"General, Mrs. Zhong is here too, and her humble position cannot stop her."

While the soldiers and civilians at the city gate were cheering and shouting, Qin Shan pointed at the carriage at the end of the convoy.

"Is this nonsense? Doesn't she know it's dangerous here?" Upon hearing this, Zhu Yunfei glared at Qin Shan in surprise and joy.

But now he didn't have time to go up to see her, but raised his voice and shouted.

"Master Jiang, immediately organize manpower and set up artillery on the east and west city walls."

"Qinshan, arrange for the gunners to organize installation and teach shooting."

After arranging all this, Zhu Yunfei walked to Na Muzhong's carriage, opened the corner of the curtain, and saw the charming smile on Na Muzhong's delicate face.

"You, who asked you to come to the front line? Don't you know it's dangerous here?"

Zhu Yunfei boarded the carriage, uttering words of blame in his mouth, but there was concern in his eyes.

"I miss you so much." Namu Zhong saw Zhu Yunfei getting into the carriage, her hair wrapped in a scarf, and wearing fish scale armor. Namu Zhong, who was dressed like a soldier, rushed in with a charming face and resentful eyes.

In Zhu Yunfei's arms.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Zhu Yunfei was pushed down by Na Muzhong. After being forcibly kissed, Na Muzhong, who was in love, actually put one hand into his waistband.

Zhu Yunfei was also startled. He quickly grabbed her arms with both hands and said angrily: "Are you crazy? This is the gate of the city."

"Gee, I see you are so scared. I just want to try to see if my husband has eaten anything secretly since he has been out for so long."

Na Muzhong licked her red lips, smiled charmingly, looked at the mountain bag she had teased, and showed a proud smile.

"It's more and more formal. After entering the city, stay at the county government office. Now that the city is in chaos, I can't take care of you all the time."

Zhu Yunfei looked at the charming Na Mu Zhong in front of him, and there was really nothing he could do against her.

"Hee hee, I'm waiting for you to come back." Na Muzhong smiled like a flower and snuggled into Zhu Yunfei's arms again, leaning against her red lips, her watery apricot eyes filled with mist.

This is clearly saying, kiss me, kiss me quickly...

"Little goblin, are you satisfied now?" Under the suffocating kiss, Zhu Yunfei suppressed the impulse in his heart.

Looking at Na Muzhong who was panting, with a charming expression on her pretty face, she could only say it deliberately with a straight face.

Because he was afraid that if he gave her a good look, Na Mu Zhong would pounce on her again.

Now is not the time for children to be in love, Zhu Yunfei is still very clear-headed.

"Not enough, far from enough." Namuzhong smiled playfully, holding Zhu Yunfei's arm and laughing.

"Okay, don't be angry. I came to visit my husband on the orders of Lanzhu and Yuanyuan. Shouldn't you be happy?"

"Also, I brought their letters. Do you want to read them?"

Faced with Na Muzhong's angry and lovely character, Zhu Yunfei had no choice.

Although she is already twenty-seven or seventy-eight years old, Ke Namu Zhong obviously has the figure of a royal lady, but she has the exquisite heart of a girl.

"Be obedient and I'll ask Qin Shan to escort you back to the county government office. Let's talk in the evening." Zhu Yunfei was so confused by her teasing that he could only turn around and get out of the car with a straight face.

"Husband, I will clean up my body tonight and wait for you to come back." As Zhu Yunfei was about to get out of the car, Na Muzhong grabbed Zhu Yunfei's arm again.

Fu'er smiled sweetly in his ear, and finally blew a breath into his ear.

"Goblin, this goblin, I have to make her beg for mercy." Zhu Yunfei, with a dark face trying to stay calm, quickly jumped out of the carriage.

Ask Qin Shan to arrange a group of soldiers to escort Na Muzhong's carriage and enter the city first.

At this time, thousands of soldiers and civilians on the gate tower in the west of the city had already begun to carry the Hongyi cannon to the gate tower.

Since the artillery weighed more than 2,000 kilograms, it took more than a dozen people to push the cart to pull it.

To reach the top of the city, hundreds of people must cooperate and use the lever principle to move it, otherwise the cannon will not be able to reach the city wall.

The Hongyi cannon in front of us is an iron cannon produced by the Macau Bugalao Cannon Foundry.

It's not a bronze cannon. Although copper cannons are more durable, two thousand kilograms of copper for a cannon is too expensive.

Therefore, over the years, the Portuguese at the Bugarao Cannon Foundry adopted the iron-making technology of Ming Dynasty craftsmen and used iron materials to cast cannons, which greatly saved costs.

And the practicality is not bad, so much so that the Portuguese were amazed at the technical level of Ming blacksmiths.

The Hongyi cannon in front of me has a three-meter-long barrel with a cylindrical barrel and a caliber of 130 mm. It can fire round explosive shells and explosive shells.

