The entrance of the official yamen of the Guangzhou Mansion is very luxurious, the porch is high, majestic, and it is the craftsman who repairs the cover.

On the front of the yamen there is a gate like a city gate, and two giants with sticks and sticks are painted at the door, but they have not been repainted in recent years and have become mottled...... Now it is still tightly closed, and it is probably not yet time to open the yamen. It still retains its remaining majesty.

Zhang Yue, the deputy general of the unified land army, asked Zhou Fudao first: "You are the one who sent the letter for the Hantang Group?" ”

"The little one is exactly. It was one of them, the electric father, who ordered me to come. ”

"How many of them are there?"

"They weren't pirates, about a thousand people ......"

Zhou Fu thought in his heart what Gongzi Gao said, there is nothing to tell, unless you want to do bad things, or your ancestors are born to do bad things.

Zhou Fu thought so.

"Hugh is talking nonsense, a thousand people can capture the big city of the red-haired fanzi? I heard that the city was more than three feet high, with dozens of heavy artillery pieces and several strong ships...... There are thousands of soldiers, how to do it? ”

Zhou Fu had already answered similar questions more than once, and in the face of the two generals he would never dare to provoke, he had to say it again.

After listening, Zhang Yue, the deputy general of the unified land army, turned his eyes to Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the unified water division, and Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the unified water division, remained silent - it seems that this person's statement is consistent and there is no flaw.

Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the water division, smiled and asked, "How many people are in your family?" Where do you live? ”

"There are nine members of a small family, and all of them depend on the small one person for their livelihood. Sweet Water Lane in the Southwest Bell and Drum Tower......"

"Ah, I know that place," Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the water division, stroked his hair, "the year before last, there was a fire there and burned down seven houses......

Zhou Fu bowed and waved his hand and said, "General, I'm afraid you're talking about Saltwater Alley, right?" ”

"Ahh......h

Zhang Yue, the deputy general of the army army, saw that the government office was still not open, and his heart was on fire, these gang of sour Confucians! So he stepped forward and slapped the door hard, and the already mottled paint on the door kept falling......

The doorman hurriedly opened the door, in fact, he could have opened the door earlier, but Jiang Sheng, the chief staff of the Governor's Mansion, asked him to open the door later, so as to suppress the momentum of the messenger again, that is, if you can't put forward any conditions, we will agree to any conditions, and when you get to our territory here, you have to listen to us.

Among all the people, the most anxious are Zhang Yue, the deputy general of the unified land army, and Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the unified water division, as if the matter of guarding Guangzhou City has nothing to do with others.

Seeing that it were the two generals, the doorman hurriedly nodded and invited him into the palace. Maybe he didn't have to be like this in the past, but the times have changed, and these people who lead troops are no longer the characters called by civilian officials, and the civilian officials who are more arrogant to the generals are all dead - besides, the two of them are still close associates of Du Yunhe, the governor of Liangguang, which is a well-known thing to passers-by.

The staff endured the resentment in their hearts and greeted each other with smiles.

Jiang Sheng took the lead in personally going out to greet him, and he didn't have to be like this in the past. Ordinary staff members are respectful enough. At this time, Jiang Sheng really hated the Manchu Qing in his heart.

Jiang Sheng smiled, bent down and asked, "I don't know what happened when the two generals came in person?" ”

Zhang Yue, the deputy general of the unified army army, said with a big grin: "It's for this person, let's see how you negotiate." ”

Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the water commander, smiled and arched his hand: "Our brothers are just curious, if this matter is true, it will be of great benefit to our Guangzhou guards...... We're not going to interfere with your conversation......"

Jiang Sheng said in his heart, this will not interfere? It seems that this person named Zhou Fu has something to do with these two, but I haven't heard it before......

Jiang Sheng turned to Zhou Fu, and his face began to harden. If it was before, it would be more difficult for such a person to see himself than to ascend to the sky! One of my posts costs thousands of taels of silver, but now...... I heard that he was received by the Governor of Liangguang......

He snorted in his nose and said, "You come with me...... After speaking, he bowed his hand to the two generals and said, "The two generals are invited." ”

Zhang Yueha, the deputy general of the unified army army, said with a smile: "Don't worry about the two of us, we will only watch from the side, and we will not make a sound!" ”

Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the water commander, smiled and said nothing.

Jiang Sheng said angrily in his heart, you two soldiers are too deceitful, put your hands in our waiting! Put it in the past...... Hmph, Tartar is so straight and hateful!

But Jiang Sheng's face was a spring breeze, and he said, "Two generals, please feel free." ”

Jiang Sheng couldn't understand why these two people attached so much importance to this transaction, it was really not to get any benefits from it, what Hantang Group obviously wrote in the letter that it was only for women, it really didn't work, men could also do it, but it was doubled...... What do the two of them get? Could they be short of women and want to profit from the women who fled the famine? Fantastic!

