The remnants of the battlefield still exist, but that can't stop the enthusiasm for peace and wealth.

Before it got dark, the newly formed 'Revolutionary Army' Goa Special District sent people to set up a guide station in Goa City, which was responsible for answering and guiding the merchants and residents in the city to the direction of Panjim. There were about 300 people who wanted to go, but due to the limited reception capacity, only about 50 or 60 people could be selected.

Many people in the city felt that they could go to this dinner party if they wanted to, so they had to hesitate. But now I found that the number of people who could participate was so small that I had to fight for it to get invited. At this time, who can go and who can't go has to compete for qualifications and power.

Carriages send the lucky ones away, and the others can only look forward to it. Those who were able to attend the dinner were even extremely honored, after all, many of them were of ordinary status, and it was impossible for them to attend the banquet of the royal family. And now an even more powerful monarch invited them to a banquet, which could boast for a lifetime.

The banquet was not held inside the fortress, but in the open air outside the fortress. It's rainy in the tropics, and it starts to rain before dark. Many people thought that this open-air banquet was going to be in the soup, but when they arrived at the venue, they found that a giant banner that controlled the wind and clouds controlled the weather within a radius of 300 meters. Outside the lightning and thunder, wind and rain are like a note, but the inside of the cloth banner is still refreshing and safe.

That's a novelty......

Although Europe has also developed magical alchemy, there is really no such good thing as in front of it.

The guests at the banquet got out of the carriage and entered by Father Marcelo by roll call. Zhou Qingfeng took Wen Ruolan and the daughters to greet them with a smile at the entrance, and let them enter the venue to move freely.

Goa is rich in fish and shrimp, and the ghost chef has made a large table of seafood feasts and served drinks and drinks. The people who came to the banquet were first amazed by the youthfulness of His Majesty the Emperor, and then they were attracted by the exquisite arrangement of the table. Just as Father Marcelo once marveled, the sumptuous porcelain tableware made the banquet dazzling.

However, it soon became clear that the tables, candlesticks, and even many of the servants were from the Goa Governor's Mansion and the Church. In the corner of the banquet were a lot of belongings received from the church. If someone asks, the answer is naturally - auction goods.

"There are so many churches in Goa, and it's a huge annoyance for me. I will forbid anyone to spread any religion in Goa, and the church buildings will be converted to other uses. These possessions are of no use to me, and I can buy them at a low price if anyone needs them. Zhou Qingfeng's words are even if he locks up his religious policy.

There are dozens of churches in Goa, large and small, and they are all sturdy buildings that have been built with a lot of manpower and material resources, and it is too wasteful to tear them all down. Zhou Qingfeng planned to use them as schools, hospitals, military camps, administration, in short, no longer practicing religion. A lot of the things inside the church are not pure gold and sterling silver, but gold and silver plating. Chopping wood is too wasteful, it might as well be auctioned.

Seeing the crosses piled up on the ground and sold by size and age, the believers in the city must have a deeper understanding of their faith. The few accounting offices sent by Xu Bing may not know anything about the Virgin Mary of Christ Jesus, but they can judge the value of the items from the carving techniques and the degree of oxidation of the items, and it is absolutely impossible for people to pick up and sell them cheaply.

In short, Uncle Zhou is dead and wants money.

"The auction items are being cleaned up, and at the moment it is only a small part, and everyone has time to buy slowly. As you savor tonight's food, you can take a closer look at the tableware, which I have a lot to offer. I've set a price tag for these samples on the table. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or Santos. ”

The banquet of fifty or sixty people started very naturally. Merchants and residents gathered around Zhou Qingfeng as much as they could, listening to the translation of the child Santos. Zhou Qingfeng is already in the process of forming the Goa Special Administrative Region, and he has stuffed a large number of himself and his employees into the special district government, intending to make it normal in a month or two.

Merchants soon sniffed the opportunity in the porcelain trade.

The sea route from Goa to Macao is nearly 4,000 nautical miles, and it takes three years for a normal merchant ship to travel back and forth between the ports, and it must rely on the monsoon to sail.

During this period, there were huge risks to be taken, natural disasters and looting would leave merchants with no money to return to, and time efficiency was very poor. Limited by the production capacity of the cargo source, it is not easy to fill a merchant ship with a displacement of several hundred tons.

For example, Jingdezhen specializes in the production of Clark porcelain for maritime trade, and it is really fatal to transport it all the way from Jiangxi to Macao. Freight, loss, time, too much trouble. One of the cheapest porcelain bowls coming out of the kiln may be worth only a few copper plates, but when it arrives in Goa, it will have to be priced in silver.

Zhou Qingfeng now saves a series of links, there is no middleman to make the difference, he directly sells his ceramics and bone china at half price. It is also very intimate to make the pattern of porcelain into the appearance that Europeans love, such as painting a little angel, painting a **, painting a Virgin Mary Sifan. Anyway, as long as you make money, customers can have whatever they like.

Even if it is sold at half price, Uncle Zhou's half price is dozens of times more expensive than the factory price in the Jingdezhen porcelain kiln. But the merchants of Goa immediately felt the sincerity of this 'half price'. Uncle Zhou still doesn't collect taxes, which makes the businessmen even more excited.

As for the source of goods, the 'revolutionary army' has begun to develop Dandong kaolin on a large scale, and the number of porcelain that can be supplied is based on '100,000'. A trade fair can be held once a month, and the supply of goods is extremely abundant - compared to the Portuguese merchant ships that can only run once in three years, Zhou Qingfeng's supply capacity is enough for Goan merchants to eat.

In addition to silk, tea and porcelain, Zhou Qingfeng also provided medical drugs and equipment for export. The two doctors in the traverser have been unknown, but the medical staff they have trained and the medical system they have established have already played a huge role.

