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The battle in the north did not have much impact on Geng Jingzhong, and he had to develop well in the past four months. The important part of this is that the two divisions of the army are very powerful in Jiangxi, and the Jiangji'an Mansion, Fuzhou Mansion and Raozhou Mansion are all impregnable and impregnable, and the Qing army and Wu Army have sent people to try to attack, but they have been crippled and beaten by a large number of powerful generals' artillery everywhere, and they only tried once or twice before they dared to take the lead again.

In fact, as soon as 2,000 people attacked, they were blown up by dozens of shells from a cannon fire before they got close, and when they got closer, there were not many people left, and the rifles of the Mawei Army were not vegetarians, and they were not within 100 meters of the city, not to mention where to fight, but the hit rate was also very high, and the damage to the enemy was extremely terrifying.

This also made the Wu army and the Qing army really see the huge power of artillery, and after the top level on both sides got a lot of reports, they also began to really pay attention to the artillery. However, at this time, the Wu army and the Qing army still thought that Geng Jingzhong's Mawei Army had too many artillery, but they didn't realize that the performance of the Mawei Army's cannons was far stronger than their red-coated cannons.

Here in Fujian, these days, various military workshops are vigorously producing all kinds of weapons, especially the manufacture of rifles, which have been working overtime. However, just a month ago, the artillery workshop, whose progress had been slowed down, began to work quickly.

After all, the Wu army and the Mawei army still nominally belonged to the same camp, and when Wu Sangui reached here, the Wu army's weapon losses were also very severe. In the case that their own production could not catch up, they were still afraid that people would come to Fujian to discuss the purchase of weapons. This behavior surprised the whole of Fujian. This Wu Sangui's face is really thick enough. But Geng Jingzhong admires Wu Sangui very much for being able to do this, and he is worthy of being a traitor!

There are also many blacksmiths on the side of the Mawei Army, even if there are no in the army, but Fujian has always treated craftsmen well, and many can be recruited in Fujian. In addition, in the past, military workshops were able to produce all kinds of cold weapons, weapons and armor on their own, so the scale of expansion began to create a large number of cold weapons. Cold weapons such as knives, guns, axes, hooks, forks, and bayonets are indeed low in technology, as long as they are not the pursuit of high-quality products. Ordinary craftsmen can build it. Generally speaking, if these jobs are built by excellent craftsmen in the army, although the cost is low, but the human resources are too large, so Geng Jingzhong ordered the industrial structure to be adjusted immediately, and decided to let the workshop do something and not do something.

These low-tech products were all outsourced, and instead of letting Maweijun's own excellent craftsmen build and produce, they cooperated with major commercial houses in Fujian to gather people to set up blacksmith shops. Or the iron field, the horsetail army will be directly ordered. Ordering from them is undoubtedly a good thing for these blacksmiths and ironworks all over Fujian, and even if there are various trading houses that make a profit, they can still make a profit from it. The Mawei Army's own excellent craftsmen devoted themselves to the production of more important rifles and artillery, not only to meet their own needs, but also to prepare for sale.

This decision surprised the senior officers of the Mawei Army again, although this is not the first time, but this period is very critical, now there are major wars across the country, artillery is a scarce thing, and the power is huge, isn't it to make trouble for yourself to sell it to the enemy? But Geng Jingzhong has decided that although it is very critical now, he is still ready to start doing such a business. Sell this thing to Wu Sangui and Kangxi Xiao Mazi to get huge benefits from both sides.

However, as soon as he said this, he was unanimously opposed by his subordinates. Except for Yao Qisheng, everyone else said that such a decision would never be accepted. When is it now, if you sell the cannons to the Wu army and the Qing army, and then use the cannons they made to deal with them, then you can pay it back? So this thing is not as good as five or six years ago, it can't be done, and it can't be done when it comes to the horizon. All in all, the officials who were able to participate in the meeting from all levels of Fujian basically expressed their opposition collectively at the moment. Many people even think that Geng Jingzhong, the "prince" and "metropolitan governor", is in a hurry to make money, and he actually came up with such a crazy idea.

In the conference hall, listening to the group of civil and military attachés below arguing like a group of noisy ducks, Geng Jingzhong silently let them make noise below with a smile, but comfortably lit a cigarette and smoked a few puffs. The people below had enough of arguing, and gradually began to shift their attention to Geng Jingzhong, seeing that Geng Jingzhong looked like an old god was there, and began to feel that they were wrong and wrong, otherwise Geng Jingzhong would not be so calm, so the noisy guys he saw also closed their mouths.

