Front-loading rifled guns have the disadvantages of difficulty in loading ammunition and low firing efficiency.

Mini bullets, the diameter of the cone-shaped bullet is slightly smaller than the diameter of the gun bore, so loading is very convenient.

There is a conical cavity at the bottom of the warhead, and a wooden plug blocks the bottom of the hole. When fired, the gas presses the plug into the cavity, forcing the bottom of the projectile to expand.

The expanded lead warhead adheres closely to the rifling, sealing the gap between the warhead and the barrel, preventing gas from leaking, and allowing the warhead to rotate at high speed under the pressure of the rifling.

Mini bullets solved the difficulty of loading ammunition for front-loading rifled guns, making rifles surpass artillery and becoming the decisive weapon on the battlefield at that time.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty still had fire guns. Zhao Shizhen and Bi Maokang both developed self-fire guns, which were actually flintlock guns, but they were not taken seriously by the higher authorities and were not produced.

The standard equipment of rifled guns and Mini bullets were more than a hundred years ahead of that era. Zhu Cixiang believed that as long as they were produced, they would be absolutely invincible.

The quality of pig iron was not a problem for Zhu Cixiang. He showed Zhao Yuanhua the method of making iron with coke:

"Using coke to refine pig iron has better quality. I don't know much about how to operate it. I will give you the technical process of refining coke and pig iron. I believe you can solve the problem of iron quality soon. There is also the customization of ammunition. What do you think?

Solve it together."

Zhao Yuanhua took the drawing in surprise and bowed:

"Thank you, Your Highness, the military campaign will not disappoint you."

Zhu Cixi nodded:

"Where is the Tiger Crouching Cannon that I want? Have you fixed the fixed ammunition?"

Zhao Huaying handed over his hand and replied:

"Your Highness is wise, you have already tested it two days ago. The granular gunpowder paper shell is fixed, which not only facilitates the shooting range, but also increases the range by more than 20 steps."

Loading the shotgun shells into the Tiger Crouching Cannon is very troublesome. Last time, Zhu Cixi asked Zhao Yuanhua to directly load the shotshells. When firing, he could directly insert the shotshells into the barrel and ignite them. The efficiency was increased by three times.

As a scientific researcher, Zhao Yuanhua has not seen many talents for many years. After the crown prince took over the military affairs, various things he had never seen before and some doubts were revealed one after another.

The crown prince has been regarded as a god by Zhao Yuanhua. He feels that every time he sees the crown prince, he will gain a lot. He firmly believes that more artifacts will be released in the future in the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing the craftsmen swinging big hammers and sweating profusely, Zhu Cihong asked:

“Have you paid the craftsmen’s wages in full and on schedule?”

Yuan Gui bowed and smiled:

"Don't worry, young master, everything has been paid out, and all the arrears in the early stage have been fully paid. You can see that they are working hard..."

Zhu Cixiang nodded, then patted Yuan Gui and Zhao Yuanhua on the shoulders and said:

"The craftsmen work hard. You are not allowed to mistreat them, and you are not allowed to pay them empty wages and pay them in arrears. You must have enough food for them, no less than three meals a day. The revival of the Ming Dynasty needs you, and we cannot do without them!"

The eunuch in charge of the Military War Bureau had just been beheaded and his house ransacked. How dare Zhao Yuanhua and Yuan Gui follow in their footsteps? He hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed:

"Don't worry, Your Highness, if it is found that one of my subordinates has embezzled even a tael of silver, we will commit suicide to apologize!"

Zhu Cixiang stretched out his hand to help them up:

"Ping Sheng, I believe you won't. While developing rifled guns and Mini bullets, little Yuanzi will go to the refugees and recruit some craftsmen who can make muskets and artillery. The more skilled ones, the better."

"Slave, you obey!"

Zhu Cixiang calculated the time and found that today was already May 26th of the ninth year of Chongzhen. He estimated that Jiannu should have been on his way around Mongolia.

Time was very urgent, and neither his father nor the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty believed what he said, and Zhu Cixiang did not want to repeat it over and over again. If he talked too much, others would think he had a mental problem.

After inspecting the military battle bureau, Zhu Cixiang was very satisfied when he saw that everything was as Zhao Yuanhua and Yuan Gui said. Thinking of those civil servants, Zhu Cixiang carefully explained a few words:

"Xiao Yuanzi, I will not come to the military battle in the past two months. Without my order, no one can take over the military battle. If anyone dares to break in, no matter who it is, he will be killed without mercy!"

