Concubine Yuan and the two princes were sent to Nanjing by Dashun’s team to Nanjing earlier, and they had a happy family life!

Chongzhen had a little psychological disorder at the beginning. When he favored Concubine Yuan, he always felt a little adulterous with his wife. He was extremely excited when he was intimate, but he couldn't help feeling like a thief before and after. It was not until Concubine Yuan became more and more crazy under the guidance of Chongzhen's sexual skills in the era, that little guilt gradually disappeared, and thus Chongzhen's sexual blessings increased day by day.

The little loli, Miss Zhou, has been in the palace, under Chongzhen's wings. No one can tell that Miss Zhou's desire for Chongzhen is born from admiration. Chongzhen is also a normal man, and how can he refuse a woman who loves him and likes him? But he always feels that the little loli is still a young girl, and he really has no young girl habit, so he often hears that there are some ambiguous eyes, but the window paper between the two has never been opened. Miss Zhou is a virtuous girl with a lot of tutors, and the straightforwardness of the general's family tradition makes Chongzhen feel the feeling of first love. Well, it feels very interesting to think about it! However, unexpectedly, this matter was exaggerated by some censors in the court, and was attacked for this major event.

It's funny, but Miss Zhou's surname is Zhou. The censors quoted Li Yu's story of the Great Zhou Empress, Xiao Zhou Empress, to say this! The original queen of Chongzhen was the Queen of Zhou, and now Miss Zhou has been described as the future Queen of Zhou by rumors and gossip. The Li Yu, who owns the Great Zhou Empress, is the king of the country's destruction, is not a good omen! So the censors made a long speech and quoted classics, and insisted that Chongzhen releases Miss Zhou out of the palace, and should not be kept in the palace, otherwise it would be inconsistent with etiquette and there would be an unknown meaning, etc. Moreover, since he was a loyal and wise man, he should be betrothed with a good family. Miss Zhou was in the year and should get married immediately, so on.

Chongzhen thought that it was impossible to keep a little girl in the palace. It seemed that this road to turn over was really hard and very bumpy! He had no way to argue with these pedantic masters, so he had to keep the memorials and not post them. Naturally, he would not let Miss Zhou leave the palace.

Before the wave was settled, another wave started again. Qian Jianyi handed over a memorial, saying that the emperor should choose a concubine immediately. Chongzhen now only has one concubine Yuan, which is inconsistent with the style and the central palace is empty, so it is not too late for the emperor to choose a concubine. Following Qian Qianyi's memorial, a group of officials' memorials on persuading the election of concubines came one after another. Chongzhen thought, I have a ready-made concubine candidate in my heart, you have to drive it out, and the bad things like election of concubines, you have to choose to start working when people are in a hurry. Are these officials in the Ming Dynasty all the brains funny?

In the end, there was no choice but to let Wang Chengen set up a house outside the palace and send Miss Zhou out. As for choosing a concubine, of course, I won’t do it, at least I won’t do it now!

Chongzhen in 1644 was still in a crisis on all sides. There were pressure from the Qing soldiers and Li Zicheng outside, and from the ministers and warlords inside. The first step was of course to resolve the external pressure. As for the internal, he had to rely on his strength to speak. If you have the ability to deal with Li Zicheng and the Qing soldiers, would anyone dare to say that the country was destroyed by the Zhou Dynasty?

Li Zicheng finally did not collapse in the first round of attacks of the Qing soldiers! Now Li Zicheng has arranged heavy troops on Shanhaiguan and the Great Wall. Dashun and the Qing soldiers fought fiercely. Although Dashun claimed to be a great victory, Dashun suffered much greater losses than the Qing soldiers in terms of combat losses. Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin were still afraid of the bravery of the Qing soldiers. The Qing soldiers suffered losses because of the small population base. If one soldier was missing, they had to wait for the baby to grow up. Li Zicheng won because of the rich soldiers, and even if they just fell 18 cavalry, they could recover to hundreds of thousands of troops in just two years. Therefore, Dorgon did not dare to fight with Li Zicheng, and the Qing soldiers did not have any good way to crack the grenade for the time being, so the Qing soldiers and Dashun confronted each other across Shanhaiguan, both fearing each other and ready to go, hoping to kill the other party in one fell swoop when they met again.

