Chongzhen summoned Wang Chengen and the princess, and the three of them began to discuss how to help Li Zicheng get through.

As he was discussing, Chongzhen suddenly sighed:

"I finally understand Mr. Jiang's feelings back then. Tell me, when we were fighting against Japan, we had to cooperate with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party for the overall situation of the anti-Japanese war, and we had to pay the Communist Party, and finally let the Communist Party grow stronger. Think about it, what it feels like to help the enemy grow stronger! Now we have meticulously helped Li Zicheng, the rebel leader, who is the mortal enemy of the Ming Dynasty. What do you think!"

Wang Chengen said with a smile:

"If you want me to say it, it depends on the point of view. I remember the first time that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated, and Mr. Jiang figured out the party, but killed many Communists. He said that he was sorry for the Communist Party first. The second time the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated to pay the Communist Party some salary. The first is the current situation and the second is to compensate those who owe the Communist Party in the past. So Mr. Jiang did not suffer any losses. As for the emperor, you put down Li Zicheng's post more than ten years ago and smashed other people's jobs, which was not what he owe! He forced you to hang yourself, and this hang you would have a new version of Chongzhen. If you want me to say, "Your Majesty, you have to thank Li Zicheng. With this, we have to help Li Zicheng."

The princess also said:

"We even helped Zhang Xianzhong, a murderous guy. After all, Li Zicheng is better than Zhang Xianzhong. Besides, the prince is still in Beijing. Can we not save him when he dies?"

Of course, Chongzhen knew the truth that "brothers fight against the wall and resist their insults outside". When he was opposite Li Zicheng that day, he unambiguously claimed to resist foreign insults, and that brothers could eliminate their grudges with a smile. Now that I think about it, this grudges are not so easily forgotten! Therefore, after the anti-Japanese war, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were destined to fight a civil war. Chongzhen did not think about whether he would deal with Li Zicheng next after defeating the Qing army.

As for now, the Chuangjun is helping him block the Qing army, and buying the Ming weapons is real money and there is little bargaining. To be fair, Li Zicheng is also very good at the prince. From this point of view, Li Zicheng is indeed not a villain.

I just don’t know if Li Zicheng can withstand the Qing army. Chongzhen knocked on the table and said:

"Wu Sangui should have set foot on the North Korean territory at this time and asked him to attack the Qing army immediately. It will be ten days later. But he doesn't know if Li Zicheng can defend Beijing and whether he wants to send Wang Fuzhi to help defend Beijing? It's really unsure."

Wang Chengen quickly reviewed the battle at Shanhaiguan, based on the information sent back by the Jinyiwei. Since the Lantern Festival assassination, the Jinyiwei has increased its intelligence on the Qing Dynasty. This period has been effective in the Qing Dynasty. After the war, various intelligences have been sent back through Feige's letters. Wang Chengen is most concerned about the weapons sold by the Japanese to the Qing army. The Jinyiwei naturally spared no effort on the intelligence of the new weapons used by the Qing army in this battle. Fortunately, the confidentiality work of the Qing army was not so strict. After the victory of the Han flag of the Qing army, the information of the new weapons was inevitably revealed one by one. After Wang Chengen analyzed the messy information, he finally got a clue and realized it. It is difficult for him to be meticulous, and he analyzed it now:

"From the information we have mastered, the Qing army won the rebel army this time, one was tactical against the road, and the other was the use of machine guns, mortars, and howitzers and other infantry weapons. The rebel army was completely ignorant of hot weapons and tactics, and was stunned by the new weapons of the Qing army, so it was defeated. However, the Qing army consumed a lot, just say that the fifty machine guns bought by the Qing army this time were equipped with two barrels, and it was said that both barrels were destroyed. Haha, in my opinion, the Qing army consumed too much this time, and the bullets consumed more than 80% of the bullets, and the Japanese sold them not many howitzers and shells, and they probably consumed almost the same. Hum, he wanted to attack Beijing, but I don't think it was that easy! My estimate was that at least the next batch of weapons and ammunition had to be transported from Japan before attacking Beijing."

The princess was quick-witted and immediately woke up and said:

"You mean that the copycat machine gun sold by the Japanese is a disposable weapon? Isn't this a trick on Dorgon?"

