Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

It is no wonder that the Spaniards dreamed of conquering it with 2 to [-] people... If the rest of the country is as empty as the road from Ningbo, the troops there are also useless.So no matter how many reasons it has, no matter how many specialties it has, no matter how many people and money it has, it is meaningless.

Because this country will eventually belong to someone else!

Since neither France nor the Holy Roman Empire can obtain a Chinese navy, Leibniz was already worried about the future of the country after seeing the walls of Nanjing that were about to collapse.

And he also discovered that after entering the gate that was about to collapse, John Masiek of the Dutch East India Company and Charlie Gough, the emissary of the British East India Company, walked side by side all the way, still using the Dutch Talking in a low voice... Maybe they are discussing how to invade and carve up China?

And the Spanish envoy, Chief Justice Manuel Santos of the Philippines, and the representative of the Holy See, Father Philip, both of them are Spaniards, and they are talking in Spanish in a low voice at the moment!

The envoy of the Kingdom of Portugal walked with Figo, a Portuguese from the Qing Dynasty with a small pigtail, and they were also talking in Portuguese urgently and quickly... probably nothing good to say.

Now probably only the priest Gryffindor and himself, the representative sent by the Anglican Church, are really interested in the Chinese "natural theology".

When Leibniz was worried about the people of the Chinese Dynasty in his heart, the huge team of missions was suddenly stopped by a group of cavalry in yellow jackets who looked a little bit.

Leading this group of cavalry in yellow jackets were two foreign officials in full robes and gowns—Westerners who served the Qing emperor.

One of them is Rotoni, the former Portuguese governor of Macau. He is now the Portuguese leader of Zhenghuang Banner Manchuria. In theory, he is a Manchurian.

The other foreign official is Nan Huairen, who is now a Manchurian, a slave of Manchuria with the Yellow Banner.This time, he was ordered to escort a group of Weiyuan General Cannons and Son-Mother Cannons to Nanjing. He also came with a group of minions from the Han Army with the Yellow Banner.The purpose of Kangxi's transfer of them to Nanjing was to train artillery.

In the previous battles of Jianyangshui and Sanjiangkou Town, the Qing army exposed the problem of insufficient artillery training.

They have a lot of guns, and the quality is not bad, but they are not accurate, and the rate of fire is very slow.

In addition, Emperor Kangxi also found that there was a lack of medium-sized direct-pointing artillery with high mobility in the army... that is, artillery similar to Western 3-pound-6-pound cannons.

Therefore, Kangxi's army had no way to effectively block and shoot Wu Jun's "armored hammer-throwing artillery".

Moreover, the Qing army still lacked long-range muskets, and it was also unable to block enemies carrying grenade hammers far away.

Therefore, Emperor Kangxi hoped that Nan Huairen, Luo Dongni and others would help him to train artillery, and at the same time help the Qing Dynasty and the Western Mission to discuss, buy dozens of 6-pound naval guns, and then send half of them to Tu Hai, Shi Lang, and Fu Honglie commanded the Yangtze River Navy, and the other half was converted into field artillery, which was issued to the Eight Banners new army that was being formed and trained.

But now, Nan Huairen and Luo Dongni, following Kangxi's order, went to the most desolate Qilin Gate in the eastern part of the outer city of Nanjing to welcome the visiting Western missions.

Although Nan Huairen and Luo Dongni are both Manchurians, they are not happy about being slaves. On the contrary, they both look a little sad now.

I don't know if it's because the Qing Dynasty is about to end, or the two slaves are still worried because they can't get the trust of their master?

"Brother Ferdinand, it's been a long time... It's been almost 16 years, how are you?" Father Philip and Nan Huairen knew each other, so he rode his pony enthusiastically to greet him.

Both of them are Spaniards, of which Philip is from Barcelona, ​​while Nan Huairen is from the Spanish Netherlands (later Belgium). They studied together in Rome in their early years.

