The fact that the Japanese had rifled guns made Jiang Chuan feel an urgent sense of crisis.

He dismissed everyone and stayed alone in the room to communicate with the system.

"System, please tell me, what does it take to upgrade the current front-loading smoothbore to a rear-loading rifled gun?" Jiang Chuan asked eagerly.

The system quickly replied, "First you need to upgrade the base from the current Fortress era to the Industrial Age. Wait until the system is upgraded to the industrial age. All classes can be upgraded once. And a new unit arsenal will appear. In the Arsenal, you have the option to upgrade your existing muskets and cannons to increase their accuracy and range. ”

Jiang Chuan thought for a moment and asked, "Then what conditions need to be met to upgrade from the fortress era to the industrial age?" ”

The system quickly replied, "Similar to the conditions for your first upgrade, you need to meet two conditions: reputation and gold. Once these two conditions are met, the system will start to upgrade. ”

"So how much reputation and gold does this upgrade cost?" Jiang Chuan asked.

"1 million reputation and 1 million gold" system said.

After listening to the system's answer, Jiang Chuan silently inquired about the existing prestige value.

He found that his reputation had now reached more than 1.1 million. And this huge prestige is mainly obtained by defeating the Dashun army several times after he entered the customs and a series of measures after entering the capital.

And according to the account details of the reputation value displayed in the background.

After entering the capital, he forced the palace emperor, beheaded Liu Lin, the Duke of Wei and other rebels, rehabilitated Yuan Chonghuan and Zhou Yunyi and others, and cracked down on speculative merchants, adjusted grain to stabilize order, and a series of measures to get a reputation value far more than the prestige value obtained by defeating the Dashun army, which made Jiang Chuan very surprised.

But if you think about it, you can actually understand the truth of this.

After all, compared to the Manchu Tartars, the combat effectiveness of the Dashun army is really not too high, and defeating the Liukou with the current strength of Jiangchuan is really not a big merit.

As far as the system is concerned, the focus of Jiang Chuan's current prestige value is that after he enters the capital, he will stabilize the government. A series of means to win people's hearts is the fundamental way of a lord, so the prestige earned in this area will far exceed the prestige gained from defeating the Dashun army in several battles.

After Jiang Chuan saw this data, he was both happy and happy.

It seems that the first condition of the slow upgrade of the system has been fully met.

And what about the second condition?

Jiang Chuan took a look, and there were only more than 500,000 gold coins in the current system accounts.

Because this period of time is basically a large amount of gold coins consumed, there is not much income. Although the output of the system can be replenished, the amount of money that increases per day is not large because the amount consumed per day is too large.

After Jiang Chuan read it, he thought about it carefully and understood the truth.

After all, after defeating the Liukou, most of the loot captured was actually worthless, far less than the gains obtained after defeating the Manchu Tartars in Liaodong.

After entering the capital, although it is said that a lot of money was made from selling grain, because the price of grain was too low, the amount of money earned was actually quite limited, and it was far from enough to achieve by system upgrades.

Seeing this data, Jiang Chuan's brows furrowed. If you don't have more than one million gold coins, you can't meet the system upgrade. At present, all the material storage of the system has reached a warning line.

If you continue to sell trade, then there will be a material crisis in the system, so this deficit can only be replenished from the outside.

Jiang Chuan thought about it, and quickly thought of a way to quickly replenish one million gold coins.

Last time, I copied the property of Liu Lin and other seventeen criminal ministers, not to mention fixed assets, it is a huge amount.

Among them, the total amount of silver is more than 14 million taels, and the gold is also more than 500,000 taels.

This gold is just enough to replenish 1,000,000 taels of gold to meet the conditions for upgrading.

And this batch of seized property is now sealed in the treasury of the household department. It seems that the only way to do this is to hand over this batch of gold to the system for upgrading.

After thinking of a solution, Jiang Chuan asked the system again: "If both conditions are met, how long will it take for the upgrade to be completed?" ”

The system estimated it and replied, "It will take 10 days to complete the upgrade." ”

Jiang Chuan thought about it for a while, and if it was ten days, it would be acceptable.

For the time being, let those Japanese robbers live for a few more days, after all, now that the Qin army in Qingzhou has been prepared, it will not be so easy for the Japanese to launch a surprise attack again.

After the system is upgraded, Jiangchuan will comprehensively upgrade the existing firearms, and then it will form an overwhelming overall advantage over the Japanese invaders.

Then it will be time to completely eradicate the pirates.

And this period of time is just right for Black Ice Platform and Di Qing to collect information about the Japanese Invaders, the distribution of the Japanese Invaders' forces and the location of their nests, and then they can command the army to attack the Yellow Dragon and annihilate the Wolves in one fell swoop.

After thinking about this, Jiang Chuan ended the communication with the system, walked out of the room, called Bai Mu, and asked Bai Mu to lead a pair of guards to the household treasury with his own hand to extract the more than 500,000 taels of gold, and told Bai Mu that if he dared to obstruct and disobey the king's orders, he could be killed on the spot.

Bai Mu received the order, took a team of guards, and went straight to the household treasury.

The official in charge of guarding the treasury of the household department saw that the regent and his guards did not know what was going on, and they became nervous and nervous.

When Bai Mu showed Jiang Chuan's edict, the official in charge looked embarrassed and said, "General, if you want to withdraw such a huge amount of money, you still need a warrant signed by the head of the household department and the head of the cabinet to withdraw this batch of gold.

Because the amount is too huge. Bai Muchu felt that this person was loyal to his duties, so he patiently told him that this was a military salary to be transported to the front line, and if the military affairs were delayed, the regent would blame him, a small treasury officer, who could not afford it at all. As for the warrants of the first assistant of the cabinet and the head of the household, they can be supplemented afterwards, and they are in a hurry to follow the power, and they hope to open the door as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, this person is really greedy, and he has always been accustomed to eating and taking cards, although he saw this pair of fully armed, fierce and vicious guards, but the greedy habits he has developed over the years still want him to get some oil from it, so for Bai Mu's explanation, he still shook his head and refused, while rubbing his fingers, he continued to chant that he wanted the warrant of the first assistant and the head of the household, and even added a military department book, and only after the signature of the third party was complete could this batch of gold be withdrawn.

Bai Mu found out that this guy was bold at all, and the greedy appearance of a thief was really disgusting, and he was instantly furious, the long sword was unsheathed, and after the sword light flashed, the man's head was already dripping and flying, spinning a few times in the air, and then fell to the ground with a plop, and a pair of fish bubble eyes were still wide in horror, obviously not believing that these people really said that they would kill them.

The rest of the treasury guards and the treasury guards were all startled, and they all put on a defensive posture, and Bai Mu shouted violently: "If anyone dares to obstruct again, he will end up with this thief." ”

The others looked at the hideous head on the ground, and finally they all retreated, and no one dared to stop it. The deputy of the ambassador of the silver treasury hurriedly took the key from the corpse and opened the door of the silver treasury for Bai Mu.