Back In Time For Imperial Examination Chapter 293

Li Gong is good at planning, Liu Gong is good at making decisions, and Xie Gong is particularly eloquent.

Teacher Li told the three ministers about Ryan Cui's plan to send people to accompany the Italian missionaries to buy weapons, and Minister Liu made the decision for him.

Now the Ministry of War is not doing well in imitating the French cannon: the copper cannon has a shorter range than the original cannon, is not as accurate as the original cannon, and sometimes explodes; and the iron cannon often has sand holes in the barrel, some so large that a bowl of water can be filled in, so who knows where the bullets fired from such a barrel will fly? The problem with the barrel can be solved by the craftsmen slowly, but the imitation gunpowder is not as good as the original one, and the explosion is not powerful enough, which is difficult to deal with.

In this case, it seems imperative to purchase more equipment and artillery ammunition from the West.

But if we send envoys, we have to build huge treasure ships and Fu ships, like the eunuch Sanbao did when he sailed to the West, with hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of soldiers. The Ming Dynasty cannot afford such expenses. If we dress the soldiers as merchants and go back to Italy with the missionaries, and let the patriotic sea merchants who offered good seeds in the past accompany them, we can save a lot of burden on the treasury and make it cheaper.