"A good intention is a good intention, but things are not a good thing. Guangzhou is not Yunnan. If you buy coal and iron kilns with such a big fanfare, I am afraid that the court will continue to criticize you!

At this time, some things are better than to arouse suspicion from the court. The overall situation in Yunnan is not stable, and you are too eager to do things. After the marriage between the Pan and Yang families, how many major things have you done? Many people will find it difficult to do one thing in their entire lives. Stars are the right thing to do! The truth is to seek victory in stability! The kingly way!

Build high walls, accumulate grain, and be king slowly! After you go back, you must taste the profound meaning in it! It’s not that I don’t have any vision, nor that I want to stop you. Remember! Yunnan is the top priority. If you abandon Yunnan, your heels will become unstable. How can you stand firm?

Although the Qing Dynasty was already showing signs of fatigue, the lean camel was bigger than a horse. Even if your Yang family won against the Qing Dynasty, what could you get?

There are countless capable people in China who have the lead and may not be able to stand to the end. Which one of the deceased Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, got good rewards? Don’t be a big gun to destroy the Qing Dynasty. If you want to do it, be a national player to clean up the mountains and rivers. Now it’s the right thing to watch!”

One prospers and one loses the other, and one person gains the power and the chickens and dogs rise to heaven. The Yang and Pan families are interdependent, with the Yang family as the main and the Pan family as the auxiliary. These are hard-core relatives. Pan Shicheng has also put in hard work on how to go and how to go the Yang family.

"It's not that I'm in a hurry, but that the world is forcing me and pushing me. This way I can't do it without going!

You have also said that during the Gengzi period, the gunboats of the great powers were crisscrossing the rivers, lakes and seas of the Qing Dynasty. What if there was another day? Building ships and navy masters was not a one-day skill, but a skill of water grinding, and a technical skill!

You also said that the foreign ships purchased by Lin Laohu were easily captured by foreigners in the Boxer Battle, and the Qing Dynasty was all behind. I built a new army in Yunnan, and there was no problem in protecting Yunnan, but I had no confidence in protecting the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

We are not afraid of fighting with foreign devils, but we are afraid of fighting with our own people! We think that little bit of Yunnan's family is good, but in the eyes of the great powers, the advantage of helping and attacking Yunnan will be gone.

Father-in-law, think about it, if the great powers support the Qing Dynasty for their might, will Yunnan still have an advantage? No! Land war, Yunnan’s new army is not much more skillful than the great powers. If they follow my method and train a new army for the Qing Dynasty, the victory or defeat is unknown.

Therefore, we are bound to have ships. With iron shell gunships or iron armored warships, we will build some giant cannons, and the Jiangnan area is our pocket.

Making cannons is not difficult! Yunnan has a lot of copper, iron, coal, and lead. Yunnan has no shortage of all the raw materials for making cannons, but only technology is lacking. Once the iron plant is built, the copper mine is opened, and with the help of Ge Shiyang and others, I am sure to build cannons!

Only this ship is the shortcoming of Yunnan. Although Yunnan has rivers and lakes, large sea ships cannot be built. Only Guangzhou is a good harbor. Now Guangzhou is our territory, and it is imperative to build a shipyard!

Flag Record and Novi are a huge opportunity. If we don’t grasp it, we will always be one step away.

Iron-shelled ships must be also emerging objects in the West. I dare to conclude that the sea in the past must be the world of steel giant ships. The foreign devils have already had a foundation. What is lacking now is only attention. Although England already has iron-shelled gunboats, they still do not pay enough attention. The stupid bird flies first. If we take a step earlier, we will gain the advantage one day earlier. Otherwise, if we are always so poor, we will be bullied if we have the reign of the Qing Dynasty.

As for the matter of coal and iron, you can take it alone! It’s just a memorandum for the court. You are already ahead of the shipbuilding, and I believe the court will not criticize anything.

If it doesn’t work, build a small iron-shelled ship first to open the court’s eyes, and it will be much more convenient for us to act in the future.”

The shipyard was just like what Yang Meng said. He had to seize the opportunity. Although Yang Meng was not familiar with the navy in his previous life, he also knew the shipbuilding industry. Building large ships and advanced warships was not something he said casually.

