Chapter 1021 The mystery of gold coins
On this day, the sky was filled with autumn rain. The soldiers finished their training earlier than before and were about to disband. A long team came from afar outside the camp. The sharp-eyed soldiers found that they were the people who had left the camp earlier, and immediately shouted excitedly: "I'm back! I'm back! The Legion Commander is back."
Julius quickly climbed the barracks and looked into the distance. It was indeed Feng Yu who led a storm of men to the barracks. He was accompanied by his maid Bonnie and deputy commander Douglas. However, there was a team that looked like a caravan and carried hundreds of large trucks of supplies.
Julius hurriedly went out of the camp to welcome his group into the camp. He asked straight to the point: "Legislature Commander, where have you been there for so many days?"
Feng Yu replied disapprovingly: "Of course, it is to go to the port to receive these goods. If you don't bring troops to pick them up, can you feel at ease?"
Julius felt a sudden heart and said in his heart: "Don't spend money anymore. If these items require huge amounts of money, I will see the bottom of my account. Maybe I can't even pay this month's military pay."
Soon, the large boxes on the baggage truck were transported down, revealing the guys inside. They were brand new single-soldier crossbow cannons wrapped in linen, and of course, the miniature crossbow guns were equipped.
Although Julius had never seen these things before, he knew that they were valuable. He asked Feng Yu carefully: "League Commander, how much does this thing cost?"
Feng Yu still said indifferently: "If the market price is asked, it is priceless, because no merchant has this source of goods. I bought it with the relationship between Liang State. If the cost price is asked, this one will cost about two gold coins."
As soon as he finished speaking, Julius was so scared that he yelled and said anxiously: "General, we can't afford to pay so much. We shook off all the balance in the account, and probably couldn't afford to pay either. What's more, the finances of the Roman Legion were monetized, and the above were only allocated money, and the rest were ignored. Our money was not paid, but we bought grain. If the soldiers could not pay this salary, they would riot. If there was no food to eat, they would be rebelling directly."
Feng Yu laughed and patted Julius on the shoulder and said, "Brother, don't worry. These things don't need to be paid a penny from your account. Not only that, I also brought five thousand taels of gold to make up for the shortage of the Legion's vault."
Julius couldn't believe his ears, and opened his mouth wide and stood there. It was not until he saw a whole car of yellow gold bars that he believed that Feng Yu didn't make fun of him.
In this matter, Dian Qing had already taken out a single crossbow cannon and fiddled in front of the legion soldiers. He saw him loading the five crossbow guns into the cassette. He pulled the lever and then aimed at a big tree outside the five battles and pulled the hanging knife. The Roman soldiers found that this pocket crossbow gun without a "torque spring" had only relied on the tension of the bowstring made of unknown materials, and shot a crossbow gun about one meter long into the trunk, and it was submerged into a depth of half a foot. This means that the crossbow gun could also shoot through the large shield in their hands.
Just when these soldiers thought that only important units could hold this magical artifact, someone shouted: "The infantry have lined up and stood up, and now they are distributing equipment, and they have one!"
Only then did they realize that the individual crossbow was issued as a standard weapon. They hurriedly lined up in long rows under the command of Feng Yu's personal soldiers. In order to get this thing first, some barbarian soldiers almost clashed and started fighting. When they received the individual crossbow, they were curious and fiddled with Dian Qing. When they pulled the lever, they found that the rubber band as thick as a finger, which was only half a foot long, was pulled into a thin rope that was thinner than the front end of the chopstick but had a three-foot long one, and were extremely surprised.
A barbarian soldier leaned his face close to the individual crossbow with a bowstring. His fingers accidentally pulled the hanging knife, and the rubber band slammed into his face, which made him scream in pain, and a bloody hole suddenly appeared on his thick-skinned and rough face. The soldiers next to him laughed gloatingly. Fortunately, they had not been given a crossbow gun at this time, otherwise some accident would have occurred.
Dian Qing hurriedly shouted, "Don't move around before you learn how to operate." Unfortunately, others couldn't understand his words. They only said that the translator and Simmons also loudly warned these legion soldiers that they would restrain themselves after they were in danger of random tricks.
Then the new crossbows and longbows of different models of Liang Kingdom appeared in the box. Especially the longbows, which were displayed by Dian Qingyi, shocked everyone. The arrow, like a short spear gun, turned into a small black dot in the distant horizon. After an experienced person estimated, he shot at least three or four hundred steps.
The centurion who had a good deal asked for a few long bows to watch. They tried to pull it, and a few people didn't pull it because they were relatively small and their skills were not right. You should know that these people were all from martial arts. Even if they had not practiced archery, the bow should at least be pulled open. It can be seen that the strength and physical conditions required by the long bowman. Everyone suddenly realized why the long bowman who had chosen the previous team of hundreds of people had long arms and round waists.
Julius seemed not interested in these weapons, but came to the cart of gold. In fact, he was not interested in these new things, but that cart of gold bars attracted his attention more than these new weapons.
He pulled out a yellow gold bar from the car, put it in his hand and weighed it, muttering: "This one weighs at least one kilogram, enough for five or six hundred gold coins."
Feng Yu had also quietly come to him. When he heard him say this, he responded: "No, right? I weighed Roman gold coins in my early years. A gold coins were exchanged for Roman gauge units, which weighed about 4 to 5 grams. This gold bar had twenty taels and one kilogram, which could only be equivalent to two hundred Roman gold coins."
Julius laughed and said, "Where did you see the gold coins weigh four to five grams. Our Roman gold coins weigh only three grams, and they contain at least 30% lead. The real gold ingredients are up to two grams."
Feng Yu said in surprise, took out a gold coin from his close-fitting purse and shook it in front of Julius, and said, "No, I was very interested in Rome when I was in Liang Kingdom in my early years, so I paid attention to all aspects of Rome. When I first got this Roman gold coin, I asked someone to weigh it and use the drainage method to measure its volume and density. Each gold coin does weigh four to five grams, and it is gold of high purity."
Chapter completed!