The first sounding rocket launch site in human history was located in the large altar in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing's outer city.
The so-called Great Sacrifice Altar is actually the place where the Ming Dynasty worshiped heaven and earth. There is also a Mountains and Rivers Altar next to it. To the south of the Great Sacrifice Altar and the Mountains and Rivers Altar is the Great Teaching Ground, and to the north is the Xiaoling Acropolis. These places are all "cities within cities", that is, "small cities" within the outer city of Nanjing. Of course, this "small city" is compared to the huge city of Nanjing. In today's Europe, it is equivalent to the area of a medium-sized city.
Now of course these four small cities are occupied by Emperor Kangxi.
The Great Sacrifice Altar became the "Rocket City", "Magic City" and "Weapon Testing Ground", under the direct jurisdiction of the Hanlin Academy. Emperor Kangxi also set up a small palace here. Whenever he had time, he would come here to do experiments and research with a group of Taoist priests and scholars.
In addition, the "sugar pharmacists" of the Eight Banners New Army were also trained here - Emperor Kangxi personally watched their training, so no one could be lazy!
The Shanchuan Altar next to the large sacrificial altar was occupied by the Imperial Construction Office. The so-called imperial manufacturing office consists of craftsmen from the Jingshan Gun Manufacturing Office who moved from Beijing, plus a group of craftsmen recruited from the Armed Forces Academy and the left and right blacksmith bureaus of the Eight Banners. Together, they formed a production department. A large arsenal for firearms and common gunpowder.
Every time Emperor Kangxi returned to Nanjing from the Great Sacrifice Altar, he would stop at the Shanchuan Tan Arsenal and personally inspect the products of the arsenal!
Long before the rise of magic, Emperor Kangxi became a firearms expert under the tutelage of Nan Huairen. Now that he has taken a step further by studying "magic firearms", even Nan Huairen can't compare to him.
So it’s not easy to fool around with the fiery eyes of this beheaded little saint!
Under Kangxi's personal supervision, the Shanchuan Tan Arsenal was established as quickly as possible, and the first batch of guns and gunpowder had passed Kangxi's personal inspection and were sent to Shanchuan Tan and the Dajiao River south of the Great Sacrifice Altar. It was handed over to the Eight Banners New Army for use.
The so-called Eight Banners New Army is actually the Eight Banners soldiers, coated slave soldiers, and Green Camp soldiers brought by Kangxi from Hubei, plus the defeated troops who escaped from Jiangxi, plus the Jiangning Banner Army and Jiangnan Green Camp soldiers, stir it up, and then The new army was reorganized. The Yangtze River Navy, headed by Tu Hai, Shi Lang, and Fu Honglie, was also included.
Of course, the Navy has not been reorganized and still maintains its original organization.
After the reorganization, the Army Division of the Eight Banners New Army restored the Eight Banners organization on the surface. That is to say, all the armies were organized into eight banners, and the official name was "the new army of such and such banner".
Each "new army under a certain banner" has two ministers in charge sent by the bodyguard department, and below it there are three commanders, twelve counselors and forty-eight assistant commanders.
In addition, the two ministers in charge of the new army of a certain banner also have two assistant leaders of flags and drums, two assistant leaders of artillery, two assistant leaders of baggage, and two assistant leaders of craftsmen. Therefore, there are fifty-six subordinates under a "new army under a certain banner".
Each deputy chief has a large staff of 300 people, and four deputy chiefs are in charge.
Therefore, a corps of the Eight Banners New Army Army Division has a large establishment of 16,800 people when it is full. If the Eight Banners New Army Army Division is fully assembled, it will have 134,400 people. Including the navy, there are almost 160,000 people!
Of course it is easy to get these two-legged people, but it is not easy to find the money given to them, nor is it easy to get the weapons and equipment.
This is also the reason why Emperor Kangxi held a consultation meeting. He had to ask the Jiangnan gentry for a large sum of money... and sugar!
At the same time, he can't go on a killing spree, he can't "kill people for candy"! Otherwise, all the major sugar producing areas in the world will be in the hands of the enemy!
However, Emperor Kangxi still wanted to show those ignorant Jiangnan gentry that they were powerful before the opening of the first Jiangnan Consultative Assembly.
