Among the people who came to Beihai Town with the Thor, whether they were the Guangnan Mission, the Ryukyu Mission, or the Lins and their sons, meeting Zhao Xin was one of the important purposes of their trip. The problem was that Prince Zhao could not do anything for a while.
Unable to come back, he is now marching towards Uliasutai with his logistics troops. After all, for Beihai Town, winning Outer Mongolia is the most important thing this year.
The Ryukyu envoys were not very anxious. Since they were thanking him, they had to make a gesture and meet Zhao Xin no matter what. What's more, they were full of curiosity about everything in Beihai Town and hoped to fully understand the thickness of the "new thigh".
Since Zheng Zhangguan, the "Three Siguan Zashiki" who was the envoy of the mission, had studied abroad in the Imperial College in Beijing for three years, Chen Qingsong asked Jiang Fan to come forward and take them to visit various places first.
As for the Guangnan mission, they were eager to finalize many cooperation details with Beihai Town, so after resting for two days and wandering around the east bank of the Xila River, they couldn't wait to ask for talks. Chen Qingsong had no choice but to have Wu Siyu come forward to deal with it.
As the representative of Nguyen Phuc Anh, Li Wenyue complimented Beihai Town on its strong military and people's livelihood, and then expressed the hope of obtaining another interest-free loan from Beihai Town.
Wu Siyu said in shock: "Didn't I just give you an interest-free loan of 500,000 taels in February?"
Li Wenyue put on a very embarrassed look and said: "Jiading and Binh Thuan have suffered from repeated wars, and people's livelihood is difficult. In addition to buying metals from Siam to make farm tools, with 500,000 taels, we also need to buy ships, build ordnance and cannons. In addition, Binh Thuan Prefecture
Additional forts must be built in important coastal areas to strengthen defenses to prevent the Xishan Puppet North Korea from counterattacking."
Deng Chenchang, who came with Li Wenyue, added: "When Admiral Deng inspected our troops and horses in Guangnan, he said that the number of musketry trainings for the soldiers was too few. He suggested that my king order the Fifth Army Command to triple the number of trainings per year."
Wu Siyu said curiously: "May I ask how many bullets each of your soldiers fired in training before?"
Deng Chenchang said: "Six shots."
"How many times a year do you train?"
"It was once once before, but after Admiral Deng suggested to my king, it was changed to three times."
I'll go! Wu Siyu heard the black lines all over his forehead and thought to himself, isn't this a joke? No wonder he can't beat Xishan Chao. But in his opinion, eighteen rounds of training three times a year is not much, and the average is less than one month.
Up to two rounds. The Beihai Navy now only conducts 10 rounds of live-fire training for rifles every month, let alone other weapons.
But what he didn't know was that the main weapons of soldiers in both the Guangnan and Taishan Dynasty armies in these years were not muskets, but swords, sabers and copper cannons. Due to financial difficulties, Ruan Fu Anh was not careful about the use of muskets.
It is very harsh. Only 5 out of 50 people in each team have muskets. Soldiers conduct shooting exercises once a year and are only allowed to use six rounds of ammunition. Any more than the number must be paid out of pocket.
You must know that there are no local minerals in Guangnan, and the textile technology is not good. The only thing that can be used for trade is rice. Whether it is lead, sulfur, or saltpeter, it has to be purchased from Siam and Myanmar. Deng Fei’s suggestion cost Nguyen Phuc Anh an extra tens of thousands.
Fortunately, Guangnan's musketeers have greatly increased their training frequency, and their overall shooting level has also been significantly enhanced, and they have been able to repel the Xishan Dynasty's counterattacks several times.
"So, how much do you want to borrow this time?"
Li Wenyue hesitated for a moment, then said sheepishly: "One and a half million taels."
You really treat Beihai Town like a cash machine! Wu Siyu felt angry and funny, and then said: "What do you plan to use to repay it? I'm sorry, rice won't do it."
Not to mention that there is no shortage of food in Beihai Town. Even if it is, there is no need to transport it all the way from Annan, not to mention that several administrative villages on the south bank of Xingkai Lake have now switched to rice cultivation.
Li Wenyue and Deng Chenchang were dumbfounded. If they were not allowed to use rice to repay their debts, what else could Guangnan have?
Wu Siyu said calmly: "No rush, please think about it first. Let's continue talking about other things."
In fact, he has received Zhao Xin's instructions. If Guangnan borrows more money, he will use the mine as a mortgage and mine it unconditionally for twenty years. The minimum price Beihai Town is willing to pay for this is three million taels of silver!
