Although there was no income from this so-called transaction, Yang Minghuan's watch was sold for two hundred and fifty taels. At this time, Yang Minghuan was complaining to Du Yande while changing into work clothes, "Brother De, why are you like this?" Two hundred and fifty two, doesn't that mean we're all two hundred and five? ”

"That's it," Sun Wenbin on the side also said with a smile, "But seriously, how much does two hundred and fifty taels weigh?" ”

"I don't know, anyway, I also carried the backpack to the factory, let's go to the analysis room to find a scale." Du Yande directly threw the backpack to Yang Minghuan.

The three of them came to the analysis room together, and the person in charge of the analysis was not there, so they hurriedly took out all the silver and weighed it, a little more than ten kilograms. The three of them were a little unable to sit still, Du Yande had learned about the price of spot silver some time ago, and the price of silver in recent times was about 3 yuan per gram, if they were all converted into RMB...... The eyes of the three of them began to pop up little stars.

The expected work time always passes quickly, and several of Du Yande's colleagues are puzzled why this guy can still smile while going to work.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, a fat colleague of Du Yande came to him, "The factory director is looking for you and telling you to hurry over all the way." ”

Du Yande felt strange, so he handed over the work at hand to a colleague on the side and walked to the factory director's office. Along the way, they met Sun Wenbin and Yang Minghuan again, and the three of them couldn't help but look at each other, "Could it be that it was photographed by the surveillance when I was weighing silver with an electronic scale in the analysis room just now?" Sun Wenbin couldn't help but be a little nervous, he has always been a good baby, and he didn't even dare to run a red light.

"Probably not, isn't that scale claiming to be a problem for standing people? How do you weigh ten kilograms of something and it breaks? That's too expensive, isn't it? Yang Minghuan couldn't help but retort, "It's definitely not this question, could it be that I checked the bedroom last night?" ”

"You're still in college, aren't you?" Du Yande couldn't help but scoff at this statement, "I also checked the dormitory, it is definitely not this reason." ”

The three of them chatted as they walked to the front of the office, and to their surprise, a Santana police car was parked in front of the factory.

Walking into the factory director's office, a policeman wearing a police uniform with stars on his shoulders was learning about the situation with the factory director. "Oh, the three of them are here." The factory director saw three people coming over and stretched out his hand. The policeman, who was bowing his head to record, turned his head and froze on the spot.

"Du Yande, why are you?" The policeman asked in surprise.

The man in the police uniform was Shen Bin, who grew up with Du Yande in a factory living area and grew up playing with mud together, but later lost contact with him after returning from the army.

"Hey! It's you, Shen Bin! Du Yande quickly stepped forward and shook hands with Shen Bin, and patted Shen Bin's stomach again, "It's fat again!" **Right? ”

Shen Bin slapped the hand on his stomach away with a horizontal eye, "Don't make trouble, let's get down to business, you were there when you robbed the bank yesterday?" ”

"Yes, I went with these two colleagues to withdraw the money, and before I could get in, I started to rob it." Du Yande nodded, it is really new to encounter such a thing as robbing a bank, of course, encountering a wormhole is even more incredible, but it can't be said.

"I was stunned for a moment when I saw that your name was written on the information, and I came over to see it, and sure enough, it was you." Shen Bin smiled, opened the small notebook, took out a pen, and wrote a few words on it. "It's a routine, let's get to know the situation."

Du Yande nodded and beckoned Yang Minghuan and Sun Wenbin to sit down.

"When did you go yesterday?"

"Yesterday morning, the machinery and equipment in our factory were shut down, and now they are still being repaired, and our factory director can testify." Du Yande replied. Sitting behind his desk, the tall and thin factory director nodded. "Yes, I can testify to this."

"Okay." Shen Bin said and recorded it in his notebook. After writing it, he continued to ask. "Do you remember what weapon the robbers used?"

"There should be at least three muskets, two short muskets and one long." As he spoke, Du Yande suddenly thought of the nervous firecracker from last night and the firerope wrapped around his arm. "The musket must have been made of earth, and when it was fired, there was a lot of smoke and dust, and the bullets used seemed to be round, so it should have been a smoothbore gun."

Shen Bin sighed while recording. "You really should come to our side to do things. Our firearms experts are still figuring out what guns were used yesterday. Some people say that it is an imitation of May Fourth. ”

"It's definitely not an automatic pistol, it's the kind of homemade gun that stuffs gunpowder tightly and then stuffs the bullet, and it should use a starting paper for ignition." Du Yande ignored Yang Minghuan and Sun Wenbin, who were looking at him with surprised eyes. "The range of this musket is very low, no more than fifteen meters, and it must be black powder."

