When Ernst López arrived in Dango, the work had just begun, and nothing had been done except for the keel of a small ironclad ship that had been placed on the sleepers. I rushed to Miyazu Town at this time, and if I wasn't there, I really couldn't say anything!

"It's spectacular!" Standing on the main castle tower of Miyazu Castle, Ernst couldn't help but sigh for a lifetime, and he had a special affection for the ship after being adrift at sea for half his life.

"Of course, after all, more than two dozen ships are being built at the same time!" I'm also quite proud that not everyone is capable of doing this.

"Adding so many main warships at once will undoubtedly seriously upset the balance of power in Japan's coastal waters, does your sovereign really have no worries?" He asked me worriedly.

"I have already reported this matter, and the reason for the appeal is to contain his enemies in the San'in area!" I said with a slight hint of meaning.

"That's what he believed?" He continued to ask with concern.

"Why don't you believe it? Not only did I believe it, but I also really encouraged it! I couldn't help but laugh out loud. …… In fact, I also found out a piece of information: he laughed at me on a few private occasions for being a whimsical fool! In his opinion, the trolls are a highly technical field that must be managed by 'insiders'. Without a good helmsman, sailman, navigator, and sailor, even if there is a big warship, it is still a bunch of decorations! ”

"In a sense, he wasn't wrong!" Ernst did not smile, but nodded deeply.

"Pretty good!" We went into the house together, and knowing his habits, I took out a bottle of Bordeaux white wine and poured two glasses, which I had no particular preference for. "For me, it's an advantage to make the most of information asymmetry!" I tilted my head and took a sip, and the tulip-shaped glass had a golden yellow tinge of greenish.

"Thank you!" He pursed lightly and closed his eyes slightly, as if enjoying the slightly sour sweetness. "At this point I have to admire your foresight, those children who learned to sail have basically completed their coursework and are currently in internship, and should be in time for the day the fleet is built!"

"Thank you for your great assistance!" I raised my glass slightly at him.

"But I must warn you that their numbers are so small that it would be ...... to rely on them to support the entire fleet" Ernst was a merchant through and through, and everything was based on feasibility.

"Rest assured, they are just the backbone of the future fleet! When have you ever seen me hang myself from a tree? "I've been planning for him for a long time." I have a pretty good relationship with the pirates in the San'in area, and I'm going to take in a pretty large number of them, and in fact this is already in the works! There were many of them, enough for the average sailor, and those small boats of theirs could also play an auxiliary role. ”

"Aside from a few lads and novices, I still don't see any hope of getting the most out of these ships!" He shrugged his shoulders very Europeanly and pouted.

"As long as these boats can be driven, there is no need to worry about other things!" I tilted my head and drank the wine from my glass. "At that time, as a member of the navy family, the Nine Ghost Family would send some good hands, and my lord would 'urgently' order him to do so!"

"Continue to increase your power? Further imbalance of forces within the body? Maybe I'm too pessimistic to look at it no matter how you look at it! Ernst shook his head in disbelief.

"After seeing the originally illusory powerful fleet become a reality, my lord's first feeling will be extreme shock, followed by deep doubts!" I picked up the bottle and poured myself another glass. Now that this situation has become a reality, he naturally does not want to see such a powerful force in a monolithic way! Strong suppression will bring backlash, and it will be necessary for him to bring in outsiders and make there a counterbalance force within him. In the East, this practice is known as 'mixing sand'! ”

"Esoteric political games, wonderful oriental wisdom, maybe I won't be able to figure it out for the rest of my life!" He shook his head with emotion. "Then aren't you afraid of being overshadowed by these outsiders?"

"No way!" I said confidently. "Because you will help me transform my ship into a multi-sail, and the tiller that is common in the East will also become a steering wheel! The people you train for me will be in charge of formulating the plan of operation, and those who are accustomed to sailing will not know how these things work. In the case that the bottom sailors are not even their fellow countrymen, their role can only be equated with an obedient cog! ”

"Now that I've got to talk about it, I have someone I want to recommend to you!" Ernst said sincerely: "The little monk Kamiya Shiyuan you entrusted to me at the beginning is very talented in navigation, even according to the current European standards, he can be on his own!" He returned to Japan at the same time as me and is now in Kyushu with his family. Call him in if you need to! ”

"I'll send someone to find him, at least there won't be too many of them!" Having said that, but if you look closely, at least one thing is certain, and that is that I will not make him a general of the navy as soon as I come up. "You know all my requirements, let's take a look at the drawings first!" I handed him the shipbuilding drawings of the two models.

"Hmm...... Can be changed...... The big ship was changed to 9 masts and 17 sails...... The boat was changed to 5 masts and 12 sails...... "He is an expert in boats, and he has a rough estimate at a glance. "The deck of this boat is square and larger, so there are more masts than comparable European sailing boats! But even then the speed will be much inferior, so you have to be prepared for this. Of course, due to the large number of oarsmen, short speeds can also be very high! ”

"I understand!" The fact that the sea fortress was able to achieve wartime maneuver was already satisfying to me. "Now let's talk about the core issue this time, heavy artillery! How much can you offer me? ”

"Go out of your way to meet your needs, as long as you can afford enough gold!" Ernst showed a "generosity" that he had never seen before, and the level of enthusiasm was somewhat unacceptable. "Before leaving Amsterdam, His Excellency the Governor-General had a special meeting with me on the question of Japan! We agree that your success will undoubtedly be of great significance to the expansion of Dutch trade in the Far East, so we will do everything we can to help you! What you need, we only ...... at cost price"

Listening to his confession, my heart is actually like a mirror! Oda Nobunaga's relationship with the Portuguese grew by leaps and bounds, and even he himself was baptized, although I don't think he would have been a devout believer, but it was enough to have this gesture! Considering that the relationship between the Dutch and the Spanish monarchy had long since ceased to exist, their policy was to form an alliance with England against the Old Church countries, and if Japan also became a Catholic country...... I really owe this thanks to Oda Nobunaga. "That's what I need!" I took out a list and handed it to him.

