Lord of Ming Dynasty

Zhang Qiang can imagine that when these people met the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spaniards in a neat array, pushing cannons to fight Zheng Chenggong, they found out, oh, why is there a second branch in the Far East? troops using this tactic.

Then when the Spaniards and the Dutch were exhausted from fighting for territory, they had a truce, and when they were about to compete with Zheng Chenggong for supremacy at sea, they would find that Zheng Chenggong, who had poor tactics and could only talk to them with a knife The 6th World War troop has become an army of Westerners, and they will feel threatened and puzzled.

In short, during this period of time, Zhang Qiang earned away the gold, silver, goods and other property accumulated by Zheng Chenggong and his subordinates during the period of time and the previous period of time, and what they got was a gun that could Against the Spaniards, the 6th battle force of the Dutch.

Needless to say about naval battles, although the warships were dilapidated, Zheng Chenggong's sea combat experience was more experienced than Zhang Qiang's naval forces, so he didn't need him to teach or earn their money.

Count the goods obtained during this period, 2000 million taels of gold and silver, 800 million taels of goods, 5 people, and [-] slaves.

In addition to the 100 million taels of silver left behind, let Tang Dianfeng and Xiao Fei advance the early stage construction, and leave some usable goods on the spot. After the grain is stored in the castle, Zhang Qiang will bring back nearly 2000 million taels of gold and silver, 600 million taels The goods needed by the territory, or the goods that can be exchanged with Nanming merchants.

Chapter 227 Territory Situation

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Seeing Liu Guoxuan's guilty look, Zhang Qiang stopped his smile, and said earnestly: "Guoxuan, we are all Han Chinese, we are all from Ming Dynasty, now we are from Nanming, and the Spaniards are from Taixi and foreigners. We're not a family, are we?"

Liu Guoxuan was very cooperative, with a look of strong curiosity, he nodded slightly, which he agreed with.

Everyone still belongs to the same court, the Longwu court.

Nanming also had the Yongli court, King Lu, the court of Lu Jianguo, and even farther away, Daxi was still fighting, and many of Zhang Xianzhong’s old ministries were still fighting under the banner of Daxi, and some of Li Zicheng’s old ministries in Dashun still did not participate in any of the Southern Ming The imperial court still fought against the Qing army in the name of Dashun Kingdom and under the banner of Dashun.

Before the Southern Ming Dynasty, there was a more orthodox and legal Hongguang court, and now these courts are the continuation of the Hongguang court, the continuation of the Hongguang court.

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 228

Arrange some affairs in the territory, conduct closed and strict management of the territory, and prevent the spies of the Qing army and those who tend to surrender to the Qing Dynasty or the Nanming court from creating difficulties for him ideologically, thus affecting the development of the Jinhua Rebels' territory , Zhang Qiang began to pay attention to the movements of the Qing army.

Every day the battle reports of the Hangzhou Mansion were delivered, and he could learn about it from his attendants, but he was a little uncertain about the specific Qing army's area of ​​influence, because Zhu Dayou also served as his senior official. , and helped him take care of his personal property, and went out from time to time to perform the tasks he arranged, and sometimes even managed some specific administrative affairs. Now he is still doing business with Zheng Jiajun in Chixian City and has not returned, so he wants to know As for the specific movements of the Qing army, I found that I didn't know who to ask for details.

This makes me feel that my manpower is really not enough.

So he set off to return to his hometown in Jinhua Mansion. He originally wanted to settle the matter of Baodao in a week, but he didn't expect to stay for more than a month.

Many affairs in the territory were delayed.

As soon as he returned to the governor's mansion, he buried himself in Wenshan's case file, dealing with official documents.

Although Zhou Porridge and Mi Chun can share part of the pressure for themselves, they still have to ask themselves for instructions on many things before they can make decisions, so there are still a lot of official documents accumulated over the past month or so.

The current official documents are all in the form of memorials written vertically. Looking at them from top to bottom, his neck hurts after reading them all day. Although he has promoted the education of writing horizontally and simplifying characters, it is aimed at children. In private schools, county schools, government schools, elementary school students, middle school students, many scholars, officials are still used to writing traditional characters vertically, and they are used to not having punctuation marks, let him think about them over and over again with a memorial meaning, and many characters are still unfamiliar to him as a migrant worker.

If it wasn't for the scholars in the attendant's room to interpret for him, he wouldn't know what those guys said, which meant hundreds of thousands of miles. I know, meanings that are so difficult to hide can be written so delicately. I remember that there was a well-known writer in later generations who won the title of champion in the college entrance examination because he wrote an essay in classical Chinese in the college entrance examination. It seems that this ancient prose is really amazing.