Chapter 9: My Arsenal
In the early morning of the next day, in the Jinluan Palace, the civil officials were still spitting spitting wildly, tearing each other apart, for those covetous official positions, the language and actions of Shenma insulting Sven were ignored, and the Donglin Party at this time was completely monolithic, united, and the muzzle of the gun was unanimous to the outside world, and the power was strong.
Zhu Jian glanced at Wang Chengen, who was standing aside, who understood it and said it with Ruan Dacheng's recital, the content of which was to impeach Wei, Cui and other eunuchs.
The Donglin Party showed disdainful expressions on their faces, and the radical ones showed anger on their faces, okay, you Ruan is bearded, cunning and big, want to pick peaches?
When Wang Chengen read Ruan Dacheng's accusation of the eunuchs attached to the Donglin Party, the Donglin Party was furious, and all kinds of eighteen forbidden words filled the hall, and the women in Ruan Dacheng's family were greeted 998 times.
Zhu Jian coldly looked at the various performances of the indignant and righteous Donglin Party members, and could only sigh that Nima was going to be put in Hollywood, and all of them could take the little golden man.
Zhongqing's family, I believe that you are all good people, real gold is not afraid of fire refining, whether it is true or false, you will know it after checking, first summon Ruan Dacheng into Beijing and then say, we are not in a hurry to do this, check it slowly, hehe, it's all right? It's okay to retreat, 88.
Zhu Jian smeared oil on the soles of his feet, flashed smoke, entered the inner hall, changed into eunuch clothes as quickly as possible, and slipped out of the palace from the side door with Wang Chengen and others, this time, he planned to go to the Weapons Bureau and the Gunpowder Bureau to hang around.
The Jin army's cavalry shooting is very powerful, the Ming army's combat effectiveness is scum, and the cold weapon is only given to the head, he can only send the musket to save his life, from now on, the arsenal is his magic weapon to save his life, who moves who dies.
The collapse of the Ming system, corruption from top to bottom, not to mention the Ordnance Bureau, the Armor Bureau and other oil and water departments, not to mention the high cost of firearms such as bird guns and Lumi guns, the quality of the barrel is so slag that people are speechless, often blow up the chamber, kill and injure the gunner, and the soldiers are so scared that they are unwilling to use it, so they should be used as burning sticks.
Now is not the most disastrous situation in the Ming Dynasty, when prices are soaring, it takes six catties of fine iron to make a bird's gun, almost more than forty catties of wool iron forging, counting the various things needed, the actual cost is at least five taels of silver, and the cost rises to six or seven taels by the officials, and in the later period, the cost of ten to more than ten taels is there.
There are those Donglin Party civilian officials who are mischievous, and Zhu Jian must have great resistance to the appointment of officials in major departments, but it is much easier to meddle in these small departments such as the Ordnance Bureau, for him, these are very fatal logistics departments, and the war is fought in logistics, so he must strictly rectify it, cut off the heads of a few unlucky people, and play a deterrent role in killing a hundred people, and he must also take advantage of the situation before it deteriorates and deteriorates, and frantically purchase iron ore and other military supplies for the accumulation.
Zhu Jian arrived at the Ordnance Bureau under the escort of a group of plainclothes people, and Lei Yin, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, had already been ordered by him to transfer a team of Jinyi Guards to arrive first, blockade the Ordnance Bureau, and put all the officials inside under house arrest.
Zhu Jian and Wang Chengen entered the Weapons Bureau under the escort of guards and plainclothes fans, and went straight to the gunsmith workshop, where nearly a thousand blacksmiths sat in the corner, looking uneasy.
"Don't be afraid, this official has come to verify some things by the emperor's secret order, and it has nothing to do with you, and it will not implicate you." Zhu Jian desperately adjusted the muscles on his face, so that he showed a harmless and pure smile.
With his words, the restless blacksmiths quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and looked curiously at the young eunuch in front of them.
Zhu Jian walked to a machine tool, picked up a made barrel, glanced at it, frowned, the barrel was too thin, it was strange if he didn't explode the chamber after firing a few shots, what a pit daddy.
He suppressed the fire in his heart, smiled, looked at the group of blacksmiths and asked, "Can anyone tell me how much fine iron it takes to make a fine bird?" I heard clearly, it is a fine bird gun, at least a fine bird gun can be used more than 3,000 times, I need more accurate data, and those who answer accurately will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. ”
Wang Chengen, who was on the side, reached into his arms very cooperatively, and took out a silver ingot of ten taels of silver ingots and placed them on the machine tool.
All the blacksmiths looked at each other, or didn't believe Zhu Jian's words, perhaps because they were afraid, and no one dared to speak out for a long time.
"Don't worry, this official has said, it is the emperor's secret order, and only some more accurate data is needed, and it will not affect everyone, if you don't believe it, you can go and see, those guys have been taken down."
Speaking of this, but still no one dared to move, the atmosphere seemed a little weird, Zhu Jian had no choice but to let a few plainclothes people come forward and forcibly take a few people out to see the officials of the Weapons Bureau who were under house arrest.
"Returning to my lordship, it takes ...... to make a fine bird," replied an old blacksmith who had been forced to go out and come back.
"Very good, the silver is yours, take it, hehe." Zhu Jian nodded with satisfaction, smiled and stuffed ten taels of silver into the old blacksmith's arms, the data that the old blacksmith said was roughly close to the data in his memory, and the estimated approximate cost was a little more than five taels.
"Thank you...... Mr. Xie. The old blacksmith was so excited that his beard trembled, this is ten taels of snowflake silver for white flowers, and he can't save it for N years, so he can marry his youngest son as a daughter-in-law.
A group of blacksmiths looked red and hateful, and regretted it one by one, they knew that in this way, the ten taels of snowflake silver with white flowers were not the old grandson's, but their own, alas, there is no medicine for regret in this world.
"How about making a good Rumi?"
Seeing that it had an effect, Zhu Jian then threw out the second question, and Wang Chengen took out ten taels of snowflake silver.
This time, a large number of people rushed to answer, and their voices were so garbled that they couldn't be heard clearly.
"Everyone, be quiet." It was so chaotic that Zhu Jian had no choice but to order an elderly elder to answer, and Wang Chengen held a pen to record on the side.
"The next problem is the Three-Eyed Gun."
In order to reward ten taels of silver, all the craftsmen were eager to try, but unfortunately there could only be one lucky person, and those who could not answer were disappointed, until Zhu Jian promised to reward all the people present with a hundred wen money, and a smile appeared on their faces.
Seeing that all the blacksmiths were relaxed and the atmosphere was lively, Zhu Jian simply asked Wang Chengen to bring some wine, meat, vegetables and other food, and set them up in the workshop, and everyone chatted while eating.
The food of nearly 1,000 people, although it is just a simple home-cooked meal, and there is not much meat, but it also costs more than 200 taels of silver.
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