Father Philip is more interested in exorcism and law, and aspires to become a judge and exorcist, using his legal knowledge and magic to defend the interests of the Holy See.

Nan Huairen aspired to become a missionary, so after completing the necessary studies, he arrived in Macau in 1658. After studying Chinese at St. Paul's Theological Seminary for two years, he went north to Beijing and became Tang Ruowang's assistant.In the following ten years, he gradually became Emperor Kangxi's Western learning teacher and the most trusted "foreign slave".

But now, Nan Huairen clearly felt Kangxi's alienation.Kangxi is now mixed with a group of Chinese Taoist priests, and it is said that together with them, he deciphered the spells of the third grandson of Zhuge and Zhuge Yaodao, and came up with "Heavenly Thunder Correction"!

As soon as you hear it, you know it's black magic!

But this was not what worried Nan Huairen the most. What worried Nan Huairen the most was that Emperor Kangxi might have made a deal with the devil, so he could behead his head and survive!

Today, Nan Huairen got a mission that left him stunned—to lead the Western Mission to the Dasaitan Rocket Test Range to watch the launch of a sky-exploring rocket.

Spy?What does "heaven" mean?Is it the sky, or is it God?

If it's "the sky", then it's fine to explore it.

If it is "God"...

Thinking of this, Nan Huairen was almost dying of worry!

But no matter how worried, he also completed the errand sent by Emperor Kangxi.

"Philip," Nan Huairen also recognized his good friend, so he squeezed out a smile, "I heard that you have become the deputy justice and the chief exorcist. Congratulations."

"That's a gift from God...By the way, are you going to take us to meet the Qing emperor?"

"Yes," Nan Huairen thought for a while, and decided to truthfully tell the Deputy Chief Justice of his inner concerns, "Philip...the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty is not far away at the rocket test range."

"Rocket?" Father Philip repeated these two Chinese characters - because Nan Huairen didn't know how to translate "rocket", the translation of the arrow with fire must be wrong!

"It's about as thick and as tall..." Nan Huairen began to gesture with his hands, "The shell is made of copper, and I don't know what's inside, but it can fly very high and far when it is ignited, and it will emit Scary sounds, some of them will explode violently!"

"A black magic weapon?" Father Philip asked.

"That's right!" Luo Dongni, who came with Nan Huairen, couldn't help interjecting, "This is a magic weapon! The emperor has long been looking for a way to break magic, and finally found that only magic can defeat magic, so the dragon Hushan and Maoshan invited a few Taoist priests who know magic to help him make some magic weapons. But his enemies obviously have more powerful magic..."

"Is this true?" Father Philip couldn't believe it.

"It's very likely to be true!" Nan Huairen said worriedly, "Philip, I think it's time for you to show your talents! It's getting late, please come with me... let's go and see the magic of the Qing emperor Rocket!"

Chapter 349 Your Majesty, We Really Came to Pay Tribute!

The first sounding rocket launch site in human history was placed in the Great Sacrifice Altar in the eastern suburbs of the outer city of Nanjing.

The so-called Great Sacrifice Altar is actually the place where the Ming Dynasty worshiped heaven and earth. There is also a mountain and river altar beside it.And these places are "city within the city", that is, the "small town" in the outer city of Nanjing.Of course, this "small city" is relative to the huge city of Nanjing. In today's Europe, it is also big enough to be a medium-sized city.

Now these four small cities are of course occupied by Emperor Kangxi.

The Great Sacrificial Altar has become the "Rocket City", "Spell City" and "Weapon Testing Ground", under the direct jurisdiction of the Imperial Academy.Emperor Kangxi also set up a small palace here, and whenever he was free, he would come here to do experiments and research with a group of Taoist priests.

In addition, the "sugar pharmacists" of the New Army of the Eight Banners are also trained here-Emperor Kangxi personally watched them train, and no one should be lazy!

