The Rise of the European Emperor

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Although the terrible bombing advertisement of the New Dongfang Cooking School in his previous life always appeared in his mind, Marin still insisted on using the name "Royal West Point Military Academy". Anyway, apart from myself, no one else would think crookedly,

In particular, you need to use Chinese, so you may think crookedly. But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty was the most confident time for Chinese people. Even if Western food is passed on, it will not be called Western food, and Western pastry will not be called West Point, but it will be called Yidian or something.

For example, now, Marin's title within the Ming Dynasty is "Dongfanbo". As for the title of the Grand Duke of Beihai, it was directly ignored by the people of the Ming Dynasty. In their view, Yang Yi or something, not to mention the grand duke, even the king seemed ridiculous, no different from the chiefs in the southwestern Shaomin area. Therefore, these days, no one would think wrongly about this word.

Of course, Marin also understood the mentality of the Ming Dynasty people, but he was not very angry. why? Because in Marin's eyes, these people are ancient NPCs, so what's the deal with them? Besides, if you lower your posture, you can reap a lot of benefits from the Ming Dynasty, so why not do it?

No, right now, two more shipments of silk and porcelain have been brought back from Panama. A rough calculation can bring Marin a net profit of about 200,000 gold coins.

In this regard, the Portuguese eyes were already red and about to explode. Because, according to the agreement, they should be the controllers of the Ming Empire!

But, in fact, they simply do not have the ability to control the Ming Empire. They didn't get any benefit from the previous conflict. The fleet sent out this time has just arrived in Malacca and is being repaired, planning to launch a full-scale attack on the coast of the Ming Empire.

In fact, Portugal is also very envious of Marin's methods, and intends to learn from Marin's methods and pay tribute to Ming Dynasty as a barbarian chief in Southeast Asia. But it is a pity that they were reluctant to give up the big tin mine in Kuala Lumpur they had acquired, and refused to return the land of the Kingdom of Malacca, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, so naturally they could not agree with the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, they can only fantasize about conquering the Ming Dynasty with the fleet, and then try to negotiate.

But it is a pity that the Portuguese did not know that the Ming Dynasty would not succumb to the enemy's force, which is why so many people in later generations fanned the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the current ruler is Emperor Zhengde, who loved war the most in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and it would be a ghost if he could conquer the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, Kong Tai had already received instructions from Marin and was ready to report to the Ming Dynasty. No, the spy ship that Kong Tai sent to the Strait of Malacca discovered the arrival of the Portuguese fleet, and rushed to Keelung with a fast boat to deliver a letter to Kong Tai.

"Did you arrive so late?" Kong Tai was a little depressed. He had been prepared for a long time, but he did not expect that the Portuguese was so inefficient, a few months later than he estimated.

As for why? Mainly because of this Portuguese fleet,

Under the leadership of Da Gama, the Kingdom of Benin on the west coast of Africa went around the waves, and even went ashore to rob.

The Kingdom of Benin is a famous ancient country in West Africa, and it trades frequently with other parts of West Africa, so there is also a lot of gold. Da Gama was a greedy person. When passing by the coast of Benin, he saw a civil war breaking out there, so he got involved and sent troops ashore to help the weak and defeat the strong. However, after the victory, all the benefits were taken away...

Through this civil war in the Kingdom of Benin, da Gama earned 1,500 pounds of gold sand and a boatload of ivory, which can be described as a bumper harvest. Then, he would stop and go on the west coast of Africa, looking for opportunities to get sideways.

However, Africa is too backward in this era. Unless there are a few civilized countries in West Africa, there are almost no decent countries along the coast of Southwest Africa. The only Congo kingdom that is somewhat decent is still an ally of Portugal. As a professional robber, the Portuguese colonists are obviously experts, knowing that only the city has a lot of oil and water. And those tribal villages along the coast, although easy to win, have little money. Even hundreds of villages are not as rich as a small town. The reason is simple - in this era, only in the cities are there active trading activities and abundant commodities. And when there are more commodities, there will be more currency (sands). In such a place, after looting, there is enough oil and water. However, in ordinary small villages, they can only grab some poor food and some livestock, so they really don't make much money.

