A few days later, the Gun Factory presented the first fire cap rifled gun.

This is a flintlock rifled gun converted from a flintlock rifled gun, and only needs to change the design of the medicine pool to make it use a fire cap.

Yan Zheng took the new rifle and happily came to the shooting range.

He personally loaded a paper shell with a conical bullet and placed a fire cap on the ignition port.

With the pull of the trigger, there was a bang, and the smoke suddenly filled the air.

The firing rate of the fire cap gun is about 100 percent, which is equivalent to a grade higher than the firing rate of the flintlock gun.

Most importantly, the cap gun is not afraid of wind and rain, and can complete the firing in wet conditions, in rainy conditions, which arquebuses and flintlock guns cannot imagine.

Compared to flintlock gun loading, the cap gun also eliminates the need to pour black powder into the medicine pool, and does not have to remember the order in which the lid of the medicine pool is opened.

It is equivalent to simplifying the process of reloading, so that the speed of fire can be increased, and the density of fire will be higher.

More importantly, the advent of the musket gun greatly expanded the place and time of combat, the influence of the weather on the firearm was weakened, and the reliability of the musket gun in the humid environment of the tropical rainforest was far greater than that of the flintlock gun.

At this stage of the development of the rifle, it is already the peak of the front-loading gun, and the next improvement is only to go to the breech.

"This gun is finalized, this is the Type 06 rifle!" Yan Zheng smiled and returned the gun to the factory director Yi Jingang.

Yi Jingang suggested: "You can collect the newly issued flintlock pistol, and you only need to modify it, and you can easily turn it into Type 06!" ”

Yan Zheng said: "Okay! However, you still have to design another rifle to shorten the body of the Type 06 to make it more suitable for riding on horses, and you can discuss this with the military people! ”

Yi Jingang thought for a while, but felt that the king's thinking was lively, and the fire cap gun did not have the design of the medicine pool, and it was far easier to use than the flintlock pistol on the back of a bumpy horse.

"Okay! I'll study the project right away, and I'm sure it won't be too difficult! ”

Yan Zheng looked at him with a smile and said, "In the future, the front-loading rifle will come to an end, and you can try to study the rear-loading rifle!" ”

Yi Jingang said: "In the case of rear-loading, in fact, after the use of threaded gun latch, the firing range of the rear-loading rifled gun has exceeded that of the front-loading smoothbore gun of the same caliber, but the larger the caliber, the more difficult it is to solve the problem of air tightness and rifling." If the rear loading of the gun is used, there should be no problem, but the parts are smaller, and they must be more precise. ”

"You're right, but there's no way out of the front! After the installation of the advantages are obviously great, there is always a process of development, what you have to do is to unite the university and other related factories, and continue to work in this direction! Yan Zheng said with a smile.

Yi Jingang nodded and said: "Abide by the teachings of the king, we will definitely innovate and take command, and give full play to the spirit of daring to think and dare to do!" ”

Yan Zheng snorted, after having the sulfuric acid industry, he obviously had greater confidence.

After returning to the Red Room, he took out the manuscript and wrote two special decrees of the king.

One is to ask the shipyard to build a five-masted, 1,000-ton iron-ribbed wood-hulled sailboat.

After several years of exploring the type of boat, Dongqin's new sailing ship now has the function of riding waves at the bow, that is, it is slightly wide and cocked, from the bow to the stern, gradually narrowing, like a drop of water.

Yan Zheng's request to build a 1,000-ton five-mast galleon is to let the shipyard accumulate experience and build more ocean-going ships of this kind in the future.

The second special order was to increase the immigration of Luzon, requiring that 60 percent of the immigrants from the Ming Kingdom should be sent to Luzon in the future.

This special order is an adjustment made after counting the juvenile population in Dongqin.

The population of Dongqin has exceeded 800,000, and the number of children is more than twice that of adults.

The demographic structure is already very reasonable, and at this time, it is necessary to change the policy and increase the migration to the birthland.

At the same time, it is necessary to speed up the attack on the indigenous people of Luzon, to make them give up all the good cultivated and mineral areas, and only then can they begin to slowly assimilate them.

Yan Zheng did not take a loose approach to the colonies like Dai Ying, requiring only the ability to plunder resources and markets.

He really wanted to achieve the complete conquest of the colonies in terms of people and books, spiritual and physical.

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Daming.

In the past few months of Wang Yangming's enlightenment, the Ming Dynasty Hall has also been unstable.

Liu Jin had a whimsical idea and persuaded Zhu Houzhao to give an order to lose all the provincial treasury to the Beijing Division.

