Chapter 548: The Temptation of Gunpowder
At the same time that Zhu Shun and the crown prince Zhu Cihong were carrying out a vigorous land reform in Miyun County, Zhu Shun's third uncle Zhu Shou was waiting for someone in the workers' hall, waiting to give a face-to-face lesson to a large group of princes of the clan.
The third uncle, Zhu Shou, was happy when he thought of this word, it sounded like what a scholar said, and he was more and more satisfied with the account office staff recommended to him by Huang Zongxi.
However, the third uncle Zhu Shou prefers to call him master, because only the staff of the official will be called master, and shouting a master feels like being an official.
Even if he is not an official, the third uncle Zhu Shou feels that he is no different from the official master, and even has more face and status than the official master.
He Zhu Shou was just a man a few years ago, a mud leg who relied on flattering guests to make a living, and anyone could bully him.
Since his nephew Zhu Shun came out, he Zhu Shou has been called by everyone when they see Zhu Yuanwai's grandfather.
Now they have more status than the official master, the princes of the Ming Dynasty, these little princes who have nothing to do like to beat the official master.
I saw Zhu Shou, who was born with mud legs, a third uncle on the left and a third uncle on the right, which was closer than seeing the third uncle.
These are the most noble princes of the Ming Dynasty.
"Hey, hey." The third uncle, Zhu Shouhe, laughed, looked at the princes of the clan who came over one after another, and at the same time felt a little helpless in his heart, and hurriedly patted the master who was born in Xiucai.
Gu Yanwu, the master recommended by Huang Zongxi, was holding a copy of Mao Yan that he had snatched from Huang Zongxi, reading it carefully, and he had reached the point of being fascinated.
Suddenly, someone disturbed him, but with Gu Yanwu's good temper, he couldn't help but feel a little impatient.
He is too obsessed with Mao, and every sentence is a classic, opening up a new world for him that he has never had before.
Although the world that Gu Yanwu said was more ambitious than the world that Zhu Shun once talked about, Gu Yanwu thought that the world known to ordinary readers could more appropriately describe this book.
Gu Yanwu, who was sitting on the official hat chair, closed the Mao Jian in his hand, looked over, saw the restrained face of the third uncle Zhu Shou, and comforted him: "Master Zhu relax, these clansmen who came over today all have something to ask for." ”
"No matter what the owner of Zhu says or does, these little princes will be like a cousin, smiling and carefully serving the owner of Zhu."
"Don't be restrained by the owner of the Zhu factory, just treat them as his own sons and nephews, after all, these little princes are rushing to get in touch with the Zhu factory owner."
Third Uncle Zhu Shou first laughed, then laughed crampedly, and muttered in a low voice: "Try your best, try your best." ”
When the princes of the clan arrived one after another, the prince of King Gui stood up, and after all these years of fighting with the Dutch East India Company, the murderous aura on his body was much heavier.
King Gui Shizi first glared at the other clansmen with a tiger face, signaling them not to rob him, turned his head and hurriedly showed a smile to the third uncle Zhu Shou: "Third uncle, if you want to talk about the intimacy of the relationship, the relationship between this prince and Brother Zhu is the closest." ”
"In the opinion of this son, don't earn and rob it, delay this son to go to Nanyang to kill the Dutch, this time I will give it to this son."
Speaking of proximity, King Fu was not happy, and almost didn't pick up the Three Kingdoms series in his hand and give King Gui a hand: "When this prince met Brother Shun, you didn't know which Qinglou you were in. ”
"Speaking of relatives, who has the son of this world and the third uncle's family is the closest."
The third uncle, Zhu Shou, looked at the proud relationship between the princes of the clan and the clan, that is, we don't dare to say that we don't dare to ask, it is the little prince of the Ming Dynasty.
But what he really couldn't understand was that the housekeeper could solve the problem, why did he have to come in person.
The third uncle, Zhu Shou, is just a businessman who is proficient in business, and he doesn't know the real role of the firearms of the Daming Arms Company, but in his eyes, they are just more sought-after, more powerful, and have a longer range.
In order to establish their own vassal states, the princes of the clan often fought with Westerners at sea, and they knew better than anyone the power of the firearms produced by the Ming Arms Company.
This time I came here in person, because the chips given by the industrial Hou Zhu Shun were too tempting, and these little princes drooled when they thought about it.
As long as the industrial faction snatched all the land from the bureaucrats and squires in Miyun County, Zhu Shun, the industrial marquis, would send a pile of firearms, which to Zhu Shun was nothing more than a pile of firearms made like flowing water.
50 Type 06 standardized guns, 5,000 doumi rifles, and a bunch of shells and lead bullets.
This is not the most exciting, what makes these clan princes salivate the most is a news released by Zhu Shun.
At present, the Daming Munitions Company is making every effort to develop granular gunpowder and develop a granular machine that can industrially produce granular gunpowder.
According to the information revealed by the Daming Arms Company, the emergence of this granular gunpowder will push the power of firearms into a new stage.
The gap between ordinary powder gunpowder and granular gunpowder is no less than the gap between arquebuses and doumi rifles.
As long as the granular gunpowder can be industrialized, it is almost equivalent to the front-loading smoothbore gun directly passing the rear-loading smoothbore gun and the front-loading rifled gun, and becoming a rear-loading rifled gun.
Three stages were crossed.
As long as you are qualified to buy this kind of gunpowder in large quantities, let alone shouting a third uncle, this is a shouting of the third master, and the prince of the clan is also willing.
The princes of the clan flattered the third uncle Zhu Shou, and the third uncle Zhu Shou was also a little helpless in the face of the competition of the sons of the clan.
No matter who this matter is, even for some old bureaucrats in the officialdom, it is very tricky.
After all, they are all the little princes of the Ming Dynasty, and none of them can be offended.
However, with Gu Yanwu's talent, it was not a difficult matter, and after thinking for a while, he thought of a solution.
It is already very face-saving for the princes of the clan to come over today, Gu Yanwu is just a staff member who gives advice, and he is not qualified to talk to the little princes, so he told the third uncle Zhu Shou about the strategy.
Third Uncle Zhu Shou nodded frequently after listening to Gu Yanwu's strategy, shouted in his heart, patted Gu Yanwu's shoulder heavily, stood up and said, "If you decide who to give it to based on your relationship, it will be a little unfair." ”
"In this way, for the sake of fairness, all our strength speaks, whoever grabs more land from those officials will give the firearms to whomever they give."
When these words fell, the most top-notch princes of the clan, such as King Fu and Prince Gui, showed a smile on their faces, thinking to themselves who could rob them.
The princes of the clan who were a little inferior sighed, although they were unwilling in their hearts, there was no way, who made their strength inferior.