Over on Zhou Xu's side, his daily workload remained as hectic as ever. Meanwhile, Fisher was hardly idle either, as the Smith Kingdom prepared for its grand plan.
By the time he received the reply from Great Zhou, it was already early summer.
As usual, the Foreign Trade Department directly sent Fisher a Flintlock Gun to test.
As an upgraded version of the Matchlock Gun, the Flintlock Gun's method of use was more or less the same. Fisher quickly got the hang of it, and his eyes lit up after trying it.
"This is great!"
Holding the sample Flintlock Gun, Fisher looked it over from every angle, utterly unable to put it down.
"Send out my order. We'll start with three thousand Flintlock Guns!"
Fisher's huge order was sent to Great Zhou's Foreign Trade Department at practically the fastest possible speed.
There was no need to notify Zhou Xu. He had made arrangements for this long ago.
Fisher was definitely going to want these Flintlock Guns, but how many?
No matter how many the other side requested, the first batch could contain at most one thousand guns.
Setting up the production line for these new rifles was far more complicated than setting one up for the old-fashioned Flintlock Guns.
At this point, even the production line at their military factory had not been fully assembled.
The new guns had not even been issued yet. They couldn't exactly eliminate the old guns first and sell them to someone else, could they?
Even though, in theory, Great Zhou's current situation was extremely safe, they still couldn't pull a stunt like that.
From completing the production line to producing the first batch of new guns, the person in charge of the military factory estimated that it would take until early autumn at the