When Roddelny told his subordinates the employment price offered by Zhao Hongyu, the Portuguese who followed Roddelny cheered.
Because this trip is really worth it.
"It's just a battle, but there's such a huge sum of money to get. Only a fool would not do it."
Although people will die in battle, it is nothing to them. You must know that on the voyage to the East, people will die.
Disease, pirates, storms, and various emergencies will not take away the lives of our companions.
¡°Besides, Europeans have an adventurous spirit in their hearts, especially when they have money to take, their spirit will be brought into full play.
An ordinary soldier can get twenty taels of silver through this battle, and then exchange it for three taels of gold in Japan. And if this gold is brought to Europe, it will double.
So, for the Portuguese, this deal is a very good deal.
This is what ordinary soldiers can get, like other leaders of the middle and upper classes, they will get more rewards.
Especially Roderney, although Zhao Hongyu would not give him a salary, Zhao Hongyu told him privately that if Shiliang City was captured, he would be given 10% of the wealth collected in the city.
This made Roddelny swallow his saliva and his eyes suddenly lit up.
Roddelny is not sure how much wealth there is in an Eastern castle.
But no matter what, even if this castle is very poor, one-tenth of its wealth must be more than those of the castle lords in Europe.
Roderny has been around Japan for a long time, so he is very aware of how much enviable wealth the lords in the east possess.
It¡¯s just that he didn¡¯t dare to think about this before, and even such thoughts would not arise.
After all, they are just outsiders here, and it is impossible for them to do such a thing without roots.
If nothing else, even if they were lucky enough to steal the Japanese lord's wealth, they would not be able to leave the eastern sea.
You must know that the pirates on the Eastern Sea are not easy to mess with.
The Europeans who came to the East suffered a lot at the hands of Eastern pirates.
But now it¡¯s different. The Song Empire fleet, already famous in Europe, has appeared in the east. Rodelny, who had a deep understanding of the Song Empire, knew very well that the Song Empire's fleet had a strong combat effectiveness and a prosperous military.
If the Song Empire takes the lead and carries out some plundering of the Japanese, then the feasibility is still very high.
By then, even those Eastern pirates will not be able to do anything to the Song Empire's fleet. If those Eastern pirates dare to come and cause trouble, they will definitely suffer big losses.
The news that the Song Empire defeated the Dutch and the Spanish and seized the Caribbean colonies has spread throughout Europe.
Therefore, the power of the Song Empire's fleet has already been heard by Europeans.
??Among them, the one who knows this best is Roderney.
After all, when the Song Empire launched military operations in the Caribbean, he was doing business in Manhattan.
So, he is very clear about this.
At the same time, he also has a clear understanding of the power of the warships of the Song Empire fleet.
The warships of the Song Empire were fast, had a large number of on-board artillery, and had very high defense. The firing distance of the artillery was twice as long as that of half of the warship artillery.
In this way, if the war is fought at sea, just relying on these advantages, the Song Empire's fleet can be completely invincible.
The speed is fast, which allows you to maintain a reasonable advantageous distance from the enemy's warships, so that the enemy cannot get close to you for boarding battles. It also keeps you out of the range of the enemy's artillery, so that the enemy's artillery has no chance at all. If the method threatens itself, the advantage here can be huge.
At the same time, when they are outside the enemy's artillery range, the Song Empire's warships can use their artillery range to be twice that of the enemy's warships, giving the enemy continuous blows I don't know who to send away like this. I can bear it.
Therefore, although the pirates in the East are powerful, they are absolutely invincible against the warships of the Song Empire.
Like the pirates in the East, they just bully people like them. And most of the time, what Eastern pirates rely on is not the strength of their ships, but their strength in numbers.
But all these advantages are against the Song EmperorThe country will not be considered an advantage at all.
Even if these are not taken into account, the Song Empire can completely break away from the opponent quickly by relying on the superior speed of its warships.
In this way, if you can¡¯t keep up with the enemy, why fight?
It can be said that the fleet of the Song Empire can fight and run. Following such a force, Roderny has nothing to worry about.
Just get rich honestly.
It has to be said that Rodelney, who has done business and stayed in America for a period of time, is really very clear about the advantages of the Song Empire's warships.
