The nobles in Beijing were not very interested in the Great Reading, because whether they read it or not, their official positions were basically fixed - they went back and forth in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

Once people have no desire to move upward, they will have no motivation for progress, which has been the case since ancient times.

However, the Ministry of War attaches great importance to the errand of Dayue. In the current era, which can basically be regarded as peace, it is not easy for the military department to get some credit.

On the side of Jizhen, Dong Fox or something, he has already been taught enough by Qi Jiguang, and now he rarely comes to Jizhen.

Although so far, Qi Jiguang has been unable to give the other party a devastating blow because of his in-step riding and the imperial court's general strategy of "West Huaidong System", there is one problem that cannot be ignored.

The Mongols had long lost any ambitions such as "retaking the Central Plains", and the purpose of going south was simple, that is, to plunder. In this case, if you can't grab something, there will always be losses, and this kind of loss battle is of course unpopular among the Mongols, and the Mongol leaders are not stupid, so of course they are not willing to do more.

But Qi Jiguang is honest, which does not mean that Li Chengliang is also honest.

Qi Jiguang's style is, as long as you dare to come, I will resolutely fight back until you dare not come.

Li Chengliang's style is, you come and let you come, I will fight you after I come, it is not the key to defend the land or anything, the key is that I want military merits.

So in this way, Qi Jiguang has almost nothing to do now - the other party is not coming, and the court has no intention of letting him fight over, he is a well-behaved general, but he does not have the courage to "provoke the border" like Gao Pragmatic. Not to mention that if you lose, there will definitely be a long list of heads on the ground, even if you win as always, it is estimated that you will not be able to keep your head.

Qi Jiguang couldn't get a fight, and if the military department wanted to make some credit, he could only look at Liaodong.

Corresponding to it is Li Chengliang of Liaodong, Li Chengliang is very good at coming to things, the Mongols went to Liaodong to rob, Li Chengliang only had one of the five volleys to block the other party on time, and then forced the other party back.

However, the remaining four times he will inevitably chase after him all the way into Mongolian territory, killing people and taking at least two or three hundred Mongol heads before he is willing to give up.

The Ming Dynasty has always judged military merits by the first level, so what is the result of such a comparison?

Take a look at Qi Jiguang's achievements: more than 3,000 horsemen from a certain Mongolian army attacked, Qi Jiguang, the chief soldier of Jizhen, supervised the troops to meet the enemy and defeated the invading enemy, the enemy was defeated and left, and the first fifteen levels were killed, 53 horses, two mules, and 369 utensils.

Let's take a look at the record of Li Chengliang's side: Yi chieftain and so on, several sent zero cavalry to invade the border, reorganized more than 1,000 people from Yongdian Fort to attack, the chief military officer Li Chengliang supervised the troops to pursue it, cut 750 ranks, captured 160, and annihilated eight of its chiefs, razed its strong nest in several places, and obtained a lot of horses and weapons.

On the one hand, Qi Jiguang defeated the enemy's 3,000 cavalry, and did not let people enter the border pass, the people of the Ming Dynasty did not lose a single person, and the people's wealth was not lost, but because they only got fifteen heads, the result was that the court calculated that the military department could only reward money according to the rules, and the emperor rewarded Qi Jiguang with an additional thirty taels of silver. And then there was no then.

On the other side, the Mongols had a total of more than 1,000 horses, Li Chengliang had not dealt with it for a long time, and when he had grabbed enough, he suddenly killed and cut off more than 750 heads to invite credit. Li Chengliang and Ning Yuanbo!

However, when more than 1,000 cavalry plagued the place, could the people of the Ming Dynasty only die more than 700? The heads of the people of the Ming Dynasty have been lost, who will they cry out for?

Soldiers, it is natural to kill the enemy, but isn't the first task to protect the people?

But the military merit ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty tells you that this is not the case, because of how many people have been protected, this cannot be accurately calculated, according to this, the generals below will definitely brag nonsense, which is too unfavorable to statistics, so it is simply not counted.

In other words, no matter how many enemies you defeat and repulse, as long as you don't get the enemy's head, this military merit is not counted.

Therefore, like Qi Jiguang, who insists on rejecting the enemy from the country, and facing all the cavalry, of course, he will not be able to get any military merits - even if people are killed, most of the corpses can be retrieved by their comrades.

The reason why Li Chengliang rarely led the infantry into battle was because the infantry was a burden to him, which seriously slowed down his speed of beheading and reaping military achievements.

But now, the Ministry of War can only rely on a little military exploits in Liaodong to maintain a sense of existence, which is certainly not what the Ministry of War wants to see, so since there is a big review this year, it must be done well, so that the emperor can see that our Ministry of War is not an idle department that plays soy sauce.

