"Woo ......" grabbed the reins of the horse, Bai Liyan turned around and turned around to face him: "Mr. Su, Brother Tang, what's wrong." ”

"The eldest grandson reported urgently, and there were more than ten armpit warships found on the west bank of the eldest grandson."

Su Fangyi said quickly, Bailiyan was taken aback, frowned and hurriedly asked:

"Mr. Su, the news is accurate!"

"It's true, three months ago, when two Zhiguo merchant ships passed through the sea off Changsun, they were attacked by more than a dozen round sail monster ships, and hundreds of artillery pieces instantly hit the two Zhiguo merchant ships full of holes. Then the armpit men boarded the ship and plundered their goods, captured all the live and corpses, and luckily escaped a few people who drifted at sea for more than ten days, and were rescued by the Western Tapir caravan and sent to land in early August, but it was not until September that our faction received the news. ”

"It's broken, it's broken......" Baili Yan knew that the two Zhiguo merchant ships must be the private ships of the second son of Zhiwang.

At this time, Gongliang Xiu was taken aback when he heard the news, and he hurriedly asked Su Fangyi:

"Mr. Su, where are the few people who were rescued now?"

According to the news, those people are on their way back to Zhiguo. Now that my Central Plains has been exposed, I also ask Dr. Gongliang to return to China as soon as possible, report the news to King Zhi, and be fully prepared! ”

As soon as Su Fangyi's words fell, Bai Liyan was furious and said:

"Why was the armpit fleet discovered only on the west coast of Changsun, and what did the Changsun Navy do!"

"According to the news, the armpit fleet appeared more than 100 miles west of Zhongzhi County and sailed north."

"To the north! In other words, they went south and then turned back to the north, and they were not found at all! ”

"It should be so."

Su Fangyi affirmed, Bailiyan grabbed the horsewhip and scolded angrily:

"This bunch of rice buckets." When the words fell, he turned around and said to Gongliang: "Brother Gongliang, the matter is very important, I want to go back to the capital immediately to report to King Xian, and the prince's family can take a look at Xu'er casually and leave." ”

"Well, be careful all the way!"

When the words fell, Baili Yan turned around and flew to the entourage with his entourage and went straight to the Lingling. After he left, Gongliangxiu and Su Fangyi asked:

"Mr. Su, the armpit people will really go south to invade my Central Plains."

"According to the previous life of the open sea, the armpit people take pleasure in killing people and feed on human flesh, they are very violent and ferocious, and they are well-equipped and cannot be killed. Once discovered, within a year or two, hundreds of thousands of people will flock to the millions. Now that it has been discovered on the coast of the Central Plains, these dozen or so sea ships must be just pioneers, and once they return to their own country, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

If this group of southbound advance fleets could be discovered two months ago, Bailiyan would not hesitate to send all the main fleet troops in two ways, all the way around the North Sea, one through the Changsun Inland River, and directly into the west coast.

However, this fleet was too lucky, all the way to the sea less than 100 miles away from the coast of Liang State, and wiped out all the human fleets found by it, but only did not encounter the naval army of Changsun and Liang State, until it ran into the Zhiguo merchant ship on the way back and ran alive, and it was already three months ago that this advance fleet had already left the southern hemisphere and returned to the home port of the northern hemisphere.

Bailiyan galloped all the way, and his heart was furious, and he learned through the news intercepted by the storm that after the end of the battle of Vanguard, Liang Guo and Changsun used the navy to run goods in order to make up for the losses during the war and speed up the recovery of business after the war.

During the two months that the armpit fleet went south, the main forces of the naval forces of the two countries were transshipment goods on the inland rivers of the Central Plains, and they did not care about patrolling the open sea to combat pirates, which gave the armpit people a loophole.

Around noon, Bailiyan rushed to the palace, and as soon as the cabinet meeting was dispersed, Bailiyan bumped into the prince, Zhang You, Lu Gao, Zhao Huan, Nuo Yiyan, Gao Xun and others who were disbanded from the Guangyuan Palace.

"Si Nong, something has happened."

Bailiyan was very hesitant, not knowing whether to say yes or not, and finally gritted her teeth and let it go:

"It has been reported that more than 10 axillary ships were found in the sea more than 100 miles west of Zhongzhi County in Changsun before March, sinking two merchant ships and taking away all the living and corpses. Now that the situation is very urgent, please send someone to the West Sea to recall our navy immediately, I am afraid that we will have to prepare for war. ”

When everyone heard the news, they were shocked, and the prince answered:

"Where did Lord Si Nong get the news, it won't be messed up."

Baili Yan told everyone about the ins and outs of the future, and at this time, King Xian had already heard the sound outside the corridor, and walked outside the corridor with the help of Jiao Muhua on crutches:

"Okay, let's disperse, Yongxing Hou came to the palace to see the widow."

King Xian's voice was old and weak, the brilliance in his eyes was not there, and he looked at the figure of the wind candle from a distance, and everyone made a promise, and then dispersed.

At the next moment, Bai Liyan stepped forward and gave a deep salute and said:

"Chen Baili Yan see the king."

"Aiqing is exempt, let's come into the hall."

"No."

Following King Xian into the inner hall, Baili Yan will explain the reason in detail, King Xian was silent for a long time after hearing the news, and his mood fluctuated very much when he spoke again.

"Can I keep it?"

"Back to the king, judging from the news of overseas life obtained by Yuke, the armpit people are really dangerous. And that's not all the strength of the armpit people, it is very likely that the main force will be dragged by the civil war internally, if the main force lands, the Central Plains will face millions of enemies. So this time, Chen Zhen was not sure. ”

"Now that the widow has such an advanced and powerful weapon, doesn't Aiqing have any certainty of winning?"

