Among the people who followed the Thunder God to Beihai Town, whether it was the Guangnan delegation, the Ryukyu delegation, or the Lin father and son, seeing Zhao Xin was one of the important goals of their trip. The problem was that Prince Zhao would not come back for a while. He was now leading the logistics troops to head towards Ulya Sutai. After all, for Beihai Town, taking Outer Mongolia is the most important thing this year.

The Ryukyu envoy was not very anxious. Since it was thanking me, he had to be a good attitude and could meet Zhao Xin no matter how. Moreover, they were curious about everything in Beihai Town, hoping to fully understand the thickness of the "new thigh". Given that Zheng Zhangguan, the "Sansi Official Officer of the Mission", had studied in the Imperial College in Beijing for three years, Chen Qingsong asked Jiang Fan to come forward and take them to visit various places first.

As for the Guangnan delegation was eager to finalize many cooperation details with Beihai Town, so after two days of rest and roughly on the east bank of the Falin River, they couldn't wait to ask for a meeting. Chen Qingsong had no choice but to have Wu Siyu come forward to deal with it.

As the representative of Nguyen Phuc Ying, Li Wenyue praised the strong soldiers and people's livelihood of Beihai Town as soon as he came up, and then expressed his hope to obtain another interest-free loan from Beihai Town.

Wu Siyu said in surprise: "Didn't you just give your party an interest-free loan of 500,000 taels in February?"

Li Wenyue said with a very embarrassed look: "The two prefectures of Jiading and Pingshun have been repeatedly in war, and people's livelihood is difficult. In addition to buying metal from Siam to make agricultural tools, 500,000 taels have to buy ships, build arms and cannons. In addition, the important areas of Pingshun Prefecture have to add a battery to strengthen defense to prevent the counterattack of the pseudo-King of the West Mountains."

Deng Chenchang, who came with Li Wenyue, added: "When Admiral Deng read our Guangnan troops before, he said that the soldiers' musket training times were too few, and it was recommended that my king order the Five Army Chief Executive Office to triple the number of training times per year."

Wu Siyu said curiously: "Dare you ask how many bullets each of your soldiers fired in the past?"

Deng Chenchang said: "Six waves."

“How many times a year?”

"It was once before. After Admiral Deng suggested to my king, it was changed to three times."

I'll go! Wu Siyu heard the black line on his forehead and thought to himself that this is not a joke, no wonder he can't beat Xishan Chao. However, in his opinion, there are not many eighteen rounds in three training sessions a year, and the average is less than two rounds a month. The North Navy now has 10 rounds of live ammunition shooting training for rifles every month, let alone other weapons.

But what he didn't know was that in this year, whether it was the army in Guangnan or Xishan Dynasty, the main weapon of the soldiers was not muskets, but sword spears, sabers and copper cannons. Due to financial difficulties, Nguyen Phuc Ying was very strict in the use of muskets. Only 5 out of 50 people in each team had bird guns. The soldiers conducted a shooting exercise every year, and only six bullets were allowed. The number was more than the number, and they had to pay out of their own pockets.

You should know that there are no minerals in Guangnan and textile technology is not good. The only thing that can be used for trade is rice. Whether it is lead, sulfur, or saltpeter, they have to be purchased from Siam and Myanmar. Deng Fei's suggestion made Nguyen Phuc Ying spend tens of thousands of dollars more, which made him feel distressed. Fortunately, the musketeers in Guangnan greatly increased their training times and their overall shooting level also increased significantly, repelling the counterattack of Xishan Dynasty several times.

"So, how much do you want to borrow this time?"

Li Wenyue hesitated for a moment and said embarrassedly: "One.5 million taels."

I really regard Beihai Town as an ATM! Wu Siyu was both angry and funny, and then said, "What are you going to repay? Sorry, rice is not good."

Not to mention that Beihai Town does not lack food at all, even if it is in short supply, you don’t have to travel from Annan all the way. What’s more, several administrative villages on the south bank of Xingkai Lake have now changed to rice.

Li Wenyue and Deng Chenchang were stunned and refused to pay off their debts with rice. What else can Guangnan be left?

Wu Siyu said calmly: "No hurry, you will think about it first. Let's continue to talk about the others."

In fact, he had received Zhao Xin's instructions. If Guangnan borrows money again, he will use the mine to mortgage it and mine it for twenty years without conditions. For this reason, Beihai Town is willing to pay the minimum price of three million taels of silver!

