Dai Zi was born in 1649 AD, according to the Southern Ming calendar is the third year of the Yong calendar, according to the history of the Qing Dynasty is the sixth year of Shunzhi, the history books record that he was born in the family of officials, it is clear that his ancestors were officials in the Ming Dynasty.
Dai Zi was born intelligent, understood the astronomical stars, under the way of the Tongzhi River, and wrote poems in romance. "Like books, read everything, especially good soldiers", under the influence of his father, Dai Zi when he was a teenager liked mechanical manufacturing and preferred firearms research.
Many people think that the Qing Dynasty did not pay attention to the development of artillery technology, and blindly emphasized riding and shooting as the fundamental, which is actually a misunderstanding, the Qing Rulers were able to enter the customs, to a large extent, relying on advanced firearms, defeating the Ming army, saying that the Qing army did not understand firearms, which is pure nonsense.
Even today, weapons are so advanced that the troops emphasize physical training rather than firearms when training soldiers.
During the San Francisco Rebellion, Geng Jingzhong invaded Zhejiang from Fujian, and Dai Zi, who was in Zhejiang at the time, joined the army and went out with the army, and when he was marching, Dai Zi once presented the great general Prince Kang with "Lianzhu Huohuo".
Probably because of this, after quelling the Rebellion in San Francisco, the Kangxi Emperor personally summoned Dai Zi, believing that in fact, a talented person, granted him the official position of a lecturer in the Hanlin Academy, entered the South Study, and ordered him to participate in the preparation of the "Law lu justice", and soon became a "national key training talent" in the fine drilling engineering department.
Dai Zi's lianzhu fire bolt dedicated to Prince Kang is the firearm of the 28 machine guns that is now said by people, and about this firearm, it is described in Ji Xiaolan's "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang": When there is little speech, it is first made of a bird, shaped like a pipa, and all gunpowder lead pills are stored on the ridge and opened and closed on the wheel. There are two machines, which are like mu mu, the trigger is gunpowder, the lead ball is from the falling cylinder, and the second machine moves concurrently, and the stone fire comes out and the hammer is fired. Twenty-eight rounds, gunpowder lead pills are exhausted, and they need to be re-stored.
Probably similar to the appearance of the long-handled machine gun in the wartime period, it is more clumsy than the ammunition station, like the size of the lute belly.
Although this advanced weapon that can shoot 28 rounds in a row is a sensation, Dai Zi should also become the ancestor of modern machine guns. As the first expert to invent the continuous firing of ammunition, in the investigation and research of later generations, the word "invention" is gradually disintegrating.
In recent years, through the investigation of the Qingshan Dynasty arquebus cultural relics of the Kangxi Dynasty by Chengdong experts, it has been found that in fact, the Lianzhu Fire Hammer made by Dai Zi is not a machine gun, but is modeled on the Gun of the Onia State. This kind of gun is not used in actual combat in the West, but has become a plaything for the nobles of the palace.
Although such a small embarrassment made the atmosphere suddenly delicate, Dai Zi's gun still had something different: he used "granular gunpowder" from the West instead of "powder medicine", avoiding weaknesses such as small range and weak explosive power, and could still be used for actual combat drills.
Of course, there is also a saying that Dai Zi's invention of the Lianzhu Fire Hammer was not dedicated to the military camp, but hidden in the home, it is said that when Dai Zi dreamed, someone told him not to apply such a killing weapon to war, otherwise he would cut off his children and grandchildren.
It is not known that the fact that Dai Zi invented the Lianzhu Fire Hammer and was not reused by Kangxi has always been regarded as evidence that the Qing rulers did not pay attention to the development of firearms, and used to satirize the ignorance of the Qing rulers.
In fact, the content recorded by Dai Zi in the annals of history is that Dai Zi was ordered to imitate the shotgun and the Flang machine, and later Kangxi once asked Dai Zi to supervise the manufacture of the "Cupola Cannon", according to the "Biography of Mr. Cultivating Smoke": the cupola cannon, the son is in the mother's womb, the mother sends the son out, from the sky down, the pieces are broken, sharp.
Its power can be seen, the Qing court conquered the distant frontier, and only used three cupola cannons to "fall into its camp and achieve a great victory". Kangxi was very happy and named the Sky Cannon "General Weiyuan".
As a Han Chinese, Dai Zi is likely to be a descendant of Ming officials, and was valued by the Qing rulers because of his firearm technology, which just shows that the Qing rulers attached great importance to the research and development of firearms.
At the same time as being praised by Kangxi, Dai Zi was too valued by the Qing court, but was jealous of the Belgian craftsman Nan Huairen, who was working for the Qing court at that time, and then impeached Dai Zi to Kangxi, framed Dai Zi and Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son Chen Hongxun for a frictional gesture, and slandered Dai Zi and the Orientals for secretly communicating with the Orientals to get rid of the "scourge" of the imperial court.
As for whether Dai Zi was colluding enough, it is not known whether he was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and it is unknown whether he was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and Kangxi exiled Dai Zi's entire family to Shengjing in the thirtieth year.
In his later years, Dai Zi lived in poverty and made a living by selling paintings. Through "Seventy Self-Life", we can glimpse Dai Zi's living state: pregnant with wine in the snow cellar disease, and returning to the wheel in the ice dream. Even if the sorrowful intestines are broken this night, it has occupied seventy springs in the world.
Dai Zi's main places of exile were in Shengjing (present-day Shenyang) and Tieling, and the exile lasted for thirty-five years, from being once favored by the emperor to being distributed to the northeast, and the psychological gap was naturally extremely large.
Dai Zi's distribution does not mean that the Qing rulers did not attach importance to firearms, but the fundamental reason was that the internal struggle was too fierce, resulting in the state not having the energy to continue to engage in research and development.