When Lin Ziran heard Zhou Li ask the price to see the purchase quantity, he laughed and jokingly said that if there are too many guns, no one can use them, so it is possible that you still send gunners incidentally.

But Zhou Li said seriously: "The gunner thing, naturally it can't be sent, but this firm also has channels to help adults contact, and it is not expensive, a first-class gunner with many years of service experience only needs a salary of 80 yuan to be used by adults!" ”

"If the adults still need it, we can even contact the artillery sergeant doctor for the adults, of course, the price is not easy to say, and you have to talk to them personally, but it is estimated that it will not be too low. After all, as you know, the artillery sergeants and doctors in these years are all gunners, and the major feudal towns are recruiting, and there are only a few who are willing to come out to make extra money. ”

Lin Ziran knew what it was as soon as he heard it, wasn't it just an expensive mercenary.

Lin Ziran said he didn't want this thing!

There were not no artillerymen under him, but there were only a few, although these artillerymen had never hit the enemy with artillery.

But they're cheap, and they never pay a salary.

After all, they are bandits and still want a salary? It's good to be able to manage the food!

As for those mercenary artillerymen for eighty dollars a month, let them get out!

As for the artillery sergeant, let alone the sergeant, although the price was not said, but it is estimated that he will not be invited if he does not have a salary of a few hundred.

With this money, Lao Tzu might as well buy hundreds or thousands of muskets and recruit the corresponding soldiers.

So Lin Ziran interrupted him: "This gunner doesn't need anything, what is the price if you purchase a five-catty field cannon, and how much is two?" ”

Zhou Lidao: "One door costs 400 yuan, and if there are two doors, I can get a discount, but it will also cost 780 yuan!" ”

Lin Ziran also recognized this price, the small and medium-caliber smoothbore guns in these years are all copper cannons, the price is so expensive, he still purchases in small quantities, and it is estimated that the source of the other party's artillery is not so regular, otherwise the other party will have to offer more than 500.

Immediately, he said, "Then let's come to the two doors first." ”

Subsequently, the two sides discussed in detail the procurement of ammunition and other military uniforms, and finally reached a batch of ordnance procurement with a total value of 5,000 Hengyuan.

Calculated as a whole, it is about 20% cheaper than the price on the market.

This also made Lin Ziran even more sure that the ordnance business done by this Hongxiang firm must be disgraceful, otherwise it would not be so cheap.

But it's still that sentence, Lin Ziran doesn't care!

After Zhou Li left, Luo Mazi said with a worried face: "My lord, if there are so many weapons, how should this money be solved?" ”

Lin Ziran said: "The muskets and ammunition in front will be delivered within seven days, and we still have enough money on hand, as for the artillery, it will take half a month to deliver, you go and find Wang Jinqian." ”

"It's not good to continue to make money in this Qingshan Town, it's easy to rebound if it's too much, and the life of the people still has to live!"

"However, although our Qingshan Town is not a traffic artery, but there are also a lot of business travelers, as far as I know, these business travelers do not pay taxes to our Qingshan Town, since they have passed through our Qingshan Town, and do business in our Qingshan Town, this tax is not good, I am going to find a few places to set up cards to collect taxes!"

"No matter what, the money has to be settled!"

Lin Ziran is now focused on expanding the army, even if it is difficult, he has to grit his teeth.

Seeing Lin Ziran like this, Luo Mazi also stopped persuading, and immediately said: "I'll go find Wang Jinqian now!" ”

Wang Jinqian soon arrived at the city gate barracks, these days Wang Jinqian has lived a comfortable life, some time ago he was frightened, but now he is also let go, pretending to be a town guard, and two days ago he also purged some of the green-skinned hooligans in the city.

At the same time, several outstanding cases were resolved fairly and justly.

For a while, the prestige in the town was quite good.

The gentry and merchants in the town, led by Boss Wang, were generally quite satisfied with Wang Jinqian, the new town guard, and thought that he was much better than the previous town guards who knew how to make money and didn't do anything.

Although this Wang Zhenshou is also a little greedy and his means of making money are more ruthless, he has done a few good things.

Therefore, Wang Jinqian is still a good guard, and when he heard that Lin Ziran was looking for him again, Wang Jinqian was actually reluctant to come, because every time he came to the city gate barracks, there was nothing good.

This time is no exception!

Knowing that Lin Ziran wanted to set up a card to collect taxes, Wang Jinqian was very worried: "It is easy to set up a card to collect business taxes, but it is easy to cause a backlash......

As soon as Wang Jinqian said this, Lin Ziran knew that he didn't think it through at first.

Most of the business trips who dare to do business outside these years are not simple goods, and they are already over if there is no one to protect them.

They collected taxes in front, and the people in the back sued, and then they sent someone to investigate, and it was very likely that they would find these two groups of impostors.

In this way, I am afraid that it will not work to collect business taxes openly!

But if you can't come openly, then you will come darkly.

There are hundreds of old bandits under him, and he has been idle for a while now, so let them do this road outside, I will open this road, I will plant this tree, and it is okay to receive this business tax indirectly.

As long as it is not collected too harshly, judging from the chaos of these years, those caravans will generally be handed over, after all, although the caravans are armed guards, they have to spend money to fight.

After making this decision in his heart, Lin Ziran asked Wang Jinqian to go back, and they said that they had official business to be busy in the afternoon, saying that they wanted to rectify the sanitary situation in the city.

In Lin Ziran's opinion, this Wang Jinqian has become an addiction as a town guard, and he is about to forget his identity as a bandit leader.

I don't know if it's good or bad!

After telling Wang Jinqian to get out, Lin Ziran called Scar over and instructed him to take his former brother outside to choose a few dangerous places to set up cards to collect tolls.

And he specially instructed him that the toll should not be too high, or even lower than that of other peers, and that he could not engage in the business of drying up and fishing, let alone forcing the caravan to the point that the fish were dead.

In short, pay attention to good proportions!

Scar naturally gladly took the order, and recently he was training with a group of recruits every day, and he felt particularly bored.

And having to disguise himself as a non-commissioned officer in front of these recruits made him even more uncomfortable.

After all, he was just a bandit who didn't like to be constrained too much, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to fall into the grass and green forest.

After Scar took people away, Lin Ziran continued to think about how to expand his financial resources.

Relying on the population and place in Qingshan Town alone, if you collect taxes normally, you can't collect much, and you have to pay a part of it, and there are even fewer who can stay.

As for setting up checkpoints to collect business taxes, there are actually risks.

Although Nanhai Prefecture is a little chaotic, the counties and counties often maintain unity, and the counties and towns will not allow their subordinate counties and towns to set up private checkpoints to collect taxes, and the counties will collect them.

Even if you collect it secretly, you are afraid that you will cause trouble.

Lin Ziran is thinking about surviving this period of time first, as for really making money, I'm afraid he has to rely on other methods.