Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Hao's determined appearance, thinking that what Zhu Hao had just said made sense, and sighed:

"Hey!"

"Okay!"

"I'm ready, let the cabinet and the Ministry of War draw up the decree!"

"But the emperor, you have to promise me that you will not force yourself to do anything, and your safety is the most important thing!"

Zhu Hao heard that his eldest brother finally agreed, and immediately said:

"Brother obeys!"

Zhu Hao said that he was about to leave Linglong Pavilion, but as soon as Zhu Hao turned around, he was stopped by Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao said:

"Brother Huang, you go slowly, you came at the right time, I just have something to tell you!"

Although Zhu Hao didn't blame his eldest brother for favoring Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family on the surface, he was still a little dissatisfied with his eldest brother's move in his heart, so when his eldest brother called him again, he said a little impatiently:

"Your Majesty, do you have anything else that you need to tell your younger brother?"

Zhu Youxiao didn't feel the slight change in Zhu Hao's tone at all, but said excitedly:

"Brother Huang, since you came this time, our brothers haven't talked well!"

"There's something you don't know yet!"

"The bullet for the Apocalypse Rifle has been developed!"

"Why don't you follow me to the hunting ground for a test shot?"

Zhu Hao listened to Zhu Youxiao's words, and suddenly had an excited look on his face, and even nodded in agreement with Zhu Youxiao's words.

After Zhu Hao agreed to Zhu Youxiao's proposal, the two brothers took a team of guards to the royal hunting ground in Xiyuan, and after arriving at the royal hunting ground, Zhu Hao took the apocalypse rifle handed over by Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Hao took the Apocalypse rifle in his hand, pulled the bolt a little excitedly, then took the bullet handed by Zhu Youxiao, pressed the bullet into the load, and then raised the gun to shoot.

With the "Bang! A gunshot rang out.

There was a smell of gunsmoke from the muzzle of the Apocalypse rifle, and when Zhu Hao opened the bolt, a bullet casing of Huang Chengcheng fell out, and the bullet had disappeared.

Zhu Hao knew that the development of the bullet of the Apocalypse Rifle was successful, but he didn't know how far the effective range of the Apocalypse Rifle was, so Zhu Hao hurriedly asked his guards to ride along the shooting track to find the bullet.

After Zhu Hao's order was issued, about a quarter of an hour or so, one of the guards sent out by Zhu Hao raised a red flag in the distance, and Zhu Hao knew that this was the location where they had found the bullet.

After Zhu Hao saw the red flag, he asked people to start measuring the distance between the shooting position and the location where the bullet fell.

About a quarter of an hour or so passed, and after the measurement was completed, the person who measured reported to Zhu Hao that the location where the bullet fell was about 800 meters away from the shooting position.

Zhu Hao listened to this person's report, and secretly calculated in his heart:

"In this way, if this Apocalypse rifle does not consider the problem of wind direction and wind speed, the effective range should be around 600 meters!"

"If that's the case, it's much farther than the effective range of 460 meters of the 38 big cover in later generations!"

"I really don't know what my eldest brother has done with Lu Ban and Song Yingxing, two scientific madmen, to make the range of this Apocalypse rifle far exceed that of the island country in the period when science and technology were developed in later generations."

Zhu Hao sighed in his heart, his little face was full of excitement, and then he said:

"Your Majesty, can you hurry up and produce a batch of Apocalypse rifles and bullets?"

"Brother Chen wants to take it to Liaodong to give those captives a big surprise!"

Zhu Youxiao listened to Zhu Hao's words, and his face was also excited, patting his chest and saying:

"Brother Huang, how many rifles and how many bullets do you want?"

"I'm going to order the Ministry of Works to supervise it immediately!"

Zhu Hao listened to his eldest brother's words, and said:

"Such a sharp weapon, my brother thinks that the soldiers of Liaodong should have one hand!"

"As for the bullets?"

"According to Brother Chen, let's equip each person with a hundred rounds first!"

Zhu Youxiao listened to Zhu Haoshi's words, his face suddenly darkened, and his excitement disappeared completely, and he only spoke after a while:

"Brother Huang, I'm afraid I won't be able to agree to your request!"

"Brother Huang, you don't know anything!"

"The cost of this Apocalypse rifle requires at least a hundred taels of silver!"

"A bullet also costs at least a tael of silver!"

"And there are at least 130,000 soldiers in Liaodong, so it will need at least 26 million taels of silver, and the current annual income of the treasury is only 20 million taels of silver."

"And these 20 million taels, except for the expenses of Liaodong's continuous wars and the frequent famine relief in various places, there is almost nothing left!"

"This year, I am building my father's underground palace mausoleum, and I have already used my own internal money to supplement it!"

"Imperial brother, you also know that the emperor's grandfather's three large-scale conquests, my internal treasury is almost exhausted, and the treasury has no spare money, I really can't meet the amount you said!"

Zhu Hao listened to Zhu Youxiao's explanation, and was shocked, he was shocked, first, he didn't expect his eldest brother's family to be so difficult, and second, he didn't expect the cost of this Apocalypse rifle to be so high.

Zhu Hao can accept the cost of a hundred taels of guns, but he really can't accept the cost of a bullet for one or two pieces of silver, because this bullet is a consumable.

Zhu Hao thought about the cost of this bullet, and then thought about the consumption required to use the Apocalypse rifle on a large scale on the battlefield of Liaodong, and couldn't help but secretly say in his heart:

"TNND, where the hell is this bullet! It's just a special way to smash people with money! In fact, it doesn't matter, you can quickly end the war against Houjin, and you can save a lot of military spending in a year! ”

"But TNND, the key is that the country has no money now, and Lao Tzu has no money!"

Thinking like this, Zhu Hao gave up his preparations for the large-scale use of the Apocalypse Rifle, he only prepared to arm his own escort army and let these people be used as a cavalry.

After Zhu Hao fixed his attention, he said:

"Your Majesty, my brother's idea is a little unrealistic!"

"Your Majesty, my brother wants to build 5,000 Apocalypse rifles, and each gun will be allocated 200 rounds of ammunition, and I ask Your Majesty to be gracious!"

The reason why Zhu Hao said that Zhu Youxiao must be gracious is because Zhu Hao's request is not low, five thousand apocalypse rifles, according to the cost of a single hundred taels of silver, that also needs 500,000 taels of silver, and each gun is equipped with 200 points of ammunition, then it needs to need 1 million taels of silver, Zhu Hao's opening is 1.5 million taels of silver, which is really a lot.

Zhu Hao looked at Zhu Youxiao's face uncertain, thinking about the treasures he had snatched from Houjin, and then said:

"Your Majesty, this money is borrowed from you by your brother, and when your brother comes back from Liaodong, you will definitely return it, this 1.5 million taels of silver!"

Explanation of terms: (帑ta

g three sounds, inner money: refers to the emperor's private property)