What was mentioned earlier is the situation of conventional weapons, and the next is the situation of the Luo family's hot weapons.

Datong. Currently, Luo has only one big tube, and this big tube has been placed by Zhengliang on the fortress of Qibucheng for use as a guard. With the range of this big tube, it can be shot at ships in Beppu Bay. Therefore, its existence will pose a great threat to enemy ships trying to sneak attack Qibucheng from sea. In addition, there are two big tubes to be tested at this time. If all the big tubes produced this year can pass the test successfully, then the Luo family will have five big tubes by the end of this year.

In terms of iron cannons, due to the limitations of production equipment in this era and the lack of raw materials, there are only more than fifty iron cannons stored in the warehouse. This part of the iron cannons will be temporarily used as the backup equipment of the Luo Family's first iron cannon team. After a portion of the iron cannons is reserved, Zhengliang will consider expanding the scale of the iron cannon team.

In terms of gunpowder, due to the limitations of raw materials, the warehouse currently only has less than 2,000 kilograms of gunpowder. Similarly, there are not many large-bottle shells, and there are only more than fifty shells that have passed. In order to increase the power of the shells, Zhengliang has asked the firearm workshop to study how to make flowering bullets.

In terms of bullets, a barrel of bullets contains fifteen bullets. Currently, the Luo family has more than 5,000 bullets of more than 75,000 bullets. For convenience of carrying, just like the early combination of gunpowder, bullets are uniformly placed in a dry and sealed bamboo tube. An iron cannon is always available for lightning. At least five bullets are required for each battle.

In terms of war horses. Currently, the Luo family has more than 300 war horses and more than 800 reserve war horses in the pastures under the wild mountains (these reserve war horses need to be trained before they can become real war horses).

In terms of warships, there are already 298 closed ships, more than 500 Xiao Zao, 86 Dutch ships, and forty merchant ships.

All the above reserves are all the reserves provided by the Luo family's current warehouse for the permanent army. In addition to the above-mentioned Luo family's standard weapons, in previous wars, the Luo family successively seized more than 7,000 long spears and more than 2,000 bows and arrows.

However, these spears, bows and arrows are of varying quality, and are much worse than those of the Luo Family's standard weapons. They usually serve as weapons to temporarily recruit peasants. After the peasants are used, these weapons will be recycled into the warehouse.

In general, the current military situation of the Luo family is: there are 200,000 stones of grain, more than 42,000 taels of gold, more than 3,500 taels of silver, eighty thousand stanchions of copper coins, three thousand five hundred spear heads, one thousand five hundred bows and burial bows, fifty thousand bundles of 25 feather arrows, three thousand samurai swords, more than 100 black eagles daggers, twenty projectile cars, thirty siege ladders, three Rod family has three front mates, more than 300 Luo family armor, more than 2,000 pounds of gunpowder, more than 5,000 bullets, more than 50 artillery shells, more than 50 iron cannons, one big tube, more than 300 war horses, two hundred 298 ships of lockdown, more than 500 small boats, and eighty-six lot boats. In addition, there are more than 7,000 long spears with uneven quality and more than 2,000 bows and arrows.

A Daming, whose income is 1.6 million stones and whose territory has a population of more than 900,000, has only such a little armament in the warehouse of the territory. It is actually a bit shabby.

However, this is caused by objective situations and objective conditions. In recent years, the territory of the Luo family has been expanding rapidly (it feels a bit of a military force), and has fought fiercely with the surrounding famous tyrants, and naturally consumed a lot of weapons in the war. The raw materials for the weapons they were made were not supplied for a while (this is the so-called supply in short supply). In particular, raw materials such as gunpowder even had to rely on Ming merchants, so the merchants of the Southern Barbarians could obtain them, which directly restricted the improvement of the Luo family's reserves and arms.

Next, the Luo family will have to take a little rest and take advantage of this period of time to produce arms, and at the same time find a way to find a supply path that can steadily supply the minerals lacking in Japan.

