As soon as I saw that it was a foreigner, the anger of the people around me disappeared, and I was obviously too lazy to pay attention to it.

I thought it was a pirate, a pirate or something, I was so nervous that I was choking enough, who would have thought that a boatload of foreigners had come, what a big deal this was, foreigners only!

To put it mildly, these foreigners are the most useless now, even if those officers and soldiers from other departments kill good people and take risks, they won't go to them, they are not interested.

Seeing these tall foreigners whispering over there, Wang Zheng was interested, according to the pattern of the world in this era, Europe is just over China by several decades.

However, now the West should be in the middle of a thirty-year civil war, and the economy is also regressing, which was a good time for China to catch up, but at this time, civil strife and natural disasters are emerging one after another, and the Manchu Qing are taking advantage of the fire and robbery in the northeast, and there is no chance of development.

A few decades ago, the beginning of the Age of Discovery, not only allowed European countries to discover sparsely populated new continents, but also allowed Western countries to earn a lot of wealth and grow exponentially.

Of course, this also inflated their ambitions for territorial and colonial expansion, which was the root cause of the outbreak of the Thirty Civil War in Europe.

The Portuguese trading ship had a total of five naval guns, four of which were small Furlong machines, and the other one was used to attack the city of Water, which was a medium Franc cannon, which had a much longer range than the guns stationed on the city of Water.

Hearing this report, Wang Zheng's excitement gradually extinguished, and he thought that he could find the world-famous Hongyi cannon, but now his hopes were dashed.

But it's a relief to think about it, this small trading ship can only accommodate a dozen Maozi crew members at most, and it is considered lucky to be able to pick up five Furlong cannons.

However, this Franco cannon is not uncommon in Daming, but it has not yet been introduced in Dengzhou Mansion.

The Jingshi of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the Franco machine cannon, even the Hongyi giant cannon is dozens or hundreds of guns standing at the head of the city, like the Shenwei general cannon, Beizhili has even been eliminated and no longer used.

Wang Zheng may be the first time to see a foreigner and feel novel, but it is really not uncommon for people at this time, not to mention that the language is not compatible, that is, there are churches built by foreigners in slightly larger cities, and ordinary foreign merchants are not uncommon on the bustling streets.

Coming closer, there is also a church in Penglai City, Dong Youyin and Huang Yang have seen a lot of foreigners, it may be a little novel at first, but now it is no longer strange.

Wang Zheng almost always deals with affairs in the mansion on weekdays, and even if he goes out a few times, he goes to a few important places such as blacksmith shops and military camps, and he is so busy that he has no time to wander around the city.

In addition to the military and political affairs in Penglai City, in fact, Wang Zheng does not know a lot.

Although Wang Zheng was disappointed, these five Franc planes, especially the medium-sized Franc planes with a long range, were of great significance to the Dengzhou battalion.

Of course, in addition to the Fran cannon, these foreigners must have a lot of things and knowledge that they need.

In fact, the current military of the West is gradually overtaking China, and they have already made strides towards the transformation of the modern army, while China is mired in the Tartar scourge that cannot be solved.

Although at this time, Emperor Chongzhen still took out a small amount of internal silver and asked the Western missionary John Tang to supervise the Ordnance Department and supervise the manufacture of various advanced Western firearms and ordnance.

Since Emperor Chengzu Yongle established the world's first formed firearms force, the Shenji Battalion, the Ming court has always attached great importance to firearms, and until the year of its demise, it still insisted on studying imitations.

The imperial court was now hampered by civil strife, natural disasters, and the Manchu Qing dynasty, and was gradually lagging behind the West in this regard, but Wang Zheng clearly knew that if he wanted to become strong, these were very important, and there was no harm in getting in touch as soon as possible.

These foreigners in front of him may be an opportunity, but it is really hard to say how much help these foreigners who start fighting casually and immediately raise a white flag and surrender when they see that the situation is not good.

But then again, since these dozen foreigners have fallen into their own hands, how can there be any reason to put them back, and the dead horse should be a live horse doctor.

First of all, the first thing is naturally to find a craftsman to come over, and Lili Suo dismantled the naval guns and took them away, these are good things, so naturally you have to keep them yourself.

Wang Zheng thought happily, from now on, my Dengzhou camp can be regarded as having artillery.

Those foreigners looked at the chatter and chatter here, and when they saw someone on the boat and dismantle the cannon, they began to be calm, and even a few tall foreign women shouted and screamed.

There was a lot of chattering when it was shouted, and none of the soldiers in the surrounding Dengzhou battalion could understand a word, or what to do.

These foreigners knew each other, and when they saw that there were many people in the Dengzhou camp, although they shouted loudly, none of them stepped forward to stop them.

seemed to see that Wang Zheng was the leader, and one of the more than a dozen foreigners stepped forward, tiptoed forward, and directly saluted Wang Zheng.

It's just that this courtesy is incomprehensible to the people around him, and the foreigner's right hand gestures in the air, puts it on his chest, bows deeply, and lowers his head to the position of Wang Zheng's belt.

Only then did he say in broken Chinese:

"The eldest lord is above, Xiaomin Jem, I salute the eldest master, may I ask what your ministry is doing?"

Looking up and down, this high nose bridge is a very standard blonde and blue-eyed foreign devil, but he looks really tall, and he is half a head taller than himself.

After the foreigner saluted and spoke, it completely destroyed Wang Zheng's image of a gentleman to him.

This foreigner named Jem is dressed as a Western explorer, and the etiquette is also a formal communicative etiquette, but a mouth is a mixture of foreign accents and Ming official accents, and these four different accents are quite awkward in Wang Zheng's ears.

But this Jem has even learned the official tone, it seems that he really hasn't come less!

"Take the gun."

"Sir, this is our cannon, your ministry...."

Before Jem finished speaking, Wang Zheng interrupted him and said casually:

"This is the cannon of the Ming Dynasty, the ship is also the ship of the Ming Dynasty, and you are also my people of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise there would be no need for the general to spare your lives."

Without asking the other party if he wanted to, a mouth was the decisive word, this Jem froze for a long time, opened his mouth, but did not say anything else.

In fact, it was they who raised the national flag first to provoke, and now that they have surrendered, they are indeed not qualified to raise any more opinions, and from the words of this Ming general, Jem can also hear the meaning of the threat.

Jem nodded knowingly and said loudly:

"The big lord is above, these are the big lord's, we are all the people of the Ming Dynasty."

"Hmm", Wang Zheng said casually:

"Jem, you will work in my mansion from now on."

"Thank you, sir, for taking it in."

This voice of the big lord was quite smooth, but it sounded awkward, Wang Zheng waved his hand: "You don't need to call me the lord anymore, just call me the general like them." ”

Jem didn't know if he heard it or not, and as soon as Wang Zheng's voice fell, he immediately shouted:

"Yes, the old general."

Wang Zheng looked at the past with a straight face, and couldn't help laughing, and was amused by this Jem's serious appearance, and the surrounding atmosphere suddenly relaxed.

Jem saw Wang Zheng laugh and initially followed Hehe with a smirk, but when he smiled like this, Wang Zheng laughed even more.

This time Jem was confused, not knowing what he was laughing at.