Chapter 321: Fengyang Kingdom (3)
Wang Zheng's Fengyang fleet occupied from Kuwait to the border with the Yariba dynasty, and the peninsulas and small islands in the Persian Gulf became the bag. Originally, there were still some Persian activities on that trail, but when they saw the arrival of the powerful Fengyang fleet, they did not make any resistance, and took the initiative to withdraw from the Fengyang Kingdom, the peninsula is also very simple, the population is not large, the climate is not suitable for habitation, and the Ottoman Empire does not have an army stationed here at all, and the tribal leader of a small place directly announced to Wang Zheng to take refuge, and he who is unwilling to stay and leave.
Wang Zheng's occupation work was simple, and the next planned construction work was much more troublesome, but fortunately, Chen Zhenhui had the ability to directly divide 20,000 people from the captives, and told them that as long as the road was repaired and the castle was built, you would be free, whether you wanted to go home or live here, and during the work, you would have three meals a day. Eating casually is also extremely luxurious at this time, under normal circumstances, people here will not eat three meals, food is extremely precious, the easiest way to eat a full meal in the Fengyang Kingdom makes these captives grateful and sobbing, and their enthusiasm can be imagined.
Zhu Changrun, Mao Bijiang, and Chen Zhenhui are recuperating and patiently waiting for the end of the Battle of Baghdad, no matter which side wins, it is possible to make a move on the Fengyang Kingdom next, because the current place of the Fengyang Kingdom is one of the lands that the two sides are fighting for, especially here, there is an important estuary, he is the only outlet to the sea for this land, the Safavid Dynasty is a little better, they have a long coastline, and the Persian Gulf exit of the Ottoman Empire was all captured by the Fengyang Kingdom.
Just when Zhu Changrun and the others were watching the excitement, the Khalid family, who had been driven away by Wang Zheng, sent people to negotiate, and the purpose of the negotiations was not to demand the return of the land, but to buy weapons from the Fengyang Kingdom. Chen Zhenhui received the Khalid family and his party, since they wanted to do business, it couldn't be better, it was impossible to sell the standard weapons of the Fengyang Kingdom to them, and the rifle brought from Daming could still be sold.
In Zhu Youxiao's opinion, in addition to cannons, *, hand-cranked machine guns, and rifles that cannot be sold, other small things such as Xiaoer kicking guns and shooting guns can be bought, and even rifles can be sold, but they are weakened versions, but the price is much higher, so there are a lot of these things in the arms shipped this time, since someone wants to buy them, then sell them to him to try.
Through talking to the Khalid family, it turned out that since the Yariba Dynasty bought the weapons of the Fucheng Kingdom, its combat power has risen sharply, and the Ottoman army in the Arabian Peninsula has been beaten to the ground, and the Khalid family has also seen the power of the Fengyang Kingdom, and feels that if they buy some such weapons, they may be able to stand on their own, even if they don't have such strength, then there are other powerful tribes on the peninsula, which can be combined with them or sold to them.
Since the Khalid family wants to buy weapons, then Chen Zhenhui is not polite, and sells him some of the starting pistols and Xiaoer kicking guns, and by the way, he also gave Sheikh Khalid ten guards *, which are not officers' guns, but are used by ordinary soldiers, and they all make Chief Khalid happy, this is a life-saving guy!
Soon the second batch of oil tankers arrived, bringing more immigrants and weapons, weapons were enough, no problem for defense, and there were still not enough cases for attack, so they had to continue to recruit local recruits and select local soldiers loyal to the Fengyang Kingdom from the captives, and had family guarantees, a total of 3,000 people were recruited, and these 3,000 people served as armed police, responsible for local security, such as suppressing bandits or disputes between tribes.
The arrangement of immigration is relatively simple, there are countless wastelands to be cultivated, except for the swamps on both sides of the Shatt al-Arab, there are good land, whether it is to grow rice and corn, in the sandy land on the bank of the river, you can also grow potatoes and sweet potatoes, these crops are very high, it is estimated that after a year, I can be self-sufficient in food, and I don't have to worry about food. The entire Fengyang Kingdom began to enter an orderly development trend, and Zhu Changrun and Mao Bijiang constantly patrolled around the country, trying their best to deal with all kinds of contradictions in the bud.
