Chapter 194: The Price of Wanting to Go Home

Feeling like a fool, Xia Wu finally broke out completely, pulled out the knife in his hand and slashed at Jason is past, he seemed to have almost lost the face of the Xia family for those things just now, first chopping this ghost who embarrassed himself and lied, and then, and then it was a big deal to return the money.

It was a big deal to move the knife in front of Jiang Feng, Jason was already very close to Jiang Feng, and Tie Ding, who was behind Jiang Feng, saw Xia Wu rushing over with a knife, and his first reaction was to take out the weapons one after another, but their movements were not as fast as Zhang Liang.

Zhang Liang hurriedly took two steps forward, already blocking Xia Wu's way forward, Xia Wu naturally didn't want to slash Jiang Feng or Zhang Liang, at this time, the momentum was too fierce to contain his strength, Zhang Liang's body was slightly on one side, and a heavy punch had already smashed on Xia Wu's left cheek.

Now Zhang Liang's strength is already very well controlled, and with a punch in his face, Xia Wu's brain suddenly buzzed, his eyes went dark, and when he reacted, he had already fallen to the ground. The sailors and clansmen of the surrounding Xia family's fleet thought that something had happened when they saw the action on the shore.

The people who beg for a living at sea are living in stormy seas every day, and they are very vigilant in all aspects, Xia Wugang on the shore pulled out his knife and rushed out, and the sailors and guards who were loading and unloading goods on the shore immediately drew their weapons. Still, their reaction speed is too slow.

According to the habit of each transaction, several leaders of the Xia family's fleet here are on the shore to handle the procedures for the delivery of silver money and the inventory of goods, and the two sides are originally interdependent. There is no need to be wary of each other in some ports in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so the people on the shore are not too wary.

So he reacted, but he still reacted slowly, there were more than a dozen ships moored there on the periphery of the port, and two ships were moored in the port.

Xia Wu shook his head and came to his senses, but saw that all the people of the Xia family were controlled by people with weapons, he was in a hurry, and just about to say something, he suddenly felt a cold piece of cold in his neck, and suddenly did not dare to move, Zhang Liang held a steel knife in his hand and put it on his neck.

Jiang Feng's face was gloomy, and he said there:

"Thank you for your hard work, I left ......"

As soon as he heard that the transaction was completed, Xia Wu was still relieved in his heart, after all, it was a transaction of 40,000 taels of silver, and he carefully avoided the blade and said loudly:

"Master Jiang, it's all a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding, this ghost will be handed over to my fifth child, and our Xia family will change you to a real gunner!"

Turning his head to look at Jason on the side, it was obviously Xia Wu's official dialect with a strong Hokkien accent just now, he didn't understand it, Jiang Feng thought about it and suddenly turned around and asked:

"You're not an artilleryman?"

"My lord, I'm not an artilleryman."

"And what do you do?"

"......, I'm the Army!"

After a brief conversation, Jiang Feng turned back and followed an iron leader stationed in the Thousand Households of Yantai Mountain, who was now a general bannerman, and said in a low voice:

"You finish the rest of the matter, and which masters will set up these two guns here in the harbor."

Then he shouted at the sabre-rattling harbor open space:

"Put all the guys away and take this foreigner back to the city!"

After returning to Dengzhou City, he found that the Tie Ding and the recruits from the Tianjin Guard Station were not so surprised by the appearance of foreigners with high noses and blue eyes. Missionaries and foreign merchants, these residents near the port are not uncommon, but those people on Weishan Island are quite new.

However, this news was still controlled as much as possible, as for the two cannons in the port, according to the old craftsmen, there is not much difference from the artillery made in the Ming Dynasty now, and they also understand the specific usage. Jason, a foreigner, probably understands some methods like crosshairs.

After using gestures and half-baked language to express himself with the old craftsman, he also made it clear, but other than that, there was no artillery knowledge worth taking out.

This Jason put on Tie Ding's original guard costume, and after Jiang Fu's family led him to wash and clean up, he was also a very decent person, but he was far from Jiang Feng seeing the so-called Western gentleman in modern film and television dramas, or to put it mildly, he also looked like a rough person.

At this time, the East and the West were on the same level, and there was even a certain gap between Europe and China, which could best reflect all this is the travelogues and observations written by the missionaries who came to China, all of which believed that the Ming Dynasty was a powerful and civilized country, and this evaluation became barbaric, ignorant and backward during the Qing Dynasty. The quality of the people is naturally closely related to the level of the country, so the average height and physical fitness of the people of the Ming Dynasty are not inferior to those of the white race.

When Jiang Feng was in modern times, the foreigners he saw and the white Europeans in the film and television dramas he saw were all tall and big, and he thought that Tie Ding's clothes would be too small for this Jason to wear, and this worry was superfluous.

