In Shen Xi's opinion, sending Tang Yin to Luzon Island was a kind of experience for this talented man.

Let you have nothing to do every day, let you know what the real hardship is. After going to a few months, you will find that the Central Plains is everywhere. At that time, you will think it is a delicious dish when you eat braised vegetables, and when you see a mother and a mouse, you will think it is Diao Chan in the world.

As for Mrs. Xia’s illness, Chen Xi asked Xie Yuner to treat her. After all, her wife was a miracle doctor and had diagnosed the queen with the disease. Even if she knew that it would not be cured, she would try it, as the wishes of Chen Xi and Xie Yuner.

Then Chen Xi used some special tricks to make the Xia family feel that Miss Xia should not be left in the mansion, and it is justified to send her married daughter to her husband's house earlier.

"Brother Bohu, I'm all for you. Being a successful and famous aide is always better than making you lose your life and leaving endless regrets to history!"

In the early morning of October 22, Tang Yin took the Sailing Bolang Jiren to Luzon Island, which was regarded as a wilderness by the Ming people.

That morning, Chen Xi personally went to Guangdong Chengxuan’s Ministry of Education and Publicity with a "grace gift" and took the initiative to pay homage to the right governor Zhang Yuanying.

Even though Zhang Yuanying hated Chen Xi so much that he was itchy, he still came out to meet him. He wanted to know why Chen Xi came to the door for no reason?

Could this kid have conspiracies?

The governor Si Zhengtang, Chen Xi sat in the guest head and drank tea. After a long time, Zhang Yuanying came out with an experience. Chen Xi smiled and stood up to greet him. Zhang Yuanying looked cold and bowed slightly as a return gift.

Zhang Yuanying said: "Isn't Governor Chen preparing for the dispatch of troops? The troops have been concentrated in the Guangzhou East School. If the troops are slow to hold on, it will inevitably cause criticism."

What are you criticizing?

I criticize me for rebellion and lead my troops to attack Guangzhou City to establish myself?

Chen Xi smiled and said, "The time is not ripe, so I have to wait for a while. It's not that I don't want to send troops, but the money, food, weapons, armor, bows, crossbows, arrows, etc. are expensive. I have to come and discuss with Zhang Fantai to see if the vassal can provide necessary assistance?"

Chen Xi asked for help when he opened his mouth. To put it bluntly, he asked for money, which was not beyond Zhang Yuanying's expectations.

But Zhang Yuan would not understand it very much. You, Governor Shen, have mobilized a lot of food from the north, and your weapons and armor are also customized in Foshan. You have to go to the government and envoy again? Don’t forget who made a lot of money by selling salt, and disrupted the local salt class order. Use the salt from the southern barbarians to stabilize local salt prices, so that salt merchants are operating at a loss. I am about to participate in this matter!

Zhang Yuanying would not say it directly, but instead made an excuse and refused, "Shen Zhongcheng should have heard that the drought in Lingnan this year is severe. Cheng Cheng announced that many prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Political and Envoy Department have reduced production on a large scale, and even taxes have not been collected. Besides, the court is planning to use troops to the northwest, and it is believed that the will to remit food and grass to the north will be transferred to the yamen soon. The vassal officials are worrying about the balance of income and expenditure this year, and they really have no time to help!"

Chen Xi smiled and waved his hand: "Since the vassal department is unable to help, I will just come by myself. I heard that the vassal department has forty large black-tailed boats and bird boats of 500 to 1,000 materials..."

Zhang Yuanying was angry and slapped the coffee table, shouting: "Don't even think about it. These ships are used to transport food to the court, and no one can move!"

After talking for a long time, Chen Xi did not mean to ask the governor's office to pay for the grain, but to deal with the governor's office to transport grain.

Perhaps because he realized that he had been overreacting, Zhang Yuanying changed his tone and said sternly, "The imperial court's money and grain dispatch is essential. Now that the food has not been shipped, how can the ships be combined?"

