open sea

Chapter 695 News
Ma Gui let go of several Spanish soldiers and boarded a small boat, because he found that it was impossible to cross the long coastline and return to Zhuangyuan Bridge by letting only one soldier go.

After all, it was tens of thousands of miles away, so a sailboat was needed, and it could carry enough food for a month without letting him freeze to death... This matter was so troublesome that Ma Gui didn't want to bother him.

But the newly recruited little brother, Guanxi, can't just be beaten to death by Lu Tixia with three punches. Not only the enslaved clansmen who are still alive have to come back, but also the dead have to be compensated by the Spaniards. The key is that Huang Ming Flag, you have to come back.

Even the matter of the Huangming flag that was taken away cannot pass silently.

Before the man was released, two more convoys arrived at Majia Port safely. In the seven days after the man was released, the goods unloaded from the supply ship almost occupied the coast, and they could not be moved.

The weather was not good, the snowflakes as big as fingernails had not stopped for half a month, and the four trestles built urgently were not enough, and the goods still had to be rowed to the shore by small boats to be stacked.

There are too many ships. Each fleet of these baggage ships has more than five 12-material sea-going ships, and the [-]-material sea-going ships have a load of more than [-] catties. These fleets set sail from Dagu, Tianjin every other day, and arrive here. The sides are also piled together.

In fact, the full load of four hundred sea-going ships weighs around 17 to [-] jins, but no one dares to carry such a heavy load on sea voyages, especially on such sea routes that merchants have never traveled.

The cargo was better. The two-month-long voyage allowed them to bring no perishable things in the luggage preparations, but the huge number of livestock still made everyone in Majiagang feel happy and worried.

The happy thing is that they have horses to ride, the chickens to feed, the sheep to herd, and the cows to help with the work. The worry is that these livestock may not survive this winter.

All kinds of animals are running around. Even if [-]% of the animals brought in have died while floating in the sea, the number is still too large for Majiagang to bear.

Needless to say, none of the crew members of these merchants were sad when the six animals died. When they docked in the port, they were all full of food. Jun put it on, and said with a smile that they made it on the road.

There’s no way, it’s okay to eat it, anyway, the frozen livestock will go bad if they don’t eat it for more than a month, but these leathers and feathers are military resources, they can wear them on the road to keep warm, but they can’t take them away.

Problems hit Majiagang one after another. First, there were not enough horse pens and chicken coops for raising livestock, and then there was not enough houses to accommodate so many people.

All the barracks, including Magui and Majin's houses, and the hunting houses in the woodland were all converted into bunks, and the largest house even accommodated a dozen people, but even so, it was not enough.

The helpless sailors and merchants never imagined that even if they arrived at Majia Port, they would still have to spend their days on the swaying boat.

Fortunately, they still had enough bricks and wood, and barracks made of bricks and wood with fireplaces were quickly built-the fireplaces came from the complaints of Spanish soldiers.

The ancient Qin Dynasty also had fireplaces, because it could effectively improve the disadvantages of braziers and fire pits for heating, but later there were fire walls, and there were no more fireplaces.

Because the fire wall is more practical, although it takes a little more effort to build a house, it can be connected to the outdoor stove without wasting charcoal.

But now they have no shortage of wood for fire, building a fireplace is cheaper than building a fire wall, and they have a lot of houses to build, and hearing Fu Yuan say that Chen Mu's head is getting bigger.

The entire Majia Port is in full swing, and no one is idle for those who burn bricks and tiles, and those who build houses, even the Spaniards are called out to work.

The biggest emotion of these foreign visitors is that Ma Gui sent the person who had previously delivered the news away too early.

At that time, there were only more than 30 large ships in Majia Port, but only four ships were equipped with artillery. It seemed nothing shocking. After all, in the inherent impression of the Spaniards, they knew that the Ming Empire was a distant country.

But when the Spanish soldiers who delivered the news left Majia Port, they realized that the transportation of materials by the Ming army had just begun. In just a few days, the number of Ming Dynasty sea ships pouring into Majia Port quickly exceeded [-], and continued to flow at a rate of two every three days. The speed of more than ten is increasing.

Moreover, they heard that the Ming general named Fu Yuan said to them in a proud and somewhat complaining tone that they seemed to have lost their fleet, and they had no way of knowing how many ships the Ming Empire dispatched to deliver supplies.