Speaking of which, I have to say a few more words, say that I will water.

After careful deduction, the traversers found that the truth is not like many liberal arts students think, because the Manchurians established the country with bows and horses, and after entering the Central Plains, they did not focus on the development of firearms, and even dragged the Han people to bear the humiliation of destroying the country with strong ships and cannons three hundred years later.

Their subtext is that if it were still the Ming Dynasty, as long as they paid attention to firearms and equipment, there would be no land reparations in the later stage of the Opium War.

There is a saying in the "Huangming Jing Shiwen Compilation" that the army "each battalion (5,000 people) uses 3,600 thunderbolt cannons, 9,000 pounds of combined medicine, and 900,000 pieces of lead weighing eight coins - 200 rifle Dalian bead cannons, combined with 675 pounds of medicine - it is impossible to know what kind of weapon is similar to today, it may be a machine gun, or a continuous fire of multiple rocket launchers 400 guns, in fact, the latter point is more credible - 160 generals of Zhankou - General Zhankou is the name of the Ming Dynasty for field heavy artillery, The muzzle of the gun is larger than the chamber of the gun, which can effectively solve the impact of the tail flame of the shell, and it is also convenient for loading.

At this time, it will be found that the troops of the Ming Dynasty were very mechanized - a battalion of 5,000 people: 1,000 cavalry, 3,600 infantry (fully equipped with firearms), 400 artillery (one for self-defense, 160 field heavy artillery, and 200 Dalian pearl artillery)

Then liberal arts students often ask: Why would such an army lose the war?

He later explained that because firearms could not reach soldiers in peacetime, military generals had to rely on bribes to get good firearms in wartime, and so on.

In the end, he actually came to the conclusion that the reason for the low combat effectiveness of the Ming army's firearms was mainly due to political corruption and the emphasis on literature over military force, which was added to the system.

Then he came to a crooked conclusion: The reason for the weakening of China's military science and technology is mainly due to political corruption and the emphasis on literature over military force.

My liberal arts classmates, at the technical level, the institutional problem is a macro problem, and when it comes to the actual problem, we have to deal with it at the micro level.

We can't have any technical parameters, no analysis of the results of the battle, and dare to deceive people when we list a bunch of numbers, and lean on "mechanization" with a shy face. Akito's equipment is not good to make drops.

Let's do an analysis, on the battlefield, the enemy's troops charged at me at a distance of 500 meters. What to say for 500 meters, because the individual firearms of the Ming Dynasty army are as far as 500 meters. So how many times can the musket be fired during this period from 500 meters away to hand-to-hand combat? In terms of single-shot firearms, according to the charging speed at that time, a little more than one round of salvo could be fired at the cavalry, and three and a half rounds at the infantry, the accuracy was not guaranteed, the lethality was limited, and the paper armor with a thickness of one finger could not be shot.

There is no way, the deflagration speed of gunpowder directly determines the kinetic energy of the bullet, and any system is useless at this time.

Do you need me to say more? During this period, the purification ability of sulfur and nitrate was poor, the refinement of charcoal was poor, and the ratio was incorrect......

Of course, the Ming army was also equipped with a lot of "multi-barreled bursting" individual firearms, but this is different from what we call "bursting" today, and there is no transferability in terms of technique.

To put it simply, "multi-barrel bursting" is to bundle the barrels of the loaded with medicine into a bundle and ignite them sequentially, so as to improve the firing efficiency at the expense of accuracy and range

However, it is still the same sentence, the results of the battle are the best criterion for evaluating the quality of weapons and equipment, and since they cannot defeat the cavalry and archery troops, the "smartness" is limited.

Generally speaking, as far as the Ming army is concerned, it is a step forward from relying on the ejection force of materials to using gunpowder explosions to form a driving force, but it is not a decisive progress, but it is only in the right direction. There is still a long way to go.

The use of firearms in modern Europe has gone through many iterations.

When muskets were first equipped on a large scale, a single-row horizontal formation of musketeers appeared, which was intended to give full play to the coverage of firepower.

But after the actual combat test, it had to return to the phalanx formation, and the protective spearmen were added in front.

Later, the combat power of the musketeers was able to be increased to the point that they could fight the cavalry charge alone without relying on the support of cold weapons troops in field battles, and the key was the emergence of repeating devices and rifling. These two improved the firing efficiency, range and accuracy of the musket, and its appearance was inseparable from the production of bullets and the improvement of the firearm casting process.

Not to mention that Director Li Ziqiang can proudly draw a conclusion from this development: machining technology has changed history!

And all this progress does not come naturally, it will come naturally. It relies on the profound accumulation of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and military science behind it, and if it is extended further, the development of material technology, processing technology, energy and power, and even management......