After arriving on the coast of East Africa, Da Gama's fleet, again in the Swahili people (the mixed race of Arab businessmen and local blacks, from the coast of Mozambique to the southern coast of Somalia, there are many Swahili people, and there are also many Swahili people. On the site of the small city-states of the Heli people), they robbed several small coastal city-states.

Da Gama was very cunning. Instead of attacking the city by force, he used the name of trade to deceive the city gate first, and then launched a sudden attack. Instead, he allowed him to break through several small Swahili city-states and plundered a large number of people. wealth.

By the time da Gama's fleet arrived at the Indian supply port, his warships had already been filled with precious goods such as gold sand, ivory, rhino horn, and gems.

If he returns to Europe at this time, Da Gama can make a lot of money again. However, he was responsible for the invasion of Ming Dynasty, so these goods can only be temporarily stored in Goa, Portugal's trading base in India, and brought back when they are ready to return.

Then, Da Gama took the fleet to the port of Malacca slowly, and was discovered by Kong Tai's spies, and rushed to report...

At this time, Da Gama didn't know that Kong Tai had presented 20 12-pound Napoleon guns to the Ming court a few months ago, and also presented the clay mold casting method of the Napoleon guns.

At this moment, Zhang Yong, one of the "Eight Tigers of Zhengde", is supervising the craftsmen of the Military Battle Bureau to cast cannons. After Liu Jin fell from power, Zhang Yong, who overthrew him, did not gain the same power as Liu Jin. The reason is that this guy doesn't have Liu Jin's ability. Therefore, he can only compete with Gu Dayong and other tigers for favor. Zhang Yong has a little understanding of military affairs, so he is in charge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor in charge of the military affairs of the inner court, and the military battle bureau of the Eighth Bureau of the Inner Court.

After Kong Tai presented the clay casting method of the 12-pound cannon, Zhang Yong, relying on Zhengde's favor, snatched the technology and task of casting the cannon from the Ministry of Industry, and let the military bureau of the inner court cast the cannon.

Now, after a few months, the first batch of clay models that were originally made have almost dried up. Then, it's the cannon-casting link...

Copper cast guns are much simpler than iron cast guns, and are less prone to internal problems. Therefore, there is no problem with Zhang Yong directing the military battle to cast cannons. The only problem is probably that when Kong Tai presented the cannon casting technology, he did not send the blueprint of the gun carriage, but only the casting technology of the cannon body. That is to say, the 12-pound Napoleon gun cast by Zhang Yong actually has only one bare barrel... Of course, there are also gun ears, and Wangshan can be added later...

But, that's fine too. Because, except for the artillery of the Beihai State, the artillery of other countries does not have a gun mount with wheels. At most, there are two more lugs. The Wangshan aiming at the back of the gun body is considered "high technology"...

After being filled with gunpowder and dry-fried, after testing, only 13 of the first batch of 120 12-pound Napoleon guns manufactured by Bingzhanju had some problems and needed to be rebuilt. In other words, the pass rate is as high as about 90%.

This is because Marin did not dedicate the Rodman method of inner membrane cooling to Ming Ting. This is a big killer for casting heavy artillery, and Marin would not dedicate it to the Ming Dynasty foolishly.

But even so, Zhang Yong was ecstatic with a pass rate close to 90%. Because, the pass rate of the cannons cast in the previous military battle was much lower than this, not even half. Therefore, he is considered "contributory".

If Marin knew what Zhang Yong was thinking, he would probably be sprayed to death. You know, copper cannons are not difficult in the first place, and you have even adjusted the scrap rate of more than 10%, which is simply...

This is probably related to the fact that the management of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty was not very strict. Some things were clearly scrapped due to personal operational errors, rather than technical problems. Regarding this point, Beihai State is very strict in the process, so the scrap rate is extremely low. The management of the Ming Dynasty was not strict, and Zhang Yong watched closely this time, causing so many scraps. If I didn't watch it personally in the future, the scrap rate is estimated to be higher...

Fortunately, there was a problem with the casting of the copper cannon, so it could be melted down and remade. Anyway, copper is not as easy to oxidize as iron. At most, just spend a little clay mold...