When Lu Hansan... Ah, when Duke Ludovico occupied the city of Milan, the French army on the front line was still in the dark. As Marin expected, the French army was waiting for a bumper harvest of food on the Lombardy Plain. Then, the French army could mobilize military rations from the Principality of Milan. Unfortunately, all of this was destroyed by Lu Hansan. However, because of the backward message transmission, the French did not know yet.
At the same time, the 10 bronze heavy artillery promised to Gonzalo were also sent to Naples. However, the bronze cannon was too expensive. One cannon weighs more than 1 ton, and 10 cannons are just over a dozen tons, which is about to cost 1 ton of silver.
What does a ton of silver mean? That's 23,400 gold coins. However, Gonzalo still gritted his teeth and bought it. Although Marin once said that he could borrow it, Gonzalo believed that the Spanish army still needed heavy artillery in the tough battle.
These 10 heavy artillery were all 14 pound caliber, and were specially designed for the Spaniards by the East Friesland Casting Factory. After the design was completed, the blacksmith was arranged to create the corresponding iron mold. Then, the bronze liquid was cast directly according to the procedure.
Iron mold casting cannons are very fast. With a set of molds, you can cast several bronze cannons a day. 10 bronze cannons will be cast in two days.
As for the style of artillery, Marin decided to adopt the French style of artillery and added the gun ears, but Wangshan did not add it. Moreover, he did not get the advanced two-wheeled gun mount. After all, Marin was not willing to give the best things to the Spanish. In Marin's heart, Spain was also his competitor for America.
However, even so, the performance of these artillery is sufficient. Moreover, there is no shortage of artillery soldiers in the Spanish army who are good at aiming and shooting. Because the Spanish army is also equipped with a lot of artillery, but they are all rear-mounted Franchise machine cannons. However, the principle of aiming artillery is still similar. It is also possible to let those artillery soldiers control the Nasi heavy artillery.
After obtaining the artillery, Gonzalo asked the artillery to practice using this heavy artillery, while asking the blacksmith shop to speed up the creation of iron ball shells. After all, once the war begins, the artillery will not stop bombarding the city gates, and the demand for iron ball shells is very high.
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At this time, in the port of Kafa, the 20th boat girl had already loaded the ship. Art stood at the bow of the ship and waved enthusiastically to say goodbye to the robbers of the same enthusiastic Crimean Khanate...
By the way, after Art was detained in the Dardanelles on the west side of the Turkish Strait, the customs clearance documents he carried were sent to Istanbul.
After comparing the letters of the Crimean Khanate, Türkiye's Sultan Bayezid II found that it was indeed a document written by his ally Mongogirekhan.
Because he needed to use the army of the Crimean Khanate to suppress the Ross people on the prairie of Eastern Europe, Bayezid II was very tolerant of the Crimean Khanate. He himself was also a very inclusive sultan.
For example, when the Spanish Kings expelled the Jews, Valjezed II sent a ship to Spain to accept the Jews one by one.
As a monarch with vision, Bayezid II naturally would not offend the Crimea thug. So Bayezid II not only agreed to the fleet to pass the customs, but also signed an official customs clearance document on behalf of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. In this way, the fleet would not have to take out the customs clearance document of Crimea Khan after passing through the Turkish Strait.
However, Bayezid II was not a fool. Although a new customs clearance document was signed, the document also stipulated that the fleet must not exceed 20 ships. Moreover, it must pass through the Istanbul Strait, the easternmost section of the Turkish Strait, accompanied by Turkish warships. Moreover, when the fleet passes, it must sail near the Asian side and not near the Istanbul side.
This regulation is also to prevent anyone from sneaking into the Turkish capital Istanbul. After all, Istanbul City is on the seaside on the European side of the Istanbul Strait.
While passing through the strait, Bayezid II also sent a navigator enthusiastically to guide the fleet to Kafa Port on the Crimean Peninsula. At the same time, Bayezid II also asked the navigator to bring his condolence letter to Mongkogirekhan.
When the fleet arrived at the port of Kafa (Feodocia), it was warmly welcomed by the bearded men of the Crimean Khanate. Although these bearded men were robbers, these bearded men were still very polite when facing customers who were willing to help sell stolen goods.
After all, these Crimean robbers may not be able to use what they stolen. It would be a pity to smash those unused property and slaves into their own hands. Therefore, the Crimeans need a channel to sell stolen people and stolen goods that they cannot use. Therefore, the port of Kafa was born...
This time, the attack on the Principality of Ryazan was so great that the Crimean Khanate could not bear it. Not to mention the piles of wealth, the population alone, the Crimean Khanate robbed as many as 40,000 people.
Among them, there are 20,000 young girls...
About half of the other 20,000 people were boys and girls, and the remaining 10,000 were all young and strong men...
However, in the slave market, the best selling is young women and boys. Needless to mention young women, there are several women in one man. However, there are not so many women in the Arab region alone. Therefore, buying from the Crimean Khanate became an important source of women.
Boys are also very popular because boys under 10 years old will be taken back for a few years to train them, brainwash and practice martial arts every day. Ten years later, these boys will be trained to become elite warriors. This is how the famous Sultan personal soldiers came from.
