When mentioning the Red Coat Cannon, Chen Mo couldn't help but recall a post he had seen online before his time travel. From the comments under that post, he learned about the Red Coat Cannon.
The post was like this: during the Ming Dynasty, the Red Coat Cannon displayed its impressive power, leading the West by two hundred years. Why, then, did it become ineffective by the Qing Dynasty?
There are various opinions in the comment section, for instance, some say the Qing Dynasty didn't prioritize cannon development.
But this was quickly refuted with the claim that Nuerhachi reportedly died at the hands of a cannon, so how could the Qing Dynasty not prioritize cannon development? They even provided an example, mentioning that Huang Taiji seized a "Red Coat Cannon" in Zhuozhou, ordered it to be dragged back to Liaodong, and then recruited a group of Han craftsmen at a high price to earnestly study this cannon.
