Chapter 410: Hidden Dangers

Although Jiang Feng came to Daming, according to his idea, it was to find talents and see what flaws were in the behemoth of the Ming Empire, but Huang Liping was not so simple here, his own master came here to inspect, that is, to see how the business was doing.

On the first day, when Jiang Feng was wandering around the store, Huang Liping followed behind him and explained the situation of Sanjiang Commercial Bank to Jiang Feng.

Huang Liping was actually too careful, if he wanted to know these Jiang Feng, Su Guanyue had quite detailed statistics, but it was not easy to refute his subordinates, after all, this showed that Huang Liping was loyal to his duties, but there was a person chattering there in his ears, and the fun of hanging out was always much less.

Jiang Feng's itinerary was also very regular, he would stay in each place for a period of time, until the letters from Huazhou reached his hands, Liu Twelve, Luo Yi and Zhao Xiucai, and other people in charge of various places would regularly gather all kinds of things in Huazhou, Yizhou, and outside the Guan, write them into documents, and send someone to deliver them quickly.

So that Jiang Feng can grasp the latest situation in his jurisdiction as soon as possible, and at the same time, he will tell the person who delivered the letter his next stop, and the next time he will wait for news at the new destination, so as to avoid the loss of contact between the two sides, and he can also make the fastest and most timely response to some things.

For a store like Sanjiang Commercial Bank, which also has the function of a money bank, the core place is the vault, which must be heavily guarded, and when Jiang Feng slipped to the vault, he saw that there were more than a dozen people there vigilantly guarding.

The leader of these vault guards saw that it was the 'owner' of the trading house coming, and hurriedly came over to say hello respectfully, Jiang Feng observed these guards, wearing light armor, hanging swords, and several people with firearms and equipment, Jiang Feng suddenly remembered that when he first crossed, he saw those guards with muskets in Qianzhuang.

The handcuffs held by those two people are much more advanced than the arquebuses of the Jiang family's standard equipment, and the flintlock pistols that fire with the revolver represent the future development direction of the firearm.

Advanced is advanced, but there is also a practical problem, although the arquebus can not be fired in the rain, but when the weather is right, the arquebus can fire ten rounds of bullets without any malfunction, but such a revolver is likely to lose its effectiveness because of the gunpowder splashing on the requirer.

On the battlefield, such failures cannot be tolerated, and the dozen or so flintlock pistols that Jiang Feng spent a lot of money to build are really suitable firearms, but the cost is too high, and it cannot be popularized at present.

"I'm going to see their muskets."

Jiang Feng and Huang Liping instructed, the leader of the vault guards over there heard this, Zhiqu took down the fire gun on his waist, and the guards around Jiang Feng quickly stopped in front, took the fire gun, and then handed it to Jiang Feng, the muzzle of the gun was aimed at himself, and the handle of the gun was aimed at the master, which was the most basic protection knowledge.

I thought that they were still using the kind of firearm that day when the steel wheel rotated and fired, but Jiang Feng's face changed after seeing it, because the fire gun in his hand, although the style was not much different from that year, but the rotating steel wheel had already turned into a hammer.

The secret of the flintlock pistol is strictly kept secret in the Huazhou workshop, although the West already has such equipment at this time, but even when it was at war with Spain and Portugal, these Western armies still used arquebuses, so how did the musket come from in front of you.

Huang Liping on the side didn't know why Jiang Feng's face had changed, but Jiang Feng's personal guard had followed Jiang Feng to see the flintlock pistol test shot at the thirty-third guard, and he was quite surprised at first glance.

Could it be that the secret was leaked out, this was the first possibility that Jiang Feng thought of, but then he denied it, because in addition to the machine bracket, there is also the structure of the cow tendon, which is obviously to increase the power of the hammer to hit the flint, seeing this, Jiang Feng secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he heard the craftsmen of the secret workshop in the thirty-three guards say that if it were not for the assistance of the Dutch metallurgical craftsmen, these craftsmen would not be able to make metal materials suitable for stimulating the hammer to strike.

It seems that the manufacturer of this fire gun is not up to the requirements of that metallurgy, Sima under the jurisdiction of Liu Twelve, for the Ming army's weapons and equipment changes is the most concerned information, Jiang Jiajun's advantage in the Ming army, a large part of it is built on the advanced weapons, so it is necessary to maintain such an advantage in order to protect or develop, in the intelligence that Sima is engaged in, the Ming is still more confident in bows and arrows than in firearms, so inferred, such a technology of hammer is only in the folk circulation.

