The next day, Yang Meng gave Ding Taichen the renderings that he and Wei Fuzi had worked on overnight, and after glancing at it, he handed it back.

"Third master, overstep! Dragon boat, this is to connect the nine clans! ”

"the ball! If you overdo it, you will overtake it, this is what Lao Tzu spent a night of hard work to get out, and after you don't get it right, you can get some wet grass and smoke on the boat, which is just in response to the words of swallowing clouds and spitting fog! ”

Most of the warships of the sailors are also decorated, and with the recent expansion of strength, the imperial court's suppression of the Yang family, Yang Meng's mind has slowly become impetuous.

"I'll let you change it again! This golden dragon boat, once it gets off the Pearl River, our trouble will come! ”

More is better than less, since Yang Meng insisted, Ding Taichen also nodded, it's okay to be a dragon boat, but it can't be so dazzling.

"It's done! Try to be as vicious, piercing the eyes, don't change it nondescriptly, Lao Tzu's name of Jianglong has been raised, but it can't be changed! ”

As soon as he heard that he was going to change, Yang Meng turned around in his heart a few times, and then nodded, because this little thing is not worth it for the court to check it!

He sent someone to kill one of Mu Zhang'a's sons and grandsons, and Mu Zhang'a probably had speculation about this matter, and the relationship between the two families was not as close as before.

"It's done! You're satisfied! ”

It's a good thing to be able to make sense, but I'm afraid that my third master won't listen to persuasion, and seeing that Yang Meng has won his head, Ding Taichen is also relieved, and he will go down to arrange the drawings as soon as he rolls them.

"Did the barge test the gun?"

"We'll start later! When I tested the gun, I asked someone to bring you a message! ”

"Hmm...... Go ahead! ”

The design of the river dragon is not successful. It's all about the carrying capacity of the barge. Only one barge can hold twenty mortars. That barge can cover an area of about a kilometer, and intercepting the river will become a death!

In addition to armed escort, the river dragon also has a more domineering role, that is, to transport troops along the river, most of the artillery of the Qing Dynasty is waste wood, and there are very few that can threaten the barge artillery team on land, and it is very inconvenient for those artillery to be transferred up and down ten thousand catties at every turn. The war in the area, along the river and along the river, is the place that Yang Meng's soldiers pointed to.

And with plenty of fire. Medicine, whether it is a barrage or a wreck barrage, has not had a very big impact on the barge artillery team, and the appearance of tinplate is a very good time period, waterproof fire. The medicine barrel, to put it bluntly, is a depth charge, blocking the river. For Yang Meng, it is just child's play, unless the imperial court does not hesitate to build a dam to block the river. Otherwise, it is basically impossible to block the advance of the barge artillery team.

When the time came for the test of artillery, the barges of twenty or thirty meters were loaded with 10 to 40 mortars ranging from 10 to 40 according to the number. The experiment with empty ships was not very ideal, fifteen twenty-four-pounder mortars, fired together, the stability of the barge was very poor, not a problem of overturning, but a large traverse, which was a big trouble for the fleet connected by iron cables.

"Load the cargo and try it to see if there is anything wrong with the structure of the barge!"

Fifteen mortars, although acceptable, but a large lateral movement can not be solved, the fleet will be inflexible, after loosening the iron cable, the barge will drift along the river, once drifting to the shore, it is a live target.

Twenty-five mortars are the maximum carrying capacity of the barge, and the recoil is still too big for a wooden barge, and if thirty mortars are fired in a salvo, the hull structure will collapse, which is similar to Yang Meng's idea, and about twenty mortars are still acceptable.

Inland river barges are greatly affected by the width of the river, want to pass through the whole basin, twenty or thirty meters is the limit length, no matter how long, many river bays can not be bypassed, twenty or thirty meters of barges, loaded with thirty to forty artillery is also to the limit, thirty is slightly crowded, forty shoulder to shoulder, estimated the time of shooting, Yang Meng set the number of mortars of the river dragon at about thirty.

"Using the existing mortars, equipping thirty barges, slightly reinforced, ten mortars on each barge."

This return to Yunnan brought a large amount of gold and silver, no matter who this gold and silver fell into, it was a huge wealth, and this fleet must not have problems.

