Gu Liubai frowned and said, "How many such crossbow arrows have you given?"
Nie Yan said incorrectly, "This kind of firearm has given five hundred arrows, but not many powerful crossbows, only fifty ones have given. However, this kind of firearm has a bow that can be shot after the lead is lit. This strong crossbow mainly has a range of dozens of steps further than an ordinary crossbow machine, and it is more accurate than an ordinary bow."
"Take one of these arrows to see." Gu Liubai pointed the firearm like an iron pine fruit, "How do you use this thing?"
Nie Yan said in the wrong way, "It just roasts the surface with charcoal fire to make the surface red, and then squeezes it hard, but you have to be very careful after roasting it red. If it suddenly gets cold or hits, it will explode directly."
E Zhenzan said at this time, "This kind of iron fruit will not be fried even if it is smashed with an iron hammer. However, if it is burned red, if it is fried, the iron fruit will be fried in a basin. It is not troublesome to store this thing at all, but you must be very careful when using it. If it is in the wild, it is best not to have any puddles around the basin. Otherwise, if it is burned red and accidentally falls into the water and explodes when it is cold, the people around the basin will suffer. Those arrows are another virtue. They are troublesome to store, they cannot be affected by moisture, and there must be problems with the leads. Otherwise, they will either not be able to explode or the leads will be fired, and they will be done. These arrows will be blown up by open flames."
Gu Liubai's heart moved and said, "Then Ye Fengque specially gave you powerful crossbows with long range. When you use this kind of arrow, you should not let the other party's arrow hit your archers. Otherwise, your archers ignite the lead but they can't shoot the arrows themselves. Wouldn't that explode in their own formation?"
E Zhenzan, Nie Yancuo and others were both shocked, E Zhenzan said respectfully, "We really didn't expect this from the supreme and noble Lord Green Eyes."
This is Jean Yingji has already taken an arrow, but the arrow is stored separately in a bamboo tube.
Jean Yingji had just taken the arrow out of the bamboo tube. Before Gu Liubai could take a closer look, he heard a "huh" from Zhou Tui Niu.
"Erniu, what?" Gu Liubai turned his head and saw Zhou Erniu with his cheeks bulging at the bamboo tube in amazement.
Zhou Tui Niu lit the bamboo tube and said, "This bamboo tube should be made by people from several of our villages, and I have made a lot of it."
Gu Liubai was a little surprised, "What did you people from the village do?"
Zhou Tui Niu touched the bamboo tube and nodded, "It's not wrong. The bamboo tube is also covered with fire-resistant putty made of brick shavings, white mud, tangerine, lime and tung oil. The bamboo tube itself is not of this color, and it is this color after being polished. When we made this thing in the village, everyone made a handful of water. At the beginning, I was thinking that this bamboo tube was either used by the nobles in the city to hold silk incense, or expensive calligraphy and painting, or it wouldn't take such a lot of effort, but I didn't expect it to be used to hold arrows."
Gu Liubai nodded and took the arrow into his hand. He weighed the weight and looked at E Zhenzan and asked, "How powerful is this kind of arrow after it explodes?"
Ejin praised, "If you can't blow up a thick thing, you can't blow up the carriage, and the soldiers within a few steps will either die or be disabled."
Gu Liubai felt a strange feeling in his heart.
In fact, since the Qin and Han dynasties, those sorcerers have been studying firearms, especially in the Han Dynasty, some Taoists who practiced external alchemy and Taoist methods accidentally discovered something that could easily break their alchemy furnaces when they were refining alchemy. The Taoists at that time were called "thunder mercury" or "elixir". The Pilizi of the Great Sui Dynasty should be such a product. According to records, there were also special workshops in the Great Sui Dynasty to study firearms, but none of them could be manufactured and used on a large scale. The main reason is that the manufacturing process is too complicated, time-consuming and very dangerous, and it is too expensive. Some of the things that were tried to produce are insufficient.
The power of the iron fruit is OK, but the power of this rocket is unsatisfactory, similar to the main reason why the Sui Dynasty gave up its use back then.
But at this time, the counterweight of the rocket in his hand was perfect, not a shoddy thing, and each arrow was equipped with this kind of bamboo tube, so the cost should be amazing. In addition to being the same as those fancy things on the West City of Chang'an, it makes people feel expensive and used to deceive the money of these Tubo people, there are many limitations in actual combat.
This cost...?
He thought of a possibility and looked at Zhou Erniu and asked, "Erniu, how many bamboo tubes have you made in total, and how much has you given you?"
On Tuesday, Niu Dao, "I have asked for a total of 700 bamboo tubes of this kind. The bamboo tubes are difficult to make, they are thick enough and straight. The price of a bamboo tube can buy four chickens here."
This statement is novel to Gu Liubai. He calculated it, "Then are almost 150 or 60 copper coins?"
On Tuesday, Niu Dao, "The chickens in the mountains are slow to grow and are easily taken away by various wild animals, with about fifty copper coins."
"Two hundred coppers and one bamboo tube, only seven hundred." Gu Liubai frowned, "Erniu, do you think it is possible that you are private coins for you?"
Zhou Erniu was stunned, and his face changed drastically. He reached out and took out a cloth bag from his sleeve, took out all the copper coins inside, and said, "Tianshi, please help me see, there may be the money they paid in it."
Gu Liubai saw that there were only a dozen copper coins in total. He reached out and weighed them casually and took out five.
There is no need to cut it, these five are definitely problematic.
But in order to make Zhou Erniu see at once, he still cut one with a wind knife. Sure enough, the center of the cut fault was black.
Newton was furious on Tuesday, "Zheng Wuya's group of dogs actually used fake money to deceive us. When I go back, I will ask the people from several villages to settle the score with him."
