Heiji is a vast area but poor and cold, all kinds of resources are available, but they can be mined and used by themselves, where they are willing to sell, and it is difficult to mine at present. The so-called profiteering products in Goxinga's mouth refer to the only manufactured industrial products that the Gu'an Army can sell now. The small things, Guo Xing'a himself is not enough, and there is still a certain gap compared with other foreigners. There are only two things that can really be handled, one is arms, and the other is morphine.

As soon as the war is over, Guo Xing'a will be rewarded, and the deployment is easy to arrange, but there are two outsiders who have great favors to him, Wu Ke and Liu Laoer's family. Wu Ke, who is strong in martial arts, has become the chief martial arts instructor of the Gu'an Army and the instructor of Guoxing'a's personal guard, even if he is allowed to show his strengths, Guoxinga will praise him as a generation of grandmasters in the future. Liu Lao Er and Liu Mei'e can not only make some snacks, but they really have no ability, Guo Xing'a can only arrange Liu Lao Er's son-in-law Ma San. Ma San, who almost died after eating noodles, has no skills, but he has done business. So Guo Xing'a is ready to give Ma San a agency, as for what kind of achievements he can have, it's up to him. Ma San's current exclusive agent is the arms of the Gu'an Arsenal, and Guoxing Ake will not allow morphine to be sold in China.

Ma San's level is very limited, but Guo Xing'a vigorously supports him, and Gu'an's arms are the only ones in the world, so it is really not difficult to start. Ma San's first client is very noble, and he is the uncle of the current little emperor, Wang Yiyun. This is a negotiation with a gun on the other party's head, and a fool can negotiate the business, not to mention that Ma San is not stupid. So Ma San successfully sold the tatters eliminated by Guoxing'a to Yiyun, and it was ten times the high price, at that time, Guoxing'a's cannon was still outside Beijing, and Yiyun could only accept it very aggrieved.

However, after receiving the goods, Yiyun's attitude towards Ma San was different, and he directly changed from a debtor to a fragrant one. Because of the tatters eliminated by Guoxing'a, it is also very advanced for the Shenji Battalion. After only trying it once, Yi Xun almost went crazy, there was already this thing, and how many foreign devils have also sent it away, and the Qing Dynasty has suffered so much. So Ma San directly became Yi Xin's guest, and even Yi Xin favored Ma San and wooed him in various ways. They especially hope that Ma San can get them some kind of cannons that Guoxing'a uses, and the foreign devils are second, with powerful artillery, they will take advantage of Guoxing's unstable foothold first, and it is good to clean up the Gu'an army! Ma San really dared to agree, but at the moment he could only sell guns, and if the imperial court wanted to buy cannons, he had to wait a year to two years. Because only after a year or two will Goxinga completely eliminate the existing artillery and replace it with more violent modern weapons.

Ma San has to hand over fifty percent of each business to Guo Xing'a, and he only has half of the benefit fee as an agent, but half of it is enough. In a business in Beijing, Ma San has become rich overnight, and this half of the profit can already buy all the merchants in Zhangjiakou that forced him to be desperate. The so-called lack of people's hearts swallows elephants, and under the stimulation of this kind of violence, of course Ma San will not accept it when he sees it. He used the samples given to him by Guo Xing'a to form an escort team of more than 200 people, and was ready to take the samples given to him by Guo Xing'a and continue to go to Jiangnan to pull orders and expand his business kingdom.

Guo Xing'a is also a person who knows how to repay his kindness, and he really didn't let Ma San go south in such a hurry. First of all, he transferred capable people from the miscellaneous affairs department, trained Ma San's escort team, and then got a whole cart of exquisite samples for Ma San, which allowed Ma San to go south. And this time he went to Jiangnan, Guo Xing'a added something to Ma San's cargo list - the British Armstrong cannon. The improved Jinxi artillery can't be sold at the moment, but the original Armstrong cannon that fires spherical ** can, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang are both rich people, and Guoxinga is of course more sincere in treating big customers.

When Guo Xing'a was still studying the issue of concubines in Shanhaiguan, Ma San arrived in Anqing to meet his second client. Su Shun had already appeased Zeng Guofan very well, and Shengbao, who escaped with his life in the hands of Guoxing'a, had also been sent to Jiangnan again, so Zeng Guofan had long known about the changes in the north, and also knew that the Qing Dynasty had produced another unruly Manchurian army leader. Due to factors such as personal experience and education, Zeng Guofan was very disgusted with Guoxing'a, and he would not have seen an arms dealer whose name was rustic to a certain extent, but Ma San attracted Zeng Guofan's attention in a simple and crude way unique to the Gu'an Army.

