Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Chapter 744 The real king of the cottage and the IQ tax

Emperor Chongzhen had always had full confidence in these gangsters of Ming Dynasty.

When the whole world was still playing with matchlock guns, Ming's gangsters had already developed flintlocks and three-eyed guns. If the process hadn't been interrupted by the entry of slaves into the customs, it might have appeared hundreds of years earlier. Tring out.

While the whole world is still confused about what the steam engine is, the people of Daming have already applied it to trains, battleships, and machine tools. In short, various places are wondering whether it can be installed first. Try a steam engine.

Although there is a factor of cheating on his own, Emperor Chongzhen can swear by the heads of Huang Taiji and Dorgon that he is just a cheater who has not recharged, and there is still a big gap with the wild cheaters of Ming Dynasty.

But when Emperor Chongzhen thought of wild cheaters, he suddenly thought of those cheaters outside of Ming Dynasty.

What did you say before?Can you support a batch of firearms to the Holy Roman Empire first?By the way, sell them drugs?

It is said that the Celestial Dynasty of the later generations is a big copycat country, but in fact, the real big copycat country is the vest trumpet of the Holy Roman Empire at this time...

Being a programmer always has many advantages, such as overcoming the wall, such as using search engines to find the information you want...

Articles such as "Qingdao is not afraid of flooding because of German conscience" and "oilcloth bags specially stored near the pipe network" that have been screened and brainwashed by later generations are all artificially concocted and used for brainwashing.

Qingdao's underground pipeline network is more than 3000 kilometers long, and the German construction pipeline network in normal use is only a little over two kilometers, accounting for less than one-thousandth of the total.

And the parts in those oilcloth bags were the remaining parts brought in when the Germans built the underground pipeline network at that time, rather than being specially stored for spare use—especially the small warehouse that stored "metal components wrapped in oilcloth, although they have been through many years." A hundred years but still as bright as new" This kind of nonsense is even more bullshit.

Sewers are generally made of pottery, porcelain or cement. Is the use of metal components to prove that there is no brain or to prove that people are stupid and have a lot of money?

"Made in Germany" sounds great, but in the second half of the [-]th century, it had a bad reputation and was synonymous with cheap and poor quality. "Shameless" was the hat that the British put on German-made products at that time.

At that time, the British Empire was the first industrialized country, and its products represented the cutting-edge of craftsmanship and technology. "Buy British" was not only a well-known fashionable language at the time, but also a symbol of wealth.

After the reunification of Germany, it is ambitious to enter the world market to get a share of the pie. However, the world market is not easy to enter - the Germans who pursue the dream of a strong country in the cracks imitate the products of Britain, France, the United States and other countries, and rely on cheap sales to impact market.

Stealing designs, copying products, and forging manufacturers' logos. The products are poor in terms of materials, workmanship and quality. German products are therefore labeled as disgraceful.

The Germans were naturally unconvinced, and a large number of economic spies began to appear in England, and those fluent English always had a Germanic accent.

For example, a certain gentleman who claimed to have a little interest in steel manufacturing was later the famous German steel count and military magnate Kluber.

The Germans used various means to obtain a large amount of economic intelligence.Back in Germany, the intelligence was researched, copied, and imitated into products.Then, it is exported to the UK, stately, and enters the British family.

It is similar to the path that the Chinese dynasties of later generations have traveled. At that time, the price of labor in Germany was low, which made German products have the characteristics of cheapness.For a time, the British market was filled with "Made in Germany", from pencils, toys, medicines, clocks, beer, textiles, tools to pianos and furniture.

Naturally, the British gentlemen were not angry, and simply formulated a bill stipulating that all foreign imported products must be marked with the logo of the country of origin.The key target of this bill is "Made in Germany" from Germany.

The Germans who were slapped in the face by this bill are naturally like the protagonist template of the novel. They know their shame and then they are brave.

A lot of money has been spent on scientific research and industrial standard systems, and "Made in Germany" has also completed a gorgeous turn from a copycat to a synonym for quality and reliability.

As for the trumpets of the Holy Roman Empire, the German Empire can be regarded as the second generation of trumpets, and the Third German Reich, that is, Germany, is the third generation of trumpets.

Now that Ming is selling firearms to the Holy Roman Empire, will they suddenly click on the counterfeit skill tree, and then turn on the German manufacturing skill tree?

Emperor Chongzhen was suddenly worried.

But Emperor Chongzhen was worried that it was useless. Li Chengyan had already set off when Emperor Chongzhen decided to support the Holy Roman Empire.

Originally, Li Chengyan planned to go directly to the old guy Cohen to study and see if he could use Cohen's way to get through the Holy Roman Empire and contact the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

But when Li Chengyan studied some information provided by Jin Yiwei, he gave up this plan.