"You take those servants here, I'll ask." Gu Liubai asked these Tubo people to escort Ye Fengque's people in this monastery, and looked at Zhou Erniu, who was furious, and asked, "Who is Zheng Wuya?"
"It's a wealthy family in the town. There are two workshops at home, one is used to press oil and the other is used to make candy." Niu said on Tuesday. "It is said that this man has to sleep with sugar in his mouth since he was a kid. After changing his teeth, his teeth were rotten. There are dozens of servants in this man's family. He is very rich and he even has to use this fake money to cheat us."
"Then you don't have to ask your villager to trouble him, so as not to get away with him when he hears the news. If you lead us, I will settle the score with him." Gu Liubai looked at Zhou Erniu, thought for a while, and asked, "Erniu, you said that the bamboo tubes that load arrows were made by several villages near you. This kind of arrow and firearm production workshop, and even the money-casting workshop, will it be nearby you? Have you heard such explosions before?"
Zhou Erniu thought about it carefully and said, "It seems that there is, but it may not be a thunder or this kind of explosion. It seems that it is the second half of the night, so I can't figure out which part is."
After saying that, he looked at Gu Liubai again and said, "Tianshi, do you want to find out the workshops that make this kind of firearm and privately cast money?"
Gu Liubai nodded and said, "You can't just help you vent your anger. If you don't find such a private money-casting workshop, I don't know how many people you will harm."
"Then what else can I find besides listening to the sound?" Zhou Erniu was a little ashamed, "I asked people from several of our villages to help."
Gu Liubai said seriously, "There are many ways. For example, this kind of workshop uses copper and lead and iron. Inquire about which shop purchases or transports such things in large quantities. The carts are heavy when transporting this kind of copper coins, and the car marks are very deep. In some places, the carriages cannot be pulled, so they have to use ox carts. There are also workshops that require a lot of charcoal to burn, and find out if anyone logs a lot of wood or purchases wood. In addition, there are a lot of fireworks in this kind of workshop. If you work day and night, you may see sparks coming from a distance from the night."
Xiao Zhenwei's heart was a little shocked. He really didn't expect so many tricks here. Judging from Gu Liubai's meaning, this was only a small part of it. Sure enough, he heard Gu Liubai say, "This kind of private money minting workshop cannot leak any news, so the people who work are all food and accommodation inside, and they will definitely not come out for them. You can also inquire about those people going out to work and make money, but they have no contact with their homes. The food is sent outside, and you can also inquire about where food is delivered every day..."
Before Gu Liubai finished speaking, Zhou Erniu's eyes lit up, "Tianshi, I know a place that seems to be suitable."
Gu Liubai said, "Where is it?"
On Tuesday, Niu Road, "It's not far from Qiu Wuya's mountain pass town. There is a valley with lime burning. It's not recruiting workers from outside, but it doesn't let people enter. It's just for delivery of vegetables, meat and cakes, and it's only for people to unload goods from afar. It's not allowed to get close at all. There are people guarding them at night. Some people in the town guessed that it was dug up some ancient tombs or valuable things inside, but it's impossible to stay for so long. It's possible to hear what the Tianshi said. Looking from a distance at night, the valley is red, and there should be a chimney of charcoal burning fire below, but it's not as high as the mountains around the valley, so it's blocked."
At this time, Yeong Yingji's subordinates had already escorted a group of people over. One of the white-faced scholars looked like a trembling voice when he saw Gu Liubai, "Gou Daoshou spared your life!"
Gu Liubai glanced at the man and said, "Do you recognize me?"
The man was shaking and shook his head again by two burly Tubo warriors, and said, "I just heard them say that they had green eyes that I realized that Gu Daoshou had arrived."
Gu Liubai signaled the Tubo people to put the man down and sat him in a chair, and then said, "Don't panic, you know that I am not a person who is easy to kill. As long as you can tell enough useful information, let alone you, I can even help you save your relatives and friends, so that you will not be a traitor. What is your name? Who is Ye Fengque?"
The man with a white-faced scholar-like appearance suddenly stopped sitting on a chair. He kowtowed to Gu Liubai a few times, with sand embedded on his forehead, and said in a trembling voice, "The villain is named Du Qushan, he is the chief clerk of Qishan County. He is either Chen Fengque or is arranged to serve these people. If Chen Fengque has any orders, he will send a letter to him."
Gu Liubai nodded and said, "Then you think of some military information that can atone for the merits and sins."
After Du Qushan was caught and heard from the conversation between the Tubo people, he had already carefully considered it. When he heard Gu Liubai's question, he had already spoken quickly before he could sit on the chair, "The villain knew that the Zheng family of Xingyang and Ye Fengque were connected."
Gu Liubai frowned immediately.
Wu Yanhong, the wife of the Zheng family, treated him very well in Chang'an, and her son Zheng Dongzhi can be regarded as a student he personally taught.
When Du Qushan saw him frowning, he was immediately panicked and said, "The villain definitely dared not talk nonsense to save his life. The reason I said this is because I know that the bosses behind several business companies in Fufeng County are actually Zheng's family. Those business companies secretly raised some private troops. Although they looked small, they gathered in a lot of people. This time, they transported these firearms to the mountain, and happened to have a classmate of my former classmate. His name is Zheng Youdao. I never knew what he had to do with the Zheng family. But this time he sent the firearms to the mountain and wanted to teach these Tubo people how to use them. He stayed on the mountain for a few days. One night he got drunk, and I accidentally heard what he said. Only then did he know that he was actually a member of the Zheng family."
Gu Liubai narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "The drunken words can't be counted."
Du Qushan said, "The villain also knows this truth, but he also said something else at that time. Later, I secretly verified it, and it turned out to be true."
Chapter completed!