The new breech-loading paper-shell rifle is still in the process of being finalized, and Bailiyan does not expect to be mass-produced within three years, but the huge economic benefits of Ji Feng and Mooney's two deals, resulting in equipment expansion and capacity growth, give the plan some hope.

Since the rifles had not yet been distributed, the training subjects did not go well, especially the assassination training, which was very fatal compared to the cold weapons, and the rifle that could only be loaded with one bullet was very deadly.

In view of the necessity of cold weapon fighting, the Yongxing rifle was designed at the beginning of the gun length at 1450 millimeters, which is about one meter three of the earth's metric system, with a stabbing length of 400 millimeters sleeve three-edged bayonet, the total length is more than one meter six of the metric system, but it is still one inch shorter than the traditional short gun, and nearly one meter to one and a half meters shorter than the lance and long gun.

Although cold weapons are vulnerable to hot weapons, hand-to-hand combat is still inevitable at the moment when cold weapons are popular.

Out of the north gate, Baili Yan rushed to Yongxing dock non-stop, the dock after more than 10 years of construction, has the ability to start building 34 10,000 stone ships at the same time, Guangxin also has 13 10,000 stone docks, the two places can build 47 10,000 stone ships or several 20,000 stone ships at the same time, but the number is far from meeting the orders of commercial ships that follow.

In the early years, most of the shipbuilding industry of Xianguo was concentrated in the coastal areas along the river in Dongyuan, Jiangdong, Suidang and Beihai counties, due to successive natural disasters and man-made disasters and defeats, after the existence of the Xianguo Naval Division in name only, the national strength declined sharply, the shipbuilding industry of Xianguo collapsed, after the rise of Yongxing City, in order to open up waterway trade, Bailiyan reopened the dock in Yongxing, and moved craftsmen to rebuild ships with the help of the Ligong faction.

As an inland river, Yongxing has a wide upstream waterway and a narrow downstream waterway, so 20,000 stone boats cannot go to sea nearby. Guangxin is mainly a military port fortress, and in the future, it will concentrate resources to build large ships, and the wooden ships with a load of 20,000 stones are only the starting point at best, and it is impossible to allocate more resources for the construction of small and medium-sized civilian ships in the future. In this way, the shipyards in Yongxing and Guangxin can free up more human resources for the construction of military ships, instead of dispersing resources to build civilian ships.

The three counties of Jiangdong, Suidang and Dongyuan are divided into two wings from the east and west wings to look at the lower reaches of the Qinjiang River and the sea outlet, and there is almost no problem that the channel is narrow and the water depth is too shallow, which can not only meet the needs of small and medium-sized ships, but also build large ships.

Most of the 50,000 merchant ships ordered by Ji Feng will be built by the newly built Dongyuan County Shipyard, and the 8,000 skilled shipwrights of the Liang State who asked for it will be filled in the Yongxing Shipyard to learn construction technology, and the Yongxing Shipyard will also draw 3,000 backbone shipwrights to expand and train a new batch of shipwrights to move to Dongyuan, so as to build and bring learning, and borrow the money and people of the Liang State to repair the infrastructure of the Xian State.

At the end of the afternoon, when dusk was approaching, Ji Feng returned to his residence from the Gong Gong Sect, holding a stack of forms in his hand, his face was a little grim, Ji Kang stepped forward and hurriedly asked:

"Third uncle, how is the situation of the discussion?"

"I got everything, but Bai Liyan didn't have any good intentions."

"The third uncle is saying that Bailiyan has other plans."

Ji Fengjing sat down on this matter, put a stack of sheets still on the case, and said:

"Where's your cousin?"

"I'm going to make a door, what's the matter with the third uncle looking for his cousin."

"See for yourself."

Ji Feng handed the form to Ji Kang, who flipped through a few pages for some reason, and his eyes went in and out of his eyes in surprise.

"Oh my God, isn't this blackmail!"

"It's not just blackmail, it's blackmail." Ji Feng reprimanded: "A machine is as little as 12,300 inches of silver, and as much as 100,000 yuan, this is blackmail!" ”

"But isn't that the reserve price given by the workers?"

"Guess what Duan Songzhi said."

"How?" Ji Kang asked.

"He actually said that this price is not profitable at all, which really me off."

Ji Feng's idea is very simple, the machine tool is a pile of iron, it should be sold by catties, the price of Xianguo iron is cheap, and it is quite easy to buy a bunch of iron, so in his eyes, large equipment should not exceed 50,000, and small equipment is worth thousands, and it costs only two or three million copper coins to buy all the equipment needed, which is still affordable.

