It is said that Jinyiwei stole the blueprints, but Li Luo Qianhu did not hesitate to expose two secret strongholds as a cover, and finally returned home safe and sound.

When the old father saw that his son had come back safely and with a smile on his face, he naturally knew that he had succeeded. When asked about the details, Li Luo naturally knew everything and said everything, but after finishing speaking, he found that his father's face was a little strange.

"Father, what's so strange?" Li Luo is still a little involved in the world in the end.

"If your father didn't guess wrong, I'm afraid that Zhang Hongbin's guy deliberately released water this time, otherwise let alone exposing the two strongholds, I'm afraid that all the strongholds of Jinyiwei in Shaanxi will be exposed, and you may not be able to get this drawing. Even if you are lucky enough to escape Shaanxi, you may not be able to return here alive. Old Man Li said very strictly.

"But this doesn't make sense, if I were Zhang Hongbin, how could I give the drawings to others casually if they involve absolute privacy?" Li Luo was a little puzzled.

"Wouldn't you just show the drawings to the craftsman?" Old man Li gave a pertinent opinion.

The result was naturally sent to the special craftsman of Jinyiwei to view, and the result was that the drawings were real, and the fire gun designed according to this drawing was far more powerful than the original fire gun of the Ming Dynasty, and the most rare thing was that the reload speed was increased by more than three times.

Seeing this result, Li Luo and Old Man Li didn't know what to say, what was Zhang Hongbin thinking, why would he allow these hostile elements to bring out such an important firecracker?

"Well, now there is only one explanation, that is, in his hands, there is a better fire, so this kind of lagging behind is given to Da Ming? Yes, it should be so, this drawing is a bargaining chip that represents Mr. Xu's family and has nothing to do with Daming, let's not go down the road of Mr. Xu! "Old Man Li gave the most likely answer after more than an hour.

This is the only explanation, but between countries, it is often the case that everything is used. Could it be that just a drawing can stop us from continuing to look for Old Man Xu? Li Luo couldn't believe it.

"Perhaps, he has already seen our hearts?" Old Man Li said a little sternly.

Well, Jin Yiwei and the emperor are not of the same mind, and they need a credit in exchange for the emperor's trust and support, but at the same time, with the character of the emperor now, no one can say how long this trust can be maintained. Therefore, a smart person, especially when the owner no longer trusts himself, should leave a way back for himself.

If you continue to take the road of Old Man Xu, then one of the back roads is equivalent to being cut off.

"Did he think of it himself, or was there someone superior around him?" Li Luo frowned and muttered.

"It doesn't matter anymore, what we need most urgently now is to send this drawing up, in exchange for a period of trust and support, and then maximize our authority and influence to a high enough level. In this way, even if the other party intends to remove us, we have to weigh it. We have no intention of being an enemy of the new monarch, our Jinyi Guard will always be the emperor's personal soldiers, but it is definitely not a tool, we are flesh and blood. Old Man Li gave a summary.

In the following time, the drawings and samples were quickly delivered to the hands of Chongzhen in the capital.

I heard that it was Xu Guangqi and Jinyiwei who should cooperate with the outside and finally stole the drawings, and after hearing the parameters given by the commander of Jinyiwei, Chongzhen immediately asked people to test the target. As a result, he was very satisfied, even a little flustered.

In his opinion, with such strength in hand, not to mention those rogues and thieves, just the Mongols and Houjin Tartars, they have to obediently bow down and be subordinate! Because the Ming Dynasty now not only has the Franc cannon and the Hongyi cannon with defensive power, but also has such a powerful firearm that is not inferior to a strong bow.

Give him half a year, armed with 300,000 firearms, and he will definitely be able to sweep through the domain!

Well, when I looked back and calmed down, I suddenly realized that I still didn't have any money...... It is also a very depressing thing to have drawings and no money to manufacture, but the cost given by the Shenji Battalion is fifty taels of silver per rod. I asked if it could be less, only that the power would decrease, the durability would decrease, and the overall power was ten times more powerful than the old-style firecracker, but after cutting corners, it was only three times stronger.

But thankfully, after cutting corners, it only costs twenty taels of silver per rod.

It's 60% cheaper, as long as you're not a fool, you know how to choose, okay, it's actually Chongzhen who said he has no money.

I squeezed 200,000 taels of silver in the household department, and made up 300,000 taels of silver myself, totaling 500,000 taels of silver, deducting 20% of the loss rate, I had to make 20,000 firecrackers, and at least 10,000 firecrackers were armed! As for the other 10,000 firearms, they are used as a backup for the firecrackers, after all, the Ming Dynasty's firecrackers are easy to explode after a long time, but don't drop the chain at a critical moment.

