The Jurchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, and they are invincible.

In this world, the forces of various forces are actually an era of worse.

At the beginning, the iron-blooded Ming Dynasty crushed all the surrounding tribes.

However, with the political corruption and financial collapse of the Ming Dynasty, the rise of the Jurchens was the rise of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, although the Ming army lacked food and clothing, it was still able to compete with the Jurchens.

However, with the Donglin gentleman in the Chongzhen Dynasty's Chongzhen period's operation of governing the country, the Ming army did not even have the strength to stand with swords and guns.

But for the peasant army, as long as the command is properly, it will still be a crushing force on the peasant army.

Once Wu Sangui, the army group that the Ming Dynasty had accumulated with money, united the Qing Dynasty and pressed towards him.

There is no need to think about the result that my peasant army, who has lost the will to fight, will definitely be defeated at once.

In order to avoid such a situation, Li Yan still tends to quickly resolve this real confidant through negotiations, and then do his best to deal with the upcoming Wu Sangui and the Qing Dynasty.

Seeing that Li Yan, who had always been in an alien form, did not object to surrendering to the Beijing Camp, Li Zicheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Zicheng is now alienating Li Yan in the wind in Niu Jinxing's ears.

But even more because of Li Yan's ability, he became afraid.

But no matter what, Li Yan played an irreplaceable role from others in the process of going to the capital.

Every suggestion and policy he put forward is the absolute key to his own glory.

This point cannot be erased.

So, at the critical moment, he was still willing to listen to Li Yan's words from the bottom of his heart.

As for the later killing of Li Yan.

It’s because Li Yan is so outstanding that Li Zicheng is already afraid of it.

Killing heroes is something that all successful people in the past and even in the future cannot be avoided.

After all, after success and fame, there is only one person in the world, and only one is the superior. Only those who can enjoy the benefits of success can be the smartest.

There is no second.

"Since that's the case, then send someone to the enemy's Beijing camp and try it out." Li Zicheng finally decided.

"But the bottom line of negotiation is that the prince and the two princes must be controlled by me, and the prince must abdicate the throne in the world."

This is the bottom line and it is also the fundamental reason for avoiding the future troubles of someone with the prince or two princes.

The temptation is dangerous, so they caught a grain merchant and went to test it first.

This grain merchant is the boss of Zang Shenglong's grain store that King Xuejun of Dark Night led people to rob.

The reason I chose him was because when he was urging him to help him, he took the initiative and obediently handed over a gem, worth tens of thousands of gold.

What’s more important is that his family still has food, which can be used to serve as a meeting gift for the Beijing camp.

If it weren't him, who else could it be?

At this time, Wang Xuejun was not idle, time was tight, and there was indeed no chance of idleness.

The artillery was being shot one after another.

However, those advanced muskets were idle, which made Wang Xuejun feel very distressed.

Hot weapons replace cold weapons, which is inevitable for technology.

Hot weapons crush cold weapons, which is the result of historical progress.

If you don’t need these advanced muskets that are labor-saving and advanced, you only use bows and arrows that require technology and urgently need physical strength, then you will be like the Qing Dynasty in later generations, and your head will definitely be funny.

Half of the Ming army was equipped with muskets.

There are now a huge number of more than 50,000 units in the military camp.

It is impossible that every shot is a suicide weapon. What if the craftsmen in the Ministry of Works shook their hands or found out that they had several qualified products?

That's not guaranteed either.

So he summoned soldiers in the Beijing camp who were familiar with muskets and checked the more than 50,000 muskets one by one.

Fortunately, he did not disappoint. In the more than 50,000 muskets, he found that nearly 10,000 insurance items were available.

This five-to-one ratio is enough to make Wang Xuejun feel relieved.

Another reason why muskets exploded is that these soldiers are not trained normally and have no certainty of the random charge.

If you pretend less, you will make a noise.

If you pretend too much, you will commit suicide.

How to solve this problem?

It is easy to solve, and fixed-packed gunpowder can solve this problem. This is what we did when Western muskets first became popular.

It is easy to solve the problem of fixed-packing gunpowder, but there is another thing that must be solved.

That is the quality of gunpowder.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no strict proportional regulation on the manufacturing of gunpowder.

How to match ingredients depends entirely on the experience and preferences of craftsmen.

If you use such gunpowder in fixed-package gunpowder, if it is filled with inferior gunpowder, it will still be a sound.

And if qualified gunpowder is filled, it may cause a blow-off.

First, select qualified gunpowder with basically the same power, and this is the key.

When Wang Xuejun faced an experienced veteran to test the gunpowder.

The veteran was forced to execute the orders of the Regent, so he walked to the mountain of powder barrels with a look of tragic expression.

Wang Xuejun was so puzzled by this expression.

"I'm just asking you to test the gunpowder. Why do you want to die on the execution ground? As for?"

The veteran opened the lid of a bucket of gunpowder, observed it for a while, then reached out his hand, pinched a small handful, placed it in front of his nose and smelled it, and then stuck out his tongue and licked it.

Then he looked as glad as if he had come back from the Gate of Hell: "Reported to the Regent, the gunpowder component of this bucket is quite good, but there is only a little croton mixed in it, and there is no arsenic."

This answer made Wang Xuejun understand his expression before and after, but he was also shocked.

The production of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty is like a joke. Not only does the production ratio depend entirely on experience, but inexplicable things are also added to it, such as arsenic and croton powder.

As for whether these things can kill people with chemical weapons, it is certain to reduce the power of gunpowder.

The veteran used this method to test the quality of each barrel of gunpowder, and indeed let him die.

When he pried open another gunpowder barrel, Wang Xuejun immediately shouted to stop.

You can't kill someone in a daze like this.

"Forget it, we don't have to check it out. Immediately call up people, open all the powder barrels here, then pour them together, and mix them carefully."

Just as he was commanding the mixing of gunpowder, a sudden sound of people shouting and neighing from outside the camp gate. A clever soldier in charge of observing the enemy situation rushed over and reported: "Report to the Regent, the bandit army has increased its troops."
Chapter completed!