Sun Zhimi walked into the Governor's Palace and met Monrosa. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Hello, Honorable Governor!" As soon as Sun Zhimi spoke, his fluent Spanish shocked Monrosa.

"I can't imagine that an Oriental can speak Spanish so fluently!" Monrosa sighed.

Sun Zhimi replied: "Back then, Sun's grandfather once learned the language of the Franc machine, and he had a group of little Franc machine people under him. You are a big and small Franc machine, and you can be regarded as a family. A certain grandfather and father were educated since childhood, and they have a little bit of the same Francophone language. ”

"May I ask Mr. Sun, who is your grandfather?" Monrosa asked.

"Grandfather's name is Sun Yuanhua." Sun Zhimi replied.

"It's him!" Monrosa Road. The name Sun Yuanhua is a celebrity in Europe. At that time, there were few Oriental people who could be famous in Europe, in addition to Emperor Chongzhen and Huang Taiji, there were Zheng Zhilong, Yan Siqi, Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua and others, it can be said that there are very few, and the fingers of both hands can be counted.

The two chatted for a while, and Monrosa asked, "I wonder where the castle you built in the Americas is?" ”

Sun Zhimi took out the map, spread it out on his desk, and pointed to the location of Seattle on the map above North America, which was later the border between the United States and Canada: "We built a castle here, and in addition, we sailed south and built a castle at Zheng Jinshan. ”

Monrosa glanced at the positions occupied by the Ming army, all of which were claimed by the British, so he didn't say anything, but just asked: "Then what is the matter with you coming to our New Spain?" Don't you want to occupy our territory here? ”

Sun Zhimi said: "Your Excellency Governor, we didn't come here to grab territory with you, we are here to do business with you. ”

"Doing business? What is the business? Monrosa asked.

Sun Zhimi replied: "We think that our oriental silk and ceramics can take the Pacific route, instead of the Indian Ocean route. Wouldn't it save a lot of money if our silk was shipped to ports on the Pacific side of the Central American Isthmus, and then transported overland, boarded in the Caribbean, and shipped to Europe? ”

Monrosa immediately saw the benefits brought to him by this route: "Yes, this route is relatively close, but now the maritime trade from the East to Europe takes the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific route is not very flat, typhoons, you know, there are many typhoons in this ocean!" If you are not careful, the ship will be destroyed and people will die! ”

It is true that the Pacific Ocean is not peaceful, with high winds and waves, and constant typhoons. The reason why it is named the Pacific Ocean is because when Magellan sailed around the world, it may have been too lucky, and the Pacific Ocean was calm, so it was named the Pacific Ocean. But in fact, the Pacific Ocean has been stormy for most of the year, and there are many typhoons from spring to autumn. In contrast, the Indian Ocean is calm, and that is the real Pacific Ocean.

Sun Zhimi said with a smile: "We have a new route, in summer and autumn, to avoid typhoons, to the north of Japan, basically along the coastline states, and to go to high latitudes to avoid typhoons." ”

"That's a good route!" Monrosa nodded.

"Originally, this route was favored by the Russians, and it was we who curbed Russia's eastward expansion, and we seized this route from Russia." Sun Zhimi fooled the Spaniards.

"The Russians are too ambitious, and they have a strong army. But they are just good on land, and at sea, they are useless! ”

"You can't say that!" Sun Zhimi pointed to the easternmost part of Asia on the map, "The Russian navy is not good, but their expeditions have arrived here!" We're sailing along the coastline, and we need to get off the boat to resupply fresh water along the way, right? If the Russians are not defeated, how can supply sites be established along the coast? ”

Although Sun Zhimi said a little strongly, the Western colonizers really did not open up a route to the north from the Eastern Empire, all the way to the Bering Strait, and then south into the Americas, this route was discovered by the Ming people, so the ownership of the route is in the hands of the Ming State, and there is nothing that cannot be said.

What's more, if the silk, ceramics and other luxury goods from the Ming Dynasty went to Central America, then it would be the Governor of New Spain who would trade them, so that he could make a high profit.

According to the previous business model of the Spaniards, only one or two ships a year took the Pacific route to transport silver from Central America to the East to avoid the typhoon season. Of course, this silver eventually went into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, who earned silver from the Spaniards by exporting ceramics and silk.

The Spaniards, on the other hand, exchanged silver for ceramics and silk, but they were shipped to Manila, where they were transshipped to Europe via the Indian Ocean route. Only a few pieces of silk and ceramics were loaded onto Spanish galleons that transported silver to Asia, and sent to Central America for the use of Spanish colonists there.

