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 6th Army, preemptively asked Zhou Fudao: "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 6th Army, turned his eyes to Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the Water Division, and Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the 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, asked with a smile: "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 Navy, 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 6th Army, saw that the government office was still not open, and his heart was on fire, these gangs were sour! 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 staff member 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 reach our territory here, you have to listen to us.

Among all of them, the most anxious were Zhang Yue, the deputy general of the 6th Army, and Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the Water Division, as if the matter of guarding Guangzhou City had 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 6th 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 Yue, the deputy general of the 6th Army, said with a laugh: "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.

The fact is not as 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 display 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 states that the army "each battalion (5ooo people) uses 36oo bolt cannons, 9ooo catties of medicine, 9o catties of lead, 9o thousand pieces of lead weighing eight coins - 2oo rods of rifle Dalian bead cannons, 675 catties of medicine - it is impossible to know what kind of weapon is similar to today, it may be a machine gun, or even a multi-launch rocket handle 4oo rod, in fact, the latter point is more credible - General Zhankou 16o - 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, the troops of the Ming Dynasty were very mechanized - a battalion of 5ooo people had: 1ooo cavalry, 36ooo infantry (fully equipped with firearms), 4ooo artillery (one for self-defense, 16o field heavy artillery, and 2oo for Dalian bead artillery)

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

Finally, he explained that because firearms cannot reach soldiers in peacetime, military generals have 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 the political and military forces, and the reason was added to the system.

Then he came to a conclusion crookedly: the reason for the weakening of science and technology in China is mainly because of politics and the emphasis on literature and military force.

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

We can't have any technical parameters, no analysis of the results of the battle, and dare to bully people 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 5oo meters. Why do you say 5oo meters, because the individual firearms of the Ming Dynasty army are as far as 5oo meters. So from 5oo meters away to hand-to-hand combat, how many times can the musket be fired during this time? In terms of a single firearm, according to the charge at that time, it could fire a little more than one round of salvo against cavalry, and three and a half rounds against infantry, which did not guarantee accuracy, limited lethality, and could not penetrate a finger-thick paper armor.

There is no way, the deflagration 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-piped company" individual firearms, but this is different from what we call "company" today, and it is not technically transmittable.

To put it simply, the "multi-barrel company" is to bundle the barrels 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 equipped with a large number of firearms, it is a progress from relying on the ejection power of materials to using gunpowder explosions to form a driving force, but it is not a decisive progress, it is just 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, there was a formation in which the musketeers were lined up in a single row, intended to cover the 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 musket team was able to be increased to the point that it did not need to rely on the support of cold weapons troops in the field, and could fight against the cavalry charge alone, and the key was the emergence of the company device and rifling. These two improved the 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.

Otherwise, Director Li Ziqiang can proudly draw a conclusion from this exhibition: 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 to the exhibition of material technology, processing technology, energy and power, and even management......

My liberal arts students, you see, in the history and culture of that 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 at the firearms exhibition, 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 mercenaries of Portugal and Macao in supporting the Battle of Guilin in Yongli not only let the Qing soldiers learn 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 gun made in England was only 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, was easy to manufacture and had a low secrecy process, and it should be less difficult to purchase than the Hongyi heavy gun.

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-barreled technology, and the length of the 13o mm 18-pounder cannon reaches about 3 meters, which 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!

2ooo two silver is definitely worth it!

The traversers know 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 chamber of the gun was thickened one by one, which belonged to the level of the British Kofilin long-barreled cannon, and such a long body tube required the smooth caliber of the bore to be the same, in the late Ming Dynasty, with brittle white pig iron casting as the main manufacturing means, it was indeed high-tech.

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 high, in terms of technical difficulty, the casting of the Hongyi cannon this kind of technical work that has not been seen before is not difficult to the Ming Dynasty's skilled craftsmen, from the initial cannon explosion, to the later iron body and 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 technical difficulty, 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 at the end of the Ming Dynasty when Western artillery manufacturing technology was introduced.

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

In other words, the rejection rate is as high as 7o~8o%. 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 cost a single qiē to mint it, it would 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 6th Army, and Wu Wenmin, the deputy general of the 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 6th Army, couldn't stand their nonsense, stood up and said, "I promise as the deputy general of the 6th Army, 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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