After trying the cannon, Luo Mingshou returned to the Suji Iron Field with Zhu Linmiao.

Entering the gate, Luo Ming looked around at the wide iron yard covering an area of more than ten acres, and saw black smoke rising from the chimneys everywhere, and said in his heart No wonder His Royal Highness King Chen looked disgraced, it seemed that he had been here before.

He slowed down two steps, and quietly asked Shi Lin's personal soldiers: "What is King Chen doing here?" ”

The pro-soldier said as a matter of course: "Your Highness is naturally casting cannons here." ”

"Cast cannon?" Luo Mingshou had just arrived in Jiangxi, and he hadn't heard of Zhu Linmiao's cannon casting, "Your Highness will cast cannons?" ”

"Of course." The soldiers glanced at him, and the words "fuss" were clearly written on their faces, "The heavy cannon on the river beach just now was cast by His Highness." ”

"That cannon is ......," Luo Ming said in shock, "His Royal Highness King Chen actually has such a divine skill?!" ”

"His Royal Highness has received the guidance of the immortals, and his skills are amazing." The soldier was very sure that the people of this era were convinced of the theory of ghosts and gods. However, Zhu Linmiao's performance in the past half a year seems to be explained only by this reason.

Luo Mingshou immediately remembered that King Chen's warning that there would be thieves burning the ship was indeed fulfilled, and he thought it was true at the moment, it seems that His Royal Highness King Chen really has immortal skills and can pinch and calculate.

When he entered the iron yard to wait in the living room, Zhu Linmiao asked Luo Mingshou to take a seat, and Chanyi then served hot tea.

Only then did Shi Lin hand over Luo Ming's gift list to Zhu Linmiao. The latter opened it and glanced at it, only to see that there were a lot of antiques, jewelry, jade, silk and satin on the booklet, and the value was probably about 10,000 taels.

"Why does Luo Shoubei have to spend so much?" Zhu Linmiao closed the gift list and smiled slightly.

"Your Highness's life-saving grace, this little thing is difficult to deal with!" Luo Mingshou also laughed, "But the lower official is a rough person, and he can only think of these mundane things, and it is difficult to enter the eyes of His Highness." Oh, these things are still on board, and Your Highness tells where to unload. ”

Zhu Linmiao thought about it, but she was not polite to him, "Don't worry, let's unload it in Nanchang." ”

Zhu Linmiao knew that for this kind of good man, not accepting his things would make him feel that you looked down on him, and there was a big battle to be fought soon, so he simply left these gifts to Yang Tinglin as military expenses.

"Your Highness is refreshing!" Luo Mingshou said happily, "It's just that I knew that His Royal Highness asked me to unload it in Nanchang, so I didn't have to bother loading it on this trip, haha." ”

When Zhu Linmiao heard the word "loading", he suddenly remembered the situation when he had just pulled the 24-pounder gun back to the iron yard. The whole sixteen horses dragged the heavy artillery cart, but the speed of the march was only faster than walking, if the cannon was transported to Nanchang in this way, I was afraid that the road would have to be delayed for more than half a month.

But if these cannons can be loaded onto ships and transported along the Gan River to Nanchang, then there will be three or four days. Thinking of this, he said to Luo Ming: "Speaking of which, I still have something to ask Luo Shou to help with." ”

"At the behest of His Highness."

"The artillery that was just test-fired, and I also asked Luo Garrison to transfer a few larger ships to help me transport them to Nanchang."

Luo Mingshou immediately slapped his hands and said: "This is just a coincidence, Xia Guan has brought a total of five white-bottomed big ships here, which should be applicable." ”

This white-bottomed ship, also known as the reeling boat, is a kind of lucky ship, and it is also a larger kind of warship in the Daming Navy. He brought out so many main warships with great fanfare this time, just to show grandeur and make King Chen feel faced.

"That's great!"

The next day, the first 24-pounder gun was towed to the docks.

In front of Zhu Linmian are five two-masted hard-sailed wooden ships nearly ten zhang long and two zhang high, with a Franc cannon at the bow and stern, revealing the unique simple beauty of old-fashioned sailing ships.

Luo Mingshou introduced on the side: "Your Highness, each of these five warships can carry more than 2,000 catties, and there should be no problem in transporting this cannon of less than 5,000 catties." ”

When the Ming Dynasty is a hundred catties, that is, these ships can carry more than 200,000 catties.

It took a lot of effort to get the cannon on board. Just to keep the hull of the ship not too inclined when dragging the cannon from the side of the ship, a group of nearly 200 people was busy for most of the day.

In the end, thousands of pounds of stones were added to the other side of the ship before the cannon was barely loaded onto the ship.

Zhu Linmiao couldn't help but have a headache when he thought that after arriving in Nanchang, he would have to toss and turn to unload the cannon.

When he turned his head, he saw the Furlong cannon on the stern of the ship on Luo Ming's seat, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, why should he move the cannon to land again?

Nanchang City is next to the Ganjiang River, so the warship will be driven to the city, and the "giant ship and heavy artillery" will blast open the city wall. Thinking of this, he smiled bitterly and shook his head, this cannon is heavy enough, but the ship is far from being a giant ship. The Daming Naval Division was still very superstitious about gang fighting, and the design of the warship did not give much thought to equipping a large number of heavy artillery.

Just on the other side of the world, Britain, has now built the giant battleship Sea Monarch, with a displacement of more than 1,500 tons, and a total of 8 30-pounder guns and 32 18-pounder guns in the three-story gun bay. Compared to it, Luo Mingshou, a ship with a displacement of less than 200 tons, is like a floating leaf in the sea.

In fact, Daming also had treasure ships with a displacement of more than 2,500 tons, but due to the different design concepts, the treasure ships with only one gun bay could not carry a large number of guns.

However, if Luo Mingshou's warship was only equipped with a 24-pounder gun, with the ship's gun mount, it should still be able to shoot steadily.

Zhu Linmiao immediately returned to the iron yard, and after simple calculations, quickly drew a pair of the most common wooden four-wheeled gun carriages of the seventeenth century, and then immediately hired a carpenter to start making it.

This thing is actually a thick wooden base with four small wheels, but at the tail it is equipped with a gun wedge that can adjust the height of the muzzle. But it was this inconspicuous gun carriage that made it possible for a big guy like a thirty-pounder gun to get on board.

If a fixed cannon base was used, the 30-pounder gun fired once on the side of the gun, the recoil could make a wooden sailing ship of about 200 tons shake violently for half a day. But with this gun carriage with small wheels, the entire gun rolls back after firing, gradually dissolving the recoil, and the hull remains stable at all times.

The craftsmanship of the gun carriage was simple, and by noon the next day, it had been transported to Luo Mingshou's ship. Everyone erected a triangular wooden frame, and hundreds of sailors worked together to lift the heavy cannon and put it on top of the gun carriage.

Luo Ming's Franc cannon had the bow removed, and pushed the twenty-four-pounder gun over.

The gunners on the ship were quite skilled, and quickly filled the gunpowder into the barrel, and with a pestle, two more people worked together to put the cannonball in.

For the sake of safety, Zhu Linmiao only let them fill five catties of gunpowder, Rao is so, when the igniter ignites the gunpowder, the huge roar of the cannon still shook the whole ship trembling slightly.

The cannon jerked back with a puff of smoke, half of the hull, and pulled all the fixed ropes to a halt. The hull shook again.

Luo Mingshou used a telescope to see the huge waves splashing on the river in the distance, and couldn't help but say: "If every boat is equipped with this kind of heavy artillery, who would dare to disobey it on the water?!" ”