Once a hand-cranked Gatling gun is developed, although it is hand-cranked, its firing rate can reach 200 rounds per minute, which is already remarkable in this era.
The biggest weakness of a hand-cranked Gatling gun is that the shooter becomes emotionally agitated on the battlefield as the distance between the enemy and the gun continues to shorten during the enemy's charge. He becomes so angry that he loses control of himself and turns the handle faster and faster like crazy, causing the machine gun to overheat, jam, or explode.
Moreover, the black powder residue is quite serious. Although the bullets and barrels can be cleaned after the war, the overall service life is not very long. Only metal bullets can solve this problem.
However, metal bullets cannot be put on the agenda for now. Zhu Youxiao is already very satisfied with being able to use a rotary machine gun with paper shell bullets.
Although the hand-cranked Gatling gun has a firing rate of only two hundred rounds per minute, more of them can be deployed on the battlefield to crush the enemy with quantity.
There is one thing that you need to know after all, that is, in the British and French armies, a company will be equipped with fifty of these revolver firearms, which means that a company has fifty hand-cranked Gatling machine guns.
Zhu Youxiao planned to equip each centurion with ten guns.
In fact, the concept of strengthening has already appeared in the new army.
For example, the reinforced hundred households and the reinforced thousand households. Each reinforced hundred households actually has about two hundred personnel, including thirty machine gunners, fifty riflemen, and is equipped with ten hand-cranked Gatling guns and fifty flintlock rifles.
In addition, there were fifty sword and shield soldiers, fifty spearmen, ten cavalrymen, and twenty archers.
Each reinforced Thousand Household was additionally equipped with an Artillery Hundred Household and a Rocket Launcher Hundred Household. Each of these two Hundred Households was equipped with 100 artillery pieces and 100 rocket launchers, respectively. This brought the total strength of each reinforced Thousand Household to nearly 4,000 men.
According to the organization of the Ming army, this can be regarded as a reinforced guard, and it can also be called a personal guard, because only the new emperor's personal army will have such a configuration.
The left and right imperial guards commanded yamen, each of which commanded twelve imperial guards. In addition to the ten imperial guards, there were also two reinforced cavalry guards.
This is the combat unit that Zhu Youxiao envisioned, and the current imperial guards are not even half-finished products. Many people think that they can attack Liaodong, but Zhu Youxiao thinks that it is not possible, mainly because of insufficient firepower.
Zhu Youxiao needed to establish at least four, or even five, offices to command his own troops, like the Five Military Commandery, before he could go to war everywhere.
This is why Zhu Youxiao is in such urgent need of money. His current money is probably enough to arm one personal guard, and he has no money for another. Moreover, he has already established two personal guards, both of which need these equipment.
However, Zhu Youxiao would not tell anyone about these things, letting him experience them slowly on his own.
The rest of the visit didn't offer many surprises, after all, we had already seen all the good stuff. Zhu Youxiao mostly just appeased the staff, distributed rewards, and boosted morale, which were all routine operations.
Zhu Youxiao stayed in the Academy of Hundred Craftsmen and had dinner with those meritorious officials, which fully demonstrated Zhu Youxiao's love and affinity for the people.
This is also an honor for the officials of the Academy of Craftsmen. Being able to dine with His Majesty is a great honor.
After dinner, Zhu Youxiao bid farewell to the staff of the Academy of Craftsmen and returned to the imperial palace.
Although he was very tired after a day, Zhu Youxiao still felt very happy.
The new research direction has been determined, and the new achievements have made Zhu Youxiao very satisfied.
When Zhu Youxiao visited the Academy of Craftsmen, the entire capital was very peaceful. After all, there were no major events at the moment.
What the officials in the court are most concerned about is the reform of the Royal Academy. However, they have become accustomed to it after so long. Although there will be some noise from time to time, it is nothing big.
The autumn harvest has been completed, the grain has been stored, and the next step is to prepare for winter.
Although there have been rumors about the construction of houses for officials, they have never been clear. Many people are looking forward to it, but few have received any concrete information.
Soon, it was the end of the year and the weather gradually turned colder.
When the first snow fell, Zhu Youxiao finally received the plan from the Ministry of Works.
This is the construction plan for the new city, and the most important thing is that they have already drawn the blueprints.
The current Minister of Works is Yao Siren, who is not young anymore, almost 90 years old. Although he is still strong physically, his spirit is failing, and he will soon retire.
The reason Yao Siren is still in office is because his successor is not ready yet. Once the successor is ready, Yao Siren can step down.
This new city project should be Yao Siren's last time to participate in a court project.
Zhu Youxiao simply didn't look for Yao Siren this time. After all, he was already very old, and it was impossible for him to handle these things, and he didn't have enough energy.
The person who was mainly responsible for the construction of the new city was Bi Maokang. Of course, it was definitely not Bi Maokang who succeeded the Minister of Works.
Bi Maokang was bound to be promoted, as this was the reward Zhu Youxiao gave him, but it was absolutely impossible for him to be promoted to the position of Minister of Works.
Bi Maokang wants to take control of the Baigong Academy. In the future, the scale of the Baigong Academy will become larger and larger, and there will be more and more things to do. Bi Maokang cannot be too busy to handle everything.
The person Zhu Youxiao wanted to appoint as the Minister of Works was actually Li Zhizao. However, Li Zhizao was currently in the General Staff Office and would be promoted to the Minister of Works in the near future.
Zhu Youxiao wanted to express a meaning through this action, that is, officials and civil servants in the General Staff Office can be interchanged, which is used to blur the distinction between civil and military affairs. This is very important.
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