"Dear President, your servant Garcia ......is writing to you in the far East, in the legendary and mysterious East," said Father Garcia, writing quickly on a roll of parchment with a quill in the church.

"It's been more than two years since I came to the East, but the way of thinking and seeing the world in the East is very different from ours in Europe...... For them, praying to their god is something that needs to be rewarded. In other words, they have to see miracles before they believe in your gods...... God forbid, I really should have learned magic before I came to the East, and it might be more effective to send a magician or a circus to the Far East than to send a missionary......"

"It turned out that the upper course taken by Father John Tong was a failure. In the eyes of the Ming Emperor, he was nothing more than a warlock, a courtier, and now, he was regarded as a craftsman. But if you take the lower route, it will not work, although the emperor of the Ming Dynasty seems to be an untrustworthy person on the surface, but the way of doing things in his bones is still the same as Confucianism. God's to God's and the king's to the king's is even more evident in the Far East...... The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely wary of any sect...... To sum up, Father John Tong's way of preaching is doomed to nothing and doomed to failure......"

"Dear Elder, you don't have to worry. It was in this darkness that a man named Sun Yuan threw himself into the arms of God, he had a territory of 20,000 men and an army of 2,000 men, which was already a small principality...... As I understand it, his army was very strong and even defeated the barbarians from the north...... My God, the barbarians were even more powerful and savage than the Vikings of the Middle Ages

。 ”

"If we can get Sun's principality to believe in Jesus, the future Far East will be bathed in the glory of the Father. This is probably the meaning of my coming to the Far East, this is probably the Lord's call......"

"To put it mildly, Sun's power is still small, and the Far East is at war again. Therefore, I will use all the strength at my disposal to support him, and after writing the letter, I will also join Sun's army to spread the gospel of God. Perhaps, many years from now, there will be a great Christian general in the Far East......"

"Sun's army is still very weak, he still needs warships in the future, if you agree, you can recruit some brave sailors in Europe who are willing to come to the East for adventure......"

"Put your pen on hold, your faithful servant, Louis? Garcia. ”

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"One-two, one-two, one-two-three-four!"

"One, two, three, four!"

In the school grounds, the soldiers are running.

It was so cold that the snow kept falling and the ground was white.

All the soldiers were sweating profusely, and long white breath was spraying from their mouths and noses.

It was the end of the month, and Chinese New Year's Eve was not a few days away. Couplets were posted in the barracks, red lanterns were hung, and a lot of New Year's goods were bought. In the distance, the sound of rare firecrackers came, and the smell of the New Year began to thicken.

Ningxiang Army is mostly southerners, the first time to celebrate the New Year in the north, seeing the scene of the north, at the beginning of the fresh, after a long time, I don't feel surprised. Not only that, but I also feel that this winter is so unbearable.

In a blink of an eye, it had been several months since the troops came to Beijing, and people were moved, and Sun Yuan was helpless.

Even he had a headache. There are still endless troubles on his own, and because Lu Xiangsheng helped Lu Xiangsheng write letters to the officials in the DPRK and China, the problems are not big. In Fang Richang's case, Lu Xiangsheng took it all in, and the royal officials couldn't say anything. As for the Lei Tai extermination case, Jin Yiwei got a lot of benefits from Sun Yuan, so he went through the motions

。 Yang Wei of Sizhou was really troublesome, and the imperial court ordered one after another to ask Sun Yuan to return the borrowed treasury silver as soon as possible.

When the money arrived, how could he be willing to return it, Sun Yuan could only drag it out.

However, there are still a few days to go until the Chinese New Year's Eve, and Governor Lu Du should come to the capital in these days. When the time comes, he will get a new official position and go to the Xuanfu to take office, so he can calmly farm and accumulate strength. All the unhappiness will disappear.

Since Wolf signed an agreement with himself to cooperate in setting up a factory, in order to make artillery, Sun Yuan's silver has been spent like running water.

Speaking of which, it may not cost much to make a cannon, it's just a matter of a few hundred catties of brass, and as for labor, it's not worth much.

After Wolf entered the barracks, Sun Yuan immediately recruited more than thirty craftsmen and took out several thousand taels of silver for him to use.

But within a few days, the money ran out.

It turns out that to make a cannon, a lot of tools need to be used. And these tools are not available on the market, so you need to make them yourself. For example, to make a heel of screws, you have to build a foot-operated machine tool first. Rotary cutting knives also have to be exercised in the furnace. In this way, a large amount of expenses have been added invisibly.

Without artillery, artillery units could not be formed.

After Pablo became the captain of the artillery, Sun Yuan selected forty literate soldiers from the army to enrich his artillery unit.

