The road from Guangxi to Guangdong is relatively smooth.

More than ten days later, Wang Hongyu met Cai Fuyi in Guangzhou, and although the two had only been separated for a few months, they both felt as excited as if they had been reunited after a long absence, and they had endless words.

In the end, the topic returned to strategic planning and maritime thinking.

Wang Hongyu asked: "Mr. Yuan Lu has been in Guangdong for several months, and he knows a lot about overseas trade here, right?" Presumably there is a strategic vision for the revitalization of the Ming economy, and I would like to hear the thoughts of Yuan Xu. ”

Cai Fuyi replied: "Although I have not been in Guangdong for a long time, I have indeed done a little homework on Guangdong's overseas trade in the past few months, and I have a certain understanding of overseas trade. Overseas people rumored that I only like Western silver. In fact, the cargo ships that left the port were loaded with porcelain, silk, and tea, and they all came back with goods. ”

"Yes, trade is a dealing, not a one-sided sale. At present, we still buy most luxury goods, and in the future, we will let the merchant ships entering the port bring some ballast rice from Cochin. ”

Wang Hongyu attaches the most importance to grain, and even if Guangdong's grain production is not low, he also hopes to let grain flow.

With its dense rivers and abundant rainfall, Guangdong's locally produced rice is sold to other provinces to buy cheaper Cochin rice for itself. However, because the places where food is scarce are often remote and mountainous areas, transportation is inconvenient and the price is too high for anyone to afford.

At present, there is a surplus of rice stored in warehouses near the port of Guangzhou, and there is a shortage of grain in the mountainous areas of other places, so what needs to be solved at present is the problem of transportation between Guangdong and the mountainous areas of other places, and road construction has become the most urgent matter.

If you want to get rich and build roads first, it is an unbreakable truth in the past, present, and future.

Recently, the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty have often been plundered, and the goods and ships have been robbed, and the crew and ship owners have not survived. According to individual crew members who escaped, the participants included Dutch people, Liu Xiang, and a small group of pirates.

It was imminent to crack down on the Dutch pirates and organize escorts, and Wang Hongyu immediately reported this important matter to the Emperor of the Apocalypse through the Flying Pigeon Messenger.

Cai Fuyi suggested that Qinzhou, Hepu, Lingwei, Leizhoufu, Wuchuan, Yangjiang, Chaoyang, Chenghai and other places with rivers should open to the sea.

The opening of the sea must guarantee the safety of merchant ships at home and abroad, and it is urgent to build a strong navy, the shipbuilding industry will soon be developed, and ship-borne artillery must be built as soon as possible.

Such a huge naval fleet could not be established at all with the current economic strength of the Ming Dynasty, so Wang Hongyu planned to recruit pirates first, use them to protect trade, and at the same time form his own caravan and navy.

In order to solve the cost of building warships and cannons, recruiting the navy and crew, Wang Hongyu planned to ask the maritime merchants to donate, and only the maritime merchants who donated would be issued with a maritime trade business license, as well as the dragon flag of the daimyo navy.

Only with a maritime trade music license can you go to sea, otherwise you will be punished as smuggling.

Wang Hongyu already knows that Cai Fuyi's understanding of the Ming Dynasty's strategic vision, as well as his understanding of maritime commerce and maritime trade, has reached a considerable height, and he can also take on greater responsibilities after the sublimation of theory to practice.

Especially when Wang Hongyu told him about Cao Xuequan's proposal to assign Qinzhou and Lianzhou to Guangxi, Cai Fuyi said: "Cao Xuequan is also talented!" ”

It can be seen how broad-minded Cai Fuyi is.

Wang Hongyu proposed that two years later, Cai Fuyi should be promoted to the governor of Guangxi and Guangxi, and Guangxi would be done well.

Cai Fuyi is now the governor of Guangdong, which is considered to be the same level as the previous governor of Yunyang, but his real power has increased slightly.

According to this time, the logistics and the transfer of troops from Huguang Town to Guizhou have played a very great overall role.

So it's a little bit of a liter.

In the future, he was promoted to the governor of Liangguang, which was naturally a matter of course.

Cai Fuyi is also the kind of official who is really capable.

The Great Wall of Miaojiang made Huguang stable and laid the foundation for the stability of the southwest.

There weren't so many rebellions in Canton, but piracy was tricky, mixed with the arrival of the Franco, Ace Duck, and the Dutch.

If the chief officer does not have the mind of the overall situation and does not understand some military affairs and strategies, he will not be able to lead Guangdong to seize the opportunities of the times.

It just so happened that when he was by Wang Hongyu's side, he came into contact with Jinnige, Deng Yuhan, Bi Fangji and others, and knew what advantages and disadvantages these foreigners had.

At this time, he sat in the city of Guangzhou, strengthened personnel exchanges with Macao, and soon established a new firearms workshop in Guangzhou.

Although the scale is not as large as that of Macao and Yunyang, it is only larger than the scale of Chongqing's new construction.

Cai Fuyi took Wang Hongyu to inspect the newly built firearms workshop.

The workshop is in full swing producing Franc cannons and bird guns, the most numerous of which are arquebuses.

The arquebus could be mass-produced during the Wanli period, and it was considered a standard weapon at this time, and there were a certain number of soldiers in each battalion.

However, its disadvantages are very deadly, it is slow to fire, the arquebus depends on the weather, it is dangerous to carry gunpowder, it cannot be arranged in too dense formations, and it cannot be melee because of the complexity......

Under the city of Guiyang, An Bangyan had 3,000 bird soldiers, because of the dense formation, a large number of casualties were killed and injured after the fire, resulting in the direct collapse of the bird soldiers.

Wang Hongyu checked a newly built bird gun, it seems that the workmanship is still very good, the whole gun is close to one person long, weighs 20 pounds, the barrel is brand new and straight, and there is no cutting corners.

"At every step of production, the names of the craftsmen will be recorded, and the quality is directly related to their wages, future and safety, plus there are craftsmen who have returned from Macao to guide, so the quality is guaranteed." Cai Fuyi introduced the supervision of production.

"No, it's still not good."

Wang Hongyu and Cai Fuyi didn't need to go around in circles, and directly put forward their opinions.

"This can't be done, this kind of weapon, which was introduced 50 years ago, happened to be used 30 years ago, and is now slightly outdated, should be produced by ordinary weapons workshops, not this newest place."

Cai Fuyi nodded when he heard this: "Indeed, in Yunyang, I have seen the production of Lumi guns, Thunderbolt guns, and even more powerful turtledove guns in the Hunhe Army, do you want to mass-produce these?"

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"Mass-produced Lumi guns, although they are also arquebuses, but the power and range are better. Turtledove foot guns and thunderbolt guns are produced in small quantities as supplements, after all, these two have higher requirements for shooters. ”

In the first stage of a large number of firearms, Wang Hongyu still chose Lu Mi gun as his main equipment.

"But it's not enough." Wang Hongyu said with certainty: "Because it's an arquebus." ”

It is necessary to enter the period of flintlock pistols as early as possible, after all, our musketeers cannot be wound with arquebus, carry gunpowder on their backs, and then use bayonets or cold weapons to fight. ”

Wang Hongyu pointed out the biggest problem with arquebuses very sharply.

That is, the combat is very inconvenient, once you get into close combat, it is very dangerous, and the arquebus with a bayonet is not very useful.

Flintlock pistols can overcome these problems, allowing hot weapons to further replace cold weapons.