However, although the real gun was only touched once, it also made Chen Xu remember deeply, the heaviness of the hand and the crisp sound and backseat vibration when shooting, now in retrospect, it still seems to be close in front of him, especially when he picked up the new rifle made by the craftsmen of the Nanshan Courtyard, everything seemed to suddenly pull him back to the peaceful and peaceful prosperous era more than 2,000 years later.

At that time, guns were undesirable or unattainable items for ordinary people, even if you took a toilet to use the toilet, you might be invited to tea, as for carrying a knife in the middle of the day or hanging a long sword on your waist to go shopping.

But at the moment, in Daqin, except for the army's standard bow and crossbow, no one will care if you go out with a cannon on your back.

This is an era of personality freedom, but also an era of barbarism, shopping if you don't see three or five fights, it is simply not shopping, when the street fight blood flow five steps is commonplace, so gathering crowds to watch the lively cheers is also a very important part of shopping, and the forbidden army of the lieutenant's palace saw that after the street fight, it is generally fined after the group fight, and those who dare to resist will be beaten half to death and then fined, if there is no money, they will be dragged back and thrown into prison, the road is one foot high, and the devil is one foot high, Never underestimate the power of chengguan fines, they will even be afraid of themselves.

Smokeless gunpowder Chen Xu doesn't have any clue at the moment, so making bullets from black powder has become the only option, but when the black powder explodes, the smoke is thick and the combustion is not sufficient, resulting in the accumulation of residues in the barrel and barrel, and the barrel and barrel need to be cleaned frequently, so the maintenance of the gun is more complicated than that of the gun.

But in any case, the upgrade from a firearm with bulk gunpowder to a rifle pistol with fixed ammunition is the first time that Chen Xu has added an upgrade point to the technology tree after traveling to Daqin for several years, indicating that technology has begun to break through to a higher stage.

And for this upgrade, not only the death of a group of craftsmen trillions of brain cells, the Nanshan Courtyard in the various tools and equipment has also been reborn upgrade, Chen Xu let the machinery factory specially developed the highest precision lathe, grinder, punch, milling machine and grinding and polishing equipment, in fact, the current Nanshan Courtyard has begun to approach the posture of a small township factory in later generations, has been able to develop and produce many equipment close to the level of the First World War in later generations, of course, except for aircraft, tanks, automobiles, ships and other powered ones.

Although the investment in the upgrade of manufacturing equipment is huge, in Chen Xu's opinion, everything is worth it.

Because of the advent of rifles and pistols, he was finally able to hand over the outdated firearm technology to the imperial court, and provide crushing armed firepower for the next expansion and colonization of the world.

In particular, Yu Wuya lived up to expectations in Japan and found a large amount of sulfur to transport back, and the manufacture of gunpowder would be fully guaranteed.

That's why he suddenly wants to contribute artillery technology today.

But the so-called cannon rang out with ten thousand taels of gold.

To fight such a thing, it is still necessary to have enough national strength to support it.

The simplest example is the production of gunpowder, Chen Xu let two dumb slaves make thirty or forty catties a day, sometimes the raw materials are not enough to stop work, and seven or eight thousand catties of gunpowder will be produced in a year, which seems to be a lot, but if you equip a musket army of 10,000 people, the dosage of a bullet is half a tael, a round of salvo will consume more than 300 catties, and seven or eight thousand catties of gunpowder will only be used up with ten guns per person, so it is a huge tragedy that the ammunition in the era of thermal weapons cannot keep up.

The cannon is even more terrifying, and the cannon developed by Chen Xu uses three catties of medicine at a time, and the gunpowder is consumed faster.

And the sulfur, saltpeter, tung oil, etc. for the manufacture of gunpowder are all scarce materials, and it takes huge manpower and material resources to get them, the most typical example is sulfur, the output of the Central Plains is extremely scarce to be transported back from Japan, and it takes at least three months to form a huge fleet to come and go, and it also requires enough manpower to mine, so if Daqin is a little poorer, it will not be able to do it smoothly, not to mention if there is no equipment such as nautical galleons and telescope compasses that are currently in place, Don't even think about getting to and from Japan.

What's more, the production of firearms is more than a hundred times more complicated than cold weapons such as bows, crossbows, knives and guns, from the barrel to the trigger bracket must be carefully crafted by craftsmen, and it is an impossible task without mature materials and technology.

If Daqin really wants to form a musket force of tens of thousands of people, it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars just to replace the equipment, and it will cost more money to build a strong navy, a three-masted sea ship will cost more than 500,000 yuan, if a larger five-masted warship will cost at least more than one million yuan, and then it will be equipped with expensive cannons and muskets, and it will be equipped with hundreds of soldiers and crews, and the annual expenditure of a warship will be at least two million yuan, and the naval fleet will build 20 warships, 6,000 soldiers, 400 cannons, and 6,000 firearms. A fleet costs 40 million dollars a year.

Last year, the income of the entire Shaofu was only 50 million yuan, which means that Qin Shi Huang wanted to raise such a Great Qin Navy, and every year the entire imperial family had to spend all the money on this fleet except for eating and drinking.

All, the aircraft carrier formation is not something that all countries can afford to play.

Even if Great Qin is so rich, if it does not raise taxes and loot the people with reckless force, it can basically only think about it, first form a navy of three or five large ships to carry out coastal patrol defense, and only after ten or eight years can this fleet be replenished.

