Beijing, northwest suburbs, good mountain park.

This is probably the location of the Summer Palace in the Qing Dynasty, and Zhu Houzhao built a leopard house at the same time, but also built a "good mountain garden" outside the city.

What kind of salt method and cotton method, the court made a lot of trouble, but Zhu Houzhao didn't even live in the leopard room, and moved directly to Haoshan Garden in the northwest suburbs to relax. There are mountains and rivers, the environment is comfortable and pleasant, it is a sandstorm, and it is much smaller than the city Historically, the Wanli Emperor also liked to hide here, and Jiajing preferred to live in a leopard room.

"Your Majesty, can you test the cannon?" Wang Yuan's brother-in-law Huang Feng asked.

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Let's try the gun." ”

Huang Feng said happily: "Your Majesty ordered to test the cannon!" ”

Lin Jun, who was supposed to die of illness this year, was still alive and well at this time, and lived in the emperor's good mountain garden.

It is normal to prolong life, and Lin Junxi, who was reinstated in history, was inexplicably involved in the Great Rites Controversy. He didn't help each other, he just wanted to do things seriously, but who cares about doing things when it comes to fighting? After eight consecutive letters, they were not accepted by Emperor Jiajing, and he was disheartened and had to resign. And I couldn't take a sea boat back, so I could only return to my hometown in Fujian by boat and car, and I was sick from the cold halfway, and I died not long after I went back.

Now Lin Junke is very worry-free, no longer cares about the government and politics, and squats in the royal garden every day to transform artillery.

The artillery in front of him is no longer a Franc machine gun. Its inner barrel is made of steel, but the outer part is covered with a layer of wrought iron, taking into account the strength and toughness of the gun body. Moreover, under the same rifle pressure, the weight of the gun body is also effectively reduced, and two soldiers can easily lift it.

"Boom!"

A cannon was fired, and the projectile flew far away.

The guards pulled the rope to measure, and then ran back to report: "Your Majesty, the place where the projectile landed is about 840 meters in one and a half miles. ”

Zhu Houzhao was very happy: "Good, very good." The body of the cannon has not increased, and the medicine has not increased much, but the range of this cannon has increased by nearly half a mile! Mr. Lin, you have made a great contribution. ”

Lin Jun was also very excited, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty's false praise, it is all the cooperation of many people in the physics sect. ”

Zhu Houzhao ran over, took a closer look at the artillery, and asked curiously: "How did you do it?" ”

Lin Jun explained: "Nowadays, there are two kinds of artillery, one is the front-loading gun of the Ming Dynasty, and the other is the rear-loading gun of the Franc machine. Although the front-loading cannon was powerful, the rate of fire was too slow, so the minister focused on improving the Franc cannon. The biggest drawback of the Franc cannon is that it is not airtight enough and is very difficult to improve. After more than a year of intensive research, the minister and the physicists completely redesigned the tail of the gun, using a vertical and air-holding tail latch, and then tightening it with a spiral wire bolt. ”

It's really just an improvement on the Franc cannon, but the airtight technology used is the tail latch of the "Armstrong Gyroscope". This design should have been more than 300 years ahead of 1855.

The Europeans took a lot of detours, they first learned the front-loading guns of the East, and then invented the front-loading guns themselves, and then ran to develop the front-loading guns. During this period, the front-loading gun was developed for three hundred years, and it was difficult to improve it anymore, so it came back to study the rear loading gun.

The Franc cannon was originally a vertical bolt, but due to design flaws, it always had to leak. Lin Jun modified the entire gun tail and added a bolt design on the basis of the vertical gun latch, which belonged to the transitional nature of modern breech guns.

Rifling?

Sorry no.

Wang Yuan had mentioned rifling to Lin Jun, but Lin Jun was focused on solving the problem of air tightness, and he had not yet studied the effect of rifling.

Zhu Houzhao patted the cannon body and said: "With this artifact, if it is made bigger, one cannon can erode ten miles!" ”

Lin Jun said: "The enemy of the Ming Dynasty is in the north, and the Mongolian cavalry comes and goes like the wind, so it is more cost-effective to build more small cannons like this." This cannon is light and convenient, it has no wheels, and two soldiers can lift it, and four soldiers can easily carry it. ”

"That's right, it's most convenient to use this kind of small cannon to deal with cavalry," Zhu Houzhao smiled happily, "This cannon can no longer be called a franc machine, so it will be called ...... Well, hussar general cannon! ”

"Good name!" Lin Jun is also a sycophant, he also expects the emperor to allocate research funds, and he also counts on continuing to build cannons in the royal garden.

Zhu Houzhao said: "You take those physics men and continue to improve this artillery. Aim farther and aim more accurately! Although I don't have enough food now, I have gold and silver in the inner treasury, and I will give you 5,000 taels of silver every year to develop artillery. This is a good mountain garden, you and the physical gate people can enter and exit at will, and no artillery-related technology is allowed to be leaked, and I will transfer the palace guards to guard it. ”

This is considered to have turned Haoshan Park into the Daming Royal Artillery Research Institute?

