In Wuying Hall, there was a dead silence at this time.

After a while, the Empress Dowager Bumubutai finally opened his mouth, "Zhuqing's family, is the new musket really as sharp as Chen Zhiyuan said in the hall?"

Since Bumubutai was behind the scenes of the invisibility of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, he naturally would not appear outside the hall gate to watch.

Hong Chengchou was silent and nodded slowly.

Yue Leying said: "When I returned to the Empress Dowager, although Chen Zhiyuan said that there was not much difference, I am sure that muskets were not enough to restrain my iron cavalry. However, I am afraid that the bow is... But in my opinion, as long as the Lianjia is thickened on the front, I think it can block the projectile."

Afterwards, the sound became smaller and smaller.

Looking at Yue Le's hesitant look, Bumu Butai completely understood. Even Yue Le didn't deny it, probably because he was really what Chen Zhiyuan said.

Bumubutai asked, "Will the family of the ministers have a way to deal with it?"

Fan Wencheng said: "There are only two ways to deal with it. One is to immediately conquer the Yixing Dynasty as Chen Zhiyuan said, and attack the Yixing Dynasty before it was full of wings. The other is that our dynasty also trained musketeers and formed musketeers far more than the Yixing Dynasty. In this way, the Yixing Dynasty would not threaten our dynasty."

Yue Le was excited and said loudly: "I am willing to lead the army south to help the Regent attack and destroy the Yixing Dynasty."

Qi Chongge said coldly: "If you can attack and destroy the Yixing Dynasty, it will not be necessary to lead the Duke of Zhenguo to fight. The 150,000 army under the regent has already gone south. Besides, there are only 30,000 Eight Banners troops in the capital. If you take it away, who will guard the capital?"

Guarja Ganglin (Zhenghuang Banner, Grand Secretary of the National Academy of History), who was also in Dorgon, echoed: "The Regent previously suggested a peace talks with Yixing Dynasty. I think he had realized that our dynasty could not conquer the Yixing Dynasty for a while. If we were caught in a protracted war, we might not be able to support the war in the northwest and southeast."

Feng Quan, the Grand Secretary of the Hongwen Academy of Nehanlin and the Minister of Rites (formerly the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty and the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, was appointed as the Grand Secretary of the Hongwen Academy of Nehanlin and the Minister of Rites of the Ministry of Rites) and also echoed: "Now Prince Zheng, nearly 30,000 generals of the Southern Expedition, is trapped in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is no large army along the north coast of the Yangtze River. Even if the regent goes south, he will inevitably be blocked by the troops of the Wuzheng army of Taixing, and cannot quickly cross the river to reinforce. If wars are carried out at this time, I am afraid that Prince Zheng, the General of the Southern Expedition, and the 30,000 generals of the Southern Expedition, will be in danger."

Only Hong Chengchou remained silent.

Bumu Butai had to name a question and asked: "Does Hongqing's family have good solutions to deal with it?"

Hong Chengchou then looked up and said, "I can't think of a good solution for the moment. I just watched the musket shooting and also tested the armor hit by the musket. The musket was indeed sharp, but it was not accurate enough outside of 150 steps. I roughly counted it. Thirty musket soldiers fired 16 rounds, but the bullet holes of several armors were far less than half of the bullets shot out. Therefore, I think no matter whether the musket soldiers can really play a powerful role in defeating the enemy on the battlefield, forming a new musket army... there is no hurry. Besides, our dynasty's financial resources are temporarily unable to support the formation of a huge musket army, and we have to ask the regent's meaning for this matter. I think it's better to decide whether it is a battle with Yixing Dynasty or a harmony."

Bumubutai silently savored Hong Chengchou's words. Hong Chengchou first admitted the sharpness of the musket, which almost everyone refused. Then Hong Chengchou refused to propose to form a new army immediately. In addition, Hong Chengchou mentioned that the formation of a new army required the Regent to approve it, and finally pointed out that the most important thing at the moment is to decide whether to fight or to reconcile.

Bumubutai tasted a different taste. She looked at Fulin and asked, "What is the emperor's intention?"

Actually, this is just a gesture.

Fulin had not taken power at this time, and all the military and political affairs in the court were decided by Dorgon and Bumubutai.

But at this time, Fulin showed unexpected stubbornness. Perhaps it was because of Dorgon's absence. He said in a deep voice: "I think we should form a musket army immediately."

These words made Bumubutai's face darken. She pursed her lips tightly, as if a storm was about to come.

Although Fulin did not take charge of the rule, he really spoke, but he really couldn't pretend that he didn't hear it.

After Huang Taiji died, Fulin ascended the throne at a young age. Even adults cannot bear this military and political matter, let alone a child?

Coupled with Dorgon's domineering and Bumubutai's high pressure, Fulin had a strong rebellious mentality in his heart.

After four years of depression, Fulin finally showed his sharpness when Dorgon was away.

He saw the power of muskets with his own eyes, so for him, he urgently needed a powerful army that could only obey his orders to fight against the increasingly powerful Dorgon and Bumubutai's high pressure.

Fulin chose the Musketeer.

After being stunned, Hong Chengchou quickly advised: "Emperor, the muskets are expensive. Even if they are on par with Guangyi Xingchao, it will take at least millions of taels to form a 30,000 army. Moreover, our dynasty cannot produce the ammunition for this new musket, so we have to buy it from Hongmaoyi. This is probably... the treasury is tightening at the moment, so I hope the emperor thinks twice."

If most of the Manchu military generals in the Qing court were loyal to Dorgon at this time, then most of the Han officials surrendered to Qing Dynasty were loyal to Fulin.

This is indeed a bit strange. Logically, Dorgon was powerful at this time and there was a great possibility of seizing the throne. The Han ministers who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty should be loyal to Dorgon. However, the Han ministers led by Hong Chengchou followed Huang Taiji's will and became loyal to Fulin.

In Hong Chengchou's heart, he really regarded Fulin as his disciple. Dundu taught and often instilled the concepts of sages.

Not to mention, perhaps because of the young age, children are easy to shape. Fulin does not value the difference between Manchu and Han, but also agrees with Hong Chengchou's concept, adopts the strategy of placing more emphasis on suppression and implements the policy of "recruiting surrender and confusion" to the outside world.

Internally, Fulin established six Han Dynasty ministers last month, the left censor of the Censorate, and also promulgated the law that allowed intermarriage between Manchus and Han dynasties and the government and the people to marry each other.

Unfortunately, although this law of intermarriage between Manchus and Han Dynasties was promulgated, it was secretly resisted by Dorgon and the Manchu ministers who were loyal to him. Nothing has ever happened yet.

This has already made Fulin very dissatisfied. In addition, the incident of Prince Su Haoge being killed by Dorgon, Fulin's resentment was even more serious.

At this time, Dorgon was not here, and Fulin became tempted.

He said to Hong Chengchou: "All the officials said that muskets are sharp. I want to form musket soldiers to protect the capital, which is also for the Qing Dynasty. If it is just to consume a lot of money, it can first form a musket battalion of tens of thousands or even thousands of people. In this way, after training is successful and the national treasury is full in real time, it can quickly expand to tens of thousands of people."

Bumubutai was a little surprised, and she looked at Hong Chengchou.
Chapter completed!