The Empress came ashore and beheaded the meritorious officials, forcing me to wear the yellow robe

Chapter 446 The Empress, the Profligate Merchant

Lean north on me!

How could these Eastern Japanese be so shameless?

First you get it for free, then when you see you can't do it anymore, you think of saving money and buying a lighter to copy?

The worst thing is, he even told you openly that we are going to take it back and copy it...

Ha ha!

The Empress and the entire court laughed at this. "Don't you want firearms? Don't you want us to "earn the difference" by selling them secondhand? And you want to take the firearms back and make copies?"

"Eastern Japanese envoy, if you want firearms, we can give them to you now! If you can take them back to your Eastern Japanese and imitate them, you can give it a try. However..."

When Ruan Daying said this, he glanced at the civil and military officials in the court. They all had a smile on their faces as if they were trying to hold back their farts.

"As a great nation of China, I feel I should remind you that this weapon is not a replica!"

That's not...

If this thing is so easy to copy, guess why didn't the rebels and the Southern Court take action? Were they fools? Did they just sit there and wait for Li Jize to make enough money?

Why not imitate?

The answer is very simple. This is the difference between a flintlock and a matchlock.

The biggest difference between a flintlock and a matchlock is that one has a fuse and the other does not.

Flintlocks use flint to ignite, so naturally, there's no need for a matchlock. It sounds simple, but there's actually a very annoying process involved...

The flintlock has a trigger, while the matchlock does not, because it ignites the gunpowder in the barrel, and then the explosion pushes the lead projectile out.

The flintlock gun requires friction to ignite the flint, which then ignites the gunpowder. How is the friction of the flint achieved?

It’s actually the trigger!

When the trigger is pulled, the hammer at the rear strikes the flint, producing sparks.

This is all easy to understand, no problem, my friend, but the key question is, how does the trigger drive the hammer?

Ha! Use a spring!

You can't believe it, such a small spring can trap everyone.

It’s not that they can’t do it, it’s that they don’t even know how to make spring steel, so how can they produce it?

and so……

To prove his point, Nguyen Da Ying asked a soldier to take out a flintlock rifle while the envoy was confused and puzzled. Then he took it apart in front of the envoy.

Too advanced to be displayed generously!

When the messenger saw the various delicate parts inside, he gasped, and what was to come made him even more terrified.

Ruan Daying called out another soldier and took apart a gun to show him again, which shocked him even more.

why?

The parts made from the two guns are exactly the same, there is absolutely no difference!

"Oh this... Oh my God Amaterasu! Is the craftsmanship of your craftsman so terrifying? How did he manage to make two muskets the same size?"

Seeing this guy's lack of knowledge, the officials in the court were all smug. Although they were not Li Jize or from Qingzhou, they were all from Qi! Seeing a foreign vassal so envious of their weapons was of course a source of pride.

"My friend who has come from afar, this thing cannot be made by hand! It is made in a factory. If it is made by hand, I estimate that even if you make it for ten years, you probably won't be able to use the first batch of firearms."

"..."

This is difficult for the Eastern Japanese who are used to using samurai swords. The "iron-making masters" there are very good at handicrafts, and the swords used by samurai must be made by hand to be meaningful.

just now……

Da Qi actually uses a factory? And what about an assembly line?

It's a blasphemy to craftsmanship!

After all, it was a time of scarcity of supplies, and every piece of iron had to be forged with great care.

It is different in Qingzhou. Defective products can be thrown away directly. I don’t require it to be very good, I just require it to be scaled up and qualified.

Seeing that this guy was silent, the empress and Ruan Daying continued to look at each other, and both of them showed an expression of profiteers.

"Friends from East Japan, if you need firearms, we can sell them to you! Moreover, the price is absolutely fair and honest!"

The shameless empress finally began to embark on the path of a "profiteer".

Li Zhenbei, the shameless scoundrel, bought a batch of firearms from Li Jize because the price was too high, so he sold another batch to Zuo Santong at a high price. This way, not only could he spread out his weapons expenses, but he could even make a little profit.

Even if Zuo Santong knew that he had been sold a high-priced firearm, what would it matter? I wonder who in this world would be willing to sell firearms to you?

Li Jize killed your envoy, so he definitely won't sell it! The Empress is at war with you, so she wouldn't sell it even if she had no brains.

As for the barbarians?

Don't even think about it. The barbarians probably won't be able to master a flintlock rifle in a short time. It would be great if they can teach you a matchlock rifle.

The empress also wanted to do this. She also felt that her war with Zuo Santong was too expensive.

Once the cannon fires, there will be a fortune of gold. Zuo Santong can levy heavy taxes without caring about the lives of the people, but she, the empress, cannot do that! If she does so, the gentry will be the first to kill her.

and so……

Now the little Dongwo has come, isn't this a ready-made gift of silver? Why not learn from the thieves? I also want to "sell used cars in the sunflower field and make a profit from the price difference."

If Li Jize knew what she was thinking, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood!

He'd been planning this for so long, and the Empress actually wanted to cut in? She was simply outrageous!

really……

When the East Japanese envoys heard that they could sell firearms to them, they thought that the East Japanese now had to pay 100,000 taels of protection fee every year. Instead of wasting time and energy to build firearms themselves, it would be better to buy ready-made ones.

He accepted the Empress's proposal and asked how much the firearms here would cost?

As a result, the price of a musket was 7 taels and 1 qian, and the price of a cannon was 28 taels, 6 qian and 2 fen, which was almost twice as high as the price in Qingzhou!

Bagaya Road!

Do these cunning and sly Qi people think we have no communication? Don’t they know how much Qingzhou wants?

The most important thing is, Hinata Kojiro has received a letter saying that there is a black market! They can buy it there, and the price is very cheap.

and so……

They flatly rejected the Empress, saying, "No! The price is too high."

For a moment, the Empress's group was also panicked. They had clearly agreed to buy firearms before, so why did he go back on his word? Could it be that he knew the true price of muskets and cannons?

Thinking of this, the empress winked at Ruan Daying, asking him to find a way to make this deal.

Because there have been wars recently, there is not much silver left in the empress's treasury.