Chapter 24 Fujian Sailors
Poor Kurohachi was thrown out in humiliation.
Really threw it out.
Yang Dashuai spoke, his subordinates naturally had to strictly enforce, the four guards grabbed their limbs respectively, and then carried him to the door with a force, and threw him directly out of the gate, but fortunately, the expensive nephrite cup was held in his arms, so it was not damaged.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of wolf-like Ming soldiers rushed to the dock, unloaded the goods on his ship as quickly as possible, and sent them to the Marshal's Mansion.
Fortunately, after seeing the more than 50 tons of copper ingots piled up in front of him, Yang Dashuai rarely regained his kindness, and took out a treasure for his subordinates to send to the dock, and gave it to Heiba, who was about to leave this sad place.
Well, Yang Dashuai gave him a mirror.
A glass mirror.
Although the glass mirror has already been invented at this time and has also spread to the East, it is still a high-end luxury, and only a small amount is popular in the upper class, but at this time, the mirrors made in Europe are mercury mirrors, and Yang Feng This is actually an aluminum mirror casually taken in the supermarket, the two are not the same level, even if the black eight look is understood.
Yang Feng is going to use these little things to suck blood from the Wa country in the future, as for whether this way will hurt the feelings too much, this is not a big deal, and the Wa country is not only a big name of the Shimazu family, but there are several on Kyushu Island, even if the relationship with the Shimazu family is stiff, it is nothing more than looking for other homes, Fukuoka, Tosa, Hizen, which one can't cooperate?
The day after Hei Ba left, the patrol warship of the Ming Army's naval division intercepted a Portuguese merchant ship preparing to go to Songjiang in the sea near Zhoushan, and then brought it to Zhoushan to send Wallace and others to the ship, and Yang Feng generously let them take away all the promised things, snowflake balls, music boxes, a set of aluminum alloy tableware, and even a few silver-plated mirrors, as for the plastic cups, he also took a few.
However, Yang Feng also entrusted Wallace with a matter.
"I need a ship, a real warship, preferably a cruiser class, of course you can sell me a bigger one, but I need a hurry, and I need a lot of them, at least twenty or more, if the British East India Company is interested in doing this business, it is better to bring a professional with you next time you come."
Yang Feng said to Wallace very sincerely.
If you go to Keelung in the future to develop, the problem of direct sea transportation between the two places is very important, although the ships under his command can also run Keelung from Zhoushan, but because they are generally very small, once they encounter a big wind and waves, it is easy to be affected, compared to the European galleons of hundreds of thousands of tons at this time, it is more suitable for this kind of work, if he builds his own ship, he also needs a large number of workers, and this is very lacking, it is very simple to buy from Europeans.
"Okay, Yang, I'll relay it on your behalf."
Wallace nodded.
"I must warn you, however, that such ships are very expensive, and each one will cost more than ten thousand pounds."
Then he added.
At this time, the pound banknotes had appeared, but it was not yet the time when Newton set the gold content to death, but it was basically the same, after all, Newton's pricing was also based on the actual situation, and his price was seventeen years later, three pounds per troy ounce seventeen shillings with a fraction, that is, about eight grams of gold per pound, and his price was only 90 percent of the gold content. In this era, the value of gold and silver is very stable, silver to gold is fifteen to one in the world, there is a fluctuation but not very large, that is to say, one pound is equivalent to more than 100 grams of silver, basically about three to four taels of silver, this also depends on the purity, so that the silver in Yang Feng's warehouse can also buy one or two cruisers.
So Wallace is well-intentioned.
Although Yang Feng took out a lot of good things, and theoretically he could indeed make a lot of money, but whether these things would be popular when they were sent to Europe, how much money they could sell, and how long they would take to get money, were all uncertain, after all, it would take more than half a year to send them to the UK from here.
Now you have to buy twenty warships at once, isn't it a little too anxious.
"Wallace, in fact, I'm not going to spend a silver or two on these ships."
Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Because I'll let you give it to me."
In Wallace's stunned gaze, he continued.
In fact, he is going to give the British a small golden finger, and then let them challenge Europe, simply to give them the flowering bomb technology, and then find them to change a batch of warships to give themselves an emergency, that is, a wooden toga woodpipe fuse, and now he has begun to prepare for casting, this kind of thing is the terminator of the sail battleship, it will take more than a hundred years in history to appear, and at this time, the flowering bomb is still in the stage of using scissors to cut the fuse, and it is not used on the warship at all.
As for the help of this technique to the military power of the British......
This is a matter of, even if it is a headache, the French need a headache, and then the Spanish throne scuffle will soon begin, almost half of Europe will be involved in this war, if the British show their might, it is estimated that more people will come to him to buy this technology, and then he can be a happy arms dealer.
