Through this incident, Apocalypse quickly increased his influence and prestige.

Because before this, his sense of existence was not very strong, he was either playing with wood, or lying on the hospital bed, and even the folk once circulated the rumor that "I only know that there are loyal and virtuous, but I don't know that there is an emperor".

Fortunately, Wei Zhongxian was a eunuch, and there was no way to usurp the throne, otherwise, it would not be impossible for the country to change its surname.

At the same time, the imperial power was also consolidated, and Jinyiwei and Jingying were bound to be more loyal.

The power of the eunuch party has been hit to a certain extent, at least its influence in the palace will definitely plummet due to the impact of the Hakka being cut off, and it should not have enough strength and courage to challenge the imperial power for a while.

In this case, Apocalypse no longer wants to hide it like before, and is ready to start implementing some of the ideas that have been planned.

The Apocalypse issued two holy decrees, and after the two teams sent the eunuchs out of the imperial city, they entered the outer city from the inner city, and then went out of the capital from Yongding Gate, all the way south.

However, soon after they left Beijing, they split into two routes, one went straight to Baoding Mansion, and the other continued south to Guide Mansion in Henan.

Because they were carrying the will of the apocalypse, they went to invite two old ministers out of the mountain, namely Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli.

As long as you have some understanding of the history of the late Ming Dynasty, you basically know these two people, and Tianqi has also read several historical novels of the late Ming Dynasty before crossing over, so he is naturally no stranger to these two people.

Now is the time to employ people, and the time for Jianyu to enter the prison is getting closer and closer, so it is a waste to let these two people care for the elderly at home.

Gaoyang County, Baoding Prefecture, where Sun Chengzong is located, belongs to Beizhili, and it is more than 300 miles away from Beijing.

Due to the proximity to Jingshi, Sun Chengzong, who also cared about the government in his heart, had heard about the arrest of the Hakka family, but he didn't know that the Hakka family was dead and his home was raided.

But even so, this is also a rare good news for him.

As an emperor, he knows better than many people that Banzai is fortunate to this lowly nurse, but he didn't expect the Hakka family to be tortured by Jinyiwei, Banzai not only did not stand up for her, but also let Jinyiwei lock her up, which is really incredible.

And when the eunuch suddenly came to his house and read out the holy decree of the apocalypse, Sun Chengzong was even more shocked.

So, he couldn't help but ask, "How is the Hakka family?" ”

This matter was no longer a secret in Jingshi, so the eunuch did not hide it, and immediately replied: "Lord Sun, this Hakka has hanged himself many days ago. ”

"Fear of sin?" Sun Chengzong was shocked and died like this?

He immediately asked, "What about Wei Zhongxian?" ”

"Grandpa Wei was ordered to be grounded for one month."

Sun Chengzong was even more shocked, the Hakka family had committed such a big crime, and they all hanged themselves in fear of the crime, and Wei Zhongxian was only punished with such a painless punishment?

Thinking of this, he had no intention of staying in his hometown anymore, so he immediately packed up and followed the eunuch to the north into Beijing.

……

The War Bureau, the Apocalypse, who had already dealt with the matter of the Hospitable Clan, stepped up its visit here.

At this time, the appearance of the military battle bureau can be said to be very different from the first time the apocalypse, and the expressions of the craftsmen, in addition to awe, are more grateful.

Because the Apocalypse guaranteed their treatment, no one dared to exploit them blatantly anymore.

More importantly, the Apocalypse also gave them hope that those who performed well could change from lowly craftsmen to civilian status, which would be much freer, and future generations would no longer be restricted by the imperial examination.

In addition, as long as you have excellent skills, you can still be an official, who would dare to think of this before?

Banzai deliberately created a position for craftsmen to be promoted: engineer.

Engineers are divided into three major grades, namely: junior engineer, intermediate engineer, and senior engineer.

Each major grade is divided into first, second and third grades, such as junior engineers, first-class junior engineers, second-class junior engineers and third-class junior engineers.

The third class is the lowest, and the first class is the highest.

Therefore, engineers can be divided into nine levels, with the third class junior engineer being the lowest, and the first class senior engineer being the highest.

The lowest third-class junior engineer is the ninth grade, the second-class junior engineer is the eighth grade, the first-class junior engineer is the eighth grade, and so on.

The highest first-class senior engineer can reach the fifth grade, and the position is already comparable to that of the sixth department, or the same knowledge of the local government.

Although there is still a big gap in terms of substantive power, in the eyes of ordinary people, such a high grade is definitely an unattainable official, and I dare not think of it in my life.

And this is not just to say, in the past few months, more than 200 people have been renaturalized, and more than 50 people have been evaluated to become engineers.

Among them, there are 36 third-class junior engineers, 13 second-class junior engineers, and 3 first-class junior engineers.

This is only the first review, so their position is not fixed, as long as the performance is good, there is still a chance to be promoted, and the same is true for others who have not been evaluated, as long as they work hard, they will have a chance.

Today's apocalypse has arrived, and it is ready to provide them with a new promotion channel.

Because these months he has been very concerned about the production in addition to the quality of the flintlock pistol.

Since the quality is strictly controlled, it will be taken to Beijing to test the gun, so the problem is no longer big.

However, the output has been unsatisfactory.

Now there are more than 3,000 craftsmen in the War Bureau, and it took nearly five months to make 2,000 flintlock pistols, which is really too inefficient.

Of course, at the beginning, there were not so many people in the military war bureau, only more than 1,000, and the people in the back slowly returned after learning that the policy was good.

But even so, it is too slow, on average it takes a few months for a person to build a gun, and this is still on the basis of providing some invented hydraulic machinery, otherwise this speed will be even slower.

According to this efficiency, if you want to build 100,000 guns, or even a million guns, then you don't know if it will take the year of the monkey.

As an emperor with the soul of a later generation, this speed apocalypse can't stand it, and from the perspective of his later generations, it is naturally not difficult to see the problem.

From the barrel to the buttstock, every part of each gun must be carried out by the same person, and after it is built, it must be marked with its own name.

This can certainly play a role in monitoring quality, but it severely limits everyone's efficiency.

Because it can strike iron, it is not necessarily fast to roll the barrel, and it is not necessarily efficient to roll the barrel and drill the barrel.

There are also flintlock machines, wooden butts and other components, all of which have different technical requirements, and no one can guarantee that they are ahead in every aspect.

If the iron is fast, let him strike the iron, he will only play better and faster.

If you can roll the barrel, let him roll the barrel, and it will definitely get better and better, and the other parts will also work together in the same way, and then assemble them in a unified manner.

This kind of assembly line operation, the efficiency is improved by more than one and a half points, and it can also ensure that the produced firearms are more uniform as much as possible, because different people each create a complete gun, and the error will definitely be a lot larger.