Sending Tang Yin to Luzon Island was, in Shen Xi's view, a kind of experience for this great talent. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Let you be full of food and think about doing nothing every day, let you know what is the real hardship, go for a few months, and when you come back, you will find that the Central Plains is paradise everywhere, and then you will feel that it is a delicacy to eat bran vegetables, and you will feel that it is a sable cicada in the world when you see a mother and a mouse.

As for Mrs. Xia's illness, Shen Xi asked Xie Yun'er to go for diagnosis and treatment, but his wife was a miracle doctor and had diagnosed the queen, even if she knew that it couldn't be cured, she had to try it, as Shen Xi and Xie Yun'er's intentions.

Then Shen Xi will use some special tricks to make the Xia family feel that Miss Xia should not be left in the house, and it is only right to send the married daughter to her husband's house earlier.

"Brother Bohu, I'm all for you, it's better to be a successful staff member than to let you debauchery all your life and leave endless regrets to history!"

In the early morning of October 22, Tang Yin took the sailboat of the Franc machine and went to Luzon Island, which was regarded as a wild land by the Ming people.

On the morning of this day, Shen Xi took the "generous gift" and personally went to Guangdong to announce the political envoy and took the initiative to meet Zhang Yuanying, the political envoy of Youbu.

Even if Zhang Yuan should hate Shen Xi to the point of itching teeth, he still came out to see him, he wanted to know, what did Shen Xi come to the door for no reason?

Could it be that this kid has a conspiracy again?

The political envoy Si Zhengtang, Shen Xi sat in the position of the guest to drink tea, and after a long time, Zhang Yuanying came out accompanied by an experience, Shen Xi smiled and got up to salute, Zhang Yuanying looked lukewarm, and slightly bowed his hand as a return gift.

Zhang Yuan said: "Isn't Shen Dufu preparing to send troops? This soldier and horse have already been concentrated in the east school field of Guangzhou, and it is inevitable that people will be criticized if they do not move for a long time. ”

What is the criticism?

Do you want to rebel and lead an army to attack the city of Guangzhou and stand on its own?

Shen Xi said with a smile: "The time is not ripe, so I have to wait for the time being, it's not that I don't want to send troops, it's just that the money, food, weapons, armor, bows, crossbows, arrows, etc. required for this army are huge, so I have to come over to discuss with Zhang Fantai to see if the feudal division can provide necessary assistance?" ”

Shen Xi opened his mouth to help, to put it bluntly, he reached out and asked for money, which did not exceed Zhang Yuanying's expectations.

But Zhang Yuan should not understand a little, you Shen Dadu Fu has already mobilized a lot of food from the north, and weapons and armor are also customized in Foshan, so can you reach out with my political envoy again? Don't forget who made a lot of money selling salt, and also disrupted the order of the local salt class, and used the salt of the Nanban to stabilize the local salt price, so that the salt merchants are operating at a loss, and I am about to participate in this matter!

Zhang Yuanying didn't say it directly, but made excuses and refused: "Shen Zhongcheng should have heard that the drought in Lingnan this year is serious, and many prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Political Envoy Department have reduced production in a large area, and even the taxes have not been collected. Besides, the imperial court is planning to use troops in the northwest, and presumably the will to levy grain and grass to the north will come down to the yamen in the near future, and the feudal division is struggling with the balance of payments this year, and there is really no time to help! ”

Shen Xi smiled and waved his hand: "Since the feudal division is unable to help, then it is good for the official to come by himself, I heard that the feudal division has forty large blacktail boats and bird boats with five hundred to one thousand materials."

Zhang Yuanying was angry from his heart, slapped on the coffee table, and shouted: "Don't even think about it, these ships are used to transport grain to the imperial court, and no one can move!" ”

After talking for a long time, Shen Xi was not trying to let the political envoy Si Yamen pay for the grain, but was fighting the idea of the political envoy Si to transport grain.