Accompanied by everyone, the inspection of the firearm workshop was completely over. Then Zhengliang came directly to the smelting workshop.

Zhengliang could only put forward opinions from later generations when it comes to the smelting workshop. After all, he is not omnipotent. He naturally would not command blindly when he was not very familiar with the smelting industry. However, after inspecting the coin minting production line in the smelting workshop, Zhengliang was thus reminded of other aspects of territory construction.

For a long time, for the evil money that flowed into the Luo family from areas outside the territory (most of which were voluntarily purchased by the Luo family through the merchant house of the Shenwu family, and even specially purchased copper mines from various places), the silver contained in it was first extracted from the Ming Dynasty, and then converted to Yongle Tongbao, and finally flowed back to the areas outside the Luo family's territory as the main currency for foreign trade.

In this process, the Luo family not only extracted silver from these bad coins and local copper mines, but also made more profits through the price difference between the recast Yongle Tongbao and the local bad coins.

Looking back on this process, Zhengliang couldn't help but think that since this method can earn the wealth of people outside the Luo family's territory, why can't it be used to earn the wealth of the Luo family's territory?

At present, within the Luo Family Territory, the way of trading between the people is basically the method of exchanging goods (not many transactions are made by coins). Among them, grain is the most used as the currency in the transaction. Therefore, grain is the hard currency in the Luo Family Territory.

For a long time, due to the long-term hardship of food shortage and starvation, almost all the leaders subconsciously realized that they would keep the food at home like gold lumps. Even with excess food, they would rather eat them all when the food could no longer be stored than take it out.

It is precisely this concept and such a way of trading with grain as hard currency that seriously preserves part of the food that should have been circulated in the market in the homes of the people until it is about to rot. Just imagine, if this part of the food is available, why would the Luo family face the dilemma of no food at this time? Why should they shrink their hands and feet when making external strategies?

So how should we change the concept of governing the people? The answer lies in the coins in the workshop.

Zhengliang was preparing to establish a money system in the territory similar to later banks, so that coins could replace grain as the main intermediate item for the daily transactions of the people. In addition to releasing material wealth such as grain, he also established a stable currency system in the territory to allow healthy development within the territory.

At this time, some conditions for implementing this system are already met in the territory.

First of all, the Luo family has minted a large number of coins that belong to the Luo family, and in the daily transactions of the territory, these coins have been gradually promoted to the daily life of the people in the daily life of the people (the Luo family rules stipulate that in the Luo family's territory, only coins that belong to the Luo family are allowed to be used). Moreover, the Luo family has always recycled other evil coins of the Daming people kept in their hands, and then exchanged them with the Luo family's unique coins. Therefore, the Luo family's subordinates have already had the basis to use the Luo family's coins.

Secondly, the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet actually had the role of a bank equivalent to later generations. As a reserve institution for the income of the territorial income of the retainers and wealthy families, they provided them with food reserve services. Zhengliang could use this as a basis to independently establish an institution similar to a bank in the internal affairs cabinet, which specifically undertakes this type of business. Then, gradually used the Luo family's unique currency as the intermediate currency in exchange for the hard currency of the goods of the retainers and wealthy families' food, and gradually promoted coins as the main use currency.

Finally, after nearly ten years of development, Feiqian Kingdom has become the most prosperous and prosperous area in the Luo family territory. The so-called hiding rich people, after so many years of accumulation, these local hierarchies must have stored some excess food to varying degrees. This provides the basis for Zhengliang's plan to exchange for grain, so as to take Feiqian Kingdom as a pilot and gradually implement the Luo family's currency system.

Moreover, in order to implement this plan, Zhengliang can completely allow the Internal Affairs Office to develop a reasonable implementation plan, and at the same time use some preferential measures to attract the active participation of the people, which will inevitably be responded to by the people.
Chapter completed!