After Yu Xiaotian sent Chen Xun away, he immediately sent people to invite Zhao Hai (Zhao Mazi), Li Fu (Li Gouzi) and Liu Laoliu and other elders to discuss the matter, and Lin Yiyang also summoned them to talk about this matter together.

When everyone came over and listened to Yu Xiaotian explain the purpose of Chen Xun's trip, everyone also felt a little tricky, originally for Yan Siqi, these minds of the sea wolf have been quite dissatisfied recently, the reason is very simple, that is, Yan Siqi is calculating the sea wolf behind his back, and greatly reduced the transaction between Nanri Island and Mao Shengyuan, so that the council hall has lost a lot of income, so now that they know that Yan Siqi was forced to be embarrassed by Zheng Yiguan, they feel a little deserved.

As for whether to help Yan Siqi or not, these people also have their own ideas, Zhao Mazi doesn't want to care about this matter, but Li Gouzi thinks that this is an opportunity to make money, Liu Laoliu doesn't speak, just closes his eyes and recuperates, because he thinks that Yu Xiaotian must have thought about how to deal with this matter, and he can't express his opinion on this kind of thing.

But Lin Yiyang looked like an old god, he had told Yu Xiaotian before, Yu Xiaotian called him over today, just to give him face, so just let Yu Xiaotian say this kind of thing.

Seeing that Zhao Mazi, Ma Xiao and Li Dazui were very reluctant, so Yu Xiaotian said: "Don't be unhappy!" I think Yan Siqi is a white-eyed wolf, if it were me, there was a tiger lying on the side of the couch, and I wouldn't feel comfortable, although he Yan Siqi was estranged from me recently, but he didn't conflict with us, which is already good!

The most important thing is that the current rise of Zheng Yiguan is not a good thing for us, if he is allowed to occupy Bengang, then we will become Zheng Yiguan's enemy in the next step.

Zheng Yiguan is not to be underestimated, this person is very deep in the city, don't look at his young age, but he is ruthless and abnormal! And he has a wide range of intersections, and has a relationship with the red-haired people and the Francophone people, after taking Li Dan's plate, his strength should not be underestimated, I am afraid that he will become our fierce rival in the future!

So Yan Siqi can't fall, as long as Yan Siqi doesn't fall, then Zheng Yiguan will be contained, on the bright side, Zheng Yiguan is still his brother Yan Siqi, as long as Yan Siqi is there, he can't easily turn his head to deal with us.

And Yan Siqi's strength is now weaker than Zheng Yiguan, and if he is not careful, he may be counterattacked by Zheng Yiguan, once Yan Siqi falls, then Zheng Yiguan can let go of his hands and feet to do a big job, although we are not necessarily afraid of him, but it is not a good thing for us to have such a strong opponent out of thin air!

So this time, I decided to do Yan Siqi this favor!

But how to help with this favor, we have to plan another way! It will definitely not work to give them these artillery pieces that we have now, I told you before that we can do this arms deal, but nothing that is sold to them can be better than ours!

Therefore, this is necessary to make cannons and guns, find a way to get a batch of monkey version of cannonballs as soon as possible, and give them to use, and even if they are given these cannonballs, with their skills, they can't easily imitate them!

This cannon is not as simple as pinching clay figures, the Tao inside is deep! Otherwise, the government would have imitated a large number of Western cannons! This time, when you bombarded Puxi City, you also probably knew that the official army is now also equipped with Hongyi cannons, but which Hongyi cannons they have cast, they have already seen it in detail, they are stupid and stupid, they are not a good thing at all, just a good thing!

So you don't have to worry about that! ”

After hearing this, Ma Xiao and Li Dazui understood that what Yu Xiaotian said made sense, now it is indeed not the time for Yan Siqi to fall, once Yan Siqi falls, Zheng Yiguan will be even more arrogant, and I am afraid that he will be able to free up his hands to grab territory with them sea wolves.

But if Yan Siqi is provided with so many cannons, I am afraid that the cannon will immediately stop casting cannons for the sea wolf himself, and go all out to rush to complete this list, which is not a good thing for the sea wolf.

So they voiced their worries, saying that even if they helped Yan Siqi with this, they couldn't let the speed of the sea wolf's own new cannon drop too much.

Including Zhao Mazi also nodded in agreement with their opinions, and said: "The words of the big boss make sense, and it's okay to help him with this, but at the moment, if we all stop and cast cannons for them, it will also have an impact on us, so it's best to give them less, and sell them more or less to pull them down!" ”

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian lowered his head and shook his head and said, "No, even if you give them less, you can't give them too little!" If they can't be supplied with many monkey guns in a short period of time, then you can first transfer some of the No. 3 guns (six-pounder guns) in the fleet that have been used for a while! ……”

"How is this possible? The number of No. 3 guns on our ship is just enough, and some new ships have not even equipped No. 3 guns, so how can they be transferred to them? This one is absolutely not going to work! Don't be fooled! This is our dinner guy! As soon as Ma Xiao heard this, he jumped up, and he couldn't care about Yu Xiaotian's face, so he screamed with a red face, so he just rushed over and hugged Yu Xiaotian's legs, begging Yu Xiaotian not to do this.

