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This news made Yang Feng very dazed, he never thought that Lao Fan's bare face with no nose and no ears would be so face-saving.

Of course, the main thing is that Dolgon offers a high price.

"Yuan Yuzong is the prince."

Li Yutian said.

"The Tartars gave him the Loyal Duke whom he had used to persuade his vassals, and the positions of the officials and generals remained unchanged, but six additional titles were added, and for the gentry they were all exempt from taxation according to the old customs of the dynasty. As far as the minister knows, when the Tartars wooed Jiang Zong and the gentry in the Xuanda area, they also did the same, Jiang Gang himself made the Prince of Pingxi, and opened a mansion with Shanxi as his fief, and even his brother Jiang Rang and younger brother Jiang Xuan were made princes, and Fan Yongdou, a Shanxi merchant who acted as a liaison for the Tartars, was also named a baron, and was named a puppet imperial merchant. ”

Then he said.

"Fan Yongdou?"

Yang Feng sneered and said, "Didn't they also learn to keep a tail from a tartar?" ”

"Well, Your Majesty, how can parents who have suffered from their bodies be ruined, and if they even do such things as shaving their hair and keeping braids, then there will really be no shame at all."

Li Yutian said with a smile.

Obviously, he hadn't read the "Shaving of the Head" in the original history.

"Jump out! Let's jump out! Sent an edict to Pingxi Hou, the army should not attack any further, the soldiers have worked hard in the bloody battles in the past few months, let's rest well, if the Tartars don't take the initiative to attack us, we will leave them alone, I want to see how many of my good ministers will show their original form! ”

Yang Feng said.

"Your Honor."

Li Yutian said.

There is no need to worry about this matter anymore, anyway, His Majesty the Emperor has no interest in recovering his own land, and the Ming army at this time does not have this ability, in fact, he can't even muster an army at the level of the Shun army during the Huairou War. The last time in Yutian 3,000 held on the Shanhaiguan for a month the main force of the Ming army, after encountering two Niu Lu's Qing army, it was still defeated by the latter, it is obvious that the Ming army without him as the core met the Qing army in the field or in vain, this is already good, if it is replaced by those reinforcements from the south, I don't know what it will look like.

He can't be the first in every battle.

After all, now the Ming army can rely on the city walls and artillery to hold on, and the field battle is still temporarily saved!

It's still about farming.

No, it should be important to build guns and cannons.

"Can I make what I want?"

Da Ming Xing was in the Yamen of the Ministry of Works, and Emperor Yang asked his Ministry of Works, Wensheng.

As for the Ministry of Works, Shangshu is prepared for Song Yingxing, but Song Shangshu is estimated to have not received the holy decree to summon him to the north, so the specific affairs here are temporarily in charge of Lord Shilang, the former Ming Army Lord Siwen is now conscientiously making what he needs for the emperor, this thing is said to be the emperor's blessing to the soul one day, according to the princess that is said to be the former Ministry of War Lang Bi gave the self-made fire gun improved, and then drew a rough drawing and handed it to the Ministry of Industry for them to make.

Uh, that's the brown bass.

"Your Majesty, after discussing with those craftsmen, according to what they said, the spring inside is very troublesome, and it needs to be made of stainless steel and needs to be processed by old craftsmen who understand it, but such old craftsmen are either in Beijing or Nanjing, and they don't have the ability to do it."

Wen Sheng said.

"Don't worry about that, I'll make them the steel for the springs."

Yang Feng said.

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and Liang Cheng behind him immediately carried a heavy bag and put it in front of Wen Sheng, and after opening it, it was full of waste steel plates, of course not spring steel, what kind of spring steel is needed for this kind of goods like brown bass, just a slightly better ordinary steel. Speaking of modern spring steel, it is difficult to say whether these craftsmen have the ability to process into that kind of plate-like spring, ordinary medium carbon steel is easy to process, and then heat treatment is done after processing, it is estimated that it is not difficult to manufacture it under the current circumstances, and it is rare to manufacture it in large quantities, so it requires a large number of skilled workers.

Wen Sheng hurriedly called all the craftsmen he had collected during this time.

"Everyone will be given the position of guarding the world in brocade clothes, if you can make it, I will reward you with official positions, not only this new type of bird gun, but also this kind of bayonet, you must not be busy thanking you first, I will reward you, but I must also warn you first, if the bird gun made is the same as the previous ones, and finally makes a bunch of explosions, then I will punish the crime, maybe even beheading."

Yang Feng educated these craftsmen with great power, and by the way, he told them the principle of heat treatment, and sent these guys away, as for whether they can make them......

