"What does the prince want a blacksmith for?" Zheng Zhilong was surprised.

Yi Yun's eyes swept left and right, and glanced at the servants and guards who were serving tea in the room. Zheng Zhilong suddenly realized, maybe there are Liu Xiang's spies among these people, the betrayal of the old brother is trouble, and anyone around him may be a spy. He had no choice but to turn to the side and put his ears in front of Yi Yun.

Yi Yun then bit his ear and whispered, "I want to build a lot of new cannons, so that I can blast the Dutch out of when there are equal numbers." I have so few blacksmiths on board that it takes them ten days to make a cannon, and I don't know how long it will take to deal with the Dutch...... If you help me get a blacksmith, I will be able to get the Dutch and Liu Xiang. ”

Zheng Zhilong immediately understood, it seemed that the prince had invented some powerful new weapon, and he asked in a low voice: "Lord Wang, have you tried this new weapon? Is it reliable or not? If it doesn't work, it will be bad if you put yourself in danger." ”

"Nonsense, of course it's reliable, you just have to help me get a blacksmith!"

"Okay, it's a trivial matter, blacksmith, it's a lot!" Zheng Zhilong laughed.

The two finished whispering, sat upright, and began to talk about unrelated matters. After chatting for a while, Zheng Zhilong ordered the people on the left and right: "Come on, go to the island and gather all the blacksmiths, and there are people who have been blacksmiths in the past, and they are all called, and the prince wants to ask them to work." ”

For more than a year, Zheng Zhilong was not idle, he used his strong financial resources to immigrate tens of thousands of people from the mainland to the Penghu Islands, and nearly 100,000 people to Dayuan Island. In addition, Zheng Zhilong is a pirate after all. He also captured many people from small countries to come to the island to do hard labor, and these people also became immigrants in disguise. There were Fuso, Luzon, Ryukyu, and other small countries such as Burma and Vietnam, and a large number of people were captured by him. Among these people, there are also many blacksmiths, especially those of Fuso, who are more skilled. No worse than the blacksmith of the Great Moe Country.

Taken together, there are more than 400 blacksmiths in this group, which is quite large. After Zheng Zhilong found all the blacksmiths, he announced with a smile: "Everyone, listen, the prince of Jiashan now urgently needs to build a batch of swords, guns, swords, halberds. These swords, guns, swords, and halberds are used to arm the third-order family Ding army of the Jiashan Prince, and you all give me motivation!"

"Build swords, guns, swords, halberds?" The blacksmiths were a little dazed, this kind of low-end weapon, they didn't have the energy to fight.

Yi Yun also smiled and took over and ordered: "During the period of building swords, guns and halberds for me, you will be gathered in a closed management arsenal, and you will not be allowed to leave until the work is done...... Correspondence with family members is also not permitted. ...... I can guarantee that you will live a very happy life, eat well, dress well, and get a high salary...... which is a closed management method used in later generations to prevent information leakage. Yi Yun knew that Zheng Zhilong's subordinates had many Liu Xiang's spies, and there might be some in this group of blacksmiths, but as long as they were all closed and managed, he wouldn't have to worry about his new cannon leaking news.

Hearing this, the blacksmiths hesitated a little, what is the difference between this and going to prison? Many blacksmiths have the idea of retreating.

At this time, Yi Yun suddenly took out a silver ticket. He said loudly: "Everyone look at it, this is a silver ticket of 50,000 taels, and there are more than 400 of you here." This job is well done, and this silver ticket will be handed over to you to share. ”

The blacksmiths were stunned, and their eyes immediately turned red, more than 400 people divided 50,000 taels, oh my God, each person could get at least more than 100 taels. That's a lot of money. You must know that the blacksmiths' usual income is not very much, at most ten or twenty taels of silver a year. If this job is done well, it is equivalent to five years' wages. ...,

"Damn, I'm going to do it!" a blacksmith jumped up and shouted: "Closed management is closed management, for a hundred taels, Lao Tzu can't make love with his wife for a few months." ”

"Even if I go to jail, I'm willing to go. Another blacksmith also jumped up: "Spend a few months in prison for five years' wages, and the fool will not go." ”

"私は行きたく" A Fuso blacksmith can understand the big Meng language, but he can't speak it, so he has to call "私は行きたく" in Fusang language, which is actually the meaning of "I am willing to go".

Zheng Zhilong saw Yi Yun digging out of his pocket, of course, he as the master also wanted to express it, so he also reached into his arms, took out a silver ticket, and shouted: "The prince will reward you with 50,000 taels, and I will reward you with 50,000 taels as well...... Good work!"

"Wow!" The blacksmiths were really excited at this moment, two fifty thousand taels, one person can get two hundred taels of silver, ten years of wages! With this money, what can you really do to marry a daughter-in-law, take a second wife, and raise a junior?

