1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 78

Well, there is a problem with changing the musket?When Ludwig heard this, Zou frowned and looked at his butler.

Anri Credo leaned closer to Ludwild's ear, "The newly arrived flintlock guns are all at the Commander of the Batavia Army. ... Moreover, they just replaced the matchlock guns in the army with flintlock guns , a total of four hundred branches, "

"Hiss..." As soon as Ludwild heard it, he understood that this was really a difficult problem.Not to mention that the colonial army has just finished changing their outfits, and if they are asked to replace the flintlock guns with Cao Xiong, it will definitely arouse the army's resentment.

For example, Colonel Pete Kurucs, the commander of the army, was recommended by the power of the Orange family.

There have always been two political factions within the United Provinces Republic (Netherlands).One faction is the republican faction, which is dominated by the current two-level parliamentarians, navy, and merchants. It advocates weakening the royal power and actively developing free trade.

The other faction is the royal faction headed by the Royal Family of Orange. It is mainly composed of senior military officers and large domestic landowners. It advocates the establishment of royal power and pays attention to domestic development and the rights and interests of low-level farmers and craftsmen.

Ludwig naturally belongs to the republican faction. Just ask, how can he easily replace muskets from the colonial army at will.

"I will find a way to do this." Ludwig felt that he still had to give it a try, after all, he was full of words.If you can't get a flintlock gun, wouldn't it be underestimated.The businessman's mind quickly made him calculate at least two ways to get the flintlock gun, nothing more than spending a little more money.

Seeing that the night was getting late and the general direction of cooperation had been basically agreed upon, Cao Xiong left.

Ludwig asked him to come to the City Hall the day after tomorrow to find him and sign a detailed cooperation agreement.At that time, there will be some departments and personnel from the colonial agency to connect with him and ask him to be ready.At the same time, it is guaranteed that the content of the agreement will not exceed the framework of the conversation between the two tonight.

"Uncle, are we voting for the Dutch?" Qi Dalu asked on the way.

"It can be considered, it can not be considered!" Cao Xiongwen said angrily.

"So it counts, or...does it count?"

"You idiot!" Cao Xiong scolded with a smile, "Go back to Hanzhou Jianye City and ask your brother!... I really doubt that you were born to my old sister!"

"Ah?" Qi Dalu stopped involuntarily, and scratched the short hair on his forehead, "Why am I not born to my mother?...Why don't you say that the fourth child is not born to my mother? Look, it is better than me. And the eldest brother, the second brother must know a lot!"

In the early morning of the next day, Hu Wenjin and Zhou Yingping hired a dentist as usual and went to the workshop market!Prepare to buy various tools, copper, iron and other materials,

Cao Xiong and Qi Dalu also went out with a few brothers. They spent a silver coin and asked someone to take them to visit the Chinese Jiapidan Su Minggang in Batavia City.

Su Minggang is 55 years old this year and has been in Batavia for 50 years.From the formerly powerful Banten Kingdom of Jayagarda to Batavia under the rule of the Dutch East India Company today.He also immigrated from an ordinary Ming, and gradually became the leader of the Chinese here. In 1632, he was officially appointed as the Chinese Kapitan by the Dutch colonial agency.

Su Minggang's mansion is a typical Ming style, with three front and back courtyards, pavilions, small bridges and flowing water, and shadows of houses overlapping, just like the mansion of a wealthy gentry in the south of the Ming Dynasty.

Cao Xiong pulled Qi Dalu, who was looking around, obediently followed a housekeeper, and walked towards the house where the guests were received in the atrium.

Whenever maritime merchants traveling between Daming and Batavia came to visit, Su Minggang would generally receive them personally.On the one hand, the love of hometown and the friendship of the landlord; on the other hand, it is common for business information to be exchanged and entrusted with each other for transactions.

Otherwise, how could Su Minggang control the Chinese businesses in Batavia and have official interactions with the Dutch colonial institutions.Without him, he monopolizes information.

"Mr. Su, my surname is Cao Mingxiong. A few months ago, I was doing sea business with Liu Xiang. But I didn't check for a while, and I was tricked by others, and I went all the way to Nanyang." Cao Xiong introduced himself straight to the point.

