The eunuch institution of the Ming Dynasty was extremely large, known as the "Inner Government", with twelve prisons and four divisions and eight bureaus. The War Bureau is one of the eight bureaus, which is used to build weapons, including knives and guns, swords and halberds, whips and axes, armor, bows and arrows.

In the Ming Dynasty, at the beginning, the agency responsible for manufacturing firecrackers was the Baoyuan Bureau, and in the later period, it was changed to the War Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau. Among them, the Ordnance Bureau was set up in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, and the War Bureau was set up in the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu.

During the Yongle period, the imperial court took over the right to cast firearms to the center, and "all firearms are under the control of the internal government and war bureau, and they are not allowed to be made outside." All firearms required by various localities must be declared and manufactured by the central government, and then sent to various localities. At this time, the War Bureau was under the control of the internal government system, and its main function was to produce and manufacture all kinds of firearms and launch gunpowder, and it was a specialized firearms manufacturing department.

Compared with these two games, the casting technology of the War Bureau is slightly higher than that of the Ordnance Bureau. According to the "Records of Emperor Yingzong", in the fourth year of orthodoxy, the emperor believed that the firearms manufactured by the Ordnance Bureau were of low quality, and ordered the Ordnance Bureau to use the weapons manufactured by the Ordnance Bureau as the standard. The original text is "It is not as good as the law than what is made by heard, and it takes one piece for each of the military battles."

However, because the central manufacturing institutions are out of touch with the army and do not understand the actual needs of the army, it is inevitable that the firearms produced will not be practical, "they may be suitable for one thing but not another, or they can be attacked but not defended", in short, they look good, but they are bad to use.

So in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, the imperial court began to gradually loosen the ban, "each side made its own, starting from the fourteenth year of orthodoxy in Sichuan". When local firearms are manufactured, they must report the specific number and the central authorities approve the manufacture before they can be manufactured.

However, after the implementation of these regulations in the private sector of the military industry, new changes have gradually taken place.

One of the most interesting aspects of this change is that both bureaus have begun to change from manufacturing departments to testing and inspection departments.

This is because the production sector is now largely run by private factories.

In the private military sector, the production of firearms is strongest in Jinghua, and the production of cold weapons is the strongest in Wang. At present, only the armor side is still stronger in the bureaucratic bureaus for the time being.

However, this is also caused by Jinghua's lack of interest in armor manufacturing, because Gao Pragmatic does not attach much importance to this piece, Jinghua is mainly responsible for providing iron materials in this regard. Wang, on the other hand, was limited to limited capital, and did not dare to take over the manufacture of both "offensive" and "defensive" instruments, which made it necessary for the two bureaus to retain the production department.

Of course, since their production has been limited to armor, they have no choice but to aggrieved and cut down on the firearms business, and so far they have only done tests and random inspections.

Jinghua's "Wanli Bayonet Musket" was sent to the War Bureau for testing under such circumstances.

In fact, the test process of the War Bureau was first provided by Jinghua, including those items that Gao Pragmatic had done when he was ordered to inspect the armament of Xuanda that year, such as range, effective killing range, shooting accuracy, loading speed, reliability of continuous shooting, and so on.

If there's one more thing to add, it's probably price-performance ratio.

When we were pragmatically promoting the private military industry, it was proposed that any weapon that does not have high cost performance is not a good weapon - your musket for 100 taels of silver, even if the loading speed is twice as fast, is not as good as five ordinary goods of 20 taels.

This is Daming, I am not afraid of taking the number of hard piles, I am afraid that the cost of individual soldiers is too high and I can't afford to use it.

However, the Wanli style seems to be very inconsistent with the cost-effective concept proposed by Gao Pragmatic himself, because its unit price is as high as 30 taels of silver, which is almost twice that of the existing Longqing II musket.

In other words, if you originally used the Longqing 2 style, it only cost 1.5 million taels to equip 100,000 troops, but if you change to the Wanli 1 style, you will need 3 million taels.

In fact, now the imperial court only reloads more than 20,000 and less than 30,000 Longqing Type II muskets a year, if it is replaced by Wanli Type 1, under the condition that the imperial court's appropriation is not increased, will there only be 10,000 to 15,000?

This...... The million-strong army of the Ming Dynasty, what year will it take to finish?

Chen Ju is the chief eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison, and the War Bureau is also under his actual management, and he is also very entangled in this issue.

It stands to reason that he and Gao Pragmatic are old friends, and Gao Pragmatic has indeed never cheated him in these matters, but he is still very hesitant to support the replacement of Longqing with Wanli 1.

Is Wanli a good gun? The answer is yes, the test results of the military battle bureau are that the body of this gun is very unlikely to be damaged on the battlefield unless it is used to block the mace smashed down by the enemy cavalry when charging, and the bayonet equipped with it is even more exaggerated.

Even, don't be afraid to fight the knife, the existing standard Yanling knife, Miao knife will be cut in the hard fight, only the Pu knife will not break, but it will also be notched.

This is amazing, you must know that the Pu knife and the bayonet are not heavyweight weapons at all, so Gao Shishi said that this bayonet is a new generation of "sharp weapons" formed under the latest smelting technology, and it is indeed not a boast.

Just for the price...... Such a short ......

It's so expensive, almost the same weight as silver.

Zhu Yijun also had a headache after listening to the report.