On the eighth day of August, the Beijing camp was paraded.

The weather is still a little hot, but Jingshi is already very lively, and countless people are pouring out of Fucheng to watch the rare event in the past ten years.

The emperor's royal chariot passed through the crowd under the escort of the Han generals, causing bursts of mountain shouts of long live, and the road was full of black and oppressive crowds.

However, Gao Shipra, who was dressed in military uniform, followed the emperor's side, but he pouted a little - the "rules" of the people of Beijing are not as good as the Guangxi Tusi, and at the same time, he actually stretched his neck to look at the emperor. Thinking that when Huang Zhiting was traveling in Siming Mansion, the local people were so respectful that they didn't dare to raise their heads, as if they were gnawing mud.

In later generations, there was a brick family to explain that the rule of the dynasty was harsh, and I don't know who it was compared with, the rule of the Ming Dynasty was harsh, obviously the former could not be compared to the Meng Yuan, and the latter could not be compared to the Tatar Qing, which was harsh? Is it compared to the era of cooking?

Zhu Yijun didn't look very "majestic", but looked left and right with a smile, and then said excitedly to Gao Shishi: "Pragmatism, don't you think that the people of Beijing are also happy to see a big reading." ”

That is, the Chinese have this tradition, but whenever there is a lively look, they don't care about anything, even if it is cutting off the head, they are happy to see it.

Of course, you can think of it this way, but you can't say it. Gao Shishi said with a smile: "What the emperor said is extremely true, the Beijing camp is an important force to protect the imperial court and protect the Shenjing, and the people of Beijing are naturally overjoyed to see the Beijing camp excited. The fact that they can see such a grand military parade today depends on the emperor's holy judgment. ”

Zhu Yijun's eyes narrowed with a smile, looking very comfortable, but he still waved his hand and said: "I alone is not enough, the Holy Judge Chen has to have a reason, in the final analysis, this matter is still your credit, if it weren't for Annan's great victory, how could I regain the revenge of my ancestors for the ninth generation, and even have such a grand event?" ”

Gao Pragmatic has been humble in this matter countless times, but Zhu Yijun always has to mention it, he had to be modest a few more words, and then changed his words and said: "Your Majesty, there is an array of Jingying in front of you, do you feel that something is missing?" Especially the area of the Divine Machine Camp. ”

Zhu Yijun was stunned when he heard this, subconsciously squinted his eyes and looked at the camp of the Shenji Battalion, and after watching for a long time, he didn't see anything wrong, and suddenly asked a little unconfidently: "Is there anything wrong?" I...... I don't seem to see it. ”

Gao pragmatically said: "The Shenji Battalion has guns and cannons, but it doesn't have a blade and sword, so it looks a little less solemn and cold." ”

"Oh!" Zhu Yijun suddenly realized, looked around, nodded and said: "Sure enough, but the Shenji Battalion has always been a firearms battalion, and it is reasonable that there is no blade and sword, so you can't add a waist knife to them, right?" That's probably going to get in the way. ”

Gao pragmatic said: "It is not necessary to have a waist knife, but according to the experience gained in the battle of Annam, the minister designed an improved version of the Longqing II musket, which can easily add a bayonet to the head of the gun, and when facing the enemy, once the enemy has rushed to the front, it is too late to load, or our army has won a big victory, and is running with all its strength to chase the enemy, and cannot stop to load, at this time, the bayonet can be put on, and the long-range musketeer can be turned into a melee bayonet soldier, which makes up for the lack of melee ability of our army's firearms. ”

"Oh, that's it, I remember, you mentioned it a few years ago, but you said that the iron was not strong enough, and if you added a bayonet, the strength of the gun and the bayonet would not be guaranteed...... What, this issue is now solved? Zhu Yijun asked with some joy.

Of course, this problem has been solved, otherwise Gao Pragmatic would not have said it. In his previous life, when he was a child, he had read a booklet on the local method of steelmaking left by his grandfather in the *** era - this thing was everywhere in those days, and later it was either used to start a fire to cook or simply used in the toilet.

But Gao Pragmatic's grandfather was a rural teacher, and he didn't have the habit of burning books, so he stayed there, and Gao Pragmatic didn't have much pastime when he was a child. He had also read the booklet, but there was no chance to practice it at that time, so he just read it and remembered a rough idea.

Since Jinghua began to enter the steel industry, this booklet has been in use, and there are still some technical problems that cannot be done - this is really difficult, because it is not difficult for Gao pragmatic to understand the theory, but it is difficult to remember some details of hand cancer and some details.

It was not until Zhu Zaiyu was invited out of the mountain by him that the problem of carburizing was solved with the cooperation of the two letters.

