The next morning, Li Mingyuan was sleeping in the room that originally belonged to Bohar, when he was suddenly woken up by a shout.

"Shizi, a large fleet of ships has come to the sea." A newly assigned guard to Levine shouted.

"I know," Li Mingyuan sat up from the bed with a spirit, put on his coat and walked quickly towards the sea.

"Let's put the guns away first, and I'll talk to them." As soon as Li Mingyuan arrived at the beach, he saw a group of Prussian soldiers coming down from the fleet, confronting the Taiping army, and hurriedly stopped him.

"Shizi, it's too dangerous for you to go alone." Chen Guozhu objected loudly.

Li Mingyuan smiled bitterly in his heart, he didn't want to negotiate with the Prussians, but most of his subordinates didn't even know a few Chinese characters, how could they let them communicate with the Prussians.

"It's okay, they want saltpeter, as long as you hold the mine, they won't do anything to me." Li Mingyuan comforted everyone.

"Son, isn't Antony a Prussian? Don't go, let me take him to negotiate with the foreigners. Liu Pu thought that there was a Prussian among the captives, and spoke.

"I almost forgot about Anthony." Li Mingyuan patted his head and said. When I was a mercenary, I was used to being in danger, but now my identity is different, and Li Mingyuan's safety is related to the life and death of hundreds of thousands of Chinese in South America, and he can't take risks easily.

"Brother Liu Pu is right, I didn't think it through. Just trouble Brother Liu Pu to negotiate with the foreigners on my behalf, Dashan, you take the two brothers to protect Liu Pu's safety, and don't let Anthony be careful. Li Mingyuan honestly admitted that he had not considered it comprehensively enough, and arranged for people to go with Liu Pu.

Liu Pu took Anthony on board to negotiate with the Prussians, while Li Mingyuan led his soldiers to guard the seashore tightly to prevent the foreigners from making bad moves.

Half an hour later, Liu Pu and Wang Dashan walked off the boat safely, with a missionary by their side.

"Son, the Prussians have basically agreed to make a deal with us, but you need to discuss the details with Missionary Paul." Liu Pu walked up to Li Mingyuan and said,

"Hello, Captain Senior, on behalf of Colonel West, I will discuss the details of the transaction with you." Pastor said.

"Thank you for your kind cooperation." Li Mingyuan said in words.

"Sir, you speak German?"

"Of course, I learned it when I was a kid with a German missionary." Li Mingyuan casually made an excuse.

Because Li Mingyuan knew German, the next negotiations went well, and Li Mingyuan signed a contract with the missionaries, and began to unload the weapons on the ship and the saltpeter from the mine under the supervision of soldiers from both sides.

"Please tell Colonel West that we are just a group of kind Chinese laborers who pursue freedom, not cruel thugs, and we sincerely hope to find a piece of land that belongs to the Chinese, and hope that when we have a foothold in the land, we can still cooperate with the colonel." Seeing that the soldiers were unloading their weapons, and the Prussians did not play tricks, Li Mingyuan spoke to the missionaries.

"Of course, may God wish you all the best of luck." The missionary drew a cross on his chest and said. The missionary said this, but in fact, he did not take Li Mingyuan's words to heart, his task was only to help complete the transaction, and as for the future, it was not for him to worry about it.

Li Mingyuan took out all the saltpeter and silver dollars to trade with the Prussians, and swept away most of the arms hoarded by the Prussians.

The Prussians are not stupid either, they sold you all the arms, what to do if the fleet encounters pirates at sea.

Sending off the Prussian fleet, Li Mingyuan began to calculate the materials for this transaction.

There were a total of 2,000 muskets with 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 10 machine guns with 10,000 rounds of ammunition, and relatively rare cannons, and Li Mingyuan also bought three.

There are more weapons than Li Mingyuan expected, after arming the current 1,500 people, there will be a large surplus of muskets, looking at the mountains of weapons in front of him, Li Mingyuan laughed happily, with so many weapons, plus the Taiping army under his command, it will not be much difficulty to rescue the other Chinese miners.

"Uncle Chen, Uncle Li, Uncle Zhang, you take the muskets of the musket battalion down first."

"Yes, son," the three replied, eager to arrange for their soldiers to unload the weapons belonging to their respective battalions.

"Liu Pu, you transport the surplus weapons to the warehouse,"

"Yes," Liu Pu finished speaking, and took a few soldiers to manage the muskets to prevent the other soldiers from taking it.

Ten muskets and three cannons Li Mingyuan was not assigned to the three musket battalions, machine guns and artillery are now weapons of the strategic level, and Li Mingyuan's treasure is incredible. He intends to set up a machine gun platoon and an artillery platoon respectively, which are directly subordinate to the command of the regimental headquarters, the establishment of the machine gun platoon is larger than the establishment of ordinary musketeers, three machine guns form a machine gun squad, each machine gun has a main shooter, two secondary shooters, plus a loader, a total of four people are needed, ten machine guns in addition to forty combatants, but also equipped with a squad of security personnel, a total of sixty people, almost two platoons of ordinary troops, the commander of the machine gun platoon and the commander of the musket company are at the same level, Feng Erhu, who was born in Li Mingyuan's guards, served as the platoon commander, and the machine gun platoon was trained separately from other units in peacetime, and Li Mingyuan was equipped with troops to fight during combat.

The Taiping army is no stranger to artillery, the king has been fighting in the Jiangnan region for more than ten years, often fighting with foreigners, and there are many people in the army who use muskets and cannons.

Li Mingyuan knew that Luo Zhongguo, a veteran of the Taiping Army, nicknamed Luo Cannon, was very good at manipulating artillery, and it was just right for him to be an artillery platoon commander.

After the soldiers of the three musket battalions received their respective weapons, Li Mingyuan asked someone to find Luo Zhongguo.

"Cannon, can you handle this cannon well?" In the warehouse, Li Mingyuan pointed to three brand-new cannons.

Luo Dacang's eyes immediately lit up, and he stroked the cannon body with both hands, as if he saw a beautiful woman.

"Shizi, this is a Prussian six-pounder gun, the shell weighs five catties, and the cannon weighs 1,400 catties." Luo cannon is like a treasure.

"Very good, artillery, I plan to make you the commander of the artillery platoon, do you have the confidence to do it?"

Luo Cannon hadn't touched a cannon for three years, and Li Mingyuan was very satisfied to see that the newly produced cannon could quickly tell the performance of the cannon.

"Don't worry, give the cannon to Lao Luo, and promise to fight that."

"Very good, these three cannons are yours, pick some brothers who know artillery, and after dinner, go and rescue the other brothers."

"Yes," Luo Cannon saluted a Taiping Army salute crookedly, and trotted out.

Li Mingyuan traded with the Prussians not only to buy arms, but also to buy some meat, tonight to attack other mining areas, Li Mingyuan is going to let the Taiping soldiers eat a big meal, eat well, the soldiers will also have the strength to fight at night.