"Then please go this way, everybody. Dressed in a neat tuxedo, Izumino Shunzawa walked to an open door and said to the nobles of the Ashas Empire behind him, dressed in fancy costumes and living like a flock of male peacocks in heat.

The people standing outside looked at the bottomless room in front of them, which looked like a cave, and subconsciously poked their heads out, trying to see what was inside the room.

But I don't know if it's intentional or just because of some simple reason, the darkness inside makes them stare at their eyes no matter how hard they try, they are just doing useless work.

"Turn on the lights. ”

Under the curiosity of everyone, with Shunze's words, only a few sounds were heard, and the lights used for lighting on the ceiling were turned on one by one from far to near, and for a time the bright lights replaced the original darkness and reoccupied the room.

And with the gradual filling of the light, all kinds of light and heavy weapons and even armored vehicles in the room were presented to everyone without reservation.

"There is no other reason to invite you to come to this underground this time, but I want to show you these things. ”

"This, these things are ......," said a nobleman with a hat bigger than his head on his head, looking at the form of munitions in the very large room in front of him.

"As you might expect, my lord, these are all made in our country, and even ordinary people can use them, and they can use weapons that can rival those of fighters and magicians. ”

As he spoke, he walked over to the side where the bolt rifles were placed, took out one of the Mauser rifles, and said while skillfully pulling the bolt: "If I'm not mistaken, there are more or less gunsmiths from the gunsmiths' guild among your personal soldiers or hired mercenaries." ”

"Well, that's true. At this time, the Marquis of Swasia, who was also invited here, walked out and touched the ring on his thumb and said, "Although those guys are just ordinary people, sometimes they can burst out with good combat power with the weapons in their hands, and they can be regarded as a group of reliable guys." ”

After saying that, the other nobles seemed to nod their heads in agreement, and seeing this scene, as if everything was as he expected, Svasya nodded with satisfaction.

At this banquet, although nominally he was still invited, unlike the others, in addition to coming to see the arms, he also had another cooperation with Shunze, that is, to help Shunze and them sell as many of the arms as possible.

To put it simply, he is what we call 'To'.

"In that case, you must have some understanding of the power of this weapon, but this time, in order to be able to better display our products to you, and at the same time, we have prepared a more 'straightforward' display for you, so please come with me here. ”

With that, he put the gun back in his hand and made a gesture of invitation to the Assas nobles present.

Then, under his leadership, the group passed through rows of neatly arranged weapons and equipment, and came to another area that was obviously different from before.

"This is the experimental place where we are specially prepared to display weapons, as long as you are willing, in the next time, all the weapons displayed here can be demonstrated in the most detailed way for your adults, so according to your wishes, which weapon should be demonstrated?"

"Just the one you started with," said a sturdy old man with long hair like a waterfall, "and save me all your useless trivia, and everyone who comes here knows what you mean by China, so don't talk about the useless." ”

"That's what you want. ”

That guy, I'm afraid that's what the information says, the leader of the opposition, Duke Adolf, who controls half of the major chambers of commerce on the supply of arms and weapons.

Shun Ze thought to himself as he saluted him.

Control of the arms trade...... In other words, as long as he gets it, he will already get twice the result with half the effort.

"So," he clapped his hands lightly, and a side door in the corner was pushed open from within.

Then, a group of six well-dressed levies came out with a Mauser rifle and three men tied up in a big way.

"So, my lords, in order to save time, I will try to build the demonstration process as much as possible, and if you are interested, we will provide more detailed information on paper. ”

As he spoke, he took out a brand-new Mauser rifle and a magazine full of bullets from the hands of the conscripts.

"First of all, the kar98K Mauser rifle in my hand, the standard length of the gun is one meter, the weight is eight catties, and the bayonet can be configured, using such a 7.92 by 57 mm bullet, the magazine is full of five rounds, and the effective range is 800 meters. ”

"Eight hundred meters!" As his last word fell, it instantly caused an uproar among the many nobles.