When Ma San arrived in Anqing, although Zeng Guofan had already occupied Anqing, the surrounding war had not stopped, and there were stragglers of the Qing army and the Taiping army fighting from time to time in the periphery, and Ma San just caught up. A group of more than 1,000 Taiping troops routed, treating Ma San's convoy as an ordinary caravan, and wanted Ma San to contribute materials to the Holy Lord, and then they were violently resisted by Ma San's caravan. The two battalions of Hunan troops who came after witnessed the miracle with their own eyes. The caravan of only more than 200 people beat more than 1,000 regular soldiers of the Taiping Army lightly, and it was a one-sided massacre. It was precisely because of his proverbiality that Ma San was received by Zeng Guofan, a college student co-organized by the Governor of Liangjiang.

"Grass people Ma San, I've seen Zeng Zhongtang!" After all, he has the experience of drinking with the prince often in Beijing, and Ma San is neither humble nor arrogant, which is very good.

"Mr. Ma, please take a seat, I don't know if Mr. Ma is visiting, what do you have to say?" Zeng Guofan despised the bastard boy in front of him who pretended to be a big-tailed wolf in front of him from the bottom of his heart, and a businessman actually just bowed in front of his Liangjiang Governor, which was really unbelievable. However, Zeng Guofan is Zeng Guofan after all, and his qi cultivation kung fu is still very good, although he is a little dissatisfied, he still treats Ma San very politely.

"If you go back to the middle hall, the grass people are here to do business with the adults!" Ma San is really a leopard, he doesn't understand the rules of officialdom at all, so he actually brought up the tea he used to see and drank it.

"I wonder what Mr. Ma is selling?" Zeng Guofan was still smiling, but the generals beside him already had the heart to beat Ma San and throw him out.

"Lord Huizhongtang, the grass people have been given the opportunity by God, and the Minister of Tuogu, the King of Yongyi County, the General of Fuyuan, the Imperial Commander Yong Jingzhong Baturu, the title of the Ministry of Soldiers, the Governor Heiji Military Affairs, Yunxian Gong has the old, thanks to the grace of the general, and has been allowed to monopolize the arms of the Jinxi Arsenal under the general!" Ma San reported Guo Xing'a's more bluffing official title, and arched his hand to the north.

"Military funds, the Ministry of the Cabinet (not a mistake, the Ministry of War Shangshu calls itself the Ministry of Justice, the co-organizer of the university calls himself the Cabinet, Zeng Guofan has both, it will be a little longer, and it will be longer after the knighthood) has been arranged, I'm afraid Mr. Lao Ma will not bother!" Zeng Guofan's subordinates were still trying to digest the official title of Guoxing Elliott, but Zeng Guofan was impatient. Guoxing'a, a teenage doll, is still unscrupulous, and it is too shameless. Others sold him Guoxing's face, and Zeng Guofan was not ready to deal with him.

"Lord Zhongtang, don't worry! Let's listen to the grass people. First, the imperial court and the general had agreed that since the first month of the first year of Tongzhi, in addition to self-made equipment, all the imperial army must purchase armaments that are not produced in Manchuria (people in the northeast region were called Manchuria until the early days of liberation), and they are not allowed to buy foreign goods without the permission of the imperial court. Second, Lord Nakado hasn't seen my Manchurian ordnance yet! The Shenji Battalion of the imperial court has just bought a large number of them, which are far better than foreigners' utensils, and the Lord Zhongtang will give up without looking at them, but he will suffer a loss! "Ma San has the backing of Guoxing, and even Yiyun dares to shout, of course, he is not afraid of Zeng Guofan.

"My military degree, the cabinet has its own arrangements, don't bother Mr. Laoma!" Ma San's last sentence was faintly threatening, and Zeng Guofan, no matter how well he cultivated, he couldn't bear the threatening words of a grass people.

"The grass people have the courage to ask Lord Zhongtang not to go against the will of the imperial court, and also ask Lord Zhongtang to see the sample before making a decision. Manchuria's sophisticated ordnance can save a lot of hot-blooded sons and daughters under your command, and it can help you complete the great cause of suppressing thieves as soon as possible! Ma San didn't feel it at all, and he was quite confident in his goods.

"You ......" Zeng Guofan was about to slap the table and control himself, he seemed to have overlooked one thing just now, the imperial army must buy Guoxing's ordnance, and if he doesn't buy it, it is equivalent to thinking that he is not the imperial army. Zeng Guofan, who has always been cautious, thought of this, and also felt that he was a little arrogant, and he should buy a little less meaningful, so as not to fall into people's mouths.

"Okay, let's take a look first!" Zeng Guofan was a little absent-minded, he was wondering if this Ma San was specially sent by the imperial court to beat him.

After moving to the school field, Zeng Guofan was still wondering if someone in the court wanted to harm him, but after Ma San's guards demonstrated the Schneider rifle, Zeng Guofan didn't have this mind at all. The Hunan army is located in the Lianghu region, although Zeng Guofan knew that foreign guns and foreign artillery were good, but there were not many people who could actually get their hands on it. There are still a large number of spearmen and snatchers in the Hunan army, and the proportion of musketeers is less than half, and the muskets are relatively backward, and there are many arquebuses. Zeng Guofan was looking for a foreigner to buy a new batch of Enfeld, but as soon as he saw the Schneider rifle brought by Ma San, he knew that he had lost money. Both Schneider and Enfeld frontloaders were about the same as powerful, but fired more than twice as fast and could be reloaded in a safer position.

