Chapter 194 The price of going home

It felt like he was a fool, and Xia Wu finally broke out completely. He pulled out the knife in his hand and slashed at Jason. The things he had just happened to have almost lost the face of the Xia family. He first chopped the ghost who embarrassed himself and lies, and then at worst, he would refund the money.

It was a big deal to use a knife in front of Jiang Feng. Jason was already very close to Jiang Feng. Tieding, behind Jiang Feng, saw Xia Wu rushing over with a knife, his first reaction was to take out the weapons one after another, but their movements were not as fast as Zhang Liang.

Zhang Liang quickly took two steps forward, blocking Xia Wu's path forward. Xia Wu naturally didn't want to cut Jiang Feng or Zhang Liang. At this time, the momentum was too strong and he could not hold back his strength. Zhang Liang turned his body slightly and a heavy punch had already hit Xia Wu's left cheek.

Now Zhang Liang's Baji's strength is very good. With a punch on his face, Xia Wu's brain suddenly buzzed, and his eyes turned black. When he realized that he had fallen to the ground. The sailors and tribesmen of the Xia family fleet around him thought something had happened when they saw the attack on the shore.

People who are seeking life at sea survive in the stormy waves and pirates, and are very alert in all aspects. Xia Wukong on the shore pulled out his knife and rushed out. The sailors and guards who were loading and unloading goods on the shore immediately pulled out their weapons. However, their reaction speed was still too slow.

According to the custom of every transaction, the top figures of the Xia family's fleet came here to handle the procedures for cash delivery and cargo inventory on the shore. The two parties are originally interdependent. They don't have to be wary of each other in certain ports in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so the people on the shore are not too wary.

So I reacted, but I still felt slow. There were more than a dozen ships parked there on the periphery of the port. Two ships parked in the port. As soon as I took action, the Tidings quickly forced all the people from the Xia family on the shore. When the people on the ship saw it, they were afraid of being attacked and were immediately at a disadvantage.

Xia Wu shook his head and woke up, but saw that all the people in the Xia family were controlled by someone with weapons. He was very anxious. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly felt that his neck was cold and he didn't dare to move. Zhang Liang held a steel knife in his hand and placed it on his neck.

Jiang Feng's face was gloomy and he spoke there:

"Thank you, the third leader, for your hard work, I've stayed..."

When Xia Wuxin heard the transaction was completed, he still breathed a sigh of relief. After all, it was a deal of 40,000 taels of silver. He carefully avoided the blade and said loudly there:

"Mr. Jiang, it's all misunderstandings, all misunderstandings. Leave this ghost to my fifth brother. Our Xia family will change you a real artillery master!"

He turned his head and looked at Jason next to him. It was obviously Xia Wu's official words with a strong Minnan accent just now. He didn't understand. Jiang Feng thought about it and suddenly turned around and asked:

"Are you not an artillery?"

"Sir, I'm not an artilleryman."

"What do you do?"

“…, I’m the Army!”

After a brief conversation, Jiang Feng turned around and followed a leader of the Tiedin who was stationed in the Qianhu Station of Yantai Mountain. Now he is a general flag and whispered:

"You finish the rest and put these two cannons in the port with some masters."

Then he shouted at the tense port open space:

"Put it all away and take this foreigner back to the city!"

After returning to Dengzhou City, I found that the Tidings and the recruits from Tianjin sanctuary were not so surprised by the appearance of high-nose and blue-eyed foreigners. Missionaries and foreign merchants, these residents near the port, were not surprised by the people on Weishan Island. Instead, the people on Weishan Island were quite fresh.

However, this news was still controlled as much as possible. As for the two cannons in the port, according to the old craftsmen, there was not much difference from the cannons made in the Ming Dynasty. They also understood the specific usage. Foreigner Jason probably also understood some methods such as sight.

After expressing with the old craftsman with gestures and half-baked language, I also understood it, but apart from this, there was no more artillery knowledge worthwhile.

Jason put on Tieding's original guard costume. After the Jiang family led him to wash and clean up, he was also a very decent person. However, he was far from Jiang Feng's so-called Western gentlemen in modern film and television dramas. Or to be honest, he also looked like a rough man.

At this time, the East and the West were on the same level, and Europe and China even had a certain gap. What can reflect most is the travel notes and experiences written by missionaries when they came to China. They all believed that the Ming Dynasty was a powerful and civilized country. This evaluation turned into barbarism, ignorance and backwardness during the Qing Dynasty. The quality of the people of the country is naturally closely related to the level of the country. Therefore, the average height and physical fitness of the people of the Ming Dynasty are no less than those of the whites.

