Imperial Master of the Ming Dynasty

The topic went round and round, but Jiang Xinghuo was brought back to the starting point.

"What does heavy industry mean? Why can we make aliens no longer a threat?"

Zhu Di asked with a slight frown.

He vaguely realized that this was a very critical issue, so critical that it could bring about earth-shaking changes in Ming's military strength.

In fact, it is not that Zhu Di cannot understand that muskets and artillery may completely change the pattern of war in the future, but the glory of the past prevents him from giving up the concept of "cavalry supremacy."

In particular, this concept helped him go through four years of bloody battles, using highly organized cavalry roundabouts again and again to determine who would own the throne.

But when Jiang Xinghuo said "less than a hundred casualties" meant "five died."

Zhu Di had to pay attention to the role of blunderbuss and artillery in the future era.

"Heavy industry is the industry that manufactures industries."

"Including the steel industry, smelting industry, machinery, fuel, chemical and other industries, it provides raw materials, fuel, and technical equipment for the light industry."

"And light industry is the textiles and ceramics we talked about before. In addition, it also includes papermaking, printing, furniture, etc."

Jiang Xinghuo paused and then continued: "The most important core of heavy industry for a country is the manufacturing of military weapons."

"After all, Your Majesty, you also know that you can't even grow a knife handle in the field."

"Once a heavy industry system is established, life-harvesting weapons can be continuously manufactured in batches. They will be exactly the same when they leave the factory, but the cost will be extremely low."

Hearing this sentence, Zhu Di realized the deeper meaning of Jiang Xinghuo more keenly.

That is, the power of firecrackers and artillery comes not only from themselves, but also from the so-called "heavy industrial system" that produces cheap and mass-produced weapons.

And Zhu Di seemed to understand why the aliens in the grasslands and mountains could be made honest.

After all, the time required to train a cavalryman who is skilled in bow and horse can be calculated in several years or even ten years.

The gunman who pulls the trigger only needs to recruit some new soldiers and undergo a little training, and even the arm strength requirements required by the crossbowman can be ignored.

After all, the formation of fire cannons is a volley, which does not require too much precision. It relies entirely on probability shooting. It takes no effort to pull the trigger. To put it mildly, the old, weak, women and children can fire it.

Therefore, in terms of cost alone, the two are not on the same level at all.

What restricts the power of the fire gun soldiers is nothing more than the performance of the fire gun itself and the cost-effectiveness of manufacturing the fire gun.

The heavy industry system can solve the current shortcomings of low cost performance and low quality control of Ming Dynasty's reliance on hand-made firecrackers by craftsmen.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di couldn't help but ask a question.

"Then Ming Dynasty, should we develop light industry or heavy industry first? From what Mr. Jiang said, it seems that it is easiest to start with the textile industry."

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Jiang Xinghuo nodded and said: "It is indeed the safest and easiest to start from the textile industry, which can absorb a large number of people and is extremely practical and can be called a daily necessity, and then take the light industry route."

"But this does not mean that Ming Dynasty did not develop heavy industry. There is no contradiction between the two."

Jiang Xinghuo said: "Light industry can be mainly left to the private sector, but heavy industry needs to be held by Ming Dynasty in its own hands."

Although Jiang Xinghuo didn't reveal it clearly, who was Zhu Di? The emperor's mind understood Jiang Xinghuo's meaning almost subconsciously.

The ability to make knife handles can only be felt when you have it in your own hands.

"Then what will the future war look like? Why can Yinggelan and Falangxi, relying on their musketeers, form a hollow square array to prevent the Mongolian elite cavalry from advancing?"

Zhu Di showed considerable interest in this issue of military reform.

As for what the country would become under the rule of the Jurchens, and why it would be invaded by Yinggelan and Falangxi, both of them had a tacit understanding and did not mention it.

It's not just that there are some things Jiang Xinghuo can't say.

Even Zhu Di guessed the answer to the question.

After all, Jiang Xinghuo once said before that the development of industry inevitably requires the origin of raw materials and a dumping market for goods.

And this process must not be called very kind.

Of course, Zhu Di at this time will definitely change this ending.

Not to mention the Jianzhou Jurchens, as well as the Haixi Jurchens and the Savage Jurchens, the Ming Dynasty had a way to establish national policies and exterminate their species and reclaim their land over a long period of time.

After all, if the population of Ming Dynasty grows too much in the future, it would be a good idea to immigrate outside Shanhaiguan.

As long as the army is dispatched regularly to clean up, and in conjunction with the reward orders issued by the people, within a hundred years, the Jurchens in the mountains will probably be completely wiped out.

Facing Zhu Di's question, Jiang Xinghuo also stood up from his chair, squatted on the ground and started drawing.

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At the same time, Jiang Xinghuo not only gave the schematic diagram, but also the formula for calculating the number of people in the hollow square array.

The total number of people in the hollow square matrix = the number of people on each side of the outermost layer x the number of layers x2 + (the number of people on each side of the outermost layer - the number of layers x2) x the number of layers x2

Zhu Di was a general with the most dazzling military talent in this era. He could understand the hollow square array drawn by Jiang Xinghuo almost at a glance.

