Zhao Bing knew that he was exhausted and could not complete these things, so he had to set up a group to assist his work. Time was tight, so he did it as soon as possible. The next day he dispatched personnel from the Imperial City Department to establish a new army preparatory office, and did not ask the provinces and ministries to handle it. Speaking of which, the Imperial City Department was originally a civil servant, not managed by the Three Yaya, but directly belonged to the emperor's close ministers, and his head was mostly eunuchs. His main responsibilities were two, namely spying and guarding.

In theory, the military system of the Song Dynasty was the Privy Council, and the three yamen commanded the soldiers. Among the three yamen, the main responsible for the palace guards were the various squads of the Palace Front Office. The Imperial City Department itself was not an army, but there were many talented and brave men. These were the most brave soldiers selected from the army, with a total of about three or four thousand. Some officers were also used to command the troops. This setting was to allow the Imperial City Department and the Palace Front Office to restrain each other and prevent abnormal movements.

While guarding the Imperial City, the Imperial City Department also undertakes some government agencies' guard tasks, responsible for some of the imperial guards, and has a more detailed responsibilities. First of all, the Imperial City Department is guarded by the Imperial City Department, and the tokens and door numbers entering and leaving the Imperial City Department are also distributed and managed by the Imperial City Department. In the palace, the guards around the emperor belong to the Imperial City Department, some are military officers and eunuchs, and are generally very confidants of the emperor and brave.

There is also the setting of the three guards. These people are all children of the officials' families and most of them are etiquette tasks. However, because they are close to the emperor, they are still very strict in their choices. For example, when attending court, the personal guards standing on both sides of the hall were required to be concubines in the harem or the official inspector, and the children of officials with Hanlin bachelor degree or above are responsible for the roles.

The second function of the Imperial City Department is to spy on the people's sentiments. Its predecessor was the Wude Department established during the Taizu period. At that time, people sent people to spy on the Internet, even far away from Sichuan. It was responsible for monitoring the army, reconnaissance of public opinion, monitoring the activities of officials, and guarding against spies from the enemy country. During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty, it was later issued an order to prohibit the Imperial City Department from leaving the capital. Since then, it has generally been unscrupulous, and the Imperial City Department usually only operates in the capital.

The personnel of the Imperial City Department were also divided into two parts, one was called a resident official and a guard; the other was called a marquis, also called a chazi. These people were in charge of all parts of the capital, from Huajie and Liuxiang to government ministers to inquire about big and small news, and the number of people increased from dozens at the beginning to more than 7,000 at the maximum. However, they were only responsible for reconnaissance, generally regardless of the specific case, so that they could not infringe on the relevant judicial organs. The arrested prisoners must be transferred to Kaifeng Prefecture for handling, and they have no judicial power or prison. The possibility of blundering the law is much smaller, and their reputation is not as good as the Jinyiwei, East and West Factory of the Ming Dynasty.

However, after Zhao Bing came to this world, he didn't know what these messy departments were doing. In addition, the institutions on the way to escape were not sound, and most of them were famous. After becoming the emperor, he assigned all the people from the inner palace of the King of Wei to the Imperial City Department, and at the same time broke the original structure. The guard work had been taken over by the Imperial Front Guard, and the spy department was still under the Affairs Bureau. In addition, the General Planning Department was placed in the management of the Left Cancel and the accounts of the inner government and the audit of the budgets of the various departments, and the Jiangzuoyuan was still assigned to his own name. The clerks who were originally written by the Senate Department were kept by his side and changed to the Imperial Front Office, responsible for writing work.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Imperial Front Office, there were only Lin Zhiwu, Cai Qiao and Cai Ruoshui. Later, Jiang Zongjie was transferred, Chen Zewen's eldest son Chen Shishi and Zhuang brothers, the old Wu Zhuang Duke. These people were either from aristocratic families or from officials, with a family background, with some knowledge, and were cautious in doing things. However, they missed the good times and failed to participate in the imperial examinations and failed to obtain an official position, so they were just ordinary scholars.

So later, Zhao Bing wanted to arrange for them to be officials in various departments or local officials as judges. Later, the Military Affairs Office was established, and Zhao Bing sent Lin Zhiwu and three others there to exercise. However, after a while, the three of them could only do some copying and writing due to fame and fortune. They felt that there was no meaning and asked to come back. Zhao Bing's affairs gradually increased, but there was a lack of trustworthy people, so they agreed.

