In fact, the situation in the Ming Dynasty was not stable, especially after being cleaned by East and West Factory and Jinyiwei, the officialdom was almost one of the three. This has already damaged the Ming Dynasty's government system. Although it will not collapse, for example, food and supplies need to be allocated in wars, and materials need to be allocated, so at this time it seems a little overwhelmed.

Just because there are too many officials removed, there is not enough staff in the officialdom. Some even make a mess.

For example, when allocating grain from Taicang warehouse, there must be approval from the warehouse officials. As a result, the official had long been beaten by the Dongchang.

Then find a deputy position, and the three deputy positions have been imprisoned one after another. Two of them died in the imperial prison of the Jinyiwei.

Logically speaking, these officials are all worthy of death. They are the big rats in the granary, and they are the best ones to make good use of inferior products and have gained a lot of personal gains.

The problem is that the Taicang warehouse does not have the approval documents from the responsible officials, and if they want to allocate this batch of grain, they will get stuck. Without the approval documents, no one dares to rank the courage to allocate to you.

So the government had to continue to streamline the government, and the remaining officials were often busy all over the place. However, some people were not familiar with the responsible things, and they often had no idea how to start.

Originally, the army that could be assembled in three months had been delayed for half a year.

In the past six months, North Korea has been struggling in dire straits. The court decided to send troops to aid North Korea. However, the supply of food and grass was not yet available, which made Emperor Chongzhen jump.

"What did these officials do? Why haven't they been ready for half a year? The court raised them, are they all eating a good meal!"

In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the messy memorials on the table, and slapped the table in anger.

The eunuch Wang Chengen, who was standing beside him, was serving carefully: "Take care of the dragon body, the prince has gone down to urge him to go there."

Chongzhen snorted, calming his mind a little: "When the prince returns to the palace, let him come to see me immediately."

Zhu Cilang was very busy, very busy. If Emperor Chongzhen only knew to get angry when he slapped the table in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Cilang was more inclined to do some practical things.

"Your Highness, as you ordered, the grain transfer approval document in the Taicang warehouse has been sent. There is also the list of supplies for the army to go to war, the number of soldiers sent by the Ministry of War, and the time for escorting the grain and grass sent by the Ministry of Revenue, are basically ready." Meng Fanchao, the secret guard on the side, hurriedly reported to him while walking.

Zhu Cilang nodded. At this time, he was on the way to the military battle: "Okay, go to the military battle and find Bi Maokang, Johnson and the others for this palace."

Bi Maokang, a firearm expert from the Ming Dynasty, cooperated with Chau Wang to plunge into the military battle and study gunpowder.

Since Zhu Cilang's guidance and the military battle situation has improved the proportional formula of black gunpowder, the power of the firearm has been greatly improved. It can be said that it has completely crushed the archers on the battlefield.

Of course, Zhu Cixuan was not satisfied with this. Muskets were only the standard ration for the army. More importantly, various earth thunders and artillery were all the most important things.

Especially, when it comes to the research on flowering bullets, although I dare not say that it is so intimidating to build a howitzer. It should be OK to build a lightweight and mobile caution artillery.

It has to be said that John Tsang brought relatively advanced science and technology to the Ming Dynasty. This opened the eyes of Bi Maokang and others in the military battle.

However, compared to the prince who is as vast as a sea of ​​knowledge, Joshua Tsang is still far behind. Zhu Cilang is the person he respects most in his life.

John Thon said that His Highness the Crown Prince was an angel sent by God, who held the power of light given by God. This power was enough to destroy the world.

Zhu Cilang had no choice but to laugh and tell him that what I mastered was not the power of God's light, but the power from hell. There were too many evil people in the world, and what I did was to send those evil people back to hell.

Johnson Chan was a missionary and a Catholic Jesuit missionary. Zhu Cixuan's words were somewhat difficult for him to accept. He thought about it and said, even if you have the energy of hell, you were also sent by God. He sent it to the world to punish evil and promote good.

Zhu Cixuan did not refute this. He knew that this was related to his faith with Johnson Chan. Since he said that he was God's man, he was God's man.

Zhu Cilang is not a religious person and is not interested in it. He will let him go whatever the other party wants to say.

When we arrived at the military battle, we didn't see anyone. The eunuch at the military battle said that Lord Tang and Lord Bi were in the firearm workshop.

So, Zhu Cixuan had to take Meng Fanchao and others to the workshop. The firearm workshop is the workshop for the research and experiments of the Military Bureau. Here, Bi Maokang and Johnson Tang improved many uses of firearms.

For example, today's flintlock rifles have better performance and more accurate shooting. What's important is that the loading speed of the bullet changes is faster than before. This is extremely important for the soldiers to use on the battlefield.

The basic structure of the flintlock rifle is like a firearm, which means using the impact of flint on the hammer to generate sparks and ignite gunpowder. The average diameter of the flintlock rifle is about 14 mm. Since the post-loading musket has not been invented, this has made high requirements for the ammunition loading technology at that time. According to the previous loading method, when loading the projectiles, the projectiles must be placed in the cavity, and the bullets must be hit with a wooden hammer, and the gun can be pushed into the cavity. This is very time-consuming. On the battlefield, it means a waste of life.

When Zhu Cixuan arrived at the firearm workshop, he saw Bi Maokang and Tang Ruowang arguing endlessly with a flintlock rifle.

Bi Maokang held a flintlock rifle in his hand and pointed at the parts on the trigger. The blue veins on his face swelled up, and saliva flew everywhere in his mouth.

And Joshua Chan is obviously much more cultivated than him, or Joshua Chan is not Bi Maokang's opponent at all. He just shook his head like a lion, "No, no, no, no, this is wrong. Your method will only delay the speed of loading ammunition, and you cannot effectively guarantee the accuracy."

Bi Maokang stretched his neck: "Why can't you guarantee that the accuracy of my method can be improved? In addition, it can be continuously sent, continuous sending, do you know what continuous sending means?"

"I know continuous sending, but your operation simply doesn't work, it won't work."

"I, I..." Bi Maokang was anxious. He thumped, put the flintlock rifle on the table in front of him, then picked up a book on the table and rushed to Tang Ruowong: "Look, look, there are such a record of confusing in the book. Do you know what this is? This is the secret book passed down by our ancestor Lu Ban. I searched for more than ten years before I found it. Look at whether it is written in this book, and you can see it yourself."
Chapter completed!