Chapter 1799： Ming Dynasty Napoleon Cannon

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Although the terrible bombing advertisements of the new Dongfang Chef School in his previous life always appeared in his mind, Marin insisted on using the name "Royal West Point Military Academy". Anyway, apart from yourself, no one else wants to be crooked,

In particular, you need to use Chinese to be skewed. But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty was the most confident time for Chinese people. Even if Western food is passed on, it will not be called Western food, and Western pastry will not be called West Point, but will be called Yi Dian or something.

For example, the name of Marin in the Ming Dynasty is "Dongfanbo". As for the title of Grand Duke of Beihai, it was directly ignored by the people of the Ming Dynasty. In their view, what happened to Yangyi, not to mention the Grand Duke, even though the king looked ridiculous, was no different from the chief of the Southwest Shaomin region. Therefore, this year, no one would distort the word.

Of course, Marin also understands the mentality of the Ming Dynasty people, but he is not very angry. Why? Because in Marin's eyes, this group of people is ancient npc, and what are they good at? Besides, if you lower your posture, you can get a lot of benefits from the Ming Dynasty. Why not do it?

No, at this moment, two ships of silk and porcelain were returned from Panama. A rough calculation will bring Malin a net profit of about 200,000 gold coins.

In response, the Portuguese eyes have exploded. Because, according to the agreement, they should be the masters of the Daming Empire!

However, in fact, they simply have no ability to control the Daming Empire. Before the conflict, they did not benefit. The fleet sent this time, just after arriving in Malacca, is currently being repaired and intends to launch a full-scale attack on the coast of the Daming Empire.

In fact, Portugal is also envious of Marin's technique and intends to learn Marin's methods and pay tribute to Daming as a barbarian chief in Southeast Asia. It is a pity that they are reluctant to give up the big tin mine in Kuala Lumpur, and refuse to return the land of Daming, which belongs to the kingdom of Malacca. Therefore, they can only imagine that the fleet has conquered the Ming Dynasty and then try to negotiate.

It is a pity that the Portuguese did not know that the Ming Dynasty did not succumb to the enemy's force, which is why so many people in the future will follow the Ming Dynasty. What's more, the Zhengde emperor who likes war most in the middle and late Ming dynasties is currently in power.

In addition, Kong Tai had already received Marlin's instructions to prepare a report to the Ming Dynasty. No, Conte sent a spy ship to the Strait of Malacca, he found the arrival of the Portuguese fleet, and hurried to Keelung with a clipper to send a letter to Conte.

"I arrived so late?" Kong Tai was a little depressed. He has been ready for a long time, but did not expect that the Portuguese are so inefficient, a few months later than he estimated.

As for why this is so? This is mainly because the Portuguese fleet, led by Dagama, made a round of waves along the coast of the Kingdom of Benin in western Africa, and landed and robbed a few times.

The Kingdom of Benin is a famous ancient country in West Africa and trades frequently with other parts of West Africa, so there is also a lot of gold. Dhakama was a greedy generation. When he passed by the coast of Benin, he saw a civil war broke out, so he mixed his feet and sent troops ashore to help the weaker side and defeat the powerful side. However, after the victory, all the benefits were taken away ...

By blending this civil war in the Kingdom of Benin, Dagama earned 1,500 pounds of sand and a boat of ivory, which was a great harvest. Then, he stopped on the west coast of Africa, looking for opportunities to catch the fish.

However, Africa is too backward in this era. Unless there are several civilized countries in West Africa, there are few decent countries along the coast of Southwest Africa. The only slightly more decent Kingdom of Congo is an ally of Portugal. As a professional robber, the Portuguese colonists are obviously insiders, knowing that there is only a lot of oil and water in the city. And those tribal villages along the coast, although very easy to win, have little oil and water. Even hundreds of villages are not as oily as a small town. The reason is simple-in this era, only the city's trade activity was active, and there were many commodities. When there are more commodities, there will be more money (sands). Only in such a place will there be enough oil and water after the looting. In general, small villages can only grab some poor food and some animals, and they really don't make much money.