"How much is this gun worth?" Zeng Guofan was a little energetic.

"Twenty-two foreign guns, the general and the Lord Zhongtang are their own people, so naturally they can't sell them more expensive than foreign guns. Therefore, this gun is also twenty-two and one shots, and an additional 200 rounds of linen ammunition and a set of bayonets are provided! "Ma San doesn't seem to be black-hearted, but Guoxing's black-hearted! Guoxinga engages in large-scale production of assembly lines, and the cost of each gun is less than four taels after calculating freight, and a shot is five times the profit. Moreover, he also reduced the quality and quantity, and the ammunition was replaced with unsafe linen ammunition.

"Good stuff! A sharp weapon to kill thieves! I regret that I shouldn't have mistrusted foreigners and bought a bunch of useless things! Zeng Guofan wanted to buy him 100,000 in one go, but he had just bought a large number of foreign guns, and he didn't have enough money in his hand.

"Don't worry, the adults in the middle hall, the grass people also have a way, the foreign guns purchased by the adults can be transported back to Manchuria by the grass people in batches for transformation, each one needs to be transformed at a cost of five taels, and the effect is the same as this gun after being kept and changed!" Guo Xing'a had long thought that Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang would affect his business because they bought a large number of foreign guns, so he also thought of this supporting transformation plan.

"Good! Our department needs to transform 20,000 foreign guns, and I will buy another 30,000 from Mr. Ma! Zeng Guofan has long known that foreign guns are easy to use, and now that he has seen the advanced weapons produced by Guoxing'a, he has no hesitation.

"Thank you, Lord Nakado, for your face!" Ma San bowed his head humbly, this time he was particularly respectful, a big customer of 800,000 taels! Yiyun's order was higher than Zeng Guofan's amount, but that time it was sold at a high price, and there was a lot of blackmail, so this time it was a real business.

"A good gun!" Zeng Guofan touched the rifle, and his heart was a little restless, there was already this good thing, how many fewer people could die in the children of Sanxiang! The defeat of the Three Rivers might have been avoided.

"The general is concerned about the hard work of Lord Zhongtang to suppress thieves, in addition to this advanced rifle, he also specially asked the grass people to bring a batch of treasures at the bottom of the box, please take a look at Lord Zhongtang again!" Ma San actually wants to sell cannons more, because cannons are much more profitable than guns. Then there are masters in China, and the Schneider rifle is not a high-tech thing, and Zeng Guofan may be able to learn to imitate it after tinkering with it for a while. But the Armstrong cannon is different, without supporting industrial machines, especially precision machining technology, Zeng Guofan can't get it out of exhaustion.

"Take a look!" Zeng Guofan can't care about hating Guo Xinga now.

Like the Gu'an Army's exercise for Xianfeng, Ma San's guards formed a phalanx of the straw men that the Hunan Army practiced killing the enemy, and then set up three Armstrong cannons, and then came to cover the firepower. Shrapnel bombs, *, solid spherical bullets, all kinds of bullets came, and the result was naturally that the straw men of the Hunan army were destroyed, and Zeng Guofan was even more excited.

The range, rate of fire, accuracy, and power of the Armstrong cannon were all unheard of by Zeng Guofan, and in contrast, all the guns he had worked so hard to collect in his hands suddenly became garbage. With this thing, the Hunan army can comprehensively crush the Taiping army, although casualties are still inevitable, but it will definitely achieve an overwhelming advantage.

"Why is this cannon worth it?" Zeng Guofan's hands began to tremble.

"This is the latest British Armstrong cannon, everything is good, it is really the only weapon on the battle array, it is a little more expensive, one requires nine thousand taels of silver!" Goxinga's changes to the Armstrong cannon are very small, and all kinds of shortcomings have not been solved, that is, the cost has been reduced by using assembly processing. The cost of a cannon in Guoxinga is about 2,500 taels, and it can be sold for 5,000 taels by doubling it, but this is the exclusive secret recipe of the British after all, and of course the price must be increased. Moreover, a few years later, the British gave up the Armstrong cannon and sold it to the little devils for another 6,000 taels, and of course Guoxinga could not disturb the market.

"Fifty doors!" Zeng Guofan gritted his back molars and placed the order.

agreed on the date and method of delivery and payment, and earned more than one million taels for Guo Xing'a, and Ma San, who also had more than 100,000 taels in his own account, rushed to Shanghai, he wanted to see Li Hongzhang, and he also had to send a letter for Guo Xing'a. The letter was sent to a foreigner, and this dead foreign devil also had a friendship with Guoxinga, and Guoxinga also wanted to give him the right to distribute arms. Ma San naturally hated this competitor very much, so he deliberately went to Shanghai at the end, just to work as an exclusive agent for a few more days.

However, Ma San, who has a competitor, is still lucky, he can easily make a fortune, and there are two people who are engaged in the monopoly industry, which are much more bitter than him.