There are more than a dozen to more than 20 typhoons in the typhoon season every year, which makes people feel frightened of the Pacific shipping route, and once the silver transport ship full of Eagle Ocean sinks, it will cause heavy losses, so the Pacific route is very deserted that year.

Now that Daming has opened up this new route, Monrosa is naturally very satisfied. In the future, it can be transported from him, and the profit is amazing!

However, Sun Zhimi put forward one condition: "We need to have a dock in the Caribbean, because some of our transport ships are coming from the other side of the Atlantic, and they are slave ships that trade in black slaves." ”

Monroesa laughed: "Slave ship? That's a great idea! We in Spain have been doing this kind of work all the time. Unexpectedly, you Ming people also started such a business! Those black slaves are good things, they are as strong as cattle, and they are not afraid of the plague, where like the natives here, when smallpox comes, the mortality rate is as high as more than ninety! The black slaves were not very afraid of smallpox, and it was a good idea to replace the natives here! ”

"In fact, in our East, the history of the use of black slaves is very early. As early as the Tang Dynasty, there were many Kunlun slaves trafficked by the Arabs, but we only had to castrate black slaves, because we didn't want these inferior animals to breed on our land. Sun Zhimi said.

The ancient Chinese really didn't have a Virgin, where is like now, the Virgin is rampant. The so-called ethnic integration can accept the integration of the northern barbarians who are genetically similar to themselves, and can even accept the whites of the Western Regions, but the Tang people will never allow blacks to pollute the skin color of the Easterners.

Monrosa said: "It's just that the transportation cost is a bit high, but we still allow to breed small slaves, and let these annoying be slaves for us for generations, isn't it good?" ”

It's just that Wang Xinyu didn't hear this, otherwise he would definitely think of Lincoln, who later liberated the black slaves, and various virgins in Europe later. As a result, the blacks got an inch, and they began to ask for more rights, but they themselves were lazy, had a low IQ, and had a high crime rate, and even the black president of the United States was not a good thing.

Monrosa signed an agreement with Sun Zhimi, and the Ming Dynasty obtained a dock in the Caribbean Sea, and the right to take the Pacific route and enter the ports of the Isthmus of Central America. Henceforth, ships laden with all kinds of goods would travel to Central America in the Viceroyalty of New Spain by the Pacific route, unloading their goods in exchange for gold and silver; Slave ships loaded with black slaves would dock in the Caribbean Sea, send them ashore, walk through the Isthmus of Central America, and then load them on ships and send them to North America.

Thousands of miles away, Temple Street, a key supply point for the Pacific route.

This is the estuary of the Heilongjiang River, and on the other side is Sakhalin Island, where a new city was established, and Wang Xinyu named it Temple Street.

Even though it's only the ninth lunar month, it's already snowing. A heavy snowfall has fallen and the land is covered in snow. It snowed heavily, and soon after, it was knee-high.

Cai Zhichao was not troubled by this heavy snow, but was happy because of this heavy snow.

"It's a pity that it hasn't snowed in the Horqin grassland yet, right? When it snows in the Horqin grassland, we will be able to send a surprise to the Tartar puppet empress dowager! Cai Zhichao said to Cao Yong beside him.

Zheng Zheng, who was wearing cotton armor inside and a fur coat outside, walked over: "Why don't you hurry up and test the sled?" Let's see what that thing does! ”

The sled soldier is the class that is ready to give Bumu Butai a surprise.

Cai Zhichao and Cao Yong pulled over a sled, and the two put two Don hippos on the sled, which can carry three soldiers, one to drive the horse, one to loader, one to rifled gunner, and the three soldiers are equipped with the latest rear-loading rifled Thunderbolt short gun produced by the Dongfan Gun Factory, which can fire six bullets in a row.

It's just that the problem of lead hanging on Mini bullets has not yet been solved, and Wang Xinyu doesn't want to waste any more energy on Mini bullets, so he is ready to wait for the technology to mature, and directly put on the rear-loading rifle. It doesn't have to be a metal cartridge case rifle at first, you can use a paper cartridge case to rear load a rifled rifle first, and the rate of fire is much faster than a front-loading gun.

