"Your Majesty, this is the first batch of flowering bullets loaded with fuses."

In the military workshop, Chen Qi led Xiao Qi to the warehouse. On the ground where there were a lot of muskets and ammunition piled up, he saw the neatly arranged flowering bullets in the corner at a glance.

Because of the flowering bullet, Xiao Ming delayed Lu Fei's attack on Jinzhou, but the army was expending a lot outside, and it would not be beneficial to anyone if it was consumed continuously.

What's more, Japan on the Koryo Peninsula is eyeing it. He wants to end the war in the north as soon as possible to open up the situation for the colonization of the Great Yu Kingdom.

Chen Qi picked up a flowering bullet from the ground and said to Xiao Ming: "Master, this batch of flowering bullets still uses hollow iron balls, but the iron ball's wood plug tube has been replaced with the current mechanical fuse."

Black cat and white cat, the one who can catch mice is the good cat. Xiao Ming ordered: "You have the artillery demonstrated it now, I want to see what I want to see?"

"Yes, the emperor." Chen Qi nodded and ordered people to transport the shells on the ground.

The group arrived at the shooting range. Under Chen Qi's order, the artillery replaced the solid bullet with a flowering bullet, and the loading sequence was completed. With a roar, the shells rushed straight towards the stone pestle five hundred meters away.

The flowering bullet that rushed out strongly hit the stone. The firing needle in the fuse hit the lightning mercury and instantly detonated the shell. With a "boom", flames surrounded the stone pestle, and the stones splashed everywhere.

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction. In the past, only the mortar cannon could fire flowering bullets, but now all smoothbore cannons can fire flowering bullets.

Especially for the Navy, their fighting style will change essentially.

In the past, warships fired against each other just solid bullets, but they were all holes. This rarely caused the warship to sink, but now it is different. If the naval gun is loaded with such flowering bullets, it will undoubtedly be a nightmare for the enemy. The flowering bullets will directly sank the opponent's warship.

"After the first batch of shells were sent to Pingzhou City, you immediately sent such flowering bullets to the navy." Xiao Ming gently locked his eyebrows. He still remembered the last time the Great Chongqing warship and the British warship met at sea.

If the British warships shoot at them again at sea, he promises that the Qingzhou warship will destroy the opponent.

After the first test shot was successful, Chen Qi continued to test shot six more rounds, and all six shells exploded, which shows that the reliability of this shell is still good.

"Where are the landmines I asked you to create?" Xiao Ming asked at this time.

Chen Qi picked up a hollow bullet from the box that was different from the flowering bullet. The hole of the hollow bullet was obviously very large, the fuse was larger than that of the flowering bullet, and it was very tall on the surface of the shell.

"Your Majesty, this is, in order to make it easier for barbarians and horses to detonate landmines, the lower officials made the landmine fuses much more sensitive, and the weight of soldiers and horses was enough to detonate." Chen Qi said seriously.

Lu Tong was responsible for providing mercury, but the manufacturing of shells was entirely dependent on him. However, with the maturity of iron mold technology and the use of steam engines, they produced much easier than before.

Xiao Ming smiled with satisfaction. History proved that the changes in weapons caused the situation of war to change. In the past, the West used naval guns to conquer the world. Now it was the turn of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, led by him, to formulate international rules.

Like the flowering bullet, Xiao Ming also asked Chen Qi to demonstrate to himself. At this time, Chen Qi asked the craftsman to bury the mine under the soil layer, and then a craftsman stood far away and threw an iron block into the soil layer where the mine was buried.

As the iron block fell on the mine, the ground suddenly exploded, and soil and flames splashed.

"It's very good. Now how many shells and mines can you produce in a month." Xiao Ming asked.

"It's okay to have three thousand pieces of each." Chen Qi said: "Now the military workshop has guns and bullets, and there are not enough manpower."

Frowning, he looked at the yard of the military workshop. The military workshop that was established at the time also grew wildly. In his opinion, with the modernization of weapons, the military industry should also become formal.

So he said, "I will allocate another group of people to you. You and Song Changping are responsible for splitting out the muskets, artillery and ammunition workshops, and each performs its own duties. In this way, the efficiency of the three workshops can be improved."

Chen Qi immediately grinned. He was envious of the vigorous slave wave this time, but he ignored this matter because he was busy developing fuses.

Now that Xiao Ming said this, it naturally suited his wishes.

The new shells are progressing rapidly, and Xiao Ming is also in a good mood, because this means that he can defeat his enemies more easily and gain more market for the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

After checking the shells, Xiao Ming inspected the musket workshop and the artillery workshop. Now the production of these two workshops is very stable.

The musket workshop has been producing and renovating the Zhenglu muskets, and the artillery workshop focuses on the production of field guns and naval guns. However, in addition, they have been designing and developing the next generation of muskets and artillery.

However, it will take some time to wait for the product to come out.

"By the way, now your military workshop can send craftsmen to Pingzhou to train the soldiers and teach them how to use these two weapons. Once your first batch of shells arrive, the Jinzhou battle will start." Xiao Ming said.

"Yes, the emperor, let's make arrangements now."

Satisfied with the current production progress, Xiao Ming and Qian Dafu left the military workshop and returned to Qingzhou City.

As soon as the two entered the city, they found the streets of Qingzhou in chaos. At this time, the streets were full of merchants, Confucian scholars, and people. In the chaos, they heard shouts, cheers and fights from time to time.

"What's going on? Go and ask." Xiao Ming said to Qian Dafu.

"Yes, the emperor." Qian Dafu responded, walked to a guard who was maintaining order and asked sternly: "What are your guards doing? How can this city be so chaotic?"

When the guard saw Qian Dafu, he looked nervous. He said, "Master Qian, this is not the fault of the guard. The chaos in the city was caused by merchants and Confucian scholars, and it is said that it was caused by the dispute between Confucian scholars and merchants."

"Confucian scholars and merchants?" Qian Dafu was stunned for a moment and vaguely guessed something.

The guard continued: "Yes, it was originally a fight between two people, but now it has become a chaos in the entire Qingzhou city. Both merchants and Confucian scholars gathered a large number of people to fight in the city."

Qian Dafu knew it in his heart, and he returned to the carriage and told Xiao Ming the whole story.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ming showed a contemplative look. There were some unique vision among the merchants. For those who are emerging, celestialism will undoubtedly completely break the shackles that have bound them for thousands of years.
Chapter completed!