The confrontation between Dashun and the Qing soldiers in Liaodong was temporarily without the energy to take into account the Ming Dynasty in the south. Chongzhen won a great opportunity to breathe.

The princess did not change the title of Princess Kunxing in Beijing, but used the "Changping" character of Li Zichengfeng, so Chongzhen changed the title of Princess Changping to "Changping Princess". The Mingshi Fund led by Princess Changping achieved impressive results on the Beijing Public Bond Exchange. Zheng Zhihu's one million taels of silver has now doubled to 3.5 million taels of silver, and the princess took a commission of 500,000 taels of silver based on the profit. In addition, the princess' self-operated capital reached an astonishing 1.5 million taels of silver, not including the one million taels of silver paid to Chongzhen. After the Pingliao public bonds reached one or five cents, all Mingshi funds were withdrawn, waiting for the next opportunity to come. The hype profit of the one million taels of silver paid to Chongzhen became the start-up capital of Chongzhen's "Mobile Great Wall" plan.

Chongzhen is now in poor strength, and the officials and the people are all shocked. In military terms, there is only one way to defend. Of course, Chongzhen called it "Alliance Anti-Qing". Now the entire military strategy adopted by the Ming Dynasty is the "turtle flow" strategy, and Chongzhen ridiculed himself as "defense counterattack". In the past, the stupidest way of defending the northern nomadic peoples was to build the Ming Great Wall based on the Qin Great Wall. Chongzhen now has no money or time to build the Great Wall, so he proposed the "Mobile Great Wall" plan. The "Mobile Great Wall" in later generations refers to the giant combination of the Chinese men's basketball team "Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and Bater", which is a magic weapon that rampant in Asia and competes in the world. Chongzhen had a special liking for the name of this "Mobile Great Wall", so the "Defense Counterattack" plan is code-named "Mobile Great Wall".

The characteristics of the "Mobile Great Wall" plan are: configuration of powerful firepower and mobile defense.

A new Military Affairs Office has been established. In addition to Shi Kefa, Liu Jiyun was inserted into the Military Affairs Office. After Zhang Huangyan, born in 1620, was found, and was also inserted into the Military Affairs Office after investigation by King Cheng'en of Chongzhen. Fang Yizhi was responsible for military industry, so he naturally also entered the Military Affairs Office. Liu Jiyun and Zhang Huangyan were both born in the 20s. Every time Chongzhen convened the Military Affairs Office to meet, he would naturally call Wang Cheng'en. In fact, Shi Kefa was more like an audience. At this moment, Liu Jiyun was explaining the "Mobile Great Wall" plan.

"The so-called 'Mobile Great Wall' plan is to train and equip 50,000 elite new imperial guards within a year, of which 20,000 guard Nanjing, and the remaining 30,000 are deployed along the east to west. All the new troops adopt the new training methods implemented by the emperor in the palace and equip various firearms. These firearms are the latest firearms being manufactured and developed by the Military Weapons Bureau. According to the 'Mobile Great Wall' plan, the 50,000 imperial guards can be trained and deployed. The maneuver speed can reach more than 150 miles a day. They will be with the Liao King Wu Sangui who guarded Xuzhou, the Dongping Bo Liu Zeqing who guarded Shandong, and the Huai'an who guarded Huaibei.

Bo Gaojie's army, Liu Liangzuo's army, who guards Ningbo, Huang Degong's army, who guards Jiangxi, and Zuo Liangyu's army, who guards Wuchang, form a defensive chain that combines movement and one static. No matter whether the Qing army or the Dashun army attacks alone, they can counterattack after a stable defense and defeat the invading enemy in one fell swoop. We believe that the new army's combat power will be higher than Wu Sangui's army, and will be more than three times the combat power of Zuo Liangyu's army. We believe that after the "Mobile Great Wall" plan is completed, we are not afraid of any Qing army or any Dashun army attacking alone. We are all talking about this, please give us advice!"

After hearing this, Chongzhen nodded with satisfaction. Liu Jiyun followed him along the way, understood quickly, expressed his skills well, and was also a good seedling for being a staff officer. Chongzhen turned his head and looked at Zhang Huangyan and said:

"Zhang Aiqing, what do you think? You might as well tell me."

