Zheng Chenggong sent Lu Zhenfei, Jiang Yucan and others to meet Emperor Yongli.

At that time, Li Chengdong had not yet done it, and when they went to Guangxi by sea ship for safety, Yongli fled from Wuzhou to Guilin.

When Lu Zhenfei rushed to Guilin with great difficulty, Li Chengdong returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway and welcomed Yongli to Guangdong.

Lu Zhenfei and the others had no choice but to set off for Zhaoqing, Guangdong again, and this time they didn't run in vain.

In the Zhaoqing Palace in Guangdong, Emperor Yongli summoned Lu Zhenfei and them.

After three buckles and nine bows, Lu Zhenfei held up the letter written by Zheng Chenggong with both hands and said: "Your Majesty, this is the handwritten letter handed over to Your Majesty by the loyal and filial piety Bertto Weichen. Please take a look! “

The eunuch took the letter and gave it to Yongli.

After Yongli took a closer look, he thought secretly: Man Qin is aggressive, Jin Shengheng is now in danger of being killed by the Qing army, and Li Chengdong alone does not know if he can reverse the situation. Now that Zheng Chenggong is willing to serve himself, he should be more encouraged! ”

Yongli said happily: "Su Wen Zheng Chenggong is my loyal man of the Ming Dynasty, and he really deserves his reputation. Someone came to spread my will, and gave Zheng Chenggong the title of Duke of Zhangguo! ”

Lu Zhenfei heard it and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty for your favor!" Your Majesty, the Marquis of Weiyuan also asked Weichen to offer 10,000 taels for His Majesty's reward. ”

Hearing that Zheng Chenggong sent him 10,000 taels, Yongli smiled even happier. It seems that Zheng Chenggong is really loyal and righteous, and he knows that he is nervous, so he sends money over in the name.

Sure enough, he was a great loyal minister. What should I be rewarded? There is no way to do it about gold and silver, let's find a chance to promote his knighthood next time!

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Zheng Chenggong returned to Xiamen and summoned the official history of Xiamen to appease them.

The housekeeper and the bookkeeper who were sent to confiscate Zheng Cai's property and loot Zheng Lian's property used a horse-drawn cart to bring back all the property.

In the mansions of Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian, they seized a total of more than 900,000 yuan of gold, hundreds of jewels, and hundreds of thousands of rice millet.

All of a sudden, Zheng Chenggong felt that all his problems were no longer problems.

Silver. Pregnant!

Grain and grass, there it is!

In order to expand his strength, Zheng Chenggong carried out a new round of recruitment, bringing his infantry to 30,000, plus 40,000 in the water division, for a total of 70,000 troops.

After the occupation of Xiamen, many research projects were stagnant due to the small size of the place and the lack of resources, but now they can be carried out.

For example, grenades, muskets, and the transformation of ships.

In Kinmen, there are not many people, and there are even fewer resources.

Even survival is a problem, how can you have the energy and funds to do this, but now it's different, now you have a lot of money.

Isn't there enough talent?

Give me a trick!

Not enough resources, right?

Buy it for me!

As long as it can produce results, it will not hesitate to reward!

The re-rich national surname began a round of expansion.

Especially the workers and mechanics give a trick to death.

Recruited ceramic technicians, opened several brick kilns, ceramic kilns, in addition to burning some bricks, ceramics for daily life, there is also to see if you can burn glass and cement.

In the big drama of the traversal, you can always see the traverser burning glass to sell it, but the problem is that the buddies used to be more mixed when they were studying, and the physical and chemical knowledge in high school was returned to the teacher after the college entrance examination.

When I read a novel, I will see ten lines at a glance, and I only look at the general idea of the book, and I haven't read it carefully at all, let alone memorize it.

In addition, people are not smart, their brains are average, and they have no ability to remember.

I had to use stupid methods and smash it with money.

These workers have experimented thousands and hundreds of times, and they will always produce a few results.

Zheng Chenggong is not greedy, as long as there are one or two that can be the main product!

In the production process of this era, gunpowder is not powerful enough, and quantity is needed to cause the lethality of quality.

In the past, the production of grenades was limited by the limitations of materials, and 10,000 grenades were produced in a month.

As a result, Zheng Chenggong could only leave more than 20,000 grenade bullets to Tong'an, if there were enough grenade bullets at that time, maybe Tong'an would not be breached, and Ye Yiyun and Chen Ding would not need to be sacrificed.

Now with the ships of the Xiamen Navy Division, with silver, it is possible to expand trade and increase materials.

Grenade bombs must be produced enough, and there must be no more sacrifices like Ye Yiyun and Chen Ding!

As for the flintlock musket, it is not difficult to make it, there are models, and those blacksmiths have already made them.

But the problem is that gunpowder and bullets are consumed.

