"However, I am ready to do so, and I am even willing to lower my profile and trade with you. Are you not satisfied, the Khan? I stroked my brow and said with a hint of disdain. If Jieli is unwilling, then that's it, the price is not negotiable. ”

"Your Majesty, why bother. This transaction must be done, but I hope that Your Majesty can reduce the price a little, after all, it is a business, and in terms of price, it is naturally good to have a discussion, you say yes? ......" Kang Sheath kept saying nice things with a smile on his face.

After a long time, I looked embarrassed: "That's it, since Lao Kang said so, then I can't be embarrassed for you." In this way, a thousand copper, for a thousand pounds of iron, plus a horse of silk. ”

Kang Sheath Li grinned and thought for a long time. "Plus five."

"No, two horses at most, so it's enough, not pulled." Ben Gongzi said angrily, a generation of emperors like Ben Gongzi wasted time here in order to bargain with you, which is really unreasonable.

"Okay, two silks." Kang Sheath replied with a reluctant nod.

"Well, but, after all, it's a thousand catties of the same weight, understand?" After I breathed a sigh of relief, I suddenly thought of something important, and quickly added.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, it must be the same weight of copper ingots in exchange for the same weight of iron ingots." Kang Sheath rolled his eyes covertly and replied in the affirmative. "This can be assured to you by the minister on behalf of the Khan."

"Well, I can also guarantee that a horse is a horse, and there will be no fraud." I nodded with satisfaction, and then gave an order to Li Yuanfang next to me, and soon, the samurai rushed over. Naturally, he wanted to discuss the details of the trade between the two sides with this guy Kangsali.

"Childe, why do you want to add silk to change? Wouldn't it be okay to just take some more iron? There is one more procedure to get silk. Li Yuanfang asked curiously as she walked in the direction of home with me out of the office.

"I also know that it will be a little troublesome to take the silk, but I always think it is good to be able to give less iron to the Turks. What's more, in the future, our Chinese Empire will have more copper, so do we still need to take silk to charge money? I walked forward without looking back, explaining my thoughts.

Li Yuanfang suddenly realized. "But Your Majesty, if we give them so many iron ingots, we will definitely build a lot of weapons when the time comes......"

"When their copper arrives in our hands, Ben Gongzi will use it as artillery, guess it, is it a hundred knives that run to kill people quickly, or is it faster for Ben Gongzi to bombard them with artillery from a distance of one or two miles?" I glared at the guy angrily. "Even if you run in front of you, a cannon filled with lead and sprays out, at least dozens of them will have to be poured."

"Oh, I see, the little one is thinking badly, and I thought that Gongzi you got the copper back because you wanted to use it to mint money." Li Yuanfang scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly.

"Money is meant to be minted, but it's not that time." I shook my head and sighed softly. The issue of minting money has been a frequent occurrence since ancient times. In particular, there is the issue of corruption, and there is also the issue of the cost of minting money

How was money used in the past? It was cast, so why did these dynasties have standard money models. Casting is not only extremely labor-intensive, but also costly, and it is said that the cost of 100 yuan is almost 60 yuan.

If those who minted money do something again, I am afraid that a hundred yuan will be minted, and I am afraid that it will not be enough to cost.

Now, I have been thinking about how to mint money, the old-fashioned casting method is extremely labor-intensive and cost-intensive, and Ben Gongzi has already thought clearly, using hydraulic machinery to directly squeeze the copper plate into coins.

The cost of this practice is pitifully low, but the problem is that there is a shortage of copper these days, and today's currencies not only have different weights, but some of the popular five-baht coins contain less than half of the copper.

And in some places, iron money is still in vogue today. No way, there is not enough copper, iron will make up. The other is that it is privately cast. Smelt it with a regular heavy coin and then recast it, of course, you will scrape some copper from this coin and accumulate a lot, and if you get it like this, you can make it into a consistent five.

Even if it is a regular five-baht coin, and even the five-baht money of the Han Dynasty is still in circulation, damn it, it is a national treasure, and now many people still regard this kind of five-baht of the Han Dynasty as fake money. Even when my son went to the street to buy things, he received this kind of old five baht that I don't know which dynasty it was, full of patina.

It is precisely because of the complexity and chaos of the currency, therefore, if this son wants to reform the currency system, he must be cautious, and the most important thing is that the copper production is too low to meet the demand, so this son will be so green eyes everywhere to fish for copper, even the Turkic copper I want to make up my mind for this reason.

Of course, the copper coins produced not only have extremely exquisite styles, but also have complex and beautiful patterns, which are far inferior to the coins of this era. The only difficulty is if you engrave these patterns and patterns on the mold.

