Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2159, expensive bullets
Hong Kong in the southwest corner of the British Isles in Europe.

With the arrival of the Ming and New Year, the whole of Hong Kong is immersed in a festive atmosphere. Countless fireworks are constantly blooming in the sky, and the sound of firecrackers is endless. Red lanterns are hung everywhere and festive Spring Festival couplets are posted.

The children wore brand new clothes and played in groups, and the adults kept sending blessings to each other when they met. It was a joyous and lively scene.

Here at the Hong Kong Hotel, Pelos, the special minister of King Charles V of Spain, couldn't help sighing when he saw the bustling scene in front of him: "The prosperity of Hong Kong is no less than that of the capital of Ming Dynasty!"

Pelos is a talented student who has studied in Daming. He has stayed in Daming for several years and has seen the lively scene of Daming people celebrating the New Year with his own eyes.

Seeing such a lively and extraordinary scene again in Hong Kong at this moment also made Peros sigh.

Compared with Hong Kong, the capital of Spain is simply a small town in the countryside, no matter in size or prosperity, it is only comparable to the state capital of the Ming people.

"When will Spain be as powerful and prosperous as the Ming Empire!"

Pelos sighed and shook his head.

Only those who have really been to the Ming Empire will know that the strength, prosperity and wealth of the Ming Empire are far more than what can be seen in this Hong Kong.

The strength of the Ming Empire is powerful in every aspect. No matter in which field, the Ming Empire is much, much stronger than any other country in the world.

Science and technology, military, economy, culture, medical care, education level, etc., in any aspect, Ming has already been at the forefront of the world, and other countries and regions have not even seen how far Ming people have developed. up.

"Yes, one day our Spain will be as powerful as the Ming Empire, and our Europe will become as prosperous and prosperous as the Ming Empire!"

The elderly Duke Brand beside Pelos said very firmly: "Under the leadership of the great Charles V, we will be able to unify the whole of Europe and develop Europe into a great empire as powerful as the Ming Empire!"

"Your Excellency, you are right, we can definitely do it."

"Now we are about to destroy France soon. Once France is destroyed, we can sweep the Holy Roman Empire again and basically complete the unification of Europe."

Pelos also agreed very much when he heard it.

After nearly a year of war, Spain fought on multiple fronts, attacking France from the north to the south, and has now occupied most of France. Only a small part of the Paris Basin is still under the control of the King of France.

But there is almost no danger in the Paris Basin, and it will be a matter of time before Paris is won.

However, there is a very urgent situation in the Spanish army right now, that is, the bullets and shells are about to run out. Because of the lack of ammunition, the army has to temporarily stop its attack on the Paris Basin.

Charles V also urgently asked the Duke of Brand and Perlos to come to Hong Kong to buy ammunition with a large amount of wealth seized from the French nobles.

"Pellos, you came back from studying in the Ming Empire. You should know the situation of bullets very well. Could it be that we in Spain really can't make bullets?"

"Let's not talk about the extremely expensive issue of the Ming people's bullets. If we can't produce the bullets ourselves, we will always be under the control of the Ming people. If it goes on for a long time, it won't work."

"We have a lot of skilled craftsmen in Spain. I don't believe that this small bullet can't be made."

Duke Brand had a headache when he thought of coming to buy arms and weapons this time.

It is clear that the army can take down the Paris Basin and completely destroy France, but at this juncture, there is a shortage of ammunition.

The army had to stop attacking, and could only wait helplessly for the ammunition to be delivered.

"Lord Duke!"

"The bullet structure of the Ming people is actually very simple. It is a bullet, gunpowder and primer structure. We can manufacture it completely."

"It's not difficult to buy some machinery and equipment from Daming people to produce bullets. The real difficulty is the primer!"

Pelos thought for a while and said.

"Is there anything special about this primer?"

Duke Brand asked quickly.

"This primer uses a special chemical material. This material is a controlled product on the side of the Ming Empire. Only the Daming Miyun Arsenal can produce and use it, and the formula is only in their hands."

"The primer burns quickly after being struck by the firing pin, and ignites the gunpowder in the bullet, and the gunpowder burns and then pushes the bullet to fire."

"Ordinary gunpowder will not burn when it is hit, and special materials must be used."

Pelos shook his head and said.

"Can we develop this primer material?"

Duke Brand asked quickly.