Wang Chengen laughed:

"Yes, as I expected, this is how the Japanese did it. The Japanese were not doing something tricky today. When the Japanese sold printers in later generations, the prices were not high, but the ink cartridges and toner consumables were sold at sky-high prices. Now the Japanese sold machine guns as consumables to Dorgon. Be good, they had to throw them into new guns after a war. Of course, from a technical point of view, the machine gun's firing rate is too high, and continuous shooting is severely heated, and the requirements for barrel material and heat treatment are very high. The Japanese probably couldn't solve the life of the barrel well for a while. So the Japanese simply made the machine gun into a disposable weapon and finished it after one shot. It is said that the price of this machine gun is 500 taels of silver, the spare barrel is 250 taels of silver, and the bullet is one tael of silver. How could Dorgon afford it if he continues to shoot like this!"

The princess laughed:

"You remind me of Taobao in later generations. This is how the advertisements are made - out-of-print machine guns with seiko bullets, priced at 4,000 taels of silver, free shipping, dear! Absolutely great value! Inventory is limited! If you don't buy it in time, you will regret it for life! Dorgon's Taobao in the Japanese, it would be strange if he was not fooled by the Japanese!"

Chongzhen couldn't help laughing, and after laughing, he sighed and said:

"Dorgon bought this fake version of the machine gun, but he couldn't say he was at a loss. After all, he won the battle with this machine gun. The Japanese's hearts were a bit dark, and the profiteers were not all like this! But even if they spent 500,000 taels of silver to win this battle, it was indeed worth it, so the advertising slogan was not exaggerated. I dare to guarantee that it was like taking drugs. After Dorgon tasted it, he would definitely be like an addict. He would never look back and would continue to buy it. I was thinking, we didn't dare to launch a copycat version of the AK47, worried that the barrel of the gun was not up to standard. This time the Japanese's approach inspired us, why not make a one-time weapon and return it after the battle. No matter how bad it is, it can be sold to Li Zicheng to offset the Japanese's weapon advantages. How about it?"

Wang Chengen thought, that's true. Winning a war is definitely not simply measured by money. This time, the Qing army won, and wiped out more than 100,000 troops from the Dashun Army. The loss of only 3,000 people was only 3,000 people. The material was seized. Just one item was seized, which exceeded 500,000 taels of silver. Therefore, being an arms dealer is a happy thing, especially the only arms supplier, which is even happier. If you offer a price, the buyer cannot bargain. If you cheat him, he still hopes that you will continue to cheat. Where can you find such high-quality customers? If you stop cheating him one day, he will be finished. Drug use and buying arms are sometimes the same.

Wang Chengen pondered for a moment, and according to fact, he said:

"It's not difficult to make a copycat version of the AK47. Choose a better steel and pay more attention to heat treatment. It's no problem to fight a few more battles. Sell the defective product to Li Zicheng, and the defective product can also make do with two or three tough battles. As long as it doesn't require a lifetime, it's easy to do. Those who sell low-end copycat version of the AK47 in later generations are just a shed, two or three people! They can also make a AK47, and the batch volume is quite large! Haha, as for accuracy, the AK47 does not pay attention to accuracy anyway, but only the firepower density. As long as it can be fired, it's fine."

In later generations, exported weapons have always been one level lower than those used by themselves, which has become a common practice. This has nothing to do with the morality of arms dealers.

When Chongzhen heard that he could copy ak47, he immediately felt energetic and said:

"I heard that after the Soviet Union had been in conflict with the Soviet Union, the barrels of the barrels could no longer be imported from the Soviet Union. The domestic barrels of the Type 56 submachine gun were once only 6,000 rounds. Later, the steel material was improved and it barely reached 12,000 rounds. I guess the life of this copycat machine gun barrel of the Japanese counterfeit machine gun was at most 1,500 rounds, and the two barrels could only hit 3,000 rounds. If the continuous shooting was not more than ten minutes, the two barrels would be scrapped. If Liu Zongmin's cavalry could withstand ten minutes, go one after another, and rush forward to death, this battle might not have lost so badly."

