There is a saying that a storyteller can't tell two things, not to mention how can the next broken computer describe such a magnificent picture of the seventeenth century and the forties?

For the time being, the Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong and the general Li Shouhan and the Shoufu University scholar Ma Shiying, the faint monarch power and treacherous combination, for the sake of money, food, power, did not hesitate to instruct his powerful minions and henchmen lackeys to Donglin Junzi and Jiangnan Shilin, with guns and pens to carry out cruel persecution, so that the original warm mountains and soft scenery and picturesque scenery on earth Heaven has become mournful and unmentionable, let's set our sights on the north of the Yangtze River, thousands of miles away from Nanjing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Unlike the kings and ministers in Nanjing, who were torn and beaten, the city of Beijing was a scene in full swing, and the eight banners were all jubilant.

"Rich! Make a fortune! ”

This is the unanimous opinion of all members of the Qing Kingdom, from the princes and ministers to the ordinary bannermen!

Breaking into a big city like Beijing, which was one of the best in the civilized world at that time, anyone would feel dazzled.

Fortunately, it was the Qing army that followed Li Zicheng's retreat into Beijing at that time, and Dolgon had a strict order not to take any grass and trees from the people, and the Qing army was quite disciplined after entering the city. If it is replaced by any unit of the Ming army, conquering and recovering the city of Beijing, it will be sorry for the ancestors for a few days.

All the grain and grass treasury will be sealed and counted by Dolgon, and if the kings and ministers dare to loot and divide privately, this regent will find a legitimate reason to clean you up!

According to his many understandings of the ability, ethics, and morality of the generals and officials of the Eight Banners, Dolgon sent everyone to receive and check the treasury of each prefecture and the defense of the city, and ordered Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan to appease the officials, order Ao to be on guard and clean up the imperial city, and ordered Sonny to receive and inspect the grain depots inside and outside the capital, and Bao Chengxian to accompany several princes to receive the six yamen. Ordered Duoduo to be in charge of the security of the city and investigate the spies.

He, the head of the Qing Dynasty, the regent, and Prince Shuorui, did something that was incomprehensible, and even seemed to be quite unworthy in the eyes of the demotes.

He personally took Chen Banda and others to take over the eight bureaus of the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of War, and the 24 Yamen of the Internal Supervision: the War Bureau, the Silver Bureau, the Huanyi Bureau, the Scarf and Hat Bureau, the Needlework Bureau, the Internal Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, the Wine and Vinegar Noodle Bureau, and the Siyuan Bureau. There is also the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Households, which is a place for the regent to receive it personally.

In this regard, the Qing Han officials led by Feng Quan were full of doubts, but they did not dare to ask. can only turn around and ask Fan Daxue scholar Fan Wencheng what does the regent mean, could it be that he is also the same as the Emperor of the Apocalypse, with a preference for making utensils?

Fan Wencheng smiled and said nothing, he didn't want to tell these new colleagues so soon. However, he had a similar idea of what Dorgon was thinking.

The Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of War, and the Internal Supervision Bureau of the War are all places to create various weapons and armor, and part of the business of the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Household is related to weapons and armor. At present, the war is still unending, the consumption is huge, and the armor staff and weapons are needed everywhere, so the prince naturally wants to grasp these departments in his hands.

As for saying that the Wine and Vinegar Noodle Bureau and the Siyuan Bureau are in charge of food, it is related to military and civilian food, so naturally they cannot relax. And the Huanyi Bureau, the Scarf and Hat Bureau, the Needlework Bureau, and the Inner Weaving and Dyeing Bureau belong to the Light Industry Bureau. It can be combined with the current red and blue flower dyeing cloth in Liaodong and the trade activities at both ends. Prevent someone from taking advantage of Beijing's human resources and technological advantages to pick up the things that are out of the box, enhance their economic strength, and threaten the status and power of the regent! It was not easy to unify the economic power of Shengjing, how could Dolgon let the two ends resurgite and develop outside?

As for what role the silver game can play in Dolgon's hands, Fan Wencheng can't figure it out anyway. "Could it be that the master plans to mint silver coins like Nanban?" This thought flashed through his mind, but he was immediately vetoed by himself, and he couldn't help laughing, laughing at his own nonsense, "I don't need to have a ready-made silver dollar in Nanban, but I still have to work hard to mint silver coins by myself?" ”

Just under the puzzled eyes of the government and the opposition, Dolgon took Chen Banda and other capable craftsmen under his command, and began to accept the above-mentioned ministries and bureaus one by one.

Under the leadership of Wang Dehua, the chief eunuch who surrendered, Dolgon set up a full set of honor guards and went to the 24 yamen of the Internal Supervision and Military War Bureau to be responsible for building weapons, including swords, guns, halberds, whips and axes, armor, bows and arrows, armor, guns, artillery and other military objects.

