Well, there is actually a problem with changing the musket? Hearing this, Ludwig frowned and looked at his butler.

Anri Credo leaned close to Ludweder's ear, "All the newly arrived flintlock muskets are with the Batavia Army Commander... Moreover, they have just replaced the matchlock muskets in the army with flintlock muskets.

, a total of four hundred branches,"

"Hiss..." Upon hearing this, Ludweder understood that this was really a difficult problem. Not to mention that the colonial army had just finished changing their equipment, and if they were to replace the flintlock muskets with Cao Xiong, it would definitely arouse resentment in the army.

Let’s just say that Army Commander Colonel Pete Kurucs was recommended by the Orange family.

There have always been two factions of political forces within the United Provinces Republic (Netherlands). One faction is the republican faction, which is dominated by members of the current two-level parliament, the navy, and traders. They advocate weakening the royal power and actively developing free trade.

The other faction is the royal party headed by the Orange royal family, which is mainly composed of senior officers in the army and large domestic landowners. It advocates establishing royal power and paying attention to domestic development and the rights and interests of low-level farmers and craftsmen.

Ludwig was naturally a republican. How could he easily replace muskets from the colonial army at will?

"I will find a way to deal with this matter." Ludweide felt that he still had to give it a try. After all, he had already said it all. If he couldn't get a flintlock gun, wouldn't it be looked down upon. The businessman

With his mind, he quickly calculated at least two ways to get a flintlock gun, which only cost a little more.

Seeing that it was getting late and the general direction of cooperation had been basically agreed upon, Cao Xiong said goodbye and left.

Ludweide asked him to come to the city hall the day after tomorrow to find him and sign a detailed cooperation agreement. At that time, some departments and personnel from the colonial agency would contact him and ask him to be prepared. At the same time, he ensured that the content of the agreement would not exceed

The framework of the conversation between the two tonight.

"Uncle, do we think we have surrendered to the Dutch?" Qi Dalu asked halfway.

"That's right, that's not right!" Cao Xiong said angrily.

"Does that count, or... does it count?"

"You idiot!" Cao Xiong cursed with a smile, "Go back to Hanzhou Jianye City and ask your brother!... I really doubt whether you are my sister's biological child!"

"Ah?" Qi Dalu couldn't help but stopped and scratched the short hair on his forehead, "Why am I not my mother's biological child?...Why don't you say that the fourth child is not my mother's biological child? Look, it's better than me.

Both the eldest brother and the second brother know more!"

Early the next morning, Hu Wenjin and Zhou Yingping hired a tooth man as usual and went to the workshop market! They were going to buy various tools, copper, iron and other supplies.

Cao Xiong and Qi Dalu also went out with a few brothers and spent a silver coin to ask someone to take them to visit the Chinese Kapitan Sumingang in Batavia City.

Sumingang is fifty-five years old this year and has stayed in Batavia for a full fifty years. From Jaya Garda, the previously powerful Banten Kingdom, to Batavia under the rule of the Dutch East India Company. He

From an ordinary Ming immigrant, he gradually became the Chinese leader here. In 1632, he was officially appointed as the Chinese Kapitan by the Dutch colonial agency.

Sumingang's mansion is in a typical Ming style, with three courtyards, pavilions, small bridges and flowing water, and overlapping shadows of the houses, making it look like the mansion of a wealthy gentleman in the south of the Ming Dynasty.

Cao Xiong grabbed Qi Dalu, who was looking around, and followed a butler obediently toward the guest house in the atrium.

Whenever maritime merchants traveling between the Ming Dynasty and Batavia came to visit, Su Minggang would usually receive them personally. Firstly, it was a matter of hometown affection and the friendship of a landlord; secondly, it was to exchange business information and entrust each other with transactions.

Something that happens all the time.

Otherwise, how could Soumingang control the Chinese business in Batavia and have official interactions with the Dutch colonial institutions? Nothing more than a monopoly on information.