The blacksmiths agreed, and the rest was easy. Zheng Zhilong specially found a small island for Yi Yun to station, this island has not yet been developed, it is an uninhabited island, as soon as Yi Yun's army arrived, he immediately blocked the island, and more than 400 blacksmiths were transported to the island, and then a large number of iron drills, furnaces, iron blocks and other resources, continuously transported up. Zheng Zhilong's strength is indeed strong, and there are a large amount of pig iron piled up in his warehouse, which he bought and smuggled from several small iron-producing countries.

Because the policy of Dameng prohibits salt and iron smuggling, the profit of smuggling pig iron is very high, Zheng Zhilong specializes in this kind of illegal business, he has become the governor and is still smuggling behind his back, it can be seen that he is really a thief, but this kind of trivial matter, Yi Yun will also turn a blind eye.

After setting up tents and setting up temporary camps on the island where the blacksmiths gathered, Iyun's fleet surrounded the island three layers inside and three layers outside, so that all news could not enter or exit, and then the island began to work on the cannons. In order to preserve the secrets of rifled cannons to the greatest extent, Yi Yun only asked Zheng Zhilong's blacksmith to be responsible for creating smoothbore cannons, that is, ordinary cannons. The last job of rifling the barrel was carried out by his own blacksmiths. In this way, even if the closed management is over and the group of blacksmiths are put back, they will think that they are making ordinary cannons, and they will not know that they are actually building cannons.

The most special of this group of blacksmiths are more than a dozen Fusang blacksmiths, in fact, these Fusang blacksmiths are not immigrants, they should be regarded as slaves, and they were forcibly captured by Zheng Zhilong from the seaside village of Fusang. Closed management is a matter of course for them, and they don't have the courage to be free.

To put it simply, you have been caught by a group of foreigners and worked as coolies on their territory, do you dare to demand equal treatment from foreigners? If you dare to talk nonsense, they will kill you with a knife! This is the case with this group of Fuso blacksmiths. Zheng Zhilong didn't ask them if they were willing at all, and directly gave them to Yi Yun as slaves.

Getting this batch of Fuso blacksmiths was a surprise for Yi Yun. He soon discovers that several blacksmiths are actually from Tanegashima, who are authentic Tanegashima gunsmiths who can not only craft the traditional fuso katana and carcass, but also the famous Tanegashima gun.

This can make Yi Yunle bad, and the blacksmiths of the Great Meng Kingdom under his command can only make cannons, not guns. Although he made a rifle, he couldn't build it, and with these Tanegashima gunsmiths, the rifle would not be a problem! Moreover, these guys were all slaves, and Iyun could take them away without fear of technology outflow. Such unfair restrictions are inconvenient for blacksmiths in their own country, and they are suspected of being table tennis compatriots.

Yiyun has always believed that table tennis is okay, we can only table tennis foreigners, and we can't use our own people. ...,

As a result, as soon as these Fuso craftsmen entered the camp, they were isolated and put into a special small tent to live in, with their special iron drills and stoves, and outsiders had no idea what they were doing.

With so many blacksmiths working together, the efficiency was very high, and within a few days, a cannon was born, followed by the female soldiers, rock-paper-scissors, four seasons of fortune, fifteen or twenty little bees, and a new third-order "cannon" came into being. Yi Yun hurriedly invited Zheng Zhilong to the island, as a strategic partner, it was necessary for Yi Yun to let him understand his strength, so as not to have problems with coordination, so he smiled and said to him: "Governor Zheng, the first new cannon has finally been built today, I specially invite you to take a look." ”

"Oh?" Zheng Zhilong was quite interested.

I saw that a cannon had been erected on the mountain, and the appearance of this cannon was very rustic, not much different from ordinary cannons. Well, in fact, there is no difference in appearance between a cannon and an ordinary smoothbore gun, the biggest difference between them is the rifling, and the rifling is not visible, it is ...... in the barrel Zheng Zhilong looked at it for a long time, and he didn't know why, so he said strangely: "This is a new cannon, where is the new?"

"If you look at it, you'll know what's new!" Yi Yun said with a grin: "Set the target!"

After a while, the soldiers set up a target five miles away from the cannon, which was a boat-shaped target, which was actually an old boat that was in tatters and ready to be decommissioned.

Zheng Zhilong took out the Western telescope, and finally saw the target five miles away, and said profusely: "This ...... The target is so far away and so small, can it hit?"

"Whether you can hit or not, it depends on the luck of our artillery!" Yi Yun smiled and said to the artillery girl beside him: "Go, test fire a shot to Governor Zheng." ”

The artillery girl nodded with a smile and said shyly: "Lord Wang, thank you for choosing me to be promoted to artilleryman among those many people...... I'm going to make you tonight. ”

Khan, Yiyun's body flashed, and he almost turned and ran away. Zheng Zhilong also sweated profusely, and thought to himself: It turns out that in the prince's army, if a woman wants to be promoted to an artilleryman, she has to make him want to die...... It's so wicked.