At this moment, in Enrique's eyes, Yan Chujie does not look like the military leader of an armed group, but a black and hateful 'traitor' businessman - if you show off the 'sexual' ability of new weapons to me, you still say "don't sell" when it's over, isn't this tossing people alive?

Of course, Enrique immediately thought of another possibility, that is, Yan Chujie's boasting of the new rifle was purely a means to cover people's ears, and the Haihan people had not made any new rifles at all, and the thing he saw in front of him was just a decoration. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable). For more up-to-date chapters, visit wèn:. However, he soon refuted this assumption on his own, and even without mentioning the fact that the Haihan had always had a good reputation in commerce, and that their daring to sell weapons to Portugal was in itself an indication that they must have at their disposal some means of countermeasures—the most effective of which was to produce weapons that were more 'sexual' and more lethal.

Next, Yan Chujie introduced several main artillery pieces produced by Haihan to Enrique. At present, the artillery produced by "Haihan Ordnance" is mainly divided into four categories: army artillery, naval naval artillery, large-caliber coastal defense artillery, and export-oriented artillery. With the division of functions of various arms and the gradual improvement of the production process, the specifications of the artillery and the functions of the burden have also begun to be set in more detail, and the shore defense cannon alone has several different models of 12 pounds, 18 pounds, and 24 pounds, and the design department's 'door' has been secretly trying to produce a larger caliber 48-pound gun. The army artillery also has 6-pounder and 12-pounder main artillery, as well as large-caliber mortar guns for siege cities, 3-pounder small cannons for mountain special operations units, and so on.

Although Yan Chujie did not mention too much about the parameters of the 'sexual' performance of the artillery during the explanation, Enrique can still judge one thing from such a rich product line: the level of cannon casting of the Haihan people is indeed quite high, which is definitely not comparable to the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce or the Dutch East India Company, which lacks production capacity. The Haihan claim to be able to export arms to Western countries does not seem to be bragging.

Of course, instead of looking at these samples in the showroom, Enrique prefers to go to the place where these weapons are made. He also knew that there was a sizable area of workshops in the inland Tiandu region, where thousands of naturalized laborers worked day and night to produce all kinds of industrial goods for the Haihan, including the weapons used by the Haihan to attack cities and plunder land. It's a pity that a qiē about the Tiandu Industrial Zone, in the eyes of the outside world are shrouded in a 'fog', very few outsiders can enter the area that is strictly controlled by military control, since the opening of Shengli Port, it is said that only the "Fu Ruifeng" young owner Li Nai, Yacheng Ming officer Luo Shengdong and a limited number of people have been there. And after that, these people didn't say a word about what they had seen and heard, and they didn't know what ** 'medicine' they were given by the Haihan people.

However, Enrique also knew very well that he could not go to Tiandu, at least not by the normal way of Guò. It is said that the road in and out of Tiandu has a checkpoint of the militia group, and it is impossible to pass without a certificate issued by the relevant ministry 'gate' - of course, Enrique can't 'mix' in even if he has a document, and his appearance is so eye-catching that he doesn't even have the opportunity to pretend to be an employee.

After looking at the exhibits in the showroom with deep resentment, Enrique couldn't wait to urge Yan Chujie and said, "Mr. Yan, we can go to the shooting range now, right?"

"No problem, we'll go now. Yan Chujie also felt that Enrique's appetite was almost enough, and responded with a smile.

Out of the pride of an old empire and the fear of Haihan, a new opponent, Enrique actually didn't want to see Haihan's weapons as powerful as Yan Chujie described. But from the perspective of a businessman, he can't help but have some expectations for the 'sex' of Haihan's weapons, after all, the profits in the arms trade are quite considerable, and if the 'sex' of Haihan's weapons can really surpass their European counterparts, then it is not delusional to sell Haihan's weapons on the European battlefield that is a pot of porridge.

Ten years have passed since the outbreak of the Great War in Europe in 1618, and the war has gradually evolved from a civil war in Bohemia to a melee war between the Protestant League and the Holy Roman Empire. All the European powers are involved in this big 'chaos', no one can stay out of it, and how long this war will last, and what the final victory will be, no one knows at all. There are countless people who have lost their families and wives because of this war, but there are also many people who have found business opportunities from the war and made a lot of war money, especially the ** fire dealers who have the ability to make weapons on their own, almost all of them have made a lot of money, so that in the past two years, there are no extra weapons to sell to the Far East.

It is worth mentioning that it was precisely in this great 'hype' war, which lasted for 30 years, that all countries gradually realized the evolution of their military theories. In order to be able to conduct long-term and protracted operations, countries have introduced conscription and established standing armies and reserves, as well as logistical supply systems. Because the territory of the operation is too vast, the army has to 'streamline' its organization and organization in order to obtain better mobility capabilities. Most importantly, the tactical aspect has also gradually evolved from cold weapons in the past to hot weapons warfare, spearmen have been replaced by musketeers, artillery has become the decisive 'sexual' force on the battlefield, and cavalry has changed from the main force in the past to auxiliary forces. This period of tactical change was a once-in-a-century opportunity for arms dealers to make a fortune.

