"Oh? Furlan man? Lian Zining was suddenly overjoyed, and said in his heart that he was looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally he was looking forward to you.

"Let's go, Dazhu, go back to the city! I'm going to meet the Frangi people myself. Lian Zining beckoned Shi Dazhu and the others to get on the horse, and a group of dozens of people galloped away.

"Franc Robot?" Wang Dachun touched the dismount and stood in place pondering: "Isn't that a shengfan?" Why do adults think so highly of them? ”

Zhang Yanchang ordered to go down, Lian Zining naturally believed that it would be done, but he didn't expect it to arrive so soon. With these Franc machine craftsmen, those damaged Five Thunder God machines can be regarded as hopeful.

When he arrived at the South City Gate, Lian Zining suddenly woke up to the fact that he didn't have to be in such a hurry, in this era, the Ming Dynasty was the most powerful dynasty in the world, and the people of the Ming Dynasty looked at all foreigners as second-class citizens, especially looking down on Caucasians, and called them Shengfan. Even those Europeans also look up to the Ming Dynasty with a humble attitude, and if they go to meet them in person, they will inevitably seem to have a good share.

Lian Zining shook his head, but he didn't take these false courtesies to heart.

González-Franco was nervous at this time.

He is Lisbon himself, and he should be regarded as Portuguese, but in the Ming Dynasty, whether it is the Portuguese or the Spaniards, they are collectively called the Franco-Mechanics, and the Ming Dynasty has no heart to distinguish the specific difference between the two kingdoms that add up to less than one slave.

Although he was born in the Kingdom of Portugal, or rather the capital of the Empire, the glory of the Empire had nothing to do with Gonzalez, who was just a descendant of a ruined aristocracy.

His family also used to be prosperous, which can be seen from his surname, Franco, a great symbol in the noble lineage inherited in Europe. Especially in Spain, where there are many nouveau riche, this surname superiority is even more obvious. Gonzalez-Franco is just his abbreviation, and his full name, made up of six phrases, is also a true sign of nobility.

It is said that his ancestors were among the first leaders to oppose the Islamic Arab Empire's rule in Iberia, leading his peasants and servants to fight against it, while his father, who was also the head of a mercenary regiment, followed Cortés on his journey to the newly discovered world, where they conquered a great and rich kingdom with swords and muskets.

However, the glory of his ancestors had nothing to do with him, and Gonzalez's gambling father lost all his fortune before he died, leaving him with only a small estate outside Lisbon.

Unwilling to be lonely, Gonzalez, who was twenty years old at the time, sold his only ancestral property and began to explore the world.

He worked as a foreign mercenary in Switzerland, following the natives of the Alps over the mountains and learning from them how to work with spears and axes. He had been to Paris, the most luxurious city in Europe at the time, and had served under the command of the French marshal Rebesno, and was a brother to the French dragoons; He traveled to Corsica and Sicily, where he became acquainted with a group of unruly Sicilian thugs, and even joined their partisan detachments against the Spanish invasion, where he learned how to repair muskets and make improvised artillery in extreme rudimentary conditions; He even worked as a sailor for three years, went to Venice, went to Constantinople, and personally bombarded the Gold Coast of Nizar, massacring the local black natives.

Mr. Gonzalez's career was extremely rich and interesting, and in short, he was a master of seafaring, muskets and artillery, and no stranger to cold weapon combat.

After twenty years of wandering, the forty-year-old Gonzalez finally realized that he needed to start a family and buy a permanent property.

But he couldn't make a fortune in Europe, so Gonzalez went to learn to be fluent in Chinese, and spent his life savings to buy a three-masted clipper with forty twelve-pound guns, which was the best ship that could be used in all of Portugal, and indeed in all of Europe.

Gonzalez gathered his Sicilian companions, boarded a ship laden with all kinds of cargo, set sail to the East.

Beginning with Marco Polo's damned travels, everyone in Europe knows that the Orient is the best place in the world, with the finest porcelain, the most lubricated silk, the richest land, and the most prosperous castles. Indeed, those who came to the East and could return safely all made their fortunes, and they brought back silk, porcelain, and tea, which were the best-selling silks, porcelain, and tea in Lisbon, Paris, London, and Rome, in exchange for large quantities of precious gold and silver from the New World, and then set out again on their journey to the East.

But Gonzalez was clearly not one of these lucky ones, and when he came to the sea area less than 100 miles from Jingao, he ran into a Spanish merchant ship, and at that time Spain and Portugal were competing for the interests of the New World, although the war had not yet been officially started, but the relationship was already very tense. Not to mention that these armed merchant ships are merchants when there are many people, and where there are no people, they are pirates, so naturally, a robbery without psychological pressure began.

