Chongzhen walked down the steps, picked up a flintlock pistol and handed it to Bi Shikang, although later Bi Shikang also invented the flintlock pistol alone, but according to the original history, Chongzhen still has to wait for a year or two, but now that there are ready-made samples, it should not be a problem for him to take it to imitate, after all, these flintlock pistols have appeared in the West for decades, and after such a long period of use, even if there are any problems, they have long been solved, and now the western flintlock pistol manufacturing technology has long been mature, and there are ready-made mature technologies, There is no need for people to toss anymore, just copy it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"John, I am very satisfied with the gift you brought this time, and I will let someone send you fifty catties of gold as a reward in a while" This bit of gold is only tens of thousands of vehicles, and it is not a problem for Chongzhen to take it out now, at this time Chongzhen's eyes turned to the direction of Shaanxi, and the eight imperial merchants of the Jurchens in later generations are still waiting for themselves, as long as they take down this group of people and copy the house, the imperial court will not have to worry about financial problems in the next few years.

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor" John bent down to Chongzhen in a Western bow before putting his hands on his abdomen, and after getting up, he spoke again, "Your Majesty the Emperor, do you want your craftsmen to imitate these flintlock pistols" Chongzhen's eagerness for flintlock pistols, John saw it all.

"Yes, I don't know what advice you have for John" For his own purpose, Chongzhen doesn't plan to hide anything, as far as John is concerned, in his own imperial city, it is impossible to make waves, he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he doesn't need anything to keep quiet, what he wants to do can be done openly, and no one in this empire dares to rebel against himself openly.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, there is no need to be like this at all, this time John brought manpower, a few of them are proficient in firearms manufacturing, the design drawings of various firearms have been out for decades, these are not a secret in the West at all, these things John has prepared for His Majesty the Emperor, with drawings and skilled craftsmen, it is only a matter of time before these firearms are made on a large scale, and this time there are many mercenaries who came to the East with John, they can not only help His Majesty the Emperor train the musket team, is also willing to go to the battlefield for His Majesty the Emperor to deal with those barbarians, of course, these require His Majesty the Emperor to pay a lot of gold" For the form of the empire, John also inquired, as for the group of Tunguska savages in the steppe in the north, in the eyes of John and others, it is just a group of natives, as long as there is gold, it is completely trivial to help the emperor in front of him to go to war with those natives or something.

"Not only that, this time John also brought some drawings of battleships and artillery for His Majesty the Emperor, all kinds of artillery have physical objects on the battleship we left in the harbor, as for the battleship, it takes too much money, we only drove 2 battleships, but on the sea to the east, we lost one of them, but the craftsmen and design drawings for the construction of the battleship brought this time are well preserved, as long as there are enough manpower and materials, it is not a problem to build a battleship." John enthusiastically introduced to the Eastern Emperor in front of him that the West in this period did not have any sense of secrecy at all, and most Westerners were gold worshippers, as long as there was gold, not to mention the design drawings and craftsmen, even the main warships of each kingdom could be sold.

Think about the Beiyang Navy Division at the end of the Qing Dynasty a few hundred years later, Jingyuan, and Zhiyuan, which were the top main warships at that time, such top capital warships Westerners can sell for money, and the West did not begin to have a sense of technical secrecy until the modern period, and before that, Westerners only had gold in their eyes, and as long as there was gold, there was nothing that could not be sold.

"John, I am very satisfied with what you have done, I promise you, after you help me build a battleship and all kinds of guns and artillery, glory and wealth will not be a problem, if you want to return to China that day, you will recruit those wandering sailors at sea yourself, and then I will help you form a fleet of five warships, and load you with gold on the ship, so that you can return to China" As long as this group of people help him climb the science and technology tree, Daming is rich and rich, Chongzhen does not care about this resource.

"Praise you, Your Majesty the Emperor, you are so generous" Hearing the news, John and several Westerners behind him were about to lose their smiles, this time it was really the right time.

"Daban let the Huangzhuang outside the imperial city vacate one to establish a gun factory, and dispatched skilled craftsmen from the War Bureau and the Ministry of Industry to enter the gun factory, and at the same time ordered all over the country to recruit skilled old craftsmen to Beijing, the specific things of the gun factory have Sun Yuanhua, Bi Shekang and the two are responsible, and at the same time let the master of ceremonies send a reliable eunuch to guard the gun factory and be responsible for the safety of the gun factory, I don't want anything to go wrong in this matter, Daban spends a snack to let the people of the West Factory help me keep an eye on the point." The gun factory is the starting point of his ambition, and for Chongzhen, a person who came from later generations, this is extremely important.

At the same time as the construction of the gun factory, Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was responsible for building a new naval port in Tianjin Wei, building a naval warship, and all the craftsmen of the War Bureau and the Ministry of Industry entered the gun factory and the naval port according to their respective skills, respectively, and let a craftsman specialize in the development of a heavy shipborne bed crossbow during the construction of the battleship, and find a way to improve the range of the existing bed crossbow, which focuses on the development of ceramic hollow crossbow arrows.

The main power of the warships of this period is the sail, the naval battle method is to shell each other at a distance of several hundred meters, this distance is completely within the range of the bed crossbow, the use of hollow ceramic crossbow arrows filled with fire oil, shoot the enemy ship after ignition, the ceramic crossbow arrows are broken, the fire oil is scattered, and the fire can be easily ignited, especially the huge sail of the battleship in this period, it is completely a live target, the fire is poured on the fire oil, and the fire, the battleship that has lost its sail does not surrender at sea is a live target, whether the bed crossbow is used to ignite the sail or ignite the battleship, It is extremely convenient, and for a wooden battleship, such a bed crossbow combined with a ceramic hollow crossbow bolt filled with fire oil makes it a more formidable threat than the current red-coated cannons.

"Let people summon Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, and Cao Huachun into the palace" In order to rise the empire, Chongzhen plans to settle inside and then outside, if you want the empire to grow, you must first get rid of the domestic rebel forces, and the group of collaborating Jin merchants have also jumped for so long It's time to clean up, and after clearing the domestic opposition in one fell swoop, then he will have time and Huang Taiji to have a good time.