Unlike other things made by humans throughout history, arms have a different meaning.

In the Han Dynasty, the so-called one Han soldier against the five Huns, but the meaning behind it was based on the martial spirit of the Han people, which was not yet infected by Confucianism at that time, and the technical generation difference that led the Huns at that time, which was really a great achievement.

The army is a very important violent department of a country, so to speak, the attributes of this team are directly related to the attributes of the country, to observe whether a country's system is healthy, just look at whether there is a solidification in the core and backbone of their army, and the main composition within it.

The reason is very simple, if it is really a country with very serious internal contradictions, such as the strange existence of high-ranking officers like me in the Qing Dynasty, who are basically monopolized by the banner people, you can know at a glance that the urine is poor, because even if the Eight Banners are rotten, they do not dare to hand over military power to those who can really fight, which shows how terrible and serious the class contradictions within it are.

On the contrary, just like the five hooligans of China and the United States in later generations, just looking at the endless emergence of civilians, you can know that their internal activity is very good and powerful.

Many people are lamenting that the empire has a population of 100 million, but it has been conquered by a small tribe of tens of thousands of people, but it is very calculating, and the cost of raising a soldier in China is extremely exaggerated, until in the end it is impossible to raise people at all, and it is finally stopped.

The logic in this is very simple, for Confucianism, they are not the creators of wealth, not the conquerors of land, but the construction of ideology, the distributor of wealth, so they like to solidify the world order, so that they can make money, so writing a pair of brush characters is nothing more than touting each other, and no one will look at the tatters when they go abroad.

This point, which is similar in any classical country, is the beating nature.

And for a civilization, how many people can raise how many soldiers, how much combat effectiveness is constituted, that is a matter of life and death, some people say that I use manpower on speed climbing technology, that is not good, but your third-level book has just risen, and a bunch of illiterate European barbarians with wooden sticks have demolished your home, you say sad no.

A real soldier needs to be healthy and free of disabilities, his growth must be at least normal, and he must have at least the most advanced weapons and equipment at that time as a volume, and he will raise a few of the best jujube trees at the door of his house, just to wait for the young man to grow up, so that he can take the Shuo made of the jujube tree and go out to fight for the interests of the family.

And the more you reach the end of the dynasty, the higher and higher the cost will become, and in the end, you will either follow the example of ancient Rome and recruit barbarian and low-class foreign barbarians to fight, or directly capture a group of untrained civilians.

Originally, exercising irons in the office, maintaining skin, and exercising Ding Ding to recuperate, naturally it is more attractive to girls than tired sweat in muddy water.

The input cost is high, but the benefits will be relatively insufficient, unless there is some financial weapon that can help suck blood, otherwise, it is not interesting to rob a bunch of poor ghosts around.

As early as thousands of years ago, Europeans knew that the black slaves in the south were obedient and able to work, they were a good seed for slaves, and there were no infectious diseases when they were strong, but Europe itself was a cold place near the Arctic, and the population itself exploded, so why do you need to introduce the population?

All changes come naturally.

As long as it is not the kind of Vulcan cannon or sniper rifle that is particularly difficult to operate, then the speed at which an adult or semi-adult learns to use a pistol rifle is amazing, if you do not pursue the accuracy of a hundred shots, but the vastness of lining up to shoot, or not to slaughter each other, but to deal with the barbarians, compared to the bow and arrow that requires extreme physical strength, the power of arms lies in the social cost is too low.

In Europe, the peasants had to endure shipwrecks, marine diseases, and all kinds of discomforts during the voyage, and to be honest, if they were thrown empty-handed, they would probably end up as slaves of the Indians, at least not necessarily stronger than them in terms of numbers and physical fitness.

However, these people, no matter how downtrodden, even if they are like the poor ghosts in Spain, not even a woman, but just having a gun is enough to rewrite the balance.

In later life, there was a three-year-old child who beat his parents to death because his parents were stupid enough to force them to him, and on the video site, several "fish-lipped" black uncles gave AK47 to an orangutan because they were stupid, and the gun was actually loaded and full of magazines, so the chimpanzee played ruthlessly......

