For their part, the Baath Party had to admit that in the arms trade, the purchasing power of the entire Jiangnan and Southeast regions was declining. After all, whether it is the big landlords and merchants in the Jiangnan region or the maritime merchants in the southeast region, they have not yet overthrown the Ming Dynasty and established their own armed forces and countries. So their need for arms is limited.

In this case, in addition to the use of human means to export arms to the peasant rebel army, the Ming Dynasty, the biggest potential customer of the Baath Party, is very attractive.

Neither Wang Shuhui nor the top level of the Ba'ath Party have any scruples about arms exports. The reason for this is very simple.

On the one hand, it is because of the problem of the generation gap in weapons.

Although the flintlock pistol is relatively advanced, the smoothbore gun and smoothbore run are not advanced weapons, these things are all things that are inherent in this time and space. It's just that the products produced by the industrialized Baath Party are surprisingly low in production costs and frighteningly large in production. More importantly, while smoothbore guns and smoothbore guns are low-cost, massive, and profitable, there is a huge technological gap between these weapons and the Baath's own equipment that is difficult to bridge.

On the other hand, both Wang Shuhui and the top level of the Ba'ath Party know that the quality of weapons does not determine the combat effectiveness of the troops. No matter how good the weapon is handed over to a backward country or organization, it will not change the fate of that country or organization.

The Manchu Dynasty, a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, was equipped with the most advanced weapons in the world, but it was still used with relatively backward weapons, but the country had developed in the direction of progressive industrialization. Jiang had planes and tanks and recognized an American father outside, but the people's army, with the support of the people, still swept him into the garbage heap of history.

Advanced weapons can't bridge the civilization level gap. The most powerful agricultural countries are also no match for ordinary industrial countries.

And for the Ba'ath Party, arming the peasant rebels through the trade of people and weapons and materials could hasten the fall of the Ming Dynasty. In this process, the export of weapons to the Ming Dynasty to raise funds for the construction of New China by the Baath Party was also an effective means to draw blood from the Ming Dynasty and hasten the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

In the living room of Sun Yuanhua, the new governor of Shandong, Zeng Dezhao, disguised as a Portuguese missionary and Spanish arms broker, was talking about the high-quality products produced by the so-called Spanish kingdom's arsenal in Australia to Sun Yuanhua, who was proficient in Western learning and converted to God.

In Zeng Dezhao's introduction, Sun Yuanhua, who was proficient in mathematics and had been committed to the production of firearms, found that the products of the Spanish and Australian arsenals recommended by Zeng Dezhao were about one-fifth cheaper than the cannons and muskets he produced.

"It's better to buy than to build", this is the conclusion that Sun Yuanhua came to after comparative calculations. He reluctantly discovered that Zeng Dezhao's muskets and artillery could not be produced by himself or by any institution in China at present.

The advanced flintlock pistols and the sleek artillery without the slightest blemish made the Catholic Sun Yuanhua loudly praise the greatness of God.

Zeng Dezhao should be complimented by Sun Yuanhua, while scribbling a cross on his chest, he thought in his heart: "I don't know if the first sales pitch can be successful?" I must complete the tasks assigned by the leader."

In the original history, Sun Yuanhua, who was supposed to serve as the governor of Denglai in 1630, was recommended by Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the military department, to the position of governor of Shandong. Unlike in history, in order to effectively stabilize Dongjiang Town, Sun Yuanhua, who was more accomplished in military affairs, was arranged to serve as the governor of Denglai, and the Denglai area, which was run by the Baath Party into an iron barrel, has become the Ludong base of the Baath Party.

Zhang Hong, the current nominal governor of Denglai, not only effectively and comprehensively fulfilled the task of collecting taxes in the Denglai area during his tenure of office, but also took the initiative to accept a large number of deserters from the so-called Dongjiang Town, and wantonly absorbed displaced people in various parts of Shandong, thus relieving the tremendous pressure on the displaced people in the entire Shandong region and preventing major turmoil from breaking out in Shandong, which is full of bandits.

For Emperor Chongzhen and the civil bureaucrats who presided over the central government in the court, although Zhang Hong, the governor of Denglai, had a eunuch background that everyone was afraid of, and like Yao Zongwen, his promotion was achieved with the support of Wei Zhongxian, but because he withstood the pressure and did not build a shrine for Wei Zhongxian, the officials of the Donglin Party who were currently in power in the court could still tolerate Zhang Hong's existence.