According to Sun Yuan's idea, within a year, he needed to buy four four-pounder guns from the artillery factory to enrich the troops. With eight gunners per gun, at least thirty-two people are needed.

Four cannons may seem like nothing to modern people, but this is the 17th century. The strength of the Ningxiang Army is weak, and it can only do this at present.

According to real historical records, John Tang cast Hongyi cannons in the artillery field, and it took two years to make 20 cannons. Of course, the Hongyi cannon is too cumbersome, and the manpower and financial resources required are not comparable to the four-pounder cannon.

Pablo was an unreliable person, and after entering the barracks, he also seemed unusually lazy. When you get money, when you have nothing to do, you wander around Beijing, eat and drink for money, and look for women, this is probably a common problem of southern Europeans, right? However, Sun Yuan was still very satisfied with his method of training artillery.

Since there were no cannons to wield, Pablo gathered his forty artillery men together to learn Arabic numerals, followed by four arithmetics, trigonometric functions

。 Stuff the math formula like cramming for the artillerymen to swallow.

Then they were taught how to calculate the point of impact and how to calculate the range.

Pity those forty artillerymen, who used to know only three or two hundred words, now they have been under the hands of this foreign devil for a month, looking at the crooked numbers all day long, and they are all on the verge of mental breakdown.

By the eighteenth century, warfare had become a science, and the arms in the army were becoming more and more detailed, and the soldiers were becoming more and more specialized. The old one, which has been proven by time to be outdated, will be eliminated by history.

After imparting basic mathematics, Pablo had to break down all the movements of the artillery and let the soldiers memorize them.

These days, the artillerymen don't even know what the cannon really looks like.

At the beginning of the training, it was a hard calculation, endorsement, and it looked like a student in the school.

made the other soldiers of the Ningxiang Army mutter: What does this devil want to do?

"Whew!" Sun Yuan let out a long breath and stopped.

The guard quickly handed over a cotton towel, and Sun Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead.

At this time, a "boom" sounded and shook the ground under his feet trembling slightly.

Although this sound is not loud and seems very dull, the penetrating power is extremely strong, as if it is shocked to the bones, making people feel a burst of heartache floating.

"This is ......" The soldiers who had been running neatly just now stopped and turned their heads to look in the direction from which the rumble came.

Next, of course, there was a burst of scolding from the officers.

Sun Yuan was taken aback: "Cannon, this is a cannon shooting." ”

A guard ran over panting: "General, general, the erhu master said that the cannon of the artillery factory has been cast." He was taking General Ba to test the cannon in the back mountain, and asked the little one to come over and ask the general to come over to observe, and General Fei and they all passed. ”

The so-called erhu master is Wolfe

。 Because his name is too awkward, the soldiers of the Ningxiang Army find it troublesome to call, so they will call him Erhu.

Sun Yuan's spirits were lifted: "What, the cannons have been built, how many are there in total?" ”

Guard: "Only one was made." ”

"One door or not, let's go, let's see. This Wo Erhu really didn't disappoint General Ben! Lead the way ahead. ”

When I arrived at the back mountain, I saw a bright brass cannon more than one meter high on the ground. Several artillerymen were busily cleaning the chamber of the gun, and then stuffed a powder bag into the muzzle.

An artilleryman carried a long wooden pole to push the medicine bag into the barrel and loaded it with a solid shell.

Pablo was still the same hanger, leaning against a small tree, resting his hand on the hilt of the sword, with a nonchalant look on his face, as if he were a spectator.

In addition to these two people and artillerymen, Master Cui and Yue Luming also came over to see the excitement. Now, Cui, Yue, and Wolf are the heads of Sun Yuan's military industrial system. Cui and Yue didn't know anything about making Western artillery, and they watched it with relish on the side.

In contrast, Wolfe has a serious face, like pig iron.

In addition to the four artillerymen who were busy loading the cannons, the other soldiers took out a newly drawn map, a command ruler and a small bamboo signature from their cowhide satchels, and calculated something on the ground, presumably to measure the targets in front of them one by one.

Several circles had been drawn in lime on the hillside in the distance, presumably the target of this artillery experiment.

Sun Yuan looked at it and said to Wolf with a smile: "Sir, it's decent!" Let's get started, I just missed the first shot, and I can't wait. ”

Wolf nodded repeatedly.

But after waiting for a long time, the cannon still did not fire.

The crowd looked fixedly, but saw that the soldiers were still counting on the ground. It was probably because they were not good at learning and art, or because Sun Yuan was present, these people had not calculated the relevant data for a long time, and on a cold day, they were so nervous that a layer of hot sweat appeared on their foreheads, and white air was rising.

Wolf's brow furrowed, and he was about to have a seizure.

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