"Your Highness, do you mean that many of the merchants of my Arab Empire are engaged in the mineral business?"

Hearing Li Yuanba's words, Sith was very surprised, although he knew that there were many merchants in the Arab Empire doing business in the Tang Dynasty, but he never thought that most of them were mineral merchants, could it be that the Arab Empire really had such rich mineral resources?

Also, don't they all say that Datang is rich in land and resources? Why don't they mine at home on their own, but instead go to other countries to buy them, and even exchange such powerful firearms for them?

You know, as long as the country is strong enough, minerals, money?? What not to get?

"Of course, otherwise, even if you are given more time, you won't be able to get enough minerals!"

Li Yuanba nodded as a matter of course and continued: "And as far as those businessmen in your country are concerned, it's really difficult to deal with!" ”

"Your Highness, the Sith understands!"

Sith groaned slightly, and quickly agreed, because he knew that he had no qualifications to bargain, and could only obey Li Yuanba's conditions:

"Give the Sith ten days, and when the ten-day deadline is up, the Sith will come to discuss the specific matter of exchanging minerals for firearms, and ask Your Majesty to be ready to negotiate!"

"Good!" Li Shimin and Li Yuanba glanced at each other and said with a smile: "Then I am waiting for good news in the palace!" ”

……

Ten days is a fleeting time.

When the Sith came to the Tang Palace with the envoys in charge of negotiations, a sea fleet of ten medium-sized steam warships quietly headed for the Great Eclipse.

This matter was quite hidden by the Li Shimin brothers, and only a few high-level officials knew about it, because this sea fleet was going with the task of subverting Da Shi and Tianzhu.

At this moment, Li Shimin's side also completed the deal with Da Shi, except for the stone-throwing artillery, every 10,000 kilograms of minerals. Can be exchanged for a musket, or a assault musket, hand cannon, or ground gun.

If you want to exchange it for stone artillery, you need 100,000 catties of minerals.

Please note that this is just a variety of firearms, if you want to exchange bullets, although the exchange conditions have been lowered a lot, but as the cheapest assault rifle bullets, you also need 500 catties of minerals, like the ammunition of the catapult cannon, it is 5,000 catties of minerals that need sky-high prices!

Don't look at it. Sith also showed an expression of how much advantage he had, and when he left the palace, he was even more grateful to the Li Shimin brothers, and he couldn't wait to hug the Li Shimin brothers and kiss them.

……

When Sith left the palace with a satisfied expression, the Li Shimin brothers in the palace were also full of joy.

"Yuanba, there is really you!"

Li Shimin sat on the dragon chair, holding a small stack of thick brocade handkerchiefs in his hand, and his face was full of joy, "For us." It's just a defective product in the obsolete product, and you are stunned to sell it at a high price, and even those bullets are so expensive, which is really beyond my expectations! ”

"That's it. You don't look at who I am! Li Yuanba said triumphantly: "I still want to take advantage of our Datang, see if I don't take a layer of hair from them!" ”

"It's a shame you figured it out!" Li Shimin shook his head a little helplessly, and said: "Minerals are exchanged for firearms and bullets, supplemented by gold and silver. This time, they can be said to have lost a lot of money! ”

Li Yuanba said with a smile: "I'm afraid that Nasis is still stupidly thinking about how to attack his eldest brother and how to go to Qingjun's side!" He couldn't have imagined that these firearms were nothing more than deliberately manufactured defects. At best, it's a dozen or so times, and if you want to use it more, I'm afraid you'll have to blow it up......"

With the current technology of the Divine Machine Mansion, if you want to make something with quality, you can only use it fifteen or sixteen times, which is still very simple, so Li Yuanba has such a saying.

"3,000 muskets, 50,000 hand cannons, 50,000 ground artillery...... 100 catapults, 300,000 bullets of all kinds! ”

Li Shimin stared at the Jinpa in his hand, shook his head while reading, and said:

"The Sith really has some means, and in a short period of time, he has collected all these minerals, although most of them are copper and iron ores, but these things are exactly what my Datang needs!"

Li Yuanba said with a sigh: "On the one hand, iron ore can be smelted into various agricultural tools, and it can also be smelted into various stainless steel suitable for forging firearms and swords...... As for the copper mine, our Datang is accustomed to copper coins, and it only takes a few more years to implement the currency reform when our Datang's economy takes off again! ”

"You're right!" Li Shimin put the piece in his hand into a small box of golden silk nanmu, "General Liu, do you have any news from them?" ”

Li Yuanba scratched his hair and said, "Not yet!" However, in terms of the speed of medium-sized steam warships, they should have already passed through Central Asia, and I believe that there will be news back in another ten days and half a month! ”

Li Shimin was not satisfied with Li Yuanba's answer, he raised his brows, and said: "This time, the army was directly transferred from the Ryukyu Islands, and the recruits used were all Shenwuwei, so I am worried about ......."

"Oh, Brother Huang, you can rest assured!" Li Yuanba waved his hand and said: "This time it is led by Ren Rail himself, and Wang Jun and Wang Xuance are followed by him, and the two of them help Ren Rail to give advice, before the Sith returns to Da Shi with firearms, he will definitely be able to capture a few small countries around Da Shi." ”

"But do you believe them that way?" Li Shimin is still a little worried.

"Don't use suspicious people, don't suspect people!"

Li Yuanba nodded and said: "Ren Liang has been following me since the beginning of the establishment of Shenwuwei, it can be said that he has experienced a hundred battles, and he is even more loyal to the Tang Dynasty, I believe that he can lead the expedition to the Shenwuwei army." ”

When he said this, Li Yuanba deliberately paused, and then continued:

As for Wang Jun and Wang Xuance's grandson, although they were both born in the Taiyuan Wang family, they don't have much sense of belonging to the Taiyuan Wang family. Moreover, Wang Jun has participated in several conquests against the Wa Kingdom, Silla and other countries, and has rich experience in destroying countries, Wang Xuance is also a ruthless person, and the three of them are fully capable of destroying those small countries, so you don't have to worry about it, imperial brother! ”

"Well, I'm worrying too much!" Li Shimin shook his head and said, "By the way, if the Sith wants to leave for the return this time, you must arrange for some Heavenly Guards and Shadow Guards to go in, and you must not relax your monitoring of them, I must know their movements at any time!" ”

"No!" Li Yuanba nodded and agreed. (To be continued.) )