Zhao Hao left the capital on the first day of September.

When passing by Dagukou, he inspected the progress of the Tianjin Port project. He saw five thick stone concrete trests, like an open palm, extending from the shore to the quiet harbor.

Bohai Bay is an inner bay, with calm winds and very beneficial to construction. In more than four months, the main project of the wharf has been completed.

On the side of the dock, rows of granaries and cargo warehouses have been built, and the workers are intensively cleaning and finishing up. In a few days, the first batch of grains officially shipped from the sea will arrive at Tianjin Port.

A grand arrival ceremony will be held at that time, and Ma Butang, the Minister of Revenue, and Pan Zhongcheng, the new Prime Minister of Hecao, will all attend.

However, Zhao Hao did not plan to wait. Although he was the leader of the Royal Shipping Corporation of the Ming Dynasty, showing his face on such an occasion will only make the adults embarrassed.

What the big guys want is a face, and it is not a problem no matter how you lick Mr. Zhao in private. But in public, you really can't hold that face off.

So Mr. Zhao was about to meet Qi Jiguang at Hu Shouren and set off.

When he saw each other again, Qi Jiguang finally regained his style as a handsome man. He was so majestic that he was free to ease, and his tone was a little higher. He was no longer the same as General Qi who had been confused and cautious before.

He is now the Prime Minister and General of the Training Army in Jizhen. The officers and soldiers of Jizhou, Changping and Baoding are all controlled by him. His immediate superior, Governor of Ji Liao, was his mentor Tan Lun, the Grand Secretary in charge of military affairs, and was his kindness. Qi Jiguang finally had no restrictions and could show his strength and do something.

Of course, the real problem cannot be solved by spirit alone, and you have to rack your brains to find a way.

Qi Jiguang, the general of Ji Town, was mainly guarded by the three guards of the Duoyan and the remnants of the Oirat in Liaodong. One of the biggest problems he encountered was that the enemies were all cavalry, while the Ming army was mainly infantry, so he could only defend passively. Moreover, the Mandarin Duck Formation, which he relied on to become famous, also lost its power in front of the Mongolian cavalry that came and went freely.

Qi Jiguang discovered that when fighting in the north, his dependence on firearms was far greater than that in the south to fight against Japanese devils. However, the Ming Dynasty's firearms were completely inconvenient to make soldiers trust.

The cannons are poorly mobility and cannot fight in the field. The dazzling array of muskets is not only easy to explode, but usually only have lethality within fifty steps. In a panic, the soldiers often open fire outside the range, and it is too late to load them again, so they can only watch the Tartar cavalry rushing towards them...

Only the imitation of the bird-beak gun has a long range, but the firing steps are complicated. The soldiers are fine during training. Once they go to the battlefield, they will be in a hurry when facing the overwhelming cavalry charge. They often cannot shoot two shots and are faced by the cavalry... The bird-beak gun they made a lot of money in their hands will become a fire stick.

In order to improve this problem, Zhao Hao was commissioned by Zhang Juzheng to supervise the Nanjing Ministry of Works’ Military Equipment Bureau to improve firearms as a member of the cabinet. Only then can he justify the skilled craftsmen from the Nanjing Military Equipment Bureau to set up a firearms research institute on Xishan Island, and legitimately build guns and cannons.

Although the amount he made was really large, in the past year, he had made three thousand pieces of Longqing style, and they were standardized and the parts could be interchanged.

The Firearms Research Institute cannot always take advantage of the imperial court without achieving results? Besides, Zhao Hao really wanted to help the Qi family army with one hand to pacify the northern border as soon as possible and to prevent the people of the Ming Dynasty from suffering less. So this time, he specially asked someone to prepare 100 Longqing-style rifles to give to Qi Jiguang.

He had never intended to keep this self-produced first flintlock rifle confidential from the court from the beginning, otherwise he would not have been named "Longqing Style". Moreover, it was impossible to keep it confidential at all. The security team had basically completed the Longqing Style dressing, so it was difficult to guarantee that it would flow out a few shots. When the court asked about it, the matter would be very complicated.

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Qi Jiguang knew the goods and immediately picked up a Longqing style to go outside the house. According to Zhao Hao's procedures, he took a paper shell and fixed the bullet, bite the tail of the bullet with his teeth, poured the gunpowder into the medicine pot, and pressed the lid on the pot. Then he pulled out the strip and sent the bullet into the barrel, and used Tongtu to compact it.

Retract the bar, raise the gun, aim, and shoot!

With a bang, a poor little family bird fell from the willow tree a hundred steps away, and was beaten to the point of a bird.

But Qi Jiguang did not stop shooting and continued to repeat the above actions until he fired five shots and the whole yard was filled with smoke. He then cleared the chamber while saying, "A good gun, saves two steps, is much faster than a bird-beak gun. And if he can't fire a single shot, he can fire again, which is a great improvement. And it should be able to fire when it rains, right?"

"The general is really smart and wise. This gun is indeed not afraid of wind and rain." Zhao Hao nodded with a smile, but his eyes couldn't help but glance at Qi Jiguang's left forehead, where there were a few scratches.

Qi Jiguang was so alert that he immediately found that in order to facilitate his aim, he subconsciously pushed the black hat upward, revealing an unspeakable shame.

At this time, it was even more obvious that it was even more obvious when pulling it down, so I smiled dryly and covered it up, "The cat was caught."

"Oh, that's it." Zhao Hao nodded and expressed that he believed it.

"Oh, there is no need to hide it from my brother. My brother's grape trellis fell." Qi Jiguang smiled bitterly.

