Chapter 478: Is a chess player

Due to the distance, it was a few days later that Amina's intelligence arrived at Zhao Fubo. This piece of information passed through the intelligence network of the "Old Man in the Mountains" and then came to Zhao Fubo's business station. At night, this information was transmitted to the "Trail Station" in Cairo through the flashing lights, and finally passed to Zhao Fubo by cavalry.

Looking at the information conveyed by Amina from 1,000 kilometers away, Zhao Fubo's thoughts can be imagined. But what he needs to pay attention to at this moment is the battle in front of him. As for the Eastern Romans, Crusaders, and Knights wanting to cooperate with the *** people, he is not very worried.

Judging from Amina's narrative, the *** people are not very interested in Europeans, especially General Mongke and Boer. Hulagu and others.

When Martin was teaching Zhao Fubo history, he focused on this passage. West Asia, the Mediterranean region, was also the most chaotic region in the entire medieval era. According to Mr. Martin, this is also the easiest area to gain benefits.

"According to Amina's information, it is possible to allow the strong sale of sabers, horse lances and other civilian products to Mengge's subordinates..."

As a hostile force, whether he can obtain the products produced by Zhao Fubo is up to him to decide. Another news comes from Aden.

According to the report of Shu Yuer's father Shu Baian, the inland cities in the Aden province have been sold out at this moment. Since residents of the inland cities are allowed to redeem their own cities, the inland cities are not sold to other governors of the Arab Empire. Instead, the people of each city have paid for money and adopted the redemption method to form autonomous cities.

These cities have established presbyterian churches dominated by imams as the ruling institutions of the city. At the same time, they also paid allegiance to the Aden province and asked for protection.

The betrayal of the city of Aden made Zhao Fubo earn 5 million dinars, among which Shuberan also sent all scholars and natural science books from each city to Socotra. As a prerequisite for city redemption, the elders of each city would devote their efforts to completing this task.

From then on, as the leader of a force, Zhao Fubo, as the leader of a force, swept away the wealth of the rulers, scholars, books (technology classification), and women who have been screened. Later, the city was handed over to the citizens to buy, and as for how to manage it, it was their problem.

The industrial development of the coastal cities along the Aden province under Zhao Fubo's control has already had many primary processing industries for raw materials, such as ship plates, spear materials, ore mining, screening, classification, etc., which have already begun to operate in full due to the large demand from Socotra. The newly built shipyards can now start manufacturing large quantities of cargo ships.

Zhao Fubo did not plan to build the warships there, after all, it did not belong to his own place. The manufacturing of warships was entirely handled by the shipyard on Socotra Island.

Zhao Fubo is not a good leader. As a young man who has learned "mathematics, physics and chemistry", he prefers strength. As a person who has learned traditional combat methods, he prefers violence. But as a student of Martin, he has to learn to be a "chess player" in the entire huge force that has begun to take shape.

On the table in front of Zhao Fubo, there is a world map that has been reduced in proportion. As mentioned earlier, their world map is different from other companies in that it has latitude and longitude, and its advantages are self-evident. At this moment, there are some small characters marked on these maps.

This is the result of Zhao Fubo sorting out his report based on his current report. In addition to fighting, this is his main job - to master the progress in various places.

At this moment, the army on Socotra has conquered all the 50,000 people on the island. In addition, Zhao Fubo sent people from Felecai and Aden, the entire island has a population of up to 250,000. Unfortunately, most of them are slaves, and most of them are not very educated, and they are just construction workers.

Martin has nearly 1,000 children of all races in the school opened by the island of Felecai. They have spent a year and a half to write on the island of Felecai to become the real backbone under the education of those former young crusaders and scholars found everywhere. Other large factories, especially coking and crucible steelmaking methods are being tested.

According to Martin, when this steelmaking method is successful, the cannon that Zhao Fubo has been looking forward to cannon production can be started. At that time, the entire Song Dynasty Yulin Army will begin to convert to hot weapons. As mentioned earlier, the sample of the cannon has been surrendered. This is a bronze cannon smoothbore with a standing wedge-type cannon bolt. It is fired with black gunpowder, and the warhead is filled with nitrified cotton.

This arrangement is really a solution. Nitrifying glycerin, tnt, which is passivated by diatomaceous earth, is not difficult for Martin, but the quantity is really small. In addition, if nitrifying cotton is used as the launching medicine, the bronze cannon will be made heavy. The final result is that the metal processing ability is, before it reaches a certain level, the large amount of cannons must be released.

Fortunately, now there are the first batch of graduates, and the development of things is accelerating. Just wait for Pu Jinshu to make progress in the Song Dynasty and dig up a large number of craftsmen familiar with the cultivation of cooked iron and steel. At that time, it may be the time for the real equipment of artillery.

According to the cost-effectiveness requirements, artillery is not suitable for equipment at this moment. A better method is the design of porcelain shells, stone throwers, and flying swallow crossbow cannons, and crossbow bullets, which are more suitable for large-scale applications of the army. However, the production quantity is not large, and there is no high-intensity combat for the time being, so it is still in further production and inventory.

At this point, Zhao Fubo's layout around the entire Arab Empire has been perfected. According to Martin's estimate, in about 5 years, he can completely imagine that the first army equipped with full firearms will emerge.

But in the past five years, there are countless changes. If a person is not careful in dealing with it, it may still lead to the attack of major forces. The Yulin Army of the Song Dynasty, which takes the elite military route, may be difficult to deal with it.

In addition to Socotra Island being protected by the navy, it is almost safe to rest, the points provided by various raw materials on the shore may be hit hard.

Therefore, Zhao Fubo's control of Egypt is a necessary prerequisite. With Egypt, even if other places are attacked, they will not suffer excessive losses.

"Ah, part of the city on Socotra Island has been built. Should I move Shu Yuer and Sanniang there? Alas, let's talk about it after this battle!"
Chapter completed!