After Peng Yibin recuperated for more than half a month, the wounds were basically healed, the sutures were removed, and he felt that he had almost recovered.

Just when Peng Yibin was pondering how to ask Chen Xian about the conditions for releasing him, Chen Xian sent someone to summon him.

Seeing Chen Xian, Peng Yibin knew that Chen Xian was going to invite him to dinner.

There wasn't much food on the table, just the two of them.

Peng Yibin thought that the other party was going to make a bid, but as a result, until he finished his meal tastelessly, Chen Xian did not mention the matter of releasing him.

Just when Peng Yibin was shocked, Chen Xian offered to invite him to watch a shooting performance.

"Chicken shooting show?" Peng Yibin subconsciously asked.

Chen Xian explained with a smile: "It's a target shooting performance of a musket...... The musket was the kind of weapon that roared on the battlefield that day. ”

After listening to Chen Xian's explanation, Peng Yibin was even more puzzled, how could he take out his housekeeping skills and perform them for others to see, what did Chen Xian want to do?

Full of doubts, Peng Yibin followed Chen Xian to the shooting range.

Chen Xian carved out a shooting range in the forest north of Xinzhuangzi to train soldiers in shooting.

Chen Xian never mentioned the release, Peng Yibin simply calmed down and followed Chen Xian without saying a word, but wanted to see what medicine he sold in his gourd.

Chen Xian took a team of soldiers and Peng Yibin out of Zhuangzi together.

When he arrived at the shooting range, Chen Xian invited Peng Yibin to sit in the awning.

First, a soldier fired three shots with an arquebus.

Peng Yibin noticed that after this kind of musket was fired, it was very troublesome to reload, and the re-firing speed was very slow, which was slower than the winding of a crossbow.

This is clearly a flaw in the musket.

After watching the shooting, Peng Yibin looked down at the musket, he felt that in addition to being loud and scary, he was afraid that it was not as good as a crossbow.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt that he had lost unjustly.

While watching, Peng Yibin pondered, "This Chen Xian deliberately exposed the defects of this arquebus, what does he want to do?" ”

After the musket shooting demonstration, another soldier came up with a strange short gun with an awl sharp head and three short iron rods tied to the back of the gun.

The soldier stood fifty paces away from the target, tucked his spear under his armpit, and in his other hand held a rope with a burning head toward the short iron rod behind the head of the spear.

At this time, Peng Yibin found that at the end of the three short iron rods, there was a short thread sticking out.

The soldier pressed the fire on the rope to the end of the thread, and the end of the thread burst into flames, and a moment later a deafening roar rang out.

At this time, Peng Yibin realized that this short gun was also a kind of musket.

There was a sound, and the soldier's hand holding the short gun turned slightly, and he put the end of the thread on another short iron pipe to the head of the rope, and there was another sound.

After a few breaths, there was another ring.

Listening to the continuous sound, Peng Yibin was taken aback, and said in his heart, no wonder this Chen Xian dared to expose his shortcomings, it turned out that there were more powerful guys.

This short gun is obviously a musket that can fire in bursts, three rounds at a time, which is much stronger than a crossbow.

After the soldier who put the gun finished using this firearm, he stabbed forward twice with this short gun, swung it twice, and made a smashing motion, apparently this guy can still be used as a short gun and a hammer.

Seeing this, Peng Yibin felt that he understood Chen Xian's purpose, and the other party was demonstrating!

Feeling that he understood the medicine in Chen Xian's gourd, Peng Yibin's expression was a lot more natural.

After watching the shooting performance, Chen Xian took Peng Yibin to see the infantry drill.

Seeing this army that had suffered a crushing defeat at close range, Peng Yibin was surprised again, what surprised him was not the strict appearance of this army, nor the high morale, nor the group of recruits who had only three points in ten days.

As surprising as he was, they were nothing compared to the well-colored armor of the group.

If the three-eyed musket only surprised Peng Yibin, then these exquisite armor made Peng Yibin feel frightened.

The people of this era did not understand the epoch-making significance of muskets, but they were well aware of the great significance of wearing iron armor for an army.

Peng Yibin saw very clearly that these soldiers, including the more than 130 recruits from his cannon fodder, were wearing armor that was not from capture, they were all wearing a brand new standard armor.

