Chapter 044 The key to restricting the development of firearms

Cheng Shijie faced the most intuitive problem, he was just a guard who had just been promoted by Sun Yuanhua to be a fourth-grade guard. Moreover, this garrison has not yet been reviewed by the imperial court, in fact, his own position is still an ordinary official of the five grades and thousands of households.

In the late Ming Dynasty, a strange dynasty of nobility and martial arts, even if he was a general of the third grade, he did not have the slightest right to speak in front of a gentry who had no official or position, let alone a thousand households of the fifth grade.

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly: "I'm just a small Qianhu, and people speak softly...... If I were the commander of the Dengzhou Guard, I would have a faint chance of controlling tens of thousands of troops. ”

"The lord is a big mistake!"

Song Kangnian said seriously: "The lord looks down on Jin Yousheng, but he also underestimates yourself!" ”

Song Kangnian is a warlock in the rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes are very experienced, and the swords brought by Cheng Shijie are all divine weapons, which shows that Cheng Shijie has a channel that he doesn't know, and this channel can continuously send divine weapons over.

What is it?

This is Cheng Shijie's resource.

Secondly, Cheng Shijie also has those valuable crystal ornaments, as well as delicate mechanisms (music boxes) that can emit music, which also speaks for itself.

Cheng Shijie has a group of skilled craftsmen who can provide him with a steady stream of financial support. Although it is said that things are scarce and expensive, the problem is that although Dengzhou is not small, compared with the 188 provinces of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, Dengzhou Mansion is only one of them.

It also means that once operated properly, these crystals can be placed into a large amount of money, and in this era, money and food are soldiers, and that is power.

Looking at Cheng Shijie's hesitation, Song Kangnian continued: "Jin Yousheng is not Han Gaozu, not Tang Taizong, not Liu Jinu, although he understands the general situation, takes into account the overall situation, knows the advance and retreat, and knows the gains and losses, however, he can't be in a corner with the overall situation in mind, his long-cherished wish in life is nothing more than to continue the wealth and power of the Jin family." In his heart, he did not have the ambition of enriching the country and strengthening the army, let alone the suffering of the people in the world. He is not interested in doing such a thing as awarding military merits, let alone having the courage to do it. But the lord is different. ”

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly: "What's the difference?" ”

"The lord is a thousand households in Dengzhou, but he has the hardships of thousands of military households. For this reason, the lord did not hesitate to use work for relief, and in a very short period of time, he gathered the hearts of more than 10,000 people in Zuo Qianhu. ”

Song Kangnian continued: "The lord recruited young men and robbed and killed the former thousands of households, which shows that the lord has the ability to make decisions, and he uses the method of young and strong people to vote for his name, and advances and retreats with all the soldiers. Now the military merit is ...... My lord, you are honest by nature and regard Li Min as a person, not a dog! This heart, not to mention martial arts, is among the scholars, there are few who can match it. Now that you are training Ninghai, the minister has high hopes for you, and I really hope that one day, you can raise a shelter umbrella for Shandong Lishu and the common people in the world......"

Cheng Shijie knew that Song Xiance in history, that is, the little man in front of him, some people said that he was a liar, and when he voted for Li Zicheng in Henan, he presented the "Eighteen Sons of the Main Artifact", hyped up the Li family's prosperity, won Li Zicheng's trust, and was appointed as a military advisor. Except for Li Zicheng's pre-war servant and murder, he did not have any meaningful military mind.

Some people also say that he is a genius, a peerless talent, and a wise talent, but he failed to choose a good monarch to assist. He was one of the few people in the Dashun army who could keep a clear head, and after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he, like Li Yan, was very worried about the corruption of Dashun, and repeatedly made remarks, but he did not get a response from Li Zicheng. He was very smart, and used his good Qimen Zuodao to impress Li Zicheng, and used the celestial phenomena to warn Li Zicheng and said: "The sky is tragic, the sun is dark, and the sentence should be suspended urgently." It was finally adopted by Li Zicheng, and many people were saved as a result. After Li Yan was killed, Song Xiance thought that Li Zicheng was not the master he should assist, and he became increasingly estranged from Niu Jinxing and others, and returned to the rivers and lakes to run his old business, and disappeared.

