"My lord, although this thing is not as long as a bow and crossbow, it is amazingly powerful, and it is a sharp weapon for naval warfare!" Jiang Erlang had no reason not to like weapons, and after a simple explanation, he understood how to load and fire, and after trying a few shots, he summed up the general advantages and disadvantages of the musket.

"Come, everyone, try it, don't be afraid, it doesn't bite......" Hong Tao took the good bullet from the short gun and handed it to Moragos, encouraging him to let go of the shot as well, and then continued to reload the others.

"It's just a short gun, and soon three or four feet long will be produced. After only a few decades of training, the soldiers can shoot dried fish at a distance of 200 paces, and catch up with the talented, and they can still be five or six out of ten from three or four hundred paces. And the musket is not like the bow and crossbow are afraid of strong winds, as long as they hit, the effect of 200 steps and 400 steps is almost the same, and ordinary armor cannot withstand it. ”

Taking advantage of this free time, Hong Tao introduced the power of the spear to Jiang Erlang again, although he had never seen it himself, he still said it in a conclusive manner.

"I don't know how much this thing costs?" Phoenix is worthy of being the Minister of Commerce, and in addition to the effect, the main concern is the cost.

"It's slightly more expensive than a steel plate crossbow, but it's less expensive to use in the later stages. In particular, the bullets fired by it are nothing compared to crossbow arrows, and ordinary peasant women can process them at home. It is even more convenient to carry and transport, and the weight of a crossbow arrow is afraid to top dozens of bullets. But it has a fatal drawback, the firing device and bullets are more afraid of moisture. ”

Just saying it was not convincing, Hong Tao simply tore open a paper shell bomb and showed the structure inside for the Jewish elders to see. Don't blow it, don't black, the advantages and disadvantages are said.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured, from the end of tomorrow onwards, the generals will regroup, and they will not fight on horseback, and they will still be a new army if they are replaced by ships, and they will never disgrace your lordship!"

The reason why Jiang Erlang neglected training was not that he was lazy, but that he had lost his goal. Hong Tao has no military power, which means that his military career is over, and the soldiers who have no chance to fight are still training to be useful.

After following Hong Tao for so long, he knows the character of this colt very well. At the beginning, the steel plate crossbow was invented to deal with the Tanguts, and later the pulley crossbow was invented to deal with the Khitans, and now the musket has been invented, and there must be an enemy to deal with.

There is no need to rush to inquire about who the enemy is, and you will know when the time comes. As long as there is an enemy, it is easy to do, whether on land or at sea, the new army must be an invincible army, and it is a matter of its own face and the face of all the soldiers of the new army.

"Come on, Your Majesty, don't play with that thing just yet. It's expensive, and if you want to buy it, you have to make money first. It's not enough to just boil whale oil, and to develop the whaling industry, you have to learn to use every part of the whale's body and not waste it at all. This is a specific method and sales channel, and people will be sent to Yangzi Town before the end of the year. If you can't complete the task, you will not be the queen yet, and you will have to go back and continue your studies for a few years. ”

In addition to the military, Hong Tao is very sad for those whales. It's also a life, and it's even more cruel if you don't make full use of it after killing.

At present, Jeju Island only processes whale fat, and there are so many fish resources in the nearby sea that even the natives do not like to eat whale meat, and the whale skin is also chopped when the fat is cut, and the fish bones and internal organs are simply left in the sea.

Hong Tao thought of these problems before he came, and he carried a complete and detailed solution in his small leather bag. It doesn't matter if the people on Jeju Island don't eat whale meat, the people in many places in the Great Song Dynasty can't even eat meat, no matter how unpalatable it is, can there be wild vegetables?

Simply cut everything, salt it and dry it, and send it to Yangzi Town by boat. Sell? Hong Tao didn't want to sell whale meat at all, they were just the wages of his own hired people.

If you want to sell it, Jeju Island needs to build a canning factory and a glass kiln to process whale meat and make canned meat to sell to the mainland, and then sell it to North Korea and Japan. Not only whale meat, but also other seafood can be taken according to the prescription.

In later generations, canned food was counted as a spare food, and canned food was eaten only if it was not fresh. In ancient times, this thing was a high-end food, and it was a thing that I hadn't eaten, and it had great potential to be tapped.

Whale skin is more useful, it is very soft after using caustic soda solution to remove fat, the outer layer with patterns can be used to make leather goods, and the delicate part of the inner layer can be cut very thin, which is used as paper to absorb ink and waterproof.