"Hehe, you can see this?" Shen Bin looked up at Du Yande and asked.

"Only black gunpowder can produce such thick gunsmoke. In addition, they have a very detailed division of labor, at least one person shoots cover in the car, one person rushes to the front to cover, and one person comes forward to rob the cash box. This kind of cooperation is not something that can be practiced in a day or two, and it is certainly not the first time that a crime has been committed. ”

"That's true." Shen Bin lowered his head and continued to speak. "This is a gang of professional robbers who have robbed a gold store just last month and a bank cash truck this month, and so far four security guards and staff have been killed and more than 40 people have been injured. This gang is ruthless, rushing in and shooting directly down the security guards or all the people in uniform, and then robbing, they move very quickly, usually within 30 seconds to complete the robbery and quickly evacuate. During the robbery of the gold store in the provincial capital last month, they only robbed the gold jewelry from two counters, and they did not look at anything that was difficult to reach. ”

"I'll it, it's too professional." Yang Minghuan couldn't help but exclaim.

"Yes, but the person who watched the live video yesterday said that the three of you were too calm, and there was a certain suspicion that you were guilty. But it certainly doesn't look like that today. Shen Bin was still recording.

"Damn, it's the bandits who are calm?" Du Yande was a little depressed, and it felt very bad to be regarded as a suspect.

"Hey, hey!" Shen Bin smiled, "Don't complain to me, this case has now been supervised by the Provincial Public Security Department, and there are no surprises in any clues." As long as it's not you, what are you afraid of? ”

"Yes," Du Yande nodded, "This can only be handled by you police." Anyway, if you really encounter such a thing as a robber, you can only hope for two things, either you will arrive miraculously, or the conscience of the bandits will find out. But I don't think either of these are hopeless. ”

Shen Bin smiled bitterly, "No way, the police force is still insufficient, so don't you see that there are auxiliary police everywhere?" ”

"But let me tell you, the way these bandits got guns is definitely not ordinary, they shoot very accurately, and they let go of three banknotes in three shots, which must be very demanding for muskets, so you can start by tracing the source of muskets." Du Yande suggested.

"Xiao Du, can you still solve the case?" The director laughed behind his desk. "I can't see it."

"Hehe, it's actually easy to think according to the criminals. However, you can't think about it often, and it's easy to overlap with reality - and finally commit crimes. Du Yande smiled and said to Shen Bin: "Do you remember to wear body armor, this kind of earthen gun has a high lethality at close range, it is estimated to exceed the power of the May Fourth pistol at fifty meters, if you encounter them, don't fight hard." ”

"Hey, hey, thanks for the reminder!" Shen Bin closed his notebook, stood up and thanked the four people present, and then walked out of the office. "Then I'll go back first, and if you can think of something, remember to call me."

"I'm embarrassed to say the phone, your sister! I haven't been in touch for almost five years, and you're still talking to me on the phone. Send me the number! Du Yande said and took out his mobile phone.

After getting off work at four o'clock, the three of them didn't eat in the cafeteria, and rushed to the gold store directly on a motorcycle. After checking the fineness and other things, the weight of silver was 8,757 grams, the price of silver was 3.8 yuan per gram, and the three of them got a total of more than 24,000.

"Shall we divide this money?" Yang Minghuan's heart was full of happiness, when he bought his watch, it was more than 300, and he made N decisions to buy it at that time, but in a blink of an eye, it was exchanged for more than 24,000 cash, which is more profitable than robbery.

Sun Wenbin was quite happy, and he really planned to share the money, but he was beaten back by Du Yande. "it? You think you've picked up a wallet, right? This is the money from the sale of Yang Minghuan's things, of course, he owns it personally. ”

Sun Wenbin couldn't help but look at the pile of money with a disappointed face, and muttered: "I knew that I sold the watch yesterday, but I bought it with him." ”

Yang Minghuan was also a little upset, he always felt that it was too bad for him to have more than 20,000 alone, and he was about to say something, when he saw Du Yande wave his hand and said, "I have a suggestion, I don't know how you feel?" ”

Both of them immediately set their eyes on Du Yande, "We can use more than 20,000 yuan as the start-up capital of the new world." ”

"Start-up capital?" The two asked in unison, "New World?" ”

"Yes," Du Yande nodded with satisfaction, "It is absolutely meaningful for God to let us get this wormhole, you think about it, it is more meaningful to occupy a piece of land in that new world, establish a new industrialized country, and establish our new order in the new world?" ”

