Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2099, If you want a weapon, you can exchange it with wool

"My friend, believe me, you did a wise move!"

Hearing that Henry was also planning to raise sheep and grow cotton on his own territory, Ding Shiji immediately said with a smile.

"I hope so, but I need a lot of sheep here, where should I buy these sheep?"

Henry said with a smile.

"Don't worry, our Ming Empire has the best sheep, and we can also sign a contract. The sheep can be used by you for free first, and you can pay off the payment for these sheep with wool."

"Of course, we prefer to accept cash transactions."

Ding Shiji said with a smile.

The Ming Empire owns three major ranches in the Golden Continent and Australia, the Great Plains Ranch in the North Golden Continent, the Pampas Grassland in the Southern Golden Continent, and the southeastern Australian Ranch.

After decades of development and grazing in the three major ranches, the number of cattle and sheep has become very large, and the herdsmen are worried about how to sell these cattle and sheep.

You must know that Daming also has a large number of pastures in Asia, such as the northern grasslands, Qinghai pastures, Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions, Altai Mountain pastures, Central Asia pastures, Hezhong pastures, Nanyun pastures, grasslands in Heitu Province, etc.

There are many high-quality pastures, and the number of cattle and sheep grazing in Daming is very large. The price of cattle and sheep is extremely cheap, so cheap that the whole Daming can eat cheap and high-quality beef and mutton.

In the past, the price of a cow was still very expensive, especially when it could be used as a farming cattle. Even the government had a special yellow book registration, and cattle were not allowed to be killed.

But now, there are too many cattle and sheep in the Ming Dynasty, and even in some provinces in the north of the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, many gentry and landlords raise cattle and sheep on their land instead of growing grain for economic benefits.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Ming Empire possessed a large number of cattle, sheep and horses because of its vast land and a large number of high-quality grasslands and pastures. This also caused the price of cattle, sheep and horses to plummet, and gradually became the table of the Ming people. The most common meat.

"That's really great. It's comfortable to do business with you Daming people."

When Henry heard this, he immediately became happier. This relationship is good, and he can still pay on credit, and use wool to repay the purchase price. I don’t know if these Daming people have a problem with their brains, so they operate like this.

If I cheated in the end, wouldn't these Daming people lose their money?
But thinking about these Daming people, this kind of thought is also fleeting. If this is cheating on the Daming people, the Ming people might directly drive the warship to Paris and ask the King of the Big Nose for money. I still don't know how to die.

Henry and Ding Shiji were happily discussing about raising sheep and growing cotton. I have to say that the services provided by the Daming people are really good, and they provided Henry with all-round solutions.

All he needs to do is let the farmers in his territory raise sheep and grow cotton, and then just sit and wait for the money to be collected.

"My lord, I brought my daughter here."

When the two of them finished their discussion, Marcel brought his daughter to the castle and met Henry and Ding Shiji.

Next to Marcel, a [-]-year-old French girl stood nervously. Although her clothes were shabby, she was thinner and dirty, but she could still see the youthfulness and beauty of a [-]-year-old girl. .

Ding Shiji looked at it carefully, and said with a little satisfaction: "How much are you going to sell?"

Ming people in Hong Kong usually have a few European maids or concubines in their homes, which are not expensive anyway.

"Um, 10 yuan, not 20 Daming silver dollars."

Marcel looked at his daughter, reluctant to give up, but finally he gritted his teeth and made an offer, and finally quoted a price of 20 Daming silver dollars, which he thought was a very high price.

"can!"

When Ding Shiji heard this, he immediately nodded and agreed, and then he asked people to prepare the sales documents and the slave contract, and asked Marcel and his daughter Catherine to sign and pledge.

After the signature and painting were deposited, Ding Shiji also readily took out 20 Ming silver dollars to Marcel.

Marcel took 20 Ming silver dollars and looked at his daughter, but in the end he could only leave Henry's castle amidst his daughter's crying.

As for Catherine, although she was very reluctant to leave her parents, she also knew that from now on, she was a slave, and her master was the black-eyed and black-haired Daming man in front of her.

In an ancient aristocratic manor in the Holy Roman Empire, some of the most important dukes and earls that make up the Holy Roman Empire gathered together to discuss how to deal with the invasion of Charles V.

Although the Holy Roman Empire is known as an empire, it is not a country in the true sense, because compared with Spain and France, the Holy Roman Empire has the weakest kingship, and all its political power is controlled by the Great Empire. In the hands of hundreds of principalities, marquises, counties, autonomous cities, bishop states, and church territories, large and small.