But the next moment, Zhu Di's words made Jiang Xinghuo stunned.

"Our Ming Dynasty also has this, but the cavalry is placed in the middle, leaving empty doors at the four corners for the cavalry to attack."

This means that the hollow square formation is really not a high-end tactic.

After all, China has liked to play with formations since ancient times.

From the simplest square/circle formation, to the one-word long snake formation that is the favorite of later principals, to the more complicated fish scale formation, front arrow formation, crane wing formation, crescent moon formation, flying goose formation, balanced yoke formation and even Zhuge Liang's formation Eight formations, Zhao Kuangyin never tired of playing with them.

As long as it is a formation that can be set up in theory, someone has already studied it.

Moreover, in the near future, the Hollow Phalanx will be clearly recorded in the Ming Dynasty's General Soldier Wang Minghe's "Must Be Investigated in the World" and the Trilateral Governor Ye Mengxiong's "Decisive Outline". It is a mixture of infantry and cavalry of the Ming Dynasty border army Commonly used formations.

This means that Jiang Xinghuo is not omniscient or omnipotent.

However, there was no need for the awkward Jiang Xinghuo to explain at this time. Zhu Di instead followed the formula given by Jiang Xinghuo and deduced the formation in detail.

Not only that, Zhu Di probably felt that Jiang Xinghuo's paintings were too rough and not detailed enough, so Zhu Di started to draw pictures by himself.

Seeing the emperor in dragon robe squatting on the ground, gesticulating with the seriousness of a child counting ants, Jiang Xinghuo couldn't help but sigh, he still has a specialization in the art.

Zhu Di suddenly turned around and asked a question: "How do fire gunners defend themselves?"

"A slender dagger is attached to the fire gun." Jiang Xinghuo replied casually.

After a while.

"Oh, Mr. Jiang is really smart. He actually said it like this. That's it! That's it!" Zhu Di said with a smile, stroking his hands.

Jiang Xinghuo asked with a straight face, "So, you understand?"

Although Jiang Xinghuo didn't understand what Zhu Di understood, at this time, it was the right thing to ask.

"Of course! Thanks for the advice, Mr. Jiang."

Zhu Di enthusiastically grabbed Jiang Xinghuo's sleeve and showed him the newly drawn formation.

Jiang Xinghuo felt a little dizzy when he looked at the dense array in front of him, which was constructed with some kind of geometric beauty.

"The original hollow square formation was built with pikemen as the core, with archers and cavalry behind the pikes. Although the range of the infantry bow is slightly longer than that of the cavalry bow, the effective projectile level of an ordinary army is only one hundred steps. This As a result, once the cavalry is determined to attack the hollow phalanx, our archer troops will not have enough long-range projection capabilities. This reason cannot be simpler. If there are more archers, the pikemen will not be able to protect it."

"And if the fire gunner can add a slender dagger to the fire gun, it is equivalent to combining the spear and the fire gun into one, and then there is no need for the hollow square array to retain the archers. No, no, archers, replace them with A more portable artillery?"

Zhu Di slapped his thigh hard.

"Mr. Jiang's improved hollow square array is really amazing!"

Jiang Xinghuo: "."

Zhu Di continued: "Artillery completely solves the problem of the proportion of archers and pikemen in the traditional hollow square array. In the past, archers were useless if there were too many pikemen, but artillery can replace the projectile of bows and arrows. And it doesn’t take a lot!”

"In this way, the fire gunman can not only rely on the fire gun to defend the enemy from a distance, but also can transform into a spearman to form a spear formation for close combat. The artillery in the center is more powerful than the archer, and combined with a certain number of cavalry, it can be used for scouting, reconnaissance, and shielding the battlefield. , attack and harvest, this is simply the perfect formation!"

Next, there were words such as "four whistles and three lines" and "one or two word changes" that Jiang Xinghuo couldn't understand.

If he had read "Ji Xiao Xin Shu" and "Kai Yuan Illustrations", Jiang Xinghuo might be able to understand part of it, but with his military knowledge and understanding alone, he was still far behind if he wanted to discuss it with Zhu Di.

Therefore, Zhu Di was completely immersed in his military world.

Jiang Xinghuo simply said nothing and pretended to be an expert.

In Zhu Di's eyes, this formation, full of geometric beauty, was so beautiful to him that he was reluctant to part with it.

After a long time, Jiang Xinghuo was tired from standing, and Zhu Di just raised his head and said.

"Did Yinggelan and Falangxi rely on this set of things to invade China?"

Zhu Di is not worried that the ending will happen again in the future. History has been changed from the moment he heard Jiang Xinghuo's lecture.

As the world's number one general, Zhu Di is more concerned about the evolution of future war patterns and what are the root causes of this evolution.

As long as this military transformation is deeply understood.

Then Zhu Di would naturally return all the sufferings China suffered in another time and space to Yinggelan and Falangxi now.

Isn’t it a coincidence that Ming Dynasty’s industrial products will also lack a dumping market in the future?