European Financial Emperor - European Financial Emperor chapter 12

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After the party was over, the British Navy had dispatched an investigator to the top of Ben Heren.

They asked all the crew members, including Lee Hwan, about various things, and they returned in just 30 minutes.

The sailors clicked their tongues as they watched the British soldiers turned around.

“I said I would send all the chaos home and leave only young and capable soldiers in the military, but what is this, almost all the old men who are exhausted in their assholes are left?”

“It’s a problem that only the elderly are left, but they don’t seem to have any intention of investigating at all.”

“You bastards, are you saying you’re just going to impose taxes and ignore piracy?”

The British navy, which defeated the Invincible Fleet, was still strong, but as the army is old, it seems to be very lacking in discipline.

The investigation was behind the scenes, and he only thought about collecting taxes and returned in 30 minutes.

After the British returned, Aaron summoned Yi Hwan.

Lee Hwan entered the cabin where the sailors were gathered and asked them some questions.

“Does it look like they are well-trained? No, why don’t you ask me this?”

“Are you asking if it’s a misunderstanding?”

The navigator, who knew what to do if he didn’t understand what he was saying, smiled satisfactorily and nodded his head.

Lee Hwan explained their training status.

“Once the Oh and the heat were firmly aligned, it didn’t seem like a day or two of formal training.”

“They are pirates who are still alive. No matter how much pirates live with their livers outside their ships, they can’t help but get nervous when a fight comes up.”

The sailors tilted their heads.

“Does such pirates exist?”

“Things like that happen, too. If you were trained as a Marine in the official army.”

For a moment, the sailors were startled and covered Aaron’s mouth.

“… … It’s good for all of us to be careful.”

“Even if you set up the camp by matching the ranks with Oh, doesn’t it mean that you have studied tactics to some extent to keep the camp by filling in the vacant positions quickly and excluding the wounded?”

“Yeah… … It is not.”

Infantry warfare in this era was conducted in a rather ignorant way, in which a row of riflemen pushed gunpowder with their guns and shot and killed the enemy at close range.

In order to concentrate firepower in the front like this, the ranks of the five and the ten must be tightly aligned and the commanders must take turns attacking, and the faction shown by the pirates was just like that.

Aaron decided to let Yi Hwan stop.

“Look out.”

“Yes, then.”

After Lee Hwan left the cabin like that.

The navigators were even more confused as to how to keep a log of the voyage at the time this battle took place.

The sailors repeatedly asked Aaron.

“How about now? Should I report the truth to Nari?”

“Hmm… … .”

“If the report goes up like this, there will be an uproar in the Netherlands.”

The navigators were very worried about what to do if something like this happened on a good voyage and their responsibility became heavy.

But Aaron was different.

“It’s nothing. All we have to do is report it as it is.”

“In the future, if the British and the Ben-Herrens are at odds with each other, our sailors may have to go back and forth through the courthouse with their journals again and again.”

“If that’s the case, then should I have to show up?”

“But that’s why on the day the British get even an ugly hair… … .”

“Are you saying that we should tell the owner we are lying to?”

“Well, that… … .”

“If you have such a petty thought, it would be better not to board East Stella at all from the next time. I’m going to fix that cramped head very well.”

“Ok.”

Eventually Aaron headed to the deck.

***

Although there were some twists and turns due to meeting the pirates, the business went very well.

Lee Hwan saved enough money to buy a factory in the Dutch capital.

Of course, the problem was that I didn’t have the money to roll it.

“I knew sailing would make money, but I didn’t know it was this much.”

When Europe first returned to their home country after a successful voyage, they left an enormous number of prints that amounted to 60 times, even though only 1/10 of the amount remained.

Congo water falling from the market floor was different, even if something was different.

“Still, I don’t have enough money. But this is enough, what?”

If you are doing business, you will be quick with the market price of your home country.

Lee Hwan, who had an open ear to real estate, knew very well that he felt that he was a little short of something to do with this money.

However, if you started with a small workshop and started attacking the market step by step, there would have been a sufficient chance of winning.

It’s late at night, so Lee Hwan decides to go to bed.

Just as he was about to put out the flickering lamp, he heard someone’s pretense of popularity in Lee Hwan’s ears.

smart.

“Yes, who are you?”

“It’s me. Maria Mom!”

“Little Madame?”

Someone said it was the hostess of the East Stellar.

Why did Icilia come to visit Lee Hwan at night?

Lee Hwan opened the door and was surprised.

He had thick blonde hair, dark blue eyes, and a rather strong body.

It was Richard Benheren.

“Benheren Ball!”

“Just call me. You can call me uncle.”

“Oh no!”

