Just when Zhu Zilong was on his side, he was bothering about Daming. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Houjin here!

In the north of Shenyang, there is a large shack area. However, it is not the abode of the poor and the minions!

Although it was winter, it didn't feel cold, there was a dense sound of banging inside, smoke floating over the shack area, and the steaming heat could be felt on the outside.

If you take a closer look, you will find that this is a cottage craftsman workshop of Houjin.

The craftsmen inside were all snatched from Daming by Houjin.

The duty here is to provide the Houjin army with excellent armor, and what the Houjin give back to them is just enough food to save their lives.

No self-esteem, no salary, you have to be a slave, and if you don't work, you have to die.

This is what happens when you accidentally become a Houjin minion!

Suddenly, a huge gold-woven dragon flag marched on the official road outside the shack area, and the Manchu, Han and Mongolian people along the way knelt on the side of the road, crawling down with their heads bowed.

Jingran is Huang Taiji coming!

Huang Taiji didn't have too many guards of honor, he stood tall on his horse and looked at the surrounding situation lightly. There have been good things and bad things for him this year.

The good thing is that the big battle against Lin Dan Khan, because of his persistence, was able to go smoothly, and the banners earned a lot of money.

Bad things, let's not talk about it. The big rear almost made Zhu Zilong's body give three lights, and thinking about it makes people vomit blood!

Compared with the losses, what he was even more dissatisfied with was that some of the Houjin warriors seemed to scare Zhu Jiajun.

This had a direct impact on his strategic goal of establishing solid suzerainty. Coupled with the failure of the two attacks on Liaoxi, he had an extremely thirsty mentality for the Hongyi artillery, and was eager to obtain this sharp weapon to balance the Ming army.

Of course, he wanted an improved model, not an overly old-fashioned cannon.

As they thought, the procession had entered a high wall in the shack area, and after connecting two gates, it stopped in an empty dam, which was already full of kneeling people, and next to it was a distinctive Hongyi cannon.

Kong Youde on the side wanted to come up to help him pull the horse, but Huang Taiji didn't wait for him to come, and he came down skillfully.

"Slaves wait to see the Great Khan!" Hundreds of craftsmen knelt down and shouted in unison.

Huang Taiji nodded, narrowed his small eyes and asked Kong Youde: "Gong Shun Wang, how is the improvement of cannon making?" ”

Kong Youdra got on a foreigner, knelt down together, and replied cautiously: "Back to the Great Khan, the villain is based on the Jingying artillery he saw before, plus Vlad's improvements. The newly cast Daikin General Cannon, which was much lighter and had a four-wheel gun mount. It has been tested, and it can be dragged by oxen and horses, and the future Dajin General Cannon can be made according to this. ”

After Huang Taiji heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

Walked up to the artillery, pointed to the cannon and asked, "This cannon is the improved one, my Dajin Town General Cannon?" ”

Kong Youde and the foreigner replied in silence: "Yes! The cannon was salvaged from the sea and was originally owned by the Vladhou fleet. This is the heavens to understand the Great Khan's intentions, and specially sent a sample cannon to my gold. ”

Huang Taiji smiled slightly, but did not answer immediately.

The Later Jin army captured many Ming artillery cannons during the Nurhachi period, especially in the Battle of Liaoshen and the Battle of Guangning, which were well armed in these large cities in eastern Liao. However, Houjin simply did not have enough talent and methods to grope for it, and it was not possible to make heavy artillery with these defective references.

Kong Youde, who surrendered this time, originally did not have much artillery, but when he returned from the Korean battlefield, he rescued several foreigners who were shipwrecked. When it can be useful!

So, there is the current picture.

Just as the Ming people looked down on the Houjin, the Houjin people actually looked down on the foreigners at this time.

But considering that these foreigners can cast cannons, Huang Taiji was very kind and began to inquire about the follow-up progress and the process of making cannons.

Throughout the hour, Huang Taiji listened carefully to the reports of Kong Youde and Vlad, and nodded after listening: "It's really a wonderful law, come and reward Flad Hou with five hundred taels of silver." ”

Vlad didn't know much about the etiquette on the Asian side, and was still in a daze.

