Li Nai was about to reply, when he saw He Qiang quietly glancing at him, he hugged his fist to Tao Donglai and said, "Please allow us to discuss for a while." ”

Tao Donglai knowingly pulled Schneider back away for some distance to make room for them.

He Qiang said in a low voice: "Third Young Master, this thing can be purchased in large quantities!"

Li Nai was stunned and said, "Why is this? Our militia in Lijiazhuang is only a hundred people, and even if half of them are equipped with this kind of firearms, only forty or fifty are enough." There are only a few hundred taels of silver left and right, and they have it in stock, if they buy it in large quantities, I am afraid that the Haihan people will not be able to supply it immediately. ”

He Qiang said: "Third Young Master, this is a good thing, we can not only keep it for our own use, but also resell it to make money!"

Li Nai shook his head and said: "Those military leaders in the army are all cannibalistic and don't spit out bones, you may be able to let them sell the ordnance, but let them buy the ordnance out of their pockets...... Absolutely not!"

"Even if they are willing to buy it, how much money can they make by selling it to the army?" He Qiang looked at Tao Donglai and Schneider who were standing in the distance, and continued: "If we sell this thing to Fujian, we can make at least twice as much money!"

"You mean...... Sell it to Eighteen Zhi?" asked Li Nai with some uncertainty.

He Qiang nodded and didn't speak again, he believed that when it came to this, Li Nai could naturally figure out whether this was feasible.

The so-called Eighteen Zhi is a pirate alliance led by Zheng Zhilong, the leader of the Fujian pirates. In 1624, Zheng Zhilong married the daughter of Yan Siqi, the leader of the Japanese Japanese pirates, and inherited his inheritance after Yan Siqi's death the following year, and then gathered the pirate leaders from all walks of life to establish the "Eighteen Zhi", which became the most powerful armed force in the coastal areas of Fujian. By the way, it is worth mentioning that Zheng Chenggong, the son of Zheng Zhilong and a national hero revered by later generations, was born in 1624 and is still in the form of an infant.

After the establishment of Shibazhi, Li Dan also died in August of that year, so all his properties in Taiwan were controlled by Zheng Zhilong, and the properties in Xiamen fell into the hands of the maritime merchant Xu Xinsu. At the time when the crossing group settled in Sanya, Shibazhi was using Taiwan's port as a base to engage the Ming army on the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, and at the same time strike at Xu Xinsu's sea power.

"Fu Ruifeng" also has a branch business in Fujian, and even has private trade contacts with Xu Xinsu and Shibazhi, and is also very clear about the situation there. Now Zheng Zhilong and Xu Xinsu are trying their best to destroy each other and dominate the southeast sea frontier, and the demand for all kinds of materials is huge, and weapons are naturally the top priority.

Because the Ming army in Fujian and Shibazhi were in a state of war, it was obviously impossible for Shibazhi to buy standard weapons from the army, and the only Dutch who could provide a large number of weapons to Zheng Zhilong and Xu Xinsu had been holding the mentality of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and refused to ask for help from both sides, obviously waiting for them to decide on the next cooperation object after they divided their own superiority.

In this context, if another arms dealer intervenes in the market, it will undoubtedly be sought after by these belligerents. As for the price of these weapons, as long as they do not exceed the existing black market price, these owners who are not bad for money will definitely buy them in large quantities.

This kind of underground arms trade will certainly have a certain degree of danger, but for the "Fu Ruifeng" who are accustomed to doing big business, their ability to resist risks is far stronger than that of ordinary commercial banks that pay a lot of money every year to eat and drink well, and these people are usually militiamen guarding the village and protecting the village, and when they escort the caravan, they turn into armed dart teams. Now that Li Nai plans to further weaponize the militia with weapons, it is foreseeable that its combat effectiveness will soon be greatly improved. And as the business of "Fu Ruifeng" on the southeast coast became bigger and bigger, the scale of the militia under its control also needed to be further expanded, and even if it could not be sold at that time, there would be no problem in digesting these arquebuses internally.

Li Nai made up his mind, then walked back to Tao Donglai's side and said: "This kind of firecracker, if you want to purchase two hundred, the price will be according to the previous quotation, all twelve taels of sets, what does Mr. Tao think?"

Tao Donglai said: "Two hundred is no problem, but we don't have so many spots on hand at the moment, this time we will trade one hundred first, and then one hundred after half a month, how about it?"

"If that's the case, then please ask Mr. Tao to give more discounts. Li Nai took the opportunity to bargain.

"Then all guns will be distributed according to forty rounds of ammunition, which is equivalent to us sending two thousand more rounds of ammunition, so it will be okay, right?" Tao Donglai will definitely not reduce the price, but would rather give more gifts, and the price will not let go.