Gonzalez's ship was strong and sharp, and soon the Spanish merchant ship was bruised, and then rushed up to take over the battle, and at this moment, three ironclad ships appeared in the distance, which were the sailors of the Ming Dynasty.

Gonzalez didn't pay attention to these Great Ming Naval Division battleships at first, although the hull of the opponent was larger, but there were no cannons, but soon, his confidence was crushed by the overwhelming crossbow arrows. Although the Ming Dynasty did not have artillery, their ships were equipped with countless giant crossbows, those one or two meters long giant crossbow arrows, which shot farther than artillery, and were infinitely powerful, and soon shot Gonzalez's clipper into a hedgehog. He pinned his hopes on the broadside battle, but as soon as the two ships docked, the huge slap rod on the opposite Ming warship smashed down, smashing the ship's superstructure to pieces.

Naturally, Gonzalez became a prisoner of the Great Ming Marine.

Their ship was pulled back as trophies, and he and his 100 or so men were searched for the last copper plate on their bodies and thrown into a prison in Xiangshan County. Gonzalez finally got a glimpse of the Ming Dynasty, but it was in a prisoner car.

Gonzalez thought that he must die this time, and the Ming Dynasty's treatment of pirates and lawbreakers - for which Gonzalez was very indignant, but did not dare to refute it - has always been so.

But unexpectedly, they were suddenly released from the prison, escorted by a team of Ming soldiers, and came all the way to the north.

Only then did Gonzalez know that he was a great nobleman in the north of the Ming Dynasty who needed a few craftsmen who could repair firearms, and his Sicilian companions happened to have this craft. So the general who had captured them gave them as a gift to the nobleman.

Along the way, Gonzalez finally saw how prosperous, powerful, and ashamed this great Eastern empire was. He passed through a city with tall walls, spacious bluestone-paved streets, drains in all directions, and tall buildings that were so beautiful and ethereal, with high eaves at the corners. The streets there are wider than Lisbon, there are more shops than Lisbon, and the residents are healthier and more ornate than the people of Lisbon, and they even wear robes made of silk! Sadly, Lisbon has no drainage system at all, the streets are full of sewage and footless sludge, and the aristocratic ladies are directly pooping and peeing on the streets, because there are no public toilets.

"Is this Yanjing City? The capital of your empire? Or the capital of which province? Gonzalez asked, surprised.

The surrounding soldiers all laughed and fell down, and they told this Portuguese turtle that this was just a small county town in the Ming Dynasty, and there were more than a thousand cities like this in the country!

Gonzalez and his men were dumbfounded.

What kind of powerful empire is this? Their people were rich, their prowess, their cities the size of Lisbon were more than a thousand, their ships were larger than those of Portugal and Spain combined, and their army was equal to the population of Portugal combined!

And now they were standing at the gates of a city with walls ten yards high, and the huge bricks looked like they weighed thirty pounds each! Here they were, waiting for the nobleman's reception, and along the way, they heard about the great deeds of the nobleman, who had led thousands of troops to defeat tens of thousands of rebels just half a month earlier, and the emperor of the empire had made him the governor of six cities, each of which was the same as the one in front of him.

Oh my God, Gonzalez was almost stunned, the Spanish army that invaded all of Sicily was less than 10,000 men, right?

Just when he was in a state of anxiety, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, and then a group of dozens of horsemen rushed out of the city, each wearing shining plate armor, beautiful cloaks, and beautiful helmets, and riding tall horses. The cavalry stopped, and a young man dressed in a blue shirt rode out and stopped in front of everyone.

Although he didn't look gorgeous, Gonzalez knew that this was the nobleman. As soon as he appeared, the Ming people who were watching them all knelt down, and even the Ming officers and soldiers who came over and scolded them along the way also knelt on the ground.

Gonzalez's knees weakened, and he also fell to the ground with his own people.

"These are the Franc machines?" Lian Zining couldn't help frowning when he looked at the group of tall white people kneeling down in front of him, all in rags, applying for difficulties, mixed men and women.

"The last will see you!" A clear voice came, and Lian Zining looked at it, and an officer dressed in a hundred households was saluting him with a fist.

