Sun Yuanhua estimated that after the New Year, it is estimated that there will be a large number of big girls and little daughters-in-law to work. The people of Daming are really too bitter, and there are few channels to make money.

The wheels were sparkling, and after half an hour, the carriage came to its knees.

After Sun Yuanhua got out of the car, the first thing that caught his eye was a very tall city gate, and the magnificent gate showed a majestic momentum here.

There are two teams of brocade guards waiting at the door, different from what they have seen in the past, these brocade guards are much more sophisticated, wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives, which look very imposing.

After a report, Sun Yuanhua was led in, and after going up the stairs, Jinyiwei led him to a room, where his mentor Xu Guangqi was looking at the information seriously.

"Lord Xu, Sun Yuanhua brought it." Jinyi Wei reported.

"Well, okay, you go down." Xu Guangqi replied, but did not raise his head, but lowered his head and continued to look at the information.

The brocade guard was not surprised, and went out after a salute, leaving only Sun Yuanhua alone in the room, and he was also accustomed to his teacher's temper, and he quietly wandered around the room, looking for something of interest.

Soon, he found his target, a small bookshelf. The title on the spine of the book intrigued him, gun design, a book about muskets and artillery.

He was surprised by the content of the book, there was no specific design scheme in the book, but it was explained from the principle of action and military use of musket artillery, and the development direction of musket artillery was described.

These books are all the technical knowledge in Zhu Youxiao's mind, and they were all sent to Xu Guangqi after he sorted out and copied them, and he didn't plan to take care of the technical matters in the future, so he handed them all over to Xu Guangqi.

Some of these knowledge are systematic, very detailed, and some are not systematic, and only a few words are grasped, such as the iron fan casting cannon he mentioned before, there are only a few approximate steps, first use the clay fan to cast the iron mold, and then use the iron mold to cast the cannon, and then clean it.

But Rao is such a simple thing, but Sun Yuanhua suddenly realized, and suddenly penetrated, this look made him addicted, until I don't know how long later, he was woken up by Xu Guangqi.

"How?" Xu Guangqi asked with a smile.

"This author should be a big material, why don't the teacher recruit and recommend it to the emperor." Sun Yuanhua expressed his feelings.

"Hahaha!" Listening to his student's answer, Xu Guangqi couldn't stop laughing.

"Teacher, what do you mean by that?" The teacher's reaction left him at a loss, and his heart was full of doubts, not knowing where his answer was wrong.

"These were all written by the emperor and sent over." Xu Guangqi said, pointing to the shelves full of books.

"Emperor!?" Sun Yuanhua was taken aback, this book was actually written by the emperor? It's incredible.

"Yes, after the emperor ascended the throne, he attached great importance to firearms, and spent a huge amount of money here to build a steel mill and a gun foundry, so he recruited you to come here, what you have learned, you are like a fish in water here, I am afraid that you can have a great achievement." Xu Guangqi stroked his beard and said what he thought.

"But the teacher ......." Sun Yuanhua hesitated for a moment, and then said hesitantly, "I heard that this Tiangong workshop belongs to the Inner Mansion, but the Inner Mansion does not have a grade, and there is no rank, how can it be born on the right path." ”

"You don't have to worry about this, the emperor's intention is to know that the teacher knows that this has a case, you don't have to worry, just Ansheng does good things here." I'm afraid this will be handed over to you at that time, and I'm afraid the old man won't be able to stay for a long time. Xu Guangqi explained.

"Teacher, ...... you" Sun Yuanhua asked with some concern.

"Stay here with peace of mind, and you don't have to worry about the teacher." Xu Guangqi waved his hand, signaling the other party not to worry, "By the way, Weishi also accepted a disciple here, named Song Yingxing, you come with Weishi and go to meet him." ”

With that, he took Sun Yuanhua and walked towards the laboratory building.

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao was not idle, but was inspecting his troops.

