At this time, far away in the South Asian subcontinent, in a Portuguese colonial castle called "Goa", Bumig sneezed several loud sneezes in a row.

"Priest, you're really lucky this time." One officer said, "This time your 'Queen' is most likely not a real pirate, but an English privateer." ”

"Damn, I knew, I knew it was them."

Bumig said hatefully, "These damned Anglo barbarians. ”

"Rest assured, Father, the Governor has already taken the fleet to clear them." "It is believed that the robbers will soon be taken back to Goa and hanged," the officer said. ”

"But what's the use of that?" Bumig sighed, "My companion can't come back. ”

With that, Bumig set his sights on the rough sea outside the city, and in the ocean in front of him, he had spent a lot of money to hire a few scholars from Lisbon and sank to the bottom of the sea with the "Queen".

Now that the scholar has sunk to the bottom of the sea and the money has been spent, Bu Mig is really at a loss.

He now doesn't even have the money to buy a ticket to Macau on a Portuguese merchant ship.

Thinking of this, Bumig said to the officer, "Marcus, let me paint you a portrait." ”

"Really?" The officer was overjoyed and said, "Did God send a parable to the priest today?" ”

Bu Mige said: "But I will not paint for you in vain, you have to help me buy a ticket to Macao, and then help me find a box of books in various subjects, physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, theology and other subjects, and it is better to find some publications related to physical chemistry." ”

"No problem, these are minor issues."

Marcus said, "It's all wrapped around me." ”

With that, Marcus went to collect books.

Bu Mige sighed, what a good thing.

……

There are many good things, and Chongzhen also has the same sigh.

Since the official document of the imperial court abolished the craftsman registration, craftsmen from all over the country can move freely, and the problem of craftsmen who once plagued the Ming Arsenal has been solved.

Due to the huge number of arms orders given by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Zhan Yangzhi also greatly expanded the production capacity of the arsenal, and even the upstream and downstream factories supporting it were also greatly expanded.

Zhang Dagou, who is good at playing kitchen knives, also opened a branch factory in Nanjing.

This Zhang Da dog does not use kitchen knives, and specially equips Lu Mi with bayonets.

At present, the Daming Arsenal has hundreds of production workshops and more than 3,000 craftsmen.

There are more than 100 upstream and downstream factories supporting it, some provide iron, some provide copper, some provide beeswax, some provide gunpowder, some provide wood, and so on.

A huge military-industrial complex is taking shape.

The Lumi gun, the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Hongyi Cannon are working overtime to produce.

In addition to the production of firearms, the Daming Arsenal has also been improving weapons and equipment.

The performance of the Lumi gun is better than that of the bird gun, but it is also a arquebus, and the arquebus has a fatal flaw compared to the flintlock pistol, that is, it cannot be lined up in a dense formation, and its fire output density is far inferior to that of the flintlock gun.

In view of this, it is inevitable that flintlock pistols will replace arquebuses.

Therefore, Chongzhen has been asking the Daming Arsenal to hurry up the development of flintlock pistols.

After more than half a year of development, the first flintlock pistol was finally made.

Zhan Yangzhi, who got the news, hurried to Guozijian and reported the good news to Chongzhen.

After Chongzhen got the news, he didn't even care about the preparation for the entrance exam of Guozijian, and directly handed it over to the crown prince Zhu Cihong, Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing.

Then he came to the foot of Guanyin Mountain with a team of retinues.

The Military Industrial Park is located at the foot of Guanyin Mountain in the northeast corner of Nanjing.

After all, Chongzhen is a traverser, and he still understands the most basic concept of urban scale, so he did not set up the heavy industry area in Nanjing or the upwind area, but in the downwind area.

Chongzhen rushed to the arsenal at the foot of Guanyin Mountain, and then saw the first flintlock pistol of the Ming Dynasty.

But after seeing this flintlock pistol, Chongzhen was dumbfounded, this is a revolver musket, isn't it a flintlock pistol in the real sense at all?

"Holy One, this flintlock pistol ......"

Zhan Yangzhi originally wanted to show his merits, but when he turned his head, he saw that Chongzhen's face had collapsed, and he didn't dare to say anything more when he swallowed the second half of the words back into his stomach.

However, the "chief engineer" in charge of research and development, Bu Jialao, was unconscious, and said proudly: "This is called a steel wheel musket, which is also the most advanced in Europa, and it is no less than a heavenly god for you Ming Dynasty people, and the Ming army is equipped with this kind of musket, and it will be able to easily defeat the rebels and the invading barbarian army." ”

The interpreter in charge of the translation stammered and translated Portuguese into Ming Mandarin.

