Eight million taels of silver to buy firearms, the choice of this firearm is also very particular, the court is best to give a smoothbore gun, this thing can be fired with foreign medicine, the power is not too much, how can the use of soil medicine reach two-thirds of the range of foreign medicine.

But the rifled gun is different, the power of this native medicine and foreign medicine is much worse, and without a sufficient amount of native medicine, it is difficult to make the rifled gun play the corresponding power.

The most important point is that Yang Meng is going to replace the Qing Dynasty, this rifled gun was given to the imperial court, and when the war starts in the future, it is inevitable that he will have to ask for hardship, and the batch of old Crimean guns imported by Ding Taichen before have become goods for the imperial court.

I want to think about it, but if I really want to do it, I still have to ask the imperial court, and the Qing Dynasty prides itself on being a god. In the upper country, using the second-hand goods of foreign devils is just a stupid thing to provoke criticism.

However, Yang Meng also has his own reasons, that is, the quantity, this purchase of foreign guns, to put it bluntly, is the distribution of spoils after tax assessment, and the imperial court must account for the lion's share; followed by Zeng Zuofeng's three armies in Jiangnan, as for the green battalion waiting for death, they didn't have the slightest oil and water to touch; This third is the militia group of the five major commercial ports to which Yang Meng belongs and the new green camp.

Eight million taels of silver seems to be a lot, but compared with the price and demand of foreign guns, these eight million taels of silver can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket, the total strength of the imperial court is around one million, even if there are two or three hundred thousand people who are fighting now, according to the number of millions, all the equipment needs more than 100 million silver, even if it is two or three hundred thousand foreign guns, the silver taels needed are about 40 or 50 million.

Such a huge amount of money will undoubtedly not be available to the imperial court in the short term, and the cost of eight million guns will be purchased. At least 100,000 people have to be in charge of equipment! According to the price of the new gun given by Yang Meng. Eight million can only buy 40,000 pieces. Even if you give some discounts, 45,000 will be in the sky.

If you use old guns, the imperial court can get at least 50,000 guns, and Zeng Zuofeng and Yang Meng can also give them 50,000, as for their own side, those smoothbore guns, shooting guns and the like can only be used on a small scale. Or for training use, the real big battle, why do you want Hall or Dressey.

Another point is the problem of logistics, to give the court a brand new starting gun, Yang Meng's side is easy, but the court side is going to encounter problems, lead bullet is simple, easy to make, but foreign medicine is different, it is difficult to make granular foreign medicine without machinery, and it is black. Fire. medicine. There is also a saying about the use environment, and the Jiangnan area is humid. The amount of this nitrate should be more in case the soil medicine is damp.

The north is dry, this proportion can be proportioned according to the power, the winter is cold, the steel is brittle, and the local medicine in those places in the three eastern provinces will also change the formula, and the same formula is used in the north and south of the river, and it is difficult to play a fire. The power of medicine, these things, are all explored by the predecessors, if these recipes are used to make foreign medicines, the imperial court's cost on machinery and labor is also a huge expenditure.

What guy has come into the hands of the imperial court, what can be bought for one tael of silver, I am afraid that it will cost a hundred taels of silver, rather than letting the imperial court launch. The medicine is difficult, so it is better to configure all the local medicine, although this will reduce the power of the musket, but within 100 meters, this lead bullet is still lethal.

Considering all of the above, Yang Meng's plan for the distribution of spoils allocated by the three parties, including himself, is based on quantity, and this transaction is also his first large-scale benefit in the domestic ordnance market, plus the previous gains from the Southeast Peninsula and India, in fact, the Yiliang Arsenal will not cost the Yang family much money.

"Commander, I already have the assigned plan, this is a brief reason, you can take it over and polish it."

A pencil ghost drawing talisman was placed in front of Xu Ziwei, and the things written by Yang Sanye were afraid that only he, Xu Jichang, could understand it?

"Ho...... Third master, I'm afraid this excerpt is not easy! The big men of Jingshi, I'm afraid it's unbearable to be humiliated! ”

After taking a general look, Xu Ziwei also had eyebrows in his heart, but although the third master's plan was good, he was afraid that the Jingshi side would still want a new gun for the sake of face.

