Emperor Chongzhen didn't understand much at first what Condenius said, mixed with foreign languages, but when he saw Condinius looking at him with blazing eyes, it seemed that the gift he said was really sincere, and he couldn't help but look back and think about what he just said.

As for what Geeer pistool was, Emperor Chongzhen had never heard of it at all, but how could the Rifle gun sound so familiar.

“Rifle gun？ Rifle？ Rifle？！ Rifle?! ”

Emperor Chongzhen repeated it silently in his heart several times, and suddenly understood.

Now that Emperor Chongzhen is in his later life, he has not learned German or Dutch, so he naturally can't understand what Kwillbisto means, but he has also studied English for more than ten years.

Of course, he didn't know what English was like in the seventeenth century, but when he heard that Condinius suddenly mixed such a few foreign nouns in a large string of Chinese words, he immediately captured the key to it.

Hearing Condinius say the word Rifle gun, and also added that this is a musket that the Dutch army has just been equipped, Emperor Chongzhen pondered for a moment, and immediately thought of the "rifle gun" in his mind.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen also knew that the rifle gun of this era was definitely not the kind of rear-loading rifle gun of later generations, and it should only be the prototype gun of the rifle gun of later generations, that is, the most basic front-loading flintlock rifled gun.

However, even such an antique-level front-loading flintlock rifled gun is one step more advanced than the Chongzhen front-loading flintlock rifle in the Ming Army today!

After listening to Condinius's words, Emperor Chongzhen thought of a lot in his mind, but in the end only three words came out:

"Where?!"

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately stood up and said to Condinius, who was kneeling on the ground:

"Where are the muskets you are talking about? Hurry up and show it to me! ”

Of course, things like bows, arrows, swords, and firearms are absolutely not allowed to be brought into the Forbidden City without permission.

Therefore, when entering the Forbidden City, the gifts that Condenius brought to the Ming Emperor, as well as the Dutch red-haired entourage brought back from overseas this time, were all stopped outside the first gate of the imperial city, that is, the Daming Gate.

Jiang Yueguang only took Condenius, who had been searched repeatedly, into the Forbidden City, and came to the Qianqing Palace to meet Emperor Chongzhen.

But now that the emperor has spoken, Chu Xianxian, who led a group of imperial attendants and military attaches to stand beside the emperor, immediately brought Yang Zhen and Deng Tianhe to pass the order.

It didn't take long for the three of them to come back with a group of guards on duty to clear the door, carrying large boxes and small boxes of gifts.

Yang Zhen and Deng Tianhe, the military attaches of the imperial attendants, returned to this hall of the Qianqing Palace with the musket that Condenius said.

Yang Zhen had just knelt down to salute with a musket in both hands, and Emperor Chongzhen took a few steps forward directly and took the legendary rifle in his hand.

The body of the gun is heavy, about ten pounds in weight.

Emperor Chongzhen took the musket and went directly to the muzzle, and sure enough, he saw that from the muzzle inward, there were four narrow Yin line grooves evenly distributed, leading to the depth of the barrel.

"Sure enough, it's a rifle!"

After Emperor Chongzhen finished reading this gun, he was pleasantly surprised, and when he saw that Deng Tianhe still had one in his hand, he immediately handed it to Yang Zhen, and then took another one from Deng Tianhe's hand.

It turned out to be exactly the same straight rifled rifled rifle rifle gun.

There are four rifling lines, all of which are yin, evenly spaced and distributed parallel to the inner wall of the barrel.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at it again and again, and knew that this was the easiest straight rifling to carve out in this era.

Looking at the other parts, this antique-grade rifle brought by Condinius is similar to Chongzhen's, both front-loading and flintlock.

Such a rifle was born in a certain state of North Germany more than 100 years ago at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the name is transliterated as Geeer pistool.

It wasn't until the beginning of the 17th century that the Danish army discovered its secrets and might and began to equip it in large quantities, which the Danes called Rifle.

Subsequently, the Spaniards, Portuguese, and English followed suit, and by this time the rifled rifles with rifles in the barrel began to appear in Western armies, but almost all of them were rifled rifled guns in a straight line.

After carefully watching the second rifle, Emperor Chongzhen calmed down from the initial excitement, and while fiddling with this rifled gun, he said to Condinius:

"It's just a rifled rifled gun with rifling engraved! I'm still a great baby!

