"It's not spot goods, it's just jumping in line and delivering a batch of orders that have been put into production to you first." An Ye saw the light again.

"That means, maybe it can be delivered in a few days, right? How many are there in total?" Benjamin Hawkins immediately became energetic. Anyway, he had to have a buffer time if he wanted to produce on his own. Taking advantage of An's availability, the last wave

Go shopping!

"This..." I'm still not sure how strong Benjamin Hawkins's purchasing demand is. An is indeed a bit difficult to quote. If he quotes too little, he will lose money. If he quotes too much, he is afraid of frightening Benjamin Hawkins... But

If Benjamin Hawkins could really come up with enough money, she would dare to go to the workshop and ask to work overtime and stay up all night to process this batch of orders for her.

"200 doors, delivery on the 10th, just 80 livres as you said, okay?" Benjamin Hawkins asked with a smile.

"No problem!" An raised his head and glanced in the direction of the study. He didn't see Alphonse, so he agreed without hesitation. An had already decided, took the order, and then asked Alphonse to give him the order.

Higher commissions!

"Then it's settled, I'll arrange the payment for the goods tomorrow, and you must ensure the delivery on time." Benjamin Hawkins nodded and replied.

"Don't worry." There was the sound of opening and closing the door upstairs, and An immediately sat up straight and pretended that nothing happened.

"Sir, this is a batch of purchase orders we have drawn up." Alphonse walked down the stairs, holding a list and handed it to Benjamin Hawkins. He handed another list and said: "This one is a quick shot.

List of molds for gun-related accessories. As for technical authorization, it only costs 30,000 livres."

"Thank you so much." Benjamin Hawkins took the list with some gratitude. Although the authorization of 30,000 livres is a bit expensive, it is a golden hen that lays golden eggs after all. Sometimes there is a price but no market! And

When he saw the list, Benjamin Hawkins couldn't help but said: "God! You use porcelain as a mold to produce rapid-fire cannons?!"

"We have our own porcelain workshop. What you see is the cost list. After all, we have never sold molds to others." Alphonse naturally would not admit that he had already prepared to sell molds and technology to finally cash in on the rapid-fire cannon.

He sat down and continued to explain: "The porcelain mold can ensure that each rapid-fire cannon is more precise, and the loss is very small. It takes about 50 cannons to produce one set of molds to wear out. Generally speaking, it is cost-effective."

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"It's understandable. After all, your rapid-fire cannon looks like it was printed from a mold. Now I know, it's not like it, it's just like that." Benjamin Hawkins never thought that Alphonse used a cast iron mold.

But what is sold is porcelain, which is clearly used as consumables to continue to reap more profits...

"You can take these two lists with you and give me a definite answer at some time. As for the artillery order, just contact An directly." Alphonse smiled and made a potential farewell.

Attitude, Alfred just walked over with a civilized hat and coat. Waiting from a distance, Benjamin Hawkins knew that Alphonse had to go out for something.

"Thank you very much. I will visit you another day. If you are free, you are welcome to come to London next month. We celebrate the Harvest Festival and hope to share the joy with our friends." Benjamin Hawkins stood up.

Come shake hands with Alphonse and say goodbye with a smile.

"Then let's go together. An and I have a guest we need to visit." Alphonse smiled and made a gesture to accompany Benjamin Hawkins out, and continued to reveal the news: "It's from the Dutch Orange family.

Guest."

So that’s it! Benjamin Hawkins finally understood why An dared to divert orders from the Dutch to himself. He was still making political investments in the Netherlands, and he wanted to get rid of the burden of the DeWitt family by hooking up with the out-of-power Orange family.

I just don’t know if offending the DeWitt family in order to marry the Orange royal family will get the expected rewards...

"Why did you tell Benjamin that we were going to visit Julia?" After getting on the carriage, Ann rolled her eyes and asked Alphonse.

"How many orders did you just get from Benjamin?" Alphonse asked.

"200 doors, 80 livres, delivery in ten days, damn British guy, this must be the last batch of orders." An Henhen said: "It's all your fault, why did you sell technology to him?"

"Because this will let him know that even if he gets the technology and molds, he still can't make a rapid-fire cannon as good as ours." Alphonse said with a bad smile. The biggest problem with porcelain molds is that they cannot cool the artillery tubes at high temperatures.

After removing the mold, the artillery tube, which is only a little over 100 degrees Celsius, is sprayed with cooling water. The tightness is far inferior to that of the artillery that is cooled down to 1000 degrees Celsius. However, in terms of technology, the two rapid-fire cannons look almost exactly the same.

, the rest must be blamed on Benjamin Hawkins’ own employees or the processing problems in the workshop. Maybe he will have to place an order with himself in the end.

"You damn devil!" An immediately guessed Alphonse's potential meaning.

"Is this the devil? I also hope that Benjamin can mass-produce inferior rapid-fire cannons and force more people to place orders with us!" Alphonse's face became serious again: "The British are really not easy to get along with, they are too hypocritical and cunning.

, I guess he has been secretly copying our rapid-fire cannons for a long time. We are unwilling to give him a larger order. In any case, he will not increase the price to grab the goods. The result will only make him further increase investment in copying us.

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"That's true. If you hadn't said that you would authorize him to produce it on his own, he would still have refused to place an order for 200 artillery pieces." An nodded, thought for a while and then added: "He just got the fourth batch not long ago.

There are a total of 240 rapid-fire cannons. Even if there are some losses, there should still be more than 200."

