Although they have been able to cast their own artillery, but the level of the Manchu self-cast artillery is still relatively low, because of the lack of experience in mechanics, material science, etc., the Manchu self-cast cannons can only rely on the forced stacking of weight to increase the power, so they cast a slightly larger caliber, the shells used a little heavier artillery, the weight will be very amazing, so that it is completely impossible to follow the army's action, if you want to move them, it takes a huge amount of manpower, material resources and time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"How much do these things weigh?" Dorgon immediately asked the crucial question.

"The weight of a heavy cannon with a 32-pound shell is about 7,000 catties. Twenty-four pounds of heavy artillery, converted into Oriental units, weighed about 5,000 catties. Yuri replied.

With the weight of a 32-pound gun, it is still difficult to move on land, but the 24-pound run of about 5,000 catties can barely move.

"How much do shells of this twenty-four-pounder gun weigh? How far can you hit? Dorgon asked again.

"Your Royal Highness, the shells of this cannon are a little more than twenty-one pounds, and if you hit a fixed target on land, in the hands of an elite gunner, even if you are at 1,500 paces, it is very accurate." Yuri replied.

Dolgon was not very familiar with the number of artillery, but he knew that Huang Taiji attached great importance to artillery, so he said: "Sir does not know if he is free, if Sir can stay a few more days, I can arrange for Sir to meet the emperor of my Great Qing Kingdom." If the gentleman wants to make the business big, there are some things that need to be discussed with my starling. ”

When Yuri heard this, he smiled and said, "I naturally have time, I am a businessman, as long as a businessman has business to do, how can he not have time?" If His Royal Highness the Prince can arrange for me to meet His Majesty the Emperor of your country, I will bring two hundred catties of blessings this time. Longevity. Treat the anointing as a tribute to the emperor of your country. In addition, the port on this island is now under the control of His Royal Highness, and my ship needs to be docked and repaired. ”

"There's no problem with that." "It's just that we're going to give up this island soon." At most, the day after tomorrow, we will be gone. So your ship won't stay there for long. However, we also have many ports in Daqing, such as Jinzhou and Gaizhou, which have ports available. In the future, your ships will be able to trade with us directly. ”

……

Dolgon was already preparing to leave Ganghwa Island, and his mission had been completed, and it was time to take his team to meet Hwangdaegil near Hanyang Mountain Fortress. Now the Qing army surrounded the Korean king in Namhansanseong, and then used the means of besieging the city to send reinforcements to continuously annihilate the Korean army that came to "King Qin". Now it is different from the time of Ding Mao, at that time, the Dongjiang Town that the Koreans hated was still there, and there was still the strength to fight with the Manchus, although the Koreans have always said that during the Ding Mao year, after the repulsion, Jin was all done by the Korean rebels, and Dongjiang "sat on an isolated island" and did nothing. But this time, without Dongjiang, which has done nothing, the situation is ......

When Dolgon arrived near Namhansan Fortress with Yuri, it was a time of daily mental assault on the Korean defenders, and the Manchu troops surrounding Namhansan Fortress had the captives of the "King of Chin" captured a few days before, drag their banners and walk under the walls of Namhansan Fortress to demoralize the Koreans and shake their will to continue resisting. Now that Dolgon had dragged these captives from Ganghwa Island here, it provided better material for this kind of activity.

Dolgon first asked Yuri and the others to wait in his barracks, and he himself went to Huang Taiji to report his life, and Yuri and the others waited in the tent, and after most of the day, Dorgon came back and told them that Huang Taiji was very interested in their magic medicine and cannons. It's just that the last two days have been very busy, and I have to wait two more days before I can find time to meet them.

This is not a prevarication, because Huang Taeji is indeed very busy these days, and he is busy with the matter of persuading King Injo of Korea to surrender. The king of Joseon had in fact agreed to surrender, but he said that because "the siege was not resolved, the emperor was angry...... The ancients had a person who worshipped the Son of Heaven in the city, and the cover was indispensable, and the might of the army was also terrible, and it was ...... so he hoped to surrender without going out of the city to Huang Taiji's military camp, only on the surrender table, and bowed to Huang Taiji on the city wall to express his surrender.

Huang Taiji was not willing to consider such a condition at all, in his opinion, North Korea had no more troops to fight, and part of his artillery team had already arrived, even if it was to fight, he was completely sure that he would directly take Namhansan Fortress. So, at this time, he will never tolerate a verbal submission from North Korea.

So Huang Taiji began to talk with the North Koreans, and he started to talk to them. In this way, he is naturally very busy.

