Pillars of the Wu family

"What a legendary story with ups and downs!" Yoshitoki Kira sighed and said, "I understand! I will try my best to help you realize your wish, but neither I nor you are still too young! If you can go back to Europe It is a better choice to continue to study further.”

"I told you so many stories just to hear you go back and continue studying? I thought you must be a special person, but now it seems that I was wrong!" Claudia was disappointed at first, and then turned to Standing up angrily, he picked up the corner of his skirt and was about to leave.

"Wait! I think you need a sum of money, don't you? If my deal with your uncle is successful, I can provide you with a sum of money to help you realize your dreams." Ji Liangyi hurriedly ran to the stairs to stop her the way to go.

The blond-haired little loli waited for her blue eyes and said sternly: "I need your help, but I'm not begging for your charity! You have to remember! The dignity of my Claudia Plantagenet cannot be desecrated!"

"Okay! Your dignity cannot be desecrated! The arrogant Joseph is wrong!" Yoshitomo Kira admitted his mistake helplessly, "Okay! Let's talk about cooperation?"

"Okay! I'll just say it straight! I need to buy a ship of my own, with my own sailors and armed forces! I need you to lend me five hundred pounds of silver!"

"What?" Yoshishi Kira almost fell over. Five hundred pounds of silver is not a small sum. He only managed to gather 5 taels of silver with his Kira family's wealth. The asking price of this little loli lion is so high. , It's too unreasonable.

"This won't work, absolutely not! I don't have that much money to lend you!" Ji Liangyi refused without hesitation.

The blond little loli frowned slightly and stared at him, insisting in a very firm tone: "As long as you lend me five hundred pounds of silver, we can talk about anything!"

"Oh? You can talk about anything?" Yoshiki Kira touched his chin and said with a slightly wretched smile, "Does that mean you can talk too?"

"You!" Claudia stood up in an instant and slammed her hands on the table like an angry lioness. Yoshishi Kira wanted to slap her on the mouth, and insisted on saying something more. It would do him good to piss off the little loli.

Just when he was worried about gains and losses, Claudia suddenly sat back on the chair and said with a strange smile: "Of course, handsome Joseph, as long as you can afford it, I can talk about it." !"

Yoshiki Kira looked at the blond little loli with a guilty conscience, and asked cautiously, "Oh? What's the price?"

Claudia blinked, and there was a hint of cunning in her eyes, and said quietly: "Ten six-deck Clark galleons, sixty half-snake guns, and a thousand skilled sailors, my asking price is not high!"

"Nani! Does this mean that the asking price is not high? You really think that you are made of gold!" Yoshiki Kira almost got under the table. The Clark sailing ship is the largest ocean-going sailing ship in Spain. It is Spain's trump card, let alone He didn't have the money to buy it, and even if he had money, he wouldn't dare to buy it. He never expected that Claudia would scare people to death with just one mouthful.

The latest Clark-class sailboat is different from the early models a century ago. In this era, Spain has been able to manufacture large Clark sailboats with a displacement of up to 700 tons. The largest Clark sailboat is currently 50 meters long and 15 meters wide. It can carry 900 tons of cargo and can carry two hundred crew members.

If the armed sailboat is made alone, the Clark sailboat can carry 32 artillery pieces and 600 to 700 soldiers. The largest Clark sailboat so far has a seven-deck design, which makes it a well-deserved sea giant of this era. Of course, its cost It is extremely expensive. It costs [-] silver coins to build a galleon of this level. Even if the six-deck Clark galleon is reduced by an order of magnitude, the price will not be lower than [-] silver coins.

The half-snake cannon is a lightweight model compared to the snake cannon. The half-snake cannon is usually a 9-pound cannon, and the snake cannon is an 18-pound cannon. The price of the cannon is not comparable to that of a sailboat, but it is also more difficult to obtain than a sailboat. Cannon casting technology It has always been in the hands of the royal family. Even England began to explore the technology of casting guns during this period. England was still fighting hard to replace matchlock guns or continue to use longbowmen. It was too difficult to get artillery. This is why Frank The reason for the rejection.

"Hehe! Just kidding, don't be so nervous!" Claudia laughed and said, "You are not a gentleman, but at least you are not hypocritical."

"Really? Thank you for the compliment." Yoshitomo Kira shrugged.

Five hundred pounds of silver can buy a 250-ton Karak galleon. There is not a single commercial sailboat in the fleet of the Argot Chamber of Commerce that exceeds [-] tons. This girl's asking price is definitely too high.

Next, I even got to the point. In order to determine the agreement and amount of the loan, the two children who were just over 20 years old together, but had mature children far beyond their age due to their own reasons, sat together to discuss every clause of the cooperation, maybe It was because the blond-haired little loli just called him an ungentleman, and Yoshiki Kira became extra cautious in the subsequent negotiations.