The Shanchuan Altar next to the Great Sacrificial Altar was occupied by the Imperial Building Office.The so-called Yuqian Manufacturing Office is composed of craftsmen from the Jingshan Gun Manufacturing Office who moved from Beijing, together with a group of craftsmen and conscripts drawn from the Armed Forces Institute and the Left and Right Blacksmith Bureaus of the Eight Banners. A large arsenal of firearms and common gunpowder.

Every time Emperor Kangxi returned to Nanjing Mancheng from the Great Sacrifice Altar, he would stop at the Shanchuantan Armory Factory and personally check the products of the Armory Factory!

Long before the prosperity of magic, Emperor Kangxi became a firearms expert under the guidance of Nan Huairen.Now that he has gone a step further by studying "magic firearms", even Nan Huairen can't compare to him.

So it's not easy to fool things under the eyes of this little sage who beheaded and survived!

Under Kangxi's personal supervision, the Shanchuantan Armory was established as quickly as possible, and the first batch of guns and gunpowder had passed Kangxi's personal inspection and sent to the Shanchuantan and the Great Teaching Field south of the Great Sacrificial Altar. It was handed over to the Eight Banners New Army for use.

The so-called Eight Banners new army is actually the Eight Banners soldiers, the coated slave soldiers, and the Green Battalion soldiers brought by Kangxi from Hubei, plus the defeated troops from all walks of life who fled from Jiangxi, plus the Jiangning Banner Army and the Jiangnan Green Battalion. The newly reorganized new army.The Yangtze River Navy, headed by Tu Hai, Shi Lang, and Fu Honglie, is also included.

Of course, the navy has not been reorganized, and still maintains the original organization.

After reorganization, the Army Division of the Eight Banners New Army has restored the Eight Banners system on the surface.That is to say, all the troops were organized into eight banners, and the official name was "New Army of Certain Banners".

A "new army of a certain banner" has two chief ministers sent by the guards to be in charge, and there are three capital commanders, twelve generals, and forty-eight assistant leaders.

In addition, the two ministers in charge of the new army of a certain banner also had two banner and drum assistant leaders, two artillery assistant leaders, two supply assistant leaders, and two craftsman and soldier assistant leaders.Therefore, there are 56 assistant leaders under the general manager's yamen of a "certain banner new army".

And each assistant leader has a large establishment of 300 people, and four deputy leaders are in charge.

Therefore, an army of the Eight Banners New Army Army Division has a large establishment of 800 people when it is full. If all the Eight Banners New Army Army Divisions are assembled, it will have 13 people.Including the navy, it is almost 400 people!

Of course, it is easy to gather the people with these two legs, but it is not easy to find the money issued to them, and it is not easy to gather the weapons and equipment.

This is also the reason why Emperor Kangxi held a large consultation meeting. He had to ask the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River for a large sum of money...and sugar!

At the same time, he can't kill people, he can't "kill people for sugar"!Otherwise, the main sugar producing areas in the world will be in the hands of the enemy!

However, Emperor Kangxi still wants to show those Jiangnan gentry who don't know what is good or bad before the opening of the first Jiangnan Advisory Council.

Kangxi had to let them know that this emperor is very powerful, not only has heavenly soldiers, but also has spells that can "explore the sky"!

The Western Mission led by Father Philip just happened to catch up, so let's feel the power of the Celestial Soldiers and Celestial Spells together!

The first thing these young imperialists saw was not the "black magic rocket", but the new Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers lined up outside the altar, waiting to be reviewed by Emperor Kangxi and the local gentry.

Kangxi transferred a total of 8 people, and placed 8 on each side of the altar!These [-] people all put on brand-new cloth face armor, held bright eight-color dragon flags, and carried newly painted four-color weapons (the wooden poles were painted yellow, white, red, and blue). Among them, the cavalrymen were also riding Mongolian horses, and all kinds of polished artillery were placed in front of each phalanx!

A total of [-] slaves, wearing brand-new eight-color military uniforms, carrying bright banners, and carrying painted four-color weapons, formed a neat formation of leading phalanxes, which looked very intimidating.

