It is also an hour and a half to ride a horse, and there are three companies of family members and twice the number of family members stationed here at any time, and the horse team also has to be on duty and patrol here in shifts, and the villages around this workshop have been moved, so there will be no outsiders, or they can be arrested as soon as outsiders appear.

The place where the artillery was inspected was on the shooting range, which was an open flat field, and when you looked in the direction of the shot, there were distance markers every hundred paces.

"Is this your improved artillery?" Zhao Jin asked, and the reason why he asked such a sentence was because the improved artillery was very different from the drawings he gave.

The artillery body in front of him is nothing strange, it looks much finer than the official artillery captured that day, but the gun carriage and gun carriage are different from what Zhao Jin showed to the craftsmen, his drawings have been shown to the foreigners, and he has also been shown to the blacksmiths of the Xu family, but the one in front of him is obviously not that kind.

It's more like a shrunken cart, with a body and wheels that are one size smaller and shorter, or rather, the kind of socket of fire that the blacksmith designed, is used directly here, and the cannon is placed on the board.

"How many shells can this cannon hit?" Although Zhao Jin knows a lot about artillery, the casting process and the materials used are different, and the size and shape of the products are very surprising, and what he knows is not accurate.

"A dozen taels a catty, almost two catties." With the blacksmith Yu Shan, many words that need to be translated can be paraphrased directly.

Sixteen taels and one catty, for so many years, Zhao Jin has never been accustomed to this base system conversion, he was stunned, and Yu Shan continued: "These masters said that this is three catties and two, which may be the usage of the west." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Jin couldn't help laughing, but he also understood the meaning that it should be a three-pounder gun, but does Europe use this unit in this era? Or maybe it's a unit in French or another language.

"Can you adjust the angle of fire?" Zhao Jin opened his mouth and asked, blacksmith Yu Shan's face was a little confused, Zhao Jin smiled and changed his words: "Can you change it if you hit far and close?" ”

Yu Shan nodded again and again and said: "This can, this can, this time I came to invite the master to see this." ”

The Prussian Lao Mai on the side had been watching the artillery, and Louis was staring at Zhao Jin, and when he heard Yu Shan talk about this, he hurriedly stepped forward and interjected: "Please come in and look at this side." ”

Although Louie's official accent is still very strange, he can understand it, and he is much more fluent than before, he is very attentive to lead Zhao in front of the gun, Zhao Jin followed, and the guards drove everyone away from the artillery, and some people reached out to the cannon hole to try.

"Look here."

Zhao Jin noticed that the gun body was fixed in a wooden groove, and between the groove and the frame, there were wooden wedges embedded there, which seemed to be an inclined plane, and there were several wooden wedges with a triangular inclined plane scattered under the gun carriage.

Seeing this, Zhao Jin already understood what the improvement was, and these foreigners had seen it, so the direction was right, and the right thing was created.

"Maybe Master Jin doesn't understand this, wait for the little ones to fire first." Louis said with a smile, Zhao Jin nodded with a smile, and walked to the side, Louis thought that he understood that the sense of crisis of this foreigner was strengthening a little bit, after that old Mai came, he was a little more active, and after this blacksmith Yu Shan joined, he was more active.

The details of this adjustment of the firing range, Zhao Jin only recalled it after seeing the real thing, but Zhao Jin also knew that this foreigner Louis had already known this, as long as he had been on the battlefield and manipulated artillery, he would not be unaware, and the reason why he had only taken it out until now may be forced by this sense of crisis.

After Zhao Jin flashed to the side, Louis and the others began to load the artillery, and the movements of the three foreigners were all smooth and skillful, only Yu Shan looked a little unable to intervene.

After the shells were loaded, under the supervision of the guards, several people came over with charcoal stoves, ready to ignite and open fire.

There was a loud bang, many guards subconsciously took a few steps back, and some people still had a look of fear on their faces, which were all seen by Zhao Jin, he knew that the guards who guarded him were all selected elites, and there was no problem with loyalty, and they could sacrifice their lives and forget about death in order to protect themselves, but these people who were afraid of retreating were experiencing the roar of artillery for the first time, and it was inevitable to be frightened.

"Let the family members listen to the sound of the cannon and experience this, otherwise, if you hear the roar of the cannon on the battlefield, it will collapse at once." Zhao Jin said to himself.

As soon as the cannon was fired, you could see smoke and dust rising in the distance in the direction of the shot, which was where the shells landed, Zhao Jin squinted his eyes and said with some surprise: "It's farther than the last shot." ”

Before the blacksmith Yu Shan could speak, the foreigner Louis hurriedly said: "This is all the credit of Lao Mai, the cannon cast in the past was not able to be filled with too much gunpowder because of the fear of exploding, but Lao Mai improved the method of casting, dug a pit in the ground and placed a mold, cast the cannon vertically, and poured copper water layer by layer, pressing it solidly underneath, so this cannon can be loaded with more gunpowder." ”

Compared with Lao Mai, who only knows gambling and drinking, and Yu Shan, who has just left the anvil to be in charge, the experienced Louis understands a lot.

