Early the next morning, after getting up, Zhu Cixuan ordered the "Good News System" to contact the Governor of the Franconian East India Company, Cohen, and asked if the Franconian country was willing to escort the Guangdong Navy when it set off for the English Weddell fleet to guard against the appearance of Zheng Zhilong's war fleet.

After practicing Wudang Neigong in the garden in the morning, while Zhu Cixuan was sitting in the shade of a tree drinking tea, he thought to himself: "I hope the Francois will not make too many demands, otherwise I will have to be patient and let the English go first this time.

Fortunately, the Humen Fort sank more than a hundred British ships, so Ming Dynasty is not at a disadvantage."

Seeing that it was almost lunch time, Zhu Cixuan was walking towards Chengyun Hall surrounded by Deng Zhong and other eunuchs and maids.

Princess Ji Zhen Gong Min, Crown Princess Chen Meijing and their children are already waiting in the palace.

Zhu Cixiang saluted and met his mother, while Princess Jizhen Gong Min, who was sitting in the main seat, smiled and nodded.

Seeing Zhu Cixuan, Chen Meijing took her children and bowed.

Zhu Cixuan said: "My beloved concubine, please get up! Yu'er, Chu'er, please get up! My beloved concubine, have you informed all the concubines?"

Chen Meijing said: "Your Majesty, I have sent someone to notify the sisters according to your instructions. I believe they will arrive soon."

Zhu Cixuan nodded, sat in the second seat, held the little hands of Zhu Yunchu and Zhu Heyu, and started chatting.

Zhu Cixuan smiled and said: "Chu'er, what did Master teach you and Qi brother in the study hall this morning?"

Zhu Yunchu's little face, as white as gelatin, was full of excitement. She shook her head and said in a childish voice: "Father, what I taught my sons and ministers today is the Thousand-Character Essay:

The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is primitive. The sun and moon are waxing and waning, and the stars and constellations are arrayed..."

Zhu Cixuan applauded and said: "Chu'er recited it so well!"

Two-and-a-half-year-old Zhu Heyu said in a childish voice: "Father, what does the universe mean when my sister talks about it? Why don't you understand?"

Zhu Cixuan smiled and said: "In the past and present, it was called the universe, and the four directions, up and down, were called the universe.

The universe is the most mysterious thing in the world."

Just as he said this, Zhu Cixuan's concubines came to the Chengyun Hall one after another with their children and Chen Yuan, who had not yet held the wedding. They saluted Princess Ji Zhen Gong Min and Zhu Cixuan, and after Chen Meijing, everyone took their seats in the seats one after another.

Having the whole family eat together is something that Zhu Cixuan has long wanted to achieve. In his view, orderly order is necessary to maintain social order, but it should also reflect family affection.

On that day, Zhu Cixuan wanted Lin Quan to come to the main hall of Duanben Hall to have dinner with him and Chen Meijing, but he stopped because Chen Meijing was unhappy.

Today this wish finally came true.

The royal chefs and eunuchs who were waiting at the side immediately began to serve exquisite and delicious delicacies one after another, and Zhu Cixuan's family began to have lunch.

Zhu Cixuan's seven children, all between 2 and 3 years old, sat next to their mother and finished their meal. Then, accompanied by the eunuchs and maids, they went out of the hall to play.

Princess Ji Zhen Gong Min said: "Xuan'er, are the princes and granddaughters too casual? According to the ceremony, they should sit quietly in the banquet and wait. Xuan'er should not pamper the children too much."

Zhu Cixuan said: "Mother, as long as your usual etiquette is intact, if the children want to play after dinner, just let them go."

What Zhu Cixuan had in mind was: "People who grow up under a strict hierarchy will inevitably be single-minded and authoritarian in their thinking and actions. Only by giving your children a more relaxed and free environment in their lives since childhood can they develop an open-minded mind. In line with and leading the trend of the future world."

In Gong Min's heart, these royal grandsons and granddaughters are all treasures. Hearing what Zhu Cixuan said, he smiled and nodded.

The family finished their lunch happily.

After returning to the harem and taking a nap, when Zhu Cixuan came to Chengyun Hall in the late afternoon, Song Yingxing and Wang Zheng were already waiting in the hall.

