Bishop Alexander, who has clarified his goals, already knows what he should do.

So at a decisive meeting held by the Philippine Governor, on the issue of discussing how to deal with the Chinese, Bishop Alexander expressed his attitude to everyone on behalf of the Catholic Church and handed over all the Chinese to Xiao Ruxun in exchange for the stability of the Philippines and prevented Xiao Ruxun from using various means to attack the Philippines' economy.

Once the Philippines' economy collapses, it will be a very terrible thing for the Holy See and the Spanish Empire. Not to mention that the Holy See is now in short supply, but the Spanish government is fighting everywhere, the military expenditure required is an astronomical figure. Comparing the two, the importance of the Philippines is self-evident.

Everyone should understand the importance of the Philippines.

This was the last summary statement from Bishop Alexander, and then the atmosphere of the entire meeting solidified. In the final voting session, except for a few deadly hard-working members of the military faction who disagreed, most of them agreed. They succumbed to the double pressure of China and the Catholic Church, and believed that it was necessary to send all the Chinese who had become unstable factors away.

The military sent deadly members expressed their protest by collective withdrawal from the association. However, the Philippine Governor finally issued a resolution to contact Myanmar and asked General Xiao Ruxun to send a ship to pick up the Chinese. They were willing to give up the Chinese on the island in exchange for General Xiao's friendship.

Bishop Alexander and Matteo Ricci breathed a sigh of relief. The Philippine crisis that had lasted for nearly a month was finally resolved by diplomatic mediation, which could avoid the destruction of the terrible war on the Philippines, protect their vested interests, and obtain Xiao Ruxun's friendship, thus obtaining permission to spread Catholicism in Myanmar.

It’s a joyful congratulation! It’s a pity to congratulate!

Matteo Ricci immediately set off to return to Myanmar to inform Xiao Ruxun about this matter. In order to gain a good impression in front of future believers, Bishop Alexander brought some food and supplies to the Chinese settlement area to "send warmth" so that everyone can feel the warmth of God and lay the foundation for the missionary cause in Myanmar in the future.

Anyway, he was convinced that these people would be his believers, his supporters, and support him to become the backbone of the pope.

When Matteo Ricci returned to Myanmar to pay homage to Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun was inspecting the production line of craftsmen for firearms and the studio of the masters who specially built rifled guns for the personal guards.

Now at this time, Xiao Ruxun cannot create an industrial production system and cannot use machines to mass produce rifled guns. He can only allow the master with superb skills to polish the rifles one by one.

This is also impossible. Xiao Ruxun cannot travel repeatedly, can't do time and space business, has no system to accompany him, can't get points, can't buy high-tech products. Although he was in the end of his life, at least there were many abandoned factories and a large number of machines to use, and there were batches of skilled workers, so it was not difficult to make firearms and shells.

But now I am poor and have only handicraft workshops, a group of iron-smithing masters, and some technical workers recruited from abroad. A group of people worked together to create several firearm production lines. Xiao Ruxun really felt that it was not easy to do this. He spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in all his money, let alone anything else.

At the earliest, some jobs and other things had to be purchased from the Ming Dynasty and sent to Myanmar. From the time of purchasing and using them to being able to produce independently, Xiao Ruxun also invested a large sum of silver to maintain the operation of the workshop, but almost did not issue the salaries of officials. Fortunately, the commercial tax was collected at that time, and the commercial tax of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver barely solved his predicament.

Among the several firearm production lines under his command, the biggest one is the fuse smoothbore gun. We strive to achieve the ultimate and increase the medicine room. Anyway, the power and range of the Zhennan Army of Xiao Ruxun's subordinates are more than one-third higher than that of the original Ming Bird Gun, and the quality is even more unreasonable.

Xiao Ruxun directly ordered the accountability system, and according to the Qin army's system, he would find the person in charge of any link and the person in charge of the craftsmen to hold accountable. Xiao Ruxun gave the craftsmen a much higher salary than in the Ming Dynasty. These craftsmen must also be responsible. If a defective product is made and complained to the army, Xiao Ruxun would take him out without hesitation to vent his anger and then imprison him.

The second production line outside the fuse-line smoothbore gun is the production line of the flintlock gun. This is a batch of special firearms produced in strong winds. Only the gunmen with the highest shooting accuracy and richest experience in shooting are held by nearly 2,000 people, which are also the firefighting teams that must be held in front of the other gunmen at critical moments.

What remains is the production line of rifled guns, or a small studio, which gathers handicraft workshops of dozens of masters, and is specifically responsible for making guns for Xiao Ruxun himself and his personal guards. For three years, Xiao Ruxun has only more than 300 stocks and about ten pistols in his hand.

It’s not that there is no more production, but that the production efficiency is too low. Xiao Ruxun actively lowers the requirements and produces some sufficient ones.

When you can't handle the Minnie bullet, the existence of the rifled rifle is a useless rib. You have to use a wooden hammer to hammer the bullet into the barrel and then shoot it. The time it takes to fire a shot is several times that of the smoothbore rifle. Although the accuracy is incomparable to the smoothbore rifle, you have such low firing efficiency. Before you can shoot a second shot, the smoothbore rifle on the opposite side has fired several shots in a row.

Therefore, the rifled rifle can only be regarded as a sniper rifle at this time. With the photos and sightseeing, it is equipped with sharpshooters who are particularly good at shooting. Sniping enemy officers on the battlefield and causing chaos in the enemy is still very effective. If you expect to use the rifled rifle to defeat the enemy on the battlefield, then you should take a shower and go to bed.

However, the Minnie bomb was born at the wrong time. It was born a little too late. It was only more than 20 years ago that the bullet fire technology matured, and then it was the era of post-loading guns. The pre-loading guns were quickly eliminated.

Xiao Ruxun picked up a newly built rifled flintlock rifle, picked it up and played it. He looked at the door and the sightseeing star, and it looked quite good.

"Is the ammunition mold still not progressing?"

Xiao Ruxun asked his chief craftsman, a master in his fifties who had been a thief forty years.

"Mr. Marquis, we tried to make the mold style you gave me. It is really difficult to grasp. I really need good steel to use this thing. He must be hard and strong. Even a hundred steelmaking can't achieve this effect. Now my disciples are working on three hundred and five hundred steelmaking to see what the result will be. As for the results, I can only say that I can do my best."

Xiao Ruxun could not force them, and could not compete with the production method of large machines by hand workshops. Xiao Ruxun nodded and did not continue to say anything, so as not to put too much pressure on the master.

At this moment, someone came in and reported that Matteo Ricci was here. Xiao Ruxun calculated the time and smiled slightly.

He probably has fulfilled his request and is now back to report his life.
Chapter completed!