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Chapter 520 No matter ancient or modern, beggar gangs are especially rich

The ship of the exploration team is moored near the shore. Through the telescope, it can be clearly seen that a large ship is coming here. It seems that it should have just come from the sea from the west, and the target is clear. direction.

The ship of the exploration team is not big, with a displacement of more than 200 tons. It can only sail in the coastal waters. There are only more than 30 people on board. After all, it is only a small team.

I saw a large ship with the same shape as my own thousand-ton displacement, only slightly wider by two points, and looked a little bloated, sailing towards this side.

Looking at the flag number on the ship, I don't even recognize it, but one thing is certain, it is definitely not Daming's ship.

The captain felt a little bad. However, he was used to running wild on the sea in the past few years, so he didn't feel scared for a while. It's just that there are strict regulations on marching. When encountering such things, he still needs to warn.

Facts have proved that rules and regulations are indeed useful, and it can avoid unnecessary losses caused by many individuals.

On the vast sea, where is there any morality and law? If two big ships meet a single small boat, is there anything else that needs to be taken into account?
Obviously not!

The people who had just landed quickly returned, and when the sails of the small boat were raised halfway, the two big ships sailed not far away. Xu could see that the small boat was about to run away. The gun door is opened!
Through the binoculars, looking at the black hole of the muzzle, the watchman shouted directly, "Be careful, they have artillery on board!"

They have seen and used this thing, but Wang Xuan has never promoted it in the army. He has always felt that the current artillery technology and firecracker technology have too many shortcomings in practical application and are not practical.

In terms of firecrackers alone, there is a big gap between the anger developed in the early stage and the crossbow that has basically reached its peak. One does not know where to go ten meters away, and its lethality does not exceed 30 meters. The other, The lethality does not decrease within a hundred meters, and there is no comparison at all.

Of course, the reason why the firecracker has achieved great development in Europe is because of its low cost and low training cost. It is cheap rather than easy to use.

In China, however, the country is powerful, so it doesn’t make any sense that it takes a year to manufacture a crossbow. To put it bluntly, there are more people and more money. Therefore, the development of firecrackers in China is very slow until, The invention of smokeless gunpowder and the application of rifling surpassed the crossbow in practicality.

During the period, even now, the effective range of .30 and May 50 pistols is only [-] meters and [-] meters, which is not as good as that of crossbows!
As for cannons, the current smoothbore guns rely on huge kinetic energy. As for the accuracy and firing frequency, they are too low!
This is not the Caribbean, nor is it Europe, this is near Daming, and here is the world's best internal strength, using solid shells to fight against martial arts masters... This is the cannon hitting mosquitoes!
The shooting angle is too small, the movement is slow, and at a different landing angle, a group of third-rate masters can destroy a warship. Since this is the case, what does Wang Xuan do?

But, in the absence of a master...

When Qi Xuefeng received the news from the squadron, the big ship and the red-haired men on board had already been brought over together. The dilapidated boat sank after all. Except for the school's scientific research personnel and a few protective special forces, the others Most people died at sea.

These guys jumped directly into the water to the bottom of the big ship, boarded up deftly, and then there was no follow-up. With the help of scientific researchers, several special forces team members directly used poison to bring down the entire ship.

If it weren't for the consideration of taking them back for interrogation and the need for someone to drive the boat, none of these red-haired devils would be left alive.

Seeing these red-haired ghosts, Wang Xuan rubbed his temples. Only then did he remember that it was the time when the Spaniards were raging in Southeast Asia, including Luzon Island. Most of the large islands have their people.

Fortunately, Wang Xuan also understood Spanish, and after understanding the situation with these red-haired devils, he ordered them all to be hanged on the pier.

On the third day, the 500 army, divided into [-] fleets, set off with the most advanced bed crossbows on board. The bow strings are made of steel wire ropes, with a range of [-] meters. The head is hollow and filled with gunpowder. The trigger device is a percussion flint. Fire, because the excitation device is large enough, the ignition rate can reach [-]%!
Compared with those guys who fired solid cannons, the lethality, especially the lethality to the human body, was several times greater.

Wang Xuan specifically emphasized not to add iron nails, broken glass, phosphorus and other things inside, it would be too inhumane to blow up his own people.

The purpose of going to sea this time is twofold. First, to clean up any other national forces on the sea in Southeast Asia. Second, to make accurate charts and divisions of various indigenous forces, and plan for future occupation.

The current Wang Xuan has never thought of doing business with Europeans, because there is no need at all, he is not short of money, what he wants is occupation, more population, and more land.

Therefore, a fleet of 3000 people set off directly towards the Strait of Malacca. Anyway, it is not far from the south of Annan and can get good support. At the same time, the ship also carried 2000 artillery pieces, which are currently the most advanced cannons. For coastal defense, cannons are indeed better than ballistas, after all, the range can easily reach [-] meters.

