Qian Qiaogong kicked in the air, and then staggered, almost falling, and Shen Zhiyuan, who was flashed, hugged his shoulder.

Without waiting for Qian Qiaogong to scold, Shen Zhiyuan patted Qian Qiaogong's shoulder and smiled: "Do you really think I'm stupid?" ”

Qian Qiaogong glared and said, "Then you still tell everything?" You know, what our army can fight against the Tartars is firearms, don't you know, how many soldiers of our army will be killed? ”

Shen Zhiyuan laughed and said, "Do you think that after this year's war, our army's musket battalion is still a secret to the Qing court?" Even if you don't know it now, when Zilharang returns to Beijing, I'm afraid I won't be able to hide anything. ”

"Then you shouldn't take the initiative to say it, if you can hide one more day, our army will have one more day's advantage."

Shen Zhiyuan said solemnly: "I just listened to Wu Zheng. ”

Qian Qiaogong was shocked, "You mean, this is what Wu Zheng meant?" ”

"No, no, I mean to say, Wu Zheng once said something similar to me...... Before, I refused to go to the Jiangnan Military Academy to study and train, but it was Wu Zheng who persuaded me. He said that it was impossible for the southerners to win against the northerners, and neither in terms of physique nor innate combat skills, could compete with the Tartars. This has been verified since the Han and Tang Dynasties. Previously, the only thing that southerners could contend with northerners was the sailors and the terrain of Jiangnan. But this is no longer the case, and firearms can make up for it. ”

Qian Qiaogong glared and asked, "Then why do you still reveal the secret of my musket to the Tartars?" ”

Shen Zhiyuan smiled strangely and said: "Tartars are naturally stronger than southerners, and since they were born, they have been fighting wild beasts among poor mountains and bad waters, and this kind of tempering is something that southerners can't catch up with in a short time." It took two or three years for the Ming army to train an archer, and most of them could only shoot 60 to 80 steps, while the Tartars could shoot 80 to 100 steps with little training. If there were no firearms, or if the arquebus, as in the past, was not enough to restrain the Tartars, even if the Tartars knew the secret, they would probably not be dismissive. But now it is different, even if the flintlock pistol cannot restrain the cavalry, it has formed a restrain against the Tartar infantry. When the Tartars were scared, they would find a way to train the musketeers ...... as well. ”

Qian Qiaogong frowned and interrupted, and asked, "Isn't that harmful to our army?" ”

Shen Zhiyuan actually nodded and said, "It's harmful, but it's more beneficial." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Have you ever seen a person who can easily give up a skill they are good at?" Shen Zhiyuan smiled even more weirdly, "Even if the Qing court really decides to start training musketeers, then it will inevitably curb the investment of the existing crossbowmen and cavalry, but the Qing court relies on these crossbowmen and cavalry to win the world, how can it be said to give up?" You see, after today, the Qing court will not only be a dispute between the Manchus and Hans, but also a dispute between the Manchus...... You must know that the concepts and operational ideas that have been cultivated cannot be easily changed. ”

Qian Qiaogong somewhat understood, "This seems to have some truth." But the territory and population of the Qing court today are far greater than those of our dynasty, and they trained tens of thousands of musketeers, which is enough to resist our army. And our dynasty only has 12 prefectures, and Wu Zheng has only 6 prefectures, and the training of 30,000 musketeers is already stretched, how to compete with the Qing court? ”

"The strength of the Qing court is indeed far superior to that of our dynasty, but their territory has just been occupied, and most of the people on the land are Han Chinese. On the contrary, our dynasty, although the territory is small, but the troops are concentrated, and the land of the six provinces under the jurisdiction of the general's mansion has 40,000 troops. According to Wu Zheng's words, that is to form a local absolute superiority in troops. For example, this time you and I went north, and after meeting with Jiang Quanyi and Wang Yilin, we only used less than 3,000 troops to maneuver with the Qing army in the land of Sanfu, which was absolutely impossible to do in Hangzhou, Jiaxing, and Songjiang, because the three provinces all hoarded large armies. ”

Qian Qiaogong nodded silently, he was persuaded by Shen Zhiyuan.

Shen Zhiyuan raised his head and took a long breath, and said, "Even if everything is as the Qing court wishes, buy muskets and train musketeers." That is also at the same starting point with our army, the distance between the individual combat power of the two sides will be smoothed out, and then it will be their own will, besides, after all, our army has temporarily led the Qing court in the formation of musketeers, if this cannot defeat the Qing army, then ...... If we lose, we won't be wronged! ”

"You're right." Qian Qiaogong completely understood Shen Zhiyuan's intentions.

Shen Zhiyuan completely spread out the strength of the musketeers in front of the Qing court, which was not only a means to win the trust of the Qing court, but also a conspiracy to drag the Qing court into the quagmire.

The Qing court had discovered the threat of muskets to the Qing army, but it was difficult to change it.

This is also the reason why in history, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was attacked by the Eight-Nation Alliance, it was still using the Jiang fire cannon cast in the Ming Dynasty to resist the enemy.

This is also the reason why in history, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty, it was already muskets and artillery, and when dealing with the Eight-Nation Alliance, it still used the Eight Banners cavalry against the enemy, and the result was a complete defeat.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty won the world with cavalry and archers, how could it be easy to change the military branches, so how could these cavalry and archers who had made great achievements in war be embarrassed?

Didn't the Manchus know the power of muskets and artillery?

No, not at all.

Otherwise, there would have been no Huang Taiji who had personally greeted him for dozens of miles because Kong Youde surrendered with Hongyi cannons.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to defeat the Ming army in the subsequent battle, relying on the Hongyi cannon and cannon casting craftsmen brought by Kong Youde, ten years of research and development, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army's artillery has been far ahead of the Ming army.

But even so, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty won the world, it also restricted the continued research and development of firearms, and in the later period, even the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were locked in the warehouse and moldy and rusty.

Why? In order to be relied on by the Qing people, the world is won on horseback.

But they didn't know that from the advent of muskets, it had already been announced that in the time of hot weapons, the civilianization of soldiers, and the trend of quantity over quality was irreversible.

As I said before, an archer must first select soldiers with strong arm strength and tall height, otherwise the longbow with more than one stone will not be able to be pulled away at all. It would take two years to train him to be able to shoot an arrow at least 80 paces away, and it would take more time and talent to train him to hit a target 100 paces away.

Even northerners with innate advantages will take a long time.

Not only does it take a lot of time, but it also costs a lot of money.

Therefore, the warriors of the cold weapon era were aristocratic, and ordinary civilians did not have the advantage of physical strength and weapons, and they may even die on the battlefield before they were trained, which is also one of the reasons why the monopoly of the gate appeared in the past.

But hot weapons, as long as they can hold the musket, can do it, that is, the battlefield no longer picks people.

The musket made those warriors like Lu Bu a joke.

Think about it, can this make those proud soldiers accept the transformation from cavalry, archers to musketeers?

Absolutely not!

Qian Qiaogong, including Shen Zhiyuan, the initiator, did not know at this time that his conspiracy today had changed the course of history.