Nearly 4,000 cattle, horses, and livestock were brought back by He Yong, along with more than 2,000 people in Yongning City, including skilled shepherds and domesticators.

It's not that Bengang Vault can only buy these livestock with money, but with He Yong's fleet, it can only carry so many livestock and people.

Don't look at this little bit of livestock, but the silver spent is in the amount of 100,000 taels, as far as Li Tianyang and their Bengang stalls have been spread over the years, these more than 100,000 taels of silver will almost be regarded as emptying Bengang's savings, and He Yong will finally bring back not much of the remaining silver.

It is also a horse that has not been castrated, but it is a pity that among these horses, it is still dominated by Korean horses, and there are still not many Hetao and Mongolian horses.

The scale of this batch of livestock was so huge that in order to bring back a little more livestock and population, even the cabins of the 10 "Yang Fan-type" warships, which had been launched for a few months, were requisitioned, either crowded with recruited Yongning people or crowded with livestock.

Even if there were people at sea who wanted to see the idea of fighting this huge fleet, but looking at the ten exotic Western-style warships around the fleet, anyone with a little brain would not hit them with their ideas.

However, Li Tianyang did not hesitate to expose the strength of his "Yang Fan-style" fleet, and it was not that it did not bring him more benefits, at least when this huge fleet docked on Dongjiang Island, Mao Wenlong, the chief officer and soldier of Dongjiang Town, changed his face to face He Yong with a closer face!

To be able to recruit the existence of such a fleet, that is a manifestation of strength, especially the "Yang Fan" battleship obviously Western-style battleship, for Mao Wenlong, who makes a living from combat, even if he has not really seen the power of Westerners' warships, but under the influence of his ears and eyes, as long as these "Yang Fan-type" battleships can have the rumored five-point strength, it is a terrible data.

And in the face of Mao Wenlong's warm hospitality, how could He Yong be embarrassed to refuse Mao Wenlong's request to board the "Yang Fan" battleship for a look!

Actually stepping on the "Yang Fan" battleship to visit is a completely different feeling from watching underground.

Because the "Yang Fan" battleships were equipped with the Hongtang fleet on a large scale, the number of guns unloaded from the previous 400 warships was far from enough to fill the gun emplacements of the "Yang Fan" battleships enough to accommodate nearly 50 cannons.

At the same time, in order not to attract attention, Li Tianyang did not equip any artillery on the deck, but filled the second floor with gun emplacements. However, in normal times, the muzzles of the second-floor gun emplacements are also hidden, and they cannot be seen from the outside, and only when you walk into the second-floor cabin, you will see more than 20 guns densely packed on the left and right sides of the battleship.

And the "Yang Fan-type" battleship, which has about twice as much defensive armor as the 400-material warship, and Mao Wenlong, who has a naval division in his own hands, has to feel ashamed of the overall strength of such a battleship.

After just a brief visit, Mao Wenlong was able to assert that he was afraid that the overall strength of a warship under his command could catch up with this "Yang Fan-style" warship.

Only strength is the best way to gain the respect of others, in the past, Mao Wenlong courteously treated He Yong, just for the sake of He Yong's use value, but now Mao Wenlong is polite to He Yong, but it is completely based on the strong strength of the Bengang team front.

These ten "Yang Fan-style" warships alone are even stronger than the thousands of sailors under Mao Wenlong's command!

Of course, Mao Wenlong was not tempted by such a powerful fleet, but looking at the nondescript Ming military uniforms worn by every sailor on the "Yang Fan-style" warship, Mao Wenlong was bold, but he didn't dare to rebel and attack his own people!

In order to win over the commander of this powerful naval division, Mao Wenlong specially selected a batch of high-quality Hetao horses from his cavalry team in this transaction, as well as a thousand-mile horse that is said to be a good horse of Dawan as a gift, and gave it to Li Tianyang, who was far away on Dayuan Island and had never met before.

With such a group of livestock and population to be replenished, the ranch in Da'an Port can basically be said to have a preliminary framework, and the next thing is to see Gan Dabiao's ability and deeds.

"General, Dean Chen of the R&D Institute invites you to go!" Li Tianyang was about to pack up his things and go home for lunch, when suddenly a soldier walked in.

"Success? Did he say something? Li Tianyang frowned and asked calmly.

"The carrier pigeon didn't go into details, only said that you should go there yourself!"

"Well, I know, just say I'll go over right away!" Li Tianyang nodded, signaling that he knew.

As a R&D institution, R&D institutes have consumed a lot of money and resources for many years, but until now, their R&D progress has been on a quarterly basis, and it is not unusual for many R&D institutes to have no progress in several years.

