The matter of the imperial court asking is not very difficult for Yang Meng, but the thing he has to face now is really difficult!

"Third master, this is the gold and silver shipped by British merchants recently, I'm afraid that something will happen to Tianjing!"

A pile of newly minted gold and silver nuggets were placed in front of Yang Meng, although these things were a little rougher, but the handwriting on them was clearly legible, the gold and silver hidden in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Holy Treasury, I was afraid that the British would use such gold and silver, and they also had the meaning of warning themselves, right?

"Taichen, what is the size of the funds? What did Cen Yuying say? ”

What are you afraid of, Yang Meng's purpose in keeping the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not to let them join forces with Yingli, Yang Meng's purpose is to increase the military power in his hands.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also traded with foreign merchants before, but their main source of wealth was the silk brocade woven by Jiangning weavers, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had no need for cash transactions at all.

"100,000 taels of gold, more than 800,000 pieces of silver, and more than 700,000 taels of official silver and scattered pieces of silver.

Cen Yuying's reply was that there had been no large number of foreign ships entering the Yangtze River recently. ”

After hearing such a large amount of funds, Yang Meng felt that he had missed something, there was no accurate information, and he was a little confused for a while.

"Let Ziqi come here!"

"Third master, Ziqi went to the Ship Master School, and it took half a day to rush back."

"Rush! Wrong! It's a deposit! Crimea, damn it! We ignore the ordnance from the Crimean War.

Taechen, Andrei's side. Did you sell us a batch of old ordnance some time ago? ”

Ordnance was involved. It was impossible for England to sell the ordnance in service to the Qing Dynasty. In today's world arms market, only Millican sells equipment in active service, or even better equipment than in active service, and most of the ordnance exported from European and American countries is decommissioned or captured in war.

During this time, I have not heard of any country that has decommissioned a large number of ordnance, and it is easy to guess where the large number of ordnance came from, and there is only one major war in Crimea in the near future. I'm afraid that it was this batch of ordnance that England promised to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, right?

"Yes! We got two batches, and England also sent a batch, but the categories of these firearms are messy, and many of them are not batches of products, after three transactions, we put forward a request to them to put these old weapons together in batches, and then there is no news, this is a matter before the battle of Humen! ”

No matter how old the ordnance is, as long as it can be used and repaired. Yang Meng accepted it, but it was not a batch of ordnance. Yang Meng didn't want it, but he didn't expect it to be out of the basket in this matter, in the hands of Britain and France, I'm afraid there are a lot of such ordnance, right?

"What about the quality of the firearms?"

"It's really not good, some firearms are much worse than Brown Bes, because they are too bad, so we don't pay much attention to it!"

This matter, to put it bluntly, or Ding Taichen's side made a mistake, the Crimean firearms, it is impossible to be not in batches, it is likely that Britain and France do not look down on these firearms, when transporting, they did not pay much attention, these two sides hesitated, and the result was the war in Humen, England and France had already joined forces at that time, and then it was not in the interests of the two countries to sell arms to the Qing Dynasty.

"! There are quite a few of these firearms, and it is likely that they have already arrived in Tianjing, so Zeng Zuofeng and the others should be careful, and they would rather be conservative than lose the battle at the front!

Ask Howard in Yiliang, how is the new Dresser doing with the addition of a five-round magazine? Is the mass production thing done?

Fourteen on the other side of the West Mountain. How is the number of firearms made zuò? As soon as possible, the fourteenth. The main task of Yiliang's side during this period was to build a production line of 300,000 five-round Dresser every Chinese New Year's Eve. The number of firearms can be mass-produced, directly on the production line of one million pieces a year! ”

In the past few years, Yang Meng has hoarded a large number of new firearms in Yunnan, and now the Yunnan New Army is equipped with single-shot paper-shell Dresser and single-shot paper-shell Hall, single-shot copper-shell Dresser and Hall, in the warehouse, hoarded millions of Colt, which can eject Zuolun copper-shelled bullets, and the number of hoards is probably already millions.

