Lord of Ming Dynasty

The generals of the army are frequently mobilized. Generally, within three months, the generals need to go out to fight, go to other places to support, or go to the Governor's Mansion to do things for Zhang Qiang. Therefore, the Jinhua Rebel Army is actually a mobile and positive group now.

But now it’s a bit chaotic, Zhang Qiang’s quartermaster Milin is fighting outside, the admiral of Jinhua Mansion is also fighting outside, Zhou Porridge is running around dealing with government affairs, and at the same time responding to Zhang Qiang’s many requests, Zhu Dayou is now helping himself here, The Governor's Mansion has become an empty shell, and Zhang Qiang's mobile office has weakened this administrative system a bit.

But his attendant's room is still in the Governor's Mansion, because there is no one to preside over it, it is probably paralyzed.

Zhang Qiang felt that this problem must be solved.

"Cough cough..." Seeing that Zhang Qiang didn't respond for a long time, Liu Guoxuan coughed hard twice.

Zhu Dayou woke up suddenly, because he was used to Zhang Qiang's distraction when talking to people or doing things, so when he saw Zhang Qiang's eyes were dull, he immediately stood there and fell asleep. got used to.

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Chapter 224 Buying and Selling Costs

Hearing Liu Guoxuan's reminder, Zhang Qiang recovered from his imagination and smiled awkwardly.

"My lord, do you think you can sell this musket to the Spaniards?" Liu Guoxuan repeated his question.

"Sell, why not sell?"

"If you have money to make, why not make it?"

Zhang Qiang spread his hands and said very generously.

"But we don't have any spare matchlock guns," Liu Guoxuan asked.

"I have, how much are the Spaniards going to buy?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"15 taels of silver, they are willing to pay 15 taels of silver for a shot." Liu Guoxuan said eagerly when he heard Zhang Qiang agreed.

"What? It's only 15 taels of silver. Master Liu, are you right?" Zhang Qiang looked at Liu Guoxuan in surprise and said.

"My lord, are these your old ones?" Liu Guoxuan asked.

Zhang Qiang nodded slightly. Needless to say, it took a long time to capture the Ming army and Qing army, even the Dutch and Portuguese. People nowadays generally have no awareness of maintenance, so many guns actually look very old.

"But I also sold you a lot of new guns that we have newly equipped. Could it be that they are also 15 taels of silver a shot?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Your Excellency, the whole musket market is like this now. In the past, the Dutch and Portuguese only sold us 30 taels of silver a shot. If it is the kind of arquebus produced by the Portuguese in Haomenjing, it is 20 taels of silver a shot." , the quality of the matchlock guns produced by the Ming army in the past was only 15 or 15 taels of silver, and the poor quality was only [-] or [-] taels of silver. Now we sell the captured guns for [-] taels of silver, which is considered a very good price Besides, the Spaniards have said that no matter how old they are, they will charge [-] taels of silver, as much as they have, this is to take care of us, the Spanish businessman is still very trustworthy." Liu Guoxuan spoke for the Spaniards.

Zhang Qiang sat back and said with a smile, "Master Liu, how many kickbacks did you take from the Spaniards, probably more than this price?"

"My lord governor, how do you say this? I am very honest with you, how dare I lie to you?" Liu Guoxuan quickly defended.

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"Hehe, the bad thing is that the Spaniards bought it for 15 taels of silver a shot. I gave you a friendly price. Do you know the factory cost price of the arquebus you are currently equipped with in our army?" Zhang Qiang After finishing speaking, he signaled the guards beside him to bring over the matchlock gun on his body.

Now Zhang Qiang's Chasers are equipped with version 1.1, because version 2.0 has not yet been refitted on a large scale and caught up with the Dutch attacking the coast, so the entire Jinhua Rebel Army is now equipped with version 2.0 matchlock guns, which is the Arsenal of Xianju County The garrison, the garrison of the arsenal and artillery factory in Jinhuafu, is it close to the water!

They are the first troops to be equipped, and they are also the ones to test their performance. They train and test the new matchlock guns every day, so they are equipped first.

Now that the test is complete, many arquebus guns have been produced, but they are all stored in the warehouse, waiting for Zhang Qiang to buy them before they can be shipped to various places to equip the regular army, that is, the elite garrison soldiers.

Even Wei Wuji, Du Ge, and Milin who fought on the front line were only equipped with version 1.0 matchlock guns.

Of course, the highest version sold to Liu Guoxuan and the others was version 1.0.

Of course, there are very few of them. The Jinhua Volunteer Army is only equipped with version 1.0, so they may sell them, but a small amount of matchlock guns equipped for Liu Guoxuan’s guards, and the guards of Yu Xing, Zheng Tai and others have all bought this 1.0 version. version of the arquebus.

