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Chapter 283 Never bargain

The fishing net was dragged up little by little by little by little by little by foot, and the big prawns, one foot long, were unwilling to be captured and struggled in the fish compartment.

Captain Lodge found two prawns one and a half feet long from it and said to him: "Fry these two with lemons and send them to me tonight."

"I'm so happy. Make these two for me and steam them." Jin Sanduo also jumped into two big prawns, which were not as big as the captain, but were also very fat.

The captain has absolute authority on a boat, and it is certain to have a meal alone. Jin Sanduo's identity is also different, and he can barely enjoy a little high treatment. As for the others, everyone served the big pot of rice. After all, many immigrants were added to the kitchen staff, and the master who took the spoon in Lushan was not so idle.

In this era, marine resources are extremely rich, but humans lack the means to fish large amounts of seafood out of the sea. Of course, the Lushan No. 3 is not included. For the Lushan No. 3, which can be salvaged mechanically, it is to catch whatever you want. The Lushan No. 3 can also be located with sonar in the fish that others cannot find. Moreover, the Lushan No. 3 chemical fiber fishing net is extremely sturdy and the standby fishing net is enough for the Lushan No. 3 to fish for decades, and it does not take three days to dry the net.

The fish cabin is covered with ice cubes to store the catch - using almost unlimited electricity to make ice is also the source of fresh water for the Lushan. This is also one of the basis of ocean navigation. The supply of fresh water alone can allow countless heroes on the sea to sail along the coast for most of the time.

But these fish catches were not all prepared to eat by Lushan, but wanted to sell most of them to Mao Wenlong on Pidao at an extremely low price. What Mao Wenlong had to do was to build some large ice cellars to store these catches.

Like the historical trend, from this winter, Mao Wenlong from Dongjiang Town was cut off from food and salary by Yuan Chonghuan and Yuan Supervisor Yuan. Although Mao Wenlong has been recruiting refugees to develop Dongjiang Town for several years, most of the Dongjiang Town is deserted island terrain, and now it is the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty, and the grain produced is far from enough to feed the millions of soldiers and civilians in Dongzhenjiang.

Last time, when Lushan passed by, it sold hundreds of tons of grain to Pidao, but for Dongjiang Town, which is a million-dollar base, it is just one or two days of food. Of course, the grain bought by Mao Wenlong must be given to tens of thousands of soldiers in Dongjiang Town. However, judging from the grain and grass stored in Dongjiang Town, it is afraid that there will be a shortage of grain in the beginning of next spring. Since its establishment, Dongjiang Town has relied on the supply and supply of the navy from Weihai, Shandong.

After coming to Lushan, he left Nagasaki and went to Dongjiang Town for trade, Pidao's deputy general Chen Jisheng asked the seamen of Lushan for food and grass. There were a lot of Vietnamese rice on the ship, which was evenly matched with Pidao for 1,000 tons. Chen Jisheng still said it was not enough, but if there were more immigrants on the ship, he would have to buy them high-priced rice from Ming Dynasty for them - this is something that the travelers who started their business could not bear.

The captain Luo Jie was open-minded. Isn’t it just a food? There are so many in the sea. Not to mention feeding millions of people, no matter how many it is, it’s nothing. If you go online, you can get at least tens of thousands to tens of thousands of kilograms of fishing. As long as you store ice cubes properly, it’s okay to put them in summer.

But selling fish is not a high-profit business for Lushan, and the price of fish cannot be afforded in the 17th century. Even in the era when Lushan came, the small-hole fishing nets and refrigerated trucks were banned, and the launch of civil flights in various provinces and cities was launched in large numbers - otherwise inland provinces could only eat dried sea fish. That thing tasted strange to people in inland provinces. Not everyone would want to eat it. There was no way for more people to like freshwater fish. There was no way to eat it. Sichuan cuisine has no seafood. Why? It’s not because there is no concept of seafood at all.

In just a few days, the Lushan Island caught millions of fishing catches on Pi Island, and stopped until several ice cellars built on Pi Island were filled. At the same time, the Lushan Island Island also agreed to catch more fishing catches and some Vietnamese rice for Pi Island, which has built more ice cellars next time.