"A group of losers, we have more people and fewer guns, as long as the guns are still there, the number of this musket team will not change, sue them, just say that this is Lao Tzu's original words, as long as it can kill people, it is a good gun!

No one has face in this matter, 40,000 and 100,000, the power is not the same, if it is 40,000, Jiangnan needs 30,000 bandits, and the court only has 10,000; If it is 100,000, Jiangnan and the imperial court will each have 50,000, and they can't disapprove of this matter! ”

The firearms of the Qing Dynasty are backward, this root is on the Qing Dynasty, since the beginning of Kangxi, this Wang Ba calf will curb the development of firearms, the musket of the former Ming Dynasty, on the power and rate of fire, may not be able to catch up with the shotgun, but the quality is much better than the firearms of the Kangqian period, double-layer casing, it is not easy to blow up the chamber, if the Qing Dynasty's shotgun, the gun can be carried according to such a process, the power does not have to be much worse than the brown shell, as long as there is more charge, the range can be a longer and shorter, but unfortunately, the Qing Dynasty is not only backward in technology, fire. The power of the medicine is also much worse, and when these two shortcomings come together, the shotgun becomes a waste.

"I hope so! The third master must not forget, the court's suspicion of Zeng Zuo! ”

Yang Meng's words are very reasonable, but as far as the imperial court is concerned, they feel that it makes more sense to weaken Zeng Zuo's strength, and this matter cannot be reasoned.

"Yes! Forget this article, you are in the excerpt, let's talk about it, the news we got from the foreign merchants in Guangzhou said that the long-haired thieves have at least 60,000 foreign guns, and this matter can withstand the school examination, presumably the imperial court also has a detailed work in Tianjing, and the approximate number, they should also know. ”

60,000 should be the number of foreign guns obtained by the Taiping army, no matter how powerful Yang Xiuqing's anti-traitor methods are, even if the imperial court does not work carefully in Tianjing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang or Anhui and Jiangxi, it will always get similar information, so that the imperial court will not be able to choose new foreign guns.

"If you say that, the court will have no choice, but you must also prevent the court from taking these firearms for yourself!

The new battalion of the Eight Banners is undoubtedly a new attempt for the imperial court, since the founding of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the number of banner people has doubled, if Su Shun can learn the training method of the third master, the new battalion of 100,000 Eight Banners, I am afraid it is easy to build! ”

Xu Ziwei's worries are not unreasonable. But Yang Meng only grinned at this.

"Humph! Lao Tzu's method of military training. If it's so studious. Zeng Zuo has already learned, Su Shun, he followed Lao Tzu to watch the play, put on the line and sang the horn, he was just a harlequin! ”

is similar to what Yang Meng said, Su Shun, who gathered 30,000 children of the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division, is now scratching his head! In half a month, nearly 1,000 people were killed. Thousands of exercises have been abolished, but his new battalion of the Eight Banners is getting worse and worse the more he practices, and the morale in the camp is getting lower and lower the more he practices.

Yang Meng's method of training is simple! Just four words: Push the limits! can predict the limit, not only Su Shun is inexperienced, but also his musketeers in the new battalion of 3,000 Eight Banners are also inexperienced. It took Yunnan several years to sort it out.

In the early days, Yang Meng trained his troops. They are all mountain people, their physical qualities and toughness are not comparable to ordinary people or the children of the Eight Banners, Yang Meng got these experiences, the cost is not very large, Su Shun wants to get such experience, it is not a year or two of hard work can be done.

The new army trained by Yang Meng is proficient in this way, when it reaches the limit, what kind of state is the limit state, although they don't know why, but they can accurately distinguish it, which also has the credit of the medical hall.

Yang Meng does not hide his selfishness in training, the key is such an experience, with the vision of the Qing Dynasty or the world, now I still can't understand it, if you want to really learn this set of things, it is also very simple, go to the training ground in Yunnan, walk on it, you can basically learn a rough idea, even if you can't train people like the new army, elite soldiers can still be trained.

Without systematic learning, it is difficult to accurately grasp the limits of soldiers! If you practice less, it won't work; With a lot of practice, it's easy to scrap recruits; The difficulty of this kind of military training method is difficult in the first month or two, once the mentality of the recruits is abolished, then this battalion of soldiers will also be abolished!

