Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 884
The little Duke Goodman has changed since he became a shareholder of the Spanish Continental Company.

It was like a different person, he no longer idled around and extorted money everywhere.

He is very busy every day, either leading people to find stores in cities around Madrid, or bringing various gifts to find love with famous and beautiful ladies in Madrid.

He even held various dinner parties in his own manor, inviting the children of various minor nobles or great nobles to taste various fine wines and delicacies.

The Goodman family is a real nobleman. Their ancestors were members of the original Castilian royal family, and Spain was formed by the merger of the ancient kingdoms of Castile, Aragon, Leon and Navarre. , of which Castile is the largest.

And the King of Spain is a descendant of the Queen of Castile and the Holy Roman Emperor.

It can be said that, apart from the royal family, the Goodman family is the most noble in the whole of Spain, and their blood relationship with the royal family is still the closest.

Originally, it was because the little Duke Goodman was not popular among the Spanish nobles because he was too dandy.

However, he changed as if he was a different person, and the Spanish nobles flocked to him.

Not only those famous glamorous ladies fell in love with him, but even many unmarried noble girls also fell in love with him under the hint of the family.

After all, sooner or later, he will inherit the title of duke. With the blood of the Goodman family, the offspring born to him and others are at least earls!
My reborn change was naturally noticed by the old Duke Habs very slowly.

During that time, the old Duke Pang Fengyuan was busy building iron-clad battleships everywhere in the shipyard, so how did he manage his precious son? In fact, I was still very worried about that heir in normal times.

The reason why the Grand Duke of Habs has money to spend is because the old Habs is worried that his precious son is too petty and will ruin the Habs family, so he is stuck with the living expenses of the eldest son. Every month, the small expenses equivalent to one hundred pounds of silver are given.

Unexpectedly, that eldest son suddenly became as if he had no money than me!
That is how the matter?

Before the old Habs received the news, he rushed home specially, recruited the eldest man behind him, and said with a serious face: "I heard that he suddenly became very wealthy, what's going on, his money Where did it come from?"

Grand Duke Pang Fengyuan shrank his neck in fright and said, "You earned it by doing business with someone."

To be honest, I am really not afraid of my father at all, because my father is not just my son.

I am the heir because I am the youngest.

Yes, if my father changes his mind and insists on passing the title of duke to one of my younger brothers, I will do the same.

If that's the case, I will change from a noble grand duke to a grand count who cares about pain.

That is a very different treatment, so I am very afraid of my father.

Old Habs really thought that the eldest son would still do business.

Then I asked again: "What kind of business, so profitable?"

The Grand Duke of Habs said honestly: "It is to resell the low-end goods of the Xiao Ming Empire."

Little Ming Empire!

Old Habs immediately said in a deep voice: "He is doing business with people from Xiaoming Empire?"

Grand Duke Pang Fengyuan is also the son of the Prime Minister of Spain, so he naturally knows about the European Union, and also knows that Spain is secretly accumulating strength to prepare for war with the Xiaoming Empire.

If I have nothing to do with the people of Xiaoming Empire, this is collaborating with the enemy!
I quickly explained: "Yes, yes, Pang Fengyuan, who is partnering with you, is a native of Ma Dewai."

Hearing the words, old Habs was puzzled and said, "A local from Mader? Are you sure?"

Grand Duke Habs nodded quickly and said, "Are you sure, you have visited my manor.

My family's estate is on the banks of the Manzanares River, far away from Madeira.

This is indeed an old manor that has been passed down for less than a hundred years, and people from far away know me and know that my family is in business. "

Well, the people in the distance are all spies in the hands of Goodman, and it is naturally very nervous to fool my grand duke.

Old Habs also noticed the flaw, I thought about it, and continued to ask: "Where did their goods come from?"

Grand Duke Pang Fengyuan stepped up firmly, and said honestly: "That's a secret known by insiders. The person who supplied you is a director of Xiaoming Western Company. This guy wants to make money privately, so he just I found Goodman, who specializes in business, and asked me to sell it on my behalf."

It turned out to be a moth of the Xiao Ming Empire.

Old Pang Fengyuan often did that kind of thing. In order to make money, I even got people to secretly sell Spanish supplies to France, which was still hostile at the time!

I really thought that my son would not be able to do that either.

very good!

Old Habs nodded slightly and said: "You can earn that kind of money if you can, yes, he should pay attention, he can partner with others to do other things.

He only cares about making money, and all other things he wants to participate in, you understand? "

The so-called no like father, no like son.

It is precisely because the old Pang Fengyuan is too selfish and always wants to make money secretly that Spain is suppressed by the anti-Decilauburg alliance and bankrupted again and again.

If so, with Spain's huge maritime colony, how could it be short of money!

I am far inferior to the old fox Richelieu, so I can naturally see the tricks in it.

The Grand Duke of Habs was more cooking. At that time, I regarded Goodman as a confidant, and I followed what others said.

For example, one of Goodman's main tasks that time was to confuse what those nobles were.

