After several days of search, the Ming army also found out the situation in the nearby areas.

The 300 Ming army commanded by Huang Liangji found out the northwest of Luzon and had clashed with the Spaniards in the middle, but there were no major casualties between the two sides.

Since the last shelling of Spanish patrol ships, Xiao Wu gave up his plan to fight with the Spanish Navy and chose to sail the fleet into the offshore to avoid the Spanish fleet.

At the same time, on land, thousands of Ming soldiers began to build fortifications.

In order to prevent the invasion of pirates and Japanese pirates, the Spaniards built city walls on the northwest coast of Luzon to defend themselves.

In the last war with Japanese pirates, the city wall was seriously damaged by artillery bombardment.

Perhaps the maintenance was too cumbersome or for other reasons, the Spaniards actually gave up this coastal defense facility.

Liu Yu naturally would not let go of this Feng Shui treasure land.

Under Huang Liangji's command, thousands of Ming soldiers began to repair the city wall with the help of local Han people.

Some gaps were initially filled with wood and stone.

The soldiers of the Ming army named this city Mingcheng to express their confidence in this city.

"We have arranged three fortifications outside Mingcheng. Although they are still very simple, they can also defend against invasions from local indigenous people." Liu Quan stood on the city wall and pointed to the Ming soldiers who were building wooden walls not far away.

He himself was a talented general, leading the way during naval warfare and was highly supported by soldiers.

More than 100 elite soldiers under his command have also participated in the battle with the Qing army, and can be said to be Xiao Wu's most trusted general.

After these days of publicity and search, there are more than 2,500 Han people registered to enter the household.

Huang Liangji divided a lot of rice fields for them, which made many local natives in Luzon very dissatisfied.

After all, the land distributed to the Han people by Huang Liangji was snatched from the local indigenous people.

However, Huang Liangji and others didn't care about these indigenous people, after all, they never thought of truly occupying Luzon.

Liu Yu was also helpless about this. He knew that if he angered these local natives in Luzon, they would only turn to the Spanish camp.

After all, if the Spanish don’t eat rice, they will at most show off their power and force them to pay some taxes.

But the Ming army in front of them wanted their land. Isn’t this their life?

In order to repair the city walls and build defense lines, the Ming Dynasty forced the local Chloe people to participate in the work, which made the nearby indigenous people complain.

Liu Yu saw it but couldn't say anything more, but fortunately he stopped caring about these trivial matters.

Since coming to Luzon, Xiao Wu has built workshops for military and craftsmen in nearby Han villages.

Now more than 200 craftsmen who have been forced to be recruited in Longmen are here.

Liu Yu and Zhu Honghuan went to the workshop to check it out when they had nothing to do.

As soon as he arrived at the workshop, Mingbing accompanied him called out several craftsmen in the firearms workshop.

Liu Yu looked at the craftsmen who were called out by the soldiers, and they were all very old.

Several of them are in their forties and fifties, with thin figures and deep eye sockets, which shows that they are malnourished for a long time.

Although Liu Yu once told Xiao Wu that he would take special care of these craftsmen who were forced to flee south.

But compared to those personal soldiers who tied their heads to their waists to fight the world with him, it was obvious that Xiao Wu did not care much about these craftsmen.

Because the trip was too urgent, most of the people plundered were property, and fresh water was scarce. Although they arrived in Luzon after sailing for more than ten days, they also received local food supplies.

However, it is obvious that these craftsmen still haven't improved much food.

The craftsmen were a little nervous when they saw Mingbing bringing them out. Looking at Zhu Honghuan, who was dressed in extraordinary clothes, his legs became weak and he knelt down.

Liu Yu hurried forward and helped several people up.

He glimpsed the muskets placed inside the workshop and asked with interest: "Since it is a craftsman, there have been muskets."

When he heard Liu Yu's inquiry, an old man in his early fifties replied: "As for the words of the adults, villains have been making countless muskets for craftsmen for generations, so they will naturally do it."

The craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty were low-level, and they were craftsmen for one day and craftsmen for another. Their ancestors were craftsmen for generations, and their treatment was similar to that of military households.

Huang Jianghu looked at Liu Yu with his eyes fixed on his eyes. The young man in his early twenties gave him a gentle feeling.

