The reason why Lu Jiuyuan can accept the price of 15 guan is of course not because Lu Jiuyuan 'spends' money extravagantly, and the kind of generosity of the country in later generations to the detriment of the public, 'fat' and 'private' is an interview that could never happen to Lu Jiuyuan no matter what:

The reason for this is that after receiving the sample bow, the ordnance supervisor tried to imitate it, as you know, the cottage 'spirit' of the Great Song Dynasty is also quite strong. As a result, the knock-off version of the cow tendon pulley bow was made, but the cost was surprisingly high, and the cost of creating a cow tendon pulley bow was as high as a staggering fifty times. That's not all, the worst thing is that after a few arrows, the tendon will come out of the pulley groove, and it is obvious that no archer will want to use such an unreliable weapon.

No way! The art is not as good as people, the copycat version is not a play, so let's buy it!

I thought that the cottage could solve the problem, but after that, I realized that it was simply the expression of the fearlessness of the ignorant, and Mao Geng's words "The ignorant are fearless" is really right. The wire rope is not to be made without thinking about it, and the steel used in the bow body is not a copycat, as for the pulley, Mao Geng is stamped and riveted into a pulley, and the cottage master of the Great Song Dynasty is still very unfamiliar with this kind of 'fine' dense stamping process, which is the technical generation difference. Relying on manual making alone, the light elliptical pulley is enough to toss people, plus it is difficult to ensure the processing of "precision" by hand, what standardization, interchange "sex" not to mention, the result of the cottage is desperate, if you want to go all the way to the black, it is really against the style of doing things in the Song Dynasty, for many years, the Great Song Dynasty is adhering to a center, that is, the economy as the center, Gaozong and Xiaozong are good at calculating the master, Zhao Dian also inherited the style of his father.

Speaking of the Great Song Dynasty bow, it takes a lot of work, and it takes a year to start, and it takes labor and materials. Let's put it this way, to make a bow, you need to prepare the wood of the bow body in winter, cook the horns in the 'spring', treat the tendons in the summer, combine the above three materials with glue, lacquer and silk in the autumn, fix the bow body in the winter, check whether the paint is peeling off, if it is qualified, and then wind it again in the 'spring' day of the next year, then the bow will be completed. A decent bow is casually more than 10 strokes, and it is not surprising that the top bow is more than 100 strokes.

Now Mao's steel wire sheave bow is not weaker than the top old-fashioned bow, therefore, the price of fifteen times, Lu Jiuyuan thinks, this is already a great value for money. Lu Jiuyuan also knew that this steel wire pulley bow had already started trial production, the trial production process was protracted, it can be seen that the difficulty of manufacturing is extraordinary, in Lu Jiuyuan's heart, in fact, a steel wire pulley bow 20 times is also worthwhile, the archer holds this bow, at least equivalent to the combat power of two people, recruit one less soldier will 'spend' a penny less, this investment is really worth it.

Of course, Lu Jiuyuan's visit this time was definitely not just to order a weapon like a bow and arrow.

The next focus is on muskets and artillery.

Since last year, the Ordnance Supervision has been assembling Type 90 shotguns and Type 90 rifles, so far, the production rate of shotguns has been as high as 80, and even the barrel of shotguns began to be produced three months ago. As for the Type 90 rifle, the production rate of the Great Song Dynasty is less than 30, and the 70 has to be purchased from the Mao Group.

Today, under the leadership of Lu Jiuyuan, the 'Gate' of the Great Song Dynasty Military Industry Department, as of last year, more than 6,700 Type 90 shotguns have been assembled, and the output of Type 90 rifles assembled is much lower, less than 2,000. Together with the original shotguns and rifles of the Mao Group, there are more than 8,400 Type 90 shotguns and 2,800 Type 90 rifles.

This is certainly not enough.

"Yi Sheng, the original Type 90 rifle, I ordered 1,000 pieces, and I 'delivered' the goods in three months, so don't be embarrassed. In addition, we are provided with 1,000 sets of rifle barrels and accessories every month, and if we can provide 1,500 sets, it would be the best." Lu Jiuyuan knew that in addition to continuing to produce gun barrels in Kaohsiung, the Mao Group had also built a new factory here in Sakhalin, and this factory used a lot of advanced equipment, and it is said that the production capacity could increase exponentially; Lu Jiuyuan believed that there should be no problem with the old factory and the new factory to provide 1,000 sets of barrels and accessories every month, and as for the butts and some accessories that are not very demanding, the Ordnance Supervision Department will naturally be able to make them, and there should be no problem in assembling more than 12,000 rifles this year.

