"The harder we fight, if we can completely annihilate this Qin army, then the more Qin will not dare to do anything against us." Tian Heng said confidently. And the other generals were stunned. They couldn't figure out if this young man was crazy. If the Qin State did not annihilate an army, it would definitely retaliate, and at that time, the Qi State was likely to face a direct attack from the powerful military power of the Qin army.

But Tian Heng believes that this cannot happen. Qin Guoguo suffered this dumb loss. The people of Qin will not use all the country's military forces to attack Qin because of the loss of hundreds of troops. Regardless of Tian Heng's point of view, it was indeed impossible for Qin to send troops to participate in it too early, because the national interests of Qin were not enough to take a huge risk and invest in a war that could not be profitable.

Tian Heng's point of consideration may be this, but Qin can use his huge economic advantage to manipulate other countries to participate in it. For example, Zhao Guo.

Just when the front line shifted its attention to how to deal with the Qin army, new changes took place in the Qi state. This change comes from diplomacy. It can also be said that it is foreign trade in arms.

With the large-scale rearmament of the Qi army, especially the musket equipment. The demand for the arms trade of the Qi army continued to be strong. However, the price of arms was unusually high, especially since the Qin State had a monopoly on the entire production of arms. This undoubtedly stuck the neck for Qi Jun. To this end, the military production department of the State of Qi began to develop its own muskets.

However, the trap rifles produced by the Qin State, as well as more advanced rifles. The military production of Qi began with imitation. The first rifles produced by the Qi State were old-fashioned flintlock pistols.

The State of Qi could import black powder from the State of Chu on a large scale. So, for them. Black powder is not very lacking, on the contrary, for bullet shells, Qi State cannot produce them on a large scale because they do not have complete military production equipment, so they can only rely on manual secondary loading of discarded bullet shells. This kind of bullet often has a dumb fire phenomenon when firing. Therefore, the soldiers were not happy to accept this ammunition. For this, Qi can only do it here.

However, on the other hand, Qi Guo has done a very good job. That is, they successfully imitated the flintlock pistol produced by the Qin State. This gun is simple to manufacture, and the requirements for bullets are not very high. Therefore, the State of Qi imitated it on a large scale. As for the materials from which the gun is made. Most of the steel exports came from Qin, especially steel pipe exports. However, Qi also produces gun barrels himself. However, its craftsmanship cannot be compared with that produced in the Qin State.

Moreover, the production of Qi is completely handmade. Typically, it takes a skilled craftsman three working days to make a barrel, and the barrel is very poor in heat resistance.

However, it is more than enough for a flintlock pistol with a low firing rate. But as the production of flintlock pistols was on the right track, a new problem was placed in front of the military industry of Qi.

The problem is that what the Qi army needs is a rifle that can fire continuously. What Qi was able to provide was a flintlock pistol that was a grade lower than the trap rifles it was equipped with on a large scale. This high demand and low configuration resulted in a large number of flintlock pistols produced as scrap. Although it is a waste product, it is a weapon after all, and it is made with a lot of resources and money. Treating it as scrap iron in this way is obviously not what Qi Guo had in mind at the beginning.

As a result, the military producers of Qi began to vigorously promote their products, Qi flintlock pistols. But when they sold their own products on the market, they found that the share of the trap rifle was far greater than they imagined. Even a flintlock pistol of the same class. The flintlock pistol produced by Qin State Machinery has strong parts and is durable. Easy to replace. In particular, some rifles of the flintlock pistol are well versatile. And the Qi flintlock pistol, because it had just been introduced, could not compete with the military factories of the Qin State.

But there is still something worthy of the joy of the people of Qi. That is, the merchants of the state of Chu ordered an order for a batch of five hundred flintlock guns. This order is of great significance to the Qi people. The merchants of the Chu State who ordered were in their own considerations.

These Chu merchants were mainly engaged in the slave trade. The slave trade began with the need to build a ship, but it was expensive to build one. Even a few businessmen united. It can only be almost finished. Then there's a lot of manpower, as well as other expenses. It's all very expensive. In particular, the cost of weapons. Qin's rifles were expensive, and although they were not very expensive when they were exported by Qin, they were stolen by their own water thieves when they sailed through the Yangtze River. Therefore, it is very difficult for such arms to reach merchants. Even if it was purchased from the Qin State and Korean merchants, the price was extremely high. Even if they did, they would only be able to buy a few rifles. These rifles were undoubtedly not enough for the merchants of the Chu State.

