Chen Mu missed Lin Afeng so much at this time.

Although there has been no exact news about Lin Afeng for several years, he knew that Lin Afeng returned to his old career in the Arabian Sea area and was doing his anger at the old business of the surrounding countries.

Although the Dongyang Military Office had a large number of elite Beiyang Army who had nothing to do and became a militia instructor, the Beiyang Army was not a good player in sabotage, let alone this was different from their thoughts. The Beiyang Army was a unit with lofty goals.

Each of them firmly believed that what they did would make every citizen of the Ming Dynasty live better, and that all the people in the world who were oppressed by the feudal lords of the countries would live better.

What they firmly believe is correct, but the problem lies in the fact that their commander Chen Mu is not noble, so he can only guarantee the first half of the sentence.

He just wants Europe to be destroyed by war.

In this way, whether it is the process of war or reconstruction, the Ming Dynasty can draw enough nutrients from it to become stronger and richer, and lay the foundation for the general trend of the world for hundreds of years to come.

However, now, Chen Mu's top priority is to wait for the twenty-two artillery of the Dutch merchant Lamb to arrive in Changsheng County.

Last November, Li Dan rescued Lamb in the Caribbean Sea, sank two French pirate ships, and seized twenty-two artillery pieces from merchant ships. However, Li Dan did not kill Lamb and his crew, but just seized the ship and the harvest in Puerto Rico.

In addition, the Clippers were sent to land in the abandoned fishing port of Veracruz, a wet and rainy Gulf of Mexico. They half-borrowed and half-snatched two fast horses from the Spanish squad garrison there, and passed through Mexico City to deliver the news to the Changsheng Eastern Army Palace.

Chen Mu's response was very simple, asking Li Dan to continue to hold people in Puerto Rico, but it was a difficult task to send people to transport twenty-two artillery pieces to Changsheng County.

Artillery is not like ordinary cargo or military horses. Unless it is a European wrought iron franchiser, it is not something that can be moved by manpower.

In Europe in this era, Francis was called "Ko Feilin" or "culverin". The meaning is very simple, long-barrel cannon, which means similar to cannon. Cannon's "a" also means tube.

Later, people used howitzers to translate them and cannons as transliteration is likely because the pipe cannons are too unpleasant.

Later, the red cannons obtained and copied by the Ming Dynasty in history could also be called Ko Feilin or Ganon. However, in this era, no one in Europe would do such heavy artillery except the Netherlands. This is why the average pound of Spanish ship-borne artillery in the British and Western Navy Battle was 17 pounds, while the average pound of British ship-borne artillery was 7 pounds, because the British had only Franz aircraft on board during this historical period.

Chen Mu wanted to see how the Netherlands artillery was made. In addition to the stone shooting cannon, he wanted to see what the heavy artillery looked like.

When it comes to the Netherlands, everyone will think of the word "sea coachman". A small country has inherited the past and the future in a short period of time, sandwiched between Spain and England's two maritime overlords for a hundred years and once dominated the world's sea. Chen Mu was very interested in the Netherlands during this period.

Especially after hearing that the merchant named Lamb would rather escape all the way than use the brand new cannons in the warehouse in the face of pirate pursuit, he became more interested in the Netherlands.

For Chen Mu, to understand a place, first look at their ships, then look at their cannons, ships and cannons, are the most intuitive benchmarks for measuring a country's industrial capacity or national strength.

Lamb's merchant ship had already roughly understood through Li Dan's letter to Chen Mu that it was indeed an ordinary merchant ship, but because it was a merchant ship of this era, it seemed too special.

There is no artillery, the hull is very thin, it only carries but not carries arms, and the ship speed is very fast, just like Li Dan's evaluation of such a ship, "I want money but not life."

Of course, its cost is still much more expensive than the Fu Ship, but if it is based on the standards of European merchant ships, the cost of such a ship is probably only half of that of an ordinary merchant ship. If the cost of armed forces is included, it is less than half.

The rest depends on the artillery cast by the Netherlands.

But this is a bit difficult.

There are two roads from the Gulf of Mexico to Changsheng. It is easy to walk through the official road of Mexico City but not safe. It is safe to walk through the mountain road to Panama and ship to Changsheng through Qilinwei.

If he took the road ahead, Chen Mu would probably have to wait until he saw the Beiyang Third Flag Army arrive on the shore before he could see the artillery he wanted to see.

Just think about it, the horse pulled people to take the road dug out from the mountains, and it was wet and rainy. To be honest, if possible, Chen Mu didn't want anyone to walk on that road.

When taking the route of Mexico City, you must beware of the Spanish robbing artillery. If you are really robbed, you will push the crime to pirates or indigenous people. Chen Mu has no other means to punish the Spanish except to start a war, but he doesn't want to start a war.

Then I can only ask the Spaniards for help.

A letter arrived in Mexico City. Yang Tingxiang came forward with the letter to negotiate with the Duke of Alva, and finally asked Spain to send a company of 300 infantrymen to Yang Tingxiang's 300 flag army to guard the artillery all the way west.

Even so, the artillery was still on the road for two months before being sent to the western border of Ming Dynasty. Then it took another half a month to reach Chen Mu. Along with the artillery, there were more than 200 screaming Spanish donkeys.

The Spanish made a lot of donkeys in the New World and put them in beautiful clothes to improve the army's logistics capabilities.

When receiving the area west of Mexico City, the Ming army had already taken over many donkeys from the Spanish that they had no time to withdraw. Now Chen Mu did not intend to return the more than 200 donkeys to the Duke of Alva.

He likes these little donkeys wearing red and blue clothes very much.

The rumbling cannon sounded on the northern hillside of Changsheng County. Chen Mu said to the front line flag army who was leading the donkey and didn't know how to reply: "You take twenty-five silk pieces back to Alva, and those plain colors without any bright or dark patterns. One donkey is considered two thousand treasures. I think the price is very reasonable, so I say I need these donkeys."

Just after explaining this, Zhao Shizhen came over with a young military weapon bureau craftsman and said to Chen Mu: "Master, the twenty-two cannons are all land war artillery, the smallest one is more than three pounds, and the largest one is nearly fourteen pounds. Our shells are slightly smaller, but they can be used to block wood."

Zhao Shizhen turned his head and glanced at the craftsman, then continued to say to Chen Mu: "This is the cannon casting gun from the Artillery Armor Factory of the Changsheng Military Arts Bureau. I can't see the difference between the cannon and our cast iron cannon, but he said it is different from General Zhenshuo's method."

Chen Mu looked at the somewhat restrained cannon casting craftsman behind Zhao Shizhen. The loud sound of cannons fired in the distance was a little deafening. He asked, "What's the difference?"

"He knocked it and thought the cannon was not made of one piece, but poured a layer of iron on the outside. No one knew whether it was copper inside. If you want to know how it was made inside, you had to blow the cannon first... The flag army was measuring the parameters of the cannon."

Zhao Shizhen looked at Chen Mu and asked in a low voice: "Master, why don't you pick two cannons to test for durability?"
Chapter completed!