Wang Hongyu first reminisced with his brother-in-law, and the two actually didn't have been separated for long, but this time they were in a hurry in the capital and didn't have a deep chat.

This time, he wanted to ask his brother-in-law Liu Ruoyu whether he entered Beijing as a eunuch when he was in a good family situation, and whether it was just as rumored that there were immortals to guide him to assist the master from the palace.

This matter can't be asked openly, this is a taboo thing, if there is really something, the uncle can't say it, he just asks in hidden words.

Liu Ruoyu was very surprised, thinking that his parents hadn't even told him about it, how could his nephew know?

Could it be that the nephew is the master he is looking for? Because in the dream, the immortal said that only the Ming Lord knew about it, so he asked him to wait for the Ming Lord in the capital.

For more than 20 years, I have been looking hard, and I first pinned my hopes on the Lord of the Ming Dynasty to be Wanli, but Wanli could not be called the Lord of the Ming Dynasty anyway, and he was still called Liu Shimin at that time, and he always treated Wanli as an imaginary Lord of the Ming Dynasty.

But when the two of them talked about dreaming, Tianqi was ashamed to say that he had never been out of the capital for seventeen years, he had never even dreamed, and he had very few opportunities to even get out of the imperial city.

That's right, Apocalypse wasn't born yet.

Liu Shimin was lost again, could it be that he was looking for the wrong direction?

It wasn't until Wang Hongyu defeated hundreds of thousands of rebels of luxury Chongming and An Bangyan that the five southwestern provinces that had not been done by countless emperors for hundreds of years were completed in one year.

Since then, Liu Shimin has positioned the master he is looking for on his nephew Wang Hongyu, and at this time he thought that the night he had that strange dream happened to be born in Zunyi, Sichuan.

This was learned from a letter from his sister after he had been a eunuch in the capital a few months later, Liu Shimin thought it was strange at the time, but he never thought about it, and now Wang Hongyu is obviously reminding himself.

He also replied in the affirmative in hidden words, but this matter can only be understood and cannot be spoken, this is the secret of the uncle and nephew, it must not be made public, and the two of them cannot explain it clearly, and the leakage of the heavenly secret will be punished.

There was a tacit understanding, Wang Hongyu and his uncle Liu Ruoyu did not say a word of relevance.

"Uncle, you can give the Ming army of Guangning a timely rain! With these guns and cannons, Quang Ninh has something to rely on."

There is no doubt that his uncle Liu Ruoyu is his strongest supporter, the person he trusts the most, and the person he is closest to in the world.

On the surface, he first took action against the Wa Kingdom in the imperial court, but in fact he used the technique of transferring flowers and grafting trees. Wang Hongyu set the main battlefields in Zhejiang and Fujian, which is not wrong, but the main opponent is not the Japanese state.

Because the Japanese could not maneuver at sea, the enemy who came to Zhejiang and Fujian was bound to be the Netherlands, and of course there were also Japanese people.

Because the total number of Dutch troops in Asia was only a few thousand, and the Netherlands still had to control the newly seized colonies from Portugal, there was definitely not enough manpower, and the landing operations mainly relied on the mercenaries of the Ronin.

Now that the Ming army in Guangning has used the Hongyi cannons, Lumi guns, and turtledove foot guns brought by Liu Ruoyu, the naval and land soldiers in Zhejiang and Fujian are lacking these powerful hot weapons.

Cai Fuyi's Canton navy had begun to be equipped with Hongyi cannons, Lumi guns, and turtledove guns, and the Western craftsmen he hired to build the Karak battleship, the Galen battleship, and the large ship-based guns, also known as the Hongyi cannon, were hired by the Macau Francos and the Western craftsmen mobilized by the Jinnige.

Li Tiezhu also succeeded in building a large shipborne cannon with the help of technicians transferred from Jinnige, and it was an iron-core copper cannon, and it was also equipped with a heat dissipation belt hot and cold water circulation system, which was more advanced than the copper cannon in the Netherlands.

As a large-scale all-out war approached, the number of muskets and artillery was far from enough.

It can't even meet the needs of Zhejiang and Fujian.

The Japanese will inevitably plunder the southeast as they did in the Jiajing period, but Zhejiang and Fujian have begun to build warships and cannons, but they started late, especially the production capacity of Hongyi cannons, Lumi guns and turtledove foot guns is still not large.

In one year, the production capacity of the Ordnance Bureau of Uncle Liu Ruoyu has changed a lot, and these 60 Hongyi cannons, 3,000 Lumi guns, and 800 turtledove guns are definitely not all the products produced by the Ordnance Bureau.

Wang Hongyu estimated that his brother-in-law must have returned his own mud

The River Army, the Shennong Army, and the New Army prepared firearms.

At present, his three main forces cannot rush to Fujian in the short term, but some of them are already preparing to go to Shandong for joint training with the British Duke Zhang Weixian and the Duke of Chengguo Zhu Chunchen.

The so-called joint training is to use the White Lotus Sect to train troops on the battlefield, and it is estimated that these most advanced weapons will not be useful, and these heavy firearms are prepared for the Netherlands and the Japanese Kingdom.

To deal with the rebels, you can use a bird gun and a small and medium-sized Fran cannon or a tiger squat cannon.

Most of the plains in Shandong can be used with the initial formation, mainly to show the friendly army the supervision and discipline of their soldiers from bottom to top.

At present, the more urgent thing is to solve the problem of the naval guns of Zhejiang and Fujian, as well as the Lumi guns and turtledoves foot guns. The strategy of the southeast is set by itself, and of course it is necessary to make full preparations in advance.

Uncle has to play a greater role in the Ordnance Bureau, and this time it is the right time to talk to Uncle Liu Ruoyu about the next step of production and development of the Ordnance Bureau.

Wang Hongyu's instructions to his brother-in-law Liu Ruoyu were:

The Ordnance Bureau went on to make the Hongyi Cannon, the Rumi Gun and the Turtledove Foot Gun, and tried to make flintlock pistols and tissue paper rounds.

Wang Hongyu had already prepared the drawings and process procedures for manufacturing flintlock pistols and tissue paper bullets, as long as Liu Ruoyu arranged for technicians to interpret them, but he repeatedly told them to do a good job in the confidentiality of all aspects of the production line.

When his uncle Liu Ruoyu understood Wang Hongyu's intentions, Wang Hongyu carefully handed over the corresponding technical drawings and process flow to his uncle.

Now it was a paper charge, and the bullets were small iron balls or lead balls, which were still separated.

In the past, there were bullets in which paper-wrapped bullets and iron balls were sealed together with thin paper to form a single bullet with ammunition.

According to the old-fashioned method of packing, the bird gun shoots three shots a minute at the fastest, and the turtledove foot gun shoots two shots a minute.

The use of thin paper wrapped bullets reduces the amount of gunpowder poured, the small stick tamping the gunpowder, the re-tamping of round ammunition, and the long time after firing the gun to clean the chamber, and the firing speed is doubled.

Now with bullets, you can shoot 10 shots a minute, and the era of rifles is coming.

In terms of artillery shells, Daming itself has a good technology, and has long known the difference between propellant and incendiary explosive. In actual firearms, there are also weapons that are similar to the two-kick that advance and then burn and explode.

It's just that it's not used for cannon barrels and cannon ammunition.

Although the firing pin fuse is very difficult, the delayed fuse technique is not so difficult, as long as there is good mathematics and calculation and battlefield ranging, the explosive shell can bombard the enemy as planned.

This is the "flowering shell" of the late Ming Dynasty in history, that is, the explosive shell.