When Su Minggang heard it, oh, he was a pirate.So, today is coming to me to fight the autumn wind.It is not impossible to help a thousand children with 800 taels of silver.He smiled, ready to continue listening to how much money Cao Xiong wants to ask for.

"However, we have now found a place to stay at a place ten days away from Batavia. Because we want to open a few workshops to maintain the necessary life, but there are no craftsmen. ... So, I want to Please help Mr. Su, find twenty or thirty for me."

ah?No money!

VIP?Want a craftsman?

Su Minggang was inexplicably surprised. Apart from looting and killing people, you pirates also engage in production and construction?
"Old man Su, old man Su..." After Cao Xiong finished speaking, he saw that Su Minggang hadn't spoken for a long time, but was stunned there, so he couldn't help calling him, "If you find it difficult, I'll think of other ways!"

"Oh, I'm old, my reaction is a bit slow, I'm neglecting all heroes!" Su Minggang quickly collected his thoughts, and replied seriously: "Craftsmen are..."

"Grandpa, grandpa!" A light figure ran in, still shouting: "Grandpa, third brother is getting worse and worse!"

A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl ran to Su Minggang, took his arm, and said, "The third brother cheated me of my money again. He must be going to buy some exotic things to curry favor with that young girl from the Lin family."

All eyes in the room were attracted by this girl.The emerald green Ming-style skirt, a few pink tassels around the waist, a girlish hair style on the head, and a simple pearl hairpin set off the oval face with a little baby fat, making it look charming and charming.

"Don't mess around, I don't see any guests!" Su Minggang shouted lightly.

The girl looked back, couldn't help sticking out her tongue playfully, then hid behind Su Minggang with her mouth shut.

"Heroes, are you kidding me?" After Su Minggang signaled the girl to go out with his eyes, he clasped his fists and said humbly, "There is nothing wrong with seeking craftsmen. But you also know that the land of Nanyang is thousands of miles away from Ming Dynasty, and craftsmen and artists can find it." , it’s really not easy, local workshops, if they lose their artists, how can they survive.”

"So, it's not that I don't want to help you, but I dare not take the foundation of other people's workshops rashly! Everyone, if you really want to seek craftsmen, why don't you go to Daming?"

"It's not impossible to recruit craftsmen and artists from Daming," Cao Xiong said, "I thought, if we can find craftsmen nearby, it will save more time and energy....Since this is the case, I will think about craftsmen and artists Ways. Today, I really disturbed Mr. Su. . . . Just accept the small gift. No way, we will come to you for other difficult things in the future. "

After sending Cao Xiong and his party away, Su Minggang sat quietly in the room, thinking about the meeting just now, whether there was any inappropriate or offensive words.In a place like Batavia, where the East and the West meet, and where various characters and forces gather, you have to be cautious in your words and deeds. This is also the unique feature of Su Minggang who can become a Chinese leader.

"Grandpa, who are they?" The agile girl walked gently to Su Minggang.

"They are pirates." Su Minggang looked dotingly at his beloved granddaughter.

"Pirate? I don't think so!...Hehe, that little monk looks like a fool."

Su Minggang smiled, "If you make such a fuss again, I'll marry you to a pirate and spend every day at sea."

"How wonderful that is! Seeing the wind and watching the waves, how free!"

"Okay, in another year, when you turn sixteen, I will marry you!"

"Hee hee... Grandpa, I can't wait!"

"...this child!"

"Dalu, Dalu!...You idiot, why are you so stupid?" After leaving the Su residence, everyone was going to visit the workshops in the city.Cao Xiong, however, saw Qi Dalu's distraught look, he called twice, but when there was no movement, he kicked him.

"Ah..." Qi Dalu just woke up, "Uncle, what's the matter?"

"What do you think?"

"I...I didn't think about anything..." As he spoke, Qi Dalu blushed.That girl is so pretty, if I can marry her as a wife, I would be willing to die, so I thought in my heart.

(End of this chapter)