Yu Xiaotian smiled and said, "Ma Xiao, don't worry! I know what you're thinking, and before I did this, I could have guessed that you sailors would definitely not do it!

But let me ask you, if you were to replace the No. 3 gun with the No. 5C (the newly created twelve-pounder light howitzer, which the soldiers called the twelve-pounder mountain howitzer), would you rather have the No. 5C or the No. 3 gun? ”

Ma Xiao blinked his eyes and immediately replied: "Of course it's the fifth C!" Although the No. 3 cannon hits farther and more accurately, but the shells are a little smaller, not powerful, sometimes dozens of cannons can not sink a big ship, or No. 5 C is more powerful, although it is not far, but compared to the rags of ordinary people, it is still a lot farther, and the power is also full, at most a dozen cannons can sink a big ship of two or three hundred materials, and the nearby scattered bullets are like iron brooms, if I have to choose, of course I have to choose No. 5 C! ”

Yu Xiaotian nodded and smiled: "That's right!" Although the No. 3 cannon is good, but after all, it is our pioneering work, the power is a little too small, and now we have the No. 4 cannon (eight-pounder gun, but because the power is not much more than the six-pounder gun, in the case of a large number of six-pounder guns, the eight-pounder gun has not been put into production in large quantities, just as a reserve, temporarily opened the gun mold, waiting for one day in the cannon to put into production), and now we have made this No. 5 C, this No. 3 gun has become our chicken ribs!

In the future, our ship will replace most of the No. 3 guns with No. 5 C, and it is more appropriate to sell these No. 3 guns for silver than to smash them and return them to the furnace!

As for the small cannon they want, I think it's enough to use the old-fashioned Tiger Squat Cannon for them, and of course the new Tiger Squat Cannon won't be used for them! In this way, the cannon will continue to cast the No. 5 C, replace the No. 3 gun of your fleet, and give them it! Could it be that you are even afraid of the third gun? ”

As soon as he heard this, Ma Xiao immediately had no opinion, and replaced one with No. 5 C from one of their fleet, and eliminated part of the No. 3 gun from the fleet, not only would not weaken their firepower, but also greatly increased their firepower, which was a good deal, so he naturally didn't fart, and he was happy to fart.

As for Li Dazui's barracks, he was not equipped with the No. 3 gun, and it had nothing to do with him whether he bought it or not, and the No. 3 gun was not eye-catching after he had the mountain grenade No. 5 C, and the weight was about the same, but the power was a big difference, and the No. 3 gun was at most forcing the range and accuracy of No. 5 C to be slightly stronger, but he would rather have No. 5 C than No. 3 gun.

Therefore, no one objected to Yu Xiaotian's idea of eliminating a batch of No. 3 guns and selling them to Yan Siqi, not to mention that the No. 3 guns to be sold to Yan Siqi this time were all cast in the first few batches, and now they have been used repeatedly and are already old, even if they are given to Yan Siqi, there is no need to worry.

As for the small cannons that Yan Siqi proposed, in fact, they refer to those bowl-mouth guns, exterminating cannons, tiger squat cannons and the like, which weigh no more than 100 catties and have a power of about a pound cannon.

So the matter of the cannon was settled, but the number was temporarily reduced to twenty three-pounder cannons, a total of thirty tiger squat cannons and imitation exterminators, and Yan Siqi could not give him as much as he wanted, so that he always had a feeling that the sea wolf himself was not enough, this was barely to see face, and squeezed out for them.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian considered that in order to enhance Yan Siqi's strength, the six-pounder cannon and the tiger squat cannon alone would definitely not be enough for Yan Siqi to fight against Zheng Yiguan, so he made a special case and specially cast five monkey versions of the No. 5 short cannon for Yan Siqi, that is, the twelve-pounder howitzer they used before, but deliberately reduced the thickness of the cannon wall and reduced the amount of gunpowder loading, and at the same time did not use the water-cooled casting method of the inner mold that they have begun to use, and deliberately added a few heavy iron hoops to the cannon body, so that the power was reduced. The weight is heavier than the No. 5 gun used by the Seawolf itself, and the gun carriage does not use the four-wheeled marine gun carriage currently used by the Seawolf, and the recoil buffer reset device of the pulley group directly adopts the bulky fixed gun carriage.

In this way, it is more difficult for Yan Siqi to install these cannons on the ship, but the best way is to install them in his big village and use them as cannons for guarding the village, even if Yan Siqi turns around and turns his face with the sea wolf, these cannons will not play much role.