Daming: Let you build roads, you have access to highways throughout the country

Chapter 199: Life Has Climax!!!

This Franc cannon is a very advanced gun in the current era.

At present, the Daming Dynasty cannot be built by its own strength, but there is a large group of owls under Zhu Rong’s hands, most of which are skilled in craftsmanship, and the research and development ability is very strong, which can be said to be a bug in this era.

Unlike the previous craftsmen, these owls cultivated through the Gewu Academy already have a relatively mature and complete mechanical design and development system.

They quickly restored his drawings based on this Franc cannon, and with this drawing, the weapons workshop was able to create a new production line and mass-produce this Franc cannon.

The newly developed artillery of the Grape Empire was finally wiped out by this drawing.

However, the weapon workshop was not in a hurry to imitate, because Zhu Rong needed a more powerful artillery, so they needed to make some improvements on this basis to enhance the power of the artillery in order to gain an advantage in the same type of artillery.

Although the team under Zhu Rong has not developed artillery, it has a complete set of research and development materials and experience in rifles.

Among them, there is also the improvement of gunpowder.

In fact, in everyone’s eyes, this gun is nothing more than a large version of the rifle.

There are technical similarities.

They quickly clarified their thinking and improved on the original Franc cannon.

The Franc cannon has a relatively big defect, that is, the air tightness is not good enough, and it is easy to explode.

This blow-up rate is relatively high, and in the process of setting 23 plans for Hongwu rifles, there is also a problem of the blow-up rate.

The previous group of craftsmen was solved after countless experiments, so the craftsmen of the weapon workshop naturally have a lot of advantages in this regard, and can use previous experience to solve the problem of easy explosion.

The second flaw is power.

The craftsmen believe that this is also a big breakthrough.

In this regard, the craftsmen first improved the cannonball itself, because the gunpowder they had in their hands was very large, and compared with the gunpowder mastered by Daming before, it was much improved and greatly increased.

It is also with these improved gunpowder, the bullets fired by the Hongwu rifle can shoot a long distance.

Now it is used in artillery, naturally there is no problem, but it just costs more gunpowder.

In fact, in the eyes of craftsmen, the development of new shells can fully refer to the principle of bullets.

This Franc cannon purchased heavily from the Grape Empire, his shell is actually an iron projectile.

This kind of shell, mostly solid, is generally made of stone or iron substances.

To put it bluntly, it is through the power of the gunpowder explosion to forcibly push out an iron ball, and how much thrust the explosion is related to how far the range of this iron ball is.

The iron ball accelerates in the air, and when it finally lands, how powerful it is, is the final power of this gun.

And craftsmen with more skills naturally thought that the shells of this gun could actually be improved.

Whether it is a gun or a gun, it is fired from a long pipe to fire shells or bullets, and the barrel or barrel will be accompanied by flames.

From the perspective of usage scenarios, it has a strong similarity.

To some extent, artillery can be considered an enlarged version of the gun, but with a longer range and greater power.

And the reason why the craftsmen think so is not only from the point of view and perception, but also from the technical means of analysis, because they have the technology to develop a large bullet.

This large bullet is that the shell is filled with gunpowder, and its firing principle is the same as the bullet, which ignites the gunpowder by impact, and then, through the combustion of gunpowder, the gas generated by the huge pressure is fired out in the narrow body tube.

Therefore, in principle, both are actually weapons that use kinetic energy to shoot, and in terms of structure, they can completely achieve the same and use the same firing principle.

It’s just that the shell is loaded with gunpowder, which is more powerful and has a longer range.

Of course, the barrel he used was also far more than that of a rifle, with a larger caliber and a longer barrel, which was not comparable to a rifle.

This kind of shell, in naval warfare, should be very advantageous, can be enemy ships, pass to cause huge damage, even, it is possible that a few shells pass, the entire ship may be penetrated, especially those wooden ships without iron armor protection.

And if you add some explosive explosives to the shell, you can not only increase the range and power of the large bullet, but also increase the explosive power of the moment he explodes, causing a wide range of damage.

And not to cause damage to the target at a certain point.

This kind of shell is used in land warfare, and the impact on the formation and the wide range of lethality of groups of soldiers are very strong.

That is, the shotgun that soldiers often mention.

