The governor left Zhong Shuqing to talk about something, and outsiders have no way of knowing, but from the next morning, several military households who have learned how to use the Xia style rifle will sail north by boat with guns, steel knives and other products produced in mountain villages, but this information can only be used as gossip at present, after all, such a big matter is not something that a local magistrate can decide.

Judging from the reaction arc of the past dynasties to this kind of barbarian recruitment...... It is estimated that it will take such a while to reach a conclusion on this matter, not to mention that the conditions given by Deng Shifeng are so harsh, this is simply the rhythm of the founding of China.

In this regard, Deng Shifeng and Qin Er did not have much hope, anyway, whether Yanjing accepts it or not, it doesn't have much impact on the mountain village, what should be done or what should be done.

However, after this matter was put on the table, it was not without drawbacks, Deng Shifeng believed that some people would clamore to threaten the mountain villages by directly blocking the supply of supplies to the mountain villages by water, for this point - as early as before the Chinese New Year, the two squads carrying a number of weapons had been sent to Wuzhou City and Guangzhou City by water, if anyone dared to do this, then Deng Shifeng would not mind the trick that Xiang and the smiling Li would play in the Huancai Pavilion private room, but the use would not be as stingy as a bullet......

It's just that Deng Shifeng's judgment is slightly biased, this deviation is not a bad thing but a good thing, more than 20 days later, when Zhong Shuqing came to the mountain village again, he came with him, and there was a special message.

"What! Agreed?! There's no conspiracy in this......

Qin Er couldn't help but exclaim when he got the news, thinking about Yanjing's various reactions, but he never thought that Yanjing would agree to his conditions so easily, which made people overjoyed and a little worried - what if it was a conspiracy.

"Look at your dark heart...... Everything is a plot ......"

The old grandson knocked out the ashes in his cigarette pot and lit Qin Er with his pipe to express his contempt for his mentality. Tobacco has entered China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but before that, everyone was poor and had no spending power, and it took some time to introduce it from the coast to the mountainous areas of Guangxi, so it was not until last year that tobacco gradually appeared in mountain villages. However, compared with the current way of chewing tobacco leaves, there is Deng Shifeng, a guy who crossed over from later generations, after roasting tobacco and making pipes in the iron factory, tobacco gradually spread in the territory under the rule of mountain villages.

"Hehe, isn't this Shi Feng's words - happiness comes too fast, so fast that it feels a little unreal......

Qin Er defended to the old grandson with an aggrieved face, after a few days of contact with Zhong Shuqing, Qin Er now has a habit that is gradually developing, that is, to look at everything with suspicion and conspiratorial thinking; Deng Shifeng also noticed the change in Qin Er, but he didn't plan to correct this dark psychology, Qin Er would have to face more conspiracies and intrigues in the future, so it would be okay not to take this opportunity to brush up more experience points......

"It's a little too fast to be real...... Deng Shifeng said to help Qin Er out of the siege, his fingers turned the pencil produced in the mountain village between his fingers, and after thinking for a while, he said:

"I estimate that the key to Yanjing's ability to agree to our plan so quickly lies in three points; First, they understand that they can't destroy us, and in addition, the war in the north is tight, so it is better to stabilize us first than to fight on multiple fronts and consume strength; The second is that although our conditions are a little harsh, the quality of our weapons is there, and equipping a batch of such weapons will be of great benefit to both the northern enemy and the counterinsurgency; As for the third......"

"The third point is very simple, although our behavior is no different from the blatant rebellion of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the north, the small movement we made is not big enough, and we have been deliberately low-key and do not pull the banner...... In a sense, it also saved a lot of face for the Ming Dynasty, and it is estimated that no matter how unhappy Yanjing is with our conditions, it can be considered together...... It's not completely intolerable! And then there's the last one, -- these elves know better than anyone what the word stretches and bends! ”

Everyone nodded and agreed with Deng Shifeng's three analyses, and now Qin Er can already understand the meaning of Deng Shifeng's word "strong" last time, that is, you are just unhappy with me, but if you can't beat me, I still have to rely on my domineering, he likes this feeling very much after being bullied for half his life, especially when he was strong in the government, which made him feel an inexplicable **. However, he also understood that all this was based on the strength of the first article, and this strength of force was different from the strength caused by Li Zicheng in the north, who only knew how to sabotage and pull people's heads, and the strength of force in mountain villages was based on industrial production and the popularization of education......