The Lushan No. 1 is naturally not small, so I won’t talk about ginseng and bronze ware. Tiger skins and bear skins that were not taken out in Dongjiang Town last time are all good things. But this time, Pidao did not buy arms, which made the military team’s personnel not so happy. During this period, many steel guns and cannons have been built.

Given the sluggish arms market in Pidao, Jin Sanduo naturally used these weapons to train the troops. Now, with the addition of a large amount of fresh blood, the warrior iron artillery team has reached a scale of nearly a thousand. This can be regarded as a small regiment or reinforced battalion. Everyone cannot use the 1628 rifle. It is also appropriate for one reinforced battalion to be equipped with a gun company.

Jin Sanduo, the direct commander, divided the warrior iron artillery team into four companies, each with four platoons, each with four squad, and each squad was organized with twelve people, including the chief and deputy squad leader. One company, 200 people, including the health liaison officer, and 800 people in a battalion. For the remaining more than 100 people, Jin Sanduo was preparing to establish an artillery battalion. Although some of the Lushan companions opposed this, they finally passed. After all, if this army was going to go to Ming or Manila in the future, it would not be overwhelmed by the enemy's artillery. What's wrong with the war that cannot fight back? It would be strange if this didn't collapse.

At the meeting, many people have explained the purpose of this group of warrior iron artillery teams - they can only be cannon fodder in the hands of the crowd. You can't just travel through the crowd. How is it possible to win the world by 500 people? Look at the meaning of the iron army, I have given up on the idea of ​​immigrating to the next generation of Ming Dynasty soldiers who were transformed into 2000. This Japanese warrior is cheap and easy to use, but if you come, you can fight without them. Except for the average height of this warrior iron artillery team, everything looks good.

According to Jin Sanduo's opinion, each platoon must have a Big Tiger Cannon as a firepower suppression weapon for the troops, and each company must have a Red Barbarian Cannon as a field siege weapon. This requirement is really not high, and it was passed quickly at the meeting. With this kind of firepower, you can fight even if you face ten times the cavalry. Didn't the Tartars often say that slaves are invincible if they are not satisfied, and they will be invincible when the warrior iron cannon team is trained and they will be dealt with.

However, in order to limit the strength of the warrior iron artillery team, the number of warrior iron artillery teams has also been stipulated. For a short-term goal, no more than one brigade - a limit of eight thousand people - everyone believes that this number is enough to deal with the Eight Banners of the Tuqing, and at the same time, the total number of Red and Yi steel cannons shall not exceed fifty.

For Jin Sanduo, the commander of this unit, it is already a long way to be the major general brigade commander of the Australian Republic.

This adaptation also had a great impact on the warrior iron artillery team. Many people have become low-level officers from soldiers or squad leaders at once. The salary and treatment will naturally increase after the positions are improved. The troops all over the world are the same. This officer is temporarily limited to platoon leader or deputy company commanders. Five company commanders, including the artillery company, are all served by the Lushan crossing crew. This is a matter of personnel. In addition, these people have made rapid progress in Chinese speaking over the past few days. The first period can basically understand the orders given by Chinese under the education of Jin Sanduo.

The fastest person in Chinese was promoted and low-level officers or sergeants who had assisted training. These fellow tribes who learned Chinese under stick education were even more rude to the fellow tribe. They even kicked when they heard someone in the army talking in Japanese - and then told him that even whispers and dreams would be spoken in Chinese.

The Lushan ship came out of Pi Island and went to Tianjin Wei. The last time I left a sample of goods, I would of course go to see if the court responded this time. Of course, the more immigrants, the better. Although the military households cannot be a soldier, they are still qualified for basic labor. The people of the Ming Dynasty were also hard-working, and it doesn't matter if they were lazy or cause trouble. They just drove out of the Youth City. At that time, facing hundreds of thousands of uncivilized natives, the final result would be about death. In short, it would not be so easy to get back on the Lushan ship.

The Ming government did not have any way to casting the steel cannons. They never understood why such a thin gun barrel wall was not blown up. This was not possible with the Ming Dynasty's artillery experts Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua. As for the cost of casting the red cannons with 100 steel, it was not cost-effective, and there was no need for experiments. It would take a long time for a blacksmith to bring a 100 steel.