……

More than a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the past year, too many things have happened to Daming both on the surface and in the dark.

On the bright side, Emperor Wanli belched and left a mess for Emperor Taichang.

Although the prince has always been unpopular, the prince is the prince, and in the end, the throne fell to him.

A chicken and a dog ascended to the heavens alone. Although Zhu Changluo did not attain the Tao, he ascended to heaven, no, he became the emperor.

The original Li Xuanshi became a concubine, and he was drunk in the world. Later, he robbed Zhu Changluo of a lot of love. This time, he was also upgraded to a concubine. In the competition with Li Xuanshi, he was gradually evenly divided. In this, the little eunuchs Wang Xuan sent in one after another are credited. Not small.

Zhu Youxiao was appointed as the prince, and has been with Zui Hongchen for more than a year. For some unknown reason, Zui Hongchen has not been pregnant with a child.

Another point is that due to the gradual increase of Zui Hongchen's power in the palace, Zhu Changluo's body has remained the same. He was poisoned to death after only one month in office, but this time there is no major problem for the time being.

At the same time, the intensity of the struggle between the four major parties has decreased, especially the three parties of Chu, Zhejiang, and Donglin. Because of the threat of Wang Xuan behind them, they have begun to cooperate with each other to a limited extent. It is also part of the reason why Zhu Changluo has been living well.

In the border areas, a lot of energy and money were spent on the army building in the south of the Yangtze River, and the counterattack of the "Hou Jin" in the distant history has long been forgotten.

On the Jurchen side, because Wang Xuan sold a large amount of food in the past, and bought cattle, horses, sheep, wool, wood, etc., the life of the Jurchen was much easier, the conflicts among the people were small, and naturally the fighting spirit was also being consumed. Try After attacking Da Ming several times but ended in failure, it stopped a lot.

As for the Tatars, the situation encountered was similar to that of the Jurchens. The food in Wang Xuan's hands was transported to the north through the Yellow River in large quantities, and part of the affected population was transported away. Although there was still a shortage of food, compared with the history The gap is too large, which leads to more grain being sold on the grasslands.

Also due to Wang Xuan's relationship, a large amount of wool purchases also made the rare winter of grassland people not so sad.

For a while, the entire Daming was calm and calm. Even though there were several droughts in the north, it did not cause too much damage. It was quite a bit of rejuvenation, which made too many people ecstatic.

However, among those who are happy, there is no real understanding person.

Those sensible people who really stood at the top of Ming Dynasty's power knew that all these changes came from the Jiaolong Wangxuan in the south!

Everything now is just a superficial phenomenon. It depends on when Wang Xuan will take action on which path Da Ming will really take. No one believes that Wang Xuan has a powerful military force in his hands. Willing to keep lurking, the war is only a matter of time!

And every move is bound to be earth-shattering!
Wang Xuan was indeed accumulating power, not only military power, but also political power. Without a mature and stable political system, even if he went to Beijing, it would be useless and he lacked control.

Finally, all 500 million people were transported over, and the more blatant it became in the later stage, especially after Wanli burped.

Now many big families know that Wei Guogong 'hired' Wang Xuan to occupy a large island in Wa Kingdom, and manage it as if it were his own home.

It is said that it is overseas, but it is not that far away. Now the navigation technology is much more advanced. Even if it is from Kyushu Island to Nanjing, it will take up to 20 days, which is much more convenient than going to Beijing.

During this period of time, many people contacted Wang Xuan through some channels, hoping to find a place overseas, preferably closer to Daming, such as Shikoku Island...

For this, Wang Xuan did not refuse, and specially held an auction meeting in secret.

"The world's first land auction, I think this is a particularly memorable day. Today is destined to have a new and powerful family born, and the title of future hereditary marquis will be given." Wang Xuan stood on the high platform, He personally presided over the land auction meeting, "Well, I know everyone is waiting impatiently, so now, the auction starts, Waguo, Shikoku Island, 1.88W square kilometers, half the size of Kyushu Island 89, the starting price is 100 million people, Each price increase is no less than 1 people, and a special reminder is that the entire population must be delivered within one year, and I don’t want anyone to break the contract.”

"150 people!"

"180 million!"

"200 million!"

"230 million!"

At this moment, people are no longer people, they have completely become a kind of currency, which seems cruel. In fact, it may not be a good thing for most poor people in this era. At least, in the eyes of these top people, they Become exceptionally valuable, more valuable than money!

It is no longer a string of simple numbers on paper, or a certain cold name, only at this seemingly cruel time, they become alive and become flesh and blood.

Whether irony or indifference, this is reality.

The poor are paid more attention than ever before, are concentrated, cared for, and are afraid of freezing, starving, or dying.

Of course, most beggars don't think so... just live a good life as a beggar, but ghosts are willing to be caught and sold.

No matter ancient or modern, beggar gangs are very rich.

(End of this chapter)