Zhou Xu's proposal clearly tempted Peter.
Peter's original thought was that they would soon be able to get their hands on firearms, and by then, Individual Crossbows would be useless.
Under that assumption, wouldn't getting Individual Crossbows now be nothing but a pure waste of money?
He might as well skip them altogether and just wait for the firearms.
His thinking could only be described as far too naive.
The development of anything followed an inevitable process. It wasn't something you could simply skip because you wanted to.
After returning home this time and finding himself constrained at every turn by the Smith Party led by Fisher, Peter had undoubtedly realized this problem as well, but he was suffering from a lack of connections.
One had to understand that Individual Crossbows were equivalent to rifles in the cold weapon era. At present, they were the most important component of the military strength of the allied nations.
Under these circumstances, the years of war against the greenskins had also caused considerable losses to the nations' related weapons and equipment.
Simply put, the allied nations could barely meet their own needs. How could they have extra Individual Crossbows to sell to others?
Now that Zhou Xu, who was sitting right in front of him, had suddenly brought up the possibility of selling him a batch of Individual Crossbows, it was difficult for Peter not to be tempted.
"Thank you, His Majesty Zhou! May I ask how much these Individual Crossbows cost?"
"The price is negotiable."
Zhou Xu waved his hand cheerfully.
"You can exchange resources for them, or, like now, use labor to pay..."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu swiftly switched into business mode.
If Peter wanted to play mind games with him, then fortunately, Zhou Xu had never intended to treat