"400 Francophone cannons?! 120 Koferin cannons?! ......" In his exclamation, I could clearly make out the sound of my jaw dropping on the floor.

"Each of the 20 small ironclad ships has 19 Furlong cannons, which should be 380 in all; There were 55 Koferin guns on each of the 2 large ironclad ships, a total of 110 guns, and I had a surplus of a few of each......" I looked at him at this. "Such a surprise would be a loss of your identity! Isn't it not uncommon in Europe to have warships armed with forty or fifty guns and a fleet with thousands of guns? ”

"I'm amazed that your appetite is so small! Your lord ordered a cannon with a 50-pound cannon, and Kouphilin sent you away with a 17-pound cannon? Ernst hid his gaffe.

"In Japan it is still dominated by small boats with dozens of sailors with one mast, and a 17-pound shell is enough to break them to pieces, is it necessary to use a 50-pound shell?" I turned to him and asked. "Besides, Kou Feilin's range is hundreds of paces farther than a cannon! Even if they accidentally get closer, with the high rate of fire of hundreds of Francos, it will be enough to make them disappear before they can attack! By the way, each Franc machine is equipped with 5 subguns! ”

"It's a brilliant strategy, and it's very pragmatic!" He nodded pensively. "But what if...... What if your opponent is also equipped with an ironclad ship? It can't be said that there is no such possibility at all! ”

"Possibly......" I poured another glass of wine and held it up to the air, the refraction of the sunlight making the wine even more beautiful. According to your experience, if you are attacked by dozens of Kofilin hundreds of paces in advance, will the three guns still have a chance to open their mouths? Is it possible that Japan will catch up with Japan in the next 20 years in the size of the fleet I have built? ”

"It seems that I have indeed been overly concerned, and you have made the most adequate preparations, both mentally and materially!" Finally he stopped having any doubts about me, and it was time to think about how to sign and complete the contract.

"There won't be any problems with delivery, right?" I asked.

"You can rest assured about this! I've been prepared for a long time...... "He was full of confidence in himself. "We have prepared quite sufficient supplies for this time in the East, and at this time we think that they have been shipped one after another! Now that the British, Spaniards, and French are attacking each other in the Indian Ocean, we Dutch have a lot of trade opportunities, after all, we still have a neutral status! Now is the time for weapons to sell, but we'll give you a priority. A year, at most a year and a half, it must all arrive! This time, I'm bringing you two 24-pounder guns and 10 9-pounder guns, both of which are the latest Dutch products, and will be delivered to you after they are debugged in Sakaimachi! ”

"Thank you then!" That's exactly what I need right now. There are many fortified mountain castles in San'in, and although they are limited to the rugged terrain, the presence of artillery can still be very useful. "Tell me the price!" I asked for a quote.

"Okay!" He picked up my list and brushed it a few times with a brush. Then I saw a couple of numbers, which are often much more widely used in astronomy than in commerce.

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Bear in Winter: The network is very unstable, sorry for being late today!

In addition, I thought about it for a long time and decided to clarify one thing to you: that is, in the development and results of this book, there will be no direct connection with China! The Ming Dynasty was the most powerful country in the world at that time, and neither the output of steel nor the number of troops could be compared to any other country! To learn from a "gang of barbarians" in this situation? That's not something that ordinary people can do! It is absolutely impossible to do this without the use of extremely cruel and despicable means, without the blood flowing on the head of a man. Look at how difficult it is to change the law even after the Western powers repeatedly wake up to the **** dream, you will know that what I said is true! But I don't want to write such an extremely dark protagonist, who knows if I will become a pervert if I write too much of this kind of plot?

Some people may say that if you use an extremely YY approach, you can achieve the goal in a relaxed and happy atmosphere, and I have indeed read a few such books! But I get the feeling that an "idiot author" writes a "clown protagonist" and turns some real people in history into "fools" to play with him. I remember that Master Jin Yong's pen, whether it is Guo Jing, Qiao Feng or Wei Xiaobao, has not changed the real historical trend, even if I write a novel with a Chinese historical background in the future, I will have to follow the footsteps of Master Jin! YY Some foreigners can, I can't take the history of China!

China's history is profound, China's history is serious, and China's history has extremely complex connotations and backgrounds. It is that some authors can make a statement and serve at home! If you do what you think, will China avoid detours and remain strong? I don't think so! At least I don't have the self-confidence, not to mention changing history, but from today's perspective, I still have a lot of things that I haven't seen clearly! The speed of the expansion of the Internet is unmatched by anything else in history, and I don't want China to give the world the impression that the Chinese people are still a group of Ah Q, and that is the "eye" outside the country! As for the opinion of this book, it is better to stay at the level of a strategy management game.