Chapter Seventy-Five: The Jade Man
Ye Niangzi found out that she had fallen into Liu Chang's big deal, and she was so angry that she stomped on her little boots, and said angrily: "This is not good, check, I will score half of the fast cannon medicine that Demons transported today!" ”
Liu Chang instructed Yun Tianzong: "Tianzong, Ye Niangzi is far away as a guest, so it's not good to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Ye Niangzi and settle a good place!" ”
Yun Tianzong was very clever, and he had already surrounded him with a team of flintlock musketeers, and shouted repeatedly: "Five ladies, please come with me, come with me!" ”
Ye Niangzi saw Yun Tianzong's posture and knew that Liu Chang wanted to swallow the ship of Demons alone: "Check, I will help you build this line of Demons, how can you cross the river and build a bridge, just order, and give me ten more barrels of black powder!" ”
"Ye Niangzi, you have a good meal first, and we'll talk about it later!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yun Tianzong had already taken the flintlock pikemen to take Ye Niangzi to pick up the wind and wash the dust, and Liu Chang shouted loudly: "Sentry Chief Qu, Sentry Chief Huo, come with me to pick up Count Bermons!" ”
Last time, Demons's Western sailing ship did not dare to enter the Oujiang River, but stopped in the open sea, but this time it took a huge risk and landed directly.
Liu Chang's first attention was the waterline of the sailboat, seeing that the boat was full and the draft was very deep, Liu Chang had a smile on his face.
He had been looking forward to this ship of munitions for a long time, and now the power of the notebook he had brought with him from modern times had almost run out, and although he had memorized a lot of information with a quill and won over many people's hearts in the name of the Divine Mirror, it would not be long before his notebook was about to stop working.
No one knew when the notebook would be able to resume working again, and he couldn't help but feel a little panicked that his greatest advantage across time and space was about to disappear.
But with this ship of munitions, Liu Chang has full confidence that seeing the rising sun, history will irreversibly move towards the direction of his own planning.
Still wearing a boat-shaped hat, a black scarf on his chest, and a golden vest without buttons, he fluttered in the sea breeze at will, and clenched Liu Chang's hand as soon as they met: "General Liu, I bring you a very warm friendship!" ”
"Count de Mons, I am also looking forward to your friendship, can you show me your friendship!" Liu Chang added: "I have prepared two forty-eight taels of gold ingots, as long as I am satisfied, they are yours!" ”
"Forty-eight taels? Three pounds? De Mons was surprised and delighted: "Please rest assured, I have satisfied you with everything, you can't find a more powerful arms agent in Shanghai than me!" ”
"My troops are in desperate need of firearms!" Liu Chang asked, "How many battalions of armament can you provide?" Whether it's rifles, pistols, or artillery, or gunpowder, military supplies, I'm open to buying! ”
De Mons said that he was more embarrassed: "General Liu, one thing I must explain is that due to the impact of the Knife Club incident, the number of rifles I brought this time is not as large as you imagined. ”
"Knife Society incident?" Liu Chang had already remembered: "If the information I get is, the battle is over!" ”
According to history, this armed force held out in the county town of Shanghai until February 16, 1855 (Chinese New Year's Eve in December of the fourth year of Xianfeng), and was forced to abandon the city on February 17 (the first day of the first month of the fifth year of Xianfeng).
And now it is the beginning of February of the fifth year of Xianfeng, and the failure of the Little Knife Society has been old news a month ago, but De Mons has his own account, he took off his boat-shaped hat, revealing a white wig representing honor: "Yes, the uprising of the Little Knife Society has been declared a failure, but the whole of Shanghai is searching for the remnants of the Little Knife Society, for which I have encountered great trouble in purchasing arms for Your Excellency." ”
Liu Chang expressed his understanding of De Mons's difficulty, after all, this is the purchase of contraband: "I understand Count De Mons's difficulty, but I hope that next time you can surprise me, how many arms you have brought!" ”
"First of all, a hundred barrels of granular gunpowder, five silver yuan per barrel, do you want it, Your Excellency General?"
Although it was already possible to make its own granular black powder, the quality was not only inferior to the imported granular gunpowder, but also the output was not up.
Although the entire battalion was mobilized to process granular gunpowder, it could only produce ten catties of black powder a day, and production had to be stopped in case of accidents, which could not cope with the needs of large-scale battles.
And one hundred barrels of black powder, almost two thousand three hundred pounds of black powder, almost the annual output of the battalion, although five silver yuan a barrel is much more than the price of Shanghai, but De Mons took a huge risk to transport gunpowder to Wenzhou, and also needed a profit.
Liu Chang nodded: "No problem, I've covered it all, what else!" Is there a Mini rifle? ”
De Mons had already led Liu Chang to the cargo hold: "Due to the impact of the Knife Club incident, I can't buy a Mini rifle for the time being, but I bought forty-five Krenswick pistols for General Liu!" ”
Speaking of which, he had already taken out a silver candlestick, lit the candle and walked inside: "Old price, thirty silver dollars per Krenswick firing gun!" ”
Liu Chang didn't care about the price: "It's too little, it's too little, I need at least two hundred firing guns now, but you can't even provide a quarter!" ”
As long as there are 200 flintlock guns, the entire Oujiang River can be walked sideways, but with the fifteen flintlock pistols purchased last time, it is only 60 flintlock pistols, and Deemmons apologized: "Each firing pistol comes with a sub-medicine and a fire cap that can be fired twenty times." ”
"De Mons, how many flintlock pistols did you bring!" Liu Chang was very dissatisfied with the amount provided by Demons: "I now have three infantry battalions that need modern weapons, and the rifles you provide are only enough to arm an infantry company!" I have a lot of gold and silver to procure weapons, and you, as my arms agent, can't provide enough weapons! ”
De Mons immediately said: "I have brought a hundred brown bess flintlock pistols this time, enough to equip a complete infantry company, General Liu, I have done my best, it is really the impact of the Little Knife Society incident is too far-reaching, and the entire concession is controlling the outflow of arms." ”
Although he was still not satisfied with this number, but there were a hundred flintlock guns, at least the dragon lance whistle could be completely converted into foreign guns, and the remaining two infantry companies could be turned into half-foreign guns, Liu Chang continued to ask: "What else did you bring over this time, in this case, you can't take away those two three-pound gold ingots!" ”
De Mons also brought 100,000 rounds of fire caps and other arms this time, but he clearly knew that Liu Chang would not be satisfied with such a small amount of arms, and it would be difficult for him to take the two three-pound gold ingots.
He has to be a surprise winner, and he has to come up with a killer idea.
Therefore, while carrying the candlestick, he went to the cargo hold: "Miss Zhou, you can come out!" ”
The fragrant breeze was blowing in his nose, and Liu Chang's eyes lit up.
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