Because Zhu Yijun's time was limited, Chen Ju, the traveling minister of the inner court, selected several people from the attendant's room to cooperate with Zhang Jing and others in drafting and formulating rules and regulations according to Zhu Yijun's opinions.
This rectification will lead to top-down reform of the Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group. First of all, a planning and financial office was set up in the attendant's room to manage the emperor's finances. The Planning and Finance Department consists of the Human Resources Department, Asset Management Department, Operations Department, Supervision Department, and Comprehensive Confidentiality Department, with a total of 160 people.
The entire Planning and Finance Department was headed by Zhang Jing, which was similar to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission in later generations, but had much smaller powers and responsibilities than the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. It was only responsible for the royal industries such as imperial factories, salt fields, and imperial stores across the country.
After clarifying the management structure, Zhu Yijun split the entire group and established a steel management group with jurisdiction over all steel plants; a general glass plant with branch plants and so on.
All these branches have established and improved independent financial systems that are responsible for their own profits and losses, and adjust production in accordance with the unified planning of the Planning and Finance Department. At the same time, we will strengthen the supervision force of the Planning and Finance Department and strengthen financial and anti-corruption supervision.
Zhu Yijun worked hard to adapt the management methods of later companies to local conditions as much as possible and put them into use in the Ming Dynasty. Since long-distance information communication is not possible in this time and space, in addition to setting up branch factories, raw material suppliers located in various mining, material collection, etc. locations will also be separated. After financial independence, free competition will be tried out.
Zhu Yijun knows very well that even in the 21st century, the performance of large state-owned enterprises cannot compete with that of private enterprises. Therefore, he still puts most of his energy into technological upgrading. At this stage, he can only use technological means that are a few steps ahead to lead the industrialization of the Wanli Dynasty.
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In addition to clarifying the existing imperial factory and imperial store system, Zhu Yijun also invested a lot of energy in weapons production.
In the spring of the fourth year of Wanli, the first force to defeat Dong Tuzi was not the Jurchen cavalry that bit Dong Tuzi's main force, but the 1,200 Jizhen dragoons equipped with forward-loaded flintlock muskets. After more than three years of hard work, the upgraded version of the gun, including the paper-shell fixed charge, was finally finalized and produced, and the first batch of products was delivered to Jizhen.
The firearms of the Ming Dynasty jumped to a big level based on the development of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Basically maintaining the same pace of progress as the West. During the Longqing period, firearms accounted for half of the equipment of the Ming army. The firearms ratio of Qi Jiguang's troops reached an astonishing 65%.
Moreover, the firearms troops represented by the Shenji Battalion marked the transformation of the entire Ming army's strategy and tactics around firearms. Qi Jiguang's words, "Having elite soldiers without elite weapons to help them is just a waste of strength." As well as his great emphasis on firearms and the various tactics he developed, all show that the development of firearms in China at this time was compared with Western countries. Not lagging behind, it can even be said to be keeping pace.
However, due to the lack of theoretical guidance, the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty also showed the characteristics of a hundred flowers blooming and insufficient power.
After Zhu Yijun traveled through time, he quickly pointed out the problems in the development of firearms. He abolished the manufacturing of three-eyed blunderbuss, swarm of bees, rockets and other firearms, and focused on bird blunderbuss, specializing in gunpowder preparation, blunderbuss tube materials, customized gunpowder, and flintlocks. , rear assembly and other directions.
Regarding the direction of the improvement of cannons, Zhu Yijun guided the war situation and worked hard on the artillery's medicine, gun and barrel materials, and air tightness. In short, like the cannon, it must shoot farther, reload faster, and be more powerful.
As for the grenadiers, Zhu Yijun instructed craftsmen to use crude oil products to produce kerosene bottles and cast iron grenades. One is used to set fire, and the other explodes to damage the enemy. These two technologies are of very low level and were the first to be improved. .
After three years of hard work, great progress was finally made in the preparation of gunpowder and steel smelting. In addition, Zhu Yijun's long-term insistence on rewarding skilled craftsmen inspired the innovation enthusiasm of Ming Dynasty craftsmen. In the third year of Wanli, a new version of the bird gun "Wanli Fourteenth Type" was produced. Finally finalized production.
In terms of firing method, the gun improved the self-generating fire blunderbuss already equipped with the Ming army. Different from the self-generating fire blunderbuss, a cocking mechanism was added to make it more reliable. In addition, in order to be as rainproof as possible, a faucet cover was installed, and the flint can be placed under the cover - it can only protect against light rain.
