If you solve the problem of the person with the gun, you have to solve the problem of whether the gun is there or not. m.

At the end of July of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Pingjin was in full swing to deal with the Meizhou incident and immediately returned north to Chengdu. According to the itinerary, he will stop by to inspect the Chengdu factory of the Sichuan Firearms Bureau, which is the rent collection home where his wife once suffered.

The serious shortage of firearms is a long-standing and difficult problem in the organization of protective equipment.

A large number of old officers and military units have joined the guard, and the new problem of firearms standardization has once again become prominent.

The equipment requirements of the seven new infantry brigades, the guard brigade, cavalry, artillery, engineers, baggage troops, special forces, independent units, and garrison units require 100,000 guns and hundreds of guns.

However, the house leaks when it rains, and the trees are cut down and scarred.

At the moment when there was a shortage of protective equipment and it was urgent to increase production, the revolutionary design of the firing torch was finalized, which made it difficult for Zhu Pingjin, the head of the family.

The new type of firing torch has been named "Chongzhen's fifteen-year style six-point firing torch".

Compared with the 14-year-old Chongzhen-style six-point firecracker, the 15-year-old six-point firing gun has the same caliber, the length of the gun tube remains the same, and the gun used remains the same, but the firing method has been changed, and the amount of firing charge has been slightly increased.

But it is not easy to change production on such a scale!

However, this time, Wang Kunshan did not pull the strain. He made a military order to Zhu Pingjian:

The output of firecrackers is 100 pieces per day in Chengdu factory and 30 pieces per day in Luzhou factory; Artillery production: Chengdu factory has 50 large and small cannons per month. Half a year later, the Chongqing factory will be put into operation on a small scale, and the output of firearms is expected to double as a whole!

With Wang Kunshan's assurance, Zhu Pingjin, who relieved his worries, quickly decided: completely stop the production of the old arquebus and switch to the new type of firing gun.

Zhu Pingjin knows that as a commonly equipped individual weapon, the development history of the firearm is generally based on the difference in firing methods as the main criterion for the old and new dynasties.

From the most primitive muskets, such as the three-eyed guns commonly equipped by the northern officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty: to the arquebuses, such as the bird guns that the southern officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty liked; Later, flintlock pistols, firing guns, rear-loading guns, etc., such as the equipment of the warring sides in the Napoleonic War and the American Civil War, the improvement of firing methods has always run through the entire process of the development of firearms.

After the invention of thunder, mercury quickly became a major sensation in the military field, and the traditional flintlock pistol was soon improved into a shooting gun, and then a rear-loading gun and a complete ammunition were developed. Now that Hou Dong has successfully produced thunder mercury, it is logical that the technical and tactical indicators of the comprehensive rearmament are much higher than those of the firing pistols of the same era.

Since everything about Mercury is top secret, it will bring an additional benefit to Zhu Pingjin: even if the enemy captures the firing gun, the fire cap that is not loaded with Mercury is still a burning stick!

As for the old equipment, it was collected battalion by battalion and company and resold to the kings of the Huguang domain, such as the kings of Chu and Jing, Rong and Ji. If Zuo Liangyu, Fang Guoan and others want it, there is no need to be stingy.

However, Zhu Pingjin is a person who is good at grasping key points. He will not lie down and sleep because of Wang Kunshan's promise.

As soon as the Battle of Meizhou ended, Zhu Pingjin set his own itinerary:

On the journey back to Chengdu, he inspected the third phase of the newly completed Chengdu plant of the Firearms Bureau, and checked whether the so-called "new process" to increase production was feasible. At the same time, the newly accepted capital ships "Boryeong" and "Luzhou" were accepted by the navy.

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Riding Zhu Pingjin's fleet across the Pengshan River estuary, he entered the inner river of the Min River.

The autumn water is high and the river is wide.

Unknown waterfowl flashed by, drawing straight marks on the soothing and calm surface of the river.

On both sides of the Jinjiang River, the rice waves rise and fall, and a good harvest is in sight.