So at first, they were just a group of military officers who followed Zhao Bing to join the army. The clerk and the clerks started to assist him in handling various letters, official documents, and even when he was short of staff, he had to do some errands, move and carry, and take care of the emperor's daily affairs. However, as his power grew, the scale and organization of these "messy" personnel also expanded day by day. So Zhao Bing set up a special department for these novice people - the Imperial Front Office, which belongs to the Imperial City Office. According to the current saying, the Imperial Front Office is equivalent to the General Office of the President. This department is not of high level, but he wanders in front of the emperor every day and can be called a close minister.

Zhao Bing divided the Imperial Front Office into four rooms: the first room was responsible for the guard work, assisted the guards in formulating guard plans, arranging travel routes, and contacting the prefectures and counties and garrisons. The second room was responsible for the classification and sorting of official documents sent by various places, sending and issuing, and archiving, and drafting edicts; the third room was responsible for political, economic and intelligence services, and received preliminary analysis and judgment, and contacting relevant ministries and provinces; the fourth room was responsible for investigating the world's geography, rivers, minerals, geometry and monitoring astronomical meteorology; there was also a senatorial room, but there was no suitable candidate for the time being, so it was in name but not real.

In terms of function, the Imperial City Department is both the General Staff Headquarters, the Secretariat Intelligence Bureau, the Organization Department, the Supervision Department, the Finance Department, and the Development and Reform Commission. In this way, Zhao Bing can use this Imperial City Department that completely serves himself, plus the Military Affairs Office to deepen his control into all aspects of the court, especially the key personnel arrangements. It can be said that as small as the appointment and removal of a county magistrate, he can effectively manage it because a large amount of manpower has already done the detailed personnel inspection and homework. Whether it is his personal ability or future development, his family situation has become more important, and it has been clear that the nepotism is comparable to the political review of the Celestial Empire.

Under this system, execution is very efficient, and the work is done in a consistent manner, and it is very sensible to concentrate on major tasks. When facing a crisis, you can also deal with it decisively without waiting for the bureaucracy to do it step by step. However, excessive power concentration is not without flaws. Once a problem occurs, it is a big problem, because the entire immune system of the empire may have problems. However, Zhao Bing doesn't care much about it at this time of life and death.

Now that the establishment of a new army is imperative, Zhao Bing immediately mobilized various forces from the Imperial City Division. First, Jiang Zongjie, the head of the Fourth Room, immediately found a suitable venue in Qiongzhou according to his own requirements; then ordered Lin Zhiwu, the head of the First Room, to join forces with the head of the Guardian Army, to select suitable soldiers; Cai Qiao, the head of the Second Room, to contact the Ministry of War to select training officers.

He also ordered Hao Yuntong from the General Office to allocate a special fund of 500,000 yuan from the internal warehouse to prepare and build camps, prepare military uniforms, equipment and all the necessary ones. As for writing textbooks and supervising weapons production, Zhao Bing could only do it himself. He first listed the required books and materials, and asked the books offices of each office to collect, organize and reserve them. He could only do the supervision of weapons production matters by himself...

After Zhao Bing arranged all the matters, he came to the studio of Tanbo Pavilion. The originally spacious room was now a little narrow. Only two cannons occupied a large area in the hall, and more than twenty muskets of various types were placed on the gun stand. He walked over and brushed them one by one with his hands. The guns were of various types, including models and samples, and more of them were failed defective products.

Zhao Bing picked up a gun at the front of the line. It was an early mesh gun weighing more than 20 pounds. It was also the first musket he tried to make and was made using traditional methods. The half-two-weight lead bullet fired by this gun can penetrate iron armor within a hundred steps. It is basically consistent with the parameters recorded in history, but the disadvantages are the same. It is not only poor in accuracy, but also relatively bulky, and must be used on a fork bracket. It can only be used to deal with enemies with the same dense formation.

Although the cowlinter gun can prevent the "long-range" weapons of the charger's cavalry, the most fatal thing is that the cowlinter gun fires the fuse that fires the gunpowder, which must be kept smolder before and during the battle, and is easily extinguished in wind and rainy weather. Therefore, the cowlinter gun is not very valuable in mobile combat and night combat. The fatal flaw of the musketeer is that it is slow loading speed, affecting the rate of fire, and is prone to attack, which greatly affects the use effect of the musket and has to rely on the cover of other troops to fight.

