"What a legend of ups and downs!" Kira Yoshitoki sighed and said, "I understand! I'll do my best to make your wish come true, but neither I nor you are too young! It would be a better choice if you could go back to Europe to continue your studies. ”

"I've told you so many stories just to hear you go back and continue learning? I thought you must be someone special, but now it seems that I was wrong! Claudia was disappointed, then she rose to her feet in a rage, picked up her skirt and was about to leave.

"Wait! I guess you need a fund, don't you? If my deal with your uncle is successful, I can provide you with a sum of money to help you achieve your dream. Kira Yoshitoki hurriedly ran to the top of the stairs to block her way.

The blonde little Lori waited for her blue eyes and said sternly, "I need your help, but I'm not begging for your alms!" You have to remember! The dignity of my Claudia Plantagenet is not to be desecrated! ”

"Alright! Your dignity is not to be desecrated! The arrogant Joseph was wrong! Kira Yoshitoki reluctantly admitted his mistake, "Okay! Let's talk about cooperation, shall we? ”

"Okay! I'll just get the shot! I need to buy a ship of my own, I need to have my own sailors and armed forces! I need you to lend me five hundred pounds of silver! ”

"What?" Ji Liang Yoshishi almost fell headlong, 500 pounds of silver is not a small amount, just with his Ji Liang family's family wealth to collect 50,000 taels of silver, this little Lori Lion's asking price is so high, it is not authentic.

"This no, absolutely not! I don't have that much money to lend you! Kira Yoshitoki refused without hesitation.

The blonde little Lori stared at him with a frown, and insisted in a very firm tone: "As long as you lend me five hundred pounds of silver, we can talk about anything!" ”

"Oh? Can anything be discussed? Kira Yoshitoki touched his chin and said with a slightly obscene smile, "Does that mean you can also talk?" ”

"You!" Claudia stood up in an instant and slapped her hands on the table like an angry little lioness, Kira Yoshishi really wanted to slap himself in the mouth, and he had to say a little more to anger the little Lori.

Just when he was annoyed by the gains and losses, Claudia suddenly sat back in her chair and said with a strange smile: "Of course, handsome Joseph, as long as you can afford it, I can't talk about it!" ”

Kira Yoshishi looked at the blonde little Lori with a weak heart, and asked cautiously, "Oh? What kind of price code? ”

Claudia blinked, a hint of cunning flashed in her eyes, and said faintly: "Ten six-deck Clark galleons, sixty half-snake cannons, and a thousand skilled sailors, my asking price is not high!" ”

"Nani! Is this still called the asking price is not high? You think you're made of gold! Kira almost got under the table, Clark is the largest ocean-going sailing ship in Spain, it is the trump card of Spain, not to mention that he has no money to buy it, even if he has money, he will not dare to buy it, he never expected Claudia to be scared to death with a mouth.

The latest Clark class sailing ships are different from the earlier models of a century ago, a time when Spain has been able to build large Clark sailing ships with a displacement of up to 700 tons, and the largest Clark is currently 50 meters long and 15 meters wide, and can carry 900 tons of cargo if the whole ship is heavily loaded, and can carry a crew of 200 people.

If you make an armed sailboat alone, the Clark galleon can carry 32 guns, as well as 600 to 700 soldiers, the largest Clark galleon to date has a seven-deck design, which makes it a well-deserved sea giant in this era, of course, its cost is extremely high, how can it cost 100,000 silver coins to build a galleon of this level, even if it is reduced by an order of magnitude to a six-deck Clark galleon, the price will not be less than 80,000 silver coins.

The half-snake cannon is a lightweight model relative to the snake cannon, the half-snake cannon is usually a 9-pounder gun, and the snake cannon is 18-pounder, the price of the cannon can not be compared with a sailing ship, but it is also more difficult to get than a sailing ship, the cannon casting technology has always been in the hands of the royal family, even England began to explore the cannon casting technology during this period, England itself is still fighting hard for the replacement of the arquebus or the continuation of the longbowman, it is too difficult to get the cannon, which is why Frank refused.

"Huh! Just kidding, don't be so nervous! Claudia snorted and said, "You're not a gentleman, but at least you're not hypocritical." ”

"Really? Thanks for the compliment. Kira Yoshitoki shrugged his shoulders and said.

Five hundred pounds of silver can buy a Karak galleon with a displacement of two hundred and fifty tons, and there is not a single commercial sailing ship of more than two hundred tons in the entire fleet of the Argotic Chamber of Commerce, and the asking price of this girl is definitely too high.

Next, even a person into the topic, in order to determine the agreement and amount of the loan, the two people who are just over twenty years old combined, but because of their own reasons, there are far more mature children than their age, they sit together to discuss every term of cooperation, perhaps because they have just been called ungentlemanly by the blonde little Lori, and Kira Yoshishi became extremely careful in the next negotiations.

