Seeing that Bi Maokang was directly appointed as the prince's tutor because of his flintlock rifle, he officially joined the ranks of first-rank high-ranking officials.

Xu Guangqi, who is the left minister of the Ministry of Works and in charge of Hanlin Academy, was a little envious and secretly glanced at Sun Yuanhua, Song Yingxing and others.

Sun Yuanhua couldn't help but smile bitterly. He and Johnson Chan had experimented many times, but failed to achieve a car-mounted cannon with the power of a red cannon but its size and weight could be reduced ten times.

Even if you use the best craftsmen, you can't make a good steel pipe that can last long and durable.

The same is true for Song Yingxing. In order to achieve greater power of gunpowder, he and several old Taoist priests who refined alchemy have studied for nearly half a month, but no significant progress has been made yet.

However, seeing Bi Maokang and others being rewarded so well by His Majesty, they couldn't help but secretly get ready to go.

Zhu Youxiao did not look down on other craftsmen, and also rewarded some silver.

Then, Zhu Youxiao led by Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang to the Military Weapon Bureau. The Military Weapon Bureau was jointly managed by the Ministry of Works and the Inner Official Supervisor, so Liang Fu, the Inner Official Supervisor, also followed.

According to Zhu Youxiao's instructions, the Military Weapon Bureau has been renovated, and the entire Military Weapon Bureau's workshop was directly transformed into a workshop. In order to prevent the leak of secrets, the workshop was strictly guarded by the army. If it was normal, it was not the workshop craftsmen and military weapons managers, Bi Maokang and the internal officials and the minor supervisors, even the Minister of the Shangshu would be blocked. If you break through, you could even take action first and then report.

Now it is also because Zhu Youjiao is coming, so it will be open for one day.

When Zhu Youxiao came in, he saw that the entire workshop was divided into several isolated workshops, each workshop was doing different program units for gun manufacturing.

In order to let His Majesty the Emperor see the effect, Old Man Li and other old craftsmen have entered the workshop and started work.

As soon as the dull and taciturn Blacksmith Zhang started working, he shouted at his subordinates to add coal and fire to him, while he himself shook his arms and started to make iron. Blacksmith Zhang had his own exclusive method of making irons. Every time he had a hammer in front, then a small hammer in the back, and then some black powder filled with a small bamboo tube was added.

According to Bi Maokang on the side, the black powder was the original secret recipe of Zhang Blacksmith's family. Adding that thing when you make a blacksmith can create the best steel.

When Qi Shaobao killed Japanese pirates, he used their family's iron to build weapons.

Zhu Youxiao nodded. In his opinion, the blacksmith might have added some coke or something to act as a reducing agent.

Chen Laitou and his men on the other side were making flints. His calloused hands were more skillful than the hands of the embroidery girl. In less than a few minutes, he handed a plate of flints to the workshop where Old Man Li was in.

The workshop where Old Man Li is located is responsible for the assembly of firearms and the manufacturing of parts, which is the center of the entire workshop, but under the leadership of Old Man Li, it is also orderly.

"It's very good. If you do this, how many flintlock guns can be built a day," Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but ask.

"According to His Majesty's instructions, the craftsmen of the Military Weapon Bureau now start working from Chen and 3 o'clock to the end of You, so that twenty pieces can be completed every day from completing the prototype to testing and packing."

Bi Maokang answered casually as he was knowledgeable and said with great help.

Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked about the output of the bird gun. Bi Maokang quickly replied that there were more than 40 pieces.

"It's still a bit slow. I'll recruit more folk craftsmen. In addition, I will ask Wei Zhongxian from the south to help and send all the craftsmen from the Nanjing Ministry of Works. After the work is done, I will build several training institutions, find some masters to be taught, and train more good craftsmen. As long as I can, I can give them a student background. I will also ask the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites to cooperate with you. In short, you should make the scale bigger, don't be afraid of spending money. I will give as much as I need. One million taels or ten million taels are not a problem."

Zhu Youxiao could cry in front of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, who was respectful, but in these aspects involving the technological innovation of the Ming Dynasty, he was rich and generous.

After saying that, he immediately ordered Liang Fu, who was in charge of the internal treasury to use his treasury to build some auxiliary facilities behind the Military Weapon Bureau, such as canteens, bathhouses, etc., and to build houses near the military Weapons for these craftsmen to live in.

At the same time, the wages of craftsmen are increased from double to triple as before.

Zhu Youxiao did this, one to increase the enthusiasm of the craftsmen, and the other to protect and monitor them so as not to be taken advantage of by external forces.

Next, Zhu Youxiao brought Xu Guangqi and other officials back to the conference hall of the Ministry of Works. As His Majesty the Emperor, he naturally wanted to encourage him. At the same time, he also made the following decision:

First, the Military Weapons Bureau was directly stripped from the Ministry of Works and upgraded to a Royal Ordnance, which was directly under the jurisdiction of Zhu Youxiao, just like Taichang Temple, Taipu Temple and Dali Temple.

The Royal Ordnance Institute has a Gunpowder Bureau, a Gunship Bureau and an Artillery Bureau.

Bi Maokang, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, was directly in charge of the gun bureau, and Old Man Li was also appointed as the head of the Ministry of Works, responsible for the daily affairs of guns.

Sun Yuanhua, a doctor of the Ministry of Works, directly managed the Artillery Bureau, while Song Ying, a member of the Ministry of Works, directly managed the Artillery Bureau.

Johnson Tang was also awarded the Hanlin Academy's review and Imperial Heaven Supervision and Supervision Judicial by Zhu Youxiao, a member of the Ministry of Works, and was involved in various technical transformation staff of the Military Equipment Department of the Ministry of Works.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao also named the newly developed flintlock rifle "One-style" musket, and the royal family ordered the first batch of 3,000 to be the first to equip the Beijing garrison army.

But in Zhu Youxiao's eyes, what he saw today in the Ming Dynasty was just changes in application, but the source of the technological revolution was still basic research.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao decided to upgrade the Military Weapon Bureau to the Royal Ordnance, which was managed by a senior official of the Minister and was only responsible for the production of mature weapons, and also established the Royal Academy of Engineering. Sun Yuanhua served as the chief of the Yuan Dynasty and Song Yingxing was the judge of the Academy, responsible for the research and development of various types of weapons, and then handed over to the Ordnance for manufacturing and selling after it matures.

At the same time, the Royal Academy of Sciences was established to be responsible for basic research, and Xu Guangqi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Works and the head of the Hanlin Academy.

Anyone who enters the Royal Academy of Engineering of the Royal Academy of Sciences will be given a review of the Hanlin Academy.

Although only one foreign academician, Johnson Tang, has become an academician of the two academies, Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua, Song Yingxing and Li Zubai are among the first batch of academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Li Wensan (Old Man Li), Zhang Goudan (Zhang Blacksmith), Chen Shizai (Chen Laitou), and Li Zubai (Chief of the Imperial Heaven Supervision) are academicians of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the frame of the Ming Dynasty science and technology system was at least built by Zhu Youxiao.

Since the Royal Academy of Sciences is a place for basic scientific research, it is naturally a place for exploring natural philosophy, and only needs to output new ideas and knowledge.

However, the Royal Academy of Engineering gained inspiration from the theoretical basis of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and then combined it with productivity to develop various products that exceed the times or have great profit margins.

The Royal Ordnance is only responsible for production and sales.

In this way, from basic experiments to applied research, and then to productivity transformation, as long as there is a complete scientific and technological innovation system, a complete industrial system can be built, thereby fundamentally changing the main productivity mode of the Ming Dynasty and breaking away from its dependence on the small peasant economy.
Chapter completed!