Daming: Let you build roads, you have access to highways throughout the country

Chapter 209: Europe’s Strongest?!!!

After the ceremonial officials received the skeleton pirate group, they found that these guys were nothing, and they did not understand the tributary trade.

After handing them the tribute list of Daming, a group of pirates looked at each other, because the amount of tribute trade was relatively large.

All materials need to be purchased in bulk, and then, mass production is carried out by some workshops of the Ming Dynasty, and after the production is completed, delivery is carried out, and a small pirate group has so much money to support a business of this scale.

Seeing that there was nothing to gain, the ceremonial officials sent them away.

However, they are allowed to conduct civil free trade in ports.

Therefore, the pirates moved all the materials on the ship and sold them in the Suzhou and Hangzhou ports, in fact, for them, it was a process of selling stolen goods.

They were pleasantly surprised to find that business here is very good, and as long as the price is reduced, the goods will sell out quickly.

The satisfied pirates embarked on their return journey, and at the same time, they also brought back a lot of news for the grape empire.

First of all, Daming’s water army is very powerful and cannot be easily provoked, and secondly, Daming is indeed very rich, and has a strong trade throughput here.

Moreover, there are many products here, and a variety of goods can make people look good.

When they returned, they also purchased a large amount of materials and transported them back to the grape empire, some of which were dedicated to the royal family, and some of which were sold in the mainland, making 23 real profits.

In addition, they brought back the most important news.

The simple Daming people told them that the Daming Dynasty has been opening up a place called Qinzhou in recent years, and it turns out that there is still a huge continent in that Wang Yang, and on that continent, there is a barbarous land, and there are only some indigenous tribes.

When the grape empire heard the news, it was very excited.

Wild Land, isn’t that Borderland!

Whoever occupies it first is whom!

The Daming Dynasty has already gone to Qinzhou to grab territory, and the Grape Empire also wants to intervene.

Don’t look at the grape empire in the countries of Western Europe, it is a relatively powerful country, the surrounding hostile countries, have been beaten by them, however, after the continuous expansion of the territory of the grape empire, it is actually not too large, and it is not comparable to the Ming Dynasty.

Knowing that there was a huge borderlands, the royal family soon formed a huge fleet.

This fleet, a full 5 warships, is equipped with the most advanced Franc machine guns. The fleet set sail, sailed east from the ocean, first to Daming, and then continued east, looking for Qinzhou.

In addition to the imperial warships, there are also many pirate groups accompanying them, a total of more than 1 ship, the scene is very spectacular.

When the news of the skeleton pirate group was transmitted back to Qinzhou Mansion, the weapons workshop had developed a new type of artillery on the basis of the Franc machine cannon.

The specifications of this gun are larger, whether it is caliber, shells, etc., all aspects have been greatly improved, the air tightness is also stronger, and it is not easy to explode.

The exterior is painted with red paint to prevent rain erosion.

Zhu Rong named it the red-clothed cannon!

Soon, the weapons workshop set up production lines and began mass production of red-clad cannons.

Not long ago, Zhu Rong used the new ironmaking technology exchanged in the system to build a new ironmaking workshop near an iron mine.

The raw iron produced here is of better quality and more productive.

Above the huge workshop, several tall chimneys were erected, billowing thick smoke and constantly coming out.

And this raw iron was also sent to weapons workshops, mainly for military purposes.

In addition to artillery, it is also used to create traditional swords and daggers and other cold weapons.

The red-clothed cannons produced in the first batch were placed in Qinzhou and Jinshan provinces.

Along the coastline, some batteries were erected.

In addition, it is also made into a platform by traditional wooden carts, and the artillery is placed on it, which is more conducive to transportation.

Then there are the warships of Qinzhou Mansion, which have also been replaced with new red-clothed cannons.

Qinzhou has developed to the present, the two largest cities, is Qinzhou Fu and Jinshan Fu, and with these two huge cities, south to north, along the coastline there are small towns, the scale of the town is generally not large, but there are a variety of goods, convenient for the surrounding people to purchase!

The caravans of the Qi Palace, as well as the civilian caravans, are also very simple to do business, directly along the asphalt road north and south, you can reach small towns and sell goods.

Some people will sail from the sea and take the waterway. Because the cargo capacity of sea freight is a little greater.