Because his judgment and assessment were not wrong at all.
However, now he has overlooked one problem, that is, the crown prince of the Song Empire is not leading the fleet in a naval battle, but leading the Song Empire's army in a land war.
Land battles and naval battles are fundamentally different.
Furthermore, what they were about to engage in was the most brutal siege battle in land warfare. When Roderney and the others appeared at this time, they were simply the best candidates for cannon fodder.
Of course, Roddelny, who was trapped in the illusion of wealth, did not think of these things now.
Today, Rodelny's eyes are filled with gold coins with small wings flying around him. As for how much the brutal siege will cost him, these are no longer what he wants to consider.
He is now thinking about how much wealth one-tenth of the Japanese castle called Shiliang Castle will be after capturing it.
For Roderney, of course, the more, the better.
"Sir, when will we start our attack?"
One of Roderny¡¯s men asked.
"This question depends on what the crown prince wants. We are only receiving rewards. We have no control over some of the progress of the war."
After hearing what Baron Roderney said, the men around him nodded in agreement.
Since they are mercenaries, they should look like mercenaries.
While the man's money and people eliminate the disaster, they also had to obey the arrangement of the employer. This is a qualified mercenary.
On the European continent, mercenaries still have very professional ethics. The most representative of them are the Swiss mercenaries. These guys have almost appeared throughout the history of wars on the European continent.
Of course, if the remuneration cannot be paid halfway, then these professional mercenaries will not be so easy to talk to.
Even Swiss mercenaries will do some shocking things.
In Europe, this problem often occurs.
That¡¯s because employers who already have financial problems often encounter economic crises, resulting in the inability to pay salaries.
Therefore, those mercenaries usually kidnap employees and use their lives as a threat to make their employers pay. They will even plunder some of the wealth in the employment territories as their salary.
But in essence, the mercenaries actually accepted the employment, and it is only natural that the employer pays.
So there is nothing wrong with them doing this.
In short, there are some things about Europeans that are very weird.
However, these things are unlikely to happen to Zhao Hongyu.
After all, Zhao Hongyu is a wealthy man, and he will not be unable to pay his salary like some European employers.
There is as much industrial silver as there is in the virtual world, and the price is very cheap.
So, how could he not be able to pay his salary?
Besides, the price of mercenaries in this era is actually too cheap for Zhao Hongyu.
¡°The price of a human life, placed in another time and space or in a virtual world, is less than 2,000 yuan, which is fucking cheaper than Chinese cabbage on the street.
¡°Only if Zhao Hongyu¡¯s brain was blown out or he got wet, he would feel it¡¯s not worth it.
Roderny conveyed the wishes of Crown Prince Zhao Hongyu to his companions, and received unanimous support from his companions and subordinates. As long as they make money, these Portuguese people will not care about other things.
It's quite sad to say that these Portuguese people traveled across the ocean and came to the East. They originally thought they could make a fortune in this legendary country full of gold, but they had a bad time and didn't make much money at all. Instead, they lost a lot. .
Since they came to the east, they were first dealt with by the pirates from the east.Under the threat of force, they have to pay protection fees every month, which is a huge loss.
At the same time, because they are Europeans, there are many restrictions on doing business in the East.
First of all, when they did business in the Ming Dynasty, they often failed to do business, because the "rich, handsome" or officials in the Ming Dynasty simply looked down on these diaosi from Europe and were almost unwilling to pay attention to them.
Therefore, their business in the Ming Dynasty was basically not developed.
And most of the business of the Japanese was monopolized by the 'Gao Fushuai' of the Ming Dynasty, and they couldn't get involved. Even those who were brave enough to compete with the Ming Dynasty's "rich, rich and handsome" would usually be squeezed out or shipwrecked at sea.
In short, the Europeans who come to the East in this era are extremely miserable.
That¡¯s not all, they are always being squeezed by Eastern pirates.
If they want to continue living in the East, they will always be bullied by the Orientals anyway.
But this is back and forth, because they can¡¯t support it anymore because they spend money like water.
Therefore, before meeting Zhao Hongyu, Rodelny had already encountered financial problems.
However, it seems that there is a turning point now, which makes Rodelney very happy. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)