Because he had seen the power of artillery before, Marin was not at all worried that Ismaili I would not accept artillery. Even if it was as stupid as the Qing Dynasty, after being beaten by the Europeans, it began to purchase foreign guns and cannons. For example, the Krupp cannon was introduced by Li Hongzhang personally when he went to Europe to inspect and introduce.

Many people don't know that when Zuo Zongtang recovered Western Xinjiang, the army was not a big sword and spear at all, but was mainly equipped with foreign guns and cannons. For example, the Spencer repeater used in the American Civil War has a lot of second-hand goods flowing into the Asian market. Some of them went to the Japanese market and participated in the famous "War of the Downfall". The other part flowed into Zuo Zongtang's Chu army, known as the "Seven Rings of Foreign Guns". There are also German-made rear-loading Krupp guns, and even, there are Gatling guns......

Therefore, not to mention that Aguba's Central Asian scimitar cavalry was beaten out, even Tsarist Russia was a little afraid and suspended the erosion of the western frontier. Why? Because at that time, Tsarist Russia was not equipped with those advanced breech-loading guns, Krupp guns and Gatling guns......

Ismaili I was not a fool, on the contrary, he was a genius commander. It's impossible not to be moved when you see such a powerful weapon. So, there was no problem at all in selling artillery to Persia.

Instead, the arquebus, the Persians had not yet fully understood its power. Because, before they had time to feel the power of the muskets, they were frightened by the artillery of the Turks......

Therefore, Marin specially sent 200 musketeers, using 200 arquebuses, to perform the "three-stage strike" live to Ismaili I. I believe that with the eyes of Ismaili I, I will not fail to see the merits.

And, it's going to be a long-term business! Why? Because the Safavid Empire of Persia lacked metal, even if they wanted to make their own weapons, they had to export metal first. Therefore, it is better to import weapons directly. As for the scimitars, they would import the metal and build it themselves. This is because the unique Saffi scimitar used by the Persian cavalry is not quite the same as the scimitar style elsewhere, and it needs to be crafted by itself.

But guns don't matter if you're hungry, anyway, there are no relevant craftsmen in Persia, and it is difficult to develop technology on your own. Therefore, it is better to import it directly.

Moreover, neither Marin nor the Portuguese were standard merchants who would not tell the Persians how to make guns. For example, when the Portuguese sold the British 18-pounder cannon (that is, the Hongyi cannon) to the Ming Dynasty, they actually asked for thousands of taels of silver each.

Marin isn't as dark as the Portuguese, but it's definitely not too polite either. After all, the Franco cannon he sold to the Persians was made of copper.

The Fran cannon sold by Marin to Persia was a three-pounder gun with a 300-pound barrel, which did not have the unique movable wheeled gun carriage of the North Sea Army, but only had the lugs, similar to the guns of the French.

According to the European 1:15 ratio of silver to copper, the material cost of each gun itself is worth 20 pounds of silver. Moreover, the price of artillery is definitely not just the price of materials, but at least double......

The price of doubling the material cost is only the basic market price. Faced with the Persia, which was desperately short of artillery, Marin directly gave three times the price of the material cost, that is, 60 pounds of silver. Converted into gold, that's 5 pounds of gold, which can mint 637 gold coins. Marin rounded up the whole number and asked for 650 gold coins for a door.

Marin, of course, was a man of conscience, and equipped each Franc cannon with 5 steel guns for reloading.

Moreover, the Franc cannon of the North Sea Kingdom is different from the Franc cannon of other countries. Other European countries also use Franc cannons, but because of the poor processing accuracy, the gap between the sub-gun and the mother gun is large, which is easy to leak and affects the range of the artillery.

Beihai has long promoted vernier calipers to strictly control the processing accuracy. Therefore, the same Franc cannon, the Franc cannon of the North Sea Country has a longer range and better quality.

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The North Sea fleet first docked at the port of Hormuz on the island of Hormuz, and invited the Portuguese colonists to come on board for a "visit" and presented a letter of permission from the Kingdom of Portugal.

It should be pointed out that Persia did not have a foreign trade port at this time. The port of Hormuz, which was originally the only foreign trade port, was also robbed by the Portuguese......

But the Persian navy could not do it, and it was difficult to recover the island of Hormuz. Coupled with the fact that the Portuguese had indeed come to do business in good faith and had no intention of invading the interior, the Persians then gave up.

At this time, there was no port of Abatain in Persia, and there was no port of Abbas. Bandar Abbas was built in 1627 during the reign of Abbasid the Great to facilitate foreign trade. As for the port of Abadan, it was later developed into a port city in the 20th century after the development of Persian oil, except because it was the outlet of the oil pipeline to the sea......

Therefore, now these guns must first be landed in the port of Hormuz. It was then transported by small boat to the area of the land dock where the port of Bandar Abbas would later be located, before it could be transported to Isfahan......

Because Tabriz was seriously threatened by the Turks, Ismaili I had temporarily set up his capital in Isfahan and had no intention of moving back.

There was no way, Tabriz was too close to the north-western border, and if the Turks launched a surprise attack, they would not have time to react. And Isfahan is located in the central region of Persia, far from the northwestern border, and is not afraid of enemy raids. Therefore, Ismaili I simply did not move the capital back to Tabriz.

Originally, Tabriz was captured by the Turks many times in history, and the later Safavid monarchs first moved their capital to Qazvin near the Caspian Sea. Feeling unsafe, he eventually traveled further southeast to Isfahan until the fall of the Safavid Empire.

Now, because of Marin's suggestion, Ismaili I suddenly discovered that it was indeed good to move the capital to Isfahan, at least, without worrying about the arrival of a large Turkish army. As a result, Ismaili I simply made Isfahan the vice-capital. Tabriz, on the other hand, is still the nominal capital, but only nominal.

This, of course, is good for the fleet sent by Marin. Because, Isfahan is closer to the Persian Gulf...... If you change to Tabriz, you will have to be close to the Caspian Sea.

However, it is really a long way to land near Bandar Abbas and take the overland route to Isfahan. Fortunately, there was no shortage of horses in Persia, and after not stopping to change horses along the way, the team finally reached Isfahan.

Then, the captain of the fleet, George Bernard Shaw, led the gunners and musketeers to demonstrate to Ismaili I what it means to shoot a platoon and a musket in three stages at the school yard outside Isfahan......

When the platoon guns fired, the ground shook. Even, even the war horses on the school field were frightened into a commotion. But Ismaili I was thrilled—

"That's right, that's what it feels like! My great Persia will have enough cannons too! ”

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