Lian Zining hurriedly dismounted, helped him up, and said with a smile: "No courtesy, no courtesy, how do you call this one?" ”

The hundred households are about twenty years old, and they have been a hundred households at such a young age, and they are also capable, but they are young and old, and they are very respectful to Lian Zining, and said: "The last general will not dare, the last general of the Guangdong Navy Hundred Households Chen Luan, on the military order of the Admiral, escorted these Franji people to serve in front of the adult's account." ”

Because this surnamed Lian Zining took a particularly deep look at him, there are many taboos in the sailors, and those surnamed Chen are generally not allowed to get on the boat.

"Escort?" Lian Zining couldn't help but be surprised: "What's going on?" ”

Chen Lan told these good things that Gonzalez and the others had done, and kindly reminded: "My lord, you should be careful, these Francois are not good people. ”

"Huh!" Lian Zining smiled: "In our Ming Dynasty, they can't make any waves, if they are disobedient, they will be killed with a knife." ”

"That's right." Chen Lan nodded and said: "Originally, I was going to sell these Francois into slaves, Franco women are still liked by many dignitaries and nobles in our Ming Dynasty, and now they are all your house slaves, life and death depend on your mood." ”

Hearing this, Gonzalez immediately shuddered.

"Your Excellency, we are brave Sicilian warriors, but we are not your slaves, and you can't kill us casually!" At this time, a crisp female voice suddenly sounded, speaking Chinese quite fluently, with a hint of exoticism.

Yo? Lian Zining followed the sound, but saw a tall red-haired beauty looking at her with her head held high and a stubborn face.

She is about 20 years old, extremely tall, about 1.9 meters, half a head taller than Lian Zining, with a slender figure, long red hair tied into a ponytail, and her skin is as white as snow, bright and neat. The powerful waist seems to be full of vitality, like a female leopard, and the two papaya-sized protrusions on her chest make Lian Zining inexplicably remind her of the legendary Amazon female warrior.

"Presumptuous!" Chen Lan took the knife out of the sheath at his waist and reprimanded in a cold voice: "You dare to talk to an adult like this!" ”

What else did the red-haired woman want to say, but Gonzalez had covered her mouth and pulled her back, Gonzalez was full of smiles, nodded and said: "Grass people, no, small, small Gonzalez has seen the honorable adult, the barbarian of Qiwei Township, who does not know the cultivation of the Celestial Empire, don't be surprised by Lord Wanwang." ”

Lian Zining's fluent Fengyang official dialect made Lian Zining raise his eyebrows and said with a smile: "What nationality are you?" Spain or Portugal? How come these friends of yours are from Sicily? It was one of Italy's brightest jewels. ”

"Huh?" Gonzalez was stunned for a moment, it was the first time he had met someone who knew so much about Europe here, and hurriedly said: "Back to the words of the honorable lord, the little one is from Lisbon, Portugal, these partners, they are from Sicily, we once resisted the invasion of the evil Spanish Empire together. They were the elite of the Sicilian militia guerrillas, who followed the little ones to the great East to make a living. ”

"Oh? Sicilian militia guerrillas? Lian Zining asked with interest: "So you have a lot of combat experience?" Do you know how to use muskets? And what about artillery? ”

"You have a keen eye to see the tail feathers of a swan." Gonzalez made a nondescript analogy, and he sensed that the adult might be interested in it: "They were the best warriors, skilled in muskets, cannons, repairing firearms, and making simple cannons with tools. And I, uh, the little one used to be a mercenary in Switzerland, served in the army of the Marshal of France, and was proficient in navigation, artillery and infantry strategy, and the little one must be very useful to adults. Look, sir......"

"That's it!" Lian Zining interrupted Gonzalez's boasting, he took a long breath, he didn't expect it, he really didn't expect it, he only wanted a few craftsmen, but he sent these treasures to himself!

More than a hundred all-rounders who are proficient in musket and artillery control techniques, capable of repairing and crafting artillery muskets, and a super mercenary who is proficient in infantry phalanxes and navigation!

Although the Ming Dynasty was the first in the world in terms of national strength at this time, far exceeding those countries in Europe, even Zining knew better than anyone else that such a situation could not last long! Because the Ming Dynasty took the wrong path, the direction of future weapon development will only be firearms, and nothing else! The direction is wrong, and the farther you go, the more wrong you are. Moreover, in this era, the combined use of infantry and muskets in Europe was already ahead of the Ming Dynasty. Originally, in the original time and space, Yu Long and Qi Hu were amazingly talented, and the car array invented by Qi Jiguang cooperated with the method used by the fire soldiers to subdue the northern barbarians for decades!

But now, without firearms, everything is in vain!

Lian Zining looked at these Francophone people, as if he saw a cannon iron gun.