However, it wasn't until he came into contact with Song Xiance that he found out that he was actually a taxi with the world in mind, although he was not accepted by the scholars because of his short stature and ugly appearance, he was indeed a scholar and took the world as his own ambition. If you can rise to the top, you should be a good minister in the center, and you should be Li Shu's parents in a corner. He is a scholar, in this troubled era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in this troubled era when talents are withering and thousands of horses are together, he can be called a national soldier.

After opening his heart and in-depth communication with Cheng Shijie, Song Kangnian officially changed his name to Song Xiance, served as a staff member in front of Cheng Shijie, and was personally responsible for money and food, teaching, and Tuntian.

Now Cheng Shijie's family background is too thin, Zhang Ruyi is just a person who doesn't even have a reputation for showing off his talents, and the others are either illiterate people who can't read big characters, or powerful martial artists.

And Song Xiance is definitely the only talent that Cheng Shijie can handle.

As the garrison of the Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie needs to do a lot of things, first of all, the city of Zuo Qianhusuo is too small, and if the Ning Navy is placed in Ninghai City, where the veterans are full of oil, these young people are easy to get contaminated with bad habits.

Ninghai City, that is, the original Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households, can be said to have all kinds of wonders, and Wang Jing, the official of the hundred households, is a gambling stick, carrying two pairs of dice, and often pulling people to gamble. Last time Qin Wu led more than 4,000 people to attack Zuoqianhu, Wang Jing was responsible for guarding Xicheng, but Xicheng was not the main direction of attack, and this goods were directly blocked on the city wall, it is said that because he was optimistic about Cheng Shijie, he earned more than 1,600 copper coins.

Among Wang Jing's 100 households, nine of the ten people are good at gambling. There is also Shen Changhe, who is even more wonderful, likes to peek at widows taking baths, even in their fifties and sixties. But he just looked, and never dared to use force, even if he was discovered and beaten all over his head, he didn't dare to fight back.

But it's such a strange thing, in the last battle to defend the city, he didn't retreat with nine knives in his body, beheaded five levels, cut the blade with an iron knife, and finally held a bandit and bit off one of his ears.

After thinking about it, Cheng Shijie decided to place the training site on the Purple Mountain, more than 30 miles southeast of the Ning Navy, where there is the ruins of Donghua Palace during the Jin Dynasty.

With more than 2,500 people from the Ning Navy to the Purple Mountain, there was nothing here, the first thing was to build barracks, 2,500 soldiers, plus more than 1,000 craftsmen.

It took almost a month to get stone and wood from the Purple Mountain, which also greatly increased the progress of the project.

However, just after the barracks were repaired, Shen Mingyu and Zhang Yu jointly found Cheng Shijie. During this time, Cheng Shijie drilled 60 pressurized water wells for the Purple Mountain Ning Navy Battalion.

These hand-pressed wells were not brought by Cheng Shijie from later generations, but he explained the principle of pressurized wells to these craftsmen, and skilled craftsmen built these wells.

With the advent of pressurized water wells, this new way of taking water quickly gained acceptance, and the craftsmen said that they should set up a water well factory to build this kind of pressurized water well.

"Meet the General!"

Cheng Shijie's official appointment was announced half a month ago, and the imperial court agreed to Sun Yuanhua's proposal, agreed to establish the Ning Navy, and awarded Cheng Shijie the fourth rank of General Mingwei. Now Cheng Shijie can be regarded as a general.

Cheng Shijie was a little curious: "Why are you so weird today?" ”

Shen Mingyu said: "There are some things that should have been said a long time ago, but the general has been busy during this time, so we have to slow down for a while, and now that everything is on the right track, it is time to take it out and talk about it." ”

Zhang Yu said: "I can't hide it, general, we came to talk to you about the army." ”

Matters involving the army will only be big things, and Cheng Shijie naturally does not dare to slack off. "What's wrong with the troops?"

