"The heart is good-hearted, but the matter is not a good thing, Guangzhou is not Yunnan, you buy coal and iron kilns with such fanfare, I am afraid that the court will continue to criticize it!

At this time, there are some things that you would rather not do than arouse the suspicion of the imperial court, the overall situation in Yunnan is not stable, and you are too eager to do things. After the marriage of the Pan and Yang families, how many big things have you done? Many people have difficulty making one in their lifetime, Star Dou! Winning in stability is the right thing! It's king!

Build high walls, accumulate grain, and slowly become king! When you go back, you have to taste the deep meaning inside! It's not that I don't have vision, it's not that I'm trying to stop you, remember! Yunnan is the top priority, abandoning Yunnan, the heel will be unstable, how can it stand?

Although this Qing Dynasty is tired, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, even if your Yang family wins against the Qing Dynasty, what can you get?

There are countless capable people in Lang Huaxia, who have taken the lead, but they may not be able to stand at the back, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who died in the Ming Dynasty, which one got a good reward? Don't be a big gun to extinguish the Qing Dynasty, if you want to do it, you can clean up the mountains and rivers, and now it's right to watch the show! ”

One is prosperous and one is lost, one person has the Tao chicken and dog ascend to heaven, the Yang and Pan families are interdependent, the Yang family is the main Pan family as the auxiliary, this is a hardcore relative, Pan Shicheng has worked how the Yang family should go and how to go.

"It's not that I'm in a hurry, but the world is forcing me and pushing me, and I can't go this way!

You also said that the gunboats of the great powers roamed the rivers, lakes and seas of the Qing Dynasty during the Gengzi period, what if there was such a day again? Shipbuilding and water construction is not a day's work, but the work of water mills. It's a trick!

You also said it. The foreign ship purchased by Lin Laohu. The battle of Gengzi was easily captured by foreigners, and the guns and ships of the Qing Dynasty were all behind. I have built a new army in Yunnan, and there is no problem in protecting Yunnan, but I have no confidence in keeping the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

I'm not afraid of fighting with foreign devils, I'm afraid of fighting with my own people! Yunnan's little family background, we look good. But in the eyes of the great powers, it is nothing, and the advantage of Yunnan will be wiped out.

Father-in-law, think about it, if the great powers support the Qing Dynasty with their strength, will Yunnan still have an advantage? No! In the land war, the new army in Yunnan was not much better than the great powers, and if they followed my method and trained a new army for the Qing Dynasty, the victory or defeat was unknown.

So ships are bound for us, with iron-hulled gunboats. Or ironclad warships, let's build some more cannons. The Jiangnan area is what we have in our pockets.

It's not difficult to build a cannon! Yunnan has a lot of copper, more iron, more coal, and more lead, and there is no shortage of raw materials for making artillery, and what is lacking is only technology. As soon as the iron factory was built, the copper mine was opened, and with the help of Ge Shiyang and others, I was sure that I would make artillery!

Only this ship is the short board of Yunnan, although Yunnan has rivers and lakes, but large sea ships can not be built, only this Guangzhou is a good port, now this Guangzhou is also our territory, it is imperative to build a shipyard!

Qiji and Novi are a big opportunity, and if we don't grasp it, we will always be one step behind.

Iron-hulled ships must be a new thing in the West, I dare to conclude that the future sea must be the world of steel giants, foreign devils already have a foundation, now what is missing is only attention, although England has an iron-hulled gunship, but still not enough attention, stupid birds fly first, let's go one step earlier, we will take advantage one day earlier, otherwise it will be so bad, we have won the Qing Dynasty, and it is not the same life to be bullied?

As for the coal and iron business, you can take care of it alone! It's nothing more than a compromise for the imperial court, you have already taken the lead in building a ship, and presumably the imperial court will not criticize anything.

If it doesn't work, we will build a small iron-hulled ship first, so that the imperial court can open its eyes, and it will be much more convenient for us to act in the future. ”

Although Yang Meng in his previous life was not familiar with the navy, he also knew the shipbuilding industry, and building large ships and advanced warships was not something to be said casually.

Shipbuilding requires not only technology, but also experience, experience is irreplaceable, no shipbuilding technicians, no matter how advanced the design drawing, to the hand is a piece of waste paper.

