Negotiating with Guo Dan is a very painful thing, and Chen Fangyuan, who likes to marry his granddaughter, has a deep understanding of this!

He was also the first victim.

At the beginning, Guo Dan sold Chen Lou at a high price in order to help Chen Fangyuan, which once made Chen Lou's business boom, but this also made Chen Fangyuan want to regret it, but Guo Dan told him very bluntly, if you want to regret it, then I will help Jin Yulou to buy Chen Lou.

In the end, Chen Fangyuan was forced to sell Chen Lou.

To this day, the routine is still the same, but the victims have changed.

In the early stage of the negotiations, Guo Dan first drew a big pie, which made the generals excited, and then he cleverly put forward his own conditions, how big the pie was, how harsh this condition was.

When the negotiation opponent was entangled and confused, he took out a big stick from behind him and carried it on his shoulder.

It's as if to tell your opponent that if you don't agree, you'll not only lose the pie, but you'll also be hurt.

This is almost Guo Dan's usual routine, although the routine is old, it is useful.

After negotiating with Guo Dan, Li Rumei, Qin Deyi and other soldiers fell into pain.

If they agree to Guo Dan's conditions, although they will get more wealth and even more power, Liaodong will no longer be their final say, and they will no longer control Liaodong's trade, land, population, and so on.

But if they don't say yes, what is the future?

......

Weihui House.

Recently, Li Chengliang, who was confused by the Liaodong case, came to the Firearms Research Institute again.

All his life, it was always difficult for him to adapt to the life in the city, so once he was in a bad mood, he would come here for a walk.

As usual, as soon as I came to the door, I heard bursts of artillery fire.

Boom Boom!

The sound of artillery fire day and night led the local residents to name the firearms research institute "minefield".

At the same time, the shadow of a military school also appeared here.

It's just that this place is only responsible for training professional soldiers, but senior generals.

This is because in the process of developing and testing firearms, we need actual operators, and these operators are soldiers, and in the process of operation, they are familiar with every detail.

Therefore, in the Southwest Campaign, the research institute provided Li Rusong with a large number of artillery and engineers.

In armies that are heavily armed with firearms, these two types of soldiers are very important.

It is also very popular in the army.

Therefore, after the end of the Southwest Campaign, when Li Rusong and Zhao Shizhen looked back, they found that this seemed to be able to kill two birds with one stone, which could not only provide sufficient manpower for the research institute, but also provide the army with these professional arms in a steady stream.

Therefore, Zhao Shizhen and his family deliberately regarded the firearms test process as a kind of training.

When this group of soldiers became proficient, they were immediately replaced with new recruits.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

I saw a general urging dozens of soldiers to drive eight carriages forward quickly, each with an artillery piece towed behind it.

"Stop."

Another order was heard.

The artillerymen immediately turned the wagon around and aimed the muzzles of the guns at the huge red doors in the distance.

"Ready!"

The soldiers immediately reloaded.

When it was ready, another order was given, and eight artillery pieces fired a salvo.

The four red doors were broken.

Although it is only half of the hit, the hit rate is already very impressive.

You must know that when Yang Feixu led the battleship to attack Luzon, there was a round of volleys, and none of them hit.

Li Chengliang was dumbfounded, walked up to Zhao Shizhen, and asked, "Master Zhao, what are you doing here?" ”

"Zhao Shizhen has seen Ning Yuanbo."

Zhao Shizhen first saluted, and then explained: "We are trying to quickly use artillery to attack in the field. ”

"I see."

Li Chengliang nodded, and said, "It seems to be very successful!" ”

Zhao Shizhen stroked his beard and smiled, "This is thanks to those blacksmiths from Foshan, Guangzhou." ”

Li Chengliang said curiously: "How do you say this?" ”

"Uncle Ning, please."

Zhao Shizhen took Li Chengliang to a cannon.

Li Chengliang looked at the artillery, and couldn't help but light up in his eyes, "This artillery .....!" ”

Zhao Shizhen said: "This is a copper-iron cannon, which is lighter than the bronze cannon, more durable than the pure iron cannon, and more powerful than the two. ”

He pointed to the lighter cannon next to him, "This cannon is made of steel and pig iron, although it is not as durable and powerful as the copper and iron cannon, but it is lighter and cheaper, and these smelting techniques are all brought to us by the craftsmen of Foshan." ”

When he spoke, he was proud!

In fact, before this, the artillery produced by the Grand Canyon was not weaker than the imported artillery, but it could not be said to be completely surpassed, and now it is surpassed in all aspects, and the reason is that the smelting and alloy technology of the Ming Dynasty has advanced by leaps and bounds.

In terms of steelmaking and alloy technology, it is better than the West.

Coupled with Guo Dan's capital play, a large number of outstanding craftsmen in the country have attracted to the Grand Canyon, although there is no theory, but these outstanding craftsmen are gathered together, which undoubtedly stimulates the further development of technology, in addition, Weihui Mansion as a production center, many technologies can be shared with each other, such as coinage technology, which has given the Grand Canyon some technical support.

Of course, Li Rusong and his generals responded to the Grand Canyon's requests, which was completely different from the previous military department and the engineering department, so naturally they would not be polite, they were crazy to find faults, and the problem of artillery mobility was the problem that Li Rusong desperately complained about.

Do you know how painful it is to walk on a rugged mountain road with a lump of iron?

When my soldiers arrived at the battlefield, they had no strength to light the firing.

Unlike the West, China has emphasized mobility militarily since the Art of War.

