Since the arrival of Wusong, these foreign monks have done nothing except to help their father-in-law contact the Jesuits in China and Macau, recruit some firearm craftsmen and books for their father-in-law. And they have never reported to their father-in-law for their contact.

My father-in-law had too many things to do. He went to Dinghaiwei to sweep it up a few years ago, but he didn't care about these foreign monks. If he hadn't bumped into them today, he would have almost forgotten the beloved disciples of God who he fooled.

However, what can these foreign monks help Li Yanzhao?

Seeing his father-in-law looking at him, Li Yanzhao hurriedly said that he took the initiative to invite these foreign monks to help him.

"The father-in-law's collection of documents advocates cultural exchange between China and the West, and says that there are many things better than our Ming Dynasty in Western countries. For example, in terms of firearms, the Western countries have made great achievements. Therefore, we must learn humbly and communicate with them, and learn from the barbarians' skills to control the barbarians... The subordinates' ways of firearms are actually outsiders. They only got started because of their father-in-law's support. However, they were worried that they would let their father-in-law's expectations be disappointed. Therefore, after reading the father-in-law's collection of documents, they wanted to ask these Western masters to help them. They failed to report this to their father-in-law in advance. They were not really the subordinates..."

Li Yanzhao said sincerely, and his father-in-law listened quietly, with no expression on his face throughout the whole process, making Li Yanzhao's heart thump.

When he finished speaking, he was about to kneel down and apologize, he saw his father-in-law raised his eyebrows and then gave him a complimentary look.

Li Yanzhao couldn't help but feel relieved.

Young people who combine theory and practice take the initiative to study and communicate without giving them instructions. This young man is very good and it is worthwhile to support and cultivate.

My father-in-law really admires Li Yanzhao more and more.

For such talents who deeply understand their ideas and put them into practice, my father-in-law not only appreciates them. But he immediately became alert and glanced at Guo Jujing and Steelon indifferently.

So far, the two tricks of granular gunpowder and fixed gunpowder have not yet been discovered and adopted by the armies of Western countries, but Li Yanzhao exposed this secret to Guo Jujing and others, which has the risk of leaking the secret.

My father-in-law is sure that with Guo Jujing and his friends' knowledge, it is impossible not to know the benefits of these two tricks, so they will definitely pass these two tricks back to Europe.

The missionaries were again committed to bringing the Ming Dynasty into the territory of God, and they were still aliens after all.

As for foreigners and foreign races, the desire to destroy our Chinese will not change for five thousand years.

But now that things have come to this point, my father-in-law cannot suppress Li Yanzhao's enthusiasm for promoting Chinese and Western culture and technology, nor will he regard Guo Jujing and Steelon as spies, so he intends to downplay the matter.

My father-in-law is a person with great wisdom and great confidence. Such tricks will eventually be mastered. The same goes for technology, but as long as you are always at the forefront, there is nothing to be afraid of.

“You did a great job.”

The father-in-law nodded with a smile, "By the way, what have you helped, Mr. Guo and Mr. Shi?"

"The two gentlemen helped my subordinates design utensils that can carefully select medicines, and also helped me determine the detailed formula for medicines, which is better than the formula in Nanzhen."

The Nanzhen mentioned by Li Yanzhao is not the Nanzhen Fushi in Beijing, but the Jinyiwei Yamen in Nandu.

When Chengzu moved the capital, Yu Nandu left behind a subordinate like the Beijing court, and the Jinyiwei was one of them. However, with the evolution of time, the Jinyiwei in Nandu gradually fell, and now, like the military weapon supervisor of the Military Staff Bureau, it has become an institution specifically responsible for the production and maintenance of firearms in the Southeast Guard.

To be precise, Nanjing's Jinyiwei is the military production center of the southeastern military horses of the Ming Dynasty. It has nearly 10,000 craftsmen who have been passed down from the Taizu period.

The large number of firearms, tiger squat cannons used by Qi Jiguang to fight against the Japanese back then were developed by Nanzhen. Nearly half of the large and small artillery equipped by the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty were purchased from Nanzhen.

Such an institution has its own gunpowder formula, and this formula is not a confidential thing. Li Yanzhao just doesn’t know, and there are people in this place who can do it.

When my father-in-law was a sucker in the Military Staff Bureau, those father-in-law also packaged hundreds of firearm craftsmen and sold them to him.

Except for a small number of people who use their expertise to contribute to the construction of the SAR, the rest are placed here.

They are also core technical talents of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Administration.

Without these hundreds of firearm craftsmen, Eunuch Wei would not have dared to establish the Jiangnan Manufacturing General Administration.

Any of his ideas is based on talent reserves.

Perhaps, in the eyes of Eunuch Lu and his friends in the Military Staff Bureau, these hereditary craftsmen have no value, but in the eyes of their father-in-law, these people are priceless treasures.

For this reason, he has always been a kind of support for these craftsmen, and any rewards in the army will also have a share. Those who receive this treatment are also the horsemen of Taipusi Horse Factory.

Guo Jujing and Steelon compared the gunpowder formulas from Western countries with the Nanzhen formula. The final result was that the Western medicine was better than those from the Ming Dynasty.

This point was actually verified by Li Yanzhao and I admire it very much.

It must be a good thing to help improve the gunpowder formula. My father-in-law thanked Guo and Shi, and then thought that the general flag said that Li Yanzhao had arguing with a Western monk, so he asked what was wrong.

Li Yanzhao said: "Mr. Guo said that the Shandong Yan Censor Bi Maokang designed a new type of musket. If this new type of musket can be produced, it will be several times stronger than the muskets we use now, and it can even eliminate all the muskets used in our army. My subordinates think that Mr. Guo’s words are too exaggerated. If the Imperial Censor Bi really studied this new type of musket, why would the court not adopt the promotion? Therefore, this matter is either false or overstated."

"Lee, this is true."

Guo Jujing corrected Li Yanzhao, but he still insisted on his opinion. The musket conceived by the official Bi who he met in Shandong was really a good thing.

But as Li said, it is indeed a bit surprising that the Chinese court did not develop such a good thing, which is why he could not convince Li.

Stellone didn't say anything. Maybe the foreign monk didn't know much about the musket, so he couldn't tell whether it was good or bad.

My father-in-law was very fascinated by the words "new-style musket", and then he thought of the battle mode he longed for, "queuing up and shooting".

"What is this new type of musket?" My father-in-law was very curious.

Stellen said: "Hisser Pang Maichen, to be precise, this musket is called a self-selling gun."

"Self-making gun?"

My father-in-law became even more curious after hearing this name. As the name suggests, self-generated means a musket that can automatically fire?

Isn't this a machine gun?

Could it be that there was really a genius in the Ming Dynasty who invented Maxim and Gatlin two hundred years ahead of schedule?
Chapter completed!