It's just that although Li Tianyang's two ideas are good, they are not a small expense for the economic pressure of the whole team.

According to the scale of the existing Hongtang team, it is necessary to prepare more than 7,500 clothes and equipment for a change of clothes, plus shoes, socks and belts and other supporting equipment, and the cost required is not a small amount.

According to the team's replacement of clothes, pants, and matching underwear, underwear, and shoes belts for one person, the cost of this person will be at least five taels of silver to be managed.

Since the styles of jumpsuits are unified, it also means that the weapons and equipment of the Hongtang team members must also be unified. Up to now, the weapons used by the vast majority of Hongtang's soldiers have been made in recent years by clearing out pirates, buying them every once in a while or when the blacksmiths in the craftsman's workshop are free.

But if according to Li Tianyang's conception, all the warriors' equipment needs to be unified to form a whole, then it is obvious that these colorful weapons of the Hongtang warriors will also have to be rebuilt.

The majority of weapons are easy to solve, although everyone's weapons are different, but the steel used can still be recycled, with the craftsmen and apprentices of the craftsman workshop and the apprentices they bring, and with the newly developed technology, as long as it is not armed in place at one time, they can rush out of weapons and equipment in batches.

But a precision instrument like a bow and crossbow can not be made in a few days, and many of the things involved require the experience and technology of a craftsman, and the construction period is also very long, as a standard weapon, its cost is too high.

There is also the equipment of the 2,000 musketeers, which is a big problem, although Hong Tang is in the honeymoon period with the Portuguese in Macao, and can buy the Portuguese arquebuses at a very favorable team price, but the arquebuses such as ten taels of silver are often counted, and two thousand are at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Of course, Li Tianyang and they had already obtained more than 400 arquebuses from the Portuguese, and they had defeated the Dutch, and from the hands of the Dutch and the Hongcheng Fortress, they had also collected more than 500 arquebuses that could be used, and they could also make up about a thousand arquebuses, but the remaining 1,000, even if the Portuguese were willing to sell them, they would not be able to get so many muskets for a while!

Although Li Tianyang has ignored the actual role and tactics of arquebuses in actual battles in recent years, Li Tianyang has not slackened in the study of arquebuses.

Although Cheng Cai and Yang Zhi of the R&D Institute now have their own topics and research, in fact, they also maintain a research and development team specializing in the research and improvement of arquebuses and artillery, which is a hard order issued by Li Tianyang to the two responsible persons.

After a long period of research and development, because of the need for physical objects to verify whether the research and development failed, the masters of this craftsman workshop often received requests from the research and development team to build some arquebuses for them. Therefore, the masters of this craftsman team are no strangers to how to make muskets.

Even, with the continuous improvement of the R&D team, the arquebus developed and improved by Hongtang himself is now better than the weapons sold to Hongtang's team by the Portuguese, both in terms of the success rate of firefighting and the power of bullets.

However, if it is necessary to change the weapons of the uniform standard, then the masters of the craftsman workshop will probably not have the time to create these muskets for a long time.

Moreover, the production process of this arquebus, especially the manufacturing method of the musket barrel, is too troublesome, and a skilled master can almost produce a qualified barrel in a day, and this more than 1,000 barrels will not be used by the masters for many months!

At the same time, because Li Tianyang's team itself has been looking for various ore veins in the field since the discovery of the gold veins until now, but except for the gold veins in Jilong Mountain, there is no shadow of other veins at all.

And there has always been a shortage of pig iron in their own team, whether it is a civilian tool, or the normal consumption of Hongtang's weapons, which side has at least several thousand catties of pig iron in a month, plus a piece of pig iron consumption of not tens of thousands of catties, just relying on Zhang Yuyan's collection in Yuegang, not only spent a lot of money, but also consumed their energy.

On the contrary, these are several major obstacles in front of Li Tianyang's reform, with the current Qixintang's family background is not rich enough, just like what Yumo said in the letter, it is not enough for Li Tianyang to toss like this.

But the so-called opportunity to go up, if there is no opportunity to create opportunities, you have to go up. Many times, Li Tianyang made a decision not because he was on a whim, but because the most suitable opportunity was right in front of him, so he had to bite the bullet and seize this rare opportunity.

This was the case when Yuan Laoba and them attacked Bengang, and so was Li Tianyang's counterattack on the Dutch's Hongcheng Fortress before.

After eating so much sweetness, Li Tianyang was even more unwilling to waste such a suitable opportunity, and watched this opportunity slip away.

The brainwashing of Hongtang's recruits has just begun, and it is the time for them to establish their loyalty to Hongtang, and at the same time, they should also be allowed to see a different and more promising Hongtang.

And the nobles who were released by the Dutch have been taking Gan Dabiao and their delegation south for more than a month, and Li Tianyang does not know whether the negotiations with the Dutch can be successful. If successful, in order to show good faith, or for the Dutch governor to give a proper ransom, Li Tianyang will also have to release these Dutch sailors and non-commissioned officers who are now idle in the Joncoop Harbor prison camp.

When the time comes, where will Li Tianyang find such a suitable instructor, so that they can teach the soldiers of Hongtang the most suitable and most advanced combat skills and cooperation methods in Europe without the slightest reservation.

Only by fully absorbing the different combat methods brought about by the differences between the cultural backgrounds of the East and the West, can Hongtang's road go further in the future, and Hongtang's combat ability will become stronger.

Judging from the current development of Li Tianyang's team, the Ming court is not necessarily more threatening than the Westerners who invaded from the South Seas. Because, although the Ming court has a deep foundation, the high-level bureaucrats at their helm are not interested in things on the ocean, but are Westerners like jackals, who have made a lot of money through maritime trade, so under the temptation of the interest team, they hope to open the door of the Ming Dynasty and get more wealth opportunities.

In this way, Hongtang, whose focus is more on the ocean, will inevitably deal with and even fight with all kinds of Westerners because of the friction of interests, just like the Dutch not long ago.

(End of chapter)