The gun is still a brown bass, this kind of gun has been used by the British for two hundred years in history, and the standard model was formulated in 1722, which is a smoothbore gun that is mature to the bad street.

During the American Revolution, the British made 300,000 of these rifles, and after the American independence, a large stockpile was piled up. The Indian East India Company currently has only about 30,000 regular troops, which is completely incompatible, and the East India Company has no incentive to digest it, because the East India Company is able to produce it itself.

After nearly a hundred years of development, the British made countless improvements to the brown bass, but everything has changed, the basic characteristics have not changed much, the East India Company also has its own improvements, but with the virtue of the East India Company, the way they improved is to reduce the parts a lot, shorten the barrel, the purpose is to save costs, the East India Company's improved type, is called the Indian model.

This Indian brown bass, because of its low price, was purchased in large quantities by the British government during the Napoleonic Wars, and 1.6 million were produced at one time. Due to the unstable supply of raw materials for the production of firearms in Britain, the East India Company was even entrusted with mass production in India in order to wage war with the Napoleonic Empire.

But no matter how bad Brown Bes is, he is a weapon after all, and Zhou Lang was worried that the East India Company would not sell it, even if it was a good deal. Therefore, Zhou Lang, who was cautious, did not let Xie Qinggao directly purchase from the East India Company, but asked Henry Pitt to use his personal relationship to purchase, so this time it was sent by the fleet of the Indian East India Company.

They also sent a letter from Henry Pitt, in which Pitt explained that there was no need for the Chinese (East India) Company to build its own weapons production system, which would mean a huge cost investment. The British East India Company had a well-developed weapons production system in India, which could fully meet the needs of Chinese companies.

In the letter, Henry Pitt also replied to some of Zhou Lang's inquiries about his Eastern policy, such as the East India Company's Eastern policy, and he told Zhou Lang that the new governor of the East India Company, Sir John Shaw, began to implement a new policy, called the policy of non-interference, which was a change from Cornwally's previous drastic measures, which did not reform internally and did not expand externally.

Historically, during the five years of Sir John's tenure in India, there was basically no major action.

His predecessor, Cornwally, carried out internal reforms in India, banned the private trade of clerks, commercialized the Chadamin system, allowed many wealthy merchants to replace the former Indian feudal lords and obtained tax rights, and cultivated a large group of loyal fans for the British East India Company; Expanding externally, he fought three Mysore Wars and greatly expanded the territory of the East India Company.

Sir John's successor, Richard Wellesley, was more of an expansionist one, appointing his younger brother General Wellington to fight the Fourth Mysore War, completely annihilating the Kingdom of Mysore, fighting three Marat Wars, completely eliminating the Marat Alliance, and basically completing the control of the whole of India.

Both the predecessor and the successor were expansionists, and during his tenure in office, John Shaw hardly waged any war.

But Zhou Lang is not clear about these histories, and he still can't figure out the details of Chinese history, so he is talking about India in vain.

He could only judge by his own experience, but as things stand, it was uncertain whether John Shaw really intended to adopt a conservative policy, or whether he was strategically conservative in India in order to absorb the victories of Cornwalle's expansion. If it was the latter, then it would be possible for John Shaw to adopt a conservative policy in India, which in turn would project the power of the East India Company into China.

If it is the latter, it will be too disadvantageous for Zhou Lang, once the British East India Company sets its sights on China, the first to bear the brunt will not be the Manchu court, but itself, and the East India Company will definitely find a way to strengthen its control over the Chinese company in order to gain a foothold in the Chinese region at the minimum cost.

The only good thing is that the East India Company did not feel that Henry Pitt purchased rifles for Zhou Lang, if John Shaw really had the intention of expanding to China, he could not continue to strengthen the power of the Chinese company, if it was replaced by Cornwally, then I am afraid that instead of selling 20,000 rifles, I am afraid to send 20,000 troops.

But the sale of weapons does not necessarily mean that John Shaw is really firmly committed to a policy of non-interference, not even China, and it is also possible that Henry Pitt's influence has played a role, and John Shaw has just arrived in India, and he is unwilling and afraid to harm the interests of influential shareholders and employees too much like Cornwally.

To convince Zhou Lang that John Shaw was genuinely pursuing a policy of non-interference, it would depend on how he dealt with Magalny's diplomatic conflict with the local government in Guangzhou.

Magalny has already arrived in Guangzhou, and now he must have begun to negotiate with the Guangzhou government, hoping to complete the exchange of contracts, and the Guangzhou government signed the agreement at that time for the purpose of fooling, and the governor's seal of customs and defense was fake. Moreover, the local government of Guangzhou had no authority to sign any treaty with the East India Company, but this was not clear to Magalny, because when Magalny was in Beijing, he repeatedly hoped to negotiate with the reception officials sent by China, but those officials shirked and asked Magalny to go to Guangzhou to negotiate with the Guangdong customs, saying that the Qing Dynasty implemented a one-port trade and that trade matters were under the local administration of Guangdong.

