Wu Sangui came under the guise of coming to pay tribute to the second husband of Mei Li, of course this is just an offspring. ∈◆, his real purpose was to come to Liu Jun to buy cannons. Previously, Liu Jun gave the imperial court a batch of cannons, with thousands of cannons, but most of them were small cannons such as tiger squats, including ten beasts, and they were also cannons cast in Macau in the early years.

Although the War Department was very happy to transport these things away, the Guanning Army who arrived at the capital was not satisfied after seeing them. They had known that Liu Jun used cannons in southern Liaoning and knew that Liu Jun had a large number of new Western cannons in his hands.

As the Guanning Army, which was built by the imperial court, they did not lack old-style small cannons such as the tiger squat and the enemy. They hoped to get Liu Jun's new cannons and the heavy cannons he obtained from the Southeastern barbarians.

Hong Chengchou Gao Qiqian and others sent Wu Sangui to Hubei in person.

On the way, Wu Sangui happened to meet Qin Liangyu and twelve red barbarian cannons heading north. After seeing those cannons, Wu Sangui became more sure that Liu Jun did have good cannons in his hand.

After hearing about Wu Sangui's purpose, Liu Jun was not surprised.

"The 18-pound red cannons of four thousand pounds, each with eight thousand silver dollars, and two thousand pounds of nine-pound red cannons, each with four thousand yuan, one thousand two hundred pounds of three-pound cannons, each with two thousand four hundred silver dollars. Each cannon can be equipped with a complete set of tools, as well as one hundred live ammunition shells and one hundred shotguns, with a cannon stand, and no tractors."

Liu Jun readily agreed to pull out some red artillery cannons and sell them to Guanning Army, but the price was quite amazing. Basically, it was one tael of silver per pound of cannons. A four thousand pound of cannons of 8,000 yuan was silver dollars, not much or less.

Wu Sangui was shocked and exchanged for one pound of cannon for one tael of silver, which was sold by weight.

"Duke Chu, this price seems to be a bit high. The red barbarians cast by the court only cost 3,000 taels of silver per family."

"You get what you pay for. The red barbarian cannon cast by the court is more than 3,000 pounds and more than 3,000 taels of silver. Moreover, the cannon has sunk and is not far away. I'm right." Liu Jun said with a smile, "Let's do this. Let's not talk about the price or the cost-effectiveness. I'll take you to see the cannon first, and you can see the shooting effect yourself."

In the empty field, the carriage pulled out the eighteen-pound long-borne cannon. The gunners familiarly pushed the cannon, and the shelling preparations were completed in less than a stick of incense.

In order to show the power of the artillery, the artillery set a target, an abandoned house located two miles away.

It took another incense stick for about 10 minutes. The artillery fired three guns, and the first two guns passed by, and the third gun hit the house and directly smashed the wall of the rammed earth.

"Two miles away, one of three shots, why? This speed, range, and power are still satisfactory?" Liu Jun asked.

Wu Sangui had wiped the scar on his nose several times. The personal soldiers standing beside him knew that this was the subconscious action of the Lord of the General Town when he was seriously thinking about the problem.

A distance of two miles, it was possible to hit a house with three guns. This accuracy has already made Wu Sangui very moved. Although it must have a lot to do with the gunner, the guns are indeed much more effective than the original Red Barbarians.

"Duke Chu, we want this cannon." Wu Sangui finally said.

He didn't even bargain anymore, and the court paid for the money in the end. Although the court was very poor, the Guanning Army always gave priority to supplying money, food, and whatever you want would be.

"But why is this cannon cast from iron, and why is it not cast from copper?"

"Iron cast is lighter and has stronger performance. The red barbarians in the court were made of copper, so is this cannon good?"

Seeing that it was true, Wu Sangui nodded, "We need twenty-five of this kind of 18-pound cannon. Nine pounds come for fifty, and three pounds come for one hundred."

"Do you have so much money? I don't owe to credit." Liu Jun chuckled. These cannons combined cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Even if the court had money, it was not as much money as this. He spent hundreds of thousands of silver on them at once to equip them with so many cannons.

"And, even if you want it, I don't have that much."

“How many are there?”

"Half you just wanted."

The number was reduced by half at once. Wu Sangui nodded with regret. It was also very good to get half of it. He was equipped with so many red cannons, but he was afraid that he could not defeat the Tartars? By then, he would defeat the Tartars and have all fame, fortune, promotion and wealth.

"Okay, we all want it, I'll ask someone to prepare the silver bill immediately." Wu Sangui couldn't wait to order this order, thanks to Sihai Bank, which has foreign exchange business. As long as he immediately sent someone back to Liaodong, he asked them to deposit the silver in the bank, and wait for the bank to deliver the bill, he could get the silver. Even if he wanted to hurry up, he would deposit the silver directly in the bank and exchange it for silver dollar coupons or silver bills, and immediately bring it to Huangzhou faster.

"etc!"

Liu Jun called out the excited Wu Sangui.

"Donald Chu has any other requirements?"

"Yes." Liu Jun smiled. He would not sell the cannons to Wu Sangui so cheaply, just about 100,000 taels of silver. Liu Jun was not short of this little silver.

