Once the hand-cranked Gatlin can be developed, although it is hand-cranked, the rate of fire per minute can reach 200 rounds, which is already very amazing in this era.

The biggest weakness of hand-cranked Gatlin is that the shooter is excited on the battlefield because the distance between the enemy and the enemy is constantly getting closer during the charge. He will kill him red and cannot control himself. He will go crazy and turn the handle faster and faster, causing the machine gun to overheat or explode.

Moreover, the black gunpowder remains relatively serious. Although the bullets and barrels can be cleaned after the war, the overall service life is not very long, and only metal bullets can solve this problem.

However, the metal bullets are not yet on the agenda. Zhu Youxiao is very satisfied with the ability to use a rotary machine gun in the case of a paper gun bullet.

Although the hand-cranked Gatling fire rate is only 200 rounds per minute, it can be arranged more on the battlefield to crush it in quantity.

One thing that needs to be known after all is that in the British and French army, a company will arrange fifty guns, which means that a company has fifty hand-cranked Gatling machine guns.

Zhu Youxiao prepared to assemble ten pieces of each hundred households.

In fact, in the new army, the concept of strengthening has emerged.

For example, strengthen a hundred households and strengthen a thousand households. Among each household, there are actually about two hundred people, including thirty machine gunners and fifty rifles, equipped with ten hand-cranked Gatlings and fifty flintlock rifles.

In addition, there were fifty sword and shield soldiers, fifty spearmen, ten cavalrymen, and twenty archers.

Each strengthening household is equipped with an additional 100 artillery households and a hundred rocket launchers. Each of these two hundred households is equipped with 100 artillery and 100 rocket launchers. This makes the force of each strengthening household reach nearly 4,000 people.

According to the organization of the Ming army, this can be regarded as a strengthening guard, or it can be called a personal guard, because only the new emperor's personal guard will have such a configuration.

The left and right personal military commanders are the yamen, and each yamen commands twelve personal military guards. Among them, in addition to ten personal military guards, there are two reinforced cavalry guards.

This is the combat unit envisioned by Zhu Youxiao, and the current personal military guards are not even semi-finished. Many people think that they can fight Liaodong, but Zhu Youxiao thinks that it is not possible. The main reason is that they lack firepower.

Zhu Youxiao needed to establish at least four personal military commanders, or even five, just like the governor's office of the Five Army, before the war could be started everywhere.

This is also the reason why Zhu Youxiao urgently needs money. His current money is probably enough to arm a personal guard, and if one is another, he will have no money. Moreover, he has established two personal guards, both of which require these equipment.

However, Zhu Youxiao will not tell others about these things, so he can experience them slowly by himself.

There were not many surprises in the next visit, after all, the good things have been viewed. More of Zhu Youzhai’s reassurance staff, rewards are given, and morale are all routine operations.

Zhu Youxiao stayed in the Baigong Academy and had dinner with those meritorious ministers, which fully demonstrated Zhu Youxiao's love for the people and affection for the people.

This is also a glory for the officials of the Age of Works. It is a very, very honor to be able to eat with His Majesty.

After dinner, Zhu Youxiao bid farewell to the staff of the Baike Academy and returned to the palace.

Although he was very tired after a day, Zhu Youxiao still felt very happy.

The new research direction has been determined, and the new achievements have also satisfied Zhu Youxiao.

When Zhu Youxiao visited the Baigong Institute of Technology, the entire capital was very stable. After all, there was nothing big in front of him.

All officials in the court were more concerned about the reform of the Royal Academy, but they were used to it for so long. Although they would make a little noise from time to time, nothing big happened.

The autumn harvest has been completed and the grain has been put into storage. Next, we will wait for the winter.

Although there has been news about building a house for officials, it has been unclear. There are many people looking forward to it, but not many people can get specific information.

Soon, it was the end of the year and the weather gradually became colder.

When the first snow fell, Zhu Youxiao finally waited for the plan given by the Ministry of Works.

This is about the construction plan of the new city, and the most important thing is that they have already drawn the drawings.

The current Minister of Works is Yao Siren, who is not young and is almost ninety years old. Although he is still in good health, he is no longer in good spirits. This person should retire soon.

The reason why Yao Siren is still used is because the successor is not ready. When the successor is ready, Yao Siren can retreat.

This time, the matter in the new city should be Yao Siren's last time involved in the imperial court project.

Zhu Youxiao didn't even look for Yao Siren this time. After all, he was already very old, so he couldn't do it and his energy could no longer keep up with it.

