Chapter 520: The Guo family’s gift
is the firecracker, also known as the fire tube.
It can be regarded as the most primitive firearm in the world.
Many people say that a gun is an enlarged gun, but in fact, it should be the other way around - a gun is a shrunken cannon.
Firearms are essentially weapons that use gunpowder as propulsion. You put in the gunpowder, put in the bullets, and ignite the gun. There is no doubt that although the gun uses more materials and is more powerful, from the perspective of the difficulty of making it, I think. To make a thin and well-proportioned iron pipe requires higher craftsmanship than making a gun barrel.
But regardless of the horizon, firecrackers are still just firecrackers. They are pre-loaded and fired in a single shot. They are difficult to aim and have erratic trajectories. Compared with bows and arrows, the biggest advantage of firecrackers is that they do not require anyone to pull the bow string to exert force. The requirements for the quality of the soldiers are not high, and the training is relatively simple.
If you really want to compare it with the flintlock rifled gun in Fang Bie's hand, it's really a world of difference.
However, despite the differences between heaven and earth, one thing is still very obvious - that is, whether it is a musket or a flintlock, they are undoubtedly contraband in this era.
Guo Sheng was able to get so many firecrackers - almost a whole box, at least fifty or more than a hundred firecrackers, which could arm a small army.
And these firecrackers were to be given to Wang Zhi as gifts.
It makes people a little doubtful.
What on earth was the Guo family trying to do to make such a big bet on Wang Zhi.
"Firegun." Xue Ling said with a complex expression.
Of course Xue Ling has seen this thing. There is the Shenji Camp in Yanjing City, which is equipped with a large number of firearms. It can be regarded as the most advanced firearms army today. If there are really a hundred fire blunderbuss, then there is basically no martial arts in front of it. What the master says.
Even if it is Dacheng's Vajra Indestructible Black Sky Demonic Skill, it can take one or two shots, or ten shots, when faced with Chuanshe's muskets, but can it really take hundreds of shots?
"Yeah, Fire Gun." Yin Ye nodded and said, "The bet the Guo family made is quite big." "
If you are willing, take this boat to report to the official now, and you can capture the Guo family later. "
Even if you can't copy it, you can still make the Guo family shed a layer of skin."
Yin Ye looked at Fang Bian's expression and smiled: "Okay, I was just joking."
After saying this, it seemed that In order to cover up something, Yin Ye continued to open the next box. Inside were bundles of precious silks of various colors. The textures, styles, and colors of these silks were all of the best. However, compared with the previous two boxes, they were less explosive. Much less.
The fourth box is tea.
The fifth box is porcelain.
The sixth box contained something interesting. It turned out to be jars of tightly sealed gunpowder. Fang was a little surprised when he saw it.
Because the contents of these boxes are really interesting.
It's actually quite understandable to give away gold, silver and arms, but giving these very serious products makes people a little confused.
On the bottom floor of the cabin, there are twenty boxes in total.
Under Yin Ye's hands, these boxes were opened one by one. There were four large boxes of gold and silver, four boxes of gunpowder, two boxes of gunpowder, two boxes of tea, four boxes of porcelain, and four boxes of silk.
If you only look at gold, silver, muskets and gunpowder, these goods are quite normal.
If you only look at tea, porcelain and silk, these goods are quite normal.
But mixed together, it seems a bit nondescript.
Especially these goods were given to Wang Zhi.
Even the Guo family could not bear the crime of delivering gold, silver and firearms to pirates. Guo Sheng was willing to hand over these goods to Fang Bie, probably because of his trust in Fang Bie.
It's the feeling that I put the handle in your hands, but I believe you won't hurt me.
"I can't understand it a bit." Xue Ling murmured as she looked at the twenty opened boxes.
The total value of the goods in these boxes is really valuable, and the total value is estimated to be close to one hundred thousand taels. In addition to the four most precious boxes of gold and silver, the remaining firecrackers, gunpowder, porcelain, silk and so on are also quite valuable. , but the value is just that.
A huge gamble and bet of one hundred thousand taels of silver, but I don’t know what the final result will be.
"So what do you think?" Yin Ye looked at Fang Bie with a smile: "Look at your good brother. No, I shouldn't say he is your good brother." "This should be the choice of the entire Guo family."
Fang
Bie How can I see it?
Fang Bi can only choose to see with his eyes.
He reached out to cover the first box, and then locked the iron lock.
One by one, don't relock all the boxes.
"Now that you've seen the goods, it's not up to me to tell you what to think about, but for you." Fang Bie looked at Yin Ye and said.
In fact, the reason why we came to the bottom of the cabin to look at these boxes was because of the new assassination mission issued by Beehive. Whether it was Qiu Dayu or Guang Jiqi, it was considered an important mission for the imperial court. Once it was said If Fang Bu chose to carry out the assassination plan, he would be kidnapped on a pirate ship.
So before boarding the boat, Fang Bu still wants to ask first.
Is it necessary to get on this boat?
"The Guo family's ideas are not that simple." Yin Ye said with a faint smile: "It would be baffling and laughable to say that the Guo family, which has been standing in China for a hundred years, would hand over its trump card so straightforwardly.
" If it wasn't clear, then after looking at these things sent by the Guo family, many things will become obvious.
"Can someone explain it to me?" Although Xue Ling was always at the scene, she only felt that she was confused as a monk.
"It can only be understood, not expressed in words." Fang Bie looked at Xue Ling and smiled and said, "In short, the Guo family is hedging their bets." "
Then do we still need to send these goods?" Xue Ling asked.
"Send, of course." Fang Bie nodded and said, "Not only do we have to send, we also have to send these intact to Wang Zhi." "
I also want to take a look at this Wufeng ship owner who is known as the King of Hui. , who is it?"
"Are you going to send it?" Xue Ling nodded as if understanding: "Then those two generals, do we want to kill them?"
Since the goods are to be sent, it seems that the people also need to be killed.
After all, it is the mission of Di Zihao, and the reward is so generous, but the strength of the assassination target is often not as strong as Di Zihao.
If such a task were to exclude the influence of the imperial court background, Xue Ling felt that it was just a Xuan Zihao task at best.
Thinking about it carefully, it has been a long time since I did the Xuanzihao mission, and I still miss it a bit.
"Human." Fang Bieyouyou gave it a try.
"Let's go take a look first."
"What are we going to see for?" Xue Ling looked at Fang Bi.
"Guang Jiqi." The young man said quietly.
(End of chapter)