Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 79 Three Stooges ([-])
Compared with Comrade Juan's unlucky experience, the other two were much luckier.

Carl von Franz is a Dutchman, but he has been wandering in various European countries for a long time. He is an avid firearms enthusiast and mercenary.

Christian Schulz, a German Protestant, was born as a shipwright and hated wars, but was unfortunately involved in the 30 Years War in Europe.

The Thirty Years' War in Europe was in the final analysis a religious war sparked by a civil war in the Holy Roman Empire.

One side is the Holy Roman Emperor and his domestic German Catholic princes, Spain, Austria, and a group of younger brothers, and the other side is the German Protestant princes, England, the Netherlands, Russia, France, and a group of younger brothers. The war lasted from 1618 to 1648.

The war ended with the defeat of the Catholic Habsburg dynasty and the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia. It was the first all-European war in history, known as the 30 Years War in Europe.

In a war against the Archduke of Austria, Franz and Schulz, who were also on the Protestant front, met and became friends, and the two fought together for several years.

Schultz really hated war, and he admired Marco Polo, who had traveled far to the mysterious East, so he proposed to Franz to go to the distant East together.

Although Franz was a war fanatic, he and Schulz went to Dongfan (now Taiwan) on a Dutch warship.

Afterwards, they took a merchant ship back and forth between Daming and finally arrived at the holy place they dreamed of. However, after a month, the two people's beautiful thoughts about Daming were shattered like bubbles.

At that time, Zhang Xianzhong's bandit army was looting everywhere in the south, and what the two saw was the devastated Ming Dynasty.

What about gold everywhere?What about the jewelry and jade?
The two met the even more disappointed Comrade Juan in Guangdong and Guangxi with a look of disappointment on their faces, and they met to go to the capital together. The three of them begged while learning Chinese.

Listening to the three of them talking about their experiences intermittently in Chinese, Liu Hongjian really had mixed feelings. He had never seen such an unlucky person...

"My lord, I found this from that man named Schultz." Wang Yuanba didn't like the extremely sloppy perverts in front of him, and handed Liu Hongjian a broken bag in his hand.

"My lord, this is mine! Mine! Please give it back to me!" Seeing his bag, Schultz shouted immediately, and a sergeant kicked Schultz again, screaming, Franz Supporting Schultz, he glared at the sergeant.

Liu Hongjian frowned. I dare say that these people have been beaten a lot, but they still don't pay attention!Don't look at where this is, and what is your situation, I am for Daozu, you are for fish, do you know?
In modern terms, these three people are all straight men of steel!
There is nothing in the old leather bag, only a sketch made of sheepskin, which seems to be a blueprint of a sailing ship...

"What kind of ship is this?" Liu Hongjian asked the owner of the drawing.

"My lord, this is the Galen Ship, a treasure that I plan to present to Emperor Ming!" Schultz told the truth, he originally thought of presenting his treasure in the capital to make a living.

"Old Wang! Let's see how this ship compares with our Daming's lucky boat?" Liu Hongjian only knew that Zheng Zhilong's fleet was still dominated by large lucky boats, but he didn't know how big it was. Compared with this so-called Galen boat Which one is more awesome.

Wang Yuanba took the drawing and examined it carefully.

"My lord, I look pretty similar!" Actually, he didn't understand these things, but as a high-ranking general of the Ming Dynasty, he had some knowledge, and he immediately complimented him.

"My lord, this is just a medium-sized Galen ship of my Holy Roman Empire. Give me time, and I can forge a bigger one..." Schultz quickly explained when he saw that his baby was not valued by the adults in front of him.

"Untie!" Although I brought a lot of books when I came here, and there were not some advanced blueprints among them, it would be good to have a ready-made shipbuilder. It seems that the book said that the shipbuilding technology at this time was overtaken by the West.

"I heard that you are at war over there. The whole continent is in war. It must be because of religion!" Liu Hongjian thought for a while.

"My lord, I really admire your erudition. I have been in Daming for nearly ten years, and no one has ever known us so well!" This time it was Juan's turn to be surprised, although there was some compliment in it.

The one-eyed captain Juan in his 40s, wearing an eye patch, a three-cornered hat unique to the European Middle Ages, and a messy beard reminded Liu Hongjian of Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean.

