There are currently two main models of rifles exported by the Renaissance Society. One is a Thunderbolt gun that imitates a brown bass rifle, and the other is a lightning gun that imitates Enfield M1853.

Anyone who has some knowledge of rifles in the pre-loading era knows. The Lightning Gun exported by the Revival Society is much more advanced than the Thunderbolt Gun in every way.

First of all, the lightning gun is rifled, and the Thunderbolt gun is not rifled. This leads to the fact that the lightning gun not only has a longer range than the Thunderbolt gun, but also has a higher accuracy than the Thunderbolt gun.

Second, the lightning gun is ignited with a thunder mercury fire cap, and the thunderbolt gun is ignited with flint. In terms of firing method, the lightning gun has a higher ignition rate than the thunderbolt gun.

Thirdly, the Lightning Gun uses Miner's rounds, while the Thunderbolt Gun uses ordinary round lead bullets. Not only can the combination of the Mingne bullet and the rifled barrel make the rifle longer range and more stable, but the Mingne bullet is more convenient to load. The round lead bullet requires that the caliber of the bullet and the rifle must be as tight as possible, which makes it difficult to load the bullet, not to mention that the range and accuracy of the round lead bullet are much lower than that of the Minne bullet.

However, the problem with the lightning gun is that it is more logistically demanding for the troops. While the production of gunpowder was essential, the troops also needed to be supplied with sufficient thunder mercury fire caps. The Thunderbolt gun has no such problem. As long as the troops are supplied with sufficient gunpowder, it will be fine.

Therefore, the lightning gun produced by the Fuxing Society in imitation of Enfield M1853 was mainly exported to Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers, and for He Zuxian's Baomin Army, which occupied Wuchang, it was mainly supplied with Thunderbolt guns.

Of course, even if the People's Liberation Army will be able to supply the troops with sufficient fire caps in the future, the Renaissance Association is not currently preparing to provide lightning guns to the People's Liberation Army. Because even in the age of hot weapons, the white-knuckle charge is still an important factor in determining the victory or defeat of a war.

Whether you dare to fight bayonets or not, whether you can win in fighting bayonets. This question was an important condition for determining the combat effectiveness of the army until the era of the Second World War.

The white pole soldier held a cold weapon spear, and dared to engage in a white-knuckle battle with the eastern captives. Then the white pole soldiers equipped with lightning guns are naturally a combat power bonus. However, the other armies of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called nine-sided elite soldiers, and the so-called Liaodong Iron Cavalry, few dared to engage in white-knuckle battles with the Eastern Emperor. Then equipping these troops with advanced lightning guns is just sending food and technology to Dongyu.

As for the Baomin Army in Wuchang, although their fighting will was much higher than that of the ordinary Ming army. After a month's training of the military cadres of the team sent by the Renaissance Society, the military training was relatively abundant and the military skills were relatively familiar, but until they showed their courage and suzhì to fight with bayonets and white-knuckle combat, the Renaissance Society would still not sell them more advanced lightning guns.

Of course, the use of Thunderbolt guns is also a process for the People's Liberation Army to become familiar with and master advanced rifles.

On the other hand, though. The arms export business is gradually becoming an important source of income for the Society. There were basically no generals and troops in the Ming Dynasty who purchased and equipped advanced weapons, but those maritime merchants in the south of the Yangtze River were not only very interested in the steam paddle steamers produced by the Fuxing Society, but also purchased dozens of them. They were also quite interested in the rifles and artillery that the Revival Society would export.

A Thunderbolt gun that imitates a brown bass rifle costs no more than one tael of silver in the Revival Society. A lightning gun imitating the Enfield M1853 will cost no more than two taels of silver to produce in the Revival Society.

And these two types of export-type rifles. When the Fuxing Society sold the lightning gun to Qin Liangyu, it took a preferential price. Forty taels of silver for each rod. Qin Liangyu could pay for it with the long-haired rabbit fur produced by the Shizhu region with the help of the Fuxing Society. Even so, the Revival Society made at least twenty times or so profits in the course of the transaction. Moreover, the Pillar area is not currently able to produce the thunder mercury caps necessary for the lightning gun. This is again an important channel for revival to make money.

