The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 29 Arms Dealer
"Where are these interpreters?" Zhu Linmi immediately looked at Ji Liang.

"Reporting to Your Highness," Ji Liang raised his hand, "Caomin has brought five interpreters here, and they should be able to arrive with the truck tonight."

Zhu Lin nodded, and asked again: "You brought goods here?"

"Caomin brought some things that His Highness might need."

"Oh? You know how to do business." Zhu Linmei smiled, "What's there?"

Ji Liang handed a booklet to the guard beside him, and then passed it on to Zhu Linmei, and said, "Ezebania big bird gun, spring wheel short gun, fine steel breastplate, binoculars. Of course, if you need it, there are also The cannon, but I didn’t bring it with me, it’s on the manifest.”

It turned out that Ji Liang was an arms dealer. Zhu Linmi opened the brochure, and saw that there were various military supplies neatly listed on it: Yiziba Niya big bird blunderbuss, 14 ounces each.Ezebane's light bird guns, eight or two.Spring-wheel short guns, 15 two pieces.Steel breastplate, 30 taels a set.Telescope, 35 for two.Shenwei General Cannon, 300 taels.Invincible General Cannon, 800 taels.

Zhu Linmi was not interested in the firearms in front of her. For example, although the Spanish heavy firearms were powerful, they weighed more than 20 kilograms and had to be propped up with a bracket to fire them. They were not compatible with the fast and flexible advanced military concept.As for the Spanish light musket, it was several grades worse than the flintlock that he asked Lu Ning and others to make.

On the contrary, binoculars are more useful things, but the price is too dark.

When he saw the last two cannons, he couldn't help frowning: "How much is the weight of the Shenwei General and the Invincible General?"

Ji Liang was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't expect Zhu Linmin to ask such an expert question, so he had to answer truthfully, "The former is an 24-pounder gun, and the latter is a [-]-pounder gun."

Zhu Linmi shook her head, "The caliber is too large." She continued to ask, "Are there any six-pounders or three-pounders?"

Ji Liang nodded suspiciously, and then shook his head again, "It should be, but I have to go back and see if there are any in stock." Then he took two steps closer and pretended to be mysterious, "How can a six-pound gun be enough for a war? Then The power of the 24-pound gun, tsk tsk, a few hits on any solid city wall can open a hole several meters wide."

"24-pound gun?" Zhu Linmi looked at him and smiled meaningfully, "How much does this thing weigh?"

"Weight?" Ji Liang thought for a while and said, "More than 4000 catties."

"You want me to drag a 4000-jin big guy to fight?" Zhu Lin said coldly, "By the time this thing is dragged to the front line, the battle will have been over for more than a month."

Ji Liang was stunned for a moment, thinking that this doesn't look like the style of a Ming military officer, don't they usually buy the biggest size?So he continued to suggest: "This 24-pound gun is also very suitable for defending the city."

Zhu Linmi frowned. This arms dealer always likes to fool people with large-caliber guns. Back then, Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and others bought twenty [-]-pound guns and went back to defend the city without understanding the needs of Ming Dynasty.As a result, these cannons were not very good at defending the city, but the city walls that were used to bombard Daming after being captured by the Qing army were all very effective.

In fact, these large-caliber cannons are basically naval guns on European warships. They are not suitable for the army to use in field battles, and they can only be used when destroying city walls.

On the contrary, small and medium-caliber cannons and howitzers are suitable for the army-light, can be dragged by a few horses to run around the world, and the preparation time for firing is short and the rate of fire is high.

The artillery of this era fired solid iron balls. A 10-pound iron ball shot every 22 minutes is naturally far less lethal to the enemy than a 1-pound iron ball shot every [-] minute.

But at present, both the Ming and Qing armies love heavy artillery very much. It often happens that large troops have arrived on the battlefield for more than a month, and the artillery is still on the way.But even so, under the guidance of old military concepts, they still sneered at light artillery.

"If the opponent doesn't have heavy artillery, they don't need heavy artillery to defend the city. But if the enemy has heavy artillery, even if I have a more powerful heavy artillery, I still can't prevent the enemy from blasting my city wall." Zhu Linmi squinted at Ji Liang, obviously looking at him Suggestions are of no interest.

This arms dealer could fool ordinary Ming military officers, but he definitely couldn't fool Zhu Linmi, a modern person picked up by a military forum.

