The real impact and the most terrifying thing is that these Manchu brains and remnant rulers also specially set the wages and materials for building weapons according to the type and process.

That is, the so-called "official price" - this official price is still the same as the iron price, and it is never allowed to be changed!

If the price and cost of building a weapon exceed this official price, the excess part will not be reimbursed, and the manufacturer will pay for it out of his own pocket!

Woohoo lament, such a brain-dead mandate, if you can create qualified weapons, especially sophisticated firearms, it will really be a fantasy!

Because in fact, since the Kangxi Dynasty, China's prices and labor prices have been on the rise.

However, when encountering this "iron-priced" brain-dead overlord pricing, the makers have no choice but to cry out in vain - what can they do?

I'm just an ordinary craftsman, and I have a limited amount of money every month, making things like muskets and cannons, and I can only pay a thousand taels of silver at every turn, and if I want to paste it myself, even if I buy my own blood and flesh, I can't afford to paste it! And the adults above will never agree to pay for it out of their own pockets.

Well, there's only one way: cut corners!

However, if this kind of defective weapons that cut corners and enter the official arsenal through inspection, they must use bribery methods to buy off the officials who accept the inspection (the silver used for bribery is naturally far less than the cost of subsidizing the manufacture of weapons).

As a result, this further breeds the poisonous weed of greed, filth, corruption, and corruption.

It's a vicious circle!

The brains and remnants of Manchu rule have reached this point.

In fact, there were not a few skilled craftsmen during the reign of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It's just that most of them (mainly in the weapons manufacturing side) are suppressed and not used to the fullest.

It just so happened that there were some such skilled craftsmen in the Guangzhou Navy Barracks and the nearby family of craftsmen in Yutai Town.

After they converted to the Dragon God Sect, and knew that Lord Dragon God and the official master of the Guangzhou Navy would no longer deduct their casting fees, they were naturally grateful, and they worked hard to cast cannons with the best craftsmanship and materials.

In addition, some British non-combatants captured in the Battle of Guangzhou also had experts in firearms and artillery, and after they became "British traitors", they spared no effort to teach the technology to these craftsmen, so that the dragon god was satisfied.

Therefore, the level of firearms casting in the Guangzhou Navy Battalion has definitely surpassed that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty by an order of magnitude!

Due to the lack of time, even with the fanatical support of religious beliefs, it was not possible to build too many cannons, and at most twenty or thirty percent of the ship's cannons were replaced—an efficiency that can be said to be astonishing.

It's just that, of course, the hundred-year-long confinement and stagnation are still a certain gap compared to the British. The range can only be said to be close to that of the British battleship, but it is not really comparable......

These are not listed for the time being, but it is said that the cannon of the British battleship just now hit the Qing warship in front of it head-on, directly causing it to rise with billowing smoke, almost half-crippled. If you take advantage of the victory to pursue, it will not take a few strokes to completely silence the Qing warship, and at least half of the soldiers on board will be buried in the belly of the fish.

It's just that it doesn't have a chance to fight anymore. The Qing warships with a long range of cannons on the left and the right have already come in, and if the British warships do not retreat at full speed and seek cover from their companions, it is likely to be the one who will be killed in the belly of the fish!

"Full speed back! Move closer to the Downing Street and seek fire cover from friendly ships! "The captain of the British battleship gave the order, but it was too late.

At this time, the Qing warship on its right had already taken advantage of the time just now to circle the right rear, and the other was to the left front. It outflanked it diagonally. And then...... Fire like crazy!

Boom Boom!

The cannonballs of the cannons were slanting from both directions as if they were raining, and the British battleship was in a dilemma. He could only turn the bow of the ship slightly, and desperately bombarded the Qing warship in front of him. Every British soldier is desperate as if he has been beaten with chicken blood.

It's like a kind of thugs on the street in the later generations who desperately try to catch each other and beat each other up - but this obviously doesn't work.

In a matter of minutes, the British battleship, which advanced the fastest and deepest, was bombarded into a sieve by the cannons. Slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea. Most of the British soldiers above could only jump into the sea to survive, and it is estimated that a small half of them survived......

This became the first British warship to be sunk head-on in the Battle of Humen, which greatly boosted the morale of the Chinese side, and a large number of soldiers shouted the slogan "Believe in the dragon god, get eternal life" or "Long live the dragon god", and fought against the British army without fear of death.

Although this time it is two to one, it shows that the Humen garrison at this time is no longer a soft persimmon to be kneaded by Xiyi! If you want to capture the Tiger Gate, you must pay the price of blood!

Of course, this is only a small episode in the entire sea battlefield, and the fierce naval battle continues.

Unexpectedly, the craftsmen of the Guangzhou Navy Division only rushed to produce 20 or 30 percent of the long-range cannons, which became an advantage similar to "cheating".

Because more and more British warships found that there were also some cannons with a range not much worse than them hidden on the warships of the Qing army!

This made the British very painful.

You said that if you still follow the previous way of playing, and despise the range of the Qing army's artillery, what if there happens to be a long-range gun in the opponent's cannon? If they were all treated as long-range cannons, it seemed that the British warships were not very cost-effective, which was tantamount to a great degree of self-weakening......

It is estimated that at this time, the commander of the British fleet was already depressed and wanted to vomit blood.

Fierce naval battles were fought all day!

China and Britain were still only entangled on the sea, and the entire front was only pushed forward by a little more than a nautical mile. It was far from the big words released by the British army before the start of the war, "Landing and attacking Dajiao and Shajiao forts in one day" - of course, in the real history that was not affected by Zhao Wushuang, the British did kill the first protection of Humen Fortress in one day, occupied Dajiao and Shajiao forts, and Chen Liansheng also died heroically.

But now, history has changed!

After a whole day of fierce fighting, the British army did not achieve much success - except for the Qing army's ship losses and the number of soldiers killed, there were not many substantial advantages.

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