The operational steps were agreed upon, and the implementation began. The town was fifty miles away, and it could be reached in an hour.

The town where Wang Jinbao and the others are going is the Haiphong Port in the later generations, and this place has been a traffic artery since the Song Dynasty. Ships that sailed south from the mainland to the South Seas were replenished here. Now Vietnam is in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Haiphong is under the management of the Zheng family of the Northern Dynasty, and the business here is prosperous, which can bring a large amount of taxes to the Zheng family every year.

The sailor's ships came to the sea off the coast of Haiphong town in the afternoon, and by this time the five large ships had already been found in the town. Although the Ming Dynasty's sun, moon and golden dragon flag were hung on the ship, there was no law at all in this place in Nanyang. It is also common for pirates to disguise themselves as various maritime merchants to go ashore and loot villages on the mainland.

Haiphong has a population of more than 4,000 people, which is not as large as the number of people in a town in the interior of the Ming Dynasty. But in Vietnam, it's a big city. Haiphong has no city walls, and there is a wooden watchtower outside the town, and when he saw five big ships coming, he hurriedly rang the gong to call the police.

Wang Jinbao on the boat asked, "Zhang Shoubei, what should I do?" ”

Lao Zhang said: "Then what is there to prepare, rush straight up." After saying that, he ordered three gunboats to shoot at close range. At this time, a small boat came out of Haiphong Pier, and the Vietnamese on board shouted something.

Wang Jinbao couldn't understand Vietnamese, so he asked Zhang Da Scara what he said?

"They said that we should enter the port one by one and be inspected by the local government."

"Damn, you still want to check us, Zhang Shoubei, sink him."

Zhang Dascara gave an order, and the two guns of the No. 1 ship at the head roared angrily. Now it is less than three hundred meters away from the small boat, so naturally it is accurate to do a dozen. The first shot hit the boat, which immediately sank, killing two of the sailors on it and running away from the others.

When the people on the shore saw that the cannon had been fired, they scattered in all directions. Next, Zhang Da Scara was too happy, and approached to bombard Haiphong Port with artillery.

Zhang Dascara pulled these three ships to the hands of the three ships have not been fully fired, in the Beibu Gulf when the king of Chu has an order, try to capture alive, after all, there is too little sailor. This time, when he got the opportunity, Zhang Dajia leaned over to the dock and began shelling the city, and he even asked him to use all the shells that he said.

After receiving the order, the gunners below actually used grapeshot shells, which were newly developed by Zhu Hongsan's arsenal, and there were fifteen egg-sized submunitions in one shell, which was larger than the army's shotguns because the submunitions were larger than the army's shotguns, so they were greater in range and power than shotguns, which were used in naval battles against those jumping boats and the unprotected sailors on the deck of the opposite warship.

This kind of ammunition against the infantry is a massacre, the naval guns have a longer range than the army guns, and the laborers on the docks can be counted as bad luck, and many of them are rotted by grapepeballs.

The gunner obeyed the captain's order, and fired several more chain bullets, this kind of special ammunition against the mast of the enemy ship was quite suitable against the watchtower on the shore, and one chain bullet broke one of the brackets of the watchtower, and the soldiers on the tower jumped down with a scream, and it seemed that they could not live.

Ma Shaoguang, who was on the side, looked at the elated appearance of the two butchers and said, "Don't you want to catch labor?" Kill like this, and someone will arrest you? ”

Wang Jinbao heard that it was right, how could he mine after he had killed them all. Hurriedly ordered the sailors to stop the shelling and began to lead the team ashore to arrest people.

Zhang Dascara pursed his lips, feeling that he hadn't enjoyed it yet, this kind of gunboat was really sharp, and there were dead bodies on the dock in less than ten minutes. He looked at the dock and saw that there were still a few empty boats on the dock, and they just drove away together, waiting for Hongji to load coal. You can also buy an empty ship in Dongguan at a good price.

Here, Zhang Da Scara ordered half of the sailors to rob the ship, and Wang Jinbao in the city had already begun to arrest people.

At the beginning of the shelling, more than 100 guards of the local Vietnamese government ran out. So now Hai Phong Port is an undefended town.

Wang Jinbao's 2,000 men arrested 500 people without much effort. He looked at it and looked at it about the same, and he couldn't control it.

Wang Jinbao escorted more than 500 people back to the dock, got on the boat and went to Hongji to start mining.

Wang Jinbao stipulated that each person had to dig 500 catties of coal every day to have food, and the miserable life of these more than 500 miners began. It turned out that during the primitive accumulation of capital, this barbaric means was an effective means of reducing the cost of production. These Vietnamese slave miners dug up 100 tons of coal on the first day, and the cost was only 300 catties of rice, which is the price of cabbage in Vietnam, where rice is produced, and you must know that 100 tons of coal can be sold for 1,000 taels of silver when brought back to Guangdong, while a stone of rice in Vietnam is only 5 yuan of silver.

