However, although I only touched the real gun that time, it still made Chen Xu remember it deeply. The heaviness of getting it, the crisp sound of shooting and the vibration of the back seat, now it seems to be right in front of me, especially when I picked up the new rifle made by the craftsmen in Nanshan Villa, everything seemed to suddenly pull him back to the peaceful and peaceful prosperity era more than two thousand years later.

In that era, guns were unnecessarily needed or unattainable for ordinary people. Even if you take a toilet passer, you might be invited to have tea. As for carrying a knife in broad daylight or hanging a long sword around your waist, you can't do it.

But in the current Qin Dynasty, except for the military's standard crossbows, no one will care if you carry a cannon and go out.

This is an era of freedom of personality and a barbaric era. If you can't see a fight three or five times in shopping, it's not shopping. Five steps of blood flowing in the street is common, so gathering people to watch the excitement is also a very important part of shopping. When the imperial guards of the Lieutenant's Mansion see a fight in the street, they are usually fined after a group fight. Those who dare to resist will be beaten halfway and then fined. If they have no money, they will be dragged back and thrown into prison. The demon is one foot taller and one foot taller. Never underestimate the power of the fine of the urban management. They will even be afraid of themselves when they are fierce.

Chen Xu, smokeless gunpowder, has no idea at the moment, so using black gunpowder to make bullets has become the only option. However, when the black gunpowder explodes, the smoke is strong and insufficiently burns, resulting in retained objects in the barrel and barrel. The barrel and barrel need to be cleaned frequently, so gun maintenance is more complicated than muskets.

But no matter what, upgrading from a bulk gunpowder musket to a fixed-loaded rifle pistol was the first time Chen Xu added an upgrade point on the technology tree after traveling to Daqin for several years, indicating that technology began to break through to a higher stage.

In order to achieve this upgrade, not only did a group of craftsmen die in trillions of brain cells, but the various tools and equipment in the Nanshan Villa also undergo a reincarnation upgrade. Chen Xu asked the machinery factory to specially develop the most precise lathes, grinders, punches, milling machines and polishing equipment. In fact, the Nanshan Villa has begun to approach the situation of a township factory in later generations, and has been able to develop and produce many equipment that is close to the level of World War I in later generations, except for aircraft, tanks, cars, ships and other powered forces.

Although this manufacturing equipment upgrade is huge, in Chen Xu's opinion, everything is worth the money.

Because of the emergence of rifles and pistols, he can finally hand over the firearms technology that has been eliminated and lagged to the court, providing crushing armed firepower for the future expansion of territory and colonization of the world.

Especially Yu Wuya lived up to expectations in Japan and found a large amount of sulfur to transport it back, and the manufacturing of gunpowder will be fully guaranteed.

This is also the reason why he suddenly wants to contribute artillery technology today.

But the so-called cannon fires ten thousand taels of gold.

In war, it is necessary to have enough national strength to support it.

The simplest thing is to produce gunpowder. Chen Xu asked the two mute slaves to make thirty or forty kilograms a day. Sometimes the raw materials are insufficient and the work has to be stopped. In the year, only 70,000 kilograms of gunpowder can be produced, which seems to be a lot, but if a musket force of 10,000 people is equipped, the amount of a bullet is half a tael, and a round of volleys will consume more than 300 kilograms. Seven or eight thousand kilograms of gunpowder will only be used up for ten guns per person. Therefore, it is a huge tragedy that the ammunition cannot keep up in the thermal weapons era. The muskets that resist on their bodies are similar to the fire stick.

Cannons are even more terrifying. The cannon developed by Chen Xu uses three kilograms of medicine at a time, and the gunpowder consumes faster.

Moreover, the sulfur, saltpeter, tung oil, etc. for making gunpowder are all scarce materials, and it takes huge manpower and material resources to obtain them. The most typical example is sulfur. The production of the Central Plains is extremely scarce and needs to be transported back from Japan. It takes at least three months to form a huge fleet, and it also requires enough manpower to mine it. Therefore, if the Qin Dynasty is a little poor and messy, it will not be possible to do it smoothly. Moreover, if the current sailing sailing ships and telescope compass are not made, you don’t even think about the smooth travel of Japan.

What's more, the production of muskets is more than a hundred times more complicated than cold weapons such as bows, crossbows, swords and guns. From gun barrels to trigger machines, they need to be carefully created by hand by craftsmen. It is impossible to complete without mature materials and technology.

If the Qin Dynasty really wanted to form a musket force of tens of thousands of people, it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars just to replace equipment, and building a powerful navy would be even more expensive. A three-masted sea ship cost more than 500,000 yuan. If a larger five-masted warship would cost at least one million yuan, and then equipped with expensive cannons and muskets, hundreds of soldiers and crew members. The annual expenditure of a warship would be at least more than two million yuan. Even if the Sea Division Fleet built twenty warships, six thousand soldiers, four hundred cannons, and six thousand muskets, a fleet would cost 40 million yuan a year.

Last year, the income of the entire Shaofu was only 50 million yuan, which means that Qin Shihuang wanted to raise such a Qin navy. Every year, all the money in the entire royal family would be spent on this fleet except for food and drink.

All, aircraft carrier formations are not affordable by all countries.

Even if the Qin Dynasty is so rich, if the military is not enough to increase taxes and plunder the people, it is basically just a thought. First, a navy of three or five large ships is formed to carry out near-shore patrol and defense, and it will only be possible to complete the fleet in ten or eight years.

