Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

The questions Cai Xueqin is raising now are all more realistic ones.

These are also the first problems that the imperial court must solve if it wants to open and close the Songjiang Mansion.

Only by solving these problems can the Songjiang switch be implemented smoothly!
  After Zhu Jing'an thought for a while, he spoke.

“First of all, it’s about the management issues after Songjiang Mansion is switched on and off.”

"It's not a big deal!"

"I can order some business managers to be transferred from Guangzhou Prefecture to assist Songjiang Prefecture in management work."

"You can also write to the court and request the establishment of an additional patrol camp in Songjiang Prefecture to ensure the public order and safety of Songjiang Prefecture."

After all, Songjiang Prefecture is not the first city to switch. Daming still has some experience in switching city management.

Most of the problems can be solved by dispatching some skilled personnel from Guangzhou to Songjiang Prefecture to support construction.

The worst case scenario is to give the support staff a promotion and a salary increase. I don’t believe anyone would be unhappy!
  When Cai Xueqin heard this, he couldn't help but praise him.

"Your Highness is wise!"

When Zhu Jing'an heard this, he just nodded slightly.

"There is also the food problem in Songjiang Prefecture!"

"In Gu's opinion, there are two in total."

"The first is to set up a Price Administration Bureau in Songjiang Prefecture, and the imperial court will come forward to purchase grain from Huguang. Through the Yangtze River waterway, the grain from Huguang will be transported eastward to Songjiang Prefecture, and then sold at a fair price to stabilize grain prices."

"The second is to encourage the cultivation of edible cash crops such as fruits and vegetables in Songjiang Prefecture, or the intensive breeding of poultry and livestock such as chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep to meet local dietary needs and reduce external food dependence."

How should I put it? Jiangnan does not grow food, but grows cash crops. It is no longer a matter of one or two years.

The reason why there has never been a large-scale famine in Jiangnan is that it is all supported by the food from Huguang?
  Therefore, the people in Songjiang Prefecture stopped farming and turned to business. Zhu Jing'an never worried that famine would break out in Songjiang Prefecture.

The reason why he set up a price management bureau in Songjiang Prefecture and prepared for the imperial court to come forward to sell grain at a fair price in Songjiang Prefecture.

In fact, the purpose is just to stabilize food prices and prevent grain dealers in Songjiang Prefecture from raising prices and harming the people.

It's not that Songjiang Mansion is really short of food.

Of course, the establishment of the Price Administration Bureau is actually Zhu Jing'an's pilot project.

If the governance process of Songjiang Government proves that the system of the Price Administration Bureau is positive and effective, it can have a beneficial impact on the people.

In the future, Zhu Jing'an plans to gradually promote it in Jiangnan and even the whole country.

It is used to stabilize food prices, ensure the basic interests of the people at the bottom, and protect people's livelihood.

Let’s avoid the overly extreme situation of “expensive grain hurts the people, while cheap grain hurts the farmers”!
  As for encouraging Songjiang Prefecture to cultivate cash crops such as fruits and vegetables, as well as intensively raise poultry and livestock such as pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, these are actually secondary.

As long as the prices of the most basic staple foods are stable, most people can have enough to eat.

Even if the court doesn't publicize things like this that are conducive to economic development, someone will do it.

For Zhu Jing'an, the only real thorny issue is land acquisition.

But actually it’s not a big problem!

As long as he was less shameless and just pulled off the dough and put it in his pocket, he could do this.

The worst thing is that the people are suffering!

You know, the Ming Dynasty was a feudal imperial country.

Feudal imperial power is the most unreasonable thing in the world. Even if Zhu Jing'an seizes land by force, the people will not be able to twist their arms.

As long as the Songjiang Mansion switch can be implemented, the gentry in Jiangnan will benefit from it.

Some people will take the initiative to help Zhu Jing'an wash the floor!

It's just that Zhu Jing'an wanted to lose face and his conscience was not completely bad, so he was too embarrassed to do the forced land acquisition.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Jing'an had an idea and spoke.

"As for land acquisition, isn't Pudong District relatively desolate? The imperial court will give priority to acquiring land in Pudong."

"If we use the price of fertile land to purchase the wasteland in Pudong, I think the people will not refuse."

"As for the switch, isn't it on somewhere?"

Not to mention now, even if it is a hundred years from now, Pudong will still be a deserted beach. The local people in Songjiang even say that they would rather have a bed in Puxi than a house in Pudong.

If this is the case, then the imperial court may simply acquire land in Pudong.

Anyway, no matter where the switch is, we need to start rebuilding supporting facilities such as docks, shopping malls, and warehouses.

Since it is easy to acquire land in Pudong, we can open and close the project in Pudong.