Geng Jingzhong pressed out the cigarette roll in his hand in a fine glass ashtray, which would be worth fifty silver dollars if it was placed on the market, but Fujian has not expanded the scale of the glass workshop, because once this thing is produced, the value will be lost. At this time, Geng Jingzhong smiled and said, "Why did you stop?" Enough of the noise? Isn't it noisy? It's okay, keep arguing! I can wait! Come on! ”

As soon as Geng Jingzhong said this, everyone felt that something was a little wrong, so they raised objections one by one, waiting for Geng Jingzhong to speak. Geng Jingzhong saw that no one was talking, so he lowered his face, and then glanced coldly at everyone below, and said in an angry tone: "Why don't you make noise? Is this still like a council chamber? Before the Pontus had finished speaking, you jumped out one by one, are you the Grand Governor or am I? What do you think of this place? Bazaar? Licentious! I'm used to you! ”

When everyone heard this, they all felt Geng Jingzhong's anger, so they didn't dare to slack off, and quickly stood up together, bowing their heads and pleading guilty to Geng Jingzhong. And Geng Jingzhong saw that these people had been suppressed by him, so his face slowed down slightly, and he waved his hand: "That's it!" Sit down! If you have any opinions in the future, at least you have to wait until I finish speaking! Was the governor of Pontus a man who could not listen to the word of faith? After all these years, if the Governor of Pontus had thought that he would have decided everything at once, he would have allowed you to object to my opinion? ”

Everyone hurriedly nodded and said, "The subordinates are guilty!" ”

"Alright! It's good to know what to do! It's not too late for you to hear me finish! Geng Jingzhong said slowly: "Now everyone knows that this cannon is very important, and it is very difficult for the Qing court and the Wu army, they can't make a few of them themselves, hehe, this is also our credit!" The Qing court is now using troops with both the Wu army, and the value of the cannon has more than doubled. The Wu army couldn't build or buy it, but the Qing court got on the line with the Dutch and Portuguese merchants and bought a batch of 80 red-coated cannons. And there are actually many merchant ships that transported some iron cannons from the Wa Kingdom to sell to the Qing court under the temptation of huge profits, hehe, it can be described as a windfall! Even a kind of iron cannon (a kind of musket) made by the Japanese and a kind of fire gun made by the Portuguese, each of which can be sold for dozens of taels of silver, and even if it is a tattered bowl, the Qing army actually bought it for two hundred taels of silver! It's really crazy to want to shoot! ”

"Although we don't look down on these things, they are good things for the Qing court and Wu Sangui. Moreover, the Qing court has so many artillery pieces into the army, but Wu Sangui does not, so it is bound that the balance between the two sides will be broken, which is not a good thing for us. What's more important is that, as far as I know, the artillery we sold to Wu Sangui has reached the end of its service life, and it is estimated that it will not last for a few days. Then we're in real trouble! Therefore, we must sell some of the cannons, and it doesn't hurt to have more, it is difficult to make money without making money by doing such a deal with Wu Sangui. Among them, what we have obtained is not only a large amount of money, but also other benefits.

The following intelligence department has already reported that the Portuguese sold 30 Hongyi cannons to the Qing court, earning 100,000 taels of silver, and the Dutch sold 50 cannons, earning more than 200,000 taels. Even the kind of earthen cannon of the Japanese State actually costs two thousand taels of silver, and these short cannons of the Japanese State will explode from time to time, even if this is the case, the Qing court actually accepts them all. And so far, we can cast various types of Hongyi cannons in large quantities, and the cannons in our army can be pulled out casually, and it is estimated that Wu Sangui can pay 10,000 taels of silver for the smallest general cannon.

But how much does it cost us to cast a general cannon? We produce the raw materials of iron and copper ourselves, and the cost of building a general cannon is only a little more than five hundred taels of silver, which is already high. This is also due to the high wages of the craftsmen and masters. Hehe, the assembly line iron fan casting cannon is not fun. Once we are willing to sell, the money we earn from one cannon will be enough for us to build at least twenty more guns of the same type, so why don't we do such a good deal? Do you think our Ponytail Army is very rich now? Don't think about how to make money? I tell you, if we continue to consume like this, our Mawei Army will also run out of money! Geng Jingzhong said, and finally reprimanded these subordinates with raised eyebrows.

"Ahem, let me interject!" At this time, Yao Qisheng followed Geng Jingzhong's voice and said: "You may not know the situation of our Mawei Army, we were indeed short of money some time ago, that is, the last battle in Ji'an, we spent three million big silver dollars at once, plus the construction of various places this year, more than 60 million big silver dollars were spent, so we made a lot of money, but we can spend more!" ”

These guys listened to the series of figures reported by Yao Qisheng, especially the generals in the Mawei Army, their eyes widened one by one, they only knew that they were training with their subordinates, stationing, or going out to work according to orders, or patrolling, or inspecting passing ships, in short, they only cared about the things under their noses, and they rarely cared about making money and spending money. Anyway, there is the "God of Wealth" Geng Jingzhong, the "prince" and "Dadu Governor", and they just wait for the salary at the beginning of each month, as for where the money comes from, they never care too much. (To be continued......)