"I heard about it. It is said that there are more than 300 matchlock guns. This is basically the largest number of firelocks smuggled into Dongshan Prefecture in the past few years."

"Who do you think bought it?"

"Explorers, didn't they say that someone encountered brown-skinned savages over at Jinshan City? It's probably to guard against those brown-skinned savages."

Brown-skinned savage? Looks like an Indian.

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

Many people in later generations thought that Indians mainly lived on the Great Plains in central North America. After all, it was one of the three black lands in the world.

But in fact, Indian tribes are spread throughout the Americas.

Indian is not a nation, but a collective name for many nations. It is a collective name given by the Europeans to all Native Americans in the entire America except the Inuit in Alaska.

During the nearly ten thousand years of reproduction, the Indians in America are just like the humans in Eurasia. Some choose to be nomadic, some choose to fish and hunt, and some choose to farm. Some are accustomed to living in the plains, and some like to hide in the mountains. Some choose to live in the mountains.

Living by the sea, there are tribal federations, councils of chiefs, and theocratic and religious totalitarian regimes such as the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas.

In fact, there are quite a few Indians in Maple Leaf Country and the West Coast of the United States, but these Indians will not provoke Ming Dynasty unless Ming Dynasty does not provoke them.

Don't look at the fact that the Ming Dynasty has immigrated to Dongshan Prefecture intermittently for more than ten years. More than 300,000 people have immigrated to Dongshan Prefecture. The branch is located in such a large land on the west coast of North America that every square kilometer can't even be divided by a finger. Indians and Ming Dynasty immigrants

We can get along with each other peacefully.

"Old Liu, why do you ask this?"

"Old Zhang, we have known each other for three years, and you are also familiar with Xishan City. I would like to ask you a favor: can you introduce me to the person who smuggles firecrackers?"

"Old Liu, why do you want a blunderbuss? You are not a fur trader. Why, you want to go to Jinshan City too? Let me tell you, Jinshan City is a conspiracy. The Maritime Safety Administration is lying to people. There are bullshit gold mines. Back then,

Those gold mines were all smuggled over from Fuso."

"Is there anything else?"

"Don't tell anyone."

"Of course, you still don't believe me."

Liu Yifeng, who was hiding and eavesdropping, had a completely different impression of Lao Zhang. He thought he was just an ordinary shopkeeper before, but now it turns out that he is a person with some ability in both black and white, and he is a local information source and a network point.

, otherwise Boss Liu would not have tried to find out from him the person who smuggled the firearms.

"So, why do you want a firecracker?"

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

"Did you really go to Jinshan City?"

"No, we were tracking a group of elk and accidentally entered the depths of the Mountain. We encountered a group of brown-skinned savages. We may have entered their territory by mistake, but the two sides couldn't understand the language and ended up fighting."

"Anyone killed?"

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

Liu Yifeng was stunned when he heard this. Is this battle loss ratio a bit exaggerated? Did Boss Liu's hunting team bring firecrackers?

But now he is looking for fire guns, which means that he has no fire guns, and his hunting team must be too strong.

"How many people are on the other side?"

"A tribe, more than a hundred."

"How many of you are there?"

"35."

"When did your hunting team become so effective?"

"We brought 10 three-eyed muskets. After stopping their first wave of attacks, we concentrated fire and knocked them unconscious. Most of their casualties were caused by the three-eyed guns."

"No wonder."

If broken down according to principles, guns can be divided into 6 versions: 1.0 is a rifle, 2.0 is a matchlock, 3.0 is a flintlock gun, 4.0 is a smoothbore gun, 5.0 is a rifle, and 6.0 is a machine gun. Later generations stayed at 6.0.

Version. Each version has subdivisions, especially versions 5.0 and 6.0.

The three-eyed gun is a modified product of the sudden musket in the early Ming Dynasty. It can be said to be the 1.2 version. Historically, it was a short-lived transitional product that was quickly eliminated. Humanity soon entered the 2.0 version of the matchlock gun.

But the three-eyed gun still has an advantage, that is, you can load it in advance and take it out when you meet, and you can shoot quickly. It also uses shotguns, so you don’t have to worry too much about aiming. It is similar in nature to crossbows. A wave of cold sneak attacks will cause

great harm.

After Qi Shaobao's discipline-oriented military and political reforms in the Ming Dynasty, the three-eyed blunderbuss was used on a large scale by the Northern Army. It was generally used in the first salvo of cavalry charges, leaving the Tatars unprepared in the early stages of the Northern Expedition.

However, the three-eyed gun was soon banned because the misfire rate of the three-eyed gun was extremely high when riding on a bumpy horse, and there was only one firing time at a distance of 50 steps. Therefore, cavalry often threw the misfired three-eyed gun as a throwing weapon.

Out.

Not to mention, if the three-eyed gun thrown can hit the enemy, it can still cause great damage. After all, the weight of the three-eyed gun can be used as a one-handed hammer.

Even the civilian officials of the Ministry of War in charge of logistics were extremely angry and impeached the frontline generals many times, but they were all suppressed by His Majesty who advocated the Northern Expedition.

After the Northern Expedition, the inventory of three-eyed blunderbuss was still huge. At this time, the Ming Dynasty had fully absorbed the matchlock blunderbuss purchased from the Hongyi and Franji people, and began to mass-produce locally and equip the Southern and Western armies. The inventory was huge.

The three-eyed gun became the favorite weapon of the Annan Protectorate and Dongshan Prefecture explorers.

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

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

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 group of brown-skinned savages chose to live there. That valley is also where the elk spend the winter.

Not only elk, we also found a large amount of Xioshan bear excrement, which must be east of Xioshan bear, so I must capture that valley!"

"How far is the valley from Tuoshan City?"

"5-8 days away."

"Then you ask the Maritime Safety Administration for help. Just say that the brown-skinned savages in that valley attacked you, and you happened to have two people killed. Someone attacked the Han people so close to Tuoshan City, and the Maritime Safety Administration will not sit idly by."

"Maritime Safety Administration...forget it..."

"What's wrong?"

"If the Maritime Safety Administration comes forward, none of those brown-skinned savages will survive."

"Old Liu, are you still thinking of using those brown-skinned savages as slaves?"

"..."

"My brother Liu, enslaving the brown-skinned savages is against Ming law!"

"I don't understand. Those brown-skinned savages are not Inuit descendants of Xianbei. Why doesn't the imperial court allow us to enslave them? The Dongyi people and the Japanese are still from our Chinese branch. It's not the same as enslavement."

"This kind of thing is not something you and I can decide. It is the imperial court's decision not to enslave the brown savages. Even the Maritime Safety Administration dares not violate it. Please stop doing stupid things!"

Then the two of them walked out while talking. Liu Yifeng, who had hidden himself in advance, poked his head out and made sure that the two of them were far away before jumping out.

This conversation between the two solved a long-standing question in his mind about Dongshan Prefecture: it turned out that Ming Dynasty had already been in contact with the Indians.
Chapter completed!