Chapter 397 Evaluation
It's funny to say that Master Cao's first believer, and the owner of the logging farm, Lao Taylor, even knows what he believes, but he believes it anyway.
Because for the carpenter Taylor, this behavior was not to be converted to the tradition, but to be treason.
This is much easier than converting a letter. He has no idea what a country is, only a kingdom.
It was like a carpenter who became a carpenter and the person employed him was the Ming Empire. This preconceived fact made him happy to accept it.
Old Taylor's father was the timber owner of the Catholic monastery near London. He thought that the monks of the monastery prepared wood for their living. During the period of the Eight Palm of Hen Lao Palm in England, all the church's manors, territories, schools, farms, houses, pastures, land, chapels, inheritance, tithing and other powers belonging to the church were taken ownership of by the king.
"At that time, my father was trying to find an opportunity for me to enter university in the church, so that I could become a respected monk and give to the suffering people. You also saw that England was full of people who lost their land, wandering everywhere, and all the forests were robbers."
At this point, Old Taylor took a deep breath of the Daming Muye yellow cigarette in his hand. The light emitted by the cigarette butt made the cracked gullies on his hands very conspicuous.
Pan Sheng followed his eyes and looked at the lumberjacks working in the forest not far away. Among them, seven men, women, young and old were all desperate people in the forest earlier.
They made a living by robbing the passing business trips with knives and wooden bows, and planted them on Tang Er's hand. However, Tang Er not only did not kill them, but also introduced them to a job to log wood here.
"Later, I could only go to the port to move goods, otherwise I could only go to the wool mill to work. Weaving cloth is not decent for men, but many people have no other choice. A timber dealer who escaped from Spain hired me, so I could get to know you, it's a pity, if he was still alive."
These days, there are Spaniards all over the world. Philip's domestic policy has made many capitalists and intellectuals flee Spain. Anyone who has no choice but to stay in their hometown Spain is indeed the most powerful country in Europe, the richest country in Europe, and the most enjoyable country in Europe.
A pearl is also easy to obtain for merchants in the Ming Dynasty and Spanish merchants, but a few stones of rice, millet, various vegetables and meat are also easy to obtain for the people of the Ming Dynasty, but it is difficult for the people of the Spanish to reach the sky.
Spain is the real place where sheep eat people.
Pan Sheng nodded to express his understanding. If Old Taylor did not speak fluent Spanish, it would be difficult for them to communicate directly.
At the same time, after his mental assessment, he thought that Old Taylor was not threatening them, and nodded and said, "If you need it, one or two years later, I can help you get a piece of wood that only the people of the New World can have, proving that you are a Ming people and the nobles of England cannot control you."
Old Taylor nodded, but his eyes showed uneasiness and confusion. After pausing for a long time, he raised the cigarette in his hand and asked, "I still don't understand. You have the best goods, why do you want me to run a logging farm here?"
"It always makes them notice that this is unprofitable, and I need a statement to deal with possible dangers."
Looking at the old Taylor who was worried for no reason, Pan Sheng smiled relaxedly and said confidently: "It is profitable. You hand over the logging farm to one of your four sons. When the money from the church comes next year, you will go to the port to open a shipyard and hire Ming boatmen to repair the ship."
"As long as the trade is prosperous, I can guarantee that Aichuan is more willing to go to your shipyard to repair ships than other shipyards, and with the best places and purchasers, you can even open a store next to the shipyard that sells Makino cigarettes."
"If there was no war, you would be the best."
Old Taylor's concerns were reasonable. In fact, the Ming Dynasty guards hired by his logging site were enough to worry the local lords at all levels. His lumberjacks came from the mountains and forests, and the guards' mature and sophisticated warriors could not be hidden from others, and there was no shortage of muskets in the logging site.
In this concept, Old Taylor can organize more than one noble knight by riding a horse.
However, in the general English concept, the Ming Dynasty was not an imaginary enemy, but a helper facing Spain.
This is exactly the opposite of the Ming people's concept.
Pan Sheng patted Old Taylor on the shoulder and smiled and said, "Let's go and prepare. We'll visit the Baron to sell muskets. If I have the chance, I want to see his soldiers."
Each of them has their own mission. After deciding the church name Sun and Moon, they also added the dragon's totem at the suggestion of Old Taylor. The full name of the church is Sun and Moon worship Dragon Church.
The Taoist priest and the saint went out to wander around. They brought a few guards and prepared several sets of words such as "The Yellow Dragon descends to the earth, and the people turn over", "The sun and the moon come back, and the world is peaceful". They wanted to go to the surrounding villages to try what the people are most sensitive to.
I saw how Yang Gao's children made up nursery rhymes and prophecies and prophecies were useful, and there were also those who were more suitable for this land, such as persuading to submit, foxes, robbers, fish belly books, and stone burying people.
As for Pan Sheng, the small flag officer, he was not trained in these highly professional tasks. A flag army that accompanied him was packing his backpack, putting away all the essentials such as notebooks, and asking the workers in the logging yard to help put two boxes of mecha-rope bird guns on the four-wheeled carriage.
The steering of the carriage was very interesting. Pan Sheng studied it for a while before leaving and drew a sketch on the book, but he didn't read it much. His main mission was not like this.
It is a assessment of the combat effectiveness of the English noble army.
There was a report on their ship, prepared by Master Cao before going to sea. Pan Sheng looked over and over while sailing, remembering to get it right, but after arriving in England... he felt that the report's assessment of England's military strength was wrong.
The author of the report was Chen Mu, who evaluated that the size of England's army was unknown, with naval combat capabilities better than the Spanish Navy, and had weaker land combat capabilities than the Spanish New World Corps, and equal to the French army.
Pan Sheng doesn't believe it.
He disembarked in Southampton, and the local nobles boasted to Tang Er that the most powerful warships in England were parked on the sea, similar to them.
But the problem is that they drive all lucky ships, and there are only two frigates of 400 shark ships.
And what about them? There are more than twenty boats, four of which are bigger than the lucky boat, and the others are all gadgets that are not as big as the lucky boat.
Can these broken things fight against the Spanish regular army?
In the view of Pan Sheng, the small flag officer, if the British maritime merchants rise up, they may still fight against the Spanish. The navy of this country is too weak, so weak that Zeng Yiben, who was shot to death by his general in his early years, could directly become king and emperor if he led his troops to appear on the coast of England.
Following his young flag army to check the bird gun at the end, with a jingle, the copper falcon that fixed the strands below fell to the ground.
The flag army said with a bitter face: "Xiaoqi, this problem cannot be repaired well. These bird guns have this problem and can be installed, but as long as the gun is fired, it will definitely fall off."
Chapter completed!