Chapter 161: Pre-sale Model

Li Hao, who had been watching for a long time, finally could not help but speak up.

He truly could not bear to watch any longer.

From the beginning with the free giveaways, to one copper coin for one Daming Gun, and then to selling Daming Guns with free gunpowder and lead bullets.

Now he was saying something about needing pre-sales.

Looking at Zhu Gaoxu, who was becoming more and more outrageous as he spoke.

Li Hao felt that if he didn't stop him now, Zhu Gaoxu might just sell off the Great Ming.

The key is, if you're going to do this, don't let me know about it.

If it really gets investigated later, even if he was just a bystander, he would likely suffer punishment from Lao Zhu.

Thinking this, Li Hao walked directly up to Zhu Gaoxu and grabbed him, as Zhu Gaoxu was about to continue speaking.

"Your Highness, you are tired; go down and rest."

As he said this, he prepared to pull Zhu Gaoxu inside.

The group of envoys had just reached the crucial part; with all the good stuff being given away, how could they possibly let Zhu Gaoxu leave just like that?

"Lord Li, wait a moment. His Highness clearly still has more to say; please let His Highness finish his words."

"Exactly, His Highness is of the royal family; Lord Li, please do not pull and tug at him."

"......"

Hearing the chaotic, mixed voices of the envoys trying to persuade him, Li Hao's face turned dark.

He knew that if Zhu Gaoxu didn't give everyone an explanation, he probably wouldn't be able to leave.

He turned his head to look at Zhu Gaoxu, only to see Zhu Gaoxu sitting on a chair with an indifferent expression.

Upon seeing Li Hao's gaze, a flash of inspiration struck Zhu Gaoxu, and the corners of his mouth immediately curled up.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu like this, Li Hao secretly thought: "Oh no!"

But it was clearly too late by now.

Zhu Gaoxu grabbed Li Hao's hand in return and said to the crowd: "Lord Li, quickly let go of this Prince; this Prince wants to drop a wave of benefits for my family!"

"To all the friends and family who have come to my live stream... to my tent, as long as you all don't leave today, this Prince will drop benefits to the very end!"

While saying this, Zhu Gaoxu even put on a show of struggling.

This left Li Hao, who was beside Zhu Gaoxu, completely stunned.

It was clearly you holding my hand, alright?

It was just that Li Hao didn't know there was such a thing as an Oscar statuette.

Otherwise, he would definitely have to tell Zhu Gaoxu that the Oscars owed him one.

And Zhu Gaoxu's performance was indeed not in vain.

The enthusiasm of the envoys below rose another level.

With eyes reddened from excitement, they waited for Zhu Gaoxu to drop the benefits.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu released Li Hao's hand, stood directly on the chair, and said: "Family, I won't say anything more."

"This sale of Daming Guns adopts a pre-sale model."

"Our Great Ming has a million-strong army, yet only a little over a hundred thousand are equipped with Daming Guns. Originally, Grandfather's intention was to wait until all of our Great Ming's million soldiers were equipped with Daming Guns before selling them to other countries on a large scale."

Hearing these words from Zhu Gaoxu, everyone felt a shock in their hearts.

Only then did they realize that the Great Ming army was already equipped with over a hundred thousand Daming Guns!

This was too terrifying.

At this moment, no one doubted Zhu Gaoxu's words.

Firstly, the atmosphere was already at this point.

Secondly, Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth and started the sale at a minimum of ten thousand Daming Guns.

This indicated that the Daming Guns could be mass-produced.

Most importantly, they had just seen the soldiers in Zhu Gaoxu's Military Camp.

They were indeed each holding a Daming Gun.

Having seen this with their own eyes, they naturally and subconsciously believed Zhu Gaoxu's words.

At this moment, Li Hao's face turned dark as he watched Zhu Gaoxu, who not only didn't restrain himself but became even more carried away.

For a moment, he didn't know how to persuade Zhu Gaoxu anymore.

Anyway, I've already tried to stop him; if you want to court death, don't blame me.

Thinking this, Li Hao simply flicked his sleeves in anger and walked out of the tent.

To the envoys, this scene looked like the Great Ming had not expected Zhu Gaoxu to set the price so low and wanted to go back on their word.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu narrowed his eyes.

This Li Hao had unintentionally given him a real assist.

Looking at the increasingly frantic crowd, Zhu Gaoxu continued: "This Prince later moved him with emotion and reasoned with him, persuading Grandfather that we must have the demeanor of a great power and sell this treasure to you all in advance."

"It is just that, firstly, there are too many orders, and secondly, our own country has needs, so you all need to place your orders right now so that we in the Great Ming can rush the manufacturing and production. Therefore, the arrival of the goods might be a little late, but this Prince guarantees here that once the Daming Guns in our Great Ming army generally reach two hundred thousand, we will definitely ship them to you all. I believe this time will not be too long."

After Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, fearing that the heated atmosphere in the tent would drop, he continued: "Lord Li has likely already gone to the palace to complain to Grandfather. Those of you who want to place an order, quickly draw up the written agreement and pay the deposit; opportunity knocks but once!"

Hearing these words from Zhu Gaoxu, everyone did not hesitate at all, scrambling to draw up written agreements for Zhu Gaoxu.

No one doubted Zhu Gaoxu's explanation.

Now that the Great Ming already had over a hundred thousand people equipped with Daming Guns, would reaching two hundred thousand be far off?

The key was that what Zhu Gaoxu said also made perfect sense.

Placing an order for hundreds of thousands, one had to give them some time to make them, right?

After all, the discount offered was so great.

Thinking this, everyone scrambled to get paper and pens, writing down the orders for their own countries and drawing up promissory notes for payment.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu revealed a faint, smug smile on his face.