Arms are something that changes the balance of a region or even a country, and anyone who can be called an international arms dealer is not clean.

As an independent marketer, Sun's recent days in Hanoi have been nourishing.

He was originally a laborer on the canal, and one day in Tianjin had nothing to do, but when a woman was insulted, he couldn't look past it, so he asked a few words, but he didn't expect that the patrolman who came over at the next moment grabbed the bearded man who came from the west with a head full of sheep's smell, but a short-haired man ran over surrounded by many people, patted him on the shoulder, and said something, he had long forgotten, it was basically just young and promising, and he dared to scare the foreign adults and the like, but at that time Sun Kaiqi was basically blind, Naturally, I can't remember.

He got a note written by the big man asking him to go to that place to find a job, but Sun Kaiqi didn't dare to agree at that time, but went home and asked the family to make a decision.

The family is basically Cao Ding, although there is no own boat, but it can barely be maintained, and the gossip relatives seem to have their own opinions on Sun Kaiqi's fate, and some people even say that someone has taken a fancy to him and is ready to accept him as a small servant and requisition his chrysanthemums.

However, the uncle pondered for a long time, and finally confided in two words: "Draw lots." ”

The house is surrounded by walls, naturally there is no pen and ink to write, and two stones were found, one with black spots on it, and the other without black spots.

Uncle and uncle mixed up somewhere in his early years, anyway, he would recite some words, what ancestors and ancestors blessed, children and grandchildren have their own destiny and so on.

The result afterwards is naturally well known, but what makes Sun Kaiqi uneasy is that as soon as he greeted Cao Chang, a relative and nephew took his place.

Now, at home, I naturally complained again, this is a rice bowl, the reason why it took seven or eight times the cost of five or six times the cost to transport grain to the imperial capital through the canal in previous years, although on the surface it is the cost of transportation, but the big head of the big head is not because the passing immortals are too greedy?

Any emperor knows the problems here, from Wuzong Zhu Houzhao to Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, all know the drawbacks here.

But there are too many people eating inside, and they are all big shots, so after moving, beware of being killed by suicide.

Although it is only Cao Ding, from this, you can still share some benefits.

After going to the "training camp" in a daze and worried, the situation was different.

First shave your head, although it is difficult to adapt, but it is clear that you can see the lice in your hair, change into new clothes, and eat a meal of unlimited rice and potatoes and pork for the first time in your life, and after eating five large bowls, a Shandong chef man stopped him, saying that if you eat it again, you will eat bad stomach, so it is itchy.

In the days that followed, Sun Kaiqi first "entered the class" and began to eliminate illiteracy, and gradually found that his classmates were basically the youngest sons of small shopkeepers, or small rich families who had fallen into ruin.

After Sun Kaiqi knew 800 words in that class and learned the Indian numerals of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, he began to study many things "in depth", what he learned in that class was the "speech" of dealing with people, the ability to observe words and colors, and the means of how to phrase words, but there was only one purpose: to sell arms.

Compared with other commodities, arms is a very special commodity, and in order to achieve this level, it is natural to need deep learning, how to incite, how to seduc.

At the beginning of the civil war in Vietnam a few months ago, Sun Kaiqi also disguised himself as a Cantonese merchant who was out to trade from a secret channel, and entered Hanoi.

After Zheng Zhun started, Hanoi naturally began the most severe security inspection, and later after discovering that the Han merchants played a bad role in it, some of them refused to join the Presbyterian Church, and the Han merchants who were dedicated to being traitors were also hung up with street lamps.

However, Zheng Zhun took out his "fist" product at this time: black powder.

As an export version of black powder, there is no granularization, but the proportion is also in accordance with the thirty military regulations that the traverser must know, the "perfect" standard of one sulfur, two nitrate and three charcoal, and the elder produced must be a high-quality product, drying and quality assurance are good, even if it is transferred to Guangdong by sea ship through Tianjin in the imperial capital, and then transported by opportunity, it is better than that produced in Vietnam in terms of quality.

