That Macabros was also relieved to hear that the Taiwanese side was willing to cooperate, because they were beaten too hard by the pressure of the Spaniards. Now the Spaniards look vulnerable in front of Taiwan, but that also depends on the object. Although the Spaniards are vulnerable to Taiwan, it is a very huge problem for those natives who do not have guns or cannons. Although they are not strong and have no artillery, this is not the point. And the point is that they don't have the leader who can make the enemy build for them, they don't have Mao Taizu's ability, and let the enemy make weapons for themselves, which makes them suffer heavy losses. Although these natives look very good now, as if the situation is already very good, but in fact they have reached the end of their crossbow.

If it weren't for Taiwan preventing the Spanish army from reaching the Philippines, then I am afraid they would all face defeat and result. They were in great danger now, and they desperately needed an alliance to pin down the Spaniards. At this time, Taiwan was at war against the Spaniards, so it was naturally valued by these Filipino natives who were in a hurry to seek medical treatment, and then hoped that Taiwan could support them to see the Philippines. They want to get some rifles from here in Taiwan, which they can then use in combat. However, Taiwan actually asked them for money, which was unacceptable to them.

"General, we are allies, brothers who are like a family, do you still want to ask us for money?" Makabros asked.

Sa Zhenbing said: "We have an old saying in China, that is, it is called "brothers settle accounts." Why should we give it to you for free? ”

"Isn't China the Celestial Empire?" Makabros asked.

"Don't tell me anything about the Celestial Empire, we just know now that we need money to produce rifles, steel costs money, and we all need labor to produce it for us, and these all cost money. So. Why did you take our rifles for free? Sa Zhenbing asked.

"Hmph, where do you have any sincerity in forming an alliance? We are going to Beijing to sue you for not being sincere in cooperating! Makabros shouted.

"Idiotic and so naïve about diplomacy. If I hadn't received an order from Lord Wang, I would have blown you away a long time ago. Talking about diplomacy with a fool like you is simply sinful! Sa Zhenbing thought.

Sa Zhenbing immediately said, "You just go and sue." Anyway, Beijing is so far away from here, you don't have any steamships to go to Beijing. And if you use an ordinary wooden boat to go to Beijing, and then it will take at least a few months, and then if you want to apply to meet our Chinese emperor, you will have to queue for several months, and it will add up to half a year. And at that time, our Chinese emperor did not say whether he would listen to your opinions, and if he listened to your opinions, and then whether he wanted to reprimand us Taiwanese people, it would be a month or two to open fire. Then when the decision is made to send someone to reprimand again, it will take a month, do you think you can hold out for that long? ”

Sa Zhenbing didn't tell this native that the current Taiwanese army is no longer under the control of the central government, after all, they may not understand these things, so Sa Zhenbing just told him about the process, and this Makabros was immediately silent. Because now these natives don't have ships and can't get to Beijing quickly, so naturally they can't complain. Even if you sue. With such a large process going down, I am afraid it will also face a very slow speed.

And that time. The Spaniards are going to beat them very badly. Now in the Philippines, there are completely three forces in the robbery, on the one hand, the indigenous Filipinos, who seem to have the largest territory, but the fact is the weakest. On the other hand, the Spaniards also had tens of thousands of troops, although they lost the capital city of Manila. The strength of other armies is not weak, and tens of thousands of troops are enough to make them a hegemon. And the weapons they have are also very powerful, but almost to the point of a gun per person, although the artillery is relatively lacking, but it is also possible to deal with those natives. And Taiwan is the most powerful, not only the navy and the army. And the army has complete weapons, artillery and so on are very powerful, machine guns, submachine guns and so on are the most violent. Therefore, those Spaniards are definitely not opponents, and at present, they are actually a "Three Kingdoms" in this regard.

"And how much do you need to sell us weapons?" Makabros asked.

"What do you have for us?" Sa Zhenbing asked.