Zhang Huangyan said: "I think what Lord Liu said is true. I have only been in contact with the new army trained by the emperor for more than ten days. I also think that the new army has amazing combat power and will play an important role. However, I think that the navy should be added. The navy should be deployed along the Yangtze River line, and can attack and defend when advancing and retreating. At the same time, it is beneficial to the new army to be dispatched in the east and west directions and improve its mobility."

Chongzhen was very satisfied when he saw that Zhang Huangyan was quite good at speaking. Although Zhang Huangyan was just a juren, his ability was better than some jinshi. In fact, if he read more books, he might be able to read circumcision. Therefore, Chongzhen's new army general was below Tongsheng, and at most he was a juren, but he never thought about finding a jinshi. Chongzhen pondered for a moment and said:

"Shi Aiqing, then I will issue an order to transfer Zheng Cheng Sen, the son of Zheng Zhilong, to Zhenjiang to command the Yangtze River Navy, divide one-third of the warships from Fujian and strengthen the Yangtze River Navy."

Shi Kefa also saw Chongzhen training with 200 people, and also saw the power of Du version of the pistol and Du version of the grenade. He also heard that Chongzhen had retreated several times of the pursuers along the way. He was naturally somewhat confident in the combat power of the new army, but he was skeptical about the actual combat power. It was of course a safe move to transfer Zheng Zhilong Navy warships to strengthen the Yangtze River defense line, and he had no objection. He answered now:

"I obey the order!"

Fang Yizhi didn't wait for the others to continue talking, and rushed to say impatiently:

"Reported to the emperor, 20,000 Type 44 grenades have been made, 200 Type 44 pistols have been made, and 10,000 old-fashioned bullets have been made. These are all made before, so they are fast. The newly made 20 rifles are being tested, and the shooting accuracy is not bad at 300 steps. However, the barrel of the rifle is too difficult to make, so the number of production cannot be increased. The two-roll oblique rolling method and the hot-squeezing method of pipe making that is being found to be a machine. If the machine is made and the method mentioned by Eunuch Wang really works, the Military Weapon Bureau should be able to make 4,000 such rifles a month."

When Wang Chengen heard that Fang Yizhi had some doubts about the machine pipe-making method that he said was still a little bit doubtful, he had to explain himself: "The method of rolling pipes with two rollers is the difference between the gears and chain sprockets. Once this roll mill is successful, it is no problem to make 10,000 barrels a month. As for the hot extrusion machine, the machine itself is not difficult to do, but the insulation and lubrication between the mold and the barrel must be waited for the glass to come out, so the hot extrusion pipe-making method is not used for the time being. In addition, I went to see the new version of the bullet made by Lord Fang and stamped by hand.

The copper shell can be changed to machine stamping in the future, which will be much faster. The new version of the bullet has a large rear and small front, and the copper shell has a shrinking port. Now it is also used to shrink the port. In the future, the machine will automatically shrink the port, and the speed will be more than several times that of now. After the new version of the bullet has a little diameter, the gun weight is reduced, the chamber pressure is reduced, and the range is also good. However, using cooked iron to make the barrel is not a long-term solution. You must build a flat furnace as soon as possible and make good steel. Of course, these will be achieved from time to time from time to time. As far as you see, there is still a lack of talent."

When Chongzhen heard what Wang Chengen said, he naturally understood that even if Wang Chengen was covered in iron, he could not make a few nails. He had to start the established plan as soon as possible. Thinking of this, Chao Shi Kefa said:

"Shi Aiqing, now the Qing army and the Dashun army are both strong enemies of our Ming Dynasty. If we don't want to be in a corner, we must strengthen the army. The strategy to strengthen the army is to establish a new army. I want to issue an order that any juren who is admitted to the Jinshi must first serve in the army for more than one year. Those who are admitted to the Qinshi must also serve in the army for more than one year. Of course, those who are over 35 years old do not have to handle this. First, young people who are studying and literate and brave in the new army need to lead the army, and second, some smart scholars need to engage in the development of military weapon technology. Of course, anyone who is serving in the army, whether they are in charge of military equipment or military weapon production, can get extra points when they are admitted to the Juren and Jinshi in the future. I tell Eunuch Wang to draft a charter. Shi Aiqing can write a decree and issue the edict." Chongzhen used the tricks that can be added to the special enrollment of college sports in later generations.

