"Click......"

Just in Lincoln and Simon. While Cameron was hesitating to pay for an expensive Jason-1858 rifle, the same gunshots rang out hundreds of miles away at a shooting range in Alabama, not one, not eight, but a continuous stream of bullets!

Somewhere in the range, a wooden target was suddenly covered with bullet holes, sawdust flew in all directions, and the yellow bullet casings were suddenly covered around a Jason-1859 machine gun mounted on a tripod mount.

Soldiers in blue and gray uniforms stood behind the machine gun in twos and threes, all holding binoculars, watching intently as the distant target was turned into a hornet's nest. President Davis of the Confederate States of America, Secretary of the Army Tumus and General Borregard were even more dumbfounded. What a horrible weapon of murder! It's simply an industrialized killing efficiency...... If both the North and South armies of the United States were equipped with such weapons, how many Americans would have died in this tragic civil war?

"Mr. President, Mr. Minister, General Borigard...... What do you guys think? As soon as the gunfire stopped, Chen Yucheng, who had already turned into a salesman for an arms company, looked at the three Yankees with their mouths open with a smile on his face, and asked them how they felt.

"Too ...... It's horrible! President Davis took a breath, "How many bullets were just fired?" ”

"200 rounds." Chen Yucheng replied with a smile. "Each drum has 200 rounds, so it's very easy to change. If operated by two skilled shooters, you can shoot up to two drums in one minute, which is 400 rounds! ”

"400 rounds...... 20 Mexican Dollars? That's too expensive, right? The Confederate War Secretary Tooms shouted. He had already spent 550,000 silver dollars this morning on 10,000 Jasons - 1858 and 1,500,000 rounds of ammunition (the result of bargaining). Didn't expect it after lunch. The Chinese sold him another 200 Jason-1859 machine guns.

The firepower of this machine gun is mighty. The price, of course, is even more formidable. A Jason-1859 machine gun can cost as much as 1,000 Mexican dollars! Just 200 pieces cost 200,000 silver dollars, not including bullets...... Considering the speed at which this machine gun eats bullets, I'm afraid that the 1.5 million rounds bought before won't take long.

When Chen Yucheng heard the other party shouting expensive, he just shrugged his shoulders with a smile, looked at General Borigard, and said in a deep voice: "Now only the Ming Army in the world is equipped with this kind of Jason-Type 1859 machine gun, and this weapon is basically a secret weapon...... If used correctly, it will definitely work wonders on the battlefield. Checkmate. I guess you can see that, right? ”

General Boregaard glanced at Chen Yucheng lightly, "I'm sorry, Mr. Major General, I can't see it." I'm a professional soldier, and I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not a genius, I don't have the superhuman insight and foresight to see at a glance what works with a weapon that's still being tested...... In my opinion, this weapon is nothing more than a 6-pounder or 9-pounder bronze cannon, and I am afraid that it is not as good as the French 12-pounder Napoleonic cannon. ”

Chen Yucheng heard the words of this American general. Haha laughed, pointed to his head and said, "It's a matter of tactical thinking. Actually, I thought that this machine gun was useless at first, but after many military exercises, the Ming Army has summed up a set of tactics to correctly use the power of machine guns...... I've already brought this information, and I'll show it to you later. In addition, we have 48 breech-loading rifled guns that fire 5-pound shells to be sold......"

"Breech-loading rifled guns? What is the range? Can you use a flowering bomb? General Borregaard's eyes suddenly became hot, although he had never seen a breech-loading rifled gun, but it was an "artifact" that the Western military community had thought about for centuries, because the range of the rifled gun was far greater than that of the smoothbore gun, if it could be matched with a blasting projectile, it would be a real god of the battlefield!

"The range is very long, it can reach more than 6 miles, almost 3,500 yards." Chen Yucheng said with a smile, "And there are also flowering bombs, although the fuse performance is not very reliable, but there is still a 30% to 40% detonation probability." It's just that...... This cannon is a bit expensive, selling for 5,000 silver dollars each, and a cannonball costs 50 silver dollars. ”

5,000 silver dollars for a cannon! Hearing this offer, the three Yankees present rolled their eyes and were a little speechless. In the first few hundred dollars, a 12-pound bronze cannon could buy a battalion cannon for 5,000 silver dollars! Moreover, 50 silver dollars for a shell can no longer be described as expensive, it is simply a money grab!

Chen Yucheng saw the Yankee's face, but he still said with a smile: "You get what you pay for, when you see the power of the Besemai cannon, you will definitely buy it...... Moreover, according to the current establishment of our Ming Army, 10,000 Jason-Type 1858 rifles plus 200 Jason-Type 1859 machine guns, plus 48 Besemai cannons, just make up the basic equipment of the two infantry divisions, and of course some other things. If you equip two of these divisions, trained by Ming and French officers for a few months, you can defeat more than 5 times the Union army!

And I can assure you here that the Jason, the 1859 machine gun and the Besemai cannon, will not be sold to the North at this time. ”

Not at this time...... In other words, it will be sold to the north in the future!

President Davis's face turned pale, but Secretary of War Tumbs heard the words: "General Chen, can I understand your words like this, Jason-1858 rifle, which has now been sold to the Federation?" ”

Chen Yucheng shook his head with a smile and said, "I don't know about this, the business of the Federation is Henry. DuPont is responsible for the joint venture between Jason and the DuPont family in the northern United States, and its products include black powder, A-oil explosives, starch explosives, grenades, rifles and cannons. ”

"I thought your Ming Empire was supporting us in the south!" President Davis said with a smile, "It turns out that all you care about is the silver dollar!" ”

"Silver dollars? Mr. President, I think you have a slight misunderstanding, but in fact there are many ways to accept payment at Jason Bank, and silver dollars or gold coins are just one of them. Chen Yucheng laughed again in a blink of an eye, "If the Allied States don't have enough gold and silver to pay, Jason Bank is also willing to accept the land...... Arable land on the territory of the Union State! It is only ownership, and there is no question of sovereignty involved. ”

"Land?" President Davis's face is a little better, and there are currently seven states in the Union, and four other states are ready to join, including Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and North Carolina. This would bring the total territory of the Union State to nearly 1 million square miles. However, the population of these 11 states, excluding blacks and Chinese, is less than 6 million, and the standard number of people is less and more land, and some are barren land, which is not worth much at all.

"What's the use of Jason Corporation asking for Confederate land?" President Davis asked uncertainly. "At what price are you going to buy the land of the Confederate States?"

"Land is, of course, for rent or sale." Chen Yucheng did not hide it, and said bluntly, "For this reason, Jason also needs the alliance countries to give a certain number of quotas for immigrants with citizenship, one quota for every 20 acres of land." The settlement price of the land depends, of course, on the fertility of the land, and the average offer can reach 5 Mexican silver dollars per acre, provided that there is a proper source of water and arable value...... However, you can only use the land to cover 70 per cent of the cost of arms purchases, and the remaining 30 per cent will have to pay gold and silver. ”

1 acre is equivalent to 6.07 acres, and it costs at least 100 silver dollars in the land of the Ming and Han dynasties! Now Chen Yucheng only quoted 5 silver dollars. However, this price is definitely not cheap in the United States. There is too much arable land in this country, according to the statistics of later generations, the arable land area is as high as 197.45 million hectares, ranking first in the world! And the 11 states that the Confederate States of America already own or will own are all large agricultural states, and there is a lot of arable land, and I am afraid that they account for more than half of the arable land in the United States! Even 100 million acres of arable wasteland is not unavailable...... (To be continued......)