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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 273: Steel is more expensive than silver

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    Because the Lushan is a retired warship, the lifeboats can be used as small landing craft. Each lifeboat can hold sixty or seventy people without being crowded, and there are thirty such lifeboats on the Lushan.

    Captain Luo Jie was driving the lifeboat. There was also a security guard from the Lushan on the lifeboat. Like Jin Sanduo, he was a retired soldier - on the contrary, because he was a reserve soldier, everyone was holding a  Semi-automatic weapons such as formal rifles used by militiamen - fully automatic weapons cannot be used by civilians. It is said that this is called generation difference.

    The reason why Jin Sanduo went to Jeju Island was because there were too few people on the ship who knew Korean. Let alone Korean, few people on the ship could speak other foreign languages ??besides German - German was an elective course in middle school due to educational requirements.  Foreign language.

    Jin Sanduo is an exception, because there were many foreign aunts in the family when he was a child, so he learned oral dialogue in Korean, Japanese, German, Russian, English, and French from a young age. It was just oral dialogue. Do you want to write it?  Will do.

    The lifeboat started its motor, and the hull split through the waves and headed towards Jeju Island at high speed.  Arriving far away from Jeju Island, I saw the lush greenery on Jeju Island in the distance. The lifeboat circled the island. Soon Captain Roger discovered something: "There is someone there. I decided to go ashore and get ready."  ."

    When the lifeboat landed, the hull shook. Then the people discovered by Captain Roger saw the ship coming, and it reached the coast at such a fast speed that they had already fled in panic.

    Jin Sanduo jumped onto the shore and said, "I'm going to grab a tongue and come back to cover me."

    There is indeed no danger. Jin Sanduo saw clearly before the ship landed. Those who were running away just now were all naked women.  When I ran, I didn't forget to take the cloth-like clothes and some cans with me. Did I come to the beach to take a bath?

    Jin Sanduo ran as fast as he could, and soon caught up with a small woman. He stretched out his hand to stop the woman's waist, put her on her shoulders, and ran back.

    Arriving on the lifeboat, Jin Sanduo put the frightened woman down and asked Captain Luo Jie: "Asking here? Or?"

    ¡°Take it back, those people may not understand it, but they may want to broaden their horizons.¡±

    In just over thirty minutes, the task of catching the tongue was over.  Most of the time was spent on the road.

    Only then did Jin Sanduo have the mood to look at the tongue he had caught. Well, this woman's facial features were also straight, and she looked like she was in her twenties. However, her actual age still had to be asked, because she was naked and wearing white clothes and  The jar was thrown away the moment he was caught, and now he was trembling with fear in the lifeboat.  The ** was actually bigger than A Ying, very tall, and her skin was very white. Jin Sanduo pinched this woman's body, and her muscles were very strong, probably due to long-term swimming exercise.

    "Don't be afraid, I'll take you back to ask a few words." After Jin Sanduo comforted her in Korean, he found a blanket from the lifeboat and put it on her - always being naked like this would lead to crime.

    After the woman put on the blanket, she said tremblingly: "You can speak our words."

    Jin Sanduo nodded: "A little bit. It would be best if you can speak Chinese, but it depends on your level of education"

    The woman said: "Only officials learn Chinese."

    Although Jin Sanduo didn¡¯t ask until he got to the Lushan, he still asked first: ¡°What¡¯s your name?¡±

    The woman said: "Li Yinhua."

    "It's so bad, there are a bunch of honeysuckles among Jin Sanduo's Korean aunts. It's said that naming is now a science."  As for the surname Li, it is naturally the most popular surname in North Korea - what are you talking about, how can ethnic minorities have the surname Li? What a coincidence, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, who has ethnic minority descent, is also surnamed Li.

    ¡°Don¡¯t be afraid for a moment, we don¡¯t mean any harm.¡±

    That¡¯s what I say, but who can see the speedboat moving without wind and the big iron ship like a hill without being afraid?  Seeing this, Li Yinhua felt that this group of people had the power of ghosts and gods. Thinking of the village and her husband who had been shipwrecked at sea for many years, Li Yinhua only felt that she must have died and entered the kingdom of heaven. The person who had just come to pick her up was the bull-headed horse-faced man.  Well, now I have to go see the judge - a little person like me will definitely not be able to see the King of Hell.