When both attackers and defenders use heavy artillery, the attacker hardly needs to aim at a target as large as the city wall, while the defender must hit the enemy's cannons to keep the city.In the Ming Dynasty without modern ballistics knowledge and sights, firing thousands of shells may not be able to hit a cannon two miles away.

"I need two six-pound guns and three three-pound guns." Zhu Linmi continued without waiting for Ji Liang to speak, "There are also twenty telescopes and fifty spring-loaded blunderbuss." He will definitely be the gunner in the future I have to make it myself, and the ones I bought now are purely for artillery training.

Seeing his firm attitude, Ji Liang stopped selling heavy guns, "One six-pound gun costs 800 taels, and the three-pounder gun costs 580 taels. Including binoculars and short guns, the total is 790 taels. See if this big bird gun... "

He came this trip to sell some heavy artillery and firecrackers to make a fortune, but he didn't expect to only make a "small business" of more than 4000 taels, which was a bit reconciled.

"That's all." Zhu Linmi shook her head, and then said suddenly, "By the way, I want to barter."

"Okay, I want raw silk, tea, and porcelain."

"It's fine steel." Zhu Linmi had long wanted to sell the crucible steel overseas. Now that there is this profiteer who has connections with the Portuguese, he certainly won't miss the opportunity.

"Fine steel?" Ji Liang smiled, "Your Highness, don't entertain the grassroots. But if you want the best Goa fine steel, I have some stocks here."

Goa is a Portuguese colony in India, and India is currently the best steel producer in Asia.However, Daming suffered from too many impurities in iron ore, and the quality of steel products has always had a bad reputation.

Zhu Linmei took Shi Lin's saber—it was the first batch of steel knives produced by Suji Iron Works—and handed it to Ji Liang, "I'll try it."

Ji Liang took the steel knife, feeling disapproving in his heart, but out of face, he still begged for a piece of hard square wood, and chopped a few times with all his might.

He has been selling weapons since he was a child, and he is very familiar with steel knives, and he feels different after a few knives.After he finished chopping, he looked at the edge of the knife. He couldn't help being surprised, and quickly asked for another piece of wrought iron. After obtaining Shi Lin's consent, he slashed hard at the wrought iron rod.

The wrought iron rod as thick as a rolling pin broke in response!Ji Liang looked at the edge of the knife again, and was really shocked - the edge of the knife was flat without bending, and there was no sign of bluntness or chipping.

He tried again and again for a long time, and finally confirmed that this is a high-quality fine steel sword, and the quality of the steel used is definitely better than that produced anywhere in Europa!
If it can be made into the style commonly used by Europeans, I am afraid that it can be sold for fifteen ducats, which is more than 15 taels of silver.Now that there is no country in Europe that is not at war, it is foreseeable that such a fine steel weapon will sell very well, and it is a rare commodity. This is a good opportunity to make a fortune!
Ji Liang licked his lips and looked at Zhu Linming, "May I ask Your Highness, how many swords are there? But the style of this sword is only suitable for the Ming army. Can you sell me the steel ingots directly, and I can make swords suitable for the barbarians sell."

"It's difficult to make this steel. It can supply you [-] catties per month." Zhu Linmi, who has used Xiaomi mobile phones, naturally understands hunger marketing. Thirty thousand catties.

Ji Liang was greatly surprised, one must know that according to the traditional method of forging steel, this ten thousand catties of fine steel would need to consume at least five to sixty thousand catties of iron to make it.

Thousands of catties of fine steel are forged every month, which may require thousands of craftsmen to work day and night to keep up.With such a large consumption of manpower and materials, the price must not be lowered.Thinking of this, Ji Liang asked nervously, "What about the price?"

"One thousand catties of steel ingot, one thousand seven hundred taels of silver."

Conscience price ah!Ji Liang asked cautiously again: "Guaranteed to be the same as the fine steel used for this blade?"

"Refund and exchange." Zhu Linmei said indifferently, "To be honest, this knife is just a trial product. The quality of the steel sold to you will only be better." During this time, the iron yard has been repeatedly testing and making slag. He believes that the current technology should be higher than the first two furnaces.

Ji Liang seemed to see crates of gold coins piled up in front of him, and hurriedly said, "If that's the case, Caomin would like to buy this ten thousand jin of fine steel every month!"

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