But the situation is not the same thing at all, the price of pig iron steel itself, the cost of machine tool spare parts is higher than the price of iron, equivalent to labor, profit and technical output costs, small machine tools are easily tens of thousands or cheaper.

"Third uncle, the Ligong faction won't partner with Bailiyan to deceive us."

"It's not like, Duan Songzhi has been in Liang Country for many years, and the third uncle of this person still knows, and it is the third uncle who thinks things simple."

"Why did the third uncle say this?"

"Xianguo received a huge ransom from the barbarians back then, but I haven't seen much so far, and now I think about it, it must have been invested in Yongxing City and the national strength of Xianguo. I have asked Duan Songzhi, twelve years ago, Yongxing City was not what it is today, but after Bailiyan returned to Xianguo from the south, do you think it could be a coincidence. ”

"Shhh...... In this way, Baili Yan is something that was brought back from the hands of the barbarians! ”

"It's not clear, but it would have cost a lot of weird machines to build. Bailiyan knew it, so she tricked me in, most likely because she wanted me to retreat. ”

"That's going to be difficult, if the Ligong faction hadn't concealed it, these machines would be worth a lot of money, and Bailiyan would never trade at a loss. And this is not a star and a half, if you want to copy Yongxing City, it will be tens of millions of Xianguo Singapore dollars, where can my country get so much money for a while. ”

"When Bailiyan returns to the city tonight, I will personally go and talk to him."

"Such a huge amount of expenditure, it is no longer up to the third uncle to decide, it is better to wait until the uncle is revealed in the future, and then make a long-term plan."

"Don't worry, the third uncle has his own measure."

Ji Feng had already thought of a brilliant idea to get the best of both worlds, not only to get the machine he wanted, but also to convince Bai Liyan to sell the equipment at a lower price. But that night, he waited until the end of the night, and he didn't see Bailiyan return to the city for a long time, which made Ji Feng very annoyed.

Early the next morning, Ji Feng, who had been in high spirits for many days, had amazing dark circles on his face, and his eye bags were drooping and swollen like fish bladders, but he was still staring at him.

"Yo, Bo Yuanjun stayed up late last night." Bai Liyan asked knowingly, laughing in her heart.

"Don't worry about Yongxinghou, it's time to go back to Chengling today."

"If you want to stay for a few more days, of course Ben Hou can't ask Bo Yuanjun to leave, but it's not beneficial to stay for a long time, so please do it."

"Yesterday's words are not jokes, right?"

"What, Bo Yuanjun really wants to buy it!" Bai Liyan pretended to be surprised, and then looked at Duan Songzhi: "Master Duan, this matter should be brought down?" ”

"Oh...... The old man also persuaded Bo Yuanjun many times, Bo Yuanjun insisted on buying it, and the old man really couldn't persuade him. ”

"Yes." Baili Yan frowned, changed his face and said, "Bo Yuanjun, the machine in the city will not be given away for nothing, you can think about it carefully." ”

"Hehe......" Ji Feng smiled coldly: "Yongxing Hou rest assured, since Benjun is here, of course he has to take some things with him." Let's go first, and talk as we go. ”

Ji Feng's tone implied a deep meaning, and Bai Liyan pondered whether Ji Feng must have thought of some bad idea and wanted to blackmail him.

In order to facilitate conversation, Ji Feng abandoned the car and got on the horse, and also felt the pleasure of riding a thousand miles.

"It's a pity that such a divine horse is only Xianguo, can the Marquis of Yongxing sell some to this monarch." Ji Feng said as he walked, and the greed in his heart was even worse.

"Bo Yuanjun won't know it, this horse is absolutely forbidden to be sold, don't you make it difficult for Benhou. Besides, there are not many horses, Bo Yuanjun started, and one day the Jin Kingdom also came to reach out for tens of thousands of horses, and he also asked for tens of thousands of horses for the country and the country, and this horse is a big unload, and it is not enough for the princes to share, Bo Yuanjun always wants to buy it back and eat horse meat. ”

Ji Feng's cheeks twitched when he heard the news, but he could only endure it, and the next moment he turned around and continued:

"Yongxing Hou is really blessed......"

Ji Feng suddenly came out with such a sentence, Baili Yan was stunned and the second monk was confused, but he always felt that there was nothing good in his heart, so he answered vigilantly and said:

"Why did Bo Yuanjun say this, could it be that the days when Benhou was frightened by the Jin Kingdom were also a blessing? It is also a blessing to be born and die in the sixth year of the Southern Expedition? If these are all blessings, there are more blessed people in the world. ”

"Eh, Yongxing Hou is far away. Benjun is saying that there are not many people who can sit on the beauty of the world with three wives and four concubines like Marquis Yongxing. ”

After a while, life is a great blessing, and after a while, three wives and four concubines, Bailiyan listened to Ji Feng's words, and the taste became more and more wrong. When he was young, he reined in the reins of his horse and stopped, and asked:

"Say whatever you want, don't go around in circles."

