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Chapter 1109 Tang Ruowang's Story
"I wonder how King Charles is doing?" Chu Yun asked about his collaborator.

In Chu Yun's view, a feudal ruler is much easier to control than a complex parliament. If possible, it would be beneficial to the Kyushu Army to let Charles I rule Britain as much as possible.

"Thanks to your concern, our Majesty the King is well recently." Earl Compton said.

"That's good, and there will be officials to negotiate with you later. The silver dollars we gave to the royal family will also be transported to Britain with merchant ships," Chu Yun said.

What can impress Charles I is money, or the new income that can be obtained without the approval of the parliament, which is equivalent to the protection fee for Chinese businessmen and the Fourth Fleet to set up factories in the local area.

The Earl of Compton and others left the Military Lord's Mansion, still whispering, talking about their impressions when they talked with Chu Yun just now.

"The other party is very active in business, and can even use a huge sum of money to bribe our King, but in other respects, he refuses to give up an inch. It's really weird." The bishop who proposed to Chu Yun to relax the restrictions said to the accompanying nobles.

"The East is different from us everywhere, which is not surprising." Earl Compton said, "We should take advantage of this period of time to collect more books and information here, so that we have a deeper understanding of this ancient civilization in the East. Understood. The information recorded in Marco Polo's travel notes and Dou Marie's notes is outdated. We need to re-establish our understanding of the East. If we can compile the collected materials into a book, not only will the people of Britain be aware of the overseas alliance we have established It is so powerful that it can still make you and me famous."

"I agree with the Earl's opinion. We should compile a detailed book to gain a deeper understanding of the East." Several British nobles said.

When the second batch of envoys was in the capital for the final negotiation with the government, they frantically collected information on new things they could get access to in private, from books in shops to newspapers published.They even found Italian missionaries and Portuguese missionaries who had been in the capital since the Ming Dynasty.

From the mouths of these older missionaries, they learned a shocking secret, that is, the drastic changes in the capital were brought about after Chu Yun entered the capital. Missionaries witnessed the changes in this city.

"My humble Tang Ruowang was originally a priest of the Roman Academy. He arrived in Macau more than ten years ago, and then came to the capital. Interesting, we once co-edited the calendar and the book of Huogong. Thinking about it carefully, it was only a few years ago, but unfortunately my benefactor Mr. Xu Guangqi had passed away at that time.” A nearly 40-year-old missionary was wearing a Confucian shirt Clothing, when the British nobles such as the Earl of Compton found him, he didn't mind telling them his story.

"According to what you said, they were still compiling the lunar calendar and imitating the Hongyi cannon according to our method a few years ago?" Compton was deeply surprised when he knew this amazing turning point.

"Yes, the so-called Hongyi cannons are the front-loading smoothbore cannons mounted on our armed merchant ships or warships. It is said that the first batch of Hongyi cannons were salvaged from your British warships in the Chinese sea. The pound also has an 6-pound standard. They sometimes call the Portuguese artillery the Franco cannon, and even use the Franco machine to refer to the Portuguese and the Spaniards. You should be able to see this batch of imitation at the border of Liaodong Cannons. Although their cannon technology was somewhat backward a few years ago, they were still willing to learn and imitate them." Tang Ruowang said.

"If they were still imitating warship guns a few years ago, that is to say, they obtained our technology through imitation, and made a huge improvement on it?" Earl Compton has seen the artillery on the Kyushu Army warship, It was found that their number was no less than that of any navy in Europe.

According to the intelligence obtained by Britain, the Dutch East India Company across East Asia, the Portuguese Governor of Malacca, and the Spanish Governor of Manila were all expelled in front of the fleet of the Eastern Empire.If their merchant ships are still loaded with imitation Hongyi cannons, then this is too unbelievable. Could it be that thousands of imitation Hongyi cannons can be produced in a few years?
"You don't have to worry, listen to me. I was ordered by the Ming court to supervise the manufacture of war cannons in Western France, and dictated the principles and techniques of cannon casting, transportation, performance, gunpowder preparation, and shell manufacturing. However, during this period, farmers The army invaded the capital, and I fled the capital overnight and took refuge in Liaodong. Later, after the Kyushu army defeated the peasant army and seized the world, they still used me to compile the lunar calendar, but they did not have to dictate things related to cannon technology... It seems that they have More advanced artillery technology has been developed, and the smoothbore cannon is no longer called the Hongyi cannon."

"Later, I found an opportunity to witness the power of the new artillery made by the government, and found that the new artillery they cast was better than the artillery of the same pound I knew in terms of range, power and accuracy. Curiosity drove me to think To find out other than our missionaries, how else can they produce more advanced artillery than the cannon I am familiar with. So I went to the birthplace of the Kyushu Army, where there is their earliest cannon foundry. There are a batch of suspected They were artillery experts hired from Europe, and I think they asked where they came from, and they kept silent."

"Therefore, I suspect that the government secretly hired artillery experts from Europe, together with outstanding local craftsmen, to develop cannon-casting technology beyond my understanding. This is probably the reason why I was notified that I don't need to dictate the cannon-casting technology, because for the According to the government, what I know has fallen behind.”

Tang Ruowang recalled the drastic changes in the past few years and was also deeply incredulous. The reason why their missionaries were able to get along was because of their knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, and artillery after the Renaissance.As a result, the local government suddenly has a more advanced technical knowledge, and what they have learned has made it impossible for them to survive as before.

Tang Ruowang was able to help compile the lunar calendar in the new government, while other missionaries were reduced to fortune-telling and receiving relief from the church. Many missionaries contracted land to cultivate and became farmers in order to survive.

"The artillery technology is still passable after they have been improved, so how did they create a train that looks like a steel monster?" Earl Compton asked.

(End of this chapter)