Theoretically speaking, although the Netherlands and other vassal states are also biting dogs, in general, these guys have the same goal. They also intend to kill the Holy Roman Empire first. empire.

It's not Cohen's problem, but it's impossible for the whole of the Netherlands to agree, including the Dutch East India Company, which is also making a fortune in war. A large part of the labor they sold to Ming came from the Holy Roman Empire.

Once the retreating Holy Roman Empire is helped to gain a firm foothold, it will not only affect the whole of Europe, but even the labor business used by the East India Company to exchange silver coins and drugs will be affected, which is unique to the entire East India Company. would like to see.

Since it is not convenient to contact the Holy Roman Empire through Cohen and others, then go by yourself!

The Ministry of Rites has prepared everything for Li Chengyan, or in other words, it has united the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, together with the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, prepared a small fleet for Li Chengyan. There are not many supplies on it, and it departs from Tianjin Port anyway. , There is no need to worry about supplies until Ottoman.

Because until Ottoman, most of the sites belonged to Ming Dynasty, so there was no need to worry about supply issues at all, so most of them were equipped with various artillery and guns and other equipment.

In order to be able to return Europe to his grandma’s house at one time, Emperor Chongzhen spent a lot of money—the fixed-mounted flintlocks and the latest artillery that were not fully refitted in the Ming Dynasty were stuffed a lot.

There was indeed no danger along the way, it just took more time. The real headache for Li Chengyan was how to find the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire—maybe he will not be the emperor soon.

Stopping on the mission fleet at the end of the day, Li Chengyan is facing a difficult choice.

Should he follow Xinle Hou Liu Wenbing's arrangement and be the first person to eat crabs and risk passing through the Suez Canal, or should he follow Zheng Zhilong's arrangement and go around the Cape of Good Hope and go west to the ocean?

Both have their advantages and disadvantages.

From the 13th year of Chongzhen to the present, the Suez Canal, which has been dug for a full six years, has finally been dug through, and Liu Wenbing, the Marquis of Xinle, is almost singing happily.

But what makes Liu Wenbing unhappy is that there is no large fleet here to test the actual effect of the canal.

Whether the Ottoman Empire had a navy or not, the Mughals didn’t even have a fleet, and other merchant ships didn’t look up to them. The only thing that caught their eye was Zheng Zhilong’s South China Sea Fleet.

The problem is that the South China Sea Fleet is currently busy chasing people and catching laborers on the prairie south of Mugudushu, and has no time to do this test, or before killing those barbarians in England.

Therefore, the risk of the fleet passing through the Suez Canal is unknown. After all, the small sampan and the large fleet are not on the same level, and the draft and risks they face are not on the same level at all.

If you want to talk about the benefits, it is probably that after passing the Suez Canal, you can go directly to Ljubljana through the Albanian port, and then go overland to Austria to visit the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

The risk of bypassing the Cape of Good Hope is also obvious. In case of bad luck and a hurricane, the entire fleet may be at risk of being wiped out, and it has to face attacks that may be encountered at any time.

For example, Spain and England, the relationship between these two countries and Daming is definitely not good. It is a good thing for these two families to have a chance to kill a Daming fleet. of.

After careful consideration, Li Chengyan still decided to take the Suez Canal.

Although walking the Suez Canal, which has not been tested by large ships, is an adventure, it is also an opportunity to meet the Holy Roman Emperor quickly.

As for the route after passing through the Suez Canal, Li Chengyan is not worried—as early as in Luzon and Java, Da Ming had already obtained all the charts through Sanchez and Cohen, and the part after the Suez Canal was also marked.

Fortunately, the Suez Canal, which took an unknown amount of manpower and material resources, is still quite powerful. Although it was frightening, it finally passed safely.

After smiling and waving goodbye to Xinle Hou Liu Wenbing who was standing on the bank, Li Chengyan's face became gloomy again.

After passing the Suez Canal, there is no way to rely on any power from Ming Dynasty. Everything has to be handled carefully by oneself, especially for the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, which he knows nothing about.

Maybe it can't be said that they don't know anything, after all, the news provided by Jin Yiwei still mentions some, but it is still too strong and difficult to infer the preferences and personality of the Holy Roman Emperor based on the news.

Thanks to the vigorous propaganda of England, Spain, and the Netherlands, Ming's warlike reputation may have spread throughout Europe.

Now all the countries in Europe know that there is a country in the Far East called Ming, who likes to provoke wars at every turn, chop off people's heads and pile them up into hills. If there is no need, don't provoke that country of Ming.

As for the so-called pirates in Europe, most of them are part-time jobs in the national navy, or have been incorporated, and there are very few without formal establishment.

It was precisely because of this that Li Chengyan and his party went surprisingly smoothly, so smoothly that Li Chengyan himself couldn't believe it until he set foot on the land of Ljubljana.