The two men went from morning to afternoon, and it was not until the sixteenth striking of the bell that they finally reached an agreement on the loan and agreement, which made Claudia regret complaining that she had lost her eyes, and that Joseph was not only not a gentleman, but also a cunning businessman.

The main thrust of the contract was that Kira Yoshitoki was willing to lend him only two hundred pounds of silver for a 120-ton merchant sailing ship, and Claudia had to make sure that he found a suitable watchmaker to make the flintlock pistol he needed, as well as some people for him.

"You mean flintlock pistols? Is it a musket that starts a fire with gravel? If I'm not mistaken, Spain should have had such muskets. Claudia looked at him suspiciously, this Joseph was so mysterious that he seemed to know everything.

"It's not that kind of musket, I'll draw it for you!" Kira Yoshitoki picked up a charcoal pen and drew a few sketches of the dog-lock flintlock pistol mechanism, and he could only draw a rough sketch according to his vague memory, and as for whether he could understand it, he had to resign himself to fate, "You take these sketches and show them to the watchmakers, and whoever can understand the principle will bring him to me!" ”

"Oh! Do you still know how to draw? Claudia looked at the sketch in amazement, the way the sketch was drawn was refreshing, and the Renaissance culture in Venice and Florence also spread to the Netherlands, and although she had heard of the peculiarities of sketching, it was the first time she had seen the real thing, which was very different from the oil paintings she had seen before.

After carefully looking at the sketches, Claudia carefully folded the paper and said, "I don't know about this, but it seems that your musket is so delicate that I don't know if a watchmaker can make it!" ”

Kira Yoshitoki said quite confidently: "It's okay! As long as you show them, someone will understand! It is your duty to bring in the person who understands the sketch, and not to answer any questions that others ask or ask you, those are half-understood and ill-intentioned. ”

"Hmmm! Remember! The blonde Lori nodded.

"In addition, help me find an instructor who is proficient in cavalry tactics, knight swordsmanship, and if there are experienced Swiss mercenaries, hire me a few too! Same as a watchmaker, I could hire them for two years! Of course, the price is better to be fair, otherwise if I refuse, you will have to run for nothing. ”

Claudia pouted and snorted, "Damn Joseph! You're asking for too much! Where am I going to find you an instructor who is proficient in knightly swordsmanship? And the seasoned Swiss mercenaries, I have to pay them before they want to go with me! This money must be added to the contract and counted separately! ”

"Oh! My request is a bit excessive, but I do need them, knowing that no one in the world wants to lend a ten-year-old girl two hundred pounds of silver except me, and I don't want your interest only that you can find me a skilled watchmaker, an instructor who is proficient in knightly swordsmanship, and a few seasoned Swiss mercenaries, and if you can do this, I can bear all the costs, and of course if you can bring them all to me, this debt can be forgiven! Kira Yoshitoki finally showed his fox tail, and hired little Lori to win over a group of instructors for him at two hundred pounds, which was done by black-hearted profiteers.

"Humph! I know! Remember your promises! The blonde little Lori snorted and agreed.

The Swiss mercenaries were the most powerful spearmen of this era, they were rampant throughout Europe in the 14th century, and their prestige shocked the Holy See, and finally the Pope decided to hire the Swiss spear regiment as a garrison for a long time, and knightly swordsmanship is the essence of the European two-handed sword, with the development of muskets, the knightly culture in Europe gradually withered, and the life of the knights gradually declined.

For example, the famous Teutonic Knights disappeared completely in 1525, when the last Grand Master Albrecht announced his conversion to Lutheranism, and then founded the Duchy of Prussia with the Teutonic Knights as the core, and the Teutonic Knights have been in a state of existence in name only.

The black-hearted Knights of the Templars were completely destroyed two hundred years ago, and the only remaining Knights of St. John are still stubbornly adhering to the dogma of chivalry, neither expanding the pursuit of secular power nor coveting the wealth of believers, and are a pure idealist order.

The Knights of St. John, also known as the Knights Hospitaller, are the most heroic knights, and of course they are also riveted to those small islands in the Mediterranean, and they don't care about worldly things at all, but such a group of idealists still do a shocking thing.

More than 20 years ago, the Knights Hospitaller, with only 500 knights and more than 6,000 soldiers, faced the 200,000 Turkish army led by Suleiman I in Rhodes, and the result was that the Knights should have held out for half a year before surrendering because of the lack of ammunition and food, during which the Turks were forced to lose 50,000 casualties, perhaps because they were deterred by this order, or they may have respected these warriors, and finally Suleiman I allowed the Knights Hospitaller to evacuate Rhodes peacefully.

For the next twenty years, the Knights moved from place to place, and their dogmatic spirit of poverty finally impressed the Holy Roman Emperor, the current Karl V, to settle on the island of Malta by his pardon, and paid a symbolic Maltese eagle coin to the Kingdom of Sicily every year as a rent, and the Order established the Knights of Malta on the island.

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