In this case, the cold weapons used by the generals were not enough to use enough to process the blades. Moreover, the casting cannons requires thousands or hundreds of kilograms of material at a time - and the scrap rate is also a problem. Take the Red Cannon for example. It is enough to cast ten or two at a time. Moreover, the inner wall of this Australian steel cannon is as smooth as a mirror, and even the Folang Ji people can't do it. This made the Ming Dynasty craftsmen who studied making cannons sad - it's not that we can't do it, but that the master can't do it. If the master has a bottle of water, we can learn a cup of water, but the Folang Ji master obviously only has one cup of water, and only a few drops left after learning us.

In this era, steel can only be considered steel after being refined into steel. Steel is poured and fried into steel, etc. are all pseudo-steel. It is not as easy as Lushan. After using an electric furnace to transform cast iron into a molten iron, it can remove part of the carbon and add various proportions of metals to obtain alloy steel with higher strength than Steel. The pressure can withstand more than ten or twenty times that of pig iron. In this regard, the steelmaking technology of the Ming Dynasty could not catch up.

This time, the Ming government sent Tianjin Wei to negotiate in addition to the newly-democratic contributions, Eunuch Li also had a head of the Ministry of War. This head of the Ministry of War was probably because the Tian Dynasty was too arrogant. After getting on the Lushan Hu, he had to buy gun craftsmen, steelmaking craftsmen and related equipment from the Lushan Hu.

How could the hens who had put a golden egg be sold? Besides, the people in the key positions of the military industry team were made by the time travelers. It seems that no one wants to go to this feudal dynasty to bow three times and knock on the feudal emperors three times and nine times.

"Hahahahaha" Jin Sanduo, who was in charge of the negotiation, laughed and said: "Have your country ever sold these tea seeds and the chef who stir-fried tea and grew tea?"

The headmaster Li said, "That's not the case."

Jin Sanduo asked again: "Have the craftsman who made porcelain in the official kiln ever sold it?"

"The porcelain from the official kiln can only be used by the royal family, so how can it be sold?"

Jin Sanduo slapped the table: "Zhonga, that's the reason. Your key craftsmen don't sell them, so why should we buy our craftsmen? You don't often say that the great things in the Heavenly Kingdom are, and since there are samples, just imitate them. Don't say you haven't tried them."

Master Li didn't want to admit that there were some things that could not be copied in this dynasty. In fact, from the last bullets and the steel cannons this time, all the craftsmen in the Beijing camp shook their heads. However, those that could be copied, such as the 1628 fast gun, were not as good as Australian goods in terms of quality - but Australian goods were too expensive, and muskets costing a few taels of silver were sold for dozens of taels of silver. How many bird guns or Lumi guns could be made with this amount of money?

Commander Li changed the topic: "Come to the Ming Dynasty, I can be an official."

"Not rare. We Australians have our own pride. We didn't set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty, and we didn't have to kneel down even if we met your emperor. Being a small official, especially a small official in the capital, I don't know how many times a day. Those who kneel over and over, the pride in people's hearts will be erased." Everyone who travels through time knows that since Chongzhen came to power, the Ming Dynasty has begun to count down. Whoever is willing to be an official at the Ming Dynasty at this time is afraid that the official fans are not so stupid.

Master Li thought it would be better not to discuss this topic. But now the court really needs this Australian cannon. Although the officials of the Ming Dynasty all came from eight-part essays, they had not made them stupid even if they read. The cannons weighing hundreds of pounds have the power of cannons weighing thousands of pounds. Just think about it and you will know what this means.

The people of the Ming Dynasty knew that these thousands of kilograms of red cannons were used for attack, but a few thousand kilograms of red cannons had to use more than a dozen cows to pull them with such heavy equipment to attack the city. I am afraid that if I can't keep up with the large troops on the road, the enemy's cavalry will be destroyed - so it is still used to defend the city, while a few hundred kilograms of Australian cannons can only be pulled by a mule. This cannon can attack the city in a field and defend the city in any way.

At this time, Eunuch Li spoke: "Please reduce the price for our sake."

Jin Sanduo said: "What's your face? Do you know that there is no real money or silver stuttering. We just don't want to sell them so much. After all, we are also Chinese people."

