Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Thinking of this, Wei Wu's eyes were once again fixed on Imagawa Ryotoshi. This was his only channel of understanding.

"Imagawa Ryotoshi, has the shogunate already started manufacturing artillery?"

"Yes, sir. After receiving the blueprint from the merchant, the shogunate immediately arranged for craftsmen to make a replica."

Imagawa Ryotoshi did not dare to lie and told everything he knew truthfully.

"The shogunate even sent people disguised as pirates to capture a group of craftsmen from the Ming Dynasty to speed up the imitation process."

Wei Wu was indeed angry when he heard this, but he felt more helpless because he could do nothing about this kind of thing.

For China, a country with a vast territory, the border is too long and is definitely the most difficult place to defend.

Even in the future with a population of 1.4 billion and advanced technology, there is no better way to control the border, and the only way is to rely on the hard work of soldiers patrolling.

All Wei Wu could do was to make the Ming Dynasty as strong as possible, so strong that the neighboring countries would not dare to offend it in the slightest.

At the same time, without taking into account the future fiefs of each prince, the actual land area controlled by the Ming Dynasty was expanded to a place with natural barriers as its barrier.

The current ideal territory extends from Lake Baikal in the north to the Solomon Islands in the south, from the Kunlun Mountains in the west to the Japanese pirate islands in the east.

Then, using Saipan as the base, a line was drawn along the Northern Mariana Islands, and the sea area in between was designated as the Chinese Inland Sea.

In fact, Wei Wu's original plan in the south was to directly extend it to New Zealand, but Australia had already been promised to Zhu Di, so he gave up.

Of course, these are just ideas at the moment. If we want to realize them, we must become strong and incorporate all the surrounding countries.

At that time, either you will voluntarily return the land to me, or I will destroy you and take the land back from you.

Wei Wu doesn't need anything like "since ancient times". What he needs to do is to create the confidence for future generations to say "since ancient times"!

Back to topic.

After learning from Imagawa Ryotoshi that the shogunate had already started manufacturing artillery, Wei Wu asked again:

"Have you heard the exact number of artillery pieces produced?"

"Yes, because I saw the power of artillery, I went to find out."

Hearing Wei Wu's question, Imagawa Ryotoshi immediately gave an answer, and then continued:

"Ever since contacting that merchant, the shogunate has been gathering materials and manpower to prepare for the production of artillery."

"When I left Kyoto, I received information that more than a dozen cannons had been produced and were ready for testing."

"It's just that the situation on Jiuguo Island is more urgent. I don't have time to pay attention to this matter. I have no idea how the subsequent artillery tests will go."

After Imagawa Ryotoshi finished speaking, Wei Wu immediately frowned and couldn't help feeling a little worried.

But he was not worried about himself, but about the large navy on Lan Yu's side.

If the cannons purchased from that merchant are included, the shogunate will have nearly thirty cannons.

And it is not difficult to hear from Imagawa Ryotoshi's words that this number is just the beginning.

Although the power of the big iron cannon cannot be compared with the red cannon, even the falconet cannon is more powerful than it.

But no matter what, it is also a cannon, a powerful weapon, and no one knows how many the Japanese pirates will produce.

If Lan Yu led his troops to attack the city, the Japanese pirates would have dozens of cannons in their hands, and Wei Wu would not want to see such casualties.

"It seems that I have to go to Higo Kingdom in person to warn Lan Yu, otherwise he might suffer a great loss."

In fact, it was very simple for Wei Wu to go to Hihou Kingdom, because according to the previously agreed plan, the place where Lan Yu landed was the later Kumamoto City.

Wei Wu only needs to take the sea route, the same Ariake Sea that he used to take when he came to Saga, and he can directly reach Kumamoto City.

The distance between the two is only fifty kilometers. At the speed of a yacht, it would take less than a day to go back and forth.