"Hahaha!" Ao Bai raised his head and smiled heartily, "Since you are Mr. Xue's student, you should be invited!" With your master and apprentice working together for the imperial court, my Qing Dynasty is like a tiger with wings! The destruction of the thieves is just around the corner! ”

"Xiangye has won the award! The grass people only did their part. Xue Fengzuo arched his hand.

At this time, Ao Bai gave Yue Le a look and signaled that he could speak.

Yue Le is also a smart person and knows how to behave, so he raised his wine glass and raised his glass to Xue Fengzuo: "Mr. Xue is talented and loyal to the court, this king respects you a glass!" ”

Xue Fengzuo was so shocked that the wine glass almost fell to the ground. You must know that at the banquet just now, although he was fortunate to be on the seat, how could a prince like Yue Le toast to himself? Didn't even say a word. He sat on this upper seat, and the ones who could drink and talk were Zhou Peigong and Zhang Changgeng. Seeing Yue Le toasting, Xue Fengzuo hurriedly stood up and threw his hands to the ground: "The prince has tormented the grass people!" Where do you dare to let the prince toast the grass and the people's wine? How affordable is this for grass people! ”

Ao Bai laughed heartily: "Mr. Xue, even Prince An has toasted you, it seems that Mr. Xue is really amazing!" ”

Xue Fengzuo stood up respectfully, picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

Yue Le said at this time: "Mr. Xue, you have really contributed a lot to casting cannons for the imperial court to deal with thieves. However, although the cannon cast by Mr. Xue is good, the delivery speed is too slow! This afternoon, the king also specially took people to see the artillery camp, Mr. Xue cast cannon, the wall is not thick, but it is very strong, light weight, it is really a weapon of the country! It's just that Mr. Xue's cannon wheels are directly mounted on the gun carriage, so why can't he build another gun carriage and use large wheels? Such a cannon is drawn by a mule, and the march is much faster. ”

"Use big wheels as cannon wheels?" Xue Fengzuo's eyes widened and he froze, and he didn't react for a long time.

Yue Le took out a roll of paper from his sleeve and handed it over: "Mr. Xue, you better look at this kind of picture first, maybe you can understand." The picture was drawn by the king's generals after returning from the cannons of thieves they saw on the position. ”

Xue Fengzuo respectfully bent down and took the drawing with both hands, opened it and looked at it, stunned: The gun carriage of this cannon is so small! Directly mounted on the middle axle of the big wheel, the gun carriage looks much smaller than its own, can such a small gun carriage withstand the recoil when firing the gun?

However, Xue Fengzuo still shouted at the design of the two long gun tails and the station hoe behind the gun truck, with these two things, the cannon is very stable.

It's just that the gun carriage is so slender that it can withstand the recoil of shelling? After thinking about it carefully, Xue Fengzuo suspected that the small gun carriage fixed on the axle might be cast with iron, otherwise how could such a small thing withstand a huge recoil?

Thinking of this, Xue Fengzuo saluted Yue Le and said, "As long as the prince gives the grass people time, the grass people will definitely be able to imitate this kind of artillery of the thief." ”

Ao Bai said: "Actually, on the side of the Taixi people, there are only this kind of cannons, and many of them are copper cannons. It's just that the Taixi people have a lot of copper, and we have little copper, so we can't use a lot of copper to make cannons, so we can only use iron to cast cannons as much as possible. ”

"Xiangye, there are also a lot of cannons purchased from the Taixi people here in Xiaguan, and when they were bought, they were such wheels, not the big wheels of the big cart." Zhou Peigong stood up and bowed his hand.

Yue Le relied on his own judgment and asked as a matter of course: "Maybe the Taixi people are selling you old goods?" And they sold the real new cannon to the thieves? ”

"Lord Wang, you have also seen these cannons of Xiaguan, but they are all new cannons!" Zhou Peigong replied anxiously.

Westerners really didn't pit Zhou Peigong, and the cannons they sold to Zhou Peigong were all new cannons. It's just that these guns were originally placed on battleships. If Zhou Peigong and the others really wanted to buy field artillery, as long as they gave the silver, the Westerners could also transport it from Europe. A field gun is the kind of artillery with big wheels. In fact, Ao Bai is not wrong when he said that most of the maneuverable cannons of Westerners are bronze cannons.

Ao Bai nodded slightly and said: "Then you might as well ask the Taixi people, and say that they want to buy a batch of copper cannons, the price is a little expensive, but it doesn't matter, just buy a few, as for the silver, the old man can give it to you." ”

Later, Zhou Peigong really got a few field bronze cannons from the Westerners, which were indeed made of large wheels, with a pair of small iron gun carriages, suitable for mobile transportation by mules and horses. Later, with the joint efforts of Xue Fengzuo and his student Mei Wending, they first successfully imitated the field bronze cannon. However, because of the lack of copper in China, Xue Fengzuo and Mei Wending finally succeeded in casting an iron-core copper cannon, which uses less copper raw materials and saves a lot of costs, and has a thinner barrel wall like a copper cannon, which is much lighter than an iron cannon and will not explode.

In addition to imitating field artillery, Xue Fengzuo and Mei Wending took advantage of their proficiency in Western pronunciation to negotiate with Westerners, purchased a batch of instruments from Westerners, and used their own mathematical knowledge to study ballistics and use instruments to correct the angle of artillery, thus greatly improving the hit rate.

