And the musket can only become a burning stick at most, compared with the knife, this combat effectiveness is not a little bit worse.

Therefore, it is crucial for the current brute army to have a stable and sustainable origin of gunpowder. For other things, Qian Ruxue doesn't care

But the matter is gunpowder. Qian Ruxue's eyes lit up instantly, and she couldn't wait to say that Chen Zhang ran to Luha Island alone to make waves

"Really? Is it really possible to completely take possession of the island of Ha for yourself? If we can really take Lyha Island for ourselves, and there are a lot of bottles in the island, then I want us not to be afraid at all, and with so much work, we can also let the Qingfeng Dao Leader develop black powder and improve the performance of gunpowder, and even the soldiers can practice muskets without worrying about wasting gunpowder and bullets. ”

The more Qian Ruxue spoke, the more excited she became, and her eyes lit up, although it was true that hot weapons were much more powerful than cold weapons

It can be said to be crushing, but it is undeniable that the heat is hot, and the weapon relies more on the performance of the weapon, and the cost of training a qualified soldier is more than that of a soldier with a cold weapon

To put it bluntly, many soldiers in the cooling-off period era, as long as you take a bite of food for them, you can train them, which is nothing more than a drain on the soldiers' own strength

But now it's completely different, if you use a gun, you have to aim, otherwise on the battlefield, you can't even hit the enemy, then what kind of battle are you fighting, guns are the same thing

The same is true for artillery, which costs a huge amount of money

There is a way that when the artillery goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold

The army of thermal weapons is now completely piled up with gold and silver treasures, and without money and resources, it simply cannot afford to raise and supply such an army

It is precisely because of this that Chen Zhang's barbarian army did not recruit firearms battalions recklessly, just because he knew whether he could afford it

If you can't afford it, it's better to let the opponent fight with a knife and gun, and maybe kill a few more enemies

"Good, great, great"

Liu Fucai's eyes lit up

"Do you want to gather forces now and completely eliminate the two major families on Luha Island, so that we can completely occupy Luha Island"

Liu Fucai was excited. In his opinion, as long as it is successful. Whether it is to the Dachang Empire or to the west, as long as the lord can open up this group of siege villages, for Liu Fucai, he has the ability to assist, I believe that when a certain extent, he will definitely go to the Dachang Empire with the bow of the ship, and then it will be the time for him to take revenge.

Chen Zhang nodded slightly, raised his head and looked at the excited Liu Fucai

"That being said, but who told you that we attacked the island of Luha as soon as we gathered our soldiers"

What, and not an immediate attack on the island of Luha?

Liu Fucai was slightly stunned, as if he didn't understand

Chen Zhang nodded and said

"Don't you look at the two families on Luha Island now, the two families are fighting each other quite fiercely, believe it or not? If we intervene in the bar, the Andrea family and the Lucife family will definitely unite against us, and at that time, in the face of our external enemy, all their internal contradictions will be suppressed, and they will even cooperate sincerely. ”

Chen Zhang said with a smile

In fact, such things are also easy to explain

It's very simple, it's okay for people in your own family to fight behind closed doors, but if you have an invasion of foreign enemies, you must be consistent with the outside world, which is called transforming internal contradictions into external contradictions.

Chen Zhang would not do such a thing as a bird

Liu Fucai's brows furrowed, and he also understood and opened his mouth

"My lordship, what should we do? Do we just wait for them to lose both? I'm not saying that there will be no defeat for both sides, but for the sake of seeing a situation like Luha Island, even if the people of the two families fight and lose both, or even reach the extinction of one side, I'm afraid it is not a simple matter."

"It's going to drag on for a long time"

Quite simply, as a two-sided force, it is actually quite difficult to fight one side to extinction

Even now, don't look at the Andre family and the Lucife family, fighting quite fiercely is equivalent to death. But if the casualties reach a certain level, they will also stop temporarily, and the so-called revenge of killing the son, the so-called killing of the father, is not worth mentioning at all in front of the entire family king.

What's more, although the lord of the Lucife family, the city lord, died of an eldest son, he didn't say that he only had one son. ”

Chen Zhang nodded slightly and smiled

"It's true that we can't attack slowly, but if someone invites us in"

Chen Zhang slowly raised his head, and said with the corners of his mouth slightly raised

"Someone invited us in"

This sentence instantly made Liu Fucai's eyes in front of him burst into light, and he immediately understood what it meant, "Lord Lord, it is exactly like this, so you let Wang Degui stay on Luha Island?" “

Chen Zhang nodded slightly, nodded and smiled.

