() "What do the Fujian Yamen think?" Huang Chen heard Zhao Hongyi say that Zheng Zhilong's negotiations with Fujian had never made any progress. He shook his head in confusion. This really angered Zheng Zhilong. He turned left and turned into ruins in an instant.
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"It is said that Zheng Meng's price was too high and the imperial court disagreed." Zhao Hongyi sorted out the information in his mind and analyzed it: "After all, the imperial court is far away in the north. Although it knows that Fujian is uneasy, it has no real experience, and it wants to come to Fujian to avoid the imperial court's blame.
The responsibility for the defeat was mostly covered up in the report, and now the imperial court is afraid that it still thinks Fujian can still be maintained, so it flatly rejects Alliance Leader Zheng's request."
Huang Chen shook his head again, thinking of the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian who was thousands of miles away in the capital. This young man of his own age, who was only eighteen years old, finally passed away after the unexpected death of the Apocalypse Emperor Zhu Youxiao.
On the stage of history. At this time, he was so ambitious and ambitious that he would never have thought that one day he would hang himself from a tree and stage a tragic "King of the country dies of the country".
Regarding Emperor Chongzhen, Huang Chen didn't know how to evaluate him. A king like him who governed diligently and lived a simple life was rarely matched by even the wise kings and virtuous masters in the past. However, he became the king of the country's subjugation. To say "The king is not the king of the country's subjugation"
"All ministers are ministers of the country's subjugation" is also biased. His suspicious nature and self-will made the already shaky Ming Dynasty worse. In the end, the huge empire collapsed and turned into a cloud of history, leaving endless regrets.
"I wonder if the two of us will meet one day? What will it be like?" Huang Chen thought silently in his heart. Then he took back his mind and asked Zhao Hongyi and Guo Dayan: "The thirteenth person transported back from Penghu
What happened to the big cannon and the eight small cannons?"
Guo Dayan looked at Zhao Hongyi with his big eyes, with a hint of dissatisfaction. Zhao Hongyi didn't seem to notice it, or he might have noticed it and deliberately pretended not to see it, and replied: "Brother Guo said that the big leader came back
Let me distribute the cannons. But I am afraid that the uneven distribution will make all the brothers unhappy, so I will temporarily seal up the cannons and wait for the big leader to come back to deal with them."
Zhao Hongyi was always cautious, so it was expected that he would do this. He glanced at Guo Dayan with a half-smile and said, "Why are you so anxious? You can't escape."
Realizing that his little tricks could not escape Huang Chen's eyes, Guo Dayan smiled and said: "Big Chief, you don't know how much hardship my brothers and I endured in order to carry those cannons onto the ship. It took a lot of effort to transport them back, Zhao
But the eldest brother put it in the warehouse, making it useless for people to see, and driving people to death."
Huang Chen snorted softly and said: "Look at your worthless look, you are even worse than Yang Dong."
Yang Dong suffered a terrible fate from Chi Yu. He said with an innocent face: "Big boss, why did you drag me in for no reason? It doesn't make sense."
"Why did you bring me in? Wasn't he one of yours before? None of your men are brave." Huang Chen's words did not offend Yang Dong at all. The young men who used to hang out with him in the village, such as Guo Da
Eyes, Feng Guochun, etc., not to mention all of them are about the same as rat belly and chicken intestines, none of them can make it to the table.
Zhang Xing was at the side to make up his mind: "This is called collusion and mutual agreement."
"That's enough." Seeing Yang Donglu rolling up his sleeves and looking ready to fight, Huang Chen shouted stop in time. Then he led a group of people down to the cabin to watch the harvest of the chicken coop.
As soon as Ruan Jin, Chen Si, Zhang Xing and others entered the cargo hold where the weapons were stored, they immediately surrounded the dazzling array of naval guns and had a heated discussion. Zhao Hongyi walked towards the six-pound field gun alone. This gun was similar to the general Hongyi cannon.
Compared with the gun barrel, the gun barrel is thinner, the muzzle is smaller, and the gun carriage is lighter. I felt something in my heart. I turned around and asked Huang Chen: "Big boss, is this gun for land use?"
"That's right." Huang Chen nodded. "It's a field artillery."
Zhao Hongyi gently caressed the dimly shining gun barrel as if caressing his wife, and repeatedly praised: "What a gun, what a gun."
Of course it's a good cannon. Huang Chen couldn't help but have a bright smile on his face. Spanish artillery is produced in different places. The ones made in the Philippines are not as good as those made in the Americas, and the ones made in the Americas are not as good as those made in Spain. Spain is also known as the Seville Gun Factory, Lillegens
The artillery factory made the best. This six-pound cannon came from the Seville artillery factory, and the other two four-pound cannons were also produced in Spain. They are both rare and good things. Huang Chen almost used "Silver Sea"
"Swamp Valdez to get them.
Zhao Hongyi went to touch two more four-pound cannons. He couldn't put them down. After a while, he couldn't help but suggested to Huang Chen: "Big boss, the eight small red Yi cannons obtained from Penghu are not effective when placed on the ship.
How about allocating them to the land camps together?" The old and new land camps are all equipped with long guns, regimental cards, and muskets, but there are not many cannons, and they are all general cannons and furlong machine guns captured from the Ming army. If there are three
With eight field guns and eight small Hongyi guns, the only disadvantage would turn into an advantage. Zhao Hongyi felt excited just thinking about a strong army built by himself with no flaws at all.