As we all know, the hardness of steel is mainly determined by the carbon content, and in general, it can be expressed in the simplest sentence: the higher the carbon content, the greater the hardness, but also the easier it is to break; The lower the carbon content, the less stiff it is, but the easier it is to stretch.

However, carburizing is a very technical and even operational work, because normally carburizing must be uniform - for example, a bayonet is not uniformly carburized when it is manufactured, so its strength is also uneven. In case of chopping, the part with low carbon content has low hardness, and it is easy to notch; And if you encounter a heavy blunt object during the chopping, the part with too high carbon content may break.

Therefore, how to evenly carburize has been a key research project of Jinghua Iron and Steel in the past few years.

In fact, the ancients also knew the importance of carburizing, but they did not form a theory, but acted on experience. Judging from the carbon-containing iron-making artifacts excavated by archaeological excavations, the conscious carburization of iron tools in ancient China began in the Spring and Autumn Period, and its age was about the 7th to 6th centuries BC, and the carbon in the artifacts unearthed during that period was easy to detect.

In China, the ancients had three methods to obtain low-carbon steel and iron, one is to make iron, the other is annealed and decarburized steel, and the third is to fry steel.

The progress of science and technology is not a good idea that can be used immediately, and the technologies such as carburizing, nitriding, and quenching proposed by Gao Pragmatic are all outdated garbage technologies in later generations, and belong to the level of the "soil steelmaking" period. But at this time, there are so many masters in Jinghua, and they haven't fully mastered it after seven or eight years of busy - they can make it, but the finished product rate is less than 30%.

In the end, it was Zhu Zaiyu, a real scientific giant, who came out and summarized a set of detailed and complex processes through countless experiments, and set strict data for each program, which increased the yield to about seven or eight percent, which was barely worth putting into production.

It was at this time that Gao pragmatic launched the Longqing two-style facelift.

In fact, this should not be regarded as a facelift, but a replacement. Because not only the bayonet material is a new type of high-carbon steel, but even the gun body material has been changed.

Therefore, Jinghua has called this replacement of muskets "Wanli one style".

The reason why Gao pragmatic has not yet decided whether to adopt this name is because it has not made much progress in the technology of the "musket" itself - it is still a smoothbore gun and has no rifling.

However, considering the necessity of making money, Gao Pragmatic was ready to agree to the following requirements and named it "Wanli Bayonet Model" - a generational change, technology has progressed, materials have been updated, and the price must of course be increased.

The reason why I found this opportunity to tell Zhu Yijun is also for this purpose.

After all, this thing can't just be used by Jinghua - no matter how awesome Jinghua is, it can equip 20,000 or 30,000 pieces, even if it forces Annan to change its outfit, it is impossible for Annan soldiers to change their outfits in an all-round way because of high pragmatism, so at most it is a market of 50,000 pieces, and no matter how high the profit of a single one is, it is very limited.

Therefore, the Ming military market is a big market, if the reform of the Ming Dynasty can continue to advance steadily, this market can reach at least hundreds of thousands, if you add the follow-up war damage, generation, etc., it is not surprising to break one million.

After carefully introducing the emperor, Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Since you said it so well, when the time comes, let people send me one new and one old product to me, and don't just give it to me, let the military department, the Beijing camp, and the border army all participate, as well as the Ordnance Bureau and the Military Bureau, and they will also take a look, so as not to let someone jump out and talk too much." ”

Gao pragmatic was secretly happy, but he quietly agreed on his face.

Zhu Yijun said again: "Also, this price has increased a bit too much, a gun costs twenty-four taels of silver, a bayonet costs six taels, and the front and back are thirty taels...... I remember that the muskets of the Franc machine people are not so expensive, the one from your Jinghua...... What's it called? Oh, cost control, right, is cost control a bit of a problem? ”

He blinked, leaned closer to Gao Pragmatic, and whispered: "Pragmatic, you honestly explain to me, how much does this musket and bayonet cost?" ”

Gao Shishi said with a wry smile: "That steelmaking technology has just been successful, the yield is only seventy percent, count this into the cost, a gun and a bayonet, the cost is about twenty-four to twenty-six taels, if you sell it to the imperial court, because Jinghua has to bear a part of the freight, you can probably earn five taels of silver." ”

Zhu Yijun didn't get angry when he heard this, but laughed: "It's pretty much the same, I'm afraid that you are like some people, crying and shouting that you didn't make money...... The profit of five taels of silver, well, is not less, but it is acceptable. ”

Gao Shishi smiled bitterly and didn't speak, Zhu Yijun thought about it, and asked again: "When will the yield be increased, and can the price be reduced at that time, for example, twenty-eight taels can be won?" ”

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