Zhu Rong’s idea is very simple, that is, first control the coastline, and then surround all the coastlines in a circle, and the entire Qinzhou will fall into the territory of Daming.

As for the huge wasteland inside, it will be slowly developed at that time, and along the coastline, every certain distance, some batteries will be built and the Daming Water Army will be sent to garrison for a long time.

At the top of the battery is the watchtower.

It is used to observe the enemy situation and set off wolf smoke for early warning.

For a long time, though, it was almost a decoration.

Because the entire Qinzhou, which is currently the Daming Dynasty, is carrying out land reclamation, it has never encountered any trace of other empires.

Not even a ship, it has never been touched.

And these days, one battery after another is lively, because they are replacing new red-clothed guns.

After firing several shells, the Daming Water Army was very excited, because the performance of this red-clothed artillery was far stronger than the original Hongwu iron cannon.

And along the coast, there is also the Daming Water Army, which patrols all year round.

The patrol team is very loose, usually two or three warships in a group, patrolling a fixed sea area.

At present, the Daming Dynasty operates the west coast of Qinzhou.

However, the outer outline of the entire Qinzhou has been explored by Qinzhou Mansion, and even the map has been drawn.

Although the large wasteland inside has not yet been developed, the map is out.

And these days, a big event has also broken out in the Gewu Academy in Qinzhou Mansion.

For many years, the earth is a large experiment of square and circle, and the results have been produced, and through these years of repeated voyages, a conclusion has been drawn that the earth is not square, but like a ball.

Driving from one point to another will eventually return to the original point.

This result was too shocking, causing an uproar in the Gewu Academy in Qinzhou Province, and this conclusion was also written into the teaching materials, and the news had been transmitted to the Daming Dynasty, and it would be updated into the teaching materials in the various Gewu Colleges of the Daming Dynasty.

When the news is transmitted back to the Daming Dynasty, it will definitely cause a huge earthquake in the academic community.

However, now Qinzhou Mansion has no effort to take care of these things, and Zhu Rong has not taken care of it, because not long ago, news came from the sea that a large number of unknown ships were sailing in the direction of Qinzhou.

These ships are not Daming warships, nor are they Daming civilian ships!

Now that the specific identity has not yet been clarified, Zhu Rong attaches great importance to this matter and has mobilized warships to prepare for interception.

Smoke also began to burn from the various batteries.

And this huge fleet, the direction of sailing, is basically towards Qinzhou Mansion!

This is the huge fleet of the Grape Empire, they made a big circle, using the route map obtained from the Daming people, from the direction of the Daming Dynasty, all the way east, towards Qinzhou Mansion.

In fact, from the location of the Grape Empire, sailing west, you can reach Qinzhou faster, moreover, it is to reach the east coast side of Qinzhou, and it is not easy to collide with the defense line deployed by Zhu Rong. 950

However, now, the Grape Empire does not know that the earth is round, and they do not have a mature route, in order to reach Qinzhou as soon as possible, they chose to copy the homework, using the mature route that the Ming Dynasty had discovered, and came from west to east.

At this moment, the grape soldiers on this huge fleet, and the pirates who followed behind, could already faintly see the shadow of the mainland, and there were cheers from the deck.

Everyone has been floating at sea for too long, and they have never sailed such a distance, whether it is the supply on the ship or the physical condition of the crew, they have reached the limit.

If you can’t reach Qinzhou, then everyone is very likely to be buried on this sea.

It’s just that they didn’t have long to be happy when they found that red warships began to appear in their field of vision, which were unique to the Ming Dynasty.

The number of warships urgently dispatched is not too many, about 3 or so.

Although it is larger than the war ship of the Grape Empire, the Grape Empire has a huge advantage in the number of ships after all.

The water army of the grape empire is not alarmed.

When the two huge fleets approached each other, the Grape Empire fired first.

This is a common etiquette in the West.

Of course, it is obviously unrealistic to want to show favor in this way, as long as the other party is not stupid, you can see that this huge fleet is extremely aggressive and is not an ordinary merchant ship.

And the Daming Water Army is also the first time to contact the Grape Empire, and they do not understand the so-called cannon etiquette in the West, but take this as a signal to start a war.

So, more than 3 Daming warships, unfolded in a mighty word, towards more than 1 ship of the Grape Empire, pounced!

The red-clad iron cannons aimed at the ships of the Grape Empire one after another, and under the orders of the water generals, they issued the first salvo!

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