"Just do as you say." Huang Chen thought for a while and nodded. The fortress cannons are equipped with gun carriages, which can be used as bow cannons and tail cannons on warships. Small cannons are relatively ineffective. It is a good idea to strengthen the firepower of the land camp.
choice.
When distributing weapons, William asked for forty iron helmets, forty pairs of breastplates, and forty heavy muskets. Huang Chen was stunned by the huge opening of his lion. He only had two companies of one hundred and sixty in total.
People dare to ask for so much, are they crazy?
William had no shame and said that all eighty spearmen under his command needed the protection of plate armor and helmets. However, he knew that Huang Chen did not have much equipment, so he fully understood this and had to reluctantly reduce the number by 50%. He could not continue to do so.
Less.
Huang Chen reacted, sneered, and only gave him twenty pairs of chest plate armor, twenty iron helmets, twenty heavy muskets, and twenty light matchlock guns.
William was very surprised by this result and complained repeatedly around Huang Chen. However, in the eyes of others, this red-haired fan could not help but feel a bit like "being a good guy after getting an advantage". They all felt itchy with hatred. Even the honest man Zhao Hongyi felt itchy in his heart.
Get a little angry.
As we all know, the Ming Dynasty has extremely strict control over armor. Anyone who hides armor privately will be killed! Anyone who makes armor privately will be killed! Not to mention the preciousness of the twenty iron helmets and twenty pairs of chest plate armor. Huang Chen has previously put the "Houston"
"The forty Western-style firecrackers on board were given to William, and now they are given forty more light and heavy firecrackers. With a mere 160 people, the Western-style firecrackers equipment rate has reached half, and they can easily outnumber Lu Ying by several streets.
, what right does he have to complain? The one who should complain is Lu Ying, because there are still many captains, and the ship owners are eyeing Western-style muskets and Western-style armor. Lu Ying is lucky to be able to retain half of them in the end.
The leaders of Huang Chen's teams and the captain of the ship were both economical. Seeing that William had received a huge benefit, they all came to ask for it. Huang Chen was so dizzy by their quarrel that he divided the weapons arbitrarily, regardless of whether the subordinates were satisfied or not.
Swearing and sending people away.
Huang Chen left the boat and went ashore. On the way back to his residence, he asked Zhang Ruozhong beside him: "Shengyu, did you gain anything from this trip to the chicken coop?"
Zhang Ruozhong nodded and said: "Although I only took a quick look, I gained a lot. What shocked me the most was Spain's strong military." The transaction between Huang Chen and the Spaniards was only completed the next day.
During this period, at Huang Chen's request, Valdez gathered soldiers to perform exercises, which caused a great impact on Zhang Ruozhong. "If what the Western leader Valdez said is true, there will be more than 200,000 soldiers in Spain and more than 20 in the outer seas."
Ten thousand soldiers, 60,000 to 70,000 in Asia, all like what we saw on that day, it was really terrifying."
Huang Chen said with a smile: "There are almost 200,000 people in Spain, but there is a lot of military strength in overseas colonies. He also included the Portuguese military strength. And many of them are indigenous servants, like those in chicken coops."
The Luzon soldiers were far less powerful than the Spanish soldiers." In 1580, Spain took advantage of the death of King Sebastian I of Portugal in battle in Morocco, North Africa, and annexed Portugal to form the Iberian Union. Valdez included the Portuguese troops.
There is nothing wrong with that.
Zhang Ruozhong smiled bitterly and said: "Let's not talk about the Spanish domestic troops, but just talk about the 200,000 overseas troops. Can the Ming Dynasty cope with it? The imperial court was still unable to defeat the 100,000 golden soldiers. It lost consecutive battles. The Western soldiers were compared to the golden soldiers.
Ten times better, firearms are a hundred times more powerful, how can the Ming Dynasty defeat it?"
Huang Chen said: "With today's transportation capabilities, no European country can conduct a cross-sea expedition."
Zhang Ruozhong shook his head and said: "Like the big leader, I am not worried about now."
Huang Chen was silent for a while and said: "I promised Valdez to go to the chicken coop again at the end of the year, but I don't have enough goods. I think the leaders still have some at this time. You send someone to contact him quietly and the price is better than
Zheng Zhilong just needs to be a little taller."
Zhang Ruozhong frowned slightly: "This matter must not be concealed. Will it cause Chief Zheng's dissatisfaction?"
Huang Chen said confidently: "Zheng Zhilong can't eat meat without me being able to take a sip of the soup. There is no such thing in the world. What's more, with my current strength, I am not afraid of anyone in this pirate alliance.
, including his alliance leader Zheng Zhilong. Of course, it would be best if there is no conflict. I think Zheng Zhilong still has some courage."
Zhang Ruozhong nodded and said no more words.
The next day, Zhang Ruozhong assigned Zheng Qiu and others to carry out the operation. Zheng Qiu and others almost left before Zheng Zhilong received the report. While others were still guessing where Huang Chen had sailed to before, Zheng Zhilong had already figured out the location of Beigang, Taiwan.
His subordinates are aware of Huang Chen's movements, and now he has ordered people to purchase the remaining goods from the leaders. It seems that he has gained a lot from this trip, and he plans to go again.
As Huang Chen expected, Zheng Zhilong smiled casually and didn't care. In his eyes, Huang Chen's actions were just a small fuss. His goal was not just trade, but monopoly, so his attention
All focus on negotiation.
Throughout November, there was still no progress in the negotiations. Zheng Zhilong's patience slowly ran out and he issued an ultimatum to the Fujian government in anger. (To be continued...)