Fortunately, after many years of use and subsequent development of hydraulic machines, as well as for the development of flintlock pistols and artillery in the future, hydraulic lathes have been improved and developed over the years and have been able to operate them easily.

However, it is too big, and for this reason, in order to mint coins, several micro lathes have been specially developed, although small and smart, but the performance is definitely not inferior to large lathes. It is easy to drill small holes less than one millimeter in diameter in the formwork.

Well, the only thing that is the most labor-intensive of this method of minting is to make the template. However, compared to the previous casting method, the cost has been reduced by at least two-thirds. This is definitely a great initiative.

When I returned home, I hugged the two little girls and kissed one by one, and then hugged the two mothers-in-law and kissed one by one, and the four beautiful girls almost unanimously wiped the saliva on their faces with their hands, so neatly and uniformly, I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

"What are you, husband? As soon as you get home, you are so affectionate, is there something bad outside that wants to please our sisters? Qingxia wiped the saliva from her face, looked cautiously in the direction of the restaurant, and then said to me suspiciously.

"Hugh is talking nonsense, I'm happy for my husband, I want you to share your love for your husband, what do you think, is your husband like that?" Ben Gongzi couldn't help but widen his eyes and slapped this girl's plump ass.

"Husband, why are you happy? Speak up and listen. Yaoguang saw Qingxia covering her hips and whispering, and couldn't help but smile and ask me, Well, the expression is very happy, it must be glad that he didn't have time to ask like this

Naturally, I told them the news that I had made a huge trade deal with Kangsali today. "It's not that we don't have enough steel today, it's too much. Moreover, the iron materials in Guanzhong are also quite different in the smelting process because of the different origins. If you want to use these iron materials to make steel, it is easy to cause a great waste of resources due to the difference in origin. ”

"But the iron ore that arrives from Cochin is different. The iron ore in Cochin is not only a large output, but the most important thing is that it is only a production area, so it is much easier to smelt than several iron materials at the same time. In addition, there are countless in our Huaxia treasury outside of silk. But this kind of thing is not durable, and besides, since the advent of the loom, the price of cloth has fallen sharply. ”

"It turns out that the husband fought with this idea, which is quite good, but husband, although the artillery is powerful, the cost is not low, right? According to the price of a five-pound artillery, there is a lot of copper and labor alone. Besides, that kind of artillery is okay to use to siege the city, but if it is far away, it is really not good to rely on cannonballs to smash people. Yaoguang nodded and then put forward his opinion.

"Don't worry, now that the flowering bomb is about to come out, when the time comes, unless it is a siege, otherwise, the flowering bullet with a killing range comparable to that of a grenade will be used." I shook my head and explained with a smile.

The advantages of the wooden handle grenade in the First and Second World War are that the throwing distance is relatively long, the charge is large, and the explosion power is large, but the killing area is small and the killing probability is low.

The U.S. military used egg grenades in World War II, named because they were shaped like eggs. Because the egg grenade is prefabricated with fragments on the projectile body, it has the advantage of many fragments, large killing area, high killing probability, small size, and easy to carry, and the disadvantage is that because the projectile body is small, the structure is too compact, the explosives and detonators are installed in a narrow projectile body, and the amount of charge is small, so the explosion power caused by it is not as good as the handle grenade.

But for a 21st century time-traveler like Ben Gongzi, it is different, combining the advantages of the egg grenade used by the Yankees, combined with the characteristics of the German Yankee wooden handle grenade. It got the wooden-handled fragmentation grenade that the Chinese Renaissance Army is now using.

The iron casing of the warhead of this grenade is processed and prefabricated with fragments, and a handle-type grenade can disassemble at least 35 to 40 pieces of shrapnel. Enough to cover the enemy with a diameter of more than twenty meters.

Mines are now also pre-fragmented to increase their radius and power.

As for artillery shells, at present, only solid shells are available, and as for explosive packs, they can be thrown with catapults and the like, but when using ballistas to fire handleless grenades, long-range weapons of mass destruction such as flowering shells have been considered.

Of course, at this stage, it is impossible to get what kind of trigger-type fuse shells are, naturally from the time-delay fuse, and through the use of experimental guns, a fixed lead has been made. That is, when the artillery fired at angles of forty-five and thirty degrees, as well as ten degrees, the shells exploded at a distance of fifty meters from the ground.

Well, how to adjust the angle of the fuse It's very simple, the fuse is coated with a reticle and marked out, you just need to cut the position, and it will be able to explode at an altitude of five to ten meters after firing at the right angle.