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Chapter 276 Business

When facing the troops that dared to fire at the Lushan, everyone still admired their courage. But they were just admired. A cross-fire shooting would knock out its turret - they couldn't see the gap in strength with their eyes open, which was not brave but stupid. There was no need to mind using force to educate such Lushan. Modern people know that peace is made.

Sure enough, after the battle, the people in the shore guards saw that the Lushan Guard did not make any further moves, but called for the treatment of servants to recruit soldiers and horses. They could no longer calm down and sent people to discuss that it was impossible to seek peace. The court could not pass this pass, and there was no record of seeking peace from the war against foreign tribes since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

Like the Tianjin Commander Yang Yi, who had a little tumbling on the big iron ship, had a little tumbling on his calves in front of him, the idea was that if he could get it away with some benefits, this trick was generally called a ban, and it was also a trick that was often used in the local area to deal with bandits and rebels.

The Lushan was also very happy that an official figure finally came out. Most of the Lushan can sell military supplies and luxury glass mirrors, so I simply opened my mind to him. Because this person was a military position, he was the military commander Zhang Tiejun on the ship. The people on the Lushan were not thinking that the emperor was nobler than him. This is also an ideological feature of his origin in a republic.

Zhang Tiejun said to this envoy: "Okay, okay, just be there. Hahahaha."

Tianjin Guard Commander Yang Yi said bravely: "This place is the place of the court, and all the world is the king's land. What are you trying to recruit soldiers and horses here? Why don't you disperse early before the court's army will come."

"Is the king's land under the world? Hahaha, that's not the case at all." Zhang Tiejun, a modern man, waved his hand and said, "This sea belongs to everyone, just like fish and birds come, we come too. But you should be glad that we came with the purpose of friendship and peace, otherwise we would have all sanks when we came."

"You, you..." Yang Yi was so angry that he couldn't speak.

"I'm, I'm the world with big fists and loud voices. You've tried it. There's nothing we can do with our big iron ship, right? Then what else can I say?" Zhang Tiejun said as he asked someone to take the newly made rifle of the Lushan. "You are also a soldier. Do you see what are the characteristics of this gun?"

"It's just a little more sophisticated." Yang Yi still had some understanding of firearms, not only Yang Yi. At this time, due to the invasion of the Later Jin and the Mongols, the court needed new firearms with great power. In recent years, the whole country launched a movement to develop firearms - from the elders to the peddlers to the peddlers and pawns to study firearms in the hope of being noticed by the court and becoming famous in one fell swoop. With the highest craftsmanship mastered by the court, it is equivalent to the front-mounted rifle rifle in the 17th century, and it still has the ability to break armor at 150 meters - a rifle of this level was never built before the Westernization Movement.

"Fire a shot and show this adult." Zhang Tiejun finished speaking. The crew of the Guns Fans Association took out the paper case and loaded the ammunition and bit it. After opening the gun, it reloaded the ammunition. After locking it, it aimed and fired with a "bang". A tree trunk two hundred meters above the shore here was blown by bullets. After the first shot, the man immediately opened the gun body, cleaned the residue in the gun chamber and loaded the bullets again. He fired four shots in a minute, and all hit the same big tree. This was because the gunmaker was not a skilled musketeer, otherwise firing five or six guns in one minute could be achieved.

After this person finished fighting, Zhang Tiejun looked at the commander: "How about it, Milu guns can't compare."

The commander with a bad expression shook his head: "Indeed, the speed, range and power of the Milu gun cannot match."

"If you want to buy a rifle like this, it's not expensive. So we came with kindness." Zhang Tiejun said and patted the official rifle on his body: "The gun on my body is the highest level of technology in my country. It can fire nine guns in a row, and the range is even longer and its power is even greater. Five hundred taels of silver per piece, which is already sold at a cheap price. The Japanese people sell at a price of 1,000 taels of silver. But you can't make the bullets of this gun. We sell one tael of silver once every time. Don't think it's expensive. We sell half tael of gold at a time."

Yang Yi said angrily before he knew the gun: "You actually had an affair with Japanese pirates..."

