As soon as they heard the eleven taels and one Yi rat crossbow, the envoys of all the countries exploded, and the envoys of the twenty-eight vassal states were even more overshadowed, for them, the vassal states, let alone ten taels of silver, one or two of them were too expensive.

Ten taels is indeed very high, and in the Great Qin Empire, it is relative to the salary of a young man for one year, and in their country, it is even more relative to the harvest of a family for two or three years.

"Everyone, don't be impatient, don't be impatient!" Chang Zifei raised his hands to signal everyone to be quiet, and when the envoys of all countries saw this, they subconsciously closed their mouths one after another, and looked at Chang Zifei intently, only to see Chang Zifei smile indifferently:

"I know that the price of ten taels is indeed high, but do you know how much money my Daqin has to invest in ordnance every year? You definitely don't know, now the Prime Minister tells you that I, Great Qin, will invest 10 million taels of silver in armaments every year! ”

"What is the concept of ten million silver? Compared to the financial income of one of your countries in a year, my Daqin investment is so high, is it possible that I have to sell it to you at a loss? There is a saying that is good, who does the loss-making business! ”

"Hey~" Zhang Yaoxian, the envoy of the Yue Lord, sighed again again, and said with a hint of pleading in his eyes: "Daqin's hardships can be understood, but can it be cheaper, it is too expensive!" ”

"The more the envoy, it really can't be cheap, Benxiang tells you, if you buy a short crossbow, you will definitely be able to keep the Wei army out of the country, by the way, Benxiang wants to promise you one thing here, the B rat crossbow produced in Daqin is absolutely impossible to imitate!"

"So, you don't have to worry about the enemy capturing your short crossbow, and then imitating a short crossbow to deal with you, you can completely rest assured that the only person in the world who can make short crossbows is the Great Qin Empire!" Chang Zifei promised with a bright smile on his face.

"This ....."

As soon as the envoys of all countries heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, and they all saw the embarrassment in each other's eyes, because the news that they couldn't be imitated was not good news for them, so they thought about buying some finished products and taking them back to the empire for imitation, and equipping the whole army in large quantities!

If you can't imitate it, it means that you can only buy it from Daqin, and buying it from Daqin means that you need to spend more money!

Next, the envoys of the major empires said that they needed to write to their own courts, and they couldn't call the shots on their own, Chang Zifei understood this very well, after all, the price was really high, and they did not be able to call the shots, and the twenty-eight vassal states unexpectedly bought a rat crossbow.

Some vassal states bought 1,000 crossbows, and some vassal states bought 100 crossbows, the number was uneven, but on average, the 28 vassal states each bought 200 B rat crossbows, and the reason why these vassal states bought B rat crossbows so readily was because they had been insecure for a long time.

The vassal states are weak, the country is weak, they are like ants, the empire can make them bruised all over their bodies with a kick at will, and now there is a rat crossbow to bring them a sense of security, why not buy it, as for why they can call the shots on their own, it is naturally because the princes and envoys of the vassal states are all prime ministers, and they can be the masters of this one.

Although the vassal states were weak, they could still take out tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Ten taels of a rat crossbow, and a hundred rat crossbows are one thousand taels, and according to the average purchase of two hundred rat crossbows by each country, the twenty-eight vassal states only paid two thousand taels of silver, a total of fifty-six thousand taels of silver.

According to the rules, you need to pay half of the deposit, which adds up to 280 million taels of silver, after Chang Zifei collects the money, he will register them, and then let them stay in Xianyang City for a while longer, and when the Ordnance Department makes it, he will send the B rat crossbow to the Ministry of Rites, and let them bring it back by themselves.

At the end of this meeting, many imperial missions went back directly, such as the Great Shu Empire, the Great Xia Empire, the Great Chu Empire, and the Han Empire, these four empires are located in the middle of Kyushu and are not threatened by the Wei Empire for the time being, so for them, it doesn't matter if they buy a rat crossbow or not.

Moreover, their vassal countries have all bought B rat crossbows, and when the time comes, they can take a little from the subject countries to study and try to see if they can imitate them, and these messengers who plan to imitate them are all people who don't believe in Chang Zifei's words.

At night, in the Hall of Rites, in a certain house!

In the house, Wei Tianlan, Qiao Rong, and Wei Shuyi sat at the table against the wall, all three of them were silent, their eyebrows furrowed slightly, and finally Qiao Rong took the lead in breaking the silence, looked at Wei Tianlan who was frowning and said, "Your Majesty, what should we do?" ”

Since the people next door to this house had already left, Qiao Rong didn't have to worry about being heard, and directly called Wei Tianlan His Majesty.

"Alas~" Wei Tianlan sighed lightly and said nothing.

Originally, they wanted to get the favor of Emperor Qin through Wei Shuyi, and buy the Qin army's rat crossbow at a low price, who would have thought that the Wei envoy with a bad head would provoke Emperor Qin, you say provoke it, we are happy to see this, but how can the Qin Empire force the short crossbow, for this reason the Qin Empire also specially made a kind of B rat crossbow.

Wei Tianlan knew very well that it was impossible to obtain a rat crossbow from the Qin Empire now, at most he could get a rat crossbow at a low price, and Wei Tianlan really couldn't be interested in the efficacy of the rat crossbow.

Wei Tianlan was silent for a while, and then said expressionlessly: "In this way, you send someone back to Dayue, send someone to Zhongshan Kingdom to take a part of the B rat crossbow to study, and see if it can be imitated, if it can be imitated, we don't have to stay here, if it is really as Qin Xiang Chang Zifei said, it can't be imitated, then we have to rely on Shuyi to please Emperor Qin and get the greatest benefit for the Imperial Palace!" ”

The 100,000 army of the Taigong Palace, the 200,000 army of the Great Moon, add up to 300,000 troops, the 300,000 army needs 300,000 B rat crossbows, and 300,000 B rat crossbows need 3 million taels of silver, and 3 million silver is not a small number for the Great Moon Empire.

Da Yue's annual financial income is only 7 million taels of silver, and it costs half a year's financial income just to buy 300,000 B rat crossbows, and Da Yue really can't support it.

"Yes!" Qiao Rong got up from the stool, saluted Wei Tianlan with a respectful expression, and then walked out of the house to do what Wei Tianlan had just explained to her.

Not long after Qiao Rong left, Wei Shuyi looked at Wei Tianlan with an eager face and asked, "Can you go to see Chang Qing now?" ”

These days, she is so anxious that she can't wait!

When Wei Tianlan heard this, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought, thinking to himself, the Wei envoy has already left, and the envoys of all countries don't know when to leave, so it's okay to go now.

"Stay safe!" Wei Tianlan said softly with a solemn expression.