And Makabros was immediately helpless, apparently not knowing what to use in exchange for weapons for Taiwan. At present, the Philippines can be said to be very poor, many people do not have rifles, they use stones as weapons, and the losses in the face of the Spanish are very heavy. So now they don't know what to do, and naturally they can't buy weapons from the Spaniards, and they just want to get weapons from Taiwan. However, Taiwan is not a good man and a woman, and is willing to give them weapons free of charge. Taiwan wants to gain wealth, and if it does not have wealth, Taiwan will not give them weapons. But now Makabros doesn't know what Taiwan needs, he doesn't know what he can give Taiwan, and he doesn't know what to say now.

"Tell me, what do you need?" Makabros asked.

Sa Zhenbing muttered to himself: "What a fool, you don't even know what we need, then you want to buy weapons from us." Doesn't this give us a chance to slaughter fat pigs? Since you took the initiative to leak your belly and cut my meat, then if I don't cut the meat, then I'm really sorry for Lord Wang's teachings. ”

"Do you have gold ore? You must give us the gold ore so that we can give you our weapons. Sa Zhenbing asked.

The Philippines has a lot of gold ore, and Taiwan currently needs gold ore as the basis for stabilizing the gold standard. Taiwan is currently implementing the gold bar standard, although it does not need a large amount of gold, but gold is one of the most important means of payment after all, so gold is still necessary. Next, Taiwan will obtain gold from the Philippines, so that its economic strength will be more stable, and its economic foundation will be more resilient to risks, so that there will be no major problems.

"Yes, how much do you have medicine?" Makabros asked.

Sa Zhenbing immediately replied: "We want fifteen tons of ore, and we can give you a rifle for fifteen tons of ore." ”

"Fifteen tons?" Makabros exclaimed.

Fifteen tons of ore, this is already a lot, you must know that those Filipinos mining now, there is not much gold mining equipment at all, they all rely on manpower to mine. And manpower mining is very tiring, and it can sacrifice a lot of miners. And this is also a very big effort. Each miner can dig less than one ton of ore per day, and this fifteen tons of ore is enough for dozens of miners to produce in a day. And this qiē also has to pay a very huge price in exchange for a rifle.

"Can you have less?" Makabros asked.

"No! Our production costs are already huge, so we have to spend this price! Sa Zhenbing said.

But Macabros immediately asked, "As far as I know, your price is five or six times more than the normal market price!" ”

"Huh?" Sa Zhenbing was surprised for a while, this guy actually knew the market price, but Sa Zhenbing still said: "Yes, we are going to sell it to you at five or six times the market price." ”

"You guys are blackmailing!" Macabros said angrily.

"Yes, we're blackmailing, aren't we? I tell you that if we don't sell to you, no one in this world will be able to sell to you, and the loss you will pay will be very great. So, at that time, you should think for yourself, whether to accept our blackmail, or wait for you to fail, so you can see for yourself! Sa Zhenbing said.

"You, you're blackmailing us?" Macabros said angrily.

Sa Zhenbing immediately replied: "Yes, we just want to get benefits, if we can't get benefits, then we will go with the market, anyway, you need it, we don't take the opportunity to make money, so what's strange?" So, do you have enough to buy from us, or do you wait to be killed by the enemy and then not be able to win and gain independence? ”

"I'll go back and report back!" Macabros said.

And after Macabros left, Zhu Yuan asked: "Will this force them to defect to Spain?" ”

"No, they have a very deep hatred with Spain, as long as we don't attack Spain and we haven't taken the initiative, then they won't cooperate. At present, we have to wait for the arrival of domestic troops, and then carry out run-in integration, and then we will take the initiative. As long as we play better, then we won't be afraid that they will come together. As long as the natives did not reach the end of the mountain, they would not have taken refuge in Spain. After all, they want to be independent, not to help Spain against us. We can support the indigenous people against Spain, and we can watch from the sidelines, and let them fight. Then we will be able to reap the benefits. And those natives don't know that they are wolves who refuse to enter the front door and enter the back door, and we are hungry wolves, and they don't know that we are more greedy than the Spaniards. In fact, if he is a really capable diplomat, he should choose to cooperate with the Spaniards to get rid of us, not choose to cooperate with us. Isn't this similar to the lesson of our Song Dynasty? (To be continued......)