These guys listened to the series of figures reported by Yu Xiaotian, especially the martial artists in the sailor and soldier system, their eyes widened one by one, they only knew that Lu Dao led his subordinates to practice, and went out to work according to the order, or patrolled, or inspected the passing ships, in short, they only cared about the things under their noses, and they rarely cared about making money.

Anyway, there are council members and Yu Xiaotian who are here, and at the beginning of each month, they just wait for the salary, and as for where the money comes from, they never care too much.

Now I heard that if you make guns and sell them, there is such a high profit, these guys' eyes suddenly widened, I didn't expect to do this business now, and make money like this, according to Yu Xiaotian's words, this business seems to be possible!

Hearing Yu Xiaotian say that the business of selling guns was so profitable, it made these guys a little stunned, Liu Laoliu, who had not spoken all the time, still opened his mouth on the side, and said to Xiaotian: "Big boss, according to what you say, it seems that selling guns is really profitable!" This should not be fake, and the brothers in the council hall should also know it!

But the reason why the big guys opposed it just now is mainly because if we sell these powerful guys, once one day, someone takes these guys we sold to them, turns around, and deals with us, won't we become a joke?

So this is the reason why everyone is opposed, the big boss will not really take out our housekeeping treasures and sell them at a price! ”

As soon as everyone heard this, Liu Laoliu's words were considered to be the key point, and they all wanted to know how to solve this matter if Yu Xiaotian wanted to sell guns.

After Yu Xiaotian listened, he invited Liu Lao Liu to sit down and speak, a wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said with a relaxed face: "This matter is simple!" We can sell the monkey version of the cannonball! ”

When everyone heard the word monkey version for the first time, they were confused for a while, and they couldn't figure it out, so they could only stare at Yu Xiaotian stupidly, waiting for Yu Xiaotian to explain to them.

Yu Xiaotian knew that these people definitely didn't understand what the monkey version meant, so he smiled and said to them: "The so-called monkey version actually means shrinking.

Of course I'm not going to take our best stuff out and give it away! We can sell the guns, but the guns that are sold are definitely not as good as our own use!

For example, the No. 3 gun we use is definitely not the same as the No. 3 gun to be sold, and the No. 3 gun to be sold seems to be similar to our No. 3 gun, but we 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!

As for the muskets! This one is even simpler, I won't sell the flintlock pistols we currently use for our own use, and I won't sell any other short guns in your waist now!

But we can sell bird guns, the kind with fire ropes, now everyone in the Ming Dynasty knows the power of bird guns, then we will sell bird guns, there will still be people who squeeze their heads to buy, we use flintlock pistols, one day someone will use bird guns to hit us, are you still afraid that they can't do it?

That's what I mean by monkey version, we can sell it anyway, but we can't sell the best things to others, we always have to shrink a little bit of water! Do you understand? ”

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's words, everyone finally understood Yu Xiaotian's intentions this time, Yu Xiaotian took a fancy to the current demand for firearms from various forces in the coastal area, and wanted to get a piece of the pie from the huge benefits, but he would not put all the big killers that the sea wolf relied on for a living on the table, but let others buy them.

And Yu Xiaotian has already made a plan, that is, to take out a few things that are specially used to make money, and use them to cheat money outside, so that the big guys have nothing to worry about, although they sold the guns, but the guys in their hands are better than selling them to others, so everyone naturally has no opinions.

The people in the council hall turned their minds quickly, and immediately realized how much benefit this business might bring to them, although now they sea wolves have gained a lot after Chu Cai's old battle, but before this battle, they also delayed a lot of sea wolf business, and the loss was not small, after the two offset, in fact, the sea wolf did not make too much.

And Yu Xiaotian is now determined to continue to spend money on a large scale, recruiting troops, dividing and relocating factories, building large construction projects in chicken coops and freshwater, building new workshops and ship houses, and continuing to recruit immigrants, the financial expenditure pressure of the council hall is very great, and these existing transactions alone have made them feel stretched.

Now that Yu Xiaotian wants to do the arms business, this is naturally another way of making money for them, if it weren't for the initial fear that after these cannons are sold, they may be used against their sea wolves, the council hall will definitely not object.

Now after Yu Xiaotian explained their doubts, Zhao Mazi and others in the council hall immediately raised their hands and feet in agreement, the former weapons were in their sea wolves, but in a place where pure money is not profitable, a large amount of silver money must be invested every month to purchase copper and iron, feed hundreds of craftsmen, and take up a considerable part of the sea wolf's expenses.

Now, if they can sell guns, then the part of the Ordnance Institute 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 to make a lot of money in the Council Hall.