Barges, easy to build, Guangzhou shipyard built the most is barges, dozens of craftsmen a month or two, more than a year, the shipyard here built hundreds of barges, ships are not a problem, as long as the barge is changed, Yang Meng can set off.

"Third Master, you can't turn over the river dragon?"

The design of the river dragon is very good, at first glance, it is a murderous thing on the river, Ding Taichen thought that the third master was waiting for the river dragon, but he didn't expect that he would equip the existing barge.

"It's too late, the new iron-hulled barge can't be completed in a month or two, the things in southern Xinjiang don't wait for anyone, there is only two or three months of stable time, I can't delay more in Guangzhou, turn over the Jianglong thing, you hurry up!"

But there is one thing, the construction of the river dragon can be an experiment for the ironclad ship, but the construction period of the ironclad ship must not be delayed, you will find the person who designed and built the river dragon later, I have something to say! ”

The iron-hulled barge is also an object that needs to be verified, time waits for no one, Yang Meng does not have much time in his hands, after Sun Boqing assassinated the King of Siam, there will be a war between Myanmar and Thailand, and the time for preparation is calculated, it will only be a month or two, after the war, what the specific situation will be, Yang Meng can't predict, or it will be more stable to sit in the town.

"I'll do it right away!"

"Hmmm! Let people assemble a few barges, find Yang Fuliang, and let him try the combat power of the barges first, aren't there some pirates inside and outside the Pearl River Estuary? That's why they try the gun! ”

Now the test gun is just to test the bearing capacity of the hull, and the regular test gun still has to be tested by a living person, and the pirates who are entrenched in the mouth of the Pearl River and covet the Lixiang Garden are not the best objects for the test of artillery?

This is the best training to shoot live targets, and if you miss this time period, how can there be so many living people for you to kill casually? Integrating killing experience for the army is also something that Yang Meng has to do.

It was still docked on the deck of the warship in the dock, and the people who saw Yang Meng this time were all fresh faces. It seems that the design and construction of ironclad barges. And did not disperse the manpower of the ironclads.

"Approximate number of roads. Taichen has told you everything, I won't say more, I have some detailed things here, some must be done, and some are selective.

The first is the thickness of the armor of the ironclad barge, which is not required, the most important thing is to be able to sail flexibly.

The second is the power of the barge. Simple and rough is easy to maintain, but simple and rough is the steam engine, and the process you use still needs to be improved!

The third is the territory of the mortar cannon, which can be rotated at 360 degrees, and this is my request.

The fourth is to set aside infantry firing positions on both sides of the barge, which can be attacked from far and near, which is Lao Tzu's requirement for turning over the river dragon!

On the above requirements, take out the physical object within four months, and after four months, Lao Tzu will come to Guangzhou again! ”

This time I returned to Yunnan. You can't take Lian'er with you, calculate the time. Four or five months later, it was almost time to give birth, and it was still necessary for Yang Meng to go to Guangdong again.

Yang Meng's requirements were not very difficult, and the designers and technicians present did not raise any questions, after they dispersed, Yang Meng was just about to get up, but Ding Taichen opened his mouth.

"Doesn't the third master plan to return to Yunnan with his wife?"

"Hmmm! After a long journey, I can't stand the toss this month, Lian'er is important to the relationship between the Pan and Yang families, and it is safe! ”

"Just ......"

"Isn't there you and the shadow? Who dares to fight the idea of Lao Tzu's heirs, do you know what to do! ”

Whether it is the Pan family or the Yang family, they all hope that Lian'er's first child is a son, but this thing is not up to anyone, Ding Taichen's prompt is very necessary, and Yang Meng also has to prevent being exchanged for a prince by a civet cat.

"But ......"

Yang Meng said simply, but the people in the back house are not things that shadows can contact casually, and it is a little embarrassing to leave this matter to himself.

"Don't do it, I'll talk about this in a few days, I'll go back and think about it again, now the matter of turning over the river dragon is the first priority, we can't do it at sea, we must have some ability on the river."

With this river dragon, we can block the river, the problem of the river is very critical, the sea can let foreign devils run rampant, but on this river, it is still our own territory, and outsiders cannot be allowed to be presumptuous.