Perhaps realizing that his reaction was too radical, Zhang Yuanying changed his tone and said sharply, "The imperial court dispatches money and grain, and ships are indispensable. ”

Shen Xi nodded: "What Zhang Fantai said is that it is important to transport grain for the imperial court, so to speak, this bandit on the southeast coast is just a disease of scabies?" ”

These words are choking Zhang Yuanying.

The use of troops in the northwest is actually just a pretense, and the Warats, like the Tatars before them, went to Hami and other places to harass and plunder, and immediately retreated to the desert, making it impossible for people to even fight back. Even if it is true that the northwest uses troops, the northwest side of the bitter cold land needs money and food, and the southeast land, which is warm all year round and more productive, can be left to the bandits to wreak havoc?

It is also the emperor's order, why can the northwest get support, and my bandits should be short of soldiers and food, not even a warship, and fight with pirates and pirates with bare hands?

Zhang Yuan said: "The battle against Fanbang Waiyi is a big event, the battle with the bandits, it is harmless to lose, and it is reasonable to win, Shen Dufu has to distinguish the severity!" ”

"That's right."

Even Zhang Yuanying didn't expect Shen Xi to gladly accept this statement, Shen Xi nodded and said, "If the matter of transporting money and grain for the imperial court is resolved by this official, I wonder if the feudal division can lend forty bird boats and blacktail boats?" ”

Shen Xi said that he was borrowing a boat, which is equivalent to saying that Shen Xi was going to take the initiative to take the task of transporting grain, and to borrow these forty big ships from the political envoys, and the method used was nothing more than to use small civilian boats to transport grain, and requisition the big ships as warships to fight against pirates and pirates.

"No!"

Zhang Yuanying refused very simply, "Transporting money and grain is my errand for the political envoy Si Yamen, when will it be Governor Shen's turn to worry?" If the transportation of money and grain is delayed, the official is duty-bound, and this matter cannot be mentioned again! ”

After speaking, Zhang Yuanying was unceremonious, and withdrew without even saying hello.

Shen Xi, as a guest, was left aside by the host, which should be a little embarrassing. However, Shen Xi leisurely drank the tea on hand before slowly getting up and leaving.

Back at the post house, Ma Jiu and Zhu Qi had been waiting there for a long time, and when they saw Shen Xi coming back, Zhu Qi asked, "Master, how are things?" ”

Shen Xi smiled: "Do you still need to ask me?" Just send troops to take the ship, I'm just going to say hello to the yamen of the feudal department, do you really think I want to discuss with him? After the big boat is detained, just leave the corresponding proportion of the small boat. Zhu Dangjia, you take Ling Lang to go, Lao Jiu, you come with me to see the situation of the cannon! ”

Shen Xi went to the political envoy to set up the department, just to give Zhang Yuan face.

If you want to confiscate the big ship of the political envoy for military use, I will say hello to you with the governors of the three provinces, whether you want to or refuse, I will "borrow" the ship, and I will help you transport the grain to the north.

Anyway, the north is not in a hurry to use grain, and it is about to reach the cold winter wax moon, even if the grain is transported to the nine sides, the imperial court will not fight with the Warat people in the cold winter wax moon, the cold winter in the north is not like the land of Lingnan, that is really going to freeze to death.

Since the war on the nine sides has been postponed indefinitely, and the suppression of bandits on my side is urgent, of course, it is the dispatch on my side that has priority, and the orders of the troops outside will not be affected, and I am now also receiving the emperor's order to quell the bandits.

Zhu Qi took his son Zhu Hong to receive forty big ships.

Zhu Qi may be more responsible, but Zhu Hong is completely a muddy person, Shen Xi sent this father and son to go, to be reasonable, to play rough and rough, to see how you deal with the political envoys, if you have the ability, just talk to my 4,000 soldiers and horses outside the city, see if your yacha has a loud voice, or my soldiers have a hard waist.

Shen Xi took Ma Jiu to the West School Yard next to the Sheji Altar outside the West Gate to supervise the casting of cannons.

