Huang Zhenshou's nephew Liu Ping's business ability seems to be good, and he immediately explained the system of Daming firearms production and raw material control to Gao Pragmatic, and Gao Pragmatic also felt that it was good to be able to do this in this era, but what he didn't understand was that since the system was quite rigorous, why was the quality still bad?

Gao Pragmatic looked skeptical, and secretly thought: Could it be that the problem is in the warehouse? But if there is a problem in the warehousing link, it is impossible for Huang Mengyu to be completely unaware, so he still takes the initiative to take me to see it so farther, won't he be able to explain it? You can't try to bribe me, do you? He is Meng Chong's person, he should know that I can make money every day with Jinghua soap, what did he bribe me?

Liu Ping over there saw that he was hesitant, and thought that he was not clear enough, so he was a little nervous, and when Gao Shi saw it, he smiled and comforted: "You said very well, but you only said production and raw material channel management, inspection, distribution and warehousing have not been talked about, please continue." ”

Liu Ping relieved himself and continued.

Originally, before the manufacture of firearms in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the number of manufactured materials by the officials in charge of the Ordnance Bureau and the War Bureau, and when purchasing raw materials, the officials of the Committee should also be supervised to understand that if there is any misappropriation of materials, the crime will be severely punished, in order to ensure that there is a sufficient number of weapons in use, the officials of the Ordnance Bureau and the War Bureau must also frequently check the number of weapons in each treasury, and those who lack them must be made up in time and sent to the inner government for storage.

If the guards or the chief of administration needed to add firearms, they had to hold a collective meeting of the town governor and other officials to list the required amounts, and the emperor organized the ministers to discuss and then send them to the Ministry of Works, which and the two bureaus prepared for the manufacture of materials. If a new type of firearm is developed, it must first produce samples from the Ordnance Bureau, and then the Ministry of Military Affairs will test them before the government will allocate funds to manufacture them in large quantities.

For example, in July of the 23rd year of Jiajing, Weng Wanda, the governor of Xuanda, developed a variety of firearms and requested them to be manufactured in the same way. After the test, the military department considered that some firearms, such as the three-out beads and the hundred-out vanguard iron rods, were convenient and usable, and it was indeed advisable to build more firearms. As for some firearms, such as fire beasts, mines, cannons, etc., they thought that they were "not necessary" and suggested that they should not be built, but they were all approved by the imperial court.

As for the weapons manufactured by the guards, there are regulations on the variety and quantity, and the weapons made must be reported to the imperial court every month, but the guards such as Huguang and Tonggu, that is, the so-called "those who are far away", are reported once a year.

Every five years, the imperial court also sent inspectors to inspect the imperial history and the judges, and punished officials who did not manufacture firearms and misappropriate materials in accordance with the regulations, such as demotion.

After the firearms are made, in order to ensure the quality, the imperial court will also send the inner government to Shizhong and Yushi and others to take a sample from the War Bureau and compare the firearms made, and then conduct tests, so that the qualified products can be stored, and the unqualified ones must be remanufactured, and such inspections will be carried out once every three months.

Later, a test hall was set up at Xi'anmen to inspect the ordnance requisitioned and released into Beijing by various health stations, and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War sent personnel to conduct tests.

On the whole, the important firearms manufacturing of the Ming Dynasty was managed by the Ministry of Industry, manufactured by the two bureaus of the Inner Government, and the Ministry of War was responsible for the distribution of the branches.

For general firearms, all guards can produce them, if there is a shortage or urgent need, they must go to the ministry to ask for it, and the military department will consider whether it is possible, and for the general distribution of firearms, there are certain regulations on the number of years, which are once every three years, once every six years, and once every 12 years.

According to Liu Ping, Xuanda receives it once every five years, and according to the rule, he can receive 40,000 copper bullets. On the Jizhen side, he only knew that he received firearms once every three years, and Shuntianfu once every five years, so he didn't know much about the number.

There are also regulations on the firearms that are closed during the Spring and Autumn Drill in Beijing, which are to be closed to the Ordnance Bureau at the beginning of the exercise and returned after the exercise is suspended. In order to ensure that the firearms are not lost, the names of the officials must be engraved on the firearms, and some even have the names of the guards written on them, and if they are damaged, compensation will be paid.

Even from a pragmatic point of view, such a system can already be called strict, but the question turns back - if the system is strict, why is it still garbage?

Could it be that the poor quality of Daming firearms only happened in the years when Daming was about to die, and the current firearms are not bad? However, according to Liu Xian, Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang, who had direct communication with Gao Shishi, Daming's firearms are obviously bad enough now!

With a stomach full of doubts, Gao pragmatic simply put aside the system problem for the time being, and personally selected a batch of firearms from these warehouses to conduct on-site live-fire tests.

What made him laugh and cry was that he almost couldn't find anyone in this test - even in the face of the prestige of the Qin Cha, the officials on the side of the gun supervisor said that they did not dare to go up to test the gun. The reason was that, since Gao Shi wanted to check how many shots these firearms could fire in bursts, he asked to keep firing until the firearms exploded.

In the end, it was Wang Chonggu and Ma Fang who helped and transferred the captured White Lotus remnants and Mongolian prisoners, and there were about 100 people together, which could be regarded as meeting the needs of Gao Shi. As for the suspicion of violating the rules in doing so, anyway, Wang Chonggu and Ma Fang, a governor and a general soldier, agreed, coupled with the full support of Huang Mengyu, the eunuch of Datong Town, the governor of Datong Fang Fengshi remained silent.

The results of the test made Gao pragmatic very satisfied, and thought that it was very suitable for his needs - not of course the quality was good, but it was really rubbish.

According to the results of high-level and pragmatic spot checks, the average number of shots fired at various types of hand-held guns sent by Beijing is more than five times, of which the average number of shots fired by the Ordnance Bureau will cause explosions or other failures every 5.4 shots, and every 4.9 shots fired by the products of the Ordnance Bureau will cause explosions or other failures.

And the weapons made by Wei can be even worse, with an average of 3.4 shots to explode!

The most powerful thing is that in the process of testing, the three-eyed gun produced by a certain guard actually had two excellent results of directly exploding the chamber with one shot, which made Wang Chonggu's face black as a baolong figure when he heard the news, and Ma Fang Ma Zongrong on the side was even more angry, and the green tendons in his left hand holding the waist knife were bulging, and he was afraid that he would order the commander of the guard to be called and cut directly.

The three-eyed gun is originally thicker than the body of the bird gun or the Saigon gun, and it stands to reason that the proportion of the bore should be lower, but where is the proportion of the quality of the bore that is fired four or five rounds on average? Counting up, if the three-eyed guns are all four or five rounds and then explode, wouldn't it be one or two rounds if they are replaced with bird guns?

How can this still be considered a war, isn't this suicide!

In such a situation, even Gao Shishi, who originally wanted to "collect unfavorable evidence", was silent, and then his face was as dark as Wang Chonggu - Da Ming relied on these soldiers with burning sticks to guard the frontier?

At this moment, even he felt a chill down his spine!