Chen Xi nodded: "What Zhang Fantai said is that transporting grain for the imperial court is important... In this way, the bandits on the southeast coast are just scabies?"

This is a rebuke to Zhang Yuanying.

The use of military forces in the northwest is actually just a cover. The Oirats, like the Tatars before, went to Hami and other places to harass and rob, and immediately retreated back to the desert, making it impossible for them to fight back. Even if the use of military forces in the northwest is true, the northwest of the bitter and cold land needs money and food, and the southeast, which is warm in all seasons and more abundant in production, can the bandits be allowed to rage?

The emperor also ordered him to be the emperor, why can the northwest get support? But when we fight the bandits and pirates, we should be short of soldiers and food, and we don’t even have a warship, fighting with pirates and Japanese pirates with bare hands?

Zhang Yuanying said: "The battle against foreign countries and foreign barbarians is a major event. If the battle with the bandits is not harmful, it is reasonable to win. Governor Shen must distinguish the importance of the seriousness!"

“That’s right.”

Even Zhang Yuanying did not expect that Chen Xi would accept this remark happily. Chen Xi nodded and said, "If the matter of transporting money and grain for the court is to be resolved by our official, I wonder if the vassal officials can borrow forty bird boats and black-tailed boats?"

Chen Xi said that he was borrowing a boat in a different way, which meant that Chen Xi was preparing to take the initiative to take the grain transport errands and borrow these forty large ships from the governor. The method used was nothing more than using small private boats to transport grain, and recruiting the large ships into warships to fight pirates and Japanese pirates.

"No!"

Zhang Yuanying refused very simply, "Transfer money and grain transportation is the job of my rank in the yamen of the governor. When will it be the turn of governor Shen worry about it? If the transportation of money and grain is delayed, I will have no choice but to pay attention to this matter!"

After saying that, Zhang Yuanying was not polite and pulled away without even saying hello.

As a guest, Chen Xi was left aside by the owner, so it should be somewhat embarrassing. However, Chen Xi leisurely drank the tea on his hand and then slowly got up and left.

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When he returned to the inn, Ma Jiu and Zhu Qi had been waiting there for a long time. When he saw Chen Xi coming back, Zhu Qi asked, "Master, what's going on?"

Chen Xi smiled and said, "Do you still have to ask me? Just send troops to seize the ship. I just went to the vassal yamen to say hello. I really think I want to discuss with him? After catching the big ship, just leave a corresponding proportion of the small boat. Zhu Dangjia, take the son to go, Lao Jiu, come with me to see the situation of casting cannons!"

Chen Xi went to the governor's office to give Zhang Yuan a face.

To confiscate the large ship of the General Administration for military use, I, the governor of the three provinces, say hello to you. Whether you want to or refuse, I have to "borrow" the ship. At worst, I can help you transport the food to the north.

If a small boat is not convenient for shipping, then go to the river channel and transfer a few times in the middle. Anyway, there is no hurry to use grain in the north. It is almost the twelfth month of winter. Even if the grain is transported to the Jiubian, the court will not fight with the Oirat people in the cold winter. The cold winter of the north is not like the land in Lingnan, so it will really freeze to death.

When doing things, you must distinguish between the primary and secondary. Since the war between the nine sides is delayed indefinitely, it is urgent for me to suppress bandits on my side. Of course, my dispatcher has priority and will not accept the orders of foreign troops. I am now at least in the emperor's order to quell the bandits.

Zhu Qi took his son Zhu Hong to receive forty large ships.

Zhu Qi may be more responsible, but Zhu Hong is completely a fool. Chen Xi sent the father and son to come, and they should be reasonable and playful. It depends on how your governor and the envoy responds. If you have the ability, you will challenge the four thousand soldiers in and out of the city. It depends on your yamen, or your soldiers are strong.

Chen Xi took Ma Jiu to the West Schoolyard next to Sheji Temple outside Ximen to supervise the casting of cannons.

