Chapter 99 Scope of Authority
"This business is completely within our purview!"
"The Wu family will invest a lot of silver in the ten tunbao to produce glass, soap and other items, in order to prevent small trouble, the real money invested in the prevention will be wasted in the end, they want to set up a guard army of more than 100 people in the ten tunbao."
"According to the regulations of the imperial court, ten tunbao can form a guard army of more than 800 people. The lowly has agreed to their request, but demands that the number of their guards be limited to 800 men! ”
"Weapons are needed to form a guard, and in order to prevent the military households from making trouble, we have taken away all the weapons from each tun fort before."
"The weapons left in the Thousand Households are only enough to equip the lowly guards, and they can't take out the extra weapons and equipment for ten tunbao, and the lowly proposes to let them buy them from the Taoist, and Wu Laosan agreed!"
"As long as the quality of the weapons is guaranteed, they will definitely bid higher than the outside!"
"All of our special craftsmen will make weapons, and every year they are idle except for making some weapons and handing them over to the imperial court."
"It's better to organize them and build some weapons for the ten cantons."
"My lord, not only can you make a little difference from it, but those artisans can also take the opportunity to earn some money and kill two birds with one stone!"
Yang Ping laughed after hearing this.
Crafting weapons is also one of the duties of the guards, and under normal circumstances, the guards should provide the ten tunbao with weapons to form the guards free of charge.
The other party offered to buy it with silver, and it did not involve violations of law and discipline.
Of course, Yang Ping would not refuse this kind of business of giving himself money for free, and immediately asked, "What weapon do they want?"
"I want some waist knives, shields, spears, arquebuses...... If you allow you, they'll want to buy some Franc guns and Tiger guns! Yang Chao replied hesitantly.
"Sell it to them!" Yang Ping made a decision without hesitation.
"In addition to arquebuses, there are also a lot of waist knives, shields, and spears stored in the warehouse of the guard!"
"Instead of piling them up there and rusting, it's better to send them to ten tunforts!"
"This official remembers that there are still six Franc machine guns and more than a dozen Tiger Zun guns in the warehouse!"
"Everyone's personal guards are basically not equipped with these heavy firearms, and it is not illegal to equip ten tunbuns, as long as they offer the right price, they can sell it to them."
"Arquebuses need to be rebuilt by craftsmen, but the price is a bit expensive, and arquebuses are not the same at different prices!"
"Lao Yang, you are from the military, you should know the rules here."
"The high-quality arquebuses are all made of fine iron, which takes a long time, the process is complex, and the cost is high, but it can be fired two or three hundred times without exploding!"
"Although ordinary arquebuses are also made of fine iron, the thickness of the barrel is limited, and it is good to be able to fire more than a hundred times!"
"The worst arquebuses are made directly from ordinary pig iron, the barrel is very brittle, and a better quality can be fired twenty or thirty times, and a worse quality will explode seven or eight times!"
Yang Chao immediately asked: "What kind of price do you want, my lord, so that the officials will have a bottom in their hearts when they talk to them!"
Yang Ping thought for a moment and said: "The worst arquebus is twenty taels of silver, gunpowder, arquebus, and projectiles are counted separately!"
"An ordinary arquebus is thirty taels of silver, and the best quality arquebus is forty taels of silver!"
"Hiss......" Yang Chao was startled by the big mouth of the lion commanding after hearing this.
Although Yang Chao has never built an arquebus, he still has some basic common sense.
In his memory, the most sophisticated arquebuses equipped by the border army of the Qing Dynasty were only more than 20 taels, and this price already included a lot of profits.
The Taoist asked for forty taels when he opened his mouth, and directly increased his profit several times.
Although Wu Laosan is rich, he is not a stupid big family, and it is definitely difficult to accept such an exaggerated price.
Just when he hesitated whether to remind the Taoist to lower the price, Yang Ping spoke again: "This is the price estimated by the official, and there will definitely be bargaining when talking, which does not mean that you have to make a deal with the other party at this price."
"If you can sell the finest arquebus for forty taels of silver, you can take ten taels."
"If you can sell thirty-five taels of silver, you can take five taels of silver."
"If you sell it for thirty taels of silver, you can only get a share of two taels of silver for selling an arquebus!"
Yang Chao immediately swallowed back the words on his lips, and said with a light in his eyes: "Don't worry, my lord, my humble position will definitely live up to your high expectations and earn more money!"
"I don't know the price of the Tiger Zun Cannon and the Franc Machine Artillery, how much do you plan to price?"
"The Huzun cannon is cheaper, eighty taels of silver for one piece, and the Franc machine cannon is more expensive, one hundred and fifty taels of silver, plus one more sub-system and twenty taels of silver."
"Whether it's an arquebus or a cannon, the matching gunpowder, arquebus, and projectiles all have to be purchased separately!"
"You can estimate the price of the waist knife, spear, and shield yourself, and it's about the same as the outside!"
"No matter what weapon you have, if you sell one more piece, the official will give you a little more!"
In Guzhou Zuoqianhu, Yang Chao was introducing to Uncle Wu how he fought for benefits for the Taoist and how to persuade the Taoist to agree to sell him weapons and equipment......
If it weren't for the fact that Uncle Wu himself had joined the army, and Wu Yunlin had just bought a large amount of supplies in Gulin and figured out the actual prices of various weapons and equipment in the Qing Dynasty, he would have been deceived by his superb acting skills.
"Lord Yang, you're treating me like a monkey again! As far as I know, the imperial border army only buys more than 20 taels of silver for a seduction gun, and you open your mouth to quote 40 taels, will it be a bit too much! Third Uncle Wu directly exposed Yang Chao's lies.
Yang Chao looked embarrassed and struggled to answer: "This offer is indeed a bit high, but the arquebus we provide is definitely better than the border army!"
"The high-priced arquebuses purchased by the border army will explode dozens of times, and the good multilateral army soldiers would rather use waist knives than use arquebuses. The arquebuses we sell you are all made of fine iron and can fire at least three hundred times! Third Uncle Wu looked down on the arquebus that Yang Chao sold to him from the bottom of his heart.
But his strength is too weak to make a better firearm in a short period of time.
The first army under his command could only be equipped with arquebuses for the time being.
After hesitating for a while, he replied under Yang Chao's hesitant gaze: "As long as you can ensure the quality of the arquebus, I will be the one who is wronged!"
"I have a lot of guards in my hands, and they can tell at a glance whether the arquebus is good or not. If the quality of the arquebus does not meet the requirements, Lord Yang, I will not buy one if you reduce the price! ”
Yang Chao was excited, and immediately promised: "Please rest assured, Brother Wu, the arquebus we sold you will definitely not have quality problems!"
"I wonder how many arquebuses you're going to have?"
"Give me eight hundred and fifty first! As you said earlier, no matter how good the arquebus is, it can only fire three or four hundred times, and I don't want to have any replacement for the arquebus I am equipped with after it is scrapped! ”
"Prepare me another 400 spears, 800 waist knives, 400 shields, 12 tiger squat cannons, six Franc machine guns, each Franc machine cannon with four subsystems, gunpowder, arquebuses, projectiles and so on, anyway, you can store it and use it slowly!" As he spoke, he took out five thousand taels of silver from his body and continued: "This is a deposit, a total of five thousand taels of silver!"
"You send a batch of equipment, and we will settle the account for a batch of equipment."