In the ninth month of the lunar calendar in Beijing, the ground is covered with yellow leaves and the autumn wind is rustling.

Two days ago, the princess received an order from Nanjing to sell a batch of Nanjing goods as quickly as possible, turning it into as much money as possible to support the construction of Nanjing. The emperor even partially released the arms sales of Dashun. In addition to the thunder throwing equipment, even shotguns and rifles can be sold. Of course, there are restrictions on selling rifles, and they cannot exceed two thousand.

The princess didn't understand why she sold a rifle and a big killer to Li Zicheng. In this era, this was a weapon of mass destruction. However, when she translated the password file she sent, she couldn't help but be a little stunned - the document could obviously only be seen by herself - "In a year, it is based on winning a 19th century war. For this reason, we must speed up the construction of the military. I hope the Beijing office will raise more funds to support the military construction of the Ming Dynasty." Is there something unexpected happening? Is it a person who traveled 1900 years ago to travel to Dorgon or a Qing army? Time travel will not be like grass in this year, and it can grow anywhere! Is it like the "fighting" of later generations, and it will come just like waving?

As the princess thought about it, she felt that this was not impossible. Since it was the emperor's decision, Nanjing must be studying new weapons, maybe there were machine guns, and it was designing long-range cannons! It was a shortage of money.

Since the public debt reached a high level of more than one tael of silver, the public debt market has no longer been the focus of the princess. The princess’s focus is to arrange headhunting operations. All talents who are proficient in Western learning are on the list, even some craftsmen with outstanding skills. After all, the orthodox Ming Dynasty has arrived in Nanjing now, and Johnson Chan was the person that Chongzhen valued, so he went to Nanjing without any quarrels. Next, a group of people who are proficient in Western learning have also gone to Nanjing one after another. As for the craftsmen in Beijing, they have been fleeing Beijing continuously. Some people have travel expenses and have settlement fees there, and the benefits are also high. All kinds of restrictions on craftsmen have been abolished. A considerable number of craftsmen with good craftsmen have gone to Nanjing. When the Dashun Army realized that the escape of craftsmen had affected the production of military weapons, they began to pay attention. In addition to blocking the escape, the treatment and status of craftsmen were also improved accordingly, and the situation was stabilized.

Ten days ago, a house bought by Prince Zhu Ciyang on Zhengyangmen Street was renovated and renovated. After renovation, it opened in a piece of gongs, drums and firecrackers. The renovation exterior wall was an exterior wall with cement tiles, and the floor-to-ceiling glass windows along the street. The floor-to-ceiling glass windows were newly tempered glass from Yaohua Glass Company. Each piece was 90 cm wide, 2 meters high, and 1 cm thick. It is said that the flat glass produced by Yaohua's vertical guide method can be made into a larger specification, but Equipment needs to be invested, and the market has no need for glass larger than this, so the biggest specification that Yaohua can produce now is this. The glass is embedded in an iron frame riveted with angle iron, and a layer of red paint is applied to the angle iron. Even the 17th-century version of floor-to-ceiling steel windows are naturally made in Nanjing. The best sold in civilians are steel bars and angle iron. The continuous rolling steel bars led by Dingwang has basically passed the technology of angle iron.

The first time people onlookers saw this kind of floor-to-ceiling glass house, through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, they could see from the outside and from the inside out. People also had no news about sticking small pieces of ceramic tiles on the wall. However, after sticking this layer of ceramic tiles, the entire exterior wall looked much better. When you touch it, the tiles were smooth and shiny, which was more beautiful than the red exterior wall painted on the Forbidden City wall.

This building, named "Zhongshan Trading Company", is just to imitate the most common business hall design in later generations. This is of course the princess' design. There is no aluminum alloy, glass and glue for joints, so there is only a corner iron embedded in the middle. After the design was completed, the prince was inconvenient to arrange all of these, and of course the prince was the prince. Since he worked as a carpenter with Chongzhen and learned a little superficial drawing, his understanding of engineering technology is no longer the same as in the past. According to the prince's meaning, the prince drew a pattern, and the key points were personally directed the construction.

The business hall is divided into two parts. On the left is a new product that operates Nanjing production, including glass, cement, ceramic tiles, vehicles and glass mirrors, soap, biscuits, etc. On the right is the princess’ Chinese patent medicine store.