The goods must be good goods, needless to say, although he could not see the actual targeting, but the War Bureau arranged a demonstration of "fighting bayonets", this Wanli style bayonet in his opinion can fully afford the reputation of "sharpening iron like mud" and "blowing hair and breaking hair".

But if you want to install a musket at such a price, the military department must be smiling profusely, but the household department is afraid that it will be mad.

The key is that he has also reduced a large amount of taxes this year, and this gap is still expected to be made up by the increase in commercial taxes in several major ports.

Of course, Zhu Yijun's idea is to change the speed of refitting the same, 25,000 to 30,000 a year, rather than appropriating the same amount and reducing the quantity.

There is also a problem with reducing the number, and now the border troops in Longqing and the second type all over the country want it, and several towns have been sparse repeatedly, and there is no need to say that Liaodong has a war, the reason is that I urgently need it here; Other towns are also not polite, such as Shaanxi, said that with my serious illness, now the east and west are a little unstable, in case of fighting, we can't stop it.

The three towns of Xuanda Shanxi said that because I was seriously ill and worried that the situation would change after his death, the cavalry in our three towns had decreased in recent years, and if there was no more benefit from muskets, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Even Qi Jiguang of Jizhou joined in the fun, saying that after the hollow enemy platform was built, although Jizhen was safe, it suffered from insufficient firepower and was never able to cause enough damage to the invading enemy army, so it was urgent to replace the Longqing II musket to improve firepower.

If you want to say that their border army really needs it, then forget it, the Beijing camp is actually crooked, saying that the border army is actually more powerful than the Beijing camp, this is simply putting the cart before the horse, my Beijing camp is sitting in Yanjing, it is Your Majesty, the strongest force in the world to deter you, how can you be left behind? It's because my Beijing camp also needs to change clothes vigorously - if it's 30,000 a year, my Beijing camp will cost 15,000!

Are you embarrassed to say that you are the strongest force of the Ming Dynasty?

Zhu Yijun didn't see all these statements, and he still distributed them according to his own will, basically Liaodong took the lion's share, Jizhen and Xuanda and other places followed a little, and Shaanxi basically made up the number, as for the farther places, especially the southern army, it was even less.

However, the Nanjing Military Department does not eat dry rice, and they also have a unique trick: let's buy it ourselves.

Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places are relatively rich, and the governors and fu's yamen can squeeze them casually, and they can get together a few hundred thousand taels to find Jinghua to buy for themselves - as long as the Nanjing Military Department uses the seal.

The system of the Ming Dynasty is very unique, the real power of the Nanjing Military Department is very large, and the armaments of the southern provinces are directly managed by the Nanjing Military Department, and only important matters will be reported to the Beijing Military Department or the imperial court, and the Nanjing Military Department can completely call the shots when purchasing from this kind of place.

And it is impossible for the Nanjing Military Department to oppose local self-purchase - and they don't want it to pay for it, because the local armament is strong, and their Nanjing Military Department has a hard waist, so of course they will not oppose it.

Although Beijing has thus lost the great burden of changing the equipment of the southern provinces, the strength of the Beijing camp and the nine sides is far superior to that of the south, and if the price of guns is doubled now, the problem will still be very big.

Where can I get the money? Zhu Yijun began to have a headache.

"Pragmatic ......" hesitated for a while, but Zhu Yijun still opened his mouth: "Look at this Wanli style, how about selling twenty-eight taels?" Now the household department is really nervous, and last year's Yao'e wedding, this year's Yao's wedding, and next year's Luwang will get married, and the internal money is also a little embarrassed for a while......"

Don't look at it, it's just two taels of silver, but changing clothes is a big deal, if you have 30,000 pieces a year, this will save 60,000 taels of silver, and if you change clothes for 300,000 pieces in ten years, you will save 600,000 taels.

The emperor personally negotiated the price, this is the first time, and this face has to be given.

Sixty thousand taels is certainly not a small amount, but Gao Pragmatic can still accept it, after all, the account of this transaction is not Zhu Yijun's algorithm, he is a layman's algorithm.

Now the cost of this new carburizing steel is relatively high, mainly because the production process is not very mature, and now the output is actually a temporary production line of products, in the future, there will definitely be a production line deployment upgrade, plus the proficiency of workers and craftsmen will slowly improve, the yield rate will definitely rise, the cost will gradually decrease, if the original price is maintained, it will definitely be earned.

cough, because even if it is the Longqing style, the profit is also very considerable, not to mention the Wanli style?

So as long as you change your thinking, you will find that even if you earn less for twenty-eight taels of silver in the first year or two, and in the third year at the latest, the cost will definitely drop significantly, and the profit will naturally come up all of a sudden.

Therefore, winning the order is the key.

Gao Pragmatic sighed, and said: "The king has an order, how dare the minister disobey, the emperor said twenty-eight taels, then twenty-eight taels, Jinghua side...... The minister went to find a way to explain it to them. ”

Well, Jinghua is a business group, Gao Pragmatic has already told Zhu Yijun many times, and Zhu Yijun can also understand it.

Seeing Gao pragmatically agreed, Zhu Yijun breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly finalized it: "That's good, in terms of the household department, from my point of view, it really can't be done, half of the household department will pay more money, and half of the internal money will be paid." ”

Hey, you now have the consciousness of the Three Great Signs?