In the case of ordinary flintlock pistols, even the price of British army standard rifles such as brown bass is not expensive, only about fifteen dollars, that is, fifteen pieces of ocean, ten taels of silver. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It is also necessary to popularize the matter of exchange rate here, during this period, the Qing State did not have its own printed silver dollars, and directly used US dollars, so one dollar is a piece of ocean.

In terms of the exchange rate of other currencies, one pound sterling is equal to three taels, and three taels of silver is equivalent to about five oceans.

As for copper coins, there are made coins and large coins, and one dollar can be exchanged for 1100 or 1600 big coins, but this conversion is too troublesome, and in the future, I will try to calculate it in silver dollars, not copper coins.

The price of a rifled gun is usually three times that of a smoothbore gun, that is, about forty-five oceans.

It's just that the Hall rifle is relatively cheap, and it is the lowest price among all rifles, which is only thirty oceans.

There were only about 100 Ferguson guns made during the War of Independence, and now these are all imitations later, but they also have to be more than 40 oceans.

The price of a pistol has always been more expensive than a rifle of the same type, which is really unreasonable, from any point of view, the pistol uses much less raw materials such as iron and wood than the long gun, but humans are such unreasonable animals.

In short, the price of the Colt revolver is around twenty-five to thirty dollars.

The price of air guns has always been more than five times that of smoothbore guns, which means that air rifles are about eighty-five oceans, and the price of air pistols is even higher than this.

As for bullets, paper-shell bullets in this era were quite cheap, and it should be said that the price of bullets skyrocketed in the following decades.

Rifle bullets in the era of smokeless gunpowder cost about a dime of silver dollars per round, or ten rounds of ammunition a piece of ocean.

During the Civil War, the price of a thousand rounds of elaborate columnar bullets was about ten dollars, or ten oceans.

In this era, ordinary paper-shell bullets were cheaper, and the price of 10,000 rounds of ordinary lead bullets was about ten oceans.

However, the above prices are all prices of weapons of European or American origin, and when they are sold to Guangzhou, they also need to take into account the factor of sea trade.

In terms of transportation costs, the transportation cost per ton of goods from London to Guangzhou is about 30 oceans, and from the United States to Guangzhou is 35 to 40 yuan per ton.

Although the actual weight of these ordnance is not very high, it is not uncommon for maritime traders to double the landed price.

Therefore, this also requires the person who buys the goods to bargain with others, and if you don't know how to do it, it is easy to be fooled.

There are a lot of guns on Martin's side, but most of them are common smoothbore guns, and Li Xian doesn't have many truly high-quality guns.

In the end, the muskets that Li Xian decided to buy were as follows:

Five Girandoni air rifles and five matching air pistols, but unfortunately Martin was so ignorant that there was no more.

As far as the rifle is concerned, there are four Ferguson rear-loading rifled guns and fifteen Hall-style rear-loading rifles, which are still the same problem as the air guns above, out of stock, otherwise Li Xian would have bought as many as he wanted.

Two handmade breech-loading rifled guns made by unknown craftsmen, whose performance is yet to be determined, and ten high-quality front-loading rifled guns, including two Delvigne rifles, are considered to be on the spot.

Colt revolvers for ten, which is also a business of buying as many as you want.

According to the unwritten rule, Martin had to equip each gun with two hundred rounds of ammunition, and more had to be paid.

Li Xian has always suspected that Martin has a secret bullet production line, otherwise these guns have different models and different bullets, how could Martin always be able to provide suitable bullets.

In addition, considering that it was not only possible to buy high-quality guns, but also to properly equip ordinary flintlock muskets in order to train ordinary soldiers, Li Xian also ordered 60 flintlock muskets, all of which were British-made brown basses, so as to unify the types and calibers of bullets.

Li Xian roughly estimated that the factory price of these guns was between $3,200 and $3,500, which was not cheap.

Li Xian wanted those weapons for four thousand yuan, but Martin immediately jumped up and accused Li Xian of robbing himself, and the price of these guns must be more than seven thousand five hundred yuan.

Although the quality of the sea trade will be doubled, Martin's approach is still a bit unauthentic.

Li Xian sincerely pointed out that most of these firearms were second-hand firearms, which Martin had purchased from the crews and captains of ocean-going merchant ships, and spent less than half the price of new guns.

What's more, the barrel and reciprocal wires of these guns are badly worn, and their performance is by no means up to the standards of new guns.

Moreover, the total weight of these guns is definitely less than a ton, indicating that the cost of transportation is definitely below thirty oceans, and even if these are new guns, there is no reason to make such a large profit.

If it was a period when the Opium War had broken out, the price of these ordnance would have increased several times, but now it is still a time of peace, and Li Xian's words are very reasonable.

Martin argued with Li Xian fiercely, habitually took off the pistol from his waist, and wanted to slap it on the table, just when he saw Wang Jiuxuan staring at him with his arms crossed, he suddenly remembered that this killing god had not left yet, and stopped slapping the table.

In the end, after some bargaining, relying on his deep understanding of firearms and his incorruptible tongue, Li Xian finally settled on the purchase of all the guns for four thousand eight hundred silver dollars, but Martin was responsible for allocating 1,000 to 1,500 rounds of ammunition to each gun, and it was best to supply them regularly and in large quantities in the future.

The supply of bullets is something that must be discussed, the models of these guns are different, and the bullets are also strange in the early stage, such as the air gun uses round lead bullets, and the rifle mostly uses round lead bullets with paper shell gunpowder packs, but the Delvigne rifle uses columnar bullets, if Li Xian gets the bullets himself, I am afraid it will be annoying to death.

Li Xian and John finally finalized the business, and Lin Pingzhi was dazzled by the side, dragging Li Xian aside.

"Brother Li, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out so much money for a while, are we buying too much?" When he was about to go out, Lin Zhennan instructed Lin Pingzhi to go to Guangzhou with Li Xian to buy firearms, and even said that it was not impossible to let Li Xian fill his own pockets appropriately.

However, 4,800 yuan of ocean is still a bit beyond Lin Pingzhi's psychological bottom line, the key is that there are not so many people in the Fuwei Dart Bureau to learn muskets, and if that situation really happens, the government will be the first to jump out and fight with the Fuwei Dart Bureau.

In Foshan, an illegal armed force with more than 100 muskets so close to Guangzhou, are you going to rebel?

"Not much at all. These guns aren't just for you, I'm going to take at least half of them. ”

"Well, then I understand.

However, I see that your Mixed Yuan Sect has always been understaffed, so many robberies, can you find so many people to use it?" Lin Pingzhi asked curiously.