After a few days of discussion, the craftsmen got up to work and began to improve it based on the Franc cannon.

Zhu Rong still trusts these owls very much, they belong to skilled talents.

Although he does not have much real power and cannot enter the dynasty as an official, it constitutes the backbone of the entire Qi Royal Mansion like a caravan!

And the Daming Dynasty, after turning the year, continued to hold imperial examinations.

This is simply great news for students all over the world, in recent years, the Ming Dynasty held imperial examinations every year, and hundreds of people entered the officialdom every year.

It is simply a carnival era, although there are constantly officials in front of Zhu Yuanzhang who are being cleaned up, but they still can’t stop the determination of the students to follow one after the other.

In this era, entering the dynasty as an official is the most glorious choice, the most able to enhance the family’s status, and highlight its own value.

The cause of this situation is also related to the current situation of the Daming Dynasty, the first to bear the brunt is Zhu Yuanzhang, and there are too many officials killed.

Although the heart of killing is not so heavy now, it is just to turn the beheading into exile, directly exile to Qinzhou, and then after a long period of labor and transformation, contribute to the expansion and construction of Qinzhou, then eliminate their crimes, become commoners, and settle down in Qinzhou.

As a result, the number of officials implicated remains high.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang is particularly fond of Zhulian, and a string of officials are brought out, often followed by a family, hundreds of people and thousands of people at every turn.

When it comes to big cases, it’s basically 10,000 words.

This led to the perennial dysfunction of the imperial court institutions, just like a huge machine, always running without oil, creaking, and bitter.

It greatly affected the operational efficiency of the imperial court organs, and achieved twice the result.

Naturally, it also brought strong work pressure to the emperor and crown prince Zhu Biao, as well as important ministers in the court.

Therefore, constantly replenishing new blood is also the demand of the imperial court institutions themselves.

And the second biggest reason is because considering the subsequent development of Qinzhou, now Qinzhou has only expanded a small area, and His Royal Highness King Qi sits in it, and the overall governance method is similar to the way of fiefdoms, under the full jurisdiction of Zhu Rong.

However, with the increasing number of new cities built in the future, it is impossible for the imperial court to hand over such a large territory to a person under His Royal Highness King Qi, and it is inevitable to send new officials to the past.

At present, the officials of the imperial court itself are not enough.

Therefore, not too many officials were sent to Qinzhou923.

And in order to show the trust of His Royal Highness King Qi, Zhu Yuanzhang also gave him the right to cheap, and everything was decided by himself, so as not to between Qinzhou Mansion and Yingtian Mansion, because the road is far away, the government decree is not through, and communication consumes too much time, affecting the progress of expanding the territory.

After all, now in the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Zhu Biao, and the ministers of the central government, it is the most important thing to circle the territory first!

As for the subsequent power distribution and contention, it will only begin after Qinzhou is stabilized.

But before that, it is also necessary to reserve some official strength.

Therefore, the imperial examination of the Daming Dynasty has not stopped in recent years.

And in this year’s list, there is one person worth mentioning, and he is Xie Jin.

Xie was born in a scholarly family in Jianhu, Jishui County, Ji’an Province, Jiangxi Province.

Legend has it that he was brilliant as a child and was known as a “child prodigy”. As an infant his mother wrote on the ground for him to know.

At the age of five, his father taught him poetry, which he could remember by listening to it once.

At the age of seven, he was able to write articles.

At the age of ten, he memorized an article of a thousand words a day and never forgot it.

At the age of twelve, he read the Four Books and the Pentateuch and ran through their righteousness.

In the 20th year of Hongwu last year, Xie Jin participated in the Jiangxi Township Examination and ranked first, that is, Xie Yuan, and in the 21st year of Hongwu this year, Xie Jin won the 10th place in the top three of the Jinshi.

Ting Zheng, together with his brother Xie Lun and brother-in-law Huang Jinhua, ascended to the rank of Jin Shi, conferred the title of Jishi and was the secretary of the middle school. In the same year, he received a bachelor’s degree from Hanlin.

Of course, these are not the most important things.

The most important thing is that if Xie Jin’s original historical trajectory is followed, he will become the first assistant of the Daming cabinet during the Yongle period!

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