Iron tires and copper bones, can such artillery be successful? Hong Tao didn't know, whether he could play like this, he didn't know it either. He had played with guns and mortars in his previous life, but he had never played with real front-loading guns, who had nothing to do with that effort, people who were not particularly fond of and specialized in this would not usually pay attention to this knowledge. At this time, the little knowledge about the bronze cannon in his mind was all from the bad supplement when he salvaged the Spanish shipwreck in his previous life, and it was all skin, and it could not play a fundamental role.

However, whether it is an iron tire or not, casting cannons is a craftsman who needs to cast large devices, and this kind of person is not currently available in Jinhewan. Qi Zu and they can at most cast a pot out, and the casting cannon, a device with a more complex shape and strict requirements, really can't be played. Even if there is Hong Tao, an existence against the sky, he still can't play it, and it is not easy to learn everything from scratch. Hong Tao told them that they could use sand as a mold to cast metal, but it was just that, and he didn't know much about the doorway in the sand turning workshop, how to make this mold, how to exhaust, and how to splice all of them needed to be explored slowly. Fortunately, there is good news now, that is, on the edge of the Changjiang River, Hong Tao found particularly high-quality river sand, which is very suitable for casting molds.

Without cannons, the new ship is mostly half a decoration, and can only be parked in the river as a training ship first. Anyway, how many sailors are not enough for Hong Tao now, and he has started all the people who can start it, so if he has nothing to do, he will go to the big ship to practice climbing the mast and walking the rigging. After being able to understand commands, get used to bearing calculations, and become proficient in climbing up and down on ropes, we will talk about actually sailing on the sea.

At the end of April, the big ship, named Jinhe, finally sailed out of the mouth of Jinhe. For the first time, it appeared on the sea. It was followed by four high-speed cruisers of the Sea Wave. Compared to its massive body. Originally, the Haibo-class battleship, which was already very powerful, seemed to have suddenly shrunk several times. The mainmast, which was more than forty meters high, reached into the sky, and the timid new sailors did not dare to climb to the lookout on the top of the mast for a month, and even now, the top layer of all the masts was controlled by the most skilled veteran sailmen, and the new sailors could only crawl around under their feet.

Hong Tao is going to take his new flagship for the first official voyage trial, with the new not the old, since there are newer and larger ships, Hong Tao is naturally the first to occupy it. Although there was not a single one of the 50 guns on the upper and lower decks. Even 20 grenade launchers were installed temporarily, but Hong Tao still regarded the Jinhe as a flagship.

Didn't you say that you only went to sea in October, why couldn't you help it just in early April? In fact, this voyage was not to the Arabian Sea, nor to do business, but to make trouble and rob people. Now Hong Tao finally freed his hands and persuaded the board of directors to obtain authorization to go to the Mongol-occupied areas to emigrate in large numbers. It sounds good to be an immigrant, but in fact, who wants to come back with him, what if you don't want to? Grab it! Go ashore and find a village, catch it, and send it to the boat. Turning around along the coast, I don't believe that I can't catch a boatload of people on the Jinhe. Its belly is much larger than that of a Haibo-class battleship. In addition to the one hundred and fifty necessary crew members, it can carry more than six hundred people, and it will not affect the long voyage. The supplies on the ship were enough for these 800 people to eat and drink for more than a month, and if there was fresh water to replenish it, it would be no problem for four or five months! Big is a big benefit!

"My lord, can this kind of boat take me home?" Hong Tao was not proud enough to stand on the stern of the Jinhe, and Karl climbed up from under the side of the ship, and the first thing he said after meeting him was to go home. Since the Jinhe got out of the water, the sails were not yet fully loaded, and Carl was stunned, and every time he saw Hong Tao, he had to ask when he would go home.

"I said, Captain Ka, do you think I can go away now! Without population, there is no productivity, without productivity there is no artillery, and without artillery, the Jinhe cannot do anything but be a cargo ship. Can you give me another year or two to catch my breath? Hong Tao was really annoyed by the question this time, mainly because he disturbed Yaxing, who was reviewing his fleet, and just wanted to pretend to be forced, standing on a high place and waving to several other warships, he didn't open any pot.

"Actually, we also have masters of casting there, for example, the big bell in the church, which is very big and bronze, so you don't have to go to the north to catch people, you can go to my hometown to catch them, what do you say?" Carl probably knew that he was too poor, but the desire to go home made him unable to stop talking, so he found a more reasonable excuse.

