All the knowledge and information of the villagers are due to the scholars, children or talents in the village.

The status of the intellectual class in the Ming Dynasty comes from bit by bit, not only from the income treatment, but also from the daily contribution and word of mouth.

The ignorance caused by this kind of closure has also made the Jinshi and the talented class basically the upper class, the so-called chiseling the wall and stealing the light such a poor nobleman, it cannot be said that there is no such a genius farmer, but such successful examples are indeed very rare.

It can be seen from the list of Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty that generally speaking, the Jinshi and the later should be repaired in the same year, in addition to the name, the place of origin should also record the three generations of ancestors.

In the case of a certain branch jinshi, his father is the head of a certain department, and he was born as a jinshi, and his grandfather was born in a miscellaneous stream and served as a post officer.

If you chase one generation, you may be an ordinary landowner, and if you go up the next generation, you may be a poor man.

It is such an accumulation from generation to generation, from farmers, landlords, gentry, tribute miscellaneous streams, to lifting people, jinshi, and courting Tian Shelang, the miracle of Dusk Tianzitang cannot be said to be completely absent, but it is really a handful.

In front of them, these apprentices have already collected more than a dozen hundred households in the entire Yunti Pass, as well as all the suitable talents in the two thousand households nearby, and many apprentices are good officer seedlings, and they were also put here in the workshop by Min Yuanqi.

Even if you are willing to spend money and food to expand the apprenticeship to three or four hundred people, it is almost impossible to find enough talents with enough ingenuity and fast learning progress.

If Min Yuanqi can control the whole Huai'an Mansion and vigorously search for it in more than a dozen prefectures and counties, he can gather all the manpower.

But will Liu Zeqing allow Min Yuanqi to jump under his nose? Doesn't it provoke contradictions and lead to unpredictable consequences?

At this time, what Min Yuanqi wanted was a stable word......

Apprentices with clever minds and quick reflexes are really hard to find, in fact, those who are a little spiritual, have great strength, and are physically strong are all divided into crafting weapons and armor.

Over there, give the skilled blacksmith a hand, blow the bellows, hand the tools, and you can also add a few hammers in the free time of the master's hammer, and slowly learn to build weapons and iron blades, which is already a good talent.

You must know that if you learn blacksmithing in the folk, you can't get out of the teacher without three or five years of hard work, and the first year is to sit there honestly and pull the bellows, and you can't get started with anything else.

Of course, the progress of this method of teaching is extremely slow, but Min Yuanqi has changed the rules of the workshop, the faster the apprentice is born, the sooner he can get started, and the craftsman who teaches can get a lot of rewards.

And it is no longer the previous model of a blacksmith with at most one or two apprentices, but one with four or five, or even six or seven.

As long as you can bring it with you, you won't delay it, and the more you bring, the better.

This is also the reason for the expansion and development of the weapons and firearms workshop, Min Yuanqi invested heavily here, hoping to see the hot scene in front of him.

Even so, it was exhausted.

Min Yuanqi is well aware that the army is the foundation, and the military industry is the foundation of the fundamentals.

Li Shimin, the commander of a thousand years ago, knew that he had to achieve the benefits of the army, but the Ming Dynasty was in a comprehensive regression, and he could not even guarantee the food, clothing, and food and clothing of the craftsmen, and he was reluctant to invest money in the military industry.

The workshop in front of me has done its best, and the more than 100 apprentices have also done their best.

Even because it takes too many people to produce drill pipes, the crowd tactics of Min Yuanqi and Shen Yong have a lot of impact on the rest of the processes.

It's just that Shen Yong also knows that the manufacture of fire guns is the top priority, and it can even be said that it is still on top of the armor, so he can barely support it.

"There is still a lack of talent." Min Yuanqi shook his head and sighed, and turned his head directly out of the workshop.

As for the armor, he already planned to make armor as a supplement, and chain mail as the main one.

Guns, the original boring handles, and firefighters, these types of troops that were originally equipped on the flanks or rear of the main array, are draped in cotton armor with chain mail, and their defense is strong enough.

And the front-line pikemen and cavalry, standard armor, if the chain mail production process is solved, standard armor and chain mail are not impossible.

Double armor with a scarf and a necklace, arm guards, shin guards, iron mesh boots and iron gloves, about 50 pounds, is a standard heavy armor knight for a cavalryman.

