Whether in Deng Ming's past or this life, Defoe's masterpiece "Robinson Crusoe" is called the pioneering work of modern Western novels. After the first edition was successful, Defoe learned through the publishing house that the big man from the East had also ordered a book of his book. For this reason, Defoe specially added a dialogue between Robinson and Friday when reprinting his work. In return for paying attention to the big man, the dialogue background is that Robinson told Friday about the armies of various countries in the eyes of the British:

"When fighting the Spanish, we don't need to leave the camp before 8 o'clock, because the Spanish would get up on time at 7 o'clock, enjoy a hearty breakfast first, and spend half an hour eating dessert; when fighting the French, we have to miss this time one hour later, because the French need to look in the mirror, perm, spray perfume and tie colorful bows to themselves - it's also a white stand on the battlefield when leaving the camp early."

"What about the Chinese?" asked Friday.

"Oh, those Chinese, they don't fight during the day."

...

Decades later, Deng Ming laughed after seeing the translation of this passage. Before solemnly collecting the book signed by Defoe, Deng Ming also showed it to his guests, Defoe's old friend, John of Scotland. In Deng Ming's previous life, John was an outstanding mathematician, a suave playboy and a famous swordsman; at the same time, he was the inventor of concepts such as "credit currency", "equity", "options", and "stimulating economic circulation through tax cuts and appropriate inflation". Three hundred years later, the financial world is still using the currency and economic models designed by John, just to modify it to make it more adaptable to the times.

In another seventeenth century without Deng Ming, when John went to Edinburgh to attend college at the age of fourteen, he seduced a pair of twin daughters who were not married to the principal. When their angry brothers came to fight for John, they were also seriously injured by John, who was extremely skilled in swordsmanship. John, who could not stay in college, went to London to sell the credit currency that had just become a prototype. The central bank imagined that while accepting the entertainment of the King of England, John had an ambiguous relationship with the King of England's mistress and stabbed the British mistress to death with a sword in the duel. After fleeing Britain as a wanted criminal, John came to France, where the economy was on the verge of collapse. In Paris, where the unemployment rate was as high as 90%, John actively promoted his currency and the central bank to the old King of France, but was soon expelled because he had an affair with a married noble lady and nun.

The elderly Louis XIV died soon after. Even though France, which was at the end of the road, had imposed more than a thousand taxes, the tax revenue for a year was still not as good as three months' expenses. The regent Prince Orleans made a desperate appointment to a British wanted criminal who believed in Protestantism, lived with a married man, and had constant scandals with nuns as the Minister of Currency, opened the first central bank in human history, and issued the first set of credit currency decoupled from gold and silver.

A few years later, John's career reached its peak. He served as the French Minister of Taxation, Minister of Finance and Chief Executive of Banking. How the French government should make money, spend money, and formulate economic and monetary plans were decided by him. Under John's mathematical management, France abolished 90% of the original tax, rebuilt the national economy, and developed Louisiana in large quantities. At the peak of John, the French changed the cheers to "God bless the king and John" and

"Long live the king and John"; the European powers even exclaimed that France only needed John's bank and currency to make the old enemy Britain bend its knees; the word millionaire was invented by John, and the correct investment could make the duke's coachman become a rich man who was far beyond his master overnight, and let the latter turn to flatter the servants a day ago. Montesquieu later recalled that it was the earth-shaking John era that made him realize that there was no insurmountable gulf of terror between nobles and civilians.

At that time, in John's office, the noble ladies who came to visit him started line up from the door, and lined up through the lobby and the corridor and extended to the road. These most beautiful female nobles in France all said that as long as John was willing to sell their stocks, they would do anything for John. The Regent Prince Orleans also recalled sourly that after he broke into John's office, he met four noble ladies with noble families at the same time, none of them were wearing tops...

These erotic stories left a deep impression on Deng Ming after watching them in his previous life, so that he still remembered them decades later. He probably remembered that John's mathematical model was completely collapsed because the Regent printed billions of francs privately for himself. When the great collapse caused by hyperinflation came, the angry French suddenly remembered that John was a sinful Protestant, a hateful British man, and he also openly lived with a married man in Paris, seducing nuns to insult the sacred church and the faith of the French people... John fled to Switzerland and died there, and his failure was summarized by financiers of the next two hundred years: John was proficient in mathematics, but did not understand that the greed of the human heart was infinite, so pure credit currency was never feasible and must be linked to gold and silver and guaranteed reserves.

However, this time John did not go through great ups and downs, nor did he go to Switzerland to die of depression. Instead, he was taken to China by Deng Ming after hitting a wall with the Sun King. The central bank, currency, stocks and futures systems being implemented here made John very familiar. Of course, he would not have thought that this was the alien technology originating from his mathematical model, but thought that someone had seen it similarly. Here, John was a guest of honor and taught mathematics and economics in the college - although China had already had dozens of them at that time.

