This fat man named Contrinoah, although he is a descendant of a foreigner, speaks fluent Chinese language and is known to be proficient in various languages ​​including Indian dialect, Dashi dialect, and Persian dialect.

Therefore, it is not difficult to communicate on a daily basis. I even asked me to directly call him his nickname - "Fat Kong".

Of course, as an imported man, he was also a registered merchant in Canton. He owned a vassal store specializing in various imported goods. He just wanted to cover up his real business and specialize in smuggling goods.

Guangzhou is a seven road outside the Lingnan route, and the sea and land hubs of the east and west sea routes are concentrated and have abundant goods. However, most profitable businesses are monopolized by the official franchise, interfered by wealthy families, or are simply controlled by regional guild organizations. Therefore, in addition to the huge market demand, a large number of smuggling industries have naturally been born.

However, even if it is a smuggling business, not everyone can do it. The annual maritime trade flow is so large that it is okay to make a few occasions, but if you want to stabilize or do a long-term business, you must have the cooperation and echo of local local snakes or powerful forces.

What's more, this fat hole is not willing to compete with others for the big forces, and the remaining soup leaked from the hands of the mouth is cold, and he is determined to make a difference and do a good job in the arms business. However, this kind of thing is not something ordinary people can easily interfere.

The Southern Dynasties had large military weapons supervision, as well as supervision and manufacturing facilities, military factories distributed in various places, as well as a large number of contractors and collaborative workshops. All of them were related households with deep backgrounds, and naturally formed corresponding interest groups and protection networks, which were naturally rejected by emerging competitors.

As various customers with local demand, they must also consider the stability of long-term supply targets, social relationships, backgrounds, and the potential Yu family to be provoked.

So his obsession made him delay in Guangzhou for several years, but he was unable to open up the market for a long time. However, it also had some connection with the Yuwen family who tried to develop the western sea trade.

I don’t know how Yuwen Luoluo fooled him before, but this time he was obviously used as an important opportunity and breakthrough. He did not hesitate to personally recruit and discuss this business.

If you have any needs, you can have a good conversation. I also took the opportunity to talk to him about the current situation of the country and the customs and customs of many forces in the west, and then I decided to finalize my initial intention.

"The potential demand and market of the Luo family vassal, and even the entire Borneo vassal?"

I stood beside me, waiting for some fun to collect the mysterious creature that I saw

"You really dare to say... he was cheated in like this?"

"But even if it's a one-time deal, you have to make some preparations."

After arranging the manpower and arrangement just in case, I finally saw the signal reflected back from the river with mirror light.

No matter what means this Contrinoah used to deliver the goods to the outside of Canton and the boats along the river, they brought some of the items we needed as scheduled.

Open the wooden box with the words "Porcelain" written on it, and open the upper layer of the goods, revealing heavy metal products wrapped in anti-scratch straw. The cold color makes people look calm.

There were 160 flat-tip spears tied with leather corded cords, 350 thin spears for throwing, 80 short spears with conical heads, 60 single-headed axes, and forty single-headed hammers.

Twenty-six standard crossbows produced in Xixia, ten consecutive crossbows, one thousand and one hundred long and short arrows, thirty iron arm bows, four hundred wooden arrows, sixty soldiers arrows, and other tandem trolleys.

Fifty-five pieces of thin-blade scimitars of the Indian iron, fifteen pieces of thick-backed long swords imitating Tang style, eighty-six other variegated long swords, and the corresponding sharpening stones, medicinal oils, cloths, leather cases, sheaths, hangers and other miscellaneous things.

Finally, I gave three special products from Xizhou, which are considered as additional tips and samples.

Although it looks like it is all renovated with old goods, it is well maintained and covered with thin grease.

I pulled out one of them casually and gently flicked the metal blade with my fingers. The sound was dull and clear, indicating that the forging temperature and skill were good. The metal itself was quite homogeneous and dense, not the kind of shiny appearance.

After all the statistics, I calculated that I had 3,200 pieces of money, including guns, spearheads and swords, which only accounted for a small part. The real big heads were those crossbows. On average, one piece costed four or fifty pieces, which was something that ordinary people could not buy even if they had money.

It is slightly different from the products I have seen in the North, these equipment with obvious Western style are reinforced by iron parts, showing some advantage in fine craftsmanship.

For example, in the bow arm, the iron piece is used to clamp the horn wood as the body, and it is also wrapped with anti-wear leather. It is slightly heavy when held in the hand, but it feels quite powerful when pulled.

Each crossbow also carefully prepared a spare string, and the string lines are also twisted into composite strands by special materials. They can be buzzed continuously for a period of time when they are lightly flicked. The strong crossbow and the continuous crossbow have ratchets and pull rods specially used for winding, and the continuous crossbow also has spare ten and five-round arrow boxes.

Wooden arrows are firm white-branched hardwoods, not the most common bamboo strips in the south, equipped with two types of narrow-edge arrows with inverted hooks and diamond arrows; military arrows are armor-breaking heavy arrows with conical heads, and also with spiral concave bloodletting grooves.

