Zhao Yu knew that he couldn't accomplish these things even if he was tired, and he had to set up a team to assist him in his work. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The next day he transferred personnel from the Imperial City Division to set up the Preparatory Office of the New Army and began to work, and did not ask the provincial ministries to handle it. Speaking of which, this imperial city division was originally a civil official establishment, not under the management of the three ya, but directly under the emperor's close ministers, and most of its heads were eunuchs. His duties were twofold, spy and escort.

It is said that the military system of the Song Dynasty was that the Privy Council was in charge of the military machine, and the three yas were in charge of the army. The main person in charge of the palace guards in the three yas is the Zhu Banzhi of the front division of the palace, and the imperial city division itself is not an army, but there are many talented and brave people in it, which are the most courageous soldiers selected from the army, and the total number is about three or four thousand. Some officers were also used. This setting is to let the Imperial City Division and the Imperial Front Division restrain each other and prevent changes.

While defending the Imperial City, the Imperial City Department also undertook the security duties of some government agencies, and was responsible for part of the guard work, and the responsibilities were more detailed. First of all, all the gates of the Imperial Palace are guarded by the Imperial City Division, and the tokens and door numbers entering and leaving the Imperial Palace are also issued and managed by the Imperial City Division. In the imperial palace, the guards around the emperor all belonged to the Imperial City Division, some were military attaches and eunuchs, and they were generally very close to the emperor and brave people.

In addition, there is the setting of three guards, these people are the children of the officials' families, and most of them are also responsible for ceremonial tasks, but because they are close to the emperor's side, the selection is still very strict. For example, the guards who stood on both sides of the palace during the last dynasty were required to be the concubines of the harem or the children of officials who were appointed as observers and bachelors of Hanlin or above.

The second function of the Imperial City Division: to spy on the people. Its predecessor was the Wude Division established by Taizu, and at that time he sent people to spy everywhere, even as far as Sichuan. It is responsible for monitoring the army, reconnoitering public opinion, monitoring the activities of officials, and guarding against enemy spies. Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty changed its name to the Imperial City Division, and later issued an edict prohibiting the Imperial City Division from going out of the capital to carry out activities.

The personnel of the Imperial City Division are also divided into two parts, one part is called a personal subordinate officer and is in charge of the guards; The other part is called the family officials, also known as the chazi, these people are in charge of all parts of the capital, down to the flower street and willow lane, up to the government ministers, to listen to the big and small news, the number of people has also grown from dozens of people at the beginning to more than 7,000 people at the most. However, they are only responsible for investigations, and generally do not care about specific cases, so they cannot infringe on the relevant judicial organs. The people and criminals it arrested had to be transferred to Kaifeng Prefecture for processing, and they had no jurisdiction or prison, so the possibility of perverting the law was much smaller, and their reputation was not as good as that of Jinyiwei, Dong, and Xichang in the Ming Dynasty.

However, after Zhao Yu came to this world, how did he know what these messy departments were doing, and the organization of Xingchao was not sound on the way to escape, so most of them were famous. After he became the emperor, he put all the people in the original Weiwang Mansion and the Inner Mansion under the control of the Imperial City Division, and at the same time broke the original structure, the guard work has been taken over by the Imperial Guard, and the spy department is still under the Bureau. The general secretary office and the officials who were originally compiled by the Senate Department were left by his side, and the name was changed to the Imperial Front Office, which was responsible for the writing work.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Imperial Front Office, there were only three people, Lin Zhiwu, Cai Qiao and Cai Ruoshui, and later transferred Jiang Zongjie, Chen Zhishi, the eldest son of Chen Zeweng, and the old five Zhuang Gongservants of the Zhuang brothers. These people are either children of a family, or an official eunuch, with family backgrounds, and some knowledge, and they are also cautious in doing things. But he missed the good time and failed to participate in the imperial examination, and he was not able to get an official position, so he was just an ordinary scholar.

So that later, Zhao Yu wanted to take advantage of the time of the judge to arrange for them to be officials in various ministries or decentralized places, but it was not easy to do it, and later set up the Military Aircraft Department, and Zhao Yu sent Lin Zhiwu and the other three to train there. But after a period of time, the three of them could only do some copying and writing chores because of the problem of fame, and they felt that it was not interesting to ask to come back, and Zhao Hao's affairs gradually increased, but they agreed because of the lack of trustworthy people.

