"General Yang, is there a demand in the military aspect?"

The Yunnan-Vietnam railway is a matter of no spectrum, the current cooperation is more important, there are contacts to be regarded as cooperation, this General Yang only buys all kinds of military funds, and it is aimed at European and American countries, and does not reflect the cooperative relationship with France.

Andre's question is also a little tentative, if this General Yang is bent on a new warship, then he needs to be careful.

"Of course, Envoy Andrei, don't you know?"

The temptation also has to be timed, Andre made such a problem, Yang Meng was a little unhappy, now that he has started to cooperate, and playing some tricks on the negotiation table will be a little childish.

The original was returned, and Yang Meng was not polite, and directly threw the problem to Andre.

"Does General Yang need a new warship?"

"What do you say?"

Although Andre is good at seduction, Yang Meng is not in the trap, what kind of joke is it, even if he sells the entire French Navy to himself, he can't do it in England!

There must also be a limit to the calf, as much as you can play with those flashy things, and Andrei is still a little worse than Ashiborne. His purpose Yang Meng really saw that he was afraid that he would vigorously develop the navy and threaten France's interests in Asia in the future.

"I can go back and mention it, if Congress passes, three or five new warships, there should be no problem!"

Although Yang Meng repeatedly expressed his displeasure, Andre still grasped the issue of the warship and did not let go, which was a bit too blatant in Yang Meng's opinion.

"Andre, we are a cooperative relationship, don't fall into such a clumsy trap, okay?

It seems that you don't know the relationship between us. If that's the case. After you go back. Tell your government or the president that Lao Tzu has only one request, to change an envoy!

Your words are destroying the cooperative relationship between us, and you can't see the value of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway! Frequently undermining our cooperation, are you French-English? ”

The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway is a delicacy that the French government cannot refuse at all, and it is absolutely impossible not to eat it. Andre's failure to see the overall situation does not mean that the French government has no talents, as a special envoy Andre is quite competent, but his strategic vision is a little worse.

frequently testing himself, may also be because of Prussia, after all, the two have different starting points, seeing Andrei's repeated provocations, Yang Meng also said heavy things.

"General Yang, you are insulting me!"

"Those questions just now are insulting my intelligence. Let's settle the matter, military. What do you want to give? ”

Before André came, the French side would definitely give him some hole cards, otherwise there would be no capital, and he would talk about a fart cooperation?

"Within three new warships, but we can sell them in large quantities for shore defense guns."

The so-called large-scale sale, but France wants to replace a batch of shore defense guns, iron cannons are different from copper cannons, copper cannons can be returned to the furnace to smelt and recast cannons, and after the iron cannons are decommissioned, they can only be regarded as scrap iron, and there is no such condition for recasting in the furnace.

"Good! How about 3,000 gates? ”

Andre slashed his big mouth and talked nonsense, but Yang Meng was not polite, and directly came up with an impossible number.

"General Yang, are you kidding?"

Coastal defense artillery can barely be placed on the beach with a dozen tons at every turn, and forty pounds can barely be placed on the beach, and the French coastal defense artillery is basically sixty-eight pound heavy guns, and three thousand such heavy guns, there are not so many in the whole of Europe!

"Didn't you say a large number of shore defense guns? Is 3,000 doors a lot? ”

In response to Andre's rhetorical question, Yang Meng behaved very plainly, and stroked his placket, as if three thousand doors were just an insignificant number.

"One hundred forty-pounder howitzers, one hundred and fifty forty-pounder cannons, thirty sixty-eight-pounder cannons, ten sixty-eight-pounder howitzers, is this number okay?"

When he said this number, Andrei also felt a little painful, this is thousands of tons of cast iron!

"Triple the number! Half of the howitzer and half of the cannon! ”

The French are also the grandsons of the group, and they want to come to this batch of shore defense guns are also retired things, and they can get some cannons and pull calves?

