This is the most difficult example, although countless people are talking about what a large amount of gold and silver entered China through trade, and the colonists only worked for the Chinese, but the fate is different, and the final destination of those gold is basically the fire kang cave of the rich people, or all kinds of strange garden pleasures.

And after these funds returned to Europe, although there are also people like Spain who save to eat, drink and have fun, but most countries are more inclined to upgrade science and technology due to the pressure of the war.

Li Xiangqian needs to do too much, he has a lot of calculations, and he has already seen that the British have embarked on a healthy path of development, even if Cromwell, the anti-thief, is perverse and angry, but it is also in line with the collective will of the British people, and from then on, the interests of the British government and the interests of the British people have been tied together, and for so many years, in addition to facing Hitler's chicken feathers and duck blood, in the face of other foreign enemies, they are basically in a crushing state.

That being the case, he really didn't mind pushing the Dutch and Great Britain to fight more violently in the coming years.

Of course, he still has to look slowly, after all, the two sides will have to fight for many more years, the real world's first global war, entangled in colonies all over the world, of course, the Dutch are congenitally deficient in geographical location, and the sea routes in and out are blocked by the British, so that the Dutch spend too much resources on escort, far less professional than the British warships, and the East India Company's silver ships are constantly attacked, and even the fishing ships are clamped, which is the main reason for the failure of the Dutch.

Of course, I have to say that Cromwell is worthy of being the Napoleon of Britain, and all kinds of strategies can be dealt with, although he is corrupt and cannot deal with the royalists internally, but the foreign war is really beautiful.

Therefore, on the issue of whether to aid the Netherlands, there is also some quarrel within the Presbyterian Church, especially in the context of the sudden appearance of the Presbyterian Church, these colonists are all human spirits, what if the two sides suddenly stop fighting, what if they pay special attention to the Presbyterian Church?

Selling weapons at both ends and consuming the national strength of the other two sides through the speed of weapon delivery is basically the biggest dream of an industrial country, which is a dream that New China has not achieved for decades, but it is possible to be realized by these crews in this new time and space, of course, this is a university question.

Just as the Americans could predict the time of Japan's invasion of China, send a large number of observers within both sides, carefully calculate the combat strength of both sides, and cut off the window for arms sales to Japan until they feel that it is time, and force the Japanese to either declare war on the United States or announce the withdrawal of their troops.

But it is too far away from Europe, and there are too many variables in the middle, and now, Li Xiangqian is just taking a preventive shot.

However, his act of releasing the goods was desperately praised by the merchants, and no one dared to say anything out of tune at this time, in case these native generals repented, wouldn't they be deflated, and they all planned to leave after completing this vote.

However, in order to make these Westerners remember for a long time, by the way, they bought time for the development of the Taiwan city government, which was still in its infancy, no, before leaving, these Dutch businessmen were also brought in to watch the "cannon" activities.

This is a real artillery, a 100mm mortar, with a range of three kilometers, of course, these data will not be told to Yu Yi, Li Xiangqian will only hand him a quotation, and the price is of course dead expensive.

"Governor Yi, you're worried that you won't be able to explain when you go back to Batavia, right, come on, try my weapons, and you can prevaricate."

Historically, Kuiyi resisted Zheng Chenggong for a whole year, and had to surrender in isolation, and then Kuiyi was directly locked up by the East India Company, and now, the city was taken in one day, and so many people died, with the help of these merchants, Kuiyi had to shed his skin if he didn't die, but for Li Xiangqian, a person who was alive but feared in his own heart was the most roaring.

Wearing earmuffs on his ears, barely protecting his ears, looking at this thing like an artifact, the cannons of this era are basically thousands of pounds, the bigger the cannon, it means that it can be filled with more gunpowder and cannonballs, and the cannonballs can be transported to the target through the explosive power of gunpowder, but such a small cannon, Yuyi is very suspicious, when he is young, he can carry it, and then carry it and run on the deck or on the ground.

