However, another group of people think that we had better watch the fire from the other side of the river to see the excitement, you must know that we are here to do business, not to do things, and now the prime minister is also our business partner, and the price of Australian goods is also very good, not to mention that we usually have to purchase materials in Holo Port, supplement supplies, and people are slowly releasing Han tenant slaves, this state is actually quite good.

So, it doesn't matter if he kills a horse or a horse kills a cow, anyway, no matter who is in power, he has to provide me with supplies and labor in Australia, so why should we offend people by wading through this troubled water?

Obviously, this faction is dominated by people from the Vegetable Garden Club, while those from the Royalist faction are dominated by people from the Fire Pond Club, and the two clubs are often at loggerheads on such issues.

As for the king's request to give an extra secret share of Australian goods, the two factions felt that it didn't matter, just give more and give more, pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, and when the time comes, the silver and goods will be two and scattered, and no one owes anyone, after all, this is also business, who will have trouble with the business of eating?

However, when it comes to the king's request for help in training the army and providing weapons, the people from the other side of the river who watch the fire feel very unreliable.

They think, not to mention how to provide, how to train, these things are simple to say, but extremely complicated to operate, now our 57-type rifles and 57-style hands are not enough for themselves, where do we have the strength to provide to others?

So, at the initial discussion meeting, on this point, the opinion of the people who watched the fire from the other side prevailed, however, there was one person's speech that turned the situation around, and this person was Zhu Beiguo, who was quite authoritative in the minds of everyone.

The great doctor of history just sat in the corner and said quietly before everyone voted:

"Everyone, don't forget, I heard Zheng Fu say that the Prime Minister has already united with the Spaniards......"

This sentence immediately changed the minds of many fire-watching factions on the other side, for a simple reason: Brother Zhu's words reminded people of the Spaniards' misdeeds - the massacre of Han Chinese.

Now the prime minister of the country of Sulu has actually united with the Spaniards?!

Well, with this reasonable deduction of the subsequent situation, it seems that this Sulu country is likely to become the sphere of influence of the Spaniards, which makes many people feel very uncomfortable and psychologically......

The main reason why people have a bad impression of the Spaniards is, of course, that the Chinese in Manila have been ruthlessly slaughtered by the Spaniards several times in history.

According to historical records, the most recent one seems to have happened in 1629, right?

Well, it's been almost thirty years now, and if the inertia of historical development still hasn't fundamentally changed, then in about four or five years, the Spaniards will again raise their butcher's knives against the Han Chinese in Manila......

However, at this time, the Fire Watching Sect on the other side reminded everyone that this was just a one-sided statement brought by Zheng Fu and needed to be verified.

However, the royalists retorted, where does this need to be verified? It's all lice on the bald head, is it obvious? And historically, the Spaniards eventually turned the country of Sulu into their vassal, and eventually became part of the Philippines.

When the two sides argued, Boss Luo on the other side of the Red Mansion suddenly sent a long telegram on behalf of the mechanical group, and Boss Luo said that it was actually okay to sell weapons to Sulu.

Obviously, Boss Luo knew that this suggestion would definitely cause great controversy, so he detailed the relevant circumstances and reasons in the following message.

Boss Luo said that recently, the production of reinforced black ** fixed ammunition in the chemical group has been on the right track, therefore, in addition to the trial production of the 57 rifle a while ago, the machinery factory also carried out several trial production plans for handcuffs according to the strong requirements of the Huotang Club, one of which is to transform the arquebus into a flintlock handcuff with rifling after it.

To this end, the mechanical unit modified a European arquebus purchased from Macao, and based on the successful experience of the Type 57 rifle, a arquebus was transformed into a rifled flintlock pistol.

However, the results of the transformation are not so satisfactory, the main reason is that this handcuff is much heavier, although it is a handcuff, but if you want to shoot steadily, you must hold it with both hands, otherwise, the recoil will make the muzzle of the gun rise, and the bullet will shoot directly at the moon......

Moreover, the effective lethal range of this gun is less than 100 meters, of which the precision killing distance is less than 60 meters, that is to say, compared with the handcuffs of this era, in addition to the two highlights of loading much faster than the arquebus and improving the accuracy of shooting at close range, it does not seem to have such a great advantage, so after the trial production of a sample gun, this handcuff was finally given up in the fierce complaints of the people in the fire pond club.

However, the unwilling Boss Luo suggested in the telegram, how about we make a hundred and ten of these guns and sell them to the king of Sulu to test the waters?

After receiving this telegram, everyone naturally had different opinions, and the focus of everyone's attention was on whether this weapon posed a threat to us.

People who agree with the sale of weapons believe that in this era, arquebuses have long been popularized, although the handguns they transformed by Boss Luo are fast to reload and the accuracy has also improved, but the effective range is about the same as the ordinary arquebuses of this era, so it should not pose much of a threat to us, and it can be sold as a commodity, and the accuracy and reloading speed of our gun are two very attractive selling points, obviously, with these two points, it should be able to sell at a high price.

And Boss Luo also said in the telegram, anyway, our own army will definitely not use this kind of modified weapons, the mechanical group has now opened a lot of processing equipment, in addition to seizing the time to manufacture the second generation of machine tools, they are based on the Colt python as a blueprint, hurry up the trial production of another ****, because of the limitations of the paper shell fixed ammunition, this is a six-round loaded manual revolver, has been out of a sample gun, the preliminary test effective killing range of more than 100 meters, the accuracy is slightly inferior to the 57 rifle, at a distance of thirty meters, it is almost a hundred shots, and the hit rate above this distance is also very high, in short, the performance is several streets away from the handcuffs of this era.

Regarding King Wenhara's request for help, the attitude of the Red Mansion is basically the same: Anyway, for us, it doesn't pay much, it's just to provide a little more goods, as for providing weapons and even helping him train the army, this is of course okay, and it's not free.

As for how to train, where to train, and so on, it's a difficult question, but it's a matter for the king to worry about, and we don't care.

This is also said by some people worried, what if the matter is revealed and offends the prime minister?

Many people immediately rolled their eyes and responded: Cold salad! Love what's going on! Can he still eat us? If you really turn your face, you will come directly to Australia when the time comes! Or support one of his political enemies to make trouble for him, and when the time comes, does he still want to have a birthday for national security? It's not that you can't eat and walk around? I'm afraid of a yarn!

So, there is nothing wrong with us acceding to the king's request.