On the issue of compensation for the defeat and surrender, the negotiations between the two sides went extremely smoothly. Zhu Zhuozi put forward three demands: First, compensation for the mental damage caused by the detainees during their detention, which is not a small amount. Second, Qianjiazhai publicly apologized to the Thunderbolt Army and publicized it in nearby states and counties. The third is to compensate the Perak Army for the cost of sending troops - 50,000 catties of grain. The reason why he asked for so much compensation was because the profiteer Zhu Zhuozi, in addition to counting the food consumption of more than 200 soldiers during the period of dispatch, also included the cost of the shells fired, the depreciation of the wear and tear of the gun chamber, etc., and even the punitive damages for the last time Boss Qian tried to rob the Thunderbolt army caravan.

Regarding war reparations, Boss Qian had no objections, but cautiously made a request for exchanging goods for food. In his opinion, the Thunderbolt army is overwhelming, and he is at fault first. For Qian Jiazhai, who has strong financial resources, this compensation is nothing. It's just that although there are about 100,000 catties of grain in the village, there are nearly 1,000 people in the village and their families, as well as more than 200 donkeys, mules and horses. Zhu Zhuozi also agreed to this, and salt and cloth were also urgently needed by the Thunderbolt army. Compared with grain, salt and cloth were also hard currencies, harder than silver and iron money. At that moment, the two sides quickly negotiated to use 5,000 catties of salt and some cloth as compensation.

The next step is to talk about business. It was not easy for Zhu Zhuozi to come to Qiongzhou once, and this time there were two strongest companies armed guards, he didn't want to go home empty-handed, and was ready to buy some more goods to bring back to Hengyuan Town. But after turning around the huge goods warehouse in Qianjiazhai, there are not many goods that can enter his eyes. The largest goods in the warehouse were tea, followed by porcelain, cloth and salt, as well as iron farm tools, silk, medicinal herbs and needles and threads. There is no shortage of tea and medicinal herbs in the Perak Army, and the Cockscomb Mountain and the Rootless Mountain are also producing areas; Mulberry and silkworm cultivation can also be cultivated in the controlled area, but the current silk production is very small; There is no need for fine porcelain, and the salt has just been obtained for five thousand catties; As for iron farming tools, they are much worse quality than the Thunderbolts. asked Boss Qian, who accompanied him around, but there was no urgently needed fire nitrate and three minerals of copper, lead, and mercury, which made Zhu Zhuozi extremely distressed. Copper is not to mention the importance of lead, because of its soft texture does not hurt the chamber, it is especially suitable for musket bullets, and mercury is the material for making thunder mercury, which is an essential part for triggering the fuse. If you don't have the supplies you want, do you still have to change salt and cloth? Before leaving, Brother Xuan gave him great authorization, telling him to use the firearms equipped by the Perak soldiers for urgently needed supplies if necessary.

A cacophony mixed with the neighing of donkeys and horses interrupted Zhu Zhuozi's thoughts. When he walked out of the warehouse, he saw that it was the villagers slaughtering livestock whose stomachs had been broken by artillery fire. This made Zhu Zhuozi's eyes brighten, and he hurried to the corral not far away, and saw a circle full of oily and slippery donkeys, mules, and dwarf horses, and his heart was so happy that he immediately offered to buy these big livestock. Zhu Zhuozi's words made the face of Boss Qian, who followed him, extremely ugly, and after a while, he held back a sentence: "I really don't dare to deceive the officials, these livestock are necessary for long-distance business, and they are not for sale." You see if you can choose to buy other goods, and the villain will definitely sell half and give away." Boss Qian's words are not false, the road to do business in the Yibo area is difficult, often three or two months or even half a year, businessmen are often tired, if there are no mules and horses can not do business at all, do not blame Boss Qian as a treasure.