"Then it's settled!" Li Nai was also happy, and he didn't entangle too much with Tao Donglai on this little money. After all, there was no weapon in the trade content of Victory Port this time, it was just a temporary business. Although the transaction volume has been more than 2,000 taels, in Li Nai's eyes, the trade with the Haihan people is far from stopping at the level of "1,000 taels".

The only thing that is a little troublesome is that the Haihan people do not directly use silver taels to trade, and Li Nai and they must first exchange the cash silver into the "negotiable coupons" of the Haihan people, but fortunately, the exchange rate between the "negotiable coupons" and the silver is set at one to one, and it is not too troublesome to exchange huàn. Li Nai still has a lot of transactions to negotiate with the Haihan people on this trip, and he is not in a hurry to settle it immediately.

After negotiating the deal, Li Nai asked: "If you want to buy a large number of this kind of firecrackers in the future, can there be better conditions in terms of price and delivery time?"

Tao Donglai and Schneider, the two old foxes, looked at each other, and both of them had the same idea in their hearts, this guy wants to be a second-class arms dealer!

For Li Nai's idea, Tao Donglai they don't mind, although the agent will take away a considerable part of the profit space, but for the current lack of people, ships and relationships across the group, this is actually the most effective way to open the market in a short period of time. If you want to rely on yourself little by little to explore, I am afraid that you will have to wait until next year at the earliest to sell the goods to Guangzhou, and now agents such as "Fu Ruifeng", "Anfu Hong" and Luo Shengdong have quickly sold the goods produced by the group to the area that the current crossing public can not reach.

It is even more difficult to open up sales channels for commodities with such special characteristics as munitions. Tao Donglai had already talked to Luo Shengdong about this matter last time, but Luo Shengdong said that it was not easy for the Ming army, which was stretched thin, to buy arms, unless it was a special fund allocated by the imperial court and the Ministry of War, even if the arquebus that crossed the group was powerful enough to kill a hundred people with one shot, it was useless.

And the young owner of "Fu Ruifeng" raised this question, obviously not without purpose, Tao Donglai and Schneider were keenly aware of the business opportunities.

Tao Donglai coughed dryly and said: "As long as you can place an order in advance, we can negotiate the specific price and delivery time...... In fact, in addition to arquebuses, we can also buy other ordnance here. ”

Li Nai shook his head and said: "If it is an ordinary knife and gun, Mr. Tao does not need to sell it, Foshan is full of blacksmiths, it is very convenient to create these things, and the price is extremely low." ”

Tao Donglai also shook his head and said, "Mr. Li misunderstood what I meant, I didn't plan to sell you those things." I mean, there are some weapons that are more powerful than arquebuses, I wonder if Mr. Li is interested?"

Li Nai immediately thought of the forts that were being built on the slope of the shore when he entered the port, and blurted out at the moment: "Could it be the Hongyi artillery?"

Tao Donglai nodded and said, "If you are interested in buying, then we can also talk about the price." ”

Compared with the arquebus business, Tao Donglai and the entire military police department are more interested in selling artillery. The same ton of pig iron is used to produce artillery with much fewer personnel and man-hours than arquebuses, and the profit from the finished product varies greatly. The current production cost of a Type 27 arquebus, including a bayonet, is about two yuan, the selling price is ten yuan, and the gross profit margin is about five times.

However, the production cost of a Type 27 6-pounder army gun is less than 50 yuan, and the selling price is at least 6 to 800 yuan according to the estimates of the military industry department, and the gross profit margin is as high as more than 10 times. Larger-caliber artillery has doubled the difficulty of manufacturing, and the price has risen geometrically, such as the large-caliber shipborne long and heavy gun sold by European merchants to the Zheng Jiashui Division, and the price of an 18-pounder gun is thousands of taels of silver. From the point of view of profits, the result is self-evident.

For the sake of arms sales, which will come sooner or later, the military industry has long worked hard to develop a foreign trade version of the artillery specially for export. Under the circumstance that artillery cannot be upgraded in the short term, in order to adhere to the "generation difference theory" in the arms trade, the military industry department has consciously weakened the gunpowder, firing range, and service life of the foreign trade version to a small extent. If one day the troops that cross the group face an enemy on the battlefield using the foreign trade version of the weapon, then the difference in range will be enough for the artillerymen to teach the opponent how to behave.

As for the sale of arquebuses, there is no such taboo, because the development of the next generation of main weapons flintlock pistol has been completed smoothly, and after the black soil port is put into operation, the coal will be transported back, and the steelmaking furnace here will be used, and the tough steel will solve a series of technical problems in military production, and the flintlock pistol will soon become the standard equipment of the armed militia. The arquebus, which has a relatively slow firing speed and limited power, will be completely reduced to a foreign trade product. Of course, this obsolete armament is still a high-grade commodity for the entire Far Eastern battlefield at this stage, and as long as the idea opens up a sales channel, the military products of the passing group will certainly quickly occupy the underground arms market in this region.