"Mu Feng! Tell me!"

"Your Majesty! My colleagues, our Ministry of Works spent a total of 30,000 stags of copper coins to build these 1,500 muskets!"

Mu Feng's words scared everyone. Thirty thousand guan of copper coins are not a small amount. The Xia State's treasury earned only more than 300,000 guan per year, and the musket team of only 1,500 people spent ten.

"Your Majesty, why is this musket so expensive!" Lin Jianya asked.

"The construction of this musket is extremely cumbersome, and the manpower and material resources consumed are far from comparable to spears and swords. The steel quality in our Xia Kingdom is not good, and it is very difficult to make steel suitable for making barrels. At present, it is impossible for us to load muskets on a large scale in a short period of time. The musket team of 3,000 people is almost the limit."

After Wang Lang finished speaking, Lin Jianya raised his eyebrows and looked at Mu Feng and said, "Shangshu Mu, there are so many craftsmen in your Ministry of Works. Since there are good things like muskets, why don't you think of a way to improve the steel? One thousand five hundred muskets costs 30,000 stakes, and one plus one will cost twenty stakes. This is too expensive, who can afford it!"

Mu Feng twitched his lips and said, "General Lin, do you think it is so easy to improve technology? The craftsmen have not even returned home for several months for these 1,500 muskets. Who among the ministers of the Ministry of Works, does not want to improve the technology of steel smelting to the current level? Our Ministry of Works deserves His Majesty and the blood and sweat of the people!"

Lin Jianya snorted coldly. He was very inconsistent with these civil servants who like to lose their books. When he wanted to mock him a few words, Wang Lang said: "Technical improvement cannot be accomplished overnight, so you can't be anxious."

Lin Jianya curled his lips and looked at the school grounds.

At this time, all the musket teams were fully trained, and the earthen wall, which was regarded as a target, was already full of holes under the blow of these thousands of projectiles. It seemed that they could collapse with just a slight push.

Lin Shupi saluted Wang Lang and said loudly: "Report to Your Majesty! The drill of the musket camp has been completed, please give your Majesty instructions!"

Wang Lang whispered loudly: "Dear musketeers, my performance today did not disappoint me, your hard work was not in vain. You used your actions to let the ministers in the court see your value. In the future, you will be the regular army of Xia Kingdom. Today you will have your own name!"

As soon as the words were finished, the musketeers were very excited. In Xia Kingdom, a unit with its own number would not only become elite, but this number would accompany them throughout their lives. The glory of the troops was also their own glory. Moreover, compared with ordinary troops without numbers, the military pay that soldiers could get was not comparable to that of ordinary troops.
Chapter completed!