So at first, it was just a group of soldiers who followed Zhao Yu to join the army, the secretary and help the officials, and at first they only assisted him in handling all kinds of letters and official documents, and even when there was a shortage of manpower, he had to do some errands, move and carry, and take care of the emperor's daily chores. However, with the increasing power of his power, the scale and organization of these 'handy' personnel have also expanded, so Zhao Yu set up a special department for these little whites - the Imperial Front Office, which belongs to the name of the Imperial City Division. According to the current statement, the Imperial Front Office is equivalent to the President's Office, this department is not high-level, but it is dangling in front of the emperor every day, and it can be called a close minister.

Zhao Yu divided the Imperial Front Office into four rooms: one room was responsible for security work, assisting the commander of the escort army in formulating security plans, arranging travel routes, and contacting the prefectures and counties and garrisons to assist; The second office is responsible for classifying and sorting out the official documents and recitals sent from various places, sending them up and down, archiving them for safekeeping, and drafting edicts; The third office is responsible for political, economic and intelligence business, and makes preliminary analysis and judgment upon receipt, and contacts relevant ministries and provinces; The fourth office is responsible for surveying the geography, rivers and minerals of the world, mapping and monitoring astronomical meteorology; There is also a senate room, but there is no suitable candidate for the time being, so it is in name only.

Functionally, the Imperial City Department is not only the General Staff Headquarters, but also the Special Intelligence Bureau, the Organization Department, the Supervision Department, the Ministry of Finance, and the National Development and Reform Commission. In this way, Zhao Yu was able to penetrate his control into all aspects of the imperial court through this Imperial City Division, which completely served him, and the Military Aircraft Department, especially the key personnel arrangements. It can be said that as small as the appointment and dismissal of a county Cheng, he can effectively manage it, because there is already a large amount of manpower to do a good job of detailed personnel inspection, whether it is his personal ability, future development, family situation is already more important, nepotism has been figured out, which is comparable to the political trial of the Celestial Empire.

Under this system, the execution is very efficient, and the work is done in one go, and there is a great way to concentrate on doing big things. In times of crisis, it is also possible to deal with it decisively, without having to wait for the bureaucracy to do what it does. However, the excessive concentration of power is not without its flaws, and if it goes wrong, it is a big problem, because the entire immune system of the empire can be out of order. But at this time of life and death, Zhao Hao can't take care of much.

Now that the establishment of a new army is imperative, Zhao Yu immediately mobilized all the forces of the Imperial City Division. First of all, Jiang Zongjie, the director of the fourth room, immediately looked for a suitable venue in Qiongzhou according to his own requirements; Then he ordered Lin Zhiwu, the head of the first room, to select suitable soldiers with Ni Liang, the protector of the army; Cai Qiao, the director of the second room, contacted the military department to select the training officer.

He also ordered Hao Yuntong of the General Department to allocate a special fund of 500,000 yuan from the inner treasury to prepare the construction camp and prepare military uniforms, equipment and other needs. As for compiling teaching materials and supervising the production of weapons, Zhao Hao could only do it himself, he first made a list of the books and materials needed, and asked the book offices in each room to collect and sort them out for later use, and he could only do the supervision of weapons production by himself......

After Zhao Yu arranged all the affairs, he came to the studio of the Tampo Pavilion, the originally spacious room is now a little small, only two cannons occupy a large part of the hall, and more than 20 muskets of various types on the gun rack also occupy a wall. He walked over and brushed them one by one, the guns were of all kinds, including models, samples, and many more were defective products that had failed.

Zhao Yu picked up a gun at the head of the platoon, which was an early arquebus, weighing more than 20 pounds, and it was also the first musket he tried to make, which was manufactured using traditional methods. The spear fires half a double buckshot that can penetrate iron armor within 100 paces. It is basically consistent with the parameters recorded in history, but the disadvantages are also the same, not only the accuracy is poor, but also relatively cumbersome, it must be used on a fork bracket, and can only be used to deal with the enemy in the same dense formation with a salvo in a dense formation.

While arquebuses were 'ranged' weapons to stop charging cavalry, the most lethal was the arquebus that fired the gunpowder, which had to be kept smoldering before and during the battle, and easily extinguished in stormy weather, so arquebuses were of little value in mobile and night combat. The most fatal flaw of the musketeer is that it is slow to reload, which affects the rate of fire, and is easy to attack, which greatly affects the use of muskets, and has to rely on the cover of other classes to fight.

