Chapter 317: The world is so big, I want to see it
As soon as he heard the words "New World", Yang Shaofeng suddenly came to his senses.
It doesn't matter if you pan for gold or not, it doesn't matter if you can let Daming have one more overseas enclave, Yang Shaofeng mainly wants to bring back the remnants of Yin Shang, so that these wanderers who have been wandering for thousands of years can come back to participate in the construction of Daming.
Although the new continent that Zhu Gaosui said is probably not the new continent he understands, what if?
I was thinking about how to solve Xia Yuanji's problem of picking the door, but I heard Gargamel's mouth say a lot of bald words, and then Jiang Xinlong began to translate: "Laifu's navigation diary recorded a new big island, which was full of flat stones, so he named it the land of flat stones, and then he arrived at another large island that was relatively gentle and had woods and white sand beaches, and he named it Tree Island, and then he sailed to an island with a mild climate and only frost in winter. Even the grass in winter is green, so he named it the natural grassland, which is Vinland, and further south is a new continent.
In addition, Rifle's nautical diary devotes a lot of space to the slaughter of walruses in Greenland and the sale of walrus teeth as ivory, as well as the sale of narwhal's teeth as unicorn horns.
In addition, Gargamel said that the damned French hens didn't want to believe him, otherwise the great France would not have been defeated by the barbarians of England, and that he would not have been able to go to sea in search of the New World. He said that it would not be worse to put the French army in command than it was now with a little girl who never bathed. β
As soon as he heard the French grass chicken, which obviously has some of today's Confucianism, Yang Shaofeng suddenly came to his senses, and when he heard the girls who never took a bath, Yang Shaofeng was even more energetic: "Is the little girl called Joan of Arc?" β
Gargamel said, "Yes, Joan of Arc was a wonderful, simple, pious girl, she followed the instructions of the Lord, she never bathed, she was generous to the poor, she even gave them her own bed to sleep on, while she slept on straw, and sometimes she gave dinner to the poor.
What's more, she once met with the Archangels St. Michael, St. Margaret, and St. Catalena to tell her to drive out the English and lead the crown prince to Reims for the coronation.
I think it's a thousand times better to put the French army in command than to give it to those sassy grass chickens. β
With Gargamel's confirmation, Yang Shaofeng's interest was even higher.
In the later super-large real-time online game "Earth Online", the almost naked rabbit completed the epic task "Colorful Flag" after completing the activation task "Bright Radiation", and finally completed the epic finale task "The Distance of the Sun" before successfully synthesizing the legendary item: the permanent seat of the United Nations Security Council.
This item is a good thing that any player dreams of having, because this item can guarantee any interests of the player, and can be vetoed, frantically sanctioned debuff blessings, and even banned for players who don't like the eyes.
In order to obtain this item, in addition to activating any "Radiant Radiation" and the final quest "The Distance of the Sun", mission 5 is the epic difficulty "The Eiffel Tower is Alive", which requires defeating the French army led by the "Woman Who Doesn't Bathe" and "Cripple" and occupying Paris before the French surrender, and completing the mission will automatically receive a reward: Nuclear Arsenal, the first half of the invitation to the permanent seat of the UN Security Council Γ1.
And the woman who does not take a bath is Joan of Arc.
Of course, Yang Shaofeng doesn't need to complete any epic tasks now, anyway, at this time, "Earth Online" has not yet opened the map of the world war, and there is only one real local tyrant player in the entire game who has all the god costumes, and the rest are some weak chickens.
But Yang Shaofeng was interested in the Europa aristocracy who did not take a bath and the ongoing Hundred Years' War between Britain and France.
The former means a huge market for lifestyle products, especially for perfumes.
For example, His Excellency St. Aburg insisted on not bathing, washing his face, or washing his feet for 50 years, and finally succeeded in canonization. The mother of King Henry IV of France insisted on not bathing for the rest of her life and was canonized as the Holy Lady Agnès.
Whether it's because you can avoid getting sick without bathing, or because you can be successfully canonized by insisting on not bathing, these messy reasons don't really matter, but the important thing is that the demand for perfume in Europe without bathing is absolutely huge.
The latter, the Hundred Years' War, which began in 1337 and lasted until 1453, meant a huge arms trade market, especially for the old equipment that the Ming would obsolete.
Especially now, the Duke of Bedford sent Thomas Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, to defeat the Franco-Scottish coalition besieging Clavan and then, the Duke of Bedford's command of the Anglo-Burgundian coalition army defeated the Franco-Scottish coalition army in the Battle of Verneil, and the Scottish nobles such as the Earl of Bakken and the Earl of Douglas were killed on the battlefield, and the Scottish reinforcements were all wiped out.
In other words, the situation of the entire battlefield has changed from the initial superiority of the French army to the superiority of the British army, and the French army will face the next battle of Orleans, and the entire French army will fall into a serious disadvantageous state.
