() "Your geographical knowledge and understanding of European countries are shocking. 78 Novel" When Huang Chen pointed out the locations of European countries one by one, William could not hide his surprise. His employer was shrouded in mystery and seemed to be hiding many things.
's secret.
Huang Chen stopped and stopped showing off. There were many maps. About half of them were similar in style to the world map and should be a set. The other half had different styles, mainly focusing on Asian geography. According to William, the former
It is a set of world atlases published by the Netherlands in recent years. The latter is the latest work of the surveyors and cartographers of the Dutch East India Company.
Huang Chen nodded while listening. It might be the surveyors of the East India Company. The cartographers are mostly at sea and rarely go into the inland. The drawings of various countries and islands in Southeast Asia are relatively accurate, while the Asian continent is relatively blurry. From then on,
On the whole, the land of Asia is occupied by four behemoths, from west to east, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the Safavid Dynasty of Iran, the Mughal Empire of India, and the Ming Dynasty of China. Central Asia and Siberia are only marked with geographical locations.
The East India Company's cartographers did not paint the Ming Dynasty as the rooster familiar to Huang Chen. If he had to use an animal to describe it, it was like a horse standing upright and looking back.
Huang Chen secretly shook his head. The cartographer obviously made the Ming Dynasty smaller. Even if Xin Jiang, Xi Zang, and Mongolia are not included, its actual territory should be larger than the Mughal Empire, the Safavid Dynasty, and the Ottoman Empire.
What's funny is that the ribs were drawn thicker and changed from a worm to a fat worm. North Koreans may be unhappy when they see it, because North Korea has lost a lot of weight.
Huang Chen then continued to look at his trophies, from the self-ringing bell to the viol, a violin-like instrument that is considered to be the predecessor of the violin. To the nautical compass, a combination of a pocket watch, a sundial and a compass, which can identify latitude.
It is an excellent navigation tool for interpreting longitude and observing the corresponding moon phases and stars. From the carbine, a short-barreled musket, used by cavalry, to the cavalry sword, which inherits the lineage of the German slashing sword and has certain cutting capabilities.
Excellent cavalry and swords. There are some things in them. Let alone buying them with money, Huang Chen might not be able to find them even if he ransacked the Dutch castle of Da Yuan.
Huang Chen held up the extremely sharp cavalry sword, which could tell the difference between people. He smiled from ear to ear and said in his heart: "William, no, it's the friend William mentioned. He brought so many good things to Asia and gave me an advantage.
He's such a good guy."
Slowly putting the cavalry sword into its sheath and putting it back to its original place, Huang Chen picked up a beautifully decorated long sword from Pangbian. Like William's sword, it was very heavy to hold. Although he had never been exposed to fencing in his previous life, he
One of the two is a sword for actual combat, and the other is a sword for competition. You can tell from your buttocks that the long swords of this era are heavier.
"Good sword." Huang Chen praised after pulling out the sword. He had previously inferred from the weight that it was not just a decorative long sword with a gorgeous appearance, but the facts proved his guess. It was a sword that had both appearance and connotation.
Nice sword.
Huang Chen fell in love with it at first sight, imitating cats and tigers and imitating the fencing competitions he had seen on TV in his previous life and lunging, which looked pretty good. Yang Dong immediately applauded loudly and flattered him wildly. But in the eyes of William, a true master of swordsmanship, Huang Chen
Chen presented himself as a complete layman in swordsmanship. While secretly rolling his eyes, he breathed a sigh of relief. Huang Chen's previous performance almost made him mistakenly believe that the other party was omnipotent. It seemed that his employer did not know everything, at least he was familiar with swordsmanship.
Know nothing.
Huang Chen put away the long sword without hesitation. He hung it directly on his waist and said to William: "William, I am very interested in your swordsmanship. Are you willing to be my swordsmanship instructor?"
"Of course, I am honored to be your swordsmanship instructor." William agreed without thinking. The swordsmanship instructor is far closer than his subordinates. This status can help him win over all the Europeans on the "Houston (Heusden)"
rights and interests.
Huang Chen nodded and said: "My martial arts training time is usually four to six o'clock in the morning, which may be a bit early for you."
"No problem." Compared with the identity William needs, starting early is nothing, not to mention he has no right to refuse.
Seeing Huang Chen, William and William stopped talking one after another. Yang Dong, who had been holding back for a long time, couldn't bear it anymore and asked: "Big Chief, what are you talking about with this red-haired bird? How do you understand the language of Xiyi birds?
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Huang Chen knew that Yang Dong would not be able to hold back his question, so he glanced sideways at him and snorted: "Sir, I understand the Yi dialect. What's wrong? Is it bothering you?"
"Look at what you said." Yang Dongqian laughed twice, "I'm just curious about where the big leader learned it from, nothing else."
"How many years have you known me?" Huang Chen said with a face: "I learned the Yi dialect from Monk Franji in Hangzhou when I was young, okay?" There are many loopholes in this rhetoric, but it is more than enough to fool the inexperienced Yang Dong.
