People in the world have misunderstandings about the Qing Dynasty. Perhaps in many people's eyes, this backward dynasty is absolutely resistant to new technologies, and is self-consistent but not enterprising, keeping the old and unwilling to change!

But these are all illusions, that is just a painted skin worn by the Qing Dynasty on its face!

Before Cai Bixia left, Xiao Letian once told her that the Qing Dynasty was not ignorant of new technologies. This group of people started out by plunder and ruled the world by war. They actually attached great importance to military technology!

In the early Qing Dynasty, Manchus did not develop firearm technology, but this was not because Manchus did not know that firearms were powerful, but because they had their thoughts!

Firearms are the only weapon for agricultural civilization to defeat nomadic civilization. This is the biggest nemesis of the cavalry regiment. The man has long understood this!

Don’t forget that Nurhaci died under the wound of the red cannon. They knew the power of the firearms!

After entering the Central Plains, the fundamental reason why the Qing Dynasty did not develop firearms was that it was afraid that a large number of Han people would get such a weapon and deal with Manchus in turn!

It is important to know that training a rider is not a matter of overnight success, but creating a musket and training a musketman can only take several months to complete!

With the Han people's ability to create wealth and population base, if muskets are popularized, the doomsday of the Manchus will come!

During the Kangxi period, Dai Zi, a native of Hangzhou, studied the continuous bead musket and presented it to Emperor Kangxi. This was an original machine gun that could fire twenty-eight bullets in a row!

But unfortunately, Dai Zi not only did not receive the reward, but was sent to Shengjing outside the pass for his crimes, and eventually died of illness in the snow and ice.

His research was also put on hold in the warehouse, and there was no possibility of seeing the light of day!

Someone said, isn’t this an important proof of short-sightedness in the world?

It was a big mistake. This was actually Kangxi's cunning point. After seeing this sharp firearm, he was calm on the surface but was extremely scared in his heart!

This kind of killing weapon can be owned by the court and the Han people. If it is popularized on a large scale, the Eight Banners’ archery and horse riding and shooting tactics will be completely ineffective!

How to suppress the rebels then? How to continue to rule the world?

This kind of emperor's mind will never be clearly stated. What is needed is the subject's little thought!

It can be said that the Qing Dynasty relied on the cost of abolishing the Chinese firearm technology tree to gain a stable country for more than 200 years. They forcibly blocked the branches of China towards firearm technology!

All this happened during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period. When the Han people's resistance finally swept half of the country, the Manchu Eight Banners Group completely became a group of waste, they were forced to adjust their policies in order to survive!

The rejection of firearm suddenly turned into a firearm embracing, especially after the British and French forces attacked the 49th city, the fat royal nobles witnessed the power of firearms with their own eyes. All of these people accepted the only weapon theory at once!

We will do everything we can to make a global weapon purchase at all costs, buy whatever is good and buy whatever is expensive!

In Xiao Letian's memory, after the launch of Gatlin's hand-cranked machine gun in his previous life, many countries refused to purchase such weapons at the cost of consideration. However, the Qing Dynasty purchased a large number of them at that time. During Zuo Zongtang's expedition to the West, more than a dozen Gatlins provided firepower support!

By the time of Li Hongzhang, the global trend of purchasing arms was even more fierce. At that time, Krupp was the best artillery company in the world, and the orders of the Qing Dynasty were the largest and most fattest in the history of Krupp at that time!

Not to mention the purchase of warships from Beiyang and Nanyang, the ones selected were the world's strongest warships!

The Qing Dynasty was very treacherous. Don’t think that they were short-sighted and ignorant. In the past, they rejected firearms for the purpose of domination, but in the later period, they desperately purchased top-level arms, which was also for domination!

They knew very well that a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War had lost a large number of firearms among the people, and it was no longer difficult for the Han people to get muskets!

So how can we continue to maintain rule? Then we can only purchase stronger weapons and always maintain the first firepower of the troops in the court, so that we can continue to rule this colorful country!

Xiao Letian knew the true thoughts of the senior executives, so his request for Cai Bixia was very simple. "Don't flatter them, you will get tense. The colder you are, the more guilty those grandchildren will be..."

"The more you don't give them face, the more unsure these bastards will be. They will wonder how powerful this weapon will be?"

"The future global arms market is not controlled by buyers, but controlled by sellers! We have the technology and production capacity!"

"We are doing a domineering business, and they have to beg us to buy it!"

In short, Xiao Letian must sell anxiety to the Qing Dynasty. This anxiety was not forced to them by Xiao Letian, but the regime has been symbiotically with the shadows from the day it was born!

That is, the rule of the Han ethnic group in the Central Plains will inevitably cause a panic!

The sense of crisis has been with them since the birth of the Qing Dynasty. It has been a miracle that they can rule for more than 200 years. The more they go, the stronger their sense of crisis will be!

However, if Manchu, who has enjoyed all his glory and wealth, refuses to give up the wealthy life in his hands, then this sense of crisis will become more and more intense and the inner demon will become stronger and stronger!

If you grab this fatal hole in the heart of the people, you won’t worry about not jumping into the head of state!

Cai Bixia was drinking tea and watching several stinky men study the drawings. After twenty minutes, she spoke, "It's useless to just look at it. If you have any questions, you can ask me!"

Yihuan turned his head and looked at her, "Can this airship really move by itself? Can you move forward even against the wind?"

"Of course, don't you see that there are large propellers behind you? As long as the wind is not strong, the airship can move freely..."

Yihuan nodded and continued to look at the drawings. Prince Li Shiduo scratched his bald forehead. "It's just this oar... can you push such a big airship? I don't believe it..."

"Why don't you believe it? The power of the wind is very powerful. In the Netherlands in Europa, people used the wind power to build many windmills!"

"It is the principle of this kind of propeller. They can use windmills to push mills, water, and even push hammers to create parts!"

"The airship is floating in mid-air, and the friction with the air is small, and the power of the propeller is enough for the airship to move forward! You can't believe me, don't you believe the news from the official Europa newspaper?"

Shi Duo stared at his stupid eyes, and he couldn't understand it even though he was alive, but he didn't know how to refute it!

Yi? At this time, he spoke, "The power is this small steam engine inside? What is the fuel?"

"Coke or kerosene... The space in the pod is limited and must be used reasonably, so you should choose a fuel with high thermal energy and small footprint..."

"Corrode is no longer needed now, all the models produced later are burned!"
Chapter completed!