Master Li said angrily: "Since he is a Chinese citizen, how can he sell this cannon to Japan?"

Jin Sanduo: "Hey. We have been there in Guangdong. The Ming Dynasty not only sold a lot of good things to foreigners every year, but also rented the land to Folang Jiren. It only costs 100 taels of silver a year, which is really cheap."

Master Li said: "How can this be the same? Westerners only buy raw silk, porcelain, silk, tea, sugar and so on. What you sell is firearms, but they are still very powerful firearms. You are tying the enemy and selling the country."

Jin Sanduo said: "You think selling raw silk, silk, tea, sugar, and tatami is not a country. The south was originally a grain-producing place, but in recent years, the great farmland in the south has been planted with mulberry trees, rushes, sugar cane, tea trees and tobacco. I don't need to say this principle when the grain price was decades ago, and now the grain price is.

In fact, everyone understands this principle, but the officials and businessmen who operate these industries are all officials and businessmen. Not to mention indirectly selling the country, there are many people who directly cooperate with the enemy and sell the country like the eight major merchants in Shanxi. Moreover, these people are very resistant to paying commercial taxes, and the countries that have made them do not get any benefits in this transaction. The so-called "the germination of capitalism in the late Ming Dynasty was also a main reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, there were two lakes and the world's most mature ones. Now, a large number of cash crops have been planted in the two lakes and Huguang areas, and even import grain from other provinces. No matter how mature it is, it is useless. In addition, the natural disasters in the north are constantly increasing, the larger the gap in the grain, the price of grain in the late Ming Dynasty was one price per year.

Master Li felt that he was really not his opponent. If he continued to talk about the topic, there would probably be a large number of people in the court who would see how he died. Many things are known, but they know that they are the same thing. Even if the emperor knew, no one dared to change it. Zhang Juzheng's fate was not enough. His old mother and a group of family members were starved to death in the mansion after Zhang Juzheng's death. Those who were lucky enough to starve to death were exiled.

Isn't it because Zhang Juzheng proposed that officials and gentry should pay food together? The amount of food they received was actually just a drop in the bucket for the landlords and the official class. However, when everyone was asked to take out this little money to support the country, they were also cruel to death by the landlords and merchants in the Ming Dynasty - because before Zhang Juzheng's reform, they really didn't get a drop in the pen.

To a certain extent, it was because of Zhang Juzheng's demise that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed. Otherwise, as long as the policy of collecting food with officials and gentry was implemented, the court would raise as many soldiers and horses as they wanted to raise, and to the dissatisfied nomadic peoples who wanted to fight. The border troops at the end of the Ming Dynasty mutiny again and again, but they were all caused by the court's lack of money and food.

As for the problem of deducting food and wages, it could not be solved during the reign of Zhang Juzheng. Not to mention that Zhang Juzheng even if the Ming Taizu peeled skin and added grass and carried out red terrorist activities on the official class, it did not solve this problem. During the Ming Taizu period, there were almost all cases of Jinshi killing due to corruption. The remaining few living people were exiled. The capital of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty was low. After all, there was still a clearer time and no fish was found.

In the end, Master Li also softened his affairs and just asked for a cheaper one.

By the way, the time travelers of the Lushan roamed the Lushan roamed the price they sold. Historical records all record that the Ming Dynasty bought a Portuguese red cannon for 1,000 taels of silver. Our steel cannons will definitely not be worse than the red cannon, and they have a very advantageous weight. It would be very worthy of selling a few hundred taels.

However, in the eyes of many Ming Dynasty officials, the Flang machine red cannons worth only 1,000 taels of silver with a few thousand kilograms of Flang machine - that's so heavy, and the visual effect is also heavy. Isn't it a bit darker for your Australian cannons worth 1,000 taels?

Finally, the Lushan clenched his teeth and refused to bargain. Those who had already inquired about the price of 100 steel making in the Ming Dynasty knew that although the 100 steel making in the Ming Dynasty was not as expensive as that of North Korea, buying 200 steel making in one tael of silver was not very cheap. The total amount of these 120 kilograms of steel making in the Ming Dynasty was more than 144 kilograms of 2300 taels, which was melted in steel, and the value was at least about 1,150 taels of silver.
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