Lin Junle was overwhelmed: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Zhu Houzhao said again: "You send a disciple to Hangzhou with the drawings, and build two hundred doors for it first!" ”

Why do you have to go to Hangzhou to make artillery?

The main reason is that the quality of the artillery made in the capital is worrying, and the airtightness of the design of the gun is not enough, and it is easy to blow up the chamber when firing an average of twenty or thirty cannons, which makes Zhu Houzhao have no confidence in the gunsmiths in the capital.

Even if the Franc cannon made in Hangzhou has a high risk of blowing up the chamber because of its own design flaws, it will fire an average of more than two or three hundred guns, which may be one of the reasons why the Europeans abandoned the early breech guns.

Lin Jun said: "Your Majesty, Wang Shangshu once said that rifling is useful, and the minister plans to develop artillery rifling next. ”

"And what is rifling?" Zhu Houzhao asked.

Lin Jun said: "The minister can't say it clearly, and Wang Shangshu is also vague, probably adding a yin and yang line to the barrel." ”

Rifling, in fact, has already been invented, but front-loading muskets are still used in Europe. Due to the front-loading of early muskets, rifled guns were very cumbersome to reload, and the rate of fire was only one-third or even lower than that of smoothbore guns.

Zhu Houzhao wanted to say something more, when suddenly a eunuch rushed to present the new salt law formulated by the cabinet.

Don't look at Zhu Houzhao who went to play outside the city, he didn't fall behind in the court. It's just that he didn't bother to take care of small things, and he didn't speak about big things, but only warned Zhang Yong, the celebrant of ceremonies, that after the new salt law came out, it must be sent to the imperial review.

Zhu Houzhao only glanced at it, and then handed it to Lin Jun: "Mr. Lin, look." ”

Lin Jun arched his hand and said: "The minister has already sent a message, and it is not appropriate to ask the court again." ”

"It's okay, you can read it carefully." Zhu Houzhao said with a smile.

Lin Jun took a closer look, his expression was quite surprised, and said, "This method must be from Wang Ruoxu's hand." ”

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Except for him, who dares to give the world's officials a salary?" ”

Wang Yuan used the surplus salt to sell it privately to support retail investors to fight with hoarders, so as to ensure the smooth implementation of the new salt law. However, there is another content of the new salt law, that is, "the salt administration version is apportioned into the mu", which is a matter that offends all local officials, how can it be implemented without giving benefits?

Coincidentally, Wang Yuan felt that the salaries of officials were too low, so he killed two birds with one stone.

That is, according to the salt class of Dingna, it is a salt class according to catties. Forty percent of the salt collected in the county will be handed over to the household department, two percent will be left in the county, two percent will be handed over to the state capital, and two percent will be handed over to the political secretary.

Sixty percent of the salt taxes left in the government offices at all levels are used exclusively to raise the salaries of local officials, and if there is any surplus, it will also go to the local small treasury. Forty percent of the salt tax handed over to the household department is used to raise the wages of Beijing officials, and the rest is collected from the state treasury.

Officials who have a lot of money and water have long been corrupt and rich, and they really don't look down on that salary. But there are always honest officials, and there are always Qingshui Yamen, such officials will inevitably support the new salt law, and they will help Wang Yuan to charge into battle.

In addition, the remaining salt taxes from the wage increase are all owned by the local small treasury.

Hehe, the prefects, governors, prefects, and political envoys can directly work with the local salt tax yamen. This is Lao Tzu's money, don't you salt tax officials want to take it! What, give me points like before? Divide the fart, these are all Lao Tzu, even if you can only get 20%, it is also legal income, can you be corrupt the same? What's more, Lao Tzu used to be less than 20%!

How many undesirable officials can there be in a county? How much can I raise my salary if I go up again? This salt reform alone can generate thousands of taels of income for large counties, and hundreds of taels for small counties. It is said to be in the local treasury, but how to use it is not up to the county magistrate to have the final say?

Corrupt officials can be greedy, and clean officials can do the right thing with this silver!

Lin Jun only glanced at it, and felt that this move was too powerful. First, it can make the new salt law smoothly implemented throughout the country, second, it can increase local and central fiscal revenues, and third, it can increase the salaries and benefits of officials across the country.

When Wang Yuan threw out this last move, Yang Tinghe completely compromised. He is the first assistant, he raises the salary of officials across the country, this Nima is absolutely famous in history, and he will definitely make all the officials in the world remember him well, and the descendants of his Yang family can walk sideways in the future, as long as they don't do the thing of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, no one will provoke them!

How much salary does Wang Yuan plan to give officials?

The overall promotion is three levels, that is to say, the officials of the seventh grade can receive the previous five grades. Although it is certainly not enough to usher in the expenses of sending and raising slaves, it can at least make the Qing officials live better, so that they will not be able to afford to buy meat for their birthdays.

Others are buying the hearts of the people, but Wang Yuan directly buys the hearts of the officials, just to see if the emperor dares to agree.