"You can fight 800 meters away, and you ...... with a bow and arrow."

"No wonder you were able to ...... from so far away when we fought before"

"It's amazing, it's really amazing, to be able to punch a copper pillar so far away, if we ...... this kind of technology"

Obviously, in addition to the effective range of the data, the so-called gun length, mass, and bullet specifications are all things that should be paid attention to.

But it doesn't matter, as long as it can attract their attention, it's enough.

"Of course, the 800-meter point is only the initial design, in fact, according to the needs of the specific situation, we also have a range of more than 1,000 meters, which can hunt medium-sized fierce beasts. ”

"It's just such a stick, how can a thousand meters be possible......"

"yes, and it says that even ferocious beasts can be hunted, which is ......"

"If it's a bluff, such a number is too ......"

He didn't say much to the nobles who looked at you and me, but it was better to say that the current situation was what he wanted.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in order to achieve the best results in this demonstration, I specially asked the lord of this city for three death row prisoners, hoping to achieve the best demonstration effect in this way, so ......"

After saying that, he raised the rifle in his hand, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the chest of the condemned prisoner who stood against the wall not far away.

"Oh, I almost forgot," just as everyone was holding their breath and waiting for the result, they saw him suddenly put down the rifle in his hand and said apologetically, "Forgive me, in order to achieve the best contrast, I wonder if any of the adults present are proficient in the way of bows and arrows, in this case......"

"I'm coming," said Adolf, who was standing in the middle of the crowd, walked out, and saw his left hand squeezed into the air, and a bow and arrow appeared in his hand.

Although as a weapon, it still looks flashy.

"Then Lord Duke, please ......"

"The one on the left will do the trick. ”

Again, before he could finish his sentence, Adolf's bow and arrow came out of the string, and only to hear a whoosh, like a falcon, with a wind-breaking sound, hit the chest of the blindfolded death row inmate.

However, surprisingly, the death row prisoner who was shot in the chest only shook his body slightly, and then returned to his original position under the threat of the levies on the side.

"How is that possible!" Seeing the bow and arrow piercing into his body, but the other party seemed to be nothing, Adolf rushed to the side of the death row prisoner in disbelief, and without saying a word, he directly ripped off the prisoner's prison uniform.

"This is, chain mail?"

"That's right," looking at Adolf with a surprised face, Shun Ze nodded and praised, "Ah, the duke's archery skills are really worthy of the name, even if it is a hundred steps, no, even if it is a thousand steps through Yang, it is no problem, but." ”

"The other party seems to be fine," he said as he raised the rifle in his hand again, and said lightly as he aimed at the body of another death row prisoner through the base, "Even the Duke who is skilled in archery is helpless against the target wearing armor, so the soldiers on the battlefield are probably even bigger, but if there are our weapons." ”

As soon as his words fell, he heard a bang, and a hot bullet case flew out of the chamber with the bolt opened, and the death row prisoner also collapsed to the ground weakly in the picture with his own blood as the background with the sound of the bullet case falling to the ground, no matter how the levies on the side urged, there was no response.

He was dead without question.

"That's it," Shun Ze said casually, slung the rifle that had reopened the safety on his shoulder, "if it's in the right place, a killing blow is enough." ”

"This. Adolf frowned, silently walked over to the dead prisoner, ignoring the blood and flesh gushing from the wound, and plunged his finger into the wound caused by the projectile under the gaze of everyone.

"Is that so, the same as before?" Adolf continued to weave his fingers around the corpse's wounds as if no one was around.

The constant flow of blood, the pulp turned out from the wounds, and the unbearable sound made even the conscripts feel sick to the warriors, not to mention the nobles of the Assas Empire, whose hands were only used to count money.

"That duke, look at the current situation, don't you ...... first" Listening to the coughing and retching sounds that came from time to time among the many nobles, Shun Ze had to speak.

"Hey, boy, how the hell did you do that. ”

"How? What are you asking?"