The day after Yuri arrived at the Hwangdaegil barracks, Hwangdaeji sent out artillery and shelled Namhansanseong. However, unlike the walls on Jeju Island, the walls of Namhansan Fortress are still very strong, and Hwangdaegil's cannons are very heavy, and it took a lot of effort to transport them all the way, but the power is very average, and the damage caused by the shelling to the city walls is not too serious.

"What do you think of our artillery?" Standing on the high ground in front of the barracks, Dolgon asked Yuri as he watched Kong Youdeok's artillery firing at Namhansanseong.

"Your Royal Highness, when I first saw the cannons, I thought they were at least forty to fifty pounds, but when they fired, I realized that they probably had no shells of eighteen pounds. I have to say, Your Royal Highness, the artillery of your country is too heavy and not very useful. I guess your country will have to wait a long time for these cannons during siege warfare, right? And your Royal Highness, you see, the rate of artillery fire of your country's artillery has dropped significantly, and this must be because the heat dissipation of the artillery is not done well, which has caused the barrel to overheat now, and it is necessary to wait for the temperature of the barrel to drop to a certain level before the charge can be fired. The interval between each shot is so large, and such a heat dissipation speed is ...... To put it mildly, Your Royal Highness, the craftsmen who made the cannons for you really deserve to be hanged, they consumed so much precious metal and made such a thing. Your Royal Highness, I estimate that the cost of your country's artillery must be high......"

Watching Yuri attack the Manchu cannons like this in order to sell his cannons, Dolgon didn't feel a little embarrassed. So he asked, "Mr. Yurui, your medicine is a good medicine, we all recognize this." Let's not listen to how to blow, let's see the curative effect, right? Do you have samples of cannons on board? ”

"Your Excellency, I regret that I only have a few small Franco cannons on my ship. After all, this is my first time running this route, and there is no way I can hire a battleship armed to the teeth. In fact, it's just a whaling ship, and you know, there's a lot of whales in the waters off Japan. They were going to Japan, but when they got my money, they agreed to take me around. However, it is easy for the prince to see the sample. I know that the Dutch East India Company attacked Jeju Island not so long ago...... Ah, an island south of Korea, a little bigger than Ganghwa, and the Dutch might want to take it down as a base at sea. to force the North Koreans to trade with them. If all the elite troops of Korea have been brought in to fight your country, I don't think it will be difficult for the Dutch to take that island. In case you didn't know, the Dutch East India Company was at war with the Ming Kingdom. However, they had suffered some defeats in previous engagements. They may have tried to put pressure on the Ming Kingdom by occupying Jeju Island. Forcing the Ming to agree to their trade demands. I think 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'. Now your country is the greatest enemy of the Ming Kingdom. So the Dutch should pretend to be interested in trading arms with your country. Therefore, Your Highness can send someone with us to have a look, and we will know what kind of cannons of our Tessians are. ”

"Why are you pretending to be interested in the arms trade with us?" Dorgon asked.

"It's very simple, because the Dutch East India Company doesn't want to really offend the Ming Dynasty." Yuri shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Aren't they at war with the Ming Kingdom? Isn't this still an offense to Mingguo? Dorgon asked, puzzled.

"The Dutch were at war with the Ming and only hoped that the Ming would agree to trade with them. His Royal Highness, the Ming State monopolized the production of tea, silk, and high-end porcelain. These goods are only available to them. Ming refused to sell these goods to the Dutch. Regarding this, I really can't understand why the Ming people are like this. Why refuse to make money. Therefore, His Royal Highness, although the Dutch are at war with the Ming Kingdom, the purpose of his war is only to be able to trade, so they are definitely not willing to make this issue too complicated. They may threaten the Ming Kingdom that if they don't sell them silk porcelain or something, they will sell cannons to you, but they won't really sell cannons to you, which is equivalent to completely closing the door to business. So the Dutch cannons, you have to see it easily, but you certainly can't buy it. After all, compared to the trading of silk, porcelain, and tea, artillery is just a small business. The people of the East India Company did not look down on these small businesses. They weren't going to interfere with the sale for the sake of artillery. Yuri said.

"What is the East India Company?" Dorgon asked.

"It's a Dutch firm, perhaps the largest in the world. It had more than a hundred large merchant ships, more than forty warships, employed men who might have fifty thousand men, and an army of more than ten thousand. Such a power is no less than that of some countries, at least no less than a country like North Korea. Yuri explained.

"Very well, we'll consider what you say." Dorgon said.