Year, month, day, there is still a short time before the ultimatum.

A large group of Portuguese nobles, led by the leader of Governor Gelomino Schvela, came to the Bugalau Casting Factory located in the later Gaoconing Street, which was previously called Zhupaoxi Lane, but in the Ming Dynasty, it belonged to Zhupaoxi Village, West Zhuzaishi Village, Haojingao for inspection.

This is the meaning of the question. In the face of the upcoming war, the leader must inspect the military industry department.

By the way, Macau Bujialao Artillery Factory has been considered a provincial and ministerial enterprise in history.

Since the Portuguese occupied Macau, they often faced harassment from various pirates and British and Dutch hooligans, as early as the 36th year of Jiajing, Portuguese artillery expert Peter Bugalao opened an artillery factory here.

Since its establishment, Bujialao Artillery Factory has cast two products: copper cannons and iron cannons. Among them, iron cannons are mainly produced by Chinese workers, while copper cannons with high cost and higher technical content are manufactured by Bujialao personally directed the Portuguese.

Because the Bujialao Artillery Factory has excellent product quality and the cannons are not only long-range but also durable, so they quickly became famous and became the most famous weapon factory in the Far East.

In the years that followed, the Bugalao Artillery not only provided all the cannons for all the artillery in Macau, but also provided them to armed merchant ships from various countries that were stationed in Macau. In the East Asian colonies, including the Philippines, people also sent to purchase artillery.

The reputation of the Bujialao artillery factory was even heard of even the Ming emperors in the capital. As early as the Tianqi period before the New Year, the Ming court bought artillery doors from Macau. Just before the New Year, Emperor Chongzhen also paid the money to buy artillery, and also named the Macau cannon placed on the Beijing city tower "General Shenwei".

And in the plane of crossing the world, the Bujialao artillery factory is still busy.

Bu Jialao is a middle-aged Portuguese with wavy black hair and wrinkles. Although he was wearing work clothes when welcoming the big guys, with a fireworks on his face, and a covered in calluses and oil stains on his hands, due to the important position of the artillery factory in Macau, Bu Jialao has a very strong position among the senior officials in Macau, or in other words, he was originally one of the senior officials.

"Dear gentlemen, what you see now is the bell-casting workshop."

In history, the Bujialao artillery factory only casts cannons when it was first built. Later, after the scale expanded, it added the bell casting business. After all, bell casting and cannons were both large metal castings, which were similar to those of them. Moreover, in this era, there was a huge demand for copper bells, both east and west. There were monasteries in the West and monk temples in the East. These were all wealthy families compared to state-owned enterprises. It was right for the artillery factory to cast bells, and it would be unreasonable to not cast them.

However, as the manager of Bujialao looked over, the current bell casting workshop was scattered. Apart from the empty sheds and pits, there were only some scattered wooden and iron workpieces, no workers, and the furnace did not open fire.

Soon, the MPs understood that they came over, “Has the bell’s business stopped?”

Bugalao owed a little sadly. "In fact, all bell-casting business had stopped three months ago, gentlemen."

Things are constantly influencing and changing with each other. In the plane of the Time Traveler, the Bujialao Cannon Factory has not had a good life.

First of all, as early as 2008, Macau, which has been importing copper from Japan in history, was cut off its material channels by traveling through the crowd.

At that time, the travelers used the export rights of raw silk to win over Japanese merchants, and then cut off the purchase channels between the Dutch and Portuguese through the top Japanese leaders in one fell swoop.

After that, as the crossing power became increasingly stronger, patrol ships were spread all over the east and west of the strait, and the Japanese copper and silver mineral strips were increasingly unable to pass this level, and they were all intercepted by the crossing people to Taijiang Wharf.

As a result, the source of copper mines for the Portuguese Macau was becoming increasingly scarce, and they could only be supplemented by smuggling from Ming Dynasty and India. This caused the business of the Bujialao artillery factory to shrink.

Then in the past six months, as the relationship between the two sides of "Cao and Portugal" deteriorated, the Bujialao artillery factory simply stopped its copper bell business. The Portuguese are not fools. Since the military pressure on this plane has increased greatly, limited metal resources must be allocated to prepare for war.

After walking through the empty shed, there is a busy cannon casting workshop not far ahead.

The workshop where there were a large amount of charcoal and copper and iron were covered with gray colors, and suffocating dust floated in the pungent air. After coming here, the men covered their mouths and noses with their silk handkerchiefs.

A large number of shirtless workers with cloth towels on their faces were casting cannons with various tools. They drifted the iron and copper water from the molten iron furnace into the molds placed on the ground, and then according to the standard operating procedures, they used the ancient mud mold casting cannon method to produce bronze and iron cannons.

"Have the workers in Ming Kingdom left yet?"

