Zhu Youxiao, who learned that the craftsmen of the military factory had developed a flintlock pistol, quickly rushed to the military factory to inspect it. Soon Zhu Youxiao saw these flintlock pistols.

There are more than a dozen types of flintlock pistols, different calibers, different flint firing structures.

In order to get ahead, these craftsmen also worked hard, and all kinds of plans were made, looking at the row of flintlock pistols of various shapes in front of him, Zhu Youxiao was very happy and asked, "Which is the best?" ”

"This flintlock pistol has the best performance, with an average of seven hits before one blind fire. It is much more reliable than the previous bird, and the structure is the simplest and most reliable. Yang Qianshan reported to Zhu Youxiao, seeing the emperor's happy appearance, Yang Qianshan couldn't be more excited in his heart.

Zhu Youxiao picked up the flintlock pistol, which weighed the same as the original arquebus, about 4.5 kilograms.

"Not bad. However, the R&D team of the military factory can try to continue to optimize the musket, and various calibers can try to make some. If you can make the musket more powerful, faster, and lighter, I will reward you. Zhu Youxiao announced.

He immediately called the craftsman who designed this flintlock pistol, and rewarded him with 1,000 taels of silver on the spot, as well as the official position of the 100 households of the Jinyi Guard.

Zhu Youxiao already felt at this time that Daming's title system was not very convenient. The Ming Dynasty only has three titles: duke, marquis, and earl, and the viscount and baron have been canceled.

Viscounts and barons are not Westerners' systems, and Westerners' title systems are just translated according to Chinese titles, and can also be translated into first-class titles, second-class titles, and the like. Viscount, Baron, this is the traditional Chinese title name.

Because there are no viscounts and barons, Zhu Youxiao naturally felt inconvenient when he was rewarding. In many cases, the merits of the rewarded people cannot reach the level of feudal uncles and marquises, so that there is no title to reward, and they can only be rewarded with brocade clothes and hundreds of households.

It's just that there is also an advantage to not having a viscount and a baron, that is, it is not so easy to cause class contradictions. The founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang came from the common people, and obviously did not want to see too many aristocratic classes emerge in this empire, acting as a prestige on the heads of ordinary people, so he only retained the title of Duke and Marquis of the three ranks. The number of nobles who can be awarded these three levels will not be too many, and there will not be as many nobles as a cow across the country, resulting in class differentiation.

It's just that more than two hundred years later, the Ming Dynasty did not lead to class differentiation in this kind of title, but the uneven distribution of wealth has led to another class differentiation. At this time, it is not impossible to restore the system of viscounts and barons. As a result, a new class was born that could compete with private capital merchants.

The title is indeed a double-edged sword, and the focus is still on how to control it. If it can be strictly controlled and only given to those who have contributed to the country, then it will have a good effect and stimulate the enthusiasm of the people of the empire. If you reward and seal indiscriminately, then something will go wrong.

At least Zhu Youxiao is sure that in his lifetime, it is impossible for the title to be rewarded indiscriminately. And there can also be certain restrictions on privileges, or even no privileges, just as an honorary title.

At this time, the most important thing is to train the Beijing camp first, and Zhu Youxiao decided to put this matter aside.

Then the Royal Military Factory made some adjustments to the caliber and weight on the basis of this flintlock pistol, and after some testing, the Royal Military Factory determined the first standard flintlock pistol, which weighed 4 kilograms, which greatly reduced the weight and did not lose power.

The cost of manufacturing has also been reduced, the cost of a flintlock pistol is calculated to only 3 taels of silver, the material of a flintlock pistol does not require 1 tael of silver, and the average month of a craftsman's work is enough to make a musket. At this time, the labor cost of the royal military factory was actually not high, but it only made the craftsmen have no worries, mainly because of the better welfare, there is no need to worry about birth, old age, sickness and death, and the living conditions are also improving rapidly.

The craftsmen of the Royal Military Factory are all working hard at this time, trying to use their brains and trying to improve the production technology.

