Nanjing, Liangjiang Governor's Office.

Lang Tingzuo's face was gloomy, and the room was filled with pieces of porcelain he had thrown away.

Not long ago, he received news that the sea ship he sent to transport food and silver was intercepted on his way to Dengzhou.

The person who intercepted is nothing else, it is Zheng Chenggong!

This guy actually planned to wait for Langzenzo's sea boat to come to his door!

That was 100,000 stones of rice and 500,000 taels of silver! Lang Tingzuo had saved up so much after years of plundering, but all of them were snatched away by Zheng Chenggong.

How could he not be angry?

He was not only angry, but even vomited blood!

Despicable villain, despicable villain!

If you don’t dare to show off with me in a dignified duel on the battlefield, you will do these things that steal from behind!

A thief is a thief and will never change his nature.

The old saying is really good. Children who give birth to dragons and phoenixes and rats can dig holes.

Zheng Zhilong started his career by being a pirate. Zheng Chenggong pretended to behave at the beginning. Now he is anxious and his fox's tail is exposed.

Although Langzez was so angry that he vomited blood, he calmed down and thought about it and was not suitable to make a statement.

After all, if the court knew about this, not to mention that the Governor General Liangjiang was not guaranteed, he would have to move his head with him.

Langhamzo is now a mute person who eats coptis chinensis, and he can't tell whether he has any pain!

With a lot of resentment, Langzezow could only hope that Shi Lang would come to Nanjing earlier.

This person was originally an old general of Zheng and was very proficient in naval battles. With him, Lang Tsor had the confidence to fight Zheng Chenggong.

Now Zheng Chenggong is entrenched in the Zhoushan Islands, looking fearless and despicable!

All the kings under the world are kings. Even Zhoushan belongs to the Qing Dynasty. Lang Tsai must gather troops to defeat the Zheng bandits in one fell swoop, and will never allow Zheng Chenggong to challenge the majesty of the Qing court!

I have to say that what has happened in the past six months is really beyond Langzezo's expectations.

First, Wu Sangui defeated Kunming, and then the Ming army rushed thousands of miles to capture Chongqing.

At the same time, Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan led his troops north to attack Nanjing.

Although they failed in the end, the two of them also messed up the Qing army in Jiangnan.

Everything is like planning in advance, making people unable to guard against!

From the perspective of the court and the emperor, Langzezow could imagine this sense of anger.

As Mie Ming was about to make so many mistakes, no one could accept it.

However, Langhamzo felt that this was just because the Qing army was careless for a moment.

As long as the Qing army took it seriously, they planned the matter of whether to destroy Ming or not.

After all, the strength comparison between the two sides is too obvious.

The Ming thief wants a snake to swallow an elephant? He thinks beautifully!

Humph, Zheng Chenggong, this Governor wants to see how many days you can be proud of!

Langhamzo vowed to capture Zheng Chenggong alive and cut him alive to relieve his hatred!

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Chengdu, the palace.

Since the capital was moved, Zhu Youlang has been paying attention to the imitation of flintlock rifle.

The craftsman's troops such as Francisco moved to Chengdu, but they were not idle, but the process was a little stagnant.

Of course, Zhu Youlang was concerned about what was wrong. After communicating with Francisco, he realized that the barrel of the flintlock rifle was hot forged with iron. It can be processed and processed with the inner chamber, interface welding, and appearance processing according to existing technology.

I made a few samples, but the quality was really not satisfactory. Even the inner wall of the gun was uneven in thickness.

Before the industrial age, large-scale casting was unrealistic and could only be forged.

It takes too much energy to rely on the current human power to forge a gun barrel. This will definitely not work.

Zhu Youlang thought about it and decided to ask Francisco and others to make a set of hydraulic forging machine tools to try it out.

The core of hydraulic machine tools is to borrow power.

Hydropower, as the name suggests, naturally requires water.

Fortunately, there are many rivers around Chengdu.

Zhu Youlang brought his servants and Francisco to a relatively urgent section of the river outside the city and ordered people to build a water truck.

The waterwheel was invented by our ancestors, so it is naturally ready-made.

However, Zhu Youlang made some simple modifications to it, allowing the water wheel to drive more mills and water mills.

Francisco had a strong understanding, and he immediately understood what Zhu Youlang wanted to do.

"Dear Your Majesty, do you want to use a waterwheel to forge the gun barrel?"

Zhu Youlang nodded when he heard this.

He likes to deal with smart people, just one thing is clear!

"Yes! The water truck can connect the drill bit through a set of gear devices to drill out the gun tube. The drill bit is divided into two main drill bits and the other is used for polishing."

Zhu Youlang's understanding of hydraulic machine tools is limited to popular science books, so he naturally won't be clear about things that are too detailed.

This requires Francisco to understand.

If you have a good understanding, you can understand it at a glance.

If you have a poor understanding, you may not be able to make decent things even if you give him a year.

Zhu Youlang could only click to stop, and he provided an idea. If he, the emperor, needed to ask about everything, what else would these craftsmen do?

"Your Majesty is so wise!"

Francis flattered him as a Han Chinese.

This was the first time he heard such an interesting idea.

It seems that using hydraulic power can indeed increase efficiency, and it is worth a try!

"Dear Your Majesty, I want to build a workshop on this riverside to specialize in hydraulic gunmaking."

Zhu Youlang immediately made the decision: "This is easy to say. I will order the Ministry of Works to allocate money. If you need anything in the future, you can just ask for it. As long as it is reasonable, I will agree."

Nowadays, imitation of flintlock rifles is the top priority.

At present, Hong Chengchou and others did not know that the number of new firearms like the Ming army was limited, but this deterrent force could not always exist. They would always know the truth.

Zhu Youlang must make the flintlock rifle at all costs before this day.

It’s easy to say if you need money and people.

But even if the hydraulic machine tool is created, the production capacity will not be too high.

According to Zhu Youlang's expectations, even if all the craftsmen work with their apprentices, the flintlock rifles made in one year are only enough to be equipped with a small number of elite troops in the Tiger Ben Army.

There is no way to do this. With the productivity level of this era, this has already reached the ceiling.

Even Zheng Chenggong, who is rich in the world, could only support a 5,000 iron army by collecting passers-by taxes.

After all, forging armor is too expensive.

The same applies to forging a flintlock rifle.

But a few thousand flintlock rifles are enough.

Cooperating with Zhu Youlang's new military concept, it will definitely exert its outstanding power.

In fact, what Ming Jun lacked was not advanced guns and cannons, but an idea.

Why did they fight?

Zhu Youlang just wanted to tell them.

They fought not for the Zhu family, but for the people of the world, and for every ordinary person not to suffer from slaves from alien races!

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Chapter completed!