When Chen Longzheng's rescue operation was not known to Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun was worrying about making Mini bombs in a military base in the mountains of northern Myanmar.

Xiao Ruxun clearly knows that in the current situation of this era, the musket infantry equipped with rifled flintlock pistols and mini bullets is all he can do, and in terms of the production capacity of the current handicraft industrial system, this is the limit he can reach, and then it is something that can only be done in the era of modern chemical assisted mechanical industry.

No matter how confident Xiao Ruxun is, he will not be confident enough to carry out an industrial revolution in Daming in the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, that is a dream, he definitely does not think that he can do it, in fact, the current military base with more than 2,000 craftsmen and 5,000 soldiers is already the top scale and technical level of this era.

Xiao Ruxun has collected a large number of craftsmen from Europe and a production line composed of senior blacksmiths trained by himself can be said to be the top handmade firearms production line of this era, they are making the top musket infantry equipment of this era, they can make rifled flintlock pistols, although the output is not high, but it is absolutely enough for the personal guards to use.

Now the large army is still using cheap and convenient mass-produced arquebuses, and the arquebuses of the Zhennan Army are much higher in quality than the bird guns originally used by the Ming Army, which is not difficult, it can be done with a mature manual production line, and it is not difficult to make flintlock pistols with rifling, and skilled old craftsmen can also do it, but if you want to make Mini bullets, then it is very difficult.

Xiao Ruxun definitely does not think that the Mini bullet can be made by making a mold and melting a piece of lead in three or two clicks, nor does he think that the inspiration brought by an ancient weapon such as the mouth blow arrow can make it easier for craftsmen to make the Mini bullet.

If this were the case, European soldiers would not have had to carry hammers to the battlefield to knock bullets for more than 100 years, and Europeans would not have tossed out mini bullets almost 300 years after the appearance of rifled rifles, so that mini bullets were eliminated after only 20 years of use.

Behind the production of a Mini bullet is the close coordination of a whole production line, not to mention anything else, the absolute accurate size is the current insurmountable level of the old craftsmen, the characteristics of the Mini bullet is to dig a groove out of the tail of the bullet, so as to impact the tail of the bullet when the gunpowder burns to cause the bullet to expand, in order to fit the internal rifling, so as to achieve shooting.

This involves the problem of the inner diameter of the barrel and the diameter of the bullet, they must be manufactured within a limited size, so as to ensure that when the gunpowder burns, the lead bullet can expand to the point that it can be embedded in the rifling, so as to achieve smooth shooting, if the diameter of the bullet is too small, it is no different from the smoothbore gun, if the diameter is too large, are you not afraid of exploding?

Then the manufacture of bullets must not be polished by hand, but by mold, and the barrel of the gun cannot be made by hand, but also by mold.

The production cost of a rifled flintlock pistol is more than three times that of a smoothbore arquebus, Xiao Ruxun has calculated an economic account, the cost of making an arquebus is about four taels of silver, and the cost of making a rifled flintlock pistol is more than twelve taels of silver.

What does the twelve taels of silver mean at this time?

"Ximen Qingxuan used sixteen taels of silver to buy a black lacquered Huanmen painted gold bed, a big red Luo circle gold tent, treasure elephant flowers to pick makeup, tables and chairs brocade, neatly furnished."

The Golden Bottle Plum was written in the Ming Dynasty during the Jialongwan period, when Xiao Ruxun led the troops south three years ago, he heard that a rumored book in Zhejiang was secretly popular in some high-ranking households, what is called Mei, I think it is the Golden Bottle Plum, the prices here are the prices of this period, and it is easy to understand when compared with each other.

Ximen Qing bought a three-piece set on the bed and a complete set of bedroom furniture for sixteen taels of silver, I don't know which of the three of the three Jin Bottle Mei was used to place it, but the Ximen officials made extraordinary, for the sake of the golden house, the three-piece set on the bed and bedroom furniture are also high-end goods.

A complete set of high-end goods to fill a woman's room, sixteen taels of silver, this is still the southeast coastal area with a high level of economic development and consumption.

Xiao Ruxun had a rifled flintlock pistol of twelve taels of silver.

It is equivalent to Xiao Ruxun's more than 300 rifled flintlock pistols in his hand now are enough for the Ximen officials to collect a hundred sets of gold bottles and Mei Sannu to play slowly in the golden house, this is not to throw money, this is to burn money, or to throw the hard-won silver into a melting pot of more than 1,800 degrees, and throw it into it and you will not see a shadow.