There is power in the barrel of the gun, and the 2,500 Ning naval soldiers are his biggest asset, if something goes wrong...... It's troublesome to ask.

Shen Mingyu smiled bitterly and said: "General, you seem to have left us soldiers aside, and the soldiers are quite dissatisfied, and they all say......"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "This is a matter of no way, you have come at the right time, let's gather all the officers and have a meeting together to discuss the development of the Ning Navy!" ”

The development and construction of the army is a very important issue. Cheng Shijie also wants to equip his army with an AKM, preferably at the squad level plus a bazooka, and then equip an artillery battalion and a tank battalion......

The problem is, it's not realistic.

Cheng Shijie doesn't have this ability, let alone an automatic rifle in his hand, he can't even do one, this pit daddy's travel through time and space has too many restrictions, first of all, the weight, the materials that can be carried, can only be the limit of his physical strength, from more than 50 kilograms at the beginning, to more than 70 kilograms now.

It's okay to return to the afterlife from the end of the Ming Dynasty, as long as there is no one in the place, he can go back, but he can return to the end of the Ming Dynasty from the afterlife, but he can only be in the broken house on the second floor of him.

With the arrival of the officers at the venue, this is the newly built Ning Navy Military Headquarters, the area is not large, the hall has about five Ming Hall, almost two hundred square meters, when the meeting summoned fifty sentinels, ten hundred total no problem.

Cheng Shijie took chalk and wrote on the blackboard in the conference hall: "What kind of army do you want!" ”

The officers looked at each other, not knowing what Cheng Shijie meant.

In the end, Cheng Shijie got straight to the point and said: "What do you want to develop Ning Haijun into?" ”

Zhang Yu subconsciously raised his hand and said, "Report!" ”

"Speak!"

"The better equipped the better!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the officers and said, "Is there anything else?" ”

Shen Mingyu raised his hand and said, "Report!" ”

"Speak!"

Shen Mingyu smiled bitterly: "A well-equipped army, but this is too difficult, too difficult!" The Qi family army once swept through the coastal Japanese and Mongolian Tatars, and did not taste a single defeat, but such a strong army was fed by money, and a battalion of soldiers had to pay tens of thousands of taels of silver, not to mention tens of thousands of taels of silver, where is there so much money now! ”

"That's the crux of the matter!"

Cheng Shijie said: "We don't have much money now, we can feed more than 20,000 mouths, and the silver we seized from Qin Wu has been spent, what kind of equipment should be equipped for the troops, let's talk about it!" ”

Shen Mingyu said: "But the Qi family army has one-third of the firearms, and the Qi family's firearms are so sophisticated that they are unique in the world!" ”

Zhang Yu retorted: "You don't need a firearm, a row of guns passes, and a few dozen guns explode, which is too demoralizing." What's more, we don't have many firecrackers, only a few dozen, if we build firearms, one will cost more than a dozen taels of silver, we need to equip at least 800 firecrackers to have a firepower advantage to a certain extent, and we have to leave two hundred for backup, one thousand firearms, at least 17,800 taels of silver. With this money, we might as well build a crossbow machine! ”

"Ballista!"

"yes!"

"Crossbows are cheaper than firebolts! The silver used to build a firebolt can make three ballistas, and if you want to shoot three ballistas, you can be shot and cry! ”

It was only at this time that Cheng Shijie understood why the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty did not quickly eliminate cold weapons like Western-style, and the real factor restricting the development of firearms was cost performance.

Taking the Ming Dynasty border army crossbow machine as an example, the mountain mulberry crossbow can shoot 200 steps, and the formation breaking crossbow can shoot 220 steps, and the farthest range of this era is the bird gun, which can only be 100 yards, and there is no rifling, and if the lead wants to hit the target, it depends on fate.

At that moment, Cheng Shijie was moved.

For its immature firearms, it is really better to equip a crossbow machine.

PS: I'm very sorry, Lao Cheng's body is recurrent today, he is so uncomfortable, he has a splitting headache, and this chapter has been written intermittently for at least a day. I ask you to comment, even if it is a word, it is also a support for Lao Cheng.