"Luha Island is an important place for the production of gunpowder raw materials, and it is also very important for our barbarian army, as you said, I don't have time to wait for the two families to fight, both are defeated and fragmented, this is too troublesome for us, so I will leave Wang Degui on Luha Island, there is only one purpose, to let him add fuel to the fire or invite you into the urn."

Qian Ruxue sat aside, her beautiful eyes flashed with a strange brilliance, and she instantly understood, and the corners of her mouth stirred slightly,

"It would be great if we could do this, but I'm afraid the Lucife family and the Andrea family won't let us in so easily, after all, they are also afraid of luring wolves into the house."

"That's because it didn't hit to a certain extent, and when it hit to a certain extent"

Chen Zhang paused and raised his head

"When the fight reaches a certain level, even if it is to lure the wolf into the house, they will bring this wolf in.

"People, that's the thing, if it weren't for the point of despair, they would never admit that they were worse than others."

Hearing the words of the lord Chen Zhang, Liu Fucai, Qian Ruxue and others relieved their hearts

With the passage of time, a few days later, he returned to the Carlos Islands, unloaded all the fireworks on the ship, and then transported them to the Coral Islands, where they were developed and refined on the island where the head of the Coral Islands Qingfeng Road was located, and then made into a large amount of gunpowder, and the cannonballs were transported.

The Coral Islands have become an important strategic production base

To put it bluntly, it has become a large rear for logistics support, and the Carlos Islands have become a bridgehead for the barbarian army and a window to the outside world.

Besides

The entire Coral Islands have now become a large rear, and most of the area has been turned into a large farm, and many captives have been pulled here directly to open up the fields

Their goal is to grow more food.

In addition, some of the islands on the side have been turned into military bases, and the restricted area has become a place for the Seikaze Governor to research and refine gunpowder, while on the other side of the Coral Islands, a large number of factories and workshops have been established to recruit a large number of displaced people and build various daily necessities and daily necessities such as clothes, silk, and silk.

After all, if everything is leaning somewhere else,

Or go to the Dachang Empire to buy it, that is really more than worth the loss

Where can I make my own things, and then go in and sell them, and the profits are even higher?

In addition, the biggest use of the Coral Islands today is that a piece of the middle area is directly divided into military training bases.

Now all the soldiers of the barbarian army need to go through military training before they can be distributed

As in the past, the model of separating generals and training generals on their own has completely disappeared.

All soldiers are trained by special instructors in the main military training camp, and they are trained only after they have been trained. The different troops in the border city divide them into different armies and ranks

The advantage of this is that it greatly avoids the control of soldiers by the army.

After all, according to the past, each general recruited the army and trained it by himself, and the result of this huge difference is that the recruited soldiers are actually not loyal to the country, but to the generals, but now after a large training model, it is completely different.

It was the barbarians who recruited them, not a certain general of the barbarians, and they were assigned to a certain general, and they only fought battles, not their belonging

In addition, Chen Zhang issued different identity cards to everyone, and all military salaries will be directly distributed by the Quartermaster Department in the future. registry,

So even if you want to eat empty salary, sorry, even if you want to eat empty salary. Then you must at least say that the soldiers here must come out of the big training camp and be registered

instead of recruiting some soldiers directly and casually like before,

It is said that there are as many soldiers as there are soldiers, but in fact, the empty cavity is simply a mess, and even sometimes the empty salary is as high as six or seven percent, and the rest are old and weak women and children.

With such a force, you still want money to fight,

Hehe, it's a matter of looking for death at all,

Just like Chen Zhang heard in his previous life, the most common sentence is that people are dissatisfied and invincible

But in fact, another sentence is that the Han people are not satisfied with the salary, and the full salary is invincible

To put it bluntly, it's not that the Han army can't fight, but that it has no money. It's like if you go to work, if the boss doesn't pay you a salary and doesn't pay you for a few months, will you still work for the boss wholeheartedly? is even willing to sell his life, when he really thinks that people are idiots, there is no way to resist,

But it's for sure.

As a logistics base, the Coral Islands have entered a virtuous cycle of development.

Every day, large quantities of goods are brought in, and the same variety of products are shipped out, which will be shipped directly to the Carlos Islands.

The Carlos Islands are now occupied by Chen Zhang, and there will be a revolt to be expected

But the four major families were almost all slaughtered, and some of the small families that remained were sincerely afraid.

