Chapter 182: Rifled guns

Sister, who cursed my brother?

Zhu Jian rubbed his itchy nose and cursed in a low voice, and put a red cross on a list with a red cross, a red cross representing a head falling to the ground.

After the end of the Shanxi encirclement and suppression battle, Song Xiance, Sun Chuanting and other generals delivered their meritorious deeds to the Beijing Division, and Wang Ziyong and other captured leaders of the people's army, large and small, numbered more than 100 people.

These people, whether they are stubborn to the end or crying out for submission, the end is the same, all of them are pulled outside the city and beheaded, of course, before the beheading, a vigorous sentencing meeting was held to publicize to the people all kinds of heinous crimes committed by the people's army.

In order to enhance the effect of fooling the people, Zhu Jian also let people spend money to hire a few old sisters from the kiln in other places as trustees, they came to the stage one after another, a handful of snot and tears to complain about the various crimes committed by the people's army against the whole family, grandparents, parents, brothers and brothers were brutally killed, and he and his sister were brutally killed by all kinds of beasts, inhumane, and miserable in the world, until the arrival of Wang Shi, defeated the evil people's army, and rescued them from the fire pit, thanks to Wang Shi, thanks to the court, and thanks to the wise and martial Son of Heaven.

This unique sentencing conference in Beijing once became a fun talk after tea and dinner, lively for a while, Zhu Jian had a lot of opportunities, there was no time to worry, Shanxi encirclement and suppression war, the people's army is really broken, all kinds of leaders were almost a pot, Gao Yingxiang and other big leaders and many leaders died in the war, for the time being, it can be quiet for a year and a half, the shock is that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong slipped away again, he had to admire the two of them are really Xiaoqiang who can't be killed, luck is not good, Maybe this is God's nemesis for him, right?

After cutting off the heads of the leaders of the people's army, the next step is the liquidation of some incompetent officials who abandoned the city and fled.

Officials who defend the city until they die in battle are commended, posthumously awarded all kinds of nicknames, anyway, it doesn't cost a penny, Zhu Jian is generous, what is loyal and brave, righteous and brave, the family can also get a fairly generous pension, some of the lost battles, can't hold the city and run away, it is understandable, but they were removed from their official positions, and the officials who ran away without even beating them, no matter how big your official position is, will be taken into the edict prison for interrogation by the brocade guards, and then pulled out of the city after enjoying the big punishment.

Anyway, the final confession is up to Jinyiwei, and Jinyiwei is just a tool in Zhu Jian's hands to clean up the inside, these confessions will inevitably implicate some innocent officials, causing them to lose their official positions and ruin their fortunes, cutting off the wings of the Donglin Party by any means, and supporting their own people to ascend to the throne is the strategic policy of the court set by Zhu Jian within the Imperial Party, and all the officials of the Imperial Party are working towards this great goal.

Of course, it is said that it is unscrupulous to cut off the wings of the Donglin Party, in fact, it is not really messing around, but carefully using various incidents or something as an excuse to make a dignified knife, but the action is very slow, little by little, the action is too big will inevitably trigger a strong backlash from the Donglin Party, and it will make them lose their vigilance if they don't move.

When he was busy with these things, the elites of the Academy of Science and Technology finally brought him good news, the first rifled gun was made, because the quality of the steel has not completely passed, more than a dozen barrels were scrapped, and the drill bit was broken more than a dozen, and it took a month to produce one, which can be described as a lot of hard work, high cost, low efficiency, and the conical warhead is very easy to get.

After test firing, the maximum firing range was more than 700 meters, and the effective killing range was about 320 meters, which was about 200 meters different from the original historical famous Mini front-loading rifle, but the effective killing range of more than 320 meters was enough for the ancient military war that still used a large number of cold weapons, at least Zhu Jian was satisfied.

Before the smelting of steel reached the standard, this kind of hard-working, time-consuming, costly, and seriously low production of front-loading rifles was only produced about 200 pieces, which were specially used by the snipers of the hunter battalion, so the name sniper rifle was not a step in the real sense, but Zhu Jian was so capricious.

Breech-loading sniper rifles are the key research goals of the elites of the Academy of Science and Technology, all arsenals are still mainly engaged in the production of breech-loading rifles, and the workers rushed to work day and night to make 1,000 breez-loading rifles to Cao Bianjiao's wolf battalion, which made Li Xin and other commanders red-eyed, but the wolves were more and less meaty, and there was no choice but to continue to wait for the next batch of guns to be made.

Zhu Jian's main work now is not only to focus on military scientific research, but also the people's livelihood, the common people have food to eat, clothing to wear, and naturally they will be stable, when the time comes, let Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong fool around, the common people who have hope in their hearts will naturally not go with them to play the kind of headless adventure game, the people's army into Shanxi, did not climb high as the original history, and immediately can build an army of tens of thousands, dozens of people's army, there are nearly 100 people at the leader level alone, but all add up to more than 30,000 people, this is the best example.

In addition to allocating special funds to build roads, water conservancy reservoirs, and other facilities for the convenience of the people, Zhu Jian also exempted or exempted taxes and forced labor, distributed some rice seeds, potato seedlings and other crops for free, and also gave the people some buffaloes, iron ploughs, and other agricultural tools as much as possible.

In the era of backward science and technology, the population is the productive forces, several times the people's army and the mountain kings on the hills, a total of 50,000 or 60,000 young people were captured, these young men are free labor, under the threat of the whips and swords of officers and soldiers, use labor to redeem their own mistakes, if they are well reformed, they can only be released and returned to their hometowns after five years, and some die-hard guys who have repeatedly taught can only do hard labor all their lives until they die of illness and exhaustion.

There are many sources of free labor, prisoners who were arrested for adultery and criminal crimes, prisoners who were detained and taken out of prison for corruption and deduction, and tribal soldiers captured by Cao Bianjiao's occasional crossing of the sea to harass the rear of the Jin army, etc., were all taken to do hard work, in Zhu Jian's words, the rice of the Ming Dynasty could not be used for nothing, not to mention the prisoners who had no human rights, if they wanted to fill their stomachs, they had to work hard, and use man-hours in exchange for a bowl of rice, otherwise, wait to starve to death.

Soon after the end of the battle of Yangquan Pass, the imperial military division Song Xiance led the army to return to the dynasty, the armies returned to their respective stations, the Royal Guards continued to receive new military training in the barracks, together with Gao Jie and his wife, after the couple entered the palace to face the saint, they were ordered to form an independent battalion of 3,000 royal guards, and the Royal Guards were trained together.

The trust and reuse of the Son of Heaven made Gao Jie and Xing Xian grateful, kowtowed and thanked, and vowed to sell their lives to the Son of Heaven, and kill all the remnants of the people's army such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and the couple had no choice, Li Zicheng was their nightmare, he was still alive for a day, and the couple's hanging hearts could not be put down.

In the dead of night, Zhu Jian didn't rest, just stood by the window lattice with his hands in his hands, looking at the southeast direction.

"What is the emperor thinking?" The empathetic Concubine Tian Guifei put on a cloak for him, took his arm and asked softly.