How powerful were the muskets of the Ming Dynasty

In the notes of Ji Daqi Ji Xiaolan, there is such a record, the Ming Dynasty Wanli years, Zhejiang has a Dai, is the top of the skilled craftsmen, this person is particularly unconvinced by the craftsmanship of Westerners.　　He once made a kind of cannon, the shape looks like a pipa, gunpowder and lead pills are stored in the ridge part of the cannon, the cannon has two triggers, like a male and a female together, trigger one of them, the gunpowder and lead pills will automatically slide down to the barrel, and then trigger the second machine, the fire of the stone, the gunfire will be erupted, according to his design of the cannon can be fired twenty-eight times until the gunpowder and lead pills to play until the end.

Also in the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli years, there is a Zhejiang Zhao Shizhen reference to similar foreign firearms, continuous improvement, in the Wanli 26 years to the emperor submitted to the Xunlei Singijeon can only be sent five bombs to the Wanli thirty years after the improvement of the Xunlei Singijeon can be fired at a breath of eighteen bombs.

The Singijeon was fired with fire rope or flint, and was shaped like a pipa after adding the outer cover. The most valuable thing is that it can be used as a cold weapon after firing. It was 187 centimeters long but weighed only 2.5 kilograms.

The twenty-eight-round musket made in the Ming Dynasty was incredibly powerful! Why has not been passed down? (There is no historical record that the Singijeon was widely used in the Ming army, but it was used in the movie.)

The Chinese invented gunpowder, one of the four great inventions, can invent such a thing, but some people say that the Chinese people can not make a good gun, and even some people say that the Chinese use gunpowder in the fireworks, while the Westerners used it for the manufacture of hot weapons, and finally used the cannons to blast open the door of China, forcing China to sign a series of unequal treaties, in fact, I do not agree with this point of view, but I do not agree with this point of view, I do not agree with this point of view. I don't agree with this viewpoint.

First of all, the late Qing Dynasty, the loss of power and humiliation, is the decline of the country's fortunes, is the system and the problem of the people, which is the internal cause, as for the Westerner's ship and artillery, just the external cause. Simply take an example, say the Sino-Japanese naval battle, the Qing Dynasty's naval division if the equipment is indeed in Japan above, but also not the same was hit by the essence of the egg?

Secondly, the Chinese people manufacturing equipment and other things has always been the ancestor level, some things, not to build, not disdain to build, or refused to build, then why? The main thing is that China's thousands of years of moral concepts y rooted in people's hearts and minds, the demand is two words: "benevolence and generosity", and behind these two words is the Chinese have been the most respected "good life and evil kill" and "karma". ", so the smart people are more research is "benefit all beings" learning, even if someone occasionally research such a refined gun, but also never want to pass it on to their children and grandchildren, their biggest worry is "damage to the secretion", so they would rather their own With the grave. This point, again, have to let people for the ancestors praise and then sigh of regret!

So the advanced weapons that Dai studied were not used on the battlefield. This person was an official in the Chintian Supervision, the name is unknown, about him and his musket did not find any picture information.