Zhu Qiyu walked into the Wenhua Hall, saw his son with a gloomy face, and then saw the senior generals of the Jinyiwei and the commander of the young army Wang Yue and others who were kneeling on the ground with a panic-stricken expression, preparing to salute him. Zhu Qiyu's heart tightened.
The atmosphere is not right.
What happened?
Huh~
Since it is a big deal, it has nothing to do with me. The division of labor between father and son is trivial political affairs, which are the father's, and those related to foreign strategy and national reform policy, which are the son's.
So Zhu Qiyu turned around and left, "Oh, I forgot something. I haven't gone to pay my respects to the queen mother yet."
Slip away...
The generals of Jinyiwei are secretly worried, Your Majesty can at least intercede with us.
Zhu Jianji paid no attention to Zhu Qiyu, who was coming and going like the wind, and looked at the two brothers Zhuang Zhong and Zhuang Bei: "What did Gu tell you at the beginning, and what did you do!"
The two brothers were frightened and hurriedly knelt down, "Your Highness, calm down."
Zhu Jianji was simply speechless.
There were young troops guarding the area outside the East Palace Military Research Institute, and the Imperial Guards and Tiqi were sent to lurk within the Military Research Institute. As a result of such strict defense, some workers on the Dongfeng rifle production line still died.
It was a sudden death, but everyone knew it.
Same as Gasol.
They were all silenced!
Who is plagiarizing Ming Dynasty’s firearm technology?
Zhu Jianji couldn't find anyone to suspect for a while.
Shi Xin and Hang Min hurried over. After saluting, Shi Xin said: "Your Highness, the craftsmen who died were all workers with core technologies of the production line. The technical and theoretical knowledge these craftsmen mastered happened to be the entire production process of Dongfeng rifles.
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Zhu Jianji said with a gloomy face, "I know!"
Shi Xin hurriedly looked at Hang Min for help.
Hang Min coughed and said, "Your Highness, there is no need to worry. I thought about it on the way here. There are not many forces capable of doing such detailed espionage in the Ming Dynasty. They are either Mongolian tribes or
The Jurchens in the north, or Annan, or even Japan, but no matter which force they are, they have plagiarized the production technology of the Dongfeng Rifle, which is not necessarily a good thing."
Zhu Jianji: "???"
Are you kidding me?
In anger, he didn't care that Hang Min was his uncle, and said coldly: "You said it lightly!"
I traveled to the Ming Dynasty, and finally used my weak knowledge of firearms to create the Migne rifle with the concerted efforts of all the talents in the Military Research Institute, putting the Ming Dynasty at the forefront of the firearms era.
As a result, the technology was stolen within just a few years.
In this way, how did Ming Dynasty maintain its leading position in the world?
And no matter who steals the production technology of the Minie rifle, it is possible that it will spread to Europe. With the Europeans' obsession with firearms, they may be ahead of the East again.
Then China will not be able to reap the dividends of the Age of Sail!
This is what Zhu Jianji is worried about.
Although Hang Min was scolded by the prince, he knew that the prince had lost his temper in anger. He was not dissatisfied with his uncle, nor was he anxious. He said: "Your Highness, the craftsmen who died were all on the old production line. In fact, since His Highness's expedition to Taiwan
After returning, he pointed out the problem of the scrap rate of Dongfeng rifles. Under the leadership of Shi Yuanling, the Donggong Military Research Institute has been conducting raids. The problem has been identified and solved, and a new production line can be launched at any time. Thinking about it from another angle, if it is Mo
The North, Jurchens, Annan and Japan stole the technology, but their steel-making technology could not meet the demand. Even if they forced large-scale production of Dongfeng rifles, they found that more than half of them were scrapped after several wars. Do these foreign countries have this?
Does the country have the strength to bear this loss?”
After a pause, "Suppose the Mongolian tribes in Mobei or the Jurchens stole the technology. Then they want to produce Dongfeng rifles. Do they have enough steel? What if they don't have steel? Will they melt down all the swords and build Dongfeng in a desperate move?
Rifles, but as soon as they entered the battlefield, the Dongfeng rifles they built were widely scrapped, so what combat power did they have left?"
He laughed and said, "Weichen even thinks that this is a good thing
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It's like digging a hole for people to jump in.
Zhu Jianji was stunned for a moment.
What Hang Min said seems to make sense... Now I can only comfort myself like this.
He took a few deep breaths to calm down his emotions, "Anyway, the new Dongfeng rifle must be launched as soon as possible to replace all the equipment for the 20,000 Donggong infantry."
But it's still not safe.
Zhu Jianji thought for a while, "In order to reduce the risk of war failure, the Donggong Military Research Institute's light machine gun project must increase efforts to solve the problems that arise. I hope that after the light machine gun is installed again, there will not be so many problems!"
Shi Xin said: "Your Highness, the problem of the light machine gun has been solved and can be put back online. The heavy machine gun has also achieved some results."
After a pause, "There is also good news. The research and development of heavy firepower artillery has made great progress. The heavy firepower artillery has not been produced because it is limited by steel technology. In the past six months, the steelmaking plant has been fully committed to the development of various special steels, especially
The steel needed by Dengzhou Shipyard has greatly promoted the development of steelmaking technology."
Zhu Jianji hummed.
Where is this?
The steel required for large ships is only the technology for the curvature of the hull steel plate, which is difficult to solve with the current technology. The two shells built by Dengzhou Shipyard are just superficial.
It does not meet the standards for sea voyages.
It has been demolished.
Because the core issues have not yet been resolved: welding and steel plate curvature.
The curvature of steel plates requires continued progress in the steelmaking process.
Welding, not to mention electric welding or argon arc welding, even for the simplest electric welding, the coating required for the welding rod is currently produced with the support of chemical industry technology, so Dengzhou Shipyard wasted a lot of money.
I am still Meng Lang.
The chemical industry must be brought together as soon as possible.
According to the situation of the times and the country's industrial level, the right path is to acquire heavy artillery and land warfare kings.
It is also easier to produce results than steel battleships.
However, the issue of Dongfeng rifle technology being stolen was urgently needed, so he told Liu Jing, "Jinyiwei must mobilize all the details. At all costs, we must find out whether anyone in the neighboring country is ready to produce Dongfeng rifles!"
No matter who it is, as long as someone produces the Dongfeng rifle, it will be the next enemy of Ming Dynasty!
It must not be allowed the opportunity and space to develop.
Liu Jing immediately accepted the order.
Zhu Jianji continued to order, "Over at the East Palace Military Research Institute, pay generous tribute to the dead craftsmen, Jin Yiwei and the young army to strengthen the protection of the Military Research Institute. If something like this happens again, Liu Jing and Wang Yue, you two come to see us.
solitary!"
Liu Jing and Wang Yue hurriedly accepted the order.
Zhu Jianji said to everyone: "Just step back."
After everyone left, Zhu Jianji said to Dai Yi: "Go to Xuan Yu Kang. In addition, Xuan Lu Chunjing, Zhao Chuanjia and Zhu Bidong Palace have an audience."
The chemical industry will start as soon as possible.
The power system also needs to pay close attention.
Whether it is a land battle king or a steel battleship, welding technology is indispensable. With the current industrial level of Ming Dynasty, we can only do electric welding, argon arc welding and so on. Don't even think about it, it is simply impossible.
The good news is that Ming Dynasty's steelmaking industry has made great progress in recent years.
Solve the welding problem and the Land War King can be produced.
Only by solving the problem of steel plate curvature can mass production of steel battleships be possible.
Well, there is a premise.
Steam engines had to be built before these steel behemoths could roam the world.