When Jason saw Jiang Feng's subordinates, an expression of amazement and appreciation flashed in his eyes, which made Jiang Feng behind him even more bottomless, thinking that even the army under my command should be so amazed, is this foreigner's vision too low.

After bringing it back to his mansion, he found a family for him to settle in the place where the hunters lived outside, Jiang Feng brought Jason, a white man, into the mansion, and asked a few times, and found that simple conversations were still okay, but the long narrative Jason often mixed a lot of native languages.

Unable to communicate at all, Jiang Feng had no choice but to write to Wang Qinian in the Tianjin Health Center, asking him to find an interpreter.

It cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the cannon he bought couldn't be used in infantry battles at all, and the white man who came was originally considered by Jiang Feng to be the first step in his scientific and technological leap, but he found that he couldn't use it at all. For infantry who don't know artillery, it is better to find some experienced veteran officers in several battalions of the Beijing Division.

Anyway, Jiang Feng couldn't ask the white people who spent a lot of money to eat here for nothing, so he simply sent him to the barracks under the Qianhu Institute in Yantai Mountain, which turned out to be a new barracks, and now it is already the place where Jiang Feng's Dengzhou battalion is stationed, two thousand families, no matter how they are rotated, there must be more than a thousand people stationed there.

When the army is idle, there are few who can maintain the same training as the modern army, and the soldiers are driven by the generals to farm and do all kinds of profitable business when there is no war. The only ones who can practice are those pro-soldiers and family members, Jiang Feng has a lot of money, and he has never considered the problem of letting soldiers make money, so these people under his command are training every day.

After seeing blood, the more you practice, the more you practice, everyone knows that if you don't practice your skills well. The chances of surviving on the battlefield are much less.

If Jiang Feng does not have the position of Dengzhou Metropolitan Division. The commander of the guard station is not at ease to drive the military households to farm the land and train the troops every day, which is rebellion and rebellion, but if you do not train a strong and brave private soldier, how can you maintain wealth and prosperity for a long time. It was all up to Liu Twelve's strategy and judgment, and Jiang Feng decided to seek this official position.

Half a month later, a translator surnamed Lin came to Dengzhou, the interpreter was a man who was an errand boy in Quanzhou City, and had no way to live after the ban on the sea, so he had to follow a missionary to Beijing to ask for a living. Although it was food and clothing, there was not much silver to earn.

This time, Wang Qinian inquired about him, and after the price of fifty taels was offered at a time, and the round-trip expenses, food and lodging were all taken care of by the Dengzhou side, he was naturally completely willing in his heart.

When Lin Tongyi and Jason were talking, Jiang Feng was listening from the side, asking his own questions and listening to the other party's answers. At this time, Jiang Feng was a little grateful for his junior high school time, and he actually remembered whether the southwest corner of Europe was Spain or Portugal.

However, in Lin Tongyi's translation, the current name of Spanish and grape samples is Franc Machine, and when he translated this, Jason obviously still understood what Franc Machine meant, and he said a few words in a rather excited manner, Lin Tongyi was obviously a little confused, frowned and listened carefully to a few words, then turned his head and followed Jiang Feng and said:

"My lord, this man means that he is not a Franciscan, but a Dutch place."

Jiang Feng didn't know that the Netherlands was the ancient name of the modern Netherlands and Belgium, and it was still the territory of the Kingdom of Spain, but the independence movement had been wave after wave, and in a few years, the Netherlands would become independent. Looking at Jiang Feng's puzzled expression, Lin Tongyi explained carefully:

"My lord, the missionary I used to follow said that there are many people in the north of their country who do not obey the king, and always rebel, and this Netherlands is that place."

It turned out that this Jason Hogan was a Dutch who served in the Spanish army (in the future, for the convenience of the name, the Dutch will be used as a unified name), and his brother was killed by the Spanish army in the north when the independence movement was suppressed, so he always wanted to leave the army and go back to join the independence army.

But when he received the news, he was preparing to go to Luzon, and his unit was a defense force guarding the colony, and he was trapped on a sea ship, so it was difficult to escape, and after coming to Luzon, there was no chance of escape. Just there and endure all the time. When the Xia family went to buy guns this time, he felt that as long as he went to Mingguo, he might have a chance, and he had also heard all kinds of rumors there.

In the end, Jiang Feng's face couldn't help but become more and more disappointed, he was just a lieutenant in the army, what use could this be, maybe seeing the disappointed look on Jiang Feng's face, Jason anxiously asked Lin Tongyi to translate a sentence:

"If the adults are willing to help me go home, I will teach the invincible Franc Plane Phalanx to the adults' army!"