Chapter 1878: Lu Xiucai's plan

In fact, for the sake of confidentiality, the eight most powerful 32-pound Karen guns on the ship were not taken out by Kong Tai, but only the 18-pound Hongyi cannon was displayed. Moreover, the red cannons were all painted with gold paint, and they looked like copper cannons.

This is requested by Malinte-the Karen guns should not be shown to their European counterparts to avoid being imitated. As for the Hongyi Cannon, it was also painted with gold paint, posing as a copper cannon.

Then, on the Beihai warships, the 12-pound Napoleon gun is just the most common firepower, generally arranged on the upper deck. This luxurious firepower configuration makes Dagama extremely envious. However, he also knows that it is difficult to afford so many guns with the supply of saltpeter from Portugal. Unless ... can force Ming Guofu to be soft and agree to sell them in large quantities ...

However, Dagama underestimated the stiffness of the Ming dynasty. Although the coastal areas of Guangdong and Hu Jian were upset by Portugal, the Ming court did not want to seek peace, but how to defeat its opponents, regardless of the cost.

This is the difference between the Ming and Qing dynasties. Until the late Ming Dynasty, the fighting force of the Ming army deteriorated in time, but the Ming court never thought of compromising with the outside world, but tried its best to resist the end. For example, when the Japanese pirates harmed the southeast coast, the Ming court never compromised with the pirate group. Faced with the rise of Hou Jin, despite the unfavorable fighting situation, he has not compromised. Only later, the peasant uprising and the Manchus fought inside and outside, and finally ended. Moreover, it was mainly attacked by the peasant army from within, rather than by foreign enemies.

And the end of the Qing Dynasty, whoever surrendered. Belgians with bigger farts dare to come to the fore. The century-old shame of the country began with all kinds of summation. Therefore, Marin didn't quite understand why some people would miss the Qing Dynasty in future generations. It ’s okay if it ’s full, after all, it ’s when they were masters. The Han people also miss ... simply sick ...

Comparing the two dynasties in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was nothing comparable in the early days and they were very strong. However, the gap between the two dynasties was too large. In the late Ming Dynasty, the main disorder was on the northern and northeastern borders, mainly in drought-stricken areas. At that time, the Jiangnan area was still prosperous, which made foreign missionaries envious. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, even the wealthy southern part of the country did not live.

Of course, because of the poor fiscal and taxation system left by Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, it was doomed not to be too strong. It can only be said that the Ming Dynasty won when it was worse than the Qing Dynasty. Among them, the Ming Dynasty is stronger than the Qing Dynasty in that the situation in the late Ming Dynasty was much better than that in the late Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, at the moment it is not the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is still in the mid-term and its strength is fairly strong. Moreover, the current emperor Zhengde is still a belligerent emperor. Therefore, whether it is Marin or Conte, the Chinese Xiatong, it is very clear that the Portuguese will never do this.

However, Conté does not remind the Portuguese, he is also happy to see the big celebrity Dagama hit the wall ...

Saw Da Gama's surprised expression, Kong Tai added a fire and ordered:

"Come on, fire a few guns to open the eyes of Lord Dagama ..."

Then, a rumble of gunfire sounded, and the battleship began to swing because of recoil ...

Saw the gunpowder barrels piled up in the cabin, and Dagama looked enviously:

"Governor Kong Tai, let us not mention the matter of repairing the warship. However, can you sell us a batch of gunpowder? We came from afar and the gunpowder reserve may not be enough."

Kong Tai shook his head again and again:

"This is not possible, it violates the principle of" wartime neutrality. "Our Duke knew that he would be removed from my post."

"I double the price!" Dagama was also ruthless. Anyway, he grabbed a lot of money in the fleet along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong.

Kong Tai still shook his head, he did not dare to offend the Ming Dynasty. Dagama also wanted to persuade Kong Tai to just ignore it. Before Dagama left, Kong Tai pretended to give some gifts to Dagama as a "personal gift". However, they are all luxury goods. As for the gunpowder Dharma wanted most and the wood for repairing ships, Conteti didn't mention it ...