Chongzhen didn't bother to pay attention to Bu Jialao, this guy didn't even learn half of his grandfather old Bu Jialao's skills, let him make a flintlock pistol according to the sketch, and he could actually make a wheel musket that was behind the times, this thing depends on the clockwork, with the material of the yellow steel of this era, it is easy to break down.

If Seiko were to build the clockwork yellow steel, the price would be ridiculously high.

Chongzhen asked Zhan Yangzhi with a dark face: "Zhan Weng, didn't I give you a sketch?" ”

Zhan Yangzhi turned his head and asked Bu Jialao: "Bu Jialao, where is the sketch that the emperor gave you?" ”

After listening to the translation, Bugarao waved his hand again and again: "No, no, no, the sketch given by the emperor is useless, and such a flintlock pistol can't be made at all." ”

"!" After listening to the translation, Chongzhen couldn't hold back the anger in his heart.

"France had already made a flintlock pistol fifty years ago, how could it not have made it?"

"Rumors, this is rumors." Bugarao was extremely dismissive, "There is no such flintlock pistol. ”

Chongzhen said: "Whether you can make it or not, can't you just process it according to the drawings?" ”

"Nope." Bu Jialao said suddenly, "I am the chief engineer of the Daming Arsenal, how to make guns is my specialty, Your Majesty the Emperor, you just need to listen to me." ”

Chongzhen almost burst into foul language, I listen to you!

But Chongzhen still held back, and he still needed this criticism at this stage.

After all, this guy still has a hand in making artillery, and after nearly half a year's efforts, the artillery-making process of Hongyi cannon has basically been standardized.

At present, the standardization project of the tiger squat cannon is being promoted.

At the same time, some improvements were made to the structure of the Tiger Squat Cannon, mainly to change the opening to a straight barrel.

So I can't drive this guy for the time being, but the development of the flintlock pistol can't be handed over to him anymore, and he has to find another person to be in charge of this matter, but I don't know who to turn to for a while.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen missed Tang Ruowang more and more.

If only John Tang were here, he could make a flintlock pistol.

If he really can't find someone else, I'm afraid he will have to make it himself.

At that moment, Chongzhen said to Bu Jialao: "Very good, the flintlock pistol has been made, you should go back to the Tiger Squat Cannon Factory to improve the manufacturing process of the Tiger Squat Cannon." ”

"Silver." Bugarao said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, the promised reward is silver. ”

"Give it to him." Chongzhen said to Wang Chengen with a dark face, "Wang Daban, give him fifty taels first, and then tell him that the remaining fifty taels will not be able to be given to him until after mass production." ”

Bugarao took the money and left with a grunt.

Chongzhen said to Zhan Yangzhi again: "Zhan Weng, you call me the craftsmen who used to make flintlock pistols with Bu Jialao, and all of them are called, I have something to ask them." ”

"Yes." Zhan Yangzhi received the order and quickly found more than a dozen craftsmen.

I saw that these dozen craftsmen were all elderly, but they were all healthy.

Seeing Chongzhen, more than a dozen craftsmen hurriedly knelt on the ground: "The grass people are waiting to knock on the saint." ”

"Get up." Chongzhen shook his hand, pointed to the revolver and asked, "You made this?" ”

"Back to the saint, the villain is responsible for rolling the pipe."

"The villain is in charge of drilling."

"The villain is in charge of straightening."

"The Gun is made by a villain."

"The steel bars are forged by villains."

"The runner and the board machine and other small objects are filed by the villain."

More than a dozen craftsmen replied one after another, and they actually had their own division of labor, which was very good.

"Good, good." Chongzhen nodded happily and said, "From now on, you will follow me to create a musket that my Ming Dynasty has never had. ”

"Huh?" More than a dozen craftsmen looked at each other.

Zhan Yangzhi, Wang Chengen, Hu Guozhu and others were also dumbfounded.

Only Zhu Cijiong was eager to try, and he also wanted to follow his father to build firearms.

Chongzhen said to Hu Guozhu, Wang Chengen and others: "In the next month, or even two months, you will have to live in the arsenal with me." ”

"Holy Lord, the great ceremony of the country's eunuch?" Wang Chengen asked in a low voice.

"It's fine." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "It will take half a month for the official documents of the imperial court to be sent to the various political envoys, and then wait for the students from the provinces to go to Nanjing, at least two or three months, which is enough." ”

If all goes well, a flintlock pistol should be built in two months.