"Alas...... Just do as you say! You still don't understand the affairs of this court! I monopolized the coal and iron near Guangzhou, and I built a shipyard for fear that the imperial court would send someone to point fingers, and that class of Qingliu would also put me in the camp of foreign demons.

Didn't Wu Bingjian get convicted for this? Selling opium? Hehe, what a good excuse! ”

Under the banner of the imperial court, he built an iron factory and a shipyard in Guangzhou, Pan Shicheng really didn't want to do this, the Qing court was not a thing!

"Finger-pointing? Hey! This is not afraid, now put people in the Beijing Division, and if he encounters something that does not open his eyes, don't let him go to Guangzhou alive. What can the court say about some cases of overturning cars and boats?

Ministers of the Beijing Division, you should also do it, buy what you should buy, give away what you should give, this money has to be spent now. ”

The shady curtain of Yunnan copper and the ending of Sichuan copper entering Yunnan made Yang Meng see the power of the courtiers, and if these people are used well, Yunnan's steps will be bigger.

"Hah...... You can be regarded as hearing what you should say, spend money to buy a road! This is the old method.

A few days ago, Renlei sent me a letter, saying that the tiger squat cannon had been loaded on the ship in Millican, but listening to the meaning of his words, the cannon was not very good, and I was afraid that more than 200,000 taels of silver would be lost!

In the next few days, the sand boat of the sailor division is about to be ready, you can take people to Baietan, test the gun! Just wait for this batch of tiger squat guns, two thousand taels and one door! At the beginning, it was better to directly let Renlei directly purchase heavy artillery.

But without this, we can't knock on Renres's mental defense, and it's hard to talk about gains and losses! ”

100,000 taels of silver to buy roads, more than 100,000 taels of silver to cast cannons, what all-steel tiger squat cannons, there are not many objects in the Qing Dynasty that can be used, Pan Shicheng deeply felt worthless in his heart.

The 100,000 taels of money to buy the road can cast 50 tiger squat cannons, and it costs more than 100,000 taels of silver, which is definitely a loser's business. More than 100,000 taels, you can buy two or three small Western warships, although it is an old ship, it is more valuable than the tiger squat gun!

"To cast these tiger squat cannons, one is to try whether they fit together, and the other is to explore Millican's most advanced cannon casting technique. Let the people of Yunnan imitate it. Or study the art of cannon casting.

It's nothing more than a business for nothing. This time, with the opium supply of the East India Company, I went back and got some machinery, and I could make more money than gold and silver mines.

200,000 taels of silver is nothing, then Miriken Renres, if I have the opportunity, my father-in-law will introduce me, his path is good, there are some things I should talk to him about. ”

Millican's current national policy is no better than that of later generations. Whether it is a merchant or a soldier, the defense of the Qing Dynasty is not high, talk to this Renlei to see if there is a good cooperation path.

"Check it out! This time the tiger squat cannon was messed up, I'm afraid that Na Renlei will avoid me, this person's virtue is still good, and when he says it, I'm afraid that he won't have the face to come over and delay the business. ”

Renlei is a good friend to Pan Shicheng! Pan Shicheng made Ren Rees make a fortune in the Qing Dynasty, and Ren Reis made Pan Shicheng's career reach its peak. The two are mutually beneficial!

"Father-in-law, then I'll go first. Patrick and his son are teaching the Forces nouvelles how to use artillery, and I'll have to go and see.

There is also the flowering shells of the 24-pounder mortar cannon, see if you can get some from Millican, I am afraid that this flowering shell cannot be made in Yunnan now, the number of 800 rounds is too small. ”

"Alas...... I wanted to have a good pastime, but I didn't expect this mundane thing to be difficult! ”

For the shipyard matter, Pan Shicheng is still a little troubled, and General Guangzhou is a big obstacle for the Yang and Pan families!

Three days later, in the port of Guangzhou, a Millican merchant ship unloaded a batch of heavy cargo, and Ren Lei really did not come as Pan Shicheng expected, but sent a few Millican technicians to explain that Pan Shicheng customized a small-caliber artillery.

And the five 20-pounder cannons are attached to the giveaway, which is considered the compensation of the Renlei and Milican gun factories, and the 50,000 shells are also considered freebies.

