The rumbling sound of cannons echoed in the martial arts arena outside Seoul, where Manchu magnates, including Huang Taiji, gathered to watch the fire drills of the Portuguese "tribute envoys".

A hundred cannons in red!

Eight thousand firecrackers!

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These are undoubtedly what the Qing Dynasty urgently needs, but what makes Huangtai extremely happy is probably "Yibang to the Dynasty", which shows that the status of our Great Qing Kingdom is extraordinary! You see, even Yibang, thousands of miles away, knew about the Great Qing Kingdom and came here to pay tribute.

"Your Majesty, the musketeers you see now are using the most advanced Sur guns in Europe, which are different from the guns of the past in that they are much lighter, have a shorter body, and also use "paper-wrapped bullets", which contain gunpowder and a projectile, which can speed up the reload and increase the projection rate of the firearm......"

He didn't mention any flintlock pistols at all, and it seemed to him that these barbarian Tatars didn't know anything about flintlock pistols at all, and that the purpose of his coming here was to sell both artillery and muskets to them.

Although the performances of Ensign Pierce and the sailors and slaves were very hard, for the high-level Jiannu who had "seen the world", they obviously looked down on the arquebuses they brought, even if this kind of arquebuses had just swept Europe.

"I said, "Do you know what a stone striker is?"

In contrast to the enthusiasm of the emperor, Hauge was less interested, and he took a flintlock pistol, which he had bought from a Korean merchant for 200 taels of silver.

"Stone Striker?"

The flintlock pistol in the prince's hand made Kuichi dumbfounded, they actually had a flintlock pistol too!

In fact, Hauge had only been able to get the flintlock pistol for half a month, and although the Ming people were very strict in their private trade with them, the Koreans could sail to Dalian to trade, and those Korean profiteers would often collect some weapons for them in order to curry favor with the Qing Dynasty. The flintlock pistol is the "Ming Divine Soldier" paid tribute by Korean profiteers, because it is fired with flint, so it is called "stone pistol", but the number is scarce and expensive.

"Hauge, don't embarrass the Portuguese envoys."

Huang Taiji said with a smile.

"Tribute envoy, I will pay for the firecrackers and artillery you brought this time, but this price cannot be according to your price."

Huang Taiji had a smile on his face, he didn't think that this kind of fire gun was useless, after all, the gun pipe of the fire gun was the same, as long as it was slightly modified, it could also make a stone strike gun, it was no big deal.

Compared with Shi Zheng, he cares about artillery, these Westerners cast cannons and used cannons far more than the Qing Dynasty, and the Ming Kingdom also learned firearms from Westerners. Now that the Qing Dynasty has their help, it will definitely be able to defeat the Jianming Kingdom.

The emperor's answer made Yuyi's face show joy, counteroffer, yes, the original price was high, even if it is a counteroffer, how far can it go?

The most important thing was to open up a trade route, these Tatars had so many armies, and besides, they were at war with the Ming Kingdom, they naturally needed more weapons.

The most important thing is to open up this channel, after having this channel, Kuichi believes that he will definitely usher in the glory of life, and the huge profits will enhance his status in the company, and maybe he will soon become the youngest senior commissioner of the company......

When he was celebrating with joy and joy about the success of a big deal, in front of the Muhua Pavilion, Huang Taiji was watching with great interest as Cao Er was practicing the use of the latest stone pistol.

"It's a lot more convenient than a bird's gun."

After several rounds of continuous shooting, Huang Taiji said with some excitement.

"Master, this stone striking gun is restructured with an old bird gun, and taking the old gun pipe to restructure it can achieve twice the result with half the effort."

Cao Erzheng said cautiously, his father is an instructor of the red-clothed artillery team, and his eldest brother are both minions under the Zhengbai flag, and of course he is also a minion under the Zhengbai flag, but this does not prevent him from being reused here.

In fact, the reason why he was able to win the favor of the emperor was due to his family relationship - the eldest brother's letter to him listed in detail how to make flowering cannonballs and how to change bird guns into stone guns. It was with these that he entered the emperor's eyes as a minion under his banner.

