On the other hand, Qin Rigang had a hot chat with the French minister Bourblon and the American commissioner Marshali, who were eager to open up the Chinese market!

"Your Excellency, France, is the most powerful country in Europe and even in the world. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 InfoThis Charville MLE1842 firing smoothbore gun is also equipped by our native soldiers, and it is the latest musket! I don't know how much your country needs? Bourblon took the foreign gun from one of the guards beside him, handed it to Qin Rigang, and motioned to another guard next to him to demonstrate how to shoot.

I saw a wild duck in the distance, stopping on the edge of the reeds nearly 100 steps, but the guard was also good at marksmanship, and with a bang, the wild duck was shot, and after a few flutters, it was silent.

Seeing that this foreign gun was so powerful, Qin Rigang was overjoyed! He has been on the battlefield for a long time, and although he often uses long knives to slash and kill, most of his brothers use the shotguns captured from the Qing Demon to carry their guns into battle, so they naturally know the range, accuracy, and power of the shotguns.

This spear is much stronger than the shotgun. No wonder the captive army formed by King Nan can occupy Liangguang, with such foreign guns, where is the world and can't go?

Qin Rigang replied: "The Kingdom of Heaven is very interested in this kind of foreign gun of your country, how many you want!" ”

Seeing Qin Rigang's expression, Burbulon knew that this Heavenly Kingdom official was very satisfied. In addition, Qin Rigang's answer was even more of a living fat sheep, so the corners of his mouth smiled, and the lion opened his mouth and said: "Your Excellency the Marquis, this musket is expensive, and it is a long way to transport it from France, so the price of this musket is also relatively expensive. 40 taels of silver each. ”

Qin Rigang frowned, although this foreign gun is good, but the price is indeed very expensive. However, I heard Zeng Shuiyuan relay the will of the East King, that is, don't care too much about the price, and also buy some foreign guns. So, he symbolically bargained: "Mr. Minister, can it be cheaper?" ”

Seeing Qin Rigang's appearance of a dirt bun that had never done business, Burbulon smiled secretly in his heart, but pretended to smile helplessly on his face: "Look at the face of the Hou Ye, I will send 5 bullets each, which is also worth 1 tael of silver." It couldn't be cheaper anymore. ”

"Then it's settled! I will order 10,000 rods from Heaven first, and Mr. Minister will first leave us with the muskets he brought, and the rest will be sent to a certain place in the Yangtze River by your envoy to inform the Kingdom of Heaven, and we will send someone to pick it up! Qin Rigang said.

"What? 10,000 branches! Burblon was taken aback by the wealthy Qin Rigang.

Qin Rigang took the initiative to come up and talk about buying some foreign guns, and Burblon wanted to earn some pocket money by the way, and he could have a good relationship, so he agreed.

But he thought it was just a matter of dozens or hundreds of strokes, but he didn't expect that this Hou Ye of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom actually had such a big appetite, and one mouth was 10,000 strokes. Good guy, that's 400,000 taels of silver, which is already a huge deal for France, which has not opened up its business situation in China!

Faced with this stupid and wealthy Hou Ye, of course Burblon was reluctant to refuse this business. You must know that the last time the same Charville MLE1842 fired a smoothbore gun and sold it to the Holy King in Guangzhou, it was only sold for 30 silver dollars a shot, and it was only 21 taels of silver. This time, you can sell it for twice the unit price.

However, what made him not readily agree, and what gave him a headache was that the British had the greatest power in the Far East, and their newly enthroned Emperor of France attached the most importance to the cooperative relationship with the British.

Unless you're willing to give up the business. How is this possible?

There had to be a way to get France to share in the deal without causing trouble and disputes.

Thinking of this, Bourblon had an idea, and he called the French consul in Shanghi, Mintiny, and discussed it with a grumbling voice.

