Bai Yuanjie can be regarded as a long-term insight when he went to Beiyang, and in the early years, he and Chen Mu said in the joke that the kind of gun that was too much to control and killed the thief head was made by Beiyang.

In fact, it was a copy of the Spanish heavy arquebus, and it began to be produced under the orders of the Ministry of Industry, and the more the craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau became more dissatisfied.

Because this thing is not very useful, the hot weapon sequence of the main Ming army has passed the years of random fumbling.

Bird guns, killer guns, small flag arrows, tiger squat guns, Fran machine guns, Shenwei machine arrows, and two-pound cannons constitute a suitable armament used by the land division, which can deal with all situations such as near, medium, long, shelter, fortifications, scattering, rapid fire, direct fire, and arc fire.

Heavy muskets are powerful, long-range, and have limited accuracy; The killer gun is an excellent substitute for it, and the higher accuracy can also ensure accurate killing, and there is no person who cannot be killed by a large-caliber killer gun.

And at longer distances, a light Franc machine is a better choice.

But there is an order from the Ministry of Industry that the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau must build it; The craftsmen of Beiyang who made useless waste products are not happy, they are probably the most professional and honorable military craftsmen - the Beiyang Banner Army conquered the four seas with the weapons they made!

Then began a series of magic reforms, in order to jump out of the use of the environment overlapping drawbacks, the pipe thickened and lengthened, and then simply increased the caliber, which confirmed the theorem of the Nanyang Wutang researchers, in fact, this theorem was said by Chen Mu, but more than people learned from the study of Guan Yuangu, so it is called the Guan's gun system.

That is, under the premise that the ammunition remains unchanged, the longer the gun tube reaches the 'Guan length', the farther the firing range will be, and the longer the gun tube reaches the 'Guan length', the closer the range will be.

Then the more and more out of shape, for two years, the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau of the military craftsmen sacrificed part of the time to drink and brag for the time to make twenty-seven heavy guns, and there were no two rods of the same shape - that is, none of them were satisfactory to the craftsmen.

The armory is like a museum to Bai Yuanjie, who was transferred from Nanyang.

There was a huge flintlock musket with a length of eight feet and a weight of 36 catties, which was mounted on a light two-wheeled cart, firing seven halves of lead, and two hundred paces away to penetrate people, but it was not called a 'half-catty cannon'.

Another five-foot-long giant musket called a half-catty cannon, although the barrel is shorter, the caliber is larger, weighing twenty-six catties, not only the back of the triangular socket buttocks, but also the reference to the Majiagang Black Water Piercing Sleigh made of the gun frame, using a specially designed one-pound iron shell scatter, thirty or fifty steps of penetrating power.

"This is the twenty-sixth heavy gun made by this company, and the craftsmen don't really want to continue to build it, it's useless, these things can't be used, and it's better to build hundreds of bird guns with this energy."

The craftsman introduced this little monster to Bai Yuanjie like this: "It's good, it's useful to defend the city in street battles, block a street with three poles, and let go as many as you want to die when you come in, just be careful with the guns, last time a craftsman was fractured by the recoil." ”

Bai Yuanjie originally wanted to try these new things, but she gave up when she heard this.

As for what the craftsman said, he could understand very smoothly that weapons are not easy to damage, are easy to produce in large quantities, and are easy to operate, and their importance is in order.

The reason why twenty-seven rods were still made after making twenty-six strokes, Bai Yuanjie is also understandable, after all, it is the Ming Dynasty, everything can be a Buddha.

These huge weapons, which seem to be extremely powerful but are actually like chicken ribs, really can't arouse his interest in using them, let alone equip the army, Nanyang is not needed, but Chen Mu's Dongyang, maybe it is still useful.

After all, the war reports from the Asian war have made it clear that the Spaniards like to assemble dense military formations, but this is only of some use and does not play a big role.

It is not very convenient for a single soldier to carry, and the mules and horses are too clear, not to mention that they are generally too long, which makes the status of these weapons embarrassing, but Qi Jiguang sent someone to Beiyang some time ago to see these weapons, and went back with parameters after the test firing in the school field, and it seems that he wants to get a batch of heavy weapons back.

Bai Yuanjie estimated that Qi Dashuai might want to use cement to get these things directly on the Great Wall, right?

What really made him curious was the flying fish.

The terrifying gadget with winged dragon head and fish body that can fly made Bai Yuanjie feel extremely novel.

This thing can fly!

In fact, it's not just him, since the birth of the flying fish, all the eyes of the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau have focused on this new weapon, which can hit the enemy on the ground from the world, not to mention Beiyang, even the imperial court has praised this thing, and urgently ordered Beiyang to push it into the army within five years.

Five years, this time sounds like a long time, but in fact it is very difficult for Ye Mengxiong, they still have too many problems to solve, the most important thing is that it is difficult to ensure safety, and it is difficult to ensure the accuracy of control and delivery.

If you are lucky, you will burn the enemy's ship, and if you are unlucky, you will burn your own ship.

However, the innovation of tactics brought about by the completion of development is naturally different, especially when it can be applied to land warfare, and the sudden launch of mounted rockets from the sky and the projection of fire oil bottles over the enemy camp are exciting to think about.

In fact, Bai Yuanjie especially wanted Beiyang Phase III to bring the flying fish to Chen Mu of the Great Eastern Ocean, after all, in Bai Yuanjie's mind, Chen Mu was very good at engaging in these things.

Towards April, before the Hai Rui people had arrived in the country, the letter had already been opened in the imperial court, and the request for the opening of the Songjiang Prefecture was passed in the imperial court with almost no hindrance, and the only thing worth debating was the tax rate of the Songjiang Prefecture.

Before this matter was decided, the order of the imperial court's quasi-merchant Jia to buy cotton cloth and sell it to Dadongyang had been issued, but at the same time, the goods of the third phase of Beiyang had begun to be loaded in Beiyang, and it was difficult for cotton cloth alone to meet the amount of goods that Chen Mu demanded.

The imperial court came up with an expedient measure - more than 3 million pieces of cotton cloth in physical folded colors, which were transported to the East with the third phase of Beiyang, and at the same time the Wanli Emperor, who planned to punish his grandfather, issued an edict to the Dongyang Military Government.

The emperor was not greedy at all, and said that these cotton cloths of various colors were 'called for sale', and the market price was three coins of silver per horse, which was 900,000 taels of silver, and the Oriental military government sold them for two years, and after two years, the silver was handed back to the household department, and 1.8 million taels were to be paid.

In addition, according to the delivery of silver for two years, plus 360,000 taels into the inner treasury.

The mighty cloth transportation team was sent to Tianjin from all over the country, and at the same time, more than 100 ships were requisitioned, so that the third phase of Beiyang could leave the port as scheduled.

In just two years, the merchant ships and cargo ships along the coast of Daming have shown a surplus posture, and the people and coastal shipyards have been building ships endlessly, while the ships needed on the New World route are close to saturation, and most of the ships have been sold to the South Seas.

The shipyards directly under the imperial court had stopped building new merchant ships.

They were pondering bigger ships.