New Ming Empire mixed in America

The next day, Li Mingqi heard that the former Los Angeles City Council members who had joined forces with the workers were found dead in the wild.

"Long live my lord, more and more people are settling in Xinming Town now. Shouldn't we recruit more soldiers?"

"Now these workers can kill those guild representatives in the wild, but there is no guarantee that the next victim will be one of ours."

"The difference in treatment between white-skinned workers and our own people is getting bigger and bigger. I'm afraid that if some of these people are blind, it will be a big surprise to your holy master, Long Live Lord."

Liu Youcai's words are reasonable. Now the number of people in the empire is gradually increasing. It is also time to expand the army.

But expanding the army requires weapons in addition to people.

Now that there are people, the grassroots officers who serve as the backbone are gradually taking shape under the training of Liu Erhe and Sun Laifu.

Now because of the recruitment of instructor Davis, the training progress of the Imperial Defense Force soldiers has been accelerated a lot.

And in Davis's priority to train outstanding officers, more than 30 soldiers who were considered to have made the most progress were given the opportunity to train individually.

But weapons were a headache. The weapons factory that Joyce was in charge of had not yet been built. The Xinming Imperial Imperial Research Institute in charge of Zhang Tiejiang was still in the exploratory stage. So the weapons matter was put on the agenda.

Thousands of rifles of the same style are not a small number, and it is simply impossible to buy all these weapons on the West Coast.

Davis is now living a very comfortable life in the Xinming Empire. Since he is not required to participate in the specific training of soldiers, during this period he is only responsible for giving advice to Liu Erhe and Sun Laifu.

Because of the high salary, Davis quietly approached Li Mingqi and politely proposed that he could work full-time.

Unfortunately, this proposal was ruthlessly rejected by Li Mingqi.

But today, his luck came.

At 9:30 a.m. Empire time, Davis, who had just come out of the training ground, was invited to be in front of Li Mingqi.

Looking at the figure lying under the umbrella and concentrating on fishing, Davis cheered himself up.

This time I must take the opportunity to fight for a longer contract.

"Dear Lee, greetings from your most heartfelt employee Davis."

Davis's almost flattering greeting made Li Mingqi's hand holding the fishing rod tremble.

Davis was actually helpless. Although his salary was very high, he had only received his first week's salary in the morning because he had only been employed for a week.

At that time, out of caution, he only signed a half-year contract with Li Mingqi.

In the past six months, he will fulfill the duties of a consultant instructor and provide professional guidance on the training plans of Liu Erhe and Sun Laifu.

Accordingly, he can get a generous salary - the equivalent of fifteen thousand US dollars in aluminum.

One U.S. dollar can currently be exchanged for 0.05 ounces of gold (1.42 grams), and an aluminum crown coin weighs 4.26 grams.

So Davis can get a full 42.6 kilograms of aluminum from Li Mingqi in half a year.

This amount of aluminum made Davis full of energy just by thinking about it. He also regretted his short-sightedness at the time.

At the beginning, Li Mingqi had a special affection for California, so he reluctantly made the decision to only exchange one crown coin for three U.S. dollars.

It was this decision that gave him his current delicate status.

Because everyone was waving various gold coins to participate in this gold-for-aluminum feast.

Think about it, as long as you exchange that gold for precious aluminum and transport it to Europe, you can make a profit of one-sixth or more, and it is a guaranteed profit.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about the safety of the Xinming Empire until the various capital giants in California have enough to eat.

These people are still waiting for Li Mingqi to transport all the aluminum from the Far East. How can they attack the Xinming Empire?

Even in order to befriend Li Mingqi in exchange for more exchange amounts.

Capitalists in California packed up all the Chinese they could collect and put them on cargo ships bound for Los Angeles.

It is foreseeable that the Xinming Empire will usher in a population explosion.

"Davis, do you know what is happening to the two Spanish warships you saw a few days ago?"

Li Mingqi put down the fishing rod, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.

Seeing Davis' curious gaze, Li Mingqi also threw one to him.

This 14-yuan Liqun is a brand that Li Mingqi often smoked in his previous life. I just bought two and a half of them on Xianyu yesterday.

Cigarettes have begun mass production in the United States, especially in the United States in 1860.

However, because it is produced manually, the price is very expensive.

Unlike cigars, most of the audience for cigarettes are soldiers or low-level officers in the army.

Filter cigarettes were not invented until 1913, so this ordinary Liqun was worth far more than cigars in the eyes of Davis.

After lighting the cigarette, Davis took a puff of enjoyment and thought about it for a moment before answering Li Mingqi's question.

"Those Spanish guys are all poor people who have been squeezed out by their Philippine governor. After returning home this time, the fate waiting for these people is likely to be forced disbandment."

"Those two 74-gun third-class ships are really too old. They are more than eighty years old. They are like grandfathers."

"And their motherland doesn't have any spare warships for them to serve. These Spanish guys are finished!"

Yes, Davis is right. Since the Spanish navy landed ashore, they have not paid any attention to the repair of the warships.

On the contrary, I am very interested in the Yuelai Tavern branch on the pier.

Especially the specialty of Yuelai Tavern - self-service drinks.

This method of allowing unlimited drinking within a specified time as long as you pay a certain amount of money made these Spanish navy feel that they were making a lot of money.

They never imagined that no matter how much they drank, they would never be able to recoup the cost.

What's more, the tavern only has unlimited drinks, and the special side dishes "peanuts and edamame" that go with the drinks cost extra.

By the way, during this time the pub also introduced a new type of food called ‘skewers’.

This kind of food looks similar to barbecue, but it conquers everyone's stomach with its unparalleled deliciousness.

"Tell me something that interests me, and don't talk about this public information anymore."

Li Mingqi was very dissatisfied with Davis's hiding method.

Davis was choked by Li Mingqi and didn't say a word. He just smoked his cigarette quietly.

When he was about to finish smoking a cigarette, Davis broke the silence and said:

"Sir, although I don't know what you want to do, the only thing that can tempt you about those Spaniards is their ships and people."

"I can help you complete all the work including gathering information, and I can even come forward to conduct transactions with them."

"I have only one request, and that is to become your long-term employee."

Davis looked at Li Mingqi very sincerely and made his conditions.

"Forget it for long-term employees. Who can say for sure what will happen in the future? But we can re-sign a full-year employment contract. What do you think?"

Li Mingqi changed into a comfortable position on the chair.

After seeing Davis peeking at the half box of Liqun on the table, he gave it to him with a very heroic wave of his hand.

Davis, who got the cigarettes, stopped fussing and said directly:

"Those two old battleships are worthless. What is valuable is the sailors on board."

"Twenty percent, I will help you get rid of those drunkards for only 20% of the transaction price."

"Twenty percent is too much. If it's 10%, we can still consider it..."

"make a deal!"

Before Li Mingqi finished speaking, Davis simply nodded in agreement.

This made Li Mingqi feel that the counteroffer was not enough.

But recently, because Li Mingqi needed a large amount of aluminum game coins, the merchant gave him a 50% discount.

So this small amount of money allowed Davis to make money.

Anyway, sooner or later, this guy will have to exchange his crown coins for various luxury goods unique to Xinming Town.