Bi Maokang is the one who mainly works on the construction of new cities. Of course, it is definitely not Bi Maokang who succeeds the Minister of Works.

Bi Maokang must be promoted. This is a reward given to him by Zhu Youxiao, but it is absolutely impossible to be promoted to the position of Minister of Works.

Bi Maokang wants to control the Aboriginal Institute. In the future, the Aboriginal Institute will become larger and larger, and there will be more and more things. Bi Maokang cannot be exhausted.

The person Zhu Youxiao wanted to arrange for the position of Minister of Works was actually Li Zhizao. However, Li Zhizao is now in the Staff Office, and he will be promoted to the Ministry of Works to be Minister of Works in a while.

Zhu Youxiao wanted to express one meaning through this behavior, that is, officials and civil officials of the Staff Office can be exchanged with each other to blur civil and military affairs, which is very important.

Before professional military talents are trained, it is impossible for civil and military personnel to be divided into so many different categories. If you want to divide into so many categories, you have to wait until later, and it is also to blur the concept of civil and military personnel.

But this is all future things, and the most important thing now is to build a house and make money.

The Ministry of Works sent this time was Zhao Wenji, the Minister of Works.

Zhao Wenji is in his forties, and being able to sit in this position can be considered as hard work.

However, his ability is average and unlikely to be promoted to the position of Minister of Works. The next step should be to seek exile. If he cannot be a governor, he must also be a governor of a province. After training outside for a few years, he will be transferred back if he makes contributions.

"My minister Zhao Wenji, please see Your Majesty." After seeing Zhu Youxiao, Zhao Wenji hurriedly said.

As a minister who is not very close to the emperor, Zhao Wenji actually hopes that this incident will make the emperor look at him with admiration.

Not to mention the position of taking over the position of Minister of Works, at least he could be released and put in the position of governor, he would be content.

Zhao Wenji cherished this opportunity this time and thought he did things well and worked very hard.

"No gifts." Zhu Youxiao nodded and said.

"How is the matter going?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhao Wenji and asked directly: "Your Ministry of Works says you have already prepared almost, so let me tell you."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Zhao Wenjie quickly agreed, and put down the long box in his hand.

Then he opened the box and Zhao Wenji took out a giant map from it.

With the help of Chen Hong and others, he hung up the map.

This is a map of a new city. From the map, it will be a big city.

Located in the center of the city is a Confucius Temple, next to it is Yansheng Gong Mansion. In addition, there is a school, and in the center of the university is a commercial street.

A circle outside is the living area. It can be sold to students or to business people.

In addition to the buildings on the ground, the drawings are more about drainage systems, urban layouts, etc.

For the Ministry of Works of the Ming Dynasty, these things have long been familiar with them. The drainage system of the Ming Dynasty was very advanced. A city with a population of more than 2 million is still in order.

Some people have counted later on that large cities in China rarely have large plagues like Europe. One of the big reasons is the advanced urban drainage system.

In addition, there are measures to transport feces out of the city through horse-drawn carriages, which reduces the breeding of mosquitoes and attaches importance to epidemic prevention and fight the epidemic, so there is no plague on a scale like that of Europe.

On this new city, because of the cement, the Ministry of Works even created a cement sewer. Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied with this.

There is no big problem with the layout of the city. Obviously, the Ministry of Works has understood the spirit of Zhu Youxiao.

Look at the commercial streets sandwiched between schools and you will know how expensive the land price there will be. Think about the shops next to the school in the future, none of them are cheap.

Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction and said, "Your Ministry of Works has not calculated the cost?"

"Your Majesty, it has been calculated. This is the approximate cost." As he said, Zhao Wenji took out a question book and raised it with respectfully with both hands.

Chen Hong hurried over, reached out to take the question book, and then respectfully presented it to Zhu Youxiao.

This budget is very detailed and cannot be read now. This is not what you are reading now. It is used for reconciliation after the project starts. Where the overspending and where to save, these are more important.

"You should have already made plans for the demolition of the academy, right?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhao Wenji and asked again.

After those pieces of land are vacant, they will be used to build residential areas for officials. In addition, some of them will be used to build commercial streets and wealthy real estate.

Zhu Youjia is naturally very concerned about such a place, because it will provide a lot of funds for Zhu Youjia to start the new city.

Anyway, Zhu Youxiao was not planning to pay a penny for this whole big plan. All the money was paid back and forth through these two pieces of land.

At the beginning, he started to make reservations from the land in the city. Zhu Youxiao believed that this place would definitely make a lot of money.

By that time, Xincheng would have started capital.
Chapter completed!