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Port Abbas, Hugland Barracks.

A low-level officer in white robe was conducting a cowlinter shooting demonstration. Under the explanation of the United States Marine Corps military adviser, he put all the weapons used by a standard musketeer on his body, lit the fuse quickly, and then took out a tin bottle from the cowhide belt around his waist, containing the medicine with fixed numbers, and began to load it. While loading, he observed the well-made cowlinter gun.

This is a Sul-style mesh-rope gun, with well-made iron barrels, exquisitely patterned walnut stocks and guardrails. In combination with this mesh-rope gun, there is also a hand-made mold specially made of lead bullets, with twelve fixed-packed gunpowder and lead bullets, specially cleaned the brushes and deer-seed cloths in the gun chamber and grease specially used for maintenance. Each box of mesh-rope gun also has a booklet mixed with pictures and Persian texts, which uses words and pictures to illustrate how to use this mesh-rope gun. Everything mentioned above can be contained in a marching pocket made of cowhide.

The officer was no stranger to the mesh gun. When he loaded and aimed, he found that the mesh gun was obviously different from what he usually used, that is, the buttstock was bent. He frowned and asked, "Is this a defective product?"

After hearing the translation, the Marine Corps officer saw the Persians' attention staying on the stock, and smiled and said, "Of course not, but I don't want to explain. You can test the shooting!"

The Persian officer smiled coldly and began to aim at the target in the distance. The curved stock made him a little uncomfortable, but after several attempts, he discovered the beauty. The bent stock can make it better against the shoulders, and the depression at the bottom increases the contact area with the shoulders and is more in line with the curve of the shoulders. This is not only comfortable, but also greatly offsets the huge recoil during shooting.

Bang!

The lead bounce flew out, and the Persian officer's face looked much better. He held the hand of the Marine officer and praised him a few words.

On the stone platform, He Wenxi was chatting with a general in a gorgeous military uniform, playing with an exquisite flintlock pistol and a sharp sabre in his hand.

This is Hawalid, the general stationed in the Port of Abbas. The ancient Persian Empire has always relied on Turkmen military nobles mainly composed of cavalry. After contacting Western hot weapons, the Persian nobles organized the Hugelian troops together with slave soldiers from tribes such as Georgia and their clan officers. This unit was mainly composed of firearms, with match rope guns and artillery, but the quality and quantity were still a problem.

This is also an entry point for the United States to open the Persian gate.

Since ancient times, colonial expansion has only been three ways, luring it to benefit, showing it to power and giving it to kindness. In today's Persia, the British East India Company has trade privileges. The British East India Company can dock at any Persian port and enjoy tariff privileges as low as 3% and have the right to buy three thousand dans of Persian raw silk from Persia every year. All this is that the British helped Persia defeat the Portuguese colonists nearly thirty years ago, and the Persians repaid.

After learning that Persia urgently needed advanced firearms, the United States specially prepared a batch of firearms to impress the nobles of the Persian Empire. These firearms were carefully prepared. The flintlock rifles were only pistols, and the rest were all clamps and were not equipped with bayonets, which avoided the leakage of important military technology, and the thoughts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were only seen in the details.

This batch of mesh guns was specially ordered. If the quality is not mentioned, the brush used for maintenance is horse bristle brush, while the domestic one is used for pig bristles. The grease for maintenance of the barrel is mixed with butter and seal oil. He Wenxi introduced these special arrangements that the United States respected its religion, which was highly praised by Hawalid.

The other weapons were also very attentive. The field guns were four-pound guns, which had a longer power and range that of European goods, but they had a longer lifespan and could shoot 2,000 rounds. However, this cannot be proven now. Therefore, the three guns were just a gift for trial by the Hugeland troops, and the three hundred officer swords brought were highly praised by the Persian army. This type of Chuksch-style officer swords were forged with high-quality steel with hydraulic forging hammers. They were sharp and extremely tough, with good practicality and artistic quality. Although they were not comparable to the sabers made of Damascus steel, the top Persian nobles (mainly artistic), they were still recognized by the Persians. Even the Turkmenist military nobles who came to the port were quite popular and booked 500 on the spot.