"Hey, hey! Listen, listen, is this still human! In order to return home for himself, he took foreigners to his hometown to catch slaves. I said Lao Ka, you are a knight, don't forget, even if you go to sea, you are also a knight! What about your chivalry? After Hong Tao listened to Carl's words, his mouth was about to go to the back of his head, the contemptuous expression on his face was enough for ten people to see for half a month, and there were body movements of beating his chest with his feet, and the three dog-legged people of Wennan, Medini, and Cixi complained about Carl's shamelessness.

"He's a fake knight, Allah's army has already reached Venice, it's useless if you don't go back, hehehe......" Medini and Karl are a pair of natural enemies, at first Metini didn't dare to confront Karl when he first arrived, and he was bullied by this crusader. But as his position by Hong Tao's side became more and more consolidated, he slowly straightened up and became a man, except for Hong Tao, he was not convinced.

"Fart! The holy city is ours, and maybe another crusade will drive you into the desert, dead fatty! I should have thrown you into the sea and drowned, and your brother, you both drowned together! Carl was told by others that he could endure it, but he couldn't listen to Medini say half a bad word about him, so he reached out and touched his waist, but he didn't touch the saber, so he could only fight back against Medini with his mouth.

"You two are so unruly, this is the master's flagship, you have to quarrel on the deck!" Before Hong Tao could speak, his most loyal dog-legged Zixi rushed out to maintain order. Now that Cixi is a member of the board of directors of Jinhewan, and behind her are hundreds of slave-turned-Jinhewan residents, as well as hundreds of slaves, who should not have been in favor of this slavery system in the first place, but has become the staunchest defender of these rules. Because he is the biggest beneficiary, if there were no rules, he might still be fishing in a broken boat at sea, living a life without a meal, so he does not allow anyone to break the rules, which he thinks is very, very good.

"Get out of the way, believe it or not I'll knock your teeth out with one punch!" Carl is not muddy, he is the first follower of Hong Tao, although he is not a member of the board of directors, but he is also a respected hero in Jinhe Bay. Even if Cixi became the chairman of the board of directors, she was still a slave in his eyes. Of course, he didn't dare to say that, Hong Tao strictly forbade anyone to have this kind of expression, once it was discovered, it would be a big mistake, and he would be severely punished.

"Hey, hey, there's still no end, you're planning to single-handedly pick up my boatload, right? Why don't we try it first! As soon as Hong Tao saw that the quarrel was about to rise to the level of a brawl, he had no chance to shrink his head while he was in chaos, so he had to stand up and calm down.

"Old Ka, you don't think this will work. Your child is still young, not yet two years old, and you say that if you take him home, he can't read or remember anything, it's meaningless. How about we wait until he's three years old and then go back? When the time comes, I'll take my children with you and let them see what your hometown is like. Let's go back first, help me call Captain Kong, and I'm ready to set sail, go back first! Go back first! "Pacifying is pacifying, but Carl's question also has to give him an explanation, what can Hong Tao say, and then fool around. The reason I said last time was a cannon, and this time I talked about his son, anyway, I didn't care about it first, and when he figured it out, he would make up the next one.

"Can you remember it at three?" Carl is sometimes smart, but sometimes stupid, and is often fooled by the flood, and this time he is stupid again.

"That's necessary, I'm a three-year-old rememberer, aren't you?" Hong Tao hurriedly confirmed, according to Carl's state, he estimated that it would take several days to react.

"I don't remember much before I was ten years old......," Carl touched his head, a little confused.

"Hey, your parents must have taken you too far when you were a kid! Children's heads are more fragile, and it is easy to get hurt when you see too many things, and you are injured, so you can't let your son get hurt again. Listen to me, just leave at the age of three, and not delay a day! When Hong Tao heard this, he was really blinded! So what are you waiting for, the follow-up theory will be thrown out quickly, and Carl will be stunned, and he will be able to survive for a few more days.

Carl left, touching his head and walking, he still couldn't understand, why Hong Tao remembered when he was three years old, and he didn't have any impression when he was ten years old, could he say that he was so stupid? Is it true that children can't run too far when they are young? Could it be that when I was a child, my parents took me from Germany to Rome and really hurt my head? No, when you go back to the boat, you must slowly think about what happened when you were a child, if you can remember it, it means that your head is not injured, and if you can't remember, you have to find a way to treat it!

"Yaya, let's set sail! Lao Kong, let's go to the cabin to talk. When Kong Pei came to the flagship, Hong Tao gave Weng Ya the order to set sail. This Weng Ya is also a big trouble, she will fight with the first and second officers on any ship she goes to be the captain, her temper is too explosive and she is still a girl, and there are too many problems, so she can only make do with it on her own ship. Fortunately, she really worked hard to command ships, and her brain was good, but now she lacks skilled captains, so she can barely use it, it's better than nothing. (To be continued.) )