This is a certain thing, because Zhang Qiang wants to establish a good relationship with Zheng Chenggong's love generals, so as to benefit his own development in Baodao.

Liu Guoxuan watched as Zhang Qiang took the 1.0 version matchlock gun from the guard.

Zhang Qiang said to him: "We have improved a lot of things about this kind of matchlock gun. Improvement needs cost, right?" Zhang Qiang looked at Liu Guoxuan.

Liu Guoxuan nodded, although he didn't know how much, because he was good at strategy and naval warfare and didn't know about those at all, but he felt that since the improvement must have cost money, and it was quite a lot.

"In order to study this matchlock gun, we spent 300 million taels of silver, spent a year and a half, hired craftsmen, built factories, purchased raw materials, and spent countless time and energy on research. We spent 100 million taels of materials alone. Two denarii."

Zhang Qiang spoke eloquently.

Liu Guoxuan didn't know before, but now that Zhang Qiang said that he spent 300 million taels of silver, how many houses, fertile land, concubines, ships and troops he could buy with these 300 million taels of silver, he couldn't help but click his tongue. But willing to invest.

However, the input-output effect is also very powerful. He saw the Jinhua Rebels beat the Dutch in the castle with this kind of matchlock gun. Well, with this kind of matchlock gun, the enemy has no chance to return the phone. If they fight row by row, the enemy will either die or be injured. This is why he wants to buy this kind of matchlock gun and hire Zhang Qiang's soldiers to train the army for him. .

The continuous firepower made him feel excited. At one time, he felt that he must own this kind of gun. When it comes to the cavalry of the Qing Tartars, as long as they have enough numbers and matchlock guns, once those Qing Tartars get close to the troops, they will not be able to open their formation without paying a heavy price.

He can cover the arquebus with pikemen and cavalry.

If he had Zheng Chenggong's iron armored sea soldiers, he would be able to defeat the Qing army whether it was at sea or on land.

"Then what is the current price of a single branch?" Liu Guoxuan asked.

"Friendship price, do you think I care about this little money? The production cost of one of us is 30 taels of silver. If it weren't for the friendship between you and me, and the friendship between us defeating the Dutch together, I would give you more than ten taels of silver." Is it the price of two silvers per rod? I lost more than half of it? My investment is still far from being recovered. Do you think we Ming people are stupid or the Spaniards are stupid? Why should we sell to them at a loss? "

Zhang Qiang asked.

In fact, at the time of research, these costs are real. It is true that so much money has been spent, but the cost of raw materials, manufacturing, and plant costs are apportioned. The more manufactured, the lower the cost.

In the beginning, the cost was more than 30 taels of silver, because it was all investment. In fact, the cost of one stick was several hundred taels of silver. Later, as more and more production was made, the cost dropped even more. Now it is only ten taels of silver per stick.

What was sold to Liu Guoxuan was indeed a friendly price, and almost no money was made.With the improvement of the technology and the mature use of the assembly line, the cost will become lower and lower, and may even reach five taels of silver per rod.

No matter how low it is, labor, raw materials, and transportation costs will not be suppressed, so the price will fluctuate from a little more than four taels to five taels.

However, the Ming army made a matchlock gun, which was made by hand, and low-quality iron could be made by buying it, so the cost was only labor, low-quality iron materials and some firewood money, and two taels of silver were enough.

But would a gun like that work?

"Sir, in this way, it is indeed cheap. In fact, the price given by the Spaniards is 18 taels of silver." Liu Guoxuan said with a blushing face.

"Hehehe," Zhang Qiang smiled, as if I knew it was like this.

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Chapter 225 The Spaniard Can't Be Cheap

Seeing Liu Guoxuan's guilty look, Zhang Qiang stopped his smile, and said earnestly: "Guoxuan, we are all Han Chinese, we are all from Ming Dynasty, now we are from Nanming, and the Spaniards are from Taixi and foreigners. We're not a family, are we?"

Liu Guoxuan was very cooperative, with a look of strong curiosity, he nodded slightly, which he agreed with.

Everyone still belongs to the same court, the Longwu court.

Nanming also had the Yongli court, King Lu, the court of Lu Jianguo, and even farther away, Daxi was still fighting, and many of Zhang Xianzhong’s old ministries were still fighting under the banner of Daxi, and some of Li Zicheng’s old ministries in Dashun still did not participate in any of the Southern Ming The imperial court still fought against the Qing army in the name of Dashun Kingdom and under the banner of Dashun.

Before the Southern Ming Dynasty, there was a more orthodox and legal Hongguang court, and now these courts are the continuation of the Hongguang court, the continuation of the Hongguang court.