Other Yang Meng doesn't know what to do, but the curved fire and direct fire are still clearly distinguished, the cannon shoots directly, the large range of the shell is not necessarily large, and the howitzer is the first choice for coastal defense artillery.

"Impossible, there is no such a large amount at all, after I go back, I will give you an accurate number!"

This General Yang is too difficult to deal with, Andrei also scratched his head a little, although the shore defense artillery, although it cannot be set up on the ship, but when it reaches a certain number, the threat to the warships at sea is absolutely fatal.

"When you go back, bring in the artillery you just mentioned, two months is enough, right?

Let the people on your ship, tell the parameters of these artillery, I will build a new battery in Canton. ”

The location of the Pearl River Estuary is good, as long as a number of batteries are built on the island of Lingdingyang, plus the old warships recently acquired by the shipyard, the combination of sea and land, there is still hope for blockading Lingdingyang.

Although the white copper cannons cast by the Yiliang Artillery Factory have been quietly transported to Guangzhou, the number is too small to deter gunboats at sea.

The amount that Andrei just said is about the same, compared to building warships to resist the threat at sea, the fastest way is to build batteries and install coastal defense guns, although this investment is not small, but it has miraculous results!

"This amount is okay, and how much it can be in the future depends on the depth of cooperation between us."

Because of a few problems, he put himself in an absolute disadvantage, and Andre didn't plan to talk about it anymore, and reporting back to China was his main task now.

"Hmmm! Let's get started as soon as possible! Taichen, arranged for 500 men, to follow the envoy of André to France to learn about railways and steam engines. ”

Andre has no intention of talking about it again, and Yang Meng doesn't plan to keep guests, this one doesn't count, after the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway is taken out, he is not afraid of the French side, and he will not come up, and now he is in a hurry, and he is easy to be coerced by these bastards.

"I will reply to General Yang in the shortest possible time!"

At a glance, Yang Meng's attitude was a little cold, and Andre secretly said that it was not good, but he was afraid that the conditions given by the Prussians were better. Think of those five warships of about 3,000 tons. Andrei seemed to understand something. The Prussians have paid their blood!

"Hmm!"

With a gentle hum, Yang Meng's eyes closed slightly, and he didn't answer anymore, Andre didn't say the last sentence of the most, it was okay, he said that he was timid, and he still had to do it with a proper high profile.

In the negotiation field, it doesn't matter how timid you are at the last moment, and you must not show timidity at a critical time. Once timidity is revealed, it is no different from turning over the hole cards, and for Yang Meng, Andre is still more suitable to be an envoy.

Sent away Andre, Yang Meng came to the courtyard of the old Taishan, after the errand, Yang Meng slowly stepped into the yard, since Ding Taichen took over the seat of Guangzhou, his old Taishan is a lot more leisurely, in addition to taking out limited time to deal with official business, most of the time. This old man Pan is enjoying happiness in Lixiang Garden.

"Hmph...... Have a seat! ”

Just entered the house, Pan Shicheng snorted crookedly, and Old Taishan lost his face. This is the first time, Yang Meng is also a little confused, he hasn't done anything too out of the ordinary recently!

"You're old this ......"

"Your uncle brought back a few foreign women from outside, didn't you pick up this?"

"Heaven and earth conscience, what am I doing with this? A foreign woman is a foreign woman! Just be happy! ”

"What's good? I haven't collected grain in my own field yet! Foreign woman! In the future, Pan's ancestral business, will the red-haired ghost be in charge? The heart to kill him is gone! ”

Speaking of this, Pan Gui is an unlucky ghost, a family like Pan's, marriage is not child's play, marriage is certain, it's a pity that Pan Gui doesn't have so many choices and luck as Yang Meng, he only has a wife in the back house, and he doesn't look like a big shot, the seeds in his pocket are scattered outside, and it's strange that he can produce food in his own field!