As far as the eye can see, a set of threshing machines has been moved to an empty embankment by anxious farmers, and the autumn harvest is put on a posture.

On the whole, the rains in Sichuan this year were abundant and timely, which was extremely conducive to increasing agricultural output (Note 1). However, excessive rainfall can cause short-term localized flooding.

In June, there was a small flood in western and southern Sichuan.

Because of the steepness and narrowness of the mouth of the Tuojiang River and the poor drainage of the floodwater, the town of Zhao (Note 2) in Jintang County was trapped by the flood for half a day. Jianzhou and Zizhou below Zhaozhen have flat terrain and little loss.

However, Luzhou, which is located at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Tuojiang River, suffered greater losses.

The Luzhou newspaper said that the flood peaks of the Yangtze River and the Tuojiang River happened to meet, and the water level at the mouth of the two rivers rose sharply several zhang overnight, and the high Linjiangmen wharf was almost flattened. Tens of thousands of acres of crops in the vicinity of Luzhou City have been soaked by floods, and the reduction of autumn grain output is a foregone conclusion. Wangzhuang is rapidly draining the water, arranging replanting matters, and trying to reduce losses.

The water drains in autumn, and the Minjiang River waterway, which runs through the western Sichuan Plain, also bears greater pressure.

As a section of the inner river of the Minjiang River, the water level of the Jinjiang River is also much higher than in previous years. At this time, the miraculous effect of the Dujiangyan water conservancy project was fully revealed.

After the thorough cleaning of the weir last winter and this spring, the mouth of the Dujiangyan weir has become a tried and tested water diversion artifact again, and the inner and outer rivers are said to be smooth and smooth.

If there is too much water upstream, the extra water will automatically be skimmed into the outer rivers to harm the people downstream. When there is less water from the upper reaches of the river, the Neijiang River will automatically absorb most of the river water and let the fertilizer water pour into its own fields.

In short, with Dujiangyan, the Chengdu Plain is not dry or waterlogged, frozen and hot, if you are in the peaceful and prosperous era, here is born to have children and have fun to enjoy the blessings of the gods and eat spicy crayfish!

"Is it worth being so excited to marry a daughter-in-law and give birth to a son?"

Thinking of the crazy old man at the military parade, Zhu Pingjin quietly rubbed his swollen right hand held by the overly passionate soldier, and his thoughts traveled through the space and flew back to his fierce wife.

Seven years of itching, what is the noisy marriage of more than ten years!

Zhu Pingjin was indignant.

It's not good, that thinking suddenly called the owner to the police: Miss Luo is standing next to the little red girl! The two are talking small and relieving their complaints! The content of the conspiracy is how to get married and have children!

A convoy of merchant ships, laden with supplies, sailed past the neat columns of warships, their tails pulling out cone-shaped waves. The waves came and gently lapped the side of the warship.

Maybe the policy of banning marriage among cadres is really unpopular?

With the slight swing of the warship, Zhu Pingjin's heart was disturbed. A hint of bad omen, like a poisonous snake spitting letters, quietly entwined up.

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Swimming against the current, the speed of the boat is not fast; The waves are not rising, but the hull is stable.

The five Centipede Type 3 warships of the First Brigade of the ** Naval Army commanded by He Gui opened the way in front of the fleet, and the newly added tall masts and white sails were particularly conspicuous.

The battleship is full of sails and eats the wind. From time to time, the sails turn back and forth to adapt to the crooked course and fickle wind direction. The two rows of oars on the side of the boat extend far out of the side of the boat, and they are paddled together in a slow and orderly rhythm, keeping a suitable distance from the two large boats behind.

The warship under Zhu Pingjin's seat was obviously not as light as the centipede ship in front.

Although the mainmast was hung with heavy sails, and the thirty-six oarmen on the main deck did not stop for a moment, it was still extremely difficult to keep up with the centipede ship ahead.

The warship under Zhu Pingjin's seat is a newly built large warship. Unlike the centipede warship, which has a broadside number and no name, this warship has an official ship name for the first time: Baoning Ship of the Protector Navy.