You should know that in the central Annan, Ng'an has extremely rich mineral resources, and the most important ones are high-quality magnetite and chromite. For example, Shixi Deposit is located above limestone and rock layers 600 meters underground. At a depth of 300 meters underground, the iron ore storage capacity is 280 million tons; below 600 meters, there are 481 million tons, with an iron content of 60% to 65%.

There are also anthracite mines in Guangning area, which are indispensable industrial resources.

In addition to asking for money, the Guangnan delegation also hoped to buy a batch of arms from Beihai Town. Last year, when Thor assisted them in attacking Fanchem City, the cannons on Thor left an indelible impression on Nguyen Phuc Ying's ministers. Only then did they realize that the bronze cannons of the French were just a butt compared to the cannons of the North Navy!

What a joke, the 122 cannon is a powerful weapon for the Northern Navy to maintain national security. This time and space beats everything and will never be exported! Wu Siyu immediately recommended the "Type 87" 12-pound steel front-loading cannon to them.

When he heard that a 12-pound steel cannon actually cost 5,000 taels of silver per ball, Li Wenyue and Deng Chenchang immediately took a breath and thought it was really dark. However, when he learned that the maximum range of this cannon was more than four miles, and the maximum rate of fire could reach four shots per minute, Deng Chenchang immediately proposed to see it with his own eyes.

Wu Siyu smiled and said, "This is simple, how about the afternoon after tomorrow?"

Deng Chenchang said happily: "I am very grateful."

The M1857 twelve-pound cannon, which shined in history in another time and space, is already very good. Although it is a smoothbore cannon, when using a standard launch charge of 1.13 kg, the standard 12-pound cannon cannon can accurately project a distance of 1480 meters at a firing angle of 5 degrees; when the firing angle is 10 degrees, it can reach 1911 meters.

The "Type 87" imitation type of the North Navy uses high-strength manganese steel, which makes the wall thickness smaller, reducing the weight of the gun body from 556.57 kg to 500 kg. The combined full gun - that is, the weight of the full gun plus the front trailer and the attached ammunition box does not exceed 1,400 kg. In addition, the black gunpowder for guns produced in Beihai Town uses the best ratio and uses high-purity potassium nitrate, which is far more powerful than other black gunpowders of the same era.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Now the "Type 87" borehole gun has been sold to many regions. In addition to the Cossack Emirates, the Ainu Kingdom and the island countries have also bought a lot. For example, the Edo Shogunate bought 100 doors, and the Sendai Basin has also bought 80 doors with a tit-for-tat loan because it is the best dog in the town of Kitakai. As for the Choshu Basin, it is really impossible to compare with the two people in front of him, and he gritted his teeth and bought 10 doors symbolically.

The most profitable business in the world is selling arms. You should know that selling arms is different from selling radishes. What buyers buy not only the weapons themselves, but also a standard. As the saying goes, "It is easy to get off the boat and it is difficult to get off the boat." It costs money to use weapons, training, ammunition, spare parts replacement and maintenance of Beihai Town, and it is a huge profit.

The Guangnan delegation was said to be unbearable, and Peter, who came with them, had to hold another negotiation separately because he was commissioned by the French East India Company. The person responsible for receiving him was Yu Deli.

Although Peter was a member of the "Paris Foreign Mission Association", he was worried about Nguyen Phuc Ying's great cause of restoration, but his status in Nguyen Phuc Ying's regime was not high, and even quite embarrassing.

Although the missionary once took Nguyen Phuc Ying's son Nguyen Jing to Paris for a walk, and even met Louis XVI, except for bringing back a dry agreement, there was no real information.

This official position in the Guangnan regime was called "Daming Modification of War Water Infantry Reinforcements Supervisors", but because the French government did not even send a single reinforcement, it was purely a false reputation. At the same time, because he was keen on preaching, it triggered a conflict between Christian culture and Confucian culture, and did not receive the due respect in the Guangnan regime.

In fact, what Peter didn't know was that many people in the Guangnan regime wanted to kill him now, and even submitted a memorial to Nguyen Phuc Ying for killing him. However, Nguyen Phuc Ying was not strong yet and was employed again, so she had to comfort her subordinates and suppress the matter.