At present, the Thunderbolt gun used by the People's Protector Army is still a product given by the Fuxing Association. These rifles, like the rifles provided to Qin Liangyu by the Fuxing Society, were all low-carbon barrels forged from wrought iron. After several battles the barrel had to be replaced. In terms of these barrels, the Revival Society can make another profit.

Therefore, in a sense, the revival society's firearms armament of the white pole soldiers and the People's Protection Army is also cultivating a weapons market for itself.

The most typical example is that those maritime merchants in Jiangnan, after purchasing thousands of Thunderbolt guns (naval version of brown bes) at a relatively low price (35 taels and one shot), they soon began to submit more orders to the Fuxing Association. These orders, in addition to a large number of new guns, included a large amount of gunpowder (the quality of the revival's granular black powder was ahead of its time), guns (bullets), barrels and bayonets.

What's more, the Fuxing Society has now released the sale of artillery to Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers and Jiangnan maritime merchants. Large quantities of the Great Napoleonic and the Little Napoleonic cannons were revived and exported to them on a large scale at a very low price.

Although the caliber of these steel guns is smaller than the guns of this era and the weight is lighter than the guns of this era, because of the use of advanced steel materials, the range, power and life of these guns are better than the American artillery of the Civil War two hundred years later.

These advanced artillery, which far surpassed the times from the gun carriage to the shells, were surprisingly low in the eyes of people in the time and space of the Ming Dynasty.

What they didn't know was that not only Wang Shuhui equipped his own revival army with weapons that had advanced these weapons for two or three eras. Moreover, not only now, but also in the next two hundred years or so, the only one who can use industrial means to produce these weapons in large quantities at a very low cost is the Revival Society led by Wang Shuhui.

This is the reason that an industrialized society can make money no matter what product it sells to an agricultural society, and an agricultural society loses money no matter how much it sells to an industrial society.

Under normal circumstances, it would take only three weeks for a musketeer to complete the training. With the help of the Fuxing Society, the security forces in Wuchang not only fully mastered the use of muskets and the march of the queue in a month and a half, but also comprehensively improved the command system of the entire unit, and clarified all the orders and flags of the troops.

During this period, the security general He Zuxian used a large amount of silver in his hands to purchase a large amount of food and materials from the Fuxing Society. He Zuxian even bled heavily under Huang Bochang's Jianyì and bought two 1,200-ton Fuxing Society steam paddle steamers. The two steam paddle steamers were also equipped with corresponding troop barges.

He Zuxian was ready to load all the soldiers on the ship and transfer them to another place if things went wrong.

Of course, in addition to the five little Napoleonic steel cannons given away by the Revival Society for free, I saw the power of the flowering shells fired by these five small steel cannons. He Zuxian also spent a lot of money to purchase 20 Napoleonic steel cannons and corresponding flowering shells from the Renaissance Society.

It has been two months since the uprising broke out when the People's Liberation Army was in full combat readiness and training.

It was only at this time that the court of the Ming Dynasty learned that Wuchang Mansion, the capital of Huguang Province of the Ming Dynasty, had been occupied by a group of rebels. Not to mention why many later generations felt that the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were more capable and capable of doing things than civil officials.

There was a mutiny in Wuchang Prefecture, and the rebels occupied the city, killing all the civil and military officials and a large number of Chu royal clans. A governor, a general soldier, a prince, and a large group of various civil and military officials and clans were killed. Whether it was the civil and military officials in Huguang or the civil and military officials of the central government of the Ming Dynasty, no one knew about this matter. This matter was reported by the eunuch of Chengtian Mansion.

Speaking of which, this thing seems a bit strange to us modern people. It's just that the level of communication is lagging behind, two months have passed, and the imperial court should have a deal with this matter. But in fact, the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty were caught in the political struggle between the so-called eunuch Wei Zhongxian clique and the so-called Qingliu Donglin clique.

In the eyes of these top politicians of the Ming Dynasty, the provincial capital of a province was occupied by rebellious soldiers, and it was not as important as their political interests. Therefore, this matter was shelved for two months.

When Wei Zhongxian cleared all the Donglin Party out of the imperial court and was about to attack the local officials, the prime minister in the real sense of the current Ming Dynasty vaguely remembered that it seemed that the eunuch of Chengtianfu had reported such a thing.