Fortunately, Chen Zhang used Huairou's policy, compared with the four major families in the past, they ate all the meat and soup, and only left some leftovers for some small families.

The method used by Chen Zhang is a win-win situation for everyone, and if he eats meat, he will leave some soup for some small families.

I have to say that this made some small families immediately turn against each other

There is a way to fight a group, suppress a group, win over a group, and divide a group

Although Chen Zhang did not know these schemes, in the hands of Liu Fucai and others, when these schemes were used, it was simply like a fish in water.

Over time, although only a few months have passed,

However, the Carlos Islands have unexpectedly stabilized, and the life of the Carlos Islands, whether it is a small family, a businessman, or even the people of the Carlos Islands, suddenly feels that life in the Carlos Islands is much better than before

Especially those small families, without the oppression of the four major families, their lives are indeed much better than before.

In addition, coupled with the large amount of materials transported from the Coral Islands, Chen Zhang did not swallow them alone, but distributed them to small families and let them sell them

There is a way that money is of course earned by everyone, and under the binding of interests, it soon made the large and small families of the Carlos Islands abandon the original four families in an instant and unite under the rule of the barbarian army led by Chen Zhang.

Some of the remnants of the four major families wanted to overthrow or riot behind their backs, but they were completely found out at once, and they were directly sold out without even starting a riot.

At the same time, the Freedom Gangs outside the port have now become half-official and half-commercial gangs

All of these gangs were included in the system by Chen Zhang, and they were registered to ensure their rights and interests.

In Chen Zhang's words, gangs can exist, and it is very simple to need people to carry goods, but it is impossible to suck human blood.

You can take some money, you can get commissions, you can get commissions, but it's like before. It is absolutely not allowed to take out seventy or eighty percent of a single business

, facing the suppression of such a powerful force as Chen Zhang. One by one, the members of the gang can only comply

Just kidding, you might be able to survive if you listen to orders, but if you don't, you'll be doomed.

Chen Zhang knows better than anyone the horrors of capital

Although it is now a feudal society, in reality there is not much difference in essence.

The big landlords and tyrants are also representatives of capital, and capital is always bloody, in order to earn the highest profits and benefits, they cannot and will not join laborers

That's why the law exists, that's why there needs a state

The essence of the state is actually the redistribution of wealth, and as long as you distribute the redistribution cake well, the country will be stable

Once the distribution gap between the rich and the poor is too large, it will usher in turmoil and dynastic change

Chen Zhang naturally did not have such a big idea, but as a modern person, the most hated depreciation is the continuous exploitation of laborers by capitalists

Obviously, I can use my labor to make money, but because I don't have power, most of the fruits of my labor are usurped

The rest can only use their own labor to desperately earn money and desperately support their families

Finally, I have to be poured a sentence

Wages have not risen for so many years.

Why don't you reflect on yourself,

Have you worked well?

Every time he heard this, Chen Zhang had an urge to hit someone.

Therefore, whether it is in the Coral Islands or the Carlos Islands, he puts the protection of workers at the highest point

It is not possible to say that the workers are supplied, but at least to ensure that the legitimate rights and interests of the workers themselves will not be infringed upon

As for what will happen in the future, Chen Zhang is not clear, but at least for now, Chen Zhang can still control it when the plate is not too big.

Although this is the case, many people, even Qian Ruxue and others, seem to be very confused and incomprehensible, and even incomprehensible

After all, in their opinion, if these refugees were able to give them a bite to eat, they would be grateful

It is also necessary to protect their interests, and what interests they have, and to provide them up

But fortunately, although Qian Ruxue and the others felt strange and dissatisfied, they would not contradict the lord for this little thing

Since it was the lord's decision, they would naturally follow it, and there was no problem at all.

Returning to the Carlos Islands, Chen Zhang did not do anything to die young

After all, there are no so-called enemies in this Carross Islands and nearby, and even if there are, some small pirates will not be able to achieve any kind of climate at all.

"Lord Lord, Lord Lord,"

suddenly

Shi and Zhao Zhi hurriedly ran in, both of them with excited looks on their faces, and their eyes were shining

Seeing this kind of light, Chen Zhang raised his eyebrows

For military generals, there is only one possibility to be so excited

There is a rod to beat

"My lord, our scout patrol ship just now found that a wave of enemies appeared involuntarily,"

"The enemy is coming towards the Carlos Islands,"

What found the enemy

Chen Zhang raised his head to face this puzzled look and asked

"How did piracy happen in Dao, what the hell is going on? His brows furrowed slightly as he spoke

I noticed something wrong and strange

I saw Zhao Zhi and Shi Dao

"We've checked this group of troops, it's not just pirates, it's an army sign, they're from the country of Crowe."

