After finishing the first class, all the profiteer students felt that they had gained a lot and learned so much new knowledge, especially the marketing strategy of Fairyland. Not to mention completely transformed, they also made a lot of progress.
Compared with their previous vision, which was like a frog in a well, after class, they felt like they were at the top of the mountain and saw all the small mountains. Those colleagues who thought that one thousand taels of silver were too expensive and were reluctant to spend money were short-sighted.
All in all, one class only costs one hundred taels of silver. If you attend ten classes, you will be considered to be very talented if you don't say that you are rich in knowledge. The new terms you use will not be clear to outsiders at all.
Faced with the rich promotional strategies mentioned by the prince, and the methods he used to attract customers, it is really difficult for him to accept them now, and he even feels a little childish and ridiculous.
Brand and trademark matters must be settled as soon as possible. Many people have signed up to attend the class. Once others register, it will be too late. While there are still two classes of students who have not attended the class, it must be completed as soon as possible.
With the content of such a lesson, as long as it is used properly, one's own sales can at least increase by 40 to 50%, and doubling it is not impossible. This is the voice of all profiteer students.
After taking ten classes, his business will definitely improve greatly. The one thousand taels of silver spent on tuition can be earned back in a few days, and it will still fall into his own pocket with profits.
Realizing this, the notes you write will not be lent to outsiders. These notes are worth a thousand pieces of gold. If anyone wants to read them, they will have to pay at least a hundred taels of silver.
We can't blame the profiteers and students for being selfish. If this note is lent out on a large scale and spread from one to ten, then to a hundred, all the merchants in the capital will know the general method of making money.
A certain prince didn't care how much each student could listen to or remember. As a teacher, he only taught them what they could understand. How to digest and absorb it was their own business.
Except for two aunts working in the service industry, not all the students in the first class are male students. There are still six or seven beautifully dressed aunts who stand out from the crowd.
A certain prince knew without asking that some businessmen's "good wives" had extraordinary operational capabilities. Those merchants were just running their own businesses in the name of "good wives."
She might be a wife or a concubine, but they are all capable women. I dare not say anything else. At least in terms of taking care of their own business, they are no worse than their peers.
When assigning seats, shorter women can also enjoy the treatment in the front row, and then men are arranged according to their size, and they all take off their hats, otherwise students in the back row can only look at the hats in front of them.
The profiteer students were also very curious about a certain prince's loudspeaker that could make loud noises. However, when they heard that it was a thing from the fairy world and that if you came close and touched it, you would get an electric shock, they were too scared to get close and could only watch from a certain distance.
Inadvertently, the presence of the loudspeaker gave a certain prince a layer of mystery. After seeing the airship taking off and the loudspeaker, the merchants were convinced of the prince's experience of returning from a study tour in the fairy world.
Of course, there are also those who don’t believe it.
Three days later, only twenty-four soldiers came to report to the special forces.
Compared with the original forty-six people who signed up, there were almost half less.
It's understandable to back off at this time, after all, a certain prince had something to say first.
"I am very pleased to see you. Your coming here shows that you have given it careful consideration. Joining this army naturally brings benefits. At least in terms of treatment, I will not treat you badly. In the past three days, , you don’t need training, you have to complete the entry procedures one by one first. I will give each person a settling-in allowance of 500 taels of silver. At the same time, I will send someone to notify your family members to come and collect it, and move all your family members in. In the city, a house is arranged to live in. The land outside the city can be rented out and cultivated by others. All the work will be arranged by this palace. If there are elderly people at home who have no one to take care of them, I will send someone to take care of it. In this way, you can save yourself. With no worries about the future, you can concentrate on training and kill the enemy to serve the country."
If you join the special forces, you can't be distracted by trivial matters. A certain prince is not short of money. It is no problem to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver for these twenty-four people.
Moreover, their family members must be moved into the city, firstly to take care of and protect them, and secondly, as hostages to prevent these well-trained guys from defecting to the enemy in the future.
When they heard that each person had a settlement allowance of 500 taels of silver, a group of people were very excited. They might not be able to earn so much money in ten years.
When the family arrived in the city, they still had work to do, and with the settlement allowance, they had enough food and clothing. If they made excuses, they would have nothing to do.
