His Majesty's idea of recreating a prosperous age has been gone for a day or two, but Bi Maokang still can't fully understand it.
Zhu Youxiao looked at Bi Maokang, who looked confused, and began to give a more popular explanation.
He compared the current structure and situation of the world to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period a thousand years ago, where the strong survived and the weak were eliminated.
It is a good thing that the emperor has the ambition and ambition to strive for hegemony and progress.
But if you want to achieve something too much and go to extremes, it will be a very scary thing. You may follow in the footsteps of Emperor Sui Yang!
"Your Majesty, I think we should discuss this matter with the six ministers of the cabinet first, and don't make a rash decision. We have no understanding of Western countries!"
Just because you don't understand doesn't mean I don't understand. Zhu Youxiao smiled lightly, patted his shoulders twice and said:
"Don't worry, I'm not a kind person, I will be measured!"
As soon as I stepped out of the factory door and wanted to leave, I saw a young craftsman waiting at the door holding a firegun.
This man seems to be Bi Maokang's follower and has followed him all the way. The gun he is holding is a bit strange.
Zhu Youxiao asked curiously. At this moment, Bi Maokang suddenly remembered that he still had good news to tell the emperor!
"Your Majesty, this is a disciple that I have accepted. He is very talented, very interested in firearms, and also has a certain talent. I want to teach him all I have learned throughout my life!"
"The fire gun in his hand is a magical gun specially made for cavalry!"
"Since he is the person that Bi Aiqing likes and praises, he must be a good person among people. I hope he can be better than his predecessor, hahahaha!"
Bi Maokang even praised Miao, but the joy on his face became more and more intense.
Zhu Youxiao walked up to the young man, looked at it and asked:
"What's your name!"
"Your Majesty, my name is Wu Fa. He is seventeen years old this year. His ancestors were all official craftsmen at Wang Gong Factory!"
Wu Fa put down his gun, knelt on the ground and replied sonorously.
"Okay, neither humble nor arrogant. He didn't panic at all when he saw me. He seems to have a big heart. Aiqing has found a good disciple!"
After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he raised his hand slightly to indicate that Wu Fa could get back on his feet.
Then he picked up the gun on the ground and began to look at it.
"What Ai Qing just said is that it is tailor-made for cavalry. Can you explain to me the difference between it and the one used by the sergeants of the Shenji Battalion?"
Bi Maokang quickly stepped forward and explained:
"Your Majesty, the divine weapon used by the cavalry is lighter and the body of the fire gun is much shorter. Using it on a war horse will not only improve the accuracy, but also make it more stable and easier!"
Zhu Youxiao immediately asked people to find Shenwu guns used by infantry for comparison, and asked the guards to try two guns on the spot. It was exactly as Bi Maokang said.
Zhu Youxiao was very happy, this was another breakthrough improvement.
If he remembered correctly, no flintlock gun similar to this was developed in Europe specifically for cavalry.
"This is a great achievement. The person who improved and made this gun must be Ai Qing. Ai Qing is indeed the pillar of the country!"
"Your Majesty, although I was involved, I don't dare to claim credit for this. This cavalry gun is mainly my apprentice. The credit of Wufa is that he improved it after studying day and night!"
"It is precisely because he improved this gun that I accepted him as my apprentice and taught him personally!"
This time, Zhu Youxiao was really impressed. He didn't expect that this young man of similar age could achieve such an achievement.
It seems that his talent for firearms is indeed unparalleled.
This time he really found a treasure. If he can train him well, his future talents will definitely be no worse than his master's.
After this incident, Wu Fa had left a deep impression in his mind. This young man would become the pillar of the arsenal in the future and the leader of weapons innovation in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youxiao rewarded him with a large sum of money on the spot, encouraged and praised him in person, and then left with this improved divine weapon.
Under the leadership of Bi Maokang, Zhu Youxiao walked around the entire factory area and got a more detailed understanding of the current arsenal.
There are twelve factories alone, more than twenty warehouses for storing weapons and equipment, and countless places for storing gunpowder raw materials.
The basin he had designated before was now basically full of buildings. On the outside was a military camp, and inside was an arsenal with high walls.
At the entrance of the valley, a strong walled city was built. The walls of the wall were five meters high, and trenches were dug specifically for defense.
Wei Zhongxian still had nothing to say when doing things. Although this man was an old gangster, he could still distinguish the important from the important.
Under his leadership and expansion, the arsenal has indeed prospered, completely replacing the former Wang Gong Factory and Ordnance Bureau.
The residential houses are five miles away from the factory area and are built in the style of a village. There is no information about them in the fish scale register of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The people living here are the families of craftsmen. In order to prevent some bloody things from happening in the arsenal, Zhu Youxiao had to try his best to keep all information confidential.
He merged the Wang Gong Factory and the Ordnance Bureau, but it cut off many people's financial resources, and he gritted his teeth at those people who didn't hate him.
If they were really desperate and threatened with kidnapping, there might be an explosion and fire or something like that one day.
Wei Zhongxian also had an insight into the emperor's true thoughts, so among the family members of the craftsmen living here, there were some people from Dongchang who were secretly monitoring.
There are also troops patrolling in a radius of several miles to ensure that the location information here is not exposed.
And because of the large number of people, residential buildings are still being expanded.
This is not because the construction funds are not in place, but because the materials are not in place. In order to not attract attention, the construction materials are purchased in batches by region.
Zhu Youxiao made a brief inspection and saw that their lives were stable and their hearts were stable before leaving.
On the way out, Zhu Youxiao finally asked about the five million taels.
"Your Majesty, this budget report was indeed written by me, but I am not a lion talking loudly!"
"I have carefully calculated that to make three divine weapons, nearly twenty taels of silver will be needed!"
"His Majesty's Yulin Army will need at least 50,000 Shenwu Fire Guns to equip it in the short term, and we need at least one million taels of silver here!"
"I have not yet included the wear and tear and scraps. If I included these, it would cost at least several hundred thousand taels!"
"To be honest with you, Your Majesty, out of the ten finished products of the divine weapon, three are guaranteed to be unqualified, and some are directly reduced to scrap and cannot be used at all!"
"Others require later debugging, correction and proofreading before they can be delivered to the army!"
"When the army goes to war, the blunderbuss will inevitably wear out and require maintenance. The spare parts and blunderbuss tubes are also a huge expense!"
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