After accepting Lao Zhu's solicitation, Li Yan packed up a little and went to Henan.

However, he has no official position and no position, just as Sun Chuanting's staff, assisting Sun Chuanting in doing things.

And he has been in Henan for so long, and many times he has come forward to deal with officials and clans, so he knows the situation in Henan very well.

In the whole of Henan, there are almost no good officials who are loyal to the monarch and the country, after all, under the rule of the anti-thieves, there can be a few good officials, and the real good officials have long been killed by them.

Therefore, after Li Yan came to Henan this time, the strategy formulated for Sun Chuanting was also very ruthless, and the target directly included nearly seventy percent of the officials in Henan.

Under such a large-scale killing, in just over a month, Henan's officialdom was almost emptied.

Officialdom is the first step, and the second step is to do it to those wealthy families, this time with Li Yan here, Sun Chuanting directly exempted himself from the investigation, and directly arrested and killed people.

It's just that they are dealing with these people, and they have encountered a little trouble, and there are many big clans who are unwilling to wait for death, so they choose to resist stubbornly, which has brought a lot of losses to Sun Chuanting.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting did not have any compassion, he was originally just arresting people and raiding his home, but now he has changed to anyone who resists, and directly beheads all over the house, under such a cruel means, although it is inevitable that there will be some innocents, but it also suppresses those wealthy families who want to resist.

According to this progress, it is estimated that it will be more than enough to complete the rectification of Henan in five months.

And this kind of killing and rectification is actually very harmful to people's livelihood.

But Lao Zhu didn't shout to stop, at this time, if he didn't make a ruthless and thorough rectification, even if Daming was rescued by him, it would definitely not last too long.

However, Lao Zhu is not blindly killing, while letting Sun Chuanting kill people in Henan, he also made many policies to restore people's livelihood.

For example, in the Ming Dynasty, we vigorously promoted various advanced technologies on Tiangong to improve agricultural output.

Another example is to directly release the things researched by the Civil Weapons Bureau, including soap, glass, sugar, matches, and other things that can improve life.

Of course, Lao Zhu did not release it all at once, but released it little by little.

After all, there are all kinds of people, there are traitorous businessmen, and naturally there are many businessmen who are loyal to the monarchy.

Lao Zhu's initial goal was to give these merchants to rely on the support of the imperial court to expand rapidly, and then quickly fill the gap after the murder of those wealthy gentry.

In this way, in the case of people's livelihood and commerce going hand in hand, after the war, there was a faint hint of prosperity in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the people's livelihood is developing, but the military Lao Zhu has not relaxed in the slightest.

After all, there is still an emperor Taiji in the north who is ready to move, and wants to fight to the death with Daming, in addition to him, there are also overseas countries waiting for him Daming to visit cordially and friendly.

These things cannot be separated from advanced firearms, so up to now, military research is still the top priority of the Ming Dynasty.

Or it can't be regarded as research, it can only be regarded as development, after all, after having a full set of knowledge, what Bi Maokang and Song Yingxing need to do is just find the materials, and then build the real thing according to the above content.

It's not too difficult for them.

After all, with Lao Zhu's full support, as long as Da Ming has it, they are not lacking.

Even if Da Ming doesn't have it, with Zheng Zhilong here, he can buy it from overseas at any time, and they will not be lacking.

Therefore, with the guidance and knowledge of this system, the two of them are like hungry sponges, quickly absorbing knowledge, and then growing rapidly.

And in the process of their growth, things such as yellow powder and mercury thunderate were also easily studied by them.

With these things, the Minne rifle that Daming had just updated was quickly eliminated, and replaced by a new breech gun, the Chasebo rifle.

The Chasaibo rifle uses a paper shell lead bullet, which is different from the previous bullet stuffed into the muzzle, the loading method of the Chasebo rifle is to be loaded from behind, and you only need to load the paper shell bullet from the back to fire, which is somewhat similar to a modern rifle in terms of loading method.

And its effective range, which reached an astonishing eight hundred meters, was slightly farther than the Migne rifle, and even more striking was its rate of fire.

Compared with breech guns, the biggest advantage of breech guns is the rate of fire, the rate of fire of the Chasepol rifle has reached an astonishing dozen rounds per minute, compared with the Minie rifle of two or three rounds per minute, the rate of fire of the Minie rifle is simply a fraction of that of the Chasebo rifle.

In addition, the breech gun has one of the biggest advantages, that is, it can be loaded with a bayonet at the muzzle.

In this way, if the musket has no bullets, it will not be reduced to a burning stick.

In fact, according to the knowledge obtained by Bi Maokang and Song Yingxing from the book, the best bullet for the Xia Saibo rifle should be made of brass.

Bi Maokang and the others tried it and found that brass bullets were indeed the best choice, with greater power, greater lethality, easier reloading, and a faster rate of fire.

