After a year of construction, the harbor terminal was finally built.

Qi Heng also allowed major merchants to send ships to sea according to his previous promise and according to the amount of money and effort.

The sea hides countless riches, but also countless dangers.

Not to mention pirates, even if there is a big wind and waves, maybe the ship will be overturned, and the lives of a boatload of people may be lost.

If you want to go to sea, you must be fully prepared, the ship must be good, and you must also find people who can go to sea, who can discern the direction in the sea, and who can endure hardships.

For the sake of safety, Qi Heng also sent several official ships and let five hundred soldiers go to sea with him, which is both protection and surveillance.

"This is the first time I go to sea, I believe everything will go well." Yun Chu asked Qi Heng with a strong grip.

Qi Heng said, "I hope everything goes well." ”

That being said, the truth is that Qi Heng has no hope at all.

Not to mention anything else, Qi Heng believes that King Zheng will never let go of the opportunity to block him, if he doesn't take the opportunity to do something, unless the sun hits the west and comes out, it is absolutely impossible!

Sure enough, it was only two months before the fleet set off, and they came back in embarrassment, and they met pirates! Heavy losses! Less than half of the people who came back went out! It can be seen how many people died.

Qi Heng asked the person he sent out, "Are you sure it's a pirate?" ”

"Enlightened Shizi, those people are well-trained and well-armed, and they don't look like undisciplined pirates at all."

As soon as he heard this, Qi Heng understood that nine out of nine were the hands and feet of King Zheng.

What a King Zheng!

"King Zheng's people, are their weapons good?" Qi Heng was a little more interested in King Zheng's weapons.

"Most of those people were using firearms."

Firearm! Qi Heng's eyes froze.

Qi Heng had seen firearms, but this thing was strictly managed, and he had only tried it once in person, so he had no chance to touch it.

"How many?" Qi Heng asked in a deep voice.

"There were about 500 pirates this time, and almost half of them had firearms and a cannon." As if thinking of some terrible scene, the man's brows furrowed tightly, "It's very powerful, and in the face of firearms, we have almost no resistance." ”

Firearms!

Qi Heng was tempted, if only he had such a good thing in his hands.

Emperor Mingsheng has been banning firearms all year round, Qi Heng can guess Emperor Mingsheng's thoughts, she is afraid.

Because the power of the firearm was too great, and the research was very difficult, Emperor Ming Sheng would rather let him be dusted than let it appear.

Obviously, King Zheng can see the hidden power and value of firearms, and over the years, King Zheng is afraid that he has not been able to get firearms from overseas.

"If only I could know where King Zheng's firearms are, I can get a batch." Qi Heng said thoughtfully.

Do what you think!

Qi Heng is not such a person who sits idly by!

King Zheng is now staring at him, afraid that as long as he goes out of a boat here, he is afraid that he will immediately encounter pirates.

The seaport was built, and the sea ban was opened to allow maritime trade.

But if he can't make any money and can't make results for a long time, what will Emperor Mingsheng think of him? Would you be willing to summon him back to the palace?

Qi Heng had to return to the capital as soon as possible, because Emperor Ming Sheng was too old, and if something happened, he would not be in the capital, which would be inconvenient after all.

Qi Heng had his eyes on King Zheng's firearm, so even if he couldn't get it, he would destroy it.

This is not an easy task, but Qi Heng must do it.

Seeing that Qi Heng didn't have a ship to go to sea, King Zheng was in a good mood.

He and Qi Heng are endless, Qi Heng is good, then he is not good here, it is absolutely impossible.

King Zheng smiled on his lips, but he was not happy for a month, his firearms arsenal was gone, and he was blown up!

Those firearms were blown to shreds, and they couldn't be used at all!

King Zheng looked at the firearms depot that had been blown up to pieces, his eyes widened, his eyes almost didn't pop out, and he was so angry that he spurted out a mouthful of blood.

His heart's work! He spent countless years of money and energy to save up such a small firearm, and it turned out that it was all gone!

The old opponent was unlucky, and Qi Heng was naturally happy.

Qi Heng tried to steal King Zheng's firearms depot, but it was too difficult, it was heavily guarded, and it was very difficult to get close, let alone empty the contents inside.

Since it is destined to be something that cannot belong to oneself, then destroy it, completely ruining King Zheng's hard work.

Without firearms, the military forces of both sides are on the same level.

If King Zheng wants to send someone to pretend to be a pirate again, then come and see who is more powerful and who beats who to the ground.

"These firearms of King Zheng were all obtained from overseas. Overseas, firearms are developing very quickly. Yun Chu also hopes that Qi Heng can develop more firearms, in modern times, but anyone who has studied history does not know how badly they have been bullied by those firearms abroad.

Step behind, step behind! And if you fall behind, you can only be beaten!

Since this is the case, it is necessary to develop firearms as early as possible, and we must not be beaten!

"Hmm. This time, I instructed the henchmen I sent out to get more firearms and come back. But there won't be a lot of them. "Emperor Ming Sheng doesn't like firearms, and it is impossible for him to blatantly get a bunch of firearms back.

People have to bow their heads under the eaves.

But one day, he won't need to bow his head again.

Yun Chu suddenly realized something, "King Zheng's firearms arsenal has been blown up by you, so he will definitely continue to secretly deal with firearms." ”

"Yes. However, like me, he didn't dare to do it on a large scale, so he could only do it secretly, which doomed us to not get many firearms.

King Zheng has been in Jiangnan for so many years, but his firearms arsenal is only those things. The only big one, that is, a cannon. ”

"When you are in power, you must vigorously develop firearms.

If you think about the power of firearms, if people from overseas come to us with firearms, and our firearms are inferior to theirs, then we can only be beaten? ”

Qi Heng looked at Yun Chu with a strange look in his eyes, "Do you like firearms very much?" ”

"Not like. I just don't want to fall behind and get beaten. After a pause, Yun Chu looked at Qi Heng with a smile, "Don't you think that you are the Heavenly Empire and look down on those overseas barbarians at all?" ”

Didn't the Qing Dynasty close itself to the country for a long time, and always regarded itself as the superior country of the Celestial Empire and looked down on foreign countries.

As a result, as soon as the war began, it was defeated, and then there was a series of humiliating histories.

"We do have our own strengths, but overseas people also have their own strengths. Don't look down on those overseas people too much.

Pride and arrogance are easy to lose. ”

Qi Heng smiled, "I understand what you mean. I'm like the imperial grandmother, since it's a powerful and useful good thing, why don't you develop it well?

However, it is not impossible for those overseas people to beat us with firearms, and we have to take precautions. ”