Shipbuilding requires not only technology, but also experience. Experience is irreplaceable. No matter how advanced the design drawings are, they are still a piece of waste paper in their hands.

"Oh...just as you said! You still don't understand the matter of the court! It monopolized the coal and iron near Guangzhou, and the shipyard construction yard is afraid that the court will send someone to point fingers, and that group of Qingliu will also place me into the camp of foreign monsters.

Didn’t Wu Bingjian be guilty of this? Selling opium? Haha, it’s such a good excuse!”

Under the banner of the court, he built an iron factory and a shipyard in Guangzhou. Pan Shicheng really didn't want to do this. The Qing court was not a thing!

"Step on the fingers? Hehe! I'm not afraid of this. Now I'll put people in the capital. If you encounter someone who is blind, you'll have trouble. Don't let him live to Guangzhou. If you have some cases of overturning or capsizing, what can the court say?

The ministers of the capital, it’s time to start, buy what you should buy, and get what you should give away. The money has to be spent now."

The dark side of Yunnan copper and the ending of Sichuan copper entering Yunnan made Yang Meng see the power of court officials. If these people use it well, Yunnan's steps will be larger.

"Ha... I heard something you should say, spend money to buy a way! This is the old method.

A few days ago, Renres sent me a letter saying that the batch of tiger squat cannons had been loaded in Militaria, but from what he said, the cannon was not very ideal, I was afraid that more than 200,000 taels of silver would be wasted!

The navy's sand boat is going to be ready these days. You can take people to Baietan to test the cannons! Just wait for this batch of tiger squat cannons, two thousand taels per one! It would be better to let Ren Leis directly buy the heavy cannons.

But without this, we can’t open Renres’s mental defense, and it’s hard to judge gains and losses!”

If you buy a road for 100,000 taels of silver, you cannon cast a cannon for more than 100,000 taels of silver, you can’t use any of the all-steel tiger squat cannons. There are not many items from the Qing Dynasty that can be used. Pan Shicheng felt deeply worthless in his heart.

A 100,000 tael of money to buy a road should be spent, and it can cast fifty tiger squat cannons, which cost more than 100,000 taels of silver. It is definitely a waste of money. More than 100,000 taels of gold, small Western warships can buy two or three ships. Although they are old ships, they are more valuable than those from tiger squat cannons!

"The first thing is to cast these tiger squat cannons is to try to match them, and the other is to explore Militarized art of casting artillery, so that people in Yunnan cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons

It’s nothing more than Yunyan, a deal that makes money by making money. This time, with the East India Company’s opium supply, I will go back and get some machines to make money by making Yunyan than opening a gold and silver mine.

Two hundred thousand taels of silver are nothing. If you have the chance, my father-in-law will recommend it to me. His path is good, and I should talk to him about some things."

Militaria's current national policy is no better than later generations. Whether it is a businessman or a soldier, he is not very prepared for the Qing Dynasty. Let me talk to this Renres to see if there is a good path to cooperation.

"Look! This time the tiger squat cannon was smashed, I was afraid that Ren Leis would hide from me. This man's surname De is pretty good. If he does what he says, he is afraid that he will have no shame to come and delay his business."

Ren Leis is a good friend to Pan Shicheng! Pan Shicheng made Ren Leis rich in the Qing Dynasty, and Ren Leis made Pan Shicheng's career reach its peak. The two of them are mutually beneficial!

"My father-in-law, then I'll leave first. Patrick and his son are teaching the new army to use artillery. I have to go over and take a look.

There is also the 24-pound mortar flowering bullet. Can you find out if you can get some from Militaria? Yunnan is afraid that it will not be able to make this flowering bullet now. The number of 800 shots is too small."

"Oh... I wanted to have some fun, but I didn't expect that this mundane thing would be difficult to deal with!"

Pan Shicheng still had some grudges about the shipyard. The Guangzhou General was a big obstacle to the Yang and Pan family!

Three days later, a Militan merchant ship unloaded a batch of heavy goods at Guangzhou Port. As Pan Shicheng expected, Renres did not come. He just sent a few Militan technicians to explain, Pan Shicheng's customized small-caliber artillery.

Five twenty-pound cannons are affiliated gifts, which are compensation from Renreth and Miligan's cannon factory. Fifty thousand shells are also considered gifts. It seems that the tiger squatting cannon is 80,000.

