Chapter 517 Europe is heavily developing in Luzon, and people must be employed everywhere, and the desire for manpower is like a long drought and a rainy day.In order to attract these workers from the Central Plains, the Chinese stewards in Luzon even put forward the conditions for giving land, and ten acres of land was not a problem at all for the Chinese in Luzon, and they could have as much land as they wanted.If you don't have it, you can grab it.Now there are nineteen towns, but in fact, seven towns are cooperating with the whole family army to attack the city and plunder the land."
Liu Ji is recruiting people, he is strong, and after three years of work, he will give a wife!"
These words made the eyes of the Caoyun workers who had just disembarked suddenly brighten, the temptation of the land was great, but the wife was not bad!
You must know that the workers are basically poor, and if there is a way, they will not do the labor.There are no more than three generations of poverty, they are talking about them, they have no money to marry a daughter-in-law, and what offspring do they have, not to mention ten-year-old boys, even middle-aged people in their forties, it is no exaggeration to say that they are still virgins, and they have never touched a woman at all."
You Liu Ji are deceiving, right?
What should I do if I don't give it to my wife after three years?
”"Yes, as long as you sign a three-year employment contract, you will be issued a daughter-in-law immediately!"
A thirty-seven-eight-year-old cao worker asked in a loud voice: "How old is the daughter-in-law, don't let me find an old lady!"
”The surrounding workers burst into laughter.Liu Ji's steward flicked the whip in his hand, and soon a group of dark-skinned and skinny women appeared on the dock, there was no need to suspect that this was those indigenous women.It is better to say that it is a woman, but it is better to say that it is a girl, because the general age is young, about eleven or twelve years old, and no matter how old it is, it is almost all dead."
Hey, you're a grandson, I'm clean!"
With only 7 million Spaniards, more than 500 million mixed-race descendants have been left in the world, but the problem is that the Ming people of this era still have a strong sense of national pride.Even if it was a poor worker, they looked at these indigenous women with a look of regret."
No, such a barbarian, the child born is a string, and he will not have the face to enter the ancestral grave in the future!""
A concubine is not a wife!""
That's pretty much it!"
An era has an era's aesthetic point of view, in the eyes of the Ming people, only the Ming people are the most beautiful, indigenous?
Does that count as a person?
The indigenous Filipinos belong to the dwarf black race, and ethnically speaking, they are black.If it is only a concubine, not a wife, and the child is only a concubine, that situation is acceptable.However, these workers don't know that they are actually trapped.The first contract they signed was not actually an employment contract, but a household registration prepared by the Luzon government, followed by an employment contract.Then, they will find that taking an indigenous concubine is not only responsible for the other party's housing and food, but also taxes, language taxes.I can't speak Da Ming, I have to pay twenty dollars a day in Luzon, and if I don't have money, I will be a slave.In any case, these first batch of Caoyun workers were quickly divided up with various temptations.For the development of Luzon, Quan Xu actually does not care, Luzon has an excellent natural geographical advantage, except for the occasional typhoon and heavy rain, which is like a godsend.In fact, Quan Xu stayed in Luzon and did not leave, just to wait for the Spaniards to make a move.It's just a pity that since the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the Spaniards have lost their sea supremacy step by step, and it has been very reluctant to maintain their interests in the Mediterranean.They did not have the energy to take care of the far east, and Quanxu did not wait for the arrival of the Spaniards, but waited for Helena of Venice to arrive in Luzon again."
I really didn't expect to meet you here!""
Didn't you go back to your Europe?
Why is it here again?
”Helena glanced at Jeon Xu: "I'm back again, can't I?"
”"Okay!"
Quan Xu couldn't help but complain: "I said, do you need to play so hard?"
After all the hard work to return to Venice, you didn't even breathe and set sail again, are you risking your life to earn money?
”Helena smiled nonchalantly: "We Venetians eat this bowl of rice, and men and women are no exception.I was going to replenish fresh water from the Philippines and trade some supplies, but I didn't expect that in a short period of time, the owner of this place actually changed!
”Quan Xu smiled faintly: "The Spaniards are all shameful thieves, they took advantage of the Ming Empire's lack of time to take care of Luzon, they shamelessly and despicably attacked Luzon and destroyed Luzon, since ancient times, this is our Ming vassal country!"
”Quan Xu's mentality as a conqueror is very good, and he is happy to tell Helena, a foreign girl, about the glorious history of China.Helena was very patient and listened to Quan Xu's talk about Chinese history for half an hour, in short, all this is China's territory, and it all belongs to His Majesty the Emperor of China.Helena took advantage of Quan Xu's saliva, and said directly: "Let me tell you the truth, our governor is very satisfied with the batch of cannons I purchased back, let me increase my procurement efforts, and I was ordered by the governor to bring a large number of gold coins to take the first step."
