Qi Xiaobai just nodded, he didn't believe that this thing could restrain the cavalry, of course, if it was a late musket, it might be possible, but this was an early musket after all.

"I'll take this thing!" Qi Xiaobai said to Wang Zhi, and then Wang Zhi handed the design of the arquebus to Qi Xiaobai.

Then Qi Xiaobai gave Zhang Tianshang: "Give this to the craftsmen and see if they can improve this arquebus!" ”

Qi Xiaobai didn't have much hope to improve this arquebus, after all, it had been five or six hundred years from the existence of muskets to the battlefield dominated by muskets......

"This time the little one came to meet the father, in fact, there is one more thing!" Wang Zhi said to Qi Xiaobai.

Qi Xiaobai nodded, he actually guessed that this king came to see him, it was impossible to just come to give gifts, after all, there is an old saying that is very correct, nothing will go to the Three Treasures Palace!

"Then let's go in and talk!" Qi Xiaobai said to Wang Zhi.

Wang Zhi nodded, and then followed Qi Xiaobai into the study of Qi Palace, and then Wang Zhi handed Qi Xiaobai a piece of paper!

Qi Xiaobai opened it and glanced at it: "This is the map?" "Wang Zhi gave Qi Xiaobai a map of the world.

In fact, after ascending to the position of the Duke of Qi, Qi Xiaobai has also seen the world map, but those maps are not as accurate as those given by Wang Zhi.

"This is the latest version of the world map so far!" Wang Zhi said to Qi Xiaobai.

Qi Xiaobai looked at Wang Zhi and asked, "What do you mean by this?" Qi Xiaobai was curious about what this king was doing when he gave him a map of the world.

"Your Majesty, have you ever thought about developing a navy and going to the world to compete for sea power?" Wang looked at Qi Xiaobai and said.

Qi Xiaobai was stunned, Qi Xiaobai wanted to think about this, but now the ability of this Qi country does not allow Qi Xiaobai to think about this.

This Qi country is not a complete island country that can go all out to develop its navy, but a peninsula country, although it is close to the sea, but there are strong land enemies outside.

"There are only three sea powers in the world, one is Britain, and the other is the prince of the Roman Empire, the king of Spain and the Netherlands......" Wang Zhi wanted to say it, but was interrupted by Qi Xiaobai: "The current Qi country is not allowed to develop a navy at all!" ”

"But now in the entire Zhou Empire, only the Qi State has the ability to develop a navy!" Wang Zhi said to Qi Xiaobai.

In fact, the Zhou Empire originally had two navies, one was the Qi Navy and the other was the Wu Navy, and then the Wu State was destroyed, and there was only the Qi Navy, but the strong enemy on land made the Qi State realize that the Navy was just a chicken and a drag oil bottle, and the navy's military spending had been reduced.

"Now there are three maritime powers in the world, and they have developed for hundreds of years, but I have seen this history of Britain's sea power for hundreds of years, what do we Qi take to fight for others?"

"Your Majesty, the current Britain is no longer the Britain of the past, and Spain is not the Spain of the past, Britain is involved in the battle for the throne with France, which has been going on for eighty years, and the eighty years of war have made Britain's national strength from the peak to the third rate, and there is no actual control of the overseas territory, and although the Kingdom of Spain has a huge overseas territory, the territory has broken out a civil war with him, and it has been thirty years since the fight, and the national strength has also declined significantly, Now there is only the Netherlands in the maritime country, but the Netherlands are similar to the Song Kingdom, although they have a large fleet, they are all converted from merchant ships, and the army is not a ...... for the country," Wang Zhiwei Qi Xiaobai introduced.

Although Wang Zhi told Qi Xiaobai that this era is indeed suitable for fighting for sea power, but the national strength and national conditions of Qi do not allow it!

Then Wang Zhi pointed to the black dots on these maps: "Gong, these black dots are all uncivilized lands, and they are easy to occupy!" ”

"I know what you mean, but the national conditions and national strength of the Qi country do not allow it!" Listening to Wang Zhi, if Qi State steps on sea power at this time, it can indeed become a maritime power, and even create an empire on which the sun never sets, but unfortunately Qi is not an island country, and there are strong land enemies outside, so it is impossible to step into the field of sea power at all.

"Gong, in fact, you only need to give me 10,000 gold every year, although I can't plunder the territory of these sea power countries, but I can still colonize these uncivilized lands!" Wang Zhi said to Qi Xiaobai.

Qi Xiaobai did not refuse Wang Zhi at this time, and gave 10,000 gold a year, which was actually quite cost-effective to expand overseas territories.

"Gong, you give me 10,000 gold every year, and I will repay you 1 million gold every year!" Wang Zhi said to Qi Xiaobai.

Qi Xiaobai was not vetoing at this time, 10,000 gold is not much for Qi Guo, if you invest 10,000 gold to give a return of one million gold, this is definitely a very cost-effective deal.

"Gong, you look at the black areas on the map, these are all uncivilized lands, these lands have very scarce minerals, if we occupy these places, to dig these mines, it can bring us very high returns!" Wang Zhi said to Qi Xiaobai.

Now the world's maritime powers are all at war, except for the Netherlands, there is no energy to occupy the outside overseas territories, but the Netherlands and the Song Dynasty have similar national conditions, they only focus on trade, for the occupation of areas, mining other people's mining areas, there is no such idea.

Otherwise, when Britain and France were at war for decades, and Spain was fighting overseas territories, the Netherlands might have already occupied the black areas of the world.

In fact, it's not that the Netherlands doesn't want to occupy it, it's that the Netherlands doesn't allow it, because they are merchants and parliaments governing the country, there is no unified army, every merchant has an army in his hands, and together they are the Dutch navy, if you occupy this place today, other merchants want to do the same, and war will break out and consume the national strength of the Netherlands.

So the Dutch merchants agreed not to mine and only to trade in the world, but even to do only world trade made them very profitable.

"If it's only the cost of 10,000 gold, I think you Wang Zhi can do it alone, right?" Qi Xiaobai looked at Wang Zhi and said.

"This is inevitable, in fact, I want to use the banner of the Qi State to be precise, the banner of the Zhou Empire, and the power to recruit troops in the Qi State!" Wang Zhi said to Qi Xiaobai.

If Wang Zhi is alone, it is easy to be robbed by other countries, but if there is a country as a backer, it is different, and when you meet the fleets of other countries outside, the other party has to weigh it!

Of course, Qi is only a vassal state and has no influence in the world, but the mother country of Qi is the Zhou Empire, and the Zhou Empire enjoys a good reputation in the world, borrowing the flag of Qi and using the flag of the Zhou Empire overseas.

Although the Zhou Empire declined internally, the princes fought against each other, but each prince took it out, it was a small power, when encountering foreign invasions, these princes would still put aside their hatred and unite, after all, these are all brother countries, everyone has the same ancestry, and therefore the Zhou Empire still enjoys a reputation outside......

"It's okay to recruit troops, but I only allow you to recruit up to 10,000 people!" Qi Xiaobai said.

This is also to prevent this king from recruiting troops and horses, and when he is strong, he is threatening his throne.

"That's enough!" Wang Zhi said to Qi Xiaobai.