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But even with this kind of advantage, in the end, Bi Maokang and Song Yingxing still chose paper shell bullets.

No way, it's not that they don't want to use copper, but the overall productivity of Daming, some can't keep up.

One of the most important is that the mining speed of ore has kept pace with the consumption rate of the Arsenal Bureau.

After all, their Armament Bureau has built not only muskets, but also many artillery.

After the yellow powder was developed, the development of explosive flowering shells was put on the agenda by the Ordnance Bureau.

The principle of the initial flowering bullet is not complicated, that is, the shell is filled with gunpowder that can be exploded twice, which is a bit similar to the submunition bomb, and after landing, the shell explodes directly, with a large killing range, and the power is obviously much stronger than that of ordinary live ammunition.

The reason why there has been no flowering bomb before, in addition to creativity, is that the power of gunpowder is insufficient, even if the flowering bomb is made, the power of the explosion is too small, and it is basically difficult to have any lethality at all, and the gains outweigh the losses.

And now after the appearance of yellow powder, the power of gunpowder can barely reach expectations, so Bi Maokang made a flowering bullet.

And considering that there may not be too many Ming city defense battles in the future, Bi Maokang also directly produced several high-mobility light artillery pieces according to the appearance in the book.

After seeing the results, Lao Zhu directly ordered the production of a batch of these artillery.

Thanks to Song Yingxing's research on steam engines, these cannons were built very quickly, but most of these cannons were made of brass, so after building these cannons, Daming's copper was obviously insufficient, and in addition to copper, other ores such as iron and lead also began to have obvious gaps.

Even if there is yellow powder to assist in mining, the mining speed of ore has been greatly improved, and it is obvious that it will not be able to meet the needs of Daming in a short period of time.

In the face of this situation, Lao Zhu could only let the newly established shipping bureau buy ore from overseas on the one hand, and improve the treatment of miners on the other hand to recruit a large number of miners.

In addition, Lao Zhu unified the taxes of private mines, and only collected one, compared to before, although the current tax seems to be heavier, but there is only one, compared with before, it is less.

And Lao Zhu also specially stipulated that mine owners can use ore to deduct taxes, and the more ores, the more taxes will be deducted.

If you can mine enough ore, you'll be exempted from mining taxes for the entire year.

Although such measures are not a good idea, they can definitely promote the production of various ores in a short period of time, and at least supply the needs of the Ordnance Bureau, it is not a problem.

Of course, these are only stopgap measures, and the management of both salt and mines is chaotic these days.

Although the previous group of people has been cleaned up, as time goes by, the latter group will sooner or later follow in the footsteps of the previous group of people, continue to be corrupt, and eat away at the assets of the imperial court, so after going through this chaos, Lao Zhu will definitely have to discuss with the ministers of the six ministries and try to come up with a good system to manage the salt and iron industry.

After all, if the Ming Dynasty develops according to the science and technology of the first industrial revolution, the Ming Dynasty will definitely usher in changes unseen in a thousand years.

In this change, Lao Zhu, as the current helmsman, must be cautious and not make a mistake, otherwise he is wrong now, and with the development of time, Daming will take a detour because of his mistake.

Although at present, Lao Zhu, who came into contact with him for the first time, is also a little unpredictable about what the future of the science and technology society will look like.

But fortunately, Lao Zhu, who has been emperor twice, is already very experienced in being an emperor.

As long as you lay a good foundation for Da Ming and become the strongest overlord in the world, and then let Da Ming follow the tone he set, as long as the general direction remains the same, then there will be basically no problems.

He learned the lessons of the early Ming Dynasty, and now he no longer intends to set the same rules for future generations as the previous emperor Ming Zuxun.

If the hearts of later generations change and do not implement them, then even if the rules are good, they will be useless, but will become a shackle to the emperors of later generations.

Therefore, this time Lao Zhu will not set any dead rules, but the foundation must be laid.

The foundation here is not science and technology and military power, but more agriculture, education, medical care, etc., which are the foundations of people's livelihood.

After reading the history of the first industrial revolution, Song Yingxing and Bi Maokang may only see the technology in the book.

But what Lao Zhu saw was a world of all-round development, and the development of science and technology in the first industrial revolution did not come from one person or one institution, but the result of the collision of countless people's knowledge and creativity.

Both of these things need to be learned.

The world of the future is destined to be a world of science and a world of knowledge, so universal education should be the top priority, and this matter must be carried out even if it is difficult.

Because only in this way can the Ming Dynasty prosper forever, and take 10,000 steps back, as long as the education of the whole people is popularized, even if the Ming Dynasty has a few bastard emperors in the later generations and buries the Ming Dynasty, the rising forces in the future generations must be the people of China and the Han Dynasty.

This is the real way to longevity!

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