Although the terrible bombing advertisements of the New Dongfang Cook School in his previous life always appeared in my mind, Marin still insisted on using the name "Royal West Point Military Academy". Anyway, except himself, others would not think wrongly.

In particular, you need to use Chinese to think wrongly. But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty was the time when Chinese people were most confident. Even if Western food was passed down, it would not be called Western food. If Western food was passed down, it would not be called Western food, but it would be called Yidian.

For example, now, Marin's name within the Ming Dynasty was "Dongfanbo". As for the title of the Grand Duke of the Beihai Kingdom, it was directly ignored by the Ming people. In their opinion, foreigners, let alone the Grand Duke, even the king seemed ridiculous, and it was no different from the chiefs of the Shaomin area in the southwest. Therefore, no one would think of this word wrongly these days.

Of course, Marin also knew the mentality of the Ming Dynasty people, but he was not very angry. Why? Because in Marin's eyes, these people were ancient NPCs, what's the point of being angry with them? Besides, if you lower your posture and get a lot of benefits from the Ming Dynasty, why not do it?

Now, two ships of silk and porcelain were shipped back from Panama. After a rough calculation, it could bring Marin a net profit of about 200,000 gold coins.

In this regard, the Portuguese eyes were almost red. Because, according to the agreement, they should be the controllers of the Ming Empire!

However, in fact, they had no ability to control the Ming Empire at all. They did not get any benefits in the previous conflicts. The fleet sent out this time has just arrived in Malacca and is being renovated and intends to launch a full-scale attack on the coast of the Ming Empire.

In fact, Portugal also envied Malin's methods and planned to learn Malin's methods and pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty as a barbarian chief in Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, they were reluctant to give up the Kuala Lumpur Da Tin Mine that they had obtained and refused to return the land of the Ming Dynasty's vassal state, Malacca, so naturally they could not reach an agreement with the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, they could only fantasize about relying on fleets to conquer the Ming Dynasty and then negotiate.

But unfortunately, the Portuguese did not know that the Ming Dynasty would not succumb to the enemy's force, which was also the reason why so many people in later generations fanned the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the current reign was Emperor Zhengde, who liked the most in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. If he could conquer the Ming Dynasty, there would be ghosts.

In addition, Conte had already received instructions from Marin to report the message to the Ming Dynasty. So Conte sent a spy ship to the Strait of Malacca to discover the arrival of the Portuguese fleet and rushed to Keelung with a speedboat to deliver a message to Conte.

"I arrived so late?" Kong Tai was a little depressed. He had been prepared for a long time, but he did not expect that the Portuguese were so inefficient, several months later than he had expected.

As for why this is the case? It is mainly because this Portuguese fleet, led by Dagama, waved around the coast of the Kingdom of Benin on the western coast of Africa, and even landed on the shore and robbed.

The Kingdom of Benin is a famous ancient country in West Africa and has frequent trade with other parts of West Africa, so there is also a lot of gold. Dagama was originally a greedy person. When he passed by the coast of Benin, he saw a civil war breaking out in the area, so he mixed up and sent troops to the shore to help the weak side and defeated the powerful side. However, after the victory, he took away all the benefits...

By mixing with this civil war in the Benin Kingdom, Dagama earned 1,500 pounds of gold and a boat of ivory, which was a great harvest. Then he stopped and stopped on the west coast of Africa, looking for opportunities to catch the wrong gate.

However, Africa was too backward in this era. Unless there were several civilized countries in West Africa, there were almost no decent countries along the coast of Southwest Africa. The only slightly decent Kingdom of Congo was an ally of Portugal. As a professional robbery Portuguese colonist, he was obviously an insider and knew that only the city was rich in oil and water. Although the coastal tribal villages were easy to take, they had almost no oil and water. Even hundreds of villages were not as good as a small town. The reason was very simple. In this era, only trade activities in cities were active and there were more commodities. With more commodities, there would be more currency (sands). Such places would have enough oil and water after looting. However, ordinary small villages could only grab some crude food and some livestock, and they really didn't make any profit.

