Alberg and the others are currently most proud of their Franc cannon, and they can't wait to hold this "big killer" tightly in their hands, and they don't even want to sell it, so how can they watch the gunsmiths who make artillery leave? Isn't this handing over key technologies?

I have to say that Zhao Jinbao's concerns are very reasonable.

"Worried you won't be able to go? I have to say, you're too worried."

However, Gu Yunji laughed when he heard this, as if he didn't take this to heart at all, and his tone was relaxed: "Let me ask you, where are you now?"

Zhao Jinbao was inexplicably laughed by him, and scratched his head: "I'm ...... now On the ship of the Franc man, Lord Gu, what are you asking for?"

Gu Yunji smiled but didn't answer, and asked again: "Then let me ask you again, where is the Franc machine ship you are on now?"

Zhao Jinbao was even more confused, looked around blankly, and said uncertainly: "This ship? The ship...... In the bay, the northern bay of Shaoxing Province."

"Not bad! This ship is in Shaoxing Province, even if it is at sea, it is within the jurisdiction of my Shaoxing Province. Of course, we can't meddle in the affairs of the ship at will, but this group of Buddha Langji people must also be under the management of the government, and they must not violate the laws of our Great Xia Kingdom."

Gu Yunji's tone was confident, and he said with a smile: "This is my Great Xia territory, and you are my Great Xia people. The people of our dynasty are within the territory of our dynasty, as long as they do not become female offenders, they will naturally do whatever they want, and can these Gentiles still be able to control it?"

Zhao Jinbao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then suddenly realized, and couldn't help laughing at his dead brain: "Yes, Master Gu is right, I want to go wrong. My Great Xia is the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and the country is strong, and I want to go back to my hometown, and most of the people of the Buddha will not dare to stop me."

Gu Yunji said firmly: "It's not the majority, but I must not dare to stop it. Even if they have advanced weapons, they have to see where they are, this is my Huaxia territory, even if they are not satisfied with your departure, do they dare to say anything? In the end, I can't just put up with it."

"There is the government to support you, what are you afraid of?"

These words can be said to have reassured Zhao Jinbao, and he suddenly relaxed: "With Lord Gu's words, my heart is steady. You have personally thrown an olive branch to me, how can I be unreasonable? Don't worry, I'll go back and mobilize the rest of the Chinese gunsmiths today, and I'll bring them to you one by one."

Gu Yunji smiled on his face, "Then I'm looking forward to your good news."

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Zhao Jinbao did what he said, and a few days later, he took the rest of the gunsmiths on the Franc machine ship and returned to China together and became an official craftsman in Shaoxing Mansion.

Not long after Mei Feng and his party who came to visit had just walked on their front feet, Zhao Jinbao and a few gunsmiths on their back feet were clamoring to leave the caravan and return to the territory of Great Xia. Although they claim that they "can't help but miss their homeland", Eberg is not a fool and naturally guesses the reason behind this.

However, as Gu Yunji expected, even if Alberg guessed it, he couldn't do anything, this was the territory of Great Xia, and as a foreigner, he had no right to detain the people of Great Xia. If Zhao Jinbao and the others were willing to be hired, it would be fine, if they were unwilling, the ten Franc machine caravans would not be able to stop them.

What's more, before the contract was signed, the Francophone caravan and the Great Xia government are still in a cooperative relationship on the surface, and Eberg has no evidence, so he can only secretly swallow this dumb loss, even if he is so angry that he wants to go crazy, he still has to be amicable when dealing with the people of the government.

Gu Yunji's side was calm about this, and he didn't think there was anything about it.

Zhao Jinbao and others were willing to return to China to become official craftsmen, in addition to the fact that they were forced to leave their hometowns in the first place, and more importantly, the treatment given to them by the Francophone people was too poor, and they did not treat the Chinese gunsmiths as human beings at all.

People tend to be content with the status quo, but most people are not willing to take risks to make changes when life gets by. The Franco-machine caravan itself has no ability to retain talents, so it is not to blame Gu Yunji for digging their corners.

Zhao Jinbao has been wandering overseas for many years, and now he has finally returned to his hometown after a long journey, and he has a well-paid errand, so he is naturally very grateful to Gu Yunji in his heart.

Although his mind is sometimes not very round, he is not stupid, and he knows that the firearm that the government cares about the most at present is the Franc cannon. After returning to China, he immediately took the gunsmiths to imitate it, and even patted his chest to promise Gu Yunji that he would definitely develop a cannon with better performance.

Shen Baiyi dabbled in a wide range of theoretical research, and learned that Gu Yunji had recruited technical talents from Eberg and was preparing to imitate the Franc machine gun, he was so excited that he couldn't sit still, so he simply joined Zhao Jinbao and others, soaked in the gun factory with them every day, and explored and debugged all night.

After more than a month, good news soon came from Shen Baiyi's side: the imitation of the Franc cannon was successful.

In the gun factory, when they saw the artillery imitated by Shen Baiyi and others, the eyes of everyone who rushed to hear the news widened, and they looked at it back and forth, and they were dumbfounded for a while.

Compared with the Franc cannon that I saw on the Eberg ship that day, the cannon in front of me was obviously larger, more than half the height, and the barrel had also been thickened and lengthened.

The manufacture of firearms in this era was relatively simple, and in most cases, the power of the guns could be judged by their size - the larger, heavier the firearms, the more lethal they were, and the more suitable for siege and naval warfare.

This cannon is much larger than the Franc cannon, and the power is naturally obvious. Mei Feng's eyes brightened the more he looked at it, and asked Shen Baiyi, "Is this your imitation of the Franc cannon?"

Shen Baiyi smiled and nodded: "Yes, this is exactly the research we have achieved in the past month, the imitation of the Franc cannon."

"However, it is not accurate to say that it is a copy, because we have also made improvements and optimizations on the basis of the original, please see-"

As he spoke, Shen Baiyi walked to the cannon and demonstrated it to everyone: "First of all, we have increased the number of sub-guns, from the original five to seven, and now we can achieve up to seven consecutive firings."

Su Qi was puzzled when he heard this: "I can understand this without Lord Shen saying it, the more Zi Gong, the more consecutive launches. In that case, the more the better, why only seven? Wouldn't it be good to save him a hundred and eighty?"

Shen Baiyi smiled slightly, and patiently explained: "This son can't say that you can add it, the key is that the mother can afford it. The more times it is fired in a short period of time, the higher the temperature of the mother gun will be, and the more likely it will be to burst and deform."

"If you rashly increase the number of guns regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, resulting in the rupture of the cannon barrel and the exposure of the ammunition, I am afraid that before the enemy is annihilated, a large number of your own people will die first."