The main thing is that it is easy to process, the raw materials are cheap, and it doesn't matter if others are not used to it, they all sell it to themselves. In the future, there will be many schools in the country, and the source of paper will be solved.

Fish bones and internal organs are not garbage, the liver of an adult whale weighs hundreds of catties, and hundreds of catties of cod liver oil can be obtained after simple boiling and refining. When children do not eat a little, it can prevent diseases, strengthen the body, and is also good for the eyes, so it is not possible to suffer from night blindness.

Other offal can be calcined together with fish bones to make bone meal, which is a very good ammonia and phosphate fertilizer. Put it in bags and sell it in Zhu Bajin's cooperative, and after deducting processing costs and transportation costs, there will definitely be money to be made.

In addition, fish bones can also be boiled into bone glue, which is the best adhesive for wooden boats. With the number of whale bones, it is definitely cheaper than the traditional fish maw glue and fish skin glue, and so many shipyards and carpentry workshops in the Great Song Dynasty are potential buyers.

There are also baleen, which have a delicate texture and can be used to make umbrellas, crafts, and hat skeletons. If there is no human hand processing on Jeju Island, you can sell it as raw materials to yourself.

The most noteworthy is whale brain oil and ambergris, if Chen Niang can process it herself, she can quickly make cosmetics with a long-lasting fragrance and an emollient effect that is not greasy. Once the Da Song woman likes this skin care cream, the money is unlimited, and it is not better to make money than selling whale oil.

If Chen Niang can't process whale brain oil and ambergris, then sell it to herself at a high price, and you want as much as you want. How the flying eagle was popular back then, and now how the skin care cream can also become popular.

Just send a few bottles of samples to Queen Pang for trial, and then promise her to open a national chain store with shares, and this thing can immediately become the designated skin care and beauty products of the harem, and then quickly enter the back house of the official eunuch's house. Even if it is more expensive than any cosmetics, it will be out of stock.

"Canned whale meat, bone meal, bone glue, whale skin can also make paper! I can't imagine that there are so many good things in the sea...... Can stinky fish brains and black fish poop really make skin smooth? ”

Chen Niang took a small book of whale scriptures written by Hong Tao and looked at it very carefully, and the more she looked at it, the more she smiled, and her eyes were round when she saw the end. Although she is only a little over twelve years old, she is also a woman, and she is still a queen, and she must pay special attention to everything that makes her beautiful.

"The words of the officials naturally have to be believed, but I'm afraid there are no such means on the island......" Sidi's demand for this aspect is higher than that of Chen Niang, and he didn't pay attention to what was written in the front of the book, just stared at the back two pages and looked hard, shaking his head with saliva while reading.

“…… The eldest brother-in-law should be, right? Chen Niang didn't know much about chemistry, but she knew who did, and began to skim her adoptive father out of the corner of her eye.

"Don't even think about it, you can't do without the tall, and so can other people! If you want to make a skin care cream, send someone to go back with me to learn, and save more whale brain oil and ambergris before learning it, so as not to be in short supply in the future. Sperm whales won't be waiting for you to catch them in the sea all year round, so cherish them if you encounter them. ”

Seeing that Chen Niang and Sidi were so tempted, Hong Tao didn't plan to make this money, so leave it to his daughter, they would need a lot of money in the next few years, such as building ships, building larger ports and warehouses. After all, this is a transit point for Wang Hao's merchant fleet to Japan, and infrastructure is indispensable.

"When is that going to be learned...... It's better for my daughter to share with her father with raw materials, and if my father doesn't agree, I'll beat Agares every day! ”

Chen Niang thought differently from Hong Tao, she wanted to make money and use fragrant skin care cream one day earlier. How to win-win? This problem is easy to solve, and that's what she learned since she was a child, and she changed her mind.

"Hey, I dare to threaten you Lao Tzu, I really deserve to be my Wang Xu's daughter. But how can your father be so easy to deal with, if you want skin care cream, you can do business in a joint stock, and you can exchange people for it. Sidi, Phoenix, and people who have worked in the Bank of Huangzhou and the Huangzhou Taxation Bureau before are going back with me! ”

Chen Niang was able to make a choice so quickly, and the choice was correct, which made Hong Tao very proud, which was the result of his education. While she is not shrewd enough to be comprehensive, it is better to get a little cheap first, otherwise in another ten years, it will not be her own calculations, it will all have to be the other way around.