What's more, if this kind of shell is used in cannons, the shell must be as strong as possible, because as a hollow ball it must withstand high bore pressure, with the level of steelmaking in Britain at this time, it is estimated that it can only be made of thick walls, and the thick wall charge is less and the caliber is small, so it can only be played with large-caliber bombardment guns as in the original history, and if you want to make this kind of shell for cannons of smaller calibers, then he can directly sell such products, so that he can make money.
As for the question that he will have to face the British fleet in the future......
By the time he needed to face the British fleet, it was estimated that he would have long ago played with the steam engine ironclad.
Wallace obviously didn't understand Yang Feng's brain circuit, and didn't understand what he could do to get the British to send twenty warships for nothing, but he didn't say anything more, and after saying goodbye to Yang Feng, he immediately boarded the Portuguese merchant ship and sailed to Macao.
After he left, Huang Baijia also left Zhoushan in a hurry and went to pull people for Yang Feng.
After sending Huang Baijia away, in the next few days, including Yan Hongkui and Lu Yizhong, dozens of scholars who had participated in the Peach Blossom Island Alliance came one after another, and then, like Huang Baijia, left their families in Zhoushan, and then returned to Zhejiang with a special mission to contact Yang Feng with righteous people from all sides.
As for how many people they can pull in the end......
This Yang Feng didn't know, anyway, he had no other way now, but to pin his hopes on these people.
During this period, Guo Shilong, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Wu Ying, the commander of the Fujian Navy, led more than 100 warships of the Fujian Navy, but in view of the previous failure, Wu Ying also did not dare to attack immediately, but stationed the fleet in Shipu Port. It is estimated that he is studying how to deal with him, after all, Xu Jiugong has proved with a fiasco that those filthy weapons can't break Yang Feng's demon law, so he has to find another way, otherwise if the rash attack fails again, then the entire southeast coast can be left to Yang Feng to wreak havoc.
The Fujian Navy Division was the most powerful naval force of the Qing army south of the Yangtze River estuary.
"This traitor!"
Chen Xiangzhu said to Shipu Port on the map.
This map was copied out in the Dinghai General Soldier Yamen, although it looks like graffiti, but it can barely be used, in fact, even the chart on the Valkyrie, Yang Feng looks like graffiti, and it is full of mistakes, many places are missing, including Australia is just a very casual circle so it counts.
"This Wu Ying is your former person?"
Yang Feng asked curiously.
Lord Chen Xiang nodded silently.
"Defeated, captured, and surrendered to the enemy, or surrendered to the enemy himself?"
"I surrendered to the enemy, followed Shi Lang's dog thief, and later attacked Taiwan, he was also the main lackey of the Tartars, and he did the Penghu War Five Plum Blossom Scheme."
Chen Xiang said hatefully.
"Then you need to be entertained, do you have a brother from Shipu in your hometown? Let's call to see if we have any good ways to surprise Master Wu. ”
Yang Feng thought for a while and said.
Shi Lang died early, he didn't have a chance to repair it, although he cut off Shi Shibiu's head, but it was not interesting after all, but he didn't expect that there was such a baby, this was sent to the door by himself, if it was surrendered after the Qing army destroyed Taiwan, that could be lightly dropped, after all, normal people surrendered at that time, but a guy like this can be described as a traitor.
"Dashuai, Shipu is not good for sneak attack, the terrain of that place is too good, it can be said that it is not inferior to Zhoushan at all, if our warships go in the dark at night, it is easy to run into the reef, and if they break through during the day, the fort on Dongmen Island is not easy to deal with, not to mention that the strength of the Tartar sailors is not inferior to ours, once they fall rashly into that group of islands and reefs, it will cause serious losses."
Lord Chen Xiang cautiously reminded him.
"You don't need to say this, I have the number of places."
Yang Feng waved his hand and said.
Of course he knows that place, the Sino-French War Shipu Night Battle, the test site of the French pole mine, he also wants to learn from the French and get a small boat to touch it, but he definitely won't use pole mine, that thing is no less than a suicide attack, not to mention that at this time, the warship of the Qing Army's naval division is not the Yuyuan and Chengqing gunboats with a displacement of 2,000 tons.
He has something better.
Two Shipu soldiers were quickly called over, and after a little conversation with the marshal, they were quickly taken away by Yang Dashuai, and then carried out a big wooden box from the marshal's mansion to find a place to find a place I don't know what to do, at the same time a group of local old boatmen were also gathered and busily around an ordinary sampan fishing boat, as for what Yang Dashuai wants to play, no one knows this, fortunately, people are immortals, no matter what they do, it makes sense, as a mortal, there is no need to care, what the marshal says will do well.