However, the cannonballs fired out are so powerful, at first, Yu Yi still suspected that this was a scare to people, nothing more than to plant explosives in the ground at the same time, launch cannonballs, the moment the cannonballs landed, detonate the explosives, in this time when the hot weapons are not so powerful, how to scare the natives to cooperate with them, this trick is the favorite routine of these colonists like Sun Tzu.

However, after all, he was a veteran, and he soon found out that something was wrong, planting explosives, how could he blow them up after they were blown up, and the huge energy impact caused by those launches was not fake.

He even arranged for a person to shoot a target, the mortar is not complicated to operate, the difficulty has always been how to aim, Li Xiangqian personally demonstrated to him, and then stood beside him, hand in hand to watch the shell into the mortar.

Li Xiangqian felt that he had returned to the time when he had just gone to lead the recruits, in order to train the soldiers' courage and teach them to throw grenades for the first time.

At such a moment, it is necessary for the poor old squad leader to look at the child like an old hen guarding a calf, and not let him have an accident.

As soon as he watched the cannonballs fly out, his eyes were on fire, he was actually defeated by such a weapon, it was simply terrifying, and what he wondered the most before was that the artillery that could emit such a cannonball, at least weighed a thousand catties, why could it break through so close to the outside of the city.

Now, everything is clear, such a small cannon, an adult man can carry it, (15 kg) then it is logical that his side will be beaten.

That's too much of a bully!

Thinking of this, the sacrificed soldiers are really too wronged.

Of course, the eyes of the one became more and more greedy.

"What do you mean, you're going to sell this cannon to us?"

Li Xiangqian nodded again and again, and said: "I still have a good impression of the Netherlands, if you like it, you can buy a little more, how about buying a squadron first?" ”

He frowned and said, "How much is that?" ”

"Ah, a mortar is about 1,000 taels of silver, and a shell is cheap, five taels is enough, so how much are you going to buy?"

When he heard this, he even thought that he had heard it wrong, and his voice almost changed to a female voice, and he said, "What! That's impossible. ”

Li Xiangqian said: "We can send a batch of maintenance kits, the quality is very good, of course, this weapon is obviously impossible to fight us, I hope the East India Company itself to think clearly, with our weapons, how can it defeat us." ”

With a trembling hand, he said, "With such a little steel, a maximum of 5 taels is enough." ”

"That's right, that's right," Li Xiangqian smiled, adapting to the position of profiteer very well, "In our hometown, there is a saying that these steels are worth one dollar, and how to configure these steels, which are worth ninety-nine yuan, you don't know, to make this thing, to build a blast furnace, to feed many engineers, and to spend money to transport it here, it is worth the old nose money." ”

Yuyi's face was not good, and he said, "This is blackmail." ”

Li Xiangqian shrugged his shoulders and said: "Brother, you have a big problem now, it's very big, you have lost a good place to make money every day, and it was lost in one day, if you can't give the company an explanation, then it's not a matter of money, well, I have the impression that your company, the East India Company has always been a posture that no matter how much hard work you have made, you really use it and throw it away, this is very bad, the prison is waiting for you." ”

Yu Yi's face was solemn, and he said: "But I can't explain this price to the company." ”

Li Xiangqian said slowly: "Just arrange an artillery salvo for them, as for the price, well, if you arrange some rebates, how much do you think is appropriate." ”

Legal corruption is a science, and it is obvious that the Presbyterian Church, which has been ahead of the natives of the New Time and Space for hundreds of years, can even renovate corruption.

With a cold face, he said, "I need to think about it." ”

Li Xiangqian said: "Then you have to do it as soon as possible, if you are the first to return to Batavia, then you can control public opinion by yourself, use the trade agreement, and the weapons I sold you as a way to excuse yourself, but once you take down the merchant I released and go back first, you will become"

The scapegoat, with a shudder, gave in.