In fact, this is prevarication, during the two Opium Wars, the British also encountered this situation, sent representatives to Tianjin, and Tianjin asked them to go back to Guangdong, even if the treaty was signed in the end, the British and French forces wanted to go to Beijing to exchange the treaty, and the Qing court sent ministers to intercept them in Shanghai, wanting to stop them back to Guangdong; When he arrived in Tianjin, Seng Lingqin was not allowed to land, and finally there was an artillery battle, which led to the expansion of the war, and finally the Old Summer Palace was burned down.

Magalny did not understand the style of prevarication of the Manchu officialdom, he heard in Beijing that he wanted to negotiate with the Guangdong Customs, after arriving in Guangdong, the Guangdong Customs was unwilling to talk, and later after he came to the city, the other party was willing to talk again, the Beijing people asked him to talk to Guangdong, and the Cantonese dared to talk to him, and Magalny also thought that the Guangdong region could really represent the Manchu court in trade negotiations, just as the East India Company in the East could represent the British government in diplomatic and commercial negotiations with other countries.

As a result, he was sent away by the Manchu officials with a draft treaty, which Magalny happily took back to India, and after seeking the approval of the trusted governor John Shaw, he immediately returned to Canton in the summer.

But what he got was not the treaty submitted by Guangzhou to Beijing and ratified by Qianlong, but another prevarication by the local government of Guangzhou, he could not find anyone to negotiate with him, and only those merchants met him, Cai Shiwen, who only had thirteen lines, and could not see an official figure.

Cai Shiwen's speech was also ambiguous, he didn't know three questions, and when he mentioned that he wanted to see the governor and the customs superintendent, the other party kept silent, using the excuse that the adults were very busy and did not have the time to meet the envoy Yunyun for the time being.

The Guangzhou government's combination of flickering punches made Magalny dizzy, and he really couldn't believe that the Chinese government was so imprudent about diplomatic treaties.

After a long time, he figured out the situation, he didn't know the governor's seal at that time, but this matter itself is not a secret, the governor's seal is an important evidence, every time the governor is transferred, the court will send a copy of the seal to the place, so that everyone can identify the authenticity of the features, in case someone counterfeits.

Therefore, if you find an official figure at random, you can basically confirm the authenticity of the Great Seal.

The first to doubt the authenticity of the draft contract was the Guangzhou Taipan of the East India Company. Due to the serious shortage of Chinese language talents, the large class in Guangzhou is often very stable, and it is very common for a person to work in Guangzhou for more than ten years, and most of them climb from the clerk step by step to the large class, and have a very deep understanding of China.

Brown Taipan knew very well that the governor of Liangguang did not have the power to sign treaties with foreign countries, and as for who had the power, in fact, Taipan did not know, because the Manchu government had never signed any relations with European countries such as Guangdong, and allowing countries to trade was regarded as the unilateral care of the Qing government and the tenderness of the Yi people. The only formal treaty the Manchus signed with foreign countries, that was with the Russians, was the Treaty of Nebuchu, which was negotiated by the emperor at that time.

As for why he dared to sign the contract, Magarny did not know, but Taipan could understand the strange behavior of the Manchu officials.

Therefore, Brown raised doubts to Magalny, who was anxious to find a communication channel with the local government in Guangdong, and Magalny was suspicious, so he took out the draft contract for people to check, and saw the problem at a glance, and spent money to invite a master from the government to see it, and the master concluded that the big seal was fake.

Now Magarny is going crazy, negotiating, signing a treaty, making a fake big seal, what fuck!

Russia, which has been a diplomat all his life and is regarded as barbaric by Northwest Europe, has never insulted diplomatic negotiations so much, and the pagan country Ottoman Empire has not insulted diplomatic negotiations so much, but has suffered such insults when he came to ancient China, which is not only an insult and ridicule to diplomats, but also an insult to the entire Western diplomatic methods and systems.

It's no longer a matter of anger, but a sense of incomprehensible, incomprehensible absurdity.

Magarny was on the verge of collapse, and he made the worst protest to Cai Shiwen, who was communicating with him on behalf of the government, threatening to blockade Canton again, threatening to go to Peking to meet the emperor and sue the governor of Liangguang like Hong Renhui.

Magalny thought that his serious protest with threats would make the Guangdong government take it seriously, and he would send someone to formally communicate with him and resolve the treaty issue.

But he found that this time he couldn't even see Cai Shiwen.

He didn't know, according to what those officials said, he had to dry his ghost well!

The official wants Magalny to recognize his position.

But Magalny saw it as a disregard for him and an intolerable insult.

Magalny decided to take concrete action and ask Taiwan for help as he did last time, but this time without Colin, he could only ask Zhou Lang for help, hoping that Zhou Lang would once again help him complete the blockade of Guangdong and put pressure on the local government of Guangdong.