Chapter 444 Master Cannon
"Don't Make Hot Weapons", a conscience-recommended, the author Tian Yuanmao is the extra hobby and editor of this book.
Of course, this gentleman's literary style is hard to understand. In today's words, how can there be such shameless people in the world? If you don't say anything about it, just this book title is aversion to chills. Well, maybe it is because the bone is out of touch with the young people of the current era.
Counting romantic figures, and watching pastoral cats.
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What determines the market is the supply and demand relationship.
The military battle has not made a fortune in the military ordnance because they have no customers.
Originally, there were long-term suppliers, but because of the lack of benefits, the staff had already gone to work in the sea, leaving only empty shelves.
There is no place to sell even if there is goods.
The Gunpowder Bureau has made a profit because the mine supervisors need medicine to blow up mountains and mine.
But no one from the mining supervisors bought the guys who fought in war. They were going to make a fortune. There were only a few gangsters who could bully the local gentry, and there were no weapons and equipment needed.
Gao Huai, a former Liaodong Dazhan, built a private army, Flying Tiger Army, but people had a way in Liaodong, so they could get the border troops themselves, so there was no need to buy it in the military battle. What's more, Gao Huai had a happy cooperation with Li Chengliang at the beginning, and even the war horses were given by Li Chengliang, so there was no need to spend money in vain.
The Tianjin Tax Envoy Ma Tang also had more than a thousand thugs under his command, but the nature was completely a gangster in later generations. There were just a few scary guys to serve as a storefront. How could he spend a lot of money to buy a full set of military equipment? Moreover, Ma Tang and Tianjin, Shandong's government offices are good. If anything, the ward will come out to help him manage the market.
The other father-in-laws in various places are generally the same. It is best to have nothing to do. If something happens, their subordinates will not be able to bear the trouble even if they have weapons.
The mine supervisors didn't want it, and others didn't dare to ask for it anymore.
If you hide your weapons privately, you will be beheaded.
No matter how brave the military situation is, it is impossible to sell the weapons to strong people of unknown origin.
Without asking, there will naturally be no offering.
The investment that has always made money in the military warfare is not the construction of military tools, but the construction of agricultural tools and iron tools. Under the leadership of the military warfare, the construction and sales of agricultural tools in the capital have been unexposed.
No matter who it is, if you want to make a blacksmith in the furnace, you must nod your hair and stick it out, otherwise, you can try it.
In other words, the iron manufacturing area around the capital has actually become a private place for military battles, which is equivalent to a guild-like existence.
In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to do anything, you must go through the consent of the guild. Without the consent of the guild, you will become an idiot even if you are a genius.
Behind the guild are gentry, government officials, internal and external courts, vested interest groups, the entire society and the whole world.
Therefore, several time travelers did this and that as soon as they arrived in the Ming Dynasty, they were so happy that they were fantastic. In fact, you were not qualified to carry manure.
The manure shop is one of the four major banks in the Ming Dynasty.
Grain, cloth, salt, manure.
In ancient society, dung was a strategic material.
In the twenty-four yamen of the inner court, except for the Lijian and the Imperial Horse Prison, the other departments and bureaus did not have much funding. Most of them had to make a living by themselves and also paid tribute to the inner treasury. Therefore, the tasks of each unit were very heavy.
Liangchen thought that the military situation sounded high and was directly linked to the development of weapons and equipment, so he must be a large unit in the inner court, with great advantages and disadvantages, so he had a request for them, so he was very low in tone and had a soft attitude.
But I didn't know that the facts were the opposite. This was a loss due to the inherent concept. If I knew that Mr. Wei was the first buyer who had only met in several leadership teams of the Military Affairs Bureau, it would definitely not be possible to throw out three hundred taels of silver for eunuch Lu in vain, and then I thought about returning to prepare a copy for Wang Dana.
When the supplier has no market, the person who wants to be the boss.
Liangchen fell over, no one would suffer if he didn't suffer any loss?
Why didn’t Wang Dana accompany him, his junior brother, come here? Isn’t it because he is embarrassed to come to the scene and kill him Xiao Wei himself?
When Eunuch Lu came, Senior Brother Wang felt less guilty, so he could explain to Zhang Cheng.
Liangchen was honest and had no idea that he was a sucker. He would search everywhere in the warehouse, trying to get some good quality things for himself, and insisting on the idea that money is not a problem, as long as the things are good.
After rummaging over and over, I finally found a lot of usable weapons, and everything was available. Eunuch Lu asked Liangchen how much he wanted. Liangchen didn't count it, so he asked Eunuch Lu to pick out the usable ones first and then decide on the quantity.
The workload is not light. The eunuch in charge of the warehouse went out and called a group of soldiers to help. It took more than an hour and was so tired that he was sweating profusely. Finally, he got a group of people.
However, the number is still not large. There are about three hundred knives, more than five hundred spears, three or four hundred bows and arrows. In terms of shields, there are two hundred pairs. There are the most cotton armor, and there are three piles. I don’t know how many of them are.
In addition, a eunuch asked someone to find someone to get twenty sets of iron armor. Liangchen wanted him to move the things away, but when he thought about it, he would just forget it. Just keep it, but there are not many things anyway.
The Central Army’s arsenal was only able to take action. Liangchen was very shocked, but Eunuch Lu and a group of eunuchs of all sizes were all used to it, as if it were natural.
No wonder during the Battle of Beijing, Chongzhen would go crazy and believe in a monk instead of his own Beijing camp could defend the city.
A glimpse of the whole leopard is now in the Wanli period, and more than ten years later, how can it be achieved?
The world is not peaceful, but the horse has been released to the south mountain and the swords and guns have been put into the warehouse.
