The new gunpowder has been successfully developed, and there is a certain amount of luck in it, but there is no progress in the primer, and if they rely on their own research and development, it may take more than a few years.

Although it has been a long time, countries have not thought of other shortcuts, and they have to develop them honestly.

After the incident in France, all countries are aware of the harm of espionage, although it is precisely because of the spy matter that they successfully obtained part of the technology of the new gunpowder from France, so that they also developed the new gunpowder themselves.

However, no one wants to be stolen by other countries if they develop a primer first, so each country is stepping up its research and development of primer fire while also strengthening its own intelligence security work.

The King of France was furious, but this involved all countries, and he could not settle accounts with various countries, so he could only blame him for France's incompetence and the fact that there were too many loopholes in intelligence security, so the King of France was angry and vigorously rectified France's intelligence and security work.

All countries are silent, privately forming a competition, believing that if any more country develops the primer first, it will not be so easy to leak out, until its own army is completely replaced, ahead of the countries, and eat the first profit.

Other countries have no shortcuts and can only step up their own research and development of the primer, but there is one country that sees a shortcut to the leading countries, and that is the Austrian Empire.

It should be said that Austria took advantage of the decline and demise of the Ottoman Empire to annex a lot of territories that originally belonged to the Ottoman Empire, greatly increased its territory and population, and greatly increased its national strength.

However, it was not so easy for Austria to truly dominate the continent, or to become the most powerful country on the continent.

Austria spent a lot of national strength in order to resist the attack of the Ottoman Empire for many years, although the population and territory are not bad, but in terms of scientific research is far behind Britain and France and other countries, take the new gunpowder as an example, Austria can actually be regarded as the slowest progress among the countries, and even no progress.

England, the Netherlands and other countries only got a part of the French research and development process in France, and they were able to make a breakthrough from it and develop new gunpowder on their own, but Austria could not, and finally through a private transaction with the Holy Roman Empire, the complete technical process was obtained, and Austria finally developed its own new gunpowder.

It is so difficult to develop new gunpowder, and Austria also has no clue about the primer, and there is no hope of developing it ahead of other countries, so Austria wants to complete the qualitative change of its own army one step ahead of other countries, and the only way is to take a shortcut.

And the shortcut to Austria is the Manchu Qing!

The Manchu Qing Dynasty had developed the first generation of rifles in addition to the primer several years ago, and successfully imitated the first generation of rifles of the Ming Dynasty, so that the Qing army musket team also completed half of the qualitative changes, and established the Qing army rifle team, which greatly enhanced its combat effectiveness.

The Austrian army had fought twice with the Qing rifle corps, and on both occasions some of the Qing rifle corps participated, and on the battlefield, the Austrian soldiers saw the few unused bullets lost by the Qing soldiers.

After dismantling, Austria clearly knew that the Manchu Qing had developed a primer earlier, but had not yet developed a new type of gunpowder.

The Manchus had a primer, and he Austria had a new type of gunpowder, and besides, Austria and the Manchus were still an alliance of marriage, isn't this a shortcut!

The Austrian Emperor smiled.

The next day, Austria secretly sent an envoy to the Manchus to discuss with Dolgon the exchange of new gunpowder technology for Manchu primer technology.

Receiving the news, the corners of Dolgon's eyes jumped, and a cold glint flashed in his pupils.

"Good! This king agrees to exchange! Dorgon agreed aloud and firmly.

"Great Regent, you have made a wise decision, God will bless Austria and the Qing Dynasty!" The Austrian envoy said with a smile.

Immediately, Austria and the Manchus reached an exchange agreement, and the Austrian envoys immediately prepared to return to Austria to resume their lives.

Watching the Austrian envoy walk out, Dorgon smiled.

When the back of the Austrian envoy disappeared completely, Dolgon laughed maniacally: "Hahahaha, God bless me!" The voice was full of excitement and ecstasy.

During this time, Dolgon was very worried about how to resist the possible all-out attack of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Although the Qing Dynasty developed a primer a few years ago, it was indeed developed under extremely unexpected circumstances, and it also had a high luck component in it, but in terms of new gunpowder, there was not much progress, according to the estimates given by the research and development personnel, it would take at least nearly five years, or even longer, to make a complete breakthrough.

But how many five years are there in the Qing Dynasty? Da Ming may be attacking the Qing Dynasty in an all-out way in the next year or two, and the Qing Dynasty does not have so much time to wait. This was the reason for Dorgon's sorrow.

But he didn't expect that while he was falling asleep, someone would come to take a pillow for him.

If the military power of the Qing Dynasty wants to be improved again, what is lacking is new gunpowder.

There is no new gunpowder, only a primer, and the imitation rifles of the Daqing Rifle Army can only reach an effective range of less than 200 meters at most, which is less than half of the genuine rifles of the Ming Dynasty, precisely because of the lack of new gunpowder.

And the Ming Dynasty is so strong, if you want to resist the all-out attack of the Ming army in the future, at least you can't lag behind the Ming Dynasty too much in terms of weapons, otherwise the Qing Dynasty will suffer the defeat of the Central Plains twenty-eight years ago.

Now, with the deal with Austria, the Qing Dynasty primer and new gunpowder are available, and it is completely possible to imitate guns and cannons with performance that is not much worse than that of the Ming Dynasty, and to establish a thermal weapon army with combat effectiveness that is not much worse than that of the Ming Dynasty.

More importantly, the Iron Cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Great Qing Dynasty was also able to replace it with a riding spear after the performance was greatly increased, reversing the embarrassing position of the Eight Banners in the various armies of the Great Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop.

For the Qing Dynasty, the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Dragon Breaking Army were the core ruling forces of the Qing Dynasty.

Although the Dragon Breaker Army is mostly composed of Manchu Qing Dynasty elders and children, and now there are only 50,000 people, but since it has been equipped with imitation rifles and new cannons, the 50,000 Dragon Breaker Army has amazing combat effectiveness, and even completely exceeds the Manchu Eight Banner Cavalry, which is all composed of elite Manchurians.

So much so that Dolgon had to consider canceling the Eight Banners and forming a dragon-breaking army with more powerful combat effectiveness.

The Manchu Eight Banners were established by his father Khan Nurhachi, which was the foundation of the rise of the Qing Dynasty and the luck of the Qing Dynasty.

To cancel the Manchu Eight Banners is almost equivalent to destroying part of the faith in their hearts, and the consequences are serious.

Therefore, the full eight flags are not to the extent that they are forced to last resort, and they must not be canceled.

And now it doesn't have to be canceled, almost all of my worries have been resolved.

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