Zhu Cilang was finally free. The first thing he could do when he could enter and exit the palace gate was to go to the military battle.

Chau Wang, who was sent off, was transferred to the military battle.

However, before he left the palace, he ran into Johnson Chan who had entered the palace.

Like Bi Maokang, Chau Wang, who was named the Prince's guest, could go directly to Zhongcui Palace without being summoned.

Don't underestimate this inconspicuous right, it is actually a huge gift.

The palace is a place with high vigilance. Without the emperor's summons, even if you are a first-rank official, you cannot enter the palace gate at will.

You need to report and wait for when the emperor can agree. If the emperor is unwilling to receive you, you will have no choice.

If you are a minister who risked your life to enter the palace, you would take great risks. The guards can kill you outside the palace gate without mercy. How can you make a square radius without rules?

In the era of kings with concentrated imperial power, the emperor was the one who controlled the sun, moon and universe in one hand.

Although the Ming Dynasty was in trouble with internal and external troubles, the imperial power was still as solid as a rock. Otherwise, why would it be so easy to move to a powerful Wei Zhongxian?

As long as Chongzhen was more decisive in the event of something, the Ming Dynasty should be saved. This is Zhu Cilang's opinion.

Zhu Cixuan was really surprised by the arrival of Tang Ruowang: "Sir Tang, I am going to find you in the military battle. Is there anything wrong with you when you come to find me?"

Tang Ruowang's face was not good-looking, and he bowed to Zhu Cilang: "Your Highness, the officials in the military war situation do not listen to the transfer, and the officials are powerless. I am afraid that the red cannon cannot be done."

Zhu Cilang was stunned: "Why?"

Tang Ruowang's face was a little embarrassed, and Zhu Cilang was shocked. Then he realized that the door of the palace was not the place to speak: "Let's go back to Zhongcui Palace."

When he arrived at Zhongcui Palace, Joshua Wong was given a seat and sat down at Zhu Cilang. Only then did Zhu Cilang understand that Joshua Wong was transferred to the Military Affairs Bureau under the order, responsible for the improvement of ammunition for the development of the red-clothed cannon. However, the military affairs bureau did not take this new management seriously at all.

After listening to Tang Ruowang's remarks, Zhu Cilang nodded: "So, the military commander, the chief clerk, the supervisor, and the supervisor, they joined forces to make fake accounts, military weapons are inferior to good ones, conceal the reporting equipment, fill the private bags, and make the public for personal gain. They don't do any capable personnel, and they are familiar with the things that pluck the feathers by passing by, right?"

Chau Wang stood up: "That's exactly what the Crown Prince said. His subordinates checked the account books of the military battles, the military weapons of the three battalions of the garrison troops in the capital were replaced every year, with a total of 5,700 swords, 134,000 spears, and more than 1,600 swords. In addition, there are halberds, whips, axes, helmets, armor, bows, arrows, etc., which are all official figures. In fact, the weapons changed by the capital city every year were less than one tenth. The rest were all concealed and lies."

The Ming Dynasty was really bad. The three camps were the Five Military Camps, the Three Thousand Camps, and the Shenji Camp. After Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, he established three camps, hundreds of thousands of cavalry and infantry guarding the capital, and there were 100,000 Shenji Camps, with long spears and cannons being well prepared, and the capital's garrison was 500,000.

The three camps are synonymous with the elites in the world, and the three camps in the Chongzhen era have long become old, weak and remnants. Just like the Eight Banners Army in the late Qing Dynasty, they have become vulnerable and corrupt troops.

At this time, the three battalions in the capital had 200,000, serving as regular guards, but the 200,000 troops could really fight less than 100,000.

Zhu Cixuan also wanted to go over and investigate the military camp, but this was not the scope of his authority. Moreover, after investigation, it was implicated. It was no longer a secret to get a job empty. There were still 200,000 troops in the capital, but only they knew what the situation was in the military camp.

Every year, these three battalions will eliminate a batch of military weapons, and the military warfare will be responsible for recycling and renewing. Among them, there are huge huge profits.

For example, as Tang John Wong said in the account book, the brothers from the three camps have replaced 5,700 large swords, 134,000 long spears, and 1,608 swords. In fact, there is a lot of water in it. The real situation is afraid that there is no fraction of it.

Zhu Cilang frowned: "But, what does this have to do with you as a red cannon? Isn't there an imperial edict that you have the full authority to supervise the red cannon?"

When talking about this, John Choi was even more distressed: "When you go back to your highness, the art of casting cannons in the military battle is really hard to describe. Such a method of casting cannons may lead to a big mistake."

Zhu Cixuan was shocked and asked, "What?"

"The iron of the cannon is cast with thick iron, and the cannon body is cast with thick iron. I don't know how to make the cannon bore, and the cannon body is completely unresponsive, so the cannon body cannot be used accurately, and it is probably not harmful to people."

Iron mold casting cannons are cast in pig iron with low temperatures and the iron mold cools too quickly, so they are all white iron cannons. The same caliber requires thicker pipe walls to ensure that they can withstand the chamber pressure. To put it bluntly, it is a method of sacrificing performance to accelerate manufacturing. The cannons produced by this casting method are counterfeit products.

Moreover, the Red Cannons faced a problem that could never be solved - the explosion of the chamber. In fact, it was not only the Ming army's cannons, but also the Jiannu's cannons, and even the cannons made by the Spanish in Portugal also exploded. However, the Ming Dynasty cannons had a greater chance of explosion of the chamber.

This can only be attributed to the slackness of military equipment and the reasons why officials colluded with each other to corruption. Even if you master the casting method, you cannot withstand the corruption and confusion of the officials below. This was the case in the late Ming Dynasty, and it was the same in the late Qing Dynasty.

In the late Qing Dynasty, a number of modern military-industrial enterprises were born, such as the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, and the Tianjin Machinery Bureau... These military-industrial enterprises became the beginning of China's modern military industry, and even imitated many advanced weapons in the world at that time, such as the Krupp cannon, the Armstrong cannon, the Maxim machine gun, etc.

It seems arrogant enough, even Maxim can make it. However, during mass production, the Qing Dynasty had already decayed to the extreme, resulting in the weapons made using advanced technology still of poor quality. The gold and jade were defeated outside, and from the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, it can be seen how corrupt the late Qing Dynasty was.

Walking ten steps and laughing a hundred steps, the military battle situation of the Ming Dynasty is actually a virtue. Otherwise, how could Tang Ruowang be so angry that he came to Zhu Cilang to complain in person?

Although he has been in the Ming Dynasty for twenty years, although Zhuo Wang is familiar with the profound Chinese language, his pronunciation is still poor: "Dear Prince, the emperor, the minister thinks that you should really find a suicide squad who is not afraid of death to test the cannons made by the military battle. Otherwise, be careful to blow them up and blow them into the sky."

"This is simple, I have already had the candidates for the suicide squad." Zhu Cilang sneered.
Chapter completed!