If you want to improve your skills, it is not something that can be done for a while, Zhang Qiang has no way, he is not a science student, nor is he a military master, nor is he a high-end talent from the industrial system, he is just a migrant worker at the bottom of the society, well, mainly engaged in construction, transportation, temporary work and other work The food and clothing are unsustainable low-tech workers, and he is not a boss.

What he can give is support, human, material, and financial support.

Letting Sebastian sit down, Zhang Qiang asked the guards to find some tea, and the two of them drank and chatted at the same time.

"Sebastian, think about it, is there any other way to improve our artillery skills?"

Sebastian said: "Unless more professional Western Europeans are invited to support, such as craftsmen in Venice and other places, craftsmen in Germany and England, etc. ”

"Their craftsmen will be able to speed up production?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Sebastian said: "They generally also apply clay casting technology, but I heard that many of them have broken through the technical limitations and used cast iron to make iron molds and produce cast iron cannons. ”

Zhang Qiang knows that in many time-traveling novels, cast iron cannons are more convenient and cheaper than copper cannons, and raw materials are easy to obtain, after all, iron waists have more reserves on the earth than copper, or are easier to dig and obtain.

"It's impossible for me to invite these European craftsmen, even if I do, time is not allowed, the surrounding environment of our territory and the Ming and Qing Dynasty Tatars will give me so much time, back and forth, even if people promise to use the current navigation technology, it will take a year or two, and in a year or two, the Qing Dynasty Tatars will not give me, the Southern Ming court will not give me, and the most imminent threat, the Portuguese will not give me."

Zhang Qiang shook his head annoyedly, "Guangzhou has been taken, if the Longwu Imperial Court can hold up, I can throw it to them, don't worry, but although they now have 50,000 troops, although they are eager to fight, but their army's combat effectiveness is too low, I don't want to send troops to protect them." ”

Sebastian had also been in Zhang Qiang's territory for a long time, and he was captured while fighting Zhang Qiang, a Spanish mercenary hired by the Dutch, so he was also aware of the current situation.

I also know the relationship between Zhang Qiang and the various forces of the Ming Dynasty, in his opinion, that is, the princes of medieval Europe were dissatisfied with the emperor, and then united with the princes of foreign countries to overthrow the emperor, but some princes were also suppressed and lost their territories, and now, the emperor has changed from a big lord who led the princes to a duchy lord.

And the current one is the earl lord who is a low-level freeman who struggles, and he is an earl who is subordinate to the duke.

Lord of a small kingdom.

The Dutch and the Portuguese invaded the territories of the former emperor and established small countdoms, but they were strong and strong, and although they did not have many troops, they were very attacking.

They were faced with the Count's large army, but because he had no navy, he could not fight against the two Earls of Holland and Portugal, which were powerful at sea and also strong in combat technology, and they were on the defensive, and the Count wanted powerful artillery to defend against the threat from the sea.

"Can you work out this iron mold construction method?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Sebastian shook his head and spread his hands.

Zhang Qiang suddenly got up, "I'm not happy, I can't study the iron mold construction method, let's go, let's go together." If I want to see, I can't figure out this iron mold construction method. ”

Just do it.

Zhang Qiang changed into dirty clothes and followed Sebastian to the cannon building workshop of the gun factory.

Under Sebastian's command, Zhang Qiang took out his strength to work on the construction site, personally participated in the manufacturing, built a new iron-making furnace, and threw the Fujian iron transported from Fujian, which was the best iron in Daming at that time, into the furnace piece by piece, and began the casting journey according to his simple idea.

A week passed.

One by one, the iron cannons exploded during the experiment.

Even after casting, it became a waste product, and it was not even necessary to take it away, and you could directly see the ugly shape, and the large pores at the mouth of the inner bowl had to be thrown into the furnace to be re-refined into molten iron.

Two weeks passed, and Sebastian said to Zhang Qiang: "My lord, give up, we have wasted a lot of materials, and with this time, we can all cast a dozen or so twelve-pound cannons." ”

Zhang Qiang reluctantly walked back to the resting place.

Lying on the bed, there was still red molten iron in his head, fragments of iron cannons that had been blown up one by one, and those long-term workers in the busy artillery factory who had cut off their long hair.

What's the problem?

Zhang Qiang fell asleep with such thoughts.

Half-asleep and half-awake, he heard the call of the riding and slashing system, and the voice that had not appeared for a long time reappeared.

"You're finally there again." Zhang Qiang seemed to grasp the life-saving straw, and said to this voice in a complaining tone.

"I'm asking you for help this time." System Channel.

"What?"

"The system asks me for help?" Zhang Qiang felt funny, the system owned by the traverser is invincible, omnipotent, and helps the traverser, the master, and the funny thing is that the system he got actually asked for help from himself?

"Yes, in the world of riding and chopping, the barony you lead has been attacked by other viscount states, and even the count has been snubbed, and it urgently needs your help."

"The barony of the riding and slashing world that I lead, Nima, I won't be so in the riding and slashing world, except for the initial development of being chased by bandits and wild monsters, when I have a territory, I must be invincible, even if I can't unify the world for a while, I am invincible, powerful and powerful, how can you say that about me?" Zhang Qiang shouted.

"And, in fact, it's true, the reason why you used to be invincible as you wanted was because you cheated a lot, cheated, and played the easiest mode, but this time, you just skipped the medium mode and played hard mode, so the situation you are in the world of riding and slashing is really not good." The system's words with emotion made Zhang Qiang feel uncomfortable and surprised.

Thinking that he is also himself in the world of riding and chopping, although they are two different people, that may be a game character, and now he is a real traverser, his own body, therefore, Zhang Qiang feels that it is better to help if he can.

"How can I help myself." After saying this, he smiled, you who can help you have yourself, many times, he felt that it was a word of encouragement, but at this moment it became a fact.

"The Portuguese arquebuses in your current territory are good, and if you can, give a thousand to the system every month."

It doesn't matter, there is no shortage of Portuguese arquebuses in Zhang Qiang's territory now, 3,500 poles per factory per month, oh no, now more workers have changed their skills from ignorant to unfamiliar, to semi-skilled, and there are many workers who have changed from supporting roles to skilled skilled workers, who can get rid of François and others to operate on their own, and now it is an output of 5,000 poles per month.

The four arquebus factories are 20,000 guns per month, which is only 30,000 for the regular elite army, only 50,000 cold weapons for the auxiliary elite, 20,000 garrison troops, and a total of 70,000 territorial troops, and if you add 10,000 reserve recruits and 30,000 militia, it is only a total of 110,000 troops of the Jinhua Righteous Army.

Even many of them were sold to the Longwu Imperial Court, Zheng Chenggong's maritime power, and even because of the existence of some second-hand dealers, these Portuguese arquebuses were sold to the Portuguese army, and then sold to Portugal by these Portuguese pirates and maritime merchants.

Giving the system a thousand strokes a month is a piece of cake.

"By the way, you won't let you help in vain in the world of riding and chopping, what he gave you a deal with was a book that could improve your mental power, and a condition put forward by you."

And this good thing?