Chapter 12: Arms from Europa
Zheng Jue's return to Jingyuan is already the end of October, and the time is just right, after all, Zheng Jue has no relatives in Wuzhou, although he has started a family, but this year is the first year that Zheng Jue has become a "lonely person", so he still has to go to Fuzhou to find that family of pirates for the New Year, and Zheng Jue is still looking forward to this "visiting relatives", according to Steward Wang, the relationship between this body's father and Zheng Zhilong has some special relationships in addition to some relatives, Therefore, Zheng Zhilong has monopolized the sea trade for so many years, and will take Zheng Jue's father to play, leaving Zheng Jue with a foundation for tossing, of course, Zheng Jue is more curious, or the person who has not been mentioned in a Chinese history textbook in later generations - Zheng Sen
Zheng Jue came to the Pearl River Wharf in Wuzhou to take a boat south to Macao, and then changed ships from Macao to Quanzhou to the north, Zheng Jue looked at the city along the coast from the boat, although the north has fallen, but there are only some more refugees here, and there is a little more hurry between pedestrians, after all, there is not only the protection of the Yangtze River moat, but also this is the southernmost point of the entire Shenzhou continent, since ancient times, there have been few wars burning here, no one would have thought that this place would become a battlefield in two years, And this ancient city called Guangzhou will add hundreds of thousands of undead in just a few days
Zheng Jue was mixed in a merchant ship, surrounded by some spices and porcelain tea, after all, there was no passenger transport in this era...... Zheng Jue will not go to Macau if there is a passenger transport, Zheng Jue has to stop when he goes to Macau, because Zheng Jue wants to go to Macau to order something, get some arms orders and missionaries, Zheng Jue came to Macao with Shi Mo, and Shi Mo thought that Zheng Jue had seen that he had worked too hard to repair Jingyuan City in the past few months, and took him to Yingtian to play, but Zheng Jue did not plan to take him out of Guangdong
When Zheng Jue arrived in Macau, he couldn't bear to hit him when he saw that Shi Mo was still excited, but there must be someone here to stay here and bring back to Jingyuan what Zheng Jue needs, so as to save his life
Zheng Jue came to Macau, watching Macau in just a hundred years to build so many southern European buildings, for a while Zheng Jue thought that he had arrived in Portugal, the streets of Macao were bustling with a large number of Europeans, and the local Chinese got along very well, all thanks to the five hundred years ago that foolish but full of romantic life Emperor Zhu Houzhao, when Zhu Houzhao was curious about the Francophone to lend Macao to the Portuguese Navy to avoid the waves, although it was a kind of transfer of sovereignty, But it is not the first time that China looks at the world with goodwill eyes, Zheng Jue saw the landmark buildings of Macau, St. Anthony's Cathedral originally wanted to go there to catch a few intellectuals first, but Zheng Jue felt that the guy who saved his life was more important, especially after seeing the domineering cannon in Guilin, Zheng Jue wanted to buy some firearms and return to Jingyuan
After several inquiries, Lu Fool Mo and Road Fool Zheng Jue finally arrived at the Macau Governor's Palace, that is, the famous Baolu Battery, in fact, Masgarlu also likes Chinese to buy arms, Masgar Lu also heard that after a nomad in northern Asia invaded the capital of Daming, he began to prepare a large number of arms waiting for Daming's officials to buy, but he didn't expect Zheng Jue to buy it
After a polite and unnutritious uproar after entering the Governor's Palace, Zheng Jue began to cut to the topic: "Lord Governor, I want fifty of these cannons, and I want some officers to help my officers learn to use these weapons" Zheng Jue and Mascoluu also ordered fifty cannons, that is, red-coated cannons
"Okay general, I think the price should be 150,000 taels of silver according to your algorithm" This number is not high, but Zheng Jue still wants to press this number, after all, Zheng Jue doesn't know where to get so much money after Zheng Zhilong finishes calves in the second year of Longwu
"Your Excellency the Governor, I think you should know that there is an empire similar to Ottoman Turkey rising in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and my motherland is following in the footsteps of the Byzantine Empire, and this will soon become the most dangerous and barbaric battlefield on the entire continent, and I and my subordinates will be here, driving the barbarian people in the north back to their homeland, I think we will have a lot of cooperation in the future, so in terms of price, I hope it can be lower." Ma Shigaru also looked at the child in front of him, who was only sixteen or seventeen, but just an adult child, and didn't know what confidence he had to say such a thing
"My general, I believe that we will have a lot of cooperation in the future, but how can I believe that you have the ability to change the fate of your homeland? How do you know that your homeland will be like the Byzantine Empire? "Mashijialu obviously doesn't believe that Zheng Jue can stop a barbaric nomad, and the missionaries in the middle of Wanli are still saying that the emperor of the Chinese Empire has the ability to use warships to build a pontoon bridge from Guangzhou to Malacca, and Mashulu certainly doesn't believe that such a powerful empire will be defeated by a nomad who has just risen in just twenty years, but Zheng Jue knows that this is indeed the case, and if there is no Zheng Jue, everything will be like this
"Because after the Jiashen national disaster, I was the first and only Chinese soldier to come to you, didn't I?" Zheng Jue looked at Mascot Luye meaningfully
"Okay, but 150,000 taels will not change, I can send you 3,000 Mauser rifles that the Portuguese Empire is loading"
"Deal! This is my subordinate, his name is Lin Shimo, I will hand it over to him when I am ready, and he will take you to my military camp" Zheng Jue pulled Shi Mo over, Shi Mo was originally watching Zheng Jue and Ma Shijialu also pretending to be forced and bargaining was quite lively, but I didn't expect Zheng Jue to give him such a moment, Shi Mo's expression instantly froze, Zheng Jue patted Shi Mo's back from behind, Shi Mo turned back mechanically, and put on a smile that was more ugly than crying
"General Zheng, let's go, play two!" Mashigaru also took Zheng Jue to a casino, although there are casinos in the interior, but the first time Zheng Jue saw such a blatant casino, it was at the door of the local government, and it was the local chief executive who took the lead in gambling
In fact, most of the local people in Macau are some sailors who ask for money and are useless, these industries are at sea all the year round, although the salary is very high, but there is not even a grocery store at sea, how to spend it? can only gamble, this is the reason for the emergence of Macau's ** industry, as for the development of Macau's ** industry today, of course, it is mainly because Hong Kong has become a British colony
Zheng Jue didn't play too much, and the two of them were happy, Zheng Jue didn't want to fight with others except for the things and people he really cared about in his previous life or in this life, not to mention that this was still with a group of red-haired sailors who had just returned from the sea and had lice on their bodies dangling dice and shouting on the street, for the few taels of silver that were not spent on a stone