The situation in Yunnan, especially the situation in western Yunnan, and most importantly the situation in Yongchang, has reached the point of a critical moment, Lin Zexu has now become a mad tiger, and the fold of begging bones has been dismissed, and Lin Zexu's steps are getting faster and faster, and they are becoming more and more messy.

What Yang Meng is most worried about is not the situation in western Yunnan, in Yang Meng's view, the civil unrest is just a small mess, spending some money and killing some people, it is very easy to calm down. What he is most worried about is the second brother Yang Yi, the eldest brother has withdrawn to Kunming, and the dirty relationship between himself and Shen Zhenda will harm the second brother's life if he doesn't get it right.

The old man's side has already sent a letter to Yongchang in the name of being critically ill, and what Yang Meng is most afraid of is that the second brother ignores family affection and does not know how to adapt to defend Yongchang.

Victory, there is no problem at all, the tens of thousands of militias in Yongchang, the new army trained by the Yang family in western Yunnan, as long as they are equipped with guns, they can kill all of them in ten days and eight days, but after killing, the Yang family will be completely exposed, Lin Zexu is not a fool, in that case, the Yang family will not be able to hide.

Yang Meng's land and grain policies have just been implemented, and the Yang family's foundation in Yunnan is not solid, and with the current strength of the Yang family, it is not impossible to resist the imperial court, but once the Yang family and the Qing court are opposed, the Guangzhou trade route, the Pearl River waterway, and the Yangtze River waterway will all be gone.

Yang Meng's eyeing Tibet, Guizhou, and Sichuan, if you want to get it, it will also become extremely difficult. The second brother Yang Yi, who looked at an inconspicuous character, turned out to be a key point.

After the old man's letter was sent, Yang Meng also gave Qin Ziqi an order, if the second brother Yang Yi disregarded his family affection, he would directly let the shadow take him back to Kunming. The Yang family's affairs. In any case, it cannot be exposed in advance.

Only now did Yang Meng realize the difficulty of ruling a province. Yunnan is not the real territory of the Yang family now, a Lin Laohu and a second brother make him a little stretched, he used to go very smoothly, since Lin Laohu came, Yang Meng felt that he was restrained.

It is difficult to hide the Yang family, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult, a second brother Yang Yi. You can easily destroy your own plans, and it seems that you will have to be more careful in the future.

Although the current Yang family is not afraid of the imperial court, it is opposed to the imperial court, and there is no benefit to the Yang family.

Although there has been a lot of bad news recently, it is not without good news, Pan Shicheng, the father-in-law in Guangzhou, has just sent a letter, and the cooperation with the Milicone Colt Arsenal has been completed.

The Colt Arsenal sent a team of dozens of technicians. 2,000 revolvers of the latest type and dozens of ships of gun-making machinery and equipment will soon be shipped to Yunnan.

There is more than one piece of good news on Millican's side. Colt took advantage of the relationship with the Milican military to select three partners for the shipyard in Guangzhou, the Pan shipyard located in Huangpu, Guangzhou, has been built under the name of the flag, most of the workers' skills are from Millican, thirteen big merchants, nearly 10,000 craftsmen who moved to Guangzhou, all of them were placed in the Pan shipyard.

"Alas...... It's finally a bit of an eyebrow. ”

In cooperation with Colt, Yang Meng spent a lot of money, and Renlei was undoubtedly a qualified broker, and he gave him more than 100,000 taels of silver in the early stage, and he had nothing left, all of which were invested in Colt.

Colt, who was in an embarrassment, restarted his career after receiving more than 100,000 US dollars in cash, and the opportunity of the Mi-Mo War, under the guidance of Renres, was successfully seized by Colt.

The new Colt revolver was favored by the Millican military, and Renlei and Yang Meng, who was in the Qing Dynasty, became Colt's best friends.

Colt paid the patent for the revolver in order to obtain the oriental friend of Renlei and Yang Meng, but Yang Meng paid nearly two million taels of silver for the friend of Colt.

As a broker, Grace made a windfall, and Colt, who paid for his skills, also earned much more wealth from Yang Meng, an oriental friend, than he supplied to the Millican military, and the Colt Arsenal had sufficient funds for development.

The developed Colt is still a kind person, dozens of mechanics and gun-making machinery are exactly what Yang Meng urgently needs, and the three shipyards he introduced are definitely great news for Yang Meng.

Three days later, Yang Meng couldn't sit still, and he decided to go to the border of Guangxi in person to pick up the fleet with hope.

Ten days later, in Yunnan, Yang Meng met this fleet, boarded the cargo ship with great interest, and looked at the piles of machinery covered with oilcloth, Yang Meng breathed a sigh of relief, with these things, the foundation of Yunnan is solid.

"Master, Mr. Colt's representative, Mr. Howard, wants to see you, saying that Mr. Colt has brought you letters and surprises."

Yang Meng was immersed in the smell of machinery, and Wei Zhiqing whispered in his ear.

"Please!"

In a short time, a man in his thirties, who was about 1.7 meters long, came to Yang Meng's cargo ship.

"General Yang!"

This Howard spoke half-baked Chinese, and bowed to Yang Meng respectfully, it seems that he is an uncle wherever he has money.

"Zhiqing, let the people around you stand down! I'm going to talk to Mr. Howard for a separate moment. ”

After clearing the manpower around the cabin, Yang Meng and Howard talked in Eagle language, and Wei Zhiqing, who was guarding the door of the cabin, realized that this person in his family was still an all-rounder who was proficient in foreign languages.

