"I heard that it is said that there are more than 300 arquebuses, which is basically the largest number of muskets smuggled to Dongshan Prefecture in recent years."

"Who do you think bought it?"

"Explorers, didn't it be said that someone in Jinshan City had encountered brown-skinned savages, probably to guard against those brown-skinned savages."

Brown-skinned savages? It seems to be the Indians.

Liu Yifeng pondered a question: The Ming Dynasty only colonized the west coast of North America, and had already come into contact with the Indians?

Many people later thought that the Indians lived mainly on the Great Plains of central North America, which is one of the three black lands in the world.

But in reality, the tribes of the Indians were spread throughout the Americas.

The Indians are not a single nation, but a collective term for many peoples, and are the collective name of the Europa people for all the Native Americans in the Americas except for the Inuit in Alaska.

In the past 10,000 years of reproduction, the Indians of the Americas, like the humans of Eurasia, have chosen to be nomadic, fishing, hunting, and farming. There are those who are accustomed to living in the plains, those who like to hide in the mountains, and those who choose to live by the sea. There were chieftaincy councils of tribal associations, and theocratic centralized regimes such as the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas.

In fact, there are not many Indians in the Maple Leaf Country and the West Coast of the United States, but these Indians will not provoke the Ming Dynasty on the premise that the Ming Dynasty does not provoke them.

Don't look at the fact that Daming has immigrated more than 300,000 people to Dongshan Prefecture intermittently in more than ten years, and the branch is in such a large area of land on the west coast of North America, and there is not even a finger per square kilometer. The Indians and the Ming immigrants could get along with each other in peace.

"Lao Liu, why are you asking this?"

"Lao Zhang, we've known each other for 3 years, and you're familiar with Jishan City, I want to ask you for a favor: can you introduce me to the person who smuggles firearms."

"Lao Liu, what do you want to fire for? You're not a fur merchant, so why are you going to Jinshan City too? Let me tell you, Jinshan City is a conspiracy, the Maritime Safety Bureau is deceiving people, there are bullshit gold mines, and those gold mines were smuggled from Fuso. ”

"And this?"

"Don't tell me about it."

"Of course, I still don't believe it."

Liu Yifeng, who hid and eavesdropped, had a completely changed impression of Lao Zhang, and he thought he was an ordinary shopkeeper before, but now it seems that he is a person with some ability in both black and white, and he belongs to the existence of the head snake information source and the like, otherwise Boss Liu would not have tentatively wanted to know the person who smuggled the firecrackle from him.

"So, what do you want a firecrackle for?"

Boss Liu's voice began to become a little bitter: "Actually, we have also provoked the brown-skinned savage." ”

"Are you really going to Jinshan City?"

"No, we tracked a herd of elk, accidentally entered the depths of the mountain, and met a group of brown-skinned savages. We may have strayed into their territory, but we didn't understand the language and ended up fighting. ”

"Killed?"

"Well, we killed 3 people, 2 were seriously injured, 11 were injured, and more than 20 people died on the other side, I don't know who was injured, but it should be more than us."

Liu Yifeng was dumbfounded when he heard this, is this battle loss ratio a little exaggerated, could it be that Boss Liu's hunting team brought firearms?

But now he is looking for firearms, which means that he doesn't have firearms, so his hunting team is too strong.

"How many people are on the other side?"

"One tribe, more than a hundred."

"How many of you?"

"Thirty-five."

"When did your hunting party become so strong?"

"We brought 10 Three-Eyed Guns, and after stopping their first wave of attacks, we directly gathered fire to stunned them, and most of their casualties were caused by Three-Eyed Guns."

"No wonder."

If subdivided according to the principle, the gun can be divided into 6 versions: 1.0 is a assault gun, 2.0 is an arquebus, 3.0 is a flintlock gun, 4.0 is a smoothbore gun, 5.0 is a rifle, 6.0 is a machine gun, and later generations stayed in the 6.0 version. And each version has subdivisions of minor versions, especially versions 5.0 and 6.0.

The three-eyed gun is the transformation product of the assault rifle in the early Ming Dynasty, which can be said to be the 1.2 version, which is a short-lived transitional product that was quickly eliminated in history, and mankind soon entered the 2.0 arquebus version.

But the three-eyed gun still has an advantage, that is, after loading the bullet in advance, it can shoot quickly when it meets and takes it out, and it also uses scattered bullets, so you don't have to care too much about aiming, and the nature of the crossbow arrow is somewhat similar, and a wave of sneak attacks from the cold will cause great damage.

Within the Ming Dynasty, after Qi Shaobao's discipline and political reform, the three-eyed gun was used on a large scale by the Northern Army. The first salvo, which was commonly used in cavalry charges, caught the Tatars off guard at the beginning of the Northern Expedition.

However, the Three-Eyed Gun was soon outlawed, because on a bumpy horse, the Three-Eyed Gun had a very high rate of mute fire, and there was only one firing time at a distance of 50 paces, so there were often cavalrymen who threw the dumb Three-Eyed Gun as a throwing weapon.

Not to mention, if the thrown Three-Eyed Gun can hit the enemy, it can also cause great damage, after all, the weight of the Three-Eyed Gun can be used as a one-handed hammer.

is the civilian morale of the military department in charge of logistics, and he has impeached the generals on the front line many times, but he has been suppressed by His Majesty, who strongly advocated the Northern Expedition.

After the end of the Northern Expedition, the inventory of the three-eyed gun was still very large, and at this time, the Ming Dynasty had already eaten up the arquebus purchased from the Hongyi and the Franco, and began to mass-produce the local mass-production and install the southern army and the western army.

This is also the only fire gun that can be purchased by the people of the Ming Dynasty, of course, it is not allowed to be sold locally, and it can only be used in Annan Prefecture and Dongshan Prefecture.

"Then you have a three-eyed gun, why do you want to buy a firecracker?"

Boss Liu sighed and said, "After we tracked the group of elk to the valley of the brown-skinned savages, we found that the valley was very warm and the environment was very good, no wonder the brown-skinned savages chose to live there." That valley is also where the elk spend the winter, and not only the elk, but we also found a large amount of feces from the mountain bear, which must be the place east of the mountain bear, so I must take that valley! ”

"How far is the valley from the city?"

"5-8 days distance."

"Then you ask the Maritime Bureau for help, and you will say that the brown-skinned savages of that valley have attacked you, and you have just killed 2 people. If someone attacks the Han people so close to the city, the Maritime Safety Bureau will not sit idly by. ”

"The Maritime Administration... Forget it..."

"What's wrong?"

"If the Maritime Bureau comes forward, none of those brown-skinned savages will want to survive."

"Lao Liu, don't you still have the idea of using those brown-skinned savages as slaves?"

“……”

"My brother Liu, enslaving brown-skinned savages is against the laws of the Ming Dynasty!"

"I don't understand, those brown-skinned savages are not Inuit descendants of Xianbei, why doesn't the court let us enslave them? The Dongyi people, the Japanese people are still our Chinese branches, and it is not the same as enslavement. ”

"This kind of thing is not something you and I can decide, it is the decision of the imperial court not to enslave the brown-skinned savages, and the Maritime Safety Bureau does not dare to disobey it, you don't do stupid things!"

Then the two walked out while talking, and Liu Yifeng, who had been hiding in advance, poked his head out and jumped out after making sure that the two had gone far away.

This conversation between the two solved a long-standing question in his heart about Dongshan Prefecture: it turned out that Daming had been in contact with the Indians.

But new questions also arise: why didn't the Ming let the Indians be enslaved?