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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 275: Treatment of Servants

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    The Lushan Ship thinks that it is of little use to keep so much silver to go to Australia. The natives definitely don¡¯t recognize silver. As long as there is a certain amount of silver that can be recycled internally - there are several teachers teaching economics and mathematics who are planning to go to Australia.  Then we will open an Australian central bank.

    Each group made a list of many supplies. In addition to large quantities of grain, vegetables and fruits, seeds, livestock, agricultural tools and even pig iron and red copper were all included in the purchase scope. Japanese red copper and silver were associated because Japan's smelting technology was backward and could not be separated. Lushan  As long as the silver is extracted from the red copper, the money will be almost recovered, and the red copper is almost given away for free.

    These orders were handed over to interested shops. Taking this opportunity, Saigo Hanbei asked Jin Sanduo if he could sell firearms. The Lord of Nagasaki was willing to pay a high price.  Although I have never seen the iron cannons carried by these people shoot, but to be able to build such a large iron ship that can ride the wind and waves without oars and sails, the gun-making technology must be superb.

    Although he knew that Jin Sanduo wanted to imitate, he didn't care about the leakage of the technology of the official rifle. There were more than 30 guns and bullet-making machines on the ship. If he bought a few guns, he could imitate them. Jin Sanduo  There is nothing to say - if it were so easy to make guns and bullets, why would the Republic of Hawaii bother looking far away? There are plenty of civilian guns on the official market.

    The equipment on board the Lushan is now being debugged, and some firearms enthusiasts and people who know machining and fitter skills on the ship have gathered together to publicize firearms.

    Jin Sanduo said that he would discuss the matter of selling guns and would give the Lord of Nagasaki a reply in a few days.

    An enlarged meeting was held.  Everyone's unanimous opinion is to sell it. If you have enough money, why not sell it.  Anyway, the bullet is stuck in the time traveler's hand.  When the bullets you bought ran out, the rifles you bought back were just firecrackers.  In a short period of time, the people who traveled through time had little interest in the Japanese regime, the Korean regime, and the Ming Dynasty regime.  By the time the Travelers are really about to attack, those guns will probably have been scrapped. Even if they are not scrapped, there will be no danger if they control the quantity sold and the number of bullets. After all, the production line is on the Lushan.

    After the consensus was reached, Jin Sanduo saw Saigo Hanbei again two days later and said, "We can sell this musket. But in order to show you the power of the musket, please let someone put up a target on the shore and use it."  It¡¯s so red.¡±

    Saigo Hanbei asked: "The target is fine. Where do you want to test the gun?"

    Jin Sanduo said: "Of course from the boat."

    "But it's more than three hundred steps from the shore."

    "That's enough. Our guns can hit farther."

    Saigo Hanbei had never heard of an iron cannon that could shoot more than three hundred steps. Even the French cannon sold by Westerners only had this range.  However, the other party asked him to prepare the target, so he was naturally confident. Not long after, a one-inch-thick square wooden target was carried out from Nagasaki Castle.  There were circles of eye-catching red paint in the middle.  The Maori City Lord also changed his clothes and mingled with the watching crowd.

    When Saigo Hanbei came on the ship again, Jin Sanduo picked up his medium-sized rifle and said to the aide: "Watch it."

    Jin Sanduo took aim and shot, "Pah, pah, pah" After nine consecutive gunshots, the target 300 meters away on the opposite bank was almost smashed.  Jin Sanduo visually inspected that at least eight shots hit the target, and he was not an active soldier.  This result is not bad.

    It took a long time for the Xixiang half-guard to come to his senses: "This iron cannon fires continuously!"

    "Nine consecutive shots."

    "Please wait a moment, I will go back to discuss it."

    Not to mention that Saigo Hanbei was stunned, even the Maori City Lord who was hiding in the crowd and watching the excitement was also shocked.  What kind of power is this? The iron cannon fired more than 300 steps away is extremely accurate, not to mention its ability to break armor. If the Maori family mastered this technology.  How dare the Tokugawa shogunate oppress the Maori family.

    When Saigo Hanbei came back and told the city lord, these nine shots were fired continuously from an iron cannon.  The city lord was once again suppressed - originally everyone thought that a group of iron cannons could achieve this effect only with a longer range - front-loading rifled rifles appeared very early in Europe just because it was not easy to load bullets (a hammer was required)  Smashing bullets from the front), it was more used by hunters and nobles for hunting, but surprisingly, there was no white smoke coming out of the ship at that time.

