Chapter 624 Expensive

Reload the ammunition. According to Zhengde's request, the target is around a bowl-mouthed pine tree on the left cliff. After adjusting the target orientation, everyone held their breath and some of them covered their ears.

Zhang Yong and Song Nan stood beside Zhengde. Zhengde licked his dry lips and put on the handle of the lint turntable. Song Nan suddenly remembered something and quickly stopped Zhengde and waved to get a few cotton balls. Just now, it was deafening that it was so far away, and now it is fired in person next to it. I'm afraid that the emperor's ears will be overwhelmed. This cotton ball is used to plug his ears.

Holding his hand on the handle again, Zhengde looked at Song Nan nervously. Song Nan nodded slightly to encourage him. Zheng De gritted his teeth and pulled the handle. The pungent smell of sulfur from the flesh rushed into his eyes and nose, and then the smoke rose everywhere, accompanied by the burning sound of the frightening fuse.

"Boom...Boom!" Another round of collapse.

The smoke dissipated, and everyone looked at the left cliff, but they were a little dumbfounded; the power was already strong, but in addition to the collapse of the mountain sand, the thick pine tree with the mouth of the target stood there, and only a lot of branches and leaves fell.

"This... can't even knock down a tree?" Zhengde was a little surprised.

A servant with a knife officer muttered, "Is there a little thunder and a little rain?"

Song Nan smiled and said, "How about this brother's archery?"

The official with the knife said, "I dare not say a hundred steps through Yang. It's also an arrow."

Song Nan pointed to the pine tree and said, "Can brother shoot that tree?"

The knife officer raised his head and said, "Isn't this easy?" While talking, he took a bow and arrow to bend the bow and arrow and build an arrow like a meteor to catch the moon. The gathering was only 40 steps away. It was not a challenge for these sword officials selected to serve the emperor. The arrow nailed straight into the trunk of the pine tree, and the next moment an incredible scene happened. The pine tree suddenly broke and collapsed in the process of falling. In the middle, the trunk of the tree was broken inch by inch, and it was broken into seven or eight pieces when it fell under the cliff.

The official with the knife was stunned. When his internal skills could crack the trunk of the pine tree with one arrow and break it into several pieces. At the time of surprise, he heard Zhang Yong say, "Your Majesty, it's not that I didn't hit the pine tree, but the steel balls shot through the tree. The speed was too fast, but kept the pine tree as it was. Just now, the guard's arrow shook, which made the tree trunk unable to support the broken and fell down. Congratulations to the emperor. He hit accurately and skillfully.

The knife officer suddenly realized, and his shy face turned red. When he peeked, he found that no one cared about his feelings at all. Song Nan, Zhang Yong and several people accompanying him were congratulating Zhengde.

Zhengde was happy, and even squeaked his mouth and the feeling of firing with his own hands. If there were a Tatar soldiers and horses in front of him, it would be even more enjoyable to hit a person. But Zhengde also knew that since the last time Xinping Fort was in distress, he had never had the opportunity to face the Tatars, not to mention that the foreign court would not allow it. Even Song Nan will not agree.

"Your Majesty, take a tea break in the house." Song Nan saw that the temperature was getting higher and higher, and there was no wind in the valley. In addition, the purpose had been achieved, so she greeted Zhengde to have tea and rest in the shady room.

Zhengde reluctantly watched more than a dozen guys busy covering the rocket with felt cloth and pulling them away with horses, so that everyone gathered down to a slightly decent house with small green bricks and tiles. Lu Qingli and Yang Keer had already made tea, and Zhengde sat in a chair with excitement on their faces flushed.

"Your Majesty, I don't believe it's a false praise this time. This thing is not bad." Song Nan laughed.

Zhengde swallowed a mouthful of tea and nodded repeatedly, "It's really powerful. If I equip the army, I will be invincible in the world. What if I'm afraid of the Tircon?"

Song Nan smiled and said, "Yes, it's just that this idea is unlikely to come true."

Zhengde was stunned and said, "Why? Don't you want to hand over the manufacturing method to the court?

Song Nan laughed and said, "How can I not be willing? I made this thing for the sake of the court, otherwise why should I risk the crime of killing the head to develop this thing? I said that it could not be for two reasons. One is that the cost is expensive, and the other is that the manufacturing is complicated. They can't make it just by handing over the drawings to the Ministry of War. If it is leaked, it will be detrimental to me.

Zhengde frowned and said, "Is it expensive?"

Song Nan said, "30,000 taels of silver can make this one; for this thing, I have personally spent nearly 150,000 taels of silver. After disassembling and disassembling, steel gunpowder is useless. Among other things, after shooting these two rounds just now, six or seven hundred taels of silver have been lost; sixty-four small shells were shot out with a roar. This is all silver.

