There was no hurry to set up the munitions factory because they would probably only receive the cannon next June. After all, Andre had only accepted their deposit two days ago and left on his ship. It would take him more than half a year to go back and forth.
Just as everyone expected, when it was time to fork out the money themselves, the Ministry of War and Ministry of Revenue were unwilling to fork out so much money to buy the cannon, so they rejected Qi Haoran's application. Qi Haoran smugly started to wait for Andre's ship to return.
On the other hand, Fan Zijin took advantage of the fact that it was almost the new year and put out all their foreign goods for sale. Before the new year, they had already earned a lot. Seeing that, he decided he might as well let the steward hold back some goods first and release them when New Year's Eve arrived. By then, the price would be much higher.