After continuing to escort the supplies north, and then handing them over to the men and horses sent by the Seventh Regiment to pick them up, Lin Ziran and Hao Ren returned to the south, and without the drag of materials, this return trip was much faster.

After returning to Qingshan Town, the next day, Hao Ren continued to return south as before, preparing to transport the next supplies, and Lin Ziran also directly sent this batch of muskets to Boss Wang's ironcraft workshop to let him continue to help change rifling.

Yesterday's battle made Lin Ziran see the huge role of rifled muskets, when he relied on the advantage of range to fire from a distance, when the two sides did not have actual close contact, it was to force the Guangna rebels to retreat.

This also made Lin Ziran value rifled guns even more.

And Boss Wang also happily accepted this new order.

Recently, he helped Lin Ziran change the musket, and he made a lot of money, Lin Ziran offered him ten yuan a piece at the earliest, and then the funds were a little tight, and the quantity was also large, so the price was reduced to eight yuan a piece.

But a few hundred muskets are also 3,000 Hengyuan, and after deducting the salaries and materials of the craftsmen, Boss Wang has at least earned more than 2,000 Hengyuan in gross profit.

It's a pity that the new town guard in the town guard is a bit ruthless in making money, and the black heart is very black, and there is a special business tax in addition to the original commercial tax, and the tax rate has reached 50 percent, which is simply inhumane.

But his boss Wang is just a small businessman, and he doesn't dare not pay taxes if the town guard government wants to collect taxes, not to mention that people directly collect taxes with orders from the patrol camp, and they can't steal taxes.

So that as soon as the money arrived, more than 1,000 yuan of commercial taxes were directly taken away, and then he came to the door again and again to say that he wanted to raise donations, and he was taken away by several hundred.

In the end, the vast majority of the nearly 2,000 gross profits were taken away by the town guard, and only about 500 Hengyuan was left on hand.

But it was only a little more than a month before and after, and he made a net profit of nearly 500 Hengyuan, which also made him extremely excited.

He didn't know that most of the money taken by the town guard mansion went to Lin Ziran's hands as soon as it changed hands.

This town guard doesn't seem to have anything to do with the patrol camp, but Wang Jinqian and Lin Ziran have joined forces to control Qingshan Town, Wang Jinqian is leisurely and leisurely his town guard, and Lin Ziran is recruiting troops to expand the army, helping each other without interfering with each other, the small days of these two gangs of bandits have been very recent Su Chang.

After handing over the musket to Boss Wang to pull the rifling, Lin Ziran also suggested that Boss Wang let him buy some equipment and build a steam engine or something, so that the work efficiency could be higher.

However, Boss Wang did not agree on the spot, he was worried that the gun modification business would not last long, and if he rashly spent a lot of money to buy machinery and equipment, but there was no follow-up order, he would lose money.

This made Lin Ziran think more, this Boss Wang's ironware workshop can not be used for a while, but it will not be reliable for a long time.

Now Lin Ziran already has the intention to stay here in Qingshan Town for a long time.

In the past, he thought it didn't matter, thinking that if something was wrong, he would run away.

But now, he has discovered oil and is ready to engage in the kerosene business, so he is thinking about whether to use Qingshan Town as a territory to operate, after all, others can run, but the oil field will not run with him.

After having this thought in his heart, he couldn't help it, and directly ordered the Qingshan Commercial Bank to inquire about the price of machinery and equipment and the price of hiring technical personnel, and see how much it would cost to build a small arsenal or something.

The others don't dare to have extravagant hopes, but they have to get a small workshop that can rifle and produce ammunition.

However, Sun Guan from the Qingshan Commercial Bank directly suggested that it was more troublesome to start from scratch, and it was better to directly buy Boss Wang's ironware workshop.

Boss Wang's ironware workshop seems inconspicuous, but there are several pieces of machinery and equipment, and there are five or six skilled craftsmen.

Hearing this, Lin Ziran felt that it was really feasible, no, he just found Boss Wang that night.

"My lord, the new batch of muskets has already begun to rifle, we are all familiar with this matter, and we can finish it in ten days and half a month at most!" Boss Wang thought that Lin Ziran came to him to ask about the modification of the musket.

But when he thought of Lin Ziran, he said, "Boss Wang, I don't know if your iron workshop is interested in making a move?" ”

"Shot?" Boss Wang was stunned for a while, he didn't expect Lin Ziran to suddenly ask like this.

He did not continue to speak, but fell silent.

Shoot, that must be unwilling, this iron workshop seems to be small, but it is also the hard work of his life, and there are no competitors in this Qingshan Town, even if there is no ordnance modification order sent by Lin Ziran, his iron workshop is also profitable, one or two hundred more per month, and dozens of pure profits.

But the reason why Boss Wang did not refuse at the first time, but was silent, was because he knew that since Lin Ziran said this, he could not easily refuse.

Because Lin Ziran is the battalion officer of the patrol battalion!

The people don't fight with the officials, and Boss Wang also knows this!

Then he thought that during the day, Lin Ziran had suggested that he buy equipment to expand production, and he also vaguely guessed why Lin Ziran was like this.

Boss Wang pondered, Lin Ziran was not in a hurry, and waited for Boss Wang's reply while drinking tea.

He is very confident that he will get the answer he wants from Boss Wang!

After pondering for a moment, Boss Wang asked tentatively, "Lord Lin, are you not satisfied with the scale of the workshop?" Want to expand production? ”

Lin Ziran didn't expect him to say this, but if he thought about it, in fact, his reason was really this, he only needed weapons, and nothing else.

Immediately said: "This is not wrong, this official plans to buy Boss Wang's workshop and then expand production, as for the price, it is easy to say!" ”

Boss Wang said: "Then my lord, do you think it's okay to do this, how about an adult invest in a part of the shares, and we will expand production together?" ”

Boss Wang is reluctant to sell directly, but he doesn't have the courage to refuse him directly.

Lin Ziran thought about it for a while, and felt that this was okay, this Boss Wang still had the ability, and it was better to directly join hands with him than to buy from him, at least the management and technical personnel didn't have to worry about it first.

"That's fine!"

Hearing Lin Ziran say this, Boss Wang breathed a sigh of relief, it is not impossible to invest in joint stocks, at least the list of patrols and camps here in the future is indispensable, maybe he will be able to earn more by then.

After finalizing the merger, it can be regarded as solving a matter of Lin Ziran's heart.

In the future, he plans to continue to set his sights on kerosene.

It costs money to purchase ordnance, it also costs money to expand production workshops, and it costs money to raise troops, and if he doesn't get kerosene out to return to blood, his patrol battalion will not be able to sustain itself.