Until now, Japan, known as "Japan's sixty-odd states", was considered to be extremely vast. On this map, it is only as big as a pea, but there are countries dozens or hundreds of times larger than it in the world. There were many of them, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was very interested in them.
Adams asked Ieyasu to repair the ship and sail to the East Indies, but he did not get Ieyasu's permission. Later, Ieyasu gave the crew money to send them off, but Adams and Yang Jestin accepted the good treatment given by Ieyasu and stayed in Edo. .
Adams' position on the ship was first mate (Anzhen), so he was named Anzhen according to his position. His house was on the bank of the Uo River in Nihonbashi, Edo, and the "Anzhen Town" is still left. " place name.
After the Battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu kept talking with the needle in front of him, treating him as a foreign trade adviser.
Miura Anzu not only taught Ieyasu astronomy, mathematics, geometry and other knowledge, but also talked about some world geography and overseas affairs. Ieyasu likes to listen to those strange stories like a child, and Anzu also told him about the benefits of trade.
According to Miura, although Adams worked on a Dutch ship, he was from a place called Gillingame in Chateau County, England. When he was twelve years old, he entered the shipyard of Rhinehas near London and worked there. He worked for twelve years, and at the same time, he was also the firearms officer on the ship. At that time, once a merchant ship sailing on the sea encountered danger, the chief mate was responsible for combat affairs.
Miura also built a European-style ship for Tokugawa Ieyasu. The ship weighed about 80 tons and was completely imitated in the style of the Galen ship that was popular at the time. The ship returned to Edo and anchored in the Asakusa River. Tokugawa Ieyasu even went up to the deck and happily rewarded the pin. From then on, Japan began to build European-style ships. Many Zhuin ships were Western-Japanese sailing ships.
Anzhen was the first foreigner who opened the window to the world for Tokugawa Ieyasu, so Tokugawa Ieyasu gave him a fief of 250 koku, located in Yoshimi Village, Miura County, Sagami Province (Kanagawa Prefecture), so he was given the surname Miura, named Miura Acupuncture.
At the same time, Miura worked closely to provide convenience for Dutch businessmen. He established a Dutch business office in Hirado, Hizen (Nagasaki Prefecture), and also sent agents to Kyoto, Osaka, and Sakai. After establishing transactions between the Netherlands and Japan, England became the first One after another, they also got Ieyasu's permission and built a business store in Hirado. Since it was their homeland, Anzhen also played a big role in it.
Dasmarinas found out the details of Adams and Miura's needles through the Jesuit missionaries working for the shogunate. He knew that he had made flintlock muskets when he was in the Netherlands, which was rare in Europe at the time, so he thought of using him. to improve the products of the Chinese company, but he could not come forward because Adams was an Englishman, a crew member of a Dutch ship, a Protestant, and the Spaniards and the Catholic Church were their enemies, so Shimazu Tadahashi had to personally come forward in this matter. Just fine.
Shimazu Zhongheng thought for a while, nodded and said: "There is no way, I still have to come forward for such a person, but I can't go to him, that will arouse the general's suspicion; you can use the missionary relationship to get him Please come to my house..."
The next day, Adams, a former British poor man who was unwilling to care about misfortune, and now a small Japanese aristocrat, Miura Anzu, was invited to the Satsuma clan hall surrounded by dozens of servants. In the face of a large sum of money, Adams-Miura Anzu had no resistance at all. He immediately agreed to manufacture flintlock muskets for the Shimadzu family. For this gentleman, improving and creating new flintlock muskets was completely beyond his ability. Fortunately, he had come into contact with "thief guns" in the Netherlands, so He modified the Chinese Company's flintlock gun according to the Dutch style. In fact, by doing so, he canceled some of the improvements made by the Chinese Company's craftsmen to the "thief's gun", and it actually regressed technically, but the resulting The performance of the gun is relatively stable, but its range is not as good as the latest flintlock gun of the Chinese Company. Moreover, since Dasmarinas did not receive the paper-packed ammunition of the Chinese Company, the fusiliary gun finally obtained by the Satsuma Domain was only an ignition device. Despite the revolutionary changes, the process of loading ammunition is still as troublesome as that of the early matchlocks.
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"We can't keep the secret of the musket forever. Even if we don't invent this flintlock musket, other countries will invent it sooner or later,"
On the large playground of the military camp in the north of the city, a real-combat confrontation exercise between two sentry units is taking place. On one side are more than 200 former Yiwu gunmen of Zhejiang Province, and on the other side are the Fourth Infantry Regiment-Zhao Xuanming's "Iron Wall Regiment". The Fourth Regiment got its nickname because its predecessor, the Penghu Garrison, held the fort as strong as an iron wall.
Yin Feng was talking to the four-person firearms team from the Weapons Research Department at the playground. Lin Xiao and Zeng Rui were waiting on the side and listened respectfully.
Lin and Zeng were both responsible for the loss of the flintlock musket, so they both worked hard these days, driving their men around to sort out and inspect all parts of the island; ports, wharves, and fort construction sites , hotels, hostels, factories, workshops, bookstores, grocery stores, various farms, manors, villages, mines and iron works in the city, all in detail. Although the flintlocks were nowhere to be seen, many people who had sneaked into the island were also caught. Japanese pirates, unlicensed fur traders, smuggled fishermen and other characters, Lin Xiao likes to "would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go," and this time the old habit can't help but relapse, and many innocent merchants, vendors, fishermen He was arrested for no reason, causing the whole island to panic.
Yin Feng was reorganizing the army during this time. After learning the news, he called the two of them over. The two came for a long time, but Yin Feng kept talking to the firearms quartet and ignored them.
Lin Qing, Zhang Xiaohai, Wang Gong, and Li Hetian, these four young senior craftsmen, are the most outstanding among the thousands of craftsmen in the Chinese company. They have not only learned and mastered the techniques of the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish, but also can To master it, we are not just making copycat products, but making many inventions and creations under the existing technical conditions. Of course, Yin Feng’s inspiration and guidance are also indispensable.