Chapter 93 The Weapons Production System

Zhu Qizhen was very aggrieved in his heart, he has always done things compared with ancient and modern Ming Jun, and never did much to lose the identity of the emperor, today's joke seems to be able to vent the depression in his heart a little.

Zhu Qizhen laughed and said, "Do you do this errand?" ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "Your Majesty has an order, how dare the minister shirk it, but I don't know how far Your Majesty wants to do it?" ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "First of all, silver and copper ore are needed for coinage, and they must not be shortened. Therefore, my first request is that in the future, there can only be more gold and silver, and second, that is, such a thing as Ye Liuzong is not allowed to happen a second time. All the mine supervisors who are outside are under your name, and the employment is up to you, and you can choose them from the palace. Just get things done. ”

"Think about it, give me a charter."

Liu Dingzhi said: "The minister understands. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "This is one of them. ”

"You have just arrived in Jingshi, and you may not know the situation in the Kanto region, and the western part of the sea is not peaceful."

As soon as Zhu Qizhen signaled, the little eunuch immediately took out a document from the bookshelf on the side and handed it to Liu Dingzhi with both hands.

Liu Dingyi looked at it, this is not anyone's paperwork, but all the movements of the tile spur from the second half of last year to the end of last year.

Looking at it carefully, it is also the first to integrate the slaves to do all parties, no, it is called Liaoyang Province in Washuang.

Thinking that Liaoyang is still in the hands of Daming, but the tile spur is called so, his thoughts are simply not hidden.

And the last piece of news, if nothing else, is a summary of Jinyiwei's multi-faceted speculation that this year, that is, the eleventh year of orthodoxy, the tile spur will move troops to Haixi.

Because many Jurchen tribes have already gotten the news.

Zhu Qizhen saw that Liu Dingzhi had finished reading it, and said: "The war between the tile spur and the imperial court has been in the past few years. Since last year, I have allocated funds many times to build border walls, increase military salaries, and rectify the military affairs of the Nine Sides, but I still am not very relieved, and the most unsafe thing is the weapons in the army. ”

As soon as Zhu Qizhen stretched out his hand, there were people holding long knives, spears, round shields, bows and arrows, bows and crossbows, fire door guns, and mandarin duck battle jackets.

Zhu Qizhen let a eunuch stand it, stretched out his hand to draw the sword from his waist, and slashed down with a sword, and with a clang, the upper half of the long knife was cut off by the long sword in Zhu Qizhen's hand. The spear and round shield after that were all like this, and the wire behind the mandarin duck jacket was also very thin, and it was pierced by Zhu Qizhen's sword.

Zhu Qizhen said: "I know that the long sword in my hand is made of Wuzi steel from the Western Regions and tempered thousands of times, which is not much worse than the so-called cadre Mo Xie in ancient times. ”

"But I know better that the samples that dare to be placed in front of me are also selected layer by layer. But even so, these things, under this long sword, are also vulnerable, and you can imagine what the things used by ordinary soldiers look like

。 ”

Seeing this, Liu Dingzhi was a little sluggish for a while.

After all, Liu Dingzhi visited the military camp when he pacified the Yeliuzong Rebellion, and he still knew a little bit about many things, just like a mandarin duck battle jacket, not every soldier could afford to wear it.

The mandarin duck battle jacket is more of an arrow defense, and the real battle is still the iron armor.

And he had to admit that Zhu Qizhen's suspicions couldn't be wrong, at least as far as the military equipment of the Southern Guard Station was concerned, there was only what you couldn't think of, and there was nothing they couldn't do.

He felt that Zhu Qizhen's idea was obviously problematic, but the result was correct. I really don't know what to say.

Zhu Qizhen said: "So, I will hand over this matter to you, all the weapons and firearms factories in Da Nei have been transferred to you, and even the Zunhua Iron Factory has been handed over to you." ”

"Remember what I told you before."

"I want to be like the salt drying method, a complete division of labor process. Capable of mass production. ”

Zunhua's iron, Beijing's coal, and the weapons that supplied the Ming army's more than one million troops were enough to form a huge weapons production system.

He wanted to spread the successful experience of the salt drying method to more places, and firstly, it was also to prepare for the imperial war. A one-stop weapon production system can reduce the cost of survival for the imperial court.

