Chapter 212: Flintlock Pistol

Wei Liangqing and Wei Dashao knew that he was becoming more and more of the top few in the capital, and many literati and officials behind him scolded him behind his back.

But I am a high-grade gentleman. For those who are born in the pit, abducted, deceived and stolen, we Wei Dashao will not do that kind of low-level and uninteresting thing at all.

It's interesting to bully civilian officials.

Other gentlemen are squandering money and youth, and we are playing life on various occasions. Other Dashao will only spend money, and we will make a lot of money.

You don't have to be a fool if you have a relationship, and you don't have to make money if you don't earn it.

They asked themselves, he only has three hobbies, one is money, the second is beauty, and the third is to make civil officials deflated.

Especially rising like an upstart, it's convenient to have a lot of fun here.

Therefore, I can't go with the civil official positions of those "all the people in the court" in Pingsuri.

Wei Liangqing found that too many civil officials wanted to be masters, and hundreds of people secretly came to bribe.

It's easy to pit their money, they will even take the initiative to send it over, they are not afraid of themselves, but of their uncle. Wei Zhongxian

Uncle told him privately that other people have offended all over the place, and they must not offend Wang Hongyu, although Wang Hongyu's status is not high now, he has become a very important person for the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and it is also the key to the rise of everyone.

Wei Liangqing also saw Wang Hongyu's extraordinary, so there was never any unpleasantness in terms of cooperation.

This is also the reason why Wang Hongyu continues to cooperate with their uncle and nephew.

In the affairs of the imperial court, Wang Hongyu instructed Wei Zhongxian to keep a low profile, remember not to be in a hurry, and not to make enemies; Don't let Wei Liangqing compete with those people for power, let alone show who he likes, he only likes money and no one specifically deals with him.

Especially when the foreign aid is not strong, it is necessary to focus on seeking stability and slowness.

Gao Panlong must be severely punished, but until the hostile forces of the Donglin Party in the outer court come forward, the ministers who were killed by the Donglin Party will definitely take revenge before Gao Panlong Zhishi, and the Zhejiang Party and the Chu Party will definitely join forces with other parties to take action.

As for Zhu Chunchen, first do a secret investigation of him, and must not startle the snake. If you act rashly, I am afraid that the emperor will encounter accidents, don't forget that half of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have suffered accidents.

If you continue to vigorously clean up the eyeliner in the inner court, you are playing with fire~

Wang Hongyu didn't want a young emperor who supported him to die mysteriously, so he made it clear to Wei Zhongxian without subtlety.

Lao Wei and Wei Dashao have arranged it, and there is also a new brother-in-law who has gone to the management of the War Bureau.

The brother-in-law has been changed from Liu Shimin to Liu Ruoyu, in fact, this name is the name that the brother-in-law later changed himself in the previous life.

It's just that Wang Hongyu thought about making it seem to outsiders that Wei Zhongxian was always looking for trouble with him, and in order to confuse the enemy, Wang Hongyu deliberately asked his brother-in-law to change his name to Liu Ruoyu.

In this way, the Donglin Party will feel that Liu Ruoyu and Wei Zhongxian have deep contradictions, and they will not know that they are the iron triangle.

At this time, Liu Ruoyu had already taken up the post of eunuch in charge of the Inner Court Military Bureau.

The importance of this position is obvious, whether it is Wang Hongyu or the Emperor of the Apocalypse, they must firmly control weapons and munitions, so this position belongs to Liu Ruoyu.

After the meeting, Liu Ruoyu first gave a detailed introduction to his nephew Wang Hongyu about the structure, responsibilities, personnel composition, technical level, product types and production capacity of the Internal Weapons Bureau.

The War Bureau has a eunuch with a palm seal as the chief manager: he is in charge of manufacturing weapons, armor, bows and arrows, etc., firearms, and artillery. There is also a gunpowder department (bureau), which makes gunpowder, which is also managed here.

There is also a member of the eunuch of the Commander's Armory: responsible for management, writing, supervision, etc.

The number of craftsmen in the War Bureau was basically about 1,700, and at the peak it reached more than 3,000. It is a very important military handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty, which supports the military industry of the Ming Dynasty together with the ordnance production of the Ordnance Bureau, the Nanjing Military War Bureau, and the local guards, and plays a certain leading role in it.

When I walked to the production site of the bird, I saw that the craftsman was making the bird.

Looking at the firearms manufactured, it was found that the War Bureau could produce batches of high-quality guns.

However, the situation of eunuchs and officials taking the lead in greedy ink was also very serious, and the financial materials were greedy for ink, and the original output was required, so it was natural to produce inferior firearms.

Many of the guns obtained by the Ming army were of inferior quality, some of them had half the range of their power, and some of them would accidentally injure the shooters.

At this time, Liu Ruoyu strictly rectified the greedy ink and strengthened the manufacture of bird guns, tiger squat cannons and Buddha cannons.

Wang Hongyu had used a bird gun before, but he didn't kill the big traitor Fan Wencheng that time.

That gun was of high quality, but it was also a long operation process and could not be used on rainy, snowy, and windy days.

At that time, he wrote to Meng Biao, Jin Nige, and Xu Guangqi, hoping to have four improvement goals: one is to slightly expand the caliber, the second is to improve portability, the third is to increase the loading speed, and the fourth is to improve the quality of production.

These four goals are not simple.

In fact, it is necessary to make a flintlock pistol.

But no flintlock pistol, including Xu Guangqi, could be made.

Even Europe is now only producing yellow wheel guns that cannot be popularized on a large scale, and it is difficult to have reliable flintlock guns.

Wang Hongyu didn't want to engage in a transitional product like a yellow wheel gun, it had to be a flintlock gun.

In the end, Xu Guangqi had a way.

He was a scientist, especially in astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and then firearms. That is, he was very familiar with firearms, but was not a specialist in gunsmithing, and he himself could not improve it.

But he is well-connected, so he can find someone

Not for the War Bureau, the Ministry of Industry, and Fujian has gone to sea.

Not all missionaries are good at firearms, but there are other doctors who are passionate about firearms

Shuntian Mansion Cheng Bi Maokang was invited by Xu Guangqi to come over to get a flintlock pistol.

If Xu Guangqi is a scientist who is proficient in everything, then Bi Maokang is a real master of firearms.

In the early years of Chongzhen, Bi Maokang almost brought firearms technology and manufacturing to a new height.

Now he was led to this aspect by Xu Guangqi in advance.

In the past six months, Wang Hongyu gave Xu Guangqi some inspiration.

Xu Guangqi had an in-depth discussion with Bi Maokang.

The principle is that on the basis of the revolver musket, the clockwork steel wheel is removed, and a piece of flint is clamped on the jaws of the hammer, and a blow anvil is provided on the side of the fire transmission hole......

Finally, Bi Maokang made his first flintlock pistol.

Although now it is just made out and completely handmade, and the cost is very high to dozens of times that of the arquebus, but this is a historic event.

But Bi Maokang was the first person in Huaxia to make a flintlock pistol.

In the future, the production level and the strength of parts and components will be improved, and the flintlock pistol will eventually have a day of large-scale manufacturing.

It's just that if there is no Wang Hongyu, this day will have to wait until 240 years later.