After the Boryeong, there is the same type of ship Luzhou. The two sister warships, one in front of the other, were separated by a hundred paces.

After that, there were more than a dozen large merchant ships that followed the fleet back to Chengdu.

The merchant ships, which belonged to the Minsheng Shipping Group, were loaded with salt from the Luzhou terminal and shipped to Chengdu. After unloading at the South Gate Terminal, they will load grain to Chongqing.

The tide of displaced people into Chongqing continued to pour into Chongqing Mansion, Chaotianmen Wharf was crowded with people, and Zhu Zhiyi, the king of Neijiang and Liu Zhibo, who were in charge of the affairs of Chongqing Mansion, were already shouting that they couldn't bear it.

Li Chongwen came to plan to rush back to Chengdu for a meeting, but had to stay in Chongqing to coordinate the relocation and resettlement of the displaced people.

Li Changxiang, who was newly appointed to the Shunqing Prefecture, also rushed to Hezhou, which was under the jurisdiction of Chongqing Prefecture. He used Hezhou as a transit hub to transfer batch after batch of displaced people to Yilong, Pengzhou, Quxian, Guang'an, and other areas with serious population losses.

The displaced people have legs to walk on their own, but they can't do it without food support, so Minsheng Shipping Group, as the main force of water transportation in Sichuan, has undertaken the heavy responsibility of transporting grain from Chengdu and Chongqing. In order to alleviate the pressure on logistics, Minsheng Shipping Group placed orders and placed orders from various shipyards in Sichuan.

Shipbuilding enterprises in Chengdu, Jiading, Syria, Luzhou and Chongqing ushered in a wave of orders. In order to build ships faster, the government issued a 500-stone inland river cargo ship style, prohibiting shipyards from changing the structure without authorization.

Cargo ships are in a hurry, and battleships are even more urgent.

The Centipede warship has always been built by the Chengdu shipyard. However, the Boryeong-class warships were not products of Chengdu Shipyard, but were built by Xuzhou Shipyard, which had just been incorporated into the Chuanchu Shipbuilding Group.

Xuzhou Shipyard is famous for being a 500-stone sand boat with a flat bottom and a square head, and building a warship is the first time that a big girl gets on a sedan chair. Chongqing Shipyard has several workshops, much larger than Xuzhou Shipyard, and has rich experience.

Later, Chongqing learned that in order to build these two large ships, the Xuzhou Shipyard had excavated two dry docks with a length of 15 zhang on the riverside half a year in advance. Wood, bamboo, paint and other shipbuilding materials were also prepared early, which won the championship in the bidding war with the advantages of fast delivery time and low cost.

During the construction of these two warships, the Xuzhou shipyard did not disappoint. From the placement of the order to the delivery of the ship, it took only five months for the Xuzhou shipyard. This also includes the time lost due to the immaturity of the hull design!

The appearance of the Boryeong-class battleship will surprise everyone. Because not only in Daming, but also in the four seas of Kyushu, there is no warship similar to the Boryeong-class.

From the axial direction of the bow and stern, the Boryeong-class is completely different from the Fukubune type.

Its bow is sharpened, leaning slightly forward; The stern is square, with a single mast and two rudders.

A thick hardwood keel runs from bow to stern, protruding from the bottom of the boat. The two sides of the bow float are obvious, and they are in the shape of a "U" shaped outward. Eighteen two-person swaying oars were evenly distributed on both sides of the hull. A large trapezoidal rigid sail protrudes over the central building, more than twice as wide as the ship's width.

Viewed from above, the Boryeong-class has the typical characteristics of a Fukuship, with a sharp head and a wide tail. However, it has a larger length-to-width ratio than the Fukubune, and its long, streamlined hull is very smooth and elegant.

Under normal load, the widest part of the Boryeong-class waterline is about one zhang and eight feet, and the length is about ten zhang, and the length-to-width ratio is close to six. The common length-to-width ratio of cargo ships in the fortune ship is only about 2.5, and the length-to-width ratio of warships is generally not more than five.

