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Chapter 513:Trade Fair

The remains of the battlefield remain, but this will not prevent people from gaining peace and wealth.

Before it was dark, the newly established "Revolutionary Army" Goat District sent people to set up a guidance station in Goa City, which was responsible for answering and guiding the merchants in the city, and the residents went to Panjim.More than 300 people wanted to go, but they were limited by their reception capacity, and only about 50 or 60 people were selected in the end.

Many people in the city feel that they can go to this dinner, and they will not hesitate.But now it is found that the number of people who can participate is so small that it is necessary to compete to get an invitation.At this time, who can go, who can not go, but also to fight for a certain level and strength.

A carriage will be sent away by the lucky ones, and the others will be able to wait.Those who were able to attend the dinner even felt extremely honored, after all, many of them were ordinary, and it was impossible to attend the banquet of their royal family.And now a more powerful monarch should invite them to a banquet, which can boast for a lifetime.

The banquet was not held in the fortress, but in the open open outside the fortress.It rains in the tropics and starts before dark.Many people still think that this open-air banquet will be ruined, but when they arrive at the venue, they find that a giant pond that controls the wind and clouds controls the weather within a radius of 300 meters.Let the lightning thunder outside, the wind and rain are like a note, but the inside of the cloth is still fresh and refreshing, safe and smooth.

This is so new...

Although Europe has also developed magical alchemy, it really has no such good thing in front of us.

The guests who attended the banquet got out of the carriage and entered by Father Marcelo.Zhou Qingfeng greeted them with a smile at the entrance entrance and let them enter the venue for free activities.

Goa is rich in fish and shrimp, and the ghost servant cooks make a large table of seafood meals and provides drinks and drinks.The people who came to the banquet were first amazed at the young "His Majesty the Emperor", and then were attracted by the exquisite arrangement of the table.As Father Marcelo once marveled at, the beautiful ceramic tableware made the banquet dazzling.

But it soon became apparent that the tables, candlesticks, and many of the servants at the feast were actually from the governor's house and the church.At one corner of the banquet was a lot of property received from the church.If anyone asks, the answer is, of course, the auction.

“There are so many churches in Goa that have caused me great trouble.I will forbid anyone to spread any religion in Goa, and the church building will be converted to other uses.These goods are of no use to me, and they can be bought at a low price if they need it.”In a word, Zhou Qingfeng is even locked up in his religious policies.

There are dozens of churches, large and small in Goa, which are solid buildings that cost a lot of manpower and material resources to build, and all of them are too wasteful to tear down.Zhou Qingfeng intends to use them as schools, hospitals, military camps, administration, in short, no longer engage in religion.A lot of things in the church are not pure gold and pure silver, but gold-plated silver.Burning wood is too wasteful than auctioning.

Seeing the crosses, which Jesus was sold like a mess on the ground in size and age, presumably the believers in the city will have a deeper understanding of their faith.Several accounts sent by Xu Bing may not understand what the Virgin Mary of Jesus Christ did, but they can judge its value from the method of engraving and the degree of oxidation of the items, and it is absolutely impossible for people to pick up and sell.

In short, Grandpa is dead for money.

"Auctions are being cleaned up, and at present it is only a small part, and everyone has time to slowly buy it."When you taste tonight's food, you can carefully look at the table table, these are a lot of products I can provide.I have set a price for these samples at the table.If in doubt, please consult me or Santos.”

The feast of fifty or sixty people began naturally.Businessmen and residents gathered around Zhou Qingfeng as much as possible to listen to the translation of the child Santos.Zhou Qingfeng is already in the form of Goa Special Administrative Region, and he has filled a large number of his own and his employees into the SAR government, intending to use it for a month or two to allow it to function normally.

Merchants quickly smelled the business opportunities of the porcelain trade.

From Goa to Macau Sea Route nearly 4,000 nautical miles, normal merchant ships take three years to run back and forth between ports, and must rely on the monsoon to sail.

During this period, it is necessary to take a huge risk, natural disasters and man-made looting will make businessmen and people's bloodless, and the time efficiency is also very poor.Limited by the production capacity of the supply, it is not easy to fill a merchant ship with a displacement of hundreds of tons.

For example, Jingdezhen specializes in the production of Clark porcelain for sea trade, and transporting it from Jiangxi to Macao will really kill people.Shipping, loss, time, too much trouble.One of the cheapest porcelain bowls from the kiln may be worth a few copper plates, which can be shipped to Goa to be denominated in silver.

Zhou Qingfeng now saved a series of links, no middlemen to earn the difference, he directly sold his own ceramics and bone porcelain at half price.It is also very intimate to make the porcelain pattern into a European favorite appearance, such as painting a little angel, painting a naked ah, painting a Virgin Mary Sifan ah.As long as you make money, customers like anything.

Even if it is half-price sales, Master Zhou's half price is also dozens of times more expensive than the factory price in Jingdezhen porcelain kiln.But the merchants of Kagoa immediately felt the sincerity of this "half price".Mr. Zhou has not yet collected taxes, which makes the merchants even more excited.

As for the source of the goods, the "Revolutionary Army" has begun to develop Dandong Kauling soil on a large scale, and the number of porcelain provided is based on "100,000" as the basic unit.Once a month can be held once a month, the supply is extremely sufficient - compared to the Portuguese merchant ship three years to run a trip, Zhou Qingfeng's supply capacity is enough for Goa's merchants can not eat.

