Make up for what I owed yesterday
"It's absolutely true. My slave sent someone to buy ten kilograms of rice from that Xinghe Supermarket. It's rice pounded from three years old rice. This rice isn't very tasty, but it's indeed fine white rice with very fine grains. It's full, and it's very filling after eating. My servant brought some to His Majesty." Li Yongfang took out a small linen bag from his arms, containing half a catty of white rice, and handed it to the guard, who inspected it and handed it to Huang Taiji.
The word food is what most interests Huang Taiji. He has been worrying about food since he sat on this throne.
Huang Taiji put his hand into the small linen bag and took out a handful of rice. The rice grains flowed back into the bag from between his fingers. This rice was not fragrant and had no fragrance, but the grains were large and very full, far exceeding the local rice in Liaodong.
Huang Taiji thought about it carefully and realized that even the Jiangnan rice trafficked from the Ming Dynasty was not as good as this rice, which meant that this rice grew very well, had sufficient fertilizer, and had a high yield per mu. The reason is very simple. The number of grains on each rice plant is similar. If the rice grains are full and large, the yield will be high.
He doesn't care whether it tastes good or not, whether he wants to eat anything or not. The key is to feed his group of tigers and wolves. As long as he can eat enough, it doesn't matter whether it tastes good or not.
"Can this kind of rice be purchased in large quantities and shipped to Liaodong?" Huang Taiji asked.
"Your Majesty, it's difficult. The low-priced rice in Xinghe Supermarket requires users to buy it with household subsidies. First, use the household subsidy to get a grain book, and then each person with the grain book can buy ten kilograms of white rice per day. The purchase limit of corn crumbs and cornmeal is 20 kilograms. Jin. Every time a purchase is made, a stamp is stamped. Moreover, there is a picture of the person in charge of the food in the food book. The painting is lifelike and exactly like a real person. I don’t know how to get it. People in the supermarket can tell at a glance whether he is the designated purchaser of this family. Even if you want to fake your name, you can’t.”
It was the first time that Huang Taiji heard that a rice seller could be so meticulous in his work. He was stunned.
"This must have been opened secretly by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to stabilize the price of rice in the capital. They strictly limited the purchase quantity to prevent merchants from making large purchases and then trafficking them to other places." Huang Taiji thought carefully for a while , continued. "I will send someone to contact them to see if they can buy rice, and then let the Fan family come forward to try."
Li Yongfang knew that this was absolutely impossible. From the analysis of Yang Fan's battle against Rock Beach, it was absolutely impossible for him to cooperate with the Qing Dynasty. But he didn't want to make Huang Taiji unhappy, so in the end he didn't say anything and bowed to accept the order.
"Also check where this kind of rice is grown and see if it can be grown in Liaodong. I think this round rice should be japonica rice suitable for growing in the north. If it can be grown along the Liaohe River, it will greatly improve the food shortage in the Qing Dynasty. problem. We can find a way to get the rice seeds."
Li Yongfang nodded repeatedly, "Your majesty is wise, I have carefully studied this white rice. It was pounded very carefully and a lot of bran was removed. If calculated by calculation, the yield of this rice seed is more than 30% higher than the existing rice."
Huang Taiji nodded, expressing satisfaction with his work.
"Have you figured out how we defeated the Rock Beach battle?" Huang Taiji continued to ask.
"Your Majesty, one Jia La and more than a thousand soldiers who participated in the battle were all killed in the battle. No one left the battlefield alive. Therefore, what happened on the battlefield has never been clarified. Alinbao was the first to retreat. The subsequent battles They did not participate. Later, our army was defeated and the whole army was wiped out. Alinbao fled back with the remaining soldiers. He brought back a strange magic gun." Li Yongfang said.
"Magic gun! Didn't the Ming army already replace the three-eyed gun? Jiubian doesn't have much use for it." Huang Taiji said strangely.
He knew that the magic gun was equipped with troops during the Yongle period, and it was more than two hundred years ago.
There has been no improvement in the accuracy. If the target exceeds three feet, I don't know where it will go.
Li Yongfang took out a cylindrical object wrapped in silk from his arms.
Opening it carefully, it was revealed that the barrel of a nine-section repeating gun was broken into two pieces. He handed the barrel of the gun to the guard. The guard handed it over to Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji studied it carefully and found that the diagonally broken parts matched up, but there were a few pieces missing, which looked like they were caused by the explosion of the barrel.
The barrel of this gun is cast like a bamboo joint, very smooth, with no burrs at all, and excellent workmanship. There are nine small holes on the side, I don’t know what they are for.
Li Yongfang saw Huang Taiji frowning and explained: "After I got this broken barrel, I called the craftsmen to analyze it carefully. The scientific name of this kind of fire gun is the Jiujie Repeating Gun. It can load nine rounds at a time. From the fuse port on the side, use the fire rod to ignite and launch it one by one. It can be launched nine times between three and five breaths. The firepower is unparalleled. "
Huang Taiji took a breath of air and fired nine times in a row between three and five breaths!
The continuity of this firepower means even the cavalry can't charge forward.
This is simply the nemesis of the Eight Banners.
Li Yongfang continued to explain: "According to the people in Alinbao, even triple armor can't block the shots of this kind of fire gun. No matter how strong people are, they will fall down. They just suffered a big loss in close combat."
Huang Taiji rubbed the broken black barrel of the gun that was broken into two pieces. It seems that I can't put it down.
This gun barrel is lighter than the three-eyed gun, and its firepower is three times more powerful than the three-eyed gun. It can also be used as a long gun by attaching a gun tip.
What a good thing.
If Yang Fan were here, he would probably die laughing. This is his first batch of works, so they have already been eliminated. This one is not even as good as the later improved one with a butt. My team training has already eliminated the fire door guns and started to replace them with flintlock guns. Huang Taiji was actually interested in his own Huomen Gun.
"Can the Qing Dynasty cast this kind of fire blunderbuss?" Huang Taiji asked after rubbing it for a long time.
"It's hard for me to say this. After all, our Qing Dynasty is not as good as the Ming Dynasty in iron-making and casting, and there are too few craftsmen who know firearms." Li Yongfang said after considering.
"I will allocate you enough manpower and enough iron materials. If you go to do this, you must imitate it." Huang Taiji said decisively.
"My slave must do his best to imitate this kind of military weapon as soon as possible." Li Yongfang said loudly.
Li Yongfang lowered his head and sneered in an unknown corner of his mouth. Even if you want to kick me away to make way for the newcomers, I always have something that you have to pay attention to.
He secretly made up his mind to get this kind of firearm out, and then take the newly established firearms force into his own hands.
In the past two years, his status in the Qing Dynasty has been deteriorating. With the death of King Lao Han, these old ministers have been increasingly marginalized. He figured out that the only thing he could rely on in this cruel land was his own strength.
Relying on the emperor is unreliable.
I have made so many meritorious deeds for the Qing Dynasty, but in the end I didn't step aside. If what he holds in his hand is not the Xitangzi Intelligence Network but a powerful firearms force, who dares not to take himself seriously.