With a very conflicted feeling, Enrique finally arrived at the shooting range he was looking forward to to and visited the live-fire 'shooting' training of the Haihan militia.

In order to compare the differences in the 'sexuality' of weapons, Yan Chujie asked Enrique to randomly select ten soldiers from the training to conduct a test 'shot'. To Enrique's slight surprise, the Haihan people actually took out a batch of arquebuses sold by the Portuguese to South Vietnam as a test comparison. But then he thought of the source of these guns - the Haihan people had conquered Hoi An some time ago, and it was the only channel for all Western goods to enter the South Vietnamese region, presumably because the inventory in the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce was turned over by the Haihan.

Considering that the "precision" and "accuracy" of "shooting" vary from person to person, the test of arquebuses mainly focuses on "firing" range and lethality. However, to Enrique's disappointment, the Portuguese musket was already significantly weaker than the Haihan Type 27 arquebus just by penetrating the wooden target at a distance of 100 paces. And when this distance is doubled, the gap between the two sides is even wider, and the Portuguese muskets have even lost their sufficient lethality.

After the introduction of the 27-style flintlock pistol, the gap between the two weapons in terms of 'sexual' performance was really 'exposed', whether it was 'firing' range, lethality, 'precision' accuracy, and loading speed, the weapons of the Haihan people were obviously superior to their opponents. In a trance, Enrique seemed to be able to see rows of South Vietnamese troops standing on the target position, and people were knocked over by Haihan's muskets.

Then there was the new rifle that Enrique had just suspected, and Enrique noticed that the way the rifle was loaded was completely different from what he knew of a musket, with a small movable device at the back of the gun, from which the bullets and gunpowder were loaded into the chamber and then 'fired'. This reloading method does not require the barrel to be cleaned at all, and it seems that the loading speed is indeed a fundamental improvement over the traditional front-loading guns. Enrique was even more speechless by the results of the ensuing 'shooting', which had twice as long a range as the flintlock pistols he had seen before! This meant that if an opponent on the battlefield was only armed with a traditional musket, he could use the advantage of his range to sling the enemy, which was no different from slaughtering a group of unarmed people.

In the end, Yan Chujie showed his killer trick and asked people to take out a few Type 28 sniper rifles imitating Whitworth for test shooting. Enrique's slightly strange appearance of this weapon made a deep impression on Enrique at the first time, and its appearance shocked the Portuguese, who were already at the limit of their mental endurance - this rifle was able to hit a target the size of a human body with a high hit rate at a distance of two miles. If he hadn't witnessed the whole process and signed his name on the target in advance to prevent fraud, Enrique would have had a hard time believing that what he saw was true.

As far as Enrique knew, the weapons used on the battlefields in Europe, not to mention muskets, and even artillery could not easily reach such a long range, not to mention this terrible 'fine' accuracy! This means that when the two armies are still in the stage of opposing each other, the Haihan people can use this terrible long-range weapon to kill the commander of the enemy camp!

Enrique felt that the concept of war in his head needed to be redefined. If European military strategists knew that someone in the Far East had created such a miraculous weapon, they would have gone crazy. Thinking of this, Enrique felt that Yan Chujie's previous statement that he would not sell the most advanced weapons did not seem to be a bad thing.

The following artillery 'shooting' also made Enrique feel very hurt, aside from the advantages of Haihan artillery in 'firing' range and 'fine' accuracy, just the Nalafa ignition method made Enrique admire. The traditional method of ignition with open flame not only has a certain degree of danger, but also is affected by objective factors such as weather conditions, ignition and humidity, and the invention of the Haihan people has obviously eliminated these unexpected factors, and each cannon can be fired immediately after the order of the gun commander, and the delay time required for ignition has also been reduced to a minimum.

Enrique was also amazed by the close-range 'flower' shells used by the Haihan artillery, and when he saw the shells devastate a large area of the target and scatter it to pieces, Enrique seemed to understand why the Haihan people could resist and repel more than ten times the enemy in the Battle of Lijiazhuang with very few troops. With such terrible shells, one 'one' small-caliber artillery could be worth the power of twenty or thirty infantry firing at the same time.

As for the shore defense artillery that Enrique was keen to see, he was not able to see a demonstration of live ammunition 'firing'. This is not that Yan Chujie deliberately hides his 'selfishness,' but that the shooting range here is too small to fully reflect the 'firing' range of the coastal defense artillery. And out of the need for secrecy, it is impossible for Yan Chujie to take Enrique to visit the shore defense artillery fortifications.

"How is it? Mr. Enrique is still satisfied with our presentation?" asked Yan Chujie with a smile, seemingly completely oblivious to Enrique's disgraced face.

