"40 pieces, help!" My sideburns were already showing a slight drench. Normally, I don't want to worry about it, but the situation is really a bit tight at the moment! Not only is the iron artillery team to be formed, but the armored cavalry is also being established, and the Ruojiang City that is being built at home does not know how much money it has spent! Although I fully believe in the loyalty of my retainers, I am unwilling to cut the retainers' income until I have to, and even if my own standard of living is lowered together, two or three thousand times will not alleviate any problems in the slightest!

"50 runs, absolutely no accommodation!" Ernst said firmly.

"Alright, alright, I'll serve you! According to the price you said, 50 pieces. "I really couldn't help it in the end, he always said this thing over and over for an hour, and I really wanted these muskets.

"Happy working together!" His face finally thawed. "You can send someone to move the goods this afternoon!"

"Why are you so 'dead' this time? Not at all! "I complained.

"Don't you know?" He suddenly winked at me playfully. "Since we have been trading with you, we have never sold goods at the original price! It's an insult to my pride as a businessman, and besides, you sent it yourself! ”

"Oh!" I understand. It seems that I was too ruthless in bargaining in the past, and at the same time, I was in such a hurry to show him the weakness.

"That's it! Don't be so frustrated. "Just as I was feeling remorseful, Ernst came over and patted me on the shoulder." In order to heal your psychological wounds, I will give you a private gift, completely free of money! Come with me outside and have a look! ”

"Better than nothing!" Dejected, I walked out of the hatch with him and onto the main deck.

"That's my gift!" Ernst said triumphantly. "How? Pretty enough! ”

"That's good......" My eyes were drawn to us, and a sailor led a horse to us. It was a golden horse, with a shiny coat that reflected the sun's brilliance, and only the mane and tail around the neck were silvery-white, which I always felt a little like Ernst's hair. Its neck, shoulders, waist、...... The whole body was filled with a kind of explosive force, and the tense muscles on those four legs were almost like Schwarzenegger's arms. The horse is only a little short, only about 1.6 meters on the top of the head and only 1.4 meters high on the back, and with its strong physique, it seems like a boulder standing there. "This is a Spanish pony?"

"You know that?!" Ernst still couldn't contain his surprise. "Not bad! The perfect combination of Spanish pony, Arabian pony and European cold-blooded horse! This horse is just one and a half years old and his name is 'Golden'! ”

"Sure enough, it lives up to its name!" I kept nodding.

"This is a mount for you, I hope you can ride it on ......"

"You wait first!" I interrupted his continued play. "Do you think it's possible to tame such a fiery horse with my skills?"

"Maybe you're related to it?" Ernst said it naturally, but I thought he was arguing with words. "You can touch it first and try to communicate!"

"It's not going to kick me, is it?" Although I slowly stretched out my hand, I still asked uneasily.

"No, it won't!" Ernst said right away. "I vouch for it with my reputation! Really, how can Japanese generals still be afraid of horses? ”

My hand finally slowly landed on Golden's neck and gave me a gentle stroke. It first flickered its large, amber eyes and looked at me warily, then stuck its nose out and sniffed at my hand. My heart was in my throat, but what I was afraid of didn't really happen.

"Gold" sniffed my hand and immediately lifted his guard, not only stretched out his tongue and licked my hand, but also came over and rubbed his head on my shoulder, as if he had met an old friend I hadn't seen for many years.

"It's a god!" I stroked its head and screamed excitedly. Turning its silver mane open, there was a diamond-shaped patch the size of an egg in the middle of its forehead, the color of which was as red as a pigeon's blood ruby.

"Someone!" Ernst then shouted at this time. "Go get a saddle for Lord Zhuxing!"

"Running horses on a boat?" Listening to his words, I asked strangely.

"What's so strange about this!" Ernst rightly said. "It's been on this boat since it was just three months old, and it's already familiar with the environment!"

In a few moments I rolled over and mounted on horseback, and with a flick of the reins, "Gold" trotted up on the deck. There were all kinds of obstacles on the deck, but it didn't stop it at all, and the jump and dodge didn't affect the speed in the slightest. I've never felt this way before, whether I'm running or jumping, I'm always in a steady state, and even a "two-knife" like me can be calm. Listening to the sound of the wind whirring in my ears, I couldn't help but feel excited, and inadvertently knocked my feet on the horse's belly.

"Poof!" I only felt that my body was slightly fluttering, and when I looked at it again, the "gold" had already jumped onto the side of the ship, and because it had become a relatively straight "runway", the speed of the gallop became even faster. When I first looked at it, I only felt the roots of my hair explode, and on one side was the empty outside of the ship, and two feet further down was the blue sea. I didn't have time to think about my instinctive pull on the reins, "Quack! With a "gold" stood still, and the four hooves formed a straight line and stood on the side of the ship. A gust of wind blew by, and I felt like my body was about to fall. Calming down a little, with the reins, the "gold" fell back to the deck.

"How?" Ernst walked over with a smile on his face. "Not only running like flying, but also jumping through mountains and streams like walking on the ground!"

"Are you a horse or a goat?" I finally got off the horse and complained. "By the way, how can it not repel me at all?" I won't believe his nonsense about "fate" anyway.

"Do you remember the dress you gave me a look a few years ago?" He laughs.

"Ahh When he said that, I remembered it all at once. About three or four years ago, I had the idea to make some fashionable European-style clothes. Fearing that I would make a mistake because of the different measurement standards, I gave one of my commonly worn coats to the Dutch Merchant House, and I never got my old clothes back. "This ...... Does it have anything to do with that dress? ”

"Yes!" He nodded. "Ever since he was very young, I've had people feed him in that dress, especially when I was adding night food, and I deliberately rubbed my sleeve against his nose! After a long time, it naturally became dependent on the smell. ”

"Old friends after all!" I really didn't expect him to be so attentive.

"No way!" He sighed. "This always increases your chances of survival on the battlefield, and I don't want to go back to square one all at once! Besides, it can't all be like ...... Never mind! Let's not talk about this! "He seems to have something unspeakable.

"There's one more thing I want to trouble you!" I didn't go any further. "I am in the process of forming my first cavalry unit, and in the long run it will continue to expand! Although I can't catch up this time now, it's always good to prepare for the future. I want to build a horse farm on my new territory in the mountain city country, improve the local horse breed, and you can help me import some good stallions from Europe! Great Bred horses from Great Bring, Mecklenburg horses from Germany, Andalusian horses and ponies from Spain. ”

"Don't want some purebred Arabian horses?" Ernst asked. "Although relations between Europe and the Ottoman Empire are currently tense, our comptoirs still have some connections in Baghdad, Damascus and Dubai!"

"No need!" I thought for a moment and said, "The climate and geography of Arabia and here are so different that it's not easy to renovate." The conditions in Europe are similar to those in Japan, so it is more suitable for a relatively stable European horse breed! ”

"Now that he has spoken of cavalry," he ...... seemed to suddenly remember something. I still have something that maybe you will be interested in! ”

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Bear in Winter: I'm very dull about physics and chemistry (in fact, I'm stupid as long as I study), and I don't know anything about mechanical design! So the idea of the musket is just my whim, and you must not take it seriously. The idea of a paper roll bullet was learned by me and Yui Shiina in the anime "Devil's Eye Crazy Knife".,I think a little woman can make her own protagonist's shop there's no reason why it can't be built.,What's unreasonable for everyone to go to her!