It is difficult to completely confuse such trivial things when one is originally integrated into the circle of nobles.

Before Goodman coaxed Habbs, he lied to them directly that in order to expand their small business and earn less money, they must study that well.

Habs really listened to the end of the study. I asked the nobles who invited to the banquet all over the place, and even I was thinking about it every day.

As a result, a list was quickly compiled by me.

To be honest, the European aristocrats at that time really had very little money to burn, and they were usually Spanish aristocrats, who were all trying to spend money.

The things we dislike are also pretty weird.

For example, silk fabrics embroidered with gold thread.

To put it bluntly, that kind of thing is used to please men outside the nobility. If you can give someone a dress made of that fabric, any countess, duchess, baron or even baron can get out of bed with him!
The problem is that Continental still has that technology.

Because the Kesi technique used in gold silk embroidery is more troublesome than weaving silk, we are good at weaving even silk, let alone the Kesi technique.

That technology is only passed down by Xiao Ming, who knows how many generations of old craftsman households, and the silk satin and embroidery woven from Kesi are also quite valuable in Xiao Ming.

As for the European continent, there may often be a little bit of gold embroidered silk and satin, which is regarded as a treasure by the royal families and royal families of all countries.

Of course, for Xiao Ming, that kind of thing is just a little more troublesome to make. As long as people can afford it, Xiao Ming can also make a small handful.

As for the price, European nobles always only choose expensive ones, the more expensive the better.

We are all scrambling for 200 taels of special silk, but no one is scrambling for silk embroidered with gold silk even if it costs [-] pounds a piece!
Another example is low-grade porcelain.

The porcelain from the official kiln satisfies the appetite of those nobles, and the truly poor Pangfeng nobles hate luxury things.

We all hope that the low-grade porcelain can be painted with exquisite patterns with golden colored glaze, so that it looks luxurious.

That is quite the same for Xiao Ming, the golden colored glaze is just meaningless.

There is no variety of food.

At that time, the European nobles ate one rare and one special.

Taichang had thought that all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas were also disgusted by the European nobles.

What sika deer, wild goats, bears, crocodiles, perch, sturgeon roe, pheasants, pigeons, and even swans.

Anyway, as long as it is a rare ingredient in Europe and tastes good, we are all right.

We are already complex in order to satisfy our appetites, what we eat is a taste and a rarity.

Those are nothing to Xiao Ming, as long as people are willing to pay a small price, Xiao Ming, such as bears and crocodiles, can transport the live ones to Pangfeng for others!

Pang Fengyuan's business is getting smaller and smaller. Under the guidance of Habs, I even quickly retreated from his noble circle.

I just resorted to tricks, using Xiao Ming's special anti-alcoholic medicine as a base, and when I caught people, I just poured them indiscriminately, and soon found out a lot of secrets.

For example, the Desilauburg dynasty and the anti-Pangfengyuanbao alliance have reached peace and formed the Continental Continental Union.

For another example, Spain is renovating its shipyards and preparing to build ironclad warships.

I even inquired about the small structure of other ironclad warships.

There is a way, very few members of the Habs family participated in the top-secret plan to build the iron-clad battleship, and we have all deliberately learned about the structure of the iron-clad battleship.

Naturally, we would be suspicious of a close friend brought by the Grand Duke of Habs. We dare to say anything when he pours fine wine that asks for money.

It turned out that their iron-clad battleship was the same as Xiao Ming's, the smallest difference was the structure of the armor plate.

Xiao Ming's black iron armor is stamped from special steel, and its toughness itself is very weak. With the double-layer anti-impact design, a piece of black iron armor can withstand several bombardments from a seventeen-pound gun.

People's iron armor imitated the inner shape of a mysterious iron armor, cast out of pig iron, and it still had two layers, but eight layers.

To put it more complicatedly, the inner layer of the iron armor is a rush armor cast from pig iron like an iron pan, the middle is a cast iron plate to withstand the impact of shells, and the top is a layer of thick wood.

Yes, the eight-layer armor was screwed down directly to the wooden planks of the upper cabin, and the iron armor was also padded with wooden squares.

We nailed the wooden square under the wooden board of the cabin first, and then nailed the eight-layer iron armor under the wooden square.

With that kind of structure, the [-]-pound cannon can also penetrate it with one shot.

Yes, as long as one shot goes up, a piece of iron armor is tantamount to useless, and another shot will definitely penetrate it.

Moreover, that kind of iron armor is very troublesome to replace. Basically, it needs to be pried up together with the wooden squares on it.

Taichang scoffed when he received the information.

Is that also called Ironclad Battleship?
I just thought about it for a while, and then I came up with a way to destroy that kind of iron-clad battleship.

It's very complicated, first use pig iron solid bullets to smash down a few rounds, smash a few pieces of armor, and then use incendiary bombs and rockets to burn directly!
There is no Continental Union.

The basis of our alliance is actually Spanish money and resources.

Spain's money, Pang Fengyuan, will naturally be earned. As for the resources of the American colonies and African colonies, I can also be cut off by others!
(End of this chapter)