"Oh, then you can tell me how to build an excellent musket? I don't need the kind of thing that explodes as soon as I fire." Liu Yu looked at the old craftsman in front of him.

Although the Ming munitions were equipped with many weapons, the quality was uneven. Many military firearms were not only inaccurate but also extremely easy to explode. They were undoubtedly much worse than the ones that were generally equipped with flintlock rifles in the same period in the West.

Seeing Liu Yu's expression becoming serious, Huang Youde seemed a little panicked. After a while, he slowly recovered and said respectfully: "Sir, this bird gun is not complicated to build, but it only requires very high craftsmanship and consumes a lot of iron."

"Each musket can get at least five or six kilograms of fine iron, and a kilogram of fine iron requires at least ten kilograms of pig iron before it can be trained. A musket can cost at least about forty kilograms of pig iron. In this way, a fine bird gun costs seven or eight taels of silver." He said in detail.

This talks about the key point. The Ming army now lacks iron, especially the fine iron.

Making muskets requires fine iron, but what they lack at this stage is iron.

Fortunately, Luzon was not short of iron, so Liu Yu also sent his uncle's soldiers to search for a mine.

Although I knew that Luzon had a lot of gold and silver, the existing mining areas were basically in the hands of the Spanish and most were far away from the Ming army's garrison. Therefore, Xiao Wu did not send too many people to look for gold mines at this moment.

"Okay, from today on, you will be supervising the Firearms Department and in charge of the Ming munitions repair and manufacturing." Zhu Honghuan said.

"Thank you, Prince." Huang Youde was overjoyed and kowtowed quickly.

The craftsmen on the side looked red, and they all sighed when they saw that Huang Youde was actually appreciated by the prince.

"Sir, villain can offer something." Huang Youde couldn't help but look excited when he saw that he was appreciated.

He walked into the workshop and carefully took out a musket.

When Liu Yu saw this thing, he was shocked.

There is actually this thing in the Zheng army in the Ming Dynasty.

"Made a fire gun." Liu Yu shouted.

The self-produced musket is a flintlock rifle, which has a qualitative leap compared to the flint gun.

The self-produced musket was built by Bi Maokang, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing in the eighth year of Chongzhen. It used a flint bolt instead of a flint bolt. It is the earliest flint bolt in my country recorded.

The flintlock rifle uses a trigger to drive the hammer to hit the flint sheet through a spring, and generates spark-igniting gunpowder through rapid friction with the flint sheet. Therefore, there is no need to drag a long ignited flint during combat like a flint gun, which cannot be used in rainy days, and the flame is too large and it is easy to expose the shooter.

The flintlock rifle is easy to be alert and can be used once the battle begins, unlike a flint gun (the flint cannot be fired as soon as the flint is burned).

Unfortunately, it was the late Ming Dynasty, and the peasant army led by Li Zi was sweeping over. Huang Taiji was eyeing him. The Ming Dynasty army was too corrupt and there was no chance of making a self-producing musket.

Huang Youde was also shocked. You should know that this musket was brought out from Nanjing. He was fortunate to see such muskets as a craftsman in Nanming.

I deeply felt the exquisiteness of the Red and Barbarian firearms, and I took this opportunity to improve the fire gun.

Compared with the previous self-generated muskets, it has much better performance.

"Can you produce such muskets in large quantities?" Liu Yu asked hurriedly.

"Sir, the most difficult part of the gun is the gun barrel. This requires very strict requirements for drill bits and drill tubes. However, the craftsmen here are good at building muskets. If they are small, it will take at least half a month. In this way, a self-generated musket can be completed at least twenty days. If it is other craftsmen, it will take about one month." Huang Youde said respectfully.

I saw more than 20 craftsmen in the workshop.

Liu Yu said: "Gather all the craftsmen who can make muskets to be supervised by you. The best muskets will be rewarded with three taels of silver."

"Sir Xie."

Hearing this, the craftsmen present kowtowed one after another.

Seeing this, Huang Youde quickly handed the slender self-produced musket to King Lu.

Zhu Honghuan generously handed the self-generated musket to Liu Yu.

"You need this artifact more than I do."

Liu Yu did not refuse and picked up the musket and competed.

Liu Yu has never taken a gun, and the artificial comforts of the muskets of this era and modern rifles are still incomparable in terms of artificial comfort.

Especially the stock made him feel a little uncomfortable.
Chapter completed!