Persia is not unfamiliar with dealing with foreigners. Its former enemy Portugal, the Dutch East India Company, which had not been away from Abbas, and the British were familiar with each other. Because of the bad relationship between Persia and the Ottomans, European countries living in the shadow of the Ottomans often came to seek cooperation.

It can be said that the weapons trade hit the nail on the head of the Persians. This ancient country had a backward military system and weapons, but the enemy was extremely powerful. The Ottoman Empire was like a dark cloud covering the sky, and the East was still filthy with the Mughal dynasty in India, not to mention the cruel and fierce nomadic peoples around it.

The trade and negotiations between the two sides went smoothly. Hawalid agreed to the United States to set up a temporary trading station in the Port of Abbas and then send a diplomatic mission to the capital Isfahan to determine the relationship. Of course, after receiving He Wenxi's valuable "gift", Hawalid agreed to some conditions.

Having a commercial station in Port Abbas will not be more than 10%, and having a purchase right of 1,600 dan of raw silk every year will not limit the beliefs of the people of the United States of Persia and will not collect taxes on this basis.

The conditions were very generous. He Wenxi was satisfied with most of the conditions, but he just hoped that the tariffs would be reduced a little, but he knew that this would require the delegation to go to Isfahan to negotiate, and of course the United States needed to provide Persia with more and better weapons.

He Wenxi only brought one Ahat ship, which in addition to weapons, also had some export goods from the United States. According to the agreement with the British East India Company, the United States is not allowed to touch Persian cotton and grain transactions. This is the core industry of the East India Company. It imports raw silk and livestock from Persia every year and sells it to Surat, and then buys cotton and grain from Surat to return to Persia. The East India Company makes a lot of money on this route.

Of course, this is not a problem. The United States itself lacks cotton cloth, and the grain is even less profitable. The United States' strong commodities include spices, coffee, steel ingots, and silk products. The Persians have a great demand for spices, and the British provide far from enough, so the market is sufficient. Naturally, the Persians are in short supply. Silk products, especially gorgeous brocade, are completely inaccessible. Because of the problems of the Tianfang Teaching Method, drinking is prohibited. Whether in Persia, Ottoman or Europe, coffee is regarded as a legal drink by the various sects of Catholicism and Tianfang Teaching. This beverage comes from the tropical zone, so the market is very large. Unfortunately, the United States' coffee has not yet had a "brand". The most important thing is that the domestic coffee plantations have just been rolled out and it will take four or five years to produce on a large scale.

In any case, the United States has a commodity advantage over Persia, which is a good thing in itself, but the lack of precious metals in Persia leads to a transaction volume. For example, this batch of weapons is worth about 40,000 taels, but the Persians are only willing to pay half of the currency - Tuman, 2,500 Tuman, and the remaining 2,500 Tuman needs the United States to purchase goods.

Although Persia has many goods that are popular in the international and domestic markets, there are not many goods with high value and profits, and small scale. Persia's most competitive product is raw silk, but Persian raw silk is too expensive. A tuft of raw silk can reach 600 taels of silver. You should know that in Jiangnan, a tuft of the highest quality raw silk is only 470 taels. Of course, as the mainland is trapped in war, the current raw silk exported by Taipei is 380 taels, and when transported to Surat for transactions, one tuft of about 650 to 700. This is why the British clearly have the authorization of 3,000 taels per year, but have never used it completely, because the profit is too low.

If ordinary merchants are still interested in Persian raw silk, but He Wenxi will not. In order to avoid shortage, He Wenxi contacted merchants who were familiar with local areas and finally discovered several powerful Persian products. First of all, porcelain, Persian porcelain, but the quality has always been inferior to China, nor Vietnam or Siam. However, porcelain is porcelain, which is very popular in the Indian Ocean region, especially East Africa.