Song Nan deliberately doubled the cost and cost, but he was unwilling to give away the fruits of his labor. In particular, he pointed out that even if he handed in the drawings, the Ministry of War could not make it, which was to make Zhengde die.

Zhengde was stunned for a long time and said, "Thirty thousand taels of silver? This is too expensive. The cost of the general cannon of Shenji Yingzhankou is only a few thousand taels. Is this so powerful?

Song Nan said, "General Zankou can only shoot dozens of shells and have to be scrapped. The steel I use is rare, so it is very durable; it's just that this thing is very difficult to refine. It's simple to say and too difficult to do. I don't want to spend ten thousand or eight thousand silver just to launch dozens of times and scrap it. That's a waste.

Zhengde thought for a moment and said, "Tens of thousands of silver a door, which really can't be equipped. If it hadn't been for the method of real estate tax you proposed, it would have been difficult to balance the financial and tax expenditure of the court last year, and the court would spend money everywhere. Such an expensive thing is really difficult to equip. One or two units do not work. Ten or eight units will cost hundreds of thousands of silver, and the grain, salaries and equipment allocated by the military headquarters to the Beijing camp are only a few million taels. If hundreds of thousands of taels are spent to get ten doors and eight doors, I'm afraid the generals will not agree.

Song Nan smiled and said, "Ten doors and eight doors are also called equipment?" At least 30 doors start, and the battlefield is lined up, which can block a wide passage. Even the charge of the cavalry-dominated Ttar soldiers and horses is absolutely true. It's better to have hundreds of these things, which will be unfavorable.

Zhengde smacked his tongue and said, "What you said is light. If you go to the cabinet scholar and go to the Ministry of Household to write this, won't they blow their beard and stare at you immediately?"

Song Nan laughed and said, "I'm not going to tell them. Today, I invited the emperor to come to see this thing, but not to see a decoration."

Zhengde said, "I know that you are afraid that I will misunderstand any bad intentions of your private firearms. Don't worry, I haven't got to that point yet. I know your heart for the country, but I'm afraid this painstaking efforts are in vain. The court has no money to equip such an expensive thing."

Song Nan said, "Your Majesty, what do you think if I use my own money to make firearms to equip the Beijing camp?"

Zhengde said in astonishment, "Do you pay for it yourself?"

Song Nan said, "Yes, this is actually my wish. I know that the court is financially tight, but the emperor has also seen the power of this thing. If you can't equip the Ming army, wouldn't it be a violent thing?"

"But if you make it with your own money, it's a little unclear; by the way, how can you get so much money?"

Song Nan smiled and said, "Your Majesty, many people have recently criticized me for openly quotiently and plunged into the eyes of money, but they don't know why I am like this. Today, Song Nan and the emperor made it clear. The reason why I did this is to accumulate money to serve the court with these money. I have always remembered what the emperor said to me in those years. The emperor said that I would rectify the Beijing camp and increase the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp. I have always remembered this sentence. Therefore, I did not dare to relax at all times, and the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp was enhanced. On the onehand, it relied on effective training methods, and on the other, it also relied on equipment and tactics, and then whether the generals were effective or not. The minister's strength is weak, so he can only start with immediate military equipment, which is the fundamental reason why he has to do business to make money and endure scolding.

Zhengde's expression was very excited. At that time, he once said that he wanted Song Nan to rectify the barracks, but soon he forgot about it. Unexpectedly, Song Nan still kept it firmly and worked hard silently. In an instant, Zhengde felt guilty about Song Nan.

Indeed, as Song Nan said, Song Nan's high-level merchants who made money were criticized by the ministers in the court. Although Zhengde did not clearly express his attitude, he couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied, but now it seems that he misunderstood Song Nan.

"Song Nan, I... I don't know what to say. It's really my blessing to have someone like you to support me." Zhengde sighed.

Song Nan said seriously, "Your Majesty, don't say that. It's natural for my ministers to work for the emperor, not to mention the reputation of money, even if they risk their lives. I only asked the emperor to allow me to keep this firearm workshop, and also asked the emperor to allow the Shenshu camp to be equipped with firearms. Taking the Shenshu camp as an experiment, I found the best way to strengthen the Beijing camp and spread it.

Zhengde said excitedly, "I'm very moved. I didn't expect you to make such a big sacrifice and forbearance, just for the stability of my country. I allow you to continue to open a firearm workshop and equip you with firearms for the Shenshu camp. If anyone impeaches you with this in the future, you can tell them that it is my charter. In addition, remember how much money you spent. In the future, the court will be financially generous and slowly return it to you.

Song Nan shouted long live thanks, and the words of returning the silver were just a casual words of Zhengde, but today, no matter how many misunderstandings and grudges Zhengde had in his heart, I'm afraid it would have disappeared, which is ten thousand times more precious than silver.

Of course, Song Nan is not a big man. As long as this thing can be qualified to produce equipment legally, it will be a matter of time before the court buys equipment.