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After a long chat with Wen Anzhi for an hour, Zhu Cilang felt that he benefited a lot.

Although Wen Anzhi's insights cannot be comparable to Zhu Cilang from later generations, his analysis of the problem is very profound and can be said to be a sharp point.

Although Zhu Cixuan was also doing academic research in his previous life, he seemed to be a big deal compared to Wen Anzhi. His advantages come more from the explosive input of information and his understanding of the historical trends.

Although Zhu Cixuan wanted to continue chatting with Wen Anzhi, considering that Wen Anzhi was already 62 years old and should not be too tired, he asked Wen Anzhi to leave the palace to rest first.

Anyway, Wen Anzhi has been reinstated as the Left Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and there are opportunities to ask him for advice in the future.

After Wen Anzhi retreated, Zhu Cilang immediately ordered the eunuch to prepare a carriage and drive the worker department.

Last time he drew a brief diagram of the structure of the ridge and handed it over to Gao Hongtu, Minister of Personnel. A few days have passed, and Zhu Cixuan really wants to see how it is progressing.

The emperor's trip is by no means a trivial matter. Just a guard of ceremonies, it takes a lot of time to prepare the guard.

Even though Zhu Cixuan emphasized keeping everything simple, it had been half an hour since he arrived at the Ministry of Works.

When the Holy Emperor arrived, all the officials of the Ministry of Works knelt down and saluted. Zhu Cilan raised his hand and signaled that they all got up to handle official duties as usual, and called Gao Hongtu to accompany him.

The king and his minister came to the internal office one by one and then one later. Zhu Cixuan just sat down and asked straight to the point: "How is the Grand Seokong doing what I assigned that day? Could the brink of the brink be built on a large scale?"

Gao Hongtu gave a deep tribute to Zhu Cilang and said respectfully: "Report to Your Majesty, the old minister has transferred the masons and stonemasons with the most exquisite craftsmanship in Nandu. After reading the artworks drawn by Your Majesty, they all said that this bastion is much more difficult to build than an ordinary basin."

Zhu Cilang frowned when he heard this, and his good mood to guide Wen Anzhi to the country was wiped out.

Things were more difficult than he thought. If even the craftsmen in Nanjing felt that it was difficult to build a bastion, it would probably take a long time to build a bastion group in the entire northeast of Shandong.

Actually, this is a matter of habit.

The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were used to building square cities, and they would definitely feel uncomfortable when they suddenly asked them to build a castle. This was not something Zhu Cilang could do by throwing out a castle structure diagram. The same is true for flintlock rifles. Although the structure of this kind of gun is not very complicated, the craftsmen just can't break the window paper.

Although Zhu Cilang was very disappointed, he could not blame Yu Gao Hongtu too much and comforted him with kind words: "Da Sikong does not have to be ashamed, I just put forward a thought. However, I still feel that the advantages of the bastion are very obvious. Even if it is difficult to build, more than a dozen buildings must be built outside Dezhou, and at all costs."

The benefits of centralized rule of feudal dynasties were reflected at this time. The monarch could mobilize all the resources at hand that could be called and concentrate them on what he thought was the most important thing.

Don’t the craftsmen find it difficult to build a bastion? Well, the number of construction can be reduced from the original dozens to more than a dozen.

What? There are more than a dozen people in the city? Sorry, this is an imperial edict.

Of course, Zhu Cilang will also send all the best masons and stonemasons to the Texas frontline. Since these people are novice in building bastions and have limited business capabilities, it is better to have a lot of people.

Regardless of whether the Donglu will adjust their strategies and tilt their troops to the eastern line, Zhu Cilang must make the worst plan.

If the Han army such as Kong Youde really used several red-clothed cannons to attack Dezhou in turn, Zhu Cilang would be a little confused.

The best way is to use a bastion to block and delay the Qing army's offensive.

The castle was built on the only way for the Qing army to go to Dezhou. If they wanted to attack Dezhou, they had to remove these nails.

It was impossible for the Qing army to remove these bastions without a year or two.

"The old minister follows the order."

Gao Hongtu naturally didn't dare to say anything more.

Although the emperor did not rebuke him openly, a trace of dissatisfaction was already faintly revealed in his words.

No matter how difficult it is to build a bastion, Gao Hongtu must grit his teeth and follow up the task at this moment.

"Your Majesty, a batch of bird guns newly made by the Firearms Department. After test firing, the Lumi gun rarely exploded. Can it be equipped with the Shen Ce Army?"

Gao Hongtu was determined to regain his image in Zhu Cilang's mind, and then he changed his mind and talked about a batch of newly built firearms by the Firearms Corporation.

In his opinion, this errand was done very beautifully by himself.

Since the end of Wanli, the quality of the muskets made by the Ministry of Industry has been unable to guarantee. Because the materials are cut corners and the thickness of the inner walls of the gun barrels are uneven, the chamber is often exploded.

Soldiers often blow themselves half-severe as soon as they open their guns, so they are afraid of the guns like tigers.

The officials of the Ministry of Works did not have a good idea in this regard. Because the imperial court allocated limited money to the Ministry of Works, the number of muskets required to be built was determined. In order to complete the task, they could only cut corners on the materials and built batches of shoddy muskets.

This kind of musket is almost the same as being used as a fire stick, but it is simply a delusion to kill the enemy a hundred steps away.

But now all this has changed.

Today, not only did Zi establish the Firearms Division, but also allocated a large amount of silver from the treasury to build high-quality muskets. The quality of muskets made in this way is naturally very high.

Zhu Cilang shook his head, "It's not possible to just not explode the chamber. The power of the musket depends not only on the musket itself, but also on the gunpowder."

Since the flintlock rifle cannot be built for the moment, Zhu Cilang can only settle for the second best to exert the power of the rifle gun to the extreme.

In addition to blowing up the chamber, there was another common problem in the late Ming Dynasty, which was limited lethality.

The three-eyed gun is difficult to kill the soldier in cotton armor outside thirty steps, and the effective range of killing and shooting of the bird gun on armored soldiers is also within fifty steps.

The firearms equipped in the Qi family's army can have an effective range of more than fifty steps, and the effective range of the bird gun is as high as one hundred and fifty steps.

It's a world of difference!

Since the Qi family's muskets can reach a range of 150 steps, why has it degenerated so much after just a few decades?

In addition to some of the problems with the muskets themselves, the most important thing was that the imperial court no longer paid attention to the preservation of gunpowder in the late Ming Dynasty.

The gunpowder at this time is not chemical gunpowder from later generations, but black gunpowder.

Although Zhu Cixuan did not study engineering in his previous life, he also knew that black gunpowder must be kept dry and should not cause moisture.

At this time, gunpowder is generally powdery and is very susceptible to moisture. The most serious thing is that the court often drys the dampened gunpowder and continues to use it. At this time, gunpowder will generally condense into lumps of different sizes, which will greatly reduce its power.

To exert the maximum power of black gunpowder, it is necessary to pelletize the gunpowder.

"From now on, I want the Grand Sikong to ensure that every spoonful of gunpowder must be granular. Only by doing this can the newly built muskets of the Firearms Corporation exert their maximum power."

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