Charge side-by-side, and clothe the horses in leather or cotton armor, so that they are out-and-out heavy cavalry, fully capable of charging head-on to the enemy's frontal array.

Even the Manchurian cavalry is not inferior to the slightest, after all, the Manchurian Eight Banners are not comparable to their predecessors of the Jin State, the Jin people's iron floating and abducted horses fly together, 20,000 people can annihilate hundreds of thousands of Khitan main forces, and defeat the Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty hard-hitting, the Jin people are far inferior to the Jianzhou Department in terms of combat power, and the Jianzhou Department is much stronger than the Jin people in terms of strategy.

There is no decent heavy cavalry in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and if Min Yuanqi establishes a decent heavy cavalry and defends it head-on, I am afraid that the Eight Banners Cavalry will also be the one to do it.

It's just that Min Yuanqi's foundation is too weak...... There are some things that I can't do, not because I don't want to do them, but because I can't do anything about them.

"Adult, the villain is really ashamed......" Shen Yong's face was solemn, he clasped his fists and saluted, his expression was full of shame.

"You've done your best." Min Yuanqi comforted Shen Yong, the person in charge of the workshop in front of him really tried his best, and the achievements he made were also considerable.

"Yuan Qi," Zhu Wanchun saw that everyone was a little depressed, and said with a smile: "What was the situation here half a year ago, and what is the situation now?" You've done so well that there's no need to hold yourself yourself. What's more, if you don't have enough firearms, you can always use artillery to resist, right? ”

"Brother Zhu, is that something going on?"

"I have it, and after a while, I will send it over, and the craftsman will have it too."

"Haha, thank you Brother Zhu, thank you, thank you!"

After deciding to use firearms to control Manchuria, Min Yuanqi hoped to build his own artillery unit in addition to heavy firearms.

Even the training and selection of gunners will be included in the schedule in the near future.

It's really in full swing, one ring after another, but Min Yuanqi has no choice, and he doesn't want to work so hard like this, isn't it because the pressure on him from the strong enemy in the north is too heavy?

If when the Qing army goes south, he has neither the financial and material resources to move south with a large number of vassals, nor the troops to resist for a while, allowing the enemy cavalry to wreak havoc and slaughter his relatives and friends, at that time, even if Min Yuanqi's own family can escape his life and survive for a long time, but the rest of his life after that, I am afraid that he will have to spend it in endless pain and regret.

Why don't you do better, why can't you save more people, why can you cross but don't have the ability to change anything?

Instead of endless remorse at that time, it is better to do your best now.

As long as you work hard now, even if you fail later, you can only say that manpower cannot overcome the sky, although it will still be painful, but there is no regret and regret.

As for Min Yuanqi's request, he asked Zhu Wanchun to try to get some Franc machine guns in Nanjing City, and then invited some skilled craftsmen who could cast cannons to come over.

This thing is difficult to say, artillery is a militaristic weapon, has always been valued by the Ming Dynasty, the Franc cannon in Nanjing City is also the same as elsewhere, there are metal inscriptions on the cannon body, what year is cast, who supervised the construction, the name of the craftsman, where it was made, the number of the artillery, these things are everything.

In later generations, Min Yuanqi once visited the old city wall of Nanjing, and there were many artillery pieces in the city.

In addition to the early artillery, most of the Buddha cannons built in the period from Wanli to Chongzhen have this kind of text on the barrels, just like those city bricks, full of historical relics.

It's easy to say, but it's also quite easy.

Nanjing's armament is not under Beijing, and there are more than 100,000 forbidden troops stationed on the books, but in fact, there are no 10,000 people who can carry guns and prepare for war at the head of the city.

The nobles of Nanjing were even more unrestrained, and the encroachment and occupation of the garrison were much more serious than those of the Beijing division.

There are no soldiers, the food is swallowed, what kind of Rausch Franc machine guns, who has the kung fu to care?

As long as you spend some money, craftsmen, get a few cannons as samples, and get some tools for casting cannons, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

The Franc cannon was still fished from the Portuguese shipwreck at sea in the Zhengde period, and then the most imitated from Jiajing to the early Wanli period.

Just like the city of Nanjing, there are at least 1,000 large and small Franc machines, and there are more in the city of Beijing.

Even if it is on Liaoyang City, according to the Tang report over the years, in the year when Liaoyang fell, Yuan Yingtai Meng Lang went out of the city to fight with the Houjin Eight Banners, and as a result, the 60,000 army was lost, and the Houjin soldiers easily won Liaoyang City.

