1765.Sky-high aristocracy (please support the monthly pass)
The last Titan, founded in San Diego, is also a major supplier of national security and homeland security products to the two large North American countries, the United States and Canada, with defense, intelligence, and other government law enforcement agencies.
Blake Jr. said that the company was hired by their auction to provide the C4ISR system -- a modern offensive and defensive drill system -- combat, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and that they were the backbone of the auction's defense work.
"Hiring four security companies, that's not a small price, right?" Qin Shiou asked.
Little Blake said lightly: "Compared to our gains, this is nothing, the total is about eight million dollars." But the more difficult thing is to get the four defense companies to cooperate, these guys are very proud, they all think they are the best, and they don't bother to cooperate with other companies. ”
Although he didn't explain, Qin Shiou understood that this required network resources, and the Black family did not lack resources in this regard, and the most cooperative between them in these auctions was to defend the company.
Seeing the important members of the Little Black family, Qin Shiou entered the exhibition hall accompanied by Little Blake, the exhibits were scattered across four floors, and there were at least twenty elite security personnel on each floor in charge of security work, these people wore sunglasses and headphones, and looked at the visitors coming and going with expressionless faces, like robot cops.
Walking into the hall, Qin Shiou first saw a skeleton, this skeleton was pale in color, with small traces of sea creatures attached to it, and it was wearing chain mail. He wears a horned helmet and a murderous goblin mask on his head, and carries a bow and arrow almost as tall as him.
Thereinto. The arm in which it held the bow and arrow was particularly thick, and the bones on its back were twisted and deformed. It is full of thick epiphysis and even bone spurs, which looks like a crazy and hideous feeling, which is very treacherous.
Qin Shiou recognized it at a glance, this set of armor and this English longbow were the cultural relics and weapons they salvaged from the shipwreck, the bowstring of the longbow had been broken, and he replaced it with a new bowstring, but now that he looks at it, it should be replaced again. It's still the same old bowstring, but it's glued back together.
"All these weapons and armor were obtained from the shipwreck?" Winnie asked curiously, and a reporter came up with a camera, and she stood beside the skeleton and smiled for a group photo.
Little Blake introduced: "Not only the weapons and armor, but even this skeleton was salvaged from the wreck. Saying that, he looked at Qin Shiou, "Man, do you remember?" There's a box with a lot of bones? Yes, this skeleton was obtained from it. ”
Of course, Qin Shiou remembered the box, and when Billy salvaged it, he said that the bones in the box were the pirates who were trapped at sea and had nothing to eat. The bones left by the people who ate them are stored in the bones, and it's disgusting to think about!
Winnie was surprised: "Then this person is deformed enough, look at his shoulder blades......"
Little Black nodded, "Yes." It's deformed, but it also explains why someone can use the English longbow perfectly. I don't know if you've known about it before. Many weapon masters questioned the power of the English longbow, believing that it was without mechanical assistance. Humans can't pull the longbow intact. ”
"Look at this bone, that's the answer, under normal circumstances, it's really hard for people to pull this longbow intact to exert its power. However, in that era, in order to become longbowmen, men trained the strength of one arm and shoulder, and after a lot of tempering, their bodies became deformed, and they could fully exert the power of this longbow. ”
Listening to his introduction, Qin Shiou asked strangely: "That's not right, according to what you say, there should be very few people who can do this, right?" In other words, longbowmen were very valuable talents in their time, so how could such talents still be eaten first? ”
Little Blake stretched out his thumb and laughed: "Qin, master, you are a master, you asked the point at once!" ”
He looked at this skeleton and the armored weapons on his body, and a smile of anticipation appeared on his face: "Among the treasures we salvaged, there are many gold and silver coins, as well as gold and silver objects and ceramics, and the second most valuable one should be the broken set of Philip IV commemorative gold coins in your hand, and the most valuable thing is this set of armored weapons and this skeleton!" ”
Qin Shiou exclaimed: "These weapons and armor are so valuable? ”
Little Blake shook his head, pointed to the skeleton and said, "Actually, it's worth it!" According to our research, the owner of this dry skeleton is not simple. Didn't you ask why such a precious longbowman was eaten by the pirates first? The reason is simple, he is a prisoner of pirates, an enemy of pirates! ”
"His true identity is Chacleman-Chamberlain, the wandering baron of England!"
For the name that Little Black said, Qin Shiou said that he was very unfamiliar, he had not heard of this nickname and this person.
Little Blake introduced him, of course, this person is not famous in history, but in the history of weapons and cultural relics, he is a baron who has accumulated military exploits as a civilian and has been promoted, and is a marksman, with a longbow repeatedly made war exploits. But after receiving the knighthood, he didn't want to be confined to the old-fashioned British military camp, so he left the British mainland with the longbow he relied on to become famous and formed a mercenary army to fight around.
Later, according to the genealogical accounts of the Chamberlain family, their ancestor of the marksman led his small mercenary group to Spain disappeared, and after several investigations, it was learned that this ancestor was not missing, but died in the invasion of the island of San Gadalina by the Barthalomew pirates. Among them, there is another theory that the marksman did not die in battle, but that he joined the pirate group and fled with the pirates.
The latter statement was naturally an insult to the Chamberlain family, as well as to the British aristocracy, and was therefore not adopted. But to the dismay of the Chamberlains is that they have no evidence to refute this claim.
Now that the evidence is out, it is clear that the marksman was captured in battle, and Little Black said that the pirates may have captured him in exchange for money - in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, knights and nobles in European wars could not be tortured and injured once captured, they could use money to redeem themselves, so it was very popular at that time to capture nobles and knights in war.
Unfortunately, the pirate group did not survive the day when they could demand a ransom, they were stranded in the cold Arctic Sea, and the Marksman Baron was not exchanged for it, but was used as food...... (To be continued.) )