Because Zhu Yijun's time was limited, Chen Ju, the minister of the inner court, selected several people from the attendant's room. According to Zhu Yijun's opinions, he cooperated with Zhang Jing and others in drafting and formulating rules and regulations.
In this rectification, the Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group was reformed from top to bottom. First, the Planning and Finance Department was established in the Attendant's Office to manage the emperor's finances. The Planning and Finance Department included the Human Resources Department, the Asset Management Department, the Operations Department, the Supervision Department, and the Comprehensive Machinery Department.
There are one hundred and sixty people in the main subject.
The entire Planning and Finance Department was headed by Zhang Jing, which was similar to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission in later generations, but had much smaller powers and responsibilities than the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. It was only responsible for the imperial factories, salt fields, imperial stores and other royal industries across the country.
After clarifying the management structure, Zhu Yijun split the entire group and established a steel management group with jurisdiction over all steel plants; a general glass plant with branch plants and so on.
All these branches have established and improved independent financial systems that are responsible for their own profits and losses, and adjust production in accordance with the unified planning of the Planning and Finance Department. At the same time, the supervision force of the Planning and Finance Department has been strengthened to strengthen financial and anti-corruption supervision.
Zhu Yijun worked hard to adapt the management methods of later companies to local conditions as much as possible and put them into use in the Ming Dynasty. Since long-distance information communication cannot be achieved at this time and space, in addition to setting up branch factories, it will also be set up in various mining and collection centers.
Suppliers of raw materials such as materials will also be separated, and free competition will be tried out after financial independence.
Zhu Yijun knows very well that even in the 21st century, the performance of large state-owned enterprises cannot compete with that of private enterprises. Therefore, he still devotes most of his energy to technological upgrading. At this stage, he can only use technological means that are a few steps ahead.
To lead the industrialization of the Wanli Dynasty.
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In addition to clarifying the existing imperial factory and imperial store system, Zhu Yijun also devoted a lot of energy to weapons production.
In the spring of the fourth year of Wanli, the first force to defeat Dong Tuzi was not the Jurchen cavalry that bit Dong Tuzi's main force, but the 1,200 Jizhen dragoons equipped with front-loaded flintlock muskets. After three years,
After much effort, the upgraded version of the gun, including the paper-shell fixed charge, was finally finalized and produced, and the first batch of products was delivered to Ji Zhen.
The firearms of the Ming Dynasty jumped to a big step based on the development of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Basically, they maintained the same progress rate as the West. During the Longqing period, firearms accounted for half of the Ming army's equipment. Qi Jiguang's army had an astonishing proportion of firearms.
Six and a half percent.
Moreover, the firearms troops represented by the Shenji Battalion marked the transformation of the entire Ming army's strategy and tactics around firearms. And Qi Jiguang said, "Having elite soldiers without elite weapons to help them is just a waste of strength." And what he said about
The great emphasis on firearms and the various tactics developed show that compared with Western countries at this time, the development of firearms in China did not lag behind, and could even be said to be on par.
However, due to the lack of theoretical guidance, the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty also showed the characteristics of a hundred flowers blooming and insufficient power.
After Zhu Yijun traveled through time, he quickly pointed out the problems in the development of firearms. He abolished the manufacturing of firearms such as three-eyed blunderbuss, swarm of bees, and jet rockets. Based on bird blunderbuss, he specialized in gunpowder preparation, blunderbuss tube materials, customized gunpowder, and flintlocks.
, rear assembly and other directions.
Regarding the direction of improvement of cannons, Zhu Yijun directed the military strategy and worked hard on the use of cannons, materials of cannons and barrels, and air tightness. In short, like muskets, they must shoot farther, reload faster, and be more powerful.
As for the grenadiers, Zhu Yijun instructed craftsmen to use crude oil products to produce kerosene bottles and cast iron grenades. One is used to set fire, and the other explodes to damage the enemy - these two technologies are of very low level and were the first to be improved.
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After three years of hard work, great progress was finally made in the preparation of gunpowder and steel smelting. In addition, Zhu Yijun's long-term insistence on rewarding skilled craftsmen inspired the innovation enthusiasm of Ming Dynasty craftsmen. In the third year of Wanli, a new version of the bird gun "Wanli Fourteenth Type" was launched.
Finally finalized production.
In terms of firing method, the gun has improved the self-generating fire blunderbuss already equipped with the Ming army. Different from the self-generating fire blunderbuss, a cocking mechanism has been added to make it more reliable. In addition, in order to be as rainproof as possible, a faucet has been installed.
