"They won't cast iron cannons?"

Chen Mu was shocked and said, "What's going on with the Bugarao Artillery Factory?" ”

"Brass cannons, furlong machines, and hired Chinese craftsmen."

Fu Yuan took it for granted, and said to Chen Mu: "I think that the second master should believe in this Xiyi, if it is the Portuguese Yi, the king of the West will buy it from others every year?" And their affairs are very strange, and the king is good enough to pick the door, and he will find someone to buy a cannon and discuss. ”

"Hey, this is all the same, if our emperor wants a bead, he has to draw the silver money from the inner treasury to buy it from the people?"

Chen Mu waved his hand and said: "You say this, this is really a big deal, Lao Guan has made a great contribution to squeezing the Bujialao Artillery Factory, this is amazing, it must be promoted at this time!" Does he know how much artillery and gunpowder Spain buys from the Netherlands every year? ”

Fu Yuan's face was frustrated, and he clapped his hands and said: "I don't know, I have thought about it, we know how many guns he buys in a year, and we can roughly know how many ships and how much firepower he has, but Guangming is just a small captain, and he knows some things that are spread in China." ”

"How many artillery guns are purchased, he knows that his company does not have a single one, and there are twelve splicing Fran machines on the ship, which can be used as land artillery when they are pulled out during the war."

Chen Mu didn't speak, raised his hand to scrub the short beard that had not been built on the boat for two months, and looked at Fu Yuan with a wink.

Estimated number of ships for artillery and gunpowder purchases? Fu Yuan has grown!

He hadn't thought about it just now, he just wanted to know how much money was involved in this transaction.

Chen Mu didn't want to know how many ships Spain had, after all, he didn't want to fight a full-scale war with Spain for a while, as long as he could do this, he didn't need to fight.

Seville's customs, plus the possibility of coinage, the export of artillery for a country, still need to be warned?

When you are a good person, you can get everything you want.

Chen Mu only knew one thing, so in addition to the excuse of fishing, he had another excuse to ask for Peru and Chile.

What he wants is for the entire coastline north of Mexico to extend a thousand miles inland, of course, he will never spit out the existing land in Majiagang, and extending a thousand miles inward is just a bottom line.

In addition to the north, there was also the coastline of southern Asia, which stretched to the later Bolivian silver mines of Potosí, the lifeblood of Spain, which would never have been possible without war.

Even in comparison, if he could get the entire coastline west of the Potosí Silver Mine, it would not matter if Chen Mu gave up part of the northern coastline.

What the northern coastline has, in Chen Mu's impression, is gold and fir wood, nothing else is important, the south is much more important, that land is buried in the world's only saltpeter mine.

Saltpeter ore is more important to the Ming Dynasty than real money.

"Don't stay in Majiagang, so many people don't have a room to sleep, go out to work, take your fleet, and I'll allocate five more battleships for you, and send this light and his soldiers back."

"I can't send it, Dashuai, Ma Shuai is going to use them to exchange Zheng Tu's subordinates from Zhuangyuan Bridge back."

"Zheng Tu?"

Chen Mu had a feeling of being in the middle.

"Yanian people were named by him as the Bull Demon King, Red Boy, and Giant Spirit, maybe there is Nezha Li Jing, what's going on in the east, playing Water Margin again?"

"The prisoners don't need to be changed, just ask for it, tell them what happened, that Spanish army attacked my Ming people without authorization, and also took away the imperial flag, and opened the border to tear up the alliance, do you want to go to war?"

Chen Mu waved his hand and said: "Let the stonemasons make you a boundary monument, they said they don't want to, you can take back that piece of land for me, cross the Zhuangyuan Bridge and drive people two thousand miles south, tie the boundary monument there, and let Guangming go directly to Mexico City and send my letter to their governor." ”

Fu Yuan, who was sitting by the fireplace, paused in the air, turned his head and blinked his eyes, looked at Chen Mu in a daze, lowered his head and began to write, and only said after a while: "No, the second master, I will have three five hundred warships, and you just give me five more ships, and there are only eight or nine hundred soldiers in total, so let me declare war?" ”

"If they don't give in, they will fall into the fire pit!"

Fu Yuan got up and said: "We're not afraid of war, you give an order to the storyteller, and you will be humbled all the way to Mexico, and there is no response to this, this, this, this is not good!" ”

"Who told you to declare war?"

Chen Mubi put aside, looked at Fu Yuan and sighed with a smile, and said, "Think about it, Zhuangyuanqiao said that it was our land, and Zheng Tu said that it was our people, but are they?" Of course not. ”

"Speaking of which, isn't it untenable in reason? But fortunately, it's not from Spain, it's from Zheng Tu, and they don't pay attention to it, they don't pay attention to it anyway, our voice is a little louder, so what's not to do? ”

"First of all, they don't dare to declare war, we have 7,000 troops in Majiagang, and the logistics and baggage are readily available; What about them? From Mexico to the south, there are typhoons every year, and they don't have many fleets and garrisons here, and they are still afraid of us. ”

"Do you think about which of them wants to fight? Is it the king, the nobles, the governor, the merchant, the legion, or the soldier? The soldiers definitely don't want to, they are afraid of us, they are the ones who will die in the fight, and it doesn't matter if they want to or not. ”

"The merchants would not think that the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty could give them enough benefits; The aristocracy wanted to think and some didn't want to, and it had nothing to do with it in Spain itself; The governor may have thought and not wanted, and as for King Philip, they were still at war with the Netherlands, and that was more important than that. ”

"The commanders of the legion must think that the generals will make immortal feats, and the defeat of the Ming fleet is undoubtedly important to their personal prestige, but it is useless for them to think about it."

"Even if we are angry at this time, if we really want to fight, it will be delayed until next year or even the year after, but as long as we can provide Philip with artillery to support their war with the Netherlands, first of all, the governor will not want to fight, how much credit is this? Philip won't want to declare war on us for a while. ”

"So my analysis, you can bluff this time, and you won't go to war."

Chen Mu said and spread his hands on the table, adding: "Of course, the most important thing is that we have the confidence to start a war. ”

"Five fleets are enough to sink all the merchant ships and warships of Spain on the west coast of Asia by June next year, and plow all the strongholds with shells, and by June next year, there will be five more fleets to transport the first guard force of the second phase of the Beiyang to Majiagang."

"The Oriental Military Government can do nothing for two whole years, and the West Coast does nothing at all, just to destroy their business, and even demolish Mexico City for him."

"Our baggage can hold up, 10,000 troops have been lost in the past two years and have not done business, even if the warships and artillery are all sunk, and the new ones will be built next year is only 2 million taels, Chen can hold it, Daming's materials can also hold it, and the Westerners' finances are like gold and silver leaks, can they?"

"Such a big country, gritting your teeth is sure, I will calculate this account, they will calculate it, and after the calculation, they may not be willing to pay such a price and fight a war that is meaningless to them."

Chen Mu lowered his head and finished writing the letter, raised his hand and handed it to Fu Yuan in one fell swoop, and said: "So Fu Guerrilla, take your fleet to play prestige, and give me the boundary monument to two thousand miles south of the Zhuangyuan Bridge." ”

Chen Mu analyzed it, and let Fu Yuan calculate the account in his heart, as if it was really pointless to fight Chen Mu for a little land, and he could indeed do whatever he wanted if he was rich.

"Wait!"

Fu Yuan was about to leave, and as soon as he turned around, he was stopped by Chen Mu again, and hurriedly turned back, and heard Chen Mu say: "I saw my brother on the shore, remember to pick him up." ”