Chapter 527: Waves in the South China Sea
The East India Company of the Britain Kingdom, taking advantage of the opportunity of the gods of the South Asian subcontinent planted in the secret realm of Shangri-La, knocked on the doors of the countries with sail oars loaded with artillery, and the more than 10,000 private troops accompanying the ships quickly landed, swept away the cold weapons natives with arquebuses and artillery, and advanced all the way unstoppable, turning these feudal slave countries into semi-feudal and semi-colonial countries.
The East India Company's successes aroused the confidence of the company's top brass, who looked at the concessions and treaty ports dotted on the South Asian subcontinent and looked at the Middle-earth Empire, which was blocked by pirates in the South China Sea.
The Old World's impression of the Middle-earth Empire is still stuck in the "Travels of Marco Polo", written in the later years of the sorcerer and traveler Marco Polo, a huge unified empire, a civilization full of gold, the number of armies alone exceeds the total population of the Old World, rich in silk, fine porcelain, and tea equivalent to gold.
Unfortunately, the Middle-earth Empire had a conservative attitude towards overseas trade, so even if the East India Company obtained a trade franchise, it was unable to open up more trade routes, resulting in the wealth plundered by the Britain Kingdom all over the world, and the loss of a large amount of precious metals due to the huge trade of the Middle-earth Empire.
"This situation cannot continue, and it is necessary to sell large quantities of domestic industrial products to the Middle-earth Empire. ”
Spurred on by a series of victories, the top brass of the East India Company was aroused with great ambitions, but they first had to face the new king of the South China Sea Islands who occupied Singapore and unified the South China Sea Islands in the radius of civilization of the Middle-earth Empire.
Compared with the ever-changing shipbuilding industry of the Britaen Kingdom, the pirate ships of the South China Sea pirates are still in the initial stage of the wooden "sail age", and the power of the pirate ships is still the coexistence of oars and sails, which belong to the backward "oars and warships" and do not know how to forge ahead.
The warships owned by the East India Company are still a little far behind the latest warships that have begun to evolve into steam ironclads in China, but they are equipped with more than 52 heavy guns, which is also the level of third-class gunboats belonging to the Britaen Kingdom, with a total of more than 30 ships, and the total number of fourth-class and fifth-class ships is also more than 180.
According to the tonnage and firepower configuration of the warship, the East India Company can completely win all the way, but the new whip of the South China Sea is even more terrifying than his predecessor, the legendary pirate Wang Xiaofeng.
The man whose name is the man who guards the gateway to the West and blows all ships away like feathers, has the gift of evoking shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea and summoning large areas of thick fog.
A fleet of tentative gunboats, totaling more than 20 ships, with more than 600 heavy guns and a tonnage of nearly 500 tons, was only slightly hostile, and was besieged by the Singapore pirate cluster, and the twelve gunboats that escaped by luck were all swallowed up in the fog by the undead ships summoned by the whip of the South Seas, and none of them survived.
The East India Company saw clearly the strength of the South China Sea pirates from this war, and the company's top management did not look down on the big and inappropriate pirate ships at all, and they knew very well that the pirate king Simon Blowing Feather had eighty percent of the strength of the South China Sea pirates.
The battle of blood and fire forged the prestige of the Whip of the South Sea, and the East India Company respected Simon Fuki's position and paid a tax of 10% for every merchant ship under the company's name that passed through the Strait of Malacca to the Middle-earth Empire, referred to as China, according to the rules of the sea.
In exchange, every merchant ship of the East India Company that paid taxes would be given a five-star flag, and the natives of the South China Sea Islands would not attack it without permission for the sake of this flag, and let them pass safely.
The merchant ships were thus freed from constant harassment, and the East India Company's top brass summed up the experience of the captains and concluded that the existing maritime navigation laws, which were based on the prestige and power of the South China Sea Whip, had a unique value and were not prepared to change the status quo by force.
However, after Lu Bin returned to Qiongya Island, he learned of the war in the South China Sea, and after a long silence, he sighed: "After a long time, they finally came!"
Subsequently, Lu Bin unsealed and opened the Mo family relics taken from the "Xianqin Era", and a cold black light burst out, and in a blink of an eye, the edge was gone, like a swimming fish returning to the sea ready to leave.
Lu Bin made a move in an instant, and the five elements of true qi gathered together, controlling the sword, and then he took it off easily, looking at the inscription "Zhan Lu" on the hilt of the sword, and suddenly felt happy.
"It turned out to be you!The head of the five swords forged by Ou Yezi, a swordsmith in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Third Dynasty. The whole body is inky black, and the sword blade is untraceable, which was originally lost in the historical records, and it was unexpectedly collected by the Mo family. The sword symbolizes a deep, discerning black eye from above, watching the actions of kings and princes. The king has a way, the sword is on the side, and the country is prosperous; the king has no way, the sword is abandoned, and the country is ruined. ”
Lu Bin was a little happy when he got this Emperor Dao True Sword, and then a faint smile appeared on his face: "This is to force me to win the championship and compete in the Central Plains! Of course, it may also be a pawn who precursor to the king and open the way for the true king, and let me try it." ”
Pressing down on the strange thoughts of Zhan Lujian, Lu Bin's eyes turned to the relics of the Mo family, and successively took out three sets of "Shenxing Armor Horses", mechanism array diagrams and other things, and finally opened this long zither-shaped box, and stopped without finding the dark grid.
Lu Bin threw a set of Divine Walking Armor Horses into the burial place through the Book of the Traveling Mage, and it didn't take long to analyze that this was a Mohist creation with a constant spell effect.
"It's not like a spell sequencer! Nine oxen and two tigers, one bull tops five horses, that is, forty-five horsepower, if it is added to the machine man, wouldn't it be transformed into a battlefield killing machine? As for the second tiger, I guess it is similar to the speed of a cat, and has bonuses in agility and attack?"
Lu Bin was a little smacked at his discovery, and then used the virtual godhead to analyze the mechanism array diagram, and the trap bird flying in the sky in a short time was enough to surprise, and the bronze cast trap arm, the design concept of the four-legged stepping trap house broke through the sky.
Of course, the most surprising thing is the mechanism battle armor, which is divided into a small battle armor for a single person, a medium-sized battle armor for five people, and a heavy battle armor that has not been physically verified and operated by thirty-six people-the city-level war mechanism art creation, the Immortal Qin Jinren.
Lu Bin couldn't help but scratch his head: "I remember, the Mo family's mechanism technique is a defensive creation, even if the magic change of the world's law loopholes, it shouldn't be so domineering?
The mechanism array diagram was still on paper, and Lu Bin disassembled it into parts with the help of his virtual godhead, marked out the specific dimensions, and prepared to start with the simplest mechanism arm.
The candidate for using this trick creation has already been decided, and it is the most vicious precept-breaking monk among the Black Wind Village Path Cutting Thieves encountered in Qinchuan in the eight hundred miles, Wang Hu.
"The monk who broke the ring of killing is far more powerful than ordinary monks, and if it weren't for me, he would be able to live happily for a few years. It's a pity that he doesn't have the ability to kill stronger and stronger, so what kind of precept-breaking monk is. ”
Lu Bin suddenly remembered that the black knights of the Old World, compared to the virtue knights of the Holy See or called the white knights, chose to turn their backs on virtue beliefs, get double or even many times the source feedback, obey their inner desires, and indulge in the pleasure of depravity, the so-called more depraved, the stronger it is.
It's a very emotional setting!