The eleventh year of Hongwu, early January.

The snowflakes are fluttering, the north wind is whistling, and the world is vast.

And among this white dress, a young man in a python robe was standing in the snow with a swaying figure, looking at the little snowman in front of him.

"Little Zhu's booze, isn't the snowman that dad has piled up so beautiful?"

Zhu Qi asked this when he looked at his son Zhu Jiying who was swaying in front of him.

Little Zhu Jiying naturally doesn't understand the question of whether the snowman looks good or not. After all, he is only almost eleven months old.

Just as he learned to stand, Zhu Qi took him out for a walk.

Of course, Zhu Qi will not wear clothes for his son like those wolf fathers on the Internet. His son is wearing quite warm clothes.

After Zhu Qi returned to Yingtian Prefecture from Guangdong and Guangxi, he barely caught up with the grand ceremony, and then took his wife and children in the palace to warm up the kang, having fun every day.

People say that three women play together, and since Zhu Qi brought Bai Tang Yuer and Lan Xianer back.

The two of them, Xu Miaoyun, and these three women really formed a drama.

However, this drama is not a palace fighting scene, but a drama of deep sisterly love.

Zhu Qi had already made a lot of fun things, such as novels, comics, board games, etc.

Women are born to be very interested in these things, especially board games.

For the three girls, the attraction is quite great.

These three women play board games together every day, eating, drinking, and having fun every day, but instead leave Zhu Qi, the big man, aside, and are still taking care of his baby every day.

Isn’t this the day today to take Xiao Zhu Ji out for a walk?

I asked, can you play with me?

As for the nickname of Pig Bottle, Zhu Qigang just picked it up for him.

If it’s not for fun, what’s the point?

However, after playing with snowmen for a while, little Zhu Ji was about to hug him again.

He obviously felt very intimate about Zhu Qi, a father who had not met for a long time.

Although it was a little strange at first, after a day or two, I could hold him in my arms and rub his face and say nothing about it.

Maybe this is blood relationship!

Zhu Qi naturally likes his son very much. He has never talked about his girlfriend in his previous life, so he just married his wife in this life and married three of them together.

The children are 11 months old, and it will be fine for another year or two to make soy sauce.

This life is indeed incomparable.

However, although Zhu Qi wanted to live a leisurely life, the officials obviously did not want him to relax. The first thing was to review and calculate tariffs.

This matter is my own responsibility, and I cannot be a hand-off manager. It is necessary to go to the official office every day to handle it.

In addition, the research institute also needs various materials.

As mentioned earlier, Zhu Yuanzhang actually knew what Zhu Qi was doing.

On the other hand, Zhu Qi had already shared the research results with Zhu Yuanzhang and the crown prince Zhu Biao.

After all, there is nothing to hide. Why do you want to hide these things? Can't you rebel?

Zhu Yuanzhang has paid enough attention to these inventions and creations by Zhu Qi.

Not to mention the importance of antibiotics and cement, the research on gunpowder firearms conducted in the research institute is already enough to attract attention.

For example, landmines are actually very simple in principle, but not many people can think of it. Zhu Qi told the craftsmen this principle and then asked the craftsmen to realize the landmines.

While Zhu Qi was running around outside, these craftsmen had conducted many experiments, and Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew the results of these experiments. Needless to say, the terrible things of landmines were terrible.

After lying in advance, as long as the enemy can be brought into the trap, there is no need to send troops to siege, just using landmines is enough to blow the enemy up and collapse.

The lethality is one aspect, and the damage scene caused by explosives is very bloody and violent.

These bloody and violent scenes can defeat the enemy's fighting will in an instant.

In war, this kind of will collapse will cause a chain reaction.

Otherwise, how could it be said that in ancient times, what was fighting was morale?

In addition to landmines, fired fire guns was also the experimental result that Zhu Yuanzhang valued the most.

