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"But..." Yan Zhigao thought for a while and said, "Our men are all fighting on the front line, so we can't spare anyone to dig mines..."

There must be people, there are so many people under their various powerful people, but they need those people to work on their farms and so on.

They were a little unhappy when they asked for extra people to mine.

"Why don't you, Yan Zhixian, see if we can exchange it with you for something else?" He pointed at the gold bottle on Yan Kai's table and said, "How about this kind of gem?"

"No problem!" Yan Kai said with a smile: "Five kilograms of gems can be exchanged for one kilogram of weapons!"

"How much?" Yan Zhigao suspected that he heard wrongly.

"Five pounds!" Yan Kai said matter-of-factly.

"Zhixian Yan, don't be ridiculous."

"I'm not kidding!" Yan Kai said with a smile: "Nothing less will do."

Modern artificial gemstones are not valuable because everyone knows they are artificial and low cost.

You can make as much as you want.

But in this era, Yan Kai just doesn't want to be too evil.

Otherwise, his sales of artificial gemstones can skyrocket!

Well, when he thought this, he had already forgotten about selling glass balls.

"And you two, you don't have anyone under your command. When you attacked Goryeo some time ago, you didn't have any prisoners?" Yan Kai was persuasive: "Then you must be worried about sending the prisoners to the battlefield and giving them weapons, right?"

"Then send them to the mine to mine! If you put a few people in a team and wear shackles on their feet and hands, can they turn the world upside down?"

"Hey, that's right!" The two of them forgot about this.

Capture prisoners, mine, trade mines for weapons, and continue capturing prisoners.

Isn't this just like a chicken laying an egg or an egg laying a chicken?

The two of them said goodbye to Yan Kai confidently and said they would send the weapons as soon as possible.

After they left, Cheng Hualiang couldn't hold back anymore and started laughing.

"It's a good thing he's not from our family, otherwise he would have been beaten to death by my father!"

After speaking, he looked at Yan Kai and said: "But brother, you are too cruel. Once you came up with this idea, they decided not to treat the Korean prisoners as human beings when they returned."

Yan Kai chuckled and squinted at the east.

Goryeo built a Jingguan with the remains of Sui Dynasty soldiers.

Where have you been?

He turned to Chun Yuzhen and said, "Inform your uncle and ask him to send all the old weapons of the Dengzhou Army, and we will make new ones for them."

Anyway, Datang is now starting to gradually change its equipment. Instead of recycling these obsolete old weapons, it is better to sell them at a good price.

When the time comes, these old weapons will only need to be polished and refurbished. Who can tell?

"Yes!" Chun Yuzhen nodded, and then asked with some confusion: "But as I saw what you wrote just now, uncle, if you give them twenty kilograms of ore in exchange for one kilogram of weapons, we really don't make much money."

"You think too much!" Li Anyan patted him on the shoulder: "Does your little uncle have a dark heart?"

"Yang Guan, what are you talking about!" Yan Kai glared at Li Anyan and then said with a smile: "I'm talking about a pound of weapons, but think about it, what weapons do we usually use the most?"

Chunyu Zhen thought about it and understood!

Now even he felt that his face was dark, really dark!

What weapons do they use most often?

It's a spear!

Don't look at anything, but when you talk about it, there are some single-sword breaking spears, some sword masters, and so on.

On the battlefield, the most powerful weapon is definitely the spear!

Except for the rare special forces like Mo Dao, whether fighting on horseback or infantry, the spear is the most powerful weapon on the battlefield.

In addition to being one inch longer and one inch stronger, it is also because the smelting level before the Song Dynasty was not high.

Long guns use less fine iron. The fine iron required for a horizontal sword can be used to make the heads of several long guns.

Therefore, considering the cost performance and combat effectiveness, the most commonly equipped weapon in this era is the long gun.

But how much iron does the tip of a gun use?

Yan Kai took twenty kilograms of ore from someone in exchange for one kilogram of spears. That was really a black-hearted mother opening the door for black heart, and black heart was home.

After all, twenty kilograms of ore can actually produce about ten kilograms of iron if it is smelted.

"Brother, I always thought that my dad was more of that kind of person... I didn't expect that you are more of that kind of person than him!"

Cheng Huailiang said with a sigh.

"I know, write this down and tell your dad next time!"

"No, brother, you are my brother!"

Soon, Silla sent the first batch of ore.

After all, I have a mine at home, and I have dug some in the past and saved them.

Cargo ships of all sizes brought in a total of almost 200,000 kilograms.

Yan Kai also delivered 10,000 kilograms of weapons as promised, mainly spears, but also some horizontal knives and bows and arrows.

"This..." Yan Zhigao realized that there were mostly spears inside, and his whole face turned green.

Seemingly knowing what he was going to say, Yan Kai quickly said: "We have such a good relationship, we must not let you suffer!"

"I'll give you five more trebuchets! How can you attack the city without trebuchets?"

The new i-man cannon was born, and it instantly killed the old trebuchet in terms of range and the weight of the stone projectiles fired.

It is impossible to rebuild these old trebuchets after they are eliminated. They can only be chopped up and used as firewood.

Might as well deal with it to the other party.

And because these trebuchets have a very short range, they actually suffer a lot of casualties when attacking a city, because they have to watch the opponent's arrow rain and launch it from a distance of more than a hundred steps.

It's the kind of thing that can injure the enemy a thousand times and damage itself eight hundred times.

Sending these things into the war between the three countries will only bring more casualties to both sides.

This is what Yan Kai really wants to see.

Yan Zhigao's eyes lit up when he heard that there were five catapults.

This is a good thing. He also knows how to catch snakes and follow the stick, so he quickly finalized: "Then from now on, for every 200,000 kilograms of iron ore, Yanzhi County will give us a few units, right?"

Yan Kai had a look of pain on his face, and he made a lot of determination before saying, "Okay! Who told us that our relationship is so familiar?"

Yan Kai finally understood the feeling of making nine hundred and eighty yuan in tears after selling a thousand goods.

Of course, Silla didn't feel that they were at a loss. Although most of the weapons were spears, they also knew that spears were still powerful on the battlefield.

If we take back these 10,000 kilograms of weapons, we can equip thousands more people.

There are also these five catapults. The advance was not successful some time ago. Isn't it because Goryeo is backed by a strong city?

With the catapult, they felt that the success rate of siege was much higher.

All in all, it was another hearty transaction, and both parties to the transaction felt that they had made a profit.

Li Anyan rubbed his hands and asked: "With so much iron ore, can we make an ironclad ship?"

Yan Kai thought for a moment and said, "You can make a small test first."

Now that there are several water- and wind-powered forging workshops in the county, the ability to forge iron tools has been greatly enhanced, and I can really give it a try.