    After understanding all this, the Maori City Lord also knew that the price he originally planned to pay for a few hundred taels was no longer possible, and he might have to pay the price of Tanegashima.  Finally, the Maori City Lord said: "Check the gold inventory for me."

    After some counting, the gold inventory actually amounted to more than 5,000 taels. That is, Nagasaki Castle is next to Nagasaki Port. The prosperity here naturally affects the income of the city. Otherwise, the output of the territory alone is far from enough.  Five thousand taels of gold.

    "Hanbei, take these five thousand taels of gold before you go"times.  Buy as much as you can.  "At this time, Japan's iron cannon manufacturing technology was already quite advanced. Even when Qi Jiguang was fighting against the Japanese, he said that the Ming Dynasty firearms were not as good as the Japanese pirates - the main thing here is quality. There were hundreds of styles of Ming Dynasty firearms.  .

    The Maori City Lord took it for granted that after buying a few of them, he would imitate them all. Maybe the position of General Zhengyi would be replaced by the Maori family in the future.

    The Lord of Maori City here is in a state of pride, and everyone on the Lushan is confused about how many semi-automatic rifles they should sell to Nagasaki City.  The highest price of Japanese iron cannons is recorded in history. That was when iron cannons were first introduced to Japan. The Lord of Tanegashima Castle exchanged two thousand taels of gold for two matchlock guns.  But the price was obviously too low, and this kind of transaction could not be continued at all. The Portuguese probably understood this truth. After acquiring a Japanese woman for the second time, they taught the craftsmen of Tanegashima how to make iron cannons - you know  Japanese women are worthless. Even if they marry away from home, the bride price is only a few stones of rice. Of course, it may also be because the Portuguese sailors on the long-term voyage are very hungry and thirsty.

    Finally, an economics teacher came up with an idea: "Let's just say that these guns and ammunition are equivalent to gold. We will sell them guns and ammunition according to the weight of gold they send."

    This point of view is acceptable to everyone. It not only ensures profits, but also does not make them feel that the price is astronomical.

    5,000 taels of gold were calculated based on the Ming Dynasty's calculation of one pound and sixteen taels.  A little more than 600 grams per catty.  Converting it to the metric system is 187 kilograms of gold - erase any fraction, this gold is impure.  A nine-shot Chinese-style formal rifle weighs 4 kilograms with ammunition.  A 7.92mm bullet weighs 25 grams. Selling 25 loaded rifles to the Maori family is equivalent to 100 kilograms of gold. The total weight of 3,500 rounds is still slightly more than 87 kilograms.  Presumably, the Maori City Lord couldn't say anything about this number.

    Sure enough, Saigo Hanbei was greatly surprised when he heard the quotation. He originally thought that if he could buy ten or eight guns, he would have completed the task. Even if the other party thought it was a rare commodity and was only willing to give three or five continuous iron cannons, it would not be impossible to explain -  -Everyone knows what the city lord is thinking.

    Jin Sanduo also asked Xixiang to find someone to learn the disassembly of this formal rifle.  Disassembly, cleaning and reloading, safety, firing and other steps.

    Seeing the opponent's daimyo willing to put down his arrogance and teach the blacksmiths in the city to dismantle the rifle, Saigo Hanbei was extremely moved - Jin Sanduo had nothing to do, he was the only one on the ship who could speak Japanese, so he sold the gun to others.  It has to be fought and maintained.  Fortunately, the Zhongfa is not a rifle known for its complex structure.  After teaching several people step by step more than ten times, they finally learned it.

    After the arms deal was settled, the refugees recruited by the Maori family began to board the ship.  At this time, the dormitories for immigrants have been renovated, and the light switches in the rooms have been moved outside and managed uniformly to prevent these people from playing with lights all night long. Repeated switching on and off also affects the life of electrical appliances.

    As for the refugees recruited by the Maori City Lord, they are all diverse. It is estimated that even the prison has been emptied. However, although some of them do not carry weapons, it can still be seen from their actions that they are warriors. There are so many retired professional soldiers on board the Lushan.  It¡¯s unlikely that you saw it wrong.

    These samurai-born ronoi are dealt with separately from ordinary civilians.  Those with families lived in a dormitory with their families, and a few wandering samurai without family members lived together.