"So he came suddenly today. Most likely, he suffered a big loss. He probably lost hundreds of rapid-fire cannons. So even if he got the next 60 cannons and the 50 cannons I promised, he would still replenish them.

No loss." Alphonse nodded and said: "He asked you for another 200 artillery pieces, so it can be assumed that he firmly believes that at least 400 rapid-fire cannons are needed to defeat the opponent! If this is the case, it seems that the Spaniards have also taken the bait.

It costs a lot of money to drag out all the 400 rapid-fire guns we delivered in the first batch to start a war with the British."

"Isn't this great? The Spanish used 400 rapid-fire cannons to beat up the British who only had 200 rapid-fire cannons. Next time the British brought 400 rapid-fire cannons to beat the Spaniards, then the Spaniards would have to

Are you asking for justice with 800 rapid-fire cannons?" An suddenly laughed evilly: "Then the British will not be able to make up for the order of 600 rapid-fire cannons with us?"

"You have a pretty good idea." Alphonse nodded her nose in a funny way and said: "The British have always adopted a pack of wolves tactics. There are only so many merchant ships in the siege of a Spanish galleon, and the same Spanish galleon

The equipment and gun positions of the sailing ship are also very limited and cannot be increased indefinitely."

"Hmph." An wrinkled her nose, and then asked: "Didn't I say I would visit Julia in the afternoon? Why did it come early?"

"I said this to Benjamin, but it doesn't mean that we really went to see her." Alphonse smiled and shook his head: "We went to see the test firing of the 18-pounder gun. Only when we see its true power can we

Are you confident in shouting a high price?"

"That's true, but you have to adjust the commission for Benjamin's artillery order to me." An stared at Alphonse and said: "It turns out to be 5 livres, so give me a commission of 1 livre. I'll sell it.

I paid 80 livres for a total of 10 livres per door!"

"Kiss me and I will agree." Alphonse said with a bad smile.

"What did you say?" An opened her eyes wide.

"Forget it if you don't want to." Alfons said as if I won't force you.

"Hmm!" An almost quickly tapped Alphonse's face, then said with a blushing face: "I'll keep my word, 10 livres!"

"I accepted the kiss for 1,000 livres." Alphonse burst out laughing, making An so shy that she wished she could find a crack in the ground and crawl in...

The place where the carriage went was a piece of wasteland that had just been purchased not long ago. One hectare cost 35 livres. Considering the range of the artillery and the deviation of the landing point, Alphonse had to buy 30 hectares. Just such an investment would cost

It cost 1,050 livres, and its only value is as the free fall point of the cannonball...

"Did the miser finally spend some money to buy land as a testing ground?" An got off the carriage and began to taunt Alphonse again: "I thought you would test in the open space in front of the workshop again."

"Do you know why the miser paid this amount of money? Because from now on, this land is worth at least 5,000 livres!" Alphonse waved his hand and said: "If I were not worried about any setbacks, I would at least buy another one.

twice the land."

"That's really clever." An rolled her eyes, held up her skirt and walked towards Yasuo and others who were already waiting at the edge, where sandbags had already been piled up, as well as the 18-pound prototype cannon and several huge pieces of

The iron plate!

"Have you checked it?" Alphonse stepped forward and asked. Because the match rope has been canceled and the flintlock trigger is used instead, the shooter must be close to the artillery to fire. Although he specially arranged to cast a batch of baffles, but for those responsible for

For the inspired Badis, it is still a very dangerous task.

"No problem, I greased it myself." After all, he had to shoot it with his own hands, so Bardis would naturally not ignore safety issues.

"Let's test the grapeshot first, with half a charge." Alphonse took out a handful of cotton earplugs from his pocket and distributed them to everyone. He explained to An: "The sound will be very loud. Open your mouth a little, and your ears will

It won’t be very painful.”

"Why?" An asked curiously.

"Don't worry, when she hears it, she will naturally understand why her mouth opens." Yasuo said with a bad smile.

An rolled his eyes at him, but kept this in mind, and followed everyone to the protective trench made of sandbags. He watched the workers add gunpowder to the artillery, tamped it down, and then put grape bombs in. Alphonse motioned to everyone to bring it with them.

earplugs, and then shouted: "First shot, test fire!"

"Ah..." An just opened his mouth slightly, and a "boom" sounded not far away like a thunderstorm!

"Poor Badis." An vigorously swept away the smoke and dust in front of her eyes. She was standing so far away and had eaten the dust, let alone Badis who was so close.

"Let's go and take a look." Yasuo took off his earplugs and said to Alphonse, and Bardis, who was hiding behind the baffle, also walked out with a look of dismay, and pursued the spot where the shell had just landed.

Fortunately, Alphonse had already told him that all the test shells were soaked in ink, so they were really conspicuous on the wasteland with only a piece of loess. All the landing points were found at once. After all, they were only half-charged, so they fell.

The point seems much closer. There are only 24 grape bombs scattered about 100-150 meters away, and the impact point is extremely scattered. It can be said that if you want to expect such an impact point to hit the enemy, you can basically draw a random card from a deck of cards.

It is as unreasonable as the King of Spades...

"Clean the barrel and test-fire the second round. This time it is fully charged. There is a marked point at 600 meters. According to Brigantine's drawing, you can test-fire the accuracy." Alphonse told Badis again.

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"Need to adjust the angle." Badis replied.

"You can figure it out for yourself." Alphonse nodded, but he was thinking about whether to research another angle adjuster to make a gun mount, so that he could fine-tune the angle up and down to maximize the hit rate.
Chapter completed!