The initial success of the artillery can provide more ideas for the development of muskets.

After all, in large-scale operations, especially solid artillery shells with great limitations in range and power, can only play a certain long-range fire strike mission, and what really determines the outcome of a war is the performance of individual weapons.

Under Yang Hao's order, the 51st District and the Ministry of Industry stepped up research on the miniaturization of artillery.

And Yang Hao also provided a lot of ideas for these people.

All he could do was this, after all, he hadn't really seen what an arquebus looked like, and he could only provide a more correct direction for these craftsmen through the limited information in his memory, so that the development of weapons would take fewer detours.

The effect of the study of weapons on the industry is obvious, especially the forging of steel, which has been greatly improved during this period.

Compared with the output of iron, the copper produced in Qi is not much, and in order to save costs, the materials for the production of muskets can only be forged with steel.

There are pros and cons to using steel, steel is undoubtedly much lighter than copper, but it is not as malleable, which requires the craftsman's forging skills to be very high.

The barrel is made differently from the barrel, which only needs to be cast in a clay mold, and the rest is to polish it smooth to ensure that there are no potholes in the running hall.

At present, the craftsmen of Qi State use the forging technology of the gun barrel, that is, they use a thick piece of red-hot iron to hammer continuously on the iron rod, but with the current technology of the blacksmiths of Qi State, it is not enough to complete this difficult technical work.

Yang Hao knew that the barrels of later generations were drilled out by drill bits, and while cultivating excellent barrel casting workers, he also asked the Ministry of Industry to study this drill pipe technology.

After all, as long as the drill pipe technology is realized, it can be carried out in the way of assembly line operation, which greatly reduces the cost of musket production.

If forging technology is adopted, not to mention equipping the whole army, it will be an astronomical amount to equip a thousand people.

With the current financial resources of the Qi Imperial Court, it is not enough to carry out such extravagant things.

However, before the emergence of the assembly line production model, at least about 100 muskets must be produced.

These muskets will be used as training guns, and some excellent instructors will be stockpiled for future military reloading.

After all, not everyone can learn it without a teacher, and even how simple it is to use a musket must be taught.

It also takes a certain amount of time to train a group of musketeers who can be used in actual combat.

And the Qi ** team also has a certain advantage in this point compared with the feudal army of later generations.

Since the day the army was founded, the training methods adopted by the Qi army have been extremely close to the training mode of the modern army.

As long as he mastered the tactics of muskets, Yang Hao felt that it was not difficult for the Qi army to transition from the era of cold weapons to the age of firearms.

The only concern is whether the Ministry of Industry will be able to reduce the cost of firearms manufacturing in a limited time.

Otherwise, all these beautiful ideas can only be just castles in the air.

Yang Hao spent a few days, together with the officials of the household department, to count the finances of the following Qi countries.

The results of the statistics are still gratifying, although since the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the Qi State has increased its knowledge of infrastructure and spent a lot of money.

However, the income of the imperial court in the past two years was also very objective, and there was no fiscal deficit.

Yang Hao, who felt that he had a lot of money, waved his pen and allocated nearly 100,000 copper coins to various scientific research institutions, urging them to make achievements in their respective research fields at all costs.

And for the first time in the field of scientific research, an award called the Scientific Contribution Award was set up to reward those who have made breakthroughs in scientific research.

Yang Hao feels that as long as the national strength of Qi is strong, this award will definitely become a Nobel Prize comparable to that of future generations in the future.

Yang Hao has always insisted that science and technology are the primary productive forces, and if there is no talent, he will cultivate talent at all costs.

In the past nearly 20 years, his knowledge of natural sciences has been sorted out one after another.

Some popular knowledge has long been incorporated into the teaching materials of primary education in Qi State.

As for those more profound knowledge, as long as you become a high-level intellectual, you can write scientific books written by Yang Hao.

The atmosphere of Qi has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for nearly 20 years thanks to his efforts for nearly 20 years.

Coupled with the popularization of literacy, with the increase of intellectuals, maybe one day a genius will have a flash of inspiration and make a big news.

It's like the East Gate, which is now in charge of the bridge repair work in the south.

With such a character, Yang Hao has incomparable self-confidence, and there will be more and more.

Daqi's extremely open and inclusive policy has injected infinite vitality into people's thinking.

Compared with the surrounding barbarians, the Qi people have incomparable cultural self-confidence.

The barbarian is undoubtedly discriminatory, but any barbarian who comes to Daqi, after coming into contact with the advanced culture of Qi, although he is unwilling to admit it in his heart, he cannot deny that he is a barbarian compared with the confident Qi people.

Therefore, as a barbarian, living in the Qi country, you must have the consciousness of being a barbarian, and those who do not low-key cause trouble may be severely beaten by the people of the Qi country.

And this kind of thing, the government of Qi is naturally biased in favor of its own people, as long as it is not a murder for no reason, at most it is just a reprimand, and it will be over.

Therefore, those barbarians in Chang'an City live a very low-key life, disguising themselves as Qi as much as possible, so as not to make themselves look like an alien.

In the middle of April of the fifteenth year of Hongwu, outside Chang'an City, the spring plowing of the new year began.

The busy season of agriculture is often the most dynamic time in Qi country.

The people are working for a better life, in order to reflect their importance to farming, Yang Hao will hold a simple sacrifice to the sky at this time every year.

And took the civil and military officials to personally go down to the field to plough a ridge, praying for good weather this year.

Over the years, there have been more than ten kinds of crops from all over the country.

Needless to say, the traditional crops of Qi have become an important means of livelihood for vegetable farmers in Chang'an.

Vegetables have a short growth cycle, and they can be planted several times in a summer.

These vegetables are enough to meet the daily needs of Chang'an City, which has a population of more than 200,000.

But vegetables are just vegetables after all, and having them can improve life, and not affecting survival without them.

But excellent crops are different, for so many years, Yang Hao has never looked for high-yield and drought-tolerant crops.

The expedition to the Americas has been away for nearly a year, whether they can successfully reach the Americas and find the things they want, as time goes by, Yang Hao has suffered a little.