The western suburbs of Shengjing, the capital of the Qing Empire.

A group of princes and ministers gathered around Huang Taiji's five-color canopy. The entire martial arts arena was tightly guarded by "Ge Bush Xianchaoha", and the idle people were cleared.

After Dolgon took the rifle and fired a bullet in a magazine, the princes of the Qing Dynasty, including Huang Taiji, were secretly frightened, the power, range, and rate of fire of this rifle were too terrifying.

Prince Dai Shan of Heshuo Belle exclaimed: "If the Ming Dynasty army uses this gun, I will be in danger!" ”

Fan Wencheng shook his head and said: "According to the news that Fan Yongwen got from the Ming Dynasty court and the starting point city, it is called a rifle, which is unique to that Wang Yue. I heard that it is not easy to manufacture, and bullets are even more rare, so Chongzhen ordered Wang Yue to train an army alone, and after saving enough guns and bullets, he would fight with me in the Qing Dynasty. The Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty asked for a rifle from Wang Yue and wanted to copy it, but the result was unsuccessful. It can be seen from this that this rifle and bullet are indeed not easy to manufacture and difficult to equip the army on a large scale. ”

Dolgon, who knew a lot about firearms, looked at the rifle carefully and said, "I have never seen such a precision-made firecracker, and the projectile can fit perfectly into the barrel, the size of the gun." To say that manufacturing is not easy, I am completely convinced. I really don't know what kind of skilled craftsman not only makes the fire gun so fine, but also makes the projectile so exquisite, and it can be fired without ignition? ”

Huang Taiji listened to their discussion and breathed a sigh of relief: "That means that there are really not many firecrackers left?" ”

Dolgon nodded and said, "Your Majesty, this gun is so finely crafted, its craftsmen must not only be highly skilled, but also carefully carved and polished, which is both labor-intensive and time-consuming, and it is impossible to manufacture it in large quantities. ”

Fan Wencheng said with a smile: "Since Gongshun King Kong Youde defected to our dynasty, the craftsmen of his Han military banner have built a large number of firearms for our dynasty. The minister thought that he could let Kong Youde imitate this gun, and once I could make this gun in the Qing Dynasty, the world would be at my fingertips. ”

Fan Wencheng just saw that Kong Youde was not pleasing to the eye, and as the first traitor from the dragon, he didn't know how many brain cells it took to get into the position of a university scholar. Kong Youde was a martial artist, and within a few years of taking refuge with a group of remnants of the defeated generals, he had already been crowned the king of Gongshun. In the context of Wenwu Shutu, can it not make Fan Wencheng red-eyed?

He had already seen that this rifle could not be made by anyone, which just caused Kong Youde a little trouble.

Fan Wencheng's proposal immediately made the Manchu ministers of civil and military affairs come to the spirit.

Dai Shan said excitedly: "That's right! If my Qing Dynasty can imitate this firebolt, try to see who can be the enemy in the world! ”

The ministers agreed and had high expectations. As far as they know, the samples are all here, and they can always be made. Why can't the Ming Ministry of Industry make it? The Ming court is too corrupt, I don't know how many talents have been buried, where is my lord Shengming?

Huang Taiji smiled and said, "This is reasonable! Dolgon, when you go and tell the king to be obedient, you will say that I mean. ”

"Huh!"

Huang Taiji solved a matter on his mind, and said loudly: "The small country of North Korea refuses to be a vassal, repeatedly betrays the alliance, and violates the national prestige of our Qing Dynasty. I have decided that the Ministry of War will be Dorobelle Yuetuo to summon Zhubeile and the ministers of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Han to arrange and prepare for the relevant affairs of the expedition, and there must be no mistake! ”

Yue Tuo came out of the class and said: "Huh! ”

Korea is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it has always been the Ming Dynasty, and in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji once led a large army to defeat Korea. However, North Korea not only did not surrender, but got in touch with the Ming court and secretly dealt with Houjin, which made Huang Taiji extremely angry, this time, Huang Taiji was determined to completely make North Korea surrender.

If it can take Korea, the Great Qing State can plunder, recover its losses, and restore its strength as soon as possible, in addition, it can also smash the Dongjiang defense line of the Ming Dynasty and completely stabilize the rear of the Great Qing State.

Regarding the situation that the first country in the universe was about to be invaded by the Qing army, Wang Yue did not care.

Tongzhou Tonghui River Wharf, a 300-meter cement wharf has been built.

Chen Hanyin, who was in charge of the construction of the wharf, introduced to Wang Yue: "Lord Wang, now we have bought more than 60 ships, of which 38 are 400 sand boats, and the rest are 200 stripping ships. In addition, we have hired more than 200 boatmen, and now we are the ones who maintain these boats. Because they didn't receive any further advice from the adults, these boatmen usually just fished in the nearby river. ”

Wang Yue looked at the ships docked on the dock, pointed to the largest of them and asked, "Is that the sand boat?" "He knows very little about ancient ships, and can only judge by their size.

Chen Hanyin nodded and said, "Yes, my lord!" ”

Wang Yue visually measured that the ship was about 28 meters long and more than 5 meters wide, and estimated that the displacement was about 80 tons. The kind called stripping ship is even smaller, with an estimated displacement of 40 tons.

"Wei Xiaoliang, can these ships go to sea?" Wang Yue asked a major officer who came with him.

This officer is a native of Luanhe in Zhili and is a fisherman. The fishermen of the Ming Dynasty were a very bitter group, although there were benefits of fishing salt, but there was no preservation condition, the seafood could not be transported, the fishermen lived in poverty, and their dialect was "poor and smelly", which vividly and vividly described the life of contemporary fishermen. Although the maritime ban policy at the end of the Ming Dynasty has been relaxed, life is still difficult.

Wei Xiaoliang is one of the group of fishermen who can't survive and come to Beijing to beg for a living, he is more miserable than those ordinary fishermen, because he is a stove household.

In the Ming Dynasty, the people who fried salt were called "stove households", and the government in order to strengthen the management of stove households, the stove households were incorporated into the stove register, and the people who were incorporated into the stove household were called stove households, and the government provided production and living land, stoves and work, etc., which were for the imperial court to decoction salt classes and undertake the "household service" of the imperial court.

At first glance, it may seem like a good errand for stove households, but in fact, stove households must be "determined by nationality" for generations, and no matter who they are, they must handle salt, and even some areas no longer produce salt, and they are not exempt from salt tax.

Due to the large workload of salt production and the difficult environment, the stove households are far more important than the civilian households, military households, and artisan households, and the world is regarded as "hard labor" and "heavy labor".

These stove households not only have to bear the salt tax collected by the merchants, but also are often exploited by the salt merchants and the oppression of local evil forces. Many impoverished stove households are often forced to abandon their homes and flee because they do not pay enough taxes.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, as the gap between the rich and the poor became more and more serious, the poor stove households who lost their land had no place to stand, and they were either mercenaries or displaced people, and they merged into the inevitable torrent of the times, becoming the potential force of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which accelerated the process of the demise of the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent.

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