Sun Yuanhua looked around at everyone present before slowly replying, "Your Majesty, the cost of this rifle is too high. ”

"The steel it requires, the difficulty of casting, and the time it takes to polish are far greater than the rear-loading gunpowder guns that we now cast on a large scale."

"Especially the grinding is very difficult, this gun is different from the rear gunpowder gun, it requires a very high degree of precision, we were only able to use a rough grinding stone at the beginning, but later we even had to change to deerskin."

The officials present were completely shocked when they heard this.

The musket also reached the point where it was to be polished with deerskin.

What does that mean?

The only artifact that needs to be polished with deerskin is the bronze mirror.

From this, it can be seen that the price of this new rifle must be very high.

Sun Yuanhua also sighed, and said with a wry smile: "That is to say, the cost of creating such a rifle is basically five to seven times that of the new rear-loading gunpowder gun." ”

"And if such a rifle fires more than 100 rounds and 100 rounds, the barrel will not be usable, although it will not replace the whole gun, but the barrel needs to be replaced."

"Of course, the most expensive thing about this new rifle is not the rifle itself, but his bullets."

"These bullets are also very difficult to build, and if you are not careful, they will fail, and the amalous acid is unstable, so it is easy to cause accidents when processing, so only a well-trained craftsman can do this."

"A well-trained old craftsman can only make two bullets a day, which is quite fast."

"In other words, a craftsman can make 60 rounds of ammunition in a month, and the price is very high."

"And then there's time, now our arsenal casts that new type of rear-loading gunpowder gun, which can make 2,300 guns a month."

"But the entire arsenal is used to produce this new rifle, and only 300 can be made in a month."

"If we calculate according to this number, we will only be able to make about 1,500 rifles before August this year, and each rifle can only be equipped with about 100 rounds of ammunition, and we really can't do it if we have more."

Sun Yuanhua said a lot, all in all, this form of rifle is expensive, and it is very difficult to cast.

If the entire arsenal were to forge this new type of rifle, it might be possible to produce fifteen hundred of them in the next period, but there would certainly not be enough capacity to make that kind of rear-loading gunpowder gun.

Everyone was looking at Zhu Youxiao, waiting for him to make a final decision.

Then Zhu Youxiao will definitely be equipped with this kind of bullet rifle.

He's just measuring it now, is it worth it?

Because he has 10,000 soldiers of the New Army equipped with rear-loading gunpowder guns, although they are not as good as the latest rear-loading bullet rifles, the advantage of rear-loading gunpowder guns is that the difficulty of casting is low, which is more convenient for Zhu Youxiao to explode soldiers.

The problem was that the power of the rear-loading gunpowder gun was too far from that of a rifle with such a loaded bullet.

Although this so-called rear-loading rifle is expensive and has been turned into a lifting gun, it requires two people to work together.

Zhu Youxiao finally made a decision, he turned his face, looked at Sun Yuanhua and said: "Now we have made 15,000 rifle rear loading gunpowder guns, but we have just recruited 10,000 soldiers, which means that we need at least 20,000 rear loading powder guns. ”

"If you count the replacement guns, then we need at least 23,000 rear-loading powder guns, which means that we only have a shortage of 8,000 now."

"But in fact, these new army soldiers we have just recruited now only have less than half a year of training time, and when they go to the battlefield, they will only be auxiliaries, and they will not be of real use."

"In that case, the current fifteen,000 breech-loading muskets are almost enough."

"If that's the case, then we might as well use all our production capacity to produce new rifles."

Obviously, this new type of rifle is much more powerful than the rear-loading gunpowder guns that the soldiers of the new army are equipped with.

They also didn't expect that the rear-loading gunpowder gun, which they seemed to be very advanced, would be outdated before they had been on the battlefield once.

It's just that Lu Xiangsheng and the others are also very curious, whether Zhu Youxiao will equip this newly created rear-loading gunpowder gun with the army under his command.

Zhu Youxiao also saw Lu Xiangsheng's expectant eyes, but after thinking about it, he still couldn't make up his mind.

He put this matter out of his mind first, turned his face to Sun Yuanhua and said, "I will give you another two million taels of silver, and you must make me three thousand such rear-loading rifles by August, and each rifle needs a hundred rounds of corresponding ammunition." ”

When Sun Yuanhua heard this, he also felt a lot of pressure.

But he also knew that now that the matter was urgent, it was certain that Jiannu would attack the Chahar Department.

As for the current Chahar Ministry, under the rule of Lin Dan Khan, it will definitely not be able to resist the serpents.

If the Chahar Department is completely destroyed by Jiannu, then there will be no more barriers at Xifengkou.

The imperial court had to station heavy troops in the direction of Xifengkou again, and the pressure on the imperial court was even greater at that time.

After all, after entering the interior of the Great Wall at Xifengkou, the Jiannu cavalry galloped for two days and could reach the city of Jingshi.

This situation is absolutely unacceptable to Zhu Youxiao.

So Sun Yuanhua finally gritted his teeth and nodded, and said, "Your Majesty, rest assured, Weichen will definitely not live up to your high hopes." ”

If Zhu Youxiao had a way, he would not be willing to force Sun Yuanhua like this, but the next war was too important.

If this war is won, then Zhu Youxiao will have a buff bonus that the victor is not blamed for.

What changes Zhu Youxiao wants to carry out in the court in the future, it will definitely be like a tiger with wings.

But if this war is lost, then he will become the second Ming God of War.

However, with his current situation, the possibility of him becoming the second Zhu Zhaomen is still very small.

After all, Zhu Zhaomen at least has the support of the civilian clique.

Zhu Youxiao doesn't have a good relationship with the civil official group now, except for those eunuch civil officials, I don't know how many other civil officials, and I hope he dies as soon as possible!

Don't say whether Jiannu is willing to let him come back at that time, just say that once he is defeated and captured, there will be a storm in the court immediately.

He doesn't have a son now, and there is a high probability that his fifth brother Zhu Youzhen will be on the throne at that time.