After seeing the ceremony, Zhu Cixuan told them that he wanted to invite the two people to provide enlightenment education for his prince and princess.

When they heard this, they were very pleased.

Song Yingxing said: "The prince does not mind that he is in a humble position and has little talent and little knowledge. He values ​​the undisciplined knowledge of production techniques in his humble position. He should do his best to teach all the princes and princesses in his humble position."

Zhu Cixuan said: "I'm glad to hear that Mr. Song's Gezhi's masterpiece "Tiangong Kaiwu" has been published.

This book is an extraordinary achievement and should be published as soon as possible as a required textbook for our Changsha Academy."

Song Yingxun thanked him a few times and agreed.

Wang Zhengdao: "Your Majesty, De, values ​​the low-level skills of humble officials. I should devote all my resources to teaching them, and teach the knowledge of Gezhi to all princes and princesses in detail."

Wang Zheng paused and said happily: "Your Majesty, you once told me to increase the research and development of the range and rate of fire of firearms, but I never forget it.

After two years of joint research by colleagues at the Firearms R&D Institute, Bei Zhi, his friend Jiao Xu and others created a "continuous musket" that can fire twenty-eight rounds of projectiles continuously.

Please take a look at it."

Wang Zheng took out a roll of blueprints from his arms and presented them to Zhu Cixuan with both hands.

Zhu Cixuan was overjoyed and took the drawing and looked at it carefully. He saw that the volley gun depicted in the drawing was based on the "Chongzhen No. 5". It was "shaped like a pipa, with gunpowder and lead shot all stored in the ridge of the gun, and opened and closed by a wheel."

It has two machines, which are held like a dummy. The first machine pulls the gunpowder and the lead shot from the barrel. The second machine moves simultaneously, the stone stimulates the fire and the blunderbuss is fired. All twenty-eight rounds are stored again." It can be seen from this. , the first trigger of the continuous fire gun is to load ammunition, the second trigger is to fire projectiles, and then trigger again and shoot again, which can be 28 times in a row, firing 28 bullets.

The "serial musket" did exist in history and was invented by Dai Zi in the early Qing Dynasty.

Dai Zi (1649-1726), male, was a firearms manufacturer in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He was born in the Southern Ming Dynasty when the occupation had just fallen and resistance was still continuing. His courtesy name was Wenkai, his alias was Gengyan, Han nationality, and he was from Renhe, Zhejiang (now Hangzhou).

He once lived in Yangzhou, and in his later years in Liaodong, he called himself the "Old Farmer".

In the early years of Kangxi, Geng Jingzhong rebelled and attacked Zhejiang. Prince Kang Jie sent a letter to the southern expedition, and Dai Zi joined the army in civilian clothes and presented a volley of muskets.

After suppressing the rebellion, he was appointed as a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy. Later, due to slander from his colleagues, he was dismissed from his post and exiled to Guandong. He was later pardoned and stayed in Tieling.

Dai Zi was erudite and versatile, well versed in the art of war, astronomical algorithms, good at poetry, calligraphy and painting, and proficient in astronomy, calendars, rivers, poetry and painting, historical books, etc. He was a famous manufacturer of machinery and weapons.

He was born in a family of officials and was very smart since he was a child. Under the influence of his father, who was a military attache in the Ming Dynasty, Dai Zi fell in love with mechanical manufacturing when he was young. He made a variety of firearms by himself and created the "Lianzhu Fire Gun" in 1673.

Zhu Cixuan saw that several major components of the rifle were all integrated with hydraulic machine tools and fired using mercury rays, which greatly eliminated the need for reloading ammunition. It was simply a simplified version of a submachine gun.

Zhu Cixuan said: "Great! With this continuous musket, our army's firepower will be increased several times. Mr. Wang, what is the range of this continuous musket?"

Wang Zheng smiled and said: "Hui Shizi, I and my colleagues have also made improvements to the air tightness of the barrel of this gun. The effective range of this gun has reached 500 meters, and it can reach a blind firing range of up to 600 meters."

Zhu Cixuan was overjoyed and said: "Mr. Wang, we will invite Mr. Dai Xu here tomorrow. After we carefully study and confirm this gun, we can mass-produce it in the firearms factory."
Chapter completed!