"What are you asking, are you playing dumb with me?" Adolf stood up and smeared the blood from his hand directly on the uniform of a levy, "I'm talking about wounds, why is it just a small hole from the outside, but why are all the internal organs broken, how the hell do you do it?" ”

"This," said Junzawa Izumino with a sly smile for the first time, listening to Adolf's voice full of fiery, "I beg your pardon for not being able to tell me about this. ”

"What, you say ......"

"Ah, okay Adolf, look at you, when it comes to weapons, you're in a hurry, and when you were young, you didn't have enough mercenaries. Looking at Adolf, who froze, Svasya hurriedly stood up and said after watching the play for a long time.

"But, but ......"

"Okay, okay, what's the matter, people are also in business, some goods can be said and some can't be said, don't you know?"

"That's right," Shun Ze said with an apologetic expression, "If these are all said by the next person, I am naturally willing to answer everything, but I'm sorry, the gag order about these things was issued by the boss below, and there is no way to do it below." ”

"And if I buy all of these things, you'll be able to speak?"

"Yes. ”

"Well," said Adolf, as if he had made up his mind, "I don't have to try any more things here, I'll have as many as I want, so that's it." ”

"What!"

In response to his words, the other nobles present made strange noises.

Although most of them are oppositionists, it stands to reason that they are in the same boat as Adolf.

But in the end, whether it is the opposition, the royalists, or the neutrals, the ultimate goal of these people is to protect their own interests.

And now, there are so many arms that can quickly expand their own private army and mercenary groups, but some people threaten to monopolize it, this kind of thing is naturally unacceptable to them.

"Hey, I said Adolf, you're too unkind," Svasya, one of the few nobles present who could be on an equal footing with Adolf, stood up again and said, "Everyone finally came once, but now you want to monopolize all the good things, isn't it a little too interesting, after all, everyone will still cooperate in the future?"

"Exclusive?" Hearing his words, Adolf smiled disdainfully, looked at the indignant crowd, and then raised his hand and said, "Since I know this, then we still have the old rules, the highest price of arms here will win, you can make a bid at will, I will say a word, ten times the highest price of everything here, is my bid, okay, you start." ”

After saying that, he folded his arms around his chest, and looked at everyone with a posture of ambition, and what was really ridiculous was that in the face of his boasting of Haikou, no one could speak out against it, and even Dangto's Svaxia was unexpectedly silent at this time.

The reason is simple, people just have money.

If it is said that in a country like Assas, which started from commerce, a person's financial resources are equal to his strength, then Adolf can be said to be a country, not even the existence of the whole continent.

After all, he originally started with weapons and armaments, which can be said to be a lucrative industry, and it is enough to make a lot of money in peacetime when there is no wartime, let alone the current war-torn era.

He and his family, who occupy half of the entire Continental Army's firearms industry, are said to be even comparable in financial resources to the country's largest chaebol, namely Assas and his family.

If they compete for financial resources, the total number of people present may not be less than one-tenth of his, which is the reality they are facing now.

But.

"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid this time it won't be as Lord Duke wants. Shun Ze, who did not speak, said again, only to see that he handed the rifle in his hand to the levyman, and said with a disappointed expression on his face that the demonstration he had prepared had been wasted.

"What do you mean?" said Adolf with a surprised look on his face.

"I mean, I don't think you'll be able to eat this shipment. ”

"I can't eat?" said Adolf, laughing a few times as if he had heard some funny joke, "and seeing that you have brought good goods this time, I will not pursue your gaffe." ”

"If the Duke has this confidence, then this document," he said, taking out a document from his ring that he had already prepared and handing it to the other party.

"This is a mobile version of the various weapons that we have drawn up, and the total price we estimate based on the armed forces of your families. ”

"Hmph, it's all redundant work, just take out the unit price of each weapon is enough. ”

Looking at the smug smile on the other side, is this guy really going to be a middleman, buying weapons from us and then exporting them?

But.