The three major battles are the last glory.
Eunuch Lu was also shocked because Wei Liangchen had been silent. He looked like he wanted everything. He was afraid that the generals of the town outside would not be enough, but he didn't know what this kid wanted to do so much.
Of course, what Eunuch Lu is most worried about is whether Xiao Wei has so much money. If he insists on moving Zhang Cheng out and getting some credit, although he has gained benefits personally, he really has no money to pay in the prison and cannot explain it. As for what this kid wants to do so much, what does it have to do with him?
After these eunuchs had no good things to move here, Liangchen turned around and asked eunuch Lu: "Duce, I don't know how to calculate the money."
When Eunuch Lu heard this, his drunkenness disappeared and he smiled and said, "We don't have to do anything with you, we will report it to you if you are honest." Then he signaled to the eunuch in the warehouse to give a quote to Liangchen.
The eunuch in Guanku was more energetic than that in Eunuch Lu, and he immediately raised the price for Liangchen with a smile on his face.
"Five liang of swords, seven liang of swords, three liang of spears, nine liang of bows..."
Is it so expensive?
Liangchen was confused, it was wrong. He read novels in his previous life. Didn’t he say that a musket was only two taels long? Why did he have to be five taels of knife when he got to this place?
What does five taels of silver mean? Liangchen drinks a bowl of tea on the road but only has one copper coin. He takes a car to the capital and has dozens of eldest sons. The cheapest sister outside Zuoanmen has five copper coin. Of course, it refers to the kind of regular business. One tael of silver can be exchanged for hundreds of copper coin. In Liangchen's hometown, one acre of paddy fields is only eight taels and four cents.
A knife took more than half acre of paddy fields, and the high-priced Liangchen was furious.
"This price is not high. Our family is really the cheapest to give it to you. If it were someone else, he would have to double it."
When Eunuch Lu saw Liangchen's face, he knew that he thought it was expensive, so he couldn't help but explain. The price was actually a little higher than that of the Nine Bands, but it was really not high for the military battle itself. If the Beijing camp took the bill, it would cost seven or eight taels of silver with a knife. Things handled by the inner court have always been higher and not lower.
"I…"
Liangchen was very proud of his face. He bragged before, saying that as long as the goods are good, the money is not a problem, and the benefits will be three hundred taels a day. How can I say it is too expensive?
I had to bite the bullet and let the eunuch in the warehouse calculate the total amount of money.
The eunuch in charge of the warehouse hurriedly took out the abacus and dialed it in two ways.
On the side, there was a eunuch who reported the number of things. Eunuch Lu considered that he had received the benefits, but he couldn't give it any more. In addition, Xiao Wei might also want medicine, which was a big deal, so he asked someone to put all the numbers together and wipe them off.
"Three hundred and forty knives, one thousand five hundred taels."
"One hundred swords, seven hundred taels of broken."
"The spear is five hundred and the poles are broken by one thousand five hundred taels."
Three hundred bows, two thousand seven hundred taels, and several arrows, three thousand taels, and two hundred shields, two thousand taels.
A bunch of things is reported and calculated, and it is already over 10,000 taels.
Liangchen looked good, but he stopped talking.
"Eunuch Wei, there are 940 sets of cotton armor here, and each set costs 9 taels of silver. I wonder if you want them all, or?"
The number of cotton armor is large. The reason is that every year the Jingying camp always has a symbolic shape for the court to read, so it is quite important to pay attention to the clothing and armor. At least, the cotton armor on the soldiers standing in front should not be too bad. In this way, a lot of military battle situations will be preserved for replacement on the Jingying camp at any time.
Nine hundred sets of cotton armor, one set of four taels, and this item alone costs nearly four thousand taels, the biggest thing. The eunuch in the warehouse and eunuch Lu were both worried that this little brother-in-law Wei would not have so much money, so he asked specifically. It doesn’t matter if he has no money, just take less things.
Liangchen breathed a sigh of relief, flipped over the pile, and found that even cotton armor was OK, so he gritted his teeth and said to the eunuch of the warehouse: "I want it all."
"oh!"
Eunuch Guanku's mouth opened, and he was filled with a smile. Eunuch Lu was also surprised, but his eyes were a little confused.
"Don't worry, Eunuch Lu, I will pay a deposit of 3,000 taels today and send the remaining money in a few days." Liangchen emphasized, "Pay the money in one hand and deliver the goods in the other."
"well."
Eunuch Lu was very relieved. He had a deposit of 3,000 taels, and the deal was probably impossible. If he turned to the prison, he could still get a few hundred taels of benefits into his pocket.
What a good day today.
"Erase all this from the account."
"Yes, father-in-law."
The eunuch Guanku smiled and wiped out the arms of the owner in the account book. He put down the account book and suddenly remembered something. He hurriedly walked to Eunuch Lu and whispered to him.
After listening, Eunuch Lu nodded and came over to ask Liangchen if he was interested in firearms. He had something better than a musket in Curry.
"Oh, what is it?" Liangchen was excited.
"We heard that the Japanese slaves rely on only bird guns. However, after three shots, it will be difficult to continue. Although there are many soldiers and few strong ones, they can kill them and move forward one or two hundred people, and I will all escape. So Xiao Wei, you don't have to pay too much attention to the muskets. Our family has a better Folang machine cannon than muskets." Eunuch Lu said with a smile.
"Folang machine cannon?"
When Liangchen heard that there were still cannons, he was overjoyed and asked eunuch Lu to take him over to take a look. When he went to the ground, he saw that there were more than 30 cannons, not heavy, one of them was about 300 kilograms, which was very light on the boat. However, many cannons had copper rust.
Chapter completed!