Chapter 412: The First Stroke
Yuan Fang smiled and said to Wang Fugui: "Of course you can try, but everyone also knows that such a ballista, every crossbow arrow is very expensive, and it can't be wasted at will, but His Royal Highness thinks that it is not easy for everyone to come here, so he made an exception to release the ban, so that you can personally experience the feeling of the sergeant driving the ballista to shoot, well, in this way, let's charge according to five hundred taels per arrow, after all, this is a private act, and the empire can't pay for it, right, of course, these all depend on your own wishes, and we will never force it." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Wang Fugui was obese and even squeezed in front of Yuan Fang, shouting: "Lord Yuan doesn't need to explain, we can understand all this, don't talk nonsense, I'll take two first." ”
Yuan Fang said gratefully: "Thank you for this old brother's understanding, okay, no problem, Captain Yu, help." ”
Yu Xiaolou nodded, beckoned to call the soldiers in charge of the crossbow to help, Yu Xiaolou personally instructed Wang Fugui how to operate, when the soldiers pulled the bowstring and clamped the machine spring, and carefully aimed at the direction, finally, a three-finger-wide wooden crossbow arrow was placed.
In fact, it can't be said to be wooden, at least the arrows of the crossbow arrows are wrapped in a layer of iron, which looks no different from normal crossbow arrows, but those soldiers who have been dealing with these things all year round know that these crossbow arrows are just a kind of goods, just a thing that Yuan Fang used to cheat money.
Wang Fugui, this name may be remembered by some people, he is from Huanyu County, is the richest man in the local area, at the beginning, Wang Fugui got colic, that is, appendicitis, or Yuan Fang helped to cure, it can be regarded as saving Wang Fugui's life, Wang Fugui is quite grateful, after Yuan Fang and Mo Zhiyuan got out of the bicycle and thermometer, they also did not help less, and later Yang Xing's life experience was exposed, Wang Fugui spared no effort to please Mo Zhiyuan, and the military factory also had some of his shares, this time, Yuan Fang and Yang Xing invited wealthy businessmen from all over the world to participate in the auction, and Wang Fugui certainly would not miss this good opportunity.
Of course, there are still some secret transactions between him and Yuan Fang, especially about this auction, so Wang Fugui will be the first to jump out to support the scene, otherwise, five hundred taels of silver to shoot an arrow, even if it is a ballista, it is a bit expensive, everyone started in business, no one is stupid, and Yuan Fang's little trick to circle money naturally can't be biased by these elites in the industry.
However, with Wang Fugui taking the lead, it was different, he first aimed with the help of the Praetorian Guard, and then knocked on the machine spring with a small hammer, and the crossbow arrows shot out with a buzzing sound, and the first arrow hit the target, and the huge crossbow arrow shot the target that had been prepared before into sawdust, and its power was staggering.
Wang Fugui ignored his slightly numb right hand, stared blankly at the smashed target under the city wall, and after a long time, he said violently: "Cool!" ”
Then, everyone enthusiastically signed up, not for anything else, they all wanted to try that kind of cool feeling, which is different from going to the Qinglou, this kind of cool is violence from the heart, a group of condescending absolute force, this feeling is not usually a few hundred or thousands of taels of silver can be obtained, not to mention that there are their own families and so many people watching outside the city, this is quite a face-saving thing, these businessmen will not care about so much silver and give up this excellent opportunity to show their faces.
In the next period of time, a group of wealthy businessmen and magnates have enthusiastically signed up, trying one by one, which caught Yuan Fang off guard, and in the end, there are still many people waiting after the crossbow arrows of the characteristics are exhausted, and in the end there is no way, Yuan Fang spared no expense, so he had to use the reserves of the Praetorian Guard to transport a batch of real heavy crossbow arrows, although it looks no different from the previous one, but its cost has increased by several grades, but compared to the cost of input, the benefits are higher, so to speak, after the statistics of the end of the month, Just this income reached several times the overdue amount, and it earned almost 10,000 taels of silver.
Yu Xiaolou, who left a distressed face and immediately began to maintain the crossbow, Yuan Fang held a small flag and led a group of wealthy businessmen down the city wall and came to the avenue leading to the palace.
Yuan Fang came to Sang Rou and said loudly: "Everyone, here is a souvenir of the crossbow pattern prepared by His Royal Highness for everyone, but we didn't expect everyone to be so interested in this thing before, so the number of preparations is not much, only fifteen commemorative badges, if you like it, you can buy it, we will stay here for a while, everyone, if you are willing, you can go and see, and if you don't have ideas, you can also visit nearby, but you can't leave my radius of two hundred meters."
Okay, I'm not going to talk nonsense, everyone is free to move for a quarter of an hour, and there is no waiting for the expiration. After speaking, handing the small flag to a female soldier standing in the middle of the road, Yuan Fang took the herbal tea handed by Sang Rou and poured a big sip, and said depressedly: "I'm tired to death." ”
Sang Rou smiled and filled Yuan Fang with tea and said, "Brother-in-law, you can really do it, just now Yuyue said that your little trick is better than expected, and you have earned 10,000 taels of silver, this is just the beginning, at this rate, how much do we have to earn in three days and two nights." ”
Yuan Fang smiled proudly: "That's, I don't see whose idea it is, if I don't make money, why should I work so hard, it's better to directly order their house to be raided." Yuan Fang and Sang Rou whispered, and more than a hundred merchants walked around a dozen long tables with free herbal tea.
There are a total of fifteen long tables, each table has only a silver-plated badge with a ballista pattern, up and down, and a badge with various styles of imperial city gate opening patterns, although these things are just souvenirs without any substantive meaning and privilege, but those merchants are very interested, especially those merchants who participated in the ballista shooting just now, and they hope to get a badge as a permanent memorial.
So, after everyone had seen that the number of crossbow badges placed on each long table was really limited, they all bought them, and swept away the fifteen badges at once, and those merchants who were late regretted it one by one, but the number of badges was limited, and they had no choice but to retreat to the second, and they took out the silver or silver tickets to sweep away the remaining city gate commemorative badges, which added thousands of taels of silver to Yuan Fang's income.
Before a quarter of an hour arrived, the prepared circle money medallion had been sold out, and the merchants pinned the badge to their clothes under Yuan Fang's guidance, rested for a while, drank some herbal tea made from the most ordinary tea, and followed Yuan Fang to continue walking.