Chapter 15: Gunpowder Weapons Seen

Walking inside, there is naturally no thick bulletproof glass and thick iron railings of the later banks, just a relatively ordinary counter, and a few characters dressed as bookkeepers in the back are quickly making calculations, the scene is very quiet, Jiang Feng looks left and right. I found that no one came to greet him, but in the corner, I saw two people dressed as guards, although the light inside was a little dim, but Jiang Feng still saw what was pinned to the waist of these two people, and his eyes immediately straightened, it was a fire gun, a short fire gun.

The era of the Ming Dynasty was the era of large-scale use of firearms, but Jiang Feng only remembered it now, and in his impression, he always thought that the soldiers and soldiers of this era were fighting with knives, guns, bows and arrows. Only then did he see the fire gun pinned to the guard's waist and scared him into a cold sweat.

It turned out that he could rely on Bajiquan (a boxing method that appeared in the middle of the Qing Dynasty) that was ahead of this era and ran rampant in the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't expect that firearms would appear now.

The two guards with firearms were stared at by Jiang Feng there, and they were fine at first, but then they felt uncomfortable, and they didn't know what the other party was going to do.

Finally, someone from inside the counter came to greet Jiang Feng, and said gently:

"This military master, do you have any care when you come to the name?"

Jiang Feng reacted from his distraction just now, and threw the blanket package on the counter, and with a bang, there was a sound of metal colliding, and the counter turned out to be cast in iron, and the expression on the round face of the tent that greeted Jiang Feng did not change at all.

Obviously, he is used to seeing the big and small officials of the Jinyi Guard coming in and out of the silver tael here, but he is a little strange in his heart, looking at the appearance and dress of the big man in front of him, at best, he is a small colonel on the street. By extortion, or by doing a small business, you can have some money left.

According to the convention, he went to the countryside to buy land and slowly accumulate, to be a small landlord, what to do in the money village, the rules here are not to accept trading under one hundred taels, but the habits of the profession make this account room silent, he faintly feels that the other party may be a stunned young man who comes to extort or extort money.

Glancing at a colleague behind him, the tent behind him understood the meaning, got up and left the room, and the person facing Jiang Feng opened the blanket with a smile on his face.

Jiang Feng was still staring at the fire gun on the other party's waist there, the style of this fire gun was similar to the fire gun that Jiang Feng made when he was crazy on the street when he was a child, but the structure was much finer, and the two guards were stared at by Jiang Feng uncomfortable, but they were also faintly vigilant in their hearts, and their hands were stretched out to their waists.

The moment the burden was opened, the shopkeeper felt that his eyes were slight, and the gold and silver inside were flashing with beautiful light, and he stretched out his hand to pinch and weigh the gold and silver ingots, and knew that the bag contained pure gold and silver in very good condition, and the smile on the shopkeeper's face instantly became a little stiff.

Fingers groped on it, and found that there were no secret marks and stamps (in ancient times, Qian Zhuang and some high-ranking families, their own gold and silver were all secret marks, which is equivalent to the watermark on the current banknotes, and experienced accounts and tax collectors, you can basically judge whose family it is by touching it), which means that even if there is a problem with the origin of these gold and silver in front of you, you can't trace it.

In other words, no matter what the gold and silver in Jiang Feng's hand is, it is his now, thinking of this, the face of the tent is full of sincere smiles, put down the gold ingot in his hand, and said to Jiang Feng diligently:

"This military master, don't stay for a while, use a cup of tea first, do you want to store these gold and silver in the contempt, or change it."

Jiang Feng pondered and replied:

"Can you exchange money here in Shandong?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly agreed:

"There is no problem, Dengzhou Mansion and Daimyo Mansion have branches there, and they can be exchanged."

Although I know a little about the financial and economic development of this era, I am still surprised that money can be exchanged like modern banks.

The gold and silver were converted into two thousand seven hundred taels of silver, Jiang Feng exchanged two hundred taels of broken silver, ten taels of gold beans, and the rest were all bills and placed on the cabinet, and the tents that had been stable inside were all over to serve diligently, after all, a person suddenly had three thousand taels to take care of the business. This is not a trivial matter, and the broken silver and gold beans need to be transferred from the big treasury in the back.

Taking advantage of this free time, Jiang Feng walked up to the two guards with guns with a smile on his face, and asked them to take a look at the fire hammer on their waists.

These two guards breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that the reason why they were staring at themselves just now was because of this, and they were also strange in their hearts, the Shenji Battalion of the three major battalions in Beijing is the best in the world, you come here to see what we are doing with the two broken guns in our hands, but in Beijing City, it is rare for Jinyiwei to talk with a smile, and the two of them didn't dare to say anything, so they pulled out from their waists.

When he got it in his hand, Jiang Feng's hands trembled slightly, but the style of this firearm seemed to be the kind of shotgun that sawed the barrel and butt seen in modern times, and the fire at the back was particularly strange, looking like a roulette wheel, Jiang Feng thought that he was from modern times, and he always understood firearms better than the ancients, but he didn't understand how this gun was shot when he looked left and right.

I had to be a little embarrassed to follow the two guards for advice, looking at Jiang Feng's polite advice, the two guards knew everything, it turned out that the turntable behind was something similar to clockwork, after loading ammunition, when shooting, as long as the trigger was pulled, the turntable would rotate, igniting the fire.

For Jiang Feng, it was something he had never heard of, and the oldest musket in his impression was also the kind of musket that fired the flint with the trigger and then fired (this kind of musket is the flintlock musket, which should have begun to appear fifty years later), how could there be such a wonderful thing.

Jiang Feng, who knew this, was very excited in his heart, and thanked the two guards who were a little at a loss, and at the same time, Jiang Feng also knew that the kind of firearm that could be obtained there, the Franco machine merchant who specialized in the city department bought it, and reported it in the Shuntian Mansion.

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At that time, in addition to the arquebus, it was a spring-fired musket, and the clockwork drove the ignition and then fired, but it was easy to fail to fire due to the failure of the mainspring, so the most reliable was the arquebus

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