open sea

Chapter 698 Calculation
"They don't know how to cast iron cannons?"

Chen Mu was startled, and said, "Then what happened to the Bugarao Cannon Factory?"

"Bronze cannons, Franz machines, and hired Chinese craftsmen."

Fu Yuan took it for granted, and said to Chen Mu: "I think that the second master should believe in this Xiyi. If the Puyi society, Xiwang would buy it from others every year? And their affairs are very strange, the king is stingy enough, find someone else Buy a cannon and discuss it."

"Hey, it's all the same. If the emperor wants a bead, doesn't he have to take money from the inner treasury to buy it from the people?"

Chen Mu waved his hand and said: "You say that, this is really a big deal. Laoguan has done a great job in squeezing the Bujialuo Cannon Factory. This is amazing. It must be facilitated now! The light in your mouth, Does he know how much artillery and gunpowder Spain buys from the Netherlands every year?"

Frustration appeared on Fu Yuan's face, and he clapped his hands and said: "I don't know, I have thought about it, we know how many guns he buys a year, and we can roughly know how many ships and how much firepower he has, but Guangming is just a small captain. Just know some things that are spread in the country."

"As much artillery as he buys, he knows that his company doesn't have a single one. There are twelve splicing Francophones on board, and they can be used as land artillerymen when they are pulled out during war."

Chen Mu didn't speak, raised his hand to scrub the short beard that had been trimmed on the boat, and blinked at Fu Yuan.

Estimate the number of warships purchased by artillery and gunpowder?Fu Yuan has made progress!
He didn't think about it just now, he just wanted to know how much money this was a transaction.

Chen Mu didn't even want to know how many ships there were in Spain. After all, he didn't want to fight an all-out war with Spain for a while. As long as this can be done, there is no need to fight.

Seville's customs, coupled with the possible coinage right now, supplies a country's artillery exports, which still requires war?
Being a good person can get everything you want.

Chen Mu only knew one thing. In this way, besides the excuse of fishing, he had another excuse to ask for Peru and Chile.

What he wants is for the entire coastline north of Mexico to extend inland for a thousand miles. Of course, he will never spit out the existing land in Majiagang, and extending inward for a thousand miles is just the bottom line.

In addition to the north, there is also the coastline in southern Asia, which extends to the Potosi silver mine in Bolivia-that is the lifeblood of Spain, and it is absolutely impossible to obtain it without relying on war.

Even in comparison, if Chen Mu can get the entire coastline west of the Potosi Silver Mine, it doesn't matter if Chen Mu gives up part of the northern coastline.

In Chen Mu's impression, what the northern coastline possesses is gold and Chinese fir. The others are not important, but the south is more important. That piece of land is buried with the only saltpeter mine in the world.

Saltpeter ore is more important to Daming than real gold and silver.

"Don't stay in Majia Port, so many people have no room to sleep, go out to work, bring your fleet, I will send you five more warships, and send this Guangming and his soldiers back. "

"Can't give it away, Marshal, Marshal Ma wants to use them to exchange Zheng Tu's subordinates at Zhuangyuan Bridge."

"Zheng Tu?"

Chen Mu felt like he was in a novel.

"Yanian people were named by him as Bull Demon King, Red Boy, Giant Spirit, and maybe Nezha and Li Jing. What's going on in the east, are they playing Water Margin again?"

"You don't need to change the captives, just ask for them. Tell them what happened. The Spanish army attacked our Ming people without permission, took away the Huangming flag, and broke the covenant without permission. Do you want to start a war? "

Chen Mu waved his hand and said, "Let the masons make a boundary marker for you. If they say they don't want it, you can take that piece of land back to me. After crossing the Zhuangyuan Bridge, drive people another two thousand miles to the south, and put the boundary marker there. The light went straight to Mexico City and delivered my letter to their governor."

Fu Yuan, who was sitting by the fireplace warming up with his hands in the air, turned his head and blinked his eyes, staring blankly at Chen Mu who lowered his head and began to write a letter. After a long while, he said: "No, Second Master, I will only fight for three points and five hundred materials." Ship, you just give me five more ships, only eight or nine hundred soldiers in total, so let me declare war?"

"If they don't give in, the humble job will fall into the fire pit!"

Fu Yuan stood up and said, "We're not afraid of war. You give the storyteller an order, and the humble official will fight all the way to Mexico for you. There's no way to deal with it. This, this, this can't be done!"

"Who told you to declare war?"

Chen Mu put the pen aside, looked at Fu Yuan, sighed with a smile, and said, "Think about it, Zhuangyuan Bridge said it was our land, and Zheng Tu said it was our people, but what about others? Of course not."

"Speaking of which, isn't the reason untenable? But fortunately, it's not from Spain. It's from Zheng Tu. They didn't understand it. They didn't understand it anyway. If our voice is louder, why not? ?”

"First of all, they dare not declare war. We have [-] troops in Majiagang, and we have all the logistics and supplies. What about them? From Mexico to the south, there are typhoons every year. They don't have many fleets here, and there are not many troops. He is still jealous of us."

"Think about who among them wants to fight? Is it the king, the nobles, the governor, the merchants, the legion commander, or the soldiers? The soldiers definitely don't want to. They are afraid of us. They are the ones who fight and die, and do they want to?" It doesn't matter either."

"The merchants don't think that Ming's merchant ships can give them enough benefits; the nobles think about it and don't think about it, and it has nothing to do with it in Spain; the governor may think about it and don't think about it. As for King Philip, they are still at war with the Netherlands. It's more important than that."

"The legion commanders definitely think that if the general wants to make great achievements in the world, defeating the Ming Fleet is undoubtedly important to their personal prestige in the battle since Lin Lai, but it's useless for them to think about it."

"Even if you are angry now, if you really want to fight, it will be delayed until next year or even the year after, but as long as we can provide Philip with artillery to support their war with the Netherlands, first of all, the governor will not want to fight. How big is it? Credit? Philip won't want to declare war with us for a while."

"So in my analysis, you can bluff this time, and you won't start a war."

Chen Mu spread his hands on the table as he spoke, and added: "Of course, the most important thing is that we have the confidence to go to war."

"Five fleets are enough to sink all Spanish merchant ships and warships on the west coast of Asia before June next year, and plow all the strongholds with shells. By June next year, there will be another five fleets to transport the first guard of Beiyang Phase II to Majia. port."

"The Eastern Military Mansion can do nothing for two full years, and the West Coast does not do any business at all, just to destroy their business, even Mexico City was demolished by him."

"Our luggage can last, and 200 troops have been left in the past two years without doing business. Even if the warships and artillery are all sunk, the new ones built next year will only be [-] million taels. Chen can hold it, Daming The materials can support it, and the finances of the Westerners are like gold and silver leaks, can they do it?"

"For such a big country, it's definitely okay to bite the bullet. I will settle this account, and they will also calculate it. After the calculation, they may not be willing to pay such a price and fight a war that is meaningless to them."

After finishing speaking, Chen Mu lowered his head and finished writing the letter, raised his hand and handed it to Fu Yuan, saying: "So Fu Guerrilla, take your fleet to show off your prestige, and put the boundary marker two thousand miles south of Zhuangyuan Bridge for me."

After some analysis by Chen Mu, Fu Yuan made the calculations in his mind, as if it was really meaningless to fight Chen Mu for a little land, and being rich could indeed do whatever he wanted.

"and many more!"

Fu Yuan was about to leave, but when he turned around, he was stopped by Chen Mu, and turned back quickly, and heard Chen Mu say: "I will see my brother at the shore, remember to pick him up."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)