"I can sell you a set of paratrooper equipment and help you build a troop of paratroopers.”
Luo Feng voiced his thoughts.
Chong Zhen was confused. He naturally did not understand what paratroopers meant.
"The paratroopers don't carry umbrellas. Instead, they carry a kind of equipment called parachutes. They can be thrown down from the air by a transport plane and land in Shengjing.”
Luo Feng explained patiently.
"I know about the transport plane, but if you throw people down from the sky, will they still be alive?”
Chong Zhen was shocked and couldn't believe it.
Luo Feng was too lazy to explain to him. He couldn't explain it anyway.
"Alright then, how much do you need to build a paratrooper?”
Chongzhen was worried that Luo Feng would ask for too much, so he had to ask for the price first.
"It would cost about 200,000 taels to build a 500-man paratrooper unit. If we were to use the paratroopers, we would need at least three transport planes, which would cost another few hundred thousand taels.”
"Two million taels of silver?"
Chong Zhen inhaled a breath of cold air and frowned. He fell into deep thought and hesitation.
By this time, the Ming Dynasty's finances had long dried up. The taxes collected every year were only a few million taels. Two million taels was not a small number for the imperial court.
And this number was almost all the silver left in Chongzhen's small treasury.
If he used it up, he would have to use the national treasury to buy firearms from Luo Feng.
Unfortunately, the money in the national treasury was almost empty. It had been used to fight against the Qing army and suppress Li Zicheng. Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion in the south had left no money for him to use.
Considering all these, Chong Zhen had no choice but to hesitate.
"Your Majesty, in the treasury of Slave Jian in Shengjing City, there is the wealth that Slave Jian has stolen from us for more than ten years. It's more than ten million taels of silver. If we can't seize Shengjing City first, it would be bad if Dorgon fled into the mountains with these treasures.”
Yuan Chonghuan lowered his voice and analyzed the pros and cons for Chongzhen.
"Ten million taels of silver. Are you sure Dorgon has that much money?”
Chong Zhen's eyes flashed with excitement.
Yuan Chonghuan cupped his hands and replied righteously.
Chongzhen paced back and forth, stroking his short beard as he began to carefully calculate the pros and cons.
Luo Feng saw that Chong Zhen was hesitant and decided to give him a sense of urgency so that he would realize what it meant to make things more valuable when they were rare.
"Alright, I'll buy it. As long as I can seize Shengjing City in advance and rob Slave Jian's lair, I'll pay two million taels.”
Chongzhen was still a smart person. After weighing the pros and cons, he gritted his teeth and decided to cut his flesh.
The two million taels of silver in the small treasury located in the capital were immediately deducted and transferred to Luo Feng's account in the mall.
Luo Feng was amused.
Two million taels, almost four hundred million RMB.
One word, awesome!
"Beep, deduct 1000 points, starting to build paratroopers.”
As soon as the system finished speaking, the roar of engines sounded in the distance. Dozens of engineering vehicles slowly drove over under the control of artificial intelligence.
The excavator began to dig automatically. The pile driver, roller, and blenders worked together. In less than a few hours, a long runway was completed.
Several production lines started almost at the same time. While the runway was being built, a tall air command tower rose from the ground, and a huge radar began to spin rapidly.
Immediately after, three transport planes whizzed over from the horizon and landed on the runway.
The back door opened, and the delivery truck transported 500 sets of umbrellas to the Ming army.
At the same time, a paratrooper training camp was built.
More than five hundred selected elites of the Ming army began to enter the paratrooper training camp for training. In the simulation training cabin, they underwent simulated parachute training again and again at ten times the normal training speed.
Chong Zhen watched everything from the side and was dumbfounded. It took him a long time to regain his senses and look at Luo Feng with gratitude and admiration.
After a day of training, the 500 paratroopers were successfully trained, and the transport planes were in place. Everything was ready.
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