The longer he guarded the palace, the more Chen Mu felt that the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty were like a sieve in the past few decades.

There are holes everywhere, and they can't be mended.

When returning to Xiangshan, the ballast stones of the three big ships were thrown on the beach, and the booty was full, most of which were obtained from the Japanese Kou, and some banner soldiers had the courage to collect the property and armor of the Guanghai Navy and civilians, and Chen Mu did not stop it and Zhang Han did not stop it.

More belongings were still left in Guanghaiwei, and after Chen Mu asked Zhang Han for instructions, he asked Xinning County to send someone to transport it to Guangzhou Prefecture, which would be used to allocate the cost of repairing the city wall in the future.

Only a few Francophone machines upstairs in the Guanghai Acropolis, some good and some bad, Chen Mu looked greedy, and he didn't dare to move to the boat on his own initiative, so he had to try acting - he didn't take it, let Shao Tingda take someone to move by himself, and when he moved outside the city, he was intercepted and reprimanded by Chen Mu, who was taking Zhang Han around.

If Zhang Han stopped it, these cannons would be carried home as a matter of course.

It's a pity that Zhang Han didn't stop him, and he watched him train Shao Tingda for a long time, and in the end he could only move Franco's hardships back to the city gate tower, and board the ship back to Xiangshan.

"I don't think the Governor will let the reckless man move the cannon."

Leaning on the side of the boat blowing the sea breeze, the light rain hit his face with a coolness, Chen Mu shook his head, and did not continue to explain to Wei Balang beside him.

He felt that Zhang Han was simply looking at his attitude of leading the troops, and no matter what he did, he would not stop him - people are old and fine, who knows what the old governor was thinking under his indifferent expression.

Maybe he didn't say a word, and he was rejected as a person.

This made Chen Mu nervous for a long time on the way back to Xiangshan, and he didn't relax until he saw the shallow gorge of Xiangshan and Haojingao.

As soon as I got off the boat, there was good news from Guan Yuangu's side.

The old craftsman had the heart to share his worries for Chen Mu, seeing that the iron stored by thousands of households was decreasing, and thousands of households still needed to make guns and cannons in the face of a big war, he privately visited Foshan, Nanhai County, the largest iron-smelting distribution center in Guangdong, and negotiated a deal.

"Thousands of households, Foshan furnace households have their own promised court procurement, annual office, Lao Er went to Foshan to buy the iron nails needed for the shipyard to go to a few furnace households that both produced iron and promised the imperial court to send weapons, talk about a military weapon for iron for steel, just wait for thousands of households to accept." Guan Jiang said that the old eyebrows were all up, and said: "100 catties of wrought iron, one pole for birds, and seventeen poles for four furnace households in a month." ”

"Lao Er has seen it, they are all good iron."

Can it still be changed like this?

Chen Mu calculated in his heart, in this way, it would be 1,700 catties of wrought iron per month, which was quite suitable, "How could Guan Jiang come up with such an idea?" How could they be willing to exchange so much iron for weapons, and make them themselves for about the same price. ”

Some time ago in Haojing, he specially asked someone to ask the price of iron in Guangcheng, which is basically the price of iron in Foshan, and the price of 100 catties of wrought iron is also nearly two taels.

There are cheap and expensive labor costs, and it's hard to say if you add this.

Guan Yuangu smiled honestly and revealed a little bit of philistine, and said: "The labor fee, Xiangshan is much cheaper than them, they have twenty craftsmen, and they can only drill twenty guns in a month, and there are eight or nine drills in it, and it takes thirty or forty days to produce ten guns, and the cost is naturally much more expensive." ”

"Let's fight with water hammer, it's effortless, others can fight it in three days, and I can fight it in one day; The drilling machine is also connected to the waterwheel and has been drilling, and a gun pipe can be produced in seven or eight days, and ten may not be able to become ten, but thirteen must be able to produce ten combined guns. ”

"The same twenty craftsmen can produce more than 30 in a month, and it only consumes more than 300 catties of iron, and the rest can be used to make a few of them, and that cannon."

Guan Yuangu always looked embarrassed when he talked about the artillery named after him, and his face showed a little embarrassment, and said: "It's just that they said that their names are engraved on the guns, and Qianhu thinks it's feasible?" ”

Engraving other people's names, Chen Mu doesn't care about this, he cares more about reality.

1,500 catties of iron per month, making three or four more cannons is what Chen Mu values.

Chen Mu bowed: "It's feasible, if this thing can be done, of course it's feasible." ”

In fact, even if Guan Yuangu does not go to Foshan, he also plans to send people to Foshan, and after inquiring about the price of Guangcheng iron last time, he learned that he was guarding Nanhai County, and Foshan is the largest iron smelting distribution center in Guangzhou.

The biggest advantage of Xiangshan is that its productivity has been significantly improved.

After the completion of the new iron mill on the riverside, whether it is a forging hammer or sawing wood has a fixed power, in the past, Guan Lao Er made a wooden gun bed because the accuracy can be further improved is completely made of molten iron, the gun bed and the hydraulic drill bit opposite, only need to push and pull the bed frame and replace the loss of the drill bit can continue to drill the chamber.

The limited technology can not rely on hydraulic power to achieve the slow automatic drilling effect, and the iron bed is relatively heavy, and it takes a lot of manpower to push, but it greatly increases the drilling accuracy and reduces the defective rate.

The same reduces costs.

Looking at the big waterwheel rolling in the iron workshop, Chen Mu's thoughts drifted far away, and he asked Guan Yuangu: "Guan Jiang, now you are the head of the Ordnance Bureau, and you have jurisdiction over the iron workshop and shipyard. ”

The thriving Xiangshan Thousand Households, it is not difficult for Chen Mu to think of the tragic situation after Guanghaiwei was breached, the two extremes are also the difference between Chen Mu's place and other guards under the sun and moon, a virtuous circle and a vicious circle.

In fact, if it weren't for the existence of Chen Mu, if the Xiangshan Thousand Households were a full-fledged guard, the development might not be as good as this, but the military households might be able to get out of poverty a little more than now.

For a long time before, Chen Mu, like countless greedy guards in the Ming Dynasty, only gave a small part of the battle profits to the banner army.

The only difference is that Chen Mu uses that money to develop the health center, and others feed themselves with greedy money.

He was running a thousand-household office, and he did inject some investment, but the next few battles made Xiangshan self-sufficient, and now he can earn wrought iron back.

In the future, the life of the flag army will be better, the same pay, more profits.

Guan Yuangu looked embarrassed and said: "Qianhu, the first piece needs steel, you can't make a good armor without steel, and there are no skilled craftsmen, I'm afraid the old man will ......."

"This is not in a hurry, I have a few things here, look back, this battle and the capture of the Japanese man's big gun, can be mutually corroborated with the big gun obtained from the Francophone last time, if we have steel, we can change the two-legged bracket of the Francoji big gun into a straight stab."

Chen Mu said and opened his notes and pointed for Guan Yuangu to see, while explaining: "You don't need to make a big gun as heavy, but also follow the four-foot long pipe of the bird's gun, the caliber is a little larger, the whole rod weighs two or three catties, add a four-foot-long branch thorn, connect it with three small steel tenons under the bird's gun, and dig out a tight thorn groove on the gun, so that the gunned thorn is integrated with the gunned bed after being folded up, which is easy to grasp." ”

"And the handle, the shape of the handle should be changed slightly......"