Then, he found Qin Rigang and said, "Your Excellency Marquis, you only have 100 muskets with you this time, which can be exchanged with your country as a gift of four thousand taels of silver!" The remaining 10,000 rods, the number is too large, and it will take a few months, so the envoy can help introduce this information, so that our arms dealers can deliver it directly to your country. But one thing you know, such a huge amount is not convenient for me, as a minister, and, your Excellency, Marquis, I hope that you will keep this transaction confidential and not disclose any information to other countries, otherwise, we will cancel the transaction. ”

After speaking, Bourblon pointed to the US Commissioner to China Marshali, who was looking at him suspiciously, and said mysteriously.

Although Qin Rigang can't do business, it doesn't mean that he is stupid. On the contrary, he is actually very snobbish and intelligent.

As soon as this Frenchman said this, he immediately realized that these foreigners were stealing business, and this Frenchman must want to monopolize business. So, he pretended to agree, and then sent for Bulblon to receive the foreign guns and deliver the silver.

And he took the opportunity to secretly find the U.S. Commissioner to China, Marshali, who was accompanied by a general of the kingdom of heaven.

Similarly, the United States, which was slightly better off than France, but was also squeezed out of trade with China by the British, Marshali happily agreed to provide 5,000 browns? Bass flintlock muskets. For these old British muskets captured on the battlefields of Mexico, piled up like garbage in warehouses in the State of Mexico, even the shrewd Holy King of Guangzhou was reluctant to buy them anymore. Now that you have encountered a big wrong, you can just deal with it, so why not?

Even Qin Rigang, who is a little clever, is far from being the opponent of the sinister and cunning Mashali, and after a few words from Mashali, he will have Qin Rigang's understanding of foreign guns.

Originally, Yang Xiuqing thought that Qin Rigang was a military general, knew enough about muskets, and was a person with a noble status second only to several princes, so he could make up his mind, so he sent him to discuss the purchase of foreign guns.

Unexpectedly, Qin Rigang's so-called understanding of muskets was only a general understanding of arquebuses and a small number of shotguns. I thought that the foreign guns were all about the same, not to mention that Mashali promised to sell them to Qin Rigang at a price of 30 taels of silver per shot, which made Qin Rigang even more happy.

In the end, Qin Rigang ordered someone to bring 7,000 taels of silver, divided them into two batches, and handed them to Burbulon and Marshali respectively, in exchange for a hundred Charville mle1842 firing smoothbore guns, and a hundred brown? Bass flintlock smoothbore gun.

A separate agreement was signed, but in the eyes of both parties, it was not really very binding. The heavenly side is also unwilling to pay the deposit, and the foreigners are also unwilling to sign their own names, just scribbling the name of a weapons dealer, who knows who?

However, even so, both sides expressed satisfaction. After signing the agreement, Bourblon also sent two clocks and watches, and asked Qin Rigang to pass them on to the King of Heaven and the King of the East, and Qin Rigang hurriedly accepted them to thank him.

Watching his Taiping soldiers carry away these two hundred foreign guns and bullets, Qin Rigang's heart was full of happiness, if only these foreign guns could be compensated to his subordinates. However, this is impossible, this must be the descendant troops assigned to him by the East King. I can only hope that the foreign guns of those foreigners will arrive sooner.

Qin Rigang just wanted to continue to find the British minister Wen Han and the British consul in Shanghai, Ali Guo, but he didn't expect that Zeng Shuiyuan came back in a hurry in anger, grabbed him and said, there is no need to talk to the British about any business, go back first to restore the king of the east.

The two returned to the Dongwang Mansion and reported to Yang Xiuqing about the meeting with the foreigners.

Yang Xiuqing said angrily: "This group of foreign ghosts, the king of the loss of heaven and this king also regard them as foreign brothers, but I didn't expect that not only did they sell opium to poison our compatriots, but also tried in vain to make my heavenly kingdom recognize the traitorous treaty signed by the Qing Demon Dog Emperor?" What a bastard! ”

He angrily grabbed a beautiful clock that Qin Rigang brought back to the foreigner, fell to the ground, and only heard a snap, and the exquisite table clock shattered into several pieces.

