Hearing Liu Guoxuan's reminder, Zhang Qiang recovered from his imagination and smiled slightly embarrassed.

"Sir, do you think you can sell this musket to the Spaniards?" Liu Guoxuan repeated his question.

"Sell, why not?"

"If you have money to make, why not?"

Zhang Qiang stretched out his hand and said very generously.

"But we don't have extra arquebuses," Liu asked.

"I have, how much are the Spaniards going to buy?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Fifteen taels of silver, they are willing to pay fifteen taels of silver a stroke." Liu Guoxuan heard that Zhang Qiang agreed, and immediately said eagerly.

"What? It's only fifteen taels of silver, Lord Liu, you're not mistaken, right? Zhang Qiang looked at Liu Guoxuan in surprise and said.

"My lord, these are all old ones you use, aren't they?" Liu Guoxuan asked.

Zhang Qiang nodded slightly, needless to say that the capture of the Ming army and the Qing army, that is, the capture of the Dutch and the Portuguese took a long time, and now people generally have no sense of maintenance, so many guns actually look old.

"But I also sold you a lot of new guns that we were newly equipped with, and that was also fifteen taels of silver a shot?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Your Excellency the Governor, now the whole musket market is like this, in the past, the Dutch and the Portuguese only sold us thirty taels of silver, if it was the kind of arquebus produced by the Portuguese in the trench gate, it was twenty taels of silver, and the arquebuses produced by the Ming army before were of good quality only 112 taels of silver, and the poor quality was only 5 or 6 taels of silver, and now we take the captured guns and sell them for 15 taels of silver, which is already a very good price, besides, the Spaniards said, no matter how old they are, They all collect fifteen taels of silver, and they want as much as they want, which is to take care of us, and the Spanish merchant is still very trustworthy. Liu Guoxuan spoke for the Spaniards.

Zhang Qiang leaned back and sat upright, and said with a smile: "Lord Liu, how many kickbacks did you receive from the Spaniards, I'm afraid it's more than that, right?" ”

"What do you mean, Your Excellency? I am very honest with you, how dare I deceive you? Liu Guoxuan hurriedly defended.

"Besides, what you sold me is not eleven or two taels of silver, the low one is only nine taels of silver, and I finally made fifteen taels of silver with the Spaniards, which is already making us a lot of money?" Liu Guoxuan said very righteously.

"Hehe, the bad is bad in the Spaniards, they are old and unified fifteen taels of silver to buy, I give you a friendly price, do you know what the factory cost price of the arquebus you are taking now is the arquebus of our army's active equipment?" After Zhang Qiang finished speaking, he motioned to the guards around him to bring the arquebus on his body.

Now Zhang Qiang's chasers are equipped with version 1.1, because version 2.0 has not yet been redressed in a large area to catch up with the Dutch attack on the coast, so the entire Jinhua Volunteer Army is now equipped with version 2.0 of the arquebus, that is, the Xianju County Arsenal garrison, the Jinhua Mansion Arsenal and the artillery factory garrison troops, near the water!

They were the first to equip the troops, and they were the ones to test the performance, and they were training every day to test the new arquebuses, so they were equipped first.

Now that the test has been completed, many arquebuses have been produced, but they are all stored in the warehouse, waiting for Zhang Qiang's ******** before they can be shipped to various places to equip the regular army, that is, the elite garrison soldiers.

Even Wei Wuji, Du Ge, and Mi Lin, who were fighting on the front line, were only equipped with a 1.0 version of the arquebus.

Of course, the highest version sold to Liu Guoxuan is only version 1.0.

Of course, there are very few, the Jinhua Righteous Army is only equipped with version 1.0 in active service, so they may be sold these, but a small number of arquebuses equipped for Liu Guoxuan's guards, as well as Yu Xing, Zheng Tai and others' guards have bought this 1.0 version of arquebuses.

This is a certain thing, because Zhang Qiang wants to have a good relationship with them, Zheng Chenggong's favorite generals, in order to facilitate his development in the treasure island.

Liu Guoxuan watched as Zhang Qiang took the 1.0 version of the arquebus from the guards.

Zhang Qiang said to him: "We have improved a lot of things about this arquebus, and it costs to improve it, right?" Zhang Qiang looked at Liu Guoxuan.

Liu Guoxuan nodded, although he didn't know how much, because he was good at stratagem and naval warfare, he didn't know about that at all, but he felt that since the improvement must have cost money, and there was a lot.

"In order to study this arquebus, we spent three million taels of silver, spent a year and a half, hired craftsmen, built a factory, purchased raw materials, spent countless time and energy to research, and we spent one million taels of silver on the cost of materials alone."

Zhang Qiang told the story.

Liu Guoxuan didn't know before, but now he heard Zhang Qiang say that he used three million taels of silver, and with these three million taels of silver, how much homestead land, how many fertile land, how many concubines he married, how many ships and troops he raised, he couldn't help but smack his tongue, this governor is willing to invest.

However, the input-output effect is also very powerful, he saw that the Jinhua Yi army used this arquebus to beat the Dutch in the castle in embarrassment, and he couldn't raise his head at all, this is still the enemy has the cover of the city wall, if he meets it in the field, then with this arquebus, the enemy has not returned the phone, and the enemy is either killed or wounded, which is why he wants to buy this arquebus, and hire Zhang Qiang's soldiers to train the army for him.

That kind of continuous firepower, made his heart surging, once he felt that he must have this kind of gun, which is much more clever than the arquebuses of the Ming and Qing Dynasty, the rate of fire is much faster, with this kind of firepower, even if he encounters the cavalry of the Qing army Tartars, as long as the number is enough and the arquebus is enough, once those Qing army Tartars get close to the troops, they will not be able to break his formation without paying a heavy price.

He could cover arquebusiers with pikemen and cavalry.

If he has Zheng Chenggong's iron-clad Swing Kou sailors, then whether it is at sea or on land, he can fight the Qing army.

"So what is the price of a single branch now?" Liu Guoxuan asked.

"Friendship price, do you think I care about this money? The production cost of one of us is thirty taels of silver, if it weren't for the friendship between you and me, and the friendship between us and the Dutch, would I give you the price of a dozen taels of silver? Did I lose more than half? My investment, until now to recover or is far away, do you say that we are stupid, or the Spaniards are stupid? Why should we sell to them at a loss? ”

Zhang Qiang asked.

In fact, when researching, these costs are real, and it is true that so much money is spent, but the cost of raw materials, manufacturing, and plant is apportioned, and the more you manufacture, the lower the cost.

At the beginning, it was more than the cost of thirty taels of silver, because they were all inputs, in fact, one had the cost of several hundred taels of silver, and later with the more manufacturing, the cost dropped more and more, and now it is only ten taels of silver.

What was sold to Liu Guoxuan was indeed a friendship price, and it was almost not profitable. With the improvement of the process and the mature use of the assembly line, this cost will be lower and lower, and it may even reach five taels of silver a rod.

No matter how low it is, the cost of labor, raw materials, and transportation cannot be suppressed, so the price is almost a little more than four taels to five taels.

The Ming army made an arquebus, artificially made, inferior iron, you can buy it to build, so the cost is no more than labor and inferior iron and some firewood, two taels of silver is enough.

But will such a gun work?

"My lord, in this way, it is indeed cheap, in fact, the Spaniards gave the price of eighteen taels of silver." Liu Guoxuan said with a little blush.

"Hehehe," Zhang Qiang smiled, looking like I knew it was like this.

(End of chapter)

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