At least, I don't need to worry about the bandits colluding with the Manchus and attacking Shanhaiguan in the short term.
And for intruders, it may not be a bad thing.
At least they can rest assured that to the north, Wu Sangui's Guan Ning cavalry still needs to be defended, but at least they don't need to worry about the Manchus entering the country in large numbers!
It can be said that you have obtained what you want!
But this balance can easily be broken!
Zhu Cixiang knew this very well, so he wanted to develop well before the balance was broken.
The Qing Dynasty's entry into the country was already unstoppable.
From the time Dashun occupied the capital, the countdown to Manchu Qing's entry into the customs had already begun, even if he and Dashun had already negotiated terms.
But Wu Sangui's side...
A glimmer of light flashed in Zhu Cixi's eyes.
Will this guy borrow troops from the Manchu Qing Dynasty and surrender the bandits like he did in the original history?
Zhu Cixiang didn't know, but even if he knew.
In fact, Wu Sangui couldn't last long. Faced with the intruders and the Qing Dynasty's double-team, he would eventually choose one side to join.
Most likely it was the Manchu Qing Dynasty who had some relationship with the imperial court!
Thinking of this, Zhu Cixiang sighed slightly.
He can give orders to Wu Sangui.
But he couldn't change Wu Sangui's mind.
As for using Wu Sangui's father and Chen Yuanyuan to threaten him, this is not what the court should do.
Thinking of this, Zhu Cixiang sighed inwardly, shook his head, and temporarily dismissed this idea from his mind.
"Li Xi, how is the cannon casting done at Tang Ruowang's side?"
Zhu Cixiang looked at Li Xi and asked.
Li Xi pondered for a moment, looked at Zhu Cixiang in front of him and said, "Your Highness, there is something wrong with Tang Ruowang's mold..."
Li Xi smiled bitterly for a while, looked at Zhu Cixiang in front of him and said.
"We use traditional clay mold casting, and so do our craftsmen, but the finished product..."
Li Xi hesitated for a moment.
"You'd better go see it yourself!"
Li Xi sighed slightly and said to Zhu Cixiang in front of him.
"Okay! I'll go take a look!"
With that said, Zhu Cixi stood up, and Li Xi took Zhu Cixiang to a craftsman's workshop in Qingzhou Mansion.
"That's not the case! There is something wrong with your mold!"
As soon as he reached the door of the craftsman's workshop, Zhu Cixi heard Tang Ruowang's somewhat excited voice coming from inside the workshop.
Zhu Cixiang frowned slightly, but his expression did not change much.
He calmly continued walking towards the workshop.
As soon as he walked into the workshop, Zhu Cixi saw a mess of gun barrels on the ground. Many of the gun barrels were not formed at all, and some of the gun barrels were still pitted.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhu Cixiang frowned slightly.
After pondering for a moment, he slowly walked into the workshop.
Seeing Tang Ruowang talking nonstop to the craftsmen in front of him.
"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
The craftsmen next to him recognized Zhu Cixiang almost immediately, and their expressions suddenly changed. They all knelt down towards Zhu Cixiang in front of them.
Tang Ruowang hesitated slightly, and he quickly turned around and knelt down towards Zhu Cixiang in front of him.
"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
"No gift required!"
Zhu Cixiang looked at the craftsmen and Tang Ruowang in front of him calmly and said.
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
The surrounding craftsmen and Tang Ruowang all stood up.
At this time, these craftsmen were trembling slightly, and no one dared to raise their head and look at Zhu Cihong who was standing aside.
Zhu Cixiang's eyes just glanced at the people around him.
"what happened?"
These craftsmen were all craftsmen he brought from Beijing, and each of them was skilled in craftsmanship. In Zhu Cixiang's view, these people were considered treasures.
Moreover, Tang Ruowang had indeed helped his father cast the cannon before, so why did something go wrong here?
With a hint of doubt in his eyes, Zhu Cixi glanced at Tang Ruowang in front of him and the craftsmen next to him.
Tang Ruowang hesitated for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said to Zhu Cihong in front of him: "Your Highness, these people don't quite understand what I mean. When I was casting cannons, the old craftsman could understand what he said very easily.
Do it! But these people..."
As he spoke, Tang Ruowang sighed slightly, with a look of helplessness on his face.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Zhu Cixiang's expression did not change. He just turned his head calmly and looked at the craftsmen on the side, and then glanced at the clay mold on the ground.
"Which of you will lose the wax method?"
"Me me me!"
At this time, a craftsman next to him quickly stood up and said quickly to Zhu Cixiang in front of him.
"Then first use the lost wax method to cast a batch of cannons. Although the cost is higher, let's use them first! We will slowly study other methods! See if they can be made with iron molds! If anyone can research it
The method of making gun barrels from iron molds will be given to a baron, a thousand households will be granted, and a thousand taels of silver will be given!"
Zhu Cixiang said calmly to the people in front of him.
Iron mold???
Including Tang Ruowang, the craftsmen around him suddenly looked at each other with doubts in their eyes.
How to use iron mold to cast gun barrel? Is it real or fake?
However, Zhu Cixiang did not waste any more time here. He had heard of iron mold casting in his previous life, but did not know about this process. If he knew about this process, Zhu Cixiang would definitely give him some advice.
We can only let them develop on their own.
Zhu Cixiang sighed inwardly.
"Continue your research!"
After finishing speaking, Zhu Cixi left the workshop here.
On the other side, in Qingzhou City, a new school building is being built. This is the new campus of Huangming Zhicheng University, a hope!
Zhu Cihong just took a look and came to Wang Zheng and Song Yingxing's current residence, or the research institute.
As soon as he walked into the yard, Zhu Cixiang saw a huge iron guy. Seeing this iron guy, Zhu Cixiang was slightly stunned. With a smile on his face, he asked Wang Zheng and Song Yingxing who were discussing at the side with a smile:
"Two gentlemen, what are you discussing?"
"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
Looking at Zhu Cixiang, the two people in front of them quickly saluted Zhu Cixiang in front of them.
“No gifts, no gifts!”
Zhu Cixiang smiled slightly, looked at the two people in front of him and said.
“How’s the research going??”
Hearing Zhu Cixiang's words, the two people in front of them smiled bitterly and shouted at Zhu Cixiang who was in front of them.
"Your Highness, the drawings you gave are indeed good drawings, but the problem now is that the parts of this machine are extremely precise, and we do not have such fine processing technology today.
Many parts can only be cast using the lost wax method, and even so, the precision is still a bit poor in many cases!"
