None of them knew that the one designed by Pan Yaming had been designed by some people in the original history, but the time had to go back to the nineteenth century. It was invented by an Englishman, a famous mechanic named Whitworth.

In the beginning, his idea was to use this hexagonal technique for casting cannons. In fact, what he proposed was the principle of polygon rotation, but because of technical reasons, he couldn't do it, only hexagons. However, his suggestion was rejected by the English military, and it was used on guns.

As a result, during the Civil War, sharpshooters of the Confederate army used this "Whitworth rifle" equipped with a polygonal barrel, which had great success on the battlefield. Even at a distance of 910 meters, he sniped General John Sedgwick, the top general of the Northern Army who had been killed in the war. It's a bit funny that the general saw the sniper at the time, but he didn't care, and said this classic sentence to his men: "At such a distance, they can't even hit an elephant." ”

This gun, in the original history, was defined by later generations as the earliest sniper rifle in the true sense.

And the corresponding artillery, naturally, is a hexagonal artillery. The representative of this artillery, in its original history, was the seventy-pounder Whitworth naval gun, which used Whitworth's unique hexagonal barrel and breech loading design, with a caliber of 5.5 inches (140 mm) and a maximum range of more than 2,700 meters.

Of course, in this plane, Pan Yaming can be said to have invented this musket and artillery by mistake, and the experimental results and data were immediately reported to the emperor in Beijing through the Jinyi guard in Hoi An and through the chat group.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard the news, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately issued a decree to commend him. How much of a role this kind of high-precision artillery musket can play is far clearer than ordinary people for him from later generations. You know, there is a game called CS in later generations, if there is a powerful sniper, the battlefield can be completely one-sided.

And in naval battles, if there is such high-precision artillery, it will make the enemy desperate! With this hexagonal artillery, Emperor Chongzhen was more confident in the decisive battle in Nanyang in the future.

Unfortunately, this hexagonal gun is not easy to build, just like the rifled guns that preceded it. But it's good to be able to improve, and he doesn't really care. Of course, this kind of firearm must be strictly controlled, especially the hexagonal gun, it is not good to make too much, and it is almost the same when used by special forces, snipers and other arms.

From this matter, it also made Emperor Chongzhen see a fact. It's that I'm not omnipotent.

For him, he cared about breech artillery. Therefore, what he handed over to the Beijing Division Military Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau was also mainly studying breech artillery and muskets. For example, the Furlong cannon is a gun that passes through the sub-mother gun, which can be regarded as breech artillery. In terms of rate of fire, it has an advantage that breech guns cannot match.

On the Jingshi side, because of Emperor Chongzhen's personal guidance, no one thought about it from other aspects and solved the problem. And far away in Hoi An, he has invented a technology that goes further than what he is doing now. Although this technology has not changed much in terms of progress. This hexagonal gun is also a type of rifled gun. But, at least it's progressive.

Thinking so, Emperor Chongzhen felt that it was necessary to increase some research funds, so that there were research institutes in various places that could conduct research and development according to the actual situation.

After he had instructed him on the matter, he didn't bother anymore. After all, this is just a detail, and now he is preparing to go out of Beijing.

However, this time I went out of Beijing, not a private visit to Weifu, but a patrol under the guise of the emperor.

Hai Lanzhu and Tian Guifei are pregnant and can't come out. The queen didn't want to come, saying that the harem needed her to preside over, but she was still called out by Emperor Chongzhen. is only in his twenties and is the same age as a flower, why should he be so rigid, do you want to die of old age in the palace and not come out for a walk?

It stands to reason that when the emperor and empress go out together, this meeting will be big. But Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to disturb the people, so he still kept everything simple, even so, there were more than a thousand people.

Out of Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen took the empress who couldn't help but rejoice all the way to inspect the railway being laid from Tongzhou to Beijing. Liu Mao, Minister of Communications, personally accompanied the introduction of the relevant situation, although there are usually reports, but this is an on-the-spot introduction, it is still different.

"Your Majesty, the laying of the railroad tracks in this first place is based on what Your Majesty said, mainly to gain experience, and the winter has just passed, so only about half of it has been laid."