The development process of the rifle, Yang Meng is clear, the single-shot paper shell version of the Dresser, whether in terms of range or reload speed, is the world's first rifle, there is no one to say, this gun has been modified by Yang Meng, except for the paper shell bullet is a little behind, it can already be called a modern rifle.

In fact, this paper shell version of Dresser and Hall, and the copper shell version of Dresser and Hall, are the same thing, paper shell bullets, Yang Meng's design is also completely the same as copper shell bullets.

Hall's gun, there is not much room for transformation, but Dresser is different, plus the magazine and the case throwing device, it is a new generation of slaughter tools, and it can definitely dominate in terms of killing speed for a while.

As for what Yang Meng said, the fourteenth. The firearm is the M14 he modified, as long as this thing has energy production, within three or five years, Yang Meng will be able to dominate the world with the army.

"Alas...... The five-round magazine of Dresser can already be mass-produced, but the output of 300,000 in a Chinese New Year's Eve is afraid that it will be difficult! ”

Since the third master came to Guangzhou, Ding Taichen not only has to deal with the affairs of the five major commercial ports, but also has to work part-time as Yang Meng's housekeeper, and now Mrs. Zhiqing is concentrating on taking care of the children, and these errands have fallen on Ding Taichen's head.

Running and breaking legs under the mouth of the upper head, the output of Yiliang's new Dressel is only more than 10,000 pieces a year, which is 30 times at once, and it has to be filled with millions of silver!

"Sigh what? It's good to modify the previous equipment, and Hall and single-engine Dresser are discontinued! It's good to keep only a batch of equipment for maintenance, I'm afraid that the machinery that has been withdrawn is enough to ensure an annual output of 500,000 yuan, right?

The five rounds of Dressey, the output of 300,000 is good, and the remaining machinery, get to the vicinity of the West Mountain, for fourteen. Preparing for the mass production of the firearm, the appearance of the box cannon is good, but the steel is too poor and extremely undurable, so Master Ge has stepped up a bit, many things. I've given it to him. Within two years. Mass-produced box cannon with XIV. Number! ”

In contrast to Europe and the United States, Yang Meng did not have a systematic industry, did not have a deep knowledge base, did not have a fleet across the seven seas, and did not have soldiers who had been in battle for a long time, and the only thing he could rely on was the population of 40,000 in the Qing Dynasty.

As long as the number of guns is sufficient, in such an era, there are more people who hold guns in their hands. Who is the boss, as for naval battles, artillery battles and the like, they are not comparable to the tactics of the sea of people, you come to 100,000 and I will pay millions, I am more advanced than the guns, I am ten times the number of people, you are carrying the artillery, I'm afraid you are not an opponent, right?

"Got it!"

The third master's answer is a way to save money, if the single-shot Dresser and Hall are stopped, then Yiliang's side will invest. At most, it is only hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. It can only be regarded as a small amount of money.

"Let Ziqi come back quickly, this Taiping army is afraid that it has been linked with Britain and France, Cen Yuying has no return, it is likely that they are trading at sea, the initial number should not be very large, at most five to one hundred thousand, let's clean up the Taiping army quickly!"

In addition, sort out the firearms we have in Guangzhou and Yunnan, and sort out all the smoothbore guns, this Zeng Zuofeng's men and horses still need to be equipped, and first hoard 100,000 in Jiujiang! ”

Upgraded from cold weapons to hot weapons, the number of dead people is far away, Zeng Zuofeng and the three of them teamed up to deal with the Taiping army in Jiangnan, and it was good to kill 100 people a day on average.

Since Yang Meng left, thousands of annihilation wars, basically extinct in the south of the Yangtze River, most of the time, thousands of men and horses fighting, the number of casualties is hundreds, once a large number of firearms are used, the number of casualties in the early days of the war is the most terrifying, if you don't get it a day, it is thousands, tens of thousands, the people who participate in the war are all adult strong men, it is really not worth it to be filled in like this!