It has been a year and a half since March last year, and during this time, Chongzhen is either fleeing for his life, or fighting, or intriguing with the Donglin Party.

After being busy for so long, I can finally free up my hands to click on the tech tree.

Chongzhen added the first technology point to the flintlock pistol, which was also the right choice.

Because the flintlock pistol is definitely an epoch-making weapon, once the flintlock pistol is equipped with a large number of troops, supplemented by a powerful artillery unit, it is enough to make the cavalry from the main battle arm to the auxiliary arm.

Since the advent of the flintlock pistol, it has become wishful thinking for backward civilizations to defeat advanced civilizations.

The traditional craft of the nomads, or barbarians, has changed from "beating grass valleys" to "singing and dancing".

……

At the same time, Dolgon also returned to Beijing in "triumph".

It was said to be triumphant, but Dorgon put gold on his face.

This southern expedition was not a big tactical loss for Jiannu.

The hardest hit this time were the blue flag and the blue flag, but these two flags were not the main force of the Eight Banners in the first place, and the yellow flag and the white flag, which were the mainstay of the Eight Banners, actually did not hurt their muscles and bones.

But from a strategic point of view, Jiannu was a fiasco this time.

The biggest strategic goal of this southern expedition was to destroy the Ming Dynasty in World War I.

Even if the Ming Dynasty cannot be destroyed at once, the northern defense line of the Ming Dynasty must be destroyed.

But now this strategic goal is completely bankrupt, in the Huanghuai line and the Ming army fought for more than half a year, the Ming army's Xuzhou defense line is immovable, and after this battle, the Ming army's Huanghuai defense line is completely formed, Jiannu wants to launch the next war of annihilation I am afraid that it is far away.

And what makes Dolgon's nest even more angry is that

Not only has the biggest strategic goal not been accomplished, but the strategic goal of retreating to the next best has also been achieved.

After realizing that there was no hope of capturing Xuzhou, Dolgon decisively changed his combat objectives, replacing the destruction of the Ming Dynasty in World War I with the destruction of the Ming military presence in Shandong, and removing the flank threat of Northern Zhili.

Of course, by the way, hit the grass valley and make up for the losses on the battlefield in Xuzhou from Shandong.

After the Duoduo army entered the territory of Yanzhou, they wantonly burned, killed and plundered, and robbed nearly a million people and a large amount of grain, grass, livestock and goods.

Especially the ransacking of the Qufuyan Holy Mansion, it was really a wave of blood.

The wealth accumulated by the Yansheng Mansion for hundreds of years was all returned to the two white flags.

In fact, just the harvest of the Yansheng Mansion was enough to make up for the losses in the Battle of Xuzhou.

Duoduo knew that there was an allusion to the rich and rival country, but he lacked a concept of it, and it was not until he robbed the Yansheng Mansion that he finally knew what it meant to be rich and invincible, and the Yansheng Mansion was really rich and invincible.

But the harvest of Jiannu only stopped there, and there was little military gain.

In the face of the Jiannu who was pressed by the army, Wang Jiayan, the governor of Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, and Hu Xinshui, the commander of the Shandong military affairs, retreated to Mengyin and Linqu respectively, and could not hold out.

The Duoduo army tried their best to transport the Hongyi cannon, and finally blasted away the Mengyin City, but Wang Jiayan took the Ming army to retreat to Yishui before breaking the city.

After a few battles, Jiannu was a little unbearable.

Not only the two red flags, the two blue flags and the two yellow flags, but even the two white flags have also produced a war-weariness, in the final analysis, the soldiers of the Eight Banners are also people, they have been fighting since the beginning of the year, not to mention that they have been fighting for more than half a year, the key is that they have not achieved a hearty victory, and it is impossible not to be depressed.

Aware of the danger, Dodor reported it to Dorgon.

Dolgon had no choice but to abandon the second goal and go straight to the class.

However, before withdrawing the troops, Dolgon robbed the remaining strong women and children in Yanzhou and Jinan Mansions, and executed all the old, weak, sick and disabled, and then returned to Beijing with nearly a million people and a large amount of grain, livestock and goods, and the whole team was pulled out for more than 100 miles.

Because I brought a large number of women and children, I walked very slowly.

From the end of July to the beginning of September, I finally returned to Beijing.

At this time, the little emperor of Shunzhi had already brought the Manchu and Han ministers who stayed in Beijing to greet him outside the Chaoyang Gate.