"Brother's words are reasonable, but you won't just knock on the door, will you?" Li Maochun said.

Yang He smiled: "Naturally not, we have to dig a pit for them first, and wait for them to jump in, so that we can become famous." ”

"Dig a pit? How to dig a pit? Li Maochun wondered.

"Hehe, it's not easy, as long as we move the brothers' families elsewhere, the officers and soldiers of the Yongping Guard will naturally not let go of the last chance in the future, as long as they come forward, we will have an excuse." Yang He said with a smile.

Saying that, Yang He sneered: "Just now Zhang Zhixian told me that the imperial court issued a document the day before yesterday to properly resettle the refugees in Liaodong, to send grain relief, and to reclaim the wasteland. ”

Li Maochun pondered for a while and said: "Brother, don't go too far, Meng Qiaofang is a snake after all, and there is a backstage, if we make too much trouble, we won't be able to end up after all." ”

"Therefore, we must drag the Funing County Ya in, and let Funing County fight with them at that time." Yang He said.

"Since the brothers have thought about it, the eldest brother has nothing to say, so he naturally supports the brothers." Li Maochun said.

Yang He patted Li Maochun's hand lightly and said, "Big brother, my brother knows that you are for my good, but big brother thinks that my brother is a reckless person?" Don't think things through beforehand? Big brother, just because we don't have a backstage, we must take root firmly, and the families of our brothers, those people are our roots. When they are stable, our troops will be stable, and our brothers will be stable.

In addition, when these people are settled, my brother and I can do things.

I didn't hide it from my eldest brother, on the way back from Quang Ninh, I thought about what to do in the future, and I thought about it all night last night.

Big brother, with our military strength, we can't compete with Jianlu for the time being, our weapons are only superior when defending the city, and fighting on the ground is not Jianlu's opponent, because Jianlu are all cavalry, and infantry against cavalry can only be passively defended.

However, defense is not a long-term solution after all, as the power of Jianyu grows stronger, one day we will not be able to defend it, so we must find a way to defeat Jianyu's cavalry head-on.

There are two ways to defeat the cavalry, one is to use the cavalry against the cavalry, and the second is to use the advantage of weapons.

To train cavalry that can fight against the Jianyu cavalry, it takes a lot of financial, human and material resources, which we cannot do, so we can only choose the second way and give full play to the advantages of weapons.

Our weapons are actually far more practical than the bows and arrows of the Jian, and we also have artillery, our artillery can have an absolute advantage in the fight against the Jianyu, but the disadvantage of the musket is also obvious, that is, the reloading speed is slow, after firing one shot, it takes a long time to fire the second shot, and you have to shoot in turns.

As for the artillery, not to mention, after firing the first shot, and then firing the second shot, the cavalry of the Jianyu can already take advantage of this interval to rush over. Therefore, although our artillery is powerful, it cannot suppress Jianlu, and if we want to suppress it, we can only rely on quantity, relying on a large number of artillery to bombard Jianyu in turn.

It's a pity that our artillery is not enough to suppress the captives at all. Moreover, the artillery is too heavy, difficult to carry, and it is difficult to transport it to the battlefield in time for field battles.

Therefore, if we want to defeat Jianyu, we must improve the current firearms, increase the rate of fire of the muskets, find ways to reduce the weight of the guns, and increase the rate of fire of the guns. ”

"Brother, where will we make musket artillery, let alone increase the rate of fire of musket artillery." Li Maochun smiled bitterly.

"Yes, I already have a way, but I need craftsmen, and if I have craftsmen, I can increase not only the rate of fire of the musket, but also the rate of fire of the artillery." Yang He is colorful.

Li Maochun said happily when he heard this: "Then report it to the imperial court, some of the Ming Dynasty are craftsmen, and it is not enough to let the imperial court make such artillery and muskets." ”

Yang He smiled bitterly: "Who to tell?" Who will believe us? ”

Li Maochun couldn't help but be depressed when he heard this, and muttered in his mouth: "Yes, who will believe us, and who will listen to us." ”

"So we're going to do it ourselves, we find our own craftsmen, we develop our own artillery and muskets." Yang He said.

Gently patting Li Maochun's hand, Yang He continued: "Big brother, if we want to do this well, we must have a stable place, and there must not be any places around us that are not conducive to our development." ”

Li Maochun nodded: "I understand, my brother promised Zhang Fengqi to deal with the gang of soldiers and bandits in the Yongping Guard, but it was actually for ourselves." ”

Then Li Maochun said again: "Then why do we want to come here, isn't it good over there in Shihe?" ”

Yang He said with a smile: "The terrain on the other side of Shihe is also very good, but unfortunately it is too close to Shanhaiguan, and there are other troops stationed around, our development of weapons is a very secret thing, but we can't let others know." ”

"But where do we go to find the craftsmen?" Li Maochun asked again.

"When the matter here is done, I will let Zhang Shun go home to find someone, his hometown is from Huairen County, Datong, and there is also an Ordnance Bureau in Datong, we will dig people from Datong." Yang He said.