There was a shortage of large livestock in western Sichuan, and there was a shortage of mules and horses in the war, and of course the Thunderbolt army was in urgent need of mules and horses. In order to make Boss Qian endure the pain of cutting meat, Zhu Zhuozi did not hide it, and directly threw out the conditions of exchanging firearms for mules and horses. Of course, I want the coveted firearms, but this mule and horse is also the foundation of business, which makes Boss Qian very entangled in his heart, and he reluctantly agreed after thinking for a while. The next step was to negotiate the price between the two sides, Zhu Zhuozi proposed to use a company of equipped artillery plus twenty flint muskets and a hundred grenades in exchange for a hundred mules and horses, this proposal made Boss Qian jump directly, if it weren't for the Thunderbolt soldiers coming to the city now, he would almost scold the word profiteer. His bottom line is that he can only sell fifty horses, and if he sells more, it will seriously affect Qianjiazhai's business. In fact, Zhu Zhuozi proposed the exchange price very sincerely, you must know that the first company is equipped with two light rapid-fire mother and child guns, eight light tiger squat guns, plus muskets and grenades, it should be said that this price is worth thousands of dollars. The Perak Army's firearms are not for sale, and even if the official army bids more than this amount, the Perak Army will not sell them. But Qian Jiazhai regards it as a treasure mule and horse, and there are only two hundred horses in total, and Zhu Zhuozi wants half of it when he opens his mouth, no wonder Qian Lao will jump to his feet.

Boss Qian's attitude made Zhu Zhuozi quite unhappy, as the leader of the profiteers of the Thunderbolt Army, where is there a reason to suffer. It's just that before leaving, Ouyang Xuan explained that long-term interests should be considered in business, and enhancing the strength of Qianjiazhai is to help the Thunderbolt Army obtain a channel for urgently needed strategic materials. In the next trade list of the trade team personally finalized by Ouyang Xuan, arms trading is one of the key points. Of course, arms are special commodities, and the trading object can only be friendly forces of the Thunderbolt Army, and the manufacturing technology will not be transferred, and the latest weapons will not be sold, and the sold ones are all weakened versions, that is, the so-called "monkey version", which is very different from the Thunderbolt Army's own use. For example, the grenade sold to Qianjiazhai this time is a traditional grenade, not the latest type of trigger grenade, but much more advanced than the sky-shaking thunder used by the official army.

Regarding the possible problem of technology leakage, Ouyang Xuan also made it clear at the high-level meeting of the Perak Army - "In the long run, technology cannot be blocked, do not underestimate the wisdom of the enemy, but as long as we adhere to education and science, and form a complete industrial and research system, we can stay far ahead." Without the support of the system, the enemy may advance, but after all, it only knows the surface knowledge, and its industrial base cannot imitate qualified weapons, and is crushed by our endless new weapons. "The reason why the strategy of selling firearms to friendly forces was not only because the anti-Mongolian cause needed funds, but also because the arms trade was the most lucrative industry in the world; Moreover, because of the needs of diplomacy, the Thunderbolts needed to use firearms to strengthen the friendly forces to consume the Mongols.

Just when Zhu Zhuozi hesitated, Cao Ergou pulled him aside and secretly handed over the bottom: Now there is not much time left in the service life of a company's artillery, and some artillery rifling has also been polished, the accuracy has decreased a lot, and some of the barrels have produced metal fatigue. These artillery pieces that are about to be phased out, if they are used in Qianjiazhai, the charge must be reduced, otherwise they will cause explosions under continuous fire. Based on Ouyang Xuan's train of thought, and because of Cao Ergou's words, although Zhu Zhuozi felt that his profiteer talent had not been fully utilized, he also pinched his nose and agreed to Boss Qian's conditions. Ten cannons of a company of artillery and a hundred old grenades for fifty mules and horses - at the mercy of the Thunderbolts, plus five thousand pounds of salt and some cloth and silk. Zhu Zhuozi heard that silk could strengthen his armor against arrow damage, so he reluctantly accepted it. As for the musket, because compared with artillery and grenades, its cost performance is too low, and Qian Jiazhai feels that it is not as cost-effective as artillery and grenades. To tell the truth, the front-loading muskets equipped with a company have a slow rate of fire and poor accuracy, and although they are extremely powerful, they are really not as effective as well-trained crossbowmen in actual combat. The new breech-loading muskets equipped by the reconnaissance company and hoe company of the internal guard battalion are advanced in performance, but they are extremely expensive to build, and their production capacity is also outrageously low, and the Thunderbolt army itself is not enough. Moreover, this weapon is strictly kept secret within the Thunderbolt Army, and it will never be sold at this time.