The second type is that the waste cocoons can be purchased on a large scale. The reason why China's raw silk and silk are popular in the world is that China has a large number of skilled handicraftsmen and countless experts in raising silkworms and silk reeling. In China, the silk yield rate of silk cocoons can be maintained at more than 50%, while in other places where silk production, such as Persia and Bangladesh, the silk yield rate is rare. Therefore, the Persian raw silk industry has a large number of waste cocoons and waste silk, which are needed by the United States.

The reason is no different. In Taiwan, the United States has invested a lot of manpower and material resources to copy the silkworm breeding and silk reeling model in the mainland. Using the technology in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, waste silk cocoons and silk silk can be reused. The domestic textile industry has successfully completed the technological progress of silk cotton and silk-seed blending technology. Therefore, whether it is Persian waste silk cocoons and silk silk from India, it will become the raw material for the textile industry in the United States. In the case of a serious lack of cotton, silk fabrics are the leader of the textile industry in the United States. The domestic development of the South China Sea requires a large number of mosquito nets and other commodities, which is also the main market demand for low-grade silk fabrics.

With porcelain and scrap silk, the trade profit of Abbas Port is quite considerable this time, and the above two are just scarce commodities. In fact, Persia also produces a large number of goods that are urgently needed by the United States, such as Turkmen and Arabian horses, which are the breeds that are urgently needed in China.

The trade and diplomacy of Abbas Port went very smoothly. With the guests and hosts having fun, He Wenxi only stayed for two days before leaving. Although the accompanying trade adviser suggested that the Ottoman Empire's Basra Port was also an extremely prosperous trading port, He Wenxi refused. First, there was not enough time, and second, diplomatic and trade cooperation with the Ottoman Empire and other great empires should be dispatched.

He Wenxi returned to Surat and attended a private banquet for the CEO of the British East India Company. He Wenxi presented precious gifts to express his support for the British East India Company on the Persian issue. The respectable CEO's wife loved the exquisite porcelain and gems that He Wenxi gave very much. When her husband asked He Wenxi what he liked, He Wenxi only expressed his hope to get a few pet dogs that the upper-level employees of the East India Company liked to keep.

The lady Angelina was immediately more intimate with He Wenxi. This woman from the upper class of the British firmly believed that a man who loves life and likes exquisite life is more charming than a general who gallops on the battlefield. However, Mrs Angelina didn't know that He Wenxi just wanted to get a few border collies.

These sheepdogs were taken to Australia by Taylor to practice their job as shepherds, rather than as pets around the noble lady. This is a gift from He Wenxi to Ma Donglai. He firmly believes that for Australia, border collies with high IQ and particularly suitable sheep are more useful than sending a hundred slaves, because Australia's sheep industry must be a pillar industry.

When He Wenxi returned to Goa, the mixed trade fleet was formed again. While the Northeast trade wind was still there, the trade fleet was loaded with the United States, the British East India Company and the Portuguese in the Governor of Goa, and a large amount of Chinese goods remained in the trading houses in Surat and Goa. The China Trade Association was still in the two places!

In the cabin, the original 60% of the Chinese goods have dropped to 40%. This batch of goods has been sold as Chinese goods from the China Trade Association. The ones that replaced them are printed and dyed cloth from India, with a number of as many as 200,000. This is a widely popular product throughout Europe and the best reward for the two major forces of Portugal and British East India Company.

The mixed trade fleet took advantage of the northeast trade wind and went directly into the heart of the Indian Ocean, but did not go to the East African coast again. Although this section of the road was dangerous, it avoided the numerous pirates on the East African coast. More importantly, the East African Governor's area in Portugal was fighting a war in the Sultanate of Oman, and He Wenxi did not want the United States to be involved.

On the next destination, Mozambique Island, the mixed trade fleet will be split. He Wenxi led a fleet of six free trade classes to continue to move south and bypass the Cape of Good Hope to Europe. After leaving Mozambique Island, Taylor resumed the Grid and India. The actual work of the Australian fleet will go to Australia to send support from the country to Ma Donglai, who is struggling to develop in Australia.
Chapter completed!