Enrique cheered up and reluctantly replied, "Hmm...... Your weapon 'sex' is indeed very powerful, and I personally have no objection to that. ”

"So Mr. Enrique thinks that our weapons are stronger or weaker than those of Western countries?" Yan Chujie didn't intend to let him go, and asked further.

"Well...... To be fair...... Your weapons may be a little better......" Although he didn't want to admit it against his will, Enrique also knew that this was the case, and that the difference between the two sides was not just a small margin.

"Looks like we can make an appointment to sit down and have a good business. Seeing that Enrique was powerless to refute, Yan Chujie finally got to the point with satisfaction: "I can tell you very frankly that we now need a powerful agent to traffic these weapons to the battlefield in the West for us, so that they can play their due role." ”

Enrique raised his head and looked at Yan Chujie, plucked up the courage to ask: "Mr. Yan, there is something I still don't understand after thinking about it for a long time, why do you know that a big war is going on in Western countries?"

"Where did we get this news, in fact, you don't need to know, even if I explain it to you now, you can't understand the reason at all......" Yan Chujie said the truth in front of Enrique rarely.

"It's just a perfunctory excuse. Enrique muttered silently in his heart.

"I think you should focus on your future sales strategy, think about how you can sell more weapons to the 'belligerent' countries, and how you can use this battlefield to make more profits, whether it is for yourself or your country!" Yan Chujie continued to persuade Yan Yue with a 'lust' face.

The word "country" slightly provoked Enrique, who blurted out: "The Portuguese Empire has no intention of taking the initiative to enter the war!"

"But your suzerain, Spain, does not think so, as an ally of the Holy Roman Emperor, Spain's participation in the war is a sure thing, and you, Portugal, as a vassal state of Spain, certainly will not have any chance to stay out of the situation. Yan Chujie ruthlessly uncovered Portugal's scars.

Historically, Portugal was originally part of Spain, in 1143, Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Zamora to declare independence, in 1297 the two countries signed the Treaty of Okanisesh to demarcate the national border, and in 1494 the two countries signed the Treaty of Todesillas, which determined that the Papal meridian 2,200 nautical miles west of the Cape Verde Islands was the demarcation point, with Portugal in the east and Spain in the west. The two maritime empires divided the earth like a watermelon, and since then Portugal has reached the pinnacle of history.

However, Portugal declined again during the Habsburg period in the second half of the 16th century, and was once again relegated to Spain. While a Portuguese like Enrique would proudly claim that the Portuguese Empire was an independent sovereign state, the reality is that in Europe today Portugal is a true client state, with even the king appointed by the Spaniards. And the war in which Spain participated, Portugal could not avoid being drawn into it.

Before Enrique came to the Far East, Spain and Britain and the Netherlands had been fighting for years over the ownership of their overseas colonies, from South America to Europe. Three years earlier, the Portuguese fleet had expelled the Dutch from El Salvador in South America and occupied the city, but the Dutch navy had been harassing the Spanish fleet at sea ever since, and had joined forces with the British fleet to frequently attack the Portuguese coastline.

Of course, these wars are too far from the East, and the situation here is different from that of Europe. In the Far East, the Spaniards and the Portuguese both competed and cooperated, fighting for colonies on the one hand and joining forces against the growing expansion of the powerful Dutch East India Company in the Far East. Compared with the hateful Dutch, Enrique felt that the Haihan people were closer, and although there was a conflict of interest between the two sides, the Haihan people did not mean to kill them after gaining the upper hand, but had the intention of seeking cooperation in business.

So although Yan Chujie's words did not leave a fig leaf for Portugal, Enrique was not angry because of this, but just asked: "What does Mr. Yan mean by getting more benefits?"

"In this big 'chaos' war on the Europa continent, all the powerful countries have been involved, and in the end, no matter who wins or loses, the loss of strength is a sure result. If you can dissipate as much of the power of a few powerful countries as possible, then there is hope for your country's re-emergence. "Yan Chujie threw out the 'decoy' bait at the right time.

Sure enough, Enrique became interested as soon as he heard this: "What does Mr. Yan mean, let's sell arms to the 'warring' sides at the same time, so that this war can last a little longer, and the strength of these countries can be consumed more?"

"Yes, Monsieur Enrique, you are a very wise man! If the rulers of your country can have such a mind as you, then it is only a matter of time before you are completely free from Spanish rule. Yan Chujie generously threw a high hat to the other party, and at the same time did not forget to point out the theme - in fact, the arms trade can be completely linked to your great cause of resisting Spanish rule. "But that means we still have to sell weapons to our opponents? That's not a good idea. Enrique was hesitant about this, other countries were fine, but the Dutch were rivals in direct competition in the Far East, and if they sold weapons to the enemy, they would not be able to return to the Dutch East India Company in the Far East. "I know what you're worried about. Yan Chujie observed his words and said: "The Dutch East India Company is a stumbling block for you and me, Manraka in the south and the Japanese route in the north are all controlled by these Dutch. While we are selling weapons, we can also think about how to work together against the Dutch in the Far East. ”