Seeing this scene, Emperor Chongzhen's mood suddenly improved, obviously what he had been looking forward to for a long time had been made, that is, broken glass products. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info This is Emperor Chongzhen's means of preparing to collect money, and get out the silver in the hands of those big households.

Although there are many good things, glass is the most suitable, with low cost, high profit, and easy to manufacture on a large scale.

"Xu Aiqing, I'm afraid there is good news for me today, right?" Emperor Chongzhen looked at Xu Guangqi and said with a laugh.

Originally, Xu Guangqi did not agree with Emperor Chongzhen to waste manpower and material resources on glass, in Xu Guangqi's opinion, it is good to have that time, and make a little cannon, but Emperor Chongzhen said that the money from selling glass will be allocated to Xu Guangqi to make cannons.

Xu Guangqi agreed, transferred some people to start making glass, and the progress has not been fast, until Emperor Chongzhen urged him recently, Xu Guangqi worked hard, and finally got it out a year ago, ready to get it to Emperor Chongzhen for money.

"Back to the emperor, it is indeed good news, the glass has been made!" When Xu Guangqi saw Emperor Chongzhen's happy appearance, he couldn't help but regret a little, shouldn't he have made the glass out?

Emperor Chongzhen didn't think so, and he didn't have time to care about Xu Guangqi's thoughts, at this moment, Emperor Chongzhen cared about glass, which was white silver! Cao Huachun naturally knew what to do at this time, and hurriedly came to Emperor Chongzhen's side with a plate, knelt on the ground and said, "Please take a look at the emperor!" ”

Reaching out and lifting the red silk covering the plate, Emperor Chongzhen saw the beautiful glasswork inside.

This is a glass lamp, the shape is naturally a five-clawed dragon, there is a scientific name called the dragon probe, the front claw is the place where the wick is placed, and the lamp oil will fall from the dragon's mouth drop by drop, just poured on the wick.

At night, the glass dragon under the lights will have a dreamlike feeling, which is very beautiful.

This is the craftsman of the Ministry of Industry came up with an idea, for the craftsmen who were transferred to the firearms factory, the treatment is simply very different, sweeping away the practice of doing errands in the Ministry of Industry, and bursting out with great enthusiasm. In particular, the reward system proposed by Emperor Chongzhen made these craftsmen extremely red-eyed.

The creativity and ideas put forward by many craftsmen made Xu Guangqi admire from the bottom of his heart, which was really amazing, and at the same time, he also admired Emperor Chongzhen.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Emperor Chongzhen nodded with satisfaction, and said to Xu Guangqi on the side: "Xu Aiqing has done a good job, this is a great credit, I wrote it down for Aiqing." However, the firearms factory is not a place to burn glass after all, and I asked Cao Huachun to take over this matter. ”

Xu Guangqi knew that what Emperor Chongzhen said was reasonable, and the firearms factory was indeed not suitable for this kind of thing, but Emperor Chongzhen did not mean to hand over this matter to the Ministry of Industry, which made Xu Guangqi more or less worried, will the emperor cause any trouble if he did this?

But Xu Guangqi also knew that the emperor made this thing, and it was used to make money.

Xu Guangqi can imagine that after a period of crazy robbery, the price of glass products went all the way up, and then there was a crazy trading, and finally the price plummeted, and the rich people had accumulated a lot of money for a long time, and it would definitely be robbed by Emperor Chongzhen.

Xu Guangqi didn't quite understand the impact of the people, but he was always a little worried.

Xu Guangqi was worried, Emperor Chongzhen was not worried, he was afraid that a glass would destroy the entire economic order, just to make himself a lot of money.

"The emperor can rest assured, the minister will hand over this matter to Gonggong Cao when he goes back." Xu Guangqi nodded, looked at Emperor Chongzhen and said: "Your Majesty, the firearms factory has determined the model of firearms, and the next thing is to improve production, which requires a lot of money and manpower!" ”

Is it going to be ordered? Emperor Chongzhen glanced at Xu Guangqi and said with interest: "Aiqing said come and listen!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, our main production is the Furlong cannon, after all, the Furlong cannon is lightweight, easy to carry, and can be used to walk with horses after installing wheels. The Furlong cannon is equipped with a sub-gun, which is faster and more agile than the front-loading gun. ”

"Equipped with a front sight and a light door, it can aim and shoot at long-distance targets. There are gun lugs on both sides of the gun body, which can be placed on the bracket, and the firing angle can be adjusted by tilting, which is very suitable for battlefield use. According to the standard set by the emperor, a total of three models were designed, namely a small gun of 300 catties, a heavy gun of 800 catties, and a heavy gun of 1,500 catties. ”

"According to what the emperor said, after improving the gunpowder and using particle gunpowder, the range and power have been greatly enhanced. Now the firing range of a small cannon of 300 catties has reached 500 meters, or even 800 meters. ”

Emperor Chongzhen has made a large number of precise dimensions, and according to the standards of later generations, the exact size of the meter, decimeter and centimeter has been formulated.

In this firearms production, standardized production will be the top priority, which Emperor Chongzhen has repeatedly emphasized.

