It’s been two months!

In the past two months, Cao Eryu, who "escaped" from the Jiannu Manor, has been working on the construction site. Although he is from a noble family, Cao Eryu can indeed endure hardships that others cannot bear. He works like an ordinary person on the construction site.

It was so laborious that he lifted the whole stone to build the wall. Although the man was as tired as a dead dog, he still gritted his teeth and persevered.

How long do we have to wait?

Cao Eryu didn't know that he had never had a chance to get close to the fort until now. He originally thought that building a cannon fort would definitely have a chance to come into contact with the Ming army's cannons, but who knew that the Pinglu army never gave him a chance to get close to the cannon fort, let alone get close to it.

Cannonball opportunity.

Cannonballs!

The reason why Cao Eryu "escaped" here was to find out the secret of the blooming cannonball. Although he quickly made the blooming bomb and the wooden fuse after returning to the Qing Dynasty, many tests failed.

Well, the flower cannon exploded as soon as it was hit, exploding directly in the barrel.

Why is this happening?

After trying dozens of times, Cao Eryu had no choice but to grit his teeth and "escaped" to Dalian, where he wanted to find out the secret of the explosives.

But for the past two months, although he had been working on the gun platform and looking at the cannons on the gun platform, he had no chance to touch the cannons on it.

You can't just work hard here for the rest of your life!

Cao Eryu murmured in his heart. In fact, he has gained something in the past two months. For example, he saw the "stone hair gun" without a match rope for the first time, and of course its paper package medicine, although he has not purchased the "stone hair gun" yet.

"gun" qualification, but he relied on his memory to remember its appearance. In fact, it was not much different from the several Ming army muskets captured before. In the past, he never knew how those guns fired. This time

I figured out the principle.

But he wanted to understand even more how the Ming Army's artillery opened the explosive shells! If there was anything about the Ming Army that left a deep impression on him, it would probably be the Ming Army's explosive shells. That impression was really profound.

, so profound that he would wake up from nightmares every time.

But the more you want it, the harder it is to get it. Just like now, after two months, I was as exhausted as a dog and could only look at the cannons from a distance every day.

What a fate...

Is it really possible that I have to work hard for the rest of my life?

It's a pity that I can't go to the arsenal.

Once again, Cao Eryu secretly murmured in his heart that the refugees who escaped were often sent to build houses and build forts. In fact, they were all hard work. This was also a disguised form of screening. This kind of hard life itself was

In Naoren, how many well-dressed and well-fed spies can last a year and a half?

Even now, Cao Eryu felt discouraged.

Otherwise, go back...

Almost when Cao Eryu was about to give up, as the construction of the gun platform progressed, the side wall was finally connected to the main wall. While standing on the scaffolding to build the wall, Cao Eryu's eyes were staring at the cannon on the gun platform from time to time.

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"This cannon is so big!"

That cannon can fit a head in!

Just when Cao Eryu was memorizing the appearance of the cannon in his mind, suddenly, his eyes fell on a gun position in the distance. The gunners there seemed to be conducting gunnery training. They saw them opening a wooden box and removing it from the box.

He held one out.

That's...a cannonball!

Not just cannonballs!

There is a cloth bag attached to the back of the cannonball, and there seems to be... wood between the cloth bag and the cannonball!

In an instant, Cao Eryu understood, and his eyes were filled with joy.

I know, I know!

The reason why the cannonball exploded in the cannon bore was because the shell shell was too brittle and exploded directly in the cannon. But if a layer of wood was installed behind the shell, wouldn't that layer of wood be like the one stuffed in the shell when it was opened in the past?

A layer of mud? With a layer of wood blocking it, the cannonball will naturally not break apart in the chamber.

I see!

After finally figuring out the key, although Cao Eryu was very happy in his heart, he did not show it. In the afternoon, he left Dalian, not from the north, but by water to Tianjin, and returned to the Qing Dynasty from Tianjin along the way.

There are not many checkpoints, and there are also help from Shanxi merchants.

When Cao Eryu boarded the ship bound for Tianjin, in Dalian Port, four Dutch armed merchant ships were also towed by small sampans and slowly sailed out of the port. Standing on the towering stern of the Galen ship, Van Di

Men's mood can be described as mixed. On the one hand, he was proud that he could "knock" on the door of the Ming Dynasty, but on the other hand, he also saw the threat from the Ming Dynasty.

"They have already occupied Formosa. Will they get involved in Batavia in the future?"

With such worries in his heart, Van Diemen once again set his sights on another ship, hoping that Kuiyi and his friends would gain something from their trip to North Korea!

Hopefully the Tatars can hold them back!

…

A few days later, although there were no guides on board, two Dutch armed merchant ships approached the North Korean coast. However, at Kui Yi's request, the two ships kept a close distance from the coast. The reason why he

Such an order was issued because of an intelligence obtained in Dalian.

"The Ming people set up a fortress on the coast of the Koreans. They stationed many troops there. We must not attract their attention!"

Kuiyi picked up the telescope again and again to observe the coast and the Koreans on the coast.

"But, Mr. Commissioner, how are we to identify the Tatars?"

Lieutenant Pierce asked.

"It's easy! Pig tail!"

Kui Yi replied.

"Those Tatars all have pig-tail hair, like... well, that's..."

Suddenly Kuiyi stopped talking. He stared excitedly through the telescope at the people on the shore. Those people seemed to be the legendary Tatars.

"My God, yes, yes, they are Tatars..."

Once again, Kui Yi reminded him seriously.

"Lieutenant Pierce, remember, from now on we are all Portuguese!"

Even now, Kui Yi admires the wisdom of the Governor, pretending to be Portuguese, this is probably the greatest strategy in history. The entire Dutch East India Company can be said to be extremely jealous of the Macau that Portugal deceived. Unfortunately,

The same deception can only be used once, and the Dutch will definitely not be able to do it again, but this does not prevent them from envying the stronghold in Macau.

If the people of the Ming Dynasty knew that the Portuguese were actually cooperating with the Tatars, they would definitely drive the Portuguese out of Macau. At that time, they might be able to persuade the Chinese to lease it to the Netherlands and the East India Company!

After all, Holland is a friend of Ming Dynasty!
Chapter completed!