"The cannon can be sold to you, but I don't want silver."

"Don't want the money?" Wu Sangui was stunned for a moment, but immediately understood that not wanting money was not for free, but for other things to be collected. "What kind of payment does Mr. Chu want us to pay?"

"Everyone wants horses, war horses and horse-drawing. I hope you can pay all of this batch of artillery with horses. Each war horse is fifty silver dollars, and each horse is thirty silver dollars." Liu Jun put forward his own conditions. Liu Jun's troops have always lacked horses because they cannot get a good import land for horses.

Liu Jun also needs horses, cavalry, scouts, messengers, and even officers' mounts. The demand for horse pulling is also huge, especially after a large number of artillery is equipped, the field artillery and heavy artillery, each of which requires seven or eight horses to pull. In addition to ammunition trucks, food and grass, the demand for horse pulling has surged.

Liu Jun had cannons, but Guanning Army had horses.

Since the Qing army conquered Mongolia, the court has also lost two horse markets in Liaodong and Mongolia, and the main sources of war horses have been cut off. However, the Guanning Army guarded the pass outside the pass, but privately controlled the transaction of horse smuggling. If you want a horse, it is more convenient and direct to the Guanning Army than to find an emperor.

"There is no problem to replace horses with cannons. But Mr. Chu should know that it is difficult to find a war horse now, and it is rare to pick up a horse. I won't say much. I will be the leader in private. One war horse is 100 silver dollars, and one horse is 40 silver dollars? This is the lowest reduction." Wu Sangui did not dare to speak like Liu Jun.

One hundred silver dollars is only fifty taels of silver, and the price of war horses is indeed very fair. However, Wu Sangui needs Liu Jun's artillery very much, but Liu Jun may not need his horse like him. Even if he suffers some losses, Wu Sangui won't compete for that much.

"I'll give you twelve doors, eighteen pounds, twenty-five doors, nine pounds, fifty doors, three pounds of red barbarians, even twenty-five six thousand silver dollars." Liu Jun calculated and felt that the money was a little small, only 250,000 silver dollars. Although he sold more than a hundred cannons, he couldn't buy much horses.

"One thousand war horses and three thousand nine hundred horses to pick up, I'll make up for it and give the Marquis a thousand war horses and four thousand horses to pick up." Wu Sangui said.

Only five thousand horses were far from Liu Jun's goal. He began to think that he might be able to sell a tweak gun to Guanning Army.

Wu Sangui seemed to be a little impressed, "Does the Marquis have any other firearms to sell us?"

Liu Jun smiled, "We have two muskets here, both of which are extremely sharp. When I led the new army for more than a month, I was able to defeat the bandits who had been scattered in the Central Plains for more than ten years. It was precisely because of them."

Liu Jun asked someone to get two muskets, one bird gun and one flying dragon gun.

"These two guns have been improved by us, and they both use fixed loadings, especially this flying dragon type, which has a self-opening door and a wide butt stock. Not only does the accuracy greatly increase, but the shooting speed also increases a lot. Especially this self-opening door can greatly adapt to the windy weather in the north, and do not fear the wind blowing gunpowder. It also does not affect shooting even in general cloudy and light rain."

Liu Jun first picked up a bird gun, loaded it skillfully, then raised the gun, and fired a gun at the rake eighty steps away.

"In the center of the rake." The soldier raised the rake. A wooden man had an iron armor on his body. Now the wooden man was shot in his chest, and the iron armor that should have been defended against was pierced.

"With eighty steps, as long as you hit, you can break the iron armor. If it is cloth iron armor and cotton armor, as long as it shoots to the chest of the face, it can also be severely damaged or even killed. Even if the musketeers who have been trained for two or three months, as long as the number is arranged in a square array and continuous segmented shooting, even the strongest Tartar cavalry dare not rush to the muskete formation."

"Not bad." Wu Sangui nodded. He could see that the bird gun was indeed better than the one made by the imperial court.

Liu Jun personally showed Wu Sangui the flying dragon gun, which directly exposed the iron armor of the wooden man a hundred steps away.

"Can you try it?" Wu Sangui said.

"Of course." Liu Jun handed the musket to Wu Sangui, and then saw him clean the musket, load the bullets, then pick up the musket, and fired a shot at the rake a hundred steps away in an extremely standard standing posture.

"Just hit the head!"

When he carried the rake, Liu Jun was surprised to find that Wu Sangui was actually a sharpshooter. He used to know that he liked to use big swords and was good at riding and shooting, but unexpectedly he could even shoot muskets so well.

"Good gun!" Wu Sangui touched Qing, unable to bear it.

"If you want it, you can produce it for you. You can make as much as you want, and you can supply at least 20,000 pieces per month. You can also speed up and ensure quality, and it must be a high-quality product."

“How is the price?”

"Bird gun costs 30 yuan, and Flying Dragon gun costs 50 yuan."

Wu Sangui shook his head, "The Ministry of Works only has two taels of silver for a bird gun."

"That bird gun is given to you for free. Do you dare to use it?"

"Even so, the price is too high. Flying Dragon Gun is twenty, and bird Gun is ten yuan."

"Flying Dragon Gun forty, Bird Gun twenty."
Chapter completed!