Maternal and infant mortality rates are falling dramatically in the territory of the 'Revolutionary Army', infectious diseases are being curbed, and ordinary people are not casually dying of headaches and brain fever. For example, berberine, bupleurum extract, alcohol and other simple agents began to be mass-produced. Zhou Qingfeng also wants to sell these goods to the market, and he will definitely make a lot of money.

For medicines, businessmen are not very interested, after all, this thing depends on the curative effect. However, in addition to silk and porcelain, Zhou Qingfeng also sold weapons to the outside world, which is very surprising.

Europeans rarely sell weapons. The so-called 'red-coated cannon' at the end of the Ming Dynasty was first salvaged from a stranded British merchant ship. The ship's smoothbore cannon was already lagging behind and was resold to the Ming court by the Portuguese.

This thing is treated as a treasure by Ming Ting.

And Zhou Qingfeng decided to sell some small-caliber cast iron cannons, which are different from the bronze cannons that are now equipped on a large scale, and also different from the forged artillery used by the Guards. The cast iron cannon is made of gray iron, sand box casting, the inner wall is treated with a boring machine to ensure smoothness, and the outer wall is reinforced with an iron hoop.

Compared with the bronze cannons that are currently used in large quantities, the advantage of cast iron cannons is that they are light and cheap. The disadvantage is that it is easy to rust, and the artillery must be maintained more. Zhou Qingfeng took out six-pound and nine-pound guns, weighing about half a ton to a ton. He even said that he could provide naval guns, with thicker and longer barrels, more powerful, and generally weighing more than two tons.

The price is half of the bronze cannon, and it can also be responsible for training artillery and carrying out maintenance and other one-stop services.

Uncle Zhou just likes to engage in half-price promotions.

In order to face the excellent quality of his artillery, Uncle Zhou also deliberately conducted a firepower show. A six-pounder gun fired a base twelve rounds in succession at a target a few hundred meters away. The businessmen at the scene all sighed at the rate of fire and accuracy of the six-pounder gun.

Only the guards artillery in charge of the demonstration scolded behind his back - this broken cannon is heavy and difficult to use, and the firepower is not as strong as our cavalry artillery. Hitting a base cannonball can make us die of exhaustion, so why build this thing?

But the guards artillery was disgusted to death, and when Lord Muhammad, who was present at the dinner, saw the dazzling firepower, he shouted excitedly: "We want this cannon, we want to buy a hundred." ”

The white man at the banquet was immediately shocked......

Zhou Qingfeng slapped his face and shouted loudly: "Congratulations to Lord Muhammad for winning the first order tonight." One hundred six-pounder cast-iron smoothbore guns cost only a thousand silver dollars each. I gave him a thousand fine arquebuses made by Seiko for free. ”

The 'revolutionary army' did not get the spring steel at the beginning, so in order to protect itself, it could only let go of its hands and feet to make arquebuses. Whoever thought that in just a year, these arquebuses were eliminated by flintlock pistols. A fool like Wu Damen, who was holding his big axe and refused to use firearms. Now let alone use an axe, he is not happy to use an arquebus.

The 'revolutionary army' produced a total of 30,000 smoothbore arquebuses, many of which were completely new except for the dozens of rounds fired on the training ground. Seeing that these things were about to be included in the inventory, Uncle Zhou was also worried - when he first made them, he was afraid that making too few would affect the combat readiness. Now they do not affect combat readiness, they affect combat readiness warehouses.

With a big head like Muhammad jumping out, if Zhou Qingfeng doesn't sell these wastes to the other party, who else can he sell them to? He even took the initiative to hold out an arquebus for Muhammad to demonstrate on the spot, and accurately hit the target about seventy or eighty meters away - the white people attending the banquet were startled by the cannon just now, and now the white people were even more stupid when they were selling guns.

Lord Muhammad touched the barrel of the gun, which began to heat after the shot, and praised it repeatedly: "Good, good, good...... this oriental musket is good." The muskets we bought from the Portuguese were nowhere near as good as it. ”

Not to mention, the quality of the arquebuses of the 'Revolutionary Army' is really good. Compared with the current Europe that still uses cast iron to drill barrels, and even uses iron sheets to roll barrels, Zhao Ze, who designed and manufactured these arquebuses, used forging to manufacture them at the beginning. After all, these things were used by themselves in the first place, and if they were not made well, wouldn't it be a joke on their own lives.

Heavy arquebuses of large caliber were now popular in Europe in exchange for greater power. The arquebus made by Zhao Ze is a light arquebus, but it relies on a strong barrel, granulated gunpowder, and superb craftsmanship to reach or even exceed the power of European heavy arquebuses. However, the weight is only half or even a third of the opponent's, and the shooting accuracy is even higher.

Not only Lord Muhammad was full of praise after trying it, but even the white people in Goa changed their faces after trying it. If this new musket and light artillery spread, it will not only immediately change the balance of power in the Near East, but even Europe will want to buy and copy it. These arms are more sought-after than porcelain and silk.

Seeing that Lord Muhammad's beard was upturned while holding an arquebus, Zhou Qingfeng felt that this must be the ancestor of a big dog family, and they were all genetic.

Everyone attending the banquet was thinking differently, but Zhou Qingfeng was proud of his exhibition. But a black and thin native suddenly cowered close to him, knelt down and said a lot. "This is the butler of a land king near Goa, and he said that they also want to buy weapons, but they don't have the money. ”

Don't have money ......?

Zhou Qingfeng asked kindly: "Grain, cotton, it's okay." And most importantly, is there a mine? It's not good to open a mine, but so is the land. There's really nothing, I'll allow you to take credit and go out and grab it. ”