What's more, Zhang Hong sat in Denglai, and was able to pay national taxes to the imperial court on time and in amount every year, while preparing grain and grass to support the non-existent Dongjiang Town, which was a very amazing achievement in the environment at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Shandong is close to Gyeonggi, the influence of Shandong officials in the DPRK does not have much influence. In particular, the Denglai area existed as a military logistics center for the southern Liaoning region. Therefore, after Dongjiang Town was fooled and collapsed by Yuan Da, the imperial court's attention to the Denglai area plummeted.

Zhang Hong was able to maintain the chaos in Dongjiang Town and Denglai, which was already very competent for the imperial court. Now Zhang Hong can also ensure that the tax revenue in the Denglai area is completed, which is a surprise for the imperial court.

If it weren't for Zhang Hong's eunuch background, which made Emperor Chongzhen and the Donglin Party jealous, this "talent" who was able to pacify the Wuchang rebellion, pacify the Wuchang rebellion, and effectively absorb and resettle the displaced people, and did a very good job in managing local tax revenues, would definitely be promoted.

Therefore, unlike in history, the purpose of Sun Yuanhua's promotion to governor of Shandong was no longer to stabilize Dongjiang Town and maintain stability in the Ludong region. After the Jisi Revolution in 1629, the central government of the Ming Dynasty also realized that places like Shandong also needed governors to guard them. Otherwise, if the Dongyu invaded again, the troops of the Beijing division would have no combat effectiveness, and the warlords of Liaodong would not be able to count on it at all, and if there was no reliable force in the Shandong region that could enter Beijing at any time to support, the Ming Dynasty would be closed if it could not prepare for this "deal".

It was under these circumstances that Sun Yuanhua, who had performed well in Liaodong and had made a lot of achievements in military affairs, stood out and became the governor of Shandong under the recommendation of Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

The imperial court gave Sun Yuanhua only one task, that is, to organize a local army in the Shandong region that could support Gyeonggi at any time.

As a student of Xu Guangqi, a master of Western studies, Sun Yuanhua's military thinking was very simple, that is, to build fortresses and artillery to defend the city. This point of view is actually not very clever in the eyes of later generations, but Sun Yuanhua's military thought is in line with the passive situation of the Ming Dynasty in the war with the Later Jin Jurchen.

Facts have proved that Sun Yuanhua's thinking is correct. With more than 20 imported artillery pieces and more than 30 self-cast artillery, Sun Yuanhua guarded Funing, rescued Kaiping, and restored Changluanzhou Yongping Zunhua in all directions. The eight cities and twenty-four forts he garrisoned remained unmoving, and a very important reason was that the power of artillery was exerted.

Therefore, after taking office as governor of Shandong, Sun Yuanhua searched for talents everywhere and directly sent people to Macao to hire professionals, on the one hand, to buy artillery and train artillery on the other, and more importantly, because Western artillery was very difficult to buy and the price was high, so Sun Yuanhua was working hard to seek self-production of artillery.

After several months of hard work, Sun Yuanhua is only a second bastard and half a bottle of water from more than 20 Western countries, and the matter of producing his own artillery and training gunners is still far away.

At this time, the appearance of Zeng Dezhao, a fake Portuguese missionary and a Spanish arms dealer, really relieved Sun Yuanhua's siege.

"Fellow Sun, you see, because I am also a servant of the Lord, I am ready to give you more preferential treatment for your purchases. In addition to the fact that the price of each gun can be reduced to 1,500 taels, for every fifty guns purchased, we will give you a gun for free. In addition, the flintlock pistol costs only twenty taels of silver each, and for every twenty muskets you buy, we will give you a musket for free. ”

Seeing the obvious happy expression on Sun Yuanhua's face, Zeng Dezhao put on the face of a pious clergyman and said to Sun Yuanhua:

"God can prove that I have borne a great loss for the sake of Christianity Sun this time. At such a price, you can inquire about it, there is no such cheap price in the whole of Southeast Asia. And there is no other factory in Asia that can produce such a high-quality and low-cost product. What's more, our arsenal can supply the faithful in unlimited quantities. ”

On the way back to Dengzhou in a four-wheeled carriage, Zeng Dezhao thought to himself while changing out of his missionary robe, which he was no longer accustomed to:

"God certainly doesn't exist, but hell is real. This time, I have exceeded the sales pitch task, otherwise I would have gone back to the living hell of the labor camp. ”