Fan Wencheng still knows Dolgon quite well, and Dolgon summoned them over today for this purpose.

"Two, you are both ministers of the Qing Dynasty, and you are both good strategists, this king summoned you here today to discuss the formation of a firearms battalion!" Dolgon motioned for Fan Wencheng and Tong Yangxing to sit down beside him, and then faced Tong Yangxing and said, "You are a firearms expert in the Qing Dynasty, you can talk about some things carefully with this king today!"

"Yes, Lord Regent!" Fan Wencheng and Tong Yangxing answered, and sat down cross-legged beside Dolgon.

Dolgon's eyes stayed on Fan Wencheng and Tong Yangxing for a while, and then said: "Presumably the two of you also know that now the Ming army has begun to equip a large number of firearms, especially muskets, even if they are a group of rabble, but with a large number of firearms, the threat to our Qing army can still not be underestimated, after all, now that the number of the Qing army has plummeted, we can no longer easily lose even the men and horses of the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia." ”

After listening to Dolgon's words, Fan Wencheng and Tong Yangxing both lowered their heads, and they knew what Dolgon said.

Dolgon let out a long sigh and said, "The two of you must also know that the top priority of my Qing Dynasty is to form a firearms battalion as soon as possible, and form a few firearms battalions like the Datong Army trained by Cao Yue. ”

After hearing this, Fan Wencheng frowned and pondered for a while, and then said softly: "Master, the slave has a sentence, I don't know if I should say it or not?" ”

Dolgon glared at Fan Wencheng: "If you have anything to say, please don't hesitate to say it." ”

"Master, the slave also thinks that my Qing army must form a firearms battalion of a certain size, but," Fan Wencheng paused, and after secretly looking at Dolgon's expression, he boldly said: "But my Qing Dynasty does not have a perfect smelting workshop, nor does I have craftsmen who are proficient in making firearms. Although General Tong is good at casting cannons, he does not know much about muskets, and with our current ability, it is difficult to make a large number of muskets. ”

"Master, what Mr. Fan said is very true," Tong Yangxing on the side nodded solemnly, "Although the slave knows a little about the manufacturing technology of artillery, he doesn't know much about the manufacture of muskets. If you let the minions develop the musket, I am afraid it will be difficult to develop it in a short time. ”

"The meaning of the two is clear to this king, and today this king just wants to ask you, how to solve this problem?" Dorgon frowned.

After Fan Wencheng thought about it, he said cautiously: "Master, the slave thinks that we can find a way to search for some craftsmen who know how to make firearms in the Guannei, and we can spend a lot of money to hire or kidnap these people for my Qing Dynasty." Also, steel smelting, we can do it through North Korea, North Korea's smelting technology is more advanced than our Qing Dynasty, and the iron ore in North Korea is much richer than that in Liaodong, and there are now ones that can be mined. ”

During this time, Fan Wencheng can be said to be a man with his tail between his legs, and some of the suggestions he made did not achieve the expected results, especially when attacking Datong, plus some other subordinates were killed, he was very worried that he would follow in the footsteps of those people, so he acted very low-key, even in front of Dolgon, he did not dare to say his suggestions as boldly as before. At all times, he acted cautiously and spoke, for fear of annoying the upper echelons of the Jurchens, encountering embarrassing scenes, and even losing his life.

After the Battle of Datong, Fan Wencheng also began to re-examine the current situation, he knew that if Dolgon could not reverse the situation, then in the follow-up battle between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty would definitely lose to the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty would definitely be wiped out in the end. Now Fan Wencheng has already regretted surrendering to the Manchu Qing Dynasty a little, and he has long known that the Ming army still has such combat power, as well as talents like Cao Yue, Cao Bianjiao, Sun Chuanting, and Hong Chengchou, these people have the ability to turn the tide, and he will definitely reconsider his choice.

What made Fan Wencheng even more disgraced was that after Datong retreated to Shengjing after the defeat, he suffered the greatest humiliation in his life.

Because of his wife's beauty, he was favored by Duoduo, Prince Yu, and he didn't know what Duoduo thought, so he wanted to take Fan Wencheng's wife as his own. Although Fan Wencheng was extremely angry in his heart, he finally chose to endure the humiliation and let his wife be like a flower, and was humiliated by Duoduo several times, and even personally persuaded his wife to serve Duoduo well. Seeing his wife being pressed down by Duoduo and wantonly humiliated, and even doing so in front of him, Fan Wencheng was disgraced. What it is like to be a man with his tail between his legs and suffer great humiliation, only Fan Wencheng knows.

Although it is said that the matter of Duoduo's wife snatching was finally resolved by Dorgon's intervention, Duoduo was punished, and his beautiful wife returned to his side, but the entire Manchu Qing knew that Fan Wencheng's wife served Duoduo, and it was in front of Fan Wencheng. Dolgon's support did not improve Fan Wencheng's status, but instead became a laughing stock, no one looked down on him, and all the Manchu nobles would sneer at him.

Duoduo, who was punished, became even more angry in his heart, and his hatred for Fan Wencheng became more and more intense, in order to humiliate Fan Wencheng, he publicized the matter of playing with his wife everywhere, how was the woman's body, and what it was like when she was playing.

For a while, Sheng Jing was spreading about this matter everywhere, and many people were interested in Fan Wencheng's beautiful wife, but Dolgon's strict order was there, and no one dared to fight this woman's idea for the time being.

This woman was actually given to Fan Wencheng by Huang Taiji. At the beginning, Fan Wencheng regarded this woman as a great honor, but now, this woman has become his biggest shame, and he will never be able to wash away this shame. But Fan Wencheng has no other choice, he has no way out, he can't go back to the Qing Dynasty, he can only go to the dark one way and act as a lackey of Jiannu for the rest of his life.

The threat of firearms from the Ming army was huge, and the Qing army could not break it, and Fan Wencheng knew the consequences, and he had to help Dolgon solve this problem. During this time, he has been thinking about these things, but he has not come up with a very good solution, after all, the scientific and technological productivity of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty are not at the same level at all. Also, the Manchu nobles, except for a very far-sighted person like Dolgon, who can think about the long term, others will not think about such things as the Qing Dynasty can also make firearms, and most of the Manchu nobles still advocate winning the world immediately.

Fan Wencheng was afraid that the things he mentioned would annoy the Manchu nobles and lead to death, so he did not dare to mention them until Dolgon had summoned him to discuss them. Even if he took the initiative to talk to him about this and ask him for his opinion, Fan Wencheng was still cautious.

The current Dolgon is Fan Wencheng's only reliance, and he doesn't dare to annoy Dolgon in any way.