The merchants around dispersed and rushed into the venue. Only Mousse and a group of people were left in the square, and they realized.

"Your Excellency, what should I do now?" Dutch business said in a panic.

After Zheng Zhilong fell, the Dutch originally thought that they could take the opportunity to gain maritime hegemony in East Asia, but reality slapped them in the face.

The Netherlands is known as the sea coachman, and what they do is mainly shipping by sea, transporting materials from one place to another, thereby earning the difference.

Now, Huaxing Company has established a Merchant Shipping Company and interfered in maritime shipping, which is to grab the Dutch job.

This made Muss and others realize the seriousness of the matter and the threat Huaxing Company to East India Company.

If Huaxing Company is weak, the Dutch would not care and directly destroy it. However, Huaxing Company has a stronger force than the Dutch Taiwan East India Company, which is enough to make the Dutch feel threatened.

In the West, British royal pirates emerged, challenging the Netherlands' hegemony in the Atlantic Ocean. In the East, another Huaxing company appeared to challenge the interests of the Dutch in the East. The Dutch's face suddenly looked ugly.

The advantage of the Dutch is to master the channels of maritime transportation. Now Huaxing Company has set up a Merchant Shipping Company to participate in maritime transportation, which has completely broken the Dutch's intention to reduce prices.

Zhao Ming glanced at several Dutch people, showed contemptuous smiles on his face, and greeted Li Yuanyin, Ruan Jin, Fang Shiyan, Wu Shengqin, Zheng Lian, and Li Laiheng, who was sent by Longwu, to a closed place at the expo.

This is an exhibition area for military weapons. Ordinary merchants cannot enter. Only representatives sent by the commanders of the Ming army to purchase arms are qualified to enter.

Drugs and arms are the most profitable businesses in the world. Zhao Ming sent a batch of firearms from the Ming army in Huguang. The original intention was to support Huguang's anti-Qing, but unexpectedly, after the Ming army in Huguang was used, his face was still too big and he actually sent someone to ask for it.

Although Zhao Ming supported the anti-Qing Dynasty, he had to consider it for himself and gave him a batch. He had done his best to provide it, so how could I provide it?

Therefore, he simply took support to start a business, so as not to ask for help from the court unconsciously.

At this time, Zhao Ming led a group of generals to an exhibition area, picked up a flintlock musket with oil volume, and said to everyone: "I believe everyone has seen this kind of musket. It has a long range and great power. It does not require ignition. It is limited by the weather, but it has many disadvantages. The main reason is that the ignition rate is not high, only about 50%. "

Zhao Ming handed the musket to several people and said, "Who will give me a try?"

Most of the generals of the Zhejiang Army had seen the muskets of Donghai Town. Li Laiheng from Huguang said: "Duke, I want to give it a try!"

Zhao Ming handed the musket to Li Laiheng, and a soldier brought gunpowder. Zhao Ming introduced: "The manipulation of this musket is basically the same as that of a bird gun, but the ammunition is loaded with a paper tube, which further increases the firing rate of the musket and makes up for the defect of low firing. Of course, if paper tube ammunition is used, the cost will be increased a lot. Our army does not often use this kind of ammunition. Only at critical moments will the paper tube ammunition be used regardless of the cost."

When Zhao Ming spoke, the soldiers explained to Li Laiheng. Li Laiheng had already learned how to use it for a while.

At this time, Li Laiheng stood seventy steps away from the target. After loading, he raised his gun and aimed at the target, then pulled the trigger, and the bar sounded, and the hammer hit the reed. The muzzle suddenly shook, and flames and projectiles spewed out of the muzzle, and the target was beaten to pieces.

Li Laiheng was slightly stunned, then took out the paper-shell ammunition again, bite it on his mouth, bite open one end of the paper bullet with his teeth, poured the lead medicine into the fire door, and then stuffed the gunpowder and lead bullet into the musket mouth. He poked the gunpowder and lead bullet into the mouth three times, stabbed the gunpowder lead bullet, and then inserted the strip back.