Zhang Tiejun laughed and said, "I said that this world belongs to everyone. Since we came to Tianjin, Japan cannot go to Japan. As long as we are willing to open the door to do business, we are all our customers."

Speaking of this, Zhang Tiejun pointed to the fort that was swept by machine guns and said, "Of course, if you don't want to do business but want to fight, we will also give him a war."

Commander Yang Yi lost his temper: "I hope to see the details."

Zhang Tiejun performed a target shooting with his official rifle on his body, and a tree trunk further down the shore was sucked.

The shocking effect this time has not disappeared. Someone came to hold a glass mirror. Zhang Tiejun said: "This is a glass mirror made in Australia, which is extremely precious. There are 5,000 taels of silver on one side."

Commander Yang Yi thought to himself that this time a large iron ship entered the port to harass and plunder countless military and civilians, and he would have to be caught and impeached by the censors - these grandsons were only capable of arguing with the Australians in his nest. Alas, who made him the commander of Tianjin Wei? But the guns and mirrors of these Australians are really good things, but the price is a little expensive. They will not bring money and things to their lives without death, as long as the position is still worth a lot of money.

The commander talked about the price for a while and found that the price was not reduced at all, so he had to pinch his nose and accept it. The commander Yang Yi spent his money to buy four sides of the glass mirror, and obtained ten formal rifles, one thousand bullets, and two hundred 1628 rifles. Among them, two hundred 1628 rifles were used to equip his servants.

After spending more than 30,000 taels of silver to buy so many things, commander Yang Yi also had another requirement, that is, the Lushan No. 1 can no longer call for recruiting soldiers, otherwise the military households in Tianjin garrison station would have to run away cleanly.

Lushan naturally agreed to the request of this big customer. However, so far, more than 100 Type 1628 rifles have been built, and they have to stay in Tianjin for two days before they can produce the number needed by commander Yang Yi. Lushan will of course not tell Yang Yi that the Lushan 1628 rifles are made now, but stay for a few more days in the name of replenishing grain and water. At the same time, Yang Yi has to ask someone to transport silver - the 37,000 taels of silver synthetic metric system is more than one ton.

After staying there for a few days, the Lushan Air accelerated the production of the Type 1628 rifle. At the same time, the Tianjin Guards who had two full meals were sent to quietly to win over the personnel. The Lushan Air just said that it was not using the loudspeaker to call for people, and it was still okay to send people. After Yang Yi knew about this, he turned a blind eye to it. It was nothing to pull some people away and rebel. Anyway, he wouldn't make a big deal in his own jurisdiction.

All new immigrants understand Chinese and cannot use Jinsanduo, one household can tell them how to use the bathroom, how to use the toilet, how to use the shower, and repeatedly emphasize the hygiene regulations for living on board - because the remaining shampoo soap in Lushan is not enough for their own people to use for a few years, so the ones sent to immigrants to clean their bodies and hair are laundry detergent.

Because the commander disturbed him in time, this time in Tianjin's temptation activity only brought more than 1,000 people, but it doesn't matter, the coastline from here to Guangzhou is still growing.

In May of the first year of Chongzhen, Yang Yi, commander of Tianjin Wei, presented the treasure mirrors sold by Australian maritime merchants on all sides. Australia fired nine consecutive quick guns and eight hundred bullets, twenty single quick guns in Australia, and fixed-load gunpowder technology (paper shell bullets). Of course, Yang Yi was not so stupid to say that he paid the bill - isn't this clearly corrupt? Instead, he pushed out his brother-in-law who was a grain merchant in Tianjin Wei, and Yang Yi only appeared as an introducer.

Chongzhen had just ascended the throne at this time, and only 9,000-year-old Wei Zhongxian was removed. He had not realized that Wei Zhongxian had eliminated, and the Donglin Party members in the court were shaking again. When Emperor Tianqi had just ascended the throne, the Donglin Party members in the court were the dominant ones in the court, cracking down on and persecuting political enemies and manipulating the government. Speaking of which, Wei Zhongxian was just a dog thrown out by Emperor Tianqi and slamming the Donglin Party members. At that time, the Donglin Party members in the court were all over the Donglin Party members. If Wei Zhongxian wanted to seize power, he would naturally suppress the Donglin Party members. In this way, the position of Emperor Tianqi became subtle.