The world's martial arts are only fast and unbreakable.

Zhao Shizhen is also deeply ashamed, this year's research and development focus of the bird gun is the ignition device, and the research and development direction of the artillery is to increase mobility, so weight loss is naturally a direction, this copper iron cannon, steel cannon came into being.

Just as Zhao Shizhen was chatting with Li Chengliang about how to improve the artillery, an entourage came to Li Chengliang's old servant, muttered a few words in his ear, and then handed a letter to the old servant.

The old servant took the letter, came to Li Chengliang's side again, and said in a low voice: "Master, there is a letter from Liaodong." ”

Li Chengliang was slightly stunned, and then said to Zhao Shizhen: "Chief Zhao, I have something to deal with, and I will talk to Director Zhao in detail tomorrow." ”

"Uncle Ning Yuan, walk slowly."

As soon as he turned around and walked a few steps, Li Chengliang opened the letter and read it.

"I see!"

After looking at it, Li Chengliang suddenly closed his eyes and sighed.

This is Li Rumei's handwritten letter, and the content in my heart is to tell Li Chengliang and Guo Dan's conditions.

It turned out that Li Rumei and Qin De relied on them to discuss for a long time, and they had no clue, if the plan of Yinuo Grain was carried out proudly, it was difficult for them to predict what would happen, and finally they unanimously decided to write to Li Chengliang.

Li Chengliang, the old fox, understood at a glance, this is a pit!

The emperor's purpose was to use firearms to reform the military system.

And about this, he has thought of it a long time ago, because he has always been involved in the research and development of firearms, and Li Rusong always wrote to him to tell him how happy it was to equip this firearm, and Guo Dan's military reform in Ningxia confirmed his ideas.

It's just that he didn't expect that this day would come so quickly.

He knows too well what the consequences of the establishment of Yinuo Grain and Grass will be, that is, there will be no more Li Jiajun, Qi Jiajun, only the Ming Army.

But their Li family has been operating in Liaodong for so many years, how can he be willing to hand over all this in his heart.

Just as he was struggling.

Boom Boom!

A burst of cannon fire woke him up, and he looked back, and the cannons made him have mixed feelings.

When he first contacted Guo Dan, he hoped to use Guo Dan to enhance the strength of the Liaodong Army, but he never thought that today, he would be counterattacked by Guo Dan.

In this general trend of the world, Haohao soup soup, those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it die.

Li Chengliang knows that his time is gone forever, with this productivity, this firearm, and this financial resources, it is really a circle of dogs that will not necessarily lose, not to mention that the emperor is surrounded by talents.

If at this time, their Li family made a little move, the emperor might not be able to tolerate them.

That promise of grain was the last straw for their Li family, if he still wanted to maintain the Li family's status in the army.

Li Chengliang, who was in Weihui Mansion, did not dwell on it for too long, because everything that happened in Weihui Mansion had given him a clear answer, and he immediately wrote to Li Rumei and turned everything in the Li family into shares and joined Yinuo Grain Bank.

His only request was to increase the Li family's stake in Yinuo Grain Bank.

And just seven days later, Wanli finally showed his fangs.

He made a big fuss about the border army generals privately raising their family soldiers, so he made a series of personnel arrangements, and he ordered the military department Shangshu Fang to pass through Liaodong at the right time, and promoted Song Yingchang, the prefect of Jinan, to be the left waiter of the military department, and passed through Jizhou. Promoted to Shaanxi according to the inspection envoy Xing Yu as the right attendant of the military department, through the Xuanfu.

The three of them immediately went to the Three Towns to take over the local military affairs.

In addition, Wanli also promoted Li Rumei to the chief soldier of Liaodong Town, and promoted Zhao Shizhen to a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, but he still worked in Weihui Mansion.

At the same time, Wanli asked the household department to allocate 500,000 taels to the border army to prepare the latest firearms.

The courtiers were taken aback.

What is this for?

However, they soon realized the problem.

Wanli This is to reform the military system.

The promotion of Zhao Shizhen is to incorporate the research and development of firearms into the military and politics.

However, they all started this matter themselves, and Wanli was just pushing the boat down the river.

They can't slap themselves and tell Wanli that raising private soldiers is nonsense, you must not believe it.

Of course, many ministers in the DPRK and China are also supportive, first of all, Wanli is doing things according to the rules this time, and did not contract Liaodong and Jizhou to Guo Dan, they don't know yet, Yinuo Grain is about to make a shining debut, and these civil officials don't want the military generals to be too strong.

Liaodong Town.

When Fang Feng got out of the carriage, he was greeted by Guo Dan complaining.

"I'll do this evil thing, and I'll be the wicked person, but the credit goes to Fang Shangshu, this is really a fucked society!"

"You profiteer, you really get cheap and sell well!"

Fang Fengshi snorted angrily: "The old man is old, and he sent it to you as a gunman, don't you know what to do!" ”

Guo Dan smiled and said: "You can't say that, when the time comes, all the credit will be Fang Shangshu's, and I will carry all the infamy, such as this kind of thing, don't say that when you are a gunman, you can ride a horse, I am also happy." ”

Fang Fengshi said: "This credit belongs to the old man, but the benefits are all taken away by you, of course you are happy." ”

Guo Dan's expression was stunned, and he said in his heart, this old fox is really not easy to fool!

Because Guo Dan is not an official after all, Wanli cannot contract the nine towns to him, he has no power to implement reforms, he can only come over first to distribute the benefits and appease the local generals, and it is Fang Fengshi who really implements reforms.