"I have so many people so that you can train wholeheartedly. If you are distracted by other things, it will be difficult to calm down and learn some skills. I can responsibly say that training in this army for one year is equivalent to Yu trained in the East Palace Guards for three years. After three years of training in this army, he learned more skills than ten years of training in outside troops. This is a force that performs special operations missions, hence the name 'Special Forces', its full name It is the 'Ranger' special force. This force takes orders directly from me. Your commander is Yi Bangcai. From now on, the orders issued by Yi Bangcai are my orders. I will organize you and others. It is a platoon with three squads, each with eight people, and one squad leader and one deputy squad leader. However, although the establishment is the same as that of the Donggong Guard, the salary is quite different. Ordinary soldiers are paid ten taels per month, and deputy squad leaders are paid fifteen taels per month. The squad leader's salary is twenty taels per month. Regardless of the official position, the salary is one stone per month, and three meals a day, each with meat. The work and rest situation is determined according to the training plan. In the early stage, devil-style training is required, so there will be very little rest time. , the assessment will be conducted one month later, and those who fail the assessment will be returned to the original army, and the settlement allowance of 500 taels of silver issued by this palace will also be cancelled, and the family members can still live in the city."
Yi Bangcai is responsible for leading the team training, and there is no need to worry about other things. Regarding training plans, strategies and tactics, individual soldier skills, etc., a certain prince has prepared a bound volume for him, and he leads people to take pictures. Just do it.
The reason why this unit is called "Rangers" is that it is ordered based on its tactics. Since there are too few people who can be put into combat in the early stage, Ranger tactics must be adopted.
Fight if you can, run away if you can't, lay mines and fire cold shots if nothing happens, and kill each one one by one. Fight piecemeal. After a year, the results can be accumulated to a hundred braids.
Fighting like this is relatively shabby, but with so few people at the moment, they can't even fight a Niu Lu's pigtails, and they can't let the more than 20 "rangers" under his command die with the opponent, so they can only adopt provocative tactics.
"What is 'devil's training'? It makes you feel as cruel as purgatory. Only in this way can you learn a skill as soon as possible. The enemies you will face in the future are cold-blooded, cruel, and good at fighting. Soldiers, only you who are better at fighting than them can defeat these enemies who are poisoning the people of our Ming Dynasty, and finally destroy them. I asked Bongcai to train you, in order to make you become the best in my army of the Ming Dynasty. Elites, if the Yongwei Battalion and other troops are equivalent to the blade, then you are the sharpest tip. Although you are not soldiers now, in the future, each of you will lead an army of dozens of people alone. Fight against the Donglu. Therefore, only by learning the skills well can you teach your future subordinates. Firstly, you can avoid being laughed at by your subordinates. Secondly, you must ensure that you can kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds on the battlefield. Do you think the Donglu are scary? Donglu's The soldiers guarding Bagala are very powerful? I tell you that as long as you study hard and practice hard, Donglu Bagala will not be able to kill you, and will become the result of your reward!"
In the future, the Ming Dynasty's army will focus on developing three types of arms - armored troops, mountain infantry and special forces.
Armored troops are used to be responsible for a wave of horizontal push operations on major battlefields, mainly plain areas.
Mountain infantry is responsible for secondary battlefields, especially the mountainous areas of northern Liaoning and the Changbai Mountains, as well as the Xing'an Mountains.
The goal of the special forces is to attack Braid's supply line and eliminate the most elite Bagala in Huang Taiji's hands.
In this regard, a certain prince is also looking forward to seeing whether Huang Taiji's Bagara lives up to his reputation, or whether his own special forces are more sharp.
To achieve this goal, at least the number of special forces must exceed a hundred. For now, the twenty or so people should stay in the base and train hard, otherwise they would just go out to deliver meals to the pigtails.
"Okay, Lord Yi, take them to take photos first so that they can be used as IDs, and then go to the Army Hospital for a full-body examination. If there are any old injuries, they can be treated immediately. All the expenses will be borne by me. After that, I People will be sent to meet you, and each person will be received by a dedicated person before returning to his hometown to take his family members to the city. After the trivial matters are completed, guns, horses, armor and other weapons and equipment can be distributed."
The guns used by the Rangers are naturally not junk weapons like blunderbuss, but new guns, namely the "Charleville"-1777 flintlock musket, and new short blunderbuss.
Due to the current low production of these two weapons, even the East Palace Guards are using blunderbuss for shooting training. Otherwise, a certain prince would not be able to afford the wear and tear of training alone.
The number of Rangers is small, so there is no such concern. They can completely train with new guns. Not only do they need to become sharpshooters, they must also be able to kill pigtails within twenty steps.
