Compared with Comrade Juan's unfortunate experience, the other two were much luckier.

Carl von Franz was a Dutchman, but he was a long-time wanderer in Europe, an avid firearms enthusiast and mercenary.

Christian Schulz, a German Protestant and shipwright, hated war, but unfortunately became involved in the Thirty Years' War in Europe.

The Thirty Years' War in Europe was, after all, a religious war caused by the civil war of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Holy Roman Emperor and his German Catholic princes, Spain, Austria, and a vote of the Protestant Princes of Germany, England, Holland, Russia, France, and a vote of the Lesser of Germany on the other, fought from 1618 to 1648.

The war ended with the defeat of the Catholic Habsburgs and the signing of the Peace of Westphalia, the first all-European war in history, known as the Thirty Years' War in Europe.

During a war against the Archduke of Austria, Franz met and became friends with Schulz, both of whom were Protestant Fronts, and the two fought together for several years.

Schulz was so disgusted with war that he admired Marco Polo, who had traveled to the mysterious East, and proposed to Franz to go to the Far East together.

Although Franz was a war fanatic, he and Schulz went to the Eastern Domain (present-day Taiwan) on a Dutch warship.

Later, they finally arrived at the holy land of their dreams on a merchant ship to and from Daming, but a month later, their beautiful thoughts about Daming were like a bubble of disillusionment.

At that time, Zhang Xianzhong's bandit army was looting everywhere in the south, and what the two saw was the devastated Ming Dynasty.

What about the gold everywhere? What about the good jewelry and jade?

The two met Comrade Juan in Liangguang with a face of loss, and made an appointment to go to the capital together, and the three of them begged while learning Chinese, and traveled all the way to the north, and the result was ...... Yin and yang arrived at Shanhaiguan.

Listening to the three of them intermittently talking about their experiences in Chinese in their voices, Liu Hongjian really had mixed feelings, he had never seen such an unlucky person......

"My lord, the lower officials found this from the person named Shulz." Wang Yuanba didn't have a good impression of the extremely sloppy people in front of him, and handed a broken bag to Liu Hongjian in his hand.

"My lord, this is mine! It's mine! Please give it back to me! When Schulz saw his bag, he immediately shouted, and a sergeant kicked Schulz and screamed, and Franz held Schulz and glared at the sergeant.

Liu Hong gradually frowned, daring to love these people and beating them up, but they still don't have long eyes! Don't look at what kind of place this is, what is your own situation, I am a sword, do you know for fish and meat?

In modern terms, these three are straight men of steel!

There was nothing else in the shabby leather bag, except for a sketch made of sheepskin, which appeared to be a drawing of a sailing ship......

"What kind of ship is this?" Liu Hong gradually asked the owner of the drawing.

"My lord, this is the Galen ship, the treasure I plan to present to the Ming Emperor!" Schulz told the truth, he originally thought of offering his treasure in the capital to make a living.

"Lao Wang! Let's see how this ship compares to our Ming fortune boat? Liu Hongjian only knew that Zheng Zhilong's fleet was still dominated by large Fu ships, but he didn't know how big it was, and which one was more bullish than the so-called Galen ship.

Wang Yuanba took the drawings and examined them carefully.

"My lord, the lower officials look pretty much the same!" In fact, he didn't understand these things, but as a senior general of the Ming Dynasty, he had some knowledge, and then complimented.

"My lord, this is just a medium-sized Galen ship in my Holy Roman Empire, give me time, I can forge a bigger ......" Schulz saw that his treasure was not valued by the adults in front of him, and hurriedly explained.

"Untie!" Although I brought a lot of books when I came, which did not contain some advanced drawings, it was not bad to have a ready-made shipwright, as if the book said that the shipbuilding technology at this time, the Ming Dynasty had been overtaken by the West.

"I heard that there is a war on your side, and the whole continent is at war, because of religion!" Liu Hong gradually thought for a while.

"My lord, I am really impressed by your erudition, I have been here in Daming for nearly ten years, and no one has ever known our place so well!" This time it was Juan's turn to be surprised, although there was some compliment.