Wang Chengen nodded and said:

"In fact, Dorgon thought the bullets were too expensive at the time and only purchased 250,000 bullets. Unexpectedly, he set up a machine gun to fire, and consumed 150,000 bullets. In addition to the bullets consumed by two thousand rifles, Dorgon did not have any bullets to hit Beijing again!"

When Chongzhen heard it was reasonable, his nerves relaxed. It seemed that the Qing army attacked Beijing for a few days, so he started to talk:

"The main reason for the Dashun Army was defeated so badly this time is that it is that it does not understand the tactics of hot weapons. Fifty machine guns can actually knock out nearly 2,000 cavalry, and no more than 100 bullets can kill a cavalry with people and horses. The effectiveness is simply too high. The statistics in the 21st century are 25,000 bullets to kill an enemy. Haha, compared with this, the effectiveness of the Qing army's machine guns is simply amazing! From the queuing and shooting tactics of tunnel guns to the later trench tactics, tunnel tactics, and tactics of resisting guns and bullets are constantly improving, and the consumption of ammunition is straight in line.

At first, when queuing up and shooting each other, no more than ten bullets could kill an enemy. After World War I, a trench war started, and the bullets flew away and could not easily hit the enemy. In the Pacific battlefield of World War II, the Americans could kill a Japanese army with three tons of ammunition. It was so outrageous! The Soviet Union did not save money in the Patriotic War. For every German killing, the Soviet army consumed 30 shells, 1,300 bullets, 9 grenades, and 230 kilograms of aviation bombs. Haha, as Xiaoping said, modern warfare is just steel!"

Wang Chengen, a military fan, is naturally not unfamiliar with these things, so he followed Chongzhen's topic and started talking nonsense:

"The United States and the Soviet Union have a strong capital and do not need to save money. As long as they kill the enemy, it's OK. China's anti-Japanese battlefield back then had no ammunition to squander. The National Army was better, and it was more than the top and the bottom. The National Army killed a Japanese army at an average of 2,000 bullets, 12 shells, and 30 grenades. Of course, the consumption of the Americans was far inferior to that of the Americans. However, compared to the Eighth Route Army, it can be called a luxury. For every 30 bullets consumed by the Eighth Route Army, seven grenades can kill a Japanese. However, many times the Japanese were not killed by gun bullets, but were killed by bayonets."

The princess calculated by her fingers and said in surprise:

"So, if you want to kill 100,000 enemies, according to the minimum standard, you will have to kill 3 million bullets and 700,000 grenades. If you follow the standard of killing an enemy with 25,000 bullets, won't it take 2.5 billion bullets? Oh my God! What a big market this is! No wonder the United States made a lot of money in selling arms during World War II! What can you do to sell arms quickly! One tael of silver and one bullet, huge profits! If I want to say, you don't have to do anything, just sell arms, and the Ming Dynasty can revive it."

Seeing that the more you talked, the more you became, the more you lost, so Chongzhen had to brake in time:

"It's been a long way to go, it's a long way to go! One tael of silver is a scam price, so how can it be maintained for a long time! However, Li Zicheng robbed more than 60 million taels of silver. Even if the arms we sold him were a little more expensive, he was not short of money anyway, so he didn't care if he paid a few more silver. Wang Chengen, I think the arms sales were made a little bigger this time. In order to support Li Zicheng to defend Beijing, we would get an arms sales order of 3 million taels of silver. How about it?"

Wang Chengen wanted to laugh in his heart, and said that the arms sold to Li Zicheng by the Ming Dynasty was not cheap either, so it was good to monopolize it! He said:

"Let me think carefully about which weapons can be sold to Li Zicheng, and I will get an order tomorrow."

The princess was still worried about whether Beijing could be kept, and said with concern:

"In addition to selling weapons, you have to send troops directly if necessary! The prince is in Beijing! Also, I am planning to buy the "Pingliao Public Debt" at the bottom, use the money from selling arms to buy the bottom, and if I keep Beijing, I can at least double it."

Chongzhen was a little amused, but what the princess said was justified. If you keep Beijing, you will have the opportunity to bottom out and rebound. Well, it is worth a try.

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Chapter completed!