Volume 4 Chapter 155 How to Grab Silver
The Matsuura clan actually ran away with his men, which was really a bit unexpected, and when Yu Dayou led the army to rush to the city wall, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
On the city wall, the artillery is still there, the banner of the Matsuura clan is still there, and there are even a lot of sassines that have been erected and leaned against the arrow stacks, and then put on hats and helmets or something to act as dummies.
These would-be robbers not only don't want to die when they start fighting, but they are also fast and scary when they run.
A quarter of an hour ago, when he was arrayed to attack, there seemed to be a crowd of people on the city wall, and now there was not even a ghost shadow on the city wall!
This guy, the pirates have all run out, can they chase after him?
Yu Dayou didn't dare to make his own decisions about this kind of thing, he could only order someone to hurry up and inform Yang Cong and ask for instructions on what to do next.
When Yang Cong received the news, he was also stunned, it was really unexpected that the would-be wouldn't flee without a fight.
So, do you want to chase it or not?
If he really came to seek revenge on the Matsuura clan, then he would naturally chase after him, even if this guy fled to the ends of the earth, he would have to chase after him.
The problem is that he didn't come to seek revenge at all, what to catch the leader of the Japanese is just an excuse, his purpose is to take the Hirado Domain, or the Hirado Castle in front of him.
At this time, Hirado Castle has been taken, so naturally there is no need to chase it, as for where the Matsuura clan went, it's his business.
He came to the city wall with great interest, and circled around an iron cannon made by a widow for a long time, as if wondering how this thing was made.
To say that this iron cannon is really rudimentary, and the technology of the Japanese is 108,000 miles worse than that of the Ming Dynasty.
Not to mention the rough appearance of the iron cannon cast by the Japanese Kou, even the inner wall is uneven, no wonder the shells released by this iron cannon are like the scattered flowers of the goddess, how can this kind of accuracy be accurate?
However, he didn't study the cannon to see the jokes of the Japanese people, he was really thinking about how to make this thing.
In other words, what's the use of making this kind of shoddy thing, building ten is not even as lethal as a repeating tiger squat cannon, what is he wasting this energy for?
This thing is indeed useless to the current Ming army, but it is a rare treasure for the princes of Dongying!
You must know that at this time, Dongying is basically still in the era of cold weapon warfare, muskets and artillery or something, he believes that except for the Matsuura clan, which is closely related to the Ming pirates, the other princes are afraid that there is no such thing, and even if there is, it is estimated that there are very few.
If one of the princes of Dongying suddenly came up with dozens or even hundreds of iron cannons when they were fighting, what would be the effect?
That scene is estimated to be quite exciting, although the iron cannon is poor, it can also kill people, and it doesn't matter if the accuracy is not good, in the face of the enemy with a sword and a short bow, this thing is enough to change the tide of the battle.
In other words, if he can produce iron cannons in large quantities, he will definitely make money and earn hand cramps!
Wasn't the purpose of his army to occupy the Hirado Domain to "rob" the silver produced by Toei, and how to rob this silver, he naturally thought about it.
Originally, he wanted to transform the Hirado Domain into a treaty port and distribution center, and use the advantages of the Ming Dynasty's production technology to sell a large number of various goods, and constantly absorb the silver of the princes of Dongying.
At this moment, after seeing this iron cannon, his thoughts were different.
What could be more lucrative than selling weapons?
This kind of iron cannon, Dongying people should be quite difficult to build at this time, because they not only lack technology but also lack of materials, pig iron is quite scarce in Dongying at this time, they don't even have enough pig iron to make Japanese knives, and how much pig iron can be taken out to cast iron cannons?
In Toying, it is estimated that only the Matsuura clan, the leader of the smugglers, can get so much pig iron.
And Daming is different, iron ore is ready-made, casting technology, that is even more developed, casting this kind of iron cannon, it is just like playing.
He stood in front of the iron cannon, and various plans kept coming to his mind, what the iron cannon would look like, how to price it, and even which princes to sell it to, all of which were slowly taking shape in his mind.
Finally, after standing there for about a quarter of an hour, he suddenly raised his head and ordered without hesitation: "Zhifu, you send someone to inspect the city to see if there are any widows who have escaped the net, and in addition, find out all the Ming merchants in the city, and ask them to help post and distribute notices to the people, and tell all the residents in the city that I will punish the evil tomorrow and will not implicate the innocent, so that they don't need to panic." ”
The meaning of this posting and distribution of the notice is obviously to occupy this place and not leave, what is the use of occupying such a broken place?
When Yu Dayou heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, but he quickly came back to his senses and gave up his hand and said, "The last general will obey the order." ”
Yang Cong then said to Qi Jing on the side: "Shixian, you quickly speed the fleet to Tsushima Island and Iki Island, transfer all the foot soldiers and grain and grass baggage, and in addition, inform King Gongxian to quickly send people to accept Tsushima Island and Iki Island." ”
After arranging all this, he ordered someone to find an open space next to the port wharf, set up the tent, and then drew drawings in the tent.
The first thing he drew was a map of the expansion of Hirado Castle, which consisted of building a new castle between the port and the flat castle, with criss-crossing streets and dense barracks, and forts on the castle walls.
He didn't plan to use the original site of this Hirado Castle, because it was inevitable that there would be relatives and friends of the Japanese in it, even if there were more troops stationed, it would not be safe, anyway, in the future, this would be a huge commodity distribution center, not only would there be countless Ming merchants who would come here to do business, but also countless Dongying traders would come here to buy goods.
The old city is left to those Dongying vendors to toss, and the Ming merchants who do business here are all ready to be placed in the new city, so that they don't have to worry about personal safety.
Immediately afterwards, he drew a picture of the renovation of Hirado Port, which was like a small fishing port, and the Daifuku ship could not dock at all, and the goods on the Fuku ship could not even be unloaded through the transshipment of the Cangshan ship, which was definitely not possible.
He directly divided the port into two halves, half of which was the original wharf and several expanded wharves, which were specially used to dock small and medium-sized sea ships such as Cangshan ships, and the other half was a row of brand-new wharves, which were specially used to dock giant ships such as Fuchuan.
In the future, it will be the largest commodity distribution center in Dongying, and it is definitely not possible to dock the Daifuku ship if there are not many docks.
Finally, he designed a completely new iron cannon based on a sample of the iron cannon cast by Matsuura.
The inner diameter of this iron cannon is about the same as that of the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the length of the barrel is also about the same as that of the Tiger Squat Cannon, but the outer wall is relatively simple, basically, there are no bells and whistles on the outer wall, just a pair of rounded ears.
In this way, the casting of the iron cannon is relatively simple, and it does not take too much effort at all, as long as the wooden mold is made, the sand mold basically does not need to go through any fine carving, and it can be formed at one time.
Moreover, with the current casting technology of the Ming Dynasty, the inner hole is more accurate than the shoddy iron cannon of Matsuura even if it is not processed.
His drawings were drawn to the new Ministry of Industry Squire Wang Xuan, for this iron cannon, he has no other requirements, the only requirement is efficiency, even if it is done poorly, it doesn't matter, the output must be high, the higher the better!