Chapter 452 Qianlong's worries
The beauty of the Old Summer Palace cannot neutralize Qianlong's anger. Of course, there are more unwillingness and resentment in his heart!
Kang Mazi spent half his life to create the imperial rice seeds. From the growth cycle to the quality and yield, the imperial rice seeds can be called a very good rice. This has always been one of the highlights of Daqingguo's publicity, and it is a very good proof of their love for the people and farmers.
But now with the emergence of the so-called "golden seed", is the imperial rice seed a big deal?
Even Qianlong would rather have no imperial rice seeds in this world because this set of comparisons was omitted.
Now that there are golden seeds in the world, you can know with your toes that many people will definitely compare golden seeds with imperial rice seeds.
What is the final conclusion, and what impact will such a conclusion have...
Qianlong felt cold when he thought about it.
And there was more resentment and resentment in his heart.
As a "learning" emperor, although Qianlong was not an expert in agriculture, he was still very clear about the difficulty of improving grain seeds. As Kang Mazi, he had to go through half a lifetime to produce a royal rice. How could the Zhao family have produced such an excellent grain seed so quickly?
The yield per mu is about five stones, which is completely beaten and crushed.
Qianlong did not believe in the Zhao family's good race at first, thinking it was nonsense, thinking that it was the Zhao family who was fooling people. Until more and more news was delivered to him, and until Muharto's "sacrifice for his own life" was sent to the capital, he realized that high-yield wheat was real.
It was already a little late at that time, and the data on the yield of five stones per mu had already spread in the Central Plains.
Qianlong didn't believe in any blessings from God. Even if God really wanted to bring blessings, it would only fall on his head. Qianlong only felt that there must be a lot of tricks inside, so Zhao Liang was a very tricky person himself?
So he felt particularly angry.
My grandfather, whom I admire the most, only created an imperial rice seed in half a lifetime. How many days has the Zhao family become famous?
How much resources can they mobilize?
As a result, the gold seeds with a yield of five stones per mu were created. How could Qianlong not envy or hate?
But the road has been completed and things have come to this point. No matter how much resentment is, it is just a barking of a dog, and it is an incompetent fury.
Although Qianlong had mixed reputations and criticisms in later generations, he was also a first-class figure among the emperor in terms of his political literacy.
You can criticize many of his policies, many political behaviors, personal extravagance, etc., but you cannot use this to completely deny such a person.
After Qianlong realized the fact that the five stones of gold seeds produced per mu were real, he immediately thought of the consequences.
The secret report sent from the sticker later also verified his concerns.
The conscription stations in various parts of the Zhao family were overcrowded.
Tens of thousands of young and strong laborers are waiting to join the army and work hard for the old Zhao family, so that the family can get the gold seeds as soon as possible.
And the people all reacted so. Qianlong could think of what would happen in the traitor army.
The combat power of those traitors is already stronger than that of the official army, so aren't they stronger now?
If you want to fight with the court again, wouldn’t the official army be even more unmatched?
"New Army, New Army!"
In this case, Qianlong found that his most successful calculation method seemed to be the new army.
He had ordered all the rhubarb and all the tea bricks he could collect to Chiktu, and then he received two million taels of silver from the merchants in Hedong, half of which was given to Fu Kang'an, and the other half was also given to Chiktu.
The purpose is naturally to buy guns and arms from the Russians.
Buying is always easier, faster and more time-saving than making.
What Daqingguo needs most now is time-saving and quickness, so even though Qianlong looked down on Russia, he cut off the absolute Russian trade several times, and believed that it could control Russia with rhubarb. Although it was a bit small, it could explain the problem. Now he must put his hope on Russia.
Of course, there are a large number of skilled craftsmen in the Office of the Interior Affairs Office, such as flintlock rifles and rifled rifles, which can be easily produced.
But the output of the skilled craftsmen in the Ministry of Internal Affairs is too few than that of the entire Qing army.
They can easily meet the needs of the emperor, including princes, etc., but how many of those people can add together?
The Qing Dynasty still had strong manpower and material reserves in Guanzhong, Hedong, Zhili, and the three eastern provinces. However, with their administrative power, it would be too difficult to quickly transform those things into qualified muskets and cannons one by one, and the muskets were flintlocks.
Not to mention anything else, just finding enough qualified flint in a short period of time would be very difficult for the Qing Dynasty.
Even though this thing is common all over the country, it is not easy to find a high-quality flint mine.
Then mining and grinding of flint into a suitable shape is another trouble, because the number is still tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
A piece of high-grade flint must be cut and repaired after a dozen shots. If you cut more times, you have to replace it with a new one, just like a pencil tip.
Whether flintlock rifles can be popularized depends on whether God rewards a high-quality flint mine, otherwise you have to find a way elsewhere. In the 178th century, in order to meet the needs of flintlock rifles, some countries had to import flint from abroad at high prices.
With such a huge workload, the current efficiency of the Qing Dynasty will be completed in the year of the monkey and horse months?
Besides, the leaf spring requirements of the flintlock rifle are also very strict, and medium and high carbon steel is required for tempering and quality treatment to ensure that the leaf spring can maintain sufficient elasticity after repeated firing.
If the management system is relaxed, the quality will decline sharply. If there is a problem with the leaf spring, it is directly related to the performance of the flintlock rifle on the battlefield!
Therefore, in a sense, the "built" guns and cannons by the Qing Dynasty may not be like "buying" guns and cannons!
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Kaifeng.
On the wide playground, thousands of new recruits were divided into hundreds of people, and they were conducting training in different groups.
Under the leadership of their respective instructors and officers, they trained military postures, queues, shooting, bayonets, throw bombs, dig trenches, build bases...
The entire playground was filled with footsteps, shouts of killing, commands, and even shouts of scolding.
The dust flew up in the sun with drops of sweat, and the strong smell of sweat dissipated with the wind.
After the summer harvest, another group of new recruits entered the Chen army's military camp. Because most of them came for seeds, they had a nickname - Golden Seed.
Compared with the Eight Banners New Army of the Qing Dynasty, Chen's new recruits made too fast progress.
Chapter completed!