Qi Jiguang replied faster than anyone else, the imperial court military department, the Ministry of Industry ordered, instructing the furnace households of Nanhai County, Guangzhou Prefecture to send copper and iron materials to Nanyang Weixiangshan, Qi Jiguang asked for 300 artillery pieces of all kinds, and gave Nanyang Wei the convenience of conscription and dispatch of Guangdong class craftsmen, and at the same time started construction, and must send 100 artillery pieces to Jizhen in August.

Chen Mu's head hurt when he received the order.

It's not because of the tight time and heavy tasks, as long as the iron is sufficient, and then he can allocate some forced servants to help with the hard work such as hanging cannons, not to mention a hundred, he can build two hundred.

The reason for the headache is that Qi Jiguang obviously doesn't trust Chen Mu's new artillery, although it is indeed like a spring breeze to write in the letter with his superb emotional intelligence, but what kind of goods does Qi Shuai want?

Fifty jack Tuncheng heavy Buddha Lang machines, 100 700 catties of hair type Franc machines, 100 500 catties of big Buddha Lang machines, and finally - five 10 catties of cannons, 15 of 5 catties of cannons, and 30 of 2 catties of cannons.

"Is it because Chen didn't do market research at first, because my Nanyang Wei cannon is cheaper than the Ministry of Industry, and what's going on with bringing in a bunch of orders for Franco machines?"

What is this?

If you buy a Franc machine, you can buy it directly from Beijing, and let me make a Franc machine from Guangdong to get you over, what are you doing?

Chen Mu looked at the needs of Jizhen, and didn't know what to say, the Franc machine is very easy to make, even if it is a thousand catties, there is no pressure at all to send a hundred artillery pieces in the past, there is really no way to explain that people have a good love for the Franc machine.

Just this kind of jack of Franc machine, except for the Ming Dynasty, you can't find that place in the whole world. Originally, it was a petty murder cannon on a Western ship, specializing in hitting people and sails, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was varied into all kinds, but all the rear-loading guns were called Franc machines, and the more they were built, the bigger they became.

But Chen Mu didn't like the Francophone gun.

How good it is to make new artillery in Nanyang, two-pound guns and five-pound guns, mule and horse trailers according to the terrain of the north, which can run for an hour and fifty miles when they encounter a good road section, and a cannon team with fifty two-pound guns can not only march in a hurry, but also shell the enemy position like beating a son, how good!

Even if it is Tuncheng, a ten-pound cannon is almost as heavy as a thousand-pound Franc machine, and it is far and powerful, but the rate of fire is a little slower, but this is completely negligible.

"Guan Jiang, take a look, the military department wants these things."

Sneaking all the way to the Ordnance Bureau with the goose, Chen Mu angrily reported the needs of the military department to Guan Yuangu, and said: "Fifty new guns, and fifty Franc machines, build them from a young age first, and it is convenient to send them on the road, and the things that Lin Feng wants are almost the same, right?" ”

Guan Yuangu frowned when he heard this, but the old craftsman respected the decision of the imperial court more than General Chen, nodded and began to think about it for him: "The Franc machine is easy to make, especially the larger Franc machine, let's cast it directly, it's just a new iron mold." ”

"Lin Afeng's side is left with chain mail, and there is still more than a year before the agreement, so it won't get in the way." Guan Yuangu added, "It's okay to build from a big one, and you won't delay the construction period." ”

"Hey!" Chen Mu laughed, let go of the two geese to run out to play by themselves, closed the door and said: "It's not that I'm afraid of delaying the construction period, the new cannon will be sent over, I guess they don't want the Franco machine, but waste copper and iron, why bother - speaking of the Franco machine." ”

"With the same copper and iron material, the same heavy cannon, the Franc machine is close to the fight, the power is small, do the craftsmen know what is wrong with it?"

Without waiting for Guan Yuangu to answer, Chen Mu had already spoken: "Air leakage." ”

The Ming people were accompanied by a large Franc cannon with a wooden mallet and a few wooden wedges, which were stuffed in and smashed into the wooden wedges from the buttocks to increase the airtightness. But even so, after all, it is not comparable to the power of the front-loading smoothbore gun.