    Just like soldiers of the Central Army distributing candies to children in occupied areas, in order to reduce Li Yinhua¡¯s frightened vigilance, Li Yinhua was taken aboard the ship and taken to the mess hall of the Lushan for questioning.  What Jin Sanduo has to do is to let Li Yinhua answer all the questions everyone has, but only God knows how much useful information there will be.

    When they arrived at the canteen, Jin Sanduo took a stainless steel dinner plate and said to Li Yinhua: "What do you want to eat?"?

    Because of fear, Li Yinhua had long forgotten her hunger, but when she saw the fried golden rice, she couldn't move her eyes - people who live by the sea must have no shortage of seafood to eat, but the price of this rice is very high  .

    Jin Sanduo probably understood it and said to the cook: "Bring her a piece of Yangzhou fried rice. You can bring some vegetables."

    After the cook filled the plate with Yangzhou fried rice, he added some fish to the dish, and finally gave her half an apple - fruits and vegetables are the best at sea at any time.

    After Li Yinhua tasted the rice, she first ate all the Yangzhou fried rice, and then ate the sweet and delicious apple-fish in small bites. Li Yinhua knew it, and finally ate the fish as well in the spirit of not wasting.

    At this time, there were dozens of teachers, crew members on the ship, and student representatives sitting opposite Li Yinhua. They couldn¡¯t wait to ask what year it was and where were we now?  ¡ª¡ªIf possible, of course everyone still hopes that the Lushan number will still be in the time and space they are familiar with.

    After these questions were translated by Jin Sanduo, Li Yinhua told everything she knew. This year is April of the sixth year of King Injo of North Korea, and this is of course Jeju Island.  Li Yinhua's identity is a haenyeo from Jeju Island - her ancestors were exiled here because of crimes. The men have become fishermen and the women have worked as haenyeo to catch sea goods. People here have lived like this for thousands of years.  Of course, the slaves living in the city have to serve the gentlemen in the city, as well as the court's horse farm.

    No one cared much about Li Yinhua's husband's death or how he made a fortune from overseas. A few people looked at the historical data on the computer and found that the sixth year of Injo's reign was the first year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, which was 1628 AD. According to historical records, this year was the year of the Ming Dynasty.  With the emergence of a diligent and suspicious emperor like Chongzhen, the country was not far from being destroyed.

    Chongzhen, who had about ten years to suffer from his own consequences, was about to hang himself in Meishan. Before his death, he had only one eunuch and not a single court minister. This was because the ministers who were loyal to the court had been killed by Chongzhen in the past seventeen years.  The rest are almost the same, and the remaining ones are probably the type of monks who hit the clock every day. When Dashun comes, Dashun will be reduced, and Quanqing will descend Quanqing.

    This era is as troubled as the Ming Dynasty. Last year, North Korea just experienced the Dingmao Rebellion, and eight years later, it was again the Bingzi Rebellion that almost destroyed the country.  There were more disasters in the Central Plains Dynasty. Because of the Little Ice Age, natural disasters continued in the north and peasant uprisings emerged one after another.

    This year's rebellion was not limited to the peasant uprising army. There were also mutinies in places like Guyuan, Ji Town, Ningyuan due to lack of food and wages. Everyone knows a little about the military system of the Ming Dynasty. If you don't mutiny and raise wages, you will starve to death.  For example, the imperial court allocates 100,000 taels of silver to a certain place. The amount is not enough before leaving the door of the Ministry of Household Affairs. On the way, everyone picks up the pieces and waits until the local government has spent 100,000 taels and only has 100,000 to 20,000 taels left. The Shangguan is considered very rich.  I have a clear conscience - if this is the case, what should I do if I don¡¯t owe wages?  After the mutiny, the court just killed some of the leaders who led the mutiny, and then sent some food and salary to appease the soldiers. When the court continued to default on food and salary, people who were about to starve to death would naturally come forward and continue the mutiny. Then the court killed the leaders and continued to appease the soldiers.  This cycle forms over and over again - in short, children who cry are fed milk. This truth is indeed unbreakable.

