Ma Gui let go of a few Spanish soldiers and boarded a small boat, because he found that he could not cross the long coastline and return to the Zhuangyuan Bridge by letting only one soldier go.

After all, there are tens of thousands of miles away, and you need a sailboat, and you need enough food for a month, so you can't let him freeze to death...... It's so troublesome that Ma Gui doesn't want to care about him.

But the newly acquired little brother Zhen Guanxi can't just let Lu Ti Shi beat him to death with three punches, not only the still alive and enslaved clansmen have to come back, but the dead have to let the Spaniards make compensation, and the key is that the emperor's flag, which has to come back.

Even for the imperial flag that was taken away, this matter could not pass silently.

Before the people were released, two more convoys of baggage ships arrived safely at Majia Port, and in the seven days after the people were released, the cargo unloaded from the baggage ships almost occupied the coast, and it was impossible to move them.

The sky is not beautiful, the snowflakes with big fingernails have not stopped for half a month, the four trestle bridges that were urgently built are not enough at all, and the goods still have to be rowed to the shore in small boats and stacked.

There are too many ships, each of these baggage ships has more than five ships of 400 materials in each fleet, and the load of 400 ships is more than 120,000 catties.

In fact, the full load of 400 sea ships is all around 160,000 or 170,000 catties, but no one dares to carry such a heavy load on the sea voyage, especially this kind of sea route that merchants have not walked.

The cargo is okay, the two-month voyage has allowed them to carry no fragile things in their baggage preparations, but the large number of livestock still makes the people of Majiagang happy and worried.

Naturally, they have horses to ride, chickens to feed, sheep to graze and cattle to help them work, but they are worried that these livestock will not survive this winter.

All kinds of animals are scurrying around, and even if the animals transported over have already died at sea, the number is still too large for Majiagang to bear.

Not to mention, none of the six animals died in this group of merchant crew members who were sad, and when they docked at the port, they all ate red faces, and they got off the ship and sent pickled meat to the Majiagang Flag Army, and some sailors also took the leather coats wrapped on their bodies for the Flag Army to wear, and said with a smile that they made it on the road.

There is no way, forget about what you eat, anyway, the livestock that freezes to death will be bad if you don't eat it for more than a month, but these skins and feathers are military assets, and they can wear them on the road to keep warm, but they can't take them away.

Problems hit Majiagang one after another, first there were not enough horse pens and chicken coops for raising livestock, and then there were not enough houses to accommodate so many people.

All the barracks, including the houses of Magui and Majin, as well as the hunting houses in the woodland, were all converted into bunks, and the largest houses even housed more than a dozen people, but even then it was still not enough.

The helpless sailors and merchants never imagined that even if they arrived at Majia Port, they would still have to spend their days on the rickety ship.

Fortunately, they still had enough bricks and wood, and barracks made of brick and wood with fireplaces were quickly erected – fireplaces were complained about by Spanish soldiers.

In ancient times, the Qin Dynasty also had fireplaces, because it could effectively improve the disadvantages of braziers and fire ponds for heating, but later there were fire walls, and there were no more fireplaces.

Because the fire wall is more practical, although it is a little more difficult to build a house, it can be connected to the outdoor stove without wasting charcoal.

But they don't lack wood to burn the fire now, building a fireplace is more economical than making a fire wall, they have a lot of houses to build, and I heard Fu Yuan say that Chen Mu still has nearly 10,000 people floating on the sea.

The whole Majiagang is in full swing, burning bricks and tiles, building houses and building houses, no one wants to be idle, even those Spaniards have been called out to work.

The biggest emotion of these foreign visitors is that they feel that Magui sent the person who delivered the news away too early.

At that time, there were only more than 30 large ships in Majiagang, but only four ships were equipped with artillery, which seemed nothing shocking, after all, in the inherent impression of the Spaniards, they knew very well that the Ming Empire was a distant power.

But when the Spanish soldiers who delivered the news left Majiagang, they knew that the transportation of materials for the Ming army had just begun, and in just a few days, the Ming Dynasty ships that poured into Majiagang quickly exceeded 100, and continued to increase at a rate of more than 20 every three days.

Moreover, they heard the Ming general named Fu Yuan say to them in a proud and complaining tone, saying that they seemed to have a fleet lost, and they had no way of knowing how many ships the Ming Empire had dispatched to transport supplies.