But in any case, with the enthusiasm for the development of Yingzhou is stirred up, the people's overseas exploration will inevitably surge, Taiwan, Hainan Island, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, West Asia, Africa and other overseas regions will be slowly explored and discovered, Daqin will plunder from these places to pile up mountains of resources, a steady stream of tariff support, Guangdong and Fujian and other southeast coastal areas will soon follow the development, and Daqin's economic center will gradually move from Xianyang, Luoyang, Daliang and other inland areas to the coast.

Therefore, everything is developed step by step, and it is impossible to eat a fat man in one bite, and Chen Xu can only push Daqin's carriage along the planned road forward.

As long as Qin Da did not ask him to go down to the funeral to continue to nag when he hung up, thirty or fifty years later, Chen Xu believed that it was not unusual for the whole earth to speak Chinese everywhere, and in just a few years, the Xiongnu, Donghu, Yueshi, and Western Regions countries had begun to implement the Great Qin decree, and writing Chinese to speak Yayan has become a mandatory requirement in these places, and even a fashion, and it feels humiliating to go out and chat without nagging a few words of Da Qin.

For an afternoon, Chen Xu stayed in the Nanshan Courtyard, carefully selected a hundred of the most well-made guns, matched bamboo tube gunpowder, and twenty grenades to pack together, and finally selected two of the latest pistols, together with leather cases and a few boxes of bullets, in a beautiful wooden box and brought back to the Qinghe Marquis's Mansion.

And just when Chen Xu was busy preparing for the firearms show, a news that shocked the people of Xianyang gradually became clear.

Qinghe Marquis Chen Xu's retainers went to sea two years ago, and will soon bring back more than 20,000 catties of silver and more than 30,000 catties of sulfur from Yingzhou, with a total value of nearly 40 million yuan.

Moreover, I heard that in order to develop Yingzhou and the Korean lands, the Marquis of Qinghe not only opened a customs office for unified management, but also dedicated the immortal magic weapon Taiyi God artillery to prepare for the construction of the Great Qin Sea Division to protect the traffic of merchant ships, and provide sufficient military protection for all caravans that went overseas to explore and make a fortune.

Three years ago, Xianyang already had big businessmen join the pace of overseas development in advance, and I heard that Maofeng Transportation Industry and some well-informed businessmen have built more than 10 large ships, and I heard that they have also gone to Yingzhou and North Korea, and now there is news that some big ships may return to the Central Plains after spring.

The retainers of the Marquis of Qinghe can bring back silver and sulfur worth close to 40 million yuan, then the fleet of Maofeng Transportation Industry and other ships will definitely not return empty-handed, as for how much wealth they have obtained, it is unknown, but the value is at least tens of millions.

That is to say, in two or three years, the initial investment was only tens of millions of money, but now there is a return of nearly ten times, and the speed of making a fortune can only be described as grabbing money.

Preparing for the customs, preparing for the establishment of the Maritime Academy, preparing for the construction of the port wharf, building the Taiyi God artillery, and bringing back a large amount of silver and sulfur from the caravanserais, these closely related things became clearer and clearer with the passage of time, and the purpose of the imperial court was very clear, that is, to encourage merchant ships to go to sea and go to Yingzhou or overseas to make a fortune.

Two or three years ago, many people were even dismissive or scoffed at this incident.

But now that the imperial court is making such a big move and the rumors of Yingzhou making a fortune are spreading and discussing overwhelmingly, if a large number of businessmen are still indifferent, then it can only mean that the pattern is indeed too small, and they can only shrink in the Central Plains in this life as an ordinary businessman to watch others get rich.

Although hearing that the storm is coming on the sea is like a mountain overwhelming the sea, and the big ship is like a small boat in the vast sea, but for the brave people, only enough effort can have enough reward.

The more enticing the wealth, the more it comes to pay.

There is no such thing as money picked up for nothing in this world.

For businessmen, even if there is only 10 percent profit, it is worth selling, if there is 50 percent profit, you can die, but now there is almost ten times the profit, life ...... Is it a god thing?

In the face of a trip with such astonishing returns, no one can sit still.

Therefore, during this time, whether it is a businessman's home, a Quyuan cottage or even a roadside pavilion, as long as there are acquaintances who meet, they can't wait to get together to discuss the topic of going to sea.

It seems that if you don't discuss it, you will realize that you are outdated, and at the same time, you will miss this gluttonous feast of making a fortune.

Under the temptation of such powerful interests, many wealthy businessmen and princes began to unite and prepare to act in advance, because to make a fortune at sea, not only must you have money to build a sea ship, but you must also get a license, which is issued by the imperial court, and only those princes and princes have greater certainty.

The discussions and rumors in the outside world were boiling, and even many familiar businessmen and princes came to visit, Chen Xu didn't care too much about and explained, but just asked them to read the newspaper carefully and make arrangements as soon as possible, because he had already told Chen Ping about these things, and the detailed inside story of the Great Qin Metropolis Daily would be published recently, and it would soon spread throughout Daqin and the princes and vassals with the Great Qin Metropolis Daily.

If you don't hurry up now, you won't be able to grab a bite of hot when you eat.

And when most people are focusing on Yingzhou and North Korea, in fact, Chen Xu has begun to set his sights on Hainan, Nanyang and even Europe.

This time, Yu Wuya returns, and several large ships will go south along the coastline to open up the overseas world.