"Although these twenty-four yamen are under our control, the people inside are not us." Wang Dehua was still half-hunched, and slowly introduced the situation of the twenty-four yamen to the new master, Dolgon. "We're just managing these yamen for the emperor."

"There are rumors outside that there are hundreds of thousands of eunuchs and husbands in the capital, and countless money and food are consumed. In fact, it was all a rumor. Most of them thought that the soldiers and horses under the supervision of the imperial horses and the craftsmen in the management of the eight bureaus were all people like us. In fact, most of these eight games were craftsmen who moved from Nanjing to Yongle Ye back then. In the city of Beijing, there were at least 27,000 craftsmen in these eight bureaus and other departments, and each household was selected to serve in a five-year class, and there were also four-, three-year, and two-year classes. ”

"How many artisans are there right now?" Dolgon, on the other hand, cared less about the system of the past, only about how many people were available to him now.

"Back to the Lord Regent, there are at least more than 10,000 craftsmen here for the prince to drive." After the city was broken, Wu Liangfu, who first served Li Zicheng and now became a celebrity in front of Dolgon, had a slight smile on his face and told Dolgon about the personnel here.

"Make a fortune!" Chen Banda, who had been silent beside Dolgon, was so ecstatic that he almost jumped to his feet and cheered loudly! As an expert in the industry, he naturally knows what kind of technical level the craftsmen of the Beijing War Bureau are, and the best quality firearms of the Ming Dynasty, knives, guns, armor, chariots, etc., are all from their hands. Of course, it also depends on the investment of the imperial court and the discipline of the officials.

However, Chen Banda was not worried about how much money and food the regent could invest in the manufacture of weapons. After a few years of experience, he was quite pleased with the Qing State's investment in the military industry, and he was also very satisfied with the treatment given to the craftsmen here. At the very least, the craftsmen could be fed and clothed, and they did not have to pay the officials the usual money by selling their own sellers.

Dolgon and several Eight Banners officials around him were also in high spirits.

For Dorgon and his courtiers, the seizure of the Central Plains was a foregone conclusion. However, due to the small population of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the core force of the Qing State, the soldiers that could be provided were limited, and the Han Army of the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of Mongolia did not dare to let them expand excessively. In the early days of their entry, it was not clear how much territory they could occupy and effectively control by their own forces.

When Dolgon first entered Beijing, he once said: "What is the word for unification? But if you have an inch, you have an inch, and if you have a ruler, you have a ruler. On the first day of June, the edict of the Qing court also said: "It is deeply painful that the Ming Dynasty is exhausted, and it is difficult to stand alone, so I will move the northern soil of the Qing Dynasty." Fierce soldiers and horses will destroy the ugly and appease all countries. If you don't have the heart to enrich the world, it is really a plan to save China. The former ministers of Hebei, Henan, and Jianghuai are loyal to the righteous and righteous of the former ministers of Shi'er Hebei, Henan, and Jianghuai, or they are loyal to the country, or they are newly appointed to the lord's family, or they are self-serving to the king, all of whom have the sorrow of the homeland, and they have no shameful wishes. They are all knighted, and they are specially honored. It has not forgotten the Ming room, assisted by the virtuous domain, killed and established one heart, and jointly protected the left of the river, which is also appropriate, and it is not forbidden to do so. But when the peace is good, it will live up to the dynasty, and he will cherish the grace of succession and the friendship of good neighborliness. ”

But the following also laid an excuse in advance: "If the country is not the master, people have two hearts, or pretend to be foolish, and they are really wanton and domineering; Or the yang is attached to the dynasty, and the yin is the treacherous of grass stealing. The thief of the people, the thief of the country. If you give Keding Sanqin, that is, move to the south to discuss it, and kill the whale salamander, there will be no seeds. ”

On the one hand, he expressed that he only wanted to keep the fruits of the current victory, and competed with Li Zicheng's Dashun for the territory north of the Yellow River, and on the other hand, laid the groundwork for going down to the south of the Yangtze River in the future. This was Dolgon's strategic vision.

Now, Dolgon needs to digest the greatest victory of Beijing as soon as possible, and put the energy it provides into the war machine!

After the capture of Beijing, he inspected all kinds of materials that Li Zicheng had not had time to take with him and abandoned, and the amount of these booty stunned Dolgon and his Eight Banner nobles.

"60,000 sets of cotton armor."

"20,000 sets of chain mail and iron armor."

"10,000 pieces of Nanban armor. 40,000 helmets. ”

"One hundred and twenty-seven finished artillery pieces of various colors, and three hundred and sixty-seven semi-finished ones. 100,000 catties of cannons of all colors. ”

"Ten thousand firearms. Projectile two thousand pounds. ”

"Nanzhong has 3,000 guns and 1,000 catties of projectiles."

"10,000 barrels of gunpowder of all kinds."

