The same question, Emperor Chongzhen was also asking Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cihong was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Father Qi, my sons think that this kind of military weapon should not be sold to those barbarians in theory, once they master these techniques, I am afraid that it will pose a threat to my Ming Dynasty."

However, what Erchen can't figure out until now is the attitude of his father, and Erchen always feels that his father seems to be interested in selling these things to the barbarians? ”

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "Your feeling is right, I do plan to sell these things to the barbarians." Curious? Or are you complaining in your heart that your father has caused you a lot of trouble in the future? ”

Seeing that Zhu Cihong fell silent, Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile: "I tell you one thing, that is, civilization always spreads from top to bottom. ”

Zhu Cihong pondered and said, "What does Father mean that those barbarians will master these techniques sooner or later?" ”

After nodding, Emperor Chongzhen said: "All civilizations are actually very similar, and there is such a process of spreading from high to low, just like the people of the Ming Dynasty now know a few sentences of poetry."

If Zi Yue Shiyun is nothing, then printing, papermaking, gunpowder, and compass, these technologies developed early in the Central Plains civilization, have now spread to a large part of those barbarians.

According to the Jinyiwei report, whether it is the Mughals, the Ottomans, or even the Holy Roman Empire, they have invested some manpower and material resources in the research and development of firearms.

Although this kind of research and development can not be completed in a while, but since they have embarked on this road, it will be a matter of time before they have gains, even if I have all kinds of blockades on it. ”

Zhu Cihong said curiously: "If my Ming Dynasty continues to blockade them, won't their research and development be meaningless after my Ming Dynasty completely eliminates them?" Now if the technology is diffused to them, will their strength be stronger after all? ”

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "Do you know why the prerequisite for selling technology is that their country starts teaching Chinese characters?" ”

Zhu Cihong said: "Is it to eliminate them, so that their people can integrate into the Ming Dynasty faster?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "Yes and no." The best way to make a country's civilization and heritage disappear is to erase their language and writing, and then instill in them what we are aware of.

It's not easy to say about this generation and the next generation, but the next generation of people will be exposed to the culture of my Ming Dynasty from the time they are born, and their hearts will be more inclined to my Ming Dynasty.

This is a process of slow brainwashing, you can't be in a hurry, you can't be in a hurry, anyway, sooner or later there will be a day when you will see results, just like those tribes in Mobei, their children can't speak Tatar, they can't speak Mongolian, but they can all speak Chinese and write Chinese characters.

If this can be achieved, it is not a big deal to spread some technology to them, especially since the diffusion of such technology itself is not a good situation. ”

Zhu Cihong suddenly became confused: "Father, those barbarians can produce arms by themselves after they get the technology, how can it be said that it is not a good thing?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile: "I won't tell you the reason for this, you can go to the Royal Academy to find Song Yingxing yourself, and ask what technical reserves are needed to produce qualified artillery." ”

Zhu Cihong is an obedient and good boy, and after coming out of the palace, he went directly to the Royal Academy, and then found Song Yingxing.

Song Yingxing did not answer Zhu Cihong's questions directly, but took Zhu Cihong to visit all the processes from munitions design to steel production and forging to final molding, assembly and testing.

After completing all the processes, the sky was gradually darkening, looking at the thoughtful Zhu Cihong, Song Yingxing smiled and said, "Has Your Highness ever figured it out?" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, shook his head again, and said, "It seems that I have figured out something, but there are some things that I can't understand." ”

After pondering for a long time, Zhu Cihong said: "From design to production to testing, and finally to mass production and distribution, the process of munitions involves too many and too complicated things, even if they are given drawings to the barbarians, they should not be able to produce them in a short time, which should be the reason why the father will agree to sell the production technology."

However, this palace really can't understand, if the barbarians find something else, or go out of another way, what impact will it have on my Daming? Will it pose a threat to Daming? ”

After shaking his head with a smile, Song Yingxing simply picked up a musket that had just been produced and scattered it, and then broke it up from another musket next to him, and assembled it again with the parts on two different muskets.

Seeing that Zhu Cihong was still a little ignorant, Song Yingxing said with a smile: "Your Highness, what you see is the most advanced musket production process of my Ming Dynasty, and the application is also the most advanced technology of my Ming Dynasty, not the technology that Your Majesty agreed to sell to the barbarians."

The technology sold to the barbarians is actually easy to achieve mass production, but it relies heavily on manual labor, and accuracy, range, and power are all determined by the technical level of the workers, unlike what His Highness sees, most of which are produced by machinery.

In addition, the early muskets required a front-loading refill of gunpowder, rather than a ration-rear, and both the range and power were not at the same level at all, as His Highness had seen.

That is to say, after these things are sold to the barbarians, they still need to spend a lot of time figuring out how to produce them, and then they have to face a series of problems such as unqualified steel, insufficient precision, and parts that cannot be universally interchanged.

And to solve these problems, I Daming spent a full twenty years, mobilized the research and development strength of the Royal Academy and even various universities and the people, involving more than 10,000 people, and spent tens of thousands of Chongzhen treasure money. ”

Brushing his beard, Song Yingxing said quite complacently: "Your Highness thinks that those barbarians are now empty of national strength and blinded by the wisdom of the people, do they have the strength to complete all this?" ”

Stretching out his hand and pointing out the window, Song Yingxing continued: "How much Chongzhen treasure money Jinyiwei spends every year is still a mystery, except for His Majesty himself, the prince knows a little, Shaofu Ling can guess some, or Wang Guoxing and Lin Huanyu plus Wei Liangqing can reconcile the accounts together, and they can roughly calculate it, and no one knows the rest."