"Medium artillery has a range of 1,500 to 2,000 meters, which is extremely powerful. As for the heavy artillery, although it is not as good as the Hongyi cannon, it is also very powerful, with a range of about three thousand meters. According to the requirements of the emperor's standardized production, each cannon has ten gametes, which is enough for the firing capacity of a battle. ”

When Xu Guangqi said these things, he could be described as a number of treasures, and he obviously knew it well: "In addition to these three kinds of artillery, we have also studied the kind of individual artillery that the emperor said, but in terms of range." Speaking of this, Xu Guangqi shook his head helplessly.

This kind of individual artillery is naturally a mortar, and if the current technology wants to study mortars, it is a fool's dream. However, Emperor Chongzhen hoped to improve the Huzun cannon, so that its range could be increased and at the same time it could be lighter, so Emperor Chongzhen also instilled a lot of content about mortars in Xu Guangqi.

"No more?" Emperor Chongzhen looked at Xu Guangqi and said in a deep voice: "Let's listen to it in detail!" ”

"That's right, the minister spent a lot of time on this, replacing the bronze cannon barrel with the wrought iron cannon barrel that the emperor said, which is indeed a lot lighter, but the range is not as great as imagined." Xu Guangqi looked at Emperor Chongzhen and said, "A cannon of one hundred and eighty catties has a range of two hundred meters. ”

So little power? Emperor Chongzhen hesitated suddenly, isn't this a joke?

"The wrought iron barrel is very easy to use, it is lighter than the bronze barrel, and it is easier to forge, but our iron production is not high, and I think we should build an iron-making factory to produce wrought iron for firearms factories." Xu Guangqi directly changed the topic.

As for what mortar Emperor Chongzhen said, Xu Guanqi didn't like it at all, how could there be a cannon that was easy to use?

"Now the iron on the market, or sent by the Ministry of Industry, is uneven, and some of them can't be used at all." Xu Guangqi saw that Emperor Chongzhen did not react, and continued to persuade: "With qualified wrought iron, large-scale artillery manufacturing can be realized. ”

Setting up an ironworks is a good thing, of course, but where? After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen had only one place in his heart, and that was Tangshan. Out of Tangshan, all other places are not suitable, but this matter has no energy for the time being, because I don't have much money.

"Okay, let's put this matter aside for a while, I ask you, have you decided on the number of artillery pieces this time?" Emperor Chongzhen looked at Xu Guangqi and interrupted him.

"Back to the emperor, it has been decided, the small artillery is tentatively set at 300, the medium artillery is 180, and the heavy artillery is 30." Xu Guangqi thought for a while and said, "I don't know what the emperor thinks of the number of artillery?" ”

nodded, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't object to this amount, Xu Guangqi said last time, with the current manpower and material resources of the firearms factory, these can't be completed.

In order to accomplish this goal, it is necessary to draw craftsmen from various armies, and at the same time, it is necessary for Emperor Chongzhen to give money and support.

"How much does it cost!" Emperor Chongzhen did not hesitate, Xu Guangqi came here in addition to sending glass to himself, and then asked for money. For the Hongyi cannon, Emperor Chongzhen actually likes it very much, but there is no way, there is no money to build it, and it is not practical.

There were a lot of siege battles on the European battlefield, but they had to deal with the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry, and they could only use faster and lighter artillery. As for the firing range, in the face of the speed of the cavalry, the extra range of the Hongyi cannon is not necessarily more threatening than firing one more cannon.

As for defending the city, Emperor Chongzhen could only sigh, cannons to defend the city? The greatest use of artillery is siege, followed by field warfare.

Think about the real history, Daming was made to the Hongyi cannon by Houjin, and the result can be imagined, the tragedy can't be in the tragedy. It's impossible to rule the Yangtze River if you want to, and you've been beaten by a cannon, what about yourself?

When it comes to field battles, Emperor Chongzhen himself wants to laugh, it is estimated that just a few cannons were fired, and the cavalry rushed to the artillery position, right?

The army of the Ming Dynasty wants to storm the artillery position of Houjin, if it can really rush up, you don't have to worry, just fight with them directly.

"Back to the emperor, it will take about three million taels of silver!" Xu Guangqi thought for a while and said: "You need to settle craftsmen, build an iron-making workshop, you also need to cast models, etc., you also need to build a house, etc., three million taels is already the least cost that a minister can compress." Xu Guangqi looked at Emperor Chongzhen and said with some embarrassment.

At the beginning of the establishment of the firearms factory, Emperor Chongzhen had already smashed in one million, and at that time it was to find people and prepare equipment, and now it will cost three million?

"Your Majesty, after many experiments, the minister has found the reason for the bombing of Frankie's cannon before!" Xu Guangqi saw that Emperor Chongzhen's face was not good, and hurriedly said: "In addition to the substandard casting process, the use of cannon barrels is also unqualified, in order to reduce costs, most of the craftsmen use substandard materials. ”

"Of course, there is also the casting method, the overall pouring method mentioned by the emperor, and the lifting effect is very obvious."