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In the next few days, the Taiping Mansion was very lively, and Zhu Cihong took the opportunity to conduct a big inventory of the Jianyangwei of the Taiping Mansion, and easily wiped out the Jianyangwei from beginning to end.

Under the leadership of Li Tingbiao, Jin Yiwei raided the homes of thirteen generals and punished the clan, Zhu Cihong had no interest in these, and he was most concerned about the mines of Taiping Mansion on this trip.

Taiping Mansion is the Ma'anshan in later generations, where the iron ore production is extremely high, and Zhu Cihong has long planned to build a large military factory here.

The Nanzhili area is very rich in minerals, Suzhou and other places in Fengyang Prefecture are rich in coal mines, Huainan and other places are rich in iron ore, and the storage capacity is very large, in 100 million tons.

Daming's current iron production center of gravity is mainly in Hubei Daye, Guangdong Foshan was also an iron smelting center before that, and now Daming's annual iron output exceeds 10 million kilograms, most of which are in the south or Lingnan, and even in the southwest.

Huguang's class iron accounted for one-third of the entire Ming Dynasty, but Daye was a little far away from Fengyang and Nanjing, and the establishment of military factories there was not conducive to protection for the time being, so Zhu Cihong could only put the plan in Taipingfu, which was close to Nanjing and Fengyang.

Daming has now used coke to make iron, pig iron after high temperature calcination directly into wrought iron, iron-making needs a lot of coke, almost a ton of pig iron needs a ton of coke, and according to the current price of Daming, each ton of coke is ten taels of silver, ordinary coal is cheaper, about a few taels of silver.

The coal used in the iron smelting of the military factory must be used well, otherwise the weapons produced will become garbage and affect the war.

More than 20 taels per ton of pig iron, plus the coke required for iron smelting, the cost of making armor, firecrackers, and artillery will be very high.

Zhu Cihong once carefully calculated this account, if he wanted to build 100,000 guns and refine them into one pound of refined iron juice with five catties of wrought iron, one fire gun would need about seven catties of refined iron, and 100,000 guns would need nearly four million catties of wrought iron.

It is also necessary to build armor and artillery, a pair of iron armor requires more than 30 catties of fine iron, and a cannon is thousands of catties, and more wrought iron is needed.

These are just the costs, as well as the cost of workers to build, etc., if you want to equip an army of 100,000, how much silver you have to spend, as well as grain, grass and military salaries, if you expand your army to 200,000 or 300,000 in the future, I can't believe how much silver it will cost in a year.

However, the expansion of the army is necessary, in this world, even if the emperor does not have a real army in his hand, he will be looked down upon everywhere, who will bird you!

After learning that there was a mine in Taiping Mansion, Zhu Cihong couldn't wait to come to Taiping Mansion to personally inspect the site selection of the mine and military factory.

The Taiping Mansion is located on the Yangtze River, and weapons and equipment can be forged using water drains and hydraulic hammers.

Water drain as early as the Han Dynasty in our country, the invention of water drain is a major technological innovation in the history of ancient Chinese metallurgy, it not only saves manpower, storage power, and promotes the development of iron smelting furnace to a large scale, is a great feat in the history of mechanical engineering, the invention and application of this science and technology, 1,100 years earlier than Europe.

After inspecting the Taiping Mansion for three days, Zhu Cihong chose the location of the military factory, named it the Jiangnan Ordnance Bureau, and appointed Wu Zhong as the palm seal eunuch of the Jiangnan Ordnance Bureau, responsible for all the construction and operation of the Ordnance Bureau.

As for Sun Heding, Zhu Cihong appointed him as the chief engineer of the Ordnance Administration and in charge of the research institute, responsible for all equipment management and research and development work of the Ordnance Bureau.