Jiang Feng looked at the other guards with firearms, and found that they were either the kind of imported arquebuses, or the short guns that fired from the wheel, and only the leader of the guards in this vault was holding this kind of musket, and immediately asked:

"Where did you get this firearm?"

Huang Liping was stunned when he heard this on the side, thinking that he had introduced the situation of the business house in the morning, this adult in his own family was not interested, why was he interested in this firearm at this time, Huang Liping is also a meticulous person, and he has also handled the firearms of the vault guard, and when he saw the firearm, he immediately remembered, and immediately began to explain:

"The owner, this is a craftsman in Nancheng archway street, our shop has some Western tricks in the outside, people in each house are very fond of it, this craftsman is specialized in repairing these tricks, it is said that he is a Fran machine priest to pass on the craft, our firm and this craftsman deal with a lot, usually need to be caged, that day after repairing things, I saw that he made four or five firearms, so he bought it."

Jiang Feng nodded, it seems that no one cares about these four or five firearms, and Huang Liping bought them and gave them away as a favor, but if these things are discovered by someone with a heart, large-scale application will be a great threat to himself, and he asked:

"Where are the rest? But it can fall into the hands of outsiders! ”

"There will be outsiders there to use him, and after buying it, he put it in the warehouse, originally our people over there said that the guards of the courtyard must have firearms, and after taking it over, I found out that we have such a big scene, and it is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and there will be invisible thieves coming in."

The leader of the vault guards on the side interjected with a smile:

"Boss, we've never fought these firearms, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I'm just trying to make this firearm light."

Jiang Feng didn't listen to these words, and directly ordered Huang Liping and said:

"Put all these firearms away and give them to my attendants, tell me where the craftsman lives, and I'll pay a visit!"

"The owner ......, okay, let's arrange the small ones."

Originally, Huang Liping wanted to say that Jiang Feng wanted to see this craftsman, why did he pay such a grand visit, but seeing Jiang Feng so resolute, he immediately withdrew the words from his mouth.

Jiang Feng was a little anxious in his heart, although the officials and people of the Ming Dynasty now knew that industry and commerce were more profitable industries than farming, fishing and hunting, but they still regarded technological innovation and invention as 'strange skills', but since he entered the Beijing Division yesterday, everything he has seen and heard has been earth-shaking changes, who knows what changes he has not seen, if the technology of the flintlock pistol is widely used in the Ming Dynasty, then Huazhou is in danger.

His guards and the cadres of the Sanjiang Commercial Bank were very efficient, and Jiang Feng sent a message here, and immediately prepared to travel.

Under the escort of the attendants, Jiang Feng rode his horse and galloped in the direction of Nancheng, where he went out, and there were still a few people watching from the face of Datong Qianzhuang.

Among them, there was yesterday's second shopkeeper, and there were several leading figures in the money village behind him, since the morning, these people were guarding there, I don't know if I thought they were several shopkeepers, and the tent personally welcomed some important guests this time, the second shopkeeper looked at Jiang Feng, who was far away, and said:

"I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't say why."

Standing behind him was a tall old man with a majestic face, but he spoke with a Yangzhou accent, very soft, but a little incongruous:

"Do you think that such an identity and bearing is not something that the shopkeeper of a business house can have?"

The second shopkeeper showed a look of sudden realization, clapped his hands, and replied very respectfully:

"What Shang Gong said is that we also feel that something is wrong, but we don't know that it is wrong, this style and the appearance of the people around us are too different from those of us businessmen."

The man who was called "Shang Gong" laughed, stroked his beard proudly, and said with a smile:

"I followed my grandfather to eat military rations in the barracks for sixteen years, and I can't see it there, this posture is only available to those who can dance knives and guns, and it must be the general who commands the army!"

After saying this, he groaned slightly, turned around and asked another thin middle-aged man:

"Did you hear from the guy on the other side that their owner came from Liaoyang?"

The middle-aged man nodded, Shang Gong snorted coldly, and directly ordered:

"Find someone to describe the appearance of the proprietor of this trading house, go to Liaozhen to investigate, and see whose general entered Beijing without a will, and committed him a felony!"