Just when Zhu Changrun and they were immersed in development, the envoy of the Ottoman Empire arrived, and it turned out that Chief Khalid sold the weapons he bought to the local governor, this guy was very meritorious, and immediately organized two thousand soldiers to train, but it turned out that these soldiers were too powerful, and after only a month of training, when they were competing with other governors for pastures, they beat each other to the point that they were bleeding, and they were stunned to let the other party lose a large number of camels.
Naturally, the governor who received the benefit did not treat Chief Khalid badly, and immediately gave him a fief and let him continue to sell a large number of muskets and small second kicking guns. Chief Khalid not only earned a high price difference, but also got a fief, so naturally he came to the Fengyang Kingdom again to continue to buy weapons, and this time all he brought was gold.
The Governor sent Khalid over this time to purchase a huge number of weapons, more than 10,000 firing rifles and 500 small cannons, and his aim was to train a firing pistol regiment in a short time to make meritorious contributions to the Baghdad front, and only then could he obtain greater land and rights. The Ottoman Empire was not monolithic, and the ruling circles were heavily divided and fought against each other, and military merit and taxes were a shortcut to power.
A month later, Safavid emissaries arrived, and their demands were the same as those of the Khalid chieftains, requiring a huge number of muskets and lesser kicking guns. Zhu Changrun has written the situation here as a fold, with the first batch of oil tankers sent to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao was overjoyed, in the later oil tankers are all weapons, but also added a large number of export versions of the rifle, no *, each shot of a bullet, you need to press one again to shoot, the range is farther than the firing gun, the rate of fire is about the same, but the shooting accuracy is much higher.
After showing these weapons to the Safavids, the Safavid emissaries finally understood why they had lost the war against the Ming Dynasty, and why they had encountered a legion with guns in Baghdad, which turned out to be where the weapons came from.
The Safavid Dynasty needs a lot of weapons, according to Chen Zhenhui's requirements, they need to pay a huge amount of gold and silver, but this is not difficult for the historical Safavid Dynasty, now their treasury is still very rich, there is no bargaining, in fact, Chen Zhenhui did not give them a chance, the business is exclusive, the price is definitely strong, slowly hollow out their treasury, let them gradually weaken the best.
A hundred oil tankers traveled back and forth between the Fengyang Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty, bringing weapons, tea, silk, and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty, and oil, Persian carpets, dates, saffron, etc. from the Fengyang Kingdom. Huge amount of commodity trading, high monopoly profits, so that the Ming Royal Tenglong Bank to earn a full ditch, Tenglong Bank's huge investment has been richly rewarded, the early investment of tens of millions of taels of silver has already earned back, the royal shareholders have said that Zhu has filial piety and wisdom.
Other Daming local banks saw the mystery from it, and asked Tenglong Bank for advice, asking for benefit sharing, this problem is not open, Zhu Youxiao let Tenglong Bank refuse their request without hesitation, if you want to have high profits, you have to have a high amount of pay, it is impossible to directly put forward the profit sharing requirements, they can not always rely on Zhu Youxiao's policy to eat, they must have their own development path and ideas.
Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor, would not be directly involved in these things, but he couldn't watch them blush and do illegal things, so he asked Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune, to reveal some business secrets to these banks. The first is that there are countless treasures in the world that they need to explore, and secondly, adventure exploration requires force to protect, the emperor allows them to organize a certain number of mercenaries, including recruiting veterans who have been retired, but the recruitment must be filed with the military department, and they must also sign a treatment contract, so that if the bank defaults, they will be severely punished, and the law of the Ming Dynasty will guarantee the rights and interests of every citizen.
Zhu Youxiao through the Fu King Zhu Changxun to them to support, for example, you can divide the country into several smaller countries, support their independence, and then sell weapons, now the Ming industry is very developed, the level of steelmaking is also very high, mining, ironmaking has been dispersed to the origin of a lot, they can organize factories to produce their own legally allowed firing guns, small two kicking guns, etc., and they can sell these weapons in Europe, northern Africa and even North America, and they can also create turmoil in other countries to create demand for weapons! These are the skills of the Jews of the United States, and it is not bad for Zhu Youxiao to use them first.