"The rails are enough, but there was a theft of rails, and Wechen has dealt with it!"

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen frowned slightly, turned his head to look at him and asked, "How did you deal with it?" ”

Stealing railroad tracks is a serious matter that must be dealt with seriously. Otherwise, if there are still people who follow the same example, there will be more railway guerrillas, and the train will not be able to run.

"Lian Zai, his family was also detained for public display." Liu Mao hurriedly responded.

In the early years of Chongzhen, the Baojia Law implemented had the punishment of joint sitting, in other words, in this era, many of the more serious crimes were to be sitting.

Emperor Chongzhen was not soft-hearted, and nodded: "Send a new province, there are many people needed." ”

The Tianshan side is the bridgehead of the Ming Dynasty to advance westward in the future, and now the Han people are still too few, and they must be enriched.

In fact, it is not only the new province, but also several other places. As a result, there are now very few prisoners in the Daming Pass, and most of them have been exiled to these marginal provinces, except for a few capital crimes. There are no people in many prisons, and rats can have a meeting.

Under Liu Mao's introduction, it was learned that the railway from Tongzhou to Beijing is estimated to be officially opened in the autumn. Now that it is not good, there is nothing to look forward to, so Emperor Chongzhen took the queen to the next stop: Tongzhou Shipyard.

The construction of steamships is also one of the most important projects of the Ming Dynasty. I got a report that there was an accident here, so Emperor Chongzhen went out of Beijing this time, so he came to inspect it again.

There was a wooden steamship that accidentally started a fire during the test. People are fine, jumping into the river are alive. But the boat was gone, burned down on the Tongzhou River.

Emperor Chongzhen came over this time, and did not reproach them, but encouraged them to find a way to solve the difficulties they encountered. Crossing the river by feeling the stones, no problem, however, the same mistake is not allowed to be made again.

Today, the Tongzhou shipyard has made great progress in focusing on iron-clad wood steamships and minimizing the resonance of the propellers. The R&D direction is to build the ship in Dali and build it in the direction of all-railway.

When Emperor Chongzhen watched the steamship "swoop" on the Tongzhou River, it was nothing. However, since Empress Zhou got married, it was the first time she had left the palace, and everything was fresh, not to mention the steamship that she had never seen before, this kind of self-propelled steamer that was automatic without wind.

She knew that all this was the application of scientific and technological knowledge, and it was done under the guidance of Emperor Chongzhen. As a result, in her heart, she is even more determined to supervise her son, that is, the crown prince, to study scientific and technological knowledge well, and strive to make her son an emperor like the emperor!

After inspecting the Tongzhou Shipyard, Emperor Chongzhen went directly to the destination of this trip to Beijing, Yongping Mansion in Gyeonggi.

At the beginning of the third year of Chongzhen, Jianyu, who invaded the land of Gyeonggi, plundered all the middle-aged men and women of Yongping Mansion before leaving, and set fire to Yongping Mansion after leaving the old and weak. Now five years have passed, Yongping Mansion has recovered well, and Emperor Chongzhen brought the empress to inspect it in person, which also reflects the emperor's concern for the people.

This time, naturally, there was a message in advance. When the emperor and empress were about to arrive at Yongping Mansion, almost all the people of Yongping rushed out of Yongping Mansion and went out of the city to greet them under the leadership of local officials.

If it were somewhere else, there might be people who would complain that the emperor affected their lives or something. However, in this Yongping Mansion, not only did everyone come out of the city, but there was no one who complained. For no other reason, Yongping Mansion is more deeply favored by the emperor than any other place.

Back then, the vicious Jianyu used a poisonous trick to burn down Yongping Mansion, leaving only the old and weak. At that time, the old and weak in Yongping Mansion were desperate, and no one thought that they could survive.

However, what he didn't expect was that Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to Guan Ningjun as soon as possible, and rushed to save people with military rations. Not only that, but he also ordered the Jingshi to implement food control, and used unprecedented means to forcibly requisition all grain for unified management, issue food stamps, and limit the amount of food per person per day, so as to squeeze out food to rescue the old and weak in Yongping Province.