But no matter what, as Yingzhou's enthusiasm for development is hyped up, private overseas adventures will inevitably surging. Overseas areas such as Taiwan, Hainan Island, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, West Asia, Africa and other overseas areas will be slowly developed and discovered. The Qin Dynasty will plunder from these places to the accumulated resources. With the support of continuous tariffs, such wild places along the southeast coast such as Guangdong and Fujian will develop quickly, and the Qin Dynasty's economic center will gradually move from inland areas such as Xianyang and Luoyang Daliang to the coast.

So anything develops step by step. It is impossible for a fat man to eat in one bite. Chen Xu could only push the carriage of Daqin and run along the planned road.

As long as Qin Dada was not asked to go down to bury him and continue chatting, thirty or fifty years later, Chen Xu believed that it was not uncommon to speak Chinese everywhere on the earth. In just a few years, the Xiongnu, Donghu, Yuezhi, and the Western Regions had begun to implement the Great Qin laws. Writing Chinese to speak elegant language has become a mandatory requirement in these places, and it is even a fashion. It feels embarrassing to go out to chat without talking a few words about the Great Qin words.

In the afternoon, Chen Xu stayed in Nanshan Villa and carefully selected one hundred of the most well-crafted muskets and matching bamboo gunpowder. Twenty grenades were packed together. Finally, he chose two of the latest pistols, and put them together with leather hoods and a few boxes of bullets in a beautiful wooden box to bring them back to Qinghe Hou Mansion.

Just as Chen Xu was busy preparing for the firearm performance, the news that shocked the people of Xianyang gradually became clear.

The retainers of Chen Xu, the Marquis of Qinghe, went to sea two years ago and would soon bring back more than 20,000 kilograms of silver and more than 30,000 kilograms of sulfur from Yingzhou, with a total value of nearly 40 million yuan. This huge wealth not only stimulated the nerves of civil and military officials in the court, but also stimulated countless wealthy merchants and those who dreamed of making money. Many people ran around inquiring about this news, and many people gathered together to discuss and prepare to go to the East China Sea, either raising funds to build a large ship to go to sea to grab wealth, or go to the fleet to go to sea to make money.

It was also heard that in order to develop Yingzhou and North Korea, the Hou of Qinghe not only submitted a report to establish a unified management of the Customs Administration, but also provided the immortal magic weapon, Taiyi God Artillery to build the Daqin Haishi to protect the travel of merchant ships, providing sufficient force protection for all caravans who went overseas to explore and make money.

As the saying goes, step by step, the business community is actually not without its own news channels. Three years ago, large merchants in Xianyang had already joined the pace of overseas development in advance. It was heard that Maofeng Transportation Industry and some extraordinary big merchants have built more than ten large sea boats, and they have also gone to Yingzhou and North Korea. Now there is news that some large ships may return to the Central Plains after spring.

The retainers of the Qinghe Hou could bring back silver and sulfur worth nearly 40 million yuan, so the fleets such as Maofeng Transportation Industry would definitely not return empty-handed. It is unknown how much wealth they have been obtained, but they are worth at least hundreds of millions of yuan.

In other words, in two or three years, the investment was only a few dozen or millions of dollars, but now it has a return of nearly ten times. This speed of making money can only be described as grabbing money.

Preparing for customs, building a maritime college, building a port terminal, creating Taiyi God artillery, and the caravan transported back a large amount of silver and sulfur. These closely related matters became clearer and clearer as time went by. The purpose of the court was very clear, that is, to encourage merchant ships to go to sea, go to Yingzhou or overseas to make a fortune.

Two or three years ago, many people even looked down on this matter or sneered at it.

But now the court's actions and the rumors of Yingzhou's wealth spread and discussions spread and discussing that a large number of merchants remained indifferent, then they could only mean that the situation was too small and that they could only shrink in the Central Plains in their lifetime to be an ordinary merchant to see others get rich.

Although I heard that the storm on the sea was like a storm coming, and the big ship was like a small boat in the vast sea, for brave people, only enough efforts can be rewarded.

The more attractive the wealth, the more you have to pay.

There is no free money in this world.

For businessmen, even if they only have 10% profit, they are worth taking action. If they have 50% profit, they can be desperate, but now they have nearly ten times the profit. Is life... a magical thing?

Facing such amazing returns to wealth, no one can sit still.

Therefore, during this period, whether it is at the homes of merchants, the quarry gardens or even the pavilions on the side of the road, as long as someone familiar meets, they will be eager to gather together to discuss the topic of going out to sea.

It seems that if you don’t discuss it, you will realize your backwardness and will also miss this feast of wealth.

Under such a powerful temptation of interests, many wealthy merchants and princes and ministers began to unite to prepare for early action, because going to sea to make a fortune not only requires money to build a sea ship, but also requires a license. The license is issued by the court, and only those princes and princes and ministers have a greater confidence.

There were many discussions and rumors from the outside world, and there were even many familiar merchants and princes coming to visit. Chen Xu did not go too far to care or explain, but asked them to read the newspaper carefully to make arrangements early, because he had already reminded Chen Ping of these things, and the detailed inside story of the Daqin Metropolis Daily will be published recently, and it will soon spread to the Daqin Metropolis Daily and the vassal states such as the Daqin and the vassal states.

You should get rich as early as possible. If you don’t take action now, you won’t be able to grab a bite of hot food when you eat shit.

Moreover, when most people are staring at Yingzhou and North Korea, Chen Xu has actually begun to look at Hainan, Nanyang and even Europe.
Chapter completed!