If the experiment was successful in the continuous fire guns, there was no need to say much about the improvement of military strength.

Nowadays, the muskets need to be filled with bullets, and they all use various tools, which is very troublesome. They also have to worry that the gunpowder will be damp and cannot be fired after the rain.

Zhu Qi's continuous fire guns did not have most of these troubles.

Moreover, its power is not comparable to ordinary muskets.

In addition, rifled cannons are also powerful weapons for siege.

Of course, this kind of artillery is very particular about craft materials. The inferior metal produced by the current assembly line is definitely not able to meet the needs of the 100-sharing steel that must be beaten manually can withstand the power of gunpowder.

This kind of artillery is not only powerful, but also has a more than doubled range than existing artillery.

What is this concept?

If the army brings ten such artillery pieces, before the enemy sees you, they will directly blast a volley, directly bombarding the enemy.

Soldiers may not be afraid of death, but what they are afraid of is this kind of unknown death.

He died suddenly without even seeing the enemy. Who would like to fight such a war?

However, the craftsmen had only a little understanding of these things, and they all took the drawings given by King Zhu Qi of Liao.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very interested in these things. If he wanted them to be put into the army as soon as possible, he could only urge Zhu Qi to work.

But Zhu Qi knows nothing?

He just gave it to the craftsmen based on the drawings in his computer.

He knew nothing about these things, but these things didn't make sense to Zhu Yuanzhang. He could only bite the bullet and go to the craftsmen to daze once a day to see the craftsmen work.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang, of course, it takes time to study and there is no way. Please don’t urge you to make excuses.

I don't know when they will study these things.

Zhu Qi was like this, fishing every day, watching the craftsmen pounding and beating there.

Valley

I don’t know if it was because I looked at them, but it turned out to be a result soon.

It's the rifled cannon.

I mentioned this thing before. If it could be made, the range would be very terrifying, and those craftsmen took more than half a month.

It was made with a hammer in my hand.

Of course, there is no need to talk about the hardships in this way. It is not something that ordinary people can do if they want to master the temperature of making steel.

It was only after they tried countless times that they finally created this rifled cannon.

Since the weapon was made, we naturally had to experiment first. Soon, the cannon was dragged to the hillside outside Yingtian Mansion for experiments.

Facts have proved that the cannon with rifled has different powers, and the range of all sounds is theoretically similar.

After seeing the range and power of the cannon, not only Zhu Yuanzhang, but also shocked.

The civil servants and military generals who accompanied them also had confused expressions. Have you ever seen such a terrifying artillery?

If the Ming army had such artillery before, it would have been faster to conquer the world?

Not to mention the siege battle, just pull the cannon, pull a few more, and beat the city wall.

Then no matter what famous general you are, you will suffer in defending the city here.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he not only rewarded Zhu Qi with a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry.

Moreover, the craftsmen under his command also gave rewards. In addition, they also named the cannon - Mingzun Run!

This name is truly majestic and domineering, and Zhu Qi also likes and is pleased with this cannon.

The only problem is that there is no way to mass production.

Even with Zhu Qi's method of making steel by soil, the steel refined by soil cannot withstand this kind of power.

However, the steel-made muskets made by those local techniques are more than enough.

Muskets like small pistols in Zhu Qi's hand can now be mass-produced on a small scale.

It’s not that I don’t want to mass production on a large scale, mainly because the steel produced by the local steelmaking process is really limited. On the one hand, the coal output is too low, and on the other hand, the mineral raw material impurities are too many, which is also another.

Nowadays, mine screening is manual and manual. Many times, it depends on the perspective of mine screening people.

Not to mention when refining steel, there is no professional machine to control the temperature. It depends on the feeling of a steelmaker and experience to judge it. The quality of the steel produced in this way is naturally impossible to guarantee, and every furnace is the same.

The waste and scrap rate generated are naturally much higher.

However, even so, the steel produced is much higher than before.
To be continued...