In 2019, the central bank, equity and futures experiments were earlier than John's experiments, and there were some norms and even more advanced than John. However, Deng Ming knew that he actually did not understand any mathematical principles, and this playboy was the ancestor of the invention of these alien financial technology. It is very important to compare his mathematics and economic thoughts with Deng Ming's central bank. Of course, to be on the safe side, although John was not young, Deng Ming strictly prohibited his female relatives from approaching John and warned other friends.

Tonight's battle was the beginning of the massive mention of Deng Ming's name by local Europeans.

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It was already midnight. Everyone on the flagship opened their eyes wide and carefully searched for the enemies in the dark. At this time, the Spanish captain's room had already turned off. The cloudy sea surface was covered with no fingers. A soldier came to the bridge in the dark and lowered his voice to ask Li Siming beside Deng Ming and said, "Major, should we slow down or launch rockets?"

"Of course, slowing down as planned." Li Siming said without thinking, he was also trying his best to lower his voice.

The soldiers retreated quietly. According to the prior plan, the Ming army would continue to advance until they formed a rough double-team against the Spanish fleet before launching an attack. However, the distance between the two armies should be very close at this time. The Ming army could only estimate the parking location of the Spanish fleet by a very rough estimate. At this time, the error range of calculation of its own speed was also very large. The Ming army ships were likely to suddenly hit the enemy ship, and if they did not slow down, they would become dangerous. Now that Deng Ming did not give Li Siming a new order, he certainly would not modify the pre-plan.

Deng Ming felt that he had not reached the predetermined position, but this was his feeling. Maybe when he launched the illuminated rocket in a while, he would find that the Ming army and the enemy had missed it - but it would rather have been passed by the ship in front than to find that it was farther away from the enemy at that time, so that at least some of the ships could launch an attack immediately.

Although he knew that Li Siming and Feng Xifan were by his side, Deng Ming had no idea to talk to them, and no one dared to say whether there were no hidden enemy ships around him, and whether he would hear the conversation in the wind.

"Our army has a total of 120 warships and 1,300 cannons." Deng Ming once again silently weighed the strength of the two sides in his heart: "The Spaniards have more than 30 warships, which should not exceed forty, and they should have 1,000 to 1,200 cannons."

It sounds like the number of artillery on both sides is the same, but the caliber is very different. The largest artillery of the Ming army was the eighteen-pound cannons on two warships; most of the armed merchant ships were twelve-pound and nine-pound cannons, and even smaller six-pound cannons. If heavier cannons were used, these small boats were at risk of capsizing due to recoil.

But the Spaniards had many heavy artillery of more than 30 pounds, and the opponent's sixty-cannon flagship even had a powerful forty-eight-pound cannon. In the past, in order to show off their military power, the Spaniards also showed the power of their main ship to the Ming army. The sixty-cannon boat had a double-layer artillery deck. When the firepower was fully opened on one side, it could shoot a thousand pounds of projectiles in a volley. Even the Ming army's flagship could not withstand several volleys at close range.

After several years of exploration of the center of gravity, Chongming Shipyard has just begun to try to build ocean-going warships with double-layer artillery decks. The warships are a brand new European design and require both speed and combat performance. This is not easy for Chongming, who lacks European-style warship design and manufacturing experience. Relying on a large number of students who graduated from Sichuan Academy and trained in mathematics, the design progress of warships has been very fast. A large number of model experiments even made designers feel that the underwater part of the hull is not the least resistance of the pointed-headed one, but it is still not enough for the Ming army to have a group of powerful warships produced by themselves.

"If there are a few more years..." Deng Ming couldn't help but think.

At this time, a muffled sound broke Deng Ming's thoughts, and it sounded like a violent collision occurred far away.

Hiss, hiss, hiss.

After a few moments, a series of rockets rose into the air several miles away. They flew into the air and then exploded violently, reflecting the dark clouds in the sky into dark red.

This is the illuminated fireworks of the Ming army. With the faint red light, Deng Ming saw huge black shadows emerging from the sea.

Almost at the same time, several Spanish rockets with long tails also rushed into the air. The Ming warship immediately warned friendly forces after a collision, and the same was true for the Spanish. Since the ship had been exposed, it launched rocket reconnaissance unscrupulously, and the Spanish had a larger range of reconnaissance and used more rockets.

When a burning rocket slid in the direction of Deng Ming and released its last light, they all saw a dark warship outline not far away. The huge black figure made Deng Ming and the people around him breathe. The enemy ship closest to the Ming army flagship looked like a hill.

Almost as the Ming army looked up at the towering hull and inhaled collectively, they also heard the urgent ringtone from the enemy ship that was close to them. This was the Spanish calling their sailors into the combat post.

"Double-layer artillery deck is Guiyi's flagship!" Li Siming shouted loudly, jumped up and shouted: "The searchlight is all turned on, and the cannons are all turned on!"
Chapter completed!