To say that there is no shortage of oil and coal mines in this part of Vietnam, and there are some iron mines that are barely there, although they are not as good as their neighbors in the south, but there is really a lack of saltpeter mines in the country, and at this time people have not found the relationship between human beings and saltpeter......

So their gunpowder basically relies on imports, and the bulk is naturally Guangdong, but the life of the Ming Dynasty has not been easy in recent years, so these are not easy to do.

Sun Kaiqi, who brought a large number of supplies, immediately became a guest, and he explained that he was from Guangdong, and he was a backer of a certain great gentleman, and it was not the same thing as the evil northerner who sold to Zheng Zhun.

Of course, as a low-level distributor, his authority is not enough to sell too much at one time, and there are not too many good guys who are allowed to handle it, but under his idea, a kind of Tuzhi grenade that crystallizes the wisdom of the working people of Vietnam came into being, although it is not as miserable as a bomb in half, but the momentum is really not bad, although it is difficult to throw far because the fuse is not good, but as a weapon to defend the city, it is a good thing to be held by a brave soldier in his hand and thrown down the city after ignition.

At this time, both sides had some Chinese rifles in hand, but they did not know each other, and they were still in a state of anxiety, but the more people died, the strength of both sides was increasing by relying on "foreign aid".

The end of the Ming Dynasty was an era of great development of firearms, what fire dragons out of the water, abductors, divine fire crows, 10,000 enemies and the like.

Among them, 10,000 enemies are a kind of good thing that weighs 100 catties and is used to defend the city, of course, in terms of cost and effect, the grenade of black powder is inevitable.

As the most important supplier, while eating the above commission, watching the number on his passbook of the Imperial Capital Bank continue to increase, while eating Hanoi's hospitality, in order to get more gunpowder, Hanoi arranged for women to serve, which can be regarded as making Sun Kaiqi happy, and more determined to teach them the instructor back then, "Sell arms to Europe, sell to America, and sell to the places where the motherland needs to sell the most!" ”

Compared with those students who sell economic life products, they need to go to the streets, sell products to strangers, and shout the slogan "I must succeed" every day, the people in the arms class are deeper, and there are many ways to hide their identities, of course, they are not spies, many times it is a disguise, in the past few months, Sun Kaiqi has traveled back and forth between Hong Kong and Hanoi four times, although the cash taken away each time is more, but the arms can still be guaranteed, as the only supplier, he was also locked up in the house under house arrest, saying that he must be half price or discounted, Otherwise, it will be dead, and it will be dead, but what Sun Kaiqi said is very simple: "My owner has already arranged for me to have a funeral, if I die in your place, then these things will be sent to the person opposite you regardless of the cost." ”

I have to say that this trick is very clever.

This time, he was still in contact with the official person he had contacted at the beginning, but this time, he didn't seem to have anything good to say.

"Mr. Sun, we are still very sincere, why don't you invite your owner to discuss it as soon as possible, my Dayue Kingdom can give him a high-ranking official and lord, as long as he dedicates the firearms workshop to the lord of the country, everything is easy to say."

Sun Kaiqi said: "This, didn't you send someone to Guangdong?" ”

The man was speechless for a moment......

The people who went to Guangdong as envoys before were naturally furious and noisy, asking the Guangdong Kneeling Office to give money and goods, and whichever woman they fancied was directly snatched into the house, and they brought a boatload of rotten bananas, but asked the Kneeling Office to buy it at a high price like gold, and the Kneeling Office was not ashamed but proud to set it as this year's merit......

However, they still did not find the legendary arms workshop that Guangdong exported to Vietnam, and although Guangdong produced a lot of local products, there was no gunpowder and rifles that could solve the urgent needs.

The Vietnamese can seize merchants, make money for goods, and slowly slaughter investors after preferential policies attract investment, but they can't follow all clues.

(End of chapter)