Seeing that this method was very successful, Wang Jinbao ordered to leave 1,000 men to manage the coal mines, and two sea ships, in case the Vietnamese government army came and ran away. After the arrangement was made, Wang Jinbao rushed back to Yong'an Prefecture with the first batch of 500 tons of coal.

After returning to Yong'an Prefecture, Ma Shaoguang naturally found Fu Wenlong to make a small report, but Fu Wenlong was also so angry that he wrote a letter to Zhu Hongsan overnight impeaching Wang Jinbao for his bold and reckless behavior, and sent it out with the coal carrier.

Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu who was far away in Dongguan, didn't pay attention to this letter at all, not to mention the death of hundreds of Vietnamese, as long as he could get cheap coal, even if thousands of Han people died, Zhu Hongsan would not blink an eye. After reading Fu Wenlong's letter, Zhu Hongsan used his ugly brush words to write three words on it, and he knew. Then hand it over to Zhang Jiayu for archiving, and explain how to reward Wang Jinbao and Zhang Dascara.

Now the problem of coal is solved, plus iron ore from Qiongzhou. Now Zhu Hongsan's industrial strength is already the first in East Asia, and even in Europe, Zhu Hongsan's strength is also one of the best, only after Spain and other old colonial empires. But this is just an industry, and the overall strength is still much worse, after all, Zhu Hongsan's foundation is too thin, and this thing needs time to accumulate.

Zhu Hongsan also knew that he lacked time, so all preparations were to delay the time for the Manchu Qing to go south as much as possible. Arming the Jiangnan Resistance Movement, crushing the industrial manufacturing industry in the north, and also setting fire to Beijing's grain in the past, were all preparations to buy time for themselves.

Seeing that the last development bottleneck was broken, Zhu Hongsan was in a very good mood, and after dealing with the matter, he said to Zhang Jiayu: "Yuanzi, the weather is very good today, I will take you to the musket factory to see good things after you finish handling official business in a while." ”

Zhang Jiayu asked, "What is it that makes His Royal Highness the King of Chu so concerned?" ”

"Haha, keep it secret, you'll know when you go."

Now Zhu Hongsan is becoming more and more like a local warlord, and there are many things that Zhu Hongsan needs to deal with every day. A large number of things need to be dealt with by Ma Mingyuan's long history department first, and then Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu, will make a decision. So when the two of them finished handling government affairs, it was already noon, and Zhu Hongsan decided to go to the musket factory after eating.

In the afternoon, Zhu Hongsan took Zhang Jiayu to the musket factory. Now the musket factory is a huge enterprise with 8,000 employees, and this is still Zhu Hongsan's three gun butts and other inconsequential things have been subcontracted, or the musket factory will be even larger.

Zhu Hongsan received a report from Tie Niu yesterday that the musket factory had produced a new musket and asked Zhu Hongsan* to take a look.

Zhu Hongsan and Zhang Jiayu came to the factory gate, and Tie Niu and some craftsmen were already waiting here. Seeing Zhu Hongsan coming, they all kowtowed and said to welcome the king of Chu.

Zhu Hongsan is actually very disgusted with this kind of kowtow rule, and he has also promulgated a rule that except for parents and elders, it is strictly forbidden to kowtow to Shangguan, but the effect is not very good, after all, it has been kowtowing for many years, and it can't be changed for a while. However, this regulation was well received among the readers, and for a time the reputation of the benevolent king of Chu spread all over Guangzhou.

Seeing the Iron Bull, Zhu Hongsan asked, "Tie Niu, take me to see your new musket." ”

Tie Niu nodded again and again, and took Zhu Hongsan to the test site inside the factory. On the edge of the field is a big guy, from a distance it looks like an iron box, up close it turns out to be made of gun barrels spliced together, with iron sheets wrapped outside.

This kind of thing is a bit like the kind of small fireworks that were put in later generations, with dozens of single cylinders combined together, and only need one ignition to launch continuously.

Tie Niu on the side said: "Your Highness, this is what the Musket Factory developed with reference to the swarm of rockets of the Ming army. This big guy is made of forty barrels tied together, and after firing, it can fire ten thousand guns in unison, which is quite powerful. ”

Of course, Zhu Hongsan knew that it was the Ming army's long-range attack firearms, and the small ones had thirty-two and one hundred batteries, which could form a covering attack when igniting the attack. It can also be used in naval battles, but it is large, called the fire dragon out of the water, which belongs to the second stage of the rocket, and the movie Shenji Arrow made by the stick country in later generations is based on the fire dragon out of the water.