My liberal arts classmates, you see, in the history and culture of the world, there is neither such cultural heritage, nor can there be such cultural accumulation...... So it's hard to expect such an innovation, no matter what the system.

That's the real key! It's not a question of who manages –

Even if we are given a few hundred years of time, if we do not absorb advanced culture from the outside world, at least in the development of firearms, it is very likely to linger in place for a long time. Of course, there may also be several characters as bright as meteors, but it is useless, and a system cannot be formed between them...... This is determined by the whole historical and cultural background, and you have no way to escape!

Ming's culture is more about studying how to make people more pure, pure moral examples, pure filial piety, and pure loyalty to the people...... Perhaps the latter is even more crucial.

The performance of the mercenaries of Portugal and Macao in supporting the Battle of Guilin in Yongli not only taught the Qing soldiers something, but also the soldiers of the Southern Ming Dynasty understood the reality.

Portugal and Macao now do not support the Nanming regime, and when Nanming had no artillery and no mercenaries, a group of big fools suddenly appeared, and they even said that they could exchange women for Hongyi artillery!

The exchange ratio set by the manager of Merges for this transaction is absolutely fair.

In the 17th century, the cost of a four-pounder cannon made in England did not exceed sixty taels of silver. After deducting factors such as false declarations and purchases, the selling price of a four-pounder gun, plus necessary costs such as freight, should be around 100 taels to 150 taels.

The four-pounder gun, a small-caliber gun, is easy to manufacture and has a low degree of secrecy, and its purchase should be less difficult than that of the Hongyi heavy artillery.

Therefore, the price of two hundred taels is fully capable of buying a Portuguese or Dutch four-pounder cannon.

However, this is different from the Hongyi cannon, which is a typical ship-based long and heavy artillery.

The main difficulty of the Hongyi cannon lies in the long-body pipe technique, and the length of the 130-mm 18-pounder cannon reaches about 3 meters, that is, about 22 times the diameter. That's just 18 pounds.

Judging by the picture, those big fools have more than twice as much heavy artillery as it is!

2000 taels of silver is worth it absolutely!

The traversers knew that according to the popular idea of the proportional modulus of the body barrel at that time, the muzzle to the body of the gun to the barrel of the gun was thickened one by one, which belonged to the British Cofflin long-barreled cannon level, such a long body tube required the smooth caliber of the bore, in the late Ming Dynasty, with brittle white pig iron casting as the main manufacturing method, it was indeed a high-tech art.

During this period, the Dutch had a slightly stronger level of casting than the British.

Of course, this is not to say that the casting of the red-coated cannon is what is difficult to cross the threshold, the casting technology of the Ming Dynasty is actually very superb, in terms of the difficulty of the technique, the casting of the Hongyi cannon has not been seen before, the skill of the Ming Dynasty is not difficult to defeat the skilled craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, from the initial cannon explosion, to the later iron body copper core cannon, it can be seen that in just a few decades, the artillery technology of the Ming Dynasty has far surpassed the Western artillery technology at that time.

As for the reason why large-caliber artillery is difficult to popularize, in addition to the difficulty of technical artillery, the main reason is the cost, not the technical problem.

In fact, few people know that the scrap rate of artillery casting during this period was actually quite high.

This situation became known when Western artillery manufacturing technology was introduced at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

It is recorded in the "Fire Attack Essentials" that because the quality of casting was not very stable at that time, even in Europe, "those who can get two or three usable can be called masters of casting ten guns with big guns".

In other words, the rejection rate is as high as 70~80%. In this way, the cost of artillery will naturally not be reduced.

Moreover, for Nanming at this time, time is a critical point. Even if they risk all the costs to mint, it will be too late. What's more, they don't have the cost to take it out yet.

But what made Zhang Yue, the deputy general of the unified land army, and Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the unified water division, unhappy, was that no one in the entire city of Guangzhou seemed to care about these anymore except for the two of them, and these sub-civil officials were still fucking holding a shelf against a bunch of big fools!

They were bored of listening to two people talking nonsense incessantly.

"Well, a broken cannon costs a hundred women...... Seems excessive, right? Jiang Sheng stroked his beard and said slowly, "I also have similar artillery in Daming...... I don't think it needs to be at such a price......"

"Cheap, absolutely cheap!" Zhang Yue, the deputy general of the unified army army, couldn't stand their nonsense, stood up and said, "I guarantee as the deputy general of the unified army that if you really send it, a hundred women will be handed over to you, do you trust me?!" ”

This was said cruelly enough, so frightened that Zhou Fu also stood up and arched his hand: "How dare you not believe it, the general is full of words, and the little ones obey orders!" ”

Jiang Sheng was furious in his heart, you ruffian, didn't you say you wouldn't speak!

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