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Sure enough, most of the doubts on Yang Dong's face were gone, and he hurriedly smiled and said: "Okay, why not? When the leader and Monk Franji learned bird language, they never expected that it would be useful one day."
Huang Chen pretended to be cold and arrogant and said: "The sparrow knows the ambition of the swan."
"..." Yang Dong smiled sarcastically and thought to himself: "I don't know about you yet? You used to have ambitions like a swan, but you do have ambitions like a bastard."
Huang Chen seemed to see through his thoughts and hummed: "What are you planning on me?"
"Who does the big leader think of me?" Yang Dong said with an aggrieved look.
Huang Chen waved his hand impatiently: "Don't make trouble for me here, go out and see how the cargo statistics are going."
Yang Dongzheng was about to leave. He couldn't understand the conversation between Huang Chen and Hongmao Fan. It was so boring that it was far better to go outside and show off his power.
Before Yang Dong stepped out, Huang Chen added another sentence: "I have the detailed quantity of the Yi Ship's cargo here. If you find that there is too much missing, you can use the money to fill in the holes yourself."
Yang Dong rushed out with a "whoosh", and a roar sounded in the cabin corridor: "Everyone has a certain number of how much they should take. I will tell you the ugly words in front of you. Anyone who eats too much will be spit out by me. If you dare to deceive,
I was discovered by my master, and I chopped off the hands of those who should be chopping off, and fed the fishes of those who should be fed..."
Huang Chen shook his head. Of course he was not so naive as to think that he could force everyone to hand over all the "lost" goods with just a few words. It didn't take much thinking to know that Yang Dong, who carried out his order, was greedy the most. As long as he took back part of it, his books would be generally OK.
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Huang Chen walked back to the bookshelf and took out the book "Cavalry Art of War" by the famous European military theorist von Wolhausen that he had read earlier. He could not understand the text and could only understand what the other party wanted to express through a large number of illustrations.
While looking through things, he asked: "William, what are the words in these books?"
William replied: "Most of it is Latin, a small amount of French, and a very small amount of Dutch."
Huang Chen nodded slightly and asked again: "What is the general category of books?"
William said slowly: "Military writings account for 70% to 80%, and the rest are mostly memoirs, diaries and manuscripts of employees of the Dutch East India Company, which contain a lot of knowledge about Asia. It took a lot of money to collect them.
A lot of time and energy. In addition, there are books on mathematics and astronomy, music, medicine, philosophy. And, of course, the Bible."
Huang Chen asked: "William, do you understand Latin?"
William seemed to be insulted and replied loudly: "I was once a student of Leiden University, one of the best universities in Europe."
Huang Chen was startled, not because of the loud voice of the other party, but because of his academic qualifications, Leiden University, Siegen Military Academy... How could people from these two places be considered talents? Why did he come to Asia? He put
The doubts in my heart were expressed.
William shrugged and said: "Many of the many engineers of the Dutch East India Company graduated from Leiden University, and of course Franck University, Utrecht University, etc., and Schmidt, the captain of the ship, is
Graduated from Siegen Military Academy."
Huang Chen couldn't help but sigh with emotion. It was not unreasonable for the Dutch East India Company to dominate the Eastern spice trade. It was supported by the whole country of the Netherlands, and the proportion of talents invested was far better than that of the Spanish, Portuguese and even the British. It is a pity that the Netherlands is restricted by the land.
, population, will be defeated in the competition with Britain in the next few decades, and will be completely reduced to the bottom of Europe.
Huang Chen closed the book and said with a smile: "William, it seems you will have to work harder again. Of course, your income will also increase."
"What do you mean...?" William looked strange.
"I want to learn swordsmanship from you and learn Latin at the same time."
"..." Although he had already guessed, William was still a little unbelievable. As Huang Chen, who knew Europe so well, could also speak English, how could he not understand Latin?
"What, could it be that you don't want to teach me?" Huang Chen said with a half-smile.
William hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, I'm just a little confused and puzzled."
Huang Chen had no intention of solving his doubts, but he couldn't. He stayed in the captain's cabin for a while, then returned to the deck, and soon the statistical results came out.
Although valuable goods such as raw silk, porcelain, silk, and brass made Huang Chen happy, what he really valued were Western artifacts. Thirty-eight revolvers were seized in this battle. Through William, he learned that the Houston should be
There are no less than fifty pistols. Huang Chen knows where the missing dozen are. He doesn't want the revolver to fall into the hands of others, so he is determined to spend a lot of money to buy it. If someone is ignorant, he doesn't mind killing a chicken to scare the monkeys.
trick.
In addition, thirty muskets were seized, some of which weighed more than ten kilograms and needed to be placed on a fork. They were heavy matchlock guns. According to William, they were the real muskets, that is, smoothbore guns and ordinary matchlock guns.
He can only be considered a caliver or an arquebus. To flatter himself, he calls himself a musket.
There are thirty-seven pairs of breastplates for soldiers and sailors. Unfortunately, nearly half of them have been destroyed. I don’t know if they can be repaired. (To be continued...)