The Liao River enters the sea, the sails are lined up, the warships and the merchant ships shuttle back and forth, the merchant ships dock at the hastily built simple wharf, the people carry the goods on the ship one by one and carry them off the ship, and then load them and transport them to the city of Yizhou, the road is full of convoys and crowds shuttling back and forth.

These long convoys carried a large amount of cement, grain and grass and other military supplies, and one of the convoys was escorted by a large number of soldiers of the expeditionary force, and the vehicles were loaded with sophisticated muskets and Francophone cannons, as well as a large number of lead bullets and paper ammunition.

In order to convince the envoys of the Xian Empire that muskets and artillery are cumbersome and costly, the senior officials of the Quartermaster Logistics Department also took the officials of the Xian Mission to visit the arsenal and create an opportunity for them to secretly ask the technicians and workers who make guns how much a musket cost.

All the workers and technicians of the arsenal have been notified in advance, the unified caliber, you can pick any worker to ask, and the answer is that the cost price of a grain musket is about twenty taels of silver, and it takes three to five days to make one, and the production process is very cumbersome, not to mention the Franc cannon, the cost price is so expensive that it makes people feel painful.

After some difficult bargaining between the two sides, in the end, the Ming Dynasty in line with the policy of caring and preferential for the younger brother, the price of a fine musket was finally finalized at twenty-two taels of silver, including transportation costs, fifty lead bullets and fixed paper ammunition, and the Xian Empire purchased one hundred short guns, four thousand fine muskets and twenty Franc machine guns, solid iron bullets and a number of flowering shells.

Brothers also have to settle accounts, the order is to pay a deposit, and the delivery must be two silver and goods, can not redeem the account, in order to build a strong army, Lord Li gritted his teeth and scraped together a large amount of arms, although the Xian Empire is short of materials, the people are poor and the country is weak, but the officials are still quite rich, not to mention the king of a country.

Moreover, even if he was really short of money, Li Guozhu had to grit his teeth and make up, he was invaded by the Jin army and almost destroyed the country, which made him feel greatly stimulated, no matter how poor he was, he had to grit his teeth and make up a strong army, 4,000 excellent muskets, 20 Franc machine guns, he had to leave at least half of them to guard the Hanyang Royal City, and the remaining half was divided by the warlords in various places.

The Xian Empire has seven state capitals, each of which has a different number of troops in charge of the governors, depending on the situation, the standing army under normal circumstances ranges from 3,000 to 5,000, and it is only mobilized in wartime to expand the troops, and these 2,000 excellent muskets and ten Franc cannons are simply not enough to divide up.

There are more wolves and less meat, and the state officials of the Qidao Prefecture are very unhappy, these years, the big brother with the army in their hands, worried about being overwhelmed by political enemies, they gritted their teeth and pooled money, and privately contacted Li Xin, the commander of the expeditionary force, to buy guns and ammunition.

Li Xin refused in various ways, but he could not stand the enthusiasm and dead face entanglement of the provincial officials, so as not to make it difficult for him to accept the heavy gifts sent by others and some young and beautiful fresh girls, and the transaction was sold at a price higher than the price of one or two silver of the arms purchased by Li Guozhu.

Maybe it was stimulated by something, the entire Xian Empire is now furious with muskets, and even some wealthy clans and giant businessmen have quietly come to Li Xin to contact their feelings, all kinds of heavy gifts and beauties are smashed, Li Xin is embarrassed to refuse, and has been produced, because it is not a formal channel, and there are arms orders placed by the bigwigs in front of him, if he is in a hurry to receive the goods, he will have to pay some more silver, and on the basis of the price set by the officials of the Seven Dao Prefectures, each musket will be charged an extra one or two silver, and the short gun will not increase.

Nowadays, whether you are walking on the street, or visiting other people's homes, without carrying a short gun in your waist, you are embarrassed to say that you are a high-ranking court member or a rich businessman.

All kinds of arms orders have made the arsenals in Liaodong and other places very busy, working overtime, 24 hours a day, but the workers are very energetic, with happy smiles on their faces, for them, the more work, the more wages they get, the better the days will be, and they wish there was so much work to do every day, how could there be any complaints.

The sophisticated muskets that specialize in the production and supply to the Xian Empire are all old goods used by various armies, most of them are close to their service life, and there is a risk of exploding, and the logistics maintenance soldiers only need a little maintenance, brushed with oil, and they almost become new guns, even if they are new guns produced, the quality is between excellent and inferior, not up to standard, but it is not too bad, so-so can be used for a while, saving a lot of costs.

Zhu Jian was so happy that his mouth couldn't close, he lacked everything, but the most lacking thing was money, there was a fresh empire to help with blood transfusion, imperial science and technology, military industry, etc. don't have to worry about no funds to invest in R&D and production for the time being, and the financial side also has a part of the income, and the civil and military generals are also happy, and they are all happy, at this time, they realized that the emperor is a master of doing business and making money, and they can't help but be glad that they all hugged the emperor's thick dragon legs and made a fortune with the emperor.

The wharves on both sides of the Liaohe estuary are crowded with people, lively, and the outside of Shanhaiguan City is also very lively, the carriage loaded with stones shuttles back and forth, dumps under the Shanhaiguan City, and then returns empty, and continues to pull the stones.

In the open space behind Shanhaiguan City, there are already piles of small hills of stones, marble, pebbles, etc., these are the main building materials, only after the victory of the Horqin grassland next year, these building materials will be used to build two or three concrete cities on the vast grassland, and gradually compress the living space of the Jin Empire.

The three recruit divisions recruited in Guangxi and the two recruit divisions recruited in Sichuan also arrived at Shanhaiguan one after another, entered the new military camp that had been set up long ago, and began to receive regular and systematic military training.

The training cycle of the five recruit divisions is short, coupled with the low production efficiency of muskets, they cannot be equipped by the whole army, and they cannot be used in the Horqin Grassland Campaign in the coming year, so they can only serve as a reserve echelon to supplement the battle-damaged soldiers of other front-line troops.

With the arrival of the five recruit divisions, Li Xin led the expeditionary force to withdraw, and the military camps inside and outside the city of Shanhaiguan stretched for hundreds of miles, the battle flags fluttered like the sea, the shouts of soldier training resounded in the sky, and the entire Shanhaiguan was full of soldiers who were neatly dressed and in good spirits.

In fact, not only Shanhaiguan, but also the garrisons of the entire important town of the nine borders are in full swing training, and the old army after the reorganization has been stationed with the political work officers and the military police, and the mental outlook and military discipline have been very different from before; under the order of Hong Chengchou, commander-in-chief of Liaodong, the whole army has launched military training and various military exercises to make various preparations for next year's Horqin Prairie Campaign.

Although most of them were exposed and killed, some of them successfully lurked and transmitted the information of the Ming army's movements in the Guan.