Countless ships of more than 100 tons have covered the sea, and the ships ready to unload seem to be lined up until the eye is exhausted, even if they work hard every day, there is still no end in sight.

Gunpowder alone, 100 pounds of wooden barrels, more than 100 barrels were carried by them alone, and there were more saltpeters and sulfur.

Fu Yuan and Ma Gui were defenseless against these Spanish soldiers, because they found that even if they returned the weapons to them, they would not run, and they would eat and drink well in Majiagang every day, except for the day when they were tired from work and asked the Ming army for wine, this was a group of free labor.

Moreover, they have a very good attitude, and do not regard themselves as captives, so naturally there is no escape...... Who will run away from the camp of their own allies?

Don't even dare to do bad things, just behave.

In his spare time, the Spanish captain on the ship offered Fu Yuan the only remaining tobacco on his body, pulled him and asked in a low voice: "General Fu, will your country mint silver coins and artillery?" ”

This captain and Fu Yuan are already very familiar with him, his name is Lucas, but Fu Yuan prefers paraphrase rather than transliteration, because his surname is Tyre, so Fu Yuan named this Spanish captain with a beard and North African ancestry.

Teguang asked this question Fu Yuan full of surprise, looking at the face of a well-preserved bag of tobacco, Fu Yuan rubbed his hands and said, "You have something to say." ”

"In my country, there is a place called the Netherlands, where half of Spain's income comes from, and only the merchants there can forge iron cannons."

Fu Yuan lit his pipe and nodded slowly, thinking that this was a bit like a combination of Jiangnan and Guangdong, but he didn't think too much, and saw that Brother Guangming looked at his kerosene lighter with straight eyes, and reminded with his pipe: "You go on." ”

"Oh, in the past, the royal family sent 800,000 to 1,200,000 ducats worth of silver from the Viceroyalty of Peru to the Netherlands every year to the Netherlands for rolling silver coins, and the profit to the merchants was fifteen percent."

The words '800,000 ducats' and '15 percent' drilled into Fu Yuan's ears with the wind, and in the process of walking to his mind, Fu Yuan's eyes flickered, and he said: "Forty to six hundred thousand taels of silver? It's too profitable. ”

"Conditionally, the Netherlands will supply Spain with artillery and gunpowder...... But since the Dutch rebellion ten years ago, the annual profit of rolled silver coins has increased to 30%, but it is still unable to supply enough artillery and gunpowder, and it has always been robbed by the rebels, and the troops in the south have been re-equipped with crossbows. ”

Fu Yuan blinked, he caught the crux of the problem, and said, "You have no land to build cannons except for Ni and the Netherlands?" ”

"Yes, will, we will make splicing cannons, which is what you call the Francophone machine, but we can't cast cannons, we can only cast bronze cannons like bells, but bronze cannons are too expensive; In the past, you could buy guns from the Netherlands, and later from Portugal, but then the cannon foundries in Macau were closed by your generals. ”

"The whole world, only you would, oh no, the English would have cast iron cannons thirty years ago; The Dutch and English trade will also cast iron cannons, the Dutch merchants will control Sweden with gold coins, and the Swedes will also cast iron cannons, and we can only trade iron cannons from your countries. ”

That's great news!

Fu Yuan's ears could even hear his heart pounding, he was ecstatic, the temperament of a chicken thief suddenly crawled to his face, and his tongue pursed his lips to show a mouthful of white teeth.

The atmosphere was suddenly Chen Mu, and Fu Yuan said: "And in these countries, only the Ming Empire is a good brother of Spain?" ”

Good brother?

What do you say, who pinned our invincible legion to the ground a few years ago?

Teguang took a deep breath and nodded: "I saw that you have a lot of gunpowder, and I want to tell the governor when I go back, but I am worried that General Fu will think that I have leaked secrets, so I ......"

"Chen Shuai is coming soon, I will tell him the news first, I think you can do what you want."

Note: The first monolithic iron cannon in Europe was born in England in the 40s of the 16th century, and Spain had the first monolithic iron cannon in 1620, which had been dependent on foreign countries or the Netherlands for supplies.

As for the Portuguese idea, it was much simpler, they were directly looking for Chinese gunsmiths. Documented in the Monsoon Book of the National Archives of Lisbon.

However, it would be wrong to say that only these countries would be wrong, and the Ming, Vietnamese, and Mughal khanates, as well as the Ottomans, would cast iron cannons.