People's mentality is very simple, as long as they can bear it, then they can endure it; Once you can't bear it, the rebellious mentality, even killing, can't stop; Su Shun's training is too careful, although it is about the same as Yang Meng's previous training intensity, but his battalion soldiers, the children of the Eight Banners who are content to enjoy account for the majority, at the beginning of the training, Su Shun trained this group of people to despair, this new battalion of the Eight Banners wants to become an army, it is basically impossible!

Su Shun's training was full of complaints, and the four-color stick could not be ignored, seeing that Su Shun's new battalion was getting worse and worse, the four-color stick had no choice but to disperse this battalion of the Eight Banners, and Su Shun was among the children of the Eight Banners, and fell into the reputation of a butcher, Su Shun, who was not treated by the flag people, became more and more isolated, a month's time, a month ago, Su Shun walked on the streets of Sijiu City, and everyone greeted him; A month later, without more than a dozen guards, Su Shun didn't dare to go out of the house lightly, which is called painting a tiger and not becoming an anti-dog!

"Master Peng, what do you think of the military aircraft about Third Brother Yang's excerpt?"

Whenever the four-color stick is not sure of his idea, this has become his mantra, and curbing Zeng Zuo is what the imperial court has to spare no effort to do, but now that the long-haired thief has obtained 60,000 foreign guns from foreigners, if he wants to control the situation in Jiangnan, it has become a choice that he has to make to give Zeng Zuo firearms.

But with the guns, Zeng Zuo's strength is bound to increase again, and when the time comes, it will be even more difficult to control it, this time Yang Sange is benevolent and righteous, and wants to divide the old guns equally among the imperial court and the Yongying camp in Jiangnan, he first uses the batch purchased before, and when the court's finances and taxes are relaxed, he is not too late to buy, if Zeng Zuo can be like Yang Sange.

"Your Majesty, now there is no choice, if the long-haired thief is allowed to rise again, it will be more difficult to exterminate the long-haired thief with a foreign gun, Yang Butang's words are the words of the old man!

With the new guns, it does take into account the decency of the imperial court, but most of this batch of new guns must be given to Zeng Zuo, if the old guns are purchased, then the imperial court and Jiangnan are half each, Yang Butang's words are reasonable, what can kill people is a good gun!

Now this long-haired thief has 60,000 foreign guns, according to Yang Butang, the long-haired thief has been linked with the British and French Yangyi, and their foreign guns will be more and more, if we want to exterminate the long-haired thief, we have to do it in the near future, and the Yangtze River waterway will also be blocked.

In this matter, Weichen also has something to say, Yang Butang in order to take care of the dignity of the imperial court, only put forward the court and Jiangnan half of the theory, Weichen believes that this time to buy guns, the imperial court only needs 30,000, plus the firearms battalion of the bird guns to carry the guns, the number of muskets in the Beijing division is not less than that of Jiangnan.

As for the 70,000 foreign guns, Zeng Zuofeng has 20,000 each, and Yang Butang has 10,000, after all, this Jiangnan and Jingshi are both the territory of the Qing Dynasty! Gongwei Jinkou and Jingshi, 30,000 old guns, 20,000 new battalions of eight banners in Sushun, and the Mongolian cavalry of Seng Lingqin were enough.

If you miss the crackdown on bandits due to the lack of firearms, I am afraid that the situation in Jiangnan will become more and more rotten the more it drags on! ”

Peng Yunzhang stood in the perspective of the imperial court, and also told the truth, Yang Laosan's house is getting more and more slippery, this thing should be like this, in Peng Yunzhang's opinion, the number of foreign guns is higher than that of long-haired thieves, which is the key to victory, once the situation in Jiangnan is reversed, what else is the Qing Dynasty?

"So be it! Zeng Disheng and Zuo Jigao each have five thousand, and Yang Sange and Feng Guifen each have twenty thousand, after all, Yang Sange is going to blockade Jiangkou next, and if the number of foreign guns is less, it will not be successful! ”

Zeng Zuo needs checks and balances, and the key person to check and balance Zeng Zuo is Yang Sange, Feng Guifen was recommended by Yang Sange, so that Yongying not only surpassed the long-haired thief in the number of foreign guns, but also Yang Sange surpassed Zeng Zuo in the number of foreign guns.

"Your Majesty!" (To be continued......)