After finishing speaking, I saw Bo Yuanjun with a bright smile on his face, and the eyes of the two fish bladders showed brilliant joy, even as if he had picked up a big gold ingot, he laughed, but it seemed to be rampant, and he was stunned to the well-informed Bailiyan.

"Hahaha......"

"Why is Bo Yuanjun laughing like this."

"The four daughters of the Yongxing Hou family have passed the year of breaking melons."

"You ......" Bai Liyan's heart sank suddenly, and her face turned black uncontrollably. He had already thought that Ji Feng wanted to fight the four daughters of Fang, Xiang, Xuan, and Caiyun.

The so-called "and Xuan" is the age when a woman can marry at the age of 15, so the phenomenon of marrying at the age of 15, 16 or even 14 is very common at present, due to the low life expectancy and productivity of the population, the early age of marriage means more fertility and working population, and the earlier the woman is pregnant, the more children she can have in her life.

Although childbirth is a high-risk physiological activity, the mortality rate of pregnant women in exchange for a large number of pregnancies and productivity is still the main means to maintain population growth, and it is the fundamental measure to maintain the territory and national strength.

Whether it is a middle-to-lower poor peasant or an upper-class magnat, nine times out of ten when a daughter reaches the age of fifteen, she talks about marriage, at least she is married to someone else. In many poor areas, marrying a daughter can also benefit from the economic benefits of the man's family to support the family, so the phenomenon of early marriage and early childbearing among women is extremely common.

In view of the actual needs and practical problems, Bailiyan does not intend to formulate a marriage law to restrict the age of marriage, it is obvious that it is impossible to be implemented, and in reality it is still necessary to reproduce the population as soon as possible and expand the national strength, not to mention that Bailiyan is also a beneficiary.

Ji Feng suddenly mentioned this matter, he must have wanted to be a matchmaker for one of the four daughters of Fang, Xiang, Xuan, and Caiyun, so as to bind the blood bond with Bailiyan.

Of course, Bai Liyan didn't nod her head when it came to getting married, unless Ji Feng came to grab it. But Ji Feng was so confident that he must want to marry one of the four daughters of Fang, Xiang, Xuan, and Caiyun to the son of the prince of Liang State, that is, the prince of the prince in the future.

And today's son is more than sixty years old, the prince is approaching forty, the eldest son of the prince has not yet been crowned, it is the year of sixteen, seventy-eight marriage, Ji Feng is trapped in the marriage of the son of heaven, and he is practical and sinister.

Obviously, the princes of the world are looking forward to the "relatives of the emperor", even if the father of Bailiyan hoped that Bailijuan would marry the Son of Heaven and ask for the help of the Son of Heaven in order to recover the losses of the country. It can be seen that the princes who want to marry their daughters to the Son of Heaven are waiting in line to marry their daughters. What's more, the Son of Heaven gave marriage, and refusal is tantamount to a slap in the face.

If the Son of Heaven gives marriage in the air, Bailiyan refuses not to, and if he does not refuse, the result of refusal will be overt or implicit political revenge, if he agrees, the consequences may not be much better. Not only is Bai Liyan's father-in-law going to have heavy bleeding in the future, but the eldest son of the prince of Liang is only seventeen or eighteen years old now, and no one knows whether he will die in the future, and he can't wait to ascend the throne and become the emperor.

Taking a step back, the eldest son of the royal family marries a wife, originally equipped with three, one formal and two side rooms, and marrying a daughter to the eldest son of the Son of Heaven will never be the wife of the main family, in terms of distant relatives and interests, at most side concubines, even ordinary concubines, Bai Liyan will definitely not wronged her daughter to be the fourth.

In the end, the daughter married into the Son of Heaven, what did King Xian think at that time, how to divide the family property in the future, and whether the Son of Heaven also had a share of the property in Yongxing City, I am afraid that Ji Feng was thinking like this. If he is a little careless in the future, he will be caught by Liang Tianzi and send troops to attack his father-in-law's family in the name of inheriting property, it is not impossible.

Of course, at that time, most of the father-in-law can only be full of old fists to color.

After living for so many years, Bai Liyan found that she was powerless to fight back after being threatened for the first time in her life.