"It's not that the minister doesn't want to, but the minister can't estimate too optimistic. But the minister assured the king that among the nations, the Xian country must be the last prince to fight, and the minister is in the Xian country, just like the battle of Yin Yang in the year, the minister is in the city. ”

King Xian was silent for a moment, took a sip of water, lit a pinch of cloud silk with his pipe, took two sips, and when he had calmed down, he continued:

"Next, what is Aiqing going to do?"

"Back to the king, first gather the navy, first protect the coast of our North Sea and the open sea, and prevent the armpit people from landing. Second, speed up the construction of Qingtian, Sangnan, and Sangbei, and build up more reserves in the interior to cope with a protracted war. Third, from now on, production should be immediately adjusted, and the state treasury should increase its appropriations and reserve ammunition and war materials. ”

"With Yongxing's production capacity, how many guns can our army produce in a year, and can it cope with armpit people for three to five years?"

"With the current personnel of our army, it is basically possible to have one gun per person, and there are more than 14,000 naval and land artillery pieces, of which the navy accounts for the majority. At present, the production plan can produce more than 150,000 guns of various types and more than 1,600 guns of various types of cast artillery and processing artillery every year.

In the event of a wartime transition, there is still room for a significant increase in production capacity. However, at present, the combat power of the armpit people is not known, and our army has not fought against them, so the minister suggested that the production of machines should still be the main focus at the moment, and the production of guns and cannons can be appropriately reduced and reduced, once the war begins, it will be very troublesome to make time to build machines. ”

Yongxing and Wanchuan planned to produce more than 150,000 guns of various types every year, and from 648 to the present, a total of more than 390,000 long and short guns were manufactured, of which about 60,000 were delivered to Yuke, and 330,000 were distributed to the Xianjun, but 95 percent were still 648 rifles, 647 long and short single-barreled and double-barreled shotguns, and 647 revolvers.

The structure of the 651 semi-automatic rifle, submachine gun, and machine gun is much more complex, and although more stamping structures are used and milling is reduced, the man-hours consumed are still much more than those of the 648 and 647 guns, and since the end of last year, more than 20,000 651 have been produced.

The consumption of bullets for the Type 651 semi-automatic rifle, submachine gun, and machine gun is much greater than that of the Type 648 rifle and shotgun.

At present, a class produces more than 40 million rounds of ammunition a year, but training a qualified rifle shooter requires at least 120 rounds of ammunition, and more than 150 to 180 rounds. If you are a Heavy or Premium Marksman, you will need more bullets.

100,000 semi-automatic rifles, conservatively need 12 million rounds of training recruits, plus 12 or 20 rounds of ammunition for regular target shooting every month, 100,000 guns will consume more than 40 million rounds of ammunition a year even if they do not fight.

If it is one million, it will be 400 million rounds a year, and once a war starts, it is really rare to consume more than one billion or even billions of rounds of ammunition every year.

Therefore, it is not a problem to make a gun, but the problem is the embarrassment of having a gun without ammunition. This is also the main reason why Bailiyan still continues to produce 648 and 647 guns, because ammunition is easy to manufacture and can be made in small workshops.

In view of the fact that the Xian army has popularized firearms, it can adjust production, temporarily slow down the production of guns and other commodities, release commodity stocks, and use the time for the release of reserve commodities to free up industrial capacity, produce more metal cutting processing equipment, and manufacture more supporting machine tools.

Once the war began, there would not be enough time and industrial population for production equipment, and all production would be transferred to wartime supplies.

"My lord, this matter is still just the news that has just been obtained, before the armpit people go south, our country should prepare for war in secret, and it is not appropriate for the court to discuss it openly, so the minister does not recommend that the court discuss this matter, so as not to cause panic and be used by the princes."

"Ai Qing is reasonable, there is no need to discuss this matter with the prince's cabinet for the time being, Ai Qing has prepared a transcript and can directly report it to the widow."

"Commandment. In addition, the minister wanted to resign from the post of governing the internal history of Su and specialize in finance and ordnance, and asked the king for permission. ”

King Xian thought for a moment, scratched the top of his white head and said slowly:

"Is Aiqing a candidate for the history of Su Nei?"

"The minister suggested that Qiao Cheng, the son of the Marquis of Xuanting, take over the post of Zhisu Neishi."

"The widow's nephew has been in charge of gold and silver for many years, and he doesn't know anything about farming, isn't it appropriate?"

"The king can rest assured, the internal history of Zhisu is all capable ministers, and Qiao Cheng's appointment as the internal history of Zhisu is also an idle errand. The minister was worried that the officials under the Zhisu Neishi Mansion were too young and did not have a deep foundation in the court, so they could not be recognized by the hundred officials, so they recommended Qiao Cheng to serve as the Zhisu Neishi as an expedient measure. ”

"Well, the widow is allowed. The widow will make an order today, so there is no need to wait for tomorrow. ”

"King Shengming."

King Xian's spirit is not as good as day by day, and it is beneficial to King Xian and Bailiyan to make an order to complete what should be done as soon as possible.

handed over the internal history of Zhisu and was appointed by Qiao Cheng, which avoided the death of King Xian after the crown prince defeated him, and at the same time obtained the three powers of Zhisu Inner History, Dasi Nong and Ordnance Division.

Although Zhisu Neishi was not in charge of the state treasury, he was in charge of agriculture and grain production, and although Dasi Nong was in charge of the state treasury, the main industry and commerce of Xian State were now in the hands of the three marquis, and most of the industrial production was the industry of Bailiyan.

Therefore, the crown prince will not get any substantial benefits by taking away the two hats of Si Nong and the Ordnance Division, unless he comes to raid the house, if so, it will further cause a comprehensive earthquake in the national political economy and military circles, and this price is not affordable by the new king.