Just like buying a car in a modern era, you can buy a car, but you can't necessarily afford it.

When you buy a car, the monthly payment may be only one or two thousand yuan a month, and the supply will be exhausted in two or three years.

But parking fees, fuel costs, maintenance fees, etc., are at least two or three thousand a month, and they are the kind that have no deadline.

For Jinmen, which lacked iron ore, to make weapons, to make armor, after making these, the consumption of bullets was something that Zheng Chenggong could not afford at that time.

Therefore, for Zheng Chenggong, it is not cost-effective to make a musket that has no outstanding advantages in range and power for the time being.

When he was in Kinmen, he just asked craftsmen to make a hundred flintlock muskets and arranged some soldiers to train.

Now that Xiamen has been taken, the flint musket has been listed by Zheng Chenggong as a key development and manufacturing object.

To this end, Zheng Chenggong also set up a musket battalion of 3,000 people.

You can't put all your eggs in one basket, Zheng Chenggong still understands this truth. For the sake of safety, Zheng Chenggong moved the original artillery workshops in Xiamen to Kinmen, Xiamen only researched and manufactured muskets, and Kinmen concentrated on the development of forged artillery.

Accompanied by Feng Chengshi, Zheng Chenggong inspected the artillery workshop in Kinmen.

Song Yingxing was busy testing the newly built artillery, and he didn't have time to talk to Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong didn't dare to provoke this stubborn old man, as long as Song Yingxing was helping him develop firearms, what did this old man love!

Looking at the blacksmith who was beating hard, Zheng Chenggong asked: "What kind of artillery is the main manufacture of the Kinmen Artillery Workshop now?" ”

Feng Chengshi hurriedly replied: "General Hui, now the main thing is to copy the Shenwei General Cannon that you asked someone to send over last time!" ”

"How's that, can you make it?"

"Absolutely no problem, and general, what we are implementing now is the reward and punishment method of the Qin system of "the name of the work is used to test its sincerity". It is required that the weapon should be engraved with the production date, institution, superintendent and the name of the specific maker. When each weapon part has the name of the craftsman, the craftsman is more motivated and responsible. The quality of the artillery is also guaranteed, and there will be no more explosions after a few fires. ”

Hearing this, Zheng Chenggong hurriedly praised: "Okay, Hengchen really worked hard." If you have merit, you will be rewarded, and your monthly income will be increased by three hundred taels! ”

Feng Chengshi hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Xiaguan is ashamed, these are the credits of Mr. Song, it was he who searched for ancient books to find such a good way!" The subordinate officials just did it, and it was really a great reward for the general! ”

Zheng Chenggong waved his hand and said, "Without you to organize the implementation, even if there is a good way, it is useless." Implement it and improve the system, these are your credits, and you can take credit with peace of mind! ”

"Then the subordinate general Xie will be rewarded!"

"Hengchen, what is the range of this Shenwei General's cannon?"

"About 1,500 meters!"

1500 meters, not enough!

The development of firearms in the future, Zheng Chenggong knows better than anyone else. More important than power is range.

In the Anglo-Spanish naval battle in 1588, Spain's armada lost the naval battle related to the fortunes of the country because the range of its guns was not as good as that of the England team, allowing England to rise from then on and achieving an empire on which the sun never sets.

Now that the craftsmen in Kinmen are becoming more and more skilled in making artillery, it is time for Song Yingxing and them to increase the range of artillery.

Zheng Chenggong said to Feng Chengshi: "Hengchen, under the condition that the power remains the same, for every hundred meters of range increases, the craftsman will immediately be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver, and at the same time, he can also change his household registration, so that their children and grandchildren can enter the imperial examination." ”

"Yes, General, the lower officer will definitely convey your words to those craftsmen."

Hearing the reward set by Zheng Chenggong, those craftsmen's eyes immediately turned red.

The social status of craftsmen and workers in the Ming Dynasty was particularly low, and they were not allowed to change jobs for generations, and they were enslaved forever, and they could not take the imperial examination or become officials.

Silver is still secondary, you can change your household registration, so that your children and grandchildren do not have to be engaged in the miscellaneous work of craftsmen for generations, and you can go to school to take the imperial examination to become a master.

This is the fantasy of many craftsmen in their dreams, and now they have the opportunity to change their fate, and for the sake of their children, the craftsmen have sacrificed their lives, and they have tried their best day and night to desperately increase the range of artillery and muskets.

Even several times in order to test artillery, these craftsmen desperately increased the dose of gunpowder as if they were not dying, causing several explosions and killing several people.

Zheng Chenggong was startled when he found out, and he was afraid that something would happen, so he hurriedly called Feng Chengshi and scolded him, severely punished those craftsmen, and stipulated several prohibitions at the same time.

This made the crazy actions of the craftsmen stop, and honestly tried to improve the artillery.