Xiao Ruxun collects business taxes here, and he doesn't have to pay taxes to the imperial court, and the imperial court doesn't collect his commercial taxes, and he also does grain business and arms business with Southeast Asian countries, basically monopolizing the arms business and grain business, and also has the right to make rules for the trade game, and makes a lot of money.

Last year, Xiao Ruxun's Burma town had a full 2 million taels of silver in financial revenue, which was counted in a pile of silver in vain, Xiao Ruxun conservatively estimated that after the opening of European trade routes, it would not be a problem to double.

The total annual financial income of the Ming Dynasty is only 10 million taels of silver, which is under the premise that there is almost no commercial tax, and then after the rule of Lao Zhu Dan's "local retention for personal use and the rest of the escort Jingshi", the amount received from the imperial court is only two or three million, which is equivalent to Xiao Ruxun's current financial income can be called a brother and sister with the treasury of the Ming Dynasty.

It is such abundant financial resources, in the case of the water keeper raising the army easily and without pressure, the manufacture of rifled flintlock pistols and the development of mini bullets still make Xiao Ruxun feel difficult, and he smashed the silver into it one by one, looking for mines all over Myanmar, and constantly recruiting a large number of people to mine the mines, and even Xiao Ruxun had the idea of finding an excuse to destroy those tribal aborigines, which barely maintained the status quo.

Lead bullet is not much distressed, deformed on the pick up back to the furnace to remake, the consumption is not very large, but with the current most advanced Sugang method to make steel, is still not a difficult thing, Sugang method is essentially the continuation and improvement of the steel filling method, although compared with the original steel filling method is much more efficient, but in order to meet the needs of the army, the output of the blacksmiths is also in a hurry to catch up with the requirements.

All in all, Xiao Ruxun's military base is now maintained in a state of overload, every craftsman and soldier doing chores is very tired, if it weren't for Gao Yulu's face, the craftsmen are really unhappy, they have asked Xiao Ruxun to recruit a little more manpower more than once, Xiao Ruxun is also recruiting blacksmiths in many places along the coast, but too many blacksmiths are recruited by the eyes and ears of the imperial court, Xiao Ruxun is unwilling to take such a risk.

He had to pay for the blacksmith himself.

This is not the time to fight, it's just that Xiao Ruxun usually has high training requirements for soldiers, he has to shoot every day to maintain speed, and he has to fill the inventory of firearms in many ways in case of emergency, anyway, in the past three years, he has raised an army and governed the water and soil by himself, Xiao Ruxun really knows what is called a cannon and a gold tael, and he really knows what it means to fight a war is money.

Only then did he understand why the Chinese soldiers only had a few rounds of ammunition per capita during the Anti-Japanese War, and he understood why there were a lot of empty ammunition, inferior bullets, and even waste ammunition filled with sand when the Beiyang Naval Division was fighting with the Japanese.

Watching the army shoot in the practice queue every day, Xiao Ruxun was very serious on the surface when he inspected them, but his heart was constantly bleeding, these are all money, they are all silver spent in vain, these 35,000 troops are the elite divisions he fed with millions of taels of silver, if they can't use one as ten, then I'm really sorry for these millions of silver!

Think about Lao Zhu proudly declared that he raised millions of soldiers without a grain of rice from the people, but more than a hundred years have passed, and his million soldiers have been beaten into a sieve by bankrupt farmers and Japanese ronins in the southeast, and dozens of Japanese ronins can hit the bottom of Nanjing, this is the fate of his boasting of Haikou, and Xiao Ruxun is a bitter haha compared with him.

The fiscal revenue seems to be a lot, but after calculating it, Myanmar, a poor and white wild land, can get to this point, and there are really not a few taels of silver that can be used for his personal use.

Do you want to build a castle? Do you want to build a house village? You want to build roads, right? Do you want to repair water conservancy? Do you want to widen the river? Want to buy farm tool seeds, right? Do you want to buy ploughing cattle? Want to recruit artisans, right? Do craftsmen want silver to raise? The miners who were recruited to work as coolies should also pay the tribal chiefs, right?

The rest of the bulk is to raise soldiers, the army needs cold weapons and muskets and artillery, these are all silver, the sailors need to build ships to maintain the ships, the official caravans also need to build larger, heavier merchant ships that can adapt to the needs of long voyages, and the army's rations need to be guaranteed, right? The officials under him need to be paid, right? Maintaining the administrative system from the city to the village requires investment, right? Free literacy education needs to be invested, right?

