open sea

Chapter 1080 Evaluation
It's funny to say that Taoist Cao's first believer and the owner of the lumberyard, Old Taylor, even knew what he believed, so he believed it anyway.

For old Taylor, the carpenter, was not exactly proselytizing, but treason.

This is much easier than conversion, he does not know what a country is, only a kingdom.

Just like a carpenter sitting on the ground, he became a carpenter for hire, and the person who hired him was the Ming Empire, and he readily accepted the preconceived fact in his heart.

Old Taylor's father was a timber owner in a Catholic monastery near London, and he prepared timber for the monks of the monastery for a living. During the period of England's Henry Eight, all church estates, territories, schools, farms, houses, houses, pastures, Pastures, lands, chapels, inheritance rights, tithes, and all other powers belonging to the church were collected into the king's possession.

"At that time my father was trying to get me a chance to go to university in the church, so that I could become a respected monk and give alms to the suffering people. As you can see, England is full of landless people, wandering everywhere , the forest is full of bandits."

Speaking of this, old Taylor took a deep breath of the Daming Makino yellow cigarette in his hand. The light from the cigarette made the dry and cracked grooves on his hand very conspicuous.

Pan Sheng followed his eyes to look at the lumberjacks working in the forest not far away. Seven of them, men, women and children, were all desperadoes in the forest earlier.

They made a living by plundering passing merchants with knives and wooden bows, and they fell on Tang Er, but Tang Er not only didn't kill them, but also introduced them to a job—to come here to cut wood.

"Then I had to go to the port to carry goods, otherwise I had to work in a woolen mill. Weaving is not decent for a man, but many people have no other way. I was hired by a timber merchant who fled here from Spain. That's why I got to know you, what a pity if he's still alive."

There are Spaniards all over the world these days. Philip’s overshadowing of domestic policies has caused many capitalists and intellectuals to flee Spain, but they are unwilling to stay in the country if there is any way—Spain is indeed the most powerful country in Europe in this era. It is also the richest country in Europe and the most enjoyable country in Europe.

A pearl is easily available to the merchants of Ming and Spain, but a few stones of rice and millet, various vegetables and meat are also easily available to the people of Ming, but it is difficult for the Spanish people.

Spain is the real place where sheep cannibalize people.

Pan Sheng nodded to express his understanding. If the old Taylor didn't speak fluent Spanish, it would be difficult for them to communicate directly.

At the same time, after evaluating in his heart, he thought that the old Taylor was no threat to them, nodded and said: "If you need it, after one or two years, I can help you get a piece of wood that only the people of the New World can have, proving that you are the people of Ming Dynasty , the nobles of England can't control you."

Old Taylor nodded his head, but his eyes showed anxiety and confusion. After a long pause, he raised the cigarette in his hand and asked, "I still don't understand. You have the best products, why do you want to let them here?" I run a lumber mill?"

"It always draws their attention to this unprofitable business, and I need an account of the possible danger."

Looking at the old Taylor who was worrying for no reason, Pan Sheng laughed easily, and said firmly: "It is profitable, you hand over the lumber mill to one of your four sons, and wait until the money from the church comes next year before going there Open a shipyard at the port and hire shipwrights from Daming to repair ships.”

"As long as the trade is prosperous, I can guarantee that Mingchuan is more willing to come to your shipyard to repair ships than other shipyards, and with the best place and purchase merchants, you can even open a shop selling Makino tobacco next to the shipyard."

"If there were no wars, you would be a master."

Old Taylor's worries were reasonable. In fact, the Ming guards hired by his logging site were enough to make the local lords at all levels worry. There was no shortage of muskets.

In this concept, as long as the old Taylor is riding a horse, he can organize a force that exceeds that of a noble knight.

However, in the general view of the English people, Ming Dynasty was not an imaginary enemy, but a helper facing Spain.

This is exactly the opposite of the Ming people's concept.

Pan Sheng patted Old Taylor on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Let's go, get ready. We're going to visit the baron to sell muskets. If there's a chance, I'd like to see his soldiers."

Each of them has their own mission. After setting the church name as Sun Moon, they also added a dragon totem under the suggestion of old Taylor, so the full name of the church is Sun Moon Worship Dragon Cult.

The Taoist priest and the holy girl went out for a walk. They brought a few guards and prepared a few sets of phrases such as "Huanglong descends to the earth, and the people turn over", "The sun and the moon return, and the world is peaceful". They are going to try it out in the surrounding villages. Try what the people are most sensitive to.

Let's see how Yang Gao's children will make up nursery rhymes to spread the prophecy, and which ones are more suitable for this land, such as persuading Jinbiao, fox barking, clothes belt edict, fish belly book, and stone burying man.

As for the little flag officer Pan Sheng, he is useless without training in these relatively professional jobs. A flag soldier who accompanied him is packing his backpack and putting away necessities such as notebooks. Let the workers in the lumberyard help put the two boxes of matchlock bird guns on the four-wheeled carriage.

The steering of the carriage was very interesting. Before setting off, Pan Sheng studied it for a while and drew a sketch in a small notebook, but he didn't read too much. His main mission was not like this.

Rather, it is an assessment of the combat effectiveness of the English noble army.

There was a copy of the same report on their ship, which was prepared by Daoist Cao before going to sea. Pan Sheng read it over and over again during the voyage, remembering it by heart, but after arriving in England...he felt that the report was wrong in assessing England's military strength.

The author of that report was Chen Mu, who assessed that the size of England's army was unknown, and that its naval combat capability was superior to that of the Spanish navy, its land combat capability was weaker than that of the Spanish New Continental Army, and equal to that of the French army.

Pan Sheng didn't believe it.

When he disembarked in Southampton, the local nobles bragged to Tang Er that the most powerful warship in England was parked in the sea, which was similar to them.

But the problem is that they all drive Fuchuan, and there are only two frigates of [-] material shark ships.

And what about them? There are more than 20 boats, four of which are a little bigger than the Fuchuan, and the others are small gadgets that are not as big as the Fuchuan.

With these broken things, can they fight against the Spanish regular army?
In Pan Sheng’s opinion, England’s maritime merchants might fight the Spaniards if they rise up. This country’s navy is too weak, so weak that Zeng Benben was shot to death by his marshal in the early years. If you lead your troops to appear on the coast of England, you can directly claim the title of king and emperor.

The young flag soldier who followed him checked the blunderbuss at the end, and with a jingle, the copper falcon that was fixing the cleaning rod below fell to the ground.

Banner Army said with a bitter face: "Xiao Qi, this problem can't be repaired well. All the bird guns have this problem. They can be installed, but as long as the guns are released, they will definitely fall off."

Pan Sheng, the little flag officer, didn't seem to care, and waved his hand and said, "After all, it's a refurbishment of the blunderbuss collected from the Guangdong Metropolitan Government. The old-made blunderbuss bed uses new parts. It's normal that the size doesn't match... Tell them about this problem when you sell it. Shaking off the tenon is fake."

(End of this chapter)