"Dazhu, take them down and settle down first, change into decent clothes, have a full meal, and look at the hungry!" Lian Zining instructed: "Go find Wang Dachun, give them the Five Thunder God Machine and the Bowl Mouth Gun, and see if they can repair it and imitate it." ”

"Yes, sir!" Shi Dazhu came to Gonzalez and said with a smile: "Let's go, what ...... this guy is"

Gonzalez hurriedly laughed, showing two rows of large teeth, and said cautiously: "Gonzalez, honorable lordship......"

Gonzalez and his entourage left nervously, Lian Zining beckoned, and the soldiers behind him handed over a wooden box, Lian Zining gave it to Chen Lan, and said with a smile: "I drove Chen Baihu so far away, and the official didn't want to go, you go to settle down first, and then the official will issue documents for you." ”

Chen Lan hesitated a little: "My lord, this ......"

"Hey, it's not just for you! Thanks to your Lord Admiral, so many slaves can be sold for a lot of good prices, isn't it, this is considered to be bought by the official. and the rest of the scattered pieces of silver will be your reward. ”

"Then, thank you, my lord!" Chen Ling thanked.

Gonzalez and the others were taken to a mansion, looking at the mansion with layers of houses and luxurious mansions, he asked Shi Dazhu in disbelief: "This general, is this for us to live?" ”

"Of course!" Shi Dazhu was rarely called a general, and he was in a happy mood, and said: "There are many houses inside, you can settle down by yourself, the bedding and utensils in it are complete, and our adults have already made people ready." You take a shower first, and look at the smell on your body, you can smell it from three feet away. Later, someone will bring clothes and food, so you can rest first. ”

As soon as they heard that they could live in such a luxurious house, many Sicilian turtles cheered, and in their eyes, the nobles' castles were not so good! Some of them have already run into the house and are screaming at what they see.

Gonzalez had a little more heart, and asked cautiously, "What did the adults let us do with such courtesy?" ”

"What can there be? What else will you do? Shi Dazhu pouted: "We adults like firearms, and I came to you to repair and make firearms." ”

Before leaving, he advised: "You just stay here, what you should do, but there is one sentence, don't run around, don't go out of the house." ”

Gonzalez hastened to respond.

—————— dividing line—————— it was already a severe winter, the sky was freezing cold, and after the northern land entered December, it was cold and evil, the biting cold wind was howling, the lead clouds were piled up in the air, and the sky and the earth were gray and black cold tones.

The people are all at home, and there are few pedestrians on the road, but at this time, there is a sudden sound of horses' hooves, from far and near, it is a team of dozens of knights, silver armor and red cloaks, majestic.

The group of knights stopped at the gate of a large mansion, and was already greeted by a few tall, blonde white men.

"Little Gonzalez has seen an adult!" Seeing Lian Zining dismount, Gonzalez hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.

"That's it, forgive yourself from these false courtesies, and take the official to see your results." Lian Zining waved his hand and said.

"Yes, my lord, please come with the little one. Gonzalez led the way, and the group entered the house.

This group of Francois pirates, who used to be down-and-out, have changed their shotguns at this time, and some of them look like people. Gonzalez was wearing a cotton green robe, a thick fox skin on the shoulders, a black square scarf on his head, and a folding fan in his hand.

And the Sicilian guerrillas under his command were all wearing cotton armor, holding a large sword nearly a man long or an axe and gun more than a foot long, and the style of the warrior did not change, and they were majestic and high-spirited.

Lian Zining's eyes couldn't help but stay on Qi Wei's face for a while, this red-haired chick with long legs and a thin waist and big waves, she asked the blacksmith to give her a half-body armor, Lian Zining recognized this style, it is a popular style in southern Italy, about divided into four parts: breastplate, leg armor, gloves, and iron boots, and the surface is decorated with a copper wisteria branch half-body armor, which firmly protects the chick's chest and lower crotch, highlighting the long-legged and thin waist, and it looks more and more like the meaning of the Amazon Valkyrie.

It's been a month since these people came, and Lian Zining hasn't bothered to see them, of course, there is no lack of intention to dry them, just gave them a bunch of scrapped Five Thunder God Machine The bowl mouth of the White Lotus Sect that was seized that day, and asked them to repair and imitate it. However, the food and clothing of each day must not be harsh, and after everyone came, everyone first paid a settlement fee of five taels of silver, during which a lot of things were rewarded.

Today, it was Gonzalez who asked the soldiers of the guards to deliver a message to Lian Zining, saying that he had eyebrows.

(To be continued)