To tell the truth, Li Xian has mainly fought against the British since he started his army, at most he has eliminated some pirates and corpse soldiers, and almost never killed people who should not be killed near Guangzhou, but according to the war-weariness of the Chinese people, Li Xian is still described as a murderer with a big waist and a round waist, the kind that can't sleep without eating a few hearts and livers every day.

Li Xian didn't care, he talked about business with the people present, and even talked about expanding the production of several commodities to various places and selling routes, but he had more specific ideas about the development of commerce in Leizhou.

When the talks were almost over, several of them even asked for a share of the goods produced for their owners, and some suggested that they should pay for a stake in the Leizhou business, and only then did they remember that they were the leaders of the largest rebel force in Guangdong in decades, and then they stopped.

Li Xian didn't care either, and chatted carefully about everything from the business network of the Qing Kingdom to the trade routes of Nanyang, Japan, and Europe, and got a lot of good information and suggestions.

"Oh, by the way, I wholesaled two thousand pistols to you last time, how did they sell later?" Li Xian asked Pan Wu casually.

"Naturally, those guns were sold, and they were sold very well, and I would like to thank my eldest brother for giving me such a good opportunity to make so much money. Pan Wu pretended to be grateful and said with an inexplicable expression.

"So soon, the Pan family will really do business. I still have a few thousand of the same pistols here, I wonder if your family can eat them?" asked Li Xian.

The faces of several people present changed slightly, but Pan Wu didn't understand, and said with a smile: "That feeling is good." As soon as I said that there were foreign guns to sell, the big families in Guangzhou rushed to buy them, and after asking the price, they didn't bargain, they just put down the money and took it.

No matter how many guns you have here, I can eat them. ”

"That's good, that's great, I'll have two thousand pistols here every month in the future, can your Pan family eat them?" Li Xian smiled slightly, staring at Pan Wu for a moment.

"Naturally... It's a bit difficult. Big brother, you are really my big brother, how can you have so many pistols here?" Pan Wu originally wanted to brag, but suddenly woke up and remembered that the person in front of him was not a person who could be fooled casually, and he couldn't do it if he boasted about Haikou, so something big would happen.

"I got these pistols from a merchant in Macau, but I didn't expect this person to sell them once, and then he tasted the sweetness, and when he returned to Europe, he brought back a batch of guns, and said that he would be able to supply 2,000 pistols every month.

Isn't this a headache, this business looks good, but I don't know if I can eat it. ”

"Well, you're in luck. Pan Wu was stunned for a moment before he said: "This pistol is a good thing, but the price is not low, the entire city of Guangzhou has a population of more than two million, even if there are more rich people, it is limited."

I estimate that if the whole city of Guangzhou sells another 5,000 pistols, it will reach saturation, and if you want to sell it again, the price will have to be lowered. ”

This is naturally not the estimation of Pan Wu, an uneducated and unskilled person, but an analysis of the pistol market by his uncle Pan Shicheng.

There is a point in that. However, our eyes are only staring at the city of Guangzhou, which is too narrow.

You see, our Guangdong is so big, and there are many landlords in other counties who are rich and wealthy, can we sell them to them? Or if it is bigger, the whole Qing Dynasty is open to sale, can we sell a little more? ”

"That's okay, if you really sell it all over the world, you can sell 20,000 pistols a year in the whole of Guangdong, but you can do it. Pan Wuyi was stunned, thinking that this was a good idea, but he didn't know why his all-powerful uncle didn't see such a good business opportunity in the first place, and only stared at Guangzhou.

Pan Wu didn't notice that Zhang Sicheng and Hu Chong next to him were frantically exchanging glances with the people next to them, if they couldn't shout out just by looking at them, I'm afraid that they would have sung all the songs of Shandong at this time.

"Don't be idle, those who have money will help a money field, and those who don't have money will help a personal field.

The business of this foreign gun is actually very promising, everyone here is a business master, can you also help to do this foreign gun business together?" Li Xian pretended not to see the small movements of the people around him, and just asked with a smile.

Zhang Si wanted to hide from him, but at this time, all the shopkeepers in the seat glared at him, and thought that his owner was the current head of the thirteen lines, which was different from the Pan family that had already retired, and some things had to rush forward, so he had to say hard.

"The foreign gun business that Li Shuai said is naturally good.

It's just that, in the next shallow view, after all, the pistol has a short range and a high price, so it is acceptable for self-defense, but it is insufficient in the actual battle array.

Pistols are only suitable for wealthy families to collect in small quantities, and the real commonly used ones have to be long guns, so I wonder if the European businessman Li Shuai knows has any long guns to sell?"

"Of course, there is, this person has a wide range of channels, not to mention pistols and spears, even cannons have hundreds.

I'm going to tell him that it's not difficult to get some spears, but I don't know how much I can sell them for, and how much profit there will be in between?"

"This spear is not a rare thing in Europe, a spear is only fifteen oceans, but when it comes to my Qing Dynasty, it will be transported by sea, and the price will be doubled.

Now in wartime, there are many families who are willing to collect foreign guns, and the price can be higher, we can sell it for more than 50 yuan in the vicinity of Guangzhou, and in the remote mountain villages in other places, it is possible to sell it to those rich people for more than 100 yuan. Zhang Sicheng gritted his teeth and said under great pressure.

Li Xian nodded, knowing that these people who are used to maritime trade have much better insight than those officials, when Shen Baozhen was arrested, he didn't know how much this kind of foreign gun sold for in Europe, and he couldn't even distinguish between a rifle and a smoothbore gun, which was much worse than Zhang Sicheng.

"I see. I will negotiate with the merchant that I can provide two or three thousand spears a month, but the price is not low, and the price of each of my shipments will be about forty-five oceans.

Therefore, we still have to think about how to do this business. Li Xian said.

"Well, that's something to think about. Zhang Sicheng replied with difficulty, he wanted to raise his glass and take a sip of wine, but he found that the wine had already been drunk, so he had to put it aside, picked up the chopsticks and picked up some things to eat.

It's just that the information he got just now is too amazing, and Zhang Sicheng's heart was a little shocked, and everything he ate tasted like chewing wax for a while, and he couldn't taste it.

"Mr. Zhang, there's no wine here, come on, I'll pour it for you." Li Xian smiled, picked up the wine bottle, and filled it for Zhang Sicheng in person.

Li Xian showed enough respect for these more than 500 managerial talents, which made these shopkeepers who were used to being despised by the government a little flattered, but they felt apprehensive in their hearts.

In the middle of the night, the banquet dispersed, and everyone went to Li Xian's pre-arranged residence, but Pan Wu pretended to be drunk and ran to Zhang Sicheng.