"Lord Shizi, I heard that the Dutch ship was loaded with a lot of munitions, and it is said that they were intended to be sold to us at first."

The autumn of the Xiaoice River period came very early and short, and before anyone could adapt to the autumn wind, the temperature became colder day by day, it was cold, not cold.

Shi Lei, who was wearing a round-necked shirt, rode on a horse, following behind the prince, a pair of eyes would occasionally cast into the distance, as if he was worried about whether there would be bandits with bad intentions around him, in fact, this is simply impossible, maybe the military horse farm seems desolate, but inside and outside the military horse farm are military households who are grateful to the prince!

If there are bandits, before they enter the horse farm, it is estimated that they will be taken down by the soldiers.

"Oh? Those Dutch people actually want to be arms dealers, they still use arquebuses, and they are not as good as the flintlock pistols in the hands of the common people, who do they sell them to! ”

Zhu Guoqiang, who was also wearing a round-necked shirt, had a smug smile on his face.

Now the Ming army uses firing pistols, and the common people use flintlock pistols, the former is more reliable and accurate, while the latter is ...... It's cheaper to use.

The current Ming Dynasty is far ahead of all countries in the world. Now the flintlock pistols in Europe have only just been developed, and they are not yet widely equipped, but these Europeans have conquered half the world with arquebuses!

"I'm worried that they won't be able to sell it on our side, and whether they will sell it to others."

"Others, you mean Jiannu!"

As the words fell, a group of horses were seen galloping slowly on the grass.

Zhu Guoqiang smiled and diverted the topic, turned his head and said.

"Xu Anlin, how many new horses can our horse farm breed this year and next year?"

Xu Anlin, the director of the Ma Zheng Division, was originally a small official of the Taifu Temple, and the Taifu Temple was the place where the Ming Dynasty was specifically responsible for horse administration, and this yamen may not have done a good job in the Ming Dynasty's horse administration, but Xu Anlin did have a hand in raising horses, although he was a layman in horse breeding, but Zhu Guoqiang brought him textbooks such as "Horse Breeding", which had a complete system and rich content, and was absolutely a divine book in this era.

Even the current horse breeding of the Pingyu Army is to learn from the horse breeding knowledge in the book.

"Back to the world, our military horse farm has a total of 7,586 mares, and another 36,482 females are fostered in the homes of the military households of each guard, and at present, ninety percent of the mares have been pregnant with ponies, and at least 43,000 horses will be produced next year, and it is estimated that about 30,000 will be stallions,......"

Nodding, Zhu Guoqiang said to Xu Anlin again,

"Xu Anlin, you remember, if you want to breed a new horse, you can't mix the stallions, and the stallions must be castrated, whether it is a military horse farm or a civilian ......"

In this era, horse politics is very important, cavalry needs military horses, and artillery needs horses. Even the folk carriages also need to be lightly and heavily pulled. However, the inferior and short Mongolian horses have never been systematically and scientifically bred, and are neither suitable for cavalry riding nor for military and civilian use, so Mongolian horses must be improved.

Therefore, Zhu Guoqiang borrowed from the improved method of breeding Don hippopotamus in Russia, and crossed the Arab purebred stallion with the Mongolian mare to the fifth generation, and then crosscrossed and fixed its offspring to produce a new type of horse similar to the Don hippopotamus.

However, there are no Arabian horses in Liaodong now, and now the horses are bred with the "black technology" brought by Zhu Guoqiang from another world - Arabian horse frozen crystal, which is cheap and large. However, after Van Dimen and them came, Zhu Guoqiang had already sent an order to the Dutch to buy 300 Arabian horses from the Ottoman province of Baghdad.

At least for now, these Dutchmen are still useful to the Ming. After walking around the military horse farm for a long time, when the guards raised the charcoal fire to roast the sheep, Zhu Guoqiang motioned for Shi Lei to sit beside him, as if he remembered something, and said casually.

"Do you think Van Diemen will sell his weapons to Jiannu?"