Yuan Gui felt that there was something wrong in what he said, so he hurriedly said:

"Don't worry, young master, no one can have any idea of ​​​​the war bureau. The slaves and the war bureau will coexist!"

"Well, I asked Cao Daban to dispatch a hundred households to guard it. You can send fifty squatting cannons and fixed gunpowder to the guard camp tonight."

"yes"

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Qianqing Palace

"Rebellious ministers and traitors, rebellious ministers and traitors, if the Ming Dynasty is unstable, they will all be ministers who will subjugate the country..."

Emperor Chongzhen was so furious that he threw the imperial study memorials all over the floor. This was the biggest death rebuke he had ever faced since he came to power, and he was deposed as the crown prince.

Chongzhen was really difficult. A seventeen-year-old idle prince who was sitting around waiting to die was pushed to the throne after Emperor Tianqi accidentally fell into the water and died.

In the eyes of outsiders, the emperor is definitely a good job. He rules the world and has three thousand beauties in his harem. He can get whatever he wants and what he wants.

But what?

What he inherited was a mess, with various interest groups intertwined, and every step he took was subject to tremendous pressure, as well as various sieges and natural and man-made disasters.

He worked hard to govern, and Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch party, covered the sky with one hand. Chongzhen destroyed the eunuch party and supported the Donglin Party. When he found that the Donglin Party was powerful, he immediately used Wen Tiren to fight against it.

Wen Tiren was really good at engaging in party strife. The Lin Party gradually lost its voice in the DPRK, but Wen Tiren was useless except for engaging in party strife.

He served as the chief minister of the cabinet for eight years, but he did not do anything useful for the court. He was unable to do anything whether it was against bandits, slaves, or even natural disasters.

Chongzhen really wanted to be a good emperor, he really wanted to bring the Ming Dynasty into prosperity again, and he also became the most diligent emperor after Zhu Yuanzhang, but things went against his wishes.

I have never received the words and deeds of being an emperor, and my own understanding of Taoism and practice is too shallow to be able to use the emperor's skills to balance the court as he pleases.

When Emperor Chongzhen came to power, the Ming Dynasty was already on the verge of collapse. In order to manage national affairs, he never wanted to have fun, and even patched his clothes.

The expenses of the harem were very simple, and Chongzhen himself had no meat in his four dishes and one soup, but even so, natural and man-made disasters never stopped.

Therefore, historians also say that the Ming Dynasty died of natural disasters, man-made disasters and party disputes, but no one blamed Emperor Chongzhen.

In the first year of Emperor Chongzhen's accession to the throne, a severe drought occurred in the north, leaving thousands of miles of bare land without any grass growing.

In the second year, there was a severe drought in Shaanxi, in the fifth year there was famine, in the sixth year there were floods, in the seventh year there were locusts, in the eighth year there was drought, in the ninth year there were floods, and in the tenth year there were no crops.

In the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th years of Chongzhen's reign, large-scale locust plagues and droughts occurred continuously, resulting in no food harvest, people being displaced, and starvation all over Chibi.

A terrible plague occurred in the 14th year of Chongzhen. The epidemic spread to Beijing, killing nearly 40% of the capital's population at that time.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen's reign, pneumonic plague broke out in Tianjin. Once infected, people died within a day or two, causing chaos in the surrounding areas of the capital.

The Jiangnan area was not much better. From the 13th to the 14th year of Chongzhen's reign, there were floods and droughts in the south of the Yangtze River, and in the 15th year of Chongzhen's reign, a large-scale plague broke out.

There were so many natural disasters, coupled with various rebel bandits and Jiannu slaves who repeatedly entered the country to plunder.

Not to mention a mediocre Emperor Chongzhen, even Emperor Qin and Han Wu could not save the Ming Dynasty.

As for a college student who casually traveled through the past and used the scientific and technological knowledge of later generations to save the Ming Dynasty, it is even more nonsense.

Emperor Wuzong and Tianqi both fell into the water inexplicably. If the time traveler did not have a golden finger, he would be eaten by the gentry and powerful nobles every minute. I like the Ming Dynasty. In the prosperous era, from the time when the prince supervised the country, please collect it: (https://www.myxls.net) The Ming Dynasty
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