"Condenius, what other gifts did you bring to me this time?"

Condenius came back from overseas this time with his own great mission, not only bringing many foreign gadgets that the Ming Dynasty did not have, such as music boxes, more sophisticated automatic time-telling clocks, etc., but also brought funds and some weapons to prepare for the formation of the Jesuit Security Corps.

Among them were several rifles from his cousin, Gerald von der Weiss, the governor of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia.

After Condinius returned to the Ming Dynasty, he learned that His Majesty the Ming Emperor was pleased with his son, so he wanted to take this rare opportunity to ask for an audience with His Majesty the Ming Emperor again, and to determine the unfinished matters concerning the formation of the Jesuit Trilateral Security Corps as soon as possible.

Therefore, he took advantage of his relationship with the president of the Jesuit Society to first go to meet Xu Guangqi, the minister of the Jesuit Cabinet and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and asked Xu Guangqi to introduce him on his behalf.

Xu Guangqi saw at a glance from the pile of so-called gifts he brought back that this rifled musket engraved in the chamber was the most important of all his things, and asked him to use it as a gift to meet the Ming Emperor, and then introduced him to the Li Fan Yuan.

In this way, Candinius was able to successfully meet Emperor Chongzhen.

Originally, Condenius saw that His Majesty the Ming Emperor was so satisfied with his gift this time, and was thinking about whether he could make more requests later, but after listening to the words of the Ming Emperor, he found that the Ming Emperor himself seemed to have known about the existence of the rifled gun, and he didn't seem to be very satisfied with his gift.

As for the existence of rifled guns, Condenius only heard about them from the Batavian Governor's Palace Guard when he returned to Batavia this time, and knew that this was a relatively advanced musket in the East, which was more than twice the range of ordinary smoothbore guns, and the accuracy was much stronger.

He thought that if the Jesuit security corps were equipped with this musket in the future, then the Jesuits would be invincible in the northwest region of the Ming Dynasty, and the safety of himself and other missionaries would be guaranteed.

Therefore, he tried his best to get nine rifled rifles from the Dutch governor's palace in Batavia.

The Dutch governor in Batavia, Gerard von der Weiss, was quite convinced that with these nine advanced rifled guns, it would be enough to ensure the personal safety of the missionary cousin in the Ming Dynasty.

It's not that the Dutch governor Mr. Weiss was stingy, but in this era, rifled guns were not widely equipped in the armies of several colonial powers in Western Europe.

If it weren't for the Dutch East India Company's deep pockets and its constant desire to seize the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the East, their mercenaries in the East would not have been armed with rifled guns that cost more.

Because for them, just an ordinary flintlock smoothbore gun would be enough to deal with these backward barbarians in the East.

At this time, Condenius saw that this kind of advanced musket that was blown to the sky by his cousin Governor Weiss did not seem to be very eye-catching in the eyes of the Ming Emperor, and saw that the Ming Emperor asked for other gifts, so he took out the music boxes, the table clock that automatically chime, and other crystal prisms and other foreign things prepared in advance, and introduced them one by one.

Emperor Chongzhen was pleased to hear this, and when he saw that it was almost over, he said to him: "Condenius, although I am not very satisfied with the gift you brought this time, I appreciate your sincerity. I will accept all your gifts! ”

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen continued to say to Condenius with a blank face: "I know that you have asked to enter the palace to meet me, not only to me, but also to my prince to contribute gifts!" Tell me what you want from me for a gift and from me! ”

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen in front of him was so direct, Condinius stopped beating around the bend at the moment.

"Your Majesty the Great Emperor! The Jesuits are very grateful for your generosity and admire your wisdom!

"Since last October, on the north-western frontier of your empire, the Muslims have rebelled, slaughtering not only a large number of your people, but also nine prominent Jesuit missionaries.

"As the liaison of the Jesuits in China, I have reported to the Pope in Rome about the Jesuits' war against the Muslims on the northwestern frontier of the Ming Dynasty, and have asked for the title of saints to God's earthly agent, our greatest pope, for nine clergymen including Long Huamin, who have dedicated their lives to the cause of Catholicism!

"As the successor of Priest Matteo Ricci and Priest Long Huamin, I sincerely ask His Majesty the Emperor to ask you to be buried in the capital of Daming as well as the nine priests including Brigadier General Long Huamin and the nine Jesuit martyrs, just like Ricci!"