When Cai Xueqin heard this, he nodded to show that he understood.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, I promise to complete the mission!"

Zhu Jing'an nodded slightly and then spoke.

"very good!"

Then, he pointed to the food on the table and said.

"Let's talk about the government affairs later. I've been busy all morning and I'm almost hungry. I think the Qing family will be the same."

"Let's have lunch first!"

While talking, Zhu Jing'an personally helped Cai Xueqin pick up a chopstick of sauced donkey meat, and then spoke.

"The Qing family can try this donkey meat, it's really a must-have!"

"..."

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The noon banquet was over, and Cai Xueqin, the prefect of Songjiang, said goodbye and left.

After Zhu Jing'an took a half-hour lunch break, he led the team to Tangshan outside Nanjing to inspect the newly completed Nanjing Arsenal.

The Nanjing Arsenal was established after the Ming Dynasty regained Nanjing, and was intended to be used to meet the Ming army's armament needs for the Jiangnan war.

The core management personnel and technicians were transferred from the Foshan Arsenal, and ordinary workers were hired locally in Nanjing.

After Zhu Jing'an invested a large amount of resources, it took less than two months for the Nanjing Arsenal to be established, with a considerable number of workers and very good ordnance production capabilities.

The location of the arsenal was chosen by Zhu Jing'an in Tangshan.

And the reason is:
  First, because Tangshan is located just outside Nanjing, the Nanjing defenders can take care of the defense of Tangshan and ensure the safety of the arsenal.

Secondly, because Tangshan is a large mountainous area, placing the arsenal inside it can not only ensure confidentiality, but also make it easier for the arsenal to be far away from the downtown area and to be fully closed to avoid disturbing the people.

Get it in one fell swoop!
  Zhu Jing'an led the team into Tangshan, and then went straight to the arsenal in Tangshan.

When he arrived at the arsenal, the relevant person in charge of the arsenal was already waiting outside the arsenal to pick him up.

Seeing Zhu Jing'an arriving, Song Quan, the person in charge of the Nanjing Arsenal, took the initiative to step forward and salute.

"Your Majesty Song Quan pays homage to His Highness the Crown Prince, Your Highness Jin An!"

Song Quan used to be Guo Dashan's deputy, and his personal abilities were quite good.

Although he is a bit tactful, he is meticulous and conscientious in his work and has never made any mistakes.

Therefore, when the Nanjing Arsenal was being built, Zhu Jing'an transferred him from Foshan to serve as the person in charge of the Nanjing Arsenal.

Zhu Jing'an got off the carriage, stretched out his hand to help Song Quan up, and laughed. “Your family, please get up quickly!”

"It's so gratifying that the Nanjing Arsenal was completed and put into operation so quickly. The Qing family has contributed a lot!"

Song Quan heard this and said with some fear.

"The Nanjing Arsenal was able to be completed and put into operation so quickly, firstly because of His Highness's decisive command and strategizing, and secondly because of the concerted efforts of all colleagues, forgetting sleep and food, to overcome the difficulties together."

"I just did what I was supposed to do and made a small contribution. I really don't dare to take credit!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Jing'an patted Song Quan on the shoulder and joked happily.

"The credit belongs to whoever deserves it. Why should the Qing family be humble?"

"If Gu Ruo doesn't reward you as the leader, even if the other Qing family members receive the rewards, they won't feel at ease, right?"

Hearing this, everyone around couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Zhu Jing'an also laughed together.

After laughing, Zhu Jing'an said.

"Let's go, Song Qing will take Gu Gu to visit the arsenal!"

Song Quan heard the words and bowed in response.

"Your Highness, please follow me!"

After saying this, he led the way and took Zhu Jing'an to the Nanjing Arsenal.

Zhu Jing'an also followed suit.

Song Quan led the way and introduced Zhu Jing'an.

"Your Highness, currently, our Nanjing Arsenal has a total of [-] technicians, [-] craftsmen, and [-] ordinary workers..."

Here, the technical personnel refer to the relevant technical personnel transferred from the Foshan Arsenal, and they are all veterans from the Foshan Arsenal.

He has considerable experience in the production and maintenance of various ordnance, the production process of the entire assembly line, and the manufacturing and maintenance of related auxiliary water conservancy equipment.

He is the real backbone of Nanjing Arsenal!
  Craftsmen refer to skilled craftsmen recruited by the Nanjing Arsenal from around Nanjing.

Most of these craftsmen are blacksmiths or carpenters, and they all have relevant experience in weapon production. They have made their own knives, guns and agricultural tools, and they have even made shotguns and cannons by hand.

With a little training, you can get on the job and complete one or even all production processes independently.

Also very important!