Weapons that are truly made for "Rangers" are complicated in process and have a high scrap rate. As a result, the output is extremely low, and there are very few qualified products. Basically, only three or four weapons can be produced in a month.
Even if the output were doubled to produce ten guns a month, it would only be about a hundred guns a year, which could barely meet the consumption of the Ranger troops.
No way, the technical content of the revolver is still a weapon with a high threshold for the top craftsmen of the Ming Empire.
At first, a certain prince wanted to make eight consecutive rounds. However, because eight holes had to be made on the runner, which was not easy to polish, the scrap rate was more than double that of the six-shot model, so he had to give up in the end.
Just the six-shot version was created by Dean Song, Academician Bo, Academician Wang and others, together with a group of senior craftsmen, after more than a month of painstaking thinking.
The principle and template are actually not too difficult. The difficulty is to make six chamber walls with roughly the same size. The difference in diameter cannot be more than half a millimeter, which requires a lot of craftsmanship. In the end, it can only be polished by hand by craftsmen. .
The premise is that the chamber volume cannot be made too small, otherwise not only will the craftsmen be unable to polish it, but the amount of charge will also be reduced. This is the most fatal loss.
The scrap rate of the runner is very high. As long as one of the bullet chambers is of unqualified size, no matter which manufacturing stage it occurs, the entire runner will be considered scrapped. A group of weirdos at the Academy of Sciences are trying to find ways to improve production efficiency.
Of course, after enlarging the chamber, the weight of the entire gun was greatly overweight. A certain prince had to change it to a long-barreled version, which was the carbine used by the cavalry.
The manufacturing process is complex, the scrap rate is extremely high, the output is ultra-low, the cost has reached appalling levels, and the power is less than a flintlock musket.
The only advantage is that it fires six rounds in a row, uses breech loading, and has a very fast rate of fire and reloading. Without these two advantages, this gun would not have to be manufactured at all.
Since the production cost of the bullet chamber was very high, a certain prince went all out and even changed the gun chamber to a rifling design, which was not a waste of money.
This smooth rifled gun was converted into a rifled gun, and it used Minie-type dummy bullets. The tip of the warhead was designed with a pit, covered with wax on the outside, and filled with white phosphorus.
After the fire is turned on, the wax will melt at high temperature, exposing the white phosphorus inside. The white phosphorus will spontaneously ignite when it encounters air. It will be very cool if it is penetrated into the braided armor...
Even if one out of ten bullets penetrates the armor and burrows into the skin, the hit braid will be in excruciating pain, because as long as the white phosphorus is not burned out, it will still burn in the bones.
Even the tough and tenacious Bagara will never be able to withstand this kind of explosive attack. A white phosphorus bomb can maim a Bagara. This deal is really a bargain.
A certain prince also wanted to popularize Dum white phosphorus bombs on a large scale, but this was a military secret. It would be easy to leak the bullets in advance, so he could only wait until wartime.
In order to increase the firepower output of the Rangers so that they can still escape unharmed even when there are fewer enemies and more enemies, some of them were equipped with mortars and rocket launchers.
Mortars are heartless guns, commonly known as "iron barrel guns."
The rocket launcher is a small version of the anti-ship missile. It is named the "Iron Fist" rocket launcher. Its appearance is similar to the "Chariot Nightmare". Including the rocket and launch tube, the total combat weight is about 20 kilograms, and can be completed by a single soldier. Loading and firing missions.
The detonation still uses the impact mode. There are currently two types of warheads, namely oil warheads and iron bead warheads. The former is used to attack the carriage, while the latter can delay the strong advancement of the braided cavalry.
The "Iron Fist" rocket launcher is not like a mortar and is much less powerful than the original version. After a certain prince personally witnessed it, the live-fire shooting effect can only be regarded as barely passable.
It is definitely not possible to use this thing to carry out offensive tasks, such as destroying braided fortresses or mountain strongholds, but it is not a big problem to use braided infantry and cavalry. This weapon is also classified as top secret and cannot be equipped in large quantities for the army for the time being.
Adding grenades and landmines, the weapons needed by the Rangers are almost enough. The rest are auxiliary equipment, such as binoculars, sights, compasses, military maps, compressed biscuits, water purification tablets, gas masks, etc.
The horses are temporarily imported from the natives of Hexi. Although the comprehensive indicators are far behind the sweat-blooded horses, their sprinting ability is better than that of the Menggu horses. They are also relatively cold-resistant, and they can already be used.