It turns out that the Qing Dynasty did not have a country without defense, but that the army was transferred to Nanjing...

After following Nan Huairen and Luo Dongni around outside the Great Sacrifice Altar, none of the foreigners in the Western Mission stopped talking and stood obediently outside the east gate of the Great Sacrifice Altar, waiting for Emperor Kangxi coming.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, when the foreign envoy's legs were a little sore from standing, cheers suddenly sounded.

"Long live Long live Long live……"

The cheers were like ocean waves, wave after wave, first starting from the west side of the altar, and then quickly spread to the four sides of the altar, [-] slaves cheered in unison, this momentum is really bluffing!

The cheers lasted for a while, and when the sound gradually dissipated, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Kang Mazi, had already brought a team of flintlock guns on his shoulders, wearing yellow jackets and chain mail, with bows and arrows, waist knives, The imperial guard of the copper hammer (high imitation grenade hammer) came slowly on horseback.Behind them, there were several gentry in long shirts and jackets and melon skin caps. In front of each group of gentry, there was a yellow jacket holding a flag with the words "a certain provincial councilor" tattooed on it.

There are eleven such flags, namely "Jiangsu Yishen", "Anhui Yishen", "Zhejiang Yishen", "Henan Yishen", "Shandong Yishen", "Zhili Yishen", "Shanxi Yishen" Yi gentry", "Shaanxi Yi gentry", "Gansu Yi gentry", "Manchurian Yi gentry", "Mongolia Yi gentry".

Of course, except for Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang provinces where the gentry are real, the gentry in other provinces and places are all imitations, and they are all pretended by the servants of the Eight Banners New Army.

But even if there are so many high-quality imitators, they have already improved a bit outrageously!

At this time, Kangxi had already rode his horse and arrived in front of the members of the Western Mission, and then all the foreigners knelt down, and no one was bothered about kneeling on one knee or kneeling on both knees, anyway, it was right to be half short.

Kangxi reined in his royal horse, and then asked with a smile on the horse's back: "Are you the envoys of the United Mission of Western Countries? Why did you come to my Qing Dynasty?"

Kangxi asked the question in Chinese, and deliberately raised his voice so that the Han gentry behind him could hear him.

Nan Huairen translated it into Latin on the spot.

"Your Majesty, we...we are here to pay tribute!"

"Emperor, we have brought you the most advanced firearms in our country..."

"Your Majesty, on behalf of King Louis of France, I have brought you the most exquisite gift!"

"Your Majesty, on behalf of the Pope, I have sent you a golden cross that can resist black magic..."

"Your Majesty, the Kingdom of Spain hopes to form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty!"

"Your Majesty the Great Emperor, the Kingdom of Portugal implores to start trade with the Qing Dynasty..."

Emperor Kangxi could actually understand Latin, so he didn't wait for Nan Huairen to translate, and said with a smile: "Has anyone explored the sky in the west? Does anyone know how high the sky is? Know how far away the sun, moon and stars are?" Is it? I want to explore the sky today...Of course, I don’t want to go up to explore, but just launch a rocket to explore, and you just catch up, why don’t you take a look together!”

Chapter 350 Kang Mazi, You Are a Pretender!

The magic rocket is already on the "launch pad", kind of like that.

The rocket is not big, just a long and thin one. The shell is beaten out of copper skin piece by piece, and then welded together with solder.A cylinder was formed, and the cylinder's display was pasted with white paper, which was filled with red spells.

The head of the cylinder is fitted with a cardboard-rolled tip, which is also full of charms.A firework bomb is hidden inside the cardboard, and the lead wire of the firework bomb passes through a small hole and is buried in the sugar powder in the cylinder below.Once the sugar powder burns out, the fuse ignites the fireworks, blasting green smoke.

And at the bottom of the cylinder, four small copper pieces were welded—this is the tail fin, which was also copied directly from the rockets of the Ming army picked up on the battlefield.