The shape of this armor is very special, he has never seen it anywhere else, and it is obvious that this brand new armor is produced by this Zhuangzi himself.

Peng Yibin was cheeky and risked angering Chen Xian, walked up to a soldier, carefully observed the armor of his armor, and reached out to touch it for a while.

Experience and feel told him that this piece of armor is steel, and it is a good piece of steel that has been quenched!

A small Zhuangzi can produce such high-quality armor, and can use such high-quality armor to arm nearly three hundred armor elites, which makes Peng Yibin incomprehensible at all.

After watching a small military exercise, Peng Yibin followed Chen Xian back to the living room with shock and confusion.

The two sides sat down, Chen Xian picked up the tea sent by the guards, took a sip gently, looked at Peng Yibin, who was lost in his soul, and said with a smile: "A certain person is really a businessman, in such and such a place, there is nothing that cannot be sold, as long as the price is right." ”

Peng Yibin subconsciously asked, "Do you sell that armor?" ”

Chen Xian said: "Sell, of course sell!" ”

Peng Yibin glared at Chen Xian in surprise when he heard this.

Chen Xian said: "But my good steel armor will not be replaced with broken copper and iron. ”

Peng Yibin suddenly came to his senses and asked, "Change what?" ”

Chen Xiandao: "Change people, change horses"

"A man only needs a healthy man or woman between fourteen and eighteen years old, and a horse needs a high-quality war horse."

"What's the change?"

Chen Xian said: "Ten pairs of healthy men and women are exchanged for a pair of armor, and a high-quality war horse is exchanged for two pairs of armor. ”

Peng Yibin calculated in his heart, "The high-grade war horse is worth hundreds of yuan, and it is really not cheap to change it for a pair of armor, but now the world is poor, people are cheap, if you use people to exchange, it is not expensive, and for them who are good men in the green forest, people are even less valuable, looting is it, so what kind of capital is used." ”

He thought for a moment and asked, "Do you want to buy that three-shot short gun?" ”

Chen Xian said: "Of course it is sold, but my three-eyed musket is a treasure, only for the best stallions, a stallion with a back height of more than 15 palms (about 1.5 meters) can be exchanged for 30 strokes, and a mare with a back height of 14 palms (1.4 meters) can be exchanged for 15 strokes." ”

"The better the horse, the more you can change, and if you bring a good horse, we can negotiate the price."

After crossing, Chen Xian found that the quality of the horses of the Jin Kingdom in this era was much better than he imagined, and it was not the short-legged appearance of the Mongolian horses in later generations.

Curious, Chen Xian asked Steward Yang, but Steward Yang naturally didn't know, and under Chen Xian's persecution, he had to tell the shopkeeper of the Yang family's caravan to go to the horse market in the city to inquire about the reason.

After some inquiry, Chen Xian learned that there were two sources of good horses in the Jin Kingdom, and a few Qingtang horses from Western Xia through trade.

Chen Xian estimated that the Qingtang horse should be the Hequ horse of later generations, and this kind of horse is the only high-quality native horse in modern China.

Another big source is the herdsman horse farm set up by Daikin in the north of Yanshan. It is said that there are countless excellent stallions left behind by the Liao State there.

At that time, the territory of the Great Liao State traversed the east and west, and the sphere of influence penetrated into the Western Regions, so naturally there was no shortage of good horses in the Western Regions.

Peng Yibin asked again: "Can you exchange people?" ”

Chen Xian shook his head, and said: "Each musket is equipped with one pound of gunpowder, if it is used up, it will be bought with real money, two high-quality copper coins and one catty, or the equivalent sulfur, fire salt, copper, iron, or grain in exchange, iron as long as charcoal to make iron, coal to practice nothing." ”

"The high-grade Tang knives sold by the Bai family can also be taken from me, and they are ...... for ten times."

Peng Yibin and Chen Xianhao said that Chen Xiancai agreed that the three-eyed musket could be exchanged for the price of a pair of young men and women, or it could also be exchanged for a large amount of sulfur or fire.

In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Xian sent someone to Dongzhuangzi and sent a handwritten letter from Peng Yibin to the Bai family.