However, in terms of quality, of course, the original Mao group is good, considering that Sakhalin also needs guns, 1000 original rifles should be able to provide it.

"Lord Lu, I don't say that you also know, Sakhalin Island is now the land of four wars, Jinguo, Goryeo, and Japan are all openly and secretly enemies with me, this siege of Ulleung Island is just a stone throwing to ask for directions, the next step, must be to attack Sakhalin, in the face of such a grim situation, we can't stand still! I also lack rifles, the production of gun barrels, the scrap rate is still high, remove the scrap, and the output in January is a little more than 1000. It's not that I'm complaining, that's the case. In this way, in order to support the Great Song Dynasty, the original 90-type rifle, we will provide 800 to the imperial court within three months, but the price will rise slightly, 55 runs, the rise of these five runs, that is also a basis, there are a few improvements, reliability 'sex' has been improved, this will not lose you. As for the barrel kit, it can provide up to 600 sets a month, and the price does not rise, or a set of 35 sets. This is our greatest sincerity. After all, maybe tomorrow, the golden soldiers will attack Sakhalin, and you can't let us deal with the tough golden soldiers with our bare hands! "

Lu Jiuyuan frowned, but after a slight heaviness, he responded:

"It's up to you. Well, it's not easy for you either! "

I didn't expect Lu Jiuyuan to speak so well! But it doesn't cost much. In a year, it is only 290,000 Lu Qianguan, not even 300,000 Guan, even if it makes a profit of 200,000 Guan, it can be top. [,！ How useful it is! How can a soldier get five times a month, plus other costs of raising soldiers, it will be 150 times a year, if you add a single soldier with complete weapons, two hundred times, a thousand soldiers are enough to raise a year, three years (three years of anti-gold war should come to an end), five hundred times a soldier, only enough to raise 400 soldiers, if you amortize other equipment costs necessary to support infantry artillery, it would be good to be able to raise a company of soldiers.

Alas! Raising soldiers is really a burning money! Mao Gengxin said, I now deeply understand why the Great Song Dynasty is so rich, and it is still difficult to fill the bottomless 'hole' of military spending.

The musket said that the money that was "spent" would not be very much, but in terms of bullets, it was better to consume a lot, and the consumables were a good business in later generations, and of course it was no exception in the Great Song Dynasty, a rifle bullet was always five, a shotgun bullet was consistent, and the bullet ordnance supervisor of the shotgun was already able to make his own, of course, the fire cap had to be purchased from his own side, and after calculation, 1 million rounds of ammunition together with the order of the fire cap, there was a profit of 400,000 yuan, well, you can raise two companies.

The finale of the military purchase is, of course, artillery.

450 'guns' of all sizes, of which 48 'guns' are 75 mm guns, and the rest are 60 mm small-caliber guns, plus 50 shells per 'gun', the order for artillery and shells alone is 1.32 million pieces, hehe! A profit of 1 million guan can't be run.

But what about 1 million guan, it's just enough to raise five companies.

Today, this series of military purchase orders has been smashed, which is already a super big order, but it can only raise less than 2,000 soldiers.

After the arms purchase was discussed, Mao Geng couldn't help but ask, why must he rush to work within three months and half a year to 'deliver' the goods, so anxious, but why.

"Don't hide it, according to the arrangement of the imperial court, maybe next month, there will be a war against Dali."

Mao Geng and Ma Fen glanced at each other and bowed their heads to each other, in fact, the information about this has already spread to Sakhalin, and all kinds of signs are clear enough. Speaking of which, starting a war against Dali, Lu Yi saw that this kid was the main planner, plus some people pushed the 'waves' to add fuel to the fire, Zhao Dian was eager to expand the territory, and because the Great Song Dynasty had lived in the shadow of "gold phobia" for many years, many people were suspicious of taking the Jin Kingdom directly, on the contrary, there was no need to worry too much about dealing with Dali.

Therefore, picking the soft persimmon of Dali has become the consensus of the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty.

Originally, I was worried that non-combat attrition such as water and soil adaptation would affect the battle situation, but there are various methods for preventing miasma provided by Peng Qinfang, and at this point, it seems that it is enough to deal with it.

So what's there to worry about! The heavenly soldiers only sent troops to Dali. For this Western Expedition, the Minister of Armaments of the Great Song Dynasty had no choice but to spend some more silver to purchase as many advanced armaments as possible as quickly as possible-32133+dsuaahhh+27073257-&&