Chapter 623: Selling Arms

After driving the Jurchens back to where they should be, Lin Chong handed in the battle report, the Jurchen cavalry was indeed strong, and the most elite cavalry of Qi fought against it, the victory and defeat were still half, and the losses were almost equal, this was still on the way for the other party to starve and retreat in a panic.

The Jurchen cavalry has a fierce courage and is not afraid of death! Relying on this bravery, you can often fight out a Qi cavalry, the Qi cavalry is good at discipline and formation, in the face of such a Jurchen who has no discipline and formation at all, it is a bit of a feeling of punching the master to death.

However, this attack is useless against the infantry's musket position, because the infantry does not give the opponent a moment to approach, but if the opponent enters the infantry array, it will also cause heavy losses to the infantry.

At this stage, the only type of cavalry that can deal with the enemy is cavalry, Zhang San sent people to contact the northern tribes of the Jurchens, and on the other hand, he tightened the control of the Mongolian steppe, on the Mongolian steppe, because of the defeat in the south of the Liao State, asked the Mongols to provide horses.

However, this did not include Zhang San's six tribes, because these six tribes were not recognized by the Liao State, which directly issued orders to their canonized Merikyu Division, the Eight Divisions of the Enemy Lie, and the Northern Blocking Division, and these large tribes simply ordered smaller tribes to contribute in order to divert losses.

For a time, the grassland was full of complaints, and in order to suppress the opposing voices, the three major tribes began to frequently send troops to suppress the small tribes that dared to disobey, which was giving Zhang San's six tribes a chance.

In the end, the six tribes aimed at the Eight Enemy Lies, which were located on the east side of the Mongolian steppe, near Hulun Lake, which was convenient for supplies, and the six tribes that Zhang San had started with were all operating in the sphere of influence of the Eight Enemy Lies.

The enemy martyrs have a total of more than 30,000 cavalry that can be mounted on horseback, and if the enemy martyrs are defeated, then Zhang San will be able to completely control the eastern part of the grassland, and the strength of the enemy martyrs will be the least pressure to destroy them.

Therefore, according to Zhang San's instructions, when the Jurchens occupied Liaoyang, the six tribes jointly sent troops to defeat the enemy martyrs, and the Jurchens attracted the firepower of the Liao State.

It is now winter in the north, so all plans will start after the beginning of spring, including the Jurchens who want to attack Liaoyang, but also after the beginning of spring.

There are many headaches for Zhang San, for example, because the output of cement is not ideal now, it is basically impossible to use cement to build bridges and pave roads, and asphalt is not now available for large-scale production.

So now the problem of building bridges and road materials has become a huge problem, in the era when there was no steam engine, breaking stones can only rely on manpower and animal power, for a cement road, want to rely on manpower to produce enough cement, the cost is too great.

But the rammed earth road Zhang San really can't look at it, the kind of fired road bricks Zhang San used to worry about not long, now the carriage is getting bigger and bigger, heavier and heavier, pulling two or three thousand pounds of cars everywhere, the proportion of damage to the road bricks is very high, now the problem back to Zhang San here, what kind of road to build in Shandong is Zhang San is now the most worried problem.

In the end, the ideal was to give in first, and Zhang San had no choice but to approve the plan that the main road surface would be paved with road bricks, and finally the six main roads were paved with three-way earth to build with road bricks.

With Jinan City as the core, go north to Ni Zhai Village, south to Taishan South, west to Yuncheng County, to the northeast road from Jinan to Dengzhou, to Yantai to Weihai, South Road from Jinan to Qingdao, and finally the sixth from Dengzhou to Qingdao.

These six roads will form the main traffic trunk of Shandong and Hebei at this stage, with a two-way six-lane standard, and other branch roads are four-lane roads between state levels and two-lane roads between county levels.

For this road project, Zhang San transferred a total of 300,000 slaves, road construction and the Yellow River dam is the key project in the next period of time, the large investment in infrastructure construction makes Zhang San's finances a little stretched, in order to make up for the lack of financial revenue, Zhang San started the idea of selling muskets.

Of course, the musket to be sold is not the kind that the Qi army is preparing now, but a musket that is a grade worse, and the object of sale is the three major doglegs of the Great Song Dynasty, the Liao State and Zhang San.

The foreign trade version of the musket has a range of twenty steps less than that of the riding gun, and the firing rate is also reduced to less than sixty percent, although it is a bit unattractive for Qi State, but it is an artifact for other countries.

The three doglegs have long coveted the firearms troops of Qi for a long time, Zhang San wants to engage other people's citizens to build bridges, roads and dams for themselves, so it is also necessary to give others a little benefit, and these three countries do make a lot of money in Zhuluo, Zhang San feels that it is time to shear sheep.

In the end, Zhang San prepared a combination of muskets and Donghai type warships for the three countries, each musket is 20 taels of silver, and the three countries can buy at least 100,000 or more, which is worth 2 million taels, and the Donghai type warships are equipped with 100,000 ballistas, and each country sells 30 ships and 3 million.

With these weapons in the Three Kingdoms, Zhang San demarcated a new scope for them to rob, that is, the entire South Asian subcontinent and the Middle East, where they will be allowed to gallop, and as long as they can rob as much as they can hand over to Qi Guosicheng, the rest will belong to them.

Of course, for such a long journey, transportation and logistical supplies need to be provided by Zhang San, and the rotation and cultivation of troops need to be in Zhenxi City, Sri Lanka, so only about 30% of the three countries can be transported back to China in the end.

However, the Three Kingdoms did feel that this business was quite good, after all, it was robbed, and they didn't need the capital, they would make as much money as they robbed, and after the Three Kingdoms got Zhang San to sell them firearms and Donghai-type warships, they all broke out with amazing enthusiasm, and finally sold 120,000 muskets and 48 Donghai-type warships.

A total of 7 million taels of silver was obtained, which is already equivalent to half of the annual military expenditure, because this is settled in taels, when Ryukyu and the Great Song Dynasty were synchronized in the past, it was always 770 wen, and one tael of silver was 2,000 wen.

So when the new monetary unit came out, the annual fiscal revenue of the Ryukyus became more than 80 million taels, so 7 million is really a lot, not to mention that there are still two big countries that have not bought? If both the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty bought hundreds of thousands of rods, the financial pressure on Zhang San would be much smaller.

As for the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, they don't have this plan yet, but it doesn't matter if the business is done slowly, and the Great Song Dynasty is because he still has hope for his craftsmen, so he didn't buy it.

The Liao State did not realize the power of this musket at all, and until now the Liao State still feels that the defeat of its 100,000 cavalry is due to the enemy's ambush.