In addition to the major items of silk, tea and porcelain, Zhou Qingfeng also provides medical drugs and equipment exports.The two doctors in the traversal have been unknown, but the medical staff they have trained and the established medical system have played a huge role.

The maternal and infant mortality rates in the territory of the "Revolutionary Army" are falling sharply, infectious diseases are being curbed, and the people will not die casually because of some headaches and brain fevers.For example, Huanglianin, chaihu extract, alcohol and other simple agents can begin to mass produce.Zhou Qingfeng also wants to take these goods to take out, and will certainly make a lot of money.

For drugs, business people's interest is not great, after all, this thing depends on the efficacy.However, in addition to silk and porcelain, Zhou Qingfeng's sales of weapons are very surprising.

Europeans rarely sell weapons.The so-called "red-clad cannon" at the end of the Ming Dynasty was only salvaged by a stranded British merchant ship.The ship's smooth-bodied cannons were backward and sold to Ming Ting by the Portuguese.

That’s it, be treated like a baby.

And Zhou Qingfeng decided to sell some small-caliber cast iron guns, which are different from the bronze guns of the current large-scale equipment, and also different from the forged guns used by the Guards.Cast iron cannon using greutical iron, sand box casting, the inner wall with a throb to ensure smooth, the outer wall with iron hoist for reinforcement, before and after the small, the gun frame is heavy, very classical atmosphere.

Compared with the current heavy use of bronze guns, the advantages of cast iron cannons are light and cheap.The disadvantage is that it is easy to rust, and the artillery must be maintained.Zhou Qingfeng took out six pounds and nine pounds of guns, weighing about half to one ton.He even said that he could provide naval guns, with longer, more powerful, and generally weigh more than two tons.

The price is half of the bronze gun, and it can also be responsible for training artillery and maintenance.

Mr. Chow likes to do half-price promotions.

In order to face the quality of his own artillery, Mr. Zhou also specially carried out a fire show.A six-pounder cannon aimed at a target a few hundred meters away from a target hit a base of twelve consecutive rounds.The merchants at the scene lamented the speed and accuracy of the six-pounder gun.

Only the guard artillerymen in charge of the demonstration scolded behind the scenes - this broken gun was heavy and difficult to use, and the firepower was not yet strong.Hitting a base cannonball can make us tired, why make this thing?

But the artillery of the Guards was so distasteful to his death that the Lord Muhammad, who was at the dinner party, cried out with excitement when he saw the dazzling fire, "We want this gun, we will buy a hundred."

The white man at the party was hoarded...

Zhou Qingfeng slapped him and shouted, “Congratulations to Lord Mohammed on taking the first order tonight.”A hundred six-pound cast iron smoother guns, each for a thousand silver dollars.I give him a thousand fine fire rope guns made by Seiko for free.”

The "Revolutionary Army" did not get the spring steel at the beginning, and in order to protect itself, it was only able to let go of the hand and foot to make a fire rope gun.Who only a year later, these fire rope guns were eliminated by the flint gun.Such a thing as Wu's gate, who was holding his axe, refused to use firearms.Now don't say with an axe, let him use a musketeer.

The "Revolutionary Army" has accumulated 30,000 smooth rifle rope guns, and many of them are completely new in addition to dozens of bullets on the training ground.Seeing that these things would be included in the inventory, Master Zhou was also worried - when he first built them, he was afraid that too little would affect the preparation.Now they do not affect the readiness, affect the war readiness warehouse.

There is such a big head of Muhammad jumping out, Zhou Qingfeng does not sell these waste to each other, but who can he sell it to?He even took the initiative to bring a fire rope gun to Muhammad to demonstrate it, and accurately hit the target about 70 or 80 meters away - just sold guns to the white people who had just sold guns to the banquet, and now selling guns is even more stupid to scare white people.

Lord Mohammed touched the hot barrel after shooting, and praised: "Good... this musket in the east is good."The muskets we buy from the Portuguese are far less than it is.”

It is true that the quality of these fire rope guns of the "Revolutionary Army" is really good.Compared with the current European diamond barrel with cast iron, and even with the iron roll barrel, Zhao Ze, who designed and manufactured these fire rope guns, was manufactured in the forging method from the beginning.After all, these things are used by themselves at the beginning, and it is not a joke on their own life.

Large-caliber heavy-lift fire rope guns are now used in Europe in exchange for greater power.The fire rope gun made by Zhao Ze is a light pyrotechum, but relying on a solid barrel, granular gunpowder, superb craftsmanship to reach or even exceed the power of European heavy fire rope guns.The weight is only half or even one-third of the other party, and the shooting accuracy is still higher.

Not only did Master Mohammed praise after the trial, but even the white people in Goa changed their faces after the trial.If this new musket with the light gun spreads, it will not only immediately change the balance of power in the Near East, but even the hot Europe will want to buy and imitate.These weapons are afraid that they will be more in demand than porcelain and silk.

Seeing that Master Mohammed's beard with a igne and a gun was on, Zhou Qingfeng felt that this must be the ancestor of the big dog, and it was all hereditary.

The people who attended the banquet were different in mind, and Zhou Qingfeng was proud of his own trade fair.But there was a black and thin native who suddenly flinched and approached him, and knelt down and said a big deal.Santos translated, "This is a king's housekeeper near Goa, and he says they want to buy weapons, but they don't have the money."

Without money...?

Zhou Qingfeng asked genially: "Food, cotton, can do it."Most importantly, is there a mine?It’s not good to mine, and the land is fine.I'll let you pay on credit, and then go out and rob."

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