Because of Xue Fengzuo and Mei Wending, the Qing Army's Green Camp New Army once made the Ming Army taste bitterness.

Thousands of miles away, Beijing City, Qianmen West Street Church in Wumen.

It is a baroque church, and a motorcade stops at the entrance of the church, and a pockmarked child enters the church, surrounded by a group of teenagers dressed in gorgeous silk clothes.

Seeing the child with a pockmarked face walking into the church, Nan Huairen hurriedly greeted him: "The ...... Emperor"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Xiao Mazi winking at him, which seemed to ask him not to expose Xiao Mazi's true identity at the door of the church, after all, Xiao Mazi was a private visit to Weifu.

Nan Huairen was deeply loved by Bu Mu Butai, and it was Nan Huairen who entered the palace before and taught Xiao Mazi the knowledge of Western mathematics, astronomy, physics and other aspects. But this time it was Xiao Mazi who came to visit in person, but it was the first time. The reason why Xiao Mazi wanted to take the method of micro-service private interview to meet Nan Huairen was because on the one hand, he announced that Western technology was KitKat, but he went to learn Western things, and he was afraid of being discussed by ministers and nobles, so Xiao Mazi went to visit Nan Huairen in a low-key manner.

When he walked into the church, Xiao Mazi arrived at the door of Nan Huairen's study, let the young guards around him wait at the door, and walked into Nan Huairen's study alone.

After the two sat down, Nan Huairen opened his mouth and asked, "I don't know if the emperor came here today, does he want to study mathematics, astronomy, or physics?" Or is it about cannon casting? ”

Xiao Mazi shook his head and said, "Teacher, I didn't come here today for these things, but for the affairs of the Dutch. The old ancestor followed Hong Jingluo's suggestion and used the red-haired ghost to deal with the sea coars. I sent an envoy to Macao to contact the Dutch. Now they have sent messengers to the capital. Tianjin Express Malay reported that the Dutch warship had arrived at the sea off the coast of Tianjin, saying that they wanted to negotiate with us. ”

"The Dutch came to negotiate? They have already arrived in Tianjin? Nan Huairen was very surprised.

"Exactly!" Xiao Mazi nodded his head, "No one in the imperial court understands Dutch, and I hope that the teacher can come forward to help the imperial envoy act as an interpreter and negotiate with the Dutch." ”

Nan Huairen saluted Xiao Mazi: "Back to the emperor, I am also a courtier of the Qing Dynasty now, since the emperor wants the minister to do it, the minister will go." ”

"Then I thanked the teacher!" Xiao Mazi arched his hand, "There is another thing, that is, the matter of casting cannons for the south, the teacher doesn't have to cast too many artillery for the green battalion in the south, first of all, he must ensure the artillery of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion." If there is rest, give some to the southern green camp. If they don't have enough artillery, I can send our battalion of Uzhen Chaoha to help! ”

"The minister understands!" Nan Huairen Road.

After Nan Huairen agreed to come down and work as a translator, Kangxi went back to report the matter to his grandmother, and Bumu Butai put Sony, Suke Saha, and Kubilong in the Yangxin Palace, and discussed who to send to negotiate with the Dutch.

"Shi Lang, who used to be the general soldier of Tong'an, is familiar with the tactics of the sailors, and now because of the defeat in Xiamen, he was called into the capital to be idle, and the slave felt that he could send this person." Sony suggested.

Sukh Saha objected: "Shi Lang is a guilty body, how can he hold such an important position? ”

Kupilon said: "Lord Suke Saha, but apart from Shi Lang, can the capital find a person who is good at water masters?" ”

Suke Saha sneered: "Negotiating with the red-haired ghost, why do you need to know the tactics of the sailor? How to fight is the matter of their sailors, we negotiate with the red-haired ghosts, what conditions do we offer, what is our bottom line, and what does this have to do with whether we are familiar with the tactics of the sailors? Why let a man with a sinful body come forward! ”

Suppilon sneered and retorted, "Is Lord Sukesaha really ignorant or is he deliberately going against the old man? What the pirates rely on is nothing more than naval warfare! We need to use the red-haired ghost to send troops to deal with the Haikou sailors, how many warships do we need to borrow? How much do red-haired ghosts need to send troops? If you don't understand the tactics of the sailors, how can you know about them? If a person who is not familiar with the sailor goes to negotiate, and the red-haired ghost makes an offer all over the sky, wouldn't it be our emperor and the court who will suffer? ”

Suppilon made a point, and Sukh Saha couldn't find the words to refute it for a while.

Who knew that at this time, Bu Mu Butai said coldly: "The mourning family doesn't agree to let Shi Lang come forward!" ”

"Lafayette, why is that?" Suppilon was dumbfounded.

"Just because Shi Lang is greedy for small profits, he refuses to give up Dongfan Island, a barren land overseas! He always wanted to be the admiral and prefect of Dongfan Island! With this article, Shi Lang is not suitable to come forward. "Bumu Butai said.

"In that case, who else is suitable?" Sonny asked.

"Huang Xigon, the right attendant of the military department, is a qualified negotiator! You can send him. "Bumu Butai said.

Suke Saha said: "Lafayette, the slave thinks that Huang Xigon is not a flag man, so it is not appropriate to let him go alone, the slave thinks that we have to send another flag man to cooperate with Lord Huang and co-chair the negotiations." (To be continued.) )