We are not afraid of inland river gunboats, what is terrible is the sea warship of foreign devils, during your time in Guangzhou, you must set up several checkpoints in the Pearl River waterway, and cooperate with the giant artillery on both sides of the strait to block the Pearl River inland waterway.

The same is true on the Yangtze River, in the critical places, build a few Zhuangzi, to guard against Li Xingyuan, and the affairs on the Yangtze River side must be carried out in secret. ”

For the sea combat power of foreign devils, Yang Meng is just jealous, not afraid, what he is afraid of is the combination of river gunboats and sea giants, once the two rivers and rivers are occupied by foreign devils, that is the real trouble.

Going up the Yangtze River to the hinterland of Yunnan, although it is not afraid of land warfare, it can be fought on the mainland, which has too much impact on Yang Meng.

"Hmmm! Knowing the road, along the Yangtze River, there has long been our Zhuangzi, along the banks of the Yangtze River under the arrangement of the new army, there are also 35,000 people, according to the model of Guangzhou, we on both sides of the Yangtze River, also build a few dragon temples, should be able to block the Yangtze River channel. ”

The Yangtze River and the Pearl River, since the Yang family had 24-pounder mortar artillery, it has been blockading step by step, and the two large numbers of artillery brought by Renlei and France have been of great help to Yang Meng's strategy of locking the river.

In the past, it was only to block the rivers around Yunnan, but now the Yang family has the strength to start from the mouth of the sea and block it all the way to the border of Yunnan.

"It can be not, what I want is a must, the two rivers are not only a financial road for us, but also a line of life and death, if we lose the two rivers, the imperial court and the troops of the great powers can directly point to Yunnan.

My plan in southern Xinjiang has not yet been realized, and the current two rivers and rivers are a matter of life and death for us, so we must be cautious.

Don't ignore the Yangtze River here in Guangzhou, start today! If you want to build Wuzhuang along the two rivers, I don't care about other places, as long as it is within ten miles around the two rivers basin, it is the territory of our Yang family.

There is not much time left for you, seven or eight months at less, a year or two at more, within ten miles of the two river basins, you must hold it firmly in my hands. ”

The war in the southeast peninsula will stab England crazy if it is not done well, and the three-point religion of Guiping Mansion is also located in the heartland, and these two cannot be eradicated by Yang Meng, and one needs to be used, and they have a great threat to the trade routes of the two rivers.

In addition to the river dragon made of iron-hulled barges, the Yang family also wants to make a river dragon, as long as it is the two river basins, it is the territory of the Yang family!

"In doing this, I'm afraid that the cost is not small, there are many big landlords in Liangjiang, there is no land, we can only buy grain, a Wuzhuang, as little as two or three thousand people, as many as seven or eight thousand people, the cost of food is not small!"

"The cost is not a big problem, there are clouds and smoke, what are you afraid of?

Land, or my methods, if you are willing to sell, we will give money, if you are not willing to sell, we will rob you, the two rivers basin can not build a grange, then you must combine Wuzhuang and Grange, land is the rope that ties the people, no land is not possible.

There are also fifteen business alliances, you also have to make use of them, some big landlords, they really can't do it, so let the people of the fifteen business alliances mediate, it really doesn't give face, destroy the door! ”

Spending money is the most insignificant price for Yang Meng, but land is something that Yang Meng must hold in his hands, and any price can be negotiated, but if you don't sell land, you are looking for death!

"Third Master, is this world going to be chaotic?"

Listening to Yang Meng's hurried words, Ding Taichen also felt that something was wrong.

"Hmmm! There is news from the shadow, there is a change in the three-point sect, our time is running out, time is limited, some things can not be done too benevolently, even if we lose our conscience, we must control the two rivers basin in the fastest time, Yang Fuliang and the Naval Academy of the Ship Master Academy are the main force this time!

Let Yang Fuliang pay attention to the students of the navy, some of the killing talents have to get together, and some of the students who resist our policy must also be cleared, the army is a place where orders are forbidden, not a place to cultivate the opposing faction, it should be killed and buried, now it's time to stare at each other, there is no one who can't be killed! ”

The time to turn over the river and the sea is coming, and some things are similar to what Yang Meng said, benevolence and righteousness will only be bad, and it is the law of troubled times to kill by mistake and not let go. (To be continued......)