    In this era, Europe was not in peace either. The Protestant countries and the Catholic countries were engaged in the Thirty Years War, which was beating people's brains out of dogs' brains. This thirty-year religious war had brought heavy shackles to Europe - countless Swiss  In this battle, mercenaries killed each other and even died at the hands of their relatives because they were on opposing sides. After the war, Switzerland took a deep warning and established a pattern of permanent neutrality.

    In the Americas and Australia, indigenous people are still active. Except for the Spanish who established several colonial sites in South America, most of the areas are barren lands where indigenous people are rampant.

    what to do?  This question was placed in front of everyone again.  Although everyone vaguely knew before the questioning that they would never be able to go back, when they faced this moment, they were still a little confused.

    History professor Li Chang said: "The Ming Dynasty implemented the road guide system. Probably we would be arrested as soon as we arrived because there were no road guides."

    ¡°How about going to Taiwan or Hainan Island?¡±

    Li Chang said: "It's better to stay on Jeju Island. Taiwan is now Zheng Zhilong's territory, and the Dutch are building cities on it. The most important thing is that Taiwan Island is still a smog-stricken land. It has not been developed at all, and it has not even been docked."  There is no port for the Lushan. Hainan Island is the inherent territory of the Ming Dynasty. Although the people's rebellions are coming one after another, the court will not ignore it. At most, tens of thousands of troops were sent to quell the people's rebellion."

    Think about it, there are only about 500 people on the boat, and there are more than 100 girls. The 500 people are covered in iron and only have a few nails.  Although adults here keep some semi-automatic firearms, bulletsAt the end of the day, this is not a matchlock gun. It can use simple black powder, lead bullets and even stones to launch projectiles that can injure people.

    Someone else asked: "This Jeju is now the territory of the King of Joseon, right? What if the Korean army comes and attacks us if we stay here?"

    Li Chang said: "According to historical records, the Korean soldiers during this period can be said to have the weakest combat effectiveness - believe me, they were at least weaker than the natives of the Americas and Hainan Island and Taiwan Island, because whether it was the Japanese pirates at this time or Inu Qing's  The troops can crush the North Korean army at will. Didn't Yuan Shikai in later generations also help North Korea put down the peasant uprising army? It shows that they can't even do anything to the peasant uprising army."

    As soon as everyone checked, there was a time when the American indigenous people were defeated, and the Korean army did not win the war.

    But when they think about staying in Jeju Island and having to confront a court, some people still worry about safety issues.

    Jin Sanduo spoke here: "If there is a safety issue, everyone can rest assured. In addition to the Lushan, the largest ironclad ship in the world, there is also a batch of arms and equipment on board. It was originally going to be sold to the Republic of Hawaii along the way, but now it looks like  Come on, we can use it just right. With these arms, five hundred of us can capture the city of Beijing without much problem."

    "Arms, how much?" This is the question that everyone is concerned about. If there is no certain amount of force, everyone will probably die on the Lushan in their lifetime - maybe go to North America or the uninhabited Australia at this time to open up wasteland. Although North America  Canada and Australia are also part of the motherland, but emotionally speaking, everyone naturally prefers to be closer to the mainland - this way immigration will develop much faster.

    Jin Sanduo said: "They are all civilian weapons and equipment, 2,000 medium-grade rifles, and one million rounds of bullets. There is also a complete set of equipment for manufacturing and repairing guns using water, animal power and manpower, as well as equipment for making bullets. This is from Gong  It was obtained from the county arsenal and has been sealed for seven years.¡±

    When they heard that there were so many arms, many people felt relieved. Although it was still a little bit mysterious to take over Beijing with these things, the problem of self-protection for the separatist party was not big. What we have to do now is not to find places to settle in those places that attract too much hatred -  -With the current situation in the north, there are only three opponents that can pose a threat to this group of foreign guests on the Lushan - Inuqing, Japan, and the Ming Dynasty.

    After establishing the direction a little, Jin Sanduo looked at Li Yinhua who had finished eating and was no longer so nervous. He was wiping the stainless steel plate repeatedly. The bright silver stainless steel plate reflected Li Yinhua's face.

    Jin Sanduo asked: "Why, haven't you seen it?"

    Li Yinhua hesitated and asked, "Is this plate made of steel?"

    "Yes." Special steel is also steel. Is there any doubt about this? Stainless steel water cups and tableware are used on the ship to prevent porcelain pieces from breaking and hurting people in storms.