"Mr. Su, my surname is Cao Mingxiong. A few months ago, I followed Liu Xiang to do maritime business. But I didn't check for a while, and I was tricked and ended up living in Nanyang." Cao Xiong introduced himself straight to the point.

When Su Minggang heard this, he said, oh, you are a pirate. So, you are here today to catch the autumn wind. It is not impossible to give a thousand taels of silver to a thousand people. He smiled and was ready to continue to listen to how much money Cao Xiong wanted to ask for.

.

"However, we have found a place to stay more than ten days away from Batavia. Because we want to open a few workshops to maintain a necessary life, but there are no craftsmen... So, I want to

Please help Mr. Su and find twenty or thirty for me."

Huh? No money!

Want someone? Want craftsmen?

Su Minggang was astonished. In addition to robbing and killing people, you pirates could also engage in production and construction.

"Mr. Su, Mr. Su..." After Cao Xiong finished speaking, he saw that Su Minggang didn't speak for a long time, but was stunned, so he couldn't help but call him, "If you find it difficult to handle, I will think of other ways!"

"Oh, I am old and my reaction is a little slow. I am neglecting you heroes!" Su Minggang quickly calmed down and replied seriously: "Artisans are..."

"Grandpa, grandpa!" A light figure ran in, shouting: "Grandpa, the third brother is getting worse and worse!"

A girl of fifteen or sixteen years old ran to Su Minggang, held his arm, and said, "The third brother has defrauded me of my money again. He must be going to buy some rare things to please the Lin family girl."

The eyes of everyone in the room were attracted to this girl. She wore an emerald green Ming-style skirt, a few pink tassels around her waist, a girl's hairstyle on her head, and a simple beaded hairpin, which set off the slightly baby fat figure.

The oval face looks delicate and charming.

"Don't be ridiculous, I don't see any guests!" Su Minggang shouted softly.

The girl looked back and couldn't help but playfully stuck out her tongue, then hid behind Su Minggang with her mouth shut.

"You heroes, are you kidding?" Su Minggang motioned the girl to go out with his eyes, and then he clasped his fists humbly and said, "It's okay to ask for craftsmen. But you also know that the land of Nanyang is thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, and craftsmen can get it.

, it is really not easy. If local workshops lose their artists, how can they survive?"

"So, it's not that I don't want to help you wait, but I don't dare to rashly seize the foundation of other people's workshops! Everyone, if you really want to find craftsmen, why not go to the Ming Dynasty?"

"It's not impossible to recruit craftsmen from the Ming Dynasty," Cao Xiong said: "I thought that if I could find craftsmen nearby, I could save more time and energy... In this case, I'll think about the craftsmen separately.

Solution. Today, I really bothered Mr. Su... It's just a small gift, so just accept it. I don't know, we will come to you for other difficulties in the future."

After sending Cao Xiong and his party away, Su Minggang sat quietly in the room, thinking about the meeting just now, and whether there were any inappropriate or offensive words. In Batavia, a place where the East and the West meet, and where various people and forces gather,

You have to be careful in your words and deeds. This is why Su Minggang became a Chinese leader.

"Grandpa, who are they?" The smart girl walked gently to Su Minggang's side.

"They are pirates." Su Minggang looked at his beloved granddaughter lovingly.

"Pirate? Why don't I see it!... Hee hee, that little monk looks like a fool."

Su Minggang smiled and said, "If you continue to be so noisy, I will marry you to a pirate and spend all your time at sea."

"How wonderful that is! Those who see the wind and waves will be so free!"

"Okay, in one year, when you turn sixteen, I'll marry you off!"

"Hehe... Grandpa, I can't wait!"

"...this kid!"

"Mainland, Mainland!... You idiot, why are you so stupid?" After leaving the Su Mansion, everyone was going to visit the various workshops in the city. However, Cao Xiong saw Qi Dalu looking like he was in a state of despair and called out twice.

, there was no movement, so he kicked it.

"Ah..." Qi Dalu just woke up, "Uncle, what's the matter?"

"What are you thinking about?"
Chapter completed!