The first wind and rain drifted away

"Try your best!" The emperor has spoken, and Bi Maokang naturally wants to pay attention to it.

However, his heart moved, maybe this is a good idea.

Casting artillery has always been made of mud molds, but it takes a long time to dry after the clay mold is made, and it takes about a month from the start of construction to the gun.

If it rains and snows in spring and winter, the mud can't dry, and the cannon can't be made.

"In addition, Aiqing first built a batch of bronze cannons and delivered them to Beijing for use."

Development belongs to development, Emperor Chongzhen remembered the war of the previous year, and instructed Bi Maokang.

Compared with the iron cannon, the bronze cannon is undoubtedly much more mature.

In the manufacture of cannons, in addition to naval heavy guns, bronze and brass cannons always overwhelmed cast-iron cannons with superiority.

However, the barrel of the bronze cannon is relatively soft, and when firing round shells many times, it is easy to deform, so the bronze is not suitable for making heavy guns.

However, there is no way around it.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was not an expert in weapons, he also knew that before the appearance of small steel cannons, cast iron was softer than cast copper, and the performance was insufficient, and the life and accuracy of the barrel were not as good as those of copper cannons.

It's just that copper is too expensive, and Daming is a country that lacks copper, so it has to turn to the development of cast iron cannons.

In a word, the difference between copper cannon and iron cannon is that one is a noble cannon and the other is a silk cannon.

Only Emperor Chongzhen, an upstart who came to make money quickly, proposed to use copper to make cannons, if it was in the original, the Ming would never dare to think of it.

The two brothers of Bi Maokang leaned over to receive the order, and whatever the emperor said, he just did it.

Moreover, they also knew that bronze was much tougher, and cast iron was too brittle and easy to blow up.

Next, under the leadership of Bi Maokang, Emperor Chongzhen inspected the entire military battle.

Although the Spring Festival is approaching, there are still a large number of craftsmen in the War Bureau who are sweating profusely, and their enthusiasm for work mainly comes from the generous monthly money.

Today, unlike in the past, since Bi Maokang took office as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, with the support of Emperor Chongzhen, the craftsmen's fortune has been greatly improved.

As long as people are motivated, their enthusiasm rises.

If the poor don't work hard, can they still live?

The military bureau of the Ministry of Industry has a large market and is divided into many workshops, which make military equipment and weapons such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, whips, axes, helmets, armor, bows, and arrows.

The focus of Emperor Chongzhen's inspection is mainly on the weaponry.

It should be said that professional people do professional things, but they are different.

With Bi Maokang's introduction, Emperor Chongzhen learned that this firearms expert had made a lot of reforms to artillery.

Small changes aside, big changes have two points.

First of all, the gun carriage and sighting equipment have been improved.

The gun carriage is an instrument for adjusting the firing direction and height angle of the artillery, and the Ming Dynasty did not pay enough attention to this before, and many artillery guns did not have a gun mount, but were fixed.

Some gun mounts could only adjust the angle of height and could not rotate left and right, limiting the firing range.

Most of the installed gun carriages were made of poor wood, and after the performance, the gun carriages became loose and difficult to use.

In addition, in the years when there were no sights, soldiers could only aim by experience.

The guns were now equipped with sturdy and flexible turrets, and gun gauges were installed to determine the angles between height and height.

Artillery shells have also changed from a single solid bullet to a variety of combinations of solid shells, explosive shells and shotguns.

Secondly, in terms of management and maintenance, Bi Maokang stipulated the detailed rules, the gunner should regularly maintain and repair the artillery, and it is not allowed to be idle in the open air, so as not to be exposed to the sun and rain and the gun body will be corroded.

One from the technical level, the other from the management level, a two-pronged approach, soon made a qualitative leap in artillery.

If you let a bureaucrat or an ignorant official manage these things, you will never think of it.

"The two Aiqing are loyal to state affairs, and they worry about it day and night, and they are very relieved!"

After listening to the report and seeing the actual results, Emperor Chongzhen was very happy, first verbally praised, spiritually rewarded, and then materially rewarded.

"Ciqing two, a flying fish python coat, an embroidered spring knife, and a hundred taels of Nujin."

"Thank you!"

The two brothers hurriedly knelt on the ground excitedly to thank him.

Nu Jin Bailiang didn't look at it, what they liked was the flying fish python clothes and embroidered spring knives, which were supreme honors.

Especially the embroidered spring knife after the recent reform of the emperor, it is even more difficult to find, and it is easy not to reward, especially for Wenchen.

Come to think of it, they are stained with the light of armament.

In the following time, Emperor Chongzhen rushed to inspect the relevant units in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye it was Chinese New Year's Eve.

This is a festive day, although it is a little cumbersome, but it also makes Emperor Chongzhen insightful.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the court was extremely busy.

The palace maids and the inner eunuchs greet each other from the morning, which is called the farewell of the old year.

At noon, the stewards and eunuchs of the Twelfth Eunuch, the Fourth Division, and the Eighth Bureau, under the leadership of Cao Huachun, paid respects to Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou early.