After arriving on the coast of East Africa, Dagama's fleet robbed several coastal small city-states on the territory of the Swahili (a mixed race of Arab merchants and local blacks, from the coast of Mozambique to the southern coast of Somalia, all over the Swahili people, and many small city-states of Swahili people).

Dagama was very cunning. Instead of forcibly siegeing the city, he used the name of trade to trick the city gate first, and then suddenly launched an attack, which made him break through several small Swahili towns and plunder a large amount of wealth.

By the time Dagama's fleet arrived at the Indian supply port, his warship was already filled with precious goods such as sand, ivory, rhino horns, gems and other precious goods.

If he returns to Europe at this time, Dagama will make a lot of money. However, he is responsible for invading the Ming Dynasty, so these goods can only be temporarily stored in Goa, a trading base in Portugal in India, and will be taken back when he returns.

Then, Dagama slowly led his fleet to the port of Malacca, and was discovered by Contai's spies and rushed to report the news...

At this time, Dagama didn't know that Conte had presented 20 12-pound Napoleon cannons to the Ming Dynasty a few months ago, and also offered the mud mold casting method of the Napoleon cannon.

At this moment, Zhang Yong, one of the "Eight Tigers of Zhengde", was supervising the military war situation and craftsmen who were supervising the military war situation. After Liu Jin fell, Zhang Yong, who defeated him, did not gain the power of Liu Jin. The reason was that this guy did not have the ability of Liu Jin. Therefore, he could only compete for favor with Gu Dayong and other tigers. Zhang Yong had a little understanding of military affairs, so he was responsible for the military in the inner court, and the military war situation in the inner eight bureau.

After Kong Tai presented the mud mold casting method of 12-pound cannons, Zhang Yong relied on Zhengde's favor and snatched the art and tasks of casting cannons from the Ministry of Works, and the military battles of the inner court came to cast the cannons.

Now, a few months have passed, and the first batch of clay molds originally made have been almost air-dried. Then, it is the cannon casting process...

The copper cast cannon is much simpler than the iron cast cannon, and it is not easy to have internal problems. Therefore, there is no problem with Zhang Yong commanding the military battle to cast cannons. The only problem is that when Kong Tai presented the casting cannon technology, he did not send the cannon frame drawings, but only the cannon body casting technology. In other words, Zhang Yong's military battle, the 12-pound Napoleon cannon casting actually had only a bare gun barrel... Of course, there are also gun ears, and Wangshan can be added behind...

However, there is no problem with this. Because, except for the artillery of Beihai, other countries have no gun mounts with wheels. At most, there are two more gun ears. Wangshan, which is aimed behind the gun, is considered "high-tech"...

After being poured in gunpowder and blown up, the test was conducted. Only 13 of the first batch of 120 military warfare 120 Napoleon cannons made, and they had to be rebuilt. In other words, the pass rate was as high as about 90%.

This is because Marin did not present the Rodman method with the cooling of the inner membrane to the Ming court. This is a killer weapon for casting heavy artillery, and Marin would not present it to the Ming Dynasty foolishly.

But despite this, the pass rate of nearly 90% still made Zhang Yong ecstatic. Because, in the military battle, the pass rate was much lower than this, and it was not even half. Therefore, he was considered to have made a "meritorial contribution".

If Malin knew Zhang Yong’s idea, he would probably spray him to death. You know, there is no difficulty in copper casting cannons, and you even had a scrap rate of more than 10%, which is simply...

This is probably related to the fact that the management of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty was not very strict. Some things were clearly scrapped by personal operational errors, not technical problems. For this, Beihai Kingdom was very strict in the process, so the scrapping rate was extremely low. The Ming Dynasty was not strict in management, and Zhang Yong focused on it this time, causing so many scrapping. If he didn't keep an eye on it in person in the future, the scrapping rate would be higher...
Chapter completed!