If Liu Dingzhi can really do it. Then Zhu Qizhen is ready to confiscate the authority to build weapons from the Ordnance Factory of the Ministry of War, and even the guards at all levels of the Ming Dynasty.

The more Zhu Qizhen studied, the more he felt that the reason why it was difficult for him to start a military unit like the guard station was that each guard station seemed to be small, but it was an independent production and combat unit, whether it was food production or weapon building, it could be done.

This is also part of his plan to cut power.

This plan also conforms to the hearts of many soldiers, and the quality of the weapons created by the guards is too poor. The soldiers didn't want to use it, and the variety of building units also caused the uneven quality of weapon production.

There are already many complaints below, of course, the front-line troops of the Nine Sides Beijing Camp can't feel this, because their weapons are all made by the Ministry of War and Ouchi.

Although in Zhu Qizhen's opinion, the weapons made by the military department and the inner hall are not too high.

But after all, the nobles at all levels are still in real power, they are going to send troops to fight, and if something really goes wrong, do you think that Chengguo Gong will make a big fuss in the lobby of the military department and take off the black gauze hats of several military officials.

Zhu Qizhen wants to cultivate an industrial system, which is used for war now, but will not fight in the future, and a large amount of cheap steel can also be sold to the people.

Although the private iron smelting industry in the Ming Dynasty is also very prosperous, in Zhu Qizhen's view, the price of iron is still too high. A large number of cheap industrial products can benefit the people.

Zhu Qizhen actually attaches great importance to the production capacity brought by industrial development, but it is placed in second place. Because he found something

In fact, even if he promotes industrial development all his life, until his death, Daming's industrial production capacity will exceed agricultural production capacity.

Agriculture is always the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Qizhengen values the feedback effect of industry on agriculture.

Cheaper salt. To reduce the burden on farmers, cheaper iron can reduce the burden of iron farming tools for the people, and also allow the Ming Dynasty to carry out larger-scale infrastructure construction, such as water conservancy projects.

Liu Dingzhi also knew that this matter was very important, and he understood even more that since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, he couldn't wait to write the word tile thorn on the door of his head.

Anything related to tile spurs, Zhu Qizhen attaches great importance to it.

Therefore, he understands that if this thing is done well, his future is naturally very good, and he is a national meritorious hero, and he can even enter the ministry level in advance and become a national meritorious hero, but he can't do it well. No matter how much credit he has made before, he can write it off.

It's just that the only thing that is a little uncomfortable in Liu Dingzhi's heart is that as a Confucian minister, a champion. Liu Dingzhi's positioning for himself is not always in charge of the affairs of these craftsmen. And it seems that the emperor wants to press him all the time on such a matter.

In Liu Dingzhi's view, this is not a good thing.

He secretly said in his heart: "It's time to find a replacement." ”

Zhu Qizhen gave some advice. Liu Dingzhi started his work.

He first inspected the Zunhua Iron Works, and then inspected the Ouchi Arsenal, which is a firearms factory, a gunpowder factory, and so on. In more than half a month, the entire system was walked through.

As for the issue of the mine supervisor, Liu Dingzhi wanted to put it aside.

The reason is very simple, that is, the mine supervisor is in the field. Although he had read the documents in the palace, he would definitely send someone to inspect the question of what these documents could say.

The internal official in the palace, he doesn't want to use one. But where does the candidate for the replacement of the internal officials come from? It was from the arsenals that I was selected.

After all, there are more than 1,000 households and more than 5,000 craftsmen in Zunhua Iron Factory alone. In addition to the various factories, there are more than 20,000 people under Liu Dingzhi's direct supervision.

Most of them are strong men.

While rectifying these people, he selected untalented people from among them, and then sent them to guard the mines in place of the internal officials. Of course, Liu Dingzhi also had to inspect several large mines to see where the roots were, so that he could prescribe the right medicine.

For Liu Dingzhi, this is not a small article.

With Zhou Chen's example in front of him, Liu Dingzhi naturally knew what to do to get the emperor's appreciation.

When Liu Dingzhi was busy with work, the plan for the beginning of spring, and the motive of the tile spur was also determined. After the ice and snow melted, he also came to Zhaozhou again and began to plan an attack on Haixi Town.

Daming's decades of business for slaves are not in vain. Although it has the upper hand now, the news can always get out.