They are big eunuchs with families, and after they are busy with the affairs of the palace, they also want to go out of the palace to reunite with their families.

Of course, rewards are also essential.

After a year of hard work before and after the saddle, there is no merit and hard work, which is the proper meaning.

The other little eunuchs played drums and loud music to celebrate.

The inner prisoners wore moths on their heads, cut them out of black gold paper, and painted them with colors. Or use grass insects, butterflies, hairpins on the head, in response to the festival scene.

For these, Emperor Chongzhen, who doesn't have to do anything, is full of interest.

These traditional etiquette and customs made him quite emotional.

In the final analysis, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a Han Chinese, a serious Chinese orthodoxy, and such a royal and national is the real isomorphism of the family and the country, and the family and the country are of the same species.

There may be an absurd emperor among them, but he will not be selfish at the national level, and when considering the interests of the country and his own race, he must think of the Han people.

Because, etiquette and customs have already decided to be a family.

If you enter China, you will be in China!

It is not about entering China, but about identifying and naturalizing China.

That is to say, your language, food, clothing, clothing, customs, etc., all follow the etiquette system of China, which is called the Chinese people.

Otherwise, everything is!

After a lively day, it was Chinese New Year's Eve.

It was a real family feast.

In the Zhongji Palace, the imperial sister-in-law Zhang Yan and Empress Zhou led Tian Guifei, Yuan Guifei and other concubines on the left. On the right is the crown prince Zhu Cihong and his younger siblings.

Emperor Chongzhen, as the parent, sat in the middle.

Everyone's feast is spread out very neatly, and there are amber cups, glass cups, gold plates, and white jade bowls on the table, which is called a high-end atmosphere.

This is the royal style!

Emperor Chongzhen, sitting in the middle, looked left and right, with a smile on his face, so happy!

It's not easy, after half a year, moving left and right, killing and copying, it's finally a good year.

He didn't know how the deity had lived in previous years, but it should be impossible to think of him as being so luxurious.

He is confident in this!

Just by virtue of the character of the deity, how can he be so simple?

"Pass the meal, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner begins!" Emperor Chongzhen, dressed in festive clothes, waved his robe and shouted happily.

Suddenly, the palace maid who had already prepared was smiling, shuttling up with a plate of dishes.

The abundance of dishes is natural, and for the bitter people from later generations, the first New Year in Daming has a special significance.

What scarlet lips, bear's paws, deer antler velvets, Matsue perch...... There are dozens of things on the ground, flying in the air and swimming in the sea, anyway, what is delicious and what to eat.

In this situation, the adults are better, but for the princes and princesses on the right who have never enjoyed happiness, they are all cheering and happy.

In the past few years, how can there be such a good day!

Seeing this, Empress Zhou scolded a few words and asked them to pay attention to royal etiquette.

Emperor Chongzhen stopped it with a smile, what a big deal, a group of hard-pressed children, who doesn't eat dumplings during the New Year?

Not to mention royal?

The deity used to make the palace look like the beggar gang's main hall, and if you think about it, you know what he will do with the New Year.

As Chongzhen's eight years of lively Chinese New Year's Eve dinner passed, time slowly came to Chongzhen's ninth year.

On the first day of the first lunar month, Emperor Chongzhen held a grand court meeting.

Emperor Chongzhen, who got up on the fourth watch, finished breakfast in the Qianqing Palace, and then dressed to participate in the Zhengdan Dynasty.

The Zhengdan pilgrimage is a ceremonial court, not a courtesy meeting to deal with government affairs.

It was only after this court meeting that the Ming court began to officially take a holiday.

All yamen were sealed and closed for office.

Of course, now is not a peaceful year after all, Lao Sun Tou and King Lu Yan are still on the front line to suppress bandits, and important central departments such as the cabinet and the military department will leave some people on duty.

Because it is a ceremonial court meeting, it is a court meeting to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so the etiquette is particularly grand.

This situation is where the Department of Etiquette under the Ministry of Rites comes into play.

Jin Wuwei is majestic in the hall, from the Danqi to the noon gate outside the display of armor.

The Jinyi guard displays the general from the Dan Majesty to the Huangji Gate, and displays the flag outside the Huangji Gate, all of which are in two columns.

The pawn is located in the south of the Wenlou and Wulou to display cattle, horses, rhinos, and elephants, facing east and west.

The two of them are located in the north of Danqi to supervise the hundred officials.

At the moment of the first drum, hundreds of civil and military officials wore court dresses and waited in line outside the noon gate.

At the time of the second drum, enter from the left and right doors, go to the east and west of Danqi, and stand facing north.

At the time of the three drums, the deacons went to the middle pole hall, and Emperor Chongzhen wore a crown and ascended to the throne.

The ceremonial priest performed five bows, and after the ceremony, Emperor Chongzhen was invited to ascend to the palace.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to be a fool, fiddling with the officials of the Department of Ceremonies.

There is no way, what has been inherited for more than 200 years can't end in one sentence!