It is a loose collection of these hundreds of various countries, and all power is in the hands of these local dukes, marquises and the like.

Even the only administrative body in the entire empire is the Imperial Parliament, where many noble lords gather for meetings. The monarch is more of a symbolic meaning and has no substantive power.

Of course, this is the current state. In the early days of the Holy Roman Empire, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire still held real power, but it became more and more subdivided and smaller, and finally became what it is now.

This is why although Charles V is the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, he is in Spain, because he does not have any substantive power in the Holy Roman Empire, not even his own soldiers and horses.

All the power is in the hands of the nobles and lords of these states. The emperor has no say in the right to conscription, taxation, coinage, appointment and dismissal, etc., and he has no right to obtain any taxation, Troops and so on.

Under such circumstances, Charles V will definitely choose to go to the Spanish Empire. Here, at least he can still hold a lot of power, and he also uses this to hold all the power of the Spanish Empire in his own hands. reform.

"Charles V is a tyrant and a butcher!"

"He brutally killed the three Spanish dukes and confiscated their land and all their property."

"If he does the same in the Holy Roman Empire, everyone, we will all be guillotined by him, and all our land and property will be confiscated by him."

Duke Barr said angrily.

"We will never agree, he is not our emperor now."

The Duke of Bavaria roared.

"But he will not give up attacking our Holy Roman Empire. It is reported that he is training a large number of new-style troops and is preparing to attack us from all sides. He threatened to turn the Holy Roman Empire into a second Spain."

Duke Barr said again, his words ignited the emotions of the venue, and many dukes and earls were extremely angry.

Everyone has been living a comfortable life for a long time. Now, Charles V actually said that he wants to learn from the people of Ming Dynasty, carry out some reforms, and abolish our principality, marquis, etc., and return many powers to the king. hands.

This is absolutely something that everyone cannot tolerate. Everyone decisively abolished the title of Charles V Holy Roman Emperor and elected a new emperor who is in everyone's interest.

But Charles V was not reconciled. He was ambitious and was forming and training a powerful army, preparing to unify the Holy Roman Empire by force.

"Everyone, we must unite and form a powerful army. Only in this way can we protect our interests."

The Duke of Burgundy stood up and proposed.

"I heard that the army in the hands of Charles V all uses advanced weapons from the Ming Empire. We can also buy arms and weapons from the Ming people to train the army."

The Duke of Bavaria said: "I have already contacted the people of Daming, who expressed their willingness to sell us arms and weapons, as long as we can come up with enough silver, they will sell us as much as we want."

"Great!"

"As long as we have the weapons and weapons of the Ming people, it will be very easy to defeat Charles V."

"The weapons of the Ming people are very powerful. The Ottoman Empire was wiped out twice by the Ming people. Under the powerful Ming muskets, even the most powerful cavalry will be torn to pieces."

"However, I heard that Ming people's weapons are very expensive, we can't afford much!"

When many nobles heard this, they immediately started talking.

"Everyone, I know what everyone is worried about. The weapons of the Ming people are the best, but they are also the most expensive."

The Duke of Bavaria also stood up and said, seeing that everyone was talking about it, "The Ming people said that you can use silver and gold to buy Ming people's weapons, and you can also use cotton and wool to buy Ming people's arms and weapons."

"The people of Daming need cotton and wool very much now, and they are willing to buy wool and cotton at a high price. Everyone can raise more sheep and shear sheep in their respective territories, grow more cotton, and exchange cotton and wool for arms and weapons of the Ming people."

"Of course, if you have money, you can also go directly to Daming people to buy arms and weapons."

"According to the news, Charles V now has a new-style army of more than 10 people, and at the same time, he is arming an army of [-] people. All of them use Daming muskets, which are powerful, have a long range, and are highly accurate. If we use The muskets produced by ourselves have no chance of winning at all.”

"All of us are united, at least we need to arm the same 20 new-style troops, otherwise we are no match for Charles V at all, and we will all be guillotined like the three Spanish dukes. All land and property were confiscated."

Hearing his words, everyone couldn't help but gasped, and at the same time, everyone knew the urgency of the moment.

If it is impossible to form a strong army, what will they use to resist Charles V?

Once Charles V's army came to kill them, these nobles and lords would definitely not end well, especially these big nobles and grand dukes, all of them looked dignified.

All of them are thinking about how to spend as much money as possible to buy arms and weapons.

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(End of this chapter)