Nanjing, Liangjiang Governor's Office.

Lang Tingzuo's face was gloomy, and the room was littered with shards of porcelain he had lost.

Not long ago, he received news that the ship he had sent to carry grain and silver had been intercepted on its way to Dengzhou.

The person who intercepted it was none other than Zheng Chenggong!

This guy has calculated and waited for Langtinzo's sea ship to be delivered to the door!

That's 100,000 stone of rice and 500,000 taels of silver! Lang Tingzuo has accumulated so much after many years of searching and stealing, and all of them were robbed by Zheng Chenggong.

How could he not be angry?

Not only was he angry, but he even vomited blood in anger!

Despicable villain, despicable villain!

If you don't dare to have an honest duel with Lao Tzu on the battlefield, you will do these things of stealing chickens and dogs behind your back!

A thief is a thief, and he can never change his nature.

As the old saying goes, dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes and mice give birth to children who make holes.

Zheng Zhilong started by being a pirate, and Zheng Chenggong pretended to be at the beginning. Now that I'm in a hurry, the fox's tail is exposed.

Although Langtinzo vomited blood angrily, it was still not appropriate to make a noise when he calmed down and thought about this matter.

After all, if this matter is known to the imperial court, not to mention that his official hat of the governor of Liangjiang is not guaranteed, and even his head will have to be moved.

Lang Tingzuo is now a dumb eater of Coptis chinensis, and he can't say what he is suffering from!

With nowhere to vent his resentment, Lang Tingzuo could only hope that Shi Lang would come to Nanjing earlier.

This person was originally a veteran general of the Zheng clan and was extremely proficient in naval warfare, and with him, Lang Tingzuo had the confidence to fight Zheng Chenggong.

Now Zheng Chenggong has been entrenched in the Zhoushan Islands for a generation, and he looks fearless, and his face is really hateful!

The whole world is not the king's land. Even Zhoushan belongs to the Qing Dynasty, and Lang Tingzuo must gather troops to defeat Zheng thieves in one fell swoop, and will never allow Zheng Chenggong to challenge the majesty of the Qing court!

I have to say that what has happened in the past six months has really been somewhat unexpected by Langtinzo.

First, Wu Sangui was defeated in Kunming, and then the Ming army rushed thousands of miles to capture Chongqing.

At the same time, Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan waved their troops north to attack Nanjing.

Although they failed in the end, the two also mixed up the Qing army in Jiangnan.

Everything is as planned in advance, and it is impossible to prevent it!

From the perspective of the court and the emperor, Longtinzo could imagine this feeling of anger.

Seeing that the Ming is about to be extinguished, but there are so many moths, no one can accept it.

However, Langtinzo felt that this was only due to the negligence of the Qing army.

As long as the Qing army pays attention to it and plans carefully, if you want to destroy the Ming, it is still a matter of being captured.

After all, the contrast of strength between the two sides is too obvious.

The thief wants the snake to swallow the elephant? Think beautifully!

Hmph, Zheng Chenggong, this governor wants to see how many days you can be proud!

Lang Tingzuo vowed to capture Zheng Chenggong alive, and then cut him alive with a knife to relieve the hatred in his heart!

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Chengdu, Imperial Palace.

Since the relocation of the capital, Zhu Youlang has been paying attention to the imitation of flintlock pistols.

Francisco and other craftsmen moved to Chengdu, and they have not been idle, but the process has stagnated.

Zhu Youlang of course cared about what went wrong, and after some communication with Francisco, he realized that the barrel of the original flintlock pistol was wrought iron hot forged, which could be processed to handle the inner chamber, the interface was welded, and the shape processing was difficult to achieve perfection according to the existing technology.

I made a few samples, but the quality was too much to compliment. Even the inner wall of the gun is thin and uneven.

Before the industrial age, mass casting was unrealistic and could only be forged.

Relying on the current manpower to forge a pipe is too much energy. It definitely won't work like this.

Zhu Youlang thought about it for a while and decided to let Francisco and others make a set of hydraulic forging machine tools to try.

The core of hydraulic machine tools is borrowing.

Hydraulics, as the name suggests, naturally require water.

Fortunately, there are many rivers around Chengdu.

Zhu Youlang took his attendants and Francisco to a relatively urgent section of the river outside the city and ordered someone to set up a waterwheel.

The waterwheel is an invention of the ancestors, so it is naturally ready-made.

It's just that Zhu Youlang made some simple modifications to it, so that the waterwheel could drive more grinding discs and water mills.

Francisco has a strong understanding, and he should understand what Zhu Youlang wants to do.

"Your Majesty, do you want to use the waterwheel to forge the pipe?"

Zhu Youlang nodded when he heard this.

He likes to deal with smart people, and he can get through it at the same time!

"Not bad! The water wheel can be connected to the drill bit by a set of gear devices. It is used to drill out the gun. The drill bit is divided into two, one is the main drill bit and the other is used for grinding. ”

Zhu Youlang's cognition of hydraulic machine tools is also limited to popular science books, and naturally he will not be clear about some things that are too detailed.

This is up to Francesco to realize.

If you have a good understanding, you can understand it at all.

If you have poor understanding, you may not be able to make something decent even if you give him a year.

Zhu Youlang can only point to the end, what he provides is an idea. If everything needs to be personally interrogated by him, the emperor, what else do you need these craftsmen to do?

"Your Majesty is really wise!"

Francis slapped a sycophant on the back as a Han Chinese.

It was the first time he had heard such an interesting idea.

It seems that utilizing water power can indeed increase efficiency, and it is worth a try!

"Your Majesty, I want to build a workshop on the banks of this river, specializing in hydraulic power."

Zhu Youlang immediately clapped his hand and said, "This is easy to say." I will order the Ministry of Works to allocate money. If there is anything you need to mention in the future, please don't hesitate to mention it. As long as it is reasonable, I will agree. ”

Nowadays, imitation flintlock pistols are a top priority.

At present, Hong Chengchou and the others do not know that the Ming army has a limited number of new firearms and are still jealous, but this kind of deterrent force cannot always exist, and they will always know the truth one day.

Zhu Youlang had to make the flintlock pistol at all costs before this day.

It's easy to say that you want money and money, and you want people and people.

It's just that even if the hydraulic machine tool is made, the production capacity will not be too high.

According to Zhu Youlang's expectations, even if all the craftsmen brought their apprentices to work together, the flintlock pistols made in a year would only be enough to install a small part of the elite of the Tiger Army.

There is no way to do this, and with the level of productivity in this era, this is already touching the ceiling.

Even Zheng Chenggong, who is rich in the world, can only raise 5,000 iron men by collecting road taxes.

After all, forging armor is too expensive.

The same goes for forged flintlock pistols.

But a few thousand flintlock pistols were enough.

In cooperation with Zhu Youlang's new army concept, it will certainly be able to exert its great power.

In fact, what the Ming army lacked was not advanced guns, but an idea.

What exactly are they fighting for?

Zhu Youlang just wanted to tell them.

They are not fighting for the Zhu family, but for the sake of the common people in the world, so that every ordinary person does not have to suffer from alien slaves!

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