Wei Zhongxian took the news from the Tongguò Dongchang and read it carefully for a while, and then fell into deep thought.

Under normal circumstances, such an important military event would be presented directly to the emperor. But the current reality is that the Emperor of the Apocalypse has more of a hobby for carpentry than a qiē. Wei Zhongxian just had the heart to talk to the emperor about the affairs of the court, and the emperor was also impatient with these things, and then he would tell Wei Zhongxian to solve the problem.

As soon as there were too many such things, Wei Zhongxian didn't dare to tell the emperor about the affairs of the court. There are two main reasons for this.

One is from Wei Zhongxian himself, he naturally likes to make his own decisions about everything. In this way, he can feel a wonderful feeling of mastering the Ming Dynasty. On the other hand, he did not really want to isolate the emperor from the government. It's that he is really afraid that he will always annoy the emperor with the affairs of the court, and the emperor will be dissatisfied with him.

No matter what later generations say, Wei Zhongxian is nine thousand years old and domineering in controlling the emperor. The reality is that the power and authority of the eunuchs are completely dependent on the emperor.

If the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who has no prince at present, doesn't like Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian will be completely finished. The legends that later generations said about Wei Zhongxian killing the emperor are actually completely unreasonable. Because for Wei Zhongxian, no matter who is the emperor, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who does not trust him, is in greater interest to him as the emperor.

However, the possibility of those civil officials killing the emperor is very high. How did Emperor Zhengde fall into the water, and how did the Emperor of the Apocalypse fall into the water later. What's going on in the Red Pill case, what's going on in the Gang Attack case. The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty in the middle and late periods were quite ruthless.

They weren't really as fearful and loyal to the emperor as they appeared. Hundreds of years of imperial power and political struggles have made civil officials lose the slightest fear of the emperor.

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian's hope that he would hold power without restraint only accounted for one-third, and the other two-thirds was that Wei Zhongxian was really afraid that he would use the government to annoy the emperor and fall out of favor.

Therefore, as for how to deal with the Wuchang problem, Wei Zhongxian must solve it himself. This is the bad side of the emperor who gives him everything.

Wei Zhongxian is not very good at dealing with local mutinies like this. Engaging in political and interest struggles is his forte. However, he still has to solve this kind of thing that he is not good at, because if this problem cannot be solved, the emperor will think that he is incompetent in governing the country, so the emperor will choose someone who can do things to replace him.

Fortunately, Wei Zhongxian has now also recruited a group of civil ministers. Soon he sent someone to find Gu Bingqian, the first minister.

Regarding Gu Bingqian, descendants recorded him like this:

Wanli twenty-three years of Jinshi. Changed to Jishi, edited, tired of the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites. In the first year of the Apocalypse, he was in charge of the affairs of the Zhan Minister.

In the second year, Wei Zhongxian took power, and he took the lead in attaching himself, and was called "mediocre and shameless" in history.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, he was also a scholar of Dongge University and joined the aircraft service. In the first month of the fifth year, the young master of the Jin Dynasty, the prince and the prince, and the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu, rebuilt the pole hall.

In September, he was promoted to a young master. After Ye Xianggao and Han Yi were dismissed, he succeeded him as the first assistant. Gu Bingqian and cabinet minister Wei Guangwei colluded with each other, excluded and brutally persecuted dissidents, and created a series of unjust cases.

Cheng Wei Zhongxian ordered Yang Lian and others to be arrested. The people of the time said: "I heard that Gu Bingqian of Kunshan is the prime minister of the country, and Yan Xiangguo is also." ("The Legend of Ma Ling)"

He also served as the president of the "Three Dynasties Classics". Since Feng Quan entered the cabinet, the eunuchs have been fighting each other, and Gu Bingqian has returned from begging.

Chongzhen first entered the rebellion case for three years, ransomed for the people, and died in a foreign land. The "History of the Ming Dynasty" included it in the biography of the eunuch party.

Gu Bingqian wrote this in "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" back then:

This person was born in Hanlin, he was knowledgeable, and he was shameless, so shameless that Wei Zhongxian didn't look for him, so he went to the door himself.

