Chapter 385: Expensive Weapons

After making up his mind, Jiang Feng's immediately sent out a few letters, and after confirming them with his personal seal, the guards galloped towards Incheon with the letters.

After tossing around for a day, looking at the sun in the sky and already going west, inspecting the civil guards, and taking Liu Shisan back under his command, he spent so much time on the mountain, looking at the gun carriages and gun carriages that can carry heavier artillery, and the surprise in the middle of the mountain.

The method of gunpowder discovered by Chen Chong must have greatly increased Jiang Feng's combat power, especially the strength of the sea, and the warships of the Jiang family army had already abandoned the hand-to-hand combat tactics of cold weapons such as broadside warfare, but relied more and more on the long-range fire of naval guns, and the appearance of sub-granular gunpowder has greatly improved both power and range, which is equivalent to a section of strength growth out of thin air.

Regarding the matter of Taoist missions, Jiang Feng knew that this was a rather long-term plan, and he did not continue to worry about it, and when he was thinking about it, the leader of the craftsmen and the officers of the garrison came to invite him again, saying that he was inviting the governor to the front hall for tea, Jiang Feng was also a little tired at the end of the day, and he was going to stay here tonight.

At that moment, they came to the front hall with the guards and others, and the leaders of the craftsmen and the officers of the garrison greeted them respectfully. The two sides still exchanged a few polite words, and there were also special chefs in the secret ware workshop, but the dishes here were of course heaven and earth compared to Jiang Feng's mansion.

At this banquet, Chen Chong is already qualified to attend, which shows that from today on, he is not a craftsman in the secret weapon workshop, nor is he a layman among the homeless people, but has another identity.

Fortunately, although Chen Chong was suddenly rich, he also knew how to advance and retreat, and his response at the banquet was very decent, and everyone at the banquet did not have any jealousy or anything like him because of his sudden wealth.

After the banquet was over, the two sides said a few polite words, everyone knew that Jiang Feng had other things to do, so the officials and leaders of the secret artifact workshop all respectfully retired.

When it was the last person to come forward to greet him, he glanced at Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng was stunned for a moment, and reacted quickly, originally holding the teacup in his right hand, but now he changed to the top of his left hand, and knocked twice with the lid of the tea bowl, and the leader of the craftsman who was at the end of the line hung his hands down, and followed everyone to retreat.

In the afternoon, when it was dark for about two or three hours, Jiang Feng took a few guards from his cronies and said that they wanted to see the customs on the mountain, and the mountains near here were also low hills, which meant that they were condescending, and there was nothing else to see.

However, since it was Jiang Feng who wanted to see, the others would not say much, and the first to be brought by Jiang Feng at the bottom of the mountain was dispersed, and Jiang Feng was on guard and defensive on the mountain, and Jiang Feng still walked towards the mountain with the guards of his cronies.

In the secret workshop, the leaders of these craftsmen can be said to be the largest officials, and their authority is not small, at least where these people want to live, as long as they say hello, someone will do it for them, Jiang Feng walked for a short time, and saw a residence, hidden in the bamboo forest.

Looking quite elegant, Jiang Feng looked at this mansion, laughed there, turned his head to his guard captain and said:

"These people will look for a place, that Taoist priest lives in the middle of the mountain, and there is a house here."

At this time, Jiang Feng also remembered the Hong Kong magazines he had read before coming to this era, which always said that most of the rich people in Hong Kong had a villa in the middle of the mountain or something, which was secretly in line with the situation of the secret artifact workshop.

The scenery is good, during the banquet just now, Jiang Feng also drank some wine, looked interested, and said with a smile:

"Which of you is going to ask, if there are no female dependents inside, let's go in and disturb for a while, and see how these people are casual on weekdays."

It was rare for the guards under him to see Jiang Feng's interest so good, and several guards with cronies around him understood what Jiang Feng meant, and hurriedly arranged for someone to go over, and it didn't take long for a guard to run back with a smile, and said with a report:

"My lord, what a coincidence, the one in the house is the deputy owner of this workshop, and he is still having a banquet with the adults, called Tian Bo, who lives there alone, and the little ones just said it, and he agreed with his mouth."

Jiang Libo over there had already opened the courtyard door, standing at the door respectfully greeting him, except for the cronies and guards around him, no one could see that this Tian Bo had secretly signaled Jiang Feng at the end of the feast.

Jiang Feng entered the house, the guards were all guarding inside and outside, Tian Bo said that there was a good tea hospitality, and invited Jiang Feng into the house, except for the four guards, the rest of the people stayed outside.