According to the standards of the Presbyterian Church, the Sino-Dutch Taiwan Treaty can be called a loss of power and humiliation of the country, it is really undecent, it is obviously China's own territory, occupied by these foreign devils, after the Presbyterian Council is defeated, one will not slaughter the city, the other will not loot, and even the goods will be returned, and the property of the Governor's Palace, including cash and the entire city, will be valued for arms.

Who won the battle, and how did the first generation of elders lose their power and humiliate the country?

These things were constantly pulled out and criticized in later generations, but in Li Xiangqian's view at this time, this is a good thing, a good thing that can't be found with a lantern.

"Anyway, is it really so profitable to sell arms?"

"Think about it yourself, Europe before the end of the world, working 6 hours a day, guaranteed more than 150 days of vacation every year, men also have maternity leave, if there are not arms and other good profits that can feed tens of millions of people, how can it be maintained, especially the sale of weapons on both sides, it's just, by the way, who has a way to contact the British, we have to try to do it, the British and Dutch come to buy arms, live in the same hotel, let them be against the wall."

Zhao Jiaren: "I'm more worried about being copied, in this era, Europe is also capable of producing people, we have to guard against it." ”

Li Xiangqian: "Reverse technology is definitely the king of industrial countries, get the enemy's equipment in hand, disassemble, try to imitate, how can the average country do, our mortars seem to be low-cost, but in the science and technology tree, there are many seemingly simple, in fact very terrible technology, if it is dismantled can be imitated, then let's just go home, do not compete with these monsters for the earth, in fact, the level of science and technology, look at one thing, measuring tools." ”

Zhao Jiaren: "Ruler? ”

Li Xiangqian: "Although our optical instruments are not military versions, they can also support nano-level manufacturing, and in their time, they don't even have microscopes, uh, maybe they're already lying on their stomachs in a laboratory?" At most, it is the centimeter level, you say that they can imitate mortars, the parts are unified first, and the materials are figured out first! ”

Zhao Jiaren: "Profiteer." ”

Li Xiangqian was not angry about this, and he didn't care too much, selling weapons to Yu Yi was also a risk in itself, if the Dutch who got these weapons suddenly became stupid, it would be a trouble, of course, the Dutch who could not mass-produce shells, as long as they ran out of shells, the artillery guns would become burning sticks.

As for imitation shells, well, you can play with them in a hundred years, count your skills.

However, Li Xiangqian also understands why those marshals were so bad in the later Republic of China, you know, in my era of the Qing Dynasty, the imported foreign artillery was quite standard, but when it came to the time of the civil ** valve melee, a shell was so expensive, it was really better to drive the cannon fodder and rush up directly, and the army's artillery skills actually degraded continuously, which really made people have to smile bitterly.

Can you not smile bitterly, five taels of silver for a shell, and the production cost is almost none, at this point in time when a dozen taels of silver can feed a family, it is indeed a little expensive, it can be said that it is impossible for any army to open up training artillery, because it is too expensive.

No one knows, how this Jiang rewrites the prelude to future naval warfare, the range of the mortar is only three kilometers, the accuracy is not enough, it is obviously used for land warfare, and naval warfare still needs real artillery giant ships.

The new warship with indicators is still being studied in Qinhuangdao, after all, none of the elders have ever played with the ship, but the general idea is still sails, composite materials, as for the cannon, it is even more difficult, and can only be explored slowly, after all, no one has brought a sample of the old warship to play through, and the specific plan still has to obey those engineering men, but once the shipbuilding power is deployed, the era of shipbuilding strength, which originally occupied half of the world, is reappeared, it is not a small fight that can be played, Although the Council of Elders has chosen to choose both land and sea power, it is still indicative enough for the future.

Since the Crimean War, the real modern war has basically relied on the railway line as the combat radius, and the British who built roads while fighting the war really couldn't imagine what kind of spell they had opened.

(End of chapter)

(Tianjin)