He was really a little genius, and he didn't have much money in the treasury, so he got all the treasury from all over the country, so that the treasury would not be full.

They can still make a lot of money from it, and only the eunuchs can think of such happy things.

The cabinet was taken aback by this incident, and they all went to the court again, saying that this move was a big taboo, and if it was opened, the world would be in chaos.

If the local treasury is gone, then the officials' money will not be able to be distributed, and if they can't be distributed, they can only think of their own way, and they can only think of their own way, and they can only fight the people's ideas.

The eunuchs in various places will also embezzle a large amount of silver taels. The treasury can be sucked up in one gulp, but it will make the land erosive, and it will no longer be able to suppress famines and rebellions.

Zhu Houzhao was approved, not only accurately, but also deliberately asked Liu Jin to do it!

He is also a little genius, seeing that the cabinet is of the same caliber, he chooses to trust Liu Jin, and thinks that he can also have more generous finances to enjoy by bringing money from all over the world to Beijing.

This move chilled the ministers, Li Dongyang resigned again, and Zhu Houzhao was still not allowed.

After Liu Jin got the will, he immediately began to do a big job, and asked the Imperial Horse Supervisor to send a large number of eunuchs.

He also openly accepted bribes and began to demand that officials from all over the country make the pilgrimage to Beijing and give him "meeting gifts."

In addition, he also sent his cronies to serve in the local area to collect money for them.

To the shock of the court, Liu Jin set up another office factory, which was personally led by him, and Jingshi called this an expert factory.

This expert factory is a supervisory organization like the East Factory and the West Factory, and Liu Jin's move is because the East Factory is in charge of Qiu Ju and the West Factory is in charge of Gu Dayong, and he can't be reassured.

So he had the audacity to set up an expert factory. After Zhu Houzhao learned about it, he didn't say anything.

After the coexistence of the East Factory, the West Factory, and the Insider Factory, they also began to compete with each other.

Wu Dengxian, a Kang man in southwest Jiangxi, and others were framed by Xichang for dragon boat racing, saying that they made dragon boats without authorization and were all killed and robbed of their homes.

This incident made the gentry and commoners of Southern Jiangxi very dissatisfied, coupled with the loss of the treasury to the Beijing division and the greed of the eunuchs, which led to the increasingly difficult life of the people in the Southern Jiangxi region.

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At the beginning of May of the second year of Zhengde, near Damoshan in Nangan.

More than 2,000 angry men gathered in a valley, and on the high platform in front of them was an old man, humming and singing.

The two men led by them were waiting anxiously on the side, one of them was named Zhang Shiwang and the other was Huang Yong.

They gathered here, of course, not to pray to God and worship Buddha, only to see the men below, all with a sickle with a long wooden handle in their hands, if you study carefully, there may be "made in Eastern Qin" on the top.

They are going to do great things, great things to rebel!

The eunuchs came to show off their might in Southern Jiangxi, purely bullying the wrong people.

The tenants in the Southern Jiangxi region were most fond of rebellion, forcing the Ming Dynasty to set up a Southern Jiangxi General Army.

The reason for this is that the tenants in Southern Jiangxi are living too miserably, and the arable land in the mountainous areas is already scarce, and they also have to face the exploitation of the landlords, and if the government changes slightly, they will have to go bankrupt.

Take this rebellion as an example, Nankangzhi County is secretly supporting these tenants and letting them rebel against the landlords and eunuchs.

After a while, the old man suddenly opened his eyes, took out a talisman to burn, and threw it on the ground to ignite the straw.

As the straw burned out, a blood-red word "Ji" appeared on the yellow mud ground.

"Ji! Lucky! Lucky! ”

"Daji!"

Zhang Shiwang said happily: "Fellow villagers, life can't go on, these years are not good, and the officials have repeatedly urged them to pay!" At the moment, there are only two ways, either go home and wait to starve to death, or follow me and kill the dog official and the evil rich man together! ”

"Kill the dog! Kill the rich man! Huang Yong immediately echoed.

More than 2,000 men responded with angry expressions.

With a wave of Zhang Shiwang's hand, they walked towards the outside of the valley in a chaotic manner.

Half a day later, they came to the outside of Changning County.

In response to the people in the city, they quickly entered the city, first ran to the county government to kill the county officials, and then cut down the eunuchs in the county seat.

The fall of the county seat is not trivial, and all parts of Southern Jiangxi are shaken, and the bandits in the mountains are also in tandem.

More than ten days later, Xunwu was broken, and the new commander-in-chief of Southern Jiangxi was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, sticking to the capital city of Ganzhou, and letting the chaos rage.

The Tai Mo Shan Uprising in the second year of Zhengde in history finally broke out!

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