The emperor himself set an incentive measure, who can improve the production technology, according to the effect of the improvement of the graded reward. The lowest reward was three hundred taels, and the highest even reached five thousand taels.

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The creative power of the workers was very striking in an era when industrial technology was still relatively low.

At the same time, the Royal Military Factory also set up a special research group to conduct special research on muskets and artillery, and Zhu Youxiao basically gave enough research funds.

However, if technology wants to take off, it is necessary to cultivate a group of mathematics, physics and chemistry talents first!

Zhu Youxiao didn't have the energy to do such a thing for the time being, and after leaving the military factory, Zhu Youxiao rushed to the 'Royal Military Academy' non-stop.

This is another new move by Zhu Youxiao after the Ministry of Political and Educational Affairs.

At present, this military academy is only a junior grass platform team, and Zhu Youxiao mainly explains the new tactics to the officers, and the officers also participate in the improvement and discussion of the new tactics.

The phalanx tactics proposed by Zhu Youxiao have a relatively simple structure and are not difficult to learn.

The officers who were able to enter the lecture hall to study were all 'baptized' by the Ministry of Political and Educational Affairs, and their outlook on life, values, world view, and ideology were all unified, and they swore to join the Han Imperial Party.

Zhu Youxiao himself served as the principal, and he had the posture of imitating a certain bald head. The military academy has an 'infantry section' and a 'cavalry section', but there is no artillery section for the time being.

The military equipment in Beijing was also in place one after another, and the royal military factory was running at full capacity for production, and because of the change in the production system, the quality of the weapons was completely qualified.

The equipment of the pikemen is a 4-meter-long spear, as well as helmets, armor, knives, and a set of red military uniforms. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was the rise of the black water dragon vein in the north, so the Manchu Qing Dynasty advocated black.

The pikeman's spear is the lowest cost, does not require much metal, and is relatively simple to make.

Helmets, armor, and knives cost more than spears, and despite the availability of spears, each pikeman was equipped with a sword.

Many of the knives of the Ming army were shoddy, and they could be cut off at will. The main thing is that craftsmen cut corners, and craftsmen cut corners because the official funding is too low, and the real materials are built, not only can not earn wages, but also have to pay a sum of money themselves.

The production mode of the Royal Military Factory avoids such a problem, and the equipment must be inspected after it is manufactured, and the unqualified ones will be rebuilt.

With such a set of equipment, the cost of arming a pikeman is only 6 taels of silver, which is not even comparable to the cost of their horses compared to the cavalry.

The cost of equipment for musketeers is similar, and a soldier's equipment with flintlock pistols, knives, and military uniforms costs only 5 taels of silver.

The cost of war, in fact, is not completely calculated according to the cost of equipment, and another is the time to become an army. After all, soldiers need military pay, and at the same time, there will be food consumption and so on.

The biggest advantage of pikemen and musketeers is that if there are enough junior officers, they can be put into battle in three or five months of training, and the army can be formed very quickly.

However, at this time, the Beijing camp naturally had no choice, and the Beijing camp lacked experienced officers.

Therefore, for the training of the Beijing battalion, it must be practiced for at least one year before it can be put into battle on the battlefield. In order to ensure the successful formation and training of the new army, Zhu Youxiao was not stingy in equipment, and equipped each pikeman with a combat knife, although this combat knife can actually be used not very often, but it also adds a condition for the soldiers to adapt to various environments.

As long as the Beijing battalion is organized and trained into an elite new army, it will be able to get many grassroots officers, and it will be very simple to expand the army in the future.

The establishment of the Royal Military Academy has also provided enough officers for training, and officers who have studied theory are also exploring this set of theories together, and then focusing on discussions to overcome the problems encountered in the process.

Soon the formation of the Beijing camp began to be in full swing, the pikemen began to practice spear assassination, and the musketeers began to practice the use of flintlock muskets. PS: The update is a little late, and my mental state is not very good today, sorry!