Because the arquebus was simple to manufacture and the existing technology could support it, despite its many shortcomings, he tried to improve it and make it smaller, but the results were not satisfactory. Too much charge is easy to blow up, less power is not enough, although he installed a crosshair still has a low hit rate. And due to the poor mechanical level, it is difficult to achieve accurate coordination between bullets and firearms, so they have to leave a large tolerance, so that when shooting, the bullet is pushed by gunpowder gas in the chamber of the gun, bumps and runs forward, and when the muzzle of the gun, it is really not certain which way to jump.

After many improvements, at a distance of 50 paces, facing a target three feet wide and six feet high, the hit rate was still less than 50%. This achievement really made Zhao Hao unacceptable, and also thought that in the early days of the birth of the musket, it was also a helpless choice to choose to line up and shoot to fight, anyway, everyone was holding the gun flat and firing together, although it was A, maybe it hit B on the same level. And Zhao Hao couldn't withstand such consumption and torture, so he simply abandoned it.

The failure of the trial production of the arquebus made Zhao Hao first set off a boom in mechanical and smelting transformation, after all, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools! After obtaining qualified materials and special machinery. He knew that he could not make modern firearms, so he chose the flintlock pistol, which was more advanced than the arquebus, which was also a weapon that had been tested in many wars in modern armies.

The flintlock pistol originated from the invention of the watchmaker, and later after continuous improvement, it used the flint on the hammer to hit the steel plate, producing sparks and igniting gunpowder, and the Chinese people called it "tap musket" at that time. First of all, compared to traditional arquebuses, flintlock pistols play as usual in windy conditions, and the success rate of firing is higher. In addition, there is no need to carry an open flame, which is not easy to expose the target at night, and the shooter no longer needs to carry a fire rope several meters long with him, thus reducing the burden on the soldier.

What's more, flintlock pistols are easier to reload, have a higher rate of fire, and are safer than arquebuses, allowing shooters to line up and face the enemy in a line-up tactic. At the same time, with the popularization of bayonet and hollow phalanx tactics, the British infantry could already confront the best cavalry in the world at that time without falling behind, relying on the flintlock pistol in their hands.

Zhao Yu completely copied the most 'new' flintlock pistol in accordance with his memory, of course, this is only structural, not the slightest change, after all, now using Song ruler, Song Jin, the imperial system, the metric system has no shadow. The first sample gun was four feet five inches long, weighed eight pounds and six taels, and had a caliber of half an inch, with a butt made of basswood, a barrel and firing made of iron, and other accessories made of wrought copper.

During the test firing, the charge Zhao Yu also completely imitated the way in the record, using a fixed paper-wrapped bullet and a lead projectile. The steps are more complicated, in general, first flat-end the musket, open the flintlock powder tank, bite open the bullet pack with your mouth, pour a little gunpowder into the powder tank, and then stand the gun on the ground, load the gunpowder and bullets from the muzzle, compact it with a strip, and then hook the trigger to shoot. Of course, it was not a one-time success, and after several adjustments, the firing mechanism was properly run-in and the first bullet was successfully fired.

Sure enough, the flintlock pistol weighed more than half of the arquebus, and its firing range increased to more than 150 paces, but the hit rate did not improve significantly, and there was still a gap between the record. So Zhao Yu made five flintlock pistols according to the sample gun, and adjusted them while trying to shoot. One is to find the right load, and the other is to test the fatigue resistance of the barrel and firing mechanism, until all five guns are scrapped, and the first flintlock pistol is left with the one on display as a souvenir, but enough data has been collected for improvement.

Subsequently, according to the collected data, five more experimental guns were built, and bayonet holders were added to carry out the experiment again. Perhaps the gunner has mastered the technique, and the hit rate can reach 70% in 100 steps. The average life of the barrel is 500 rounds, and the firing mechanism begins to decline after firing 100 rounds, and the ignition rate is less than 50% after 300 rounds.

To this extent, Zhao Yu thought that it could be used in actual combat. The only thing that still displeased him was the firing speed, which still did not reach the recorded average of three rounds per minute. Later, the New Zealand Maori method of loading was adopted, and instead of compacting the gunpowder through the bar, they directly pierced the ground after loading, and sent the projectile into place with the help of inertia. As a result, after trying for a long time, only Ni Liang, who had the strongest hands, did it.

"Well, how long is his brain, why can't I figure it out?" Zhao Hao looked at the last gun on the gun rack, it was obviously still a half-finished product, but he sighed and muttered......