Survival skills maxed out, I feed my wife and daughter by catching fish and shrimp

Chen Changfan took it, unfolded it and looked at it, his brows lit with joy.

"We seized 30 catties of grain, 5000 catties of meat, 1 catties of firewood, and salt..."

"We seized 1200 swords, 300 sets of shields, and 30 taels of silver..."

I have to say that the big copycats have more money.

He took great pains to trick Chai Feng into selling him arms, but each order was only worth 10 taels of silver.

The profit is not that high, only 80%.

Most likely it is only 8 taels.

But this time, the silver and money seized from the Rat Gang directly amounted to 30 taels.

It has to be robbery to make money quickly!

"Sir, we now have over 800,000 taels of silver in our village. With this kind of wealth, we can open a small bank."

Shen Wanwu said with some excitement.

Unknowingly, I have accumulated wealth to such an extent.

I never thought that after spending all day fighting against the rich and robbing the landlords, now I am the landlord?

However, Shen Wanwu also reminded himself that when wealth accumulates to a certain level, it is often difficult to increase wealth significantly through primitive accumulation.

Wealth of this magnitude often requires financial means to amass wealth.

But this is his weakness.

After all, in his previous life, he was a workhorse over sixty years old, earning a pittance all his life. He had accumulated a lot of occupational diseases, but he didn't save any money at all.

How could he understand financial management?

"If you want to open a bank, this amount of money is still not enough. My suggestion is to buy some gold."

Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times.

The price of gold is bound to rise. The previous skyrocketing price of refined rice is a living example.

Shen Wanwu thought for a moment and nodded seriously, "Buying gold is also fine. A month ago, 11 taels of silver could be exchanged for 1 tael of gold. Now I'm afraid it will take 12 or even 13 taels of silver to exchange for one tael of gold."

Hearing this, Chen Changfan secretly rejoiced. It seemed that the price of gold had not yet started to rise wildly, and now was the best time to stockpile gold.

If war really breaks out, silver notes may not be exchanged for cash. Only gold and silver in hand are real hard currency.

By that time, the value of gold would have almost doubled. If the war lasted longer, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it would have increased five or six times.

"Except for the silver and money invested in production and maintaining the operation of the village, try to exchange copper coins and silver notes for gold."

"Okay, I've roughly estimated that we have about 50 taels of gold that we can directly exchange for gold. I'll arrange for someone to do the exchange tomorrow."

Shen Wanwu immediately realized his master's intention.

In fact, he was also bullish on gold, but he really didn't have the courage like Chen Changfan to exchange most of his silver and money into gold.

Little did he know that these 50 taels were actually nothing in Chen Changfan's eyes.

After all, he now has mines, coal, and arsenals.

Take this batch of arms as an example, they were able to earn 8 taels in less than a month.

50 taels of silver can be earned back in just half a year.

But buying gold at a low point at this time can just seize the opportunity.

"Let's see when these 50 taels can be turned into 100 million taels."

This was the first time that Chen Changfan had made such a large-scale investment. Although he remained calm on the surface, he was actually secretly looking forward to it.

"Don't worry, sir. If nothing else, I dare say that in a month, these 50 taels can be turned into at least 55 taels."

He felt at ease leaving the financial matters to Shen Wanwu.

A financial management return of 10 points is indeed very high.

Of course, there are ways to make money faster, such as usury and HDD. These are ways to make money faster than a snowball, but Chen Changfan doesn't want to do that.

Firstly, this will damage one's virtue, and secondly, the world is too chaotic. The creditor might be killed as soon as the loan is lent out at high interest rates.

The bad debt rate is too high and no one can bear it.

In comparison, a customer like Chai Feng, who is reliable, financially sound, and won't run away easily, is simply a perfect customer.

"By the way, I have a new blueprint here. Take it back and study it with Hu the Bricklayer and Han the Blacksmith."

Chen Changfan took out another blueprint and handed it to Tang Shao. The latter looked at it for a while, but couldn't see anything meaningful in his usually clever eyes.

The structure of the thing in the drawing is not complicated. It looks round, hollow inside, with some simple mechanisms, and a shell covered with a grid on the outside.

It looks... a bit like a small cantaloupe.

He looked at it for a long time but still didn't understand what it was used for.

"Boss, if I'm not mistaken, this should be filled with something, right?"

Chen Changfan nodded and said casually, "Black powder."

"This, this doesn't look like a musket. The shell is almost completely sealed, and the amount of gunpowder is so large. Once ignited, I'm afraid it will explode..."

"That's right, we want explosions! And the louder and more even the explosions, the better. Because this is a throwing weapon, I named it... a grenade."

Chen Changfan's words left everyone stunned.

What kind of new weapon was this? They had never heard of it before. Even except Tang Shao, many people couldn't imagine how to use it.

"A hand grenade... a grenade held in your hand. When you encounter an enemy, before they even get close to you, you throw a hand grenade directly into their face. That's almost like being struck by lightning. That's a good name, a good name."

Tang Shao immediately imagined a scene in his mind and couldn't help but his eyes lit up.

Such throwing weapons are much better than the plum blossom needle hidden blade.

He is proficient in making hidden weapons and knows how difficult the manufacturing process of a hidden blade is. In addition, in order to shoot the hidden blade accurately, it requires a lot of hard work and practice.

This grenade is different. As long as you throw it at the enemy, it can cause effective damage. You can master it without much learning.

He explained the principle of the grenade clearly in the drawings, and Tang Shao also directly deduced the method of use, but it was not so easy to produce a batch of qualified grenades.

Given the limitations of materials, technology, and gunpowder, it would be great if this grenade could have a killing radius of four or five meters.

If a real war breaks out, it requires extremely good accuracy to accurately throw a grenade at the enemy's face or side from a distance of dozens of meters.

But the good thing is that no one else has grenades, so it shouldn't be difficult to cause effective damage.

He couldn't help but recall the difficult years of struggle by his ancestors, when they were using very backward wooden-handled grenades to fight against the enemy's advanced melon grenades.

Wooden-handled grenades are of poor workmanship, have low power, and produce few shrapnel, and sometimes they break into two pieces when exploded.

But our ancestors invented a close combat grenade method, which is simply a way of fighting in exchange for injury, which is really admirable.

In the drawing of this grenade, Chen Changfan abandoned the simpler wooden-handled grenade style and instead adopted a structure similar to cantaloupe grenades and melon grenades, and increased the dosage.

To put it in a more vivid way, the skin is thin and the filling is large.

"The firing pin and the delay cartridge are key to grenade activation. Once the technology matures, we'll gradually improve the gunpowder and shrapnel casing."