Howard's half-baked Chinese is really difficult to understand, Yang Meng listened to it for a long time, and then figured out that he was introducing himself to a gun, if it weren't for Howard putting a beautiful box with a revolver in front of him, what this person said, Yang Meng really didn't know.

After opening the box, a blue revolver lay quietly in the exquisite box, this gun was much heavier than the one he gave to Pan Gui.

Pick up the revolver in the box, it is very heavy, it looks like two or three catties, nearly five centimeters of revolver, about one centimeter caliber, it should be about four calibers.

"Can I test the gun?"

Yang Meng asked in eagle language, and Howard began to load ammunition suddenly. First primer, then gunpowder, buckshot. After most Howard used some solid grease. Smeared on the lead bullet, looking at Howard's loading speed, it was definitely after a long period of training, after six rounds of ammunition were loaded, Howard spent two or three minutes, it seems that this gun is a problem!

"General Yang, it's ready to use."

After Howard finished loading his ammunition, he gently wiped the sweat from his forehead. Mr. Renlei is right, this young man in Qingguo is very coercive.

"Thank you."

Leaving Howard in the cabin, Yang Meng walked to the boat and shot at the trees on the shore.

The recoil of this revolver is not small, and it will be a little difficult for ordinary people to operate with one hand. The firing range is good, the effective firing range can be sixty or seventy meters, the power is also good, ordinary people have been trained. It shouldn't be difficult to hit a hundred shots within thirty or fifty meters.

The difficulty of operation is not small. If you shoot with one hand, you need to be trained, and all in all, this revolver from the Colt Arsenal has the appearance of a modern firearm.

"A very good revolver, does he have a name?"

"General Yang, this is Mr. Colt, the style designed in 1846, and this year it has been slightly adjusted, the name is Colt M1847, I have brought you two thousand M1847 made by Seiko, this batch of firearms is Mr. Colt personally supervised the production, this is definitely the pinnacle of the Colt Arsenal."

Speaking of the Colt Arsenal, this Howard was proud, as if he had made these guns.

"When I go back, thank you for me, Mr. Xie Colt."

"Go back? No...... General Yang I will be the head of the Colt Arsenal, in the Qing Kingdom, I am the chief mechanic of the Colt Arsenal, and these two thousand M1847s also have my heart and soul in it. ”

"Oh...... That's Yang being rude, it turns out that Mr. Howard is the chief representative of the Colt Arsenal in the Qing Dynasty, I don't know if Mr. Howard will train qualified workers for me? ”

Yang Meng's question is very direct, he taught the apprentice to starve the master to death, I am afraid that this Colt will keep a hand!

"Of course, now that General Yang is the number one shareholder of the Colt Arsenal, it is also our responsibility to train workers for you."

O kind-hearted Colt! Yang Meng could only roar in his heart, it seems that he is pretending to be a fool and has a lot of money, which is still right.

"Excellent! Mr. Howard, if you can give me a qualified worker in the training department in the fastest time, a year! In a year's time, if you train me a thousand qualified workers, I will pay you a salary of 1,000 taels of silver a month, and if you train 10,000 people, then I will pay you a salary of 10,000 taels of silver. ”

Yang Meng's words were definitely very tempting, but Howard hesitated for a moment and still refused.

"No, no...... General Young Colt's salary for me is three hundred dollars a month, which is already very high, and I can't ask for your salary anymore. ”

What kind of person has what kind of friends, this Howard is also a kind person!

"Yes! How about this even if it's a reward? As long as you train a qualified worker for me, I will give you a reward. ”

I don't want a salary, but in exchange for a reward, Howard immediately nodded, one or two silver dollars a dollar, such a temptation is difficult to refuse.

"General Yang, this is Mr. Colt's letter to you."

"Huh...... He has a heart."

A letter that looks like a clear day, although the handwriting in it is not very regular, but it is also square words, and at the end of the letter is Samuel. Colt's autograph.

"Zhiqing, come and read the letter to me."

The letter writer that Colt found was obviously not very good at reading, and his sentences were not very smooth, but the meaning was still very clear.

Yang Meng only received 200,000 US dollars for the purchase of patents, and the rest was transferred to the shares of the Colt Arsenal, and now Yang Meng is the largest shareholder of the Colt Arsenal, which is a kind person.

In addition to these business-related things, the rest are mostly words of gratitude, for Yang Meng's loan of more than 100,000 US dollars, Colt is very grateful, at that time he was going to give up the gun manufacturing industry, but the windfall from heaven made his career have a new turn.

And Yang Meng's introduction to him was also a great favor for Colt, the Colt revolver could be favored by the Millican military, and it was also a friend of None who made a big effort, without the attention of Yang Meng, a confidant in the East, Colt felt that he was likely to be submerged in the tide of history.

In the letters, Colt mentioned Yang Meng several times, and his tone was very admirable and respectful, Colt had been a sailor in the early years, and had been to India in the East, and he still accepted the Orientals, and Colt was not as wary as England for the Orientals.

Yang Meng could feel from the letter that Colt really regarded himself as a friend.

"General Young, Mr. Colt also has a secret gift, he learned from Mr. Grace that there is a shortage of cannon craftsmen on your side, so he hired a dozen of the best craftsmen in the name of the Colt Arsenal in the best artillery factories in Millican, and they can make any kind of artillery.

Mr. Colt paid a thousand dollars each in Millicorn, and General Young had to bear the rest. ”

Great news! Howard's words are undoubtedly a natural sound for Yang Meng, what you want is great! (To be continued......)