In modern times, Jiang Feng saw foreigners and white Europeans in the film and television dramas, all of whom were tall and big. He thought that Tiedin's clothes would be too small for Jason to wear, and this worry was superfluous.

When Jason saw Tiedin, his eyes flashed with a look of amazement and admiration, which made Jiang Feng behind him feel even more unsure. He thought that even the army under my command would be amazed like this. Is the vision of this foreigner too low?

After taking it back to his mansion, he found a house for him to settle it in the place where the hunters lived outside. Jiang Feng brought Jason, a white man, into the mansion, asked several times, and found that a simple conversation was OK, but the long narrative of Jason was often mixed with many native languages.

It was impossible to communicate and understand at all, so Jiang Feng simply wrote a letter to Wang Qinian, who was in Tianjin sanitation, asking him to find a translation.

After spending tens of thousands of taels of silver, the cannons they bought were not useful in infantry battles. The white man who came was originally considered by Jiang Feng as the first step in his technological leap, but he found that he could not use them at all. Infantrymen who did not understand cannons would be better to find some experienced old officers in the capital camps.

Anyway, it was impossible for Jiang Feng to ask for a white man who bought it for free here for free, so he sent him to the barracks below the Qianhu Station of Yantai Mountain. It turned out that there was a new camp, and now it is the garrison of Jiangfeng Dengzhou Camp. There are two thousand servants. No matter how they rotate, there must be more than one thousand people stationed there.

When the army is idle, there are almost no one who can maintain training like modern army. When there is no war, the soldiers are driven by the generals to farm and do various profitable business. The only ones that can be trained are the personal soldiers and servants. Jiang Feng has made a lot of money and has never considered any issue of letting the soldiers make money, so the people under his command are training every day.

After the soldiers are bloody, they become more and more skilled. Everyone knows that if they don’t practice their own abilities well, the chances of survival on the battlefield are that they are much less.

If Jiang Feng did not have the position of Dengzhou Dusi. The commander of the garrison station was uneasy to drive military households to farm and train troops every day, this was rebellious and rebellious. However, if he did not train a strong and brave private army, how could he maintain wealth and honor? It was all up to Liu Shier's strategy to judge Jiang Feng decided to seek this official position.

Half a month later, a general translator named Lin came to Dengzhou. General translator was a man who worked as a servant in Quanzhou Maritime Warehouse. After the ban on the sea, he had no way to live, so he had to go to the capital to make a living. Although that was a food and clothing company, there was not much money to make.

This time, Wang Qinian found out that he had a price of 50 taels at a time, and the round-trip fee, food and accommodation were all responsible for Dengzhou's work, so he was naturally completely willing.

When Lin Tongyi talked to Jason, Jiang Feng was listening at the side, asking his own questions while listening to the other party’s answers. At this time, Jiang Feng was a little grateful for his junior high school years. He still remembered whether it was Spain or Portugal in the southwest corner of Europe.

However, in Lin Tongyi's translation, the current name of Spanish and grape style is Franchise. When he translated this, Jason obviously understood what Franchise means. He was quite excited and said a few words. Lin Tongyi was obviously a little confused. After frowned and listened carefully, he turned to follow Jiang Feng and said:

"Sir, this person means that he is not a Franchise man, but a Dutch place."

Jiang Feng had no idea that the Netherlands was the ancient name of modern Netherlands and Belgium. It is still the territory of the Kingdom of Spain. However, the independence movement has been wave after wave. In some years, the Netherlands will become independent. Looking at Jiang Feng's confusion expression, Lin Tongyi explained carefully:

"Sir, the missionary I followed before said that many people in the north of their country were dissatisfied with the kingdom and always rebel. The Netherlands was that place."

It turned out that Jason Hogan was a Dutchman serving in the Spanish army (in the future, for the sake of convenience, he would be called Dutch by the name of the Dutch). His brother was killed by the Spanish army in the north when he suppressed the independence movement, so he always wanted to leave the army and go back to join the independent army.

But when he received the news, he was preparing to go to Luzon. His troops were guarding the colonies. They were enclosed on a sea boat, and it was difficult to escape. After coming to Luzon, he had no chance to escape. He was always enduring there. When the Xia family went to buy cannons this time, he felt that as long as he ran to Ming Dynasty, he might have a chance. He had heard all kinds of rumors there.

At the end, Jiang Feng's face couldn't help but feel more and more disappointed. He was just a lieutenant of the army. What could this be useful? Perhaps seeing the disappointed look on Jiang Feng's face, Jason anxiously asked Lin Tongzhi to translate a sentence:

"If the adults are willing to help me get home, I will teach the invincible Franc phalanx to the adults' army!"
Chapter completed!