Cover, you can put the flint under the cover - it can only protect against light rain.
In terms of gunpowder, Zhu Yijun initially thought that there was no granular gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty. Later he found out that there was, but it was very troublesome to make: it required manually grinding the prepared gunpowder in a wooden trough 5,500 times, and then adding shochu and puree.
, then grind it hundreds of times, and finally make it into medicinal cakes, which are then divided into cylinders and rolled into pills.
Zhu Yijun definitely couldn't accept this efficiency, but he didn't know how to improve it - and he didn't have the energy to do in-depth research. He could only increase the reward, and finally, stimulated by the reward, a craftsman invented the suspended grinding tool:
A wooden frame fixed with iron hoops has several wooden poles with strong elasticity fixed on it, and a hand-cranked gear is pressed on the edge. When the gear is shaken, the elastic rod is driven downward to hit the gunpowder in the groove - due to the elasticity of the elastic rod.
It is elastic and will automatically reset itself. Repeatedly, one person can defeat dozens of people before.
Later, some craftsmen made the hand crank into a round and wide wheel shape, with grooves inside, and connected it with a belt and a water wheel - directly saving manpower.
With these two inventions, the two craftsmen directly entered a well-off society. This gunpowder grinding method, after adjusting the intensity, could also be used for pounding rice, so this method was quickly spread all over the country.
It is worth mentioning that although the ratio of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty was close to the optimal ratio, there was still a certain difference. Zhu Yijun directly gave the answer that all primary school students in later generations would know. He also asked craftsmen to use medicine for fire gates and cannons.
I continued to experiment with the medication, and finally determined that the ratio he gave was completely correct.
In terms of gun barrels, material is the best solution. Because when Zhu Yijun was in charge of tax collection and administration, he had been to various steel plants - high-end special steel plants, as well as low-end "three high" steel plants, and he also carefully
He checked its raw materials and processes to facilitate cost accounting and find out whether it was tax evasion. Therefore, the first change in materials science he brought to Ming Dynasty was to promote the great development of the steel manufacturing industry.
The new steel-laminated head that Huo Laoshuan bought at the market is a masterpiece of the Royal Iron and Steel Works.
With wrought iron and steel, gun barrels can be made using the rolling method. Later, some craftsmen invented a concave hammer that was aligned up and down. After being driven by animal power or water power, it was possible to directly hammer the rolled thick barrel into thin pieces——
Later rifling was hammered out using this method, but neither Zhu Yijun nor the craftsmen knew this knowledge. Instead, they used steel rods to smooth out the rifling inside the barrel to make it smooth.
The only regret is that the breech-loading gun proposed by Zhu Yijun is currently in a stagnant state due to the lag in chemical development and no effective firing powder and percussion powder have been invented. Zhu Yijun saw that he could not make a breakthrough for a long time, so he ordered the new version of the bird gun Wanli 14th type to be finalized
Production. Previously, Wang Lihai in Liaodong used only a test version before finalization.
The Wanli Type 14 is infinitely close to the classic flintlock gun. There is a purge bar under the barrel, and there is a buckle at the joint to install a bayonet - designed for bayonet use on heavy rainy days.
Because strict quality management was carried out during the entire manufacturing process, this gun finally got rid of the major mistake in the development of firearms caused by lax security and quality management in the late Ming Dynasty of the original time and space - the musket bullets could not penetrate the Mingguang heavy armor.
In this time and space, after repeated quality inspections, the Wanli Fourteenth Model can penetrate the Mingguang Chongkai within fifty steps, and finally be fully finalized and produced.
On the basis of the Wanli Type 14, Zhu Yijun also distributed some rifled "Wanli Type 15" to some Jinyiwei. Because of the rifled gun charge, the disadvantage of slow loading of the gun could not be solved before the front-loading gun was changed to a breech-loading gun.
Solved, so only a thousand rods were produced to be used for assassination and future battlefield sniping, and at the same time to train some sharpshooters.
The 1,200 cavalrymen from Ji Town, armed with spears with hooks at the bottom, grenades and new types of muskets, walked in front of Dong Baldzi and set up their formation.
These were the first pure musketry teams to appear on the Asian continent. They placed new types of muskets on the hooks of their spears to aim, and used the round attack method to draw the first death line in the history of Chinese civilization on the grassland. Although it was the first time they saw it,
Zhenzhang's musketeers still needed the outflanking and cooperation of Li Chengliang's troops, but after receiving the good news, Zhu Yijun knew that what the empire needed now was just the national power to support the war.