"There are more than 4.28 million pieces of swords, guns and weapons of all kinds. There are 20,000 bows, more than 6 million arrows, and a number of arrows, and countless arrows, bamboos, and feathers. ”

"There are still countless iron, coal, and charcoal in the warehouses, which can be used for more than half a year!"

In addition to the raw materials necessary for the production of these military products and weapons and equipment, there are mountains of grain and rice piled up in the warehouses near Chaoyangmen, such as Nanxincang, Beixincang, Taicang, and Haihai Warehouse in the city.

Dolgon had seen all of these seizures for himself. In addition to these captures, tens of thousands of stragglers scattered throughout Gyeonggi were recruited by the Qing army.

With food, you can feed the army, with weapons and armor, this army will grow fangs, claws and scale armor, and with iron arrows, bamboo feathers and glue paint, you can continue to provide weapons for this army. And to be able to provide a steady stream of weapons and armor, it is necessary to rely on these craftsmen in front of them who are shabby and yellow-skinned.

Regarding the fact that the regent prince had personally come to take over the military battle bureau, one of the 24 yamen of the internal prison, Wu Liangfu and the others thought they had heard it wrong when they first heard it. If according to their original thoughts, this young Liaodong chieftain arrived in the world of flowers in the capital for the first time, and did not rob the beautiful Jinbao in the palace, then it would be wrong! Why didn't the palace enter, first look at the place where the weapons were made?

"You and others have all dealt with Ning Yuanbo, and many of them have also been to Nanzhong, his fundamental place. I have also been friends with him for a long time, let's talk about it, what do you think Ning Yuanbo can rely on to get from a corner to today's situation? Although Dolgon also knew very well that Li Shouhan had already been promoted to the Duke of Liang, he was still used to calling him Ning Yuanbo. Probably because Tashan left too much of an impression on him.

Wu Liangfu, Feng Quan, these eunuchs, officials and others who surrendered each expounded their views on how Ning Yuanbo started his career, some people say that it is the time of day, some people say that it is purely because of the geographical advantage, where the five grains are abundant, the products are abundant, and anyone can make a fortune and become well-off. Others say it's human.

But none of these terms were acceptable to Dorgon.

"In my opinion, Ning Yuanbo has been able to go from a thousand households step by step to today, and what you say about the right time, place and people is just a surface. What Ning Yuanbo really relies on is a craftsman! There are no craftsmen, let me ask, there are countless local officials and kings in Nanzhong, how can no one catch up with Ning Yuanbo's achievements in 1/10,000? ”

As soon as these words came out, all the ministers were convinced.

That's why the regent himself is here today.

The three generations of leaders of the Qing Dynasty did not hesitate to invest in military production and manufacturing. Not stingy rewards, excellent craftsmen, can be given official positions, especially for the bronze casters. Those who do not want to be officials will be rewarded with two taels of grain and silver every month, five stones and three buckets of rice per quarter, and will also be given houses and acres of land, and even more rewarded to generations of golden fire worship Tang'a.

When Tiancong was four years old, due to the triumphant return of Houjin, he was rewarded with a special edict for the iron official Fan Jucannon. In the fifth year of Tiancong, Wang Tianxiang, a cannon maker, was promoted from a slave to worship him Rabul Hafan, and in March of the seventh year of Tiancong, he was promoted to reserve the emperor with the merit of creating and casting.

In addition to Wang Tianxiang and other craftsmen, Ma Guangyuan, Ji Shichang, Ding Qiming and others were promoted to knighthood because they knew how to cast cannons.

Unlike the officials of the Ming Dynasty, who regarded military manufacturing as a way to make a fortune and embezzlement, the Qing Dynasty has always insisted on investing in the production and research of firearms, constantly expanding the scale of military industry, and improving the military technology system. In Shengjing, Liaoyang and other places to form a military industrial base, bring together a large number of technical officials and skilled craftsmen, the integration of the Ming Dynasty's traditional smelting and casting technology to learn from the West advanced casting, design technology to bring forth the new, to achieve large-scale mass production of artillery, in the battlefield to achieve a 10:1 comparative advantage of firearms.

In the seventh year of Chongde (the fifteenth year of Chongzhen), the physical properties of copper melting point (1083C) lower than iron (1538C) were used to cast the copper wall by mud casting method or lost wax method after the iron tire was cooled, and the compressive strength of the cannon body was increased through the convergence effect of the outer copper solidification. And it is light and easy to carry.