Perhaps, if Lee Hwan called him uncle now, Ben-Heren seemed friendly to Lee Hwan enough to convince him right away.

By the way, Ben Heren came to visit Lee Hwan himself, and this was truly unusual.

Ben Heren brushed his hair and sat down.

“Sit down for a moment. I feel like my head will hit the ceiling.”

“Yes, Nari.”

“By the way, you and I are nobles like you, but the title “Nari” is a little different, isn’t it?”

“If you go to Rome you have to follow the Roman laws, and if you go to the Netherlands you have to follow the Dutch laws. I am in a position to go to the Netherlands as a guesthouse, so I know that it is right to call me politely.”

“Because he’s a noble, he sounds pretty good for a kid.”

After taking a sip of the wine from the leather bag, Richard Ben-Heren handed it to Yi Hwan.

Perhaps this was not an ordinary pongee.

“I have something to tell you, so let’s have a drink.”

Lee Hwan’s eyes widened as he drank the wine that Richard had given him.

‘Oh oh! What the hell is this… … ?’

Have you ever drank wine with such a deep and rich flavor before in your life?

Although Lee Hwan visited all the halls so many times and lobbied, he had never drank wine that had matured so well.

“It is a real sake!”

“Do you know any alcohol?”

“I learned that if you smell the scent with your nose, put a little in your mouth and taste it, you can feel the taste and the aroma in its entirety. Breathe through your nose after swallowing.”

“What do you know? Remember that taste in the future. If you want to do business, you need to know the value of wine properly.”

“thank you!”

He handed Richard the bag of wine again.

Then Richard reached out and gestured for Lee Hwan to take his pocket back.

Perhaps it was clear that the drink was given as a favor.

“Are you wondering why I came?”

“Honestly, yes.”

“Okay then, let’s get to the point.”

It was only the first few minutes that Ben Heren was good at.

As soon as he got to the point, he returned to his usual heavy and sharp appearance.

Finally, Ben-Herren was freed.

“I heard that you did a great job in this battle.”

“I think depending on how you look, you can think of it that way.”

“I set the ball with a matchlock and a telescope.”

“It’s true that it was built with a telescope, but it’s not a matchlock.”

Ben Heren tilted his head.

“You didn’t shoot?”

“It was true, but it wasn’t a matchlock gun. I call this gun a cartridge rifle.”

“cartridge?”

Lee Hwan placed cartridge ammunition on the table.

Even looking at the ammunition, Ben-Heren had an expression on his face that he did not understand.

“What is this?”

“The key is that cartridge rifles use a detonator that is not ignitable, unlike the typical water-firing rifles of today. Using the detonator eliminates the process of igniting each wick and waiting for the fuse to burn out.”

“primer… … ?”

“Modern matchlocks have a firing mechanism that allows the flint to rub against a metal tube. But because the mechanism where the ball hits the detonator and causes the explosion takes over, we have a rate of fire of more than five rounds per second.”

Hwan Lee took out a piece of paper and explained how the detonator explodes.

Then Ben-Heren’s eyes widened.

To the extent that Richard Ben-Heren was surprised, the rifle Lee Hwan devised was a rifle that transcends time.

“… … Did you come up with this by yourself?”

“I designed it, but it is the artisans of the blacksmith who actually made the gun. Somehow, I can say that I was a subcontractor.”

Icilia, who had followed Richard, slapped her knee as if a long question had been answered.

“Aha! That’s why I went back and forth between the forges!”

“After devising and designing parts for the rifle, we commissioned it to the blacksmith to fix the problem. So, the production period took longer than expected.”

“Ugh!”

This was the main point of Ben Heren’s visit to Lee Hwan.

A new rifle made by Lee Hwan.

He made a suggestion to Lee Hwan.

“Can you sell that rifle to me?”

“A gun?”

“Now I need a gun like that. If you want money, I will let you play and eat from generation to generation.”

“It’s money.”

“Why do you hate money?”

The reason Lee Hwan developed the cartridge rifle in the first place was all because of money.

However, this was not the way Lee Hwan wanted to make money.

He shook his head.

“I like money, but I hate this.”

“What are you talking about?”

“This is my gun. If I can officially sell it under my name, I won’t sell my ideas to other people without knowing it.”

“Ideas don’t sell… … .”

“I think I need to have the intellectual property rights to the gun so I can stretch out and sleep.”

“Are you talking about patents?”

Intellectual property has created a wealth of emerging wealth throughout the ages.

The future that Lee Hwan dreams of is not like selling a gun and becoming a pawn.

‘Can you just sell off the foothold to becoming a chaebol?’

The most powerful chaebol in the world, that was the real future Lee Hwan wanted.