Today, the Xizhai Site has become a large workshop. Chen Xi specially recruited more than 50 blacksmiths from Foshan, known as the "Iron Capital of the South", to cast Folang cannons. Chen Xi used some of the steel smelting methods he knew, such as improving furnaces, closing boilers, and using chemical methods to generate oxygen to increase the furnace temperature, so that the quality of the cast iron cannons is not much worse than the first batch of Folang cannons cast by the Ministry of Industry.

Chen Xi did not dare to ask too much. After all, he was a liberal arts student in his previous life and did not know much about steelmaking and ironmaking. Fortunately, these blacksmiths who were proficient in casting and ironmaking skills helped. In addition, Foshan craftsmen in the mid-Ming Dynasty had invented high-difficulty casting techniques such as "clay mold casting" and "wax casting", which helped a lot in casting Fran machine cannons.

Chen Xi's plan was to cast twenty Flang machine cannons in advance, and the rest was to build more shells. Unfortunately, the gunpowder he had at hand was somewhat different from that produced by the Ministry of Industry, and the power of shells was relatively limited.

In order to increase the means of killing the enemy, Chen Xi arranged for craftsmen to make some "dynamite bags" and matching iron buckets.

Isn’t the old nests of those bandits easy to defend and difficult to attack? Just throw the “dynamite bag” into it. When you encounter a short fence, you should use your hands directly. If you hit a high wall and a barrier, you should find a way. The best way is to throw the explosive bag in. The reference object is the “gasoline barrel cannon” from World War II, which is scientifically called “dynamite bag cannon”, and there is also a majestic name called “unconscience cannon”.

This thing is simple and rough, and the possibility of the iron bucket burst is very high, but it cannot stand it simple and practical. At most, it can be used on the battlefield by lengthening the lead a little. It has a devastating blow effect for bandits and pirates who rely on solid cities to deal with officers and soldiers.

Chen Xi was very satisfied with the results of the casting cannon after checking.

This batch of cannons will be used as the killer weapon for Chenxi to sweep away bandits. After he led his troops south, the steelmaking and artillery workshops set up in the Xizhai Farm will continue to cast cannons.

At the same time, a special person continued to prepare "black gunpowder". At the same time, Chen Xi found some shopkeepers and friends of printing and dyeing workshops in Guangzhou Prefecture to come back. Based on the formula of "yellow gunpowder" that he knew, he began to conduct research.

He always stays in the era of "black gunpowder", and always stays at the junction of cold weapons and hot weapons, because the power and safety of "black gunpowder" are not satisfactory, but "yellow gunpowder" is different. Since Chen Xi knows the formula and these people who dye cloth for many years are mostly half-baked "chemists", he called these people to compare the proper terms in the chemistry textbook with the real objects of this era, and then allocate them according to chemical formulas. This is a way for Chen Xi to improve weapons.

Chen Xi did not require it to be completed in a short time because he did not graduate from the chemical engineering major. Even if he studied in high school, he basically returned it to his teacher. It is easy to make "yellow gunpowder" in later generations because of the complete chemical system and chemical materials can basically be purchased from the market. In this era, only a few chemical materials were used in printing and dyeing and handicrafts, and even soda ash can only be mined naturally, rather than made by chemical methods.

Ma Jiu had never been to the battlefield with Chen Xi, but had heard of the grand occasion of Chen Xi performing cannons in the school field when he was in the capital. When the Folang machine cannon was cast and sent to Heishanao camp in the northwest of Guangzhou City to test the effect of the cannons, Ma Jiu volunteered to Chen Xi, hoping to serve as the gunner and the gunner. Chen Xi thought about it for a little and agreed.

If someone else might be worried about this thing being blown up, Ma Jiu trusted Chen Xi very much and was willing to die.

In just two days, under the guidance of Shen Xi, Ma Jiu basically mastered all the skills of filling and firing cannons. Chen Xi recruited 39 more chariots and horse gang brothers, one of whom was responsible for firing cannons, and the other was responsible for filling shells... Chen Xi wanted to keep the secret in his hands so that he could take his men to travel around the country in the future. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!