I’m Not Really A Study God

The current Roman emperor and the Marquis of Jacques Garrell both thought more and more, and felt full of fright. When they wanted to express their friendly attitude towards Chinese people as soon as possible, Su Heng was on the vast ocean. , Quietly watching a dozen merchant ships sailing downwind.

These more than a dozen merchant ships were a caravan under the command of a certain gentry of Lu, and they took the route from Lu to Rome.

He will pay attention to this caravan. The biggest reason is that these dozen merchant ships have been spotted by a pirate group.

Even the identity of the pirate gang is also very interesting. It is the Northwest of Lu State, a navy under the command of Grand Duke Ventra Duchy a month away. Ventra is just a sea ducky here, even the kingdom Not to mention, the country has only a dozen small, medium and small islands with a population of 600, 700,000, of which more than 90% are white, and less than 10% of mixed race. Under the command of Grand Duke Nix Ventera, he has a full 50,000 navy. Due to the fact that Duchy is not so rich, the navy cannot support even a battleship, but there are still several cruisers.

In addition to cruisers, they also have dozens of armed merchant ships, which are also in the navy sequence.

Ventra Duchy is small, but very cruel. The most common thing he does is that the navy pretends to be a pirate and plunders all directions.

Of course, the most important object they robbed was the caravan formed by the Chinese descendants on the main channel between Shang and Rome.

Now the merchant ship under the command of a certain gentry of Lu, who is sailing on the ocean, transported a large number of oriental goods such as porcelain, tea, silk, etc., to Rome.

These crystallizations of Eastern civilization have always had a huge market in the Western aristocracy. As long as they are transported from Shang Tang to Rome, they are basically more than ten times the local profit.

Because of this, the kingdoms and duchy composed of white people in the ocean will stare at the caravans, like wolves lurking in the ocean, waiting for opportunities at any time.

It can be said that this caravan had just set off from the State of Lu when it was spotted by Grand Duke Vintra.

Instead of asking the gentry of Lu to transport valuable goods to Rome, how can he grab it directly and come here in a refreshing way?

The Grand Duke Ventera’s navy, not only stared at the eastern merchant ship caravan on this channel, but also Liu Guo, an island country composed of Chinese descent who is not too far away, often beat you I am extremely bloody.

Ventra Duchy, is the kind of country that is formed by the Chinese descent. When it is close to each other, because of different races, conflicts or wars make things the most vigorous.

The grand prince who was still on the stage clamored more than once to destroy Liu Guo and arrest all the millions of Liu Guoren as the slave “iron-blooded” grand prince.

Of course, Grand Duke Ventera is not stupid. Liu Guo has more than one million people in the country. Although the size of Ventera Duchy is nearly doubled, the difference of double is not too exaggerated. Clamored blatantly.

To Shanglu country? Even if Lu State is a culinary chicken in the mind of Zhao’s tycoons, it’s just a dish on the dinner table of big merchants and gentry, but in any case, Lu has a population of more than six million and a flourishing business and trade. Even if there are not many soldiers on the surface, they Don’t dare to provoke on the surface.

it’s still better to be careful to lower the flag and make up a pirate before you dare to do it, impersonating a pirate? Then it is impossible to let the cruiser go.

So, when Lu, a caravan composed of more than ten merchant ships, was about to arrive on a supply island on the route to rest, merchant ships with pirate flags also quickly moved from The supply island rushed out…

Occupying the advantage of ambushing and preempting the opportunity, the Ventera Navy obviously wanted to grab the T position. T-shaped tactics are the most important thing in this sailing bronze gun era. One of the classic tactics.

But they just rushed out. On the front flagship of the Lu State Caravan, they immediately began to play various flags to notify the merchant ship behind.

“Hurry up, turn around! Damn, this group of rubbish is coming again. When the master passes this wave and returns to the Lu country, he must kill a few white skins to get rid of bad luck.”

On the flagship of the caravan, a young man with a mirror, first ordered the sailor to send a semaphore to inform the friendly army, and then let his merchant ship quickly turn to avoid a big loss.

Why are T-shaped tactics classic? Just because of the merchant ship of this era or battleship, there is no artillery that can directly attack the front and back of your ship. All artillery is arranged on both sides of the ship.

You can only use the side of the ship, when facing the target, can you play the blow of the cannon.

When he was sailing straight, the bow of the ship was in a straight line facing the front and intercepted your ship on the side, facing rows of cannon muzzles. On the other hand, his ship rushed forward without firepower. You can play, you can only turn, and the side of the ship is opposite to the side of the ship.

This young man is also the owner of this caravan, one of the pillars of Lu Guo’s Xiao Family, Xiao Jichen.

No matter how the warlords such as Zhao State General’s Residence, Zhao Wang Hejian, Gao Zhen look down on the native gentry of Lu, Xiao Family itself still has a certain arrogance and confidence.

After all, the geographical location of Lu is very good. More than 90% of the caravans between merchants and Rome need to be supplied by Lu. Standing in the middle, they can often make a lot of money. Full.

So Xiao Family, as a local tycoon of Lu, is still very strong.

As Xiao Jichen gave orders, a sailor standing not far from him also laughed, “Second Young Master, don’t worry, although someone must have spread the news before we set off, but those eyeliners won’t Knowing that we have already changed our blood secretly, this time we will definitely give this group of scum, and we will get a lot of tickets.”

Making the difference is a very good method. For example, the merchant empire caravan arrived in Lu and didn’t want to continue. After running away and selling directly in Lu, silk porcelain is only about five times that of Dashang.

The gentry of the country of Lu is powerful and powerful. You only need to wait until the Roman caravan from Rome arrives in Lu. It will be sold at six times the price. The Roman caravan will accept it. When they arrive in Rome, they will be shipped by Dashang Sold ten times the time.

The quick money earned easily is enough to feed the gentry of Lu.

There are only caravans under the banner of Dashang, Great Tang Empire or Roman Empire, and they will not be disturbed by pirates along the way.

But if the gentry of Lu country wants to build a caravan directly to deliver goods to Rome, they can sell the goods to Roman merchants at a price more than ten times that of Dashang.

Of course, this earns more, provided that there will be a lot of pirates on the road.

Even so, Xiao Jichen has already ran the Rome route for the sixth time. Is it risky? Compared with profit, if there is enough profit, taking some risks is nothing. They can not only make a lot of money by transporting porcelain and silk to Rome, but also return to the city to purchase goods from Rome.

Now these dozen or so merchant ships are Xiao Jichen’s greatest confidence and confidence. It seems that they are all armed merchant ships, which can be armed with merchant ships, and they are also different from armed merchant ships.

For the armed merchant ship of Ventera Duchy, there is basically no thickened hull, and the number of artillery is limited. Often a ship has 8 to 16 artillery, and the entire ship has many warehouses and few people. In order to save costs, I also like to use low-quality wood to build ships. Basically, as long as the hit is hit, there is a big hole in the run.

But these more than ten armed merchant ships of Xiao Family are different.

Ambush by pirates? Xiao Jichen was not nervous at the moment, but only intense excitement and excitement. His big boat was already somewhat impatient.