After arriving on the East African coast, the Dhakama ’s fleet was again Swahili (a mixed race of Arab merchants and local blacks, from the coast of Mozambique to the southern coast of Somalia. Hilly city-states), grabbed a few coastal city-states.

Dagama was very cunning. Instead of forcing the city, he used the name of trade to deceive the city gate first, and then suddenly launched an attack. Instead, he broke several Swahili small city-states and plundered a lot wealth.

By the time Dagama's fleet arrived in India's supply port, his battleship was already filled with precious goods such as sands, ivory, rhino horns, and precious stones.

If he returns to Europe at this time, Dhaka can make a big profit. However, he was responsible for invading Daming. Therefore, these goods can only be temporarily deposited in Goa, a Portuguese trading base in India, and are ready to be taken back when he is going back.

Then, Dagama took the fleet slowly to the port of Malacca, was found by Kong Tai's spy, and hurried to report ...

At this time, Dagama did not know that Kong Tai had provided 20 12-pound Napoleonic cannons to the Ming court a few months ago, and also presented the clay casting method of Napoleon cannons.

At this time, Zhang Yong, one of the "Zhengde Eight Tigers", was crafting artillery by the artisans who were supervising the battle. After Liu Jin collapsed, Zhang Yong, who knocked him down, did not gain the same power as Liu Jin. The reason is that this guy does not have Liu Jin's ability. Therefore, he can only compete with Gu Dayong and other tigers. Zhang Yonglue understands the military, so he is in charge of the military guards in charge of the military in the inner court, as well as the war bureau in the eighth bureau.

After Kong Tai presented the clay casting method of the 12-pound gun, Zhang Yong relied on Zhengde's favor and robbed the technology and tasks of the casting gun from the Ministry of Industry.

Now, a few months later, the first batch of clay molds that were originally made has almost dried up. Then, it's the casting process ...

Copper casting guns are much simpler than iron casting guns, and are not prone to internal problems. Therefore, there is no problem for Zhang Yong to command the battle. The only problem is probably that when Kong Tai presented the gun casting technology, he did not send the gun mount drawings, but only the gun body casting technology. In other words, Zhang Yong ’s battle battle, the 12-pound Napoleonic gun cast, actually only has a bare barrel ... Of course, there are gun ears, and Wangshan can be added in the back ...

However, this is no problem. Because, except for the artillery of the North Sea, the artillery of other countries does not have a gun carriage with wheels. At most, it is two more ears. Looking at the mountain behind the gun body is regarded as "high-tech" ...

After pouring gunpowder to dry-blast and test it at www.novelhall.com ~, only 13 of the first 12-pound Napoleonic cannons manufactured by the 120 battles had a problem and needed to be rebuilt. In other words, the pass rate is as high as about 90%.

This is because Marin did not dedicate the Rodman's method of inner film cooling to the Ming court. This is a great weapon for casting heavy artillery, and Marin will not be foolishly dedicated to the Ming Dynasty.

But despite this, close to 90% of the pass rate still makes Zhang Yong ecstatic. Because, in the previous battles, the pass rate was much lower than this, or even half. Therefore, he is also considered to have made merits.

If Marin knew Zhang Yong's thoughts, it would probably kill him. You know, the copper casting gun is not difficult at all, you have adjusted the scrap rate of more than 10%, it is simply ...

This is probably due to the fact that the management of artisans in the Ming Dynasty is not very strict. Some things are obviously scrapped by personal operation errors, not technical problems. Regarding this, the North Sea country is very strict in the process, so the scrap rate is extremely low. The management of the Ming Dynasty was not strict, and Zhang Yong stared closely this time, which also caused so much scrap. If you do n’t stare in person later, the scrap rate is estimated to be higher ...

Fortunately, there was a problem with the copper cannon casting, and it could be melted and rebuilt. Anyway, copper is not as easily oxidized as iron. At most, it just takes a little clay mould ...