The longer he defended, the more Chen Mu felt that the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty were like sieves in these decades.

There are holes everywhere, and they can't even be repaired.

When they returned to Xiangshan, the ballast stones of the three large ships were thrown on the beach, and the profits were full of caliber, most of them were obtained from the Japanese pirates. Some flag soldiers took the fortunes and armor of Guanghai military and civilians without their courage. Chen Mu did not stop him, and Zhang Han did not stop him.

More property was left in Guanghaiwei. After Chen Mu asked Zhang Han for instructions, he asked Xinning County to send people to Guangzhou Prefecture to use it as a deposit to repair the city wall in the future.

Only a few Franc machines on the Guanghaiwei City Tower, some of which were good and bad. Chen Mu was jealous of them, but he didn't dare to act on his own and moved to the boat. He had to act and try it. He didn't take it, so he asked Shao Tingda to take his own people to move. When he moved outside the city, Chen Mu, who was walking around with Zhang Han, was intercepted and scolded.

If Zhang Han stopped him, these cannons would be taken home naturally.

Unfortunately, Zhang Han didn't stop him. He saw him scolding Shao Tingda for a long time, but in the end he had to move the Franchise back to the city gate tower and boarded the boat back to Xiangshan in shame.

"I think the Governor refused to let the Mangzi move the artillery."

Relying on the side of the boat, the sea breeze was blowing, and the thin drizzle hit her face with a cool feeling. Chen Mu shook his head and did not continue to explain to Wei Balang beside him.

He felt that Zhang Han was simply watching his attitude of leading troops, and he would not stop him no matter what he did. He became a savage, but who knew what the boss's governor was thinking indifferently.

Maybe he was rejected without saying a word.

This made Chen Mu feel uneasy on the way back to Xiangshan for a long time, and he finally came down easily when he saw the Qianxia of Xiangshan and Haojingao.

As soon as you get off the boat, there will be good news from Guan Yuangu.

The old craftsman was determined to share Chen Mu's worries. Seeing that the iron stored in thousands of households was getting smaller and thousands of households still needed to build guns and cannons in the face of a war, he privately visited Foshan, Nanhai County, and the largest iron smelting distribution center in Guangdong, and negotiated a deal.

"Thousands of households, Foshan furnace households have their own agreed to the imperial court to purchase the iron nails. When the old man went to Foshan to buy the shipyard, he left several furnace households that both provided iron and agreed to the imperial court to produce military weapons. He talked about a military weapon to replace iron and steel, and waited for thousands of households to accept it." Guan Jiang said, his old eyebrows were about to raise up and said, "A hundred kilograms of iron is used to replace one bird gun, and one can change seventeen poles with four furnace households in a month."

"Old man has seen it, they all refine good iron."

Can it be changed like this?

Chen Mu calculated it in his mind. In this way, it would be 1,700 kilograms of ripe iron per month, which was quite appropriate. "How did Guan Jiang come up with such an idea? How could they be willing to use so much iron for military weapons? It's almost the same price as this one."

A few days ago, he asked someone to ask about the iron price in Guangcheng. It was basically the iron price in Foshan. The price of 100 kilograms of iron is nearly two taels. If you make a bird gun and don’t buy it yourself, the price should be similar to this.

There are some cheap labor costs and some expensive ones, so it’s hard to say if you add this one.

Guan Yuangu smiled honestly and showed a little mercy, saying: "The labor costs of Xiangshan are much cheaper than them. They have twenty craftsmen, and only one month can they drill twenty gun barrels. There are eight or nine of them drilled in a crooked manner and they can't help but use them. They can only get ten guns in thirty or forty days, so the cost is naturally much more expensive."

"We have a water hammer to shoot the gun, which is effortless. Others can shoot it in three days, and I can shoot it in one day. The drilling machine is also connected to the water truck and keeps drilling. One gun can be produced in seven or eight days. If you hit ten guns, you may not be able to make ten guns, but if you hit thirteen guns, you will definitely produce ten guns."

"The same twenty craftsmen can produce more than 30 pieces per month, which can only consume more than 300 kilograms of iron. The rest can be used to make a few of those and those close-up guns."

Guan Yuangu always looked embarrassed when talking about cannons named after him. After saying that, he showed a little bit of disgrace on his face and said, "It's just that they say that their names are engraved on the barrels. Qianhu thinks it is feasible?"

Chen Mu didn't care about the fact that the gun barrel carved someone else's name, he cared more about reality.

Chen Mu values ​​1,500 kilograms of iron every month and three or four more cannons.

Chen Mu nodded: "It's feasible, it's certainly feasible if this matter can be done."

In fact, even if Guan Yuangu didn't go to Foshan, he planned to send someone to Foshan. After asking about the price of Guangzhou Railway last time, he realized that Foshan was guarding Nanhai County, which is the largest iron smelting distribution center in Guangzhou.

Xiangshan’s biggest advantage is that its productivity has been significantly improved.

After the newly built iron workshop on the riverside was completed, both forging hammers and sawn wood had fixed power. In the past, Guan Lao Er made wooden gun beds because their accuracy could be further improved, and they were completely made of iron. The gun bed was opposite to the hydraulic drill bit. You only need to push and pull the bed frame and replace the loss drill bit to continuously drill the chamber.

The restricted technology cannot rely on hydraulic power to achieve slow automatic drilling effect. The iron gun bed is heavy, so it also requires a lot of manpower to push it, but it greatly increases the accuracy of the drilling chamber and reduces the defective rate.

It also reduces costs.

Looking at the big water truck rolling in Tiefang, Chen Mu's thoughts drifted away and asked Guan Yuangu: "Guan Jiang, you are the head of the Military Weapon Bureau now, and you are under the jurisdiction of Tiefang and Shipyard. If you add another Jiagufang, will you be energetic?"

The prosperous Qianhu District of Xiangshan is not difficult to think of the tragic situation after the Guanghai Guard was captured. The two extremes are also the difference between Chen Mu's residence and other wards under the sun and the moon. One is a virtuous cycle and the other is a vicious cycle.

In fact, if Chen Mu had not existed, if Qianhu in Xiangshan was a full-fledged garage, its development might not be as good as this time, but the life of military households might be a little better than it is now.

For a long time before, Chen Mu, like countless greedy guard officials in the Ming Dynasty, only gave the profits to a small part of the flag army.

The only difference is that Chen Mu uses the money to develop the ward, and others use greedy money to feed himself.

He was running a thousand-household office, and he did inject some investment, but the next few battles made Xiangshan office self-sufficient, and now he can make money back.

In the future, the flag army will have a better life, with the same efforts and more profits.

Guan Yuangu looked puzzled and said, "Thousands of households, armor sheets require steel. Without steel, you can't make good armor, and you don't have skilled craftsmen. I'm afraid..."

"No hurry. I have a few things. Look back and see, the Japanese guns seized in this war, which can be confirmed with the big guns I got from the Franchise last time. If we have steel, we can change the two-legged brackets of the Franchise large gun into a straight stab."

Chen Mu said as he opened his notes and pointed at Guan Yuangu, and explained: "You don't need to be as heavy as a large flange gun. You can do it according to the four-foot long gun barrel of the bird gun. The diameter is slightly larger, and the entire gun weighs two or three kilograms. Add a four-foot long pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierced pierc

"There is also the gun handle, and the shape needs to be slightly changed..."
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