Not long after Li Rubai left, several deputy commanders in Liaodong also sent people over and purchased a batch of swords and armor, so that General Chen accidentally earned another 10,000 taels of silver.

Selling arms is Chen Ye's old business in Nanyang, and now he has led the emperor to order Qin to supervise the construction of the Ordnance Bureau, so that he has less taboo to compete with the Ministry of Industry, but even so he has not forgotten the Ministry of Industry.

In addition to the main body of the chest and back in the north, the cuirass also has arm armor and leg armor skirts, but this kind of cumbersome chain mail craft Chen Shuai felt sorry for the craftsmen under his command, and specially negotiated a deal with the Ministry of Labor, which was made by craftsmen from other parts of the imperial court, with three coins of silver for each arm armor and four coins of silver for the armor skirt.

The most competitive cuirass is precisely the most time-saving with the cooperation of the hydraulic forging hammer of the Ordnance Bureau, and this advantage cannot be replaced by others.

Therefore, the waist knife only earned half of it, which was a loss for Chen Mu; But he earned almost five times on the cuirass.

"Don't stare at the silver when it comes in, think about the silver all day long." Chen Shuai said to the royal secretary Zhao Shizhen: "We don't say how much money we make, Chen didn't set a high price for them, you see that our knives are more expensive than others, but the quality is good; Not to mention our armor, the anti-knife cutting sword is no worse than others, and the price is half cheaper...... We have small profits but quick turnover. ”

Zhao Shizhen was stunned by Chen Mu, what could he understand the meaning of the word "small profits" but he couldn't understand the people who made five times the profits, how many mediocre people could say this word so naturally.

However, Chen Mu's goal has indeed been achieved, with small profits and quick turnover.

Since Li Chengliang and the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong purchased armor for their soldiers, Yang Siwei of Changping, Dong Yikui and Dong Yiyuan of Xuanfu, Ma Fang of Datong Town and others have successively ordered armor from the Ordnance Bureau, and such as bird guns, cuirasses, and waist knives are the best.

There is no Qi Shuai in Jizhen, although Jizhen is the place where the Xuanfu Ordnance Bureau has the greatest demand for armor in addition to the Xuanfu itself, but Qi Shuai is not a family soldier, so naturally there is no need to privately purchase another ordnance from Xuanfu.

In the blink of an eye, the orders of the Xuanfu Ordnance Bureau will be piled up until the year after tomorrow.

Even if the production capacity is extremely strong, Chen Mu earlier ordered the imperial court to give priority to supplying the imperial court when there is a shortage of ordnance, even if there is inventory in ordinary times, only one to three percent of it can be used for the generals. No one is allowed to sell arms privately, and offenders are to be put to death.

Even if it is Chen Mu himself, he must abide by this rule, or he himself must abide by this rule.

Chen Mu and Zhao Shizhen stared at each other in the study, and there were not books on the bookcase, only a few pictures of the same odd-shaped short gun - the five thunder god machine of Jizhen.

The bed of the five thunder god machine is a straight stick, weighing five catties, and five slightly shorter barrels that rotate in one piece, which are fired by the fire rope, and the operation needs to be used by two people, but it is still very cost-effective at close range.

"You said to let it have a few more tubes?" Chen Mu shook his head, frowned and looked at the Five Thunder God Machine with bitter hatred, and said: "A few more guns will sink and it will be inconvenient to carry, and it itself has a short shooting distance, only twenty or thirty steps, and it is difficult to charge." ”

Zhao Shizhen quickly answered: "If it's too heavy, you can put it on the car, like a rocket car made under it, you can do it long without being afraid of sinking, and the charge is long, and the charge is long, and it will hit far." ”

Chen Mu still shook his head, "It doesn't mean much in the infantry and horse battles, the cost is high, but it can't have the same cost." ”

Saying that, Chen Mu changed his words and said, "But it may be of great use in naval warfare, but there are a few problems to be solved first." ”

"Turn, set a winch and gear on the left side, so that one person can complete the turn; The bottom plus the bracket with rotation and angle, the same person can adjust the angle of the gun; Then there is the plus tube, at least ten eyes, which requires a lot of production experiments to get the weight and power at the best stage. ”

General Chen became more and more excited, and said: "It is best to be able to flexibly disassemble between the gun tube and the gun bed, Chang Ji thinks, in the next twenty or thirty years, it must be common sense for naval ships and guns to bombard each other, but it must be commonplace for clippers to jump out of ships to grab ships, and there is naturally no need to worry about long-distance guns, but what about close range?" ”

"The enemy ships are approaching, throwing hooks and hooks together, the planks are lapped, and a group of enemies with knives and knives from the bow are about to jump onto your ship to fight in close quarters, and at this time there are two of these strange things on the side of your bow ship, bang!"

"More than a dozen guns hit over, the two ships were separated by more than ten paces, and no one wore much thick armor in naval battles, and seven or eight people could be killed in the blink of an eye; The head of the enemy ship shouted and regrouped, and your lieutenant removed the large hot and smoking gun, and quickly put on the gun, which had been loaded with medicine in advance, and then condescendingly swept towards the low hull of the enemy ship, and at least five or six lives. ”

"How many people are there in a boat at sea? 100 people is already a lot, like my son said that my ship in the South Seas can fit 3500 people, I think he is talking nonsense. ”

Chen Mu didn't care about Zhao Shizhen's dumbfounded, his mind was now full of pictures of the Ming warship equipped with turtle fire cannons, and said: "The artillery battle is less to say that more than a dozen people will be killed and wounded, and a dozen more than a dozen of this thing will be killed, there are still sixty or seventy people on our ship, and there are only thirty or forty left on the opposite side, so they don't have to fight themselves to jump into the sea, okay, their ships and their goods are all ours." ”

Zhao Shizhen's eyes when he looked at Chen Mu were even more weird.

In all fairness, Zhao Shizhen really likes to ponder weapons, and he is very interested in novelty objects such as rockets and bird guns. But to put it a particularly silly way, Zhao Shizhen pondered that these things were not for killing, but just interested.

Like Chen Mu, killing more than a dozen with his mouth open and killing more than a dozen with his mouth closed, is too real for Secretary Zhao, who has never seen blood.

He was a little resistant to improving firearms.

What made him even more strange was that Chen Mu was very proficient in saying that their ships and their goods were ours, and this sentence came from the mouth of the general of the Ming Dynasty, which felt wrong!

Very wrong!

"Especially against the armed merchant ships with few Spanish guns and guns, the bow of the lucky ship is higher than theirs, and if you are close to the bow and stern, you need to have two of these things, and if you go up and sweep the deck, they will stop; If it is installed on a small shark boat, it can beat the sails into holes and make it unable to move! ”

Chen Mu said and grabbed Zhao Shizhen's arm, with a light in his eyes, "Let's make this, a five-tael silver Chen can stand it, and in the future, every warship will install four of it, who else can stop it at sea!" ”

Chen Mu has been benchmarking in his heart, although he knows that his impression of Western maritime power may not be right, but he has been benchmarking what he has in his hands with the West. In his heart, the benchmark between the Little Shark Ship and the Daifuku Ship was the armed merchant ships west of Malacca; The warship is the opponent of the medium-sized shark ship, and the general shark ship must be able to stop the strongest ships of the countries.

In fact, he didn't know what the strongest ships in the West looked like right now, because he hadn't seen them yet.

Zhao Shizhen nodded blankly, he finally discovered that Chen Mu was hiding another true identity outside of generals, officials, and armor dealers.

He's probably the most successful pirate ever.