Shi Kefa was loyal to his work, and one advantage was that he was not stubborn in his own opinion and had a first-class sense of obedience. What's more, what the emperor said was reasonable, and he could not defeat Dashun and the Qing army. The Ming Dynasty was about to perish. How could he talk about taking the Jinshi exam! He said in a word: "I obey the order!"

Chongzhen and Wang Chengen repeatedly planned for a long time, fearing that the plan for the scholar to serve in the military would not be passed by Shi Kefa. Once the chief minister could not be passed, the censors would argue for a while, and the plan might be aborted.

Chongzhen was happy and suggested: "Mr. Fang, I heard from Wang Chengen that your crossbow-style thunderbolt throwing device has been made. I will go and have a look with the few here!"

The test site of the lightning thrower is on a wasteland outside the city. Fang Yizhi introduced to Chongzhen and his party that there are three types of lightning thrower, and there are two of the three models. The principle used is to have animal tendon torsion springs as a charging device. The ratchet and after-force lever are used to pull the crossbow. The top of the crossbow lightning thrower is equipped with a lightning bag that accommodates the grenades. When the lightning thrower arm is shaken down through the lever ratchet device, and after reaching the waiting position, the grenade is placed in the pocket. There is a hole in the middle of the round pocket to allow the fire to be pulled.

Part of it can be passed by, unplugged the grenade's safety pin, and then put the pull ring into a pin fixed to the lightning throwing arm. Then, with the trigger of the lightning throwing device, the lightning throwing arm immediately rotates at high speed until it turns to the stop, the lightning throwing arm is blocked by the stop, and the grenade leaves the lightning throwing arm with huge inertia. During the process of leaving the lightning throwing arm, the fire-pulling iron piece is placed on the pin of the lightning throwing arm, the moment the grenade leaves the fire-pulling iron piece that suddenly stops with the lightning throwing arm and the grenade that flies forward at high speed at high speed.

The iron sheet and the flint sand particles in the grenade rub at high speed, ramming out sparks, and igniting the grenade. The ignited grenade flew out at high speed and exploded in a distance. This is the entire process of the lightning thrower completing the lightning throwing process. The first type is a small lightning thrower. The maximum lightning throwing distance of this small lightning thrower is 60 steps. It uses a single grenade. The small lightning thrower can be carried by two people and can be operated by a single person. The second group is a medium lightning thrower. This medium lightning thrower has two-stage power tendon torsion springs, which use different

For the medium-sized thunder of single-handed grenade, one thunder weighs six kilograms and the maximum thunder throwing distance is 200 steps. This model has a thunder throwing gear weighs 300 kilograms and is equipped with a roller, which is pulled by a mule and horse, and can be operated by two people. The third type is a large thunder throwing gear. Compared with the medium-sized thunder throwing gear, this model is only larger than the medium-sized thunder throwing gear. It uses a large thunder weight of 16 kilograms and a maximum thunder throwing distance of 400 steps. The total weight of the thunder throwing gear reaches 900 kilograms. It has four wheels and is pulled by a mule and horse, which requires three people to operate.

The explosion effect of the large thunder thunder was shocking. The wooden boards placed in the target site were blown up and smashed, and the swords and guns were beyond recognition. This large thunder thunder mainly attacks targets, such as blocking follow-up cavalry, which is amazing in defending the city, and of course the siege is also good.

The biggest advantage of the crossbow-type lightning thrower is that the production threshold is low, and wood and animal tendons are everywhere. Small and medium-sized lightning thrower is part of the "Mobile Great Wall" plan and its operation is extremely simple. As an infantry support weapon, it is a shortcut to quickly increase infantry firepower in the short term. Before the technology of open furnace steelmaking and pipemaking maturity, the two types of artillery that should have been configured for infantry were forced to use the crossbow-type lightning thrower to temporarily replace it.
Chapter completed!