After changing the musket and fighting for a few more years, if you can't get the dead and wounded, there will be millions of strong men, there are millions of people, Yang Meng can organize an expeditionary force is enough, why bother to fight for life and death for his own people?

Since calling Guangzhou, Qin Ziqi has also been very busy, and there are a lot of overseas affairs of the shadow, but there are more things on the third master's side, just in the shipbuilding school, a group of shadow members who are proficient in foreign languages have been selected, and the call of the third master here is here again, and he hurried back to the Guangzhou dock, and when he saw the gold and silver nuggets on the third master's table, Qin Ziqi's face changed directly.

"Third master, but Britain and France made a deal with the Taiping Army?"

"Hmmm! You know this? ”

"I just learned that a few days ago, two ships loaded with firearms passed through Malacca, and the number of two ships of firearms is probably 50,000 or 60,000, right?"

"Is there any news from Tianjing?"

"It's slower over there, and it usually takes ten days to get the news there."

"With this batch of firearms, Yang Xiuqing is afraid that he is about to start tossing, can he send a blood shadow team into the city with five hundred eyes in the near future?

There are many things in Tianjing that we want to protect. ”

"It's not easy! If it's a few dozen people, it's okay, but it's hard to have a few hundred!

But if Shi Dakai makes a move, a few thousand will be fine! ”

As the person who knows the third master best in the Yang family, as soon as he heard Yang Meng's words, Qin Ziqi knew that the third master of his own family was worried about the holy treasury of others, and there was something in Tianjing that needed the protection of the Yang family? Perhaps!

"Hmmm! Your idea is good, just try Shi Xianggong's thoughts, let Uncle Ding send three thousand eyes, let them grow their hair in the near future, remember! When you enter the city, you must be fully armed, so as not to be calculated by Shi Xianggong.

Three thousand eyes, that is, Shi Xianggong wants to give Lao Tzu a look, and Lao Tzu can also let the four gates of Tianjing open, miss this good time, and what awaits the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is just slaughter!

Boats and tunnels, can the people on your side do it? ”

There are some things that Yang Meng doesn't need to say explicitly, I'm afraid that today's holy treasury is worth more than tens of millions, right? Staying in Hong Yang's hands, they will only enjoy themselves, and in their own hands, how can they help millions of refugees?

"These things have been done since the shadow entered Tianjing, as long as the city can get it, we will ship it out! If there was a great upheaval in Tianjing, it would be great! ”

Shadows, the three religions and nine streams are all-encompassing, there are also tomb robbers and miners, digging a tunnel, it is difficult to stop the shadow people, and the shadow is in the tunnel of Tianjing, which can walk the carriage.

"Hmph...... It's going to be a big mess then, so be it! Recently, check the men and horses under Yang Xiuqing and Wei Changhui, if you can use it, you might as well win it over, after all, it is better to die in vain in infighting, it is better to die on the battlefield of Yu Hui.

Lin Li on Hong Kong Island also wants to give them some warnings, the direct personnel of the East and North Palaces are the most suitable!

You sent someone to warn, leaked out, Zeng Zuofeng wants to know, a few days ago the imperial court asked about the tax plan, I happened to have a plan here, this matter still needs Zeng Zuofeng's help! ”

In the hands of Yang Meng, not only the Taiping Army is cannon fodder, but even the jaws who are selected by thousands of people are also cannon fodder, and they are politicians who do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, and many times the result is the most important.

"It's a simple matter, third master, do you want to harm Hechun?"

For the grasp of the overall situation in Jiangnan, Qin Ziqi is much more careful than Yang Meng, and the yin meaning in Yang Meng's words, Qin Ziqi can easily understand most of the time.

"Tomina or Chunducheng! It's good to be defeated, don't wipe out the whole army, in that case, the court will be scared! ”

For the imperial court, intimidation is also a means, but the imperial court's ability to bear it is very limited, and it is only self-defeating!

"Feng Guifen of Jiangsu and Zhejiang!"

"Huh...... Let's do it! (To be continued......)