When are you available?
Let's sit down and have a good talk, this time I'm going to buy a larger quantity!
”"You mean, your governor is very happy with the performance of those cannons, right?"
Quan Xu was really a little speechless, he took over the forty gunboats of Mao Yuanyi's sailors in the second year of Chongzhen, and Quan Xu was really blinded by this kind of old gunboat equipped with only eight guns.In order to gain the advantage of a small ship fighting a large cannon, Quan Xu ordered someone to develop a more powerful artillery, and in this case, the front-loading smoothbore gun appeared.This artillery took a caliber of one hundred and thirty mm, which was a very different kind of gun from the one hundred and thirty mm breech-loading rifled guns in active service with the whole army.In order to hire the Venetian fleet to transport troops to Taiwan, Quan Xu sold this backward naval gun to the Venetians, and the biggest difference of this artillery was that it used flowering shells.The explosion principle of this flowering shell is actually very simple, that is, a large double kick, in the gun chamber, the same way will gunpowder explode, pushing the cannon out of the gun chamber.First of all, when the gunpowder explodes in the breech, it is necessary to ignite the fuse in the shell, which takes a certain delay to detonate the sulfur in the gun head.Since the method of detonation is still the fuse, it is also possible that the artillery shell is still in the air, and the explosion will be detected, or it is possible that after hitting the enemy, the shell will be dumb.The mute rate is not unacceptable, at least seventy percent of the shells can explode, because they are sulfur shells, they have strong combustibility, and the effect is good for wooden warships.Due to the lack of rifling, this kind of artillery, which can reach a maximum range of more than 1,500 meters, has a frighteningly low hit rate.Helena returned to Venice with eight guns, and after actual combat training, the Venetian navy found that the power of this kind of artillery was very good, and a European main third-class warship could be reimbursed for hitting a maximum of four shells.Of course, Helena did not know that the new naval guns of 130 mm and 28 times the caliber of the current type, and they were rear-loaded, because of the brakes, the rate of fire was faster and more powerful, and only one shell was needed to reimburse a third-class battleship worth 100,000 francs.However, in the face of such a result, the Venetians were greatly excited, and asked Helena to rush to Daming immediately, taking advantage of the fact that other countries had not yet realized the great power of this new artillery, to increase their procurement efforts, and to buy as many front-loading smoothbore guns as possible.In desperation, poor Helena had no choice but to cheer up, with a large number of gold coins, precious stones, ivory and other materials, set off from Venice, and rushed to Daming with waves.You can imagine the hardships on the way."
It's so hard for you!""
There is no way, Zungui's earl" Yuan Zongdi reminded: "Our marquis is not an earl, he is a marquis!"
”"All right, Lord Marquis!"
Helena's expression was a little gloomy, and she said helplessly: "Our city-state has always been in a dangerous situation, the French, the British, the Dutch, the Austrians, the Turks, the Swedes and other barbarians all covet our wealth, and have invaded Venice more than once, forcing us to be strong, otherwise we can only perish!"
At any moment we could go to war with the Turks and the French, whose population and army were a hundred times the size of Venice, and we had to use every ounce of our strength to ensure the safety of our city-state and its citizens!
”Some people classify the Thirty Years' War as a religious war.Religion was indeed the trigger for the war, however, it was in fact a war between the emerging capitalism and the feudalism of Europe.As the hegemon of Europe and the defender of the feudal system, it has also become the twilight of the Spanish Empire, calculating the time, the Thirty Years' War has been carried out to the second stage, that is, the rise of France, the first army in Europe, the foundation was laid at this time.Of course, at this time, it was also a period of melee in Europe, almost similar to the Warring States period in Japan, basically you fight me, I fight you.Venice is not immune.However, it is useless for Helena to sell cuteness to Quanxu, if it is a petite and delicate woman selling cuteness, it is still a little cute, a foreign girl who is 1.95 meters tall and half a head taller than Quan Xu.almost made Jeon Wook vomit out the overnight meal.Quan Xu directly ignored Helena's beautiful blue eyes and shrugged: "This way, you have also worked hard, first take a good rest for a while, and when you have enough spirits, let's talk about buying cannons again, right, when will the European high-headed horse I want arrive?"
”"It's time to arrive in half a month, let your subordinates prepare, but don't make a fuss when the time comes.""
You can put a hundred hearts, I have even built a stable!"
Quan Xu doesn't need many things in Europe, but European heavy horses are his favorite.Especially the British Sharma, such a horse can pull a five-ton car in good road conditions.Of course, if it is not a problem to pull six or seven tons on the hard and smooth road surface in Liaodong, you must know that the Mongolian horse is only a quarter of the Shire horse, but it can pull more than 3,000 catties of weight.In the case of Sharma, Liaodong's land transport capacity could be doubled.