With a "bang", the fire broke out, the smoke rose, and another shot shot was shot out.

Li Laiheng shot six shots in a row, and the faster the shots were shot, and the fire was silenced three times in the middle, but the balance rate still exceeded that of the mezzanine. The wooden target in the distance had been completely shattered, showing the armor-breaking ability of the flintlock rifle.

Li Laiheng couldn't put it down and stroked the musket in his hand. He knew that such musket would be no problem to deal with the heavy armor of Manchu soldiers.

On the Huguang battlefield, the extremely poorly equipped Ming army was very passive when facing the well-equipped Eight Banners soldiers of the Sanshun King of the Qing Dynasty. Often three or four soldiers could kill a flag soldier. The Ming army in Huguang fought very fiercely and urgently needed a batch of advanced and easy-to-use firearms.

"It's so sharp!" The generals of the Ming army in Huguang who followed Li Laiheng were stunned and looked incredible.

The Ming army in Huguang was also equipped with a lot of firearms, such as bird guns, three-eyed guns, etc., which were incomparable to the flintlock guns in front of them. Each one had such power.

"Duke, how much does this flintlock gun cost?" After a long time, Li Laiheng said, still looking at the musket in his hand carefully.

Zhao Ming smiled and said, "The flintlock rifle is eight taels per shot. If it is equipped with thirty fixed-load paper bullets, it will cost ten taels."

"So expensive?" Li Laiheng took a breath. The cost of a bird gun was only about one or five cents of silver, and eight or one was several times more expensive.

Zhao Ming said: "The difficulty in creating flintlock rifles is already the cost price. If the Ming army in Huguang feels that flintlock rifles are too expensive, we can also build bird guns for you to ensure that the quality is far greater than your bird guns, and only charges one or two or three coins per pole."

Li Laiheng couldn't put it down and stroked the flintlock rifle, gritted his teeth and said, "Duke, Zhongzhen Camp requires one thousand flintlock rifles and five thousand bird guns!"

Seeing that Li Laiheng made an order, the generals of Zhejiang were immediately anxious. Li Yuanyin said: "Duke, our Wuyi army needs three thousand flintlock spears."

The alchemist said: "Duke, the Wuwei Army wants two thousand flintlock guns."

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Zhao Ming smiled and said, "Don't worry, everyone, there are good things behind it! The output of this musket is very limited, and it may not be produced for a while after placing an order."

At that moment, Zhao Ming led everyone to test-fire field bronze cannons and throw grenades, and also obtained good orders.

In the firearm exhibition area, Donghai Town received at least 500,000 taels of firearm orders, and the harvest was extremely rich.

At the same time, in other product exhibition areas, the Dutch's faces were already green.

Because the emergence of China Merchants Shipping Company also came into being an insurance business. As long as the merchant invested a small amount of money, the goods were sailing on the sea. If there were any losses, Huaxing Insurance Company would fully compensate the merchants for the losses. Merchants from all over the country would no longer be scrupled and rushed to buy goods in the exhibition area.

In the cloth exhibition area, Cheng Bi was already crowded with people. At the beginning of the bidding, it exceeded one or two taels given by the Dutch, and was raised to two taels by the Spanish and Portuguese. In the end, the Dutch had to eat tens of thousands of pieces at about three taels, which was twice as much as the price quoted by Huaxing Company to the Dutch.

A few days later, the Taiwan East India Company Review Council held a general meeting in Chikan City.

Acting Governor of Taiwan, Furbor, read the resolution of the conference in a deep voice, "Gentlemen, the company suffered huge losses due to the policy mistakes of Governor Ovat and senior business mousse. Due to the policy mistakes, Huaxing Company established its own China Merchants Shipping Company to compete with the company in the Far East. The Council decided to remove the two positions and prepare to compete with China Merchants Shipping Company, squeezed China Merchants Shipping Company, and made the company firmly grasp the transportation business of Far East Trade."
Chapter completed!