"Red Carriage! Red Carriage!" This carriage appeared on the streets of Foshan, which immediately attracted the attention of locals.

There was indeed no such carriage in the Ming Dynasty. However, for the knowledgeable Guangdong people, there were actually many people who had seen such four-wheeled carriages. Some merchants who often went to Haojing to do business had seen such four-wheeled carriages in Haojing where the little Franchise man lived.

Anyone who has done business with the little Franchise man and who has ridden this kind of carriage knows that the four-wheeled red carriage is much more comfortable than the two-wheeled carriage produced by the Ming Dynasty. However, the price is also discouraged by the merchants. One car costs thousands of taels of silver, and it is still priceless and cannot buy the goods at all.

Because, whether they were the Portuguese, the Spaniards or the Dutch, they did not produce such four-wheeled carriages in Southeast Asia, Macau and Taiwan. The four-wheeled carriages they used were shipped from ocean, so they were naturally very scarce.

This red carriage made the Liang family famous. As soon as the carriage returned to the mansion, many merchants came to visit.

"Boss Liang, can we take a try on this car?" Someone asked.

"Of course," Liang Xu said generously. He had already made up his mind. As long as the merchants took this car, they would not be afraid that they would not come to buy it for themselves. At that time, the orders would continue to float into his house like snowflakes, and then they would make a fortune.

According to the pricing power given to him by Zhao Peng, a car costs 200 taels of silver, but Liang Xu himself knew that the cost of a car is between 30 and 50 taels of silver. The main cost is the bearings of the axle and the shock absorbing springs at the bottom, which are the big ones. If you install transparent glazed windows and brass-plated light stands according to the customer's requirements, then increase the price of the car. No matter how luxurious you ask, as long as the silver is in place, you can create it for you.

The benefits of bearings can be seen soon. Not only can four-wheeled carriages be sold in large quantities in the control area of ​​the Ming Dynasty in the south, but people in the control area of ​​the Qing Dynasty in the north will also replace the bearings of their two-wheeled carriages with rolling bearings after seeing the benefits of bearings.

The south travels in the north, and the north does not have crisscrossing rivers like the south. Most of the traffic in the north relies on vehicles. There are more than 300 carriages in the north! Each carriage requires two bearings, which costs six million! Moreover, after a car is replaced with a bearing, it is not necessary to replace it. The average life of the bearing is only about two years. When replacing the bearing, you have to buy it again.

However, to produce so many bearings, it costs more than 200,000 to more than 300,000 kilograms of fine steel every year. Just Liang Xu's iron smelting factory is impossible to complete such a large amount of steel smelting factory. Therefore, if the Liang family wants to open a bearing factory, they need to buy fine steel from the Foshan Bie Iron Smelting Factory.

In addition to producing bearings, they also had to produce impeachment steel. Zhao Peng casually contracted the task of producing small pieces of spring steel for flintlock machines to the Liang family.

Each flintlock rifle requires a spring steel blade. According to Zhao Peng's preliminary plan, the first thing to do is to produce 100,000 flintlock rifles, which requires 100,000 spring steel blades. The task of producing spring steel blades is outsourced to Foshan, so the factory in Nanjing only needs to be responsible for the production of the barrel and other accessories, which saves a lot of effort.

The steel produced in Foshan is much cheaper than Sugang, and its quality will not be inferior to Sugang. In this way, Zhao Peng has the hope of equipping flintlock rifles in large quantities within two years.

After the flintlock rifle became a shape, the spearmen, the halberd, and the sword player could all be eliminated, and the turtledove gun, which is too bulky, can also be eliminated.

Of course, the fuse rope of the turtle dove gun can also be cancelled and changed to a flintlock machine, which will become a famous weapon in the late Qing Dynasty: gun lifting. The gun lifting in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period in the late Qing Dynasty not only evolved from a flintlock gun to a flintlock gun, but also entered the post-submerged era of the late Qing Dynasty, but even a post-rift rifled gun lifting appeared!

The Qing Dynasty seized by the Eight-Nation Alliance, after the Qing Dynasty, the caliber of which was 25.4 mm, was actually an enlarged version of the Mauser rifle. The maximum caliber of the gun lift even reached 41 mm! This can be said to be a cannon.

