Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Now the cost of producing a rifled gun in the Ming Dynasty's arsenal is about eight silver dollars.

But in this quotation, the price of a rifled gun reached forty silver dollars.

Moreover, this is only the price on the quotation, not the final transaction price.

Wait for the Dutch ambassador and the British ambassador to meet later, and then bid against each other, once they get the upper hand.

Even if the price of these forty silver dollars were doubled, it would not be impossible.

Something that costs eight silver dollars can be sold for ten times, which shows how profitable the arms trade really is.

Huang Quan looked at the quotation list and drank tea while waiting for the Dutch and British ambassadors to come to his door to trade with him.

He didn't have to wait long. As soon as the pot of tea was finished, British Ambassador Charles was the first to arrive at the general meeting of the Ming Dynasty Royal Chamber of Commerce.

Then he was led to Huang Quan's study by Huang Quan's secretary.

Huang Quan took the initiative to shake hands with Charles, and then invited Charles to sit down, but did not start negotiating the arms trade.

Charles drank two cups of tea, couldn't sit still, and asked.

"Master Huang, I've had several cups of this tea. When will we start talking about business?"

Upon hearing this, Huang Quan picked up the tea cup again, took a sip, and spoke slowly.

"No rush, no rush."

"There are still people who haven't come yet. It's not too late to start talking about business when everyone is here."

In order to raise the price as much as possible, Huang Quan's plan was to bring the Dutch Ambassador and the British Ambassador together and let them bid against each other.

Now that the Dutch ambassador has not arrived yet, Huang Quan is naturally not in a hurry and starts talking about business.

In any case, in this military trade, the Ming Dynasty was the active party.

It is the UK and the Netherlands that should be worried!

As soon as Huang Quan finished speaking, he heard another set of footsteps outside the reception room.

Soon, the Dutch ambassador Anthony was also brought into the reception room.

Seeing this, Huang Quan took the initiative to get up from his seat and stepped forward to say hello.

"Haha, Ambassador Anthony, welcome."

As a businessman, Huang Quan understands one thing: never embarrass your customers.

No matter where you are, make your guests feel as welcome as possible.

Seeing this, Anthony quickly took a few steps forward and took the initiative to bow and salute.

Because now it is he who is seeking from Ming Dynasty, not Ming Dynasty who is seeking from him.

When someone asks for something, Anthony still knows what to do.

But soon, Anthony and Charles saw each other.

For an instant, both of their expressions froze, and a bad premonition arose in their hearts.

They didn't expect that Huang Quan would gather the two of them together to receive him this time.

When Huang Quan saw that everyone was here, he stopped trying to be pretentious and spoke directly.

"Haha, two ambassadors, the military trade proposal proposed by you two has been approved by the Ming court."

"I'm thinking that since you two want to purchase arms from Daming, you might as well talk about it together."

Anthony and Charles couldn't help but twitch at the corners of their mouths when they heard this.

Some want to curse!
Huang Quan brought the two of them together, which clearly meant that he wanted them to raise prices for each other.

Conspiracy!

A naked conspiracy.

It makes people feel helpless, but there is no solution.

Because now they are indeed in urgent need of Ming's arms.

If you ask for help from others, you will inevitably be controlled by others. This is inevitable. Charles and Anthony looked at each other with sparks in their eyes.

Seeing this, Huang Quan seemed not to notice the abnormal atmosphere between the two, and just waved his hand and ordered someone to get the quotation from the military trade.

Then a portion was given to each of Charles and Anthony.

Seeing this, the two of them said nothing more and took the quotation and started to read it.

Soon, the expressions on both of their faces changed obviously.

Obviously, they were also a little frightened by the price on this quotation.

A Type 14 flintlock smoothbore gun costs twenty silver dollars, and a Type 14 flintlock rifled gun costs forty silver dollars.

A Type 65 field gun is priced at silver dollars for the smoothbore version and silver dollars for the rifled version.

Type 90 field gun, the smoothbore version is priced at silver dollars, the rifled version is priced at silver dollars...

In addition, there are also custom-made paper-cased ammunition for guns priced at one silver dollar for twenty rounds.

The type 65 field gun is equipped with a shell that costs ten silver dollars each, and the type 90 field gun is equipped with a shell that costs twenty silver dollars.

A rocket with a diameter of 100 mm is priced at 150 silver dollars, a rocket with a diameter of 200 mm is priced at silver dollars, and a rocket with a diameter of mm is priced at silver dollars...

Charles and Anthony couldn't help but gasp when they saw the price.

Daming’s arms quotation is so damn bad!

Even though they were used to all kinds of profiteers in Europe, they still couldn't help but want to scold them.

In their eyes, Huang Quan's smiling face suddenly turned hateful.

Seeing this, Huang Quan put down the tea cup in his hand and said.

"Haha, although with my hard work, this military trade business was completed."

"But to be honest with you two, all the departments of our Ming Army are in urgent need of arms replenishment. Especially on the front line of the Northern Expedition, the arms consumption is like running water."

"Therefore, the volume of this military trade business may not be very large."

"It's a bit difficult to meet the needs of two people at the same time, so we should follow our old rules of doing business, the one with the highest price will get it..."

When Anthony heard this, his face visibly fell.

Because he really urgently needs a batch of arms to restore the Netherlands' unfavorable situation on the battlefield.

But Charles on the side was much more calm.

Because the main purpose of coming today is actually to cause trouble for the Dutch. As for the purchase of arms, we will wait for a while.

It's best to have it, but it's not unacceptable to not have it.

Anthony and Charles looked at each other again, and the drawing room instantly became tense.

……

Chongming Military Port!

In the military port, warships were lined up neatly, their white sails hunting in the wind as they were blown by the sea breeze.

Gan Changsheng stood on a watchtower in the water village, looking at the military port not far away, his eyes full of blazing flames.

This flame is called meritorious service!
A large fleet was neatly parked on the dock of the military port.

There are nearly a hundred large and small warships in total.

The leaders among them are ten brand-new third-level sailing battleships. Each battleship looks like a hill.

The densely packed gun windows on the side of the ship gave people a huge sense of oppression.

And these sail battleships are all warships independently built by Ming Dynasty's own shipyard.

This is because the main force of the Ming Navy is the South China Sea Fleet. More than half of the warships built by the shipyard are supplied to the South China Sea Fleet to enhance the strength of the South China Sea Fleet.

In order to better deal with the complex situation in Nanyang and maintain Ming's interests in Nanyang.

Otherwise, it is not impossible to double the number of sail battleships installed in the East China Sea Fleet. (End of chapter)