"The wooden gears in the middle should be for speed regulation."

Ning Wan I quickly figured out the reason and said: "I can also make it."

"Ning Qing, can you make it too?" Dorgon said with great joy after hearing this, "Then quickly build ten, no, directly build a hundred Kongming lanterns for the Qing Dynasty. I want the sky to be filled with the Kongming lanterns of the Qing Dynasty."

Dorgon felt inexplicably excited when he thought that the sky was densely covered with Kongming lanterns of the Qing Dynasty, and that these Kongming lanterns could also rain down on the heads of the Ming army and throw thousands of enemies at them.

However, after I finished Ning, I shook my head and continued, "But there is one difficulty."

"What's the difficulty?" Dorgon said enthusiastically, "Come quickly, I'll do anything I can."

"This gauze is rare." Ning Wanme pulled off the Kongming lampshade with force and said helplessly, "It must be the finest gauze woven from Lake silk. It is not only light but also extremely tough."

"What's so difficult about this?" Dorgon said, "I'll just ask Shanxi merchants to buy it from Nanming."

Anyway, the Qing Dynasty now has a lot of money, so are they worried that they won’t be able to buy enough high-quality Hu silk?

Then Dorgon's eyes fell on the four socket bayonets spread out in a row.

Frowning, Dorgon turned to ask Tang Ruowang, who had just arrived in Liaodong, and said, "Tang Qing, is it really impossible for us in the Qing Dynasty to equip every self-generated fire blunderbuss with a sleeve bayonet?"

Tang Ruowang said helplessly: "It can be done, but it is labor-intensive and time-consuming."

"How much work and time will it take?" Dorgon frowned and said, "A self-generated fire gun can be directly used as a spear when paired with a bayonet. It is much more useful than a self-made fire gun paired with a bow and arrow or a saber."

Tang Ruowang said: "If the outer diameter of the barrel of the self-generating gun and the inner diameter of the sleeve of the bayonet are polished to the same standard, and they can be interchanged, the man-hours required to make each self-generating gun will at least double. Now,

Our Qing Dynasty's War Bureau can produce 3,000 self-fired muskets per month, but if we add bayonets with matching barrels, we can only make 1,500 at most."

"Is that so?" Dorgon frowned more and more, "Is there no other way?"

Tang Ruowang said: "I'm afraid there is no other way to report back to the emperor and the regent."

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