Taichi patterns are engraved on the tail!

I have to admit that once Kangxi, the emperor of learning, is very good at copying his homework... and even copied new ideas!

Of course, he still doesn't know the secrets of the adhesive and the catalyst, so he doesn't know that using an iron shell as the shell of the grenade hammer is dangerous and prone to self-explosion.

But the sugar medicine he copied out still works.

In addition, the difficult black technology such as the cable fuse cannot be cracked by Xueba Kang Mazi in a short time.

But the "spells" that Kang Mazi now mastered are still enough for him to act aggressively in front of a group of foreign envoys, nerdy scholar-bureaucrats, and soldiers of the Eight Banners New Army.

Now the Qing Dynasty No. [-] pretended to force Kangxi to commit crimes, and he had already sat down in the grandstand on the launch platform.

It is said to be a grandstand, but it is actually an explosion-proof construction platform. A low wall was built with sandbags in front, and a small wooden platform was built behind the wall. A chair was placed on the wooden platform. When Kangxi sat on the chair, his head could just be exposed. Watch launch.

The others all stand behind the low wall and watch - if you want to kneel, you can only look at the wall, so it won't have the effect of pretending to be aggressive.

At this time, on the launch pad, Hanlin scholar Zhang Hongtian Zhang Zhenzhen was directing a group of little Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain and Maoshan Mountain to fiddle with the ignition rope of the rocket.

This high-end and high-end rocket is actually ignited with a torch and a matchlock. It seems a bit not advanced enough!

As the fire rope dragged to the launch pad was ignited, Zhang Hongtian led a group of young Taoist priests back a little, but did not retreat too far, and surrounded the launch pad, standing there, holding the whisk, Start chanting the mantra...it's called the rocket launch mantra!

After he finished chanting the mantra, he saw Zhang Hongtian, Daoist Zhang vigorously waving his fly whisk, and then shouted: "The Taishang Laojun is as anxious as a law...Go to heaven!"

As soon as his shout fell, a large amount of thick smoke suddenly spewed out from the tail of the "magic rocket", and then the "magic rocket" flew into the sky with a whoosh, and the speed was so fast that everyone's eyes flashed—— I can't keep up!The rocket flew into the sky dragging the smoke, and disappeared from people's sight in a blink of an eye. Only the scream of "swish swish" from the sky indicated that it was still flying upwards rapidly.

Emperor Kangxi had already made preparations. When everyone was still looking around for the rocket, he had already raised his binoculars and looked into the sky.

"Sugar medicine" is the rocket booster used by amateur rocket players in later generations... It is also the best booster they can find, it can perform better, and it can even push the rocket to an altitude of more than 1000 meters. Gunpowder is no match for it.

Because the burning speed of the "sugar medicine" is very fast, the rocket's ascent speed is extremely fast, and it flies to a height of two to three hundred feet in a blink of an eye.At this time, the sugar medicine in the cylinder was almost burned out, and the burning match immediately ignited the firework hidden in the rocket head. With a "boom", a cloud of green smoke exploded in the sky two to three hundred feet high.

"Long live Long live Long live……"

Cheers suddenly sounded, and Emperor Kangxi just smiled slightly, and said to the people around him who were looking at the sky with their mouths open: "It looks like it's a thousand feet high...but it's still far from reaching the height of the sky, my generation! You just have to work hard.”

His pretentious words immediately got a lot of flattery.

"The emperor's magic power is boundless, Wansheng admires him so much!"

"Your Majesty is truly a man of gods. Zhu and Wu Erni only have a little magic power, how dare you compete with the Emperor? You really want to die!"

"Your Majesty's Daoism is as powerful as the heavens, and he is indeed the number one holy master in ancient and modern times. My Qing Dynasty will definitely be able to rule for thousands of years!"

Of course, those who make such remarks are all laymen. The layman watches the excitement, while the insider just watches the way.