Juan, a one-eyed captain in his forties, wears an eye patch, a tricorne hat unique to the European Middle Ages, and a messy beard, which reminds Liu Hong of Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean.

When talking about Spain and the Dutch, Juan the Spaniard, blowing his beard and glaring, regarded both as robbers, and he had fallen into such a field mostly because of both.

Franz was a mercenary, and when he heard that he had studied firearms deeply, Liu Hongjian immediately asked him about the firearm.

Franz didn't know what Liu Hongjian was talking about at first, but it wasn't until Liu Hongjian roughly explained the principle of the pistol that Franz suddenly realized.

"My lord, this weapon has just begun to be equipped in my country, and it has not yet been widely promoted, but I value the Sui Fa gun you mentioned, it will become the main battle weapon, it will just take some time."

Franz spoke with a feverish expression, he still longed for war, but between war and 'friendship', he chose the latter.

"This official is the Earl of Daming, and he is also the chief soldier here, and now this official officially appoints the three of you The retainers of the Earl, enjoy the treatment of 100 households, and specialize in supervising the construction of warships and firearms for the official, I don't know if the three of them are willing?"

Liu Honggradually expressed deep sympathy for the plight of the three people, and the battle of Shanhaiguan a few days ago also made Liu Hong gradually feel the importance of firing guns, although the situation in the battle of Shanhaiguan was completely controlled by him, but the border army still killed more than 8,000 people.

If you have a pistol, then the results will be much better!

In the Ming Dynasty, the status of craftsmen was very low, and people with heads and faces were also disdainful of being craftsmen, except for a carpenter emperor, of course.

And with his current ability, if he wants to change the three religions and nine streams that have been precipitated for thousands of years, there is undoubtedly great resistance.

In Liu Hongji's view, craftsmen are really the foundation of a country, firearms, warships, machinery, whether it is military or people's livelihood, which is missing the contribution of craftsmen.

Rather than letting these foreigners work for Daming, and finally polishing their enthusiasm, it is better to take it for his own use, and he is skeptical about the ability of those old men in the Ministry of Industry.

Because they spend most of their time on their own interests, struggles, which country has the most powerful industry in the twenty-first century? Which country has the most dedicated craftsmen? Germans, of course, aren't these two a godsend?

The three of them were overjoyed when they heard that this young adult not only agreed to give them an errand, but also that there were no other officials and masters on the high stand, and the key was that they had not beaten them yet.

After years of wandering, the three of them attached great importance to this errand, and even solemnly knelt down on one knee and kowtowed to the chest with their right hand to perform a knightly salute, which is a very formal etiquette in Europe, representing the knight to swear allegiance to the lord!

Liu Hongjian helped the three of them up with his own hands, and arranged for Yan Yingyuan to prepare a room in his Qianhu military camp, so that he could entertain them, and specially instructed them to take a hot bath.

No way, Europeans have never bathed, the smell of these three people ...... Tsk, if it weren't for Liu Hong's gradual valuing of the talents of the three of them, he would have pinched his nose and beat them up and coaxed them away!

"My lord, after the conscription order was issued, the surrounding people responded enthusiastically, and there were strong men in the camp who came to sign up one after another, but 50,000 soldiers were conscripted at once, and the military horses, grain and grass in Shanhaiguan were not enough......"

Wang Yuanba said that he was worried about Liu Hongji, the Ming Dynasty was not short of silver from beginning to end, but it was in the hands of bureaucrats and merchants, but there was a real shortage of food and military horses!

It was during the period of the Xiaoice River, and the northern parts of the country were thousands of miles away, and there was no harvest, and the grain from the south was quite expensive to transport to the north, and the imperial court was already stretched thin to support the war situation in the north.

In addition, the Beijing camp has actually recruited 100,000 soldiers, and now if the border passes are also recruited, this food, military horses......

"Stick! Go and gather the Thousand Households of Banzai Mountain! This official is going to Shanxi! Liu Hong gradually frowned, and instructed Niu Zhuang behind him.

After going around in a circle, the war horse problem still has to be solved!

The Eight Great Emperor Merchants? Hum!