Juan the Spaniard, bearded and stared at the Spanish and the Dutch, regarded both as robbers, and it was probably due to them that he fell into such a position.

Franz was a mercenary. He heard that he had a deep knowledge of firearms. Liu Hongjian immediately asked him about the firearm.

Franz didn't know what Liu Hongjian was talking about at the beginning, but Franz suddenly understood when Liu Hongjian explained the principle of firing a gun in general.

"My lord, this kind of weapon has just begun to be equipped in my country, and it hasn't been popularized on a large scale yet, but I value the quick-fire gun you mentioned very much. It will become the main weapon in battle, but it will take some time."

When Franz spoke, his face was frenzied. He still longed for war, but between war and 'friendship', he chose the latter.

"I am the Earl of Daming, and I am also the commander-in-chief of this place. Now I officially appoint the three of you as the Earl's retainers, enjoy the treatment of a hundred households, and supervise the construction of warships and firearms for me. I wonder if the three of you are willing?"

Liu Hongjian expressed deep sympathy for the situation of the three. The battle at Shanhaiguan a few days ago also made Liu Hongjian feel the importance of firing guns. Although the situation in the Shanhaiguan battle was completely under his control, the frontier soldiers still died in battle. More than 8000 people.

If there is a sudden fire gun, then the result of the battle must be much better!
Liu Hongjian thought a lot about the reason why he took it for his own use. In the Ming Dynasty, the status of craftsmen was very low, and even the famous and respectable people bothered to be craftsmen, except of course a carpenter emperor.

And with his current ability, there is no doubt that there is great resistance to change the three teachings and nine streams that have been accumulated for thousands of years.

In Liu Hongjian's view, artisans are really the foundation of a country. Firearms, warships, machinery, whether for military or people's livelihood, which one lacks the contribution of artisans.

Rather than letting these foreigners enter the craftsman's household to work for Daming, and finally lose their enthusiasm, it is better to take it for their own use, and he is skeptical of the abilities of those old men from the Ministry of Industry.

Because they spend most of their time on their own interests and struggles, which country has the most powerful industry in the 21st century?Which country's craftsmen are the most dedicated?Of course it's the German guy, aren't these two a godsend?
The three of them were overjoyed when they heard that this young adult not only agreed to give them a job, but also didn't have the high airs of other officials and lords.

Years of wandering made the three of them attach great importance to this errand, and they even solemnly knelt down on one knee and kowtowed their chests with their right hands to perform the knight salute. This is a very formal etiquette in Europe, which represents a knight swearing allegiance to the lord!
Liu Hongjian helped the three of them up with his own hands, and arranged for Yan Yingyuan to prepare a room in his barracks of the Thousand Households to entertain them, and specially asked them to take a hot bath.

There is no way, Europeans never take a bath, the smell of these three people... Tsk tsk, if Liu Hongjian didn't value the talents of the three, he would have pinched his nose and beat them up to coax them away!

"My lord, after the conscription order was issued, the surrounding villages responded enthusiastically, and strong men have already signed up in the camp, but the enlistment of [-] soldiers at once, the Shanhaiguan's military horses, food and grass are not enough..."

Wang Yuanba shared his worries with Liu Hongjian that there was no shortage of money in the Ming Dynasty from the beginning to the end, but it was all in the hands of bureaucrats and merchants, but there was a real shortage of food and military horses!
It was in the Little Ice Age, and there were thousands of miles of barren land in the north, and there was no harvest, and the food from the south was expensive to transport to the north. The imperial court was already stretched to support the war in the north.

In addition, the Beijing camp has actually recruited [-] soldiers. Now if the border gates also recruit troops, the food, military horses...

"Bang Chui! Call the Thousand Households of Long Live Mountain! I'm going to Shanxi!" Liu Hongjian frowned, and ordered Niu Zhuang behind him.

After going around in a circle, the war horse problem still needs to be solved!

Eight imperial merchants?hum!

　Thanks to book friends Hengbo, Haizizi, Huao, Mcdull is not stupid, and the 100 coins reward for being drunk!It seems that another book friend sent a red envelope to this book yesterday. Although I don’t know the name of this lady, the author is still here to thank you. However, the book is not yet on the shelves. Red envelopes will affect the editor’s judgment on the book. So don't give out red envelopes before it goes on the shelves, thank you for your support.

　　
　
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