Crowe Country!

Chen Zhang's eyes rose suddenly, "

The slight contraction reacted instantly

"Do you mean we're heading to the country of Crowe where we're trading?"

"That's right, it's the country of Crowe that went to trade, and their army is overwhelming"

"Your Excellency, what do you say? Did they come to talk to us about the deal?"

"It can't be"

Stone shook his head

"I took a look. When their large forces came over, they were warships, not merchant ships, and they were supposed to attack us."

"My lord, I said a long time ago, the people of this Crowe country are not good people at all, and they came to oppose us before we looked for them, which is also ridiculous,"

Chen Zhang's fingers clicked slightly

"Go and summon Liu Fucai and Qian Ruxue back immediately, we have to analyze it well"

Chen Zhang is very clear,

The strength of the army of the country of Crow is definitely stronger than itself, and it is said that Krob has four major armies

Among them, the White Tiger Army has been solved by itself, of course, this is also because the pirates pretended to be the White Tiger Army of the Crowe Kingdom wanted to come to a black and eat black, and they were destroyed by themselves.

"In this way, I'm afraid that our destruction of the White Tiger Navy has been discovered, otherwise the current situation would not have happened."

The more Chen Zhang thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and his fingers clicked lightly on the desktop quickly

Qian Ruxue and Liu Fucai hurriedly ran over

Qian Ruxue's expression became quite dissatisfied. The most important thing for him now is to form a musket battalion and prepare gunpowder and shells.

Arm your own army to the teeth, how can you bother with other things.

However, Liu Fucai swallowed his saliva with a smile on his face, and said cautiously

"According to the words of Zhao Zhi and the two generals, it seems that the other party should indeed be coming for us,"

。 But the strange thing is that if it is really a large army pressing the border, then the other side should raise the flag and then attack, and it is impossible to come with only a dozen ships, I suspect that it may be one of Krober's navy and not. The will of my whole country of Crowe,"

"What. It was a certain admiral of the Crowe country, not the will of the Crober."

Although there were some tongue twists in what he said, Chen Zhang was stunned and instantly understood

"Do you mean that it is the four great admirals of the Crowe Kingdom, no, that one of the three major navies came to attack and it was not the order of the king of the Crowe Kingdom?"

Thinking of this, Chen Zhang's eyes lit up slightly, and his fingers tapped,

"If that's the case, then this matter can still be discussed."

The corners of Chen Zhang's mouth were raised, and he smiled

"In that case, then the other party doesn't have a clear sword and gun to say that they are from the country of Kro, then we will treat them as pirates and destroy them."

The cold light in Chen Zhang's eyes flickered slightly

raised his head and looked at Qian Ruxue, Zhao Zhi. Stone.

"Our Navy is also resting for a while. I just want ammunition, and I'm pretty much equipped."

As he spoke, he looked at Qian Ruxue

"General Qian does not know how the musket battalion is preparing now, whether the ammunition and weapons are fully equipped"

Qian Ruxue said with a smile

"Of course, these people are still coming, if they had come a few days earlier, we wouldn't have enough gunpowder in the musket cloud."

"Fortunately, all the fireworks have been transported back to the Emerald Islands in time this time, and the gunpowder has been refined, remade, and the bullets and shells have been replenished, although they have not been replenished all, I believe there is no problem in supporting a battle."

"Good"

Chen Zhang nodded

"Then immediately send all the men of the firearms battalion to the ship, the naval battle does not rely on force, but on firearms"

After Chen Zhang finished speaking, he looked at the stone, and Zhao Zhi said word by word

"You are the same, the soldiers under your own leadership and the musketeers of General Qian are arranged to attack at the same time"

"This is the first real sortie of our naval ships. I'm not going to make a move, I'm going to see if you can get rid of the enemy."

Chen Zhang knew very well that he couldn't rely on himself every time, in fact, if it was him, he could also use the tactic of capturing the thief and capturing the king first to solve the enemy

But the question is when he was really killed, and after he died, he returned to the real society, what about the remaining money such as snow, stones, Zhao Zhi and others?