Lin Ziran didn't believe that they didn't make much money, the ordnance business in the troubled times must be profitable, not to mention that Lin Ziran never thought that their ordnance was purchased directly from the manufacturer through formal channels.

Because of a lot of ordnance, the price they sell to themselves is not even as high as the factory price, and when you look at this price, you can know that the source of these ordnance is full of cats.

However, Lin Ziran was not interested in finding out how they got so many cheap weapons.

After the two preliminarily agreed on the order for these thirty-six guns, Lin Ziran naturally did not forget to continue to purchase Fuyuan muskets.

Zhou Li's guess was right, he Lin Ziran was planning to continue to expand the army on a large scale.

Not only the artillery is needed, but also the high-performance smoothbore gun such as the Fuyuan musket needs to be purchased for modification.

However, when Lin Ziran asked Zhou Li if he could get a batch of war horses, Zhou Li shook his head and rejected him.

"Although we have a lot of business in Hongxiang Commercial Bank, we haven't had much contact with the war horse, after all, the top war horse is not easy to do!"

Regarding Zhou Li's answer, although Lin Ziran expected it, he was still a little disappointed.

In fact, Lin Ziran tried to buy a batch of Nanzhou war horses through Hongxiang Commercial Bank, but unfortunately Hongxiang Commercial Bank did not have the business of war horses.

Because although Daheng has no shortage of top-level war horses, there are horse farms in many places, and there is a large horse farm in Luo'an County, which is basically directly controlled by the major feudal towns.

However, the feudal towns of Daheng generally train cavalry troops on a large scale, and at the same time, the war horse is not like a gun, which can be mass-produced on a large scale if there are raw materials, and it takes time to cultivate, so although there are many war horses in Daheng, it is still not enough for the feudal towns.

They don't have enough for themselves, so naturally few war horses flow into the market.

After another failed attempt to purchase war horses from Hongxiang Commercial Bank, Lin Ziran pondered to find other channels, and he couldn't keep letting war horses keep stuck with the pace of army expansion.

This time, Lin Ziran had great ambitions to expand the army, which can be seen from his direct order for thirty-six nine-pound guns.

Thirty-six nine-pound guns, plus the existing eighteen guns, then there are fifty-four guns.

According to one artillery company with six guns, nine artillery companies and nine artillery companies can be formed, and seven of them are nine-pound field guns, and such artillery forces can already provide fire support for troops of more than 10,000 people.

What does this mean?

This means that Lin Ziran's long-term goal has been expanded to almost 10,000 people.

Lin Ziran's goal is a bit big, but things, you always need to set a big goal and then work hard for it.

Anyway, now the oil of the Tsingshan Petroleum Company is flowing out every day, and after refining it into kerosene, it can bring him huge profits, although these profits cannot be used to raise the army, but they can also take most of it.

In the future, Tsingshan Petroleum Company's production capacity will continue to expand, after all, he has invested a lot of money in drilling oil wells and continuing to purchase oil refining equipment.

The existing oil revenue, coupled with the income that can be expected in the future, even if it can't support Lin Ziran's army of more than 10,000 people, but it can be barely estimated that seven or eight thousand can be done.

Even if the oil company can't expand and make too much money at that time, and can't afford to raise the army, Lin Ziran is not a pure oil businessman.

He has positioned himself as a feudal town!

With an army, what if you don't have money to feed the army!

This is not simple, some people have guns to expand their territory, and if they have territory, they still have to worry about not being able to raise an army?

In short, Lin Ziran set a relatively big goal for himself, and he never worried about the problem of not having enough money to raise the army.

That's why orders for artillery and guns were placed in advance.

Of course, the goal of 10,000 people is the medium and long-term plan, these orders have just been placed now, and Hongxiang Commercial Bank also needs time to prepare, and it cannot be delivered in a short time, and only part of it can be delivered in a month.

Personnel have to be recruited slowly, not to mention whether they can recruit tens of thousands of enough personnel in a short period of time, even if they are recruited now, he Lin Ziran can't afford to raise them.

Lin Ziran's plan is to continue to expand the army and expand a part of the army for a period of time!

However, the pace of military expansion cannot be stopped!

If you want to be a successful feudal town, you must continue to expand your army and grab territory, constantly expand your strength, and finally sweep the world!

On the other hand, if you can't continue to expand your strength, sooner or later you will have to die at the hands of other feudal towns.

It's just that now that the army is expanding, although there are problems of one kind or another in money, guns, and soldiers, they are all problems that can be overcome and have solutions.

But the war horse Lin Ziran couldn't solve it.

After Zhou Li left, Lin Ziran thought about it and found Ding Quankun again, since Hongxiang Commercial Bank couldn't get a war horse, Lin Ziran had to think of other ways.

After Ding Quankun came, Lin Ziran said: "Quankun, there are a lot of things in the oil company during this time, and you have worked hard." ”

Ding Quankun said: "It's not hard to do things for adults!" And it was a little busy some time ago, and now that the second phase of the refinery's expansion has been completed, there are not many things left! ”

Lin Ziran said: "Well, the oil company has you staring, I don't worry!" ”

"I called you here this time to ask you, how are the channels of the trading company doing?"

Ding Quankun said: "The trading company has always been in charge of Manager Sun Guan, and the details are not very clear, but I still know some about it, the channel construction of our trading company is divided into two aspects, on the one hand, it is to establish a wholesale sales channel for kerosene, but our kerosene is very good to sell, so basically there is no need to put much effort into it, and a large number of commercial banks will come to the door to seek cooperation!" ”

"On the other hand, it is also the largest procurement channel invested by our trading company, and our trading company has established branches in several surrounding counties and even the state city of Luohaicheng, mainly to purchase various equipment for the company."

"Because a lot of the equipment we need is not a complete set of equipment, we can only purchase a single piece of equipment and parts and transport them back to assemble in the machinery factory, and many spare parts are not easy to find, so the energy consumed is also greater!"

Lin Ziran said: "Since the trading company has branches in several surrounding counties and state cities, can you get in touch with the procurement channels of war horses?" You know, we're short of horses right now! ”

"War horses?" Ding Quankun is not a small bandit in the past, he has been in charge of the oil company for so long, and he often deals with other trading houses, and now he knows a lot about the outside.

I saw him ponder for a while and said: "Hongxiang Commercial Bank has not promised to provide us with war horses for so long, in fact, during this time, I also asked the trading company to try to find a channel to purchase war horses, but you also know that those horse farms are basically under the direct control of the major feudal towns, and there are few war horses in the market, so it has not been effective!" ”

Lin Ziran said: "There must be difficulties, but you can't give up, you must learn to overcome difficulties." ”

"In the past, I thought that Hongxiang Commercial Bank was low in price, but now it seems that they really can't get it or are unwilling to provide it to us, so we have to find another way."

"You go find more people, it doesn't matter if it's an arms dealer or someone else, we just need war horses!"

"Money makes the devil grind, so if you should throw money, you can throw money, don't buckle the rope!"

Speaking of which, Lin Ziran's eyes were sharp: "Lao Tzu really doesn't believe it, he can't buy a war horse!" ”