As for why the loss rate is as high as 20%, this is the norm, regardless of the craftsmanship of the craftsman, it is 20% loss. This is still the capital, if the local artisan households are only afraid of the loss rate of more than 35%. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, this loss rate has been stipulated in this way, and it is obviously impossible to increase it, after all, in the case of artificial system, it is difficult to ensure that all the firearms are qualified or even excellent.

It's just that they don't know that on the Salvation Army's side, if the pass rate is less than 98%, the chief engineer's salary for the month will be deducted, and other craftsmen will be deducted from half a month's salary. If this is the case next month, then everyone will be expelled. For Zhang Hongbin, Lang Fei is seeking money and killing people!

It's not that he hasn't given a full salary, and the salary is even more generous than that of the Ming Dynasty, and he dares to stretch out his claws in such a situation, he doesn't mind chopping it directly.

As for the Ming Dynasty...... Whatever you have to do......

Build, not to say that you can build it, Chongzhen collected a lot of craftsmen, and finally increased the monthly output to 1,000 guns. There is no assembly line, and each craftsman is independently built to build a firecracker, which greatly reduces the efficiency, especially when the craftsman masters the complete process, the nightmare of the Ming Dynasty comes.

One of the reasons why Houjin can enter the customs is pervasive spying and bribery.

Artisans, especially those who can produce powerful firecrackers, are definitely the ones they are courting. At this moment, Houjin has not yet respected Confucianism, there is no need to pay so much attention to the division of buying Shinong industry and commerce, and what is practical can be used, and there are no taboos.

After three months, the first batch of 3,000 musketeers began to be armed and put into service.

At this time, the time had entered the fourth year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1631 AD.

Da Ming did not mean to gather all the fire guns to use, in fact, some people have already mentioned that fire guns can be thrown by different archers, even if they use the three-stage attack invented by Mu Wang Ye (Mu Ying), three thousand people are enough to fight a large battle. At most, what is needed is to add some melee infantry to the flanks and behind the firecrackers to increase their defense.

Chongzhen obeyed the advice, and naturally agreed, in fact, he also felt that it was indeed inefficient for thousands of firearms to be crowded together.

As a result, the 3,000 men only practiced about three rounds of live ammunition, and then began to rush to the battlefield with the troops of the local guard station. The imperial court was unable to provide more live-ammunition exercises, and the daily consumption of lead bullet and gunpowder was astronomical, and the imperial court had no money.

Before this firearm battle, the Ming Dynasty had hardly used firearms to deal with the Liukou. One is that the artillery is too expensive, and the guns are too bad, so it's okay not to use them, and the other is that the local guards don't have much money and can't afford good guns, so they are mainly melee combat.

Now the 3,000-strong Verbal Fire Gun Army, with the Tiger Squat Artillery, began to clear the bandits around Beizhili, but the result was a complete victory.

Before the arrival of March, a total of more than 30 gangs of thieves and thieves were exterminated, and a total of 50,000 thieves were killed. All the leaders are young and strong, and there are no old and weak women and children, which shows that this result is definitely not a good one. In fact, we have to see who is in charge of commanding the troops, but the commander of this firecracker army is Lu Xiangsheng, one of the famous generals in the late Ming Dynasty.

Abandoning literature and following martial arts, Lu Xiangsheng quickly won the recognition of the martial artists with his personal charm and fair treatment.

What is rare is that he deducted military salaries very limited, and left a lot of silver for the soldiers. The soldier got the money, and he was able to eat enough, so he naturally died.

After almost a month of purging, Lu Xiangsheng also made a name for himself, and Chongzhen said that he was very optimistic about him.

At the same time, it is necessary to expand the army under his command to 50,000 men, including 5,000 firecrackers, and let him go south to exterminate the rogues. Lu Xiangsheng naturally received the order, but just looked at the remaining tens of thousands of troops who were barely armed, even the cattle could only smile bitterly.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of firearms and tiger squat artillery, and the army still has a certain combat effectiveness.

Insufficient equipment can be made up with bamboo, and the most important thing is that in the previous process of exterminating the thieves, a batch of weapons and equipment have been confiscated, which can be made up.

At the beginning of March, Lu Xiangsheng was different from history, but he was appointed as the military governor of the three provinces in advance, comprehensively supervising and exterminating the rogues in Jiangxi, Hubei, and Hunan; Hong Chengchou also received 5,000 firecrackers, responsible for exterminating the thieves in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Liangguang. The strategy of the Ming Dynasty has changed, no longer from north to south, but from south to north. I think Chongzhen also learned that the main economic income of the imperial court is Jiangnan, and there must be no problems there.

In fact, not long ago, Jiangnan stopped or delayed the transportation of this year's tax revenue on the grounds that bandits hindered transportation, which is the fundamental reason.