But judging from the benefits that the Royal Academy has received from Jinyiwei, it is absolutely impossible to be a small number - whether it is Europe or the Ottoman side, it can be said that almost all their current technology is backed up in the Royal Academy. ”

Zhu Cihong couldn't help but be shocked.

As Song Yingxing said, Jinyiwei's annual expenses are almost a mystery, and even Zhu Cihong, who has been in contact with many confidential affairs, does not know how much Jinyiwei spends every year.

Song Yingxing's words are obviously not finished: "Even if they get these technologies of the previous generation, and carry out research and development and innovation on the basis of those technologies, Jinyiwei has a way to get these technologies back." ”

……

When Zhu Cihong returned to the palace, it was already completely dark, and Emperor Chongzhen obviously did not have any intention of resting, but summoned Zhang Zhiji and Lu Xiangsheng into the palace.

After Zhu Cihong finished his salute, Emperor Chongzhen pointed at Zhu Cihong and said with a smile: "Just now I also said that the prince went to the Royal Academy, now it's time to talk about it, what do you know?" ”

Zhu Cihong bowed down and said: "Father and Emperor, the sons and daughters did not know the specific process of producing a complete musket and the related technologies required until today.

If the technology of the previous generation of muskets were sold to the Ottomans and Mughals, there was no fear that they would be able to reverse the technology to the point of completely in-house production.

It's just that Erchen is still a little worried, so why don't you add some restrictions to them? ”

Emperor Chongzhen smiled: "Tell me about it? ”

Zhu Cihong said: "For example, the steel, gunpowder, etc. needed to make muskets, and whether these weapons can be sold to others after they are manufactured?" ”

After pointing at Zhu Cihong with a smile, Emperor Chongzhen simply turned his gaze to Lu Xiangsheng again: "What does Lu Aiqing think?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng bowed and said: "What His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said is very true, and the minister thinks that in addition to arms-related matters, some other things can also be handled in this way. ”

This time it was Emperor Chongzhen's turn to be a little confused.

What does it mean? Is this an attempt to get the United Nations out of place hundreds of years in advance, or is it a plan to get the World Trade Organization out for fun? The problem is, Da Ming doesn't need this thing to exist!

Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng didn't have any concept of trade organization, or Lu Xiangsheng himself was a typical hawk and nationalist, and he didn't take the other barbarians to heart at all: "If those barbarians violate these regulations, I can just hang the people?" ”

……

Li Chengyan was convinced of the agreement finally made by the cabinet and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies - the technology was provided by the Ming Dynasty, and all the raw materials used in production were also provided by the Ming Dynasty, and the Ottomans and Mughals were not allowed to privately seek a third party to buy them.

If you take a closer look at this arms production technology transfer agreement and strictly enforce it, you will find that in the end, Osman and Mughal spent money to buy technology but did not have any bird use, after all, even raw materials need to be purchased from the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, it is more intuitive that the steel that was cast in the Ming Dynasty before has now ushered in its second spring except for the waste that has no value except for the furnace.

What Li Chengyan expected was actually unexpected was that even with such harsh terms, Mughal and Osman still pinched their noses and admitted it, and finally signed the contract honestly.

Emmett and Harris eventually left Daming with a large amount of gold and silver coins, along with a large number of technical materials and technicians.

These technicians would be in the Ottoman and Mughal directions on how to produce guns and artillery from Ming materials—the previous generation of the Ming Dynasty's current technology, the kind that even the people looked down upon......

However, both Harris and Emmett were happy with the result.

In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that it is not a big problem to buy the latest arms from Daming, but it is basically impossible to get the latest production technology.

Although the technology obtained now is the previous generation, it is able to allow one's country to produce arms without worrying about being controlled by others.

As for the stipulation that raw materials must be purchased from the Ming Empire, Harris and Emmett actually didn't pay much attention to it.

After all, contracts are dead, but people are alive.

Before Harris set off, the caliph, who was still recuperating after a serious injury, had hinted several times that no matter what the cost, as long as he could get the technology from Da Ming, everything would be worth it.

To a certain extent, the quality is not so important, step by step improvement is to say, the real key is to have or not.

If you don't, you can only be controlled by others.

Although the technology obtained now is not advanced enough, and there are many conditions, it is worth it.

Now there is nothing to purchase from Daming, and when your own country can produce suitable steel, even if Daming stops supplying, it will not affect anything.

As for technology, Harris believes that the talents of the Ottoman Empire can solve all problems, and slowly develop it, sooner or later there will be a breakthrough.

As for Emmett, he was more unlucky - the purchase of a lot of obsolete technology was completely immediate, and if it weren't for Harris moving back and forth like crazy to get back the arms production technology, Emmett actually didn't have that idea at all.

After all, now the Mughal is a vassal state of the Ming Empire, and it is relatively easy to buy arms through the Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to have a headache for arms like those countries in Europe.

Even, Emmett did not quite agree with Ozelombu's idea.

The idea was to get a large amount of arms through the Ming Dynasty now, and then immediately go to war against the Ottomans, so that all the pressure at home could be transferred to foreign wars.

Emmett, on the other hand, believes that the immediate priority is to make sure that the people can recuperate, and that fighting a war will indeed divert or cover up the contradictions, but the burden on the people will be heavier.

I can still support it now, but what will happen when I can't support it anymore?

It's easy to talk about military spending, but after too many people have military power in their hands and accumulate their prestige through constant wars, what kind of turmoil will it bring to the Mughals?

However, Emmett didn't have a good way, let alone being crushed to death by the officials, as a Mughal king, Ozerangbu could say whatever he said now, and Emmett couldn't help but disagree.

PS: Push the book, "Ming Ting": I accidentally entered the eunuch party, and the time is the end of the sixth year of the Apocalypse - Chongzhen is about to take the throne!!!