Yang Minghuan smiled bitterly, and patted his right hand on the more than 20,000 banknotes, "Just rely on more than 20,000?" I don't know how much it will cost to build an industrialized country, just talk about our small factory, even if it is 20 or 30 million! With this as the goal, it is impossible for the three of us to achieve it in this life. ”

"Don't be so pessimistic first," Du Yande patted Yang Minghuan on the shoulder, "We need more money, but before that, we must know how much the samples that are placed there can be sold for, and if we want Master Huang to go out and negotiate with other maritime merchants, we must help him solve the trouble of the pirate siege." ”

"What are we capable of solving this problem? Yang Minghuan and I are both college students who have just graduated a few years ago, and almost all of them are helpless. Sun Wenbin shrugged his shoulders and said, "Even if you have been a soldier and can fight ten at a time, then there are thousands of pirates outside the stockade, even if you stand still and let you fight, how long do you plan to fight?" ”

"Hehe, people have a numerical advantage, but we have a technical advantage." Du Yande smiled.

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When the leader of the courtyard once again crawled up the wall to find Master Huang, Huang Shi knew that it must be the three mysterious maritime merchants who came again. He couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat, these three people are really stingy enough, and they run here every day when they put things here. When Mr. Huang strode into the visitor's study, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, there were several large cardboard boxes piled up outside the study, the cardboard boxes were so big that they could fit people, and he was now more and more puzzled, how did these three people move such a large cardboard box from thousands of people into their backyard?

Du Yande nodded at Huang Shi and explained his intentions to him. "What?" Huang Shi was dumbfounded, completely unable to understand the thoughts of the three people in front of him, "Help us pacify the pirates?" ”

"Yes," Du Yande said as he opened the first cardboard box, which contained some round iron eggs, Huang Shi took one and weighed it, it was hollow.

Then Sun Wenbin on the side handed over an equally round ball in the second cardboard box, slightly smaller than the iron egg in his hand, but a long fuse underneath made Huang Shi think that this must be a weapon.

Then Du Yande opened the third cardboard box, and there were several thick iron pipes inside, and the diameter of the iron pipes was about the same as those round iron eggs. Huang Shi couldn't help but look down and carefully examine the iron egg in his hand, the iron egg could be separated from the middle into two semicircles of the same size, which were covered with some strange patterns.

"What is this? How can I defeat the enemy? Huang Shi looked down at these strange things, and suddenly remembered something very important, "How much is this thing worth?" ”

Du Yande smiled, this is something he commissioned the maintenance workers in the factory to make when he went to work in the morning, the cylinder is a launch stand, which can be used to fire fireworks. Those round balls with fuses are high-altitude fireworks bombs, which can fly up to a height of 200 meters when launched vertically, and the radius of the fireworks can reach 80 meters after exploding.

However, he didn't bring these fireworks today to hold a fireworks show for pirates and Huangjiazhai, he opened two semi-circular prefabricated fragmentation sets, and then loaded the fireworks bombs inside, and then asked the villagers of Huangjiazhai to carry these things up the wall.

In the distance, there were torches and bonfires, but these pirates had no concept of light control, and they had no fear that the villagers in the stockade would rush out and beat them. At this time, the big boss and the one-eyed dragon were sitting in the small camp in the besieged city drinking and eating meat, "The big boss, tomorrow they should send someone out to negotiate the conditions with us, how can we knock him out?" The one-eyed dragon asked, biting and tearing off the chicken leg in his hand.

The big boss held a wine bowl in his right hand, grabbed a roasted roast chicken with oil in his left hand, and said to the one-eyed dragon with a smile, "He Huang has the big eunuch in the palace as the backstage, and he is also walking sideways in this Mingzhou City. Let's be around like this now, and in three quarters of an hour we will make a feint and scare him to death. When the time comes, we must knock a sum of money from him, at least three thousand taels of silver, and we will have to offer it every year in the future, otherwise we will make such a fuss once a year. ”

At this moment, I suddenly heard a thunderous explosion on the wall seventy or eighty zhang away. The pirates stood up in astonishment and looked in the direction of the wall.

I saw a bright light suddenly burst out on the wall, and then this bright light shot rapidly towards the camp where he was, and before these pirates could wake up, they suddenly heard a "boom" explosion, and a huge and colorful fireball exploded behind the camp.

The fireball was so large that some of the tents in the camp were also ignited by it.