Moreover, not only Sudan has the habit of cultivating personal soldiers, but also those Turkish Pasha (equivalent to the provincial governor) also have the habit of cultivating some such personal guards. Therefore, in the slave trade of the Crimean Khanate, women and boys are the main force and are the best-selling.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The rest are girls second. The reason is that girls will take several years to grow up. Those buyers have the intention to wait for girls to grow up? It is better to buy ready-made young women and take them back to vent their desires... Of course, there are also perverts who like girls, so they buy girls directly and go back to buy girls and so on...
The most unselling ones are male slaves, including those teenagers. Most of the customers of the Crimean Khanate come from the Arab region, which is most taboo for men with reproductive abilities to invade their homes. Therefore, male slaves are not very popular in the Arab region.
Of course, there are exceptions. That is, Arabs like to castrate male slaves and then put them in their homes with confidence...
In history, the process of selling black slaves began after the rise of the Arab Empire. However, the Arabs were cruel and ruthless, and they caught black male slaves and castrated them directly. In this way, these male slaves had no possibility of cuckolding Arab men.
Moreover, African men have a breakneck of personality, but after castration, their personality becomes gentle and honest. After all, they do not secrete too many hormones in their bodies, so what can they do if they are not honest?
During the Tang Dynasty, Arab merchants once sold black slaves to China, called "Kunlun slaves". These "Kunlun slaves" were actually basically castrated black men. Because they were castrated, these black slaves were honest and obedient, without desires, and were very popular among the nobles of the Tang Dynasty.
Moreover, the Tang Dynasty was open and women were bold and unrestrained. If these strong "Kunlun slaves" were not castrated, many bold and unrestrained women in the Tang Dynasty might have left black cubs. However, it is obvious that there is no such record in history, because those Kunlun slaves were basically castrated, and they would be at ease when putting them in the back house...
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Arte brought 20 galleys, all of which were more than 200 tons. However, each ship was loaded with up to 120 women. Then, the entire fleet would buy the most 2,400 girls at a time.
The Crimeans were obviously not very happy about this. You should know that there were 40,000 people in their slave camp. How many trips would it take to transport 2,400 people every time? And the 40,000 slaves were there, and they consumed a lot of food every day...
There is nothing to do about this, Alter has to do this first...
It seems to be to promote male slaves that are difficult to sell, the Crimean Khanate official said to Arte:
"Mr. Arte, do you want to buy some young and strong male slaves to go back? They are very capable and cheap..."
Arte looked at the Russian men with breast hair, and was very unhappy:
"Haji, I have women on the boat. These women are transported back to be wives for others. You said I brought these big breasted men with me, what if these grandchildren slept on the boat? Let the brothers of our country be the buyers?" After staying with Marin for a long time, Arte also learned the word "taker"...
"Hey, Lord Arte, you don't have to worry about this. Look!" After that, the Crimean official named Haji found several veterinarians...
"What are you doing?" Arte was a little confused.
"Mr. Arte, aren't you worried that these Ross men will sleep with the women on the boat? Let's solve your problem!"
"How to solve it?" Arte was a little confused.
"Of course I'm castrating! The brothers I invited are all good at castrating horses, cattle and sheep. Don't worry, famous veterinarians! Moreover, these male slaves of Ross are treated as gifts we give you!"
While talking, screams came from over there...
"Well, okay, Lord Arte, these men are no longer able to harm the girls on the boat. However, they have to rest for a few months before they can work." Haji said lightly with a calm face, as if he had done something insignificant.
"Ah...uh..." Arte was stunned and took a long time to come back to his senses. Looking at the bloody men below, he asked Haji:
"Haji, don't you treat them with the wound? Just treat them casually?" Arter learned first aid knowledge with Marin, so he naturally knew that the treatment of wounds needed to be disinfected. Even the fleet usually prepared a lot of alcohol and gauze to prevent sailors from getting injured.
"Ah? This... we don't understand. Our veterinarians have always been so rough. Is there anything else to pay attention to?"
Arter looked at the Ross-breasted big men who were still screaming, and felt a little reluctant. So he returned to the cabin, retrieved the medical alcohol and gauze, and asked the doctors who accompanied the boat to help the miserable big men who were suffering from the wounds below.
Seeing the doctor's actions on the boat, Haji was a little surprised:
"Sir Arte, what are your men doing?"
"Disin disinfection. If it is not disinfected, the probability of these people dying is high. If it is disinfected, the probability of them surviving is 90%!"
"What? Ninety percent?" Haji jumped up all of a sudden. For the Crimean Khanate, this was definitely a shocking event.
Why do you say that? The men from the Crimean Khanate captured Ros countries as slaves, and they must be castrated before they can be sold. However, in this era, because of the lack of disinfection measures, and the Crimean Khanate used barbaric veterinarians to help castrate, this also led to the chances of the castrated Ross male slaves who survived. After all, people are not as durable as animals...
In other words, only five or six thousand male slaves captured from Liang Zan this time could survive after being castrated.
If Arte's method can make the castrated male slaves survive 90%, it will bring huge benefits to the Crimean Khanate. Because the castrated male slaves are quite marketable. One more person survives will be more than a few gold coins...
In this way, after learning disinfection methods with Alter's ship doctor, Haji let Alter's fleet leave...
Chapter completed!