After the loss of the naval battle, the English people were very much looking forward to the fleet that they had lost inexplicably, but they could not find it, but the pirate plunder license issued by the King of England decades ago played a huge role in the current situation, and groups of outlaws were still fighting for their lives on the sea, and most of the pirates who attacked Sun Yuzhi's fleet were English pirates, and after being defeated by Sun Yuzhi, they were scattered in the nearby seas, ready to plunder at any time. When they received a letter from the King of England calling for a thorough investigation into the disappearance of the naval fleet, they immediately went into action, both at sea and on land, in search of clues to the matter.

It's really in response to that sentence that the emperor lives up to his wishes, the English pirates all over the Atlantic finally found an English sailor who escaped death on the land of Africa, this guy's luck and physical strength are very good, at the beginning of the battle, his warship was sunk, it should be said that this is a very unfortunate thing, but at this time, no one pays attention to the life and death of these overboard soldiers, this guy was lucky to catch a relatively large plank, and miraculously propped up a sail, left the main battlefield in a very short time, so he was not shot by the Ming army and survived. Luckily, the guy encountered a group of pirates while drifting, and the pirates fished him onto the ship, and then he became one of the pirates.

Because of the small size of this pirate team, they often wandered between land and shallow seas, and were actually amphibious pirates, until the large pirate team of England found him, and he learned that he was the only English soldier who survived the battle, and the entire fleet was wiped out. In order to thoroughly understand the cause of the fall of the English fleet, this pirate team formed an expedition and hired some local pirates to search for information about the Ming throughout the east coast of the Atlantic.

The English pirates disguised as merchants came to Ming Island, and the inquiry here got the news they wanted to know, it turned out that the Ming army used new weapons, and the cannon they naturally couldn't see, but they still saw the mortar that could shoot *, after all, the Ming army still needed to continue training. This made them ecstatic, believing that they had found an important reason for the failure of the naval battle. The Ming army has not yet begun to sell weapons to the outside world, so they cannot buy mortars and rifles, but this does not prevent them from trying.

The military presence of the Ming army here is not a large number of troops, only a part of the army is stationed here, and the port here is also open, which brought an opportunity to this expedition, after careful organization, they attacked a trained Ming army, grabbed some firing rifles and two mortars, caused the death of a dozen soldiers, and then quickly left here, becoming a Ming army weapons leak.

The English expedition that grabbed the weapons of the Ming army quickly sent these weapons back to China, and they also knew that they could not imitate these weapons on their own, and in this era, they were also the most loyal to the king. In this way, England unexpectedly obtained samples of new weapons by searching for the missing fleet and soldiers.

After getting these weapons, King Charles I of England immediately ordered the idea of imitation, it should be said that Charles I, who had just succeeded to the throne, still had great ambitions, and the fiasco not long ago made him very angry, but the Ming fleet retreated with a blow, so that he could not find the object of revenge, but Spain, a close neighbor, is an accomplice, even if it is a lesson to Spain, you can also relieve the hatred in your heart.

England was an outlier among the frontier countries of Europe, where the indigenous inhabitants of the British Isles were barbaric, but with the invasion of their English ancestors, it soon became prosperous. The most basic raw materials needed for the Industrial Revolution were coal and iron ore, and England was rich in high-quality coal and iron ore, which is one of the reasons why the Industrial Revolution first emerged in England. Now England is on the eve of the industrial revolution, and it will not be able to enter the era of the real industrial revolution until the successful development of the Watt steam engine, which is still a hundred years later, but with the existence of Zhu Youxiao, it may be difficult for Watt to get ahead, and he may even send agents to assassinate him. However, the current industrial level of England is still in the leading position in Europe, and their factory imitation rifles and mortars are still relatively successful, but whether it is range or precision Chengdu, there is a certain gap with the weapons of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is the export type of weapons of the Ming Dynasty, it is much better than these imitations, but it is better than it can be manufactured by itself, there is not much limit in quantity, do not underestimate this quantity limit, in large battles, it may play a decisive role, It's like comparing the performance of German and Russian weapons during World War II.

After the manufacture of these weapons, Charles I did not immediately put into the army equipment, but sold a large number of pirates and expeditions, so that they obtained a lot of profits, can continue to transform production, but also on the battlefield to experiment with the performance of these weapons, to obtain some valuable data, this mode of taking production and transformation, did play a very big role, in the subsequent continuous improvement of progress, high-end weapons can almost be comparable to the Ming army.

In the whole year of the eighth year of the Apocalypse, the English people were making and improving these two weapons, and on the African continent, the English expeditions used these advanced weapons to capture nearly 300,000 blacks and sell them to North America, so that these expeditions made a fortune at the same time, but also paid a lot of taxes for England, and also greatly developed the power of a large number of English colonists in the Americas. But the English raiding of black slaves also made them pay a lot of price, the early action went well, so that the English were a little carried away, the scale of the sortie is getting larger and larger, in the coastal area south of the equator, the blacks almost let the English captive and plunder, but after they entered the depths of Africa, it did not take long to be resisted, those blacks used firing pistols, although these guns were not as fast as the guns of the English, but they were better than the head, even in the range.

The weapons of these blacks undoubtedly came from the kingdom of Daimyo, because Chen Qingyun's power had already expanded through the Grand Canyon of Africa, and the arms trade spread almost all over southern Africa, and many tribal leaders saw the benefits of new weapons, so they began to arm their tribes with new weapons to avoid being plundered by the colonists.

The proliferation of guns in southern Africa created a boom in the arms trade of the Ming Dynasty, and the weapons manufacturing technology and technology of the Ming Dynasty were continuously improved. In particular, under Zhu Youxiao's suggestion, it is forbidden to compete in a low-level manufacturing industry, nor to leak the manufacturing process of manufacturing these weapons. Of course, the highest technology of steel smelting is in the hands of the Daming Academy of Sciences, and without high-quality steel materials, it is impossible to make good weapons. But for a fast-growing Europe, the secrecy of this technology is still very important.

Seeing that the English were making a fortune, the rest of Europe, including the Spanish, Italians, and the French, stepped up their plundering in Africa, and began to compete fiercely for plundering in Africa, and sometimes even robbing expeditions among themselves. For example, when an expedition has just finished plundering and harvesting a large number of blacks, it is possible to encounter a siege from another expedition or several expeditions, and if you do not give up the loot you have just arrived, you may even take your own life, which is a very dangerous thing. The purpose of any expedition is to make a fortune, and no one wants to lose their lives in the process of the expedition, and the process of hunting down the blacks is much less dangerous, and even after consulting with some big leaders, the root quilt is effortless and dangerous.

After several expedition fires, the most powerful expedition of England united with the expeditions of France, Italy and other countries to form an alliance, and held a meeting on the division of spheres of influence, they divided Africa south of the equator into several regions, the eastern Daimyo Kingdom and Xinyingtian they did not dare to provoke, even if it was left to the Ming Dynasty, it was considered the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence.