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It is true that the generals of the Mawei Army have only known to lead their men to drill, garrison, or go out to work according to orders, or patrol, or inspect passing ships, in short, they only care about the things under their noses, and they really care very little about making money and spending money. In their consciousness, they never thought that Geng Jingzhong would have no money, as if Geng Jingzhong's reputation as the "God of Wealth" had penetrated deep into their hearts. Ordinary soldiers felt that there was the "God of Wealth" Geng Jingzhong, the "prince" and "governor of the capital", and they just waited for the salary at the beginning of each month, and they never cared too much about where the money came from.

But this time, Yao Qisheng's words scared them! Tens of millions of taels! How much silver does that have to be? I'm afraid it's just a hill when it's piled up. In addition, they also heard another meaning, that is, their master, the supreme commander of their Mawei Army, may also be short of money, otherwise why would they start to cannon the takeaway! However, what the Metropolitan Governor said just now is true, a cannon has such a high profit, and the eyes of the generals below suddenly widened. I really didn't expect to make money from this business, according to this, this business seems to be doable!

Hearing that Geng Jingzhong said that the business of selling cannons was so profitable, it made these generals a little stunned, and Zeng Yangxing, who had not spoken, still opened his mouth on the side and said to Geng Jingzhong: "Governor, according to what you say, it seems that selling cannons is indeed profitable!" This shouldn't be fake. We don't know, but the Ministry of Government must be clear. But the reason why the big guy just objected. Mainly because if we sell these awesome guys. Once one day, Wu Sangui takes these guys we sold to them and turns around and deals with us, won't we become a joke? This possibility is very large, you must know that we just fought with them half a year ago! This is the main reason for everyone's opposition, the Metropolitan Governor will not really take out our housekeeping treasures and sell them at a price! ”

When the generals heard it, Zeng Yang's words were considered to be the key point, and Zeng Yang's qualifications were the oldest. He could ask directly, but the others didn't dare, but they all wanted to know how to solve this matter if Geng Jingzhong wanted to sell cannons. In fact, this is also the advantage of the detailed division of labor in Mawei, the Mawei Army and the Navy officers and men are only in charge of training their own soldiers, and they are in charge of their own affairs, and there are always special people in charge of property and logistics.

A few years ago, when the Mawei Army and Wu Sangui were doing business, they did not notify a few generals of the Mawei Army, and Geng Jingzhong negotiated a deal with Wu Sangui when he went to Kunming. The later time was only to let Li Guangdi be responsible for sending people to drive the horses back from Yunnan, as for the cannons. It was all sent by Wu Sangui himself to get it. However, the cannons that were traded to Wu Sangui in the first two times were also problematic cannons, and the quality could not be compared with the cannons of the horsetail army hunting outfit at all. As for now, Geng Jingzhong is even more unlikely that Jiang's own best cannon will be sold to Wu Sangui, as long as the standard of the original sale to Wu Sangui is maintained, and it will be the same if he goes back and sells it to others. Manufacture old-fashioned products that are much behind the active cannons of the Mawei Army and are not too hard in quality to sell to others, and the best is always in their own hands.

After Geng Jingzhong listened, he invited Zeng Yangxing to sit down and speak, a hint of a wicked smile appeared at the corner of his mouth and he said with a relaxed face: "Uncle Zeng, this matter is simple!" When I traded with Wu Sangui last time, I told you once that the cannon we sold to Wu Sangui was compared to our own Boone, and the shrinkage was strict! Well, got it? Geng Jingzhong cast a look at Zeng Yangxing that you know, and then glanced at the generals under the hall.

"Of course Pontus can't take our best things out and give them away, you guys are fools for me! We can sell cannons, but the cannons we sell must not be more powerful than our own use! Let's put it this way, we used a large general cannon and a smaller general cannon, and the cannons to be taken out were all old-fashioned and unmodified redcoat cannons and Francophone cannons. And that's it, it's not the same as the regular redcoat cannon. The cannon we want to sell looks similar to the red-coated cannon we used at the beginning, but our craftsmen can make the wall thinner, so that the charge is not too large, the barrel is slightly shorter, the range is closer than our own use, and the power is smaller than ours!

The soldiers of the artillery battalion should be deeply aware of this, in the artillery battle, the range of our current general cannon is far beyond that of the old-fashioned red-coated cannon, and those cannons that cut corners are even more incomparable, and the power is more than one grade worse. But even so, our technology is stronger than Wu Sangui or the Qing court, so our cannons don't have to worry about not being able to sell at all, as long as we say that we want to sell them, then Wu Sangui and the Qing court's Kangxi Xiaomazi will definitely have to compete.

But as for the muskets! It's even simpler, we won't sell our own flintlock rifles at the moment, and of course we won't sell any other short guns in your waist right now! But we can sell birds, the oldest-fashioned ones with arquebuses, the ones we built at the beginning to equip the whole army. At that time, we only had 20,000 people, and we built about 20,000 shotguns and stored them in the warehouse in a year, and the last time the Dutch came to buy our rifles, they bought more than 10,000 of the previous version of the rifling, but this arquebus is still sleeping in the warehouse! The Qing army Zhao Liangdong's musketeers defeated many Wu army infantry on the battlefield, and now everyone in the country knows how powerful the bird guns are, so why don't we sell our 20,000 arquebuses? You must know that what we have built is much better than the ones created by the Qing court and Wu Sangui, and I think Wu Sangui should be happy to help us turn waste into treasure! ”

"Hahaha, yes! The Governor is wise! Navy Commander Wang Zhenbang laughed and said: "We use flintlock rifles, and the Mini bullet is also specially made by our Mawei Army, and the power is ten times stronger than ordinary bird guns!" One day, when someone comes to beat us with a bird's gun, are you still afraid that they won't succeed? Therefore, Ben will agree with what the Metropolitan said. We can sell these firearms. But never sell the best to others. At the very least, you have to shrink the water by half! In this way, there is no need to worry that others will use our things to deal with our Ponytail Army! ”

After listening to what Geng Jingzhong and Wang Zhenbang said, the generals finally completely understood Geng Jingzhong's intentions this time. After the end of this topic, the meeting ended in a short time, and the generals returned to the barracks or garrisons satisfied. Geng Jingzhong raised this matter at the Meizhou Conference, just like he wanted his subordinates to know in their hearts that after the arms of Hejiang were sold, if they had a battle with the Wu army and the Qing army, they would have to be more careful, although our own weapons were still advanced and other armies were a lot. But after all, the equipment of the Wu army and the Qing army has also kept up, and if you don't pay attention, you will definitely suffer a big loss at that time. But as long as you are careful in everything, you don't have to worry about the arms you sell!

One of the reasons why Geng Jingzhong sold cannons was that he took a fancy to the demand for firearms from the two major forces of the Wu Army and the Qing Army, and he also wanted to get a piece of the pie from the huge benefits of this, but just like the previous two times, of course, he would not bring all the big killers he relied on for a living on the table for others to buy. This time is more prepared than the previous two times when he did business with Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong and Yao Qisheng have already made a plan, that is, to take out a few things that are specially used to make money, and use them outside to cheat money, so that the big guy has nothing to worry about. Although they sold the cannons, the ones in their own hands were better than the ones who sold them. In this way, the generals of the Mawei Army will not complain about him behind their backs, nor will it affect the morale of the whole army.

Geng Jingzhong is spending too much money now, and he is determined to continue to spend money on a large scale, no, several prefectures in Jiangxi and the two prefectures in the south of Zhejiang have also begun to build on a thorough scale like Guangdong. In addition, after the first wave of the Mawei Army conscription plan has ended and the training has begun, the second batch has already begun to start, and this continuous recruitment of troops and horses also requires a lot of money, and the cost of the new army in training is inferior, not to mention the salary, that is, the loss of daily training materials is a huge amount of money.

Due to the recruitment of so many new troops in a short period of time, the army's food has dropped a lot, and it is impossible to ensure a daily supply of four taels of meat, and if the first wave of 50,000 people is according to the original standard, the pork or poultry meat that needs to be consumed every day is 100 pigs and thousands of chickens and ducks, and it will be scared to death in a month. This Fujian farm is barely able to supply the former veteran army, how can it afford to provide so much. Therefore, the fishermen along the coast of Fujian have a job again, and every day the Mawei Army has to buy a large number of marine fish, which does not need to be raised, and it is not a problem to buy more than ten or twenty tons of sea fish every day, that is, forty or fifty thousand catties. The larger sea fish, one is hundreds of catties, only a hundred is 10,000 catties!

Although the Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces are not building on a large scale, they cost more money than the construction of a large number of buildings, and some workshops have also begun to be established in these places, and the initial investment is a huge amount of money. Building roads, building bridges, repairing water conservancy and other things Geng Jingzhong did not favor one over the other, and Guangdong's policy is generally the same, and the silver flowed out in a hurry, which is also fortunate that he issued a new type of credit banknotes, which reduced his financial pressure a lot, otherwise he would really be unbearable.

Now Geng Jingzhong wants to continue to do the arms business, which is naturally another way for the Ministry of Finance. At first, the officials of the Ministry of Government Affairs were also worried that after these cannons were sold, they might be used against their horsetail army, so they also expressed strong opposition. But at this time, it will not be, but raise both hands in favor, it is estimated that this transaction is completed, at least one or two million silver will be credited to the account!

The Finance Department under the Ministry of Government Affairs has considered more than this, you must know that the military workshop has always been in their Mawei Group, but it is a place where pure money is not profitable. Every month, a large amount of silver money was invested in mining and smelting copper and iron, supporting 100,000 miners, and tens of thousands of craftsmen and apprentices in various military workshops, accounting for a considerable part of the expenses of the Mawei Army. Now, if they can sell artillery, then the military workshop may change the past of pure spending money and not making money, and if it is not done well in the future, it may also become a way for the Ministry of Government Affairs to make a lot of money. Of course, this is for a short period of time, and no one will know in the future. If the Metropolitan Governor achieves great things, then the military workshop will continue to be a place for pure money.

Wu Sangui's envoy stayed in Fuzhou and did not leave, and was overjoyed after getting the consent of the Mawei Army to sell a batch of cannons and muskets, and immediately signed a sales contract with the Mawei Army. The reason why it was 10,000 was ordered by Geng Jingzhong, saying that they had so many for the time being, and they just wanted to sell it to make money and had no choice. Hehe, this is just a pretext, the rest has to make a deal with the Qing army, where can Wu Sangui take advantage of it alone

"Brothers, aim for me! Fire! After seeing that his subordinates were ready for shelling, an officer with a long beard raised his arms excitedly and roared, slashed his arms downward, and pointed heavily at the Nanchang City in front of him.

Nanchang City is the important place where the Qing army is stationed, the circumference of the city is ten miles and eighty-four steps, and it can be called "the city of filling the baby" in ancient times. The history of Nanchang is to take the meaning of "Changda Southern Xinjiang" and "Southern Prosperity", and named "Nanchang". Nanchang is located in the south of the Yangtze River, with developed water and land transportation, and the shape is dangerous. But it is such a big city, after the Wu army got a batch of new artillery, it came here to show its might. At this moment, the gunners of the Wu army were not worried about not being able to recruit the target, so they just hit the city wall.

After hearing the captain's deafening roar, the gunners immediately began to fire the guns from front to back. After the gunpowder in the fire door was ignited, a puff of green smoke hissed, and in an instant, the charge in the barrel was ignited, and everyone only felt a series of vibrations suddenly from under their feet, and the ship's cannons quickly recoiled one after another, eliminating the recoil they generated on the ground, and stopped behind the gun emplacement. (To be continued......)