If the gods really invented the machine gun, the court didn't pay attention to it, but the father-in-law paid attention to it.

The court doesn't make it, but the father-in-law makes it.

The court doesn't give a reward, but the father-in-law gives a reward.

Whatever you want, your father-in-law will give you everything, except for the piece of meat in the lower crotch and the good one.

"Is there a self-generated object?"

My father-in-law couldn't wait to see what the self-generated gun was, if it was really an artifact such as Maxim and Gatlin, he would buy it out and mass produce it without saying a word.

But Guo Jujing shook his head and said that there was no physical object.

He told Gonggong Wei that he had made a short stop in Shandong when he was heading north from the southern capital in the 37th year of Wanli, and was introduced to him by two local officials who believed in God, and met Bi Maokang, who was a salt inspector.

Bi Mao Kang is a Jinshi in the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, and once served as the imperial history of the right and the governor of Shaanxi.

According to the system of this dynasty, there are only four people in the world who patrol the history of salt and imperial history.

One is two Huai, one is two Zhejiang, one is Changlu, and one is Hedong.

Bi Maokang's patrol is located in the Changlu Salt Farm in Bohai Bay, and unlike the local interests represented by the local Salt Envoy Department and the Salt Section Promotion Division, Bi Maokang's salt patrol is directly on behalf of the imperial court to inspect the local salt affairs, and his position is his own weight.

Since ancient times, the salt industry has been profitable, so the salt patrol is also a fat oil, and the Ministry of Literature and Anthology of the Ministry of Literature, the Ministry of War of the Treasury Department side by side, is said to be the most favorite job of officials.

It's just that Bi Maokang doesn't seem to like being an official, and he has never heard of him being greedy for money, but he is quite fond of firearms.

Soon after Guo Jujing met him, Bi Maokang showed him a picture of his own artillery, which was said to be sharper than that of Western countries.

Guo Jujing didn't think so at first, but after seeing the self-generated gun shape, and then listening to the principle of Guo Jujing, he immediately admired it, and deeply felt that the land of China is a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and there are many capable people.

It doesn't matter if you don't have a physical object, as long as you have a drawing.

The father-in-law immediately said: "Mr. Guo, can you draw that self-generated diagram with us, so that we can see if it is a sharp weapon as Mr. said." ”

Calling Guo Jujing as a gentleman, his father-in-law did not learn from Li Yanzhao, but Matteo Ricci's example. This Confucian missionary, who combines Chinese and Western cultures, likes to call him Mr. the most, and even the rest of the missionaries have accepted the title of "Sir", otherwise it would not be easy to call them, and they should not be called holy monks and masters.

Although Li Yanzhao still doubted whether the self-generated gun was feasible, he saw that his father-in-law valued it so much, but he was clever and never objected or questioned.

"Please wait."

Guo Jujing smiled and nodded, secretly saying that this Chinese emperor's favored chamberlain was indeed a good firearm person, and he used this self-generated gun as a stepping stone in exchange for the young chamberlain's actual support for Catholicism. At the very least, it would be no problem to ask the young chamberlain to allocate a sum of money for him to build a church in the district.

Stallone asked Guo Jujing in a low voice if he could draw it, after all, it was three years ago, and if he couldn't remember it all or drew it wrong, it would be troublesome.

Guo Jujing said that there was no problem, you must know that he has always kept it in mind after seeing the self-generated gun and understanding the principle, and only waited for the day when he returned to the Holy See to present it to the Pope, so as to change the current situation that the armies of various countries still use arquebuses.

As for why I had to go back and deliver it instead of reporting it by letter, it was a matter of selfishness.

After Matteo Ricci's death, Long Huamin, who took over as President of Jesus in China, rejected Guo Jujing and them, and Guo Jujing and other Matteo Ricci's "pro-Ming and Ming" factions also wanted to bring down Long Huamin.

Li Yanzhao saw that Monk Guo was going to draw pictures, and hurriedly invited his father-in-law and his entourage to sit in the two-story building for a while.

"This Li Baihu is a person who can do things." Zheng Duo said with a smile.

"Our Ming Dynasty, what we lack is someone who can do things." My father-in-law laughed too, and then sat down on the chair and took the tea to savor.

Later, he inquired in detail about the affairs of the General Manufacturing Bureau.

"These women were recruited by their subordinates in the surrounding villages and towns, and they were allowed to pay each of them one or two or six yuan a month, and they only did this drying of gunpowder every day......

Li Yanzhao has no matter how big or small, and he will tell his father-in-law what he has done after he arrived at the General Manufacturing Bureau.

"Yan Zhao bothered."

The father-in-law couldn't help but nod his head, and asked how the craftsmen from Beijing were settled. This matter is not in charge of Li Yanzhao, but arranged by Zheng Duo in the past.

"Most of the craftsmen are located here, according to the instructions of the father-in-law, mainly to repair the ordnance in the army, and to make equipment and tools for the construction site, for this reason, the last general has temporarily repaired a workshop, the place is not large, and it is also a little simple, but it can still be maintained for the time being."

"It's not about maintaining it temporarily, it's about making sure it's maintained. The workshop should be expanded immediately, so that the craftsmen can live comfortably and work comfortably. ”

The public gesture Li Yanzhao brought pen and ink, and then drew a picture, and then ordered Zheng Duo to allocate silver to build the Jiangnan Seed Production Bureau according to this map.

After Zheng Duo and Li Yanzhao took the picture and looked at it, they found that there were more than a dozen places planned on it, from artillery forging workshops, gunpowder manufacturing workshops, ordnance and armor production, to civilian tool building, all of which were complete. If the construction is carried out according to this map, at least tens of thousands of taels of silver will be invested, and the manpower required will be in the thousands.

"First focus on the construction of firearms, and then spread them out one by one. This matter is still led by you Zheng Duo, well, Yan Zhao helps. However, all the affairs of the General Administration of Manufacturing, no matter how big or small, must be reported to our family one by one. ”

This matter must be personally led by the father-in-law and paid enough attention to it, otherwise it will be a joke if it is delayed for another half a year.

Zheng Duo and Li Yanzhao responded to the situation, and Li Yanzhao raised a question, saying that medicine is very scarce now.

This is also a major problem facing the imperial army now.

The original Wusongshui battalion did not have much gunpowder in reserve, and most of the medicine consumed in training, exercises, and actual combat was purchased by his father-in-law from the Beijing Staff Bureau.

For example, the leaders of several battalions of the army that are currently being trained have to shoot three or five guns a day, and dozens of guns a month, according to the father-in-law's training manual. If you hit two or three dollars, it will be almost a pound of consumption in January. More than 3,000 army troops consumed more than 3,000 catties of gunpowder a month. And the navy side is even bigger, and as soon as the big and small cannons are fired, the medicine is used quickly in piles. In the past, it was used to blow up mountains everywhere in order to get stones.

Counting the batch of gunpowder seized from the middle left, there are only about 5,000 catties of ammunition in the army at present, which can last for two months at most.

"The medicine was not enough, so I went and bought it."

My father-in-law didn't think it was a big deal, didn't Nanzhen over there be medicine for sale. But Li Yanzhao said that even if Nanzhen could buy it, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to buy much.