Qin Rigang suddenly thought, isn't this "bell" homophonic "end"? Isn't this foreigner sending the bell just to send the East King to the end? No wonder the East King is so angry! Why did he keep thinking about foreign guns, and thought that there were exquisite gifts to please the king of heaven, but he forgot that the foreign ghost still had such sinister intentions.

Thinking like this, Qin Rigang's face suddenly turned pale, his back was in a cold sweat, and he hurriedly knelt on the ground, saying, "King Dong, Rigang is guilty!" Ritsunade didn't notice it for a while, and in order to buy a foreign gun, he fell for the trick of a foreign ghost and accepted a gift from a ghost. The real sin deserves death, ask the king of the east to punish him! ”

Qin Rigang practiced kowtowing, and blood flowed from his forehead. He knew that the more pitiful he was now, as long as he made Yang Xiuqing's anger a little lighter, he would let himself go.

Sure enough, looking at Qin Rigang's pitiful appearance, and thinking of the matter of foreign guns, Yang Xiuqing calmed down, and asked angrily: "That's it, when dealing with foreigners, you must be careful." Let's talk about foreign guns, how many foreign guns can you buy? ”

Speaking of foreign guns, Qin Rigang knew that he had passed the test, and his heart was relaxed, and he responded respectfully: "Back to the East King, there are not many foreign guns brought by foreigners, the one named France and another foreigner called the United States, there are only 200 foreign guns in total, and their subordinates have bought them." In addition, his subordinates ordered 10,000 foreign guns from the French and 5,000 foreign guns from the Americans, but they would not arrive until more than half a year later. It's just that the price is a bit expensive, 40 taels and 30 taels respectively. ”

"It's okay if it's expensive! There is nothing else in the kingdom of heaven, and there are still a lot of silver taels that have been seized from the Qing Demon. Very good, Brother Hisuna, you did a good job! Hearing that so many foreign guns had been ordered, Yang Xiuqing finally smiled, and then he turned to Zeng Shuiyuan.

Zeng Shuiyuan hurriedly said: "King Yudong, the foreigners have no heaven, so they didn't come to worship, but proposed to ask the kingdom of heaven to recognize the traitorous treaty signed by the Qing Demon with them. Although Shui Yuan was angry in his heart, he didn't dare to make his own decisions, so he specially returned to the East King and asked the East King to decide! ”

Yang Xiuqing was also angry when he heard this, and said: "This king dictated, you can write the water source, and just reply to those foreigners like this!" ”

"When the peace is settled, not only England trades, but all nations trade, and so do brothers in the world. The matter of establishing a port will be decided later. Harmful things are forbidden. ”

"The kingdom of heaven will not only allow trade with the kingdom of Iraq, but also trade with all nations. But traders must obey the commands of heaven. Anyone who wants to come to the kingdom of heaven to trade is allowed to go to the foot of Zhenjiang Jiaoshan and listen to the Zhenjiang officials. ”

Zeng Shuiyuan's heart sank, and he hurriedly wrote.

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart for the wisdom and decisiveness of the King of the East, and he did not completely block the trade road between Heaven and the foreigners. Changed to the king of heaven, it is estimated that the war will be announced directly, but Zeng Shuiyuan thinks that although he is not afraid of foreigners, the main enemy is still the Qing demon, and in this case, it is the best choice to do business with foreigners without humility or arrogance!

Thus, from these two texts, it can be seen that the king of the East has clearly set forth three important trade policies of the kingdom of heaven:

1. All the people in the world are brothers, so all nations are welcome to trade, but all things that harm people, that is, opium, and the like, are forbidden;

2. However, foreign countries who come to China for trade must abide by the laws of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and are allowed to trade under the Jiaoshan Mountain in Zhenjiang, and listen to the Zhenjiang officials;

3. The establishment of the port refers to the conclusion of a trade treaty, which needs to be decided after the Heavenly Kingdom overthrows the Manchu Dynasty, which means that all the treaties concluded between the Qing demons and the foreigners in the past are not recognized. (To be continued.) )