Ordinary workers are ordinary people without skills. Before they receive long-term training, they can only do the work of craftsmen.

Song Quan continued.

"The current Nanjing Arsenal is mainly divided into eight large workshops."

"They are the musket workshop, the artillery workshop, the gunpowder workshop, the cold weapon workshop, the armor workshop, the ammunition workshop, the grenade workshop, and the rocket workshop."

"Each workshop has a corresponding production line and can produce different ordnance separately."

"Among them, the musket workshop can produce 14 Type 14 flintlock muskets and [-] Type [-] rifled guns every month."

"The artillery workshop can produce one hundred and fifty artillery pieces of different calibers every month, among which the Type 65 field gun..."

"The gunpowder workshop can produce [-] barrels of gunpowder every month..."

"..."

Song Quan introduced the production capacity of the Nanjing Arsenal to Zhu Jing'an in detail.

Zhu Jing'an, on the other hand, was listening and calculating how much of the Nanjing Arsenal's production capacity could meet the needs of the troops.

For now, Zhu Jing'an is quite satisfied with the production capacity of Nanjing Arsenal.

After Song Quan finished his introduction, Zhu Jing'an asked.

"Does the Nanjing Arsenal have any plans to develop internal membrane water-cooled cannon casting methods, as well as artillery rifling and fusilization?"

Although at present, the performance of the Ming army's artillery is still better than that of the Manchu artillery.

However, this does not mean that Zhu Jing'an is satisfied with the power of the Ming army's artillery.

Under the premise that smokeless gunpowder could not be produced for the time being to increase the explosive power of artillery shells, Zhu Jing'an could only use his brains on the artillery itself.

One of the research and development directions put forward by Zhu Jing'an is to use the inner film water-cooling casting method to cast the gun so that the gun can be cast with a larger caliber, can withstand higher chamber pressures, and reduce the weight of the gun body to the greatest extent.

Another research and development direction is to rifling the artillery and develop a flintlock engine for the artillery (which reduces the gunpowder delay, allowing the artillery to respond faster and aim faster), thereby improving the accuracy of artillery fire.

Zhu Jing'an had already proposed this research and development task after the Battle of Yuezhou.

It's just that for such a long time, Zhu Jing'an has been too busy to ask about the progress of research and development.

Now that he finally came to inspect the arsenal, he naturally had to ask.

When Song Quan heard this, he couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, but he still spoke.

"Returning to Your Highness, our Nanjing Arsenal has just been completed recently. The production capacity has not been fully stimulated, and the research and development capabilities are not very good."

"But as far as I know, the Foshan Arsenal should already have an idea about the artillery development direction proposed by His Highness."

Nanjing Arsenal does not have R&D capabilities for the time being, but this does not mean that Foshan does not have it either.

The Ming Dynasty's Foshan arsenal is currently the largest arsenal in the world, if not one of them.

It has a large number of technical personnel and even "foreign engineers".

Naturally, the R&D capabilities are not bad either!
  Zhu Jing'an heard this and asked with interest.

"Tell me in detail!"

Zhu Jing'an vaguely remembered that the Foshan Arsenal seemed to have handed over a relevant report.

But he was so busy that he forgot!

But it's okay, even though he forgot, as long as someone remembers it.

Seeing this, Song Quan also spoke.

"Returning to Your Highness, as far as I know, the Foshan Arsenal has some ideas about the inner membrane water-cooled cannon casting method, and has conducted an experiment."

"The artillery cast using the inner film water-cooled cannon casting method can withstand a chamber pressure that is about [-]% higher than that of ordinary artillery, but the weight of the artillery body is [-]% lighter."

"The rifling of the artillery has also been tested, and the effective range and accuracy of the artillery have been greatly improved."

"As for the matter of installing a fusiliator on the artillery, it has been proven feasible through experiments!"

"After adding a fusilla engine to the artillery, it can make the artillery fire faster and further improve the accuracy of artillery fire."

How can I put it, rifling the artillery is actually not a difficult task.

At least it's much easier than rifling a musket!
  First, because the caliber of the artillery is larger, a person's arm can be directly inserted into it, which is naturally easier to operate.

The second reason is that because the artillery's bore wall is thicker, even if the rifling is pulled crooked, the artillery will not be directly abandoned and cannot be used.

The fault tolerance rate of rifling artillery is much higher than the fault tolerance rate of rifling muskets!
  The same is true for adding a flintlock engine to an artillery piece!

To put it simply and crudely, it is nothing more than enlarging the flintlock machine used for a musket in a circle. There is definitely some technical difficulty, but it is not as difficult as imagined.

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PS: I coded [-] today, and I will try to get [-] tomorrow... (End of this chapter)