"So what's next? That Chong...... As soon as Emperor Chongzhen opened his mouth, he asked for 5,000 Xia-style rifles, 300,000 rounds of ammunition and primers, do you really plan to sell them so much ammunition? In case those officials use these guns to beat us......" Lao Sun Tou reloaded his pipe with a pot of tobacco, asked with some concern, and added with some reluctance: "That's more than 100,000 taels of silver...... Or a large amount of materials of the same value! ”

It is actually normal for Lao Sun Tou to have such a painful and tangled performance, 5,000 summer rifles and 300,000 rounds of ammunition and primer or something seems to be a lot, but with the current production capacity of machinery factories and arsenals, these weapons really want to be produced, that is, to concentrate on the output of about a quarter, and don't forget that there are still a lot of stocks in the arsenal of the mountain village when preparing to expand the army, if you really want to deliver them, it will be a matter of a month. But as Lao Sun Tou said, if those officials collect their weapons and turn their heads to beat themselves, isn't this shooting themselves in the foot.

It is precisely because of this that the old grandson is worried about the safety of the mountain village, but he is greedy for the output value of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and it is natural that the egg hurts very much under the entanglement.

"Sell! Since Chongzhen, an unlucky boy, can agree to our conditions so openly, and use real money to buy and send the materials stored by the government to make a transaction, there is no reason why we should not make this deal. ”

Deng Shifeng looked at the list of trading materials that Zhong Shuqing took and couldn't help but want to drool, grandma drop, the country's reserve strength is really very strong, although it is not realistic to let Chongzhen take so much silver out at once, but the mountain village has already obtained a lot of silver funds through the sale of various luxury goods, but the materials controlled and reserved by the government such as copper and cowhide and cow tendon, Huang Zhangshi has worked hard to purchase and transport in the amount is not as good as the amount generated by this transaction......

"Are you sure?! That security aspect ......"

Qin Er felt that he had to pour some cold water on the two of them, or he would not be sold and give the money back to the people.

"You don't have to worry too much about safety, I don't have to prepare all the 5,000 guns for new goods; I plan to take this opportunity to redress all the militia and guards, as well as the old guns in the army; If you look at the list of copper used for trading in the Ming Dynasty, there are nearly three tons, plus our own reserves, as well as the copper ore and coarse material that will be transported from Luzon every month in the future, the copper material is enough for military and industrial use......"

After expressing his intention to change clothes for the army, Deng Shifeng said to Lao Sun Tou:

"Old Sun, these sold guns have to be handled by you and the Iron and Steel Organization, and the rifling is bored and flared a little, causing the air density to decrease and reduce the effective range of the bullet, and increase the fluctuation in the air and reduce the accuracy; In addition to this hand, you use the old method of twisting the rifling in the middle of the barrel to make it easier to hang the lead in the rifling, so that these guns have to clean the lead from the barrel after firing three or five shots to avoid blowing up the ......"

"Hehe, I like your plan, it's simple and brutal...... Qin Er, if you see it, learn from Shi Feng...... Playing yin, you can't see any flaws......"

Lao Sun Tou was very satisfied with the technical plan given by Deng Shifeng, it was too easy to expand the inner diameter of the barrel, and there were still a lot of defective barrels accumulated over the years in the factory that had not had time to return to the furnace, and it could be done by replacing them directly.

As for the old method that Deng Shifeng said in his mouth, it is actually to twist some ** places with tools on the rifling, in the process of producing and using the barrel for so many years, everyone has long found that if the rifling of the barrel is not smooth, it is easy to hang lead, and the lead produced after several rounds of bullets is easy to block the warhead behind it and cause explosion.

Therefore, no matter how long these Xia-style rifles will be used in the Ming Dynasty army, or whether they will be captured by the Qing Dynasty, there is no problem in beating others, but they will encounter the army of the mountain village to fight officially...... After three or five shots, the other side will have to stop shooting and clear the slag, and this is when they will be abused.

"As for ammunition, it is also sold, although the Ming Dynasty also has its own production of black powder and paper, but this is a good opportunity to stimulate the industrial production of our mountain villages, and it can also create a lot of jobs. However, in order to prevent these ammunition and guns from being sent out, the other party will pick up the gun and shoot us...... All the primers are shipped in advance, find a trustworthy ship to secretly transport them to the north alone, and tell them the location of the primer when all the guns and ammunition have been shipped to the north!! ”

After making the decision on this unexpected transaction, Deng Shifeng thought for a while and added:

"Let Luo Dan transfer a battalion, and quietly enter Liuzhou City together with the company stationed in the Butterfly Ridge area, don't make a big fanfare, how low-key and low-key you can be! The reason is very simple, since we have cooperated, I need to protect my interests in Liuzhou City, we will not occupy the city and we will not ban the administrative institutions set up by the Ming Dynasty there, what should they do in the Liuzhou prefect, the two sides will not disturb each other, not only to maintain the face of the Ming Dynasty, but also to implement the next plan......" (To be continued. )