After Xu Guangqi retreated, he took out the paper sandwiched in the "New Book of Ji Xiao" and looked at it carefully, except for the improvement of weapons, there was no movement in the others. After putting away the paper, he walked out of the study and asked Li Jinzhong, "Is there an internal official named Wei Zhongxian in the palace?" Li Jinzhong said: "I haven't heard of it, there is only one named Wei Chao, and another is called Wei Jinzhong." ”

Zhu Xiaoqi thought, maybe the Wei Dynasty changed its name, or it was somewhere else, Li Jinzhong didn't know him, forget it, he would always know then, as long as he didn't use him.

"By the way, you ask me a few people, all of them are officials, both civil and military." I took out a piece of paper and copied a famous person I remembered. "Origin, family situation, and wind reviews should be as detailed as possible."

Li Jinzhong has a friend in Dongchang, who seems to be a small and small supervisor, who happens to be in charge of official information, so it is more suitable for him to be sent to this matter. Li Jinzhong is also willing to do this kind of thing, so that his friends can know that he has the trust of His Royal Highness Taisun, which is a big face.

The next day, Li Jinzhong brought the information, Zhu Xiaoqi took it, and looked, ha, the petty official is in a meeting! Yuan Chonghuan is the county governor of Shaowu, Sun Chuanting is the county governor of Yongcheng, Sun Chengzong, the left concubine of the East Palace, is younger than Xu Guangqiguan.

The people he remembered were these three, Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong knew it by watching "Blue Blood Sword", and Sun Chuanting knew it by watching "Da Ming Tribulation", it seems that there is an ancestor or something, it seems that it is Yuan Chonghuan's subordinates.

It's a good thing that the people you find are small, which means that they haven't been taken seriously, and if you reuse them yourself, at least in terms of loyalty, you can still add points. It's just that these people are not very clear about what they are good at, Yuan Chonghuan knows that the famous Inspector Yuan, Yuan Chengzhi's father, Sun Chengzong seems to be also a supervisor, Sun Chuanting seems to be very murderous in "Da Ming Tribulation", killing the people's army is a good hand, this person can not be used to kill the people's army, because he is ready to let people like Li Zicheng have no chance to rebel at all, come, eat a potato, go back to plant corn, plant sweet potatoes, rebel This kind of thing is still forget it, there is something to eat, what kind of rebellion.

After crossing over, I often regret that I didn't read more history books about the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, if you know who is good at war, send him to fight, let him manage the finances if he is financially powerful, trust him and reuse him if he knows who is a loyal minister, and alienate him and belittle him if he is a traitor, then it is not too easy for him to be the emperor. However, he believes that as long as he does three things: first, let the peasants have food and money; the second is not to kill Yuan Chonghuan and let him fight Jiannu; The third is to reuse the Donglin Party and not Wei Zhongxian. Then the peasants will not rebel, the Jiannu will not be able to enter the customs, the Ming Dynasty will not die, and their throne will be as stable as Mount Tai.

On 27 April, Li Jinzhong reported that Sun Yuanhua had made significant progress, and Zhu Xiaoqi could not wait to come to the War Bureau.

Sun Yuanhua saluted and took out a flintlock pistol, only to see a sleeve on the muzzle of the gun, and on it was a shining bayonet. "After His Highness proposed the idea last time, the subordinates obtained this firearm with a bayonet after many experiments. The bayonet does not prevent the fire from firing, but the blade is brittle, and if it is used in an improper way or too many times, it will break, and the minister is trying to find a way to improve it. ”

It turned out that there was a kind of fire gun with a knife in the War Bureau, but the knife was at the end of the gun, and Zhu Youxiao asked him to put the knife on the head. Last time, Sun Yuanhua added a handle to the back of the bayonet and inserted it into the muzzle, Zhu Xiaoqi felt that this would hinder the shooting, so he asked him to put it on the barrel of the gun, and it was changed so quickly, which gave Zhu Youxiao some surprises.

Zhu Xiaoqi looked carefully, there was a bolt on the sleeve, which happened to be stuck on a protruding part of the barrel, the bayonet was about a foot long, and he flicked the blade with his fingers, the sound was a little dull, and he pulled the back of the knife hard, and found that the deformation was very small. recalled the content of the chemistry book, and said with a deep sigh: "This is because of the quality of steel, the iron knife is easy to break, and the steel knife can have good toughness, so that it is not easy to break." The material of this knife may be close to steel, but it is not steel after all, so it will break if you use it too much. ”

"Your Highness, the price of steel is too high, and if steel is used, its silver is five times that of iron." At this time, the smelting method of Suzhou steel can produce steel, but the quantity is small and the price is high. If steel is used, the cost of bayonets will be greatly increased, affecting the popularity of bayonets. But if you use iron, the quality is not good, you kill the enemy with a bayonet, and the bayonet suddenly breaks, that is a fatal problem, so this is a very troublesome problem, of course, you have to use a steel knife, but money is a big problem.

Zhu Xiaoqi turned his head and asked Li Chaoqin: "Do you have a way to make the sword with cloud patterns you presented last time?" ”

"Your Highness Qiqi, that is a sword from Tianzhu, the slave is ashamed, there is no way to make it."

"The quality of steel is a big problem, and we have to find a way to solve it. Is there a government-run iron factory in Beizhili?"

"The Zunhua Iron Smelting Plant has been closed in the ninth year of Wanli, and there is no government-run iron plant in North Zhili, but there are a few in South Zhili."

"Which one can make steel?"

"Suzhou Fu Iron Smelting Plant can smelt steel filling, but the output is small."

"Send people to Suzhou, find skilled craftsmen there, allow them to have favorable conditions, bring them to Beijing, help us build equipment, improve steel filling production methods, and increase production. After the people were found, Mr. Sun was in charge of guiding them to make steel suitable for bayonets. ”

After the order, he specially took Sun Yuanhua to a small room: "The reason why iron cannot be used to make knives is only because its quality is not pure, because coal is used to make iron, and there is sulfur in the coal, and phosphorus is mixed into it, which makes the iron quality worse, so if you want to get good iron, you need to remove the debris of sulfur and phosphorus." Generally speaking, more than two percent of the carbon in the iron is iron, less than two percent is steel, I know so much, I don't know if it is useful to you? He told his poor knowledge of chemistry in as many words as he could, and he was tired enough.

Since it is the sulfur and phosphorus in the coal, you can use charcoal to make iron, which is no sulfur and phosphorus, and you can make iron. It's just that charcoal is also more expensive than coal. ”

"Coke can be obtained by burning coal in a closed space, and coke is more suitable for iron smelting than charcoal, and it should be cheaper than charcoal."

"Your Highness's so-called coke, but what we usually call coke? If so, then the subordinate saw in the book that the Song Dynasty had already used the method of smelting iron. ”

"It should be, you can experiment with it yourself, see which one is better, and then see if there is a better way to increase production and improve quality." Zhu Xiaoqi encouraged.

"In addition, the place where the bayonet and the gun pipe are in contact is not too tight, pay attention to this, there is such a thing......" He briefly explained the structure of the screw, and when he saw that Sun Yuanhua had a difficult face, he said: "This can be done slowly, use other methods first, and try to make it stronger." ”