"Li Zicheng? Can you give me the musket? Otherwise, I can't teach you how to use it." The merchant said, "and the tied hands and feet of the merchant's activities.

"Brother, be careful, what should I do if he has a musket and injured our brother?" a refugee said anxiously.

"Don't be so timid and afraid. Even if he has a musket, he can only hit one person at a time. Dozens of us are so afraid. If they dare to cause trouble, I will be the first to kill him." Li Zicheng said.

"Don't worry, all the righteous men, I don't want to die yet."

The merchant took the musket, first loaded paper shells and ammunition into it, then picked up the musket and pointed it at the distance.

"Li Zhuangshi, if he doesn't hit someone, he will not be able to show the power of this musket." said the merchant.

"Just shoot at the trunk of the tree. We will know the power of the musket when we look at the damage caused." Li Zicheng pointed to a dead tree twenty meters ahead.

"Okay." The merchant turned the musket and pointed it at the dead tree.

The trigger was pulled, and a bang sounded out of thin air, and fire flashed, and white smoke came out, scaring dozens of refugees to tremble. Even Li Zicheng, who seemed calm, trembled. This was fear from the depths of his soul.

"Don't move, I'm going to see the effect myself." Li Zicheng walked into the dead tree.

I saw a small hole appeared on the trunk of the dead tree, and some wood slag protruded, and the bullet actually passed through. Although this was a small dead tree, its power was enough to break the armor at close range. If it fell on a person's body, it might be a bloody hole, whether it was light armor or heavy armor, it would be ruthlessly penetrated.

Li Zicheng looked cold. The power of this firearm was greater than any Ming army weapon he had ever seen, and it far exceeded Li Zicheng's understanding of weapons like muskets.

If I could have a unit equipped with such muskets, wouldn’t I be able to easily crush the officers and soldiers in northern Shaanxi and have endless food to eat?

"Brother, he is taking a monster, let's kill him." Some frightened refugees said nervously.

"Shut up! What do you know? This is a good musket, much better than the useless muskets of the Ming army. You should loosen the ties for others." Li Zicheng's attitude changed drastically and asked the merchant with a smile, "Brother, what's your name?"

"My name is Xia Hai. You can call me Lao Xia, a businessman from Liaodong. He used to do business in Liaodong. Later, the Liao army fought on the grassland, and we followed them to the grassland tribe to do business and make some money." The merchant said, "But the grassland is poor, and there is not much silver except cattle and sheep, so I thought of making some money in northern Shaanxi."

"I said Brother Xia, you are not a small business. The value of these goods is at least a thousand taels." Li Zicheng glanced at the carriage full of carriages, "If you resell it, will you get nearly ten thousand taels of silver?"

"Brother Li, you are joking. We can only be considered a small businessman in Liaodong. Liaodong is amazing now. As long as you have this, you can buy anything." Xia Hai made a move to Li Zicheng to ask for silver.

Li Zicheng heard the mystery and raised the musket: "Can you even get such a firearm as long as you have money?"

Xia Hai hesitated after hearing this: "The firearms are strictly prohibited from being sold in the Liao army. The output is limited, and there are only a few thousand firearms in the entire Liaodong. Every year, only a few hundred firearms are produced, which is extremely expensive. Iron and grain are easy to use, but this musket..."

"Hey, look at how many muskets your caravan has, and I think there is a way to do it." Li Zicheng stood up and said, "If you can get some to sell it to us, the King of Chuang, we will give you golden beauties. Wouldn't it be nice? We will also send people to protect you secretly. It's not better than risking your life to resell food and cloth?"

"..." The businessman Xia Hai was quite moved when he heard Li Zicheng say this.

But he still paced hesitantly: "Brother Li, it's not to be hiding it. I have a brother-in-law working in the Ordnance Bureau of the Restoration Liao Army, so I can get down muskets through some channels. But this risk is too great. I'm afraid my brother-in-law will not be willing to take this risk after he finds out. You have to know that if the Restoration Liao Army finds out, they and I will be beheaded."

It turned out that there was a relative who was a military officer in the Fu Liao Army. No wonder he could get a firearm! Li Zicheng's eyes lit up after hearing this.

"Brother Xia, Mr. Xia, Lao Xia! As the saying goes, wealth and honor are in danger. If you want to do big things, how can you not take any risks? You must see that we are ragged and mostly farmers, so you think we can't afford these muskets, right?" Li Zicheng glared.

"Ahem, I don't mean to look down on you. It's just that the risk is too great. If you really want to resell muskets, you need to pull a large group of officials into the water. You have to travel thousands of miles from Liaodong to northern Shaanxi through the grassland. The cost is really not low. Most people can't afford it. It's both troublesome and risk beheading. So no one in the Liao army dares to do this." Xia Hai looked sad, "Brother Li, don't force me."

"Our rebel army seized a lot of official silver when fighting with officers and soldiers, but even if there is some family background, no one dares to sell us things. You don't have to worry that we have no money. As long as you get muskets, I can go to Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Sichuan to loot, and I can meet your requirements." Li Zicheng said, "If you don't agree, I will turn against you!"

"Oh, Brother Li, you threatened me like this, and it is very difficult for me to do it. Please let me think about it." Xia Hai said in a dilemma, "I'll calculate it. This freight is too unworthy of the cost of connecting the relationship."

"Isn't it just money? If you get ten pieces, I will buy ten pieces. If you get one hundred pieces, I will buy one hundred pieces. I will buy them from you privately." Li Zicheng whispered, "If I have a high status in the rebel army with my muskets in the future, I can give you a high status and power."

On the hillside two miles away, more than 20 ragged refugees looked out from afar, including Li Zicheng and others. They were the people who claimed to be Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates just now.

"Boss, do you think Li Zicheng and the others have taken the bait?" A refugee who seemed to be pale and thin asked the leader.

"Don't worry, no one can resist the temptation of muskets. If Li Zicheng was a hero like the military leader, and had a little smarter mind, he would not kill them, but instead found a way to get muskets that could deal with officers and soldiers." The leader said.

"The chief of our intelligence department, 'Lynx', personally pretended to be a businessman and contacted the Shaanxi rebel army. It was too risky to think about it. If it was discovered..." said some refugees.

"Hey, wealth is in danger."
Chapter completed!