    Wandering samurai are also helpless. Since the end of Japan's Warring States Period, daimyo from various countries have dismissed their excess troops. For these daimyo, they can raise more soldiers and horses during war, and eat as much food as they can in peacetime.  Otherwise, if the Tokugawa shogunate was accused of gathering ronin and plotting evil deeds, it would not be easy to get away with it - one daimyo was even deprived of its fief simply for repairing a city wall damaged by an earthquake.

    ??And Kyushu is the base camp for the anti-shogunate rule in Japanese history.  There are more ronai and wandering samurai than in other places. Some of them can make a living by doing part-time jobs. There are also some people who gather together to rob their homes and rob their homes and gather in the mountains and forests.  In these days, Nagasaki Castle not only emptied the prisons, but also arrested the nearby owners who had no jobs or family crests, and raided the nearby castle towns - to say that some of them came voluntarily.  God knows.

    The people on the Lushan don¡¯t care about this. Anyway, they can¡¯t do anything if they¡¯re transported to southern Australia - if they want to swim home, the penguins can¡¯t go back either.

    At the same time, grains, fruits, seeds and agricultural tools were also put on the ship one by one. The Lushan used a crane on the ship to fish the goods from the wooden ships onto the deck one by one.

    After docking in Nagasaki for a total of nine days, almost all the people and supplies were loaded on board - this time the time was a little tighter. A total of more than 2,000 people were transported to the ship from Nagasaki Castle, most of them with their families.  Although they have not collected three thousand, the crew on the Lushan are very satisfied. They may not be able to find so many people in North Korea. In the final analysis, the population of the Ming Dynasty still has to be the main one.There are more outsiders just to prevent people in one place from clumping together.

    During these nine days, although the Maori City Lord's research on new muskets was still in its infancy - basically there would not be much progress, the firearms enthusiasts aboard the Lushan used two experimental crucibles and the weapons made on the ship.  The machine used for the gun actually made a wrought iron rifle, a breech-loading rifled flint rifle that fired lead bullets with black powder.

    After testing, this rifle fired ten shots in a row before the barrel became dangerously hot, and it was still capable of breaking armor at a distance of 150 meters. It could still cause great damage to people without armor at a distance of 250 meters, and the bullets fired flatly the farthest.  Can fly up to 500 meters.  There is no kinetic energy beyond 500 meters. This is because only round nose lead bullet technology is used.

    Although modern mechanical processing was used in the production of guns, both the wrought iron and wooden stocks came from Nagasaki Port in 1628 in the 17th century.  For the crew on board the Lushan, this technology is undoubtedly epoch-making.  At the same time, this is also a weapon that is more suitable for the military equipment of the seventeenth century - it is only half a step ahead of the muskets of this era, and they can get as much ammunition as they want for this flint musket.

    In view of this.  The Lushan stayed in Nagasaki for one more day and bought some pig iron, gunpowder and hardwood before leaving.

    Departed from Nagasaki Port on the tenth day.  I went to the place agreed with Li Yinhua and found that there were more than 300 people waiting on the beach, supporting the elderly and the young.  It¡¯s just that there are very few young and strong men among these people, and there are also very few old people. They are mainly women and children. It is difficult for the elderly to live long in such difficult living conditions, and most of the men died in fishing storms, so this Jeju  There have been many boys and girls on the island for many years.

    It¡¯s just that the next trip to Busan didn¡¯t go smoothly. Although the people in Nagasaki Port were panicked when they saw the big iron ship moving without sails, local officials finally came up to talk to them.  North Korean officials and military and civilian merchants at Busan Port ran away after seeing the large iron ship Lushan moving without sails.

    This is also Busan Port's habit of dealing with Japanese pirates for many years - wait for the thieves to go away.  Those Japanese pirates would not attack the fortress. They would leave on their own after they had plundered enough places.  After waiting on the nearby sea for a little more than a day, the Lushan could only leave bitterly without seeing a single living person coming.  After leaving Busan, I went to the northern part of Jeju Island, where Jeju City is today.

    Sure enough, the officials and people here also returned to the city after seeing the big iron ship Lushan. However, only officials, troops, and merchants and craftsmen were eligible to enter the city. Those untouchables who were exiled to Jeju Island were not included.  They can only live in huts outside the city.  This time Lushan also figured it out. It was true that they were recruiting talents anyway.  So Captain Roger drove Li Yinhua in the lifeboat and used the electric horn to shout to the people on the island.