Yang Zhi, who once led the R&D Institute with him, is now the director of Bengang Shipyard, specializing in the construction of the "Yang Fan" warship and the research and development of the second-generation warship.

Compared with Chengcai's flexible brain and whimsical ideas, Yang Zhi's intelligence is more manifested in the improvement of the same thing, which can be seen from the research direction of the two of them over the years.

Therefore, Yang Zhi's role in the R&D Institute is far less than his role in the shipyard, and now the two of them have separated and each has a job to do.

The R&D Institute has moved again, with the increase in the population of Bengang, the R&D Institute is a key confidential object, and the R&D targets in their hands are artillery, arquebuses, which are huge and harmful, and it is really inappropriate to stay in the inner city of Bengang, so as early as a few years ago, they were independent and stationed in a valley for R&D.

The distance from Bengang to the R&D Institute is not long, but it is not short, but since Li Tianyang got the jujube-red Dawan good horse brought back by He Yong, he began to gradually like horseback riding when he went out.

At the beginning, because he didn't know how to ride, Li Tianyang naturally suffered a lot, but as his riding skills gradually improved, he felt like a gallop on horseback, as long as it was a man, I was afraid that no one could resist it.

The ten-mile road is at the foot of Li Tianyang's crotch, a good horse named "Chasing the Wind" by him, but the kung fu of the tea is here, if it weren't for me waiting for a few guards behind him, he could be faster, who made his war horse have amazing foot strength!

"Tell me, what's the good news for me?" As soon as he entered the gate of the R&D Institute, Li Tianyang saw Chengcai's excited smiling face, and only when major breakthroughs and achievements were made, Chengcai's performance would be so excited.

Affected by Chengcai's excited expression, even Li Tianyang himself was full of curiosity and expectation for this visit to the R&D Institute!

"Come with me, brother-in-law, and take you to see something good!" Chengcai resisted the urge to directly uncover the mystery, grabbed Li Tianyang's hand and walked towards the valley.

It wasn't until he reached the middle of the valley that Cheng Cai stopped and lifted a black tarpaulin, revealing a creature under the tarpaulin that was also dark, but it exuded a metallic aura!

"Dangdang Dang Dang!!" Chengcai excitedly pointed to this metal creation, and shouted loudly and excitedly to Li Tianyang: "Brother-in-law, look, the steel cannon we developed ourselves has finally broken through the threshold and can be mass-produced!" ”

“！！！” Li Tianyang looked at the beautiful lines in front of him in shock, and the cannon with a thin front and a thick back of more than two zhang long, and his heart was also excited.

"We have already test-fired this cannon, and the weight of the shell can reach a maximum of 30 catties, the longest effective range is 10 miles, and the net weight of the cannon body is 2,100 catties." Cheng Cai was triumphant, and described the specifications of the cannon in front of him to Li Tianyang like a show off.

For this cannon, over the years, Chengcai took the research team to stay in the R&D Institute every day without sleep and food, and built countless cannons, and encountered countless life dangers, so as to overcome difficulties and create such a cannon.

"Are you sure you can mass produce it?" Li Tianyang still didn't believe that with the ability of the R&D Institute and the Craftsman's Workshop, it was not difficult to build such a cannon with their strength, as long as there was enough time and resources, they would be able to create such a cannon sooner or later.

However, the significance of mass production is very different from building a cannon alone, and if such a powerful cannon can be mass-produced, it will be of extraordinary significance to Bengang!

"Hehe, I know you can't believe it!" Cheng Cai had an expression that I had already guessed, and then smiled strangely at Li Tu, and then turned around and uncovered a few other oilcloths around him, and below them were several cannons that were exactly the same as the cannon in front of Li Tianyang!

Li Tianyang only cared about the shock, but did not carefully observe the surrounding environment, in addition to the four or five cannons uncovered by Chengcai, around them, there were also several oilcloths on an unknown object.

"Are these these?" Li Tianyang pointed to a few other oilcloths, and his voice trembled a little.

"Hehe, yes, there are a total of ten cannons here, all of which we have produced by using the same technology, and we have tested ten shells for each cannon, and no flaws have been found!" At this time, looking at Chengcai's expression of Lao Tzu's number one in the world, Li Tianyang felt very cute no matter how he looked at it, and he didn't feel bored at all.

"Good! Very good! Very good! Li Tianyang was so excited that he forgot what he said, and he couldn't stop praising in his mouth: "You have really made a great achievement, and I want to celebrate all of you when I go back!" ”

It's even more cool today!

(End of chapter)