"Oh..." Zhao Hao sighed with him, empathizing with him.

"Hmph, madam is too much!" Hu Shouren couldn't hold it in anymore. Seeing that the Grand Marshal finally made the matter clear, he shouted: "A man, who doesn't have three wives and four concubines? The Grand Marshal is now a noble left governor and a first-rank official. He has to keep a concubine outside. He is like a thief all day long. If he doesn't do it well, he will be beaten up!"

"This..." Qi Jiguang glared at Hu Shouren's big mouth, his old face turned red and explained to Zhao Hao: "Brother, don't listen to him nonsense. Brother, I'm not lustful, and I have a good relationship with my wife. But, alas, in order to continue the incense, I have to..."

"The general's position of the emperor always needs to be inherited." Zhao Hao nodded, expressing his understanding. After all, even Hai Rui was so poor that he had to take a concubine in order to have a son?

However, it is better not to put these two people together.

He remembered that Qi Jiguang had five sons, all of whom were born to secretly take concubines outside without telling the truth from his wife Wang's wife. Mrs. Wang didn't know about this until her sons grew up.

In his later years, Qi Jiguang said in the "Book of the Book" dedicated to his ancestors, he said that in order to continue the descendants of the Qi family, he "had a strange plan and made great efforts." It can be seen that he had fought many wits and courage for this matter and endured humiliation and burdened with heavy burdens.

However, Hai Rui said that he had no choice but to take a concubine on his mother's order to continue the incense, and Zhao Hao believed it. After all, the less Han looked.

But Qi Jiguang said that he was just to continue the incense, but Zhao Hao did not believe it.

Because in the 42nd year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang took his wife to take a concubine Shen. But a year later, Shen still did not give birth to a son for Qi Jiguang, so Qi Jiguang took another concubine Chen. Chen gave birth to three sons for Qi Jiguang in a row, namely Qi Zuoguo, Qi Anguo, and Qi Baoguo. Later, Shen also gave birth to a son, and Qi Jiguang named Qi Changguo.

In other words, Qi Jiguang now has four sons, so he doesn’t have to worry about the incense problem anymore! But this year he took the third concubine Yang, so it’s hard to push him to feudal ethics again?

Just tell me if you are lustful, what's the big deal? Well, for Qi Jiguang, it seems that it's really a big deal.

It is said that Qi Jiguang's wife Wang is from a noble family, has a strong martial arts skills, and is as strong as a fire. She never lets her husband down. No matter whether you are a national hero or not, you have to let you kneel down on the washboard, and you will never let your hands be rude even if you say you are a big-eared melon seed.

It is difficult for a clean official to make up for family affairs, so Mr. Zhao wisely chose to keep silent. Hu Shouren said angrily: "This time I have to teach my wife a good lesson. I will not let my brothers be fully armed and drive to the Grand Marshal's house together to show the Grand Marshal's authority and let her know that the Grand Marshal is inviolable!"

"Nonsense..." Qi Jiguangxin said what a bad idea? You guys pat your butt and leave, and I have to kneel down on the washboard. He quickly stopped the topic of shame and pointed to the checkpoint on the barrel and asked Zhao Hao, "What is this circle of grooves for?"

Zhao Hao held back his laughter and took a short blade about a foot long from Gao Wu's hand. The short blade had no blade handle, and was replaced by a tail ring that was about the same thickness as the muzzle. He inserted the short blade into the gun, and with a click, the tail ring stuck on the muzzle, and the tail of the blade was pressed against the guardrail.

"What a wonderful thing!" Qi Jiguang's eyes lit up immediately. The problem of the musketeer's inability to fight in close combat was solved so simply.

He waved the Longqing style with a bayonet and made several thrust blocking movements. Although it was definitely not as easy as the spear, it was definitely useful.

Qi Jiguang was deeply satisfied with this, as if for him, bayonets were more important than flintlocks. He immediately expressed that he must have bayonets equipped with bayonets.

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Qi Jiguang was very grateful to Zhao Hao for the gifts he brought, and believed that his invention would be of great benefit to the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the official army.

However, in Qi Jiguang's view, this Longqing-style flintlock device is still too exquisite. With the urinary nature of the craftsmen in the Ministry of Works and War, it is unknown that they can only be imitated in the year of the monkey and horses of the month. And even if they imitate it, it is probably impossible to reach the level of the original gun, so it is better to add bayonets to the bird gun, which will have a more immediate effect.

Zhao Hao was not surprised by this. Any introduction of new technologies would be contradicted by old ideas. Even a military genius like Qi Jiguang could not realize in an instant that this revolutionary invention would completely change the form of war.

In fact, the Frenchman Mahan had invented this type of impact flintlock rifle twenty years ago, but many French generals opposed the equip of flintlock rifle, because, 'The muskets must of course be ignited with open flame. How can Mars from flint ignite black gunpowder?'

It was not until decades later that they suffered a great loss under the Spanish flintlock and gave up their obsession with the flintlock. In the mid-17th century, the European army completely eliminated the flintlock and replaced them with flintlock, and then used them until 1848 AD.

When the British devils launched the First Opium War, the brown bass rifles listed were essentially no different from the Longqing style. They were all flintlock rifles equipped with smoothbores, fixed-loaded bullets, and bayonets.

Zhao Hao gave such a weapon to the Ming Dynasty, which was considered to be a complete end of kindness. If he could not defeat the Tartars, it would be a system issue...

In fact, system issues are also false propositions, but ultimately, they are not capable of combat power.
Chapter completed!