Seeing that there were still many Ming people with yellow skin and hair buns among the workers, Andrade, who was the clerk of the Macau City Council, couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Some of the Ming workers left." Bu Jialao nodded, "but there are still many left behind. After all, the artillery factory increased their salary. You know, those who go back will face great pressure to live in Ming Dynasty."

"How is the artillery preparation?"

Governor Schvira, who was responsible for actual combat preparations, interrupted a little impatiently at this time. As the commander-in-chief of the Portuguese side of this war, he recently had no time to study the survival pressure of Ming workers, but directly asked about the aspects he cared about.

"Mr. Governor, in addition to orders delivered to various forts, the artillery factory has rushed to work on various pounds of cannons in the past week, including bronze cannons and pound cannons."

"Very good, that's the only good news I've heard today."

The bearded man left on the face of the Governor raised an angle, "Can you provide more bronze cannons? Dear Mr. Bugalao, you know, our opponents also have excellent quality cannons, and have performed to us on gunboats outside the sea before."

"Sir, what you see now is the artillery we made of the last batch of copper materials, about fifteen."

Bu Jialao stretched out his arm and slowly waved it. "The artillery factory has not been able to obtain enough copper for a long time, so it can only increase the number of cast iron cannons. However, our shells are sufficient. The Ming smugglers transported a lot of pig iron."

"Dear gentlemen, this is an obvious question."

Governor Schvira shouted loudly after hearing this, "If this war is based on our vision, it will be a protracted war. We need a large amount of artillery to bring unbearable casualties to the Ming government in order to get a decent post-war agreement."

"There will be aid." Speaker Laro gave the governor a reassurance at this time. "The representatives of the parliament have now met the governor of the Philippines. According to the schedule of the ship, the Spaniards will definitely help us. If they lose this place, they will also suffer losses."

After inspecting the stuffy workshop of the Bujialao Artillery Factory, I probably wanted to change the air, so the gentlemen came to the beautifully landscaped turret again.

The turret is located on the side of the Grand Sanba Archway in later generations, on a small hill with an altitude of meter in the middle of the Macau Peninsula. It is one of the main scenic spots and historical sites in Macau.

The large turret is also known as the St. Paul's Fort, the Central turret or the Grand Sanba Fort. It was built here as early as the first year of the Ming Dynasty Shenzong period.

Although there are several forts inside and outside the small Macau city, the Da Sanba Fort is the largest, the best position, and the strongest garrison. This place is undoubtedly the core of the defense of Macau city.

The Macau Fortress in the 17th century has very practical military significance and is still different from the tourist scenic spots in later generations.

Although there are also large open spaces on it, there are no green shade and towering ancient trees. In addition, there are no historical relics and historical buildings on the fortress now, such as the ancient tower of the Jesuit. In fact, there are no extra buildings inside the fortress except for a circle of low brick houses used to garrison troops.

From a scale perspective, the turret is actually a small small town. The turret with a side length of about meter, and the four corners protrude into a brigade. The wall of the turret is built on granite with a width of rice, and is built with rammed earth and cemented with oyster shell powder, which is very solid.

The wall of the turret is about meter high and narrows upwards to be meter wide. The wall of the female is about meter high, and is in the shape of a stool, and cannons can be erected.

The historical large turrets only had bunkers at the two corners of the southeast wall. The northwest wall facing the Ming Dynasty was shorter and had no muzzle settings. This was mainly because the Portuguese showed that they focused on offshore defense and their friendly attitude towards the Ming Dynasty at that time.

However, in this plane, everything is different.

As early as a year ago, the northwest women's wall of the Dasanba Fort was reinforced and increased intermittently, and the cannon position was set up.

In recent times, the Portuguese not only dug the foundation on the periphery of the northwest turret and covered brick walls flush with the ground, but also prepared a large number of building materials, including red bricks and cement they bought at high prices.

Then from the day when the ultimatum was received, today, the Da Sanba Fortress faced Mingguo, a solid bunker had already appeared out of thin air. There were also a glowing muzzle on the top of the female wall muzzle.

When the gentlemen came to the fort, the soldiers were busy preparing for the war.

The soldiers stationed on the turret are not those employed people with uneven levels, they are regular Portuguese soldiers.

The soldiers were wearing brown short tops, jackets and shirts. They wore a wide tie around their necks and shorts, leggings and leather shoes. All soldiers wore Western-style wide-brimmed hats on their heads, and white or gold decorative straps on their hats. In addition, those with bright feathers were inserted into the hats were officers.

The soldiers stationed on the entire Da Sanba Fort have been expanded to people due to war.

These people included a garrison artillery, as well as a guard unit composed of musketeers and spearmen.

In addition, there are reinforcements in Macau not far behind the fort, so you can increase troops in the direction of the fort at any time.

This large prism filled with irregular lines is the confidence of the Portuguese...
Chapter completed!