You must know that Thanh Hoa in central Annan is extremely rich in mineral resources, the most important of which are high-quality magnetite and chromite. For example, the Shixi deposit is located on a layer of limestone and rock 600 meters underground. It is 300 meters deep underground.
In places where the iron ore reserves are 280 million tons; below 600 meters there are 481 million tons, with an iron content of 60% to 65%.
In addition, there are anthracite coal mines in Guangning area, which are indispensable resources for industry.
In addition to asking for money, the Quang Nam delegation also hoped to purchase a batch of arms from Bei Hai Town. Last year, when the Thor assisted them in attacking Phan Thiet City, the cannons on the Thor left an indelible impression on Nguyen Phuc Anh.
Only then did they realize that the French bronze cannons were nothing compared to the cannons of the Northern Navy!
Are you kidding me? The 122 gun is the weapon of the North Navy to control the country. It can hit all the thorns in this time and space and will never be exported! Wu Siyu immediately recommended to them the "Type 87" 12-pound steel front-loading gun.
When they heard that a 12-pound steel cannon actually cost 5,000 taels of silver each, Li Wenyue and Deng Chenchang suddenly took a breath and thought it was really dark. However, they learned that the maximum range of this kind of cannon was more than four
Here, the maximum rate of fire can reach four rounds per minute. Deng Chenchang immediately asked to see it with his own eyes.
Wu Siyu smiled and said: "This is simple, how about the afternoon after tomorrow?"
Deng Chenchang said with great joy: "I can't thank you enough."
The M1857 twelve-pounder gun that shined in the history of another time and space is already very good. Although it is a smoothbore cannon, when using a standard propellant charge of 1.13 kg, the standard 12-pounder shell can be fired at a shooting angle of 5 degrees.
Accurately projected to a distance of 1480 meters; when the shooting angle is 10 degrees, it can reach 1911 meters.
The North Navy's "Type 87" imitation uses high-strength manganese steel, making the wall thickness smaller and reducing the weight of the gun body from 556.57 kilograms to 500 kilograms. The full gun combination - that is, the full gun plus a front trailer and
The weight of the attached ammunition box does not exceed 1,400 kilograms. In addition, the black gunpowder produced in Beihai Town adopts the optimal ratio and uses high-purity potassium nitrate, which is far more powerful than other black powder of the same era.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! At present, the "Type 87" muzzle-loading gun has been sold to many regions. In addition to the Cossack Emirate, the Ainu Kingdom and island countries have also bought many. For example, Jiang
The Tobakufu bought a hundred doors, and the Sendai clan, because it was the best dog leg in Beihai Town, also bought eighty doors with tit-for-tat loans; as for the Choshu clan, because the land was small and the people were poor, it really couldn't compare with the first two.
I gritted my teeth and bought ten of them as a token of appreciation.
The most profitable business in the world is selling arms. You must know that selling arms is different from selling carrots. What the buyer buys is not only the weapon itself, but also a standard. As the saying goes, "It's easier to get on the ship than to get off the ship." I used Beihai
The town's weapons, training, ammunition, spare parts replacement and maintenance all cost money, so you can make a profit.
The Guangnan mission was said to be very itchy, and Peter, who came with them, was entrusted by the French East India Company, so he had to open a separate negotiation. The person in charge of receiving him was Yu De
profit.
Although as a member of the "Paris Association of Foreign Missions", Peter was worried about Nguyen Phuc Anh's restoration of the country, his status in Nguyen Phuc Anh's regime was not high, and he even wanted to be embarrassed.
Although this missionary once took Nguyen Phuc Anh's son Ruan Jing to Paris for a tour and even met Louis XVI, he brought back nothing useful except a dry agreement.
This official position in the Guangnan regime was called "Supervising Pastor of the Marine Infantry Reinforcements", but since the French government did not send even a single reinforcement, it was purely in vain. At the same time, because of his enthusiasm for preaching, he triggered the Christian culture
The conflict with Confucian culture did not receive the respect it deserved in the Guangnan regime.
In fact, what Peter didn't know was that many people in the Quang Nam regime wanted to kill him, and even asked Nguyen Phuc Anh to kill him. However, at the moment, Nguyen Phuc Anh was not strong enough and was in the process of hiring people, so he had no choice but to
He comforted his subordinates and suppressed the matter.
Secondly, due to the emergence of Beihai Town, Ruan Phuc Anh is now more inclined to curry favor with the Han regime that will replace the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Therefore, Peter's status as "Prince Teacher" has also been squeezed out. Because he has seen Jiang Fan and Zhong Huai.