"This, this price, are you guys joking!" Adolf, who had taken the documents confidently, trembled uncontrollably as he continued to read down.

Outrageous, simply outrageous.

The price of every weapon on this list is ridiculously high!

It's just that the cheapest thing in it, the one called a bullet, costs more than one silver coin.

But the main thing is that the prices here are calculated in advance.

No wonder my own family will not be able to eat, although the prices of these weapons are very cleverly designed so that people can't see the clues, but as long as you look at the total price behind, you will find that each of the above is even accurate to the amount of copper coins is calculated.

And the criterion of this calculation is nothing else, it is the maximum amount that the nobles present can bear.

The best purchase list is drawn up according to the situation of each family, and if you exceed this list, you will naturally not be able to eat it.

And if you want to resell it at this price, even if it is in silver coins, no, it is too expensive for the profit margin based on copper coins.

In other words, if you resell it, no one will buy it at all.

"Although I know that your intelligence system is very powerful, but this price list is too much, everyone here is a businessman, who do you think will not be able to see that this thing is completely aimed at us. With that, he handed the document in his hand to another nobleman.

As the documents circulated, almost without exception, there was an uproar because of the price on it.

"For you, how is it possible, we are just talking to you about business. ”

"Then explain to me what this price is all about, you must know that the price on the black market is less than one-tenth of what you have here!"

"Is there a black market?" I didn't expect you to pay attention to that kind of place," he didn't seem nervous at all in the face of Fang's questioning, as if he was the consumer who really had the right to decide, and said calmly, "Although the price is indeed very high, but if I am not mistaken, these are all within your affordability, and maybe everyone here can still buy more by gritting their teeth, and there is nothing unreasonable about it as a commodity." ”

"And I don't know how this compares to our stuff as for the price you take on the black market," Shun Ze said with a hand and three fingers, "First of all, the things there are indeed very cheap, but what about the source, have you considered this? ”

"Secondly, in terms of commodities alone, those arms that don't know where they come from, whether they are useful or accurate, and we have new goods here, and there are also replacement services for parts, these so-called black markets, no, should I say that there is anyone else on the entire continent besides us who can provide them?"

"And then there's the third point, don't forget, we use such a covert way to do business with you, not to make your money, but to be able to protect ourselves in the next storm. ”

Speaking of this, the nobles present, including Adolf, kept their mouths shut.

Now that they are here, it shows that they have heard a little about China's next plan, and they have all joined this plan for different reasons.

Therefore, they are also well aware of the risks they will encounter next.

"Now that we've come to this point, I'll make it a little clearer," he said, putting on an honest face. Although you are all nobles of the Assas Empire, as long as you buy the arms here, we are willing to provide you with military assistance as a business partner, and if the situation is necessary, even to send troops and assist you to come to our country for political refuge. ”

To put it bluntly, that is, we did raise the price of this batch of weapons, but the extra money was not in vain, so we should have paid the protection fee, and when something really happened, as long as you screamed, it would definitely keep you safe.

It's that simple and crude, and it really looks like a diplomatic strategy similar to that of a country on Earth.

"Excuse me, what you just said is really what your Imperial Majesty meant?" said a nobleman of the Assas Empire, who was visibly shaken.

"Of course, everything I say is the will of our president. ”

"Well, according to the documents, my family is willing to pay. ”

"My family is also ......"

"My family is also ......"

As the first person to take the lead stepped forward, almost one after another, there were people who offered to accept it.

So—

Shunzawa Izumino's gaze moved to Adolf's body, and the other party seemed to have looked at him helplessly and shook his head.

In fact, he should have noticed it from the very beginning.

In the whole seemingly fair deal, they had no right to decide from the beginning.

It's completely played with by the other party.

Is it because he always stands on a high place that he forgets even the most basic caution of a businessman?

"My family also agrees with what is on the document. As the last person to speak, Adolf stretched out his hand and said finally.

As a businessman, although it is profitable, this time it is really a complete loss.