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Chapter 521 Misunderstandings in the Subconscious

February nineteenth.

After hurriedly leaving the early court, Yang Reform went straight back to Qianqing Palace.

As I said earlier this morning, apart from more reports of climate anomalies in more places, there was not much new news.

"Has Sun Yuanhua arrived?" Yang Reform asked anxiously. These trivial matters are obviously not as important as heavy industry, and the key figure Sun Yuanhua is even more important.

"Return to Your Majesty, we have already arrived, we are waiting outside the palace." Wang Chengen quickly replied.

"Call him in." Yang Reform said immediately.

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Sun Yuanhua worked hard for a day before rushing to the capital. He was doing very happily in Tianjin. The emperor never had a lot of money from him. The cannons were built one after another, and he has become more and more proficient at making cannons. , the technology is getting better and better, and the special steel that the emperor asked him to smelt has opened Sun Yuanhua's eyes. It turns out that the mystery is all in it. The same batch of ore, as long as the ratio is different, the things that are smelted are completely different. , From pig iron to wrought iron, and then to steel, the same is steel, but because of the different proportions, the properties are completely different. Some are extremely hard, while others are full of toughness and elasticity. This process is really amazing.

Sun Yuanhua felt that he had fallen in love with this kind of life. It was really a pleasure to refine steel with different proportions of ore every day for different purposes, and then see what the steel was suitable for. However, there was one thing that he always I am deliberately avoiding that it is the money needed to do these things. It has not been a year since he cast cannons and steel, but the money spent is huge. If the emperor supports him with all his strength Steel, this is definitely not a lie. In less than a year of casting cannons and steelmaking, he has already spent half of the Ming Dynasty's national treasury.

Although he also knew that the emperor was rich and knew how to get money, but in the face of such a high fee, Sun Yuanhua would be terrified every time he thought of it. If the emperor had no money, he would not know how to get money, and would support him with so much money. ?Not to mention whether the emperor is willing or not, but whether he can... Every time he thinks of this, Sun Yuanhua feels a surge of gratitude in his heart. This kind of curiosity, achievement, and joy of discovering new things outside the window, if not for the emperor's strong support No matter what, it is impossible for him to have so many discoveries today.Thinking of living in darkness and confusion before, Sun Yuanhua was full of emotion. Thinking that there are more unknown things waiting for him to uncover, Sun Yuanhua was not only grateful, but also happy. He met a good emperor...

Looking at these splendid palaces with golden walls, Sun Yuanhua was inexplicably grateful.

"Master Sun, Your Majesty has invited you to have an audience..." A little eunuch called out with a smile, waking up Sun Yuanhua who was immersed in joy.

"Thank you, little father-in-law..." Sun Yuanhua, who had been immersed in joy, woke up and looked at the sun, but it was still very early. Today is the day of the morning court, and the morning court is coming so soon?No wonder the father-in-law had been urging him to enter the palace earlier.

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Qianqing Palace.

"The minister Sun Yuanhua kowtows to His Majesty..." Sun Yuanhua kowtowed neatly with gratitude and joy.

"Get up..." Yang Reform said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long En." Sun Yuanhua thanked him.

"Sun Qing's family, I haven't seen you for some time." Yang Reform asked with a smile.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty." Sun Yuanhua replied.

"By the way, what about the casting of cannons?" Yang Reform asked about the work situation.

"Returning to Your Majesty, everything is fine. Your Majesty asked me to find out a lot of ways to refine new types of steel. Now this cannon has become more proficient in casting. The performance of the cannon is also getting better and better. As of yesterday So far, I have cast about [-] cannons weighing more than [-] jin of Flang machine..." Sun Yuanhua hurriedly reported his work, full of pride in his heart.

"Oh, [-] cannons! That's not bad..." Yang Reform praised. In less than a year, [-] cannons were built. Big thing, it really is right.

Eight hundred doors?Yang Reform was a little stunned and puzzled, isn't that too much?It's only been less than a year, and there are [-] cannons?
"Hehe, Sun Qing's family has a good memory, do they really have [-] doors?" Yang Reform asked again.

"Return to Your Majesty, there are, and those under a thousand catties are not counted..." Sun Yuanhua said solemnly.

To be honest, Yang Reform was even more puzzled. In less than a year, he had more than [-] cannons?This is too much. In a few years, the number of my own cannons will be over [-]. Yang Reform began to feel ashamed. Isn't this stormy progress too fast?

"Well, here, let's talk about these cannons from Sun Qing's family. I am very interested in the Qing family's ability to cast so many cannons..." Yang Reform was a little ashamed. Now I have so many guns?The emperor's resources are indeed terrifying.

"As ordered, Your Majesty, the cannons cast by the ministers generally start from one thousand catties, and they are considered cannons. Below, they are called blunderbusses, or guns... Take the thousand catties as the example, and the shells generally weigh more than three catties, or four Generally, it can fire 60 to [-] paces, this kind of cannon is the easiest and cheapest to cast, and the cost is only [-] taels..." Sun Yuanhua reported the results of his work with full confidence.

