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However, this is what makes Zhang Zhun the most angry. Wang Shixin spoke in such a tone, obviously his backstage was related to the Tartars. Otherwise, how could a thousand households recommend others to be a thousand households? Does he have that ability? Even Zhao Yinying, the commander of Aoshanwei, does not have such power! What is that higher-level officials than Zhao Yinying? That is the Ministry of War! Even the Ministry of War protects these Tartars, what hope does the Ming Dynasty have?

This was the first time Zhang Zhun discovered that there was such a huge force hidden behind Wang Shixin. What made Zhang Zhun even more angry was that the Tartars had penetrated into the nerve center of the Ming Dynasty! Maybe these people had already secretly communicated with the Tartars, and just waited for the Tartars to enter the pass, and then raised their hands to surrender! In fact, when the Qing army entered the pass in a large scale, countless Ming Dynasty officials were surrendering!

In terms of interests, Zhang Zhun should agree to the conditions offered by Wang Shixin, to take Fushan City without bloodshed. The heads of the thirteen Tartars can be exchanged for thousands of taels of silver. However, emotionally speaking, Zhang Zhun will never hand over any Tartars to them!

He will not use the Tartars to exchange interests!

Because they are not worthy!

When Liu Yiping saw Zhang Zhun pondering, he thought Zhang Zhun was moved and further said: "Master Baihu, look at this matter... What do we want to live in the world? Isn't it just glory and wealth? As long as the adults are willing to hand over these Tartars and have the care of all the masters, this glory and wealth are not enough..."

Zhang Zhun Ran stood up suddenly and shouted coldly: "Shut up!"

Liu Yiping was startled and hurriedly shut up.

Zhang Zhun looked at him with a bright look and said in a deep voice: "You go back!"

Liu Yiping was stunned again.

That's it?

If you don’t want a bright future, isn’t this a fool?

Suddenly, an excited roar came from outside:

"Kill the Tartars!"

"Kill the Tartars!"

"Kill the Tartars!"

It was the angry fellows in Maojiatun who were shouting slogans, their voices shook the fields and resounded throughout the sky.

Liu Yiping's face changed drastically, and he couldn't help but tremble. He felt that his life seemed to be in danger. As long as Zhang Zhun had a move, a gesture, or even a look, someone would come in and drag him out and chop it up.

Zhang Zhun's emotions gradually calmed down and smiled slightly at the other party. He gestured to Liu Yiping to listen to the angry roar from outside, and said word by word: "This is the answer I give you. Go back and tell Wang Shixin that everything he wants is with me. I won't give it to him."

Liu Yiping seemed to be an ant on a hot pan, and he couldn't say a word. The louder the sound outside, the more trembling his body felt. As for what Zhang Zhun said just now, he basically didn't hear clearly.

Zhang Zhun frowned and said, "Mr. Liu?"

Liu Yiping reacted and said subconsciously: "Sir, the villain is just a person who is talking, and the other person who is talking..."

Zhang Zhun nodded and said slowly: "I know."

Clap your hands.

Li Jiaxi came in.

Zhang Zhun said: "Send this gentleman away, he is just a person who brings a message."

Li Jiaxi said expressionlessly: "Let's go!"

Liu Yiping was ashamed of a general amnesty and hurriedly left with Li Jiaxi.

As soon as I left the door, I saw an angry crowd, blocking three layers inside and three layers outside. Where can I go? These crowds either waved their fists, waving hatchets, waving wooden sticks, or waving harpoons... Anyway, they could turn him into powder.

Li Jiaxi waved his hand and said loudly: "The captain said that he is just a person who is in charge of the conversation."

The angry crowd slowly made a small path.

Liu Yiping was shocked and scared, and hurriedly left.

The negotiations with Wang Shixin ended like this.

As for what kind of reaction Wang Shixin would have, Zhang Zhun didn't care and didn't want to know. There was no need for that. There was still three days left, the eighth day of the fifth month, which was his death. Even if the Aoshan Guard immediately mobilized troops to rescue Fushan City, it was too late. Everyone knows the offensive efficiency of the officers and soldiers, let alone the decaying soldiers of the garrison?

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Zhang Zhun calmed down his emotions and clapped his hands hard.

Zou Ming joined in: "Captain, what are your instructions?"

Zhang Zhun smiled and said, "Please come over! I have a lot of time now!"

Zou Mingjia turned around and went.

Soon, Li Fenglai, Yin Gensheng and Zou Huoming came.

The main purpose of their arrival was to discuss the construction of weapons with Zhang Zhun. To be precise, it was to discuss iron smelting. In addition to equip the guard with triangular spears, Zhang Zhun also had to equip the guard with a large number of excellent spears, and even tried to equip the guard with armor, even wanted to build muskets, and even wanted to imitate the cannon. He wanted to arm the guard from head to toe to teeth.

Not to mention the various equipment, the construction process is just a lot of iron. It is very expensive to buy from outside, and a pound of pig iron is sold for three cents of silver. It is simply a robbery of money, and the quantity cannot meet the needs of the guard team. Everyone discussed it and felt that only by smelting iron on their own can the problem be fundamentally solved.