Even if these artillery workshops of the Ordnance Institute can't make money, just to take care of their expenses, the people of the Council Hall are thankful, which is equivalent to letting them get rid of a huge financial burden, which is undoubtedly great news for them.

So this matter was promoted by Xiaotian, and finally got the support of everyone, but the sailors and soldiers still have some opinions on this.

Because they are currently expanding their strength, increasing their manpower and ships, although Yu Xiaotian said that selling the guns they have gone will not be better than using them themselves, but after all, this will still squeeze their production capacity, and the more they sell, the less new guns they will get, and these warriors are a little dissatisfied with this.

In the end, Yu Xiaotian still promised them that even if they did this business, they would first ensure that the quantity delivered to them every month would not be reduced before selling to the outside world, and these guys kept their mouths shut.

With the resumption of various affairs after the war, Nanri Island became busy again, with the reputation of defeating Chu Cailao, many maritime merchants began to become more trusting of the sea wolf, and a new group of merchants came to Nanri Island with ships, some came here to deliver goods, and some simply rented land here to start building their merchants, and started trading here.

Nanri Island is relatively close to the land, close to Xinghua and Fuzhou, and it is also on the north-south communication artery along the coast, and it is not under the actual control of the land government, most of the maritime merchants take a fancy to this and are willing to come here to do business.

In addition, although the sea wolf wants to pump some water in their business, but the rules of the sea wolf are very good, in addition to the explicit water pumping, the sea wolf department is never allowed to take the opportunity to blackmail the merchants who come here to do business, so on the surface, it seems that the sea wolf pumps a lot of water, but in fact, it is much lower than the cost of doing business on land.

As a result, after the weather became hot after May, the number of merchant ships that came to Nanri Island to trade became more and more, and even some Japanese people from the Wa Kingdom heard the news and went to Nanri Island to purchase goods and transport them back to the Wa Kingdom for sale, including some Ryukyu merchants from the Ryukyu Kingdom, who also began to appear on Nanri Island and came here to pour all kinds of goods.

For a while, Nanri Island became extremely busy, and the wharf in the business district was almost not allowed to rest all day, and there were ships to get on the trestle to get on and off the goods, which made the business area of Nanri Island full of people and lively.

The sea wolf is happy to see this, because whenever a ship comes, the sea wolf will draw some water from the cargo on and off, and the more merchant ships come here to do business, the more they will take a cut.

Moreover, after the business in the business area improved, it also drove some surrounding industries, such as wine shops and brothels that were so good that the business was booming.

So the council suggested to Yu Xiaotian that instead of watching the silver being earned by the wine shops and brothels on the island, it was better for them to do this business themselves and earn the money back.

Yu Xiaotian didn't care too much about these businesses, although he also knew that the leather and meat industry was very profitable, but he always felt that he was a little uncomfortable now that he was doing pirates and making this money, but after listening to the opinions of the council hall, his mind began to move.

Selling spring has existed since ancient times, and it is also an ancient industry that has never been banned in this society, where there is a business or a large number of men, there will be such a demand market, and there will naturally be people to do this business.

In the past, when the sea wolf did not go to Nanri Island, in order to solve the physiological problems of the people, he used to buy some prostitutes from the land, and used the status of the sea wolf's internal official prostitute as a reward to motivate the people to do things well.

Now, although because of the two brothels in the shopping inn area on the island, the Sea Wolf has another way to vent, and the Sea Wolf has canceled the internal official prostitution, but now it seems that this business is still quite good.

Yu Xiaotian's most important thing is that he still takes a fancy to a place like a brothel, for the ability to gather intelligence, guests from the south to the north often chatting in the brothel, or revealing some things next to the prostitute's pillow, so among all industries, the brothel is undoubtedly the best place to inquire about all kinds of news.

Therefore, considering that the sea wolf will become bigger and bigger in the future, and the demand for intelligence in all aspects will be higher and higher, and the previous only relying on the land to open the Mao Shengyuan to inquire about the news can no longer meet the needs of the sea wolf, so the council proposed to build a brothel on Nanri Island that belongs to their own business, which is also in line with Yu Xiaotian's need for intelligence collection.

After thinking of this, Yu Xiaotian even agreed to the suggestion of the council hall and allowed the council hall to intervene in this business.

As for what the council hall does, he doesn't want to care too much, anyway, among the thousands of people under his command right now, there are all three sects and nine streams who have done everything in the past, and there are some people who have done this business to handle this matter.

Moreover, at present, Mao Shengyuan's business in various places on the land is quite prosperous, and the road is quite wide, and there is still no big problem in recruiting some beautiful prostitutes to do the skin and meat business on Nanri Island.