Early the next morning, Deng Haonan had just returned to the camp, and the guards came to report that Yu Minglu, Zhang Chi, and Qian Shun, who had gone to Macao to purchase military supplies, had returned, and the ship had docked at the wharf.

On the orders of Deng Haonan, these three people went to Macao to purchase military supplies, mainly including customized naval uniforms for winter and summer specially explained by Deng Haonan, as well as purchasing muskets, ammunition, sabers, and other military combat equipment from the governor of Macao.

"Headmaster!"

Seeing Deng Haonan coming to the dock in person, Yu Minglu, Zhang Chi and Qian Shun immediately stood up and saluted.

After Deng Haonan returned the salute, he asked, "How is it?" 一qiē也顺lì吧! ”

The three of them nodded yes, Deng Haonan nodded, and followed them to board the boat to visit.

The entire cabin is full, and it can be seen that this harvest is not small.

Yu Minglu ordered someone to open a box and said, "Principal, the military uniforms that the students are responsible for customizing have all been done, please take a look at the principal!" ”

As he spoke, Yu Minglu had already taken out one of the brand-new military uniforms and handed them to Deng Haonan for inspection.

The style of the military uniform was designed by Deng Haonan himself, and it was the 10-style winter and summer military uniform of the Chinese Navy in later generations.

The overall military uniform is white and blue, the jacket is a pullover, with a shawl, and the blue shawl and cuffs have four white lines, representing the four oceans of the earth; The pants are open on the side and the cuff is hypertrophied.

This design was developed from the practice of many years of life at sea. Sailors often came and went in and out of cramped cabins, and the clothing requirements were neat and convenient, so the jackets were generally pullovers. The pullover jacket is tucked into the waistband of the trousers to avoid hanging on the clothes when going up and down the gangway, in and out of the hatch. In order to avoid irritation of the throat by the collar and reduce vomiting, the tops of the sailor's uniform are collarless.

The side opening of the pants is convenient for climbing the mast in the sailing era. There are three main considerations for hypertrophy of the trousers: first, it can cover the boots and prevent water splashing; Second, it is easy to scratch up when washing the deck; The third is to go to the sea to save life and retreat quickly, take off the pants and tie the trousers tightly, and fill the air with an emergency floating air bag. The shawl of the blouse is made very thick, and it is used as a "shoulder pad". At the same time, the Ming Dynasty people were popular to grow long hair, and the long oily hair often stained the sailors' clothing, so this "shoulder pad" was equivalent to a square towel to keep it clean.

The underwear worn is a white and blue striped shirt, which is later known as a navy shirt and a sea soul shirt. The meaning of the sea soul shirt is the vast sea and blue sky, and the sailors wear the sea soul shirt to look more energetic.

The brimless sailor's hat, with two white bands resembling a swallow's tail, is mainly convenient for sailors to judge the coordinates of the direction.

The shoes are still the long cloth boots popular in the Ming Dynasty, but in order to facilitate the combat of naval officers and soldiers, Deng Haonan made the boots open and tied the calf with laces.

Deng Haonan nodded with great satisfaction, and Yu Minglu continued: "Headmaster, according to your instructions, we have found all the fabric workshops in Macao and worked with the tailors. There is no problem with the fabric, but there are too few tailors in Macau, and now only 600 sets of summer clothes are made, and it will take a month to complete the winter clothes! ”

Deng Haonan nodded and said, "It's okay!" You're doing a great job! Anyway, the weather is not too cold now, so two days late, two days late! After a while, inform everyone to change into military uniforms first, and be in good spirits first! ”

"Yes! Headmaster! ”

After Yu Minglu finished speaking, he hurriedly went to inform the people to start carrying the military uniforms.

At this time, Zhang Chi said: "Principal, I am responsible for the procurement of muskets!" I was going to buy arquebuses from Spain, but when I sent a letter to the Governor of Macao on behalf of the principal, he told me that I had come with a batch of new French muskets, which were more advanced! After testing, I felt that the French doglock flintlock musket was much more advanced than the Spanish arquebus, so I purchased the French doglock flintlock musket, but the price exceeded the budget by 1,000 taels of silver! ”

As he spoke, Zhang Chi ordered someone to open a box, take out a musket, and hand it to Deng Haonan for inspection.

When Deng Haonan heard the three words flintlock gun, he couldn't find the north happily, and said secretly: This kind of good thing can also catch up? It's really shit luck. At that moment, he praised Zhang Chi a few times, and couldn't wait to take the French flintlock pistol handed by Zhang Chi.

In 1544, when the German Holy Roman Empire went to war with the Kingdom of France, the German cavalry was armed with revolver muskets, and the French army was still armed with arquebuses. In the course of the battle, the French army armed with arquebuses barely fired a single shot, while the German cavalry, which used the revolver musket as the main weapon, became more and more brave and defeated the French soldiers. Soon, the defeated king of France also hired a considerable number of cavalry of the same kind, which were also armed with revolver muskets. In this way, the revolver musket slowly became the main weapon of the cavalry.

However, the revolver is not perfect, it is not only complex in structure, expensive to build, troublesome to use, and can not reliably fire when there is contamination on the steel wheel, so people began to develop a new "ignition" method.

Soon, the Spaniards living in the Iberian Peninsula invented the flintlock pistol, they removed the clock-bearing steel wheel, but clamped a flint on the jaws of the hammer, there was an anvil on the side of the fire transmission hole, if it was necessary to shoot, the trigger was pulled, and under the action of the spring, the flint was hit heavily on the side of the fire door, sparks appeared, and the ignition powder was ignited, this firing mechanism was called a percussive flintlock machine, and the firearm equipped with an impingement tunnel firing mechanism was called a percussive flintlock pistol. The impact flintlock pistol greatly simplifies the firing process, improves the firing rate and shooting accuracy, is easy to use, and has a low cost and facilitates mass production.

However, the Spaniards were already massively armed with arquebuses and did not accept flintlock pistols very much. As a result, the flintlock pistol was passed into the hands of the enemy Kingdom of France. The French military attached great importance to the development and use of flintlock pistols, so during the next five years of war, the combined forces of England and France defeated the Spanish army, making the flintlock pistol battle-tested.

After the war, French merchants joined the British in plundering Spain's overseas interests, and the flintlock pistol was brought to the East to support the countries of the East against the Dutch.

Originally, Colonel Maersk Ruyer was a quasi-British and French landing in Macao, but it was only because Spain annexed Portugal, in line with the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, that the French merchant was introduced to Zhang Chi and the deal was facilitated.

Deng Haonan couldn't put it down and studied the French dog-lock flintlock pistol, and in Deng Haonan's eyes, this gun should be worth fifteen taels of silver to be considered normal.

immediately smiled and said: "Zhang Chi, these guns you bought have made a bargain!" Let's not say that this flintlock pistol is more advanced than the arquebus, just looking at the steel materials on this gun, the cost is worth ten taels of silver, plus the freight, at least fifteen taels of you is considered normal! ”

Zhang Chi was stunned and said: "Headmaster, then I only spent 7,200 taels of silver to buy 600 of these muskets, and the unit price is only 12 taels of silver!" Why did they sell it to us so cheaply? ”

Deng Haonan thought for a while and said: "It's very simple, Britain and France have jointly defeated the Spanish Army, and now their number one enemy has become the Dutch. But they had no foothold in the Far East, and therefore wanted to use us to contain the Dutch. I believe that this is just their first step, I think they will take the initiative to come to us in the future, you have to contact them often, so that what is the benefit in the future, they will be the first to think of us! ”

"Yes! Headmaster! Zhang Chi suddenly turned his worries into joy.