Everyone is faced with a choice from time to time, and if they are in a dilemma, it is beyond the scope of their own hearts. And this mental strength is big and small, Martai-Ruxi is in the shack under the Jinniu Ridge in Changjiang, Qiongzhou, with sweet potatoes in his left hand and budding rice in his right hand, and he can't decide which one to choose for lunch. Kangxi was by the lake behind the Changchun Garden in Yanjing, and he was also frowning and thinking hard, reassessing the threat of the two enemies. In Tietang, Foshan, Guangdong, in the conference room of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau, there are still people whose brains are boiling wontons, and they are sad about how to spend the 100,000 taels of silver that suddenly came out of their hands.

"General Office Guan, let's wait for you to come up with an idea, steel cannon, rifled gun, breech gun, which way to go?"

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Guan Fengsheng, a country man who was originally honest, but at this moment, his eyebrows were deep, and he looked extremely majestic.

"I want to know which way to go, and what do I want you to do? Anyway, the fourth brother will give me this silver, and whoever of you is reasonable, I will give it to whomever I ......."

Guan Fengsheng's face was solemn, but his mind was filled with such an overheated mist.

But everyone said that the conference room was so noisy that the roof was almost lifted. There are supporters in these three directions, and Guan Fengsheng feels that it all makes sense, but with 100,000 taels of silver in hand, if you want to produce results as soon as possible, you can only focus on one direction.

It has been almost five months since Li Shi raised the flag, and the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau has finally broken free from the chaos of burying its head in dealing with the number of guns and cannons, and has begun to enter the right track of simultaneous R&D and production. It's just that Li Xian's money is a little tight now, and the research funds allocated by the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau are not much, except for the new generation of smoothbore guns and rifled guns, and the only ones that can be used on guns are 100,000 taels of silver.

In Li Xian's opinion, this amount is not much, but in the eyes of Guan Fengsheng and the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau, it is so fat that it is oily, and this is the cost of throwing it into the water and only listening to the sound! It's unheard of to ask for only samples and a set of proven technologies.

In four or five months, the Artillery Bureau made three or four hundred cannons, which not only attracted gunsmiths from Guangdong Province, but also absorbed many potential apprentices through the Foshan Iron and Steel School, and even recruited a group of gunsmiths from the Macao Bugarao Gun Factory [1], which can be described as a wealth of talents. For gunsmiths who are already familiar with the principles of artillery, the concepts of rifling, breech, and steel cannon are not ethereal, and I heard that there is such a big piece of fat to be shared, and the gunsmiths have gathered a group of people according to these three artillery development paths, and they have fought for a red face in front of Guan Fengsheng, who holds the power to divide the fat meat.

"Let's think about it more, fourth brother...... Oh, what kind of artillery does he want? ”

Guan Fengsheng couldn't make up his mind, he started to make an official tone, and everyone pouted secretly, what is there to think? The words of the Heavenly King are simple: a cannon that can hit farther, faster, more accurately, more ruthlessly, and lighter.

"What kind of cannon does the King want, he himself is not very sure, so he wants you to think about it, but it is not only what you want to ......"

The door was pushed open, and another voice sounded, it was Tian Dayu, Guan Fengsheng breathed a sigh of relief, and the old brother came to help.

Tian Dayou is now in charge of munitions, and from the process point of view, he is Guan Fengsheng's superior, and he places orders for the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau. Listening to him now, it is obvious that he wants to intervene more and manage the research and development projects of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau.

"Of course, it's not for me to think about it, I'm just a middleman, what kind of artillery I want, I have to listen to the words of those who fire on the battlefield."

Then four officers came in from behind Tian Da, three red and one blue.

The joint meeting on artillery research and development projects composed of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau, the Quartermaster Administration of the Military Command Department of the Tianwangfu and the front-line commanders of the Anglo-Chinese Army was officially held, which also laid the foundation for the future Anglo-Chinese military R&D process. As Tian Dayou said, it is now difficult for Li Shi to go deep into the specific details, and he must share many decisions from himself, and use a system to ensure continuous operation.

"Guns for a faster rate of fire......"