The batch of customized tiger squat cannons were placed in the cargo yard. Pan Shicheng personally took the Milijian technician and five customized tiger squat cannons to Baietan where Yang Meng trained his troops.

Pan Shicheng in this area has greeted the Guangzhou General and the Green Camp, and temporarily requisitioned it to train the coastal defense camp. Although the temporary alliance between the Pan family and Guangdong and Guangxi officials has ended, the rest of the warmth is still there, and the matter is relatively smooth.

In order to test the ability of the tiger squat cannon, the location of the test cannon was also selected on the sand boat. A small steel cannon was carried onto the ship by a group of new troops. Yang Meng felt a little dazed when he saw it.

It seems familiar! This Miligan gun factory has changed the tiger squat cannon to a different look. No matter how you look, it looks like a recoilless cannon with a smaller size.

The usage of this new type of tiger squat cannon is roughly similar to the original one, and it has to be nailed to the ground to offset the recoil. However, the cannon body has been changed to a bad appearance. The original front assembly has been changed to a rear assembly, but the locking device is not designed very well.

After nailing the cannon stand, the gun was filled with bullets and loaded with medicine. The cannonballs about the size of eggs fell into the water more than 200 meters away.

"well……"

Seeing this situation, Pan Shicheng sighed helplessly. This cannon is not as useful as a three-pound cannon. Two thousand taels of silver per door are considered to be a scrap iron. Even if you get a gun and load more medicine, you can hit it at this distance.

"How much gunpowder can be installed in this barrel? How long is the limit range?"

Yang Meng’s question made several artillery factories speechless. Why did he customize such a poor small artillery?

These cannons are extremely difficult to manufacture. The gun body of all steel is also the first time in the Miligan gun factory. The quality of the gun body is really good, but the range is a bit shameful.

"Third Master, those people said that because of the most advanced breech technology, the difficulty of air leakage has not been solved. These tiger squat cannons, equipped with excessive gunpowder, can hit at most 300 yards. If you beat a boy, you can hit at most 150 yards."

"Good! Can you please provide them with some detailed drawings and some casting techniques?"

Yang Meng did not have any hope for this, but there was always a surprise. A stack of books with cowhide covers were brought back by the translator.

"Okay! Let Master Ge see. If there is no problem, each person will give them five hundred taels of silver."

The tiger squat cannon has been modified, but Yang Meng found another purpose for him, a large shotgun. As long as the shell problem is solved, these new types of tiger squat cannons are large long-range shotguns.

After getting off the boat, Yang Meng intercepted his frustrated father-in-law Pan Shicheng and lost more than 100,000 taels of silver in vain. Pan Shicheng's face was not very good, and he followed Yang Meng to the waterside in anger.

"My father-in-law, I'll find a few copper smiths to build copper pipes according to the caliber of the tiger squat cannon. It's best to seal one end. I'm very useful! The faster the better!"

Pan Shicheng was confused by his beloved son-in-law, and the shells were all beaten like that, and it was useless to put anything in.

But looking at the eager eyes of her son-in-law, Pan Shicheng couldn't bear to refuse, and could not refuse, so he could only go to find the bronze smith with a suffocation.

This job is not difficult. A copper smith took half an hour to get what Yang Meng wanted. In addition, for more than an hour, Yang Meng held the copper tube and tinkered with it mysteriously for a while. Even if a brass shell was not decent, it was done.

"Come here and you can use it, try it!"

Yang Meng changed this way, and the tiger squat cannon has changed its name. It is either a cannon or a large shotgun, but a grenade launcher in the Qing Dynasty.

With a cannon, the simple grenade made by Yang Meng exploded halfway through. A cloud of smoke with a "puff puff puff" sound made the onlookers confused.

"Stardou, this Miligan technician is still here. If you have any problems, let them come out to solve them! This is not a solution!"

Pan Shicheng couldn't stand it anymore. This was just a mess. Forging cannons is a rigorous job, so how could it be done in just a few moments?

"Look for them? I'm afraid they have learned my skills and go to Master Ge. If the picture album is fine, I'll send the technicians away and ask them to bring a message to Renres, and say that we'll make another hundred doors, but we have to talk about this price."
Chapter completed!