Because the convex gun is simple to manufacture and existing technology can also support it. Although there are many shortcomings, he tried to improve and miniaturize it, but the result was not satisfactory. If the charge is too much, it is easy to explode the chamber, and the power is insufficient. Although he installed the sight hit rate. Moreover, due to the poor mechanical level, it is difficult to achieve accurate coordination between bullets and guns, so he had to leave a large tolerance. In this way, when shooting, the bullets were pushed by gunpowder gas in the chamber, and ran forward by bumps and bumps. When exiting the muzzle, it is not certain where to jump.

After many improvements, at a distance of fifty steps, the hit rate was still less than 50% when facing a three-foot-wide and six-foot-high target. This result really made Zhao Bing unacceptable. He also thought that in the early days of the musket, choosing to line up and shoot to fight was also a helpless choice. Anyway, everyone was holding the gun and firing together. Although they aimed at A, they might hit B on the same level. However, Zhao Bing could not withstand such consumption and torture, so he simply threw it away.

The failure of the trial production of the combroach gun made Zhao Bing first set off a craze for machinery and smelting transformation. After all, if you want to do it well, do you have to sharpen your weapons first? After obtaining qualified materials and special machinery, he knew that he could not make modern guns, so he chose the flintlock gun that was within his ability and advanced than the combroach gun. This was also a weapon that has been tested by many wars in modern army.

The flintlock rifle was invented by the watchmaker. Later, after continuous improvement, it used flint on the hammer to hit the steel sheet, creating sparks and igniting gunpowder. The Chinese people called it "a squat" at that time. There is no need to mention the benefits. First of all, compared with the traditional flintlock rifle, the flintlock rifle performed as usual in windy conditions and had a higher firing success rate. In addition, it did not have to bring open flames, and the target was not easily exposed at night. The shooter no longer needed to carry a flint several meters long with him, thus reducing the burden on soldiers.

More importantly, flintlock rifles are easier to load, have a higher firing rate, and are safer than flintlock rifles. Shooters can line up in very tight formations and use line tactics to fight the enemy. At the same time, with the popularity of bayonets and hollow square tactics, British infantry can already fight against the best cavalry in the world with the flintlock rifles in their hands without falling behind.

Zhao Bing copied the most "newest" flintlock rifle completely according to his memory. Of course, this is just a structure, not a slight change. After all, the Song squad, Song jin, English, and metric squad are used now. The first sample gun is four feet and five inches long, weighs eight jin and six liang, and has a diameter of half an inch. The stock is basswood, the barrel and firing are made of iron, and other accessories are made of cooked copper.

During the test firing, Zhao Bing also completely imitated the recorded method, using fixed-loaded paper bun bullets and lead-made bullets. The steps are relatively complicated. Generally speaking, first end the musket flat, open the flintlock gunpowder groove, bite the bullet bag with your mouth, pour a little gunpowder into the gunpowder groove, then stand the gun on the ground, load the gunpowder and bullets from the muzzle, compact it with a strip, and then hook the trigger to shoot. Of course, it was not successful in one go. After several adjustments, the fire mechanism was able to be fully connected and the first bullet was successfully shot out.

Sure enough, the weight of the flintlock gun was reduced by half compared to the flintlock gun, and the range was increased to more than 150 steps, but the hit rate did not increase significantly, which was still a difference from the record. So Zhao Bing built five flintlock guns according to the sample gun, which were adjusted while testing the firing. One was to find a suitable capacity, and the other was to test the fatigue resistance of the barrel and firing mechanism. Until all five guns were scrapped, the only remaining one of the first batch of flintlock guns was left as a souvenir, but enough data was collected for improvement.

Then, according to the collected data, five more experimental guns were built, and bayonets were installed to conduct experiments again. Perhaps the gunman mastered the skills and the hit rate of 100 steps could reach 70%. The average life of the barrel was 500 rounds. After firing 100 rounds, the ignition rate began to decrease. After three hundred rounds, the ignition rate was less than 50%. After inspection, the spring was mainly due to problems.

At this level, Zhao Bing thought it could be used for actual combat. The only thing that still made him dissatisfied was the firing speed, which still did not reach the average speed of three rounds per minute as recorded. Later, the reloading method of the Maori people in New Zealand was adopted. Instead of compacting the gunpowder with a strip, they directly pierced it on the ground after filling it, and sent the projectiles into place with the help of inertia. As a result, after trying for a long time, only Ni Liang, who had the greatest strength, did it.
Chapter completed!