The brown bass is not a high-end thing, most of the parts can be cast from iron, even the barrel is wrought iron rolled up and forged, and the real high-end is nothing more than a spring. The brown bass is from 1730, and Huntsmann's crucible steel is from 1740, that is to say, the spring of the early brown bass is still the so-called steel forged from wrought iron, which is not as good as him, he is a real modern high-quality steel, even if Huntsman uses graphite crucibles to refine, it is estimated that the quality of these steels cannot be reached. And then the rest doesn't need to be opened, and he's not mass-produced, he's just going to make a few sample guns, don't underestimate the craftsmen at this time, those European craftsmen can make the same things.

That's it for the gun.

And then there's the bullet.

This improves the gunpowder formula to achieve the best modern formula, and there is also granulation......

Uh, this one doesn't need to, it's already granular!

There is also nitrate purification......

Well, this is no longer necessary, it has been purified at the current technical level, and it is no longer realistic to be pure again.

Then the linen soaked in oil wrapped projectiles has been done before, and even the deerskin wrapped projectiles have been made, and the paper shell bullets have been made a long time ago, but the bird gun is too bad to use, so the problem of the bullet is not a problem.

And then there's the cannon.

This is more troublesome, there is no problem with the Hongyi cannon to defend the city, that is, the gun carriage needs to be improved, this problem is easy to do, the new gun carriage is already being done, this thing is nothing more than some iron castings plus wood, with the design of others is not difficult. But the key problem is that this Hongyi cannon is not suitable for field warfare, the eighteen-pounder cannon is not for field use in Europe, the twelve-pounder is the field heavy artillery, and the six-pounder is the best field mobility, but the problem is that the field cannon cannot be cast in iron, and the tonnage of the Hongyi cannon is already quite terrifying, and even if he can't hold it, don't expect any mobility.

Field artillery had to be bronze.

But copper is currency, and he used all the copper to cast cannons, which would cause a shortage of currency, so he had to wait for Zheng Zhilong to get copper for him from the Wa Kingdom.

Or simply ......

"Find me a few tons of copper!"

He sat in front of Wensheng's table with a pen and stroked, and gave Xiao Qian an order, he has not practiced the calligraphy well until now, let alone write the same handwriting as Chongzhen, so he is very smart to use a pen to write, anyway, he is the emperor, no one dares to force him to write with a brush, and he doesn't need to sign, who has ever seen the emperor sign his holy decree? They are all directly covered with jade seals, and the holy decree cannot be written by him himself, and someone is responsible for this.

"The corn seed you asked for was found."

Xiao Qian said.

"Then send it quickly."

Yang Feng said.

"But the amount is very small, just over a hundred kilograms."

"Well, that's embarrassing."

Yang Feng said speechlessly.

He didn't expect that it would be so difficult to find a non-hybrid and non-GMO corn seed, what can a hundred kilograms do? That is, it is used as a seed field, but it is impossible to rely on it to supply the people under his rule.

"Then you can simply spread some high-yield hybrid seeds, first solve the problem of people's lives, and as for those non-hybrid seeds, build a separate breeding base."

Yang Feng said helplessly.

I'll leave this matter to her, and when she gets the copper, she will make a bronze cannon.

This old-fashioned front-loading smoothbore gun is not technologically advanced, it is nothing more than the material of bronze, which can be used with the best formula, and another point is the processing of the gun chamber, which is very important, that is to say, the boring machine, at least the hydraulic boring machine has to be engaged. There are many rivers in the western Liaoning corridor, find a river to build a small dam in the upper reaches, and then build a hydraulic boring machine, the hydraulic boring machine itself is not too technically difficult, that is, a bearing has to be opened, fortunately in this easy solution, just let Xiaoqian get a batch on the line, the ancient wooden frame simple boring machine, with SKF bearings to think about this picture is also very beautiful.

In fact, without bearings, it can be solved by using the simplest copper sleeve to refuel frequently.

However, there is still a natural defect of winter freezing that cannot be overcome, and there is really no way to do this, so just throw it aside! At all, you have to have seven or eight months a year to use it.

As for the selection of artillery, of course, it is a Napoleonic six-pounder cannon, and it is good to use it in the field, and the next step can also be made of a twelve-pound one, not only a cannon, but also a small howitzer, a cannon and a howitzer are king, this twelve-pounder is on the line, just build the M1841 type twelve-pounder mountain howitzer, the brass barrel is very easy, but this is not enough, you also need siege mortars, such as a forty-centimeter bronze tube and a twenty-four-pounder mortar with a pine base.

Of course, howitzers and mortars will have to use flowering shells and woodpipe fuses.

Thus the first phase of the armaments plan was determined.

Bronze Napoleon six-pounder cannon, this is the standard equipment of the infantry brigade, as for the army level, there are twelve pounder Napoleon guns and twelve pounder howitzers, and there are also twenty-four pounder mortars.

That's enough.

It's just a Tartar, there's no need to be too high-end, what kind of invincible hero do you really think of the Eight Banners? They are not bad in this era that is worse than rotten, and the second master of Gu can abuse them.

But he also needs the steel industry.