It's not that no one has persuaded the emperor, and it's not that no one has talked about it. Those people in Yongping Mansion are all old and weak, even if they are saved, how much benefit can they bring to Daming? The emperor tried so hard to rescue him, it was not worth it!

However, Emperor Chongzhen still did it without hesitation. Not only did he send food to Yongping Mansion, but he also issued an order to the people of Beijing, and ordered the princes and nobles of Jingshi to take the lead and donate warm clothes. Not only that, but under the conditions of shortage of materials at that time, the emperor also ordered the rebuilding of Yongping Mansion and the construction of houses with cement. It was under the emperor's efforts that most of the old and weak people in Yongping Mansion survived after experiencing the grief of the destruction of their families.

People's hearts are flesh and blood, and the emperor of a country is so kind to the old and weak, which shows the emperor's benevolence and benevolence. Therefore, if you want to say that the people in the world revere the emperor, Yongping Mansion is the most!

The people here, after relieving their breath, in order to commemorate the kindness of those most difficult years, they have collected food stamps for that year as a commemoration. So much so that later, food stamps turned out to be more expensive than paper money, and by now, the market is already a priceless situation. In other words, it is difficult to buy it even if you have money.

Incidentally, with the stability of the banknote's reputation, more and more people are collecting the first version of the flawed banknote released that year. Like food stamps, they are much higher than ordinary banknotes. In today's market, it's rare to see anyone selling it.

When the people of Yongping Mansion saw the arrival of the imperial car from afar, they all knelt down without the greeting of the magistrate of Yongping Mansion, and shouted in unison, waiting for the arrival of the emperor: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Never before would the people of a place treat their emperor so reverently. This can be seen from the speed at which the achievement points of the chat group system are obtained. Emperor Chongzhen just showed his body, and before he could say a word, he heard the prompt sound of the system, which sounded endlessly.

"Your Majesty, the people of Yongping Mansion are so enthusiastic!" Even Empress Zhou felt this and said happily. The people of the Ming Dynasty love the emperor so much, and as a queen, she is naturally honored!

Emperor Chongzhen nodded when he heard this, and said with a little emotion: "The common people are actually the most simple, if you treat him well, he will treat you well." I am their emperor, and if I care about them, they will be grateful to me, this is not sycophancy! ”

There were some things he didn't say, because in this plane, there was no need to say them. In the original history, if the court and the government could take care of the lives of the people, they were not cornered, and basically no one would rise up to rebel.

Of course, that is, Emperor Chongzhen came from later generations, and the values of people in this era are different. Therefore, the land of Gyeonggi had just been destroyed by the construction of the country, and there was a great shortage of materials. But even so, Emperor Chongzhen overcame all kinds of difficulties, insisted on his own practices, and even referred to the practices of difficult times in later generations, and even made food stamps, and finally saved as many people as possible as possible.

At that time, according to the report of Guan Ningjun and the factory guards afterwards, there were already White Lotus disciples who went to demagogue.

Back then, Jianyu's move to leave was not vicious, but Daming survived. Then, Emperor Chongzhen used his way to repay the other, and he seized the point of the urgent shortage of materials in Liaodong, kept attacking, and made a fuss about the point of food, and finally made Manqing Kong have a combat power, but he could not fully exert it, which can be regarded as a classic battle of annihilation.

"Only a saint like His Majesty can be so loved by the people!" When Queen Zhou heard this, she said with emotion, "Only when you go out of the palace can you really feel this!"

She said this, and at the same time kept in mind that when she went back, she would teach the prince well, and he must learn from his father well.

At this time, because her son finally had to make a prince, it can be said that most of her thoughts were spent on the prince. In any case, she didn't expect that this prince, nine times out of ten, would be the same as the first prince of the Ming Dynasty, and he could only be a prince for the rest of his life.

The two of them talked, drove forward, and finally reached the crowd.

Emperor Chongzhen glanced at the dense crowd of people, stretched out his hand and said loudly: "I have always been concerned about Yongping Mansion, and I finally have time to come and have a look today." I will only be relieved if I see you well!"

The middle-aged men and women who were taken away by Jianlu back then finally returned to their hometowns, and none of them survived. But five years have passed, and most of the children of that year have grown into hairy guys. At this glance, he is finally no longer just old and weak.