"Oh...... This thing is good, don't let Brother Gui go to sea for a while, just partner with Taichen, there is time, why are you angry for a few foreign women? ”

"Hmmm! That's it! Pan Gui obeys you, you can also talk more, it doesn't matter if a foreign woman is a foreign woman or not, the key is the eldest and youngest! ”

Pan Shicheng is an old-fashioned person, although he is engaged in foreign business, he is still a real scholar in his bones, and his heirs are also his concerns.

"I'll go later, this time I have a big deal to find you!"

"What's the big deal?"

Speaking of business, Pan Shicheng also put away the anger on his face, his beloved son-in-law is not often annoying, once he comes, it will definitely be difficult.

"Repair the fort!"

"What? Also repair the fort?

In the past two years, a Mazu temple and a dragon king temple have risen from the ground and blocked the Pearl River estuary, so why should a fort be built?

The Mazu Temple cost more than two million taels, the Longwang Temple spent three million, one percent of the silver to build the temple, and ninety percent of the silver to build the platform.

There are still two or three hundred artillery pieces in each fort that are not counted in it, and the coastal defense guns, the small ones are also more than 10,000 catties, and the silver is also one or two thousand taels. ”

In order to protect the shipyard, Yang Meng also invested heavily in Guangzhou, building his own forts to block the Pearl River estuary, this time the British fleet is also in the open sea, if you dare to enter the Pearl River estuary, although the two batteries add up to less than 100 guns, but against more than ten or twenty ships, there is still that ability.

The cost of building forts on flat ground is too large, and two forts were built in two years, and Pan Shicheng's side was also stained with the light of the famine, taking care of food and housing, and hundreds of thousands of strong men and men worked day and night to build two forts in the name of temples.

Although the fort has been built, the giant cannon that should be equipped on the fort is still ninety percent vacant, it is not difficult to build the fort, but it is too difficult to cast the giant cannon, Pan Shicheng has no idea about this.

"This blockade of Lingdingyang!"

Okay! The more you talk about it, the more unreasonable it is, the blockade of the Pearl River Estuary is simple, as long as two forts are built at the intersection of the estuary, it will be done, and there will be no more than ten or twenty forts, and there is no such possibility.

"Stop! Even if the fort was built, where did the cannon come from? ”

"France has promised 300 guns, and there will be more in the future, it is very important to choose the location for the fort this time, do you arrange the arrangement?"

As soon as he heard the meaning of his son-in-law's words, he had to do something, but Pan Shicheng had something to say.

"Xingdou, this Guangzhou is not our nest after all, there is no need to spend so much, if something happens, let's just retreat to Yunnan, isn't there still a court behind us?

This time, the English people are doing to make people nest fire, but we can block the Lingding Ocean, but the coastline of the Qing Dynasty is long, and we can't prevent it from peeling the skin and bones and squeezing out the oil and water! ”

Ai's son-in-law first built a shipyard and then a fort, spending too much money in Guangzhou, the Qing Dynasty's vast sea frontier, what use can it be to defend a Guangzhou?

In Pan Shicheng's eyes, most of the son-in-law's construction of the fort this time was for the sake of gambling, and he spent a lot of money to build the fort for the sake of gambling, and the wise man did not do it!

"The Imperial Court? Can the imperial court stop it? Guangzhou has our shipyard, as long as we hold the Lingding Ocean, our navy will have a chance to develop, otherwise it will be occupied by foreign devils in Guangzhou, and our early efforts will be in vain.

It is not a day's work for the shipyard to produce results, and although our blockade methods have been achieved to the extreme, it is difficult to guarantee that the English people have no chance to detect it! Once they know the way, and they have a heart of destruction, we can't bear it!

Although the Pearl River Estuary is blocked, we are afraid of a large-scale fleet assault, as long as we break through the Pearl River Estuary, our shipyard will be destroyed! ”

In order to build a fort with gas, Yang Meng didn't have that mind, now is the time for the air to leak from all sides, and if he finds a hole, he has to plug it. (To be continued......)