There is a saying that when one person attains enlightenment, the whole family ascends to heaven.

As Ye Xun's position in Liaodong became more and more stable, the Wenchen generals who had worked hard with him in Tieling before were also reused, and Han Ping was just one of them.

Han Ping is in charge of all logistics, and the arsenal is naturally under his jurisdiction, it is impossible to snub Ye Xun, but in the excitement, he also reached out to help him live, so he asked people to invite Ye Xun.

After more than half a year, the first artillery made of wrought iron was finally released.

Han Ping knew that Ye Xun attached great importance to this thing, and after the artillery was baked, there was still a lot of follow-up work to be done, so he could only send his men to inform Ye Xun, and he would fight beside Andes and Pierro.

In fact, the two foreign devils were able to drum up a new type of artillery, of course, they had their own skills, and at the same time, they also relied on some later knowledge that Ye Xun mastered.

Professional knowledge such as data parameters have to be explored slowly, but the functional shape and size were drawn by Ye Xun according to his imagination and given to them, so the shape of this first cannon already has the prototype of later artillery.

When Ye Xun arrived, he saw a group of craftsmen led by Han Ping polishing the cannon body with their own hands.

Looking at the swarthy artillery standing tall, Ye Xun was also a little excited, this is this thing, there is a way that when the cannon sounds, there are ten thousand taels of gold, if there are hundreds of such artillery guns at the same time to fire at the Jurchen army and completely exterminate the Jurchens, it will be just around the corner.

The new gun is much smaller than the original gun, and the barrel is longer, so that it has a longer range.

Seeing that Ye Xun had arrived, everyone stepped forward to salute, and Han Ping couldn't hide his joy and sighed: "Father-in-law, what a good thing!" With this thing, why worry about the immortality of Jiannu? ”

Ye Xun nodded, and said to Andis and Pierro: "20,000 taels of silver per person, and all the craftsmen who participated in the development will be rewarded with 1,000 taels each, which is what my father promised before."

When the two foreign devils and the craftsmen next to them heard Ye Xun's words, they immediately burst into cheers.

Before Ye Xun, these craftsmen could be said to be a group of people living at the bottom, not to mention any treatment, that is, compared with ordinary people, they were inferior.

And now it's different, now the treatment of craftsmen has surpassed that of ordinary soldiers, because of Ye Xun's attention, so that they can stand up and speak when they go there.

Stretching out his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, Ye Xun said to Andes and Pierrot again: "When will it be mass-produced?" ”

Listening to Ye Xun's question, Andes couldn't help but show embarrassment, and said: "I'm afraid this is going to disappoint my father-in-law, although we have renovated the boiler, but the capacity is limited, and the iron ore is also insufficient, according to my estimate, with the current capacity, it should be possible to produce about thirty doors a year."

Only 30 doors a year? Too little.

Turning his head to Han Ping, he said: "The scale of the arsenal will be expanded, and if you go to Guangning, the mining of iron ore over there will also be increased, don't be stingy with silver, and at the same time, I will also send people to the Central Plains to purchase iron ore, in a word, this time next year, I want a hundred artillery."

Listening to Ye Xun's words, Andes and Piero are a little blind, according to their estimates, with the current production level, the problem of thirty doors in one Chinese New Year's Eve is not big, but to say a hundred doors, this is a bit difficult!

The ideas of foreign devils can never catch up with the ideas of the Han people, and many things that are impossible in their minds will often be completed by the Han people.

Han Ping pondered for a moment and said firmly: "Please rest assured, my subordinates will definitely complete the task."

Ye Xun nodded, he was still confident in the ability of his subordinates, encouraged everyone a few words, turned around and prepared to leave.

At this time, Piero finally couldn't help but say, "Dear Lord Ye, what if you can't complete the task you assigned?" ”

Ye Xun was stunned when asked, not to mention, he really hadn't thought about this possibility, so he said half-jokingly: "Then I can only deduct your salary, haha..."

Listening to Ye Xun's words, the craftsmen next to them all laughed, these craftsmen who lived in a low society didn't know anything else, but they knew that Ye Gonggong would never treat them badly.

Andes and Pierrot laughed unnaturally.

Han Ping kept sending Ye Xun to the door of the arsenal, but before he could turn around and go back, he was stopped by Ye Xun.

"The matter of artillery must be kept absolutely secret, I will order Han Lin'er to increase the security force here when I go back, and you must also pay more attention to the movements of your subordinates, what kind of drawing data and other things, you will never be allowed to bring them out, no matter who it is, understand?"

From Ye Xun's serious expression, Han Ping had already felt that Ye Xun attached great importance to this matter, and Ye Xun had not mentioned the safety of the arsenal before.

He bowed with his fists and said, "Please rest assured, my subordinates will never live up to my father-in-law's expectations."

Although he had Han Ping's assurance, Ye Xun still felt a little uneasy, the secret of the artillery was too important, and there must not be a trace of sloppiness.

Leaving the arsenal, while walking towards his mansion, he ordered someone to call Sun Dong over.

But he didn't want to wait for Ye Xun to arrive at the gate of the mansion, so Sun Dong came over by himself.

I didn't have time to go back to the back house, so I took Sun Dong directly to my study, waved the guards who were waiting for him to retreat, and said directly: "Put a few of your own people in the arsenal, and you must have them in the open and in the dark."

Sun Dong bowed and said: "Back to the father-in-law, the villain wants to come to report this matter, a few days ago, a businessman surnamed Niu went to find two foreign devils, and his subordinates checked, this businessman surnamed Niu is ostensibly from North Korea, but in fact he is from Huang Taiji's side, because it involves two foreign devils, so his subordinates came to ask his father-in-law, do you want to take people now?" ”

Listening to Sun Dong's words, Ye Xun's brows suddenly furrowed, when he was in the arsenal just now, he always felt that something was wrong, and now it seems that this feeling should come from two foreign devils.

Ye Xun knows very well that in the land of Liaodong, the only one who can open a better condition than himself is Huang Taiji.

I have to say that this surnamed Niu has a very sensitive sense of smell, and he will actually find the two foreign devils.

There is a saying that those who are not of my race will have different hearts.

The way of thinking of foreign devils is different from that of the Han people, in their hearts, loyalty has a price, if the price offered by Huang Taiji is higher than his own, then the betrayal of these two people is not unusual.

I don't know if Chen Tienu has mastered the refining technology of wrought iron, and if he can, he doesn't mind letting these two foreign devils disappear.

After pondering for a moment, he said: "First arrest the surnamed Niu, and when you torture him, let the two foreign devils observe it, but don't be too embarrassed for them."

Considering that the two foreign devils should still have surplus value that has not been squeezed out, you might as well teach them a lesson first, let them be honest, and if it really doesn't work, it's not too late to get rid of them.

After sending Sun Dong away, Ye Xun ordered a banquet, Sanghe's father and daughter came, how could he do his best as a landlord, and at the same time he also had something to discuss with Sanghe...