The combination of sails and oars is also a characteristic of Fufune Hirofune. However, because of the navigation on the river, the two oars of the Boryeong-class are dense and numerous, and the number of puffers can be increased by one and a half times in wartime. In order to facilitate the rowers to swing the oars and improve the propulsion efficiency of the oars, the second deck of the oars and the main deck on them extend out of the waterlines on both sides of the hull like a springboard, and each side is two feet wider.

From the side, the Boryeong-class is very different from the Fukuna.

The characteristic of the lucky boat is that the head and tail are upturned, and the shape is like a full bow. There are two floors aft at the stern of the ship, which is used by the senior personnel on board. There are generally two or three masts, and the number of masts is even higher for extra-large ships. The mainmast of a three-mast ship is generally located in a low recess in the center of the hull, which controls the fluid center of the hull. The first mast is in the forward part of the hull, and the aft mast is in the stern.

The bow of the Boryeong-class ship leans forward slightly, like an erected blade. The main deck and the second deck are almost completely straight from end to end. The third and fourth decks are equally straight. However, a short section was dug at the stern, leaving a gap between the stern and the perforated balance rudder.

The double-storey building is spread flat on the main deck of the ship, occupying the entire middle part, and there are stepped main and auxiliary gun platforms in the front and rear. The towering mainmast is inserted straight into the rear of the ship, making the side silhouette of the Boryeong class low at both ends and high in the middle, resembling a block "mountain" character.

However, a closer look at the hull structure of the Boryeong-class is similar to that of the Fukubune.

Below the main deck, there are two decks, with living cabins, ammunition rooms and steering engine rooms in the front and rear, and a long rocking cabin in the middle.

Below the second deck is a three-deck deck for occupants and storage. In the middle and aft part of the hull, there is a large empty compartment with no partitions but arched pillars, and two large round holes in the ceiling, which pass straight through the main deck and the central building, and communicate with the outside world. It's clear that something important and unknown is about to be put here.

The fourth deck is the bottom of the ship, and there are more than 10 traditional watertight compartments, which are loaded with stones for ballast and loaded with flammable and explosive gunpowder.

Above the main deck are the forward and rear main guns and the central shipbuilding. The secondary gun platform is connected to the first deck of the ship, and below is a protected ammunition compartment for firing.

The middle and front part of the first floor of the ship building is the living quarters of middle and senior officers such as captains and supervisors, and the middle and rear parts are sail line cabins. At the tail is a patio that leads directly up and down.

At the front of the second deck of the building is the cockpit and command cabin, followed by the sail cabin.

The seven-foot mainmast, made of a straight piece of hardwood, pierces through the ship's rigyard and main deck from the center to the keel at the bottom of the ship.

A two-foot long submast was attached to the top of the mainmast, and a simple one made of planks and ropes. Lookout.? The combination of the lookout and the submast allows a clear flag to be issued from this vantage point.

The sail surface is woven with fire cloth (Note 2), which can be cast into the fire without damage.

The armament at the Boryeong level continues to embody the tactical characteristics of the first-class water army, that is, it is mainly destroyed by artillery bombardment, supplemented by jumping gangs.

In front of and behind the main deck, two main guns that can rotate in a wide range are arranged on the bow and tail gun mounts of the main deck, but the gun mounts have not yet been completed, and there is no trace of the gun body, but the opening is firmly tied with a large tarpaulin.

Between the front and rear main guns, there are two secondary gun platforms connected to the central shipbuilding. Each of the secondary guns is equipped with a secondary gun that can also rotate, and the gun body is the same as the seven-and-a-half-pound short cannon widely used on Centipede 1 ships.

On the main deck on either side of the ship, four breech-fired rapid-fire guns resembling Furlong machines were distributed along the left and right sides. However, this cannon is shorter and thicker than the Furlong machine used by the officers and soldiers, and is obviously used to defend against enemy jumping in close combat.

Note 1: Xiangmu did not find the historical record of the catastrophe in Sichuan in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

Note 2: It is now the county seat of Jintang County.

Note 3: Fire raccoon cloth, that is, cloth woven from kapok.