Kong Youde hurriedly reminded: "Don't thank the Great Khan soon." ”

The blonde and blue-eyed Flad foreign devil, this is kowtow and thank you!

Next, some of the Ming craftsmen who were surrendered introduced the clay mold method, first according to the outer shape of the cannon body into a wooden core, and then press the gun lugs, hoops, ornaments and other molds, and then apply mud to it, knock out the wooden core after drying, and inject iron liquid into the mud mold, this method is not limited to the weather.

Huang Taiji rewarded each of them with fifty taels of silver!

Seeing that Huang Taiji seemed to be in a good mood, Kong Youde said cautiously: "Great Khan, this Dajin General Cannon is not easy to cast, the shape, iron, clay mold, gunpowder, iron bullet, and amount of medicine need to be careful, and if there is a little negligence in the process, it will become a waste cannon." Vladhou also said that even in Western countries, this cannon is not easy to obtain, casting ten cannons, can get one or two, you can be called a national hand. Now there is a shortage of raw materials, and there are few skilled craftsmen, so I am afraid of ......"

Huang Taiji sighed softly and said, "Since this is the case, you don't have to worry about the materials." Just do it with confidence, but you must do your best, if you can't be cautious, I will not punish you, if you can get a large number of cannons, then you are a national soldier, and I will treat them with a national soldier. ”

After speaking, Huang Taiji went away.

Not long after, Huang Taiji's will came, asking the entire Dajin to fully cooperate with Kong Youde and others' various casting cannon needs. Disobedient slash!

I have to say, the cannon is this thing.

Zhu Zilong wants to monopolize only the Ming Dynasty, which is very difficult.

After all, when he crossed over, Houjin had already entered the customs many times to grab things. Among the things that were snatched back, Daming's artillery naturally also had them.

In addition, in this era, many foreigners began to appear around the Ming Dynasty.

The foreigners who can have the courage to participate in the open sea basically have some skills and courage, so if they can be summoned under their subordinates, it must be easy to create Western countries, and the cannons and firearms of this period will come out.

You must know that the artillery at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty was imitated by Western foreigners!

Hongyi cannon is a kind of artillery (formerly known as the little Franco) made in Europe in the early 16th century, which was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty, and was called Hongyi cannon after improvement, also known as the red-coated cannon.

The first Hongyi artillery that the Chinese saw was the shipwreck's naval gun, the "Hongyi cannon" later introduced through trade, and many varieties including siege guns and field guns.

Then, there was no then, and the Chinese's natural strong cottage ability was copied many of their own artillery for many years.

It's just that the artillery of the Ming Dynasty is miscellaneous but not refined, and it is made behind closed doors, and the craftsmen are also secretly unwilling to make it public. People who rely on their craft do not have the same status as modern scientists in the 21st century, so they would rather have their technology lost than passed on to outsiders.

So much so that up to now, the firearms and cannons of the Ming Dynasty "do not receive much medicine, and the bullets are not far away", "they are not fast, they are not straight, and there is no violent force", "the charge is too tight, and they explode upside down", "the coarse and evil are flawless", "the anti-foot is harmful, and the safety can win".

If there was no arrival of Zhu Zilong, there would still be a big gap between the firearms of the Ming Dynasty at this time and the foreigners in Western countries.

For example, the matching gun carriage that facilitates maneuvering and adjusting the angle of fire, the ranging telescope (the Ming Dynasty called it the "telescope"), and the mastery of ballistics by European artillery.

(In the late Ming Dynasty military books, except for the translation of European works such as "Fire Attack Essentials" and "Western Law Divine Machine", there was almost no "ballistics" at all) were far inferior to the Ming Dynasty artillery.

And Kong Youde, a foreigner cannon professional who was inadvertently obtained, was treated far better than the attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards foreigners.

If it weren't for Zhu Zilong's crossing, maybe a few years later, I'm afraid that even firearms and cannons would not be as strong as Houjin.

Thankfully, though.

There have been unexpected historical changes on the Houjin side, and there is an open Zhu Zilong on the Ming side, so hehe!

- (To be continued.) )