Countless, these ships over [-] tons have covered the sea surface, and the sea ships ready to unload seem to be lined up as far as the eye can see, even if they work hard every day, there is still no end in sight.

Gunpowder alone, hundreds of catties of wooden barrels, more than one hundred barrels were carried by them alone, and there were even more saltpeter and sulfur.

Fu Yuan and Ma Gui were completely defenseless against these Spanish soldiers, because they found that even if their weapons were returned to them, they would not run away. The Ming army wants to drink, this is a bunch of free labor.

Moreover, their attitude is correct, they don't regard themselves as captives, so naturally there is no escape... Who would escape from the camp of their own allies?

Don't even dare to do bad things, just be good.

In his spare time, the Spanish captain on that ship offered Fu Yuan the remaining tobacco on his body, pulled him and asked in a low voice: "General Fu, will your country mint silver coins and cannons?"

This captain is already familiar with Fu Yuan, his name is Lucas, but Fu Yuan prefers free translation rather than transliteration, because his surname is Tyre, so Fu Yuan named this five-year-old, bearded and North African-born Spanish captain It's called Intuit Bright.

Tuo Guangming's question made Fu Yuan full of surprises. Seeing the face of the well-preserved bag of tobacco, Fu Yuan rubbed his hands and said, "Speak up if you have something to say."

"In my country, there is a place called the Netherlands, where half of Spain's income comes from, and only merchants there can forge iron cannons."

Fu Yuan lit his pipe, nodded slowly, thinking that this is a bit like a combination of Jiangnan and Guangdong, but he didn't think too much about it. Seeing Brother Guangming staring at his kerosene lighter, he reminded with a pipe in his mouth: " You go on."

"Oh, in the past, the royal family sent silver worth 80 to 120 million ducats to the Netherlands from the Viceroyalty of Peru to the Netherlands every year to roll silver coins, and the profit to the merchants was 15.00%."

Words like '80 ducats' and '15.00%' got into Fu Yuan's ears along the wind, and they were automatically converted in the process of reaching his brain. Half? This profit is too high."

"Conditionally, the Netherlands will provide Spain with cannons and gunpowder... But since the Netherlands rebelled ten years ago, the annual profit of rolling silver coins has increased to [-]%, but it still cannot supply enough cannons and gunpowder, and it is always being rebelled. The army took it away, and the troops in the south were equipped with crossbows again."

Fu Yuan blinked, he grasped the crux of the problem, and said, "Apart from Netherland, you have no place to make cannons?"

"Yes, we will. We can make splicing cannons, which is what you call the Franc machine, but we can't cast cannons, we can only cast bronze cannons like casting bells, but bronze cannons are too expensive; in the past, we could buy cannons from the Netherlands , and later bought it from Portugal, but then the cannon foundry in Macau was shut down by your general."

"In the whole world, only you can, oh no, the English could cast iron cannons 30 years ago; the Dutch and the English traded and also cast iron cannons, the Dutch merchants used gold coins to control Sweden, Sweden also cast iron cannons, we Iron guns can only be traded from your countries."

This is great news!

Fu Yuan could even hear his heart beating in his ears. He was ecstatic, and the aura of a chicken thief suddenly crawled onto his face, his tongue was pressed against his lips, showing his white teeth.

The atmosphere was suddenly Chen Mu, and Fu Yuan said: "And among these countries, only the Ming Empire is Spain's good brother?"

Brothers?
What do you say, who beat our invincible Legion to the ground years ago?

Tuo Guangming took a deep breath, nodded and said: "I saw that you have a lot of gunpowder, and I want to tell the governor after I go back, but I am worried that General Fu will think that I have leaked secrets, so..."

"Chen Shuai is coming soon, I will tell him the news first, I think you can do what you want."

Note: The first integrally cast iron cannon in Europe was born in England in the 16s. Spain had its first integrally cast iron cannon in 40. It had been relying on foreign countries or the Netherlands for supply.

As for Portugal, the idea is much simpler, they are directly looking for Chinese gunsmiths.Documented in the Monsoon Book of the National Archives of Lisbon.

However, Guangming said that only these countries would be wrong. The Khanates including Ming, Vietnam, and Mughals, as well as Ottomans, all had cast iron cannons.

　Good morning!Happy Labor Day, add another chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)