Qi Changlin saw that Zhang Bin was holding the handcuff and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't speak, and couldn't help but ask carefully: "My lord, do you want to remember this?" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Bin slowly put the handcuff back into the box, then handed the box to him, and sighed: "Write it down, keep it safe, give this to the emperor for self-defense." ”

The reason why he said this was because in his previous life he saw a rumor.

It is rumored that when Li Zicheng attacked the capital, Chongzhen held a three-eyed gun in his hand to defend himself.

The three-eyed gun, the same thing as a mace, an emperor holds it in his hand, it is really a bad scenery, and it is really pitiful.

Send this handcuff to show him what a real musket should look like, and hopefully he will pay a little attention to the development of muskets and artillery.

Zhang Bin sighed again, and then said leisurely: "The silver here is worth 600,000 taels, and the rest is used to make muskets and artillery." ”

He had already thought about it, and the silver found here and in the Fujian Xingdu Division would only send about one million taels to Chongzhen, and the remaining more than 500,000 taels would be used to build a military factory and develop guns.

However, when he thought about developing guns, he had a bit of a headache again, because he couldn't spare time.

He has a lot of things to do, training the new army, encircling and suppressing pirates, establishing the Yuegang Special Economic Zone, developing foreign trade, punishing corrupt officials and corrupt officials, developing Fujian's economy, and so on, everything has to take a huge amount of energy to do, how can he have time to develop guns!

It seems that it is necessary to train a group of people to develop guns and other weapons and equipment.

Thinking of this, Zhang Bin's mind immediately popped up with a lot of information, in fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many talents in the development of weapons, but none of them were paid attention to by those in power, and one by one, they were drowned in the long river of history, and they did not stir up any waves.

Among them, the most powerful is Bi Maokang, who not only developed the flintlock pistol, but also compiled the "Illustrated Description of Weapons", which lists the manufacturing methods and practical effects of various gunpowder weapons.

He developed the flintlock pistol a little earlier than the European powers, and if the imperial court could fully support it, the Ming army's weapons and equipment would inevitably make a qualitative breakthrough, and it was not impossible to turn the tide.

It's a pity that Chongzhen has no interest in these at all, and in the end, he can only be gloomy.

At this time, Zhang Bin's first thought was Bi Maokang, after all, under his deliberate attraction, they were already brothers, Bi Maokang is still living in his Jinling mansion, and in the past two years in Jinling, Bi Maokang has almost designed the flintlock pistol, and it is almost trial-produced.

However, Bi Maokang has a problem, now he is the right attendant of the Nandu Ministry of Industry of the third grade, and then the next one is the sixth book of the second grade, and if he invites him to Fujian, he can give him a political envoy of the second grade at most.

The difference between the Jing official of Zheng Erpin and the local official of Zheng Erpin is not half a star, is he willing to give up his future to help him develop weapons?

If Bi Mao Kangken comes, there is no need to consider the musket, he is even more powerful than Zhang Bin in this regard.

As for artillery, Zhang Bin thought of Sun Yuanhua, a famous artillery expert in the late Ming Dynasty.

Sun Yuanhua is also a native of Songjiang Mansion, studied under Xu Guangqi to learn Western firearms law, especially good at casting cannons, was recommended by Sun Chengzong as the secretary of the Ministry of War, built a platform in the border city of eastern Liaodong to make cannons, and more than ten city fire cannons that played a key role in the victory of Ningyuan were cast by Sun Yuanhua.

Later, due to Wei Zhongxian's domineering and domineering robbery of Yuan Chonghuan's military exploits, Yuan Chonghuan resigned and retired in anger, and Sun Yuanhua was also implicated in this incident and returned to his hometown.

Zhang Bin had heard Xu Guangqi mention this person a few times, but Songjiang Mansion was far away, and the time he could stay was limited every time, so he never found a chance to visit.

Xu Guangqi sighs every time he mentions this student, he is diligent and studious, but he is cute and good at firearms and mathematics, just because he is enthusiastic about Western learning, he has even delayed the imperial examination, and he has not yet been admitted to the Jinshi.

The secretary of the military department he used to serve sounded good, but in fact, he was the same as the secretary of the city, a sesame official from the ninth grade!

Zhang Bin believes that with his relationship with Xu Guangqi, as long as he is given a military position of about five grades, Sun Yuanhua should come over in a hurry.

With Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua, there is no need to worry about this musket and artillery, but they are only top-notch in technology, and mass production cannot be achieved by them.

The history of the fall of the Ming Dynasty has proven that they did not have the means to mass-produce muskets and artillery, if they could produce tens of thousands of flintlock pistols, thousands of artillery, and then the golden iron cavalry, they would be beaten into dogs in minutes!

Of course, they can't be blamed for this, the imperial court has no money, Chongzhen doesn't pay attention to it, and they can't help it, and more importantly, they don't realize that in order to mass-produce muskets and artillery, they must replace labor with machinery, otherwise, the progress and quality will not be able to keep up.

Zhang Bin, a talent in this area, has also inquired, such as Song Yingxing, the author of "Heavenly Creations", and Wang Zheng, who compiled "The Illustration of the New Instruments", are leaders in this area.

Song Yingxing can be said to be a scientist of the Ming Dynasty, his compilation of "Tiangong Kaiwu" is known as "the 17th century craft encyclopedia", he is especially good at iron, copper, lead and other metals smelting, and he is also the world's first scientific scientist on zinc and copper-zinc alloy, it can be said that the zinc element is discovered by him.

With Song Yingxing, Zhang Bin doesn't have to worry too much about the problem of material smelting.

As for Wang Zheng is an expert in machinery, the Ming Dynasty said that machinery at this time, it seems a bit fantastical, but Wang Zheng is a mechanical expert, he has in-depth research on mechanical principles and mechanical structures, the only pity is that he did not think of replacing human or animal power with other power.

In other words, what he developed was only purely manual, or animal-powered machinery, rather than semi-automatic or fully automatic machines with power sources in later generations.

This point, Zhang Bin just makes up for his shortcomings, steam power is the power source used in the original semi-automatic machinery, as long as the steam piston is made, the problem of power will be solved, and the mechanical level of Daming will get a qualitative leap.

As for whether these two people can be invited over, Zhang Bin is really not worried at all, because the Ming Dynasty really looks down on those who are engaged in technology at this time, and these people who are engaged in technology have a very bumpy career, like Wang Zheng, who is the highest and has achieved a promotion from the sixth grade, Song Yingxing is also a jinshi who has not been admitted, and he is still studying hard at home at this time!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, these scientists, except for one Xu Guangqi, everyone else was a mess in their careers, and the reason why Xu Guangqi was able to become the scholar of the Shili Department of Dongge University was not because of his technical achievements, but because of his research on agriculture and the calendar.

Song Yingxing and Wang Zheng, Zhang Bin estimates that they don't need high-ranking officials of the fifth grade, as long as they can be promoted to the sixth grade, they will come happily.