It is a front-loaded smoothbore cannon with an effective range of up to one thousand meters.

This cannon is definitely a weapon for attacking and defending cities. If a cannonball falls among the crowd, all humans and animals within five meters will be killed or injured.

There is a record in the Military Preparation Records of the Ming Dynasty that the Ming Hongyi Artillery killed and injured 700 people in the Battle of Ningyuan.

The truth of this matter cannot be tested, but it is enough to illustrate the power of the Hongyi cannon.

Moreover, the fact that Nurhachi, the old slave of the Qing Emperor Taizu, was injured by a Hongyi cannon in Liaodong is absolutely true.

In order to smoothly transport the Hongyi cannon to the top of the city, the steps to climb the city were covered with wood and straw as mats.

Hundreds of people were divided into multiple teams, and after working carefully for a long time, twelve Hongyi cannons were successfully erected on the east and west city walls.

At this time, almost all the people in the city, as well as the soldiers guarding the city, knew that Dengzhou had sent Hongyi cannon.

Suddenly, the entire city's soldiers and civilians rushed to the east and west walls to witness the power of the Hongyi cannon.

"General, do you want to test-fire?" Facing the expectant eyes of the soldiers on the city wall, Qin Shan said somewhat showboating.

The 120 soldiers Qinshan brought this time had all gone through several days of artillery firing training on Changshan Island.

Coles Martin, who was appointed by Zhu Yunfei as the sea trade captain, set sail in mid-April, assisted by the sailors arranged by Zhu Yunfei, as well as the accounting stewards Sun Cheng and Sun Quan brothers.

My first trip to sea lasted three months and I visited Incheon Port in the Goryeo Kingdom and Kyushu Island in the Fuso Island Kingdom.

They transported silk, ceramics, cloth and other supplies from the Ming Dynasty. In one trip, they made a full net profit of 210,000 taels of silver.

In late July, under Zhu Yunfei's order, Martin led a merchant ship south to Guangzhou, transporting sugar, raw silk, and porcelain to Malacca in exchange for spices, pepper and other supplies.

And asked him to find a way to purchase a batch of firearms from the lease in the hands of the Portuguese, and to recruit a group of craftsmen back.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, only the Portuguese and the Dutch knew how profitable maritime trade was.

Because the Ming Dynasty lacked silver in this era, and Fusang and Goryeo had a large number of silver mines, so the price of silver was low.

For example, a piece of raw silk was exported in Daming for three taels of silver, but when shipped to Fusang, the price in Goryeo doubled several times.

Another example is Western spices and pepper. In Malacca, Manila, and Batavia, one tael of silver can buy ten catties, but in Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver can only buy three catties.

This is triple the profit!

The Dutch and Portuguese relied on this geographical difference and the local resources of the Ming Dynasty to make a lot of money.

Take the firearms Zhu Yunfei asked Coles Martin to purchase this time, for example, twenty-four Hongyi cannons, three hundred flintlock muskets, and two thousand cannonballs.

Five thousand rounds of bullets cost 80,000 taels of silver, but their actual cost was only 15,000 taels of silver.

In order to make money in the East and make war fortune, the Dutch occupied Yizhou Island.

As well as the Portuguese who live in Macau, they have been working hard to promote the firearms business in recent years.

Apart from the Ming Dynasty, their biggest buyers are the people from Fuso Island.

The most famous shogun in Fuso, Oda Nobunaga, was able to conquer all the great names in Fuso, which is inseparable from the Dutch firearms trade.

Similarly, during the reign of the late Emperor Zhu Youxiao of Tianqi, the Ming Dynasty sent its famous official Xu Guangqi to study and purchase dozens of red cannons in Macau, where the Portuguese lived.

This is the power of technology.

As a time traveler, Zhu Yunfei knew that the late Ming Dynasty was an era of rapid technological development, and the world was changing.

Whoever starts the industrial revolution first will be at the top of the world.

On the contrary, a country that clings to its own selves will eventually become the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history and become the target of trampling and humiliation by countries all over the world.

From the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to the fall of Chongzhen, Western navigators brought wealth worth hundreds of millions of silver to the Ming Dynasty.

This tens of thousands of silver was originally the wealth in the hands of the Chinese people.

But at the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to land cession and compensation, this silver worth hundreds of millions of taels returned to the hands of Western bandits.

This has to be said to be a huge irony.

On the east gate tower, under the expectant eyes of the entire city's soldiers and civilians, Qin Shan commanded five soldiers to complete the loading and ignition operations in one go.

"call out!"

A flaming spherical explosive bomb flew out from the top of the city and landed a thousand meters away before exploding.

"Boom!"

There was a loud explosion, a plume of thick smoke rose into the sky, and a huge earthen pit was instantly lifted from the ground.

"Mighty! Mighty! Mighty!"
Chapter completed!