There will not be too much suspense to conquer Fushan City. The key is how to resist the counterattack of more officials and troops. If the guards become stronger, more iron materials must be needed. By that time, officers and soldiers block the front line of Jimo County, and iron materials and the like will definitely not be able to be transported in. Therefore, Zhang Zhun made up his mind to smel iron by himself.

During the past few days in Maojiatun, Zhang Zhun found that Laoshan has coal, iron ore, and a large amount of limestone. Whether it is used to smelify iron, steel, cement or glass, it is OK. Cement and glass are discussed later, the one that needs to be started now is smelting iron.

"Have you visited Laoshan?" Zhang Zhun asked.

"I have seen it, both iron ore and coal, and there is no problem with the raw materials." Yin Gensheng replied.

"If there is no accident, in half a month, we will be able to refine the first batch of pig iron, about 500 kilograms. If the furnace continues to expand, or the number of furnaces increases, the production of pig iron will be further expanded." Zou Huoming said affirmatively.

Zhang Zhun looked at the three of them with great joy and said in a deep thought: "I will ask three uncles and uncles for this matter in the future. If you have any difficulties, you can come to me and let us discuss and solve them together. I have some ideas here, but I don't know if it will be useful to you, even if it's just a throwing brick to attract jade."

Li Fenglai and others said, "Yu Lin, tell me, we are all listening!"

Zhang Zhun was not polite, and said it on his own.

Zhang Zhun didn't know much about steelmaking and ironmaking. He had heard of the names of blast furnaces, open furnaces, converters, cokes, and blowers. He didn't know what the real structure and principle were. However, he was a person from four hundred years later, and his knowledge was incomparable to the three. Although he didn't know how to make steel, he knew what steel was the best and what kind of steel needed.

For example, a knife is a very important weapon. The main weapons of the Chinese army have always been swords. Tang swords, Miao swords, machetes, waist swords, embroidered spring swords, wild swords, big machetes, mo swords, three-pointed and two-edged swords... There are dozens or even hundreds of names of swords alone. Most of them are the essences that have been tempered by actual combat. There is actually no conclusion on which sword is the most suitable for the battlefield, and everything depends on the actual situation.

The Jinyiwei wanted to look good, so he chose the Xiuchun Sword; the 29th Route Army wanted to fight the bayonet with the Japanese, so he chose the machete; the Tang army wanted to deal with the enemy's cavalry, so he chose the Mo Sword; Qi Jiguang felt that the Japanese Sword of the Japanese Sword was not easy to deal with, so he brought out the Miao Sword; the use of cavalry and the use of infantry Sword are completely different... There are many changes and there is nothing fixed.

The only constant thing is not the type of weapon, but the mass of weapon.

Some people may say that the higher the quality of the weapon, the better!

Such statements cannot be said to be unreasonable.

Later generations who have studied ancient swords may know three types of swords: one is the Damascus sword, one is the Malay sword, and the other is the Japanese sword. According to the test results of some people, these three types of swords are said to be the best quality and the sharpest in the world. Among the three swords, there is no shadow of Chinese swords, and even the famous Tang swords were not selected, but the small Japanese swords were selected.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the incompetence of Chinese swords, but the development direction of Chinese swords is different. Whether it is Damascus swords, Malay swords, or Japanese swords, the output is very small. They pursue quality and often spare no expense for this. Chinese swords are more focused on the latter in terms of quality and quantity, and are also very sensitive to cost. Because there are too many Chinese troops in the number.

The Warring States Period of Japan gave people the illusion that it was vigorous and shining with stars. What are Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it seemed like a great person. In fact, in our country, it was at most a prefect. During the heyday of Oda Nobunaga, its army was only about 50,000. When Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, its troops were only 200,000 to 300,000, less than the number of two or three military towns in the Ming Dynasty. Japan used its power to attack North Korea, but was defeated by tens of thousands of Ming troops. A bunch of so-called famous generals almost couldn't even go back to their own country.

It can be seen that if we want to develop weapons with low output and high cost on this land of China, we have no market for the development of Damascus swords, Malay swords, and Japanese swords with low output and high cost. What we need in China is large quantity, high quality and cheap weapons. Therefore, the emergence of the Baotou Steel Method and the clamping steel method. In fact, the core of these so-called "steel" is still iron.

However, it is not OK to do without quality at all. Many of the Ming army's weapons and equipment have very advanced structural principles, such as three-eyed guns, five-eyed guns, seven-star guns, and even ten-eyed guns. The key is that these weapons only have quantity and no mass. Among the 100 muskets, there may be only thirty-four that can be fired. Such muskets are not as good as maces!

It can be seen that it is not easy to achieve a balance between quantity and quality. Zhang Zhun invited Li Fenglai and others to discuss the future development direction of weapons in the Guard. Mr. Zhang Zhun meant that weapons do not need to pursue the sharpness of Damascus swords, nor do they need to pursue the exquisiteness of Malay swords, and there is no need to be as exquisite as Japanese swords. However, a certain quality must be guaranteed.
Chapter completed!