Today, the West Campus has become a large workshop. Shen Xi specially recruited more than 50 blacksmiths from Foshan, which is known as the "Iron Capital of the Southern Kingdom", to come back to cast the Franc cannon, and Shen Xi used some of the methods he knew to smelt steel, such as improving the furnace, closing the boiler, and using chemical methods to produce oxygen to increase the furnace temperature, so that the quality of the cast iron cannon was not much worse than the first batch of cast Franc cannons of the Ministry of Industry.

Shen Xi didn't dare to ask too high, after all, he was a liberal arts student in his previous life, and he didn't know much about steelmaking and ironmaking, but fortunately, with the help of these blacksmiths who were proficient in casting and iron-frying technology, coupled with the fact that Foshan craftsmen in the middle of the Ming Dynasty had invented difficult casting techniques such as "clay mold casting" and "lost-wax casting", which helped a lot for casting the Franco cannon.

Shen Xi's plan was to cast twenty Franc cannons in advance, and the rest was to make more cannonballs, but unfortunately the gunpowder he had on hand was relatively limited due to the gap between the compatibility and the production of the Ministry of Industry.

In order to increase the means of killing the enemy, Shen Xi arranged for craftsmen to make some "** bags" and matching iron buckets.

Isn't it easy to defend and difficult to attack the nest of those bandits, just throw the "** bag" inside, and use your hand directly when you encounter the low fence, and you have to find a way to hit the high wall barrier, the best way is to throw the ** bag into it, the reference is the "gasoline barrel cannon" during World War II, the scientific name is "** bag projectile", and there is a majestic name called "no conscience cannon".

This thing is simple and crude, and the possibility of the iron bucket exploding is very high, but it can't stand up to simple and practical, at most the lead can be lengthened a little, and it can be used on the battlefield, which has a devastating effect on bandits and pirates who rely on strong cities to deal with officers and soldiers.

After inspecting the results of the casting cannon, Shen Xi was very satisfied.

This first batch of cannons will be used as a killer weapon for Shen Xi to sweep away the bandits, and after he leads his troops south, the steelmaking and artillery smelting workshop in the west school yard will continue to cast cannons.

At the same time, there was a special person who continued to mix "black powder", and at the same time, Shen Xi found some shopkeepers and men of printing and dyeing workshops in Guangzhou Mansion and came back, and began to study according to the formula of "yellow powder" he knew.

Always stay in the era of "black powder", then always stay at the junction of cold weapons and hot weapons, because the power and safety of "black powder" are not satisfactory, but "yellow powder" is different, since Shen Xi knows the formula, and these perennial dyeing people are more or less half-hung "chemists", then he called these people, compared those proper nouns in chemistry textbooks with the real objects of this era, and then deployed according to chemical formulas, which is a way for Shen Xi to improve weapons.

Shen Xi did not ask to complete it in a short time, because he himself did not graduate from chemical engineering, even if he learned some in high school, he basically returned it to the teacher, and it was easy to make "yellow powder" in later generations, that is because the chemical system is complete, and chemical materials can basically be purchased from the market, and in this era, only a few chemical materials are used in printing and dyeing and handicraft industry, and even soda ash can only be naturally mined, not manufactured by chemical methods.

Ma Jiu had never been on the battlefield with Shen Xi, but he had heard of the grand occasion when Shen Xi was in the school field when he was in Beijing. When the Franc cannon was cast and sent to the Black Mountain Pass camp in the northwest of Guangzhou City, ready to test the effectiveness of the artillery, Ma Jiu took the initiative to ask Shen Xi for help, hoping to serve as a gunner and gunner, and Shen Xi agreed after a little consideration.

In other words, others may still worry about this thing exploding, but Ma Jiu trusts Shen Xi very much and is willing to die.

However, in two days, Ma Jiu basically mastered all the skills of filling and firing cannons under Shen Xi's tutelage, and Shen Xi recruited thirty-nine more chariot and horse gang brothers, one of whom was responsible for firing cannons, and the other part was responsible for filling cannonballs, Shen Xi wanted to keep the secret in his own hands, so that he could take his group of people to go south and north in the future. To be continued. Your support is my biggest motivation. 19830124

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