We recruit relevant technical personnel from various sources, and absorb engineering and technical personnel who have mastered different technical methods, such as skilled blacksmiths, coppersmiths, and foundry craftsmen who have mastered unique techniques, forming a technical team with diverse characteristics. For example, the aforementioned Wang Tianxiang also casts cannons, and he uses the lost-wax method to cast, while Ji Shichang uses the method of clay casting. The former is made of wax with the same mold as the casting, coated with modeling materials to become an integral casting mold, and then the wax is melted off by heating to form a cavity casting model, poured into liquid metal, and the formed casting is obtained after cooling. The clay mold casting method belongs to a kind of ancient Chinese fan casting process, the method first uses the dry Nanmu to rotate into a wooden core according to the outer shape of the cannon body, and then installs the mold such as the ear, the hoop, and the ornamentation, and then installs the mold in stages, and then the mud is put on the mud in stages, and after it is dry, the wooden core is knocked out, and the clay mold is smelted with charcoal fire, and at the same time, the mold of the ear, the hoop and the ornament are also turned into ash, and finally the mud mold of the tail bead is made according to the previous method, and the mold core is made of mud on the surface of the cylindrical iron core and the inner cavity of the gun barrel, so that a complete gun mold can be synthesized to pour the metal liquid.

As the head of the Qing Dynasty, Dolgon naturally didn't say anything to these low-status craftsmen, he just nodded slightly, which was regarded as returning the craftsmen's kneeling and bowing. "Someone, give a decree!"

The craftsmen have also heard a lot about the will of the tirade, so naturally there will be no special reaction. But there are some differences in the decree given by Dorgon today.

After soothing and encouraging the craftsmen to calm their hearts, Dorgon offered the magic weapon of generous treatment.

Each craftsman can enjoy five buckets of grain and rice per month, and if the skills are excellent and the weapons are of good performance, they can carry the flag, seal the official, or reward silver, rice, cloth and other things, and the craftsman who casts the artillery gun gun is not hesitated to reward.

"I have a minion of mine who comes from the same background as you. They are all craftsmen who make weapons in the city of Beijing. I think any of you will know him. Chen Banda, come out and say hello to your old colleagues! They'll be in your hands for me in the future!" You have to worry more about me! ”

As a craftsman from the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of War, Chen Banda knew many people present, from acquaintances to nodding acquaintances, to acquaintances who could call each other names, to many people who could be regarded as friends.

Seeing Chen Banda, who was dressed in a brocade robe and red with a red face, walked out of the ranks of Qing officials and saluted a thousand times in front of Dolgon's car, the craftsmen of the War Bureau present were slightly commotionous.

"Isn't this the old Chen family from the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of War? Many people said that he was taken away by the Tartars outside the city and died in Liaodong. How can you come back with such dignity today? ”

"Masters, uncles, yes, I am Chen Banda of the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of War. Now I am a servant under the regent, and because of my small achievements, my master promoted me and put me in charge of many affairs such as building weapons, firearms, and smelting iron for my master. ”

Chen Banda was still talking about the changes in his status over the years in front of the team, but the guards around Dolgon were not idle. Hundreds of soldiers with two yellow flags drove into the military battle bureau with dozens of large and small vehicles.

"This is the Lord Regent's reminding that everyone has lived a hard life for many years, and now that the dynasty has changed, it is natural to have a new atmosphere. A little silver, rice, oil and salt to comfort everyone. ”

Chen Banda pointed to the silver boxes and rice bags that were carried down from the car by the auxiliary soldiers, and introduced them quite proudly: "In the future, everyone just has to do things well, and the usual money for the officials in charge is gone." The wages, rice stickers, and rewards that should be sent to everyone will not be less than a penny or a grain of rice will be less than the amount for the big guys! ”

Because the War Bureau is an internal supervision yamen, some things are better. For example, the Ordnance Bureau, the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, and the Baoyuan Bureau where Chen Banda was originally located, craftsmen received work, and they had to pay regular money for receiving materials, and when they handed over the finished workpieces, they had to pay money for the inspection of the officials in charge. These links have been completed, and they have to be deducted when receiving wages, and in desperation, many craftsmen have to sell their belongings, or even sell their children and daughters to deal with it.

"In the future, everyone will be under the Prince Regent's subordinates, and they will also receive money and food on a monthly basis. However, the grace of the regent, if we don't know how to do it, if we don't know how to be grateful, if we can't finish the work assigned to us, or even deal with the messenger, we can't say it, don't blame me for not talking about the old feelings! ”

The craftsmen stared at the silver dollars in the silver box with a dazzling light one by one, smelling the smell of rice bran in the air, and nodding yes to Chen Banda's words. What could be worse than before?

"Reward!"

After the honor guard who sent Dolgon off, Chen Banda immediately became the supreme governor here.

According to the standard of one silver dollar for apprentices, two buckets of rice, one catty of salt, and one catty of oil, double for ordinary craftsmen, twice for excellent craftsmen, and five times for foremen, the craftsmen lined up to receive their share of rewards.

Beginning the next day, the War Bureau, the Ordnance Bureau, the Baoyuan Bureau and other workshops were blazing with fires and people. The clanging of sledgehammers could be heard for miles. (To be continued.) )