Even after the New Year, the capital still belongs to the kind of cold winter weather that can freeze dogs to death, not to mention that the air is almost the same.

However, Emperor Chongzhen's heart was not cold at all. The Royal Academy is arguably the most important of its two line layouts.

The factory guards and the new army are used to ensure their own safety by force, while the Royal Academy is used to sound the death knell for the current Confucianism.

galloping all the way, at this time, you can still see the evil consequences of the siege of Jiannu. From time to time, you can see demolished villages, and from time to time, you can see people cleaning up the ruins in the bitter cold and soldiers in the Beijing camp.

Because before the demolition and burning of the villages outside the capital, Chongzhen had said that he would use the internal funds to help the people rebuild their families, and the losses caused by the royal family should also be made up by the royal family, so the people were full of hope and prepared to rebuild their homes after the beginning of spring.

It wasn't until it was close to the afternoon that Chongzhen and his entourage arrived at Huangzhuang in Jingnan.

The entire Huangzhuang in Jingnan originally occupied a huge area, comparable to the scale of some small towns, which was enough to ensure that enough people and enough local departments and institutions could be placed in the Huangzhuang.

It's just that at this time, Jingnandi Huangzhuang can no longer be called Huangzhuang, and it is not appropriate to call it the Royal Academy.

The entire Huangzhuang has been surrounded by a cement city wall, and it is not a traditional square city wall, but a rare pentagonal fortress structure.

Ten walls tightly protect the five gates, and when any gate is attacked, it will be attacked by both walls at the same time. On each section of the city wall, a number of ground artillery pieces were arranged.

As for the lineup responsible for guarding the ground, it is even more terrifying, Jinyi Wei and the east factory, west factory, and inner factory are cross-patrolled to ensure that there is no dead end, and a small Huangzhuang can even be compared with the palace inside.

The emperor was everywhere, the guns were withdrawn, and the bows and crossbows were down, which was customized. Emperor Chongzhen, who was riding on a horse, saw that Wang Chengen was checked by the factory guard four times in a row, and after confirming that it was correct, the entire Royal Academy lifted its guard and opened the main gate to welcome the emperor inside.

Even if the weather is cold and the construction cannot be carried out normally, these craftsmen will still work for a while every day when it is warm at noon, and then cover the construction area with straw felt in the afternoon, so it does not delay the overall progress of the Royal Academy.

In a workshop of the Royal Academy, Chongzhen carried the musket with a slender barrel in his hand and said to Xu Guangqi with a smile: "Xu Aiqing, you have done a good job, in less than a month, this gun has been made, not bad, not bad." ”

Xu Guangqi bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, if this matter were the ministers themselves, I am afraid that they would not be able to make it, but it is thanks to the help of Mr. Dongjiao that it has been created." ”

Chongzhen was curious: "Mr. Dongjiao? ”

Xu Guangqi said: "It is Mr. Dongjiao." Mr. Dongjiao's real name is Bi Maokang, the word Menghou, and the number Dongjiao. The original Wanli twenty-six years of Jinshi, the official to Shandong to inspect the salt imperial history, is now white. The minister had an old relationship with him, so he asked him for help, and this fire was made. ”

When Chongzhen heard that it was called Bi Maokang, he thought about it carefully. It turned out that it was not as impressive as Grandpa Bi, and he only knew such a name for this Bi Maokang in his mind, and knew that he was a good player with firearms, and the others were gone.

Since he didn't have a deep impression in his mind, he probably didn't know which corner of the salted fish, Chongzhen didn't think much about it, and simply smiled: "What's so good about being an official?" Wouldn't it be beautiful to be an academician of the Royal Academy with peace of mind, and to see the official by one level bigger? Since this Mr. Dongjiao has contributed a lot, he must not be rewarded. If you want to raise the reward, Xu Aiqing will turn around and give me an excerpt. Besides, if this musket is done well, why should I be knighted? ”

After Xu Guangqi bowed, Chongzhen said again: "Can this gun be used now?" Someone may be arranged? ”

When Xu Guangqi heard this, he replied: "Your Majesty, you can arrange a test launch." ”

When Chongzhen heard this, he smiled and said, "Quick, arrange someone to try it, I want to see how this gun is." ”

After some tossing, the shooting range was finally ready for test firing. All of them are the eunuchs of the inner factory who followed Chongzhen in the palace, and these people can be said to be Chongzhen's most trusted people, who can ensure that no matter what the situation, they will not aim their guns at Chongzhen.

A row of ten expressionless eunuchs from the inner factory held firearms, each aiming at a target fifty paces away.

As Fang Zhenghua shouted: "Put!" Then I heard a few "bangs", and the scarecrow target fifty steps away was hit by grass clippings flying around.

Seeing this, Xu Guangqi pleaded to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, please test a hundred steps of the target." ”

After Chongzhen was right, he pushed the target back fifty steps.

Then, another 200, 300, and 400 steps were test-fired. It wasn't until 450 paces that he lost his head, and repeated the test firing many times, but three or four shots would hit the target.

Although the effect is not as good as Chongzhen estimated - after all, later generations heard that the range is 800 meters or something, and these 400 steps are estimated to be more than 300 meters. But Chongzhen is still very happy, after all, the gun that is now tested is already flintlock, and it uses the method of rear-loading ammunition.

Even if it's more troublesome than loading in later generations, this kind of rear-loading fixed ammunition finally doesn't have to worry about problems such as rain and moisture.

After testing the range, and letting ten eunuchs from the inner factory try the next three-stage shooting, Chongzhen felt that the era of queuing up to shoot in the future was finally coming.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no mobile phone at the time, Chongzhen even wanted to give the emperor the ultimate power and ask him if he was ready to be shot?

Although Emperor Chongzhen's face had no expression, the slightly raised corners of his eyes still betrayed his excitement at this time.

Slowing down slightly, and forcibly suppressing the excitement in his heart, Chongzhen asked Xu Guangqi again: "Xu Aiqing, how is the output of this gun?" How much can be made in a day? ”

Xu Guangqidi's words were like a basin of cold water, which directly extinguished most of Chongzhendi's excitement: "Your Majesty, although this fire gun is good, the yield is extremely low.

How to test-fire these ten guns are already the only ones in the academy at present, if you wait for the next batch of guns to be built, I am afraid that it will be more than half a month later, and the number is estimated to not exceed a hundred. ”

Chongzhen said secretly, when will this Nima be able to equip an army to grab territory?

Chongzhen frowned and asked, "Isn't there still a craftsman?" There are many man-made, and when you use Daqin, you will have what kind of assembly operations, and one person will only do one work abandonment, and the speed will not be raised? ”

Xu Guangqi smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty is wise, this assembly line operation method has been used originally, but this output still can't go up." ”