Found Sebastian, Zhang Qiang took out the parchment roll and handed it to him, "Sebastian, take a look, did it help you?" ”

Sebastian took the parchment scroll of the iron mold construction method given by Zhang Qiang, first looked up at Zhang Qiang in confusion, and then looked down to carefully examine the contents contained on the parchment scroll, and did not speak for a long time.

After a while, he began to talk to himself, frowned, carefully scrutinized, his expression was unpredictable, and finally he took the parchment roll behind his back and walked around the room, and even talked to himself, saying something that Zhang Qiang didn't understand.

"Okay,"

"Great,"

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, with this method, we can increase the production of artillery, and with this method, according to my estimate, the scrap rate will be greatly reduced, and even 100% of the finished product rate will be achieved."

He was overjoyed, and circled around Zhang Qiang, regardless of whether Zhang Qiang understood it or not, the kind of technical talent with good methods and techniques completely showed out, and he completely forgot that the person standing in front of him was the governor who could decide his life and death.

Zhang Qiang is also very happy, for such a person, he still likes it very much, he once wanted to be such a person, when he was a child, people asked him, what do you want to do when you grow up? What is your ideal?

He opened his mouth and said, I want to be a scientist, because he reads books, movies, and TV all praise these people.

Later, he wanted to be an artist, and these guys are just some people who specialize in turning the road that others don't go, and tell others that he is different from others, and he is superior to you.

Later, he wanted to be a writer, because the books of Jin Yong, Chen Qingyun, Wo Longsheng, Wen Ruian, and Huang Yi accompanied him through his childhood and adolescence, and even his youth, but he was too stupid, not to mention a writer, an author is not good.

In the future, he wanted to be a soldier, because he could eliminate the Japanese devils, but our Celestial Empire, let alone the elimination of the Japanese devils, when he heard the Japanese devils, he would only shout, and when he heard the American devils, he shouted even more fiercely, but he never sent soldiers to teach him a lesson.

Later, he thought that it was better to be a soldier than to be a gangster, because as a child from the countryside, he went to the city, and was bullied by those hooligans and gangsters in the school.

In the end, he had no choice but to go with the flow, as a scholar, mixed in the construction site, wearing a pair of glasses, and being ridiculed by others as a scholar, while sweating like rain and earning hard-earned money, and at the same time, like them, dreaming of one day making a fortune and changing his life.

At this time, he is already 108,000 miles away from his original dream, and if he wants to work hard, it is no longer the sentence that Ma Yun said, to be a man must have a dream, if it is realized, this sentence can make him realize his ideal.

Back in reality, he coughed hard and pulled Sebastian back from his fantasy.

"Sebastian, is it really possible with our current technology?"

Sebastian nodded vigorously, "Yes, my lord, this is no problem at all, although it is a bit difficult, but I think I can overcome it, with this method, we can increase our cannon production from about ten per month to ten a day." ”

Zhang Qiang's previous artillery was captured or dismantled from other city walls, although there were many, but they were very miscellaneous, and the quality was also worrying, and many artillery, like tiger squat cannons, Fran machine guns, even if they were Portuguese, they could only be scrapped and recast, and after Sebastian, in the past two years, he gave Zhang Qiang cannons, which were basically filled with the city to be defended, the government office, the county seat, the big county city wall, and the coastal fortifications.

Some also replaced Zhao Siyang's artillery battalions, Zhao Siyang's artillery battalions now have five, two in Jinhua Prefecture, two in Taizhou Prefecture, and one in Chuzhou Prefecture, which is the strength of five thousand households, one artillery battalion for one thousand households, plus a regular army barracks, plus the strength of the guard general banner of thousands of households.

It is enough to defend the three mansions, but if you want an expeditionary team, you have to concentrate, the Ming army has artillery, the Qing army also has artillery, the Qing army Dorobelle used two hundred cannons to storm the city of Jinhua Mansion, and Zhu Dadian's troops suffered heavy casualties, if it wasn't for Zhang Qiang's appearance, the Jinhua Massacre would definitely be staged, just like history.

This bit of artillery was simply not enough to deal with the Qing army.

There are more than ten cannons a day, and in a month, as long as the raw materials and workers can be satisfied, it is more than 300 cannons.

Zhang Qiang was frightened by this number, 300 cannons, only one month, his five artillery battalions, can all complete the redress, half a month, can make the artillery familiar with the run-in to complete, with his current Jinhua Righteous Army territory waterways in all directions, land in all directions, only half a month, can reach any direction at any time, no matter the enemy from that direction, five artillery battalions, add up to more than 100 large and small guns, no matter which direction of the enemy, it is impossible not to be eliminated, not to be deterred.

To form ten more artillery battalions, Zhang Qiang immediately made a decision.

At that time, 200 cannons, 10 artillery battalions, plus 10,000 or 20,000 troops, could launch an attack on the Qing army in other directions at any time.

"It saves the time for our mud molds to dry, and after the first month of familiarization, the repeated use of iron molds can increase our output to a cannon factory with more than ten guns a day, and four gun factories, we can produce 1,200 cannons a month." Sebastian Road.

Zhang Qiang also began to get excited, 1,200 cannons, think about it, if 1,200 cannons appear on the battlefield at the same time in front of the enemy's position, then the enemy's face, you don't have to think about it, you can know what it looks like.

"Hahaha, great, I decided, in addition to half a month to develop the iron mold cannon method, the second half of the month trial production, next month, if you want to complete this idea, the third month, I will ask for 1,200 cannons, when the time comes, the cannons will be placed all over the border, see who dares to attack me."

Sebastian followed Zhang Qiang for a while, then lowered his head and continued to study, "My lord, according to the iron mold construction method written on this volume you gave, he is not without shortcomings, the disadvantage is that although the output has been increased, its quality has not improved very much. ”

"What do you mean?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Sebastian said: "The increase in production is because there is no need to wait for the time of air drying, in the past, it took a month to two months for the mud mold to be air-dried, but the iron mold can be reused, with the method of alternate use, we can use the same number of iron molds every day, before the iron mold is not worn, we can use it repeatedly, but he can't solve the problem of range, explosion, pores, and weight." ”

Zhang Qiang didn't understand, Sebastian continued to explain: "This iron mold cannon method, only to increase the output, according to the above, his range is still about the same, not much improved, blow up the bore, because this method can make the barrel inward, so it is still improved, at least, in the past, it could fire a hundred to one hundred and fifty developed cannons, under this method, it can now fire five or six hundred rounds, which is equivalent to an increase of four to five times." ”

"Well, that's pretty good, a cannon of this quality is probably not even made in the West."

The record on the parchment scroll Zhang Qiang erased the time of appearance, it was around 1860, and now it is 1648, it can be said that as long as he can make a cannon according to the method on this parchment scroll, even if there is no scientific theoretical basis, Sebastian does not have as much theoretical foundation and knowledge as those Western scientists in later generations, and he can also exert the ability of seven or eight percent of the parchment scroll.

"Okay, I know, develop it immediately, and when it is built, if it is done, then I will build a large number of cannons, with these cannons, my territory is impregnable, and whoever wants to fight me has to weigh it."

Zhang Qiang is not afraid of the Qing army, but his opponent is not the Qing army with no scientific and technological content, but the Portuguese and Dutch in the future, this is the next opponent he selected, conquering the strong, those opponents with low technological content, do you still need to be afraid of them?

Zhang Qiang has the means to deal with them.