    "Australia is recruiting workers. You will get white rice every day. You will have a house to live in and money to earn from the work. You can farm or do any work. After three years of working, the land will be divided. You don't have to be a sinner here. Come to Australia with us."  In fact, Li Yinhua only shouted once. The purpose of her being on the lifeboat was more to appease those who wanted to get on the boat. Then she used the copy function on the electric horn to copy it, and then launched a propaganda war against the sinners of Jeju Island on the beach.

    It is said that the criminals on Jeju Island live no better than slaves.  After one person ran towards the shore from the hole in the ground, more people also ran over.  A propaganda war was carried out here for three days.  Because many criminals did not have enough food for the next day in their homes. The places where there was food in the city were where the upper class lived and it was impossible to let them in. Therefore, many people who were originally unwilling to go to Australia had no choice but to board this pirate ship in order to survive.  , after all, people said it was better to have food and shelter than to starve to death right before our eyes.

    After recruiting more than two thousand criminals from the Korean court here, the Lushan left Jeju Island.

    Now there are 5,000 people on board the Lushan including the 500 crossing crew, and the food consumed every day is 5,000 kilograms. The Lushan bought nearly 100 tons of rice from Nagasaki Port, but it still feels a bit overwhelming. There are only 5,000 people.  Calculated based on the target of 10,000 people, with five tons of rice a day, I am afraid that the ship will run out soon after it arrives in southern Australia - but Japanese rice is not cheap. Considering the price factor, the passengers of the Lushan cruise ship think that as long as the food can support it to Lushan  Just go to Vietnam or Manila.

    Now the immigrants on the ship, whether they are Japanese or Korean, are very satisfied. They eat white rice every day, accompanied by Japanese specialties pickled radish and fish. This was what Tokugawa Ieyasu, the general who conquered the barbarians, ate, and many Japanese and Korean people.  Cry for a while before eating.

    Many students on board the Lushan thought it was a folk custom from the 17th century - Jin Sanduo asked them before telling them that many people never had such a good meal and were full until they died.  Another North Korean told Jin Sanduo that he knew a wealthy North Korean businessman who had a poor background and only ate white rice mixed with soy sauce every day.It's so stingy - can you be any more stingy?

    At the next stop, the Lushan broke into Tianjin Port directly.  Facing this iron-clad ship as big as a hill, several coastal guards near Tianjin either closed their gates tightly and did not dare to fight, or fled in all directions.  The largest warship here is a ship of several dozen tons called Cangshan Iron. It came here just to scratch the life of the Lushan. The Fuchuan didn't see it and didn't know whether it was hidden or not.

    There is no need for translation when we get here. Here the iron loudspeaker of the Lushan starts to broadcast in Chinese: "Australia is recruiting workers and soldiers, servants will be treated, monthly salary will never be in arrears, three meals a day, white rice every meal. Skilled ones"  The craftsman is the best."

    During the Ming Dynasty, the guard system collapsed in the middle and later periods, and the only combat-effective troops left were the servants of officials at all levels. These servants were raised by officials at all levels. Naturally, they had good food and salary and were strong in combat effectiveness. The remaining troops in the guard  The soldiers are said to be officers and soldiers, but they rarely have enough to eat all year round. In fact, they are no different from beggars. This Ming Dynasty retainer system can be regarded as the prototype of warlords, setting a precedent for soldiers to be generals, three hundred years earlier than Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and others.  They may not understand anything else, but when they heard about the treatment of the servants, they went crazy and ran to the ship - the servants had enough to eat and a few taels of salary every month.

    After all, the Ming Dynasty was not a North Korea that mainly avoided war. Although most areas also used the thief-stuffed strategy to deal with rogue bandits and Mongol and Jurchen invaders, the officials of Tianjin Guards saw that hundreds of people fled in just a few hours.  Go to the big iron ship. There are many people inside who are military households and craftsmen of Tianjin Guard.  If this continues, the imperial censor's impeachment will not be able to bear fruit and just go around in circles.

    The last unlucky commander of the Tianjin Guard, Yang Yi, was asked to send away these so-called Australians and the big iron ship without insulting the national system.  Tianjin Wei, as the name suggests, is the acropolis of Beijing. How could someone be so arrogant in recruiting troops here?  At first, this wave of people also wanted to use force to expel them, but as soon as they fired a solid round from the Fran machine cannon, they heard the sound of "dang", and then the rain of cannonballs on the big iron ship started.  It fell.  The gunners were beaten to pieces, and the speed of firing of the shells was unimaginable, as if they were surrounded by hundreds of Fran cannons.
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