Yuan Yingtai was sent to Liaodong after the Donglin Party squeezed out Xiong Tingbi, and he was also famous, and later committed suicide and martyrdom after the defeat, but in Min Yuanqi's view, his crimes were monstrous, and a hundred deaths were not enough to atone for his crimes!

When Xiong Tingbi first arrived in Liaodong, it was really full of holes, Liaodong was pierced by Houjin, the local people's hearts were floating, the military strength was sluggish, the ordnance was lacking, the soldiers lacked food and clothing, and they were shocked overnight, there were no weapons and armor and no weapons to fit together, and the defeated remnants had no fighting spirit.

After Lao Xiong arrived in Liaodong, he successively transferred He Shixian, You Shiwei and other fierce generals, so that these generals led the Jurchen Sentinel to go deeper, and won a lot in several fierce border battles, which boosted the morale of the army.

Xiong Tingbi himself went to the old place of Fushun Pass to boost the morale of the local army and the people, and the overall situation in Liaodong gradually stabilized and stabilized.

Then he asked the imperial court to allocate money, grain, and war horses, and transferred the elite of the nine sides into Liaodong.

When Xiong Tingbi was dismissed, the Ming army had basically restored the defense line before Salhu, and at the same time the soldiers and horses were expanded to more than 100,000 people, with Shenyang and Liaoyang as the core of defense, and each fort as the periphery, with more than 60,000 troops in Liaozhen of the Northern Army, more than 60,000 people in He Shixian's department as the main force, and elite soldiers and horses such as Zhejiang soldiers of the Southern Army and Tusi soldiers in Sichuan, with a total number of about 140,000 people.

The number of military horses has also increased from less than 1,000 to more than 10,000, with sufficient ordnance and complete food, which is the credit of the internal funds allocated by Shenzong before his death and the large amount of internal silver allocated by Emperor Guangzong as soon as he ascended the throne shortly after his death.

This is an achievement piled up with millions of taels of silver, the army from Yulin, Shanxi, Datong, Xuanfu to Jizhen in Jiubian, as far as the Tusi soldiers in Sichuan and the Zhejiang soldiers in Zhejiang, and the elite troops of the whole country are all deployed in Liaoyang and Shenyang, and a large number of military supplies are the people's fat and people's ointment, which are also used on the battlefield where they are most needed.

After the strong assembly of the Ming army, the combat effectiveness is still quite guaranteed, most of the assembled are elite and brave generals on the nine sides, and the weapons and equipment are much stronger than those of the Salhu period, under the threat of the Ming army, Nurhachi did not have the idea and intention of committing a battle for a long time, but ran to fight with the Haixi Jurchens such as Yehebu.

After the old slave solved the Haixi Jurchen, he found that there was a lot of land but the country was still poor and the people were poor, and the agriculture of the Jianzhou Department under the Xiaoice Period was also hit hard, and fishing and hunting alone could not feed so many dingkou, and there were only two choices in front of the old slave, abandoning the Jurchen tribe that had been largely unified, or turning into small tribes to manage their own affairs, so that the survival pressure would be much smaller, and there would be famine and war during the small tribe period, and the large and small tribes would self-eliminate the excess population and maintain the prosperity of the tribes.

Either you can only raise your sword to Da Ming, so there is no need to mention the seven hates at all, even if there are no seven hates, you will make up the nine hates and the ten hates.

Yuan Yingtai's damn place is that he did not integrate the Shenyang and Liaoyang battlefields, his command ability was extremely poor, the main force of the 60,000 Northern Army and the Zhejiang soldiers and Sichuan soldiers, and the Shenyang garrison, these large groups were fighting on their own, and they were broken by each of the Eight Banners.

Both Shenyang and Liaoyang trusted the Mongols to surrender to them, and the city gates were opened by these Mongols.

They are all not strong in binding force or overconfident to go out of the city to fight, and after the main army is broken, there is no way to defend the city.

Liaoyang is the core city of the early Ming Dynasty to control the whole Liao, the garrison is stronger than Shenyang and Guangning, in addition to the tall and strong city built, there is a moat outside, the urn city corner tower arrow tower is not lacking, and more importantly, there are more than 1,400 large and small Buddha Lang machines!

What is this concept?