Li Tianyang waved his hand and stopped Tan Songyun's words to continue persuading, feeling a little disappointed.

"Is there really no way to find a big buyer and sell all the firearms in our inventory?" said that it was inventory, but in fact, Li Tianyang felt that the team spent too much money, and after being able to produce steel-cast cannons, he transferred some of the guns from the Hongtang fleet that had little effect.

Since he had already decided to arm the steel-cast cannons into the team, he had already made a decision to sell the idle artillery fire in the Hongtang fleet.

This time, he suddenly attacked, and made a heavy attack on the discipline of the entire team, and at the same time caught several guys who had the audacity to sell firearms that originally belonged to the Hongtang team in private.

As long as the position is appropriate, and the personnel in their positions are courageous, it is not impossible to profit from Hongtang's military supplies.

As long as you point to the paperwork, mark an originally intact cannon with a certificate that it is obsolete and cannot be used, and then use the power in your hand to operate, find a really obsolete cannon and hand it over, and unknowingly a good cannon is left outside.

Of course, a sentence is easy to say, but it is indeed quite difficult to operate in practice, when Li Tianyang and the others got the details of this case about the corruption of Hongtang's military quartermasters, the anger in their hearts was deep and not expressed for the time being, just that feeling of powerlessness from the heart, it took Li Tianyang a long time to recover.

The prosperity of the Bengang team on the surface was originally Li Tianyang's greatest reliance and pride, but who would have thought that behind this prosperity, there were already so many things that had been bred.

For these bold and reckless corrupt elements, Li Tianyang naturally did not have a soft hand when he was sentenced, although in the series of judgments of the Bengang team, none of them were directly sentenced to death, but these guys who were taken care of by Li Tianyang were really worse than death, and they were sent to the mine by Li Tianyang, doing dangerous work that was worse than that of slaves.

It was also because of the relationship between these guys that Li Tianyang and them sorted out the armaments in the hands of the Bengang team from top to bottom, plus the data of the previous armament reload, and finally let Li Tianyang have a number of cannons, arquebuses and other ordnance under the command of the Bengang team at this time.

And Li Tianyang's decision to raise funds by selling arms this time was also based on the consideration of the large number of artillery in Bengang's team at this time.

After more than ten years of hard work at sea, by annexing other pirate gangs, killing people who do not obey Hongtang's maritime rules, and purchasing firearms from various forces, the Bengang team has accumulated a large number of firearms.

Among them, the largest number and the least expensive are naturally the tiger squat cannons, three-eyed guns, and so on, which are named firearms, but the actual power is not satisfactory.

Li Tianyang and the others, except for a small number of intact and well-made firearms to be sold, basically took the rest back to the furnace and rebuilt them.

And the remaining thousand-pound Franc machine gun, Shenwei General Cannon and other high-power artillery, sorted out, jumped to which team there were more than 200, almost all of them were equipped in the Hongtang fleet.

With the gradual mass production of the "Yang Fan" warship, the Hongtang fleet also slowly changed the previous main warship from a 400-material warship to a "Yang Fan" warship.

This is Li Tianyang's decision, and it is also a happy event that all departments of Hongtang applauded.

The "Yang Fan" warships have actual combat effects, compared with the 400 warships equipped by the official and civilian equipment of the Ming Dynasty, both in terms of performance and the number of artillery fires, they will throw the 400 warships of the Ming Dynasty far away.

Hongtang is really difficult to recruit now, because Hongtang has been working hard all these years, as a killer weapon in Li Tianyang's hands, every time he makes a move, it will always bring a bloody storm, along with their opponents at the same time, Hongtang's team is also damaged again and again, as evidenced by the thousands of lonely tombstones under the monument in Bengang Xishan.

The life of the Bengang team is getting better and better, and then there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to send their children to Hongtang to work hard and take risks, except for the newcomers recruited by Qi San's side to supplement the Hongtang team from time to time, Hongtang has only replenished the pirate gang on the sea in recent years.

Since the recruitment of soldiers has been frustrated, then Li Tianyang and they want to quickly improve the strength of the troops, so they can only start from other aspects, and the easiest way is naturally to strictly train every soldier, so that they can become a well-trained elite soldier who dares to fight.

In addition, the best way to do it is to arm the team with more advanced weapons and equipment, and improve the strength of the troops through external forces.

The "Yang Fan" battleship obviously meets this requirement, the steel-cast cannon also meets this requirement, and the fragmented musket that is in the process of becoming a talent and has a mature technology in their R&D team also meets this requirement.

The latest "Yang Fan-type" warship, because of its early technological breakthrough, and the large number of tall logs in the large area of primeval jungle on Dayuan Island, so that Bengang Shipyard can use local materials, and a few years of time have accumulated a lot of shipbuilding materials for the Bengang team.

The reason why he did not go all out to mobilize the shipyard to build the "Yang Fan" warship was because Li Tianyang was obscure, and it was not far from prematurely exposing that he could build Western-style ships that only Westerners could build, so as not to arouse the jealousy of Westerners and Ming officials; Second, the tax collectors of Hongtang's department have not fully understood the boat management technology of Westerners, and the keel wood required to manufacture sea ships is not only made of raw materials, but only the early drying, polishing and other fine pecking, a qualified keel needs at least half a year to precipitate.

Even so, in order to improve the process and familiarize the shipbuilders with the drawings, etc., under the control of Yang Zhi, the Bengang team still has more than ten "Yang Fan" warships launched into the ranks.

Compared with the defects of the sea ships developed by the Ming Dynasty that cannot be equipped with a large number of high-power artillery, the "Yang Fan" warship can be regarded as an excellent warship of quasi-second-class battleships even in the West.

This is also the reason why when the technology of steel-cast cannons matured, Li Tianyang wanted to eliminate the thousand-pound Francophone cannons, and invested heavily in the cannon foundry to create a large number of steel-cast cannons.

(End of chapter)