Chapter 349: Arms Suppliers

The owner of Zhang Guoan looked through the list of Champa merchants who opened shops here, and selected a younger merchant to be the middleman, and he wanted to help the Champa country militarily. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The language of the Champa people belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian language family.

They were heavily influenced by the Tianzhu culture and used the Southern Tianzhu script, from where they were introduced to Brahmanism and Buddhism, worshipping gods such as Shiva and Vishnu and adopting a caste system.

They also introduced from China the technology of building cities, manufacturing weapons, and producing them, which promoted the development of production.

The Champa area produces exotic objects such as ivory, rhino horn, and ebony.

Its geographical location is very important, north of Annam, west of Chenla, is the sea route connecting Southeast Asia, West Asia and other places, engaged in the Great Song Dynasty and Southeast Asia, Tianzhu, West Asia maritime transit trade, very profitable.

The Cham people were maritime merchants who traded everywhere, and they were also fierce navigators.

In fact, the birthplace of the Champa people was originally Xianglin County in Rinan County, which was placed in the Han Dynasty of China.

About 192 A.D., the son of Gongcao of Xianglin County, named Limoro, killed the county order, proclaimed himself the king, and founded the city state, and the king monopolized the power.

The monarchs who followed him sought to expand northward, and there were frequent wars with the feudal dynasties that ruled northern Annam.

But from time to time, they also paid tribute to China and conducted trade.

By now, Champa has become the main target of Annam's expansion, and they also have a blood feud with Chenla to the west.

This is a force that is hostile to the four sides, and it is also a force that can be borrowed well.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, made a plan, and he wanted to exert some force in military support.

The merchant he was looking for was named Daro.

He has curly hair, a strong body, and is shorter than the average Song person, but he has a fight with the height of the Japanese.

When Darrow saw the owner of Zhang Guoan, he folded his hands. Slightly bowed and very polite.

At this time, the king of Champa was Jaya Parami Shuravarman IV, and he was being squeezed by the northern kingdom of Annam and the western kingdom of Chenla, and his life was not easy.

However, now the private merchants do the same, and the trade with the surrounding areas has never stopped.

The lord of Zhang Guoan said to Daro, "I would like to ask you to go and see your king------ and show him these goods." ā€

The owner of Zhang Guoan prepared a standard long and short sword and gun for Zhancheng. There are also standard bows and crossbows, arquebuses, and grenades.

Except for arquebuses and grenades, the other weapons are not new, but Zhang Guoan Island Master learned from the intelligence that their weapons are outrageously rotten.

In the case of bows and crossbows, for example, they did not have a wood equipment, and all the shafts were sharpened little by little with knives, so you can imagine what the quality and yield would be like.

The core of bows and crossbows is the shaft, as long as it is straight. The rest of the arrow didn't matter.

As soon as he saw that the shafts of the arrows were neat and smooth, they were all the same, and even the wooden handle of the simple knife was neatly aligned!

Moreover, the knives and guns were extremely sharp------ as well as the arquebuses and grenades.

On his day off at the Eight Rivers, Daro often saw people from the arquebus community trying their marksmanship by the river, and he used to make bets that he won and lost.

"If your king wishes, we can periodically exchange your goods for weapons," said Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island. I can also send you military trainers. ā€

The island owner of Jang Guoan can now borrow the military personnel of the Ryukyu Kingdom for a simple reason. Some of the Ryukyu soldiers who came here for training resembled Champong, with curly hair and black skin, and a short man, who could pretend to be Champa natives.

Daro, a merchant in the city, was very pleasantly surprised at the time, and he was happy that he could be favored by the owner of Zhang Guoan. I believe that I can get more supply in the future business.

All the goods here are bestsellers, and as long as you have them, you can make money.

Daro replied respectfully, "I will definitely bring the words of the island master Zhang and return as soon as possible." ā€

The owner of Zhang Guoan Island knows that the king of a small country in this time and space is actually like the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the common people want to see each other. It's easy.

Compared with the palace of the Great Song Dynasty, there is a huge difference.

When Daro left, Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, brought him some more goods he wanted, which made him very happy.

At this time, Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, was still expanding the scale of the Liuqiu Guard.

So far, he has three members, one is the regular army, one is the mercenary army, and the other is the emancipated slave army.

On the whole, they come from a complex area, with a variety of races and skin colors.

Of course, Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, has nothing to do about this situation, and he doesn't want to become a miscellaneous army, but this is the fastest way to form an army.

However, he must add a unified soul to this force, otherwise it is very likely to become a plate of scattered sand.

He tried to integrate them in terms of clothing, eating habits, and customs, and the most important thing was to unify the language, but these are all slow things, and there is no hurry.

During this period, Zhang Guoan's owner has always asked the half-sized people he has cultivated to uphold a concept, that is, to try to treat every soldier fairly, which is better than any preaching, and only this method is the magic weapon for cultivating team cohesion.

In addition, this team has a natural advantage in that their enemies are unified.

The reputation of the Tatar bandit group is not ordinarily bad, and their evil deeds have spread throughout the world, and there is no fear that they hate them.

Besides, it is a recognized fact that the owner of Zhang Guoan Island gave him a high salary and good treatment, at least on Liuqiu Island, serving in the army is a decent profession.

Now the whole team took turns to go to the northern coast of the mainland, not allowing the Tatar bandit groups to collect supplies in peace, especially in the Goryeo Peninsula.

In doing so, not only did they train the players, but they were also rewarded with personnel and materials, and the confidence of all the team members was also full, so that half of the children had to fight.

Zhang Guoan said: "When you all turn eighteen years old, at that time, I will let them go and have a good time, now, you are all honest and develop yourself, the Tatar bandit group is strong, let's not fight them head-on for the time being------ there are still too many people who grew up drinking wolf milk!" ā€

Everyone knows the entire war plan, and understands that the owner of Zhang Guoan hopes that the Great Song Dynasty can teach them a lesson, even if it is to drag them down, so that the people who grew up drinking wolf milk will not get a penny from the war, but will pay more, then it will be absolutely unkind for them to turn back.

It's just that now------ they have reaped a lot of benefits from the Tatar bandits, and it is time to be loyal.

Daro, the Champa merchant, soon returned, with a hundred rhinoceros horns, fifty tortoiseshell shells, and a bucket of pearls.

He said that it was a gift from the king to the lord of the island of Jayaparamita Shuravarman IV, and asked for military supplies immediately.

Zhang Guoan asked with a smile on his face, "Have you demonstrated the use of arquebuses to your king?" ā€

Still respectfully replied, "There will be some below, and the king says that a thousand of these weapons are needed." ā€

Zhang Guoan Island owner thought, don't look at this time and space, as long as the weapon can kill people quickly, it is also very popular. (To be continued.) )