At that time, his position was the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and he was seventy-one years old, and he should retire after a few years, but this grandson was not old-hearted and wanted to go further, but the minister looked down on him and simply voted for the eunuch.

It doesn't matter if you change the court, the most shameless thing about this person is that he has done such a thing:

Once, in order to be promoted, Mr. Gu Bingqian, despite his seventy years of age, took his son to visit Wei Zhongxian and said: "I want to recognize you as a father, but I am afraid that you will think that I am too old and unwilling, so I simply let my son be your grandson!" ("I wanted to worship under my knees, but I was afraid that I didn't like this white beard, so I made the child recognize his grandson.") ”）

Gu Bingqian, born in the twenty-ninth year of Jiajing (1550), Wei Zhongxian, born in the second year of Longqing (1568). Gu Bingqian is eighteen years older than Wei Zhongxian.

Shameless, speechless.

Back then, Mingyue felt that the eunuchs were hateful and the eunuchs were shameful. But the reality is that in the political struggle of the late Ming Dynasty, neither the Donglin Party nor the Eunuch Party was a good thing, a clean thing.

Back then, Mingyue felt that the Donglin Party did not collect black money, but the Donglin Party was not only a big landlord, but also a big businessman. The land annexation and evasion of commercial taxes carried out by these people in their own capacity were the root causes of the financial collapse of the Ming Dynasty. Compared with the little money obtained by the eunuchs, the benefits obtained by the Donglin Party from land annexation and evasion of commercial taxes were much greater.

Let's take a simple example. Donglin Party bigwigs such as the first assistant Liu Yixie, the first assistant Ye Xianggao, the second assistant Han Yi, Shangshu Zhou Jiamo, etc., these people's family assets are more than one million taels of silver. The family property of Li Sancai, a cadre of the Donglin Party and a secretary of the household department, is as much as 4.7 million taels of silver, which is equivalent to a year's financial income of the imperial court during the Apocalypse.

Therefore, back then, Mingyue felt that the possibility of the Donglin Party not collecting black money was not only very low. And even if they really don't collect black money, it is also because they have saved enough money by exploiting the poor peasants and evading the state's proper taxes. People don't care about that money at all.

In fact, we can think of it this way, if it is the eunuchs who collude with the eunuchs. So Xu Jie, who was in the Jiajing period, and Zhang Juzheng in the Wanli period of Longqing, weren't they also eunuchs. The relationship between Xu Jie and the bigwigs of the celebrant eunuch, and the relationship between Zhang Juzheng and the famous eunuch Feng Bao, will not be more distant than the current relationship between Gu Bingqian and Wei Zhongxian.

Speaking of which, whether it is the Eunuch Party or the Donglin Party, they are actually bastards who absorb the blood and sweat of hundreds of millions of Chinese people and do not do their jobs to compete for power. They cannot stabilize the people and develop the people's livelihood internally, and they cannot defend against foreign invasions and protect the people. It was during the so-called Donglin Party ruling period, under the command of the so-called Qing officials and Qingliu, that the Dongyu Jurchen did not occupy Liaodong without a long drive. Aren't the millions of Han Chinese in the entire Liaodong region slaughtered when the Donglin Party was in power?

We must admit that the compilers of history books have their own ideologies. As a member of the same Donglin Party, and also a member of the Donglin Party who became a slave (the famous traitor Shui Taileng Qian Qianyi became the vice president of the "History of the Ming Dynasty" after surrendering to the Manchu Dynasty, he was a member of the Donglin Party. The famous traitor Hong Chengchou asked the Manchu Qing to revise the "History of the Ming Dynasty", he was also a member of the Donglin Party), what kind of character they were, and what kind of views they would express in the history books they compiled, it is not difficult to imagine.

Moreover, even those literati notes of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties that are used as supplementary materials are actually quite unreliable.

Literati are not ordinary people. The common people in feudal society lacked a clear ideology. The literati, who were followers of Confucianism, demanded that they must pay attention to courtesy, righteousness, and honesty.

Those literati who died without resisting the Qing Dynasty, or who committed suicide and survived, are all serious traitors. Do the things written by these traitors have reference value?

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