"..." Yang Reform still didn't believe it. He already had more than [-] cannons.

"...If you want to cast a three-thousand-jin Hongyi cannon, it takes several times the cost of a thousand-jin Flangji to make it. Generally, it takes four to five times the cost to make a three-thousand-jin Hongyi cannon. If it is a larger Hongyi cannon, it will be ten times that of the Qianjin cannon, but it will be dozens of times, without him, because it is not easy to cast and there are too many scraps..." Sun Yuanhua explained carefully.

"Oh, that's it!..." Yang Reform listened carefully.

"Oh, that is to say, small cannons are easy, but big ones are difficult, isn't it?" Yang Reform asked. Not too many.As long as you have money, are you afraid of not having cannons?But for this amount, Yang Reform only felt at this time that there was a big gap between the views he had formed all along and the reality.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, yes, most of the cannons cast by the minister today are [-]-jin cannons, while the Hongyi cannons weighing more than [-] jins are still relatively small. Counting it down, there are less than a hundred..." Sun Yuanhua was a little embarrassed, so It is very embarrassing for him to cast this little cannon because of the extra silver.

"Big Companion, please invite Master Sun. I have something to ask." Yang Reform wanted to talk to Sun Yuanhua, but this question turned out to be a big problem. In just a short time, he had [-] births A cannon weighing more than a thousand catties?Is it a little scary?How did Yang Reform remember that in the Republic of China, two small cannons were considered regular troops!But isn't it too scary to play this way now?
"Your servant obeys..." Wang Chengen went to do it immediately.

"Uh, Sun Qing's family! Can this cannon really produce so much this year?" Yang Reform became more and more unconvinced that this was true, eight hundred?It's too much, it's almost as big as the sum of artillery in the Republic of China.I remember a certain person bragging back then, but he just said that if he opened up a hundred cannons and bombarded him for a day, there was no city that he could not conquer, but now he has [-] cannons. One day, this effect?
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I am ashamed. I wasted a lot of time because I was not proficient in the casting method. It was only in the past two or three months that I found a better casting method and produced these cannons. These cannons , Most of them were produced in the past few months, and I wasted so much. Now that I think about it, I am really ashamed. Please punish me..." Sun Yuanhua immediately said with a face of shame. He used to cast cannons in a reckless way. Although There are also successful ones, but the number of castings is limited, but now it is different. Gradually, more experience has been explored, and more skilled craftsmen have become more, so the number of casting cannons has gradually increased.

"Uh! Wait, don't talk about it, wait until Master Sun comes..." Yang Reform was a little uncertain, was he dreaming or not waking up?This was not built within a year, but it was produced in two or three months. This made Yang Reform even more surprised, and he was even more uncertain what happened. Based on this calculation, how many guns did he get this year?More than three thousand cannons?
"..." Sun Yuanhua was making a report in shame, but when he heard the emperor asked him to pause, he had no choice but to pause.

Not long after, Sun Chengzong arrived.After seeing the ceremony.Yang Reform asked directly.

"Master Sun, I just heard from Sun Qing's family that now I have more than [-] cannons weighing more than [-] jin, all of which are newly cast. I want to know where all these cannons have gone..." Yang Reform felt that he was a little Dizzy, still dreaming, so I asked Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong also looked at the emperor in wonder, didn't he report this?The emperor didn't notice?Maybe he didn't pay attention, but the emperor's energy has been involved in the salt administration recently, and he probably didn't pay much attention to this aspect.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, these cannons are mainly equipped with newly-built warships, about [-] of them, and a large number of them went to the artillery barracks of the New Army for training purposes, and a batch of them were equipped with the New Army, and some went to the new army. Liaodong..."

"...According to the current progress of new warships, this is far from enough. For example, if each warship has forty cannons, if there are ten warships, there should be four hundred cannons. If there are one hundred warships, there should be four cannons. Qianmen, like a bigger warship, needs more cannons..." Sun Chengzong replied calmly.

"..." Yang Reform was sure that he was not in a dream. He always thought that cannons were a luxury, and it would be a big deal to have a few cannons. In fact, with the increase in the size of his navy , the number of this demand will become even greater, and it may really be necessary to build thousands of cannons. If it is the limit, it is likely that within a year, the casting amount of cannons will be tens of thousands. Although Yang Reform knows that he needs a lot of cannons, Can make a lot of cannons, but there are misunderstandings in the subconscious, this mind is really small, or, it was misled by the previous concepts, and further, it is some misunderstandings in the subconscious concepts, it was the Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China or before the liberation The domestic situation is misleading. The actual situation is that in this era, if it is a maritime power, the number of cannons is really thousands. If you want to fight for ocean hegemony, you may really need to cast thousands of cannons every year. An era in which quantity makes up for quality, especially in the Navy.

(End of this chapter)