From a son-in-law to a favorite of the empress

Chapter 449

Zhou Yuan didn't care what the other party was feeling. He just wanted to get some key information so that he could make a plan later.

He didn't believe that these foreign devils were so tenacious. They were just a group of beasts who bullied the weak and feared the strong.

"The first question is, you now occupy the coastal waters of Dajin. Our cargo ships can't go out. Who should we negotiate with?"

Zhou Yuan's tone was very calm.

Bulwer gritted his teeth and said, "I don't know. I'm just an ordinary knight commander. You need to ask the governor for this question."

Zhou Yuan said, "That's a beautiful answer."

"Guan Lu, insert all these needles and let this knight suffer a little."

Guan Lu smiled and said, "No problem."

He picked up the silver needles and started again, and all ten fingers were directly pierced.

The miserable cry made the sounds of other cells around disappear.

Bulwer kept cursing, but it didn't help.

Guan Caixi covered her eyes and didn't dare to look anymore.

She really wanted to escape, but Zhou Yuan didn't let her go, and she didn't dare to go.

Perhaps she herself did not realize that she was gradually beginning to fear Zhou Yuan.

"Stop! You despicable oriental monkeys! Stop now!"

"You will go to hell!"

Bulwer almost collapsed, but Zhou Yuan ignored him.

Guan Lu continued to move, inserting a thicker silver needle into Charles' toes.

The scream of pain resounded through the cell, and then stopped abruptly.

This brave knight, all his shit and urine leaked out, and he fainted.

But a basin of cold water was poured on him, awakening him from his coma.

Zhou Yuan said lightly: "There is still the thickest needle, Guan Lu, let him be a eunuch."

"Okay."

Guan Lu picked up the iron needle and aimed at Charles' key parts.

Charles was immediately terrified, couldn't help crying out, and began to ask for help.

Bulwer yelled, "Enough! Stop it! I'll tell you! Isn't it enough for me to tell you!"

"Regarding the export of goods, we need to negotiate with the Governor-General, and he will take a cut."

Zhou Yuan narrowed his eyes and said, "Governor? If I remember correctly, your Minister of Trade seems to be called Kolodia, right?"

Bulwer panted and said, "Although Lady Avina is the Minister of Trade, she is more often responsible for the purchase and integration of goods, not for tax collection and sales."

Zhou Yuan was silent for a moment before smiling, "So... what powers does your Governor-General have?"

Bulwer said, "Supreme military command, administrative power, and financial power."

Zhou Yuan said, "How many muskets, flintlocks, and falconets do you have in total?"

Bulwer changed color and said, "I really don't know this!"

Zhou Yuan smiled and said, "Really? You really don't treat this knight as a brother. With this needle, he won't be a man anymore."

Guan Lu picked up the needle in tacit understanding, revealing a ferocious expression.

Charles, as a tool, was about to collapse, and he yelled, but it was a pity that he could not speak Chinese.

Bulwer said: "One thousand! We brought one thousand muskets! Two hundred flintlocks!"

"We have three battleships, two of which are sixty-gun battleships, and one is eighty-gun battleship!"

"There are also four cruisers, each equipped with twenty guns, not for combat, but only for trade and transportation."

"By the way, there are forty spare guns, stored in the underground warehouse."

Grass, a kind of plant.

Damn, it means you have a full three hundred and twenty guns, so fucking rich.

This number is definitely a large number for the Portuguese, and it seems that their ambitions for Dajin are extremely sufficient.

No wonder the Fujian and Guangdong Navy, with more than 40,000 people and more than 30 ships of all sizes, can't beat the opposite side.

These three ironclad ships, with a full two hundred guns firing at the same time, who can stop them?

Zhou Yuan's goal became clearer. He must get the Portuguese cannon, which was the foundation of sea control.

Zhou Yuan conducted a relatively detailed interrogation of the Minister of Trade, Kolodia.

Although Bulwer did not know too many details, he knew a little bit.

This Kolodia was born into a noble family in Portugal, but when she was young, she was deceived by a bard and fell in love.

She did not care about her family's opposition, but the bard took a sum of money and ran away.

With her dream shattered, Kolodia was extremely desperate. At the moment of seeking death, she found out that she was pregnant.

She was driven out of the family, gave birth to a child in an unknown town, and walked step by step to where she is today.

Of course, with her current power, it is still a lot worse than her background.

According to Bulwer, Kolodia is very famous in Portugal because sheShe is one of the few noble ladies who was deceived so badly, and one of the few noble ladies who can still support herself after being driven out of the house.

This information is enough.

"Guan Lu, just don't kill anyone, I want to exchange them for things."

After saying that, he strode out.

Guan Caixi followed closely behind. For her, escaping from this place was a relief.

After walking out of the prison, she bent over and retched, gasping for breath, her face pale.

Zhou Yuan looked at her and said slowly: "In fact, interrogation is not that fun, right?"

Guan Caixi didn't say anything, and didn't even dare to look up.

Zhou Yuan said: "This world doesn't seem to be as exciting and romantic as in the vernacular novels, nor as grand as the rumors, right?"

"You can't stand even the most basic punishment, how do you view killing and dismembering? How do you view battlefields with piles of corpses?"

"Cai Xi, your world is beautiful, but not everyone's world is so beautiful."

Zhou Yuan considered and organized his words, and continued: "You don't have to reflect on anything because of this, you haven't done anything wrong, your birth is your blessing, you should enjoy such happiness."

"What I mean is that you should also slowly respect the reality of this world, otherwise sooner or later, I'm worried that you will pay the price for it."

Guan Cai Xi raised her head, wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, gritted her teeth and said: "I don't want you to care! I don't like your preaching! You are not my father!"

After she finished speaking, she stepped hard on Zhou Yuan before striding away.

Zhou Yuan scratched his head and murmured, "What a savage girl."

Watching her back go away and enter the palace, Zhou Yuan took out a pipe from his arms.

It was made of metal, and the craftsmanship was not exquisite. It should be relatively cheap, the kind used by ordinary soldiers.

"Lao Lin."

Zhou Yuan called softly.

Chu Feifan jumped down from the roof and landed lightly beside Zhou Yuan.

"Take it and go to Macau tonight."

Zhou Yuan said in a deep voice: "I said that I would not let you perform too dangerous tasks. I know the power of guns."

"This time you swim to the southeastern dock of Macau, where there are three cruisers, which are actually cargo ships."

"Burn them and leave this pipe at the scene of the crime."

Chu Feifan frowned and said: "According to the time, they haven't sorted out the goods yet, right? It's not time to load the ship yet."

Zhou Yuan smiled and said: "So I want to burn it at this time. I have my own ideas. You just need to do it."

Speaking of this, Zhou Yuan frowned and said: "Ironclad ships are not so easy to burn. You need to enter the ship to set fire and destroy the interior of the cabin. You may encounter soldiers on duty."

Chu Feifan smiled lightly: "As long as it is not a large number of soldiers, I can easily deal with it. I am in the dark, and they can't do anything to me."

He took the pipe, squinted his eyes and looked around, and then slowly said: "I will be back before dawn."