Lord of Ming Dynasty

As for some other small or disappearing courts, I won't talk about it.

"Although there is a profit of three taels of silver, you can't help foreigners to deceive your own people, can you, at least you have to do it with a clear heart?" Zhang Qiang guided leisurely.

Liu Guoxuan lowered his head and hummed in response.

"I know you must have taken some kickbacks. This is a common practice, and I won't pursue it anymore, but you want to sell my cost of 30 taels of silver to 18 taels of silver, which will make me lose money. You will eat the difference of three taels of silver. I'm a little sorry for the people of the country, I'm sorry for your friendship?"

Zhang Qiang accentuated his tone a little angrily.

"My lord, but you still sold me some matchlock guns produced by the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty?" Liu Guoxuan is also a person who insists on his own opinion, and he still hasn't completely turned his back in his heart.

"Yes, but those are all carefully selected. Since my troops must use the best ones, I will sell you the best ones for 9 taels of silver. Isn't it a shame? Those with good quality , even if you buy it in Daming, if you don’t have 12 taels of silver, can you get it? You don’t necessarily get it from regular channels, you can only buy a small amount, and you have to bribe those craftsmen or people in charge. In order to get those good ones, my troops Matchlock guns cost thousands of casualties, should I give them pensions, should I pay for them?"

"Even if it's an old gun, if you buy it for nine taels of silver, it can only be regarded as not losing money. Did I earn your money?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Liu Guoxuan nodded, "That's true!"

"Then, my lord, what should we do?" Liu Guoxuan didn't want to continue entanglement on this issue, and gave the initiative to Zhang Qiang.

"In this way, we divide them into grades, and on the basis of each grade, we add corresponding silver and sell them to them." Zhang Qiang said.

Liu Guoxuan, "Yes, we Han people should not be allowed to suffer. Those foreigners have cheated us too much. Even if we can't cheat them this time, we can't let them take advantage."

"Okay, then, we sell the lowest-quality matchlock guns for 9 taels of silver, and I won't make money from them either,"

"Slightly better quality sells for 10 taels of silver, and 11% new ones sell for [-] taels of silver. These are all guns captured by the Qing army."

"As for the captured Portuguese and Dutch guns, we sold them for 16 taels of silver, and we earned half of the taels of silver. Among them, we sold the guns of the best quality for 18 taels of silver, which were seized anyway."

"But what we produce, even the lowest version, version 0.1, is more advanced than their best quality, so we sell them 20 taels of silver, and we add one tael of silver for every improvement in the version. Until version 1.0, This version, we sell them separately, 45 taels of silver each, just this, it is not the most expensive gun among them, how about it?"

"Very good, but..." Liu Guoxuan rolled his eyes and hesitated.

"Haha, Master Liu, I will give you a good fee. If you can sell a gun made by the captured Qing army or the Ming army, I will give you a 1.0% commission. How about it? If you can sell a gun made by the Portuguese or the Ming army For the guns seized by the Dutch, I’ll give you [-]% commission. For the guns I produced before, [-]% commission. For version [-] guns, [-]% commission. You can earn [-]% of my profit by talking about it, such a good buy will make it easier for you to fight, where can you find it?"

A smile appeared on Liu Guoxuan's face, and he nodded immediately, accepting Zhang Qiang's proposal.

After one day passed, Liu Guoxuan came back to report and negotiated a deal. There were 1.0 arquebus guns produced by the Ming and Qing armies, 1.0 arquebus guns produced by the Dutch and Portuguese, and Zhang Qiang’s arquebus guns were produced before version [-]. There are [-] rods of various matchlock guns, and [-] rods for version [-].

In addition, 20 cannons captured by the Qing army, 18 tiger squat cannons, 2 Fran machine guns, 50 3-pound cannons, 10 6-pound cannons, 30 9-pound cannons, 8 cannons captured by the Dutch and Portuguese were sold. 12 pounders, 40 18-pounders, 60 [-]-pounders.