I tried this batch of crossbows, and even Han Liangchen, who had been in the army for a long time, couldn't help but be amazed, because it is said that these equipment are some old, but they are really good things. It's just that the craftsmen representing the origin, and the number of batches, were rubbed off by special means.

This also made me more interested in the forces behind Contrinoa. What kind of person is to provide such equipment that is obviously marked by the army...

During the delivery, there was a small accident. Contrinoa did not want the local ticket or flying money issued, but wanted to get cash payments from precious metals or precious money.

However, I had some expectations of this situation. I waved my hand and Bo Fu took out the box, which contained twelve homemade eight-liang red gold cakes and placed them in front of him.

Fei Kong turned his head, and a Kunlun slave with a dark complexion next to him chopped it in half with an axe, revealing his consistent appearance, and then he put it away with satisfaction.

Then he thought about it, and took out a bundle of cloth from his arms with some pain, handed it to me, and then Bo Fu took it over for him.

"This is a lucky thing I have followed me for many years..."

With Bo Fu's movement, the shaking silk cloth was wrapped in a copper-plated monocular telescope.

“A good start and witness as a business partner…”

Fat Kong said sincerely

"I hope I will leave it to you as a souvenir..."

"It's easy to say..."

My Bofu took the glasses in his hand and it was quite heavy in his hand. It was much stronger than the one I used to make do with hand. It had a telescopic pull rod, a spiral groove with fine-tuned visual distance, and a fixed small bracket, which looked more like a craft.

Although they are also second-hand goods, some are paint stripped, worn and scratched, they are still of great value and significance to me.

Finally, he carried the refilled boat and a small box of gold and silver, and went back with satisfaction.

This transaction can be said to be very rough and lacks trust, so that people who both parties can decide will lead the team to the scene in person, negotiate and supervise each other, so as to complete the transaction process.

For example, those who hold bows and arrows, hide in the woods, have never been used, or those who stay in Contrinoa's cabin and never show up all represent a certain kind of realism and caution.

After all, in this chaotic and complicated era, it is already a very precious and luxurious thing to be able to give easily. But we have at least had a good start.

Then, like I got an interesting toy, after transporting most of the weapons, I couldn't wait to return to my private workshop and carefully borrowed three flying fire thunders the size of a small melon with various tools.

The so-called flying fire thunder principle seems very clever and makes full use of the technical level and mature materials of this era.

For example, the firing tube similar to the later generations of cannons is a porcelain powder lead sealed with wax. It can directly ignite a detonating core made of fine gunpowder through blunt delay, and then the viscous substances loaded in the bullet body are sputtered together with the bullet body fragments into a burning fan surface.

The bullet body is also a special container for fired porcelain clay, but it is not glazed. It contains about half a liter of thick liquid. The medicinal oil used to burn is also a refined mixture. Suspension of some kind of gelatin-like particles is estimated to have a secondary killing effect of continuing to stick to combustion after it explodes.

This design is quite instructive to me. Although it is too cumbersome for muskets and ammunition, what if it is a cannon? Or other explosives?

I couldn't wait to call me and squat with my head in my arms, and recorded my thoughts with verbal words.

"Analysis of feasibility of direction of artillery fuse for number 213 and directional mines..."

As he was talking to himself, suddenly someone reported outside the door.

"There is new news from the Navy and Mrs. Chen..."

Just came back from outside, the sweaty wind blew the flag and whispered to me

"Last night, the rebels had broken the defense line of Shimen from the east,"

"About 6,000 local regiments and guards were defeated, and the Zuowuwei and Tianning Army who were going to support him have retreated."

"The government is reorganizing the front line of Baitian District and Datong District, trying to recover..."

"The rebel party is plundering locally... I'm afraid it will attract more people and wealth."

"In addition, Huawei, Fuxu, Liede, Dashui, Ruishi and other Southeast areas also have been harassing the traitors.

"The nearest Youcheng has been shocked in a day, and a large number of citizens have avoided the old city and the lower city.

"There are rumors that the court will dispatch troops from the old city and the upper city to encircle this rebel army..."

"It also includes the naval team that temporarily lives in our Zuocheng..."

"I'm afraid I have to prepare measures in advance..."

"Then distribute the weapons in advance."

I said decisively.

"Don't worry about damage or injury, let everyone get familiar with the use as soon as possible..."

"Don't worry about the accumulation of water. We have established several storage points..."

"If something is wrong, you can run away and then meet at these storage points..."

We have prepared several plans for the possible impacts in this rebellion.

For example, when you lose your composure and get hungry, you can retreat to the beach and board the Yuwen family's ship. Let's avoid the limelight, or

The worst result is that we temporarily gave up these arrangements and took important personnel to retreat to the Meishan Pavilion where Mrs. Chen was located, and gathered to protect ourselves.
Chapter completed!