After the Yulin Army recruited 20,000 new recruits again, it was falling into intense training, with 800 cores and 4,000 backbones, Zhu Youxiao was not worried about the decline in the army's combat effectiveness, and the troops trained in modern queues were good at this, and they could be rapidly expanded.

Under the strict and brutal discipline of the military, the recruits were quickly formed, and then fought according to the drill column. After coming to this era, Zhu Youxiao discovered the huge role played by the queue training set in this era.

Like other modern people, when Zhu Youxiao first joined the army, he was also very puzzled in his heart, what did these old-fashioned things practice him for, they were all in the high-tech era, and when a war was fought, the aircraft and missiles went first, or the infantry squad and platoon tactics of the straggler line, these were not used at all, and they looked better during the military parade.

These ideas of his cannot be said to be wrong, or even right, this set of things is really useless in modern times, but it has played a huge role in this era.

Whether it is the current era when firearms are in the ascendant, or the era of cold weapons before the confrontation, they are very useful. The infantry assembled in a phalanx, the cavalry lined up on two flanks, and the archers were in front.

The bow and arrow first, then the infantry spear formation pressed the enemy, and finally the cavalry tail pursuit, this was a simple but effective tactic, and now Zhu Youxiao simply replaced the archers with muskets and artillery.

However, in order to achieve this effective set of tactics, it requires extremely high military quality, and the emphasis is on the mutual cooperation between soldiers and soldiers, and these can be achieved through platoon training.

In contrast, the chaotic and swarm charge attack of the infantry of the border army of the guard post was extremely backward, and in the face of the well-organized and closely coordinated formation of the Houjin Eight Banners, they were defeated as soon as they came into contact, and they could only defend the city, and did not dare to fight in the field at all.

The military defeat of the Ming Dynasty was not only a matter of employing people, but also the backwardness of the military system and tactics.

The iron armor manufacturing and musket manufacturing factory of the Tiangong workshop were started, and some finished products were sent over one after another these days, but Zhu Youxiao did not set them up, but had people make wooden models, and then sent them to the selected musketeers for training. As for gunpowder, sand was used instead, and lead shots were stoned.

In addition to this, Zhu Youxiao also fine-tuned the military system after the musket of the newly named Apocalypse rifle was loaded.

At the beginning, he was lazy and directly applied the military rank of the People's Liberation Army in later generations to stop it, but he ignored the difference between the official positions of the two eras, the official position of this era is the nine-grade system, and his military rank is three orders and ten levels, which cannot be corresponded to one by one.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao abolished the military rank of colonel, and the government's official position and military rank were equal, which was also to lay the foundation for the future transfer of officers.

At the same time, he also promoted the rank of second lieutenant, equating it with a company commander. First, because there are not enough cadres, he has given all positions such as platoon commanders at the grassroots level to veterans, that is, non-commissioned officers. Of course, there is no such word yet, and all veterans are called soldiers of a certain year.

In this way, because there is no positive division, the gold content of the military rank is very large, and one military rank corresponds to a position. Moreover, the quality requirements for officers are also very strict, and the lowest-ranking officers are all company commanders, commanding a team of 200 people, and require a considerable level of command ability.

Among the 30,000 Yulin Army, only the 800 cores who had undergone half a year of specialized military training were at this level, and the others who came later were much weaker.

With this adjustment, Zhu Youxiao set up four departments in the Yulin Army, namely the General Staff Department, the Training Department, the Logistics Department, and the Equipment Department. Of course, it is currently only limited to the Yulin Army. He planned to run mature in the Yulin Army, and after having a group of experienced officers, he would extend upwards and set up four headquarters in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, which was equivalent to the Military Commission.

The Yulin Army should actually have a commander, but this Zhu Youxing has temporarily served as a part-time officer, and he is in charge of the Yulin Army, and he is surrounded by four departments, and below are officers at various division levels, such as Li Yuyu, Xu Wen, Li Tu, and Li Tao.

For some time to come, this relationship will continue for a long time, until the Yulin Army is thoroughly honed and several other armies of the same rank are formed.