This batch of customized tiger squat cannons was placed in the freight yard, and Pan Shicheng personally went out to take Mi Lijian's technicians and five customized tiger squat cannons to Baietan, where Yang Meng was training.

Pan Shicheng has already greeted the general of Guangzhou and the green battalion, and temporarily requisitioned it to train the coastal defense battalion.

In order to test the performance of the tiger squat cannon, the location of the test cannon was also selected on the sand boat, and the small steel cannons were carried onto the boat by the new army in groups of two, and Yang Meng was in a trance when he saw it.

Déjà vu! This Millican's gun factory has changed the Tiger Squat Cannon to a different appearance, how does it look like a recoilless gun that is one size smaller.

The usage of this new tiger squat cannon is generally similar to the original, and it has to be nailed to the ground to counteract the recoil, but the gun body has been changed, and the original front installation has been changed to the rear installation, but the design of the locking device is not very good.

After nailing the gun carriage, there was a muffled sound of the reloading charge, and the shell, which was about the size of an egg, fell into the water more than 200 meters away.

"Alas......"

Seeing this situation, Pan Shicheng let out a helpless sigh, this cannon is not as good as a three-pound cannon, two thousand taels of silver a piece, it can be regarded as buying scrap iron, just get a gun and load more medicine, and this distance can also be hit.

"What is the maximum amount of gunpowder that can be contained in this chamber? How far is the ultimate range? ”

Yang Meng's question made the technicians of several artillery factories a little speechless, they were so proficient in artillery knowledge, why did they want to customize such a poor small artillery?

These guns are extremely difficult to manufacture, and the all-steel gun body, Millican's gun factory is also the first trial production, and the quality of the gun body is really good, but the range is a little unremarkable.

"Third master, those people said, because of the use of the most advanced breech technology, there is no solution to the difficulty of air leakage, these tiger squat cannons, loaded with an excess amount of gunpowder, can hit at most three hundred yards away. If you beat a boy, it will be a hundred and fifty yards at most. ”

"Not bad! Can you get them to provide some detailed drawings and some casting techniques? ”

Yang Meng didn't hold out any hope for this, but there was always a surprise, a stack of books with cowhide covers was hugged back by the translator.

"Good! Let Master Ge see, if there is no problem, one person will reward them with five hundred taels of silver. ”

The tiger squat cannon is considered to have been changed, but Yang Meng has found another use for him, large shotguns, as long as the problem of bullet shells is solved, these new tiger squat guns are large long-range shotguns.

After getting off the boat, Yang Meng intercepted his frustrated father-in-law Pan Shicheng, and lost more than 100,000 taels of silver in vain.

"Father-in-law, find a few coppersmiths to build copper pipes according to the caliber of the tiger squat cannon, and seal it at one end, I will be of great use! The sooner the better! ”

Pan Shicheng was confused by his son-in-law, the shells were all beaten like that ghost, and it was useless to put anything in it.

But looking at his son-in-law's earnest eyes, Pan Shicheng couldn't bear to refuse, and he couldn't refuse, so he could only go to the coppersmith with a sullen breath.

This job is not difficult, a coppersmith half an hour, just hit what Yang Meng wanted, plus back and forth for more than an hour, Yang Meng held the copper pipe, mysteriously tinkered for a while, a disgraceful brass cannonball, even if it was done.

"Come over and use it, give it a try!"

Yang Meng changed like this, this tiger squat cannon has changed its nature, it is not an artillery or a large shotgun, it is a Qing version of a grenade launcher.

With the sound of a cannon, the improvised grenade made by Yang Meng exploded in the middle of the way, and a cloud of smoke with a 'poof' sound made the onlookers confused.

"Xingdou, this Millican's technician is still there, if there is any problem, let them come out and solve it! That's not a way for you to do that! ”

Pan Shicheng can't stand it anymore, this is just nonsense, casting cannons is a rigorous job, how can it be done in two casual clicks?

"Looking for them? I'm afraid that they will learn my skills and go to Master Ge, and if there is no problem with the atlas, I will send those skilled practitioners away, and ask them to bring a message to Renres, and say that they will make another hundred doors, but we will have to talk about the price. ”

Yang Meng's words, hearing the green tendons on Pan Shicheng's head, the tiger squat cannon has been defeated, and it still needs to be built! Isn't this self-inflicted? (To be continued......)