Secondly, due to the emergence of Beihai Town, Nguyen Phuc Ying is now more inclined to curry favor with the Han regime that would replace the Qing Dynasty, so Peter's status as the "prince teacher" was also excluded. Because he saw people like Jiang Fan and Zhong Huai, the first teacher of the prince Ruan Jing is now the Confucian scholar Fan Wenren, whose status is far higher than Peter.

The Missionary Master learned from this situation and felt that the root cause was because the French government was too weak. In his opinion, the weakness of the French government was directly reflected in the insufficient support of the East India Company; and the latter's problem was not only affected by the swaying overseas trade policies, but the most important thing was the aggressiveness of the British East India Company.

So when he received the letter from Governor Leclerc, he immediately asked Nguyen Phuc Ying to go north together. As long as the French East India Company became stronger, his support for Guangnan would increase, and his status would naturally increase. This would further realize the dream of France and Beihai Town to jointly dominate the South China Sea and restore France's dominance in the South Asian continent.

"Dear Mr. Yu, this is a draft cooperation agreement between the two parties that I have drafted on my behalf by Governor Leclerc. Please review it."

Yu Deli thought the other party was written in French, but thought I could not understand this. But when he opened it, he found that it was a comparison version of the French and Chinese characters. He then took out his glasses and put them on it, glanced at ten lines of nonsense at the beginning, and found the key clause. The first one was to ask Beihai Town to send ships to France to rescue Louis XVI and his family, and the number of troops required was at least 3,000.

It seems that the French are really anxious. When Yudley thought of this, he immediately said to Peter: "We have discussed this matter internally. Considering the load capacity of Thor, we can dispatch up to 500 people..."

"Your Excellency, this is far from enough!" Peter was anxious when he heard this. What is the 500 people enough?

Yu Deli said: "Your Excellency, five hundred people are enough! Five hundred Northern Navy can completely use three thousand people!"

He added to his heart that if Zhao Xin followed him, he would probably be able to reach 5,000 people.

"In addition to dispatching Thor, we will also have a large gunboat to accompany us. Do you think this is OK?"

"On behalf of the Governor and myself, I would like to express my sincere thanks to you!" Peter was overjoyed when he heard this. He had seen the firepower of Beihai No. 1.

The main reason why Peter and Leclerc were anxious about this is that they were one of the Catholic priests and the other was a noble.

It is not necessary to say that the nobles have many privileges, and Catholic monks are even more arrogant. They not only do not have to pay taxes, but also have to impose a 10% "tith tax" on farmers.

In fact, after the National Assembly came to power, it had been fighting against the French church. Their policy was that priests and bishops had to be elected, which fundamentally broke the authority of the Roman church and essentially transformed the French church into Protestantism in one fell swoop; even if the doctrine could not be achieved for a while, at least this transformation should be completed in form.

As a result, a large number of priests who were loyal to the Roman church and opposed Protestantism became increasingly dissatisfied with the National Assembly, and Peter was one of them. Rescuing Louis XVI, who supported the Catholicism, naturally became his first choice.

“So regarding local governance…”

Yudley looked at the following terms, okay! In addition to asking the Northern Navy to help strengthen the defense of local governance, the French actually wanted the Northern Navy to help take back Madras and Hyderabad.

Historically, as of 1750, the French ruled in India at an area of ​​1.5 million square kilometers, with a total population of 100 million, and there was nothing British. However, with the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, the war also burned to the Indian mainland. The defenders of Hyderabad were defeated by the British troops who came from Bangladesh, and since then, France lost control of South India.

Yu Deli was not good at military affairs, so he did not promise anything on the spot. In order to prevent fraud, he decided to take it back and let Deng Fei, who was proficient in French, read it first.

Sure enough, Deng Fei, who was with his wife at home, looked at Peter's draft several times, and sneered at the corner of his mouth, explaining to Deli: "They really treat us as fools!"

“How to say it?”

"Just let us send troops to help resist the British, we have no mention of how to divide the territory we have captured! We can do it without any mention of Hyderabad, but we must get a share of the port of Madras. Otherwise, our ship will not even have a supply point when it comes out of Malacca in the future. Lao Yu, send a telegram to Zhao Xin and see what his opinion is."

Yu Deli stared at Deng Fei for a long time until he looked at the other person with a hair on his body, and then asked: "You are a very peaceful person. Why did you come back from Nanyang for a year and become a hawk?"
Chapter completed!