Although this weapon is powerful, it is too bulky. Later, with the appearance of the machine gun, it was completely eliminated.

According to Zhao Peng's long-term plan, there is no need to change the weapon of the turtle dove gun to a flintlock rifle. After the infantry is equipped with a large number of flintlock rifles, the turtle dove gun can be eliminated. As for how to defeat the Qing army's shield chariot, there are many ways, small cannons and grenades can be dealt with.

At the same time, Nanjing's Jinyiwei has invited Song Yingxing to serve him. Nanjing Ordnance Bureau has begun chemical experiments. As long as the chemical industry can be developed and the mercury is invented, it will be possible to fire the gun, and smokeless gunpowder and strong [explosive] can also be released.

The matter of steelmaking and spring steel was contracted to the Liang family in Foshan. After Zhao Peng gave everything, he took the Jinyiwei to Guangzhou.

Starting from Foshan, walk east along the land route, and walk about an hour, you will reach Qingpu Wharf on the southwest bank of the Pearl River. Here you board the ferry, cross the Pearl River, and you will reach the city of Guangzhou.

The Zheng family army's fleet had been waiting in Guangzhou for a long time. After Zhao Peng and his group arrived in Guangzhou, they did not stay for too long. They just arranged for 100 Jinyiwei to stay in Guangzhou for the time being, preparing to establish the Guangzhou Jinyiwei Thousand Household Office in Guangzhou. Then he took the Jinyiwei and boarded the Zheng family army's ship and left Guangzhou to return to Nanjing.

Large Chinese and Western gunboats sailed on the Pearl River, downstream and sailed towards the Pearl River estuary.

"Brother Damu, can you wait for us when the fleet arrives at Dongguan at the Pearl River Estuary? We are going to go ashore to do something, and board the ship and leave after the work is done." Zhao Peng asked Zheng Sen.

Zheng Sen nodded: "What the Marquis asked, I will obey the order!"

The Jinyiwei has found the trace of the Yuan family near Dongguan. This time, Zhao Peng is planning to go to Dongguan and uproot the Yuan family. Thinking of this, Zhao Peng couldn't help but complain to Chongzhen: Chongzhen, Chongzhen, you are really unreliable to do things! Yuandudu was made by you, but the Jinyiwei Tiqi copied his home and only collected 8,000 taels of silver. Isn't this useless?

After Yuandudu died, he confiscated his house and only 8,000 taels of silver were collected.

Who believes this? This guy went to Liaodong in the second year of Tianqi and served as the military chief. He was promoted to the governor of Liaodong. Except for the seventh year of Tianqi to the first year of Chongzhen, he briefly resigned and returned home in less than a year, and the rest of the time was in Liaodong. In the first year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan returned to the north and served as the governor of Liaodong. By the second year of Chongzhen, he killed Mao Wenlong, which led to the launch of the Jisi Rebellion of the Later Jin Dynasty. Yuan Chonghuan was detained by Chongzhen and was killed the following year.

After counting it, Yuandudu has been operating in Liaodong for seven years, and during this period, he also sold grain to Huang Taiji many times. As a result, after his house was confiscated, he only collected 8,000 taels of silver? Is this possible?

So Zhao Peng judged that before Yuandudu died, he must have told his family to transfer the money.

As for confiscating the Yuan family, Zhao Peng would not feel a little guilty. Although this guy was labeled as the so-called national hero by the Qing Dynasty in the later generations, in fact, he was just a guy with a low eye. After five years of Ping Liao, he came to Yanjing City, and he was guilty of deceiving the emperor. Chongzhen made him into a piece of skin duck and did not accuse him at all.

What's more, killing Mao Wenlong with no means led to the Jisi change. When this guy was in Liaodong, he reselled grain to the Later Jin Dynasty many times. With these crimes, this person was not unfair to die ten thousand times. What's more, this person also had a son born to a concubine named Yuan Wenbi, who made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty. The so-called great contribution was exchanged for the blood of the Han people in Yangzhou for ten days.
Chapter completed!