Chapter 224: Firearms trade
Chapter 219 – Firearms Deal
Satisfied Ferrier with a bunch of luxury goods gifted by Owen went back to the night, just clothes on dozens of tries, not to mention a bunch of jewelry, all in front of the gorgeous fitting mirror to show once, and even rose up to the heart of the package.
“I’m going to be the one who shines the brightest at the party for the next year.” Ferrier said confidently, especially when her eyes rested on the wide array of cosmetics, her eyes were almost glowing.
It was also the first time she knew that make-up and maintenance were so complicated, completely inferior to brewing magic potions.
But I have to say that these things women’s lethality is absolutely mushroom egg level, the night did not sleep Ferrier is very hard, the next day began to sell arms, and is very generous to show their own is training the use of muskets and artillery soldiers.
Firearms this thing in the empire although rare but not no, after all, when only canceled large-scale equipment, rather than completely destroyed, but there are many from the military out, to the present many remote nobles like to give their men a small amount of equipment this kind of scary weapons, the effect is very good, often a sound, those mud legged fell on the spot kneeling down a piece.
Even the imperial border army will also choose to give some patrol soldiers equipped, because a shot is equivalent to a warning.
But the large-scale equipment is really not much, because the barrel needs to be hand-knocked, but also has to be a skillful blacksmith, otherwise knocked out of the barrel of the slightest deviation, the bullet will not know where to fly.
So the time and energy spent enough to create seven or eight gun head or two or three one-handed sword, and the service life of the musket is too short, excluding training, at most a hundred rounds on the scrap, really encountered fierce battles, a down to the end.
And maintenance of firearms storage ammunition have high requirements, so many problems plus shortcomings, coupled with the high cost, not many people will choose to buy a large number of people, at most the nobles used to hunt.
But now it’s different, the north land is in chaos, all the nobles in the north land and even some small nobles in the border of the empire, they all desperately want to find a weapon that can protect themselves.
And after simple training farmers can use, both easy to train and scary firearms have become their first choice, anyway, can not kill a person to hear a sound of courage is also good, so the new town of Ferrier arms trade is very red hot.
As soon as Ferrier’s arms business opened, Count Solari knew about it.
As one of the only two counts in the Northland, Count Solari has been looking down on Ferrier Countess, not only because the other party is a woman, but also because the other party relies on its own beauty to develop relationships, and only gradually monopolize the Northland fur to create a piece of the foundation, and therefore look down on the other party from the bottom of their hearts.
But last time, the other party took out the cursed flesh and blood to lure away the aberration, let him raise a lot of vigilance, to the Ferrier town to add a lot of manpower, so so quickly found the other party in the sale of firearms, and also let people buy a number of discounted goods.
These discounted goods are used in the battle of Mara Town, five or six layers of new, well maintained, full charge can not hit a few rounds on the risk of blowing up, but if half-loaded for training is not bad.
Because of the cheap, buy a lot of people really, after all, a few shots can not solve the problem, they can already choose to lie flat to save struggling, it is not too much.
As for why Count Solari want to buy discounted goods, mainly because he wanted to see from these muskets in the end from whose hands, the new goods can be camouflaged, the old goods will not.
One by one, Count Solari wiped his hands with his cloak, and his expression was puzzled. “Surprisingly, it’s not from the Imperial Border Army, where did she source the goods from.” Count Solari found that although the quality of these muskets is average, but the specifications are unified, obviously manufactured in bulk, and there are really not many people with this ability, the only people in the vicinity who have this ability is the Imperial Border Army, but it is not from the style, it is from somewhere else, but who is actually supporting that woman behind the scenes?
After thinking about that person’s connections, Count Solari’s head is big, simply give up thinking, turn to ponder whether to buy a number of firearms.
Because he had an elite cavalry under his command, Earl Solari preferred to take the initiative to strike quickly, and was not interested in the slow-moving musketeers that focused on formations.
But now the situation is getting more and more bad, he vaguely perceived the empire’s intention, and the family’s attitude has become ambiguous, which makes him have a kind of unknown premonition, so as a defense weapon of musket, it is really necessary to buy a batch, the most important thing is that the price is not too expensive, even if the price of the brand-new he can also accept.
With the purchase of a large number of muskets by Earl Solari, Countess Ferrier even trained a firearms army, flaunting her arms around to drive away the chaotic people, suddenly causing a change in the wind direction of the entire Northland.
Many of the nobles in the Northland and the small nobles in the border of the empire came to buy muskets, Ferrier did not refuse to give money to sell, in just a short period of time, sold thousands of muskets, so that Owen get a large number of funds, and Ferrier also used their own layer of exchange for more luxury goods from him, even including a luxury bathroom.
Such a large-scale sale of muskets, naturally caused a lot of people’s attention, but just like Count Solari, Countess Ferrier’s interpersonal relationship is too complicated, more than ten years her contacts throughout the Northland and the Imperial border, even the Imperial capital and several big cities also have contacts, after all, the Northland’s top fur is the best knocking brick.
Coupled with Countess Ferrier’s charisma and long-sleeved dance, friends all over the world, admirers are countless, want to find from her contacts to provide these muskets is not a no-no, but the time consumed and the cost of the absolute majority of people can put off this idea, so can only be used in other ways.
Samui, who was building an intelligence network in Ferrier Town, suddenly returned, but after listening to her report, Owen was dumbfounded.
“Is the situation really that bad?” Owen said as he rubbed his brow.
“This is still too short a time, if we give the roots some more time, we will be able to dig out more information.” Samui was also a bit helpless, because she was well aware of the importance of Ferrier towns to the territory’s intelligence outward, but it was the case that the situation in Ferrier towns was so complicated that it made her feel tricky.
Because Ferrier was addicted to the upper class noble life, many things in the territory were handed over to her subordinates to accomplish, these subordinates were all tampered with by Ferrier, there was no problem with their loyalty, it was just that their abilities were average, and their numbers were too small, resulting in the fact that even if they wanted to do something, they would have to look for more people to accomplish it, and as a result, a fault line in the rule inevitably arose.
This is a place where there are frequent exchanges between people, plus the powerful people on the border between the Northland and the Empire are also frequent exchanges, so the town of Ferrier has become a place where all forces have placed people to listen to intelligence and collect information.
Over time, almost all the merchants in Ferrier Town became the eyes of various forces, and they all had a lot of fellows under them, who developed more civilians as eyes.
Let’s put it this way, Ferrier town casually grabbed ten people, all chopped up probably have wrongly accused, but chopped up nine certainly have missed the net, which can be seen Ferrier town scouts spies eye line of the number of many.
(The end of this chapter)