If nothing else, the Dauphin of France will have no choice but to confer the title of "Commander-in-Chief of War" on Joan of Arc, who is fully armored, with a sword hanging from her waist and holding a large banner, will lead 3,000-4,000 men to attack the weak link of the British siege, and after two days of "fierce fighting", the siege of Orleans will be successfully lifted.
A year later, the French feudal lords would sell Joan of Arc to the English for 40,000 francs, and then watch as Joan of Arc, who was not yet 20 years old, was burned alive under the city of Rouen and his ashes thrown into the Seine.
Of course, Yang Shaofeng didn't care about what kind of treatment Joan of Arc would get, and he didn't care about the coveted medieval ladies either.
Yang Shaofeng is more concerned about the huge arms market in Europe, because it is not only Britain and France that are in chaos, but the whole of Europa, today you fight me, tomorrow I will fight you, no one does not need arms.
After pondering for a long time, Yang Shaofeng suddenly said to Zhu Gaosui: "Third uncle, if you want to find a new continent, naturally there is no problem, but it costs a lot of money to find a new continent, isn't it?" β
Zhu Gaosui said: "Isn't this? Who doesn't know that going to sea costs money? β
Seeing that Zhu Gaosui hadn't reacted yet, Zhu Zhanji suddenly said: "Third Uncle still doesn't understand, this Yang Crazy must have found a place to make money, plus the person named Gargamel just now mentioned that the French and English barbarians are fighting, he must want to sell weapons." β
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Zhu Gaosui squinted his eyes and said: "A group of barbarians are fighting each other, shouldn't my father order the emperor to pay honest tribute after they stop?" Still selling ordnance? β
Yang Shaofeng asked rhetorically: "Why don't you sell it?" If you don't sell ordnance while they are fighting each other now, you won't have this shop in the future after this village. β
Zhu Gaosui still shook his head: "I just want to find the New World." As for the armament, you ask someone else to sell it, I don't have much interest in the barbarians fighting each other. β
Seeing that Zhu Gaosui was not interested in making money from the barbarians, but looked like he wanted to start the Age of Discovery, Yang Shaofeng simply said to Jiang Xinlong: "You ask this barbarian to see if he is willing to go to Europa to resell perfume and ordnance." β
Zhu Gaosui suddenly said urgently: "What are you doing?" This brute is going to follow me to the New World! β
Gargamel, however, was overjoyed: "Of course, of course I'm willing to resell the ordnance."
In fact, France was now at war with the barbaric English poor, and it was at a time when large quantities of ordnance, especially artillery and muskets, were in demand.
As for the perfume, I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know how it compares to rose water? β
After finishing speaking, Gargamel took out a small glass bottle from his arms and handed it to Jiang Xinlong, signaling Jiang Xinlong to hand it to Yang Shaofeng: "This is the best rose water in France right now." β
As soon as Yang Shaofeng saw the glass bottle, his face couldn't help but darkenβisn't this his own perfume......
Gargamel said with a smug face: "This bottle of rose water can be exchanged for enough bread or other food for three people to eat for five or six years, and I also got such a bottle by chance." β
Zhu Zhanji took the glass bottle from Yang Shaofeng's hand, turned the bottle and looked at the bottom of the bottle, and said suspiciously: "Seventeen years of Yongle?" I remember that only in the sixteenth year of Yongle, when we were still in the border city, you asked Gonggong Zheng to bring a batch to the sea, how could the perfume produced in Yongle in the seventeenth year go overseas? β
Yang Shaofeng's face suddenly became even more ugly: "Three people have eaten food for five or six years, compared with one or two silver and a bottle of perfume, which one is more valuable?" As long as you are brave enough to sell the perfume overseas to the barbarians, and when you come back, you can still sell the goods from overseas, how much silver can you make here? β
Taking a deep breath, Yang Shaofeng said to Jiang Xinlong again: "Tell him that this thing is perfume, and the price in Daming is about equivalent to fifty chickens, or dozens of catties of pork, and ask him if he is willing to resell it."
There are also ordnance, the standard muskets and artillery of the Ming army, if they are sold to the French army, can the French win against the English. β
After listening to Jiang Xinlong's translation, Gargamel suddenly became happy: "Of course I do." Perfume is priceless in Europa, as long as you have a bottle of perfume in your hand, you can have countless lovers.
As for the standard muskets and artillery of the Ming army, as long as they are similar to those used by the Ming Invincible Armada, it is enough to increase the combat effectiveness of the French grass chicken army by half, and it will definitely drive the barbaric English back to the sea. β
Only then did Yang Shaofeng set his eyes on Zhu Gaosui: "What does the third uncle think?" β
Zhu Gaosui said: "I don't think much of it, I'm not interested in these, I am only interested in going to sea to find the New World now." After all, the world is so big, I want to see it. β