For the Cao family, Dolgon is the master, and so is the emperor, since the Cao family is now on both sides, even the bet can be divided into two families.

"You're doing a good job."

Huang Taiji nodded and said.

"We just bought thousands of big bird guns from the Portuguese, those bird guns can break armor in a hundred steps, with it, the iron men of the Ming army will not be able to run rampant like in the past."

If you ask the Qing army, what is the most powerful thing in the Ming army, nine times out of ten it will answer the cannon, and then it will be the Iron Man Army. And this is also the reason why Huang Taiji spent a lot of money to buy the Portuguese guns, their guns can break heavy armor! As for the cannons, the more cannons the better, of course.

With flowering shells and cannons, there is no longer any need to be afraid of the Ming army!

"Stone-haired pistols, cannons......"

Walking to a Hongyi cannon equipped with a gun carriage, Huang Taiji stopped and said with a smile.

"He Zhu Ciying is these two moves, plus an iron man, this is his three-plate axe, and now we have it."

After withdrawing to North Korea, Huang Taiji was reflecting on the Ming army, it should be said that it was why the Pingyu army could run rampant in Liaodong, and even no one was invincible. It's not that the minions are not brave enough, but the minions are inferior to people, and now they have been replaced with guns and artillery, and the Ming army may not be able to beat them.

"Master, maybe we can also use Western Law to train a new army of Eight Banners."

Because he was too young, Cao Er had a lot less scruples when he spoke, and it was he who was proud that he said directly,

"The slaves have also seen the methods of those Portuguese guns these days, the soldiers under the command of the king of Gongshun are themselves good at using firearms, if we pick out 10,000 people from the Eight Banners, replace them with new firearms, and then use Western methods to practice, within a year or two, the master will definitely have a strong army of eight banners available."

"Pick out the 10,000-strong flag soldiers...... All reloaded stone pistols ......"

Huang Taiji groaned and did not speak.

Although he also had such thoughts, he was not like Cao Er was thinking, what kind of Western method to use, originally he was just thinking about using stone guns and artillery.

"Master, this stone pistol is much sharper than a bow and arrow, and even lead is easier than making arrows. If the 100,000 banner soldiers under the command of the emperor were replaced with firearms, the Pingyu army would no longer be a problem for my henchmen of the Qing Dynasty. ”

After thinking about it, Cao Erzheng added.

"By the way, the North Koreans are good at making bird guns, so you can let them make stone hair guns for me."

In fact, the Koreans were good at making bird guns, not because they were good at them, but the captive Japanese craftsmen passed on the bird gun manufacturing process to them, but the power of the three-coin bird gun was too small. But if you can make a three-coin bird gun, you can make a big gun, and there is not much difference between the two.

"Even if you use Korean craftsmen, it will cost a lot of silver, let's buy a Portuguese fire gun for 15 taels of silver, even if you make it yourself, it is estimated that it will cost five or six taels of silver, we really don't have any silver now!"

We don't have much money in our hands right now!

Thinking of this, a fire poured out of Huang Taiji's heart again, and Zhu Ciying ...... That kid not only picked up the silver treasury of the Great Qing Kingdom in Shengjing City, but even left with the five million taels of silver he buried in the palace!

It must have been this secret revealed by that slut of Kikige!

Thinking that Qiqige betrayed himself like that, Huang Taiji's heart was so annoyed!

What a slut who doesn't keep her morals!

If it weren't for the fact that the slut revealed the secret of the five million taels of silver buried in the ground in the palace, how could he, Zhu Ciying, find those silver even if he dug three feet into the ground, originally those silver were just in case, but he never thought that in the end, he would be cheaper than others.

In any case, Huang Taiji couldn't have imagined that it was not Qiqige who "betrayed" him, but in science and technology...... It's just a metal detector.

Now there are many places where the court needs to use silver.

Not to mention the replacement of new guns, even if you raise soldiers, you also need military salaries!

Seeing the troubled look on his master's face, Zheng Mingshou whispered on the side.

"Your Majesty, there is a way for a slave to get silver!"