Looking at the ten tall battleships that Tamsui was waiting for, Dagama shook his head and could only leave with regret. After all, although there are more Portuguese warships, the firepower cannot be compared with others. The most important thing is that once the warship is injured, even the ship repair dock cannot be found. The 10 warships of Kongtai can be returned to the dock for repair at any time. For a long time, the ten warships in the North Sea must have won.

It was just that he didn't know yet, these ten warships all strengthened the keel, and thickened the side. They were not afraid of the Portuguese small caliber artillery. Moreover, the nickel iron skin is also wrapped on the sides and the lower part of the waterline, which is not only high in strength, but also resistant to corrosion. However, the nickel iron skin on the side was covered with thin wooden boards, which Dhama did not see. The nickel iron skin under the waterline was also painted black, and it was not seen as a metal skin.

With regrets, Dagama left Tamsui Port and returned to his own ship, "Prince Enrique." He decided to grab another wave, and then went back to Xiangjiang Island Deep Water Bay base for repair. In particular, the three injured ships need to be repaired before they can continue to be used.

But Dagama did not know that his base on Xiangjiang Island had long been stared at by Wang Wei, deputy envoy of the Guanghai-Qinghai Road ...

Wang Meng sent spies to board the north bank of Xiangjiang Island during the time Dagama led the fleet to attack the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, and established a temporary base. He also built a hidden pier for landing on the north bank of Xiangjiang Island.

After learning that the Fleet Fleet was not at home, Wang Meng did not immediately order the capture of the Portuguese temporary base in Deepwater Bay. Instead, he refrained from doing it first, and then sent someone to monitor the Portuguese temporary base, preparing to start later.

Wang Meng believes that even if the base is occupied, the warships of the robot robots are not there, which makes little sense. Folang robots attacked the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, relying on warships instead of this temporary base. Therefore, in order to eliminate the banditry, the most important thing is to destroy the enemy's warship, not to destroy the other party's temporary base.

Therefore, Wang Meng did not take advantage of the fact that the enemy was not sending troops at home to attack the base, but sent spies to monitor it day and night. At the same time, the family is also actively training ship-building water ghosts, preparing to dig through enemy warships in the future.

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Wang Meng was actively preparing for the war. Outside of Nantou Shuizhai, a middle-aged talent who claimed to be a student scholar suddenly came and asked to see him and said he wanted to contribute.

The scholars of the Ming Dynasty were distinguished, even Wang Cheng, a senior member of Zheng Sipin, would not easily offend ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ because, who knows when this scholar will be a scholar, and then become an important bureaucrat. If the other party is neglected, the other party is a vengeance, and in the future it will become a political enemy. What's more, this show only claimed to be here to give advice and suggestions, which deserves his attention.

However, Wang Meng did n’t know that this talent who came to present the plan was actually arranged by Kong Tai under Marin ’s instruction ...

The talent is named Lu Feng, who was originally a down-and-coming talent in Hu Jianxing's house. Lu Feng was a talented student in the exam at the age of 23. However, in the next 20 years, he tried repeatedly. In middle age, he is still a talent. Then, he began to doubt himself, and gave up the testimony, and instead taught in the rural social studies, barely confusing. Sociology is equivalent to a local elementary school in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. It teaches children under 15 years of age, and is generally taught by talents of average level (the talents of high level generally continue to study in prefectural or county schools, and concentrate on preparing for the test) (Only those poor scholars who have little hope of the test taker or have family difficulties and want to serve as a teacher to receive a "shuxiu" to subsidize their families will only serve as social science teachers).

After Kong Tai became the governor of Dongfan Island, he sent people to recruit talents everywhere. It happened that Lu Feng's father was seriously ill and needed a lot of money to treat the disease. And his salary as a social science teacher is not enough. Then, Kong Tai used several big silver ingots to dig Lu Feng away. Of course, Lu Feng went to Dongfan Island in the name of "study". Today, two years later, Lu Feng is still on a "study tour". As it happens, Kong Tai needs help to advise the master of the Guangdong Marine Master, and he can't expose himself. So, simply sent Lu Feng to do this ...