At this time, the Qi rifles produced by Qi State itself had a new demand object. This was the demand for the slave trade carried out by the merchants of the Chu State. Although they don't trust the product very much, for now, it's their only option.

In this way, the Qi flintlock pistol was sold to the slave traders of the Chu State. That's not the end of the story. The demand of the merchants of the Chu State was only a small amount compared to the quantity produced by the Qi State, and the number of merchants of the Chu State who carried out the slave trade was not very large. Their largest number was a little over 300. The youngest had fifty people. Therefore, in terms of demand for muskets, it is not enough to constitute a huge commercial market.

In this way, aligning the country becomes a huge loss. But the turnaround often comes in times of disappointment.

The mission from North Korea gave Qi a huge turnaround in arms production. The allied state of Korea is suffering from a frenzied invasion by militants of the Qin state, the militants of the Yan state, and their range of activities is getting closer and closer to the Korean Peninsula. Especially their need for slaves.

Deliberately evaded by the Huns, the mountain people migrated to the depths of the primeval forest. The number of slaves acquired in the north of the Qin state became less and less. Opposite. The allied states of Korea, which are settling down, are becoming more and more attractive to them. As a result, the militants began to re-target North Korea.

As a result, North Korea urgently needs a weapon that can withstand the aggression of these militants. Especially the kind of weapon that can breathe fire. In the Qi Kingdom, they finally got their hands on the weapon they wanted.

For a trap rifle, that weapon is already very advanced. But they were no strangers to flintlock pistols, because it was the first flintlock pistol to shoot at them. For flintlock pistols, they remember too well.

And the price of the flintlock pistol is still acceptable to them. Normally, three flintlock pistols, plus a hundred rounds of ammunition, need to be exchanged for a trap rifle, and the bullets of the rifle need to be counted separately.

The North Korean mission after seeing the flintlock pistol. A request for purchase was made immediately. And it's a lot of it. They opened their mouths and asked for five thousand. The demand for ammunition has reached 300,000 rounds. They traded all the gold they said they were carrying for flintlock pistols. Not only that, but they also took out some rare specialties used to open up joints, ginseng unique to Changbai Mountain, as well as some furs, pearls and so on.

These things were then exchanged for flintlock pistols. This incident happened very unexpectedly, and it was only spread as a strange news in the Qi country, and I don't know how it reached the ears of the King of Qi. Maybe it's because of curiosity, or maybe it's because it's too boring to stay in the palace of King Qi. In short, after the king of Qi got the news, he summoned Hou Sheng on a whim to discuss national affairs.

"When the widow heard about this, he felt that this matter was very good for Qi Guo." King Qi said excitedly.

"The widow's army is equipped with the rifles of the Qin State, and the rifles produced by themselves cannot be equipped with their own army. It is inferior to Qin's in terms of range. In other words, what the widow produces is waste. However, the widow has figured it out now. King Qi said back and forth. Then Sheng Zhi followed back and forth behind King Qi.

"Widows produce rifles, sell them to what they are towards. In short, the widow sold it to them. And sell it to them in large quantities. In this way, the outnumbered people have a source of war expenses against the Yan Kingdom. And I heard that those things are close to Yanguo, Liaoxi, and Liaodong, that's good. Then let those people fight them, so that the widows get more reinforcements. You say, "How good it is." "King Qi was obviously very clever at his clever move.

"I'm Wang Yingming." Hou Sheng can only say this about such a decision.

"You see, the widow himself thinks differently." King Qi was happy and smiling. And Hou Sheng regretted a little in his heart, why didn't he figure it out for such a thing that could make money and gain fame.

At the beginning, the ministers of Qi State were strongly opposed. What to say, I am a country in the Central Plains, and I can't mix those barbarians together, now. Look. Not only did he not make money, but, alas, think about it, Hou Sheng felt a nest of fire.

Wait until the king is happy. Hou Sheng took the opportunity to leave, he had to do two things, the first was to settle accounts with those ministers. The second is to find a way to contact that country and see if they still want it. Hou Sheng felt that he should continue to earn, and it was best to have as many as possible. Just give gold, give something valuable. Either way.

In this way, when the king of Qi was greedy for some small profits, the state of Qi sold the flintlock pistols that he produced to the Korean state, which was not very useful. And this batch of weapons will then raise new problems. In this regard, the ministers of Qi have a long-term view, and the high-level of Qi do not know anything about it.