When the princess was studying Chinese medicine, she was familiar with many Chinese patent medicines. These Chinese patent medicines were prescribed and prepared by the princess, and then Nanjing organized a team of professional Chinese medicine and preparation of Chinese medicine, and made medicines according to the prescription. There were no antibiotics in this era, but there was one Chinese patent medicine that was indeed effective for the injured, that is, Yunnan Baiyao. In later generations, the princess also had questions about why Baiyao could be publicly formulated in the United States and kept confidential in China. However, this formula only has reference value. If you really want to come up with the actual Yunnan Baiyao, a simple formula will not solve the problem. But with this

For a public formula, you can refer to the trial production of Yunnan Baiyao. The princess is idle in Beijing and has been preparing Yunnan Baiyao since April. After constantly adjusting the formula, the effect of the Baiyao prepared by the princess is close to that of later generations. The princess is afraid that this formula will be spread, so in addition to leaving a copy of the formula and sending it to Chongzhen, several key medicines for Yunnan Baiyao have always been controlled by herself. Fortunately, the prince’s newly purchased house is large enough, so a Baiyao workshop was set up in the backyard, and the prince and the princess live in the left and right wings of the front yard. The prince will go to the backyard to prepare Baiyao the next day.

Today, the guests who came were extraordinary. Today's visitors were nothing but Li Yan and Li Laiheng, as well as Li Yan's wife Hong Niang. Hong Niang said he was visiting the princess, but Li Yan and Li Laiheng came for the important matter. Of course, it was an excuse to visit the prince. The key was to buy arms.

The Dashun Office in Nanjing sent back a message saying that in order to support Dashun's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was preparing to sell a batch of the latest weapons to Dashun, including thunder throwers, pistols, shotguns and rifles, and sent sample guns. After trying these new firearms, the Dashun army praised them. Li Zicheng decided to purchase without saying a word, but Liu Zongmin suggested that the price of the rifle was too dark, so it would be better to send someone to the prince to cut the price before talking about it.

Along the way, Li Laiheng said frankly:

"Deputy Military Advisor Li, since the Ming army is willing to sell us new weapons, the price of the rifle is a bit outrageous. He actually costs 200 taels of silver per! But compared to buying a large handful of silver to build a palace and buying a four-wheeled carriage, the last general is, the price of the rifle is a little more expensive, and you have to buy it if you should buy it. I am in charge of the Military Weapon Bureau, and I know the difficulty of making a gun. The kind of screws that need to be made from the barrel of the gun are definitely not something we can do in a short time. We can't even make bullets well. In order to save some money, you end up suffering losses on the battlefield. That is the most unpaid thing. Besides, the Ming army did not sell rifles and pistols in the past, and we can't buy them even if we want to. Maybe people won't sell them anymore, so don't expect our Military Weapon Bureau at that time."

Li Yan knew that what Li Laiheng said was reasonable. The luxurious four-wheeled carriages made in Nanjing were ordered by high-level generals of Dashun and a civil servant like Niu Jinxing. Among them, Li Zicheng ordered two bulletproof four-wheeled carriages, and Li Guo ordered another 100 four-wheeled carriages for food and grass transportation. In order to repair the palace and the residence of Dashun general, he purchased a large amount of cement, glass and ceramic tiles in Nanjing. Li Zicheng decorated the palace, Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing and other big houses were all repaired.

Dashun is not short of money, and the cost of carriages and these building materials alone is 1 million taels of silver. Now the Ming army promised to sell Dashun 2,000 rifles, plus one rifle with 100 bullets, and one tael of silver to buy 10 bullets, a total of only 440,000 taels of silver. It is better than those things that are used to make a storefront and talk about enjoyment. However, Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin are now proud and satisfied, and it is not something that Li Yan can advise. Besides, the new dynasty and new atmosphere are not too much to do on the storefront.

What a person is Deputy Military Advisor Li of Dashun? As soon as he arrived at the gate, an eunuch immediately bowed and said, "Great people are here, please sit in the house!"

After saying that, he led Li Yan and his party to the reception room. At the back of the business hall, there was a reception room and a conference room. The reception room was filled with a sofa and a glass coffee table. Customers with some background were invited to enter the reception room, and the important meeting was to invite them to the conference room.

The Hongniang went to the backyard to visit the princess, while the prince came to meet Li Yan and Li Laiheng from the backyard. After a few greetings, he learned that it was Dashun's official representative to discuss arms procurement, so he invited the two into the conference room.

