As Zhou Lao lost in thought, it became longer and longer. Zhang Qian’s face worries have been unconsciously replaced by dignity. In the cold winter, there are big beads of sweat on his forehead.

When Zhang Qian’s face began to appear a little desperate expression, Zhou Lao finally spoke in meditation
"Zhang’s adult, you should know that once these muskets are equipped to the court, the court loyalist … I, the butch cavalry, will be caught in an embarrassing situation …"
Zhou Lao saying just finished Zhang Qian’s face expression as if it were frosted. At this moment, Zhou Lao’s temper turned and continued
"But in order to support the imperial court to eliminate the bandits and resist the foreign invaders, the Jin Tatar Tiger and Leopard Army is still willing to take out some muskets and sell them to the imperial court to equip the imperial court loyalist …"
"But in this case, our Tiger and Leopard Army must bear a very great risk. After all, now the Tiger and Leopard Army has been bordered by Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces and Liaodong, and the latter Jin Tatar will pay a great price once he takes this opportunity to think that our Tiger and Leopard Army will attack without even equipped muskets."
"If the imperial court wants to buy these muskets, it must bear the losses that our butch army may bear …"
"Of course, I don’t want the court to be willing to bear the auction price of this short-tube flintlock in today’s auction. On behalf of the butch army, I can promise the court to allocate twenty thousand muskets to the court in a short time …"
"The auction price … two hundred and fifty-two muskets … that’s not wild speculations … Zhou Lao, as far as the official knows, the court needs to produce a musket with up to thirty or forty taels of silver …" After listening to Zhou Lao’s words, Zhang Qian’s face just ignited hope and was once again covered by despair, and then he made an exclamation.
Zhou Lao stared with the last glimmer of hope and asked, "Zhou Lao, this price is really too expensive … is it possible to make it cheaper … It is not a problem for the court to buy forty thousand muskets at a time rather than fifty thousand muskets at the right price …"
After a short meditation, a sigh full of nai came directly from Zhou Lao’s mouth and then Zhang Qian said in front of him, "Zhang’s adult, if the old man gave you a low price … today, the old man sold five thousand muskets here, not to return the difference … otherwise, the name of the tiger and leopard army is not to be destroyed because of this matter …"
Suddenly, I saw the hope that Zhang Qian answered without thinking, "The price difference of five thousand muskets will be paid by the imperial court … if the butch army can give the imperial court a proper price, the butch army will bear as much silver as it wants to return, and the butch army will never suffer …"
I heard that Zhou Lao corners of the mouth directly with a sneer at unnoticed.
Zhang Qian hesitated to answer, "If so, it’s okay … but if the court bid is too low, the old man can’t explain to the guard that the court bid must satisfy the guard …"
"I wonder if Mr. Zhang can bid instead of the imperial court. What is the price the imperial court intends to pay?"
Zhou Lao’s clever eyes looked at a face with anxiety. Zhang Qian said quickly that "Zhou Lao’s court thought is that one hundred and fifty-two silver prices will buy thirty thousand muskets at one time from the Tiger and Leopard Army … A total of forty-five hundred and forty-two thousand silver. If the court is less than five thousand muskets, the difference is five million and two thousand silver, which is exactly five million and two thousand silver that the Tiger and Leopard Army will deliver to the court."
For this whimsical result, Zhou Lao refused without thinking
"No, the price of one hundred and fifty taels of silver is too low … the muskets made by the imperial court are thirty or forty taels of silver, but there is no way for the muskets made by the imperial court to be compared with those made by the butch army …"
"Zhang’s adult is not afraid to tell you that every musket made by Tiger and Leopard Army is about one hundred and thirty-two silver in Chengdu. If the barrel of musket is a novice musket, it will reach an astonishing one hundred and sixty-two silver, and the court will offer this price even less than Chengdu …"
"It’s not just the guard who can’t pass this one …"
Speaking of which, Zhou Lao directly said with the wave to Zhang Qian in front of him, "Since Zhang’s adult and the court are not sincere, there is no need to continue this negotiation. Anyway, our tiger and leopard army is equipped with cavalry, and these muskets are not worried that no one will make them after they are built …"
If a musket costs more than one hundred and thirty-two, others will be fooled by Zhou Lao, a businessman. However, Zhang Qian said that it is not an ordinary person’s department, and even if it is calculated, it can be made by a musket, even if the musket manufacturing process is complicated.
But there is no evidence. What Zhang Qian can do is to admit what Zhou Lao said
After taking a deep breath, he asked Zhou Lao, "In this case, Zhou Lao wants to know the lowest price that the Tiger and Leopard Army may sell … If the court can accept it, the official must promise this price …"
After hearing what Zhang Qian said, Zhou Lao directly extended two fingers to answer.
"Two hundred and twenty silver a musket … to the court bid to reach two hundred and twenty silver and bear five thousand muskets with a total difference of two hundred and fifty-two thousand silver. How many muskets can be sold to the court by the butch army … with one hand paying and one hand delivering …"
Even if the silver department of the imperial court is drawn out to build muskets, and the tiger and leopard army will be delivered to the imperial court soon, there will be 7.52 million silver that the imperial court can mobilize at the very most …
However, the 7.502 million silver must be kept less than 2.502 million to increase the salary of the border troops, so that the court can move the silver, leaving 5.02 million
According to the price of two hundred and twenty silver, five million and two thousand silver can buy more than twenty thousand muskets even if it is light, but it can’t meet the requirements of the court.
However, when the difficulties faced by the imperial court are constantly appearing like pictures, Zhang Qian directly decided to be cruel and cruel
"The officer agreed to buy 20,000 muskets from the Tiger and Leopard Army for two hundred and twenty silver …"
Chapter five hundred and ten Tatar was pit
Twenty thousand short tubes and muskets plus five thousand muskets are compensated for the difference … which directly means that the Tiger and Leopard Army can earn almost three million five hundred and two thousand silver profits in this arms trade.
You know, this 3.52 million silver profit is only the first transaction between the Tiger and Leopard Army and the court …
According to this short-tube musket, the court will not hesitate to buy the second batch of muskets from the Tiger and Leopard Army when its service life is at the latest one year.
At that time, only the imperial court on the one hand, the tiger and leopard army can get a steady stream of profits from it …
When Zhou Lao sent Zhang Qian away and was immersed in the joy of harvest, another Han costume man appeared furtively at the door of HSBC restaurant.
Go directly to Zhou Lao after being notified by the guards.
Compared with Zhang Qian’s statement, this spy is much more respectful.
The first move after seeing Zhou Lao was to give Zhou Lao a big gift …
After that, he said directly to Zhou Lao: "This old gentleman, I am a businessman who travels back and forth more often than North Korea and other places … I just heard that the old gentleman has a tiger and leopard cavalry unit that is equipped with short pipes and fired muskets. I want to inquire about buying some muskets to protect the caravan."