"Anyway, we have to make a new iron mold, if you want to do it, you can do it well, and let the official master of the capital see the craftsmanship of our Nanyangwei." Chen Mu smiled, he felt that if he did this well, he would be able to show his face again, "Don't have two Zi Gong ears, just one on the left, the Zi Gong mouth and the gun chamber are fixed in a spiral shape, and the Zi Gong Ear is pushed from the left to the right to ensure that the Zi Gong mouth is screwed into the thread in the gun chamber, just like this." ”

Chen Mu took a pen and paper on the table and said while drawing, "The butt smashed into the wooden wedge, added a thick iron cover with mortise and tenon on the medicine room, left a gap that stuck the ears of the dead son, and pushed it from behind to seal it so that it would not leak." ”

"Although it takes a little iron, it takes a little time, but it should be able to avoid air leakage to the greatest extent, you think about it, if it is feasible, you will try to do a few in a month, and at the same time, don't stop the old Franc machine, do it first, if you can do it, you can do a few big ones and take them to the north."

"Build the Great Wall in the north, and we will also make a contribution."

In Qi Jiguang's letter, this year he and Tan Lun presided over the construction of the Chengde Jinshanling Great Wall, more than 20 miles long, west of Gubeikou, east of Simatai, easy to attack and difficult to defend, only 200 miles away from Beijing City, so the city wall should be built extraordinarily thick, artillery should also use the most powerful - Qi Jiguang through the military department to Nanyangwei most of the orders are also this consideration.

Most of them are large-caliber artillery, main and standby defense, and artillery that is normally equipped with troops, Qi Jiguang didn't even look for Nanyang Weizai, maybe they solved it in Beijing.

But in Chen Mu's opinion, the artillery guarding the Great Wall could not take the turn of the Franco, and the enemy army had to be busy climbing the mountain for a while.

"There are still very important things to entrust to the customs craftsman, five sets." Chen Mu raised his hand and knocked on the armor on his body, and said: "Five sets of cuirasses, twenty flintlock handcuffs, everything is the same, but it must be done with the best craftsmanship, which is not only easy to use, but also good-looking." ”

In fact, he prepared more than these, Xie Ming in the beginning of the year after he ran to Guangzhou Mansion twice, spending thousands of taels of silver to collect a lot of rare objects, as small as the last year's old wine in the altar, fine decorations, fireworks, flowers and birds tea sets, as big as a good riding BMW, calligraphy and painting authentic works, antique collections.

But everything that can be used to like, except for the absence of a beautiful maid**, General Chen has prepared it, just waiting to be sprinkled in the capital.

It's not just that he wants to give gifts to others, in mid-February, twenty big boats were sent from Banzhou, loaded with two purple shirts and two large timber of length and short, and anchored along the river to Xiangshandu, in addition to the wood, there were 170 craftsmen from various industries and 200 Miao soldiers who took care of them, and Yang Yinglong, the little toast who got off the boat, was sent to the Wei Ya by the servant eight sedan chairs, and jumped off the sedan chair to complain.

"General Chen, you are too unhappy, if you want to repair the city, you can say it directly, and send someone to the Propaganda Department to deliver a message, write to me directly!"

Chen Mu was full of mud, and he was still thinking about unloading the two purple shirts on the shore, saying that the length was only relatively speaking, and the short ones were more than ten zhang of big wood.

What is a good thing? Good things just can't be bought with money.

"The order from the imperial court wants my Yang family to help you repair the Acropolis and do you a great favor, right? I have to live with you until the city is built, and the city is not repaired first. Yang Yinglong pointed to the mountain wall leaning towards Lingdingyang and said: "Let them repair a house for me first, there is nothing fun in Guangdong, I am afraid that I will suffocate to death if I live here for half a year, repair the house first, repair the house, let's repair the city." ”

Without waiting for Chen Mu to agree, Nanyangwei sounded the horn of warning.

Chen Mu also ignored Yang Yinglong, turned over and rushed into the Wei Ya wearing armor and saber, and when he left the house with three long and short guns on his back, the family had already lined up outside the Wei Ya, and the Xiangshan Idle Banner Army in the distance was also assembling.

He smiled at Yang Yinglong, who couldn't figure it out: "Live in peace, I have a lot of interesting things here!" Is the son of a bitch really ready to fight with Lao Tzu? ”