After talking about the business, the father and son had a dinner, the time was a little late, Yang Shiqin's work and rest were very regular, he went to rest after eating, Yang Yong ran all the way, he was also tired, and he also went back to his yard to rest.

But Yang Meng was a little excited, without the slightest sleep, and came to the warehouse guarded by the swordsmen, Yang Meng wanted to see how much stronger the foreign devil's things were than the Qing Dynasty.

Although Yang Meng has no enemies now, he has many potential enemies, and if he wants to dominate Yunnan, the first thing he has to face is the government and Qing soldiers in Yunnan, and if he wants to obtain land, he must face the local powerful gentry in Yunnan; Even if the Qing Dynasty occupied Yunnan, the imperial court would not give up, but what made Yang Meng most jealous was not the Qing Dynasty, but the foreign powers that defeated the Qing Dynasty.

Under the city of Guangzhou, a few gunboats, more than 1,500 British soldiers, captured the land-based Humen fortress, how about the weapons at this time, Yang Meng did not know, but the guns were probably just some sand sprays, and the guns were not as powerful howitzers as later generations. How harmful is his own cloud smoke, Yang Meng knows very well, he can hide the goods for three or five years, once the goods are out of stock or for a long time, the foreign devil will come back to his senses, and the revenge is certain.

Counting on the Qing Dynasty to withstand the foreign devils, Yang Meng might as well find a rope to hang himself, but the current Yang family is struggling to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and it is definitely a dead end for the foreign devils.

Understand the strength of foreign devils, look at the gap between the Qing Dynasty and foreign devils, one is that you can guard against foreign devils, but you can use the firearms of foreign devils to deal with the Qing Dynasty, Yang Meng must have a general understanding of the current skills of foreign devils.

Open one package after another, cotton, wool, cotton yarn accounted for the majority, a look at the quality of these things, Yang Meng knew that this is a machine product, neat, smooth, neater than the homespun cloth on his body.

What is the efficiency of the machine, Yang Meng knows very well that this loom and spinning machine can replace hundreds or thousands of laborers if it is not done well.

He has a workshop to make leather boots and clothes, and Yang Meng also understands these, and a person can weave seven or eight meters of homespun cloth a day, which is considered a good hand. Although this homespun cloth is heavier, the clothes are consumables, and it makes no big difference if you wear them for a year or a year.

Besides, there are not many farmers and tenants who can make new clothes, and these things are eventually consumed by the rich peasants, merchants, landlords, and bureaucrats.

Homespun cloth is the way for farmers to make money, men farm, women weave this is a tradition of nearly a thousand years, but on these foreign cloth, woolen wool, homespun cloth has no market, Zhuang farmers tenants are not easy to live, less of this income, directly affect their lives, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea, all kinds of life needs want to be self-sufficient, it is very difficult!

Without input, there are only expenses, and the tenants have to exchange grain for some necessary daily necessities, and if they are not eliminated, the whole family will starve.

When I opened another package, it was a bag of flour, and the white cloth bag was written in English, and another one was a bag of sugar. These things are also imported, and the cloth is forgotten, but this white flour import is a bit nonsense.

The people take food as the sky, and the foreign cloth reduces the income of the tenants of the farmers, and if they import flour, the price of grain will fall.

The output of the land is already small, and it is necessary to take out grain in exchange for some things necessary for survival, and there is no disadvantage in the short time, and the most affected in the long time are those farmers and tenants.

After a year of hard work, in exchange for starvation, the appearance of the farmer tenant in Zhoujiazhuang, Yang Meng still remembers it vividly, and the Qing Dynasty is dying!

But what can you do without dying? People come to the door with guns to do business, opium, foreign cloth, flour, these look inconspicuous, but the piles and piles are all things that destroy the national economy and people's livelihood, lasting for more than ten or twenty years, what is this Qing Dynasty like, Yang Meng dare not imagine.

It is said that the last years of the Qing Dynasty were dark times, looking at these things, Yang Meng can deeply realize that these cloths and grains do not bring a beautiful life, but boundless darkness.

In Yang Meng's view, this problem is not impossible to solve, and he does the same, making machines instead of labor, and the spare labor to do other things.

When the workers earn money and produce grain for the peasants, the women buy cattle and horses, make farm tools, improve the level of farming skills, and increase the yield of the fields. In the future, the mu will produce one or two thousand catties of grain, this Yang Meng does not need it, as long as the production capacity per mu is doubled now, to seven or eight hundred catties, it is five or six hundred catties less, which is enough to consume, and if you are not hungry, you will have the strength to do other things.

Opening these packages of goods also gave Yang Meng a general goal for Yiliang's planning.

The warehouse was full of bags, Yang Meng was also interested, went up and opened another one, this time the goods were a few boxes to open and see, it was a complete set of exquisite silver knives and forks.

Picked up a fork and found the problem again, this thing is very exquisite, there is a steel seal on the back, open all the boxes, Yang Meng took the fork in his hand and compared them one by one, and the score was exactly the same! This is machine goods.

The belts and military boots on his body, the copper parts on them, are all handmade by coppersmiths, a belt buckle for half a day, and the copper riveting of the lace holes, from making copper skins to getting a pair of shoes, it takes most of the day.

With machines, these things can not be manufactured by thousands of people a day? One machine is worth one or two years of work for a skilled coppersmith, and the difference is somewhat staggering.

Next is a whole bag of matches, what do Yunnan people use? Flint and fire matchmakers, those things are not much worse than matches.