Smiling, Yang He continued: "As long as we can afford the money, are we afraid that no one will come?" ”

Li Maochun smiled and nodded.

"Big brother, you don't have any questions now, do you?" Yang He said with a smile.

"It's gone." Li Maochun said with a smile.

Yang He smiled: "Then sleep." ”

"Wait, there's one more question." Li Maochun said busily.

"What else don't you understand?" Yang He said with a smile.

Li Maochun looked Yang He up and down and said, "Brother, you tell the eldest brother, how do you have such a long head, how can you understand everything, even muskets and artillery." ”

Yang He shook his head: "I don't know how to make muskets and artillery. ”

"Then how do you know how to increase the rate of fire of musket artillery?" Li Maochun said strangely.

Yang He smiled: "Do you remember the mines I planted in Quang Ninh City? ”

"Remember, but what do mines have to do with muskets and artillery?" Li Maochun wondered.

"Hehe, big brother, how did the mine detonate?" Yang He said with a smile.

Li Maochun scratched his head: "How do I know how to detonate it." ”

Yang He shook his head: "Then you should always know that the mine was not ignited and detonated." ”

"I know this, and if you step on it, it will explode." Li Maochun said busily.

Yang He smiled: "Since the mine can be detonated without ignition, why does the musket need to be ignited?" If we improve the mechanism of detonating mines and install them on muskets, won't we need to ignite them? If you don't ignite with your hands, then the rate of fire will definitely increase a lot. ”

Li Maochun patted his head when he heard this: "How could I not think of such a simple truth!" ”

Yang He smiled: "It's not that you didn't think about it, but you didn't think about it." ”

Immediately Yang He said: "Big brother, you have to understand, relying on soldiers to fight with their lives, killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, even if they can win in the end, it will be a tragic victory, I don't want to fight such a battle, and we can't afford to fight such a battle."

But now we don't have much advantage in weapons, and we are even at a disadvantage when there are few people.

In order to change this situation, it is necessary to improve the weapon, increase the rate of fire and the range of the weapon. The sharper our weapons are, the stronger the damage to the enemy, and the better the chances of our soldiers surviving. ”

After a pause, Yang He continued: "That's why we want to build our own ordnance bureau, we have to develop weapons by ourselves, I plan to build a secret place in the mountains between Elephant Mountain and the lake, and when Zhang Shun finds people, I will develop weapons there." This matter is to be kept strictly confidential. ”

Li Maochun nodded silently.

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Early the next morning, Zhang Fengqi came to the post house with the officials of the county government, large and small.

Seeing that the attitude of the officials was even more enthusiastic than yesterday, Yang He estimated that Zhang Fengqi also gave some silver taels to such a person.

After a few words of greeting, Yang He followed Zhang Fengqi and others to Yanghekou to see the land situation there, Li Maochun followed the county Cheng and others to leave the required materials to purchase, Zhang Shun and others found Dong Laohan's daughter-in-law, and then followed the chief secretary and other officials to find those people and inform them to prepare for relocation.

Originally, Zhang Fengqi wanted Yang He to leave some of the people, after all, the county had allocated a large piece of wasteland to these people, if these people were relocated, then the previous work of the county would be done in vain, and these lands were given by the imperial court, and the people did not want a penny of silver, so it can be said that they should not be in vain.

In this regard, Yang He also hesitated, but considering that the location of the wasteland originally allocated by Zhang Fengqi was close to Changli County, to the east of Jieshi Mountain, Yang He immediately dispelled the idea of letting the people stay.

Keeping a part of the people here is dividing the people into three places, which will not be able to take care of him, and it will not be conducive to future development.

Yang He thinks that his current arrangement is the most reasonable, and he will settle some people in the Xiangshan area in the north, and he will secretly develop in the mountainous area, others will not notice it, and the land in the Yanghe estuary area is level, which is conducive to farming, and in the period when there is no harvest, he can go to the sea to fish to make a living.

Seeing that Yang He insisted on not leaving the people, Zhang Fengqi had no choice but to give up.

However, the so-called short-handed and short-mouthed cannibalism, and the imperial court explicitly ordered the allocation of wasteland to refugees, if Funing County did not allocate any land, he would inevitably be attacked.

Therefore, Zhang Fengqi made up his mind that after Yang He finished looking at the land at the mouth of the Yanghe River, he would allocate a large piece of wasteland to Yang He.

Yang He and others came to Yanghekou, and after taking a turn at Yanghekou, Yang He was greatly satisfied.

There are two estuaries here, one is the mouth of the Yanghe River and the other is the mouth of the Yu River.

Seeing that Yang He took a fancy to this, Zhang Fengqi waved his hand, except for the two lands near the estuary that Yang He paid for, and allocated ten miles to Yang He around, which was counted as wasteland allocated to refugees in Funing County.

The land purchased by Yang He personally needs to be measured, and the land allocated by the county only needs to be clarified.

Yang He and others set off from the county government in the morning, went to Yanghekou and took a turn, and when they returned to the county office, it was nearly evening. After returning, Zhang Fengqi and others did not have time to rest, so they began to draw up the title deed, and then used seals and drawings in all aspects.

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