"It's very difficult. This material is a material formula that Daming strictly keeps secret and is strictly forbidden to disclose. If we research it by ourselves, we don't know how many years of the monkey will be able to research it."

Pelos shook his head and said.

"This Daming man really knows how to do business. He not only buys guns and cannons for us, but also brings bullets and shells to us. It is a long-term business."

"When I bought ammunition and weapons, I thought they were being very generous when they gave me shells and ammunition. It turns out that this requires the use of special bullets and shells."

"Without their bullets and shells our muskets and cannon are of no use at all."

After listening to Pelos' explanation, Duke Brand immediately gave Daming a thumbs up.

This Daming man is really shrewd, even if he sells guns, the long-term bullet business is also indispensable.

"Of course."

"The guns and cannons of the Ming people are really easy to use, but the bullets and shells they consume are also very large. Our Spanish Empire is better. We still have silver to buy bullets and shells. As for our enemies, they want If you buy bullets and shells, it will be a waste of money."

"On the other hand, it is good for us that Daming people's bullets are more expensive."

Pelos nodded with a smile.

"Is there any benefit?"

When Duke Brand heard this, his eyes widened slightly. Is there any benefit to spending more money?
"When did this Daming man start working?"

"We are in a hurry on the front line. If we are in a hurry, what kind of festivals are these Daming people still celebrating here?"

Then Brand looked at the bustling scene outside and asked as well.

"According to the long-standing tradition of the Ming people, they have a half-month holiday during the New Year, usually the week before and the week after the New Year."

"It's the Chinese New Year now, we can just wait a few more days."

"However, I guess it may not take a few days. We are a big customer, and they should meet us tomorrow."

Pelos is very familiar with Daming, and he also clearly knows the situation of Daming's holidays.

As Pelos expected.

After the Hong Kong branch of Tianjin Ocean Trading Company learned that Spain had sent people to buy arms and weapons, it hurried to work on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

For the people of Ming Dynasty, although Chinese New Year is very important, the most important thing is to make money, not to mention a big customer like Spain, which can easily be a big order of hundreds of thousands of taels, or even a million taels of silver.

It's clearly worth giving up the downtime.

In the living room of the Hong Kong branch of Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., Ltd., Xie Yunshan, the branch president, and Gan Tian, ​​the arms sales manager, warmly received Duke Brand and Peros.

"Master Duke, Lord Pelos, happy new year, make a fortune in the new year!"

Xie Yunshan greeted the two with a smile.

"Uh, get rich in the new year!"

Upon hearing this, Duke Brand replied in a daze.

"The matter is urgent, and we don't want to talk nonsense. We are here to buy bullets and shells this time. The bullets and shells of our frontline army are seriously insufficient."

"No problem, as much as you want."

"In terms of shells, you only need 20 taels of silver per shell according to the type of artillery purchased by your Spanish Empire."

"In terms of bullets, the price of 100-type rifle bullets is a base of 10 rounds, and the price of a base bullet is [-] taels of silver."

"Of course, if you buy a large quantity, we can also have a certain discount, and we can send you some more shells and bullets as appropriate."

Talking about business, Xie Yunshan became energetic, and started quoting the models of the main arms and weapons of the Spanish army handed over by Gan Tian.

"what?"

"A cannonball costs 20 taels of silver?"

"100 bullets cost 10 taels of silver, isn't that too expensive?"

Hearing Xie Yunshan's offer, even Duke Brand and Peros, who were ready to be slaughtered, couldn't help standing up and shouting.

The price is too expensive!

In terms of cannonballs, Spain bought hundreds of Miyun cannons. When these hundreds of cannons attacked, the cannonballs flew all over the sky. Where are these cannonballs? They are all white money.

And the bullets, the consumption of bullets on the battlefield is the fastest, often after a battle, tens of thousands of rifles, this casual hundreds of thousands of bullets will be gone.

Calculated according to this price, just this bullet alone cost tens of thousands of taels of silver at once.

This is another difficult time to fight. It may be a few million rounds of bullets in a random game, and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver will be gone, and the burning speed of this money will be even faster.

One must know that it is easy to spend this money, but it is very, very difficult to earn this money from the people of Daming.

Now it can only rely on selling wool, red wine and ham, that is, the colonies on the West African side can also sell some ivory, slaves, diamonds and the like.

PS: Ask for tickets~~
(End of this chapter)