张强军中的大炮3磅炮60门，6磅炮100门，磅炮50门，18磅炮60门。

20 tons of bullets, 100 tons of artillery shells, and [-] barrels of gunpowder.

This is a big deal.

But this also shocked Zhang Qiang, what is the Spaniard doing?

Do you fight people?

Who do they need to fight?

Do the Spaniards have enemies today?

At least along the coast of Daming.

He asked Liu Guoxuan on the sidelines, and Liu Guoxuan said: "My lord, I heard that the Spanish governor of Luzon is planning to seize the territory of the Dutch. The fleets of both sides are gathering in Batavia, Malacca and other places, and they need a lot of arms. The natives on the island show signs of rebellion, so a lot of arms are needed."

Zhang Qiang asked again, and Liu Guoxuan said: "My lord, since we drove out the Dutch and wiped out most of the Dutch's power in the southeast coast, they fled back to Malacca, and the aborigines there were restless. The rioting mutinous native soldiers spent a lot of gunpowder and money, which is nothing. I also heard that in order to maintain their power and obtain more money, they robbed some treasure ship of the Spanish, so the Spanish governor Very angry and want to punish the Dutch."

So, anyone who is familiar with history knows that the Spaniards plundered a lot of gold and silver in the Far East, as well as a lot of spices in the colonies. Their royal family consumes.

This can explain why the Spaniards bought so many arms.

But he was still worried, and told Liu Guoxuan, "Guoxuan," the two of them went from receiving to cooperating, from cooperating to beating the Dutchman together, and now they have talked a lot of business because of their interests. Helping him train the army, the relationship is already very close, so Zhang Qiang calls him by his first name from time to time these days to get closer to each other.

"You should also be vigilant. We drove away the Dutch, but now our strength here is also very weak. The Spaniards have been to Baodao before, and they also have a foundation here. They might not want to take advantage of this time to fight back. Retake the territory that was taken away by the Dutch." Zhang Qiang reminded earnestly.

"Yes, Governor, this general has been on guard for a long time. I will not allow the Spanish merchants and envoys to wander around. They are all walking in the specified place and within the specified range for good trade. I will not let them see Everything related to the army and military facilities." Liu Guoxuan replied seriously.

"Well, I'm relieved about that,"

Chapter 226 Big Money

Less than two days later, Liu Guoxuan finally finalized the final deal with the Spaniards after running around. The Spaniards paid for the goods with their goods and gold and silver, and a total of 1000 million taels of silver was made.

And Liu Guoxuan ran around, taking 200% ​​as his commission, a total of more than 200 million [-] taels, and this made him earn more than [-] million taels, not to mention how happy he was.

The area Zheng Chenggong gave him to defend was Chixian City, which is equivalent to the territory from Taichung to Hsinchu in later generations, while the area handed over to Yu Xing for defense was from Hsinchu to Baobei, which belonged to the northwest of Baodao and other coastal areas deep within 6 kilometers. [-] places.

After getting the money, he immediately ran back to Hsinchu and began to learn from Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Rebel Army to build.

And after Zhang Qiang got 800 million silver taels again, he sold the goods in it to Huang Yan in the southwest direction. Huang Yan's defense area was a section of Taichung less than Chiayi that was about the same size as Liu Guoxuan. He was better at business than Liu Guoxuan. I used to be a sea merchant, so I wanted goods, not money, because selling goods made more profits than asking for money.

Therefore, half of Zhang Qiang's silver was obtained from him.

After Zhang Qiang got the money, he immediately set aside 100 million as the start-up capital for Tang Dianfeng to be in charge here, and let him build Chixian City here.

