Ma'anshan has a long history and its reputation comes from history. According to legend, during the Chu-Han War, the Chu king Xiang Yu was trapped in Gaixia, surrounded by enemies, and retreated to Wujiang, Hexian County. He asked a fisherman to cross his beloved mount Wuzhima to the other side. Later, he felt that he had no face to see the elders of Jiangdong and committed suicide.

The black horse missed his master and rolled and committed suicide. The saddle fell to the ground and turned into a mountain. Ma'an Mountain was named after this.

Taiping Prefecture spans the Yangtze River and borders Nanjing. It was once the capital of the Six Dynasties and the Tenth Dynasties. It has been known as the "Jinling Barrier and Jiankang Key" since ancient times.

As early as the Six Dynasties, many famous princes and great ministers and wise men lingered in Ma'anshan, leaving behind many historical sites and cultural relics.

In later generations, Ma'anshan was one of the top ten steel bases in China and the location of Ma'anshan. Ma'anshan Port is one of the top ten ports in the Yangtze River and the first port in the Wanjiang River. It is an important steel circulation base in China.

After two deep-water ports in Ma'anshan Zhengpu Port, the last 10,000-ton deep-water coastline terminal in the Yangtze River.

The Taipingfu iron ore stock reached more than one billion tons, which was endless for hundreds of years for the Ming Dynasty. It was not far from Huainan, making it convenient to transport coal from Huainan coal mine.

Zhu Cixuan is preparing to take advantage of the Taipingfu port and iron ore advantages to build a large shipyard and arsenal here.

Of course, the shipyard built large warships, so in the later period, the armored warships, and the arsenals mainly built large naval guns and various firearms.

Whether building ships or building firearms, you can use materials locally without having to transport iron ore and coking coal.

In addition, relying on the advantages of the Yangtze River water transportation, it is more convenient to build oak and teak from Southeast Asia, and can also save freight and time.

You should know that from the Southeast Asian Games wood to Taiping Prefecture, it is nearly 2,000 miles longer than transporting it to Tanggukou, which can save a lot of time and expenses.

After two days of checking in Taipingfu, Zhu Cilang immediately made a decision to build a shipyard and an arsenal in Taipingfu, and also chose the location of the shipyard and an arsenal.

He did what he said, and he immediately issued an order to ask Mo Xia to lead a large number of craftsmen to Taiping Prefecture to prepare for the establishment of a large shipyard, and the Tanggu shipyard continued.

If there are insufficient craftsmen, you can recruit workers or recruit them from various places at high prices. Zhu Cixuan doesn’t care about money, just build the Ming naval warship as soon as possible.

At the same time, he was notified to him and asked him to send someone to assist Mo Xia. As long as the shipyard needs it, the Royal Group will do its best to help...

This time, Zhu Cixuan would not let the royal group pay the money. He confiscated the house in Fengyang and left three million taels in Taiping Prefecture. He also dispatched eunuch Yuan Gui, the head of the military commander, to come to Taiping Prefecture to lead the office.

Yuan Guizi did a good job in military battles. With his accumulated experience in military battles management, Zhu Ciyang believed that Yuan Gui could also take Taipingfu Shipyard and Arsenal to a higher level.

As for the needs of a large number of firearms and other craftsmen, Zhu Cilang was not worried at all.

The firearm manufacturing in the Ming Dynasty was prosperous, and military weapons bureaus were held in various places.

Especially in the capital, Tianjin, and Jiangnan, there are various firearm workshops densely populated among the people, and there are tens of thousands of craftsmen.

It is similar to the craftsmen in the army, and many craftsmen have very hard life.

Zhu Cixuan believed that after they saw the recruitment conditions of Taiping Prefecture, craftsmen from all over the south of the Yangtze River flocked to come and make a living.

In the era of great navigation, the truth is the strong ship, cannon and profit, otherwise it will be destined to be bullied by Western colonists.

The Ming Navy started from the founding of the Chaohu Navy by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty, and went through the Battle of Crossing the River to capture Jinling, and the Battle of Poyang Lake destroyed Chen Youliang.

During the Zhengde period, the Portuguese were beaten up in the Navy Battle of Tuen Mun, and during the Jiajing period, the Portuguese were beaten up again in the Battle of Xicao Bay.

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The current Naval Battle of Ming-English and the Naval Battle against Portugal, and later the Battle of Zheng Chenggong to Recover Taiwan.

The Ming Dynasty was founded for nearly three hundred years, but the Ming Navy had never suffered a defeat.

Even though it began to decline during the Zhengtong period, it fell to the bottom during the Jiajing period.

The Zheng family was the only one who relied on the Zheng family in the late Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Navy still fought several beautiful battles at the lowest point.

In the Qing Dynasty, it changed. The navy, known as the number one in Asia, lost a lot in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

Even the British came a few warships, and they just fired tentatively, opening the door to China again...

Now warships from Western maritime powers such as the Netherlands have been equipped with artillery of more than 24 pounds.

The eighteen-pound cannons were a bit small for their main warships. How could Zhu Cilang let the Ming Dynasty fall behind?

At this time, the advantages of the time traveler were revealed. The iron mold casting artifact of the Ming Dynasty had been used for more than two years.

In the past, the traditional casting artillery process used mud molds, which were made of water and mud, and then cast them in gold and put them together layer by layer.

The clay mold must be thoroughly dry, otherwise the surface will be dry and moist inside.

When metal melt occurs, moisture will be generated. The cast cannon has honeycombs, and the cannon can easily explode and hurt people when it is deployed.

It takes about one month to dry the mud film, and it takes two or three months to dry it in cloudy days, rainy days and cold weather.

Moreover, a clay mold can only cast one cannon, and it will be discarded immediately and cannot be used anymore.

The iron mold casting cannon method is different. It uses iron as the mold, and the technology is simpler and easier to use than the traditional mud mold casting cannon.

Not only does it save a large amount of mold raw materials to reduce production costs, it is also not limited by climatic conditions, and the manufacturing cycle is also greatly shortened.

The most important thing is to solve the problem of honeycombs, avoid the occurrence of explosions, and greatly improve the quality of artillery casting.

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In order to ensure the safety of Taiping Prefecture, Zhu Cixuan left Lu Qian, the assistant chief of the Jinyiwei Guard, and Viscount Qi Yuangong, the general of the Shenwu Army, in Taiping Prefecture.

Qi Yuangong was the son of Qi Jin and the uncle of Qi Guang'an, the Royal Artillery Corps. After his father died in battle, he settled in Dingyuan and was unwilling to join the army. Zhu Cixuan sent people to recruit him after supervising the country.

Although the battle was not as good as his father, Qi Jin, he was absolutely loyal to the Ming Dynasty and had no problem letting him guard the Taiping Mansion Shipyard and Arsenal.

In order to ensure the safety of Taiping Prefecture, the prefect was also replaced by Zhu Cilang.

Li Yang, the county magistrate who shined during the Fengyang land reform, was later appointed as Fengyang Tongzhi. Zhu Cilang was promoted to him one more level and transferred to the prefect of Taiping Prefecture.
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