In this way, how many taels of silver can fall into his mouth of the financial income of two million taels of silver?

He can't wait to break a tael of silver into ten parts to use, these years he doesn't dare to eat meat, a small bowl of green leafy vegetables, a small bowl of meat, a small bowl of soup and a big bowl of rice for each meal, or steam a potato or two to eat pickles, or gnaw a few corn, bitter is not like a marquis.

The delicious things are left to his wife, children and father, giving them delicious food and drink, providing Yuan Huang with enough ice cubes and hearty working meals, and he will deal with it himself, except for dinner, the family eats together, and he doesn't dare to eat breakfast and lunch in front of others, for fear of letting the officials under his command know his embarrassment, and the good things are kept to entertain the guests, and he is not even willing to drink a bowl of chilled mung bean soup in private.

Only then did the master know that firewood, rice, oil, and salt are expensive!

The military factory has a starting price of 100,000 taels of silver, and he can't afford to spend money lavishly, so Chen Long is the director of the Audit Office, thinking about opening up sources and reducing expenditures, Lao Tzu is good at open source, and you can't be good at not throttling.

So he pulled out three small salted fish with a slight condition, which could have been taken in one stroke, but he didn't expect it to be overkill, Chen Longzheng was stunned to solve a shocking case, and the small salted fish was packaged as a big shark, and the blood flowed like a river after a knife, shocking the entire Myanmar officialdom.

That's not all, this guy even went out to buy a box of rouge gouache that didn't cost a tael of silver to increase the interest of husband and wife, he had to grab the husband and ask the east and west, asking where the money came from, it was irregular, is it greedy for ink, or are you going to be greedy for ink?

He thought that rouge gouache was made of gold.

So after three months of work, Xiao Ruxun couldn't stand the crying of the officials under him, and let Chen Longzheng do diplomacy again, but this trouble really cleaned up the entire Myanmar officialdom, and the Burmese officialdom, which was as pure as a white lotus, is now even more white and shiny, which can be called spotless, and invisibly helped Xiao Ruxun save a lot of expenses.

The cost of people can save a little is a little, climbing the science and technology tree point science and technology point is really not the ordinary people to play, without the government as a backing, you want to do it alone, you can do it yourself, but to promote the formation of productive forces in the country, that is a fool's dream, any invention from the invention to the national promotion of the formation of productivity, no government behind the fuel, is it possible?

Xiao Ruxun has also been encouraging those craftsmen to invent and innovate over the years, trying to improve productivity, and stipulating that those who invent and innovate to improve productivity or reduce consumption can get a large amount of silver.

Earn more, spend more, daily expenses are already astronomical, and now thinking about making Minnie bullets that are beyond the times, Xiao Ruxun is really a little exhausted, thinking that no matter what, he will make more income points, so as to add a little vitality to the time of climbing the science and technology tree.

When Chen Longzheng sent the action report back from the clipper in advance to Xiao Ruxun's desk, Xiao Ruxun had just approved a sum of 300,000 taels of silver for the daily operating expenses of the military factory, and he was dripping blood in distress.

Chen Longzheng is really a weakened Huo Qu's illness in the Zi Shiyun version, a troublemaker, and he has to make some big news somewhere!

A trip to Europe leads the trend of the times, a trip to Siam becomes a popular idol and a friend of women, and a trip to the Philippines causes hundreds of lives lawsuits......

What? Matteo Ricci died?

Xiao Ruxun hurriedly continued to watch, only to see that this guy thought that Matteo Ricci was killed, and it was the other party who shot first, he ordered the army to fight back, killed all the Spanish soldiers of 200 people, and cut off his head to build a Jingguan, saying that he wanted to comfort Matteo Ricci's spirit in the sky, but Matteo Ricci fell and fell alive, it turned out that he was stunned by the gun of the thief chief, so Chen Longzheng thought he was dead.

Matteo Ricci, who woke up from a coma on the ship, described that he did his best to prevent the fight, but the other officer was too unruly and actually shot him and scared him unconscious, which caused an irreparable incident, he was guilty, and he wanted to ask Xiao Ruxun to ask the Pope for guilt or something......

After Xiao Ruxun read the description of the whole incident, he felt extremely proud and proud of his miraculous stroke of sending Chen Longzheng to engage in diplomacy.

It was really just as I wanted to sleep that someone brought me a pillow.