When both sides sat down, Li Yan said:

"Your Highness the Prince, it is a good thing that the Ming Dynasty is willing to sell me a batch of firearms. However, the price of the rifles sold to us in the Ming Dynasty this time is too high, so I came to visit Your Highness the Prince and asked Your Highness the Prince to consider it. First, lower the price, and second, sell two thousand more rifles to my Dashun."

The prince Zhu Cilang looked down on these mundane affairs, but the princess was not convenient for him to come forward. The prince had to come forward to being a profiteer. After rebirth and familiarity with Dashun's leading figure for several rounds in business, the prince seemed to have a profiteering face. The prince always praised the prince for this.

Everyone's experience has been accumulated, and the prince is not a stupid person. He has become more and more skilled in these profiteers. When he saw Li Yan's military advisor talking about business, he suddenly revealed his bottom line, and said now:

"Mr. Li, I must have tried the rifle made by my Ming Dynasty. Within four hundred steps, I will hit whatever I point to, which is no less than the cannons of Dashun. According to several veterans of the Ming Dynasty, a 1,000-pound Franchise is not as effective as this rifle. This rifle is made of fine steel and is extremely difficult to make. General Li is responsible for making guns and cannons. It should be known that this inner rifle is extremely labor-intensive and has a very high waste rate. It is only because the output is too low, so there is not one of the ten rifles in the Ming Dynasty that have been equipped with this kind of rifle. The reason why it was sold to Dashun was to fight against the Qing Dynasty. It is said that the Qing army is a plan to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

There are also grenades, and it is said that even shotguns are available. Therefore, the father was worried that the Dashun Army would suffer losses, so he specially delayed the equipment of our Ming army and evenly released 2,000 rifles and sold them to the Dashun Army for anti-Qing. In fact, selling one rifle for 200 taels of silver is not high, just because it is not easy to make it, seven or eight rifles will be scrapped, so the cost of this rifle is too high and the output is low. There is really no way, the price is really no room for purchase, and there is no way to buy more. However, in terms of bullets, you can get 100 more bullets per gun. What do you think?”

Li Laiheng was very curious about the steel of the barrel, so he asked:

"Your Highness, the prince is very strange. The barrel of this gun is made of this kind of stainless steel. Is every rifle made of this kind of stainless steel?" Obviously, Li Laiheng was a little doubtful if every gun would use this kind of stainless steel.

When the prince saw that Li Laiheng had brought the theme of his performance, he said immediately:

"Yes, the rifles made by my Ming Dynasty are made of the best 100-steel steel. I don't know if General Li has tried the bayonet on the gun. Ordinary swords will definitely not be able to get it if they encounter such bayonets. It is precisely because they use 100-steel steel, so they can be used for 400 steps, but it is also very expensive. A sword sells 200 taels of silver. Lord Li and General Li take it for granted. However, the materials used by my Ming Dynasty are not inferior to those of the treasure sword. It is more powerful than that of the treasure sword. I don't know how much. 200 taels of silver is really worth the money."

When the prince said this, Li Yan and Li Laiheng immediately felt that this was the case. If we talk about the power of taking human life out of 400 steps, any sword will be a waste compared to this rifle.

After watching the demonstration of the rifle given by the Ming Dynasty with his own eyes, Li Zicheng wanted to buy tens of thousands of them at once. However, Liu Zongmin thought it was too expensive and higher than a horse. Liu Zongmin also wanted this rifle, but since the public debt speculation, this guy has the concept of money. Anyone who wants to get money out is a bit painful. Of course, Liu Zongmin responds to the requirements of the beauty, no matter the expensive dressing mirror, soap, biscuits, etc., he gives whatever he wants, and the beauty's request to decorate the house beautifully, which is also a huge sum of money.

Li Yan and Li Laiheng went back to report the price negotiations to Li Zicheng. What Li Zicheng is worried about now is that Li Laiheng's military weapon bureau can't even do bullets well. The bullets have a fire silence rate of more than 30%, while the Ming Dynasty's bullets rarely have fire. It is said that at most 100 bullets have 8 duds. A fire silence rate of more than 30% is fatal on the battlefield. Since Dashun cannot do it, buy it, anyway, the firearms I bought this time are only 980,000 taels of silver. There are everything I win, and everything I lose will be finished! Li Zicheng understands this truth. Li Zicheng no longer hesitates and approved the purchase of firearms immediately.

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Chapter completed!