"Lord Shizi, judging from the greed for money of those Westerners, they brought so many weapons here, they will definitely not bring them back, after leaving Dalian, they only need to turn a corner, they can go to North Korea, from where they can directly sell the firearms on the ship to Jiannu."

"Sishi, in your opinion, how should this matter be handled?"

After pondering for a moment, Shi Lei said.

"Lord Shizi, the Dutch have been loading cotton, silk and soap and other goods on the ships these days, and they seem to have loaded all the arms on two of the ships, so we might as well dispose of these two ships directly."

How to deal with the treatment in Shi Lei's mouth? It must have sunk those two ships, there was a way to do it. However, Zhu Guoqiang did not immediately agree, and after pondering for a while, he looked into the distance.

"Four stones, sooner or later we will break with the Dutch, four or five years sooner, seven or eight years slowly, it's better to grab some of their handles first, with these handles, we can throw them out when we break up, now that he sent the handles, you might as well save them first, wait a while, and when the time is ripe, then Xingshi will ask for guilt."

It is inevitable to break with the Dutch, maybe now the Ming needs this "sea coachman", but when the Ming Dynasty gains a foothold in the South Seas, it is the time to drive the Dutch out of the South Seas, Batavia...... It has been the territory of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times!

You must know that the princely states there used to be canonized by the Ming Dynasty, and even the Ming Dynasty still had a yamen like the Old Port Propaganda Division there, isn't this exactly the famous certificate of "since ancient times"? Now it's just a temporary stopgap measure.

"But if those weapons fall into the hands of Jiannu, they will definitely pose a threat to us!"

"Just some arquebuses."

After sneering, Zhu Guoqiang asked rhetorically.

"Sishi, guess what, have any Jiannu infiltrated our side to spy on ordnance secrets now?"

"This ......"

Shi Ziye's question made Shi Lei's brows furrowed, and he hurriedly said.

"Lord Shizi, the minister will go to investigate this matter!"

……

Every day, people fled to Dalian, and these people who were plundered by Jiannu from inside the pass to outside the pass did not know how many disasters they suffered along the way. Although it is necessary to screen these refugees, in fact, this kind of screening is only better than nothing, but it is just a casual question, after all, it is impossible for the Jurchen Jiannu to escape, and those who flee must be Han Chinese.

In fact, it is not that I did not consider that there may be spies among these refugees, but because these refugees were sent to Dalian to work, I am not worried that there are spies among them, at least not that the spies will open the city gate - because Dalian has no city walls.

And there is a real need for craftsmen and laborers there.

Cao Eryu also mixed into Dalian with these people, but here his name is Cao Xi, and he is a fugitive slave who escaped from Jiannu Zhuangzi.

For him, who is used to being a master, it is not easy to hide people's eyes and ears, after all, a slave is a slave, and a slave is not equal to a slave.

The slaves in the Zhuangzi are to be beaten, and the slaves are all red people in front of the master. In order to adapt to the change of identity, he even went to Zhuangzi to experience life for a while, and he was beaten a lot in those days, and he was not less angry. In the end, he also escaped from Zhuangzi.

"Only when you suffer hardship can you become a master."

This is the truth that his father told him, and later it is more important to show loyalty in front of the master, and the master sees all these hardships, as long as the master sees his hard work, he will definitely remember him, and he will be reused in the future.

When you think about it this way, the hardships you endure are worth it. But the problem now is that outsiders can't see these sins of suffering that he has recruited in the city of Dalian.

Outsiders can't see it, and the master can't see it.

"What kind of sin do you think I have suffered?"

For the first time, in the dead of night, Cao Eryu said to himself in his heart.

For him, who is used to being a slave, although he wants to do things well for his master in every possible way, he must let his master see his hard work when he does these errands.

But no matter how many sins and burdens he suffers in this place, he can't see it.

And for the master, he can't remember how tired you are, and the most important thing is whether you have done your errand.

But this errand is difficult!