As soon as he entered the house and closed the door, Jiang Feng sat there, Tian Bo knelt down respectfully, and said:

"Sima of the Governor's Mansion is engaged in Tian Bo, and I have seen Lord Governor!"

Jiang Feng nodded there, the slightly drunk state had disappeared, his face was very serious, and he said in a deep voice:

"I received your message from the Governor's Mansion, have you already made it?"

Tian Bo still knelt on the ground and did not get up, and replied respectfully there:

"It's already made ten branches, please check it out with Lord Governor."

Jiang Feng's serious expression had disappeared, but now he looked a little excited and expectant, and the guards standing on the side were a little surprised, thinking that when they saw the gunpowder and gun carriage, they didn't see their own adults showing such expressions, and if they were rude at this time, it would be like a child encountering something fun.

Tian Bo confessed, turned around and left the hall, a guard directly followed, not long after, two people carried a box and walked in, Tian Bo was about to open the box, Jiang Feng signaled to the guard on the side, the guard stepped forward and said with a smile:

"I'll unpack it."

This move naturally did not cause any reaction from Tian Bo, Jiang Feng's guards went over to open the box, but Jiang Feng stood on the ground from the chair, and his hand was also on his sword.

There was no reaction over there, just opened the box, and several guards around were surprised 'Ah', Tian Bo didn't react, just stood aside quietly. Jiang Feng walked to the side of the box, and ten delicate-looking firecrackers were placed there.

Jiang Jiajun takes the firearms unit as the core, and the soldiers are no strangers to firearms, but Jiang Feng's troops are mainly equipped with arquebuses, which are quite coarse because of the charge and launch, as well as the forging of the barrel, even if it is a short firearm, the weight is not light, not to mention the size, the strength is smaller, and it is more difficult to fire with one hand.

However, the ten muskets placed in the box were all in the style of short firecrackers, and the size was much smaller, and it was just right for one person to hold it with one hand, and the barrel was relatively thin, and it was impossible to see where the firerope hook was placed, and the medicine pool did not know where it went.

There was only a 'Ding' shaped iron frame at the back end of the barrel, and the guards whispered from the side:

"The tube of the firearm is so small, what power does the projectile that hits out ......?"

"I don't know where the arquebus was lit, could it be that I lit it with a fire breaker......"

Jiang Feng ignored these people's gossip, walked up to him, picked up a short gun, put it in his hand and played with it, turned his head and asked Tian Bo beside him:

"Is there any medicine in there?"

Tian Bo shook his head, bent down and pulled out the dark compartment from the lower layer of the big box, and there were small paper packets and lead pellets in the dark compartment, Jiang Feng nodded, reached out and took a small paper packet, tore open a small opening, and what was contained in it was the kind of 'granular gunpowder' that he saw during the day, poured it into the chamber, and then took the whole strip and compacted it, and put in the lead pellet.

Then he opened the 'D' iron frame behind him, and Tian Bo on the side was watching there, with a dumbfounded expression on his face, and said unconsciously:

"Lord Governor is really talented, this firearm was only made some time ago, I didn't expect that the Lord knew how to use it!"

Hearing the flattery of his subordinates, Jiang Feng smiled slightly, and closed the iron frame circlip behind him, and the guards on the side were also very surprised when they saw Jiang Feng's skillful charge compaction, but they were all a little disappointed when they saw Jiang Feng put the circlip together again and put it back in the box.

"How many of these flintlock flints have you made?"

"Ten short ones here, and five long ones in the cellar!"

Jiang Feng raised his eyebrows, and asked with some surprise:

"Why so little!"

Tian Bo hurriedly explained:

"My lord, these things are all made by locksmiths and agency craftsmen hired from Jiangnan, each of which needs to be done by hand, and it costs countless amounts of materials and something, these fifteen firecrackers, at least 100,000 taels of silver are made, we can't afford to make them!"

I didn't expect it to be so expensive, Jiang Feng shook his head, it seems that these things can only be used for himself, and they can't really be promoted to the army on a large scale, so he asked again:

"Are these craftsmen all in place?"

"Everything is made separately, they won't leak anything, and we brought their whole family to Huazhou, and they are all placed in the secret workshop, please rest assured."

Jiang Feng instructed his guards to close the box and prepare to leave, and when he passed by Tian Bo's side, he smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

Tian Bo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he knew that Ronghua and Fugui were not far from him, his back was now full of cold sweat, he knew that if Fang Cai, he reached out to touch these new firearms, he was afraid that he would be killed on the spot immediately.

Because the firing of this musket is much faster than that of an arquebus......