Kangxi had to let them know that this emperor was very powerful. Not only did he have heavenly soldiers, but he also had spells that could "explore the heights of the sky"!
The Western mission led by Father Philip just happened to catch up, so let’s experience the power of the heavenly soldiers and heavenly magic together!
The first thing these imperialist seedlings saw was not the "black magic rocket", but the new Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers lined up outside the altar, waiting to be reviewed by Emperor Kangxi and the gentry from all over the country.
Kangxi mobilized a total of 80,000 people, and placed 20,000 on each side of the large sacrificial altar! These 80,000 people all put on brand-new cloth armor, held bright eight-color dragon flags, and carried freshly painted four-color weapons (the wooden poles were painted in four colors: yellow, white, red, and blue). , the cavalry among them are also riding Mongolian horses, and various polished artillery are placed in front of each square!
A total of 80,000 slaves, wearing brand-new eight-color military uniforms, carrying bright flags, carrying four-color lacquered weapons, arranged neat formations, which looked very intimidating.
It turns out that the Qing Dynasty did not have a country without defense, but that all the troops were transferred to Nanjing...
After following Nan Huairen and Luo Dongni around the outside of the Great Sacrifice Altar, all the foreigners in the Western Mission stopped talking and stood obediently outside the east gate of the Great Sacrifice Altar, waiting for Emperor Kangxi Come.
After waiting for who knows how long, just when the foreign envoy's legs were a little sore from standing, cheers suddenly sounded.
"Long live Long live Long live......"
The cheers were like waves, one after another, starting from the west side of the great altar, and then quickly spreading to all sides of the great altar. Eighty thousand slaves cheered in unison. This momentum was really intimidating!
The cheers continued for a while, and when the sound gradually died down, Emperor Kangxi Kang Mazi of the Qing Dynasty was already leading a group of people carrying flintlock muskets on their shoulders, wearing yellow jackets and chainmail, carrying bows and arrows, knives, and swords at their waists. The imperial guards of Bronze Hammer (high imitation grenade hammer) came slowly on horseback. Behind them, there were several groups of gentry wearing mandarin jackets and melon skin caps. In front of each group of gentry was a man in a yellow mandarin jacket holding a flag with the words "Gentlemen of a certain province" tattooed on it.
There are eleven such flags in total, namely "Jiangsu Yigentry", "Anhui Yigentry", "Zhejiang Yigentry", "Henan Yigentry", "Shandong Yigentry", "Zhili Yigentry", "Shanxi Yigentry" "Yi gentry", "Shaanxi Yi gentry", "Gansu Yi gentry", "Manchuria Yi gentry", "Mongolia Yi gentry".
Of course, except for the real Yishen in Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang provinces, the Yishen in the other provinces and places are all high imitations, all pretended to be by minions in the Eight Banners New Army.
But even though there are so many high-quality imitations of the gentry, they have already made progress that is a bit outrageous!
At this time, Kangxi had already rode in front of the members of the Western mission, and then all the foreigners knelt down. No one was bothered about whether to kneel on one knee or on both knees. Anyway, it was just half shorter.
Kangxi reined in his royal horse, and then asked with a smile on the horse: "Are you the envoys of the joint mission of Western countries? Why did you come to the Qing Dynasty?"
Kangxi asked the question in Chinese, deliberately raising his voice so that the Han gentry behind him could hear.
Nan Huairen translated it into Latin on the spot.
"Your Majesty, we...we are here to pay tribute!"
"Great Emperor, we have brought you our country's most advanced firearms..."
"Your Majesty the Great Emperor, on behalf of King Louis of France, I send you the most exquisite gift!"
"Your Majesty the Great Emperor, on behalf of the Pope of Rome, I send you a golden cross that can resist black magic..."
"Your Majesty the Great Emperor, the Kingdom of Spain hopes to form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty!"
"Your Majesty the Great Emperor, the Kingdom of Portugal sincerely requests to start trade with the Qing Dynasty..."
Emperor Kangxi could actually understand Latin, so he smiled and said without waiting for Nan Huairen to translate: "Has anyone over there in the West explored the sky? Does anyone know how high the sky is? Does anyone know how far away the sun, moon and stars are? Really? I just want to explore the sky today... Of course, I am not going up there to explore, I am just sending a rocket to have a preliminary exploration. You are just in time, so why not take a look together!"
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