The longer he stays in Xuzhou, the more he understands the situation here, Louis sees very clearly, for the manufacture of firearms and related processes, these things he knows will be more and more depreciated, although the new Lao Mai doesn't know much, but he already knows a lot of details that he doesn't know, this local Yu Shan can draw inferences, as long as the lord of Xuzhou still spends so much money to search, he will definitely be able to find craftsmen and technicians who really know how to do it, and he will be useless at that time.

For Louie, this Da Ming was unplanned, if it weren't for the damn shipwreck, he wouldn't have come to Xuzhou at all, but after coming here, he had a chance.

From Europe to Asia, from the West to the East, a journey of tens of thousands of miles, dozens of countries, Louis was well-informed, and when he began to meet Zhao Jin, he thought that Zhao Jin was the kind of powerful nobleman, with a fief, commanding a regular army of considerable size, such a force in Europe must at least be an earl, and even worthy of the position of a duke, so that for a period of time, Louis and his servants always thought that "Baozheng" was the name of the great nobles in Chinese.

When he knew that the team that looked strict and similar to the elite troops of European countries was not a regular bureau, but Zhao Jin's private soldiers, Louis from France imagined Zhao Jin as the prince of the princely states of India, and even the bold Charles of France back then, who was the king of the land on one side, or a warlord seeking a greater position, but with continuous learning, this understanding was overturned.

Louis speaks with a very strange accent in the official dialect, and the words are often joked, but the people who listen to him often forget one thing, that is, he has only studied for a few months, and the official language of many of the Tartar guys brought by Wang Ziyang is still very stiff after more than a year, and Louis is already fluent, even in Europe, there are not many people like Louis who have received a proper education, he knows how to learn, and he also knows the method of learning, those golden and silver glittering precious metals gave Louis endless motivation, so that he was hungry to understand Zhao Jin, Understand Xuzhou, understand the knowledge related to the Ming Dynasty, and then, the interpreter was instructed again, and Louis had to answer anything he asked.

When he knew the general situation of the Ming Dynasty and the situation of Zhao Ziying, Louis was very cold, it turned out that this was not a local king or nobleman, it was clearly a bandit entrenched in Xuzhou, and the regular army of the Ming Dynasty had a terrifying number of more than a million, and now he couldn't spare his hand, if the emperor was serious, then Xuzhou would be exterminated.

I thought I had become a guest of the Oriental Prince, but I didn't expect that I would become a slave of robbers, but looking at the appearance of Xuzhou, it is clearly a prosperous and rigorous Dominion, and it doesn't look like a thief's nest, and when the interpreter said these words, he could see the whining expression very clearly, Louis was inevitably suspicious, but when the interpreter was in a good mood, he would also praise Xuzhou, but the description of Xuzhou and Zhao Jin was still like that, that is, the description of Xuzhou as a den of thieves was not a slander after venting his anger.

What if it's a bandit? Anyway, they really gave themselves gold and silver, and Xuzhou was cleaner and neater than all the places he had been, and the law and order was very good, not to mention bandits, even the kings and nobles of the East and the West did not have any requirements for the health of the territory, it didn't matter what the identity of this young Zhao Jin was, the key was that he was his own employer, or an employer who was willing to pay, this was enough, and he had to hurry up and do things, and now the servant Hildo was more popular than him

He thought that the Ming Dynasty was the same as Xuzhou, prosperous, neat, hygienic and orderly, but he did not expect to leave Xuzhou, he saw poverty and suffering, this Marco Polo's magical place full of gold and silver seems to be only vaguely in line with Xuzhou, and everywhere else, there is little difference from those hellish villages in Europe, and even more difficult.

Then there was the defeat of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, according to Louis himself in his diary, "this was an armed march, and when it arrived at its destination, it was victorious, and then returned".

After this battle, Louis suddenly realized one thing, no matter what Zhao Jin's identity is, nobleman, soil king, chieftain or robber, he has great ambitions, Zhao Jin is so young, he has established such a career, what he wants to do, he must want to seek more, or he has always coveted the crown of the Ming Dynasty.

This kind of conjecture made Louis tremble, but this trembling was not because of fear, but because of excitement, he was in Xuzhou for so many days, and the attitude of the people around him changed from fear to shame, and then became a normal acquaintance, and because he was a reliable "outsider" who was not familiar with the language, many words would not be kept secret, and he would say everything, he knew that many people felt that in the East, no one was Zhao Jin's opponent.

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