Wang Tanghe, commander of the Huanggang garrison battalion in Shaozhou, said that his battalion was also mainly artillery, and he was tasked with guarding the north gate of Yinghua with artillery, and he felt very pressured. Huanggangshan couldn't swing more artillery, so he naturally wanted to make the rate of fire of the artillery faster.

"We should build a cannon with a longer range and more power, so that it will be easier to break the city."

Zhao Hanxiang, the commander of the Chilei Battalion, naturally wanted to let his Reading Artillery Battalion have stronger artillery and play a more decisive role.

"It's better to modify the flying cannon, so that it can be more reliable and fight farther."

Fang Tangheng, the commander of the Qingpu Battalion of the Eagle Yang Army, talked about the needs from the perspective of the infantry.

"The Navy needs more accurate guns!"

Lu Hanshan, director of naval gunnery, said that the navy has 80 guns on six ships, and many ships will be launched this year, and there will be more than 100 guns at that time, and the navy's demand for naval guns is different from that of the army, so it should be considered for the navy alone.

Guan Fengsheng groaned like a toothache, the people who used the cannon naturally didn't care what kind of steel and iron were made, and the breech breech was made, so they made a request, how to realize the management of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau. But now these requirements are also different, and the manufacturing bureau has its own opinions on how to achieve these requirements, which is really messy.

"Let's list all kinds of methods and requirements clearly, and then submit them to the Heavenly King, and let him decide, right?"

Guan Fengsheng subconsciously said this, and everyone nodded in unison.

"That's what the King of Heaven really means, what else are we going to do together? Let's discuss a result here! All new artillery plans, as well as the requirements of the army, naturally have to be submitted to the Heavenly King, but that is only a reference attached. What the king wants is a closed case, he only needs to approve it or not, rather than using his brain to determine the specific charter for everything. ”

Tian Dayou has been sitting in the office for so long, and he has a deep understanding of the style of doing things in the new Yinghua Dynasty.

was refuted by his phone call, and the people who were already exhausted from the battle had to lift their spirits and start over.

"First of all, find out what is most important! Everyone knows this very well, the army of the Tartar court is already on the way, and this is our biggest difficulty this year. ”

Tian Daiyu set the tone, and the discussion began.

The steel cannon was thus vetoed, and now the crude steel production process is only barely improvised, used to make thin-walled flying cannons, thick-walled guns with several times higher bore pressure, and the cooling problem in the casting process is highlighted, we have no experience in this regard, and it takes a long time to tackle key problems, and at the same time, crude steel smelting also needs the cooperation of Foshan Iron and Steel Company, and the results can not be seen in this direction within the year. However, the benefits of steel artillery are obvious, and Li Xi also emphasized that steel artillery is the direction of the future, so it was finally decided to allocate 20,000 yuan for basic research.

The navy wants more accurate guns, and rifled guns meet this requirement, just as rifled guns can pierce through a hundred steps. However, if the rifled gun is not coordinated with the breech gun, it will be the same as the current rifled gun, and there will be a lot of trouble, so it will not be a problem that can be solved within the year. Therefore, the rifled gun and breech gun based on pig iron were combined into one project, and 20,000 yuan was also shared.

The main direction fell on the needs of the front-line infantry, the improvement of the flying artillery. Fang Tangheng also made a lot of efforts here, gathered the actual combat experience of the three armed forces of the army, and put forward a detailed demand plan. The main ones include the requirement of a mile range, that is, within three or four hundred steps, two people can work, and one mule and horse can pull it, with a shield. At the same time, the fuse of the flowering shell requires at least two grades to be adjusted, because in the past, the flying cannon was fixed by the projectile, and the fuse time of the flowering shell was fixed, and the cannon had to be moved to change the distance and near targets. After all, this is only a temporary measure, and in the end, we have to return to the path of fixing the ammunition with artillery and work the flowering shell.

The improvement of the flying cannon does not involve the basic structure, nor does it involve the material of the gun body, the basic idea is to enlarge the original gun, the main difficulty lies in the flowering shell part, everyone feels that the results of the year are very realistic, so it was finally decided that the cost of 60,000 is on this.

