Looking at Liu Guoxuan's guilty look, Zhang Qiang suppressed his smile and said earnestly: "Guoxuan, we are all Han Chinese, we are all Daming people, now we are Nanming people, Spaniards are Taixi people, foreigners, and we are not a family, right?" ”

Liu Guoxuan was very cooperative, looking very curious, and nodded slightly, which he agreed with.

Are you still from the same court, the Longwu court?

There are also the Yongli court in the Southern Ming Dynasty, the court of King Lu, the court of the Lu Jianguo, and even further away, Daxi is still fighting, and many of Zhang Xianzhong's old departments are still fighting under the banner of Daxi, and some of Li Zicheng's old departments in Dashun still did not participate in any of the imperial courts of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and still fought against the Qing army under the banner of Dashun in the name of Dashun State.

Before the Southern Ming Dynasty, there was a relatively orthodox and legal Hongguang court, and now these courts are the continuation of the Hongguang court, and they are the continuation of the Hongguang court.

As for some other small ones, or the court that is about to disappear, I won't talk about it.

"Although there is a profit of three taels of silver, you can't help foreigners to pit your own people, right, at least you have to have a clear conscience, right?" Zhang Qiang followed the guide leisurely.

Liu Guoxuan lowered his head and responded with a low hum.

"I know you must have eaten some kickbacks, this is a common practice, and I won't pursue it, but you want to sell the cost of my thirty taels of silver to eighteen taels of silver, so that I will lose money, and you will eat the difference of three taels of silver, which is a little sorry for the Chinese people, sorry for your friendship with me?"

Zhang Qiang aggravated his tone with some anger.

"My lord, but you also sold me some arquebuses produced in the Ming and Qing dynasties before, didn't you?" Liu Guoxuan is also a person who insists on his own opinions, and he still hasn't completely defected in his heart.

"Yes, but those are carefully selected, since my troops must use the best, I will sell you the best of the best, the price of 9 taels of silver, is it not a loss? Those good quality, even if you buy them in Daming, you don't have twelve taels of silver, can you get them? It is not necessary to get it from regular channels, it can only be purchased in small quantities, and it has to be bribed by those craftsmen or stewards, and my troops have paid the price of thousands of casualties in order to get those good arquebuses, should I give them pensions, should I pay for them? ”

"Even if it's an old gun, nine taels of silver to buy you, it can only be regarded as not a loss, did I earn yours?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Liu Guoxuan nodded, "That's right!" ”

"What should we do, my lord?" Liu Guoxuan didn't want to continue to entangle on this issue, and handed over the initiative to Zhang Qiang.

"So we divided ourselves into ranks, and on the basis of each rank we added a corresponding amount of silver and sold them to them." Zhang Qiang said.

Liu Guoxuan, "Yes, we Han people can't be allowed to suffer, those foreigners have more time to cheat us, even if we can't cheat them this time, we can't let them take advantage." ”

"Well, then, let's sell the lowest quality arquebuses for 9 taels of silver, and I won't earn theirs,"

"The slightly better quality ones sell for 10 taels of silver, and ninety percent of the new ones sell for 11 taels of silver, these are the guns of the captured Qing army."

"As for the guns of the captured Portuguese and Dutch, we sold them for 16 taels of silver, and we earned half of them for half a tael, and we sold the best of them for eighteen taels of silver, which were captured anyway."

"But what we produce, even the lowest version, version 0.1, is a little more advanced than their best quality, so we sell them for 20 taels of silver, and for every little bit of the version we add. Until version 1.0, this version, we sold them separately, forty-five taels of silver, that's it, it's not the most expensive gun with them, how? ”

"Very good, but ......" Liu Guoxuan's eyes rolled, a little hesitant.

"Haha, Lord Liu, I will give you a benefit fee, if you can sell a captured gun made by the Qing army or the Ming army, I will give you a commission, what? If you can sell a gun captured by the Portuguese or the Dutch, I will give you a fifty-fifty commission, the gun I used to produce, a two-fifty commission, a 1.0 version of the gun, a three-fifty commission, a three-fifty cap, you think about it, you just need to run errands, grind your mouth, you can earn my three-fifty profits, such a good buy*** You fight, birth and death are much easier, where to find? ”

Liu Guoxuan had a smile on his face, nodded immediately, and accepted Zhang Qiang's proposal.

After a day passed, Liu Guoxuan came back to report and negotiated a deal, 5,000 arquebuses produced by the Ming and Qing armies, 3,000 arquebuses produced by the Dutch and Portuguese, 3,000 arquebuses before the 1.0 version of Zhang Qiang's arquebus, and 1,000 arquebuses before the 1.0 version.

In addition, 20 captured Qing cannons, 18 Fran cannons, captured Dutch and Portuguese cannons, 50 2-pounder guns, 10 3-pounder guns, 30 6-pounder guns, 8 9-pounder guns, 40 12-pounder guns, and 60 18-pounder guns.

Zhang Qiang's army had 60 cannons of 3 pounderers, 100 6-pounder guns, 50 pounder guns, and 60 18-pounder guns.

20 tons of bullets, 100 tons of shells, three thousand barrels of gunpowder.

It's a big deal.

But this also made Zhang Qiang startled, what are the Spaniards going to do?

Fighting with people?

Who do they need to fight against?

Do the Spaniards still have enemies today?

At least on the coast of Daming.

He asked Liu Guoxuan on the side, and Liu Guoxuan said: "My lord, I heard that the Spanish governor of Luzon is preparing to seize the territory of the Dutch, and the fleets of both sides are gathering in Batavia, Malacca and other places, which require a large amount of ammunition, and the natives of Luzon Island have signs of rebellion, so they need a lot of ammunition. ”

Zhang Qiang asked carefully, Liu Guoxuan said: "My lord, since we drove out the Dutch, and annihilated most of the strength of the Dutch on the southeast coast, they fled back to Malacca, the natives there have been restless, they have consumed a lot of gunpowder and money in order to exterminate the natives and the mutinous natives of the rebellion, this is nothing, I have also heard that in order to maintain their own power, in order to get more money, they robbed the Spaniards of some treasure ships, so the Spanish governor was very angry and wanted to punish the Dutch. ”

As it sees, those who are familiar with history know that the Spaniards plundered a lot of gold and silver in the Far East, as well as a lot of spices in the colonies, and each time they gathered a dozen warships and four or five treasure ships to transport them to Spain for their royal consumption.

This would explain why the Spaniards bought so many arms.

But he was still not at ease, and told Liu Guoxuan: "Guoxuan," the two of them went from reception to cooperation, from cooperation to fighting the Dutch together, and now because of the interests tied together, they have talked about a lot of deals, and now Zhang Qiang's people are still helping him train the army, and the relationship is already very close, so Zhang Qiang calls him by his name from time to time these days to get closer to each other.

"You also have to be vigilant, we drove out the Dutch, but now we are also weak here, the Spaniards have been to the treasure island, they also have roots here, they do not want to take advantage of this time to fight back, to retake the territory that was taken by the Dutch." Zhang Qiang reminded earnestly.

"Yes, Lord Governor, this last general has long been vigilant, and I will not allow the merchants and emissaries of the Spaniards to wander around, but to walk around in the prescribed places and within the prescribed limits, and not to let them see anything related to the army and military installations." Liu Guoxuan replied solemnly.

"Well, I'm relieved,"

(End of chapter)