Cotton thread, steel blocks, paper, cigarette rolls, pigments, and dyes all appeared in the package one by one, these things are either machine goods, or things that can impact agriculture, seeing these things, Yang Meng's heart is very heavy.

That's all there was to the package, and the rest of the goods were packed in wooden boxes, which were supposed to be ammunition, muskets, sabers, and the like.

Pry open a wooden box, it is full of gunpowder, this imported gunpowder is not the same as the powdered gunpowder of the Qing Dynasty, it is all granular, the power of this thing, you have to try it to know that most of the goods in the warehouse are flammable, Yang Meng temporarily extinguished this idea.

One by one, they pried open the wooden boxes and found muskets and sabers, these firearms were similar to the three muskets that Yang Meng had captured before, although the shapes were different, but there was not much difference in structure.

Yang Meng can't even look down on these guns, their performance is too poor, the effective range of seventy or eighty meters, and the firing frequency of two or three rounds a minute at most. At a distance of 100 meters, the two sides stood still to execute each other's executions first, and then the hand-to-hand combat in which they were lucky not to be shot, was too unskillful.

Although it is not worth it, but there is much better than nothing, Yang Meng despised foreign devils while thinking about his subordinates, this comparison Yang Meng smiled helplessly.

His own swordsmen, not to mention the artillery, even if they encounter a group of foreign devils armed with this kind of musket, there is no other way than to exchange their lives for their lives, and the winning rate is extremely low.

Lao Ding said that in the first battle of Guangzhou, nearly 20,000 Qing soldiers were directly dispersed by more than 1,000 English people. Let's not talk about the foreign devils, my current subordinates, against 20,000 Qing soldiers, there is a dead end.

Not to mention how rubbish the Qing soldiers are, not to mention how powerful the British army is, they are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers alone, coupled with advanced firearms, if you want to win against foreign devils, you have to learn them first, and learn their things first, so as to ensure your own safety.

After checking these long and short muskets, Yang Meng found that something was wrong, the weight of this gun was wrong, and after trying them one by one, this guess was confirmed, most of these guns could not be used.

There is only one reason, lead bullet in the barrel. Regardless of the length of these guns, they are all machine goods, and there will be no obvious difference in weight, but some guns are one or two catties heavier than guns of the same model.

I found a dozen spears and tried them, four of them were fine, and the rest of the barrels were all unfired lead bullets. According to the size of the projectile, Yang Meng compared it, in the most barrel, there must be more than a dozen bullets that have not been shot, this thing must be difficult to get out, his eldest brother was slipped away this time, most of these guns should be old guns waiting for maintenance.

Thinking about it slowly, the use of these muskets, Yang Meng couldn't help laughing. Being on the front line is life in the first place, a group of people fired, coupled with the large pyrotechnics of this gun, a nervous, a negligence that their guns did not fire, it is not clear, this may be the origin of these bullets in the barrel.

Now in the dead of night is not the time to test the guns, dropping these muskets, Yang Meng began to check the sabers.

Okay! This pile of sabers is even more varied, cavalry knives, command knives, short knives, bayonets, spear stabs, everything, Yang Meng looked at them one by one, there are English, German, French, Russian, and some Arabic.

Most of these sabers are also old goods, and some of them have obvious cuts on their bodies, but the sabers with handles, all of which are made of steel, are much stronger than the black iron knives of their own swordsmen.

The width of these knives is only two fingers up and down, the thickness of the back of the knife is four or five millimeters, a knife weighs two or three pounds, light and sharp, and there is a blood groove on the knife body, which is compared with the knife hands, thick and heavy iron knives, the killing efficiency and durability are definitely not a grade.

Picked up a few long knives, on the brick crack in the ground, Yang Meng tried the quality of these knives, Yang Meng tried more than 20 knives before and after, only two were broken, one was still broken from the gap in the blade, these knives are definitely stronger than the Yang family's iron knives in terms of performance.

Although the knife is good, it is not very good to use it, most of the sabers have too much arc, the Dian horse has no speed, it is inconvenient to use, the sword-shaped saber technique is highly demanding, and the chopping and stabbing are easy to master.

After looking at these sabers one by one, Yang Meng selected the Russian saber and the German bayonet, the Russian saber has the right arc and the right length, which is just right for the knifemen to use. The German bayonet was also very good, with fine workmanship and a handguard hook, the only drawback was that it was longer, almost sixty centimeters long, short for a long knife, and long for a dagger.

Looking at the pile of sharp weapons in the warehouse, Yang Meng wanted to laugh, but his mouth was open, but he couldn't laugh, Daqing was much worse than foreign devils, just sabers and muskets, there was such a big gap, what about sharper artillery?

The gap between the Qing Dynasty and the foreign devils is the gap between him Yang Meng and the foreign devils, the Qing Dynasty and the foreign devils will inevitably fight, why not he, Yang Meng! Those things of oneself, sooner or later, foreign devils will come back to their tastes, and when the time comes, the revenge will be extremely cruel!

The purchase of foreign guns and artillery is not the solution to the problem, and the munitions technology will be changed once in a few or ten years, and Yang Meng does not want to become a user of the product, learn the technology, open a factory, and train his own engineers, which is the way not to be beaten.

There are countless copper mines here in Yunnan, and there are also deposits of coal, iron, lead, and tin, and it is his way to build a self-sufficient mine and build a factory, otherwise he will be choked by the throat in weapons, and no matter how much gold and silver he earns, he will only make wedding clothes for others.

The introduction of technology and the recruitment of technicians are the direction of his Yang Meng's development.