Character, the first teacher of the current crown prince Ruan Jing is Confucian scholar Fan Wenren, whose status is much higher than Peter.
Faced with such a situation, His Excellency the missionary learned the hard way and felt that the root cause was that the French government was too weak. In his view, the weakness of the French government was directly reflected in the insufficient support of the East India Company; and the latter's problems were not only affected by the wavering overseas
The most important impact of trade policy was the aggressiveness of the British East India Company.
So when he received the letter from Governor Leclerc, he immediately proposed to Nguyen Phuc Anh to go north together. As long as the French East India Company becomes stronger, its support for Guangnan will increase, and his status will naturally rise.
It can also realize the dream of France and Beihai Town to jointly dominate the South China Sea and restore France's dominance in South Asia.
"Dear Mr. Yu, this is a draft of a cooperation agreement between the two parties that I was entrusted by Governor Leclerc to draw up on my behalf. Please take a look."
Yu Deli originally thought that the other party was written in French, and thought to himself, how can I understand this? But when he opened it, he found that it was a comparison of French and Chinese. He then took out his glasses and put them on, reading ten lines at a glance
I skipped the nonsense at the beginning and found the key clauses. I saw that the first clause was to ask Beihai Town to send ships and troops to France to rescue Louis XVI and his family, and the number of troops required was at least three thousand.
It seems that the French are really anxious. When Yu Deli thought of this, he immediately said to Peter: "We have discussed this matter internally. Considering the load capacity of the Thor, we can dispatch up to five hundred people.
....”
"Sir, this is far from enough!" Peter became anxious upon hearing this. What are five hundred people enough for?
Yu Deli said: "Your Excellency, five hundred people are enough! Five hundred Northern Navy troops can definitely equal three thousand people!"
He added in his mind that if Zhao Xin also followed, he would probably be able to support 5,000 people.
"In addition to dispatching the Thor this time, we will also have a large gunboat accompanying us. Do you think this is okay?"
"On behalf of the Governor and myself, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you!" Peter was overjoyed when he heard this. He had seen the firepower of Beihai-1 before.
The main reason why Peter and Leclerc were eager to do this was that one was a Catholic priest and the other was a noble.
Needless to say, the nobility had many privileges, and the Catholic monks were even more superior. Not only did they not have to pay taxes, they also levied a 10% "tithe" from the peasants.
In fact, after the National Assembly came to power, it has been fighting against the French Church. Their policy is that priests and bishops must be elected, which fundamentally breaks the authority of the Roman Church and essentially transforms the French Church into Protestantism in one fell swoop;
Even if it is not possible to do so doctrinally for the time being, at least this transformation must be completed formally.
As a result, a large number of clergy who were loyal to the Roman Church and opposed to Protestantism became increasingly dissatisfied with the National Assembly, and Peter was one of them. Rescue of Louis XVI, who supported Catholicism, naturally became his first choice.
"So about the local governance aspect..."
Yu Deli took a look at the clauses at the back and thought, okay! In addition to asking the Northern Navy to help strengthen the defense of local governance, the French actually wanted the Northern Navy to help take back Madras and Hyderabad.
Historically, as of 1750, the French ruled India with an area of 1.5 million square kilometers and a total population of 100 million people. The British had nothing to do with it. However, with the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, the war also spread to the Indian continent.
, the defenders of Hyderabad were defeated by the British troops coming from Bengal, and France lost control of South India.
Yu Deli was not good at military matters, so he did not promise anything on the spot. In order to prevent fraud, he decided to take it back and let Deng Fei, who was proficient in French, read it first before talking.
Sure enough, when Deng Fei, who was at home with his wife, read Peter's draft several times, a sneer appeared on his lips, and he explained to Deli: "They really think we are fools!"
"How to say?"
"We are only asked to send troops to help resist the British, but there is no mention of how to divide the territory we have conquered! We don't need Hyderabad, but we must get a share of the Madras port, or our ships will leave from Malacca in the future
There is not even a supply point. Lao Yu, please send a telegram to Zhao Xin and see what he thinks."
Yu Deli stared at Deng Fei for a long time, until he looked hairy all over, and then asked: "You are a very peaceful person, how come you have become an eagle after going to Nanyang for a year?"
Faction elements?”
Deng Fei chuckled and said: "What kind of hawks and doves? If Zhao Xin hadn't thought about making trouble in Europe, I wouldn't have bothered to think about this. From now on, the ship will have no roots and no roots all the way out of the Strait of Malacca to Europe. Sri Lanka, the Maldives,
Seychelles, Madagascar, and all along the Indian Ocean, it’s really hard not to have a few strongholds!”