Zhu Cihong said to Wu Zhong: "You are also responsible for the iron factory here, if the road is bumpy and inconvenient to transport, you can allocate a part of the silver for the local yamen to build the road, you can also recruit craftsmen, after a while, the palace will divide the land of the Taiping Mansion, and the newly recruited tunhu will also divide part of it near the iron factory, and then there will be enough manpower for you to use!" ”

Wu Zhong saw that he explained so carefully, and he also knew the importance of it, and said, "Master, the slave will do it seriously!" ”

Zhu Cihong said: "Wu Daban, this General Administration of Ordnance is related to the combat effectiveness of my Tianwu Army, this palace will entrust you, you must treat it solemnly!" ”

Wu Zhong kowtowed and said: "Master, don't worry, even if the slave maid takes her life, she will manage the Ordnance Bureau for you!" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded and said, "Okay, if you have any conditions and difficulties that you can't solve, just mention them." ”

Wu Zhong was not polite, and began to ask Zhu Cihong for silver, although the site of the Jiangnan Ordnance Bureau was built on the Jianyang Wei Ordnance Bureau, but the cost must be a lot.

Zhu Cihong carefully considered for a while, and decided to give him one million taels of silver first, and then allocate it according to the monthly expenses later.

After inspecting the Taiping Mansion, Zhu Cihong returned to Fengyang and began to carry out a comprehensive rectification of the Ordnance Bureau of Fengyang Bawei.

The ready-made ordnance bureaus in various parts of the Jiangnan produced guns and artillery, and the popularity of firearms in the armies of the Ming Dynasty was still relatively high, but the quality was too bad.

Historically, from the Apocalypse to the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty produced more than 1,000 Hongyi cannons throughout the country.

Zhu Cihong planned to build several more large-scale military factories and military factories on the basis of the Fengyang Eighth Guard Ordnance Bureau, such as equipment factories and quilt factories, and most importantly, iron factories and coal factories.

Zhu Cihong even planned to build a military academy to train military talents.

After several days of careful planning, Zhu Cihong's plan began to be implemented one by one, and on 16 May, the Fengyang Ordnance Bureau and the Instrument Factory were established, and Qiu Zhizhong was appointed as the eunuch of the palm seal of the Fengyang Ordnance Bureau.

Lu Jiude, the superintendent of the army, was responsible for the construction and operation of the iron factory and coal factory in Fengyang Mansion, and Liu Yuanbin managed the equipment factory and the clothing factory.

On 20 May, the Huangming Army Military Academy was established, and as an important institution for training officers, the Huangming Military Academy has very high requirements.

The conditions for entering the Huangming Military Academy are: selected by the Tianwu Army, 16-25 years old, rough in arts and sciences, family background, the first phase of enrollment of 100 people.

The management of the Huangming Military Academy is extremely strict, and the entire school is a heavily guarded barracks, even comparable to a prison.

The military academy is surrounded by a 10-meter-high city wall, the city wall is heavily guarded, there are many guards, and the city gate is strictly checked.

As for the special approval of the president, it does not exist, because the president is the crown prince.......

The Huangming Military Academy is three o'clock in the morning, noon and evening every day, and the shop is inspected at night.

If a student tries to escape from the city wall, once caught, he will be punished as a deserter and beheaded for public display.

The contents studied at the Huangming Military Academy include: basic tactics, applied tactics, tactics on the map, strategy, Sun Tzu's Art of War, the Art of War, trench science, ballistics, military system, field service, infantry drills, ........ There are also some arithmetic, geography, history, etc.

Zhu Cihong threw out the tactics he had compiled over the years and the training methods of later generations, many of which were classic tactics of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Whether it is recruiting people or studying subjects, the Huangming Military Academy is basically modeled after the Tianjin Military Academy in the late Qing Dynasty, which was the first army military school in modern China, trained countless famous generals, and was also the pioneer of all army military schools in China.

On the day of the establishment of the Huangming Military Academy, Zhu Cihong led all the generals of the Tianwu Army to attend the opening ceremony and chanted the school motto in unison.

The purpose of the Tianwu Army is the motto of the Huangming Military Academy, and all students must read the motto aloud in unison when they enter the school to take an oath.

Inherit the way of heaven, obey the people's heart, level the world, and clarify the universe!

Love the people, strict military regulations, serve the country loyally, and take the lead bravely!

Don't be afraid of death, don't be greedy for money, order and prohibit, life and death are of the same heart!