It can even be said that although Chongzhen had the good habit of diligence and frugality, his grasp of the political situation and the hearts of the people, that is, the emperor's magic is far inferior to that of the carpenter Emperor Tianqi. In this regard, Emperor Wanli was even more open-minded. I, the emperor, didn't keep my word, I simply stopped going to court, you can go and play by yourself. It can even be said that if it weren't for the mineral tax and commercial tax collected by the emperors of the Wanli Tianqi dynasty, the internal and external troubles could only increase taxes on the farmers, the Chongzhen dynasty's treasury, which had no more than seventeen years.

Little did they know that the more taxes were raised, the more rebels of the peasants after bankruptcy. In the middle and late Chongzhen period, it was true that the world was rebellious. The theme of Zhang Juzheng's reform was to "pay food in one with officials and gentry." After Zhang Juzheng's death, the political severance of the people was eliminated, and the dross was taken away, and the essence was removed, and it became a new way for officials and gentry to exploit the people.

The Lushan Issue’s opinion on the Chongzhen Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty is to take a look first. If the firearms sold by Lushan Is not going to bring about changes, it will not be too late to wait until the Australian Republican Army becomes stronger - those local gentry will eventually be cleaned up by the peasant army, otherwise, facing this solidified social form, no matter how powerful the Lushan Issue is, it is powerless to do anything.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen obtained the Treasure Mirror Quick Gun, and ordered the Treasure Mirror to be made into a screen to distribute it to Empress Zhou and Concubine Yuan and Concubine Tian. The quick Gun was naturally handed over to the Shenji Camp to test the gun and then to the Beijing Camp for imitation. At this time, the Ming Dynasty was known as the great country of Shangbang, and everything was not good. Any industrial product could be imitated.

It was just that I was defeated in front of this Australian nine-company gun. The craftsmen were still very capable of imitating this gun. For example, the 1628 rifle itself did not have epoch-making high-tech. Flint and Fire Scythe were both things in the Ming Dynasty. The problem of installing rifles after the Ming Dynasty was just a locking mechanism. The craftsmen in Beijing took half a month to master the construction of the 1628 rifle - but the quality was not comparable to that of modern mechanical processing on the Lushan.

By exploring and imitating parts, these craftsmen actually made Australian fast guns that could be successfully fired. This is something that later generations of gunsmiths and level 4 and 6 fitters who repair guns can easily do as long as they have drawings or real objects as references, but the same bullet is not so easy to make - the chemical industry must reach a certain level to create a bullet base fire.

The Ming Dynasty craftsmen did not have steel-core lead-coated bullets, but they could imitate lead-made bullets. The shells could be made by hand. The launching medicine could be changed to black gunpowder, but the bottom fire was beyond the scope of the Ming Dynasty craftsmen's understanding - not only the Ming Dynasty craftsmen were separated by a sea of ​​craftsmen, but the craftsmen in Jiuzhou were also worried about this.

No matter how good it is, it is useless to hit one shot less. Moreover, because the firearms in the Ming Dynasty were quite high, although there was a high rate of Australian fast guns, the soldiers did not have the habit of aiming at the front line - those who have this habit were either bombed to death or blinded by the eyes.

These official rifles were later put on the shelves, but the Ming Dynasty did not lose their harvest. This Australian gun was not afraid of wind, frost, rain and snow. After several failed to imitate modern bullets, the craftsmen in the Beijing camp were asked to make every effort to replace the bird guns used by the Shenji camp.

After leaving Tianjin, the Lushan ship recruited some immigrants in Shandong and Zhejiang. After enough, it entered the waters of Guangzhou south. Here, the Lushan ship went directly to Macau. Hong Kong now has no decent dock and cannot dock at the Lushan ship. However, a ship as large as the Lushan ship cannot enter Baietan in Guangzhou. It is also powerless to use force to threaten the local Ming government.