    Li Yinhua said: "This is too luxurious. I heard that this fine steel is much more expensive than silver."

    Jin Sanduo translated the news to everyone, and everyone was a little surprised. In the 1960s, this ton of steel on the market only cost about one hundred silver dollars, and at this price the steel factory still made a lot of profits.  Steel is more expensive than silver. How do you say that? A ton of steel plates costs thousands of taels. You must know that if a steel plant produced hundreds of tons of steel per day in the 1960s, it could only be considered a small and medium-sized steel plant based on its scale.

    Several people checked the historical data and found that it was indeed the case.  Iron was still the mainstream in this era. Whether it was artillery, agricultural tools or even firearms, most were made of iron, and the rest were made of bronze.  A Japanese sword made with the Hundred Refining Method can cost as little as dozens of taels of silver, and a better one can cost hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver - Japanese swords based on Tang swords are not that heavy.

    The Uzi sword made of all steel is even more expensive. It costs less than a few thousand taels. Don't even think about it. Even the knives used by the generals of the Ming Dynasty were just a layer of steel covering the edge of the iron sword to pursue sharpness - that's all.  This steel-clad technology was the most advanced in the Ming Dynasty.

    Now everyone¡¯s minds are excited. There is such a big market, and the Lushan¡¯s computer has blast furnace steelmaking technology. Wouldn¡¯t it be a pity not to use it?  Others say that since you can make steel, you can also burn glass. Although Venice has already burned glass in this era, flat glass technology has not yet developed, that is, large glass mirrors are still very valuable - flat glass.  The technology of the 1960s is nothing. Every dormitory has a half-person-high full-length mirror.

    Stimulated by the money, some people also asked whether they could sell some slightly advanced firearms to the Ming Dynasty to fight against the peasant rebels and the Manchu Tatars. Of course, on the premise that the Lushan only had semi-automatic weapons, it could be sold to some single fighters of the Ming Dynasty.  A rifle or a rifle with a big bolt is enough. This is much stronger than the bird blunderbuss and three-eyed blunderbuss they use. Even the Milu blunderbuss is just a front-loaded matchlock gun."You have territory, weapons, and money, so what are you afraid of?"  Everyone became excited and prepared to build a republic again.

    Li Yinhua saw the group of people in front of her getting excited because of her few words, but was frightened because she didn't understand what these people were saying.  Jin Sanduo comforted him and said, "It has nothing to do with you."

    Because it was already a little late, everyone decided to convey the news to everyone first and then continue the meeting tomorrow.  As for Li Yinhua, naturally she couldn't let her go. Besides, it was already dark and it was inconvenient to go back and forth. So we had to find a room for her to rest.  Jin Sanduo found an empty single dormitory for Li Yinhua to live in, and then told her how to use the bathroom facilities, how to use the running water, how to use the light switch, and finally warned her not to go out at night - the last sentence was probably because she was looking at the light bulbs.  Li Yinhua didn't listen.

    After Jin Sanduo found Aying, they had dinner together, and then the two of them stayed together on the deck. When the sea breeze gradually cooled down, the two of them ran back to Jin Sanduo's single dormitory - in order to cultivate collective life, students are all four  One person in a dormitory.

    The good thing about tonight is that there has been a sudden change at Lushan No. 1, and no teacher is in the mood to check the night.

    Jin Sanduo half-heartedly disarmed Aying. At this moment, a woman's heart is also very fragile. After saying some love words, Jin Sanduo finally got his wish and stabbed his second brother into Aying's body.  Aying bit the sheets without making a sound, which further irritated Jin Sanduo, so he attacked again and again almost frantically.

    This night was a sleepless night for many people on the Lushan, but after being satisfied, Jin Sanduo quickly fell asleep holding Aying in his arms.  A Ying didn't know why the relationship between the two developed so quickly. She had only known each other for a few days before he turned her into a woman. This was just a little better than the previous blind marriage.  But then I thought about it, now the people on the Lushan ship in the late Ming Dynasty are in danger. They are virgins before they die and have never enjoyed the love of a woman. That is not worth it. If they are captured by the Qing army or Japanese pirates, think about it.  They all stood up - even the discipline of the Ming Dynasty army was not much better than that of the Qing army and Japanese pirates.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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