During the whole discussion process, Tian Dayou gave full play to the role of on-site host and referee, so that everyone accepted the result convincingly, and after the meeting, Guan Fengsheng set up a table to squeeze out this set of skills from Tian Dayou.

“…… In short, everything comes down to one thing, solving practical problems, and nothing else. ”

Tian Dayou had no reservations, and then suddenly changed the topic.

"Sanniang already has it, why hasn't Guan Xuan moved?"

Guan Fengsheng almost choked on wine, so I have to ask Li Shi about this.

"Fourth brother, don't deal with me like you did with Sister Yan! I don't want to squat in my hometown and not be able to go anywhere! ”

Late at night, in the backyard of the Tianwang Mansion in Guangzhou, Guan Xuan crossed his small waist and warned Li Xi with righteous words. can refer to the trembling hair, the waist and limbs are weak, and the spring charm between the eyes and eyebrows from the inside out is even more beautiful under the light.

"With your little belly, there's no hope for the time being."

Li Xian is like a big bad wolf who has eaten enough, idly teasing his little daughter-in-law, Yan Sanniang is old enough, Guan Xuan will wait for two more years. By the way, why hasn't An Jiuxiu's stomach moved? It seems that this is not something that can be fulfilled by calculation alone. Other than that...... I've been too busy in the past few months, and I haven't had a good get-together with Pan Jinling, will the girl be careful again?

The state and county government affairs reform and industrial and commercial affairs have come to an end for the time being, the strategy is set, the route is laid down, and it is just a matter of focusing on implementation. Seeing that Kangxi in the north didn't seem to have come back to his senses, Li Xian's heart also relaxed a lot, and he began to have more room for selfish things.

Li Xian was in a trance, but Guan Xuan was told to be careful, annoyed and angry, shrunk into Li Xian's arms and scratched and bitten, which made Li Xi angry again. Just as the whole army was about to fight again, a jingle whisper sounded in the corner.

"The fourth brother is gone! Shoot or kill! ”

"Shhh...... Dead girl, don't pinch it! ”

Of course, he would not be a faint gentleman, and he would not engage in any kind of "gentleman entering the incense tent and everything will be closed", so he set up an alarm bell, and a special agency knocked on the door if there was an emergency, so as to avoid the embarrassment of someone going to the door to listen to the corner.

"Uncle Yan!?"

Long Gaoshan led the way, Li Shi saw three people in the side hall of the back hall, the intelligence leader Shang Jun, plus a tough middle-aged man, the last person surprised Li Shi very much, his father-in-law, Yan Sanniang's father Yan Jing.

After Yan Jing was taken to Guangdong, he felt that he was in the prime of life, and rejected Li Shi's suggestion to let him live in his old age, and resumed his old business, selling tea between the mountains of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangdong. It's not about making money, it's about enjoying this familiar life. Of course, he will not go deep into his hometown in person, but stay in Wuzhou, supervising his buddies to do things.

Li Xi remembered that half a month ago, after Yan Jing escorted Yan Sanniang back to Baicheng, he got up and went to Wuzhou, why did he come to Guangzhou so soon? What happened in Wuzhou? But there are major military affairs, and it should be Jia Hao's urgent report that arrives first.

"This is my old friend Kelsang Dondrup......"

Yan Jing stretched out his arm and lured the man in Shang Jun's body out, and Li Shi realized that this man had something to do with Yan Jing, and he thought it was Shang Jun who brought it.

"Heavenly King Diba, Gesang Dunzhu is a Kham person, I heard that you have beaten people with their heads and rats, occupying the south of the world, and Gesang Dunzhu is a ...... who came to give gifts to celebrate" [2]

As soon as the man appeared, the fierceness between his body and eyebrows was lined with a sandwiched Chinese accent, mixed into a strong strange atmosphere, which lifted Li Xian's spirits, Kham Tibetan!? Could it be that ...... "Maezo is going to be messed up!?" ”

After a long time, after listening to the news reported by Gesang Dunzhu, Li Xianhe laughed and said, no wonder, he has always wondered how the Qing court and Kangxi wilted, it turned out that when he hit Kangxi's left cheek, he was plotting to beat Kangxi's right cheek in the northwest.

(To be continued)