Zhu Youxiao also knew that in fact, this musket was not so good.

It's just that Lu Xiangsheng happens to be quite talented.

The average musketeer does not fire a dozen or twenty shots, and he may not be so accurate.

But that's the advantage of muskets.

If Zhu Youxiao wants to train archers, he doesn't know how long he will be trained before he can make a qualified archer.

The musketeer is a qualified musketeer with a little training in this way.

"Lu Xiangsheng, you recruit 6,000 people for training first, and then you will be in charge of this musket."

"But who to recruit and how to recruit, I will have a charter for you later, and you will follow my method above."

"I'll see if I can kill a few more corrupt officials, get more than two million taels of silver, and try to increase the number of muskets per month to more than six hundred."

Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Yuanhua were a little emotional.

Zhu Youxiao's path is indeed a bit wild.

However, judging from Zhu Youxiao's recent raid on officials, this is indeed a very good way.

The imperial court can only collect three million taels of taxes a year, but Zhu Youxiao searched the homes of several officials, and the silver taels found were infinitely close to three million taels.

In other words, basically a year's taxes have been received in Zhu Youxiao's hands.

In fact, Lu Xiangsheng can also understand why Zhu Youxiao is reluctant to select musketeers from the warrior battalion, the Beijing battalion, or the guards below.

Because these soldiers are rotten.

After so many years of unique military career in the Ming Dynasty, they have directly turned into some mud that cannot support the wall, and their combat effectiveness is extremely low.

These soldiers of the Ming army in various places are already familiar with the original military system, but the military system of the Ming army is backward.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao was not willing to draw soldiers from these places at all.

Instead, he asked Lu Xiangsheng to re-recruit musketeers according to his method.

Indeed, if Zhu Youxiao only needs him to train as a rifleman, then it is not so difficult for Lu Xiangsheng to retrain soldiers.

Anyway, when the time comes, it's a big deal to choose a top one from these places like Jinyiwei, or from the family soldiers that Lu Xiangsheng brought before, as a grassroots officer.

It's just that Lu Xiangsheng is a little strange.

"Your Majesty, if we look at it this way, we still lack an infantry that can withstand the first wave of attack by Ginnu in front."

"Otherwise, when these Jiannu cavalry rush up, our musketeers will soon collapse."

How could Zhu Youxiao not know such a truth.

But he turned his head to look at Lu Xiangsheng, his face solemn.

"Lu Shilang, do you think if I give you a batch of infantry now, and only for half a year, can you train them?"

"Trained so that even when they face Jiannu's cavalry, they still don't flinch and don't collapse?"

Lu Xiangsheng was silent.

It's simply not possible.

The most likely thing is that when the Jiannu cavalry really kills them, these infantry, who have been trained for more than half a year, will immediately disperse.

But since this is the case, how does Zhu Youxiao plan to solve this?

"Your Majesty, do you plan to use the men and horses of the Warrior Battalion as the vanguard?"

Zhu Youxiao shook his head.

"The people in the Warrior Camp are still useless."

"That is, let them be stationed near the palace to protect my safety, or cut down those civil officials who oppose me, that would be okay."

"Let them go into battle to fight Jiannu, that's embarrassing for them."

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

In fact...... He was also a civil official.

Lu Xiangsheng wanted to ask again.

I saw Zhu Youxiao shake his head.

"You don't need to worry about this, you just need to train the musketeers."

"As for the infantryman's problem, I'll take care of it for you."

"I will find you an infallible army to keep your musketeers safe."

Lu Xiangsheng still wanted to speak, in fact, he also had a few troops that he liked, and he thought they were very useful, and they could recommend them to Zhu Youxiao.

But Zhu Youxiao obviously had his own plans, and he didn't listen to Lu Xiangsheng at all.

"The matter on Lu Shilang's side is over, if you have nothing to do, then go back first."

"After all, this recruitment is not easy, you should go back and think more."

Lu Xiangsheng saw that Zhu Youxiao obviously didn't want to explain to him anymore, and he didn't want to ask again.

Although Lu Xiangsheng only got along with Zhu Youxiao for a short time or two today, Zhu Youxiao's image in his mind is already so tall that he doesn't know where to go.

Naturally, he didn't dare to continue to entangle.

"In that case, then Weichen retired first."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and didn't do anything to send Lu Xiangsheng to the door.

No matter how he says it, he is also an emperor, and he must have his own majesty.

The upper position should not only be gracious, but also powerful.

The combination of grace and power is the king.

After Lu Xiangsheng had already walked away, Zhu Youxiao turned his head to look at Sun Yuanhua.

"Have you prepared all the ores and utensils I asked you to prepare?"

Sun Yuanhua had just retained his position as the commander of artillery, and he was happy in his heart.

When he heard Zhu Youxiao's words, he also smiled.

"Your Majesty, the things you asked Wechen to prepare, Wechen has already prepared."

"I just don't know, what does Your Majesty want those ores for?"

"Ask less, you'll find out later."

"Yes, Wechen is too talkative."

Sun Yuanhua took Zhu Youxiao to a warehouse.

In the warehouse, there are also utensils that Zhu Youxiao asked him to prepare, as well as a large amount of ore.

And the most placed thing in it is saltpeter.

And what he wants to do today is the legendary thunder mercury, that is, the primer of the flowering bullet or even the bullet.

With such a thing as thundermercury, theoretically, Zhu Youxiao's production of a truly qualified flowering bomb will become a reality.

In other words, in fact, there are already flowering bombs in this era.

"Ming Huidian" records: The poisonous fire flying cannon is "made of wrought iron, like a general at the mouth of the lamp." There are more than ten taels of gunpowder inside. In the mouth of the lamp, the pig iron flying cannon barrel is filled with five taels of sulfur poison, and the medicine line is always bound in one place. Ignite the fire, the cannon goes off first, hit the cannon 200 paces away, explode and injure people"

This is the account of flowering bombs.

According to Weng Wanda's decision to build firearms during the Jiajing period, the poisonous fire cannon "melts iron as a child, and the medicine in the void is real, and it hurts everywhere."

The age of its invention is "covered from the previous generation and the soldiers are quite secret".

Therefore, this kind of flowering bomb appeared earlier than Jiajing.

The way in which the flowering shell is fired is to ignite the twist of the sub-cannon (flowering shell) and the fire rope of the bowl of the mother cannon.

The sub-gun twist needs to be adjusted in length according to the distance at which it is fired.

Its firing method and effect are actually very similar to the "conscienceless cannon" used in World War II later.

The problem is that this flowering bomb is not qualified.

Even if the Ming army was willing to use solid shells, they were not willing to use such flowering shells.