The two talked from the morning to the afternoon, until the clock struck sixteen, and finally reached a loan and cooperation agreement, which made Claudia regret and complained that she was wrong. Sly businessman.

The main content of the contract they reached was that Yoshito Kira was only willing to lend him two hundred pounds of silver to buy a 120-ton commercial sailing ship, and Claudia must ensure that a suitable watchmaker was found to make the flint he needed. Gun, and at the same time find some men for him.

"You mean a flintlock? Is it a musket that uses gravel to ignite? If I remember correctly, there should be this kind of musket in Spain." Claudia looked at him suspiciously. This Joseph is so mysterious, as if everything know the same.

"It's not that kind of musket, I'll draw it for you!" Yoshihiro Yoshihiro picked up a charcoal pencil and drew a few sketches of the brake locking device of the dog lock flintlock mechanism. He could only draw a rough outline based on his vague memory. As for whether you can understand it, you can only resign yourself to fate, "You show these sketches to those watchmakers, whoever can understand this principle, bring him to me!"

"Oh! You still know how to paint?" Claudia looked at the sketch in amazement. The sketching method made him feel completely new. The Renaissance culture in Venice and Florence also spread to the Netherlands. Although she had heard of it There is something special about the vividness of the sketches, but this is the first time she has seen the real ones, which are completely different from the oil paintings she has seen before.

After carefully looking at these sketches, Claudia folded the paper carefully and said, "I don't understand this, but it seems that the musket you drew is so exquisite, I don't know if there is a watchmaker who can make it." come out!"

Kira Yoshitoshi said confidently: "It's okay! As long as you show them, someone will be able to understand it! It is your duty to bring the person who understands the sketch. As for other people asking you or asking all questions Don't answer, those are people who don't understand and have ulterior motives."

"Yeah! Remember it!" The blond little girl nodded.

"In addition, help me find an instructor who is proficient in cavalry tactics and knight swordsmanship. If there are experienced Swiss mercenaries, hire me some! Same as watchmakers, I can hire them for two years! Of course, the price should be fair , otherwise if I refuse, you will have to make a trip for nothing."

Claudia pouted and said angrily: "Damn Joseph! You have too many demands! Where can I find you an instructor who is proficient in knight swordsmanship! You need an experienced Swiss mercenary, I must They are willing to go with me only after paying their salaries! This money must be added to the contract!"

"Oh! My request is a bit too much, but I really need them. You must know that no one in this world is willing to lend a ten-year-old girl two hundred pounds of silver. I don't want your interest. I just need you to find them for me. A watchmaker with excellent skills, an instructor who is proficient in knight swordsmanship, and a few experienced Swiss mercenaries, as long as you can do these, I can bear all the expenses, of course, if you can bring them all to me , this debt can also be forgiven!" Ji Liangyi finally showed his fox tail, and hired a little lolita to win a group of instructors for him for two hundred pounds, which was the work of a black-hearted profiteer.

"Huh! I got it! Remember your promise!" The little blond girl agreed angrily.

The Swiss mercenary army is the most powerful spearman army of this era. They ran across Europe in the fourteenth century, and their reputation alarmed the Holy See. Finally, the Pope decided to hire the Swiss spearman army as a garrison for a long time, and knight swordsmanship is a European two-handed sword. With the development of muskets, European knight culture gradually withered, and the lives of knights gradually fell into desperation.

For example, the famous Teutonic Knights declared their complete disappearance in 1525 when Albrecht, the last head of the Grand Prix, announced his conversion to Lutheranism, and then founded the Principality of Prussia with the Teutonic Knights as the core. A state of existence in name only.

The black-hearted guys of the Knights Templar were completely finished 200 years ago. The only remaining Knights of St. John still stubbornly adhere to the dogma of the knights. A knightly order of pure idealists.

The Knights of St. John, also known as the Knights of the Hospital, is the most heroic knights. Of course, they have worked hard on the small islands in the Mediterranean Sea. A shocking thing happened.

More than 20 years ago, the Knights of the Hospital with only 6000 knights and more than 20 soldiers faced the 5 Turkish army led by Suleiman I in Rhodes Island. As a result, the Knights must have held on for half a year before they ran out of ammunition and food. During the surrender, Turkey was forced to kill [-] people. Perhaps it was shocked by this knight order, or it may be out of respect for these warriors. In the end, Suleiman I allowed the Knights of the Hospital to withdraw from Rhodes Island peacefully.

In the next twenty years, this knight order has been moving around without a fixed place. Their spirit of abiding by dogma and being willing to be poor finally moved the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, that is, the current Karl V. In his pardon The Knights of the Lower Hospital migrated to the island of Malta and paid a symbolic Maltese eagle to the Kingdom of Sicily every year as rent. The Knights established the Knights of Malta on the island.

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