In addition to being armed with muskets, the three sled men also had long-range pulley bows and sophisticated long-handled knives. The sleigh is blocked on all sides by planks that can withstand the fire of bows and arrows. The Don hippopotamus that pulls the sled is also covered with cotton armor and anti-arrow curtains, which can completely resist the bows and arrows of the Horqin Mongols.

In addition to the rifled gun sled, there was another type of artillery sled, on which there was a ninety-pound sub-mother cannon, equipped with five sub-guns, which could fire rapidly and carry out a deadly artillery attack on the Horqin tribe.

Cao Yong was in charge of driving the horses, Cai Zhichao and Zhang paparazzi sat in the back, Cai Zhichao was a rifled gun sharpshooter, and the young recruit Zhang paparazzi was a loader, specializing in loading bullets.

The equestrian master looked at the sleigh with three people, and asked puzzledly, "Can this thing ride faster than us?" Or is it faster to ride a horse? We have Don hippos, and we are afraid of the Horqin tribe, a traitor to the Mongols? ”

In the eyes of many Mongols, the first Horqin tribe to take refuge in Houjin was a traitor to the Mongols.

Zheng Xi smiled: "Whether the sleigh is fast or the horse riding is faster, don't you know if you try it?" ”

"Good!" Halbara laughed.

Cao Yong waved his whip, and the Don River pulled the sleigh, spreading its hooves and galloping on the snow. When the sleigh had reached fifty paces, Halbara jumped on a group of Don hippos and chased after them.

The sled was not fast at first, but after a while, the speed of the sled got faster and faster. No matter how fast Halbara is to whip his horse, the same Don hippopotamus, the cavalry on horseback can't catch up with the sled soldier pulling the sled! You must know that the Don hippopotamus that pulls the sled is still covered with cotton armor, and two horses pull a sled plus three people, all three of them are all in full armor, plus the weight of the sled itself, the average weight of each Don hippopotamus is much heavier than that of a cavalryman.

But it's just very strange, no matter how Halbara catches up, the distance is getting farther and farther away!

Halbara got off the horse and admitted defeat, and then bowed his hand to Zheng Xianyi very unconvinced: "Lord Wang, why can't I outrun the sled horse when I ride a horse?" ”

Zheng Xi pointed to the marks of the horses' hooves on the ground and said, "Harbala, if you compare the marks of the horses' hooves, are your horseshoe prints deep, or are their horseshoe prints deep?" ”

"Needless to say? Their horses are not ridden, and they must be mine deep. But their war horses pulled sleighs! Why can't I outrun them? Halbara said with a puzzled look on his face.

Zheng Xi pointed to the traces left by the sleigh on the snow and said, "Look at the traces left by this sled, compare it with the marks left by the horse's hooves, which one is deeper?" ”

At this moment, Halbara understood: "I understand! On snowy days, the horses are burdened, and the horses' hooves are stepped on in the snow, and it takes strength to lift them again, so naturally they can't run so fast. And this sled, the war horse has no weight, it is easy to run, and the sled will not sink into the snow and slide on the snow, so in the snow, the same horse, riding a horse can't run a horse pulling a sled! ”

Zheng Xi laughed: "Yes! That's it! When it snows heavily in the Horqin grassland, our sled soldiers will be able to attack and give a New Year's gift to the old witch Bumu Butai! ”

"That's right! Destroy the Horqin tribe, this traitor to Mongolia! Kill all their men! Women snatch them all! Let's see if we can be angry with Bumu Butai, this old witch! Halbara laughed.

Zheng Zheng's troops preparing to attack the Horqin Department were all sled soldiers, about 300 sleds, equipped with 100 rifled guns, 100 breech-loading rifled needle-type Thunderbolt short guns, 100 old-fashioned flintlock Thunderbolt short guns, 100 Rakshasa long-range arquebuses, 100 sub-mother cannons, 800 double-barreled short guns, 300 pulley bows, 300 long-handled broadswords, and 900 soldiers with their own self-defense weapons.

Nine hundred sled soldiers were responsible for the raid on three hundred sleds, and another four hundred sled soldiers were responsible for the two hundred sleds, serving as logistics troops and supplying the soldiers.

The tactic of the sled soldiers was to approach the Horqin Department on a snowy night, then turn the horse's head, aim the tail of the sled at the tent, and bombard the Horqin Department with a sub-cannon. When the Mongol cavalry rushed out, the sled soldiers retreated with the sled. Because the musketeers on the sled were facing the back, the Korqin Mongols would be constantly shot by muskets as they pursued. (To be continued.) )