"What's going on? ...... "The big boss was stunned, what is this?" Could it be that Huangjiazhai got the artillery of the official army? But that's not right! His pirates and the officers and soldiers have also fought many times, and the low tiger squat cannons used by the officials and soldiers are generally twenty zhang away, unless they are red-clothed general cannons. But when did the artillery shells of the officers and soldiers explode such a big fireball?

"It's over," Sun Wenbin said, holding the telescope, which was a toy telescope he bought in a shopping mall before leaving, and although the magnification was not very good, it was better than nothing. "It's going to be fifty meters back."

Du Yande pulled the canister down, then fixed the screws, and then put in a fireworks.

With a "boom" on the wall, another ball of light flew out. Everyone watched as the ball of light hit their camp and exploded with a bang.

The effect of this explosion was much more powerful than the first time, and the huge flames directly engulfed more than a dozen Muran pirates near the landing point, and the scattered prefabricated fragments swept across the nearby six or seven meters like hailstones, instantly erasing all living life in this range. A roast chicken was blown to pieces, and the shockwave poked a chicken leg bone straight into the still-stunned one-eyed dragon's usable eye. I saw the one-eyed dragon cover his eyes and scream, and ran around the camp in pain, but at this time he couldn't see anything, and tripped over the corpse that fell to the ground, and hit his head on the ground, just poking the chicken leg bone into his head, and completely broke the account.

The big boss reacted very quickly, and ran away, and his pirates were leaderless for a while, running around the camp in a chaotic manner. Then four more fireworks bombs flew and exploded in the chaotic crowd, splattering blood everywhere. In just a few minutes, these firecracker shells made all the pirates besieging the village completely lose their confidence in fighting, and they all dropped their weapons and ran out, for fear of being hit by these strange weapons if they ran slowly. At this time, the camp was left with only one body and many wounded who had been blown to the ground.

Huang Shi's mouth was also wide open at this time, enough to stuff a goose egg. I have been besieged by pirates for six or seven days, and although the pirates did not dare to take the initiative to attack, they had no way to fight out, so they had to defend the stockade. But now, these three maritime merchants took an iron cylinder and a few round iron-shelled eggs, and burned the pirate's camp. That's seventy or eighty feet away. Even the best bow and arrow can only shoot less than half the distance.

"What is this?" After a while, Huangshi came to his senses and asked, pointing to the tube.

Du Yande just wanted to speak, but was preempted by Yang Minghuan, "No recoiler." ”

"How much is this worth?" Huang Shi hurriedly held Yang Minghuan's hand and asked eagerly, "How many more?" My Huang family wants it all! ”

At this time, the military country was not allowed to enter the sea because of the plates, and the strength of both the sailors and the civilian ships was quite poor, so the pirates took advantage of this opportunity to develop. Not only did they raid the coast and besiege the stockades, but they also often plundered ships at sea and captured prisoners for money, and these pirates had been in trouble for a long time. Because he is not far from the sea, he is often disturbed, and he can only spend money to eliminate disasters every time.

Now that these three American maritime merchants suddenly came up with such powerful but light weapons, of course Huangshi would not let them take these weapons away again.

Soon the price of these weapons was set, twenty taels of firing canisters, one tael of fireworks shells, and one piece of silver for prefabricated fragmentation shells.

These cardboard boxes are much smaller, and they contain a set of bows and arrows. These bows are completely different from those used by the Huangjiazhai family, all of which are made of steel, with multiple pulleys on them, and even several bowstrings.

"Although this bow and arrow is of decent workmanship," Huang Shi looked up and down with a bow in his hand, a little dissatisfied. "I wonder what the difference is with our bows?"

"How far can your bow shoot?" Du Yande asked indifferently.

The head of the nursing home said, "Fifteen zhang away." ”

Du Yande smiled, asked the family to bring a wooden arrow, tied a rag in front, soaked it in fire oil and lit it, put it directly on the pulley bow he brought, pulled it open and shot it out.

The arrow, with a trail of fire, landed straight on the ground more than seventy meters away. The men who were good at archery next to them couldn't help but gasp, this distance was simply impossible to reach for their ordinary wooden bows, but the American maritime merchant in front of him not only succeeded in reaching it, but it actually seemed that it didn't use much strength.

"You can try, but be careful, you must not let the arrow go unheard." Du Yande said and handed the bow to a villager on the side.

"Why is that?" Huang Shi was very strange, although he did not know how to shoot arrows, he often saw the archers pulling the bowstring and making a sound.

Du Yande smiled, "If you take an arrow, the strength of the bowstring will all be applied to the arrow." However, if you don't use the arrow, the strength of the bowstring will act on the bow, which will directly damage the bow. ”