In terms of gunpowder, Zhu Yijun initially thought that there was no granular gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty. Later he found out that there was, but it was very troublesome to make: it required manually grinding the prepared gunpowder in a wooden vat 5,500 times, and then adding shochu and puree. , then grind it hundreds of times, and finally make it into medicinal cakes, which are then divided into cylinders and rolled into pills.
Zhu Yijun definitely couldn't accept this efficiency, but he didn't know how to improve it - and he didn't have the energy to study it in depth. We could only increase the reward, and finally, stimulated by the reward, a craftsman invented a suspended grinding tool:
A wooden frame fixed with iron hoops, with several wooden poles with strong elasticity fixed on it, and a hand-cranked gear on the side. When the gear is shaken, the elastic rod is driven downward to hit the gunpowder in the groove - due to the elasticity of the elastic rod, it will automatically reset. This goes on and on, and one person can defeat dozens of people before.
Later, some craftsmen made the hand crank into a round and wide wheel shape with grooves inside, and connected it with a belt and a water wheel - directly saving manpower.
With these two inventions alone, the two craftsmen directly became well-off. This gunpowder grinding method can also be used to pound rice after adjusting the intensity, so this method was quickly spread across the country.
It is worth mentioning that although the ratio of gunpowder produced in the Ming Dynasty was close to the optimal ratio, there were still certain differences. Zhu Yijun directly gave the answer that future generations of primary school students would know. He also asked the craftsmen to continue experimenting with the medicine for the fire gate and the medicine for the cannon, and finally determined that the proportions he gave were completely correct.
When it comes to gun barrels, material is the best solution. Since Zhu Yijun was in charge of tax collection and administration, he had been to all kinds of steel plants - high-end special steel plants, as well as low-end "three high" steel plants, and carefully checked their raw materials and processes to facilitate cost accounting. To find out whether he had evaded taxes, the first change in materials science he brought to the Ming Dynasty was to promote the great development of the steel manufacturing industry.
The new steel-laminated head that Huo Laoshuan bought at the market is a masterpiece of the Royal Steel Works.
With wrought iron and steel available, the barrel can be made using the rolled tube method. Later, some craftsmen invented a concave hammer that was aligned up and down. After being driven by animal power or water power, it could directly hammer the rolled thick barrel into thin parts. This method was used to hammer out the rifling of later generations, but Zhu Yijun and the craftsmen did not With such knowledge, the rifling that occurs inside the barrel is instead ground smooth with a steel rod.
The only regret is that the breech-loading gun proposed by Zhu Yijun is currently in a stagnant state because of the lag in chemical development and the invention of effective gunpowder and percussion powder. Seeing that he could not break through for a long time, Zhu Yijun ordered the new version of the Wanli 14th model of the bird gun to be finalized and produced. Previously, Wang Lihai in Liaodong used only a test version before finalization.
The Wanli Type 14 is very close to the classic flintlock gun. There is a purge bar under the barrel, and there is a buckle on the joint to install a bayonet - designed for bayonet use on heavy rainy days.
Because strict quality management was carried out during the entire manufacturing process, this gun finally got rid of the major mistakes in the development of firearms caused by corruption and lax quality management in the late Ming Dynasty of the original time and space - musket bullets could not penetrate Mingguang's heavy armor.
In this time and space, after repeated quality inspections, the Wanli Fourteenth Model can penetrate the Mingguang Chongkai within fifty steps, and finally be fully finalized and produced.
On the basis of the Wanli Type 14, Zhu Yijun also distributed some rifled "Wanli Type 15" to some Jinyiwei. Because the rifled gun was slow to charge and load the gun, it could not be used before the front-loading gun was changed to a breech-loading gun. Solved, so only a thousand rods were produced for use as assassinations and future battlefield snipers, and at the same time to train some sharpshooters.
The 1,200 cavalrymen from Ji Town, carrying spears with hooks at the bottom, grenades and new types of muskets, walked in front of Dong Baldzi and set up their formation.
These were the first pure musketry teams to appear on the Asian continent. They placed new types of bird blunderbuss on the hooks of their spears to aim, and used the round attack method to draw the first dead line in the history of Chinese civilization on the grasslands. Although the musketeers who saw the real chapter for the first time still needed the outflanking and cooperation of Li Chengliang's department, Zhu Yijun, who received the good news, knew that what the empire needed now was just the national power to support the war.
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