Sun Yuan: "I promised Zheng Damu at the beginning, is it possible to regret it and make the world laugh at me Sun Yuan is a 'fat' person who broke his word?" ”

Guan Tao shook his head: "Such a big thing, sometimes I can't take care of that much."

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"Although there is no business and no 'treacherous', but don't you businessmen promise me the most important contract?" Sun Yuan asked rhetorically.

At this time, Wolf 'interjected': "Actually, there is no problem in selling some ordnance to the Zheng family, my lord." ”

Guan Tao and Sun Yuan asked at the same time: "What do you say?" ”

Wolf said: "In our Europe, when a new weapon appears, as long as it is 'exposed' on the battlefield and sees its benefits, other countries will immediately copy it. It can be said that there is no possibility of complete secrecy in any technology. Therefore, in Europe, whenever a new weapon appears, the arms dealer will expand the scale of production as much as possible, sell the goods to any possible buyer, and make the greatest profit. If it's late, when others come out, it's worthless. In fact, it is impossible for any of our armies in Europe to fight with a new weapon. New weapons and new tactics, that is, taking advantage of them when they first appeared, were quickly learned by others. What determines the victory of a battle is the degree of training and national strength of the troops. ”

Sun Yuan: "Merchants have no borders, as expected. Just like the Jin merchants of our dynasty, for the sake of so-called profits, they did not hesitate to invest in the enemy. However, there is some truth in Erhu's words. ”

"The firearms in our Ningxiang Township are actually very simple in technology, not that is, the musket should be ignited with an arquebus, and it should be turned into a flint to ignite, but it is a very simple thing to prevent light." Wolf continued: "I don't believe that the Zheng family has never guarded against the muskets and artillery in Yangzhou Town, but why do they still buy them from us? ”

Sun Yuan: "Why? ”

Wolff: "The materials, the materials they use to make muskets and artillery are not up to standard. So, my lord, the steel smelting technology, and even the granulation technology of the black fire 'medicine' are the most valuable things we have at hand. In addition to the substandard steel smelted by the Zheng family, it is more likely that their output cannot keep up, or the cost is high. By the way, the four-pounder, eight-pounder, and sixteen-pounder bronze cannons we have on hand are, to put it mildly, not a single person in the Far East today capable of producing them. ”

Sun Yuan: "That makes sense. ”

"Mr. Erhu's words are also right." Guan Tao is a 'traitor' businessman, his brain is already fast, and he can easily capture the key to Wolfe's words, "However, I still don't think it's appropriate to send the officer corps to train the new army for the Zheng family and learn the spear musket phalanx, this is a unique tactic of my Ningxiang Army, how can I let potential enemies learn it?" ”

"It's good for them to learn

！ Sun Yuan said confidently: "I don't think the Zheng family's new army will turn around and become an enemy of so-and-so." ”

Guan Tao: "Is it only based on the 'private' and 'relationship' between Hou Ye and Zheng Sen?" ”

Sun Yuan: "No, things like 'private' and 'handed' are simply unreliable when they are related to vital interests. There is something in the world called ideology, you will know later. ”

No further explanations were given.

Several people talked for a long time, and soon an armor manufacturing workshop came.

There are still two mills here, and under the impetus of the water, the huge hammer head rumbles down and falls on a steel ingot--- which Sun Yuan, a modern man, is only wrought iron---- and the fast steel ingot is as soft as dough under the hammer head, and soon becomes a thin steel plate.

Then it was moved under another hammer head, and it was smashed with a bang for a long time, and half of the 'breastplate' gradually took shape.

The armor that Sun Yuan prepared to equip for infantry and cavalry was composed of two pieces of steel at the front and back, plus a stamped helmet, which was worn on the body like a tin can, quite the taste of European knights in the Middle Ages.

The ordnance mechanics under his command are all red 'hairy' devils, and the new armor naturally has a strong medieval style.

This European-style armor is not as complex as the Oriental armor, it looks like it exudes a cold metallic glow all over the body, and has the hideous beauty of modern industrial products.

After the armor was stamped and formed, a blacksmith made a few holes in the side, tied it with a belt, and it was all alive.

However, I saw that the workshop was full of armor pieces and helmets that were stacked in different categories. A craftsman put a set of armor with tung oil, then tied it with straw and put it in a wooden box, and piled it up to form a hill next to the wall.

Seeing the amount of armor here, Guan Tao was taken aback: "With so much steel, how much does this cost?" In my opinion, it's better to ......"

"Why don't you continue to produce the kind of armor made of cowhide in your Far East, to put it mildly, your kind of armor is equal to 'naked' under the 'shot' of the musket." Wolf said unceremoniously: "Moreover, your kind of armor requires a lot of cowhide, and you have to ask the workers to sew small pieces of armor on the cowhide, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the cost is very expensive." Our European protective gear is made of steel, which can be formed by stamping with a water wheel, which is fast and simple, and the cost is much cheaper than cowhide fish scale armor

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Guan Tao was persuaded by Wolf: "Yes, we don't have much else in Ningxiang Township, but there is a lot of steel." If you really want to make the kind of armor you used to have, where can you find so many cowhides! ”

Sun Yuan also thought that the all-steel armor seemed to be a 'force' in price, but the price was much cheaper. And it's easy to manufacture, too. I asked, "Erhu, how many sets of protective gear have you made now?" ”

Wolf: "Didn't you say that the whole army should be redressed, my production plan is 20,000 sets, and now there are more than 11,000 sets, and it will be completed in two or three months, my lord." ”

Sun Yuan was overjoyed: "It seems that there is no good news when I come to Xiting today, and I immediately organized people to send the armor to the troops, and equip a batch first." ”

Wolf: "Flood? Lord Fei has been paying attention to this matter for a long time, he and You? Lord Huang has been to the Ordnance Bureau several times, and every time he comes, he will take a large number of protective gear, and it is estimated that his troops have been equipped. ”

Sun Yuan thought about it for a long time before he realized that what Wolf said was Huang You and Fei Hong, so he smiled and said, "I have heard them talk about this before, and I didn't pay attention to it for a while. By the way, what is the state of production of smoothbore guns, can they catch up with the equipment of the troops? ”

This time, the Ningxiang army will be expanded to 20,000 people, which means that 10,000 recruits need armor, firearms and spears.

Of these, the number of muskets required was at least more than five thousand.

Moreover, Zheng Chenggong's new army still has tens of thousands of orders to be completed.

Sun Yuanzhen was a little worried about the production capacity of the Ordnance Bureau, after all, the musket was a 'fine' work, unlike the manufacture of armor, which could be 'made' by simply and crudely stamping it repeatedly with water power.

"My lord, I also know that the consumption of muskets is extremely large, since the establishment of the Ordnance Bureau, the production of the factory has not stopped in the past few years, Fei and Huang have taken away more than 4,000 one after another, and there are about 10,000 in the warehouse."

Sun Yuan's mood was completely cheerful, and he was overjoyed: "Well done, hehe, I am a little tempted to sell some of the new plate armor to the Zheng family's new army." ”

Guan Tao was shocked: "Master Hou can't." ”

Wolff: "This should be a new point of profit growth. ”

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