Besides, he was not willing to do so.

The defense of etiquette and the distinction of Huayi have always been the tradition of China.

If China and the West are integrated, the world will change, and the Han people will no longer be dominant.

How does this work?

At least, not in his hands.

Emperor Chongzhen got up and walked, and the ritual music followed.

Shang Bao Si held the imperial treasure forward, the guide driver guided in front, opened the curtain and rolled, Emperor Chongzhen went to the Imperial Palace to ascend to the throne, and the drum stopped.

At this time, the whip is sounded, the time is announced, the praise is sung, and the ministers are in order, and the praise officer shouts and bows, and the big music is played.

After a while, Cao Huachun, the celebrant of ceremonies, took the New Year's message written by the cabinet to Emperor Chongzhen, and the drum stopped.

"Gu Guanchen is a certain person, I meet Zhengdan, Sanyang Kaitai, and everything is salty and new...... The celebration of the end of the performance is the same as the Qing. ”

After the speech, all the officials knelt down, arched their hands to increase their quotas, and shouted Long live the emperor, long live, long live!

Waiting for the drum to sound, Shoufu Wen treacherously bowed his head, and then stood upright, and the hundred officials followed.

Then Emperor Chongzhen got up and left, the guide guide led to the Qianqing Palace, and Wen Tiren led the hundred officials to leave in turn.

After such a pass, the Zhengdan Dynasty was over, and the court began to enter a state of holiday until after the Lantern Festival.

In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen sat on a chair, and he could finally understand why Emperor Wanli and Emperor Tianqi did not attend the ceremony.

Because it's so fucking hard, there's no fun at all.

It takes two hours for a Zhengdan dynasty to end, and it takes a full four hours for the afterlife to end.

And he had to sit motionless on the dragon chair, like a fool, a puppet.

The dragon chair of the dragon pan is wide and high, the bright yellow soft jacket is cold and soft, enough to sit three people, sitting in the middle, and the sandalwood armrests on both sides can be said to be completely false.

The civil and military officials in the audience and the internal supervisors who waited for the errand felt that the person sitting on the dragon chair was noble and solemn, and he was the first person to control the hundred officials and take care of all directions.

But Emperor Chongzhen sat on it and felt that the officials in the audience had become much stranger, but in fact, the emperor was a lonely man who had nothing to rely on.

The profession of emperor is actually not easy to be!

And such a big pilgrimage, in addition to the New Year's Day, there are also the opening of the dynasty and the longevity of the holy day.

That is, three times a year.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but have cramps on his face, and the dragon egg was a little painful.

Toss!

However, considering that I am young and in good health, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, I endured it!

It's just that I don't know what to do with those elderly courtiers?

Thinking about it this way, Emperor Chongzhen felt that it was not easy to be an official.

New Year, New Weather!

On the New Year's Day of the ninth year of Chongzhen, not only the emperor was busy, but also the civil and military officials and ordinary people.

There is a proverb that says: "When Lao Tzu turns around, he doesn't feel that he is one year old again; The children clapped their hands, happy to meet the New Year again. "You can see the joy of the old and young during the Chinese New Year.

Especially the newly appointed Emperor Chongzhen, in the past year, swept away the broken settlements and gangs in the capital, which undoubtedly made the people of the capital live more comfortably.

Nowadays, although the security of the capital does not dare to say that the door is not closed at night, the road is not forgotten, but in the many cities of the Ming Dynasty, it can also be the only one for scorpions to.

These may not be experienced by the high-ranking officials, but the ordinary people at the bottom are deeply touched.

Because, these shabby settlements and gang members will always be the people.

Now, these people have heard that they have been sent by the emperor to labor reform, and they will no longer be able to harm the people of the capital.

Therefore, on the streets of the capital in the ninth year of Chongzhen, the commercial atmosphere is much more lively than before.

Accompanied by the sound of firecrackers like thunder hitting the waves, it is the shouting of selling melon seeds, selling Jiangmi liquor, and selling vegetables, which is very lively.

The people of the capital offered pepper plates, steamed cakes, and powdered soup, and went out to welcome the New Year.

During the whole Spring Festival, the people of the capital went out to celebrate the New Year and pay New Year's greetings, which was lively and lively.

As for the Beijing officials, since the Zhengdan Dynasty, the civil and military officials have gone to curb their relatives and friends.

The relatives are in the hall, and the sparse ones are posted.

The most lively thing is in front of the house of Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the road is staggered and full of people.

And some other court officials interact, emphasizing formal etiquette.

For example, East and West Chang'an Avenue, the court officials live the most.

At this point, those who don't know or don't know each other, look at the door and post; and he who does not go down to the door, or does not come to the door, that the door is sent to the door.

Some officials do not have servants at home to receive the post, so on the New Year, they stick a red paper bag on the door and write the word "receive blessing" to receive the post.

But in the world, there are always people who are happy and some people are sad.

The royal relatives and noble families who have been peaceful for more than 200 years can't be happy.

Speaking of which, it's not all Emperor Chongzhen's trouble.