After hearing that Zhang Qiang helped Liu Guoxuan, Yu Xing, and Huang Yan to train the army, Feng Xin, who had met him a few times and had received him, also brought people here. Tang Dianfeng and Xiao Fei also spent more than two days At that time, after using the cannon's arquebus and digging trenches to approach the city wall, Zeelandia City, which was bigger than Chixian City, was defeated. Feng Xin also felt extremely envious of this attack method.

Although Zheng Chenggong has already bought many of Zhang Qiang's obsolete weapons and cannons, and seized many cannons and arquebus guns from Zeelandia City, they are still using the fighting methods of the Ming Dynasty and are armed to the teeth. The Dutch with musket tactics were not even as good as Kong Youde, who had already used matchlock tactics to the extreme, and the Han Banner Generals of the Qing Dynasty who were the pioneers of musketry. Therefore, Feng Xin came to him because he felt the strength of Zhang Qiang's army.

But Zhang Qiang had to delay for a few more days, and had a discussion and transaction with him.

Then he sent 1 skilled soldiers to help him train cold weapon soldiers, 1 senior soldiers to help him train the combat tactics of cold weapon and arquebus soldiers, [-] elite soldiers to help him train arquebus players, and [-] elite soldiers as supervisors and The backbone instructor helps him train officers in command operations and tactical coordination issues.

He also removed many good-quality 6-pounders, 1-pounders, 1-pounders, and 1 guns from his battleship, and sent [-] gunners to help him train artillery.

What you do is like helping Liu Guoxuan, Yu Xing, and Huang Yan, but what is the training cost? A 2000-man army costs 30 a month, and a total of 230 for three months of training. Including the cost of selling weapons, the total is [-]. Wan, Feng Xin also used goods and silver as payment.

And Zhang Qiang didn't want to accept the goods, because many goods were useless to him or the Jinhua Rebels. Silk, tea, tobacco leaves, salt, sugar cane, all of which are available in the south, especially porcelain. There is no shortage of these things on the mainland. Although he Fighting against the Qing army, but Chinese businessmen are everywhere. Even if the Qing army bans it and the investigation is extremely strict, they can still fiddle with a lot of things from the areas controlled by the Qing army. What's more, many of these things are also produced in Zhejiang and Fujian, and Mostly major cargo.

As for foreigners’ things, ship planks, sails, nails, canvas, white cloth, cotton spinning, and glass are all needed, but there are not many. All the things that should be bought in the market have been searched, and Zhang Qiang has also seized a lot. Enough to last a while.

So Zhang Qiang finally thought about it, and asked them to capture the natives of Baodao and use them as free labor. This is the cheapest, ten taels of silver, healthy ones, no women, no children, and the elderly. What he meant was through Zheng Chenggong They wiped out all the aborigines of Baodao, just like the Americans did to the Indians. Only in this way can the future Ming people successfully gain a foothold here and prevent any troubles from happening in the future.

Let people call foreigners, people from other provinces, not locals.

Then there is Luzon, a native of Manila, who can also be used for labor.

The original captives became civilians, and after the freemen, in order to let them feel how precious and hard-won their freedom is, let them feel the spirit of ownership, and at the same time let them feel that they have nothing to do after they are free, or adapt to it all at once. If the lives of the people are not enough, some people will be sent as supervisors to supervise their work, and the militia will assist them.

These people brought a total of 2 people, plus the 5 Nanming refugees who immigrated from Daming that Zheng Chenggong sold to Zhang Qiang, and the aboriginals and refugees bought from Feng Xin, a total of [-] people, let them join the Red Army. Embedded in the city's construction.

This left him hundreds of thousands of fees and troubles for immigrating from Daming, which is equivalent to earning hundreds of thousands.

Feng Xin left because of the other low-status generals, Linlin Luoluo, and Zhang Qiang sent half of the soldiers he brought who did not die in battle to help Zheng Chenggong's subordinates train the troops and learn how they played platoon shooting tactics and how Use artillery to fight on land, cooperate with arquebus to fight, and cooperate with cold weapon troops to fight and other tactics.