When we arrived in Macau, the Lushan still could not dock, and there was no dock in this era that we could dock the 50,000-ton iron-clad ship. At this time, the Lushan took out the 1628-type quick gun, the official nine-shot rifle and the Australian treasure mirror to deceive Portuguese merchants. At the same time, the Lushan also had some demands, which was to buy iron tools, plow cattle and sheep. The largest iron plant in the Ming Dynasty was in Guangdong.

Although the Ming Dynasty's laws clearly stipulate that these iron tools and cattle cannot be exported, as long as there is profit, the goods will flow. As long as the profit is large enough, who will still care about that? After Lushan sold more than a dozen Australian treasure mirrors in Macau, it temporarily met the purchases of Portuguese merchants and Ming merchants here.

The iron oxen was waiting for many days before it gradually arrived. During this period, the people on the Lushan University studied the list of goods given by Portuguese merchants. Most of the spices were useless, but some did have some medicinal value to purchase part of them - including twenty boxes of opium. Although the Lushan University knew the harm of opium, no one had smoked opium at this time, and these opiums were all used for medicinal purposes.

In addition, Portuguese merchants bought thousands of Indian cotton cloth from India. When they saw that Lushan liked cloth, Ming Dynasty merchants transported thousands of cotton cloth and linen silk from Guangzhou, they ate them together. Although people from Lushan now have clothes to wear, they would have to buy cloth to make clothes from the 17th century in the future. Moreover, more than 8,000 immigrants on the ship also had to wear clothes. The southern part of Australia we were going to have distinct seasons, because the coastal winter was not particularly cold as that in Zhejiang.

I also bought a lot of porcelain plates and porcelain bowls in Guangzhou's specialty export porcelain. The stainless steel tableware on the Lushan No. 1 cannot be brought to the immigrants, otherwise what will be used for future immigrants? Similarly, I also bought a lot of export goods such as sugar and tea. Australia is now poor. According to the computer records of the Lushan No. 1 computer, the local indigenous tribes still lived in the Stone Age. Within one or two years, many things were imported.

Of course, curious people are also indispensable to ask about the location of Australia and how this large iron ship was built without sails. What Jin Sanduo can do for such confidential secrets is nonsense. For example, Australia's location is considered to be in Antarctica, which was excavated by Australians from ancient ruins. Nowadays, Australians can only use this large iron ship to sail, but they don't know the manufacturing method, nor can they be made - Jin Sanduo and others know that it will be the end of their lifetime to develop electrification, and this nuclear-powered battleship-level ship cannot be built in any case, including most electronic products. A nanochip technology is to know how to do it, but without a related industrial chain is useless - this is the same as the fact that the Ming Dynasty could not crack modern bullets.

The dilapidation of Macau did not bring any strange places to everyone. In the 1960s, Macau was not only more people than here, with more houses and cleaner streets, but also not much better. Because the Portuguese knew that this place would be returned to the government of the Republic of China sooner or later, they were too lazy to make great efforts to develop and build Macau. Compared with the travelers above Lushan, Macau was not as good as Kinmen and Xiamen. The most prosperous place at the estuary of the Pearl River was Zhuhai City, which was barely maintained by this place. As for opening a casino, the Republic of China could not help but do this. Instead, they stylisted the national lottery to open racetracks and other plans to crack down on private casinos and small casinos in the economy.

After leaving Macau, the Lushan City rushed westward to Vietnam - the ship was getting less and less food, and it was necessary to provide food for immigrants to Australia for several months, so it was necessary to go to Vietnam to buy rice. The Lushan City City was calculated in metric systems and required four taels of silver to buy 100 kilograms of white rice. The prices of grain in the Ming Dynasty were not cheap. The situation in different places was different. Generally speaking, two or three taels of silver to buy 100 kilograms of white rice or white flour. There were not many goods yet, so I could only buy in small quantities.

Because Vietnam can produce three seasons of rice a year, the price of rice has been very cheap since ancient times, but because transportation is not easy, there are not many pirates coming here to buy rice. When we arrived here, Lushan knew what the price of rice was very cheap. A hundred kilograms of rice with the same weight costs more than two taels of silver in Macau (a little more than one stone), and only half a tael of silver is required here.

Moreover, there is a strong demand for industrial products, iron and weapons here - Vietnam is now in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it is in war, so there are as many weapons as possible.
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