After the tenth day of the first month, the work began in the yamen, and Yang Chengzu also took advantage of the moment of drinking with Xu Pengju and began to ask about the actual situation of the southeast military equipment. When he came over this time, in addition to paying homage to the god of the sea, he also had the dispatch of inspecting the southeast military equipment.

In the same way as in the inventory of the Beijing camp, it is impossible to have no problems with coastal armaments, but how big the problem is, or how far it should be investigated, these are all things that must be carefully operated. He didn't know anything about the military equipment in the southeast, and if he really wanted to find out, he didn't know where to start. At least there is no guarantee that the inventory will be controlled within a controllable range, so if you want to do this, you still have to ask Xu Pengju, an expert.

On the surface, Wei Guogong commanded the 49 guards of Nanjing, but in fact, he was also quite influential on the side of the Nanjing Military Department, and the Quanxu of the southeastern military generals was inseparable from the Nanjing Military Department. Whoever wants to be promoted, he has to come to dredge the door of Wei Guogong, and the military situation in the entire southeast cannot escape his ears and eyes.

However, as soon as Yang Chengzu asked, Xu Pengju waved his hand with a smile: "You don't have to worry about this, although these things are bastards, they understand the rules." The commanders of the seventeen guards have all arrived in Nanjing, but I haven't seen them yet, so I have to squat them for a few days to sharpen their temperament. After meeting, how can you say ruthlessly, scare them, let them spit out the money, scold each other, and dismiss a few people, won't this errand be done? Aren't you going to do Yang Ji? It just so happens that the capital will be paid by them, and then they will do a few more business with the army, and they don't have to worry about anything. ”

After chatting carefully, Yang Chengzu vaguely felt that the situation seemed worse than he imagined. Due to the Ming Dynasty's national defense idea of emphasizing the north over the south, and the fact that the south did not have too decent threats, the armed forces of the entire southeast have been slackened for a long time. There was a shortage of naval divisions and warships, and in many cases they even had to use fishing boats to count them, and there was a serious shortage of soldiers, and the guards of 5,000 people were not even one-tenth of the actual soldiers. There are big problems with weapons and armor, and the ordnance is very damaged.

Everyone didn't take these things seriously, although there were sometimes Japanese pirates in the south to harass, but at most, they would break through a few fish villages, or hit a few villages and towns, that is, at the level of thieves, and the yamen would be completely suppressed. As for those toasts, relying on other toasts is enough to contain them. Since the world is peaceful, why should everyone train soldiers?

This part of the naval division has a frightening high maintenance cost, and the Ming Dynasty has no ocean-going combat missions, and there is no need for even coastal defense. The princes of the court did not want to spend more money and food on this, and how could the local armaments be good. Xu Pengju didn't care about this, but comforted, "Although our sailor is not very useful, my sister-in-law can rest assured that it is enough to deal with a few smuggling dealers." In addition to the smugglers, we have no one else to fight, and if we fight the smugglers and salt barons, this sailor is enough. ”

Although he didn't know what enemies he could encounter, and he didn't think that there would be a basis for large-scale civil uprisings in the southeast, Yang Chengzu always felt that his heart was not too steady. It's not that he really wants to make trouble in the southeast, and he really can't do it, and if he really starts with military preparation, that will probably make the situation worse. However, when I heard that the armament was so erosive, I still had an urge to do something.

Ryanstein, a Yiren, also followed him down to Jiangnan this time, and among the people who accompanied him, there were more than 20 outstanding craftsmen in Nanzhen Fusi. Yang Chengzu sent these people to the barracks of the Nanjing Guard, and together with the barracks' own craftsmen, they stepped up the time to manufacture arquebuses.

When Zhengde came to Nanjing before, he had a strong interest in arquebuses, and set up an ordnance bureau in Nanjing to imitate them. After he fell into the water and returned to Beijing, no one paid attention to this ordnance bureau, but the craftsmen and equipment were there, and the basic production was maintained.

I heard that my brother-in-law was interested in Kuaigun, Xu Pengju didn't understand what this was for, but since he was a relative and the person he wanted to befriend, there was no need to stop this kind of trivial matter. So within his ability, he also began to help.

In Nanjing, a word spoken by the Emperor is often more effective than the next decree of the True Emperor. Under his attention, the speed of manufacturing the fast gun has been greatly improved, and in terms of quality, it is not too satisfactory, but it is barely usable.

Yang Chengzu also referred to the idea of bullets in later generations, weighed the amount of ammunition fired at one time, loaded it into a cardboard bag in advance, and directly bit open the paper bag when it was fired, and it could be loaded. This kind of ammunition preloading technology not only avoids the rush of the battle, but also does a good job in the pre-launch work in the usual preparation work, and greatly improves the rate of fire of the gun.

In the field of Longxiang Guard School, the ping-pong sounded, the smoke was filled, Guo Jiujie fired one after another with both hands, and the female soldiers and maids behind her were each holding a gun loaded with ammunition and standing behind. After the young lady put one out, someone handed over the loaded one, and the guns rang out in a row, and the clay pots as targets exploded one after another. The generals who watched around applauded and praised the ninth sister's marksmanship.

waited until more than 50 fast guns were released in one breath, Guo Jiujie dropped the gun, walked to Yang Chengzu's side, and proudly straightened her chest, "Xianggong, do you think I'm good?" Why don't you compliment me? ”

"Okay, I praise you, my lady is invincible in the world, and her martial arts are world-famous." Yang Chengzu wiped the dust on her face with a handkerchief, "You said that you are a good lady, you have to come to release the gun, in case a gun hurts you, how can it be good?" ”

Guo Jiujie smiled slightly, "I'm not afraid, I know that Xianggong will definitely protect me, and the ones I choose for me are all good guns, and they won't blow up." What are you doing Yang Ji, I don't know anything, what about martial arts, although I am very strong. But jumping high and low or something, it's not as neat as the Zhao family, and what they can do is to stare at this fire gun for you. But don't worry, with Pengju's cousin to keep an eye on, there will be no problem with this gun. If you dare to do anything, I'll tell my cousin-in-law and let him kneel and calculate. ”

Her innocent temperament is first-class pleasing to the eldest woman, and Yang Chengzu had no choice but to shake his head helplessly. "Don't always play around, if you have time to accompany your cousin and sister-in-law, you should also go to the mansions of the nobles. Everyone is a relative, we are guests from afar, and people are to entertain. But if we don't bow back, we will be rude, and that's not good. I should be entertaining here, but a lot of your sisters and concubines, I have to rely on you to socialize, good lady, I have to work for you. ”

The ninth sister nodded with a look of knowing in her heart: "I understand, didn't you just let me take the lady's diplomatic route?" I'll do all of that. All the nobles in Nanjing have relatives with me, let's Yang Ji open a branch in Nanjing, one of them counts as one, and they all have to buy shares, who dares not to buy shares, just don't give me face! I promise that the opening ceremony in three days will be beautiful, and all the people with heads and faces will go to the party, and if we Yang Ji wants to do it, we will make it bigger. ”

As soon as the behemoth of Yang Ji appeared in Nanjing, it attracted the attention of several big businessmen and patriarchs in Nanjing. In Wuyi Lane, Xie Zun, the patriarch of the